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Protein-Protein Fusion Catalyzed By Sortase A, David A. Levary, Ranganath Parthasarathy, Eric T. Boder, Margaret E. Ackerman Apr 2011

Protein-Protein Fusion Catalyzed By Sortase A, David A. Levary, Ranganath Parthasarathy, Eric T. Boder, Margaret E. Ackerman

Dartmouth Scholarship

Chimeric proteins boast widespread use in areas ranging from cell biology to drug delivery. Post-translational protein fusion using the bacterial transpeptidase sortase A provides an attractive alternative when traditional gene fusion fails. We describe use of this enzyme for in vitro protein ligation and report the successful fusion of 10 pairs of protein domains with preserved functionality — demonstrating the robust and facile nature of this reaction.


A Look At The Report - Poverty And Potential: Out-Of-School Factors And School Success, Terry Stockton Apr 2011

A Look At The Report - Poverty And Potential: Out-Of-School Factors And School Success, Terry Stockton

Colleagues

No abstract provided.


Immersion Versus Exposure: An Argument For Student Teaching Abroad, Sherie Williams Apr 2011

Immersion Versus Exposure: An Argument For Student Teaching Abroad, Sherie Williams

Colleagues

No abstract provided.


The Relationship Between School And Society: Part I - Functionalist Perspective, Roger T. Wilson Apr 2011

The Relationship Between School And Society: Part I - Functionalist Perspective, Roger T. Wilson

Colleagues

No abstract provided.


The Daily Egyptian, April 05, 2011, Daily Egyptian Staff Apr 2011

The Daily Egyptian, April 05, 2011, Daily Egyptian Staff

April 2011

No abstract provided.


The Fierce Green Fire: Vol. 1 Issue 14, Wofford College Environmental Studies Program Apr 2011

The Fierce Green Fire: Vol. 1 Issue 14, Wofford College Environmental Studies Program

The Fierce Green Fire

No abstract provided.


2011 Program For Celebrating Scholarship & Creativity Day, Richard White, Bev Radaich Apr 2011

2011 Program For Celebrating Scholarship & Creativity Day, Richard White, Bev Radaich

Celebrating Scholarship & Creativity Day (2011-2017)

No abstract provided.


Bayesian Effect Estimation Accounting For Adjustment Uncertainty, Chi Wang, Giovanni Parmigiani, Francesca Dominici Apr 2011

Bayesian Effect Estimation Accounting For Adjustment Uncertainty, Chi Wang, Giovanni Parmigiani, Francesca Dominici

Harvard University Biostatistics Working Paper Series

No abstract provided.


Nanotubes As Mitochondrial Uncouplers, Patrick G. Sullivan Apr 2011

Nanotubes As Mitochondrial Uncouplers, Patrick G. Sullivan

Neuroscience Faculty Patents

A method of uncoupling mitochondria in a subject including administering nanotubes to the subject in a therapeutically effective amount, wherein the nanotubes are self-rectifying is provided. A method of decreasing reactive oxygen species and decreasing detrimental loading of Ca2+ into mitochondria is provided, including administering a pharmaceutically effective amount of nanotubes into the subject. A method of reducing weight, treating cancer, reducing the effects of traumatic brain injury, or reducing the effects of ageing, in a subject including administering a pharmaceutically effective amount of nanotubes into the subject is also provided.


Molecular Correlates Of Social Dominance: A Novel Role For Ependymin In Aggression, Lynne U. Sneddon, Rupert Schmidt, Yongxiang Fang, Andrew R. Cossins Apr 2011

Molecular Correlates Of Social Dominance: A Novel Role For Ependymin In Aggression, Lynne U. Sneddon, Rupert Schmidt, Yongxiang Fang, Andrew R. Cossins

Ethology Collection

Theoretical and empirical studies have sought to explain the formation and maintenance of social relationships within groups. The resulting dominance hierarchies have significant fitness and survival consequences dependent upon social status. We hypothesised that each position or rank within a group has a distinctive brain gene expression profile that correlates with behavioural phenotype. Furthermore, transitions in rank position should determine which genes shift in expression concurrent with the new dominance status. We used a custom cDNA microarray to profile brain transcript expression in a model species, the rainbow trout, which forms tractable linear hierarchies. Dominant, subdominant and submissive individuals had …


Micro Integrated Planar Optical Waveguide Type Spr Sensor, Hyoung Cho, Hyungseok Bang, Patrick Wa Apr 2011

Micro Integrated Planar Optical Waveguide Type Spr Sensor, Hyoung Cho, Hyungseok Bang, Patrick Wa

