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Fission Yeast Mitotic Regulator Dsk1 Is An Sr Protein-Specific Kinase, Zhaohua Irene Tang, Mitsuhiro Yanagida, Ren-Jang Lin Mar 1998

Fission Yeast Mitotic Regulator Dsk1 Is An Sr Protein-Specific Kinase, Zhaohua Irene Tang, Mitsuhiro Yanagida, Ren-Jang Lin

WM Keck Science Faculty Papers

Intricate interplay may exist between pre-mRNA splicing and the cell division cycle, and fission yeast Dsk1 appears to play a role in such a connection. Previous genetic analyses have implicated Dsk1 in the regulation of chromosome segregation at the metaphase/anaphase transition. Yet, its protein sequence suggests that Dsk1 may function as a kinase specific for SR proteins, a family of pre-mRNA splicing factors containing arginine-serine repeats. Using an in vitro system with purified components, we showed that Dsk1 phosphorylated human and yeast SR proteins with high specificity. The Dsk1-phosphorylated SF2/ASF protein was recognized strongly by a monoclonal antibody (mAb104) known …


Land Use Patterns In Relation To Lake Water Quality In The Great Pond Watershed, Problems In Environmental Science Course (Biology 493), Colby College, Colby Environmental Assessment Team, Colby College Jan 1998

Land Use Patterns In Relation To Lake Water Quality In The Great Pond Watershed, Problems In Environmental Science Course (Biology 493), Colby College, Colby Environmental Assessment Team, Colby College

Colby College Watershed Study: Great Pond (2012, 2010, 1998)

Lakes are natural resources, which have many effects on the land surrounding them, They support adjacent communities by providing water and regulating temperatures, helping to define the surrounding ecosystem, and serving as sources of drinking water as well as recreation. The prolonged presence of human activity in a watershed can disturb the physical and chemical cycles of the lake and its surrounding ecosystems (Henderson-Sellers and Markland 1987). Over time, lakes undergo a process called eutrophication, a natural aging process during which the nutrient levels increase and dissolved oxygen levels decrease (Smith and Smith 1998). As the lake ages or becomes …


Partial Sequencing Of A Balbiani Ring Gene And Development Of A Molecular Probe, Kerri Ann Kurzeja Jan 1998

Partial Sequencing Of A Balbiani Ring Gene And Development Of A Molecular Probe, Kerri Ann Kurzeja

Seton Hall University Dissertations and Theses (ETDs)

The Environmental Protection Agency is currently developing sediment quality criteria in order to protect the nation's water sources. In order to assist in the development of standards for the disposal of heavy metals, our laboratory is undergoing sediment toxicity studies on Chironomus riparius. It is an EPA approved test organism that spends most of its life in the sediment. Following a previous study (Cochrane et al., 1994), the organism's response to heavy metals will be monitored on the genetic level. Several genes, including a Balbiani ring (BR) gene, which was the focus of this thesis, will be studied to determine …


Identification Of An Amylase-Like Gene In Chironomus Riparius, Loriann Mahurter Jan 1998

Identification Of An Amylase-Like Gene In Chironomus Riparius, Loriann Mahurter

Seton Hall University Dissertations and Theses (ETDs)

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