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Periodic correlation structures in bacterial and archaeal complete genomes
The periodic transference of nucleotide strings in bacterial and archaeal
complete genomes is investigated by using the metric representation and the
recurrence plot method. The generated periodic correlation structures exhibit
four kinds of fundamental transferring characteristics: a single increasing
period, several increasing periods, an increasing quasi-period and almost
noincreasing period. The mechanism of the periodic transference is further
analyzed by determining all long periodic nucleotide strings in the bacterial
and archaeal complete genomes and is explained as follows: both the repetition
of basic periodic nucleotide strings and the transference of non-periodic
nucleotide strings would form the periodic correlation structures with
approximately the same increasing periods.Comment: 23 pages, 6 figures, 2 table
A FAMILY OF CATION ATPASE-LIKE MOLECULES FROM PLASMODIUM-FALCIPARUM
Abstract. We report the nucleotide and derived amino acid sequence of the ATPase 1 gene from Plasmodium falciparum. The amino acid sequence shares homology with the family of "P-type cation transloeating ATPases in conserved regions important for nucleotide binding, conformational change, or phosphorylation. The gene, which is present on chromosome 5, has a product longer than any other reported for a P-type ATPase. Interstrain analysis from 12 parasite isolates by the polymerase chain reaction reveals that a 330-bp nucleotide sequence encoding three cytoplasmic regions conserved in cation ATPases (regions a-c) is of constant length. By contrast, another 360-bp sequence which is one of four regions we refer to as
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ATR inhibition facilitates targeting of leukemia dependence on convergent nucleotide biosynthetic pathways.
Leukemia cells rely on two nucleotide biosynthetic pathways, de novo and salvage, to produce dNTPs for DNA replication. Here, using metabolomic, proteomic, and phosphoproteomic approaches, we show that inhibition of the replication stress sensing kinase ataxia telangiectasia and Rad3-related protein (ATR) reduces the output of both de novo and salvage pathways by regulating the activity of their respective rate-limiting enzymes, ribonucleotide reductase (RNR) and deoxycytidine kinase (dCK), via distinct molecular mechanisms. Quantification of nucleotide biosynthesis in ATR-inhibited acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) cells reveals substantial remaining de novo and salvage activities, and could not eliminate the disease in vivo. However, targeting these remaining activities with RNR and dCK inhibitors triggers lethal replication stress in vitro and long-term disease-free survival in mice with B-ALL, without detectable toxicity. Thus the functional interplay between alternative nucleotide biosynthetic routes and ATR provides therapeutic opportunities in leukemia and potentially other cancers.Leukemic cells depend on the nucleotide synthesis pathway to proliferate. Here the authors use metabolomics and proteomics to show that inhibition of ATR reduced the activity of these pathways thus providing a valuable therapeutic target in leukemia
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