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New Aspects of Nazarov Reaction: Additive Effects, Gold Catalysis and Application Toward the Synthesis of Taxinine
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Methods involving efficient and stereoselective carbon-carbon bond formation enable chemists to synthesize bioactive natural products and drugs. The Nazarov reaction is a versatile tool for the construction of functionalized cyclopentenones. This 4π-electrocyclization provides easy and efficient...
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Optimization, adaptation and application of protein misfolding cyclic amplification to detection of prions in blood plasma
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The PMCA assay was optimized for adaptation to low level detection of PrPSc in hamster plasma. Evaluation of numerous key variables of the PMCA assay led to an optimized protocol capable of ~3 log10 amplification after 32 cycles (two 16 hour rounds). When commercially purchased normal hamster...
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Fall 2020
Neurodegenerative diseases are a rising concern worldwide. Currently 10% of people aged 65 or more are diagnosed with a neurodegenerative disease and this number is predicted to triplicate by 2050. In developed societies approximately one percent of the global gross domestic product is allocated...
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Spring 2013
Prions are infectious proteins. In their prion conformation, they catalyze the transformation of non-prion isomers into prions. Another characteristic common to currently identified prions is that they form amyloid aggregates. They occur in several mammals and multiple species of yeast, acting in...
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Structure and dynamics of biomolecules: probing muscle regulation, prion protein unfolding, and drug insertion into DNA by nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy
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Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy is a powerful approach to study the structure and dynamics of macromolecules in a close-to-native solution environment. In the present thesis I present my investigation of protein and nucleic acid structure and dynamics in a wide variety of biological...
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Synthesis of porphyrin-based multimeric fluorescent compounds and studies towards the formation of cis-anti-cis linear triquinane
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Prion diseases are life-threatening diseases found in many mammals, including humans, and there is still no effective vaccine, treatment or therapy. In Chapter 1, a concise and effective synthetic route was reported to synthesize a library of porphyrin-based multimeric fluorescent compounds with...
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The Prion Protein: Modulation of Potassium Channels and a Novel Mouse Model of a Disease-Causing Hydrophobic Domain Insertion Mutation
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Mercer, Robert Corrigan Curtis
Prion diseases are invariably fatal neurodegenerative diseases of humans and other mammals. While they can manifest as sporadic, infectious or genetic etiologies, the central event in prion disease is the structural conversion of the prion protein (PrPC) to an alternative conformer PrPSc. PrP is...
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Fall 2011
This study was undertaken to examine the economic value of government sponsored control programs to limit the levels of chronic wasting disease (CWD) in Alberta. Respondents’ knowledge, attitudes and preferences concerning aspects of CWD including control methods were also addressed. Employing an...