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Erdem Coskun, Pawel Jaruga, Prasad T. Reddy, Miral M. Dizdar
Apurinic/apyrimidinic endonuclease 1 (APE1) is a DNA re-pair protein and plays other important roles. Increased lev-els of APE1 in cancer have been reported. However, avail-able methods to measure APE1 levels are indirect and not quantitative. We
Erdem Coskun, Pawel Jaruga, Leona D. Scanlan, Alessandro Tona, Mark S. Lowenthal, Prasad T. Reddy, M Miral Dizdar, Ann-Sofie Jemth, Olga Loseva, Thomas Helleday
Accurate measurement of DNA repair proteins in cancer tissues is becoming more important due to the individual and origin based expression differences in cancer patients as well as the novel approach of using the repair enzyme inhibitors in cancer
Yamil Simon, Daniel Abate-Pella, Dana M. Freund, Yan Ma, Adrian Hegeman, Yan Ma, Tobias Kind, O Fiehn, Birgit Beck, Emma L. Schymanski, Corey D. Broeckling, David V. Huhman, Lloyd W. Summer, Oleg V. Krokhin, Dwight R. Stoll
Identification of small molecules by liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry (LC-MS) could be greatly improved if the chromatographic retention information could be used along with mass spectral information to narrow down the lists of potential identities
Among cellular structures, the genome is particularly prone to damage, which can result from spontaneous reactions, replication linked failures, or oxidative processes due to metabolic derivatives or to external agents. Damage to DNA causes more severe
Michal J. Chojnacky, Luis Chaves Santacruz, W Wyatt Miller, Gregory F. Strouse
Accidental freezing of refrigerated vaccine represents a significant public and private healthcare cost. Freeze-damaged vaccines lose their effectiveness, putting communities at risk. U.S. immunization programs have strengthened vaccine storage and
BACKGROUND: A 3.4kb deletion (3.4kbΔ) in mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) found in histologically normal prostate biopsy specimens has been reported to be a biomarker for the increased probability of prostate cancer. Increased mtDNA copy number is also reported
Pawel Jaruga, Erdem Coskun, M Miral Dizdar, Nathan Donley, Stephen Lloyd, Amanda McCullough
ABSTRACT The DNA base excision repair (BER) pathway, which utilizes DNA glycosylases to initiate repair of specific DNA lesions, is the major pathway for the repair of DNA damage induced by oxidation, alkylation, and deamination. Early results from
It is often necessary to obtain isotopically labeled proteins containing 15N, 13C or 2H for NMR; and 2H for small-angle neutron scattering (SANS) or neutron diffraction studies. To achieve uniform isotopic labeling, protein expression is most commonly
Aric W. Sanders, Kavita M. Jeerage, Ann C. Chiaramonti Debay, Alexandra Curtin
Gold nanoparticles (GNPs) are gaining importance as therapeutic chemical delivery vehicles, medical diagnostic tools, phototherapeutic and contrast enhancement agents. GNPs are uniquely suited for these biological uses because of their chemical stability
Heba Degheidy, Fatima Abbasi, Howard Mostowski, Adolfas Gaigalas, Gerald Marti, Steven Bauer, Lili Wang
Detecting changes in the expression levels of cell antigens could provide critical information for the diagnosis of many diseases, e.g. leukemia, lymphoma and immunodeficiency diseases, detecting minimal residual disease, monitoring immunotherapies and
Prasad T. Reddy, Pawel Jaruga, Bryant C. Nelson, Mark Lowenthal, Ann-Sofie Jemth, Olga Loseva, Erdem Coskun, Thomas Helleday, Miral M. Dizdar
Oxidatively induced DNA damage is caused in living organisms by a variety of damaging agents, resulting in the formation of a multiplicity of lesions, which are mutagenic and cytotoxic. Unless repaired by DNA repair mechanisms before DNA replication, DNA
Justin M. Zook, Anil Patwardhan, Marc L. Salit, Carlos Bustamante, Euan Ashley, Michael Snyder, John West, Richard Chen
Exome sequencing is increasingly used for the clinical evaluation of genetic disease, yet accuracy and coverage in medically interpretable parts of the genome remains under-characterized. We evaluate recently developed exome sequencing platforms in the
