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Prolonged alpha-amanitin treatment of cells for studying mutated polymerases causes degradation of DSIF 160 and other proteins	Applying ESI-GEMMA towards the Study of Large Protein Complexes

Profiling changes in glycosylation during C2C12 myoblast differentiation	TNFalpha enhances cancer stem cell-like phenotype via Notch-Hes1 activation in oral squamous cell carcinoma cells

Cyclophilin A Regulates Osteogenesis via NF-kappaB/p65 Through Direct Interaction	Molecular mechanisms of TLR4- and Nod2-mediated innate immune responses

Using mouse models to study paraoxonase 3 and other candidate genes in atherosclerosis and infection	Characterization and utilization of simple replication-competent retroviral vectors

Type I IFN dependent and independent mechanisms of gene regulation: Implications in autoimmunity and drug metabolism	Novel dioxin-regulated genes and their associated biological effects

A novel pooling-deconvolution strategy for biological network elucidation	Identification of the Nipah virus receptors: Insight into the pathogenesis of Henipavirus infection

The oxidative stress response in Drosophila: A developmental and molecular genetic analysis	Uncovering targets of superoxide in the budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Brain iron accumulation in Parkinson's disease: An investigation of genes related to iron metabolism and homeostasis and dietary behavior data in a case-control study of residents in the central California tri-county area	Topological complexity in models of protein folding, stability and design

Mitochondrial import of the small TIM family of proteins in Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Caenorhabditis elegans	Novel functions and interactions of the signal transduction protein SOCS3 and its relation to cancer

Understanding the molecular determinants of prostate tumorigenesis: Androgen receptor's requirement for histone deacetylases and the role of recurrent ETS fusion	Molecular imaging of gene expression at the level of RNA in living animals

Structural and functional studies of IsdH, the hemoglobin and haptoglobin receptor of Staphylococcus aureus	A novel adenovirus-Epstein-Barr virus hybrid vector system for gene transfer

The role of lipophosphoglycan in the pathogenesis of Trichomonas vaginalis infection	The innate immune response to human immunodeficiency virus-1 infection of the human thymus

Towards a structural understanding of progression and transmission of prion diseases	Structural characterization of amyloid-like protein segments and the rational design of peptide inhibitors of fibrillation

Role of transcription factor E4bp4 in glucocorticoid-mediated gene regulation in osteoblasts	Regulation of local signaling by type 2C protein phosphatases

The Drosophila Dscam gene encodes a vast repertoire of neuronal recognition molecules	Intrinsic factors influencing protein structure, folding, and complexation studied by ion mobility and mass spectrometry

Examining the role of LXRs in lipid metabolism and inflammation	Preclinical evaluation of adenovirus-mediated suicide gene therapy for prostate cancer and multimodality imaging of viral biodistribution and transgene expression

Investigating the role of Polycomb Group protein EZH2 in prostate cancer initiation and progression	The biology of the C-type lectin receptor DC-SIGN

Influenza-induced type I interferons sensitize hosts to secondary pneumococcal pneumonia	Biochemical and biophysical characterization of the protein import pathway of the mitochondrion

Investigating the role of Medicago sativa lectin 1 (MsLec1) in the Sinorhizobium meliloti symbiotic association with plant roots	The roles of SUMO in fly development

Pioneer factors mark enhancers for typical tissue-specific genes in pluripotent stem cells	Integration of BMP, RTK/MAPK and Wnt/GSK3 signals through Smad1 phosphorylations

Investigations of the central oscillator of the Arabidopsis circadian clock	Zebrafish (Danio rerio) as a model system for human leukemia and hematopoiesis

Investigation of Arabidopsis cryptochrome function and localization	Characterization and modulation of transmembrane domain interactions in membrane protein drug-targets

The regulation of type I interferon responses to pathogen recognition receptor pathways by TANK-binding kinase-1	The effect of coenzyme Q10 supplementation on aging and disease

Galectin-1: Effects on development and function of CD4+ T helper cells	The associations between diet, flavonoids, polymorphisms of the PPAR-gamma, PPAR-delta, and CRP genes and lung and upper aerodigestive tract (UADT) cancers

Insights into the pathogenesis of Ewing's sarcoma	RIN1 activates ABL oncoproteins and is required for full BCR-ABL1 mediated transformation

A catalytic switch in p300 regulates preinitiation complex assembly	Probing dynamics of ERBB3 receptor signaling with an RNA aptamer

Trichomonas vaginalis genome annotation validation and protein function prediction via proteomics and phylogenetics	Development of the nervous system in Aurelia (Cnidaria, Scyphozoa)

TNFalpha-mediated endothelial cell apoptosis	Fine mapping of regulatory loci for mammalian gene expression via induced DNA copy number variation in radiation hybrids

The mitochondrial import pathways of Taz1p and PNPase	Disruption of the furin cleavage site in mouse Notch1 results in cardiovascular malformations due to hypomorphic Notch1 signaling

