[HTML][HTML] Bacteriophage lambda: Early pioneer and still relevant

SR Casjens, RW Hendrix - Virology, 2015 - Elsevier
Molecular genetic research on bacteriophage lambda carried out during its golden age from
the mid-1950s to mid-1980s was critically important in the attainment of our current …

λ recombination and recombineering

KC Murphy - EcoSal Plus, 2016 - Am Soc Microbiol
The bacteriophage λ Red homologous recombination system has been studied over the
past 50 years as a model system to define the mechanistic details of how organisms …

[HTML][HTML] Structure and mechanism of a cyclic trinucleotide-activated bacterial endonuclease mediating bacteriophage immunity

RK Lau, Q Ye, EA Birkholz, KR Berg, L Patel… - Molecular cell, 2020 - cell.com
Bacteria possess an array of defenses against foreign invaders, including a broadly
distributed bacteriophage defense system termed CBASS (cyclic oligonucleotide-based anti …

Subnucleosomal structures and nucleosome asymmetry across a genome

HS Rhee, AR Bataille, L Zhang, BF Pugh - Cell, 2014 - cell.com
Genes are packaged into nucleosomal arrays, each nucleosome typically having two copies
of histones H2A, H2B, H3, and H4. Histones have distinct posttranslational modifications …

Bacteriophage λ exonuclease and a 5′-phosphorylated DNA guide allow PAM-independent targeting of double-stranded nucleic acids

S Fu, J Li, J Chen, L Zhang, J Liu, H Liu, X Su - Nature Biotechnology, 2024 - nature.com
Sequence-specific recognition of double-stranded nucleic acids is essential for molecular
diagnostics and in situ imaging. Clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats …

Probing and regulating the activity of cellular enzymes by using DNA tetrahedron nanostructures

Y Zhang, Y Deng, C Wang, L Li, L Xu, Y Yu, X Su - Chemical Science, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Given the essential role of apurinic/apyrimidinic endonuclease (APE1) in gene repair and
cancer progression, we report a novel approach for probing and regulating cellular APE1 …

Simultaneous detection and quantification of three bacterial meningitis pathogens by SERS

K Gracie, E Correa, S Mabbott, JA Dougan… - Chemical …, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
Bacterial meningitis is well known for its rapid onset and high mortality rates, therefore rapid
detection of bacteria found in cerebral spinal fluid (CSF) and subsequent effective treatment …

Sequence, structure and functional diversity of PD-(D/E) XK phosphodiesterase superfamily

K Steczkiewicz, A Muszewska, L Knizewski… - Nucleic acids …, 2012 - academic.oup.com
Proteins belonging to PD-(D/E) XK phosphodiesterases constitute a functionally diverse
superfamily with representatives involved in replication, restriction, DNA repair and tRNA …

Dna2 nuclease-helicase structure, mechanism and regulation by Rpa

C Zhou, S Pourmal, NP Pavletich - Elife, 2015 - elifesciences.org
The Dna2 nuclease-helicase maintains genomic integrity by processing DNA double-strand
breaks, Okazaki fragments and stalled replication forks. Dna2 requires ssDNA ends, and is …

The CRISPR associated protein Cas4 Is a 5′ to 3′ DNA exonuclease with an iron-sulfur cluster

J Zhang, T Kasciukovic, MF White - 2012 - journals.plos.org
The Cas4 protein is one of the core CRISPR-associated (Cas) proteins implicated in the
prokaryotic CRISPR system for antiviral defence. Cas4 is thought to play a role in the …