An official website of the United States government
Here’s how you know
Official websites use .gov
A .gov website belongs to an official government organization in the United States.
Secure .gov websites use HTTPS
A lock (
) or https:// means you’ve safely connected to the .gov website. Share sensitive information only on official, secure websites.
Residual dipolar couplings can provide powerful restraints for determination and refinement of the solution structure of macromolecules. The application of these couplings in nucleic acid structure elucidation can have an especially dramatic impact since
In November 2000, NIST hosted a workshop on Measurement Traceability for Clinical Laboratory Testing and In Vitro Diagnostic Devices. One of the driving forces was the new European Community (EC) In Vitro Diagnostic Devices (IVDD) directive that requires
The physical nature of the catalytic activity exerted by various ribonuclease A active site constituents is analyzed in terms of the differential transition state stabilization approach in which activation barrier changes induced by the molecular
S. Chu, M. Tordova, G L. Gilliland, I Gorshkova, Y. Shi, S. Wang, Frederick P. Schwarz
The x-ray crystal structure of the cAMP-ligated T127L/S128A double mutant of cAMP receptor protein (CRP) was determined to a resolution of 2.2 . Although this structure is close to that of the x-ray crystal structure of cAMP-ligated CRP with one subunit in
A Mathematica package BioEqCalc.m has been developed for treating complex equilibria in aqueous solutions. The package is geared towards the treatment of biochemical systems and as such yields information on the molalities and mole fractions of the species
Recent studies suggested that 8,5'-cyclo-2'-deoxyadenosine may play a role in diseases with defective nucleotide-excision repair. This compound is one of the major lesions formed in DNA by hydroxyl radical attack on sugar moiety of 2'-deoxyadenosine. It is
Differential scanning calorimeters (DSCs) have been widely used to determine the thermodynamics of phase transitions and conformational changes in biological systems including proteins, nucleic acid sequences, and lipid assemblies. DSCs monitor the
Mention has already been made, in Section 5.1. Of the use of DNA-based techniques for control of microbiological DNA. In parallel to the work of ATCC the USA National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) developed three Standard Reference Materials
Adolfas K. Gaigalas, L. Li, O. Henderson, R F. Vogt, J. Barr, G E. Marti, J. Weaver, A. Schwartz
The use of fluorescence as an analytical technique has been growing over the last 20 years. A major factor in inhibiting more rapid growth has been the inability to make comparable fluorescence intensity measurements across laboratories. NIST recognizes
This research exploits two recent developments to obtain a fundamental understanding of the metalloenzyme active site using the bi-metallic enzyme phosphotriesterase as an example of this class. First, is the theoretical prediction that the structure and
Measurement of 8-hydroxy-2'-deoxyguanosine (8-OH-dGuo) in DNA by high-performance liquid chromatography/mass spectrometry (HPLC/MS) was studied. A methodology was developed for separation by LC of 8-OH-dGuo from intact and modified nucleosides in DNA
2-aminopurine is a highly fluorescent analog of adenine that can be incorporated synthetically into DNA with little perturbation of the native double-helical structure. The sensitive dependence of the quantum yield of this fluorophore on nucleic acid
A proof-of-concept for new methodology to detect and potentially quantify mAb aggregation is presented. Assay development included using an aggregated mAb as bait for screening of a phage display peptide library and identifying those peptides with random
R. Sinibaldi, C D. O'Connell, H Rodriguez, C. Seidel
As the human genome project continues toward its goal of sequencing the entire human genome by the end of 2003, this is providing unique opportunities for studying genetic variation in humans and its relationship with disease risk and aging. Consequently
E. J. Sundberg, M. Urrutia, B C. Braden, J. Isern, D. Tsuchiya, B. A. Fields, E Malchiodi, J. Tormo, Frederick P. Schwarz, R A. Mariuzza
Antigen-antibody complexes provide useful models for analyzing the thermodynamics of protein-protein association reactions. We have employed site-directed mutagenesis, X-ray crystallography, and isothermal titration calorimetry to investigate the role of
N G. Abdulaev, T Ngo, Ruby I. Chen, Z H. Lu, K D. Ridge
Seven-helical integral membrane receptors mediate signal transduction between extracellular stimuli and intracellular signaling cascades. Numerous studies on the seven-transmembrane-helix receptor rhodopsin have implicated the cytoplasmic loops and
Agarase was used investigate the effect of increasing the number of polymer ends on the electrophoretic trapping of circular DNA in agarose gels. The electric field strength required to trap circular DNA was found to be the same in control and treated gels