UCF Patents

An integrated optical waveguide type surface plasmon resonance (SPR) sensor having an optical waveguide with a corresponding SPR sensing area, photodetectors, and wavelength tunable laser or any kind of tunable laser source/coupler formed on a substrate. In an embodiment, the laser is a wavelength tunable laser and optionally, the integrated device may include a power source on the substrate for providing an electric power to the wavelength tunable laser and the photodetectors, or a circuit for signal coupling, or a microfluidic structure for routing a target sample to the SPR sensor area. The microfluidic structure optionally includes a mixer or …


Capture And Sequestration Of Carbon Dioxide In Flue Gases, Surendra Komar Kawatra, Timothy C. Eisele, John J. Simmons Apr 2011

Capture And Sequestration Of Carbon Dioxide In Flue Gases, Surendra Komar Kawatra, Timothy C. Eisele, John J. Simmons

Michigan Tech Patents

There is provided a process for the capture and sequestration of carbon dioxide that would otherwise enter the atmosphere and contribute to global warming and other problems. C02 capture is accomplished by reacting carbon dioxide in flue gas with an alkali metal carbonate, or a metal oxide, particularly containing an alkaline earth metal or iron, to form a carbonate salt. A preferred carbonate for C02 capture is a dilute aqueous solution of additive-free (Na2C03). Other carbonates include (K2C03) or other metal ion that can produce both a carbonate and a bicarbonate salt. Examples of suitable metal oxides include several alkaline …


Uab Student Named 2011 Goldwater Scholar, Shannon Thomason Apr 2011

Uab Student Named 2011 Goldwater Scholar, Shannon Thomason

Browse All News

No abstract provided.


Uab Expert Says Gulf Oil Spill Endangers Four-Year Fight To Save Turtle Population, Jim Bakken Apr 2011

Uab Expert Says Gulf Oil Spill Endangers Four-Year Fight To Save Turtle Population, Jim Bakken

Browse All News

No abstract provided.


The Daily Gamecock, Tuesday, April 5, 2011, University Of South Carolina, Office Of Student Media Apr 2011

The Daily Gamecock, Tuesday, April 5, 2011, University Of South Carolina, Office Of Student Media

April

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April 5, 2011, Faculty Senate Apr 2011

April 5, 2011, Faculty Senate

Minutes

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60 Days After Its Start, Uab Biologists Reflect On Oil Spill Impacts, Jim Bakken Apr 2011

60 Days After Its Start, Uab Biologists Reflect On Oil Spill Impacts, Jim Bakken

Browse All News

No abstract provided.


High-Activity Mutants Of Butyrylcholinesterase For Cocaine Hydrolysis And Method Of Generating The Same, Chang-Guo Zhan, Hoon Cho, Hsin-Hsiung Tai Apr 2011

High-Activity Mutants Of Butyrylcholinesterase For Cocaine Hydrolysis And Method Of Generating The Same, Chang-Guo Zhan, Hoon Cho, Hsin-Hsiung Tai

Pharmaceutical Sciences Faculty Patents

A novel computational method and generation of mutant butyrylcholinesterase for cocaine hydrolysis is provided. The method includes molecular modeling a possible BChE mutant and conducting molecular dynamics simulations and hybrid quantum mechanical/molecular mechanical calculations thereby providing a screening method of possible BChE mutants by predicting which mutant will lead to a more stable transition state for a rate determining step. Site-directed mutagenesis, protein expression, and protein activity is conducted for mutants determined computationally as being good candidates for possible BChE mutants, i.e., ones predicted to have higher catalytic efficiency as compared with wild-type BChE. In addition, mutants A199S/A328W/Y332G, A199S/F227A/A328W/Y332G, A199S/S287G/A328W/Y332G, …


Development And Validation Of The Minnesota Borderline Personality Disorder Scale, Marina Bornovalova, Brian M Hicks, Christopher J. Patrick, William G Iacono, Matt Mcgue Apr 2011

Development And Validation Of The Minnesota Borderline Personality Disorder Scale, Marina Bornovalova, Brian M Hicks, Christopher J. Patrick, William G Iacono, Matt Mcgue

Psychology Faculty Publications

Although large epidemiological data sets can inform research on the etiology and development of borderline personality disorder (BPD), they rarely include BPD measures. In some cases, however, proxy measures can be constructed using instruments already in these data sets. In this study, the authors developed and validated a self-report measure of BPD from the Multidimensional Personality Questionnaire (MPQ). Items for the new instrument—the Minnesota BPD scale (MBPD) —were identified and refined using three large samples: undergraduates, community adolescent twins, and urban substance users. The authors determined the construct validity of the MBPD scale by examining its association with (a) diagnosed …


Opening The System: (Re)Writing Value Theory Discursively, David Kristjanson-Gural Apr 2011

Opening The System: (Re)Writing Value Theory Discursively, David Kristjanson-Gural

