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Analysis of Regulatory Mechanisms on RNA Interference by Molecular Chaperone Hsp90 and Protein Phosphorylation in Yeast
DownloadFall 2016
RNA interference (RNAi) is a conserved mechanism that eukaryotes employ small RNAs to regulate gene expression at transcriptional and post-trnascriptiona levels in a sequence-specific manner. However, current understanding on the regulatory mechanisms of RNAi via its core components is quite...
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Fall 2015
During infection, the host cell environment must be altered to accommodate viral replication. These alterations include hijacking cellular membranes as well as other components to form viral replication compartments and attenuating the host defenses to prevent virus detection and elimination....
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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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Investigating the roles of phosphorylation in modulating Argonaute 2 activity and localization
DownloadSpring 2017
RNA interference (RNAi) has enabled the study of gene function with unprecedented specificity and reliability. Almost twenty years after the discovery of RNAi, we now know that this process is carried out by a set of evolutionarily conserved proteins. In mammals, these proteins form part of the...