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ReAS: Recovery of Ancestral Sequences for Transposable Elements from the Unassembled Reads of a Whole Genome Shotgun
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Ye, C., Wang, J., Li, S., Li, R., Wong, G.K.S., Ye, J., Yang, H., Han, Y., Yu, J.
We describe an algorithm, ReAS, to recover ancestral sequences for transposable elements (TEs) from the unassembled reads of a whole genome shotgun. The main assumptions are that these TEs must exist at high copy numbers across the genome and must not be so old that they are no longer...
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Resonance Raman Intensities Demonstrate that C5 Substituents Affect the Initial Excited-state Structural Dynamics of Uracil More than C6 Substituents
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Teimoory, Faranak, Loppnow, Glen R.
Resonance Raman derived initial excited‐state structural dynamics provide insight into the photochemical mechanisms of pyrimidine nucleobases, in which the photochemistry appears to be dictated by the C5 and C6 substituents. The absorption and resonance Raman spectra and excitation profiles of...
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Screening anti-cancer drugs against tubulin using catch-and-release electrospray ionization mass spectrometry
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Kitova, Elena N., Klassen, John S., Winter, Philip, Tuszynski, Jack A., Darestani, Reza R.
Tubulin, which is the building block of microtubules, plays an important role in cell division. This critical role makes tubulin an attractive target for the development of chemotherapeutic drugs to treat cancer. Currently, there is no general binding assay for tubulin–drug interactions. The...
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Screening anti-cancer drugs against tubulin using catch-and-release electrospray ionization mass spectrometry
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Kitova, Elena N., Klassen, John S., Winter, Philip, Tuszynski, Jack A., Darestani, Reza R.
Tubulin, which is the building block of microtubules, plays an important role in cell division. This critical role makes tubulin an attractive target for the development of chemotherapeutic drugs to treat cancer. Currently, there is no general binding assay for tubulin–drug interactions. The...
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Screening oligosaccharide libraries against lectins using the proxy protein electrospray ionization mass spectrometry assay
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Kitova, Elena N., Klassen, John S., Fan, Xuxin, Privé, Gilbert G., Cairo, Christopher W., Xiong, Zi Jian, Ng, Kenneth K. S., Zou, Chunxia, Eugenio, Luiz, Li, Jun
An electrospray ionization mass spectrometry (ESI-MS) assay for screening carbohydrate libraries against lectins is described. The assay is based on the proxy protein ESI-MS method, which combines direct ESI-MS protein–ligand binding measurements and competitive protein binding, to simultaneously...
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Screening oligosaccharide libraries against lectins using the proxy protein electrospray ionization mass spectrometry assay
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Privé, Gilbert G., Ng, Kenneth K. S., Xiong, Zi Jian, Klassen, John S., Kitova, Elena N., Fan, Xuxin, Li, Jun, Zou, Chunxia, Eugenio, Luiz, Cairo, Christopher W.
An electrospray ionization mass spectrometry (ESI-MS) assay for screening carbohydrate libraries against lectins is described. The assay is based on the proxy protein ESI-MS method, which combines direct ESI-MS protein–ligand binding measurements and competitive protein binding, to simultaneously...
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2005
Xia, Q., Chen, J., Dai, M., Ye, C., Wang, J., Li, S., Li, R., Zhou, Z., Ruan, J., Hu, Y., Yu, G., Yang, H., He, X., Yu, Jun, Xiang, Z., Yuan, H., Lu, C., Feng, T.
The Silkworm Knowledgebase (SilkDB) is a web-based repository for the curation, integration and study of silkworm genetic and genomic data. With the recent accomplishment of a ~6X draft genome sequence of the domestic silkworm (Bombyx mori ), SilkDB provides an integrated representation of the...
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Fall 2014
Electrons, the fundamental charge carriers in solid-state devices, possess three intrinsic properties: mass, charge and spin. Spin is a quantum mechanical property, but can be loosely visualized as a tiny “intrinsic” magnetic dipole moment attached to an electron. In conventional electron...
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2004
Okon, Mark, Schulman, Brenda A., Macauley, Matthew S., McIntosh, Lawrence P., Mackereth, Cameron D., Schärpf, Manuela, Errington, Wesley J.
Although sumoylation regulates a diverse and growing number of recognized biological processes, the molecular mechanisms by which the covalent attachment of the ubiquitin-like protein SUMO can alter the properties of a target protein remain to be established. To address this question, we have...