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December 22, 2005
2005 HHMI International Research Scholars: Baltics, Central and Eastern Europe, and Russia
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Peter Chumakov
Englehardt Institute of Molecular Biology
Moscow, Russia

Prevent a key antioxidant enzyme from doing its job, and cancer may develop. Peter Chumakov wants to know why. As the head of the Cell Proliferation Laboratory at the Englehardt Institute of Molecular Biology in Moscow, Russia, Chumakov has spent the last 10 years uncovering mechanisms of disease prevention, specifically those involving the p53 tumor suppressor gene—known as the “guardian of the genome.” His landmark 2004 paper in Science magazine established that p53-regulated molecules called sestrins function as antioxidant enzymes, protecting the genome against DNA-damaging oxygen reactions. Sestrins help re-establish DNA's defenses against oxidation by removing harmful peroxide formed during cell signaling. As an HHMI international research scholar, Chumakov will build on that work by investigating the role sestrins play in normal cell signaling as well as in disease development—looking specifically at how the inhibition of sestrins may contribute to the development of cancer.
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Edward Darzynkiewicz
Warsaw University
Warsaw, Poland

Most cap designers work on headgear, but biochemist Edward Darzynkiewicz has spent his career studying another kind of cap, the cap structures on messenger RNA molecules (mRNA). These molecules are critical for the ribosome—a large molecular complex where proteins are synthesized—to recognize the RNA so it can begin translating the information it encodes into protein. Messenger RNAs of important human parasites, such as nematodes, have unique cap structures, and Darzynkiewicz thinks that proteins that interact with these caps may be useful drug targets. Understanding the underlying mechanism of the interactions of cap structures and the proteins that bind them could also lead to new drug targets for cancer. Having previously synthesized a library of over 200 cap analogs, his team has also developed fluorescence methodologyto easily study cap-binding interactions. That should aid in the design of new cap analogs able to inhibit cap-binding proteins and thwart disease agents.
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Olga Dontsova
Moscow State University
Moscow, Russia

Protein synthesis in the ribosome is a very efficient and highly coordinated process that occurs through certain stages involving number of specific ligands or binding chemicals. During different translation stages the functional centers of the ribosome should communicate. Olga Dontsova is using biochemical and genetic approaches to unravel the molecular basis for such communication, as well as the dynamics of the translational apparatus as amino acids are added to the forming protein, a process known as translation elongation. These data should reveal new potential binding sites for antibiotics to block translation in bacteria. Dontsova will also explore how transfer-messenger RNA, which rescues ribosomes stalled because they lack a stop codon—the nucleotide that signals protein synthesis to end—can be rearranged to enable it to pass through the ribosome.
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Miklós Erdélyi
Institute of Genetics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Budapest, Hungary

A developing embryo must rely on external factors, primarily from the mother, to direct its initial development. Hungarian molecular geneticist Miklós Erdélyi intends to use cDNA microarrays, a technology that enables scientists to identify levels of gene expression in a biologic sample, to identify novel RNA copies of genes that are found only in reproductive cells. He wants to identify the ones that contribute to maternal control of embryo development and to investigate their roles in differentiation of the embryo's reproductive cells. In addition to determining how many of these specialized RNAs exist in Drosophila, he also hopes to link specific RNAs with observable traits related to reproductive cell development. Erdélyi hopes to identify those that have been evolutionarily conserved from Drosophila to mice.
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Alexei Finkelstein
Institute of Protein Research
Moscow, Russia

Solving the multi-dimensional problem of protein folding is more than an academic Rubik's cube. It may provide insights into diseases such as Alzheimer's and type 2, or adult-onset, diabetes. Having helped determine how a protein finds its own unique fold among millions of alternatives, Alexei Finkelstein, an HHMI international research scholar for over a decade, is taking on a new challenge: how to predict the unique fold from the amino acid sequence of a protein chain. To do so, he'll seek to develop a new force field—the calculations used to determine the strength of molecular interactions—to improve protein structure prediction as well as drug design. Improved accuracy in these calculations should help determine folding of larger proteins, as well as folding in a complicated environment. Using a new approach based on the solubility of molecular crystals, Finkelstein believes he can help drug designers better hit their mark.
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Tamás F. Freund
Institute of Experimental Medicine,
Hungarian Academy of Sciences

