The sample was injected with live
cell nucleic acid stain [STYO 13] which is taken up by live bacteria and shows as bright green when viewed using a 500 nm - long pass emission filter for fluorescence detection.
These improvements push the boundaries of nucleic - acid detection and fragment sizing, affecting applications such as single -
cell nucleic acid analysis, PCR - free preparation of NGS library preparation, bacterial artificial chromosome clone sizing, and exosome analysis.
Probes and
cell nucleic acids on each slide were co-denatured for 3 min at 73 °C and immediately hybridized for 16 — 24 hours at 37 °C on a ThermoBrite (Abbott Molecular, Inc.).
Not exact matches
For example, after the macromolecules of amino
acids or
nucleic acids have become sufficiently abundant, the possibility of living
cells becomes a relevant new form of ordered novelty in the world's advance.
«It's difficult to make contrived samples behave like actual
cell - free
nucleic acids, so that's been quite a challenge,» says Kelli Bramlett, director of R&D in clinical sequencing and oncology at Thermo Fisher Scientific in Waltham, Massachusetts.
He studies DNA and RNA quadruplexes,
nucleic acid structures that were first visualized via confocal microscopy in fixed, dead
cells.
Even after initial purification of the sample, liquid biopsies typically contain much more
nucleic acid from healthy
cells than from tumors.
My colleagues and I first undertook to synthesize
nucleic acids outside the living
cell, with the help of cellular enzymes, in 1954.
The field segregates into three major strategies: detecting free
nucleic acids, isolating intact circulating tumor
cells, and identifying extracellular vesicles from tumors.
The spherical structure of the SNAs is the ideal architecture for delivering
nucleic acids into
cells for gene regulation, Mirkin said.
The exterior of the nanoparticle is coated with
nucleic acids that act as targeting agents, drawing the delivery system to the retina and facilitating uptake by RPE
cells.
That is, they depend on the host
cell for the raw materials and energy necessary for
nucleic acid synthesis, protein synthesis, processing and transport, and all other biochemical activities that allow the virus to multiply and spread.
They naturally enter
cells by engaging scavenger receptors that are not recognized by linear
nucleic acids.
To start, she used a cotton swab to get a sample of
cells from her cheek, boiled them in a test tube in her kitchen to free the DNA, then added primers,
nucleic acids that mark the part of the sequence.
The findings, from the Emory / Johns Hopkins / Florida State team that showed this spring that neural progenitor
cells are particularly vulnerable to Zika infection, were published in
Nucleic Acid Research.
However, in the past decade scientists realized that exosomes play important roles in many biological functions through capsuling and delivering molecular messages in the form of
nucleic acids and proteins from the donor
cells to affect the functions of nearby or distant
cells.
The new chimera interferes with HER2 and HER3 signaling and ultimately leads to cancer
cell death, as shown in the group's recent publication in Molecular Therapy:
Nucleic Acids.
The first application of the Helinx technology, the Intercept Blood Systems, exploits the fact that while blood components such as red blood
cells, plasma, and platelets do not contain
nucleic acids, viruses and bacteria do.
An HPV test, in which doctors test a cervicovaginal specimen for the presence of the
nucleic acids of carcinogenic types of HPV, is more sensitive than the Pap test (a microscopic examination of exfoliated
cells) for detection of precancers.
In a trial described in Nature Materials, the team showed they could deliver the
nucleic acids DNA and siRNA into human
cells in the lab, using the nanoneedles.
They can penetrate the
cell, bypassing its outer membrane, to deliver
nucleic acids without harming or killing the
cell.
Scientists are currently investigating ways of using
nucleic acids to re-program
cells to carry out different functions.
They can also deliver precise doses of drugs,
nucleic acids, or proteins to targeted points on the
cell.
While James Watson and Francis Crick are considered the godfathers of DNA, Hoerr says, Miescher never received the credit he deserved for isolating and analyzing
nucleic acids from pus
cells.
Cells were stained with the actin binding molecule, phalloidin (red) and
nucleic acid stain, DAPI (blue).