Molecular basis of the metastatic phenotype of inflammatory breast cancer	Structural studies and drug discovery of the Staphylococcus aureus sortase A enzyme

The ever expanding role of Hsp90-Cdc37 chaperone complex in cell signaling networks	The role of mitogen activated protein kinase activated protein kinase-2 in regulating p38 mitogen activated protein kinase induced cyclooxygenase-2 induction and heart failure

Exploration of the RNase III dependent nuclear processing and degradation mechanisms of RNA in Saccharomyces cerevisiae	The development of a tumor specific gene therapy vector for the treatment and diagnosis of metastatic breast cancer

Investigation of the role of monooxygenases in coenzyme Q biosynthesis	Identification of novel functions for the ATP binding cassette transporters G1 and G4 during development and ageing

Differential regulation of PTH-induced primary response gene expression in osteoblasts	PTH and Nurr1 mediated gene expression in osteoblasts

Engineered biosynthesis of bacterial aromatic polyketides	Biosynthesis of iterative fungal polyketide synthases in heterologous hosts

A multi-lineage based analysis of neural morphogenesis in Drosophila melanogaster	Genetic analysis of cardiac patterning in zebrafish

Notch signaling in vascular development: The roles of Notch1 and Jagged1 in vessel morphogenesis and disease	Three daughters of NG2: Lineage tracing of NG2+ progenitors using a transgenic mouse model

The Nrf2/ARE pathway influences intrinsic radiosensitivity and is activated by exposure to ionizing radiation	The role of the homeobox gene Hhex in definitive hematopoietic progenitor proliferation and differentiation

Characterization of SipW as a bifunctional signal peptidase and its role in biofilm formation by Bacillus subtilis	Identification and characterization of novel core promoter elements and a new transcription factor in Trichomonas vaginalis

Characterization of host-pathogen interaction of two bacterial toxins: Anthrax edema toxin and Escherichia coli cytolethal distending toxin	Improving recombinant membrane protein overexpression in E. coli

Hematopoietic stem cell development in placental vasculature	RIN1 is a breast tumor suppressor and regulator of EGFR trafficking and signaling

Mechanisms of CMT3 activation and histone methylation in Arabidopsis thaliana	Metabolic engineering and modeling for the production of higher alcohols in Escherichia coli

Study of the role of activin receptor like kinase-1 signaling in control of vascular endothelial growth factor expression and atherosclerosis	Connective tissue growth factor: Gene regulation and function of CTGF

Forces that stabilize membrane proteins	Identification of X11 as a regulator of APP's intracellular domain and axonal protein asymmetry in Drosophila

Context-dependent VEGF signaling: Molecular regulation of vascular patterning during angiogenesis	Galectin-1 interactions with N- and O-glycans are dependent on physical characteristics of galectin linkers and presentation of glycan ligands

Targeting distinct tumor-infiltrating myeloid cells by inhibiting CSF-1 receptor in solid tumors	The transcriptional regulation by neurogenin1 in neurogenesis

Functional analysis of iron-deficient Chlamydomonas: Ironing out photosynthesis generates new wrinkles	Identification of cis-regulatory sequences that activate transcription in the suspensor of plant embryos

The role of Wnt10b in post natal bone homeostasis and maintenance of mesenchymal progenitor cells	Identification of protein-ligand binding sites by top-down mass spectrometry

The identification and functional characterization of rhoptry neck proteins in moving junction formation during invasion by Toxoplasma gondii	The role of glycerol kinase in adipogenesis

Programmed cell death-1 ligation: A novel signal regulating development and apoptosis of retinal ganglion cells	A study of coevolved, cofolding and functionally linked proteins and the characterization of amyloid-like fibrils and oligomers towards the understanding of protein aggregation in disease

A protein kinase activity radio assay using an integrated microfluidic and solid state beta camera platform	Functional genomics approaches to characterize abnormal cell signaling in cancer

Identification of a link between prostate stem cell self-renewal and carcinogenesis	Enhancing the expression of Na,K-ATPase beta1-subunit as a mechanism to suppress carcinoma progression

Eukaryotic Methylation: The identification of novel enzyme-substrate pairs	Hin-Catalyzed Inversion

Transcriptional Regulation of the Human TGF-beta1 Gene by the GLI Transcription Factors	Transcriptional Regulation of B Cell Development by CRTC2

Proteins that Regulate Mitochondrial Fusion, Fission, and Diameter	Zebrafish usp39 mutation leads to rb1 mRNA splicing defect and pituitary lineage expansion

Studies on the Physiological Role of Paraoxonase 2 in Inflammatory Diseases	Centromere Protein A Dynamics in Human Pluripotent Stem Cell Self-Renewal, Differentiation and DNA Damage

From Yeast to Humans: Uncovering the Methyltransferasome	The Recognition and Depletion of Age-Damaged (R,S)- AdoMet by Homocysteine Methyltransferases

Genome-wide function of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae HMGB protein Nhp6A	Synthetic Symmetrization of Proteins for Crystals and Other Assemblies

