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Although previous studies of Huntington's disease (HD) have addressed many potential mechanisms of striatal neuron dysfunction and death, it is also known, based on clinical findings, that cortical function is dramatically disrupted in HD. With respect to ...

American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics2010

Understanding the Effect of Magnesium Ion Concentration on the Catalytic Activity of Ribonuclease H through Computation: Does a Third Metal Binding Site Modulate Endonuclease Catalysis?

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Ribonuclease H (RNase H) belongs to the nucleotidyl-transferase superfamily and hydrolyzes the phosphodiester linkage on the RNA strand of a DNA/RNA hybrid duplex. Due to its activity in HIV reverse transcription, it represents a promising target for anti- ...

2010

Circadian gene expression is resilient to large fluctuations in overall transcription rates

Michaël Unser, Felix Naef, Daniel Sage, Thomas d'Eysmond

Mammalian circadian oscillators are considered to rely on transcription/translation feedback loops in clock gene expression. The major and essential loop involves the autorepression of cryptochrome (Cry1, Cry2) and period (Per1, Per2) genes. The rhythm-gen ...

Nature Publishing Group2009

APOBEC3G-depleted resting CD4+ T cells remain refractory to HIV1 infection

Didier Trono, Francesca Santoni de Sio

BACKGROUND: CD4+ T lymphocytes are the primary targets of HIV1 but cannot be infected when fully quiescent, due to a post-entry block preventing the completion of reverse transcription. Chiu et al. recently proposed that this restriction reflects the actio ...

2009

Managing innovations resulting from university-industry collaborations

Annamaria Conti

We consider a policy regime allowing academic institutions to grant industry the intellectual property rights (IPRs) over invention resulting from collaborations. If a firm plays an important role in generating an invention, the researcher offers the IPRs ...

2009

HER receptor dimerization controlled with bivalent ligands

Seymour de Picciotto

In this thesis, I show the ability of engineered bivalent ligands to control HER signaling by taking advantage of the dimerization-dependent mechanism of the four different receptors in the HER (EGFR) family. While monovalent wild-type ligands form HER hom ...

2009

Phi29 polymerase based random amplification of viral RNA as an alternative to random RT-PCR

Stewart Cole, Iain Old

BACKGROUND: Phi29 polymerase based amplification methods provides amplified DNA with minimal changes in sequence and relative abundance for many biomedical applications. RNA virus detection using microarrays, however, can present a challenge because phi29 ...

2008

Genotypic features of lentivirus transgenic mice

Didier Trono, Denis Duboule, Felix Naef, Frédéric Schütz, Marc-Olivier Sauvain

Lentivector-mediated transgenesis is increasingly used, whether for basic studies as an alternative to pronuclear injection of naked DNA or to test candidate gene therapy vectors. In an effort to characterize the genetic features of this approach, we first ...

American Society for Microbiology2008

Differential regulation of Dlg1, Scrib, and Lgl1 expression in a transgenic mouse model of ocular cancer

Friedrich Beermann

Purpose: Discs large (dlg), scribble (scrib), and lethal giant larvae (lgl) are major suppressor genes in Drosophila melanogaster. They encode proteins that regulate cell polarity and cell proliferation in Drosophila and mammals. However, their basic oncog ...

2008

A human TRIM5alpha B30.2/SPRY domain mutant gains the ability to restrict and prematurely uncoat B-tropic murine leukemia virus

Didier Trono, Pierre Maillard

Human TRIM5alpha restricts N-tropic murine leukemia virus (N-MLV) but not B-tropic MLV (B-MLV) infection. Here we study B30.2/SPRY domain mutants of human TRIM5alpha that acquire the ability to inhibit B-MLV infection prior to reverse transcription without ...

2008

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