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Full-Text Articles in Biochemistry
Using Nmr Chemical Shift Perturbations To Map Interactions Between Acyl-Acyl Carrier Proteins And Acyl Homoserine Lactone Synthases, Madison N. Rizzo
Using Nmr Chemical Shift Perturbations To Map Interactions Between Acyl-Acyl Carrier Proteins And Acyl Homoserine Lactone Synthases, Madison N. Rizzo
Boise State University Theses and Dissertations
A pandemic of antibiotic resistance is underway and affecting multiple industries, including veterinary, agricultural, and healthcare. High bacterial population density is a major form of defense for bacterial cells against drugs, contributes to antibiotic resistance, and is one of the requirements for the formation of biofilms. Quorum sensing is a form of cell-to-cell communication that both gram-negative and gram-positive bacteria use to account for density behavior. When the population density of bacteria reaches a certain level (a “quorum”), there is an observed coordinated shift in gene expression that leads to optimized growth or virulence. Acyl carrier proteins (ACP) and the …
Improving The Ribozyme Toolbox: From Structure-Function Insights To Synthetic Biology Applications, Jessica Michelle Roberts
Improving The Ribozyme Toolbox: From Structure-Function Insights To Synthetic Biology Applications, Jessica Michelle Roberts
Boise State University Theses and Dissertations
Self-cleaving ribozymes are a naturally occurring class of catalytically active RNA molecules which cleave their own phosphate backbone. In nature, self-cleaving ribozymes are best known for their role in processing concatamers of viral genomes into monomers during viral replication in some RNA viruses, but to a lesser degree have also been implicated in mRNA regulation and processing in bacteria and eukaryotes. In addition to their biological relevance, these RNA enzymes have been harnessed as important biomolecular tools with a variety of applications in fields such as bioengineering. Self-cleaving ribozymes are relatively small and easy to generate in the lab using …
Liposomes: Production And Applications For Controlled Drug Delivery, Gamid Abatchev
Liposomes: Production And Applications For Controlled Drug Delivery, Gamid Abatchev
Boise State University Theses and Dissertations
This dissertation recognizes the enormous potential presented by the ever-evolving development of liposomes as drug carriers and seeks to offer further investigation into their useful production and utilization. The first chapter presents the basic principles governing their formation by self-assembly in water solutions, briefly describes the most common production methods, and points out essential past advances that led to their use as drug carriers. Chapter two exemplifies production of liposomes by the traditional methods of extrusion and sonication, detailing passive and active loading, as well as physical characterization by Dynamic Light Scattering, microscopy imaging, and fluorescence spectroscopy. In the next …
Structure And Bioactivity Of A Rationally Designed Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptor Antagonist Targeting The Alpha-3 Beta-2 Subtype, Leanna Marquart
Structure And Bioactivity Of A Rationally Designed Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptor Antagonist Targeting The Alpha-3 Beta-2 Subtype, Leanna Marquart
Boise State University Theses and Dissertations
The work presented in this thesis contributes to ongoing development of an efficient workflow for identification of lead compounds, based on the molecular scaffold of α-conotoxin MII, for drug therapies targeting nicotinic acetylcholine receptors. Nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (nAChRs) are pentameric, ligand-gated ion channels with distribution throughout the central nervous system and are implicated in a variety of neurological diseases including schizophrenia, nicotine addiction, Alzheimer’s disease, and Parkinson’s disease. However, ligand effect on nAChR function is not well understood. Consequently, drug therapies for neurological diseases either do not exist, or have short-lasting efficacy and/or severe side effects. Barriers to the comprehension …
The Regulation Of Notch Signaling By Src Kinase And Polyphenolic Compounds, Bryce David Lafoya
The Regulation Of Notch Signaling By Src Kinase And Polyphenolic Compounds, Bryce David Lafoya
Boise State University Theses and Dissertations
Cellular signaling pathways provide cells with the means to sense their environment and communicate with other cells. The Notch signaling pathway is comprised of a set of protein machines which work in unison to coordinate cellular processes in response to stimuli coming from neighboring cells and changing microenvironmental conditions. Notch signaling is an important mode of cellular communication which is crucial to many processes involved in development and disease. During Notch activation, information about the extracellular environment is fed into the cell and relayed to the nucleus through a number of biochemical processes. The information-rich messages carried by Notch signaling …