Budapest, Hungary

Cannabinoids—mind-altering chemical compounds that can be introduced into the body by smoking cannabis—also can be manufactured inside the brain. Those compounds are called endocannabinoids, and their molecular mechanism of action may shed light on the development of anxiety and memory loss. Recent research revealed that neurons release a unique signaling molecule, thought to be an endocannabinoid, which scientists were surprised to find works by suppressing the release of neurotransmitters. Malfunctioning of this signaling system may result in learning and memory loss, as well as anxiety disorders. Tamás Freund will explore the role of endocannabinoids in neuronal signaling, extending10 previous years of research to identify the mechanisms of action of cannabinoids in the cerebral cortex and basal ganglia, a group of nuclei in the brain associated with motor and learning functions. Although only a handful of endocannabinoids have been found so far, Freund hopes to identify the entire cascade of molecular events involved in this unusual communication between neurons. A better understanding of the molecular machinery at work could lead to new and more effective treatments for anxiety and drug dependence. This is Freund's third HHMI international research scholar award.
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Maria Borisovna Garber
Institute for Protein Research
Moscow, Russia

In biology, knowledge of a molecule's three-dimensional structure is crucial to understanding its cellular function mechanism. X-ray crystallography has been an important tool for investigating biomacromolecular structures since the determination of the structures of myoglobin and hemoglobin half a century ago. Maria Garber and her team will use this tool to determine the protein structures used during the process of translation of messenger RNA (mRNA) molecules to synthesize proteins and regulate gene expression. Continuing into her second decade as a HHMI international research scholar, she wants to shed light—literally and figuratively—on the interactions that enable specific proteins and RNA molecules to find one another within the cell. Her targets include the proteins involved in the initial step of translation, as well as proteins that regulate gene expression in bacteria. Once the structures of those proteins are known, she plans to introduce mutations to the RNA-binding sites of the proteins to determine the interactions responsible for RNA-protein recognition.
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Mikhail Gelfand
Institute for Information Transmission Problems,
Russian Academy of Sciences

Moscow, Russia

Mikhail Gelfand is one of a growing number of biologists who work at a computer rather than a lab bench. While his counterparts work in vivo, the bioinformatics specialist probes biological systems “in silico.” Gelfand compares genomes of different organisms to develop methods for identifying genetic regulatory signals, as well as to predict the functions of genes. With his previous HHMI international research scholar grant, he identified dozens of enzymes and transcription factors this way, including a new class of cellular regulatory elements called riboswitches. Now Gelfand will turn his attention to the evolution of regulatory systems in bacterial genomes. While seeking to establish a link between metabolic pathways and regulatory networks, he plans to develop algorithms for large-scale analyses of gene regulation. Gelfand will also test his hypothesis that evolution favors the creation of many unique proteins from single genes by a process called alternative splicing, generating greater potential diversity even from related genomes.
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Pavel Georgiev
Institute of Gene Biology
Moscow, Russia

Even though it only lives roughly 37 days, the fruit fly has much to teach humans about aging. Drosophila melanogaster has the ability to maintain the length of its telomeres, structures at the ends of a chromosome that prevent it from unraveling and losing important DNA each time the cell divides. In humans, these structures dwindle over time—a process many think is linked to aging. Pavel Georgiev, a molecular biologist, intends to look for new genes important for Drosophila's telomere functioning. To determine what factors contribute to telomere elongation, Georgiev will test his hypothesis that the structure of the telomere DNA in combination with associated proteins plays a significant role. A HHMI international research scholar for the past 10 years, Georgiev will work to unravel the regulatory underpinnings of gene expression in Drosophila by searching for the specific proteins involved.
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Lajos Haracska
Biological Research Center
Szeged, Hungary

To avoid cellular catastrophe, DNA replication demands the ultimate in quality control. Error-prone replication without adequate DNA repair is an open invitation to mutations and cancers. Lajos Haracska, a molecular geneticist, is working to identify one of yeast's mutation avoidance pathways. In yeast, the RADd5 gene—known to target proteins formodification by a small protein called ubiquitin—plays a significant role in correcting the replication of damaged DNA and avoiding mutation. Haracska wants to identify the molecular events that occur in the RAD5 pathway. Having already purified key enzymes involved inubiquitin conjugation, he plans to cause mutations in those proteins' genes to elucidate their role in the pathway. His recent finding—that Rad5 itself can also be targeted formodification —may prove to be an important piece of the puzzle.
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Jana Kašpárková
Institute of Biophysics
Brno, Czech Republic

