BASIC TERMINOLOGY
Useful terms:
http://seqcore.brcf.med.umich.edu/doc/educ/dnapr/mbglossary/mbgloss.html
A Primer in DNA Structure and
Function:
http://seqcore.brcf.med.umich.edu/doc/educ/dnapr/
Department of Energy web site
http://www.bis.med.jhmi.edu/Dan/DOE/intro.html
DNA STRUCTURE
1. http://www.blc.arizona.edu/Molecular_Graphics/DNA_Structure/DNA_Tutorial.HTML
Copyright 1995, Richard B. Hallick.
All rights reserved
This web site contains several 3-D DNA structures and its Purine bases. It is well organized and very well presented.
For more information from this Arizona site, see: http://www.blc.arizona.edu/INTERACTIVE/DNA3/dnastruct.html
2. http://www.biology.arizona.edu/biochemistry/activities/DNA/01q.html
The Biology Project University of
Arizona: http://www.biology.arizona.edu. All contents copyright
© 1997. All rights reserved.
This tutorial web site has an excellent review of DNA structures as well as many question-answer exercises that facilitate the understanding of DNAs role in maintaining life.
3. http://seqcore.brcf.med.umich.edu/doc/educ/dnapr/sequencing.html
This site has information about DNA sequencing techniques.
AMINATED DNA WEB SITES
1- http://www.bham.ac.uk/biochemistry/animations/lgdna.avi
This website, shows a rotating animation of the DNA molecule. If you wish to find more information on DNA, please advance to the following websites.
2- http://rna.micro.umass.edu/~molgent/b02c.html
This web site contains a series
of DNA replication animations and other related topics. University
of Massachusetts. (all animations have to be viewed with quicktime
3.0 and Windows 3.1.) Web site for down load:
http://www.quicktime.com
3. http://www.dbs.ucdavis.edu/courses/f98/bis101-3/animations.shtml
This web site has very interesting animated representations of the DNA replication process as well as transcription, translation, PCR, and DNA sequencing. Sequential commands are easy to follow for each different step. The viewer can do backwards or forwards at their discretion. University of California, Davis. These animations can be viewed only with Shockwave which is downloaded automatically as you follow the instructions. Web site for down load is: http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave.
DNA FUNCTIONS AND REPLICATION
2. http://www.uh.edu/sibs/tutorial/genbiol2.htm
Excellent tutorials and animations for DNA structure, function, replication etc. GO TO "Role of DNA Heredity":
2. http://chem-mgriep2.unl.edu
Department of Chemistry, University
of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln NE 68588-0304. http://www.chem.unl.edu/
This web site contains a detailed description of DNA replication fork as well as a short description of some of the enzymes that catalyzed replication. It also has links to other web sites dealing with the DNA replication fork.
3. http://esg-www.mit.edu:8001/bio/dogma/dogmadirnew.html
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Copyright 1996, 1997, 1998, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
This web site contains about twelve pages of information on DNA and chromosomal replication.
OTHER WED SITES OF INTEREST
3. http://bsmcha1.biochem.ucl.ac.uk/bsm/xtal/teach/repl/rt.html
4. http://www.ncc.gmu.edu/users/ypetty/repanim.htm
5. http://www.ncc.gmu.edu/users/ypetty/repanim.htm
6. http://ntri.tamuk.edu/cell/dna.html
7. http://chem-mgriep2.unl.edu/replic/helicase.html
Related Articles
a- Bonne-Andrea, C., Wong, M.
L., Alberts, B. (1990). In vitro replication through
nucleosomes without histone
displacement. Nature. 343: 719-725
b- Jian-Min Sun, Ryszard, W., Ruiz, A..(1989). Histone H5 in the control of DNA synthesis and cell proliferation. Science. 245: 684-689
c- Hong, S., Tonks, K.., Bar-Sagi,
D. (1994). Inhibition of ras-induced DNA synthesis by expression
of the phosphatase MKP-1. Science. 266: 285-289