Browsing by Department "biochemistry"
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(Texas A&M University, 2013-02-22)An important unsolved problem in the field of biochemistry is the protein folding problem. Extensive research is being done to predict the structure and function of a protein given just its linear sequence of amino acids. ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2013-02-22)Brucella are Gram-negative intracellular pathogenic bacteria, which represent a threat to human and animal health. Live vaccine strains are available to protect some animal species but no vaccines exist for human use. A ...
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The identification of recurrent tertiary motifs by interactions of protein secondary structure units (Texas A&M University, 2013-02-22)Proteins are the molecular machines that drive the processes of the cell; they carry out the functional and structural instructions outlined in an organism's genome. At their simplest, these biological catalysts are comprised ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2013-02-22)Proteins are important for many reasons -- chief among them are that many enzymes are proteins. Without enzymes, most biochemical reactions would not take place. Comparisons between proteins or amino acid sequences that ...
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Sphingosine-1-phosphate inhibits vascular smooth muscle cell migration by activating Gα₁₂ and RhoA (Texas A&M University, 2013-02-22)Angiogenesis, the formation of new blood vessels, is important in growth, healing, and disease. Sphingosine-1-phosphate (S1P) is a lysophospholipid with potent angiogenic effects. One of these effects is its regulation of ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2013-02-22)Seventy percent of people who suffer from cystic fibrosis have a cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator gene on chromosome 7 that contains a three base-pair deletion of phenylalanine at position 508, in a ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2013-02-22)Macrophage Inflammatory Protein (MIP)-1b is a dimeric protein of the CC chemokine subfamily. Interest in both the structure and function of MIP-1b has increased rapidly over the past several years, resulting primarily from ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2013-02-22)Studies on the kinetics of protein folding of the histidine-containing phosphocarrier protein (HPr) from the thermophile Bacillus stearothermophilus (Bst) will contribute much to the understanding of the origins of its ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2013-02-22)After in vivo and in vitro experiments comparing wild type and S2 knockout strains of EIAV were conducted, the role of one small accessory protein still eluted discovery, S2. S2, is a small protein that has a nuclear ...