Jana Kašpárková is mining metals for their anti-cancer activity. Metal-based anti-tumor drugs have already proven remarkably effective against testicular and ovarian cancers. Some metals, such as platinum and ruthenium, cause tumor cell death by damaging DNA. Unfortunately, these drugs—of which cisplatin is the most successful—also cause negative side effects including ear damage, nausea, and vomiting. A biophysicist, Kašpárková will study the unique aspects of the altered forms of DNA resulting from exposure to metal-based compounds, hoping to understand on a molecular level the toxicity to tumor and normal cells. To do so, she will build on her own previous anticancer drug design to study the gene alterations caused by metal-based drugs. An HHMI international research scholar since 2001, Kašpárková hopes her work will help improve understanding of metal-based drugs' effectiveness and enable design of anticancer drugs in this class with fewer side effects.
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Maia Kivisaar
Estonian Biocentre, Tartu University
Tartu, Estonia

Scientists often try to decipher the evolutionary script by probing microbes in a pure laboratory culture. Molecular biologist Maia Kivisaar is focusing instead on the adaptive molecular processes microbes use in real-world conditions. Threats from competitors and starvation are just a few of the stressors microbes face in their environment. To better understand how enzymes that copy or repair DNA with a high error rate can increase mutation rates and accelerate genetic adaptation—Kivisaar is hunting for novel genes that affect the microbe Pseudomonas' mutation frequency. She also hopes to determine the connections between the activation of DNA polymerases and the efficiency of DNA repair pathways. In her first five years as an HHMI international research scholar, Kivisaar documented mutagenic mechanisms specific to Pseudomonas putida cells suffering long-term starvation. She hopes her new research will provide important insights into antibiotic resistance and pathogenesis.
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Alexander Konstantinov
A.N. Belozersky Institute of Physico-Chemical Biology,
Moscow State University

Moscow, Russia

To generate energy, a cell reduces molecular oxygen to water, a process known as respiration. This reaction is catalyzed by special enzymes called oxidases, which act as primary molecular electricity generators. That electrical energy is used by other enzymes to generate adenine triphosphate (ATP), a high energy phosphate molecule used to store and release energy for work within the body. The mechanism by which oxidases generate molecular electricity is a process known as “proton pumping.” Alexander Konstantinov wants to understand the molecular mechanism of proton transfer across the cell membrane, as well as the molecular mechanism of the coupling between electron and proton transfer in oxidases. He will compare several types of mitochondrial and bacterial cytochrome c oxidases (COX) in the cell's energy production site, where O2, the most common form of oxygen, is reduced as protons are pumped across a membrane. He can do this because the three-dimensional structure of mitochondrial and bacterial COXs have recently been solved. An HHMI international research scholar since 2001, Konstantinov has devised an approach combining a laser-based introduction of electrons and a measurement tool to determine membrane potential, to help him discriminate between steps in the pathway. He plans to use this approach to trace the entire trajectory of energy-producing hydrogen ions through the protein.
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Astrid Krmpotic
Department of Histology and Embryology, University of Rijeka
Rijeka, Croatia

Natural killer (NK) cells play an important role in the immune system's early response to viral infection. But certain viruses such as cytomegalovirus (CMV) and other widespread infective agents have evolved mechanisms to elude virus control by NK cells. Such viruses can subvert NKcells using a set of proteins known as immunoevasins, which interfere with the elimination of virally-infected cells. Astrid Krmpoti hypothesizes that viral immunoevasins, which down-regulate the expression of ligands—chemicals that bind to a dominant activating NK cell receptor called NKG2D—enable the virus to avoid immune recognition not only during the primary infection, but also during reactivation from latency. She has proposed a series of studies to elucidate the role of CMV-immunoevasins in helping the virus evade NK cells and CD8+ T-lymphocytes, another kind of cell involved in the immune response. Krmpotic hopes that her studies will help determine whether the inhibition of the NKG2D receptor is linked to the quality of the adaptive immune response to CMV.
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Maris Laan
University of Tartu
Tartu, Estonia

Millions of women worldwide have trouble conceiving a child. Geneticist Maris Laan will explore the genetics behind this reproductive difficulty by investigating the association between—identical chunks of DNA that are adjacent to one another on a chromosome - known as tandem duplications —and reproductive success. Such duplications account for more than five percent of the human genome, and they may play a role in the conversion of one gene variant into another, as they increase the chance that bits of DNA can be unequally swapped between chromosomes. Re-sequencing a cluster of genes that is critical for human reproduction, Laan found that gene conversion stimulates their high variability. Now she will analyze and compare gene sequences in fertile and infertile women of three tandem-duplicated gene families associated with reproductive success.
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Sergey Lukyanov
Shemyakin-Ovchinnikov Instute of Bio-organic Chemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences
Moscow, Russia

