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The genomes of primates contain a family of nine APOBEC genes that encode enzymes involved in the editing of RNA and/or DNA through the deamination of cytosine (C), so that this nucleotide mutates to uracil (U).
In our construct, we deleted this adaptor to prevent use of the start codon for translation; that would result in nonexpression of the functional URA3 gene and, therefore, an inability to grow in the absence of uracil.
Adenine was associated with the highest readthrough and uracil with the lowest.
SC medium is 1.7 g/l yeast nitrogen base without amino acids and ammonium sulfate, 5 g/l ammonium sulfate, 20 g/l glucose, 20 mg/l uracil, 20 mg/l adenine, 80 mg/l L-leucine, 20 mg/l L-histidine, 40 mg/l L-tryptophan, 20 mg/l L-methionine, and 30 mg/l L-lysine.
Naturally occurring analogs of purine and pyrimidine bases have been examined extensively for their ability to increase the thermodynamic stability of DNA:DNA and DNA:RNA duplexes [ 11 12 13 14 15 ] . Among these are 2-aminoadenine also known as diaminopurine (DAP), which is found in S-2L cyanophage DNA [ 16 ] , 5-methyl uracil (MeU), and 5-methyl cytidine (MeC).