Investigation Of Catalytic Activity Of Stable Β-Ketoacyl-Acp Substrate Analogs In Quorum Sensing Signal Synthesis, Nhu Lam
Boise State University Theses and Dissertations
Quorum sensing is an intercellular mechanism used by many bacterial pathogens to regulate behaviors, such as motility, virulence, and antibiotic production. Disruption of quorum sensing is shown to be deleterious to bacterial pathogenicity, without causing lethality. In Gram-negative bacteria, acyl-homoserine lactone (AHL or acyl-HSL) signal molecules are synthesized by AHL synthase enzymes using acylated-acyl carrier protein (acyl-ACP) and S-adenosyl-L-methionine (SAM) as their substrates. Pantoea stewartii EsaI, which causes Stewart’s wilt in corn, and Yersinia pestis YspI, which causes bubonic plague are AHL synthases that use 3-oxohexanoyl-ACP and 3-oxooctanoyl-ACP as the acyl-substrate to synthesize 3-oxohexanoyl-HSL and 3-oxooctanoyl-HSL signals, respectively. Unfortunately, the …
Acyl-Homoserine Lactone Based Modulators For Rhli, A Quorum Sensing Signal Synthase In Pseudomonas Aeruginosa, Daniel D. Shin
Acyl-Homoserine Lactone Based Modulators For Rhli, A Quorum Sensing Signal Synthase In Pseudomonas Aeruginosa, Daniel D. Shin
Boise State University Theses and Dissertations
Gram-negative bacteria use N-acyl-homoserine lactone (AHL) autoinducer based signal system, known as quorum sensing (QS), to modulate the gene expression for such traits as biofilm formation, toxin production, and antibiotic resistance. Therefore, there is great potential in pursuing quorum sensing inhibition (QSI) as a means of achieving antivirulence. Pseudomonas aeruginosa, an opportunistic pathogen commonly found in healthcare-related infections, use two LuxI/R type systems to regulate AHL-based quorum sensing: LasI/R and RhlI/R. LasI (initiator protein/signal synthase) and LasR (receptor) use 3-oxododecanoyl-L-homoserine lactone signal molecule while RhlI and RhlR use butanoyl-L-homoserine lactone autoinducer. Thus far, most of the studies have …
Examination Of Klebsiella Pneumoniae 5'-Methylthioadenosine/S-Adenosylhomocysteine Nucleosidase And 5-Methylthioribose Kinase, Jason Alan Stonick
Examination Of Klebsiella Pneumoniae 5'-Methylthioadenosine/S-Adenosylhomocysteine Nucleosidase And 5-Methylthioribose Kinase, Jason Alan Stonick
Boise State University Theses and Dissertations
Klebsiella pneumoniae is an opportunistic bacterial pathogen that is emerging as a major global threat as an infectious agent. This organism, along with many other pathogens, possesses a broad suite of antibiotic resistances that can make treatment exceedingly difficult. As such, the impetus for creating novel antibiotics is at an all-time high despite the fact that pharmaceutical investment into drug development is at an all-time low. S-adenosylmethionine (SAM) is a universally utilized metabolite involved in a wide array of biosynthetic processes, and whose products are catabolized by a different set of enzymes in mammals than used by many bacteria, protozoa, …
Mechanistic And Substrate Specificity Studies On Burkholderia Mallei Quorum Sensing Signal Synthesis Enzyme, Aubrey N. Montebello
Mechanistic And Substrate Specificity Studies On Burkholderia Mallei Quorum Sensing Signal Synthesis Enzyme, Aubrey N. Montebello
Boise State University Theses and Dissertations
Gram-negative bacteria use acyl-homoserine lactone (AHL) based quorum sensing (QS) to regulate the expression of genes that give the bacteria a selective advantage over host defenses and antibiotic treatment. Burkholderia mallei is an antibiotic resistant pathogen that causes Glanders disease. B. mallei BmaI1 AHL-synthase uses octanoyl-Acyl Carrier Protein (C8ACP) and S-adenosyl-L-methionine (SAM) to synthesize the AHL, octanoyl-homoserine lactone (C8HSL). Inhibiting AHL-synthases has been difficult because mechanistic and substrate specificity details for these enzymes are not well understood. Our goal was to determine how BmaI1 activity and enzymatic mechanism changes with nonspecific, variable acyl chain acyl-ACP substrates. We found that catalytic …
Exploration Into The Cellular Effects Of Aziridinomitosenes, Christopher M. Mallory
Exploration Into The Cellular Effects Of Aziridinomitosenes, Christopher M. Mallory
Boise State University Theses and Dissertations
Aziridinomitosenes (AZMs) are organic compounds structurally related to the mitomycins, a class of anti-tumor agents and antibiotics. The cytotoxicity of the mitomycins is correlated to their ability to covalently link complimentary strands of DNA, forming DNA interstrand cross-links (ICLs). Currently, there has been limited investigation into the biological activity of AZMs, likely due to difficulties in their synthesis. Our lab has synthesized and evaluated the cellular effects of two AZMs, (1S, 2S)-6-desmethyl(methylaziridino)mitosene (H/H-AZM) and (1S, 2S)-6-methyl(methylaziridino)mitosene (Me/H-AZM). We hypothesize that AZMs exhibit their cytotoxicity and cellular effects following a similar pathway to that of mitomycin C (MC) including …