Designing new tools to kill cells selectively and to inactivate proteins or nucleic acids using a beam of light are important strategies for cancer therapy and cell studies. Photosensitizers are light-absorbing molecules capable of translating light energy into forms of oxygen known as reactive oxygen species, which can damage or destroy biological molecules. Proteins that could work as photosensitizers do not occur naturally in living systems, so Sergey Lukyanov, a molecular biologist, plans to develop a genetically-encoded photosensitizer from green fluorescent protein (GFP) homologues Leading the field, the newly appointed HHMI international research scholar will screen his collection of GFP-like proteins—one of the largest in the world, amassed from diverse species—for those capable of light-induced production of reactive oxygen species. Lukyanov plans to test the anti-cancer activity of his novel cell killer in mouse tumors. He also plans to use the genetically-encoded photosensitizer to develop a technology known as chromophore-assisted light inactivation, allowing precise photo-inactivation of a protein of interest in a living system.
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Marta Miaczynska
International Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology
Warsaw, Poland

Cells could not carry out different metabolic activities at the same time were it not for membranes separating those functions from one another. In researching how cells compartmentalize their activities, Marta Miaczynska, a molecular biologist, found a cellular surprise—that some endosomes, the organelles that allow material into the cell, may actually be involved in the cellular signaling between the plasma membrane and the nucleus that is critical for cell proliferation. Miaczynska previously discovered that two proteins, called APPL proteins, are involved in this novel signaling pathway. The new HHMI international research scholar will now attempt to determine how the membrane trafficking machinery processes the signals. Her long-term goal is to gain new insights into how intracellular compartmentalization contributes to the overall signaling process.
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Ferenc Nagy
Biological Research Center, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Szeged, Hungary

Can fireflies shed light on ways to prevent cell damage from ultraviolet (UV) radiation? Molecular biologist Ferenc Nagy thinks they can. As the ozone layer disappears, increasing UV radiation exposure damages DNA in plants and animals, but scientists have not yet identified the UV-absorbing receptor molecules in these organisms' cells. This limits their ability to determine the resulting signaling cascades leading to physiological damage. Nagy has exploited the light-emitting properties of a firefly enzyme called luciferase to develop a high-throughput, noninvasive imaging technology that he will use to look for mutant genes in this pathway in seedlings of the laboratory weed Arabidopsis.
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László Nagy
University of Debrecen Medical and Health Science Center
Debrecen, Hungary

It is no surprise that fat is at the heart of diseases such as atherosclerosis. But scientists are just beginning to understand the role lipids play in regulating genes involved in a broad range of diseases. One gene known as peroxisome proliferator activated receptor gamma, or PPAR, has been found to regulate diverse aspects of lipid metabolism, including fat cell development and glycerol metabolism.Molecular biologist László Nagy has shown a potential link between two seemingly disparate processes—lipid metabolism and inflammation. Now he plans to map the transcriptional processes regulating the PPAR receptor. Rather than focus on the more commonly studied mechanisms of transcription, Nagy will investigate the mechanisms of transcriptional repression, which he thinks may be just as important. The HHMI international research scholar hopes to identify potential therapeutic mechanisms and contribute to a better understanding of the regulatory roles of lipid metabolism.
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Jozef Nosek
Comenius University
Bratislava, Slovakia

Not all DNA is created equal. DNA found inside the power plant of a cell, the mitochondria, is typically a circular molecule, but a number of organisms—from yeast to ciliates to slime molds—have linear mitochondrial DNA. Jozef Nosek, an associate professor of biochemistry, wants to know how and why they emerged in evolution. The telomeres—the repetitive end sequences of linear DNA—are absent in the circular form. Nosek will compare the linear chromosomes present in the normal mitochondria of yeast to circularized mutants to determine the principles guiding genome evolution. He has already shown that the coding sequences in yeast's mitochondrial DNA are very similar to counterparts in the circular mitochondrial genome of a close yeast relative, and tht mitochondrial telomeres employ a similar maintenance strategy as that of the ends of chromosomes of certain tumor cells. He hopes that identifying the molecular mechanisms leading to the evolution of linear mitochondrial genomes will shed light on the biological role of telomeres, which many scientists think may provide important protection against genomic instability and cancer.
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Zdena Palková
Charles University
Prague, Czech Republic