Retinal Ganglion Cell Survival and Immune Response in the Thy1-CFP DBA/2J Mouse Line Following Ocular Injury	IL-1beta downregulates E-cadherin in non-small cell lung cancer via Fra-1 activation

Characterizing MEKK1 Activation in Apoptosis by Anti-Cancer Drugs	The role of beta1 integrin in vascular and visceral smooth muscle

Structure/Function Analysis Reveals Unexpected Regulatory Roles for the Unconserved Central Region of the Drosophila Corepressor Groucho	Accurate Identification of Internal Ribosome Entry Site and Promoter Sequences

The Multiple Roles of EWS/FLI1 in Regulation of Gene Expression	A role for stem/progenitor cells in the initiation of epithelial cancers

Structural Studies of Amyloid-Forming Proteins and Peptides	Toxoplasma gondii Rhoptry Effector Proteins: Hijacking the Host Cell

Molecular Characterization of PilA And Detailed Understanding of TFP Function in Social Motility in Myxococcus xanthus	Characterization of Protein Arginine Methyltransferases: An Emerging Family of Regulatory Proteins

Characterization of the Biosynthetic Pathway of Anticancer Tetracycline SF2575	The Role of MicroRNAs in the Pathogenesis of AIDS-related non-Hodgkin's Lymphomas

Trophoblasts regulate the placental hematopoietic niche through PDGF-B signaling	Virus and Host Interactions During Murine Gammaherpesvirus 68 Infection

Molecular Characterization of Endothelial Cell Targets of HLA Class I-Mediated Antibody Mediated Rejection	Mechanisms of Selective Gene Activation by the NF-kappaB Family of Transcription Factors

Toxoplasma gondii employs secreted metalloproteases for host cell invasion and intracellular survival	Mechanisms of Active Sugar Transport in the Kidney: Biophysical Characterization of Human Sodium/D-glucose Co-Transporters, hSGLT1 and hSGLT2

Investigation of the Maturation of Yeast Superoxide Dismutase: Effect of the Copper Chaperone, the Disulfide Bond, and Metal Binding	Induction of Pancreatic Beta Cells in Zebrafish

Nanorheology of Biological Macromolecules	Molecular Events in the Reacquisition of Pluripotency

A High-throughput Screening Approach Identifies Selective Regulators of Il12b Transcription	Molecular and Genetic Study of Human Liposarcoma

Discovery and characterization of human exonic transcriptional regulatory elements	The Genetics of de novo Methylation in Arabidopsis thaliana

Kinase and Hormone Receptor Signaling Networks in Cancer	Molecular Basis of Coupling 3'-end Processing to Transcription in Mammals

Identification of new RNA substrates for the NMD and exosome RNA surveillance pathways in Saccharomyces cerevisiae	Activity-dependent CRTC1 signaling during long-lasting synaptic plasticity

Splicing of constitutive and alternative exons during transcription in the mammalian system	Activation of the Retina's Regenerative Potential By Embryonic Stem Cell-Derived Microvesicles

Novel Chemical Biology Approaches to Studying Protein Geranylgeranylation	Protein phosphorylation and dephosphorylation during development

Coordination of histone H3 Lysine 4 trimethylation-mediated transcription stimulation with Pre-initiation complex assembly	Assessing the Effects of a Coenzyme Q Deficient E. coli Diet in Wild-type Caenorhabditis elegans and coq-3 Gene Mutant C. elegans: Applications for Mitochondrial Disorder Studies and Probiotics

Characterization of Cellular Signaling in Ewing Sarcoma Family of Tumors	Determination of Cellular Pathways that Lead to Spontaneous and Induced Mutagenesis in Escherichia coli

Identification and characterization of regulators of survival in human pluripotent stem cells	Identification of Novel Cellular Responses to Metal Homeostasis in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Somatosensory Neuron Subtypes and Sensory Transduction in Larval Zebrafish	RNAi High Throughput Screenings Facilitate the Identification of Proteins Necessary for TCDD-induced CYP1A1 Enzymatic Activity and Aid in the Discovery of a Novel Role for Sin3A in AHR-Mediated Gene Expression

Functional Characterization of Kansl2 and Its Role in Mitochondrial DNA Repair and Maintenance	RIN3 negatively regulates SCF-mediated responses of mast cells

Studying Nucleosome Positioning, DNA Methylation, and Other Epigenetic Factors Using Genomic Approaches	Adenovirus: A Versatile Tool for Studying and Treating Diseases

Novel Regulatory Mechanisms of Adipogenesis: Discovery of Vestigial-like 3 (Vgll3)	Recognition of Tetraloop Hairpin RNA by the Double-Stranded RNA--Binding Domain of S. cerevisiae RNase III

Investigating the Function of the Preinitiation Complex and the Consequences of Chromatin Modifications	The Role of Heat-Shock Proteins in Production of Infectious Hepatitis C Viral Particles

Zinc Finger Nucleases for Site-Specific Correction of Adenosine Deaminase Deficiency