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Published online 2008 September. doi: 10.1093/nar/gkn444.PMCID: PMC2528168 A high-throughput percentage-of-binding strategy to measure binding energies in DNA–protein interactions: application to genome-scale site discovery Xiaohu Wang, Haichun Gao, Yufeng Shen, George M. Weinstock, Jizhong Zhou, and Timothy Palzkill Nucleic Acids Res. 2008 September; 36(15): 4863–4871. Published online 2008 September. doi: 10.1093/nar/gkn477.PMCID: PMC2528174 The splice variants of UBF differentially regulate RNA polymerase I transcription elongation in response to ERK phosphorylation Victor Y. Stefanovsky and Tom Moss Nucleic Acids Res. 2008 September; 36(15): 5093–5101. Published online 2008 September. doi: 10.1093/nar/gkn484.PMCID: PMC2528179 Molecular Biology DNA repair of clustered lesions in mammalian cells: involvement of non-homologous end-joining Svitlana Malyarchuk, Reneau Castore, and Lynn Harrison Nucleic Acids Res. 2008 September; 36(15): 4872–4882. Published online 2008 September. doi: 10.1093/nar/gkn450.PMCID: PMC2528178 Srs2 removes deadly recombination intermediates independently of its interaction with SUMO-modified PCNA Cyrille Le Breton, Pauline Dupaigne, Thomas Robert, Eric Le Cam, Serge Gangloff, Francis Fabre, and Xavier Veaute Nucleic Acids Res. 2008 September; 36(15): 4964–4974. Published online 2008 September. doi: 10.1093/nar/gkn441.PMCID: PMC2528196 WRN Exonuclease activity is blocked by specific oxidatively induced base lesions positioned in either DNA strand Zuzanna Bukowy, Jeanine A. Harrigan, Dale A. Ramsden, Barbara Tudek, Vilhelm A. Bohr, and Tinna Stevnsner Nucleic Acids Res. 2008 September; 36(15): 4975–4987. Published online 2008 September. doi: 10.1093/nar/gkn468.PMCID: PMC2528166 Multimolecular complex of Par-4 and E2F1 binding to Smac promoter contributes to glutamate-induced apoptosis in human- bone mesenchymal stem cells Chao Lu, Jie-Qing Chen, Guo-Ping Zhou, Sheng-Hua Wu, Ya-Fei Guan, and Chuan-Shun Yuan Nucleic Acids Res. 2008 September; 36(15): 5021–5032. Published online 2008 September. doi: 10.1093/nar/gkn426.PMCID: PMC2528162 Cataloging and organizing p73 interactions in cell cycle arrest and apoptosis Melda Tozluoğlu, Ezgi Karaca, Turkan Haliloglu, and Ruth Nussinov Nucleic Acids Res. 2008 September; 36(15): 5033–5049. Published online 2008 September. doi: 10.1093/nar/gkn481.PMCID: PMC2528188 DNA organization by the apicoplast-targeted bacterial histone-like protein of Plasmodium falciparum E. V. S. Raghu Ram, Rangeetha Naik, Munia Ganguli, and Saman Habib Nucleic Acids Res. 2008 September; 36(15): 5061–5073. Published online 2008 September. doi: 10.1093/nar/gkn483.PMCID: PMC2528193 XRCC1 protects against the lethality of induced oxidative DNA damage in nondividing neural cells Avanti Kulkarni, Daniel R. McNeill, Marc Gleichmann, Mark P. Mattson, and David M. Wilson, III Nucleic Acids Res. 2008 September; 36(15): 5111–5121. Published online 2008 September. doi: 10.1093/nar/gkn480.PMCID: PMC2528184 RNA A unique conformation of the anticodon stem-loop is associated with the capacity of tRNAfMet to initiate protein synthesis Pierre Barraud, Emmanuelle Schmitt, Yves Mechulam, Frédéric Dardel, and Carine Tisné Nucleic Acids Res. 2008 September; 36(15): 4894–4901. Published online 2008 September. doi: 10.1093/nar/gkn462.PMCID: PMC2528185 The G-quartet containing FMRP binding site in FMR1 mRNA is a potent exonic splicing enhancer Marie-Cécile Didiot, Zhaoxia Tian, Céline Schaeffer, Murugan Subramanian, Jean-Louis Mandel, and Hervé Moine Nucleic Acids Res. 2008 September; 36(15): 4902–4912. Published online 2008 September. doi: 10.1093/nar/gkn472.PMCID: PMC2528169 Imaging and characterizing influenza A virus mRNA transport in living cells Wei Wang, Zong-Qiang Cui, Han Han, Zhi-Ping Zhang, Hong-Ping Wei, Ya-Feng Zhou, Ze Chen, and Xian-En Zhang Nucleic Acids Res. 2008 September; 36(15): 4913–4928. Published online 2008 September. doi: 10.1093/nar/gkn475.PMCID: PMC2528172 60S ribosomal subunit assembly dynamics defined by semi-quantitative mass spectrometry of purified complexes Alice Lebreton, Jean-Claude Rousselle, Pascal Lenormand, Abdelkader Namane, Alain Jacquier, Micheline Fromont-Racine, and Cosmin Saveanu Nucleic Acids Res. 2008 September; 36(15): 4988–4999. Published online 2008 September. doi: 10.1093/nar/gkn469.PMCID: PMC2528192 Structural Biology The crystal structure of Pyrococcus abyssi tRNA (uracil-54, C5)-methyltransferase provides insights into its tRNA specificity Hélène Walbott, Nicolas Leulliot, Henri Grosjean, and Béatrice Golinelli-Pimpaneau Nucleic Acids Res. 2008 September; 36(15): 4929–4940. Published online 2008 September. doi: 10.1093/nar/gkn437.PMCID: PMC2528175 Molecular dynamics of a κB DNA element: base flipping via cross-strand intercalative stacking in a microsecond-scale simulation Cameron Mura and J. Andrew McCammon Nucleic Acids Res. 2008 September; 36(15): 4941–4955. Published online 2008 September. doi: 10.1093/nar/gkn473.PMCID: PMC2528173 Selective recognition of pyrimidine–pyrimidine DNA mismatches by distance-constrained macrocyclic bis-intercalators Matthias Bahr, Valérie Gabelica, Anton Granzhan, Marie-Paule Teulade-Fichou, and Elmar Weinhold Nucleic Acids Res. 2008 September; 36(15): 5000–5012. 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