Myocardial injury is increased in the aged heart following ischemia-reperfusion (ISC-REP) compared to adult hearts. Intervention at REP with ischemic postconditioning decreases injury in the adult heart by attenuating mitochondrial driven cell injury. Unfortunately, postconditioning is ineffective in aged hearts. Blockade of electron transport at the onset of REP with the reversible inhibitor a...

A central methodological problem in programming with multiple levels of abstractions is the loosely defined problem of rep exposure. This paper traces the problem of rep exposure to the precisely defined notion of abstract aliasing. The paper also outlines a statically-enforceable discipline for avoiding abstract aliasing, but the outline is incomplete.

1 Introduction K-Rep is an object-oriented knowledge representation system based on description logic Woods and Schmolze, 1992]. K-Rep provides a language to express descriptions (e.g., of medical concepts such as drugs, treatments, and diseases), inference mechanisms for reasoning about descriptions and their relationship to one another, and considerable supporting infrastructure. This paper p...

2 DNA helicases catalyze separation of double helical DNA into its complementary single strands, a process essential for DNA replication, recombination, and repair. The E. coli Rep protein, a superfamily 1 (SF1) DNA helicase, functions in DNA replication restart and is required for replication of several bacteriophages. Monomers of Rep do not display helicase activity in vitro; in fact, DNA unw...

DNA-binding repressors are involved in transcriptional repression in many organisms. Disabling a repressor is a crucial step in activating expression of desired genes. Thus, several mechanisms have been identified for the removal of a stably bound repressor (Rep) from the operator. Here, we describe an uncharacterized mechanism of noncanonical DNA binding and induction by a Rep from the tempera...

Integration into a particular location in human chromosomes is a unique property of the adeno-associated virus (AAV). This reaction requires the viral Rep protein and AAV origin sequences. To understand how Rep recognizes DNA, we have determined the structures of the Rep endonuclease domain separately complexed with two DNA substrates: the Rep binding site within the viral inverted terminal rep...

Replication arrests due to the lack or the inhibition of replicative helicases are processed by recombination proteins. Consequently, cells deficient in the Rep helicase, in which replication pauses are frequent, require the RecBCD recombination complex for growth. rep recA mutants are viable and display no growth defect at 37 or 42 degrees C. The putative role of chaperone proteins in rep and ...

REPs are highly repeated intergenic palindromic sequences often clustered into structures called BIMEs including two individual REPs separated by short linker of variable length. They play a variety of key roles in the cell. REPs also resemble the sub-terminal hairpins of the atypical IS200/605 family of insertion sequences which encode Y1 transposases (TnpA(IS200/IS605)). These belong to the H...