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The Relationship Between Frq-Protein Stability And Temperature Compensation In The Neurospora Circadian Clock, Peter Ruoff, Jennifer J. Loros, Jay C. Dunlap
The Relationship Between Frq-Protein Stability And Temperature Compensation In The Neurospora Circadian Clock, Peter Ruoff, Jennifer J. Loros, Jay C. Dunlap
Dartmouth Scholarship
Temperature compensation is an important property of all biological clocks. In Neurospora crassa, negative-feedback regulation on the frequency (frq) gene's transcription by the FRQ protein plays a central role in the organism's circadian pacemaker. Earlier model calculations predicted that the stability of FRQ should determine the period length of Neurospora's circadian rhythm as well as the rhythm's temperature compensation. Here, we report experimental FRQ protein stabilities in frq mutants at 20 degrees C and 25 degrees C, and estimates of overall activation energies for mutant FRQ protein degradation. The results are consistent with earlier model predictions, i.e., temperature compensation of …
Calmodulin And Pf6 Are Components Of A Complex That Localizes To The C1 Microtubule Of The Flagellar Central Apparatus, Matthew J. Wargo, Erin E. Dymek, Elizabeth F. Smith
Calmodulin And Pf6 Are Components Of A Complex That Localizes To The C1 Microtubule Of The Flagellar Central Apparatus, Matthew J. Wargo, Erin E. Dymek, Elizabeth F. Smith
Dartmouth Scholarship
Studies of flagellar motility in Chlamydomonas mutants lacking specific central apparatus components have supported the hypothesis that the inherent asymmetry of this structure provides important spatial cues for asymmetric regulation of dynein activity. These studies have also suggested that specific projections associated with the C1 and C2 central tubules make unique contributions to modulating motility; yet, we still do not know the identities of most polypeptides associated with the central tubules. To identify components of the C1a projection, we took an immunoprecipitation approach using antibodies generated against PF6. The pf6 mutant lacks the C1a projection and possesses flagella that only …
Origin Of The Eumetazoa: Testing Ecological Predictions Of Molecular Clocks Against The Proterozoic Fossil Record, Kevin J. Peterson, Nicholas J. Butterfield
Origin Of The Eumetazoa: Testing Ecological Predictions Of Molecular Clocks Against The Proterozoic Fossil Record, Kevin J. Peterson, Nicholas J. Butterfield
Dartmouth Scholarship
Molecular clocks have the potential to shed light on the timing of early metazoan divergences, but differing algorithms and calibration points yield conspicuously discordant results. We argue here that competing molecular clock hypotheses should be testable in the fossil record, on the principle that fundamentally new grades of animal organization will have ecosystem-wide impacts. Using a set of seven nuclear-encoded protein sequences, we demonstrate the paraphyly of Porifera and calculate sponge/eumetazoan and cnidarian/bilaterian divergence times by using both distance [minimum evolution (ME)] and maximum likelihood (ML) molecular clocks; ME brackets the appearance of Eumetazoa between 634 and 604 Ma, whereas …
Cellulose Utilization By Clostridium Thermocellum: Bioenergetics And Hydrolysis Product Assimilation, Yi-Heng P. Zhang, Lee R. Lynd
Cellulose Utilization By Clostridium Thermocellum: Bioenergetics And Hydrolysis Product Assimilation, Yi-Heng P. Zhang, Lee R. Lynd
Dartmouth Scholarship
The bioenergetics of cellulose utilization by Clostridium thermocellum was investigated. Cell yield and maintenance parameters, Y(X/ATP)True = 16.44 g cell/mol ATP and m = 3.27 mmol ATP/g cell per hour, were obtained from cellobiose-grown chemostats, and it was shown that one ATP is required per glucan transported. Experimentally determined values for G(ATP)P-T (ATP from phosphorolytic beta-glucan cleavage minus ATP for substrate transport, mol ATP/mol hexose) from chemostats fed beta-glucans with degree of polymerization (DP) 2-6 agreed well with the predicted value of (n-2)/n [corrected] (n = mean cellodextrin DP assimilated). A mean G(ATP)(P-T) value of 0.52 +/- 0.06 was calculated …
Writing The Future: Progress And Evolution, Michael Dietrich
Writing The Future: Progress And Evolution, Michael Dietrich
Dartmouth Scholarship
Review of Writing the Future: Progress and Evolution edited by David Rothenberg and Wandee J Pryor, 2004.