For tumors to grow and spread, cancer
cells must make larger than normal amounts of
nucleic acids and protein, so they can replicate themselves.
In the study published in
Nucleic Acids Research, the researchers were able to induce and inhibit the expression of genes in mammalian
cell cultures and were able to regulate intracellular protein levels using light signals.
Anderson and Langer have previously developed nanoparticles, now in clinical development, that can deliver siRNA to liver
cells called hepatocytes by coating the
nucleic acids in fatty materials called lipidoids.
The immune system detects viruses when viral
nucleic acids bind protein receptors in immune
cells.
But what keeps these receptors from reacting to the host
cells» own
nucleic acids in the cytoplasm and causing unwanted inflammation?
«We had previously learned that messenger RNA, a
nucleic acid present in all living
cells whose primary role is to act as a messenger carrying instructions from DNA, moves between parasitic plants and their hosts, but we have yet to discover the significance of this exchange.
The two
cell types are important to a broad range of organ systems in the body and play active roles in diseases that could be targets for
nucleic acid therapies.
This realm of research is called epigenetics, and at the heart of it is chromatin — the
nucleic acids and proteins that package DNA to fit inside
cells.
Genetic therapies, such as those made from DNA or RNA, face challenges because of the difficulty in delivering the
nucleic acid to the right
cells.
Intrigued by the ability of certain polymers to mop up DNA and RNA for gene transfer, Sullenger and colleagues tested the idea that these chemical compounds might also be effective targeting such
nucleic acids as they arise in
cell death.
Colon cancer
cells produce proteins, fatty
acids,
nucleic acids and reactive oxygen species (ROS).
But it's still a mystery how the amino
acid building blocks were first assembled according to coded
nucleic acid templates into the proteins that formed the machinery of all
cells.
Proteins, fatty
acids, and
nucleic acids are essential factors for
cell survival using glutamine metabolism.
Investigations of how short chains of
nucleic acids replicate themselves in vitro have even provided clues to primitive genetic codes for translating
nucleic acid information into protein information, systems that could have preceded the elaborate machinery of ribosomes and activating enzymes with which
cells now manufacture protein.
He has manufactured intricate molecular rings containing carbon, nitrogen, and hydrogen; fatty -
acid - like molecules that look and behave like the membranes protecting living
cells; and
nucleic acids or nucleotides, the primary components of RNA and DNA.
Another idea is to probe the mother's bloodstream for
cells and
nucleic acids shed by the placenta as a window into the function of the organ.
Using sensitive polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests to scour through Brown's blood
cells, plasma, and rectal tissue, Yukl and others were able to were able to detect bits of viral
nucleic acid.
miRNA - 335, a messenger
nucleic acid, regulates the endodermal transcription factors Sox17 and Foxa2 and is essential for the differentiation of
cells within this germ layer and their demarcation from the adjacent mesoderm.
However the team from the Krebs Institute for
Nucleic Acids at the University of Sheffield found that the key to preventing resistance to a common class of chemotherapy used to treat breast and colon cancer is to change the speed in which the cancer
cells repair damage to their DNA that is introduced by chemotherapy.
«We identified a set of novel microRNAs that are potent inducers of neuroblastoma
cell differentiation and found that mimics (synthetic fragments of
nucleic acid used to raise microRNA levels in
cells) of some of the identified microRNAs are much more potent in inducing neuroblastoma
cell differentiation than the current differentiation treatments.
Exosomes are tiny packets of proteins, microRNA and
nucleic acids that
cells emit into their environment to both communicate with neighboring
cells and influence their behavior.
He soon managed to restrict the growth factor to a fraction of the tumor
cells containing both protein and
nucleic acid.
Within a biofilm,
cells are typically embedded in a matrix of extracellular polymeric substances (EPS) made of proteins, lipids,
nucleic acids and polysaccharides [6 — 8].
This reprogramming methodology dispenses with the standard
nucleic acid - mediated strategy and instead treats
cells with conditioned media (CM) designed to mimic the primitive embryonic environment.
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