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Locking Down The N-Terminus Of Prmt1 In Order To Assess The Role Of Motion In Activity, Taylor James Rasmussen
Locking Down The N-Terminus Of Prmt1 In Order To Assess The Role Of Motion In Activity, Taylor James Rasmussen
Undergraduate Honors Capstone Projects
Protein arginine methyltransferases (PRMTs) are involved In many major biological pathways in the human body. Processes that demonstrate arginine methylation by PRMTs include, but are not limited to, histone modification, DNA transcription, and post-translational protein modifications. Although recent research has allowed the identification of several PRMT isoforms and exposed their involvement in these processes, relatively little is known about the details of how these enzymes perform their biochemical duties. It is currently hypothesized that the N-terminus of PRMT variant I is involved in recognizing substrates and aiding in catalysis by virtue of a change in its conformation. To understand how …
Organization And Characterization Of Nuclear Receptor Af1 Domain, Angela Frantz
Organization And Characterization Of Nuclear Receptor Af1 Domain, Angela Frantz
Chancellor’s Honors Program Projects
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Investigating The Flexibility Of Intrinsically Disordered Proteins In Folding And Binding, Amanda Leilah Debuhr
Investigating The Flexibility Of Intrinsically Disordered Proteins In Folding And Binding, Amanda Leilah Debuhr
Chancellor’s Honors Program Projects
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Light-Activated Binary Nucleotide Reagent For Inactivation Of Dna Polymerase, Evan M. Cornett
Light-Activated Binary Nucleotide Reagent For Inactivation Of Dna Polymerase, Evan M. Cornett
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
This work explores a binary reagent approach to increase the specificity of covalent inhibitors. In this approach, two ligand analogs equipped with inert pre-reactive groups specifically bind a target biopolymer. The binding event brings the pre-reactive groups in proximity with each other. The two groups react, generating active chemical intermediates that covalently modify and inactivate the target. In the present study we compare the new approach with the traditional single-component reagent strategy using DNA polymerase from bacteriophage T4 as a model target biopolymer. We report the design and synthesis of two analogs of deoxythymidine triphosphate, a natural DNA polymerase substrate. …
Lipase-Kinase Associations Involving Pld2, Jak3 And Fes That Underlie Cancer Cell Proliferation And Invasion, Qing Ye
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Phospholipase D (PLD) is an enzyme that breaks down phospholipids in the cell membrane. It has been suggested that PLD may play a role during cell proliferation and cell invasion of cancer cells. The objective of this thesis was to define new molecular signaling pathways in which PLD2 might be involved in terms of cell proliferation (first part) and cell invasion (second part). To this, I compared molecular and biochemical aspects between untransformed cell lines with highly invasive, transformed breast cancer cells. In the first part, I investigated the interaction of two tyrosine kinases with PLD2 and the effect of …