As an important indicator of urban development capacity, vitality can be affected by the human perception street views, which is a dynamic sensory process that differ greatly according to different transportation modes, due their travel speeds, distances, and routes. However, few studies have evaluated how spatial perceptions between modes these differences affect differently, limitation city-s...

A significant portion of patients treated for pediatric acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) relapse. We hypothesized that common polymorphisms with moderate effect sizes and large attributive risks could explain an important fraction of ALL relapses. Methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase (MTHFR) is central to folate metabolism and has two common functional polymorphisms (C677T and A1298G). Methotr...

The SOC8 gene was isolated as an extragenic suppressor of cdc8 mutant cells. It has been suggested that SOC8 is allelic with the URA6 gene which was originally identified as a uridine monophosphate kinase. In this article, we describe the purification of the uridine monophosphate kinase from a yeast Saccharomyces cerevisae strain that overproduces the activity 8-fold. The protein was purified t...

Mechanisms of low-energy electron (LEE) attachment and subsequent single-strand break (SSB) formation are investigated by density functional theory treatment of a simple model for DNA, i.e., the nucleotide, 5'-thymidine monophosphate (5'-dTMPH). In the present study, the C5'-O5' bond dissociation due to LEE attachment has been followed along the adiabatic as well as on the vertical (electron at...

Sequence analysis of the 330-kb double-stranded DNA genome of Paramecium bursaria chlorella virus-1 revealed an open reading frame A674R that encodes a protein with up to 53% amino acid identity to a recently discovered new class of thymidylate synthases, called ThyX. Unlike the traditional thymidylate synthase, ThyA, that uses methylenetetrahydrofolate (CH(2)H(4)folate) as both a source of the...

Dividing cultured cells contain much larger pools of the four dNTPs than resting cells. In both cases the sizes of the individual pools are only moderately different. The same applies to mitochondrial (mt) pools of cultured cells. Song et al. [Song S, Pursell ZF, Copeland WC, Longley MJ, Kunkel TA, Mathews CK (2005) Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 102:4990-4995] reported that mt pools of rat tissues ins...

NDP kinase and thymidylate kinase are essential for DNA precursor formation in that they phosphorylate the products of de novo deoxyribonucleotide biosynthesis, deoxyribonucleoside 5'-diphosphates and thymidine 5'-monophosphate to the corresponding triphosphates which then serve as DNA polymerase substrates. The two enzymes have been measured in synchronous cultures of the green algae, S. obliq...

The interaction of Magnesium hydrate at the phosphate oxygen atom of the pyrimidine nucleotides (CMP,UMP,dTMP) were studied at the Hartree-Fock level Theory. We used LANL2DZ basis set for Mg and 6-31g* basis set for atoms.The basis set superposition error (BSSE) begins to converge for used Method/basis set. The gauge-invariant atomic orbital (GIAO) method and the continuous-set-of-gauge-transfo...

Two TK+ acyclovir-resistant variants of herpes simplex virus (HSV) (S1 and Tr7) and one TK+ BVdU-resistant variant (B3) induce abnormal thymidine kinases with impaired ability to phosphorylate the drugs used in their isolation. These enzymes have been purified and their properties compared with those of the wild-type (wt) parent, SC16. The enzyme induced by S1 differed markedly from the other t...

Current evidence suggests that distinct mechanisms exist to regulate precursor synthesis for nuclear and mitochondrial DNA replication. We tested this is mouse L cells by asking whether nuclear and mitochondrial DNAs become labeled to equivalent specific activities when provided with an exogenous nucleic acid precursor. Cells were grown in [32P]orthophosphate-containing medium long enough to br...