Faculty Journal Articles

In this article I argue that modern and postmodern critics of value theory share the premise that Marx’s theory of value disables the project of emancipatory social change. The modern critics claim the theory is logically flawed and must be either resituated in a consistent logical framework or replaced by a Sraffian alternative. The postmodern critics claim that the theory is necessarily reductionist and excludes or renders secondary important axes of social struggle. I argue that by using a poststructural logic, Marx’s theory of value can be interpreted in a way that both overcomes the perceived consistencies of the modern …


The Prospector, April 5, 2011, Utep Student Publications Apr 2011

The Prospector, April 5, 2011, Utep Student Publications

The Prospector

Headline: Freshman 15


Episodic Radiations In The Fly Tree Of Life, Brian M. Wiegmann, Michelle D. Trautwein, Isaac S. Winkler, Norman B. Barr, Jung-Wook Kim, Christine Lambkin, Matthew Bertone, Brian Cassel, Keith Bayless, Alysha Heimberg Apr 2011

Episodic Radiations In The Fly Tree Of Life, Brian M. Wiegmann, Michelle D. Trautwein, Isaac S. Winkler, Norman B. Barr, Jung-Wook Kim, Christine Lambkin, Matthew Bertone, Brian Cassel, Keith Bayless, Alysha Heimberg

Dartmouth Scholarship

Flies are one of four superradiations of insects (along with beetles, wasps, and moths) that account for the majority of animal life on Earth. Diptera includes species known for their ubiquity (Musca domestica house fly), their role as pests (Anopheles gambiae malaria mosquito), and their value as model organisms across the biological sciences (Drosophila melanogaster). A resolved phylogeny for flies provides a framework for genomic, developmental, and evolutionary studies by facilitating comparisons across model organisms, yet recent research has suggested that fly relationships have been obscured by multiple episodes of rapid diversification. We provide a phylogenomic …


The Current Volume 21 : Issue 27, Nova Southeastern University Apr 2011

The Current Volume 21 : Issue 27, Nova Southeastern University

Student Newspapers

No abstract provided.


Supporting Information: Reconstructing The History Of Marriage And Residence Strategies In Indo-European-Speaking Societies, Laura Fortunato Apr 2011

Supporting Information: Reconstructing The History Of Marriage And Residence Strategies In Indo-European-Speaking Societies, Laura Fortunato

Human Biology

This file provides additional information on the data and methods used in Fortunato (2011a,b), and discussion of the results of the fossilization of nodes Proto-Indo-Hittite (PIH) and Proto-Indo-European (PIE) for marriage and residence strategies.


Reconstructing The History Of Marriage Strategies In Indo-European–Speaking Societies: Monogamy And Polygyny, Laura Fortunato Apr 2011

Reconstructing The History Of Marriage Strategies In Indo-European–Speaking Societies: Monogamy And Polygyny, Laura Fortunato

Human Biology

Explanations for the emergence of monogamous marriage have focused on the cross-cultural distribution of marriage strategies, thus failing to account for their history. In this paper I reconstruct the pattern of change in marriage strategies in the history of societies speaking Indo-European languages, using cross-cultural data in the systematic and explicitly historical framework afforded by the phylogenetic comparative approach. The analysis provides evidence in support of Proto-Indo-European monogamy, and that this pattern may have extended back to Proto-Indo- Hittite. These reconstructions push the origin of monogamous marriage into prehistory, well beyond the earliest instances documented in the historical record; this, …


2011 Abstract Booklet, Undergraduate Research Center, Minnesota State University, Mankato Apr 2011

2011 Abstract Booklet, Undergraduate Research Center, Minnesota State University, Mankato

Undergraduate Research Symposium

Complete Schedule of Events for the 13th Annual Undergraduate Research Symposium at Minnesota State University, Mankato.


04-04-2011 Swosu Biology Club Hosting Plant Sale On April 14, Southwestern Oklahoma State University Apr 2011

04-04-2011 Swosu Biology Club Hosting Plant Sale On April 14, Southwestern Oklahoma State University

THE BARK ARCHIVE 2011

Southwestern Oklahoma State University's Biology Club will host its annual plant sale on Thursday, April 14, from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the Memorial Student Center lobby on the Weatherford campus.


04-04-2011 Swosu Professor Begins Third Decade As Editor Of The Mayfly Newsletter, Southwestern Oklahoma State University Apr 2011

04-04-2011 Swosu Professor Begins Third Decade As Editor Of The Mayfly Newsletter, Southwestern Oklahoma State University

THE BARK ARCHIVE 2011

Dr. Peter Grant, Bernhardt professor of biology at Southwestern Oklahoma State University in Weatherford, has started his third decade as editor of the publication—The Mayfly Newsletter.


The Statesman, V. 54, I. 25, Stony Brook University Apr 2011

The Statesman, V. 54, I. 25, Stony Brook University

Stony Brook Statesman-Sucolian

v. 54, i. 25


Stagnant, April 04, 2011, University Of Missouri-St. Louis Apr 2011

Stagnant, April 04, 2011, University Of Missouri-St. Louis

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