The two major forms of vitamin D, vitamin D3 and vitamin D2, are metabolized in the liver through hydroxylation to 25-hydroxyvitamin D species, and then further hydroxylated in the kidney to various dihydroxyvitamin D species. 24R,25-Dihydroxyvitamin D3
Justin M. Zook, Amy Gargis, Lisa Kalman, Ira Lubin, Marc L. Salit
We direct your readers' attention to the principles and guidelines (see Supplementary Guidelines) developed by the Next-generation Sequencing: Standardization of Clinical Testing II (Nex-StoCT II) informatics workgroup, which was convened by the Centers
Nathanael D. Olson, Steven P. Lund, Rebecca Colman, Jeffery T. Foster, Jason W. Sahl, James M. Schupp, Paul Keim, Jayne B. Morrow, Marc L. Salit, Justin M. Zook
Innovations in sequencing technologies have allowed biologists to make incredible advances in understanding biological systems. As experience grows, researchers increasingly recognize that analyzing the wealth of data provided by these new sequencing
Robert G. Brinson, Jennifer T. Miller, Kahn Jason, Stuart F. Le Grice, John P. Marino
Proton assignment of NMR spectra of oligonucleotide duplexes can become difficult with increasing helical length due to cross peak overlap. Here we describe an alternative to 15N and 13C labeling that facilitates assignment via single site substitution
Erdem Coskun, Pawel Jaruga, Ann-Sofie Jemth, Olga Loseva, Leona D. Scanlan, Alessandro Tona, Mark S. Lowenthal, Thomas Helleday, M Miral Dizdar
MTH1 protein sanitizes the nucleotide pool so that modified 2'-deoxynucleoside triphosphates (dNTPs) cannot be used in DNA replication. Cancer cells require MTH1 to avoid incorporation of modified dNTPs resulting in DNA damage mutations and cell death
Nathanael D. Olson, Nancy J. Lin, Scott A. Jackson
Advances in DNA sequencing over the last decade have lowered the barrier to whole genome sequencing. However, additional challenges must be overcome before widespread adoption of whole genome sequencing is realized for pathogen identification in applied
Geoffrey B. McFadden, Augustin Luna, Mirit I. Aladjem, Kurt W. Kohn
The circadian clock is a set of regulatory steps that oscillate with a period of approximately 24 hours influencing many biological processes. These oscillations are robust to external stresses, and in the case of genotoxic stress (i.e. DNA damage), the
Katherine Gettings, Kevin M. Kiesler, Peter Vallone
Forensic DNA casework samples are often of insufficient quantity or quality to generate full profiles by conventional DNA typing methods. Amplification of STR loci is inherently limited in samples containing degraded DNA, as the cumulative size of repeat
Nathan A. Hotaling, Kapil Bharti, Haydn Kriel, Carl G. Simon Jr.
Despite the growing use of nanofiber scaffolds for tissue engineering applications, there is not a validated, readily available (commercial or open source) solution for rapid, automated analysis of nanofiber diameter from scanning electron microscope (SEM)
For the 7th year in a row the Art in Science award competition, sponsored by Lab on a Chip and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), took place at the 18th International Conference of Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life
Fluorescent and plasmonic probes have proven invaluable in the life sciences, but function poorly in optically inaccessible regions. Here we present radio-frequency addressable analogs that afford sensing opportunities similar to those of fluorescent
Alexander J. Neumann, Timothy P. Quinn, Stephanie J. Bryant
Mw 20 000 8-arm PEG was functionalized with ε-Caprolactone (Sigma) and, subsequently, conjugated with 5-nobornene-2-carboxylic acid (Sigma). H NMR was used to confirm the final product. Bovine chondrocytes were isolated from full-depth articular cartilage
John E. Schiel, Cyrus D. Agarabi, Scott C. Lute, Brittany K. Chavez, Michael T. Boyne, Kurt A. Brorson, Mansoor A. Kahn, Erik K. Read
Consistent high quality antibody yield is a key goal for cell culture bioprocessing. This endpoint is typically achieved in commercial settings through product and process engineering of bioreactor parameters during development. When the process is complex