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Structural and Functional Studies Into Nramp Divalent Metal Transporter Mechanisms
(2015-07-10)
The Nramp (natural resistance associated macrophage protein) family of transition metal ion transporters is an important class of secondary active transporters involved in metal homeostasis used by all branches of life. ...
Formation of a Termination-Resistant RNA Polymerase Complex: Studies on the Phage 82 Q Protein
(2015-07-22)
Due to their early discovery, relative simplicity, and well-defined function, the Q antiterminator proteins of bacteriophage lambda and related lambdoid phages serve as a model for understanding how the elongation and ...
The Wnt5a-Ror Signaling Pathway in the Morphogenesis of the Embryo
(2015-07-13)
Embryonic development is orchestrated by relatively few conserved core developmental signaling pathways that are used reiteratively to grow, specify and shape all tissues in the body into their final functional forms. The ...
The Molecular Determinants of Cranial Skeletal Development and Evolution
(2015-10-01)
The vertebrate head and face, one of the defining features of vertebrates, is an evolutionary novelty that enabled the major radiation of Vertebrata. The emergence of the multipotent neural crest cells, often mentioned as ...
Development of New Tools for Single-Molecule Force Spectroscopy & The Application of these Tools to Mapping the Role of Force Directionality in the Actin Mechanome
(2015-09-28)
Actin filaments serve as a hub of focal adhesion-based mechanotransduction network in a wide variety of cell types. In this role filaments and networks of filaments are exposed to forces in a range of directions and ...
Comprehensive Approaches to Identifying the Targets of Natural and Synthetic Antibodies Using Microarray DNA Synthesis and High-Throughput Sequencing
(2015-09-24)
The incredible flexibility and specificity of the humoral immune response is dependent on the highly diverse repertoire of naïve and affinity-matured antibodies. Utilizing and understanding the power of this response ...
Molecular Determinants and Transcriptional Regulators in Triple Negative Breast Cancer
(2015-08-07)
Breast cancer is a highly heterogeneous disease with differences in histopathological and biological characteristics, variable prognoses, and response to therapy. Clinically, breast
tumors are classified based on the ...
Single Molecule FRET Studies of Reverse Transcription and Chromatin Remodeling
(2015-08-21)
The measurement of Förster resonance energy transfer (FRET) at the single-molecule level provides a powerful method for monitoring the structural dynamics of biomolecular systems in real time. These single-molecule FRET ...
Evolving Models of Ovarian Cancer: Defining the Role of PAX8 in Fallopian Tube Tumorigenesis
(2015-08-07)
Ovarian cancer is the most deadly gynecological malignancy in the US. Once thought to be a single disease arising from the ovarian surface epithelium, we now understand that it is in fact a heterogenous disease with origins ...
Genome-Wide RNAi Screens for Novel Regulators of Acute Myeloid Leukemia
(2015-01-15)
Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is a heterogeneous disease with complex molecular mechanisms. Recent advent of genomic technologies, such as copy number profiling, whole genome sequencing, and gene expression profiling has ...