Two Crystal Structures Of Dihydrofolate Reductase-Thymidylate Synthase From Cryptosporidium Hominis Reveal Protein–Ligand Interactions Including A Structural Basis For Observed Antifolate Resistance, Amy C. Anderson
Dartmouth Scholarship
Cryptosporidium hominis is a protozoan parasite that causes acute gastro- intestinal illness. There are no effective therapies for cryptosporidiosis, highlighting the need for new drug-lead discovery. An analysis of the protein ligand interactions in two crystal structures of dihydrofolate reductase- thymidylate synthase DHFR-TS) from C. hominis, determined at 2.8 and 2.87 AÊ resolution, reveals that the interactions of residues Ile29, Thr58 and Cys113 in the active site of C. hominis DHFR provide a possible structural basis for the observed antifolate resistance. A comparison with the structure of human DHFR reveals active-site differences that may be exploited for the design of …
From The Cover: Assignment Of An Essential Role For The Neurospora Frequency Gene In Circadian Entrainment To Temperature Cycles, Antonio M. Pregueiro, Nathan Price-Lloyd, Deborah Bell-Pedersen, Christian Heintzen, Jennifer J. Loros, Jay C. Dunlap
From The Cover: Assignment Of An Essential Role For The Neurospora Frequency Gene In Circadian Entrainment To Temperature Cycles, Antonio M. Pregueiro, Nathan Price-Lloyd, Deborah Bell-Pedersen, Christian Heintzen, Jennifer J. Loros, Jay C. Dunlap
Dartmouth Scholarship
Circadian systems include slave oscillators and central pacemakers, and the cores of eukaryotic circadian clocks described to date are composed of transcription and translation feedback loops (TTFLs). In the model system Neurospora, normal circadian rhythmicity requires a TTFL in which a White Collar complex (WCC) activates expression of the frequency (frq) gene, and the FRQ protein feeds back to attenuate that activation. To further test the centrality of this TTFL to the circadian mechanism in Neurospora, we used low-amplitude temperature cycles to compare WT and frq-null strains under conditions in which a banding rhythm was elicited. WT cultures were entrained …
Two Men Who Invented Genetics, Michael Dietrich
Two Men Who Invented Genetics, Michael Dietrich
Dartmouth Scholarship
A review of two books:\r\nThe Man Who Invented the Chromosome: a Life of Cyril Darlington by Oren Solomon Harman, 2004 and\r\nGeorge Beadle, and Uncommon Farmer: The Emergence of Genetics in the 20th Century, 2003 by Paul Berg and Maxine Singer.
Discovering Cell Mechanisms: The Creation Of Modern Cell Biology, Michael Dietrich
Discovering Cell Mechanisms: The Creation Of Modern Cell Biology, Michael Dietrich
Dartmouth Scholarship
Review of Discovering Cell Mechanisms: The Creation ofModern Cell Biology. Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Biology. By William Bechtel. Cambridge and New York: Cam-bridge University Press. xii 323 p; ill.; index. ISBN: 052181247X. 2006.
Knowing When To Draw The Line: Designing More Informative Ecological Experiments, Kathryn L. Cottingham, Jay T. Lennon, Bryan L. Brown
Knowing When To Draw The Line: Designing More Informative Ecological Experiments, Kathryn L. Cottingham, Jay T. Lennon, Bryan L. Brown
Dartmouth Scholarship
Linear regression and analysis of variance (ANOVA) are two of the most widely used statistical techniques in ecology. Regression quantitatively describes the relationship between a response variable and one or more continuous independent variables, while ANOVA determines whether a response variable differs among discrete values of the independent variable(s). Designing experiments with discrete factors is straightforward because ANOVA is the only option, but what is the best way to design experiments involving continuous factors? Should ecologists prefer experiments with few treatments and many replicates analyzed with ANOVA, or experiments with many treatments and few replicates per treatment analyzed with regression? …