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Theses and Dissertations
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Items in this Collection
- 2Chun, Justin
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- 1Anderson, Andrea Marie
- 1Anderson-Baron, Matthew N
- 1Armstrong, Heather K
- 1Baier, Alicia
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Fall 2013
West Nile virus (WNV) is a neurotropic, blood-borne flavivirus that can cause serious neurological disease in humans and animals. While significant progress has been made in identifying virus-encoded pathogenic determinants, very little is known regarding how these viral proteins interact with...
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Functional characterization of class I Arfs and their Guanine Nucleotide Exchange Factors at the Golgi complex
DownloadFall 2009
We examined the function of ADP-ribosylation factors (Arfs) and their guanine nucleotide exchange factors (GEFs) that regulate recruitment of coat proteins on the Golgi complex. The large ArfGEF GBF1 localizes at the cis-Golgi complex while BIG1 and BIG2 localize at the trans-Golgi network...
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Fall 2020
The Golgi complex resides at the center of the cellular trafficking pathway, where it functions in the modification, sorting, and trafficking of over one third of human proteins to their correct cellular destination. Initiation of vesicle formation at the Golgi requires activation of small...
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Hch1p Acts Differently From Its Homologue, Aha1p, in Regulating Sensitivity of Hsp90 to Hsp90 Inhibitors in Yeast
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Hsp90 is a molecular chaperone that plays a vital role in the regulation of oncoproteins, is targeted by small molecule Hsp90-inhibitors in cancer studies, and is functionally regulated by a cohort of proteins called co-chaperones. We determined that deletion of the co-chaperone Hch1p, but not...
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How studying the interaction of Sir4 with a subset of Nups uncovered a new chromatin bound complex.
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The nucleus is the defining feature of eukaryotic cells and its major function is to house the cell’s genome and segregate it from the surrounding cytoplasm. The membranes encapsulating the nucleus constitute the nuclear envelope (NE). The interactions between the NE and chromatin facilitate the...
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Hsp90 and its co-chaperones regulate the activity of human Argonaute2 in RNA-mediated silencing pathways
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The potent ability of small, double-stranded RNAs to silence gene expression was initially reported 1998, sparking revolutions in molecular biology and genetics. Since then, intensive research into the mechanism of RNA-mediated silencing has implicated the machinery of this pathway in the...
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Spring 2014
Rho GTPases act as molecular switches, occupying an active GTP or an inactive GDP-bound state. Rho1p, one member of the Rho family GTPases, has a role in the late stages of vacuole fusion through an unknown mechanism. We identified a ~50kDa Rho1p-interacting protein as Tef1p, a dual function...