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Katarzyna Arczewska, Gisele Tomazella, Jessica Lindvall, Henok Kassahun, Silvia Maglioni, Alessandro Torgovnick, Johan Henriksson, Olli Matilainen, Bryce J. Marquis, Bryant Nelson, Eshrat Babaie, Carina Holmberg, Thomas Burglin, Natascia Ventura, Bernd Thiede, Hilde Nilsen
Transcription-blocking oxidative DNA damage is believed to contribute to aging and to underlie activation of oxidative stress-responses and down-regulation of insulin-like signaling (ILS) in Nucleotide Excision Repair (NER) deficient mice. Here, we present
Ross J. Haynes, Jim Huggett, Carole Foy, Vladimir Benes, Kerry Emslie, Jeremy Garson, Jan Hellemans, Mikael Kubista, Tania Nolan, Michael Pfaffl, Gregory Shipley, Jo Vandesompele, Carl Wittwer, Stephen Bustin
There is growing interest in the digital polymerase chain reaction (dPCR) as technological progress makes it a practical and increasingly affordable technology. dPCR allows the precise quantification of nucleic acid, facilitating the measurement of small
Teresa Assumpcao, Dongying Ma, Alexandra Schwarz, Karine Reiter, Jaime Santana, John Andersen, Jose Ribeiro, Glen Nardone, Lee L. Yu, Ivo Francischetti
The function of the antigen-5/CAP family of proteins found in the salivary gland of bloodsucking animals has remained elusive for decades. Antigen-5 members from the hematophagous insects Dipetalogaster maxima (DMAV) and Triatoma infestans (TIAV) were
Paul C. DeRose, Melody V. Smith, Jeffrey R. Anderson, Gary W. Kramer
Standard Reference Material (SRM) 2944 is a cuvette-shaped, Bi-ion-doped glass, recommended for use for relative spectral correction of emission and day-to-day performance verification of steady-state fluorescence spectrometers. Properties of this standard
Maritoni A. Litorja, Mira Fein, Eleanor Wehner, Karel Zuzak, Edward Livingston
The classification of anatomical features using hyperspectral imaging has been a common goal in biomedical hyperspectral imaging. Identification and location of the common bile duct is critical in cholecystectomies, one of the most common surgical
Carl G. Simon Jr., Limin Sun, Laurence C. Chow, William Miles, Christopher K. Tison, Kaushik Chatterjee, Marian F. Young, Vinoy Thomas, Murugan Ramalingam
A 2-spinnerette approach has been developed for fabricating nanofiber scaffold gradients for use as 1) scaffold libraries for screening the effect of nanofiber properties on cell response and 2) templates for generating graded tissue interfaces. Although
Ross J. Haynes, Margaret C. Kline, Blaza Toman, Calum Scott, Paul Wallace, John M. Butler, Marcia J. Holden
Cytomegalovirus (CMV) is one of a number of human viruses that are ubiquitous in human populations, generally cause little illness upon infecting healthy individuals, but can cause life threatening disease in immune-compromised individuals. An important
David J. Vanderah, Rima Budvytyte, Mindaugas Mickevicius, Gintaras Valincius, Frank Heinrich
Phosphatidylcholine and cholesterol exchange between vesicles and planar tethered bilayer lipid membranes (tBLMs) was demonstrated from electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS), fluorescence microscopy (FM), and neutron reflectometry (NR) data
Jamie L. Almeida, Carolyn R. Steffen, Kenneth D. Cole
The scientific community has responded to the misidentification of human cell lines with validated methods to authenticate these cells; however, there are few assays available for nonhuman cell line identification. We have developed a multiplex polymerase
In eukaryotes, the CMG (Cdc45, MCM, GINS) complex functions as the replicative helicase and plays a key role in DNA replication. Archaeal homologs of the eukaryotic MCM and GINS proteins have been identified but until recently no homolog of the CDC45
DNA replication plays an essential role in all life forms. Research on archaeal DNA replication began about twenty years ago. Progress was hindered, however, by the lack of genetic tools to supplement the biochemical and structural studies. This has
Christopher R. Anderton, Kiran Bhadriraju, Frank W. DelRio, Anne L. Plant
The extracellular matrix (ECM) environment plays a critical role in organism development and disease. Consequently, developing complementary analytical techniques to study bioactive scaffolds can assist in understanding cell-ECM processes. We have
Richard W. Hendler, Curtis W. Meuse, Paul Smith, John W. Kakareka
We recently published procedures describing the isolation of absolute infrared spectra for the intermediates of the bacteriorhodopsin (BR) photocycle and from these, obtaining transitional difference spectra between consecutive intermediates. In that work
John Butler, Manuel Fondevila, Carla Santos, Ana Freire, Christopher Phillips, M Lareu, Peter Vallone, A. Carracedo
A revision of an established 34 SNP forensic ancestry test has been made by swapping the under- performing rs727811 component SNP with the highly informative rs3827760 that shows a near-fixed East Asian specific allele. We collated SNP variability data for
M Miral Dizdar, Pawel Jaruga, Guldal Kirkali, Bryant C. Nelson, Gamze Tuna, Prasad T. Reddy
Accumulated evidence points to DNA repair capacity as an important factor in cancer and other diseases. DNA repair proteins are promising drug targets and are emerging as prognostic and therapeutic biomarkers. Thus, the knowledge of the overexpression or
The structure of PA5508 from Pseudomonas aeruginosa, a glutamine synthase (GS) homolog, has been solved at 2.5 Å. Surprisingly, PA5508 forms single hexameric rings rather than the stacked double rings that are characteristic of GS. The C-terminal helical
Joseph E. Reiner, Joseph W. Robertson, Arvind Balijepalli, Daniel L. Burden, Bryon S. Drown, John J. Kasianowicz
The ability to electronically detect and characterize individual polynucleotides as they are driven through a single protein ion channel may eventually prove useful for rapidly sequencing DNA (base-by-base) in a ticker tape-like fashion. More recently, a
Martin Y. Chiang, Hongbing Wang, Li Zhong, Qiaoyan Tan, Gurinder K. Singh, Song Li, Li Yang, Yanzi Yangben
Polyacrylamide gels with different stiffness and glass were employed as substrates to investigate how substrate stiffness affects the cellular stiffness of adherent hepatocellular carcinoma (HCCLM3) and hepatic (L02) cells. The interaction of how cell
John Peter Ngunjiri, Daniel J. Stark, Tian Tian, Kimberly Briggman, Jayne C. Garno
The immobilization of proteins on nanopatterned surfaces was investigated using in situ atomic force microscopy (AFM) and ex situ infrared reflectance-absorption spectroscopy (IRAS). The AFM-based lithography technique of nanografting provided control of
Daniel R. Sisan, Michael Halter, Joseph B. Hubbard, Anne L. Plant
In this paper, we develop a potential landscape approach to quantitatively describe experimental data from a fibroblast cell line that expresses GFP under the control of the promoter for tenascin-C. Time lapse live cell microscopy provides data about short
Justin M. Zook, Amy Gargis, Lisa Kalman, Ira Lubin
We would like to draw your readers attention to the Next-generation Sequencing: Standardization of Clinical Testing (Nex-StoCT) guidelines, which represent an initial step toward ensuring that the results derived from next-generation sequencing (NGS)