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  • Macromolecular halogen bonds

    Creator:
    Voth, Andrea Regier
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    The halogen bond is a non-covalent, stabilizing interaction analogous to a hydrogen bond in which an anisotropically polarized halogen atom interacts electrostatically with a Lewis base. Until very recently, the ability of halogens to form these stabilizing interactions in biological macromolecules was all but unknown, but examples of halogen bonding...
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    observed in nucleic acids as well as protein complexes with hormones, drugs and inhibitors. The lack of

  • Single-molecule in vitro Characterization of Otoferlin

    Creator:
    Hams, Nicole J.
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    Congenital hearing loss is a common disorder and over 60 mutations in the sensory hair cell protein, otoferlin, have been linked to pre-lingual deafness. Although otoferlin is essential for hearing, the large size and low solubility of the protein have limited approaches to study its function on a molecular-level. To...
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    and low solubility of the protein have limited approaches to study its function on a molecular-level

  • Modeling protein structure at atomic resolution

    Creator:
    Berkholz, Donald S.
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    This thesis includes three studies involving different aspects of modeling protein structure. The first study illustrates the levels of insight available from atomic-resolution protein structures. The second study derives general trends of protein geometry from atomic-resolution structures and shows their implications for modeling. The third study creates a model of...
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    Molecular mechanics calculations......................................... 89 CDL assessments

  • Conformational Consequences: Calcium Regulates the Association Between Dysferlin C2A & PI(4,5)P2

    Creator:
    Otto, Shauna C.
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    Dysferlin is a ∼230 kDa terminally anchored membrane protein that is ubiquitously expressed, but is particularly enriched in skeletal and cardiac muscle tissue. Mutations covering the length of the protein have been linked to muscle wasting diseases including limb-girdle muscular dystrophy and Myoshi myopathy. Dysferlin has been shown to play...
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    . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 2.5.1 Molecular Biology and Protein Purification . . . . . . . . . . 62 2.5.2 NMR Backbone

  • Viral Targeting of Host Hubs: Interactions between the Rabies Virus and LC8

    Creator:
    Jespersen, Nathan E.
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    As obligate intracellular parasites, viruses rely on host machinery for their own reproduction. Viruses are therefore required to interact with a wide variety of host proteins, despite limitations in viral genome size. The most parsimonious method of success is to hijack central and essential proteins, known as hub proteins. LC8...
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    . CONTRIBUTION OF AUTHORS Cedric Leyrat contributed to the molecular dynamics simulations in Chapter 2. Marc

  • Cytoskeletal regulation in cell motility and invasion

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    Jang, Hyo Sang
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    Cell motility and invasion are important for development, immunity, wound healing, and tumor cell metastasis. Cells on two dimensional substrates migrate in three steps: protrusion of the front end, translocation of the cell body, and retraction of the rear end. For cells to migrate efficiently, these steps need to be...
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    , cells are in contact with other cells or surrounding matrices via molecular complexes. Also, in vitro