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Proteomics Weekly

Susan Hasty, Publisher

Table of Contents . . . February 10th, 2003

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Ataxia Telangiectasia - Effects of rare, devastating disease linked to shrinking of cells' telomeres

Molecular Biology - Scientists focus on single molecules for first time

Alzheimer Disease - 22R-hydroxycholesterol protects from beta-amyloid peptide's cytotoxicity

Alzheimer Disease - Improved thioflavin-T derivative can label beta-amyloid plaque in vivo

Antibodies - Purification of serum polyclonal antibody using unique synthetic peptide column

Neuropathogenesis - HIV infected cell's virotoxins produce continuous cell loss and dementia

Alzheimer Disease - Altered G(Q/11) and RGS4 protein levels may affect muscarinic receptor system

Alzheimer Disease - Amyloid beta-peptide disrupts neural stem cell differentiation

Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis - Histidine residues oxidation induces superoxide dismutase misfolding/aggregation

Antioxidants - Green tea components are neuroprotective and may even prevent CVA

Apoptosis - Oxidative stress induces modulation of tau phosphorylation in oligodendrocytes

Canavan Disease - Aspartoacylase is restricted to myelin synthesizing cells in normal brain

Cell Biology - Deadly coral toxin exposes ion pump's deepest secret

Cell Proliferation - Endoplasmic reticulum-located PRL-1 involved in normal mitotic spindle operation

Cerebral Ischemia - Expression of cyclooxygenase-2, 5-lipoxygenase is upregulated in foci in humans

Collaborations - RiboTargets joins Partnership for Structural Biology at European facility

Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease - Dendritic cells and macrophages in vessel walls also contain prion protein

Drug Development - Eli Lilly Canada enters collaborative research initiative in proteomics

Embryology - Many nicotinic receptors expressed differentially during spinal cord development

Gastroenterology - Dual processes depress interferon-induced STAT1 signaling in liver cells

Genetics and Genomics - Novel glutathione S-transferase from Cunninghamella elegans characterized

Genomics Database - U. of Pennsylvania licenses The Protein Atlas of the Human Genome database

HIV/AIDS Pathogenesis - Vpr protein docking to nuclear envelope mediated by interaction with the nucleoporin hCG1

Huntington Disease - An upstream open reading frame limits synthesis of huntingtin product

Immune Diagnostics - Improved generation of soluble HLA class I/peptide tetramers

Immune Evasion - Human papillomavirus oncoproteins E6 and E7 function to resist apoptosis

Infectious Disease - Source of diazoborine resistance in R. sphaeroides reported

Malaria Vaccine - Novel Plasmodium mutant enables evaluation of vaccine efficacy

Memory - Connection to human gene found

Molecular Biology - ETH researchers visualize the binding of proteins to the nuclear surface

Multiple Sclerosis - Tau protein concentrations in patient CSF is not a valid marker for disease

Neurodegeneration - Basal forebrain has dramatic loss of calcium binding protein with ageing

Neuroinflammation - Gemfibrozil, a lipid-lowering drug, inhibits the induction of iNOs in astrocytes

Neurology - Expression of Neuro-p24 demonstrates function in neurite extension

Neuronal Death - Inflammatory factors can upregulate microglial response factor (MRF)-1

Olfactory Bulb - Localization of zinc enriched neuronal somata

Organic Chemistry - Researcher explores new uses for nicotine and sea sponges

Parkinson Disease - Cytoplasmic aggregates of protein kinases found, also alter cell function

Parkinson Disease - Montreal Neurological Institute researcher receives grant of US$296,656

Parkinson Disease - Prostaglandin A(1) inhibits rotenone induced apoptosis in SH-SY5Y cells

Patents - Company to receive patent for proteomics research processes

Prion Diseases - Intercellular transfer of protein is a dependent, regulated process

Prion Diseases - There are two patterns of protein deposits in variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease

Proteomics - Altered expression of retinoblastoma protein-interacting zinc finger gene in leukemia

Receptor Studies - TGF-beta induced protein controlling cell adhesion also interacts with integrin

Stem Cell Research -  M. tuberculosis induces differentiation of dendritic cells from bone marrow

Stem Cell Research - CD45 may play key role in erythoid differentiation

Stem Cell Research - Distal elements critical for human CD34 expression in vivo

Stem Cell Research - Growth inhibitors promote differentiation of insulin-producing tissue

Stem Cell Research - Mutant elastase causes cyclic and severe congenital neutropenia

Stem Cell Research - PDGF upregulates delayed rectifier current in oligodendroglial progenitors

Stem Cell Research - Transcription factor NFATc1 mediates RANKL signaling in osteoclast differentiation

Stem Cell Transplantation - Gelsolin levels predict idiopathic pneumonia

Transfusion Medicine - Protein A Sepharose treatment restores platelet concentrate efficacy in thrombasthenia

Tuberculosis Therapy - Mycobacterial trehalose-phosphate synthase may be therapeutic target

Tumorigenesis - Adenomatous polyposis gene regulates beta-catenin affecting cell differentiation

Type 1 Diabetes - Researchers pinpoint link between diabetes and nervous system autoimmunity

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