What makes a usually cooperative yeast turn pathogenic? The key may lie in communication between microbes and between a microbe and a host. Cells in microbial communities are capable of differentiation and of effective changes in metabolism. Both of these survival mechanisms help microbes cope with nutrient shortages. One of their important survival mechanisms is the ability to change their metabolism. Microbiologist Zdena Palková recently found that volatile ammonia serves as an important signal for survival in yeast populations. She plans to investigate the molecular mechanisms that enable yeast populations to cope with stress, including adaptation, and to identify the features that distinguish laboratory and wild strains of yeast. Palková will explore how a yeast colony develops and is regulated. She hopes that the basic mechanisms she uncovers will improve our understanding of development, aging, and survival, as well as the behavior of yeast that has become pathogenic.
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Michal Pravenec
Institute of Physiology, Czech Academy of Sciences
Prague, Czech Republic

From the complex mix of genetic and environmental factors that contribute to cardiovascular disease, there may be a way to pinpoint people who are genetically most at risk. Geneticist Michal Pravenec is working to identify the genetic determinants of cardiovascular disease. To do so, he plans to study unique rat strains which will enable him to compare patterns of gene expression with pathophysiological traits such as high blood pressure, increased blood lipids, or impaired insulin action. Pravenic hopes to determine genes linked to heart disease.
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Gabor Tamás
University of Szeged
Szeged, Hungary

To function properly, neurons in the cerebral cortex—the brain's region of learning, memory, and complex thought—must strike a balance between excitation and inhibition. Neurobiologist Gabor Tamás wants to define the role of slow inhibition in information processing in the cortex. He will build on his recent discovery of the first type of interneuron—a neuron that communicates only with other neurons—capable of eliciting slow inhibition. It acts through a receptor for GABA, an amino acid in the central nervous system associated with transmission of inhibitory nerve impulses. This receptor for inhibitory synapses also appears in the parts of the neuron that control the cell's excitatory synapses—motivating Tamás to explore its physiological significance.
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Leos Valašek
Institute of Microbiology, Czech Academy of Sciences
Prague, Czech Republic

Building proteins is much like performing music—multiple instruments work together to assemble a finished piece. To synthesize proteins, a number of initiation factors must orchestrate the multi-step process of protein translation, based on the score provided by messenger RNA. Leoš Valášek, a molecular biologist at the Institute of Microbiology at the Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague, hypothesizes that a translation initiation factor known as eIF3 that is found associated with several initiation factors in the multifactor complex (MFC) works together with the other consitutuents of MFC to initiate several key steps of protein synthesis, including the accuracy of the selection of the first methionine amino acid to be translated. To test his hypothesis, the new HHMI international research scholar will mutate the binding sites that mediate eIF3 interactions with other initiation factors and also seem to make direct contact with the ribosome—a large molecular complex where proteins are synthesized—to assess their physiological importance. By analyzing the well-choreographed events that guide translation, Valášek's work should produce a better understanding of regulation of the fundamental process of protein synthesis.
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Ceslovas Venclovas
Institute of Biotechnology
Vilnius, Lithuania

Without knowing a protein's three-dimensional structure, it's extremely difficult tounderstand how it functions in the cell. When it isn't possible to determine the structure solely using experimental methods, virtual techniques can fill the void. Lithuanian computational biologist eslovas Venclovas will use his computer modeling expertise to improve the characterization of protein structures and their interactions, based on the fact that evolutionarily-related proteins tend to have similar three-dimensional structures. Using solved protein structures as templates, he hopes to extract information on protein-protein interactions from structural databases and assemble structural models of protein associations. With the help of such models, which he intends to make publicly available on the internet, Venclovas hopes to further understanding of the molecular mechanism of DNA replication, recombination, and rapair pathways.
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Beáta G. Vértessy
Institute of Enzymology, Hungarian Academy of Sciences Biological Researchy Center
Budapest, Hungary

Survival of a species depends on the preservation of genomic information, yet DNA is a highly reactive molecule subject to extensive modification. Beáta Vértessy, a molecular biologist, is working to determine the role that the enzyme dUTPase plays in preserving genomic information in humans, fruit flies, