Published in Nucleic Acids Research
The goal of the Encyclopedia Of DNA Elements (ENCODE) Project is to identify all functional elements in the human genome. The pilot phase is for comparison of existing methods and for the development of new methods to rigorously analyze a defined 1% of the human genome sequence. Experimental datasets are focused on the origin of replication, DNase ...
Published in PLoS ONE
Lipid metabolism is critical to coordinate organ development and physiology in response to tissue-autonomous signals and environmental cues. Changes to the availability and signaling of lipid mediators can limit competitiveness, adaptation to environmental stressors, and augment pathological processes. Two classes of lipids, the N-acyl amides and t...
Published in Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry
The benzamidine moiety, a well-known arginine mimetic, has been introduced in a variety of ligands, including peptidomimetic inhibitors of trypsin-like serine proteases. According to their primary substrate specificity, the benzamidine residue interacts with the negatively charged aspartate at the bottom of the S1 pocket of such enzymes. Six series...
Published in Chemical Communications
Trinuclear Ni-Cu-Ni and Ni-Ni-Ni complexes derived from an Ni(ii)-dicarboxamido-dithiolato metallosynthon exhibit redox behavior and CO binding properties similar to those of the A-cluster in acetyl coenzyme A synthase/CO dehydrogenase (ACS/CODH).
Published in Journal of cell science. Supplement
Epithelial cell adhesion is principally regulated by calcium-dependent cell adhesion proteins, termed cadherins. Recent studies indicate that cadherin function is modulated by a class of proteins, termed catenins, that bind to the cytoplasmic domain of cadherin. Here we review the evidence that catenins regulate cadherin function in cell-cell adhes...
Published in Genes & Genetic Systems
Previously, we identified a major quantitative trait locus (QTL) on mouse chromosome 1 that regulates the susceptibility to arthritis in an F2 population generated from arthritis-prone BALB/c and arthritis-resistant DBA/1 mice deficient for interleukin-1 receptor antagonist. To further select candidate genes for the QTL, we analyzed the expression ...
Published in Genome Research
Much attention has been given to the problem of creating reliable multiple sequence alignments in a model incorporating substitutions, insertions, and deletions. Far less attention has been paid to the problem of optimizing alignments in the presence of more general rearrangement and copy number variation. Using Cactus graphs, recently introduced f...
Published in Inorganic Chemistry
Four ruthenium nitrosyls, namely [(bpb)Ru(NO)(Cl)] (1), [(Me(2)bpb)Ru(NO)(Cl)] (2), [(Me(2)bpb)Ru(NO)(py)](BF(4)) (3), and [(Me(2)bqb)Ru(NO)(Cl)] (4) (H(2)bpb = 1,2-bis(pyridine-2-carboxamido)benzene, H(2)Me(2)bpb = 1,2-bis(pyridine-2-carboxamido)-4,5-dimethylbenzene, H(2)Me(2)bqb = 1,2-bis(quinaldine-2-carboxamido)-4,5-dimethylbenzene; H is the di...
Published in Inorganic Chemistry
Three ruthenium nitrosyls, namely, [(Me(2)bpb)Ru(NO)(OAc)], [(Me(2)bpb)Ru(NO)(OBz)] (1), and [(Me(2)Qb)Ru(NO)(qca)](BF(4)) (2), have been synthesized from designed ligands with carboxamido-N donors. In all three complexes, a carboxylato-O donor is trans to the bound NO. The structures of 1 and 2 have been determined by X-ray crystallography. The ne...
Published in RNA
The unique cellular activity of the telomerase reverse transcriptase ribonucleoprotein (RNP) requires proper assembly of protein and RNA components into a functional complex. In the ciliate model organism Tetrahymena thermophila, the La-domain protein p65 is required for in vivo assembly of telomerase. Single-molecule and biochemical studies have s...
