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Phenotypic Analysis Of Schizosaccharomyces Pombe Strains Bearing Site-Directed Mutations In The Carboxy Terminal Domain Of The Largest Subunit Of Rna Polymerase Ii, Kyle S. Hoffman Aug 2012

Phenotypic Analysis Of Schizosaccharomyces Pombe Strains Bearing Site-Directed Mutations In The Carboxy Terminal Domain Of The Largest Subunit Of Rna Polymerase Ii, Kyle S. Hoffman

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The phosphorylation status of the largest sub-unit of RNA polymerase II (Rpb1p) is crucial to the control of transcription in eukaryotes. The domain subject to this phosphorylation is known as the carboxyl terminal domain (CTD) and consists of multiple repeats (from 20 to 52 copies depending on the species in question) of the heptad sequence Y1S2P3T4S5P6S7. Interestingly, differential phosphorylation of S2, S5, and S7 residues is known to play an important role in the control of pre-mRNA processing. To determine the number …


The Human Phosphotyrosine Signaling Network: Evolution And Hotspots Of Hijacking In Cancer., Lei Li, Chabane Tibiche, Cong Fu, Tomonori Kaneko, Michael F. Moran, Martin Schiller, Shawn Shun-Cheng Li, Edwin Wang Jul 2012

The Human Phosphotyrosine Signaling Network: Evolution And Hotspots Of Hijacking In Cancer., Lei Li, Chabane Tibiche, Cong Fu, Tomonori Kaneko, Michael F. Moran, Martin Schiller, Shawn Shun-Cheng Li, Edwin Wang

Life Sciences Faculty Research

Phosphotyrosine (pTyr) signaling, which plays a central role in cell-cell and cell-environment interactions, has been considered to be an evolutionary innovation in multicellular metazoans. However, neither the emergence nor the evolution of the human pTyr signaling system is currently understood. Tyrosine kinase (TK) circuits, each of which consists of a TK writer, a kinase substrate, and a related reader, such as Src homology (SH) 2 domains and pTyr-binding (PTB) domains, comprise the core machinery of the pTyr signaling network. In this study, we analyzed the evolutionary trajectories of 583 literature-derived and 50,000 computationally predicted human TK circuits in 19 representative …


The Role Of Argininosuccinate Synthase Serine 328 Phosphorylation In Nitric Oxide Production, Ricci Haines Jun 2012

The Role Of Argininosuccinate Synthase Serine 328 Phosphorylation In Nitric Oxide Production, Ricci Haines

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Until recently, the main mechanism of argininosuccinate synthase (AS) regulation was described to exist mainly at the level of transcription. Transcriptional regulation of AS has been shown to be coordinate with eNOS in response to shear stress, hypoxia, tumor necrosis factor á (TNF-á), and PPAR ã agonist troglitizone. However, it is now understood that one level of NO regulation is cellular control of arginine availability to eNOS via post-translational modifications of AS such as phosphorylation. The purpose of this investigation was to determine under what conditions AS is phosphorylated at S328, identify the pathway that AS phosphorylation at S328 plays …