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Dissertation
Untersuchungen zur Verbreitung von Klasse II-Transposons wie Tn21, Tn501 und Tn3 in terrestrischen Habitaten
(2005-03-14)
Mobile genetische Elementen wie Transposons wurden in unbelasteten Böden nachgewiesen. Hierzu wurden unterschiedliche Ansätze gewählt: Verschiedene, unbelastete Böden wurden mittels PCR auf das Vorhandensein von Markergenen, in diesem Fall Transposasen vom Typ Tn3, Tn21 und Tn501, hin untersucht. Hierzu wurde ein System entwickelt, welches es ermöglichte die Gesamt-DNA aus verschiedensten Böden mit einem System einfach und reproduzierbar zu extrahieren und anschließend mittels PCR zu untersuchen. Die mittlere ...
Dissertation
Characterization of Lipid Droplets and Functional Analysis of Lipid Droplet-Associated Proteins in Dictyostelium discoideum
(2013-05-23)
Lipid droplets (LDs) are the universal storage form of fat as a reservoir of metabolic energy in animals, plants, bacteria and single celled eukaryotes. Dictyostelium LD formation was investigated in response to the addition of different nutrients to the growth medium. LDs were induced by adding exogenous cholesterol, palmitic acid (PA) as well as growth in bacterial suspension, while glucose addition fails to form LDs. Among these nutrients, PA addition is most effective to stimulate LD formation, and depletion of ...
Aufsatz
Signaling of Pigment-Dispersing Factor (PDF) in the Madeira Cockroach Rhyparobia maderae
(2014)
The insect neuropeptide pigment-dispersing factor (PDF) is a functional ortholog of vasoactive intestinal polypeptide, the coupling factor of the mammalian circadian pacemaker. Despite of PDF's importance for synchronized circadian locomotor activity rhythms its signaling is not well understood. We studied PDF signaling in primary cell cultures of the accessory medulla, the circadian pacemaker of the Madeira cockroach. In Ca2+ imaging studies four types of PDF-responses were distinguished. In regularly bursting type ...
Dissertation
Diphthamide modified eEF2: Insights into Function, Crosstalk and Disease
(2020)
Diphthamid ist eine posttranslationale Proteinmodifikation eines konservierten Histidins an dem eukaryotischen und archaealen translations-elongations Faktor 2 (eEF2 und aEF2). Obwohl die Diphthamidbiosynthese ein komplexer und gut beschriebener Ablauf ist, gibt es bisher keine detaillierte Beschreibung einer positiven zellulären Funktion der Modifikation.
Dissertation
The Importance of tRNA Modification and SSD1 Status for Protein Homeostasis and Cell Viability
(2022-03)
Chemical modifications of anticodon loop are required to support tRNA function in mRNA decoding and to prevent protein aggregation in the eukaryotic model system Saccharomyces cerevisiae. This work investigates the effects of mutation in the gene encoding the Deg1 pseudouridine synthase. It is known that the mutation of the human DEG1 orthologue PUS3 causes severe neurological and developmental defects, emphasizing the general importance of the modification. However, the exact cellular consequences of deg1/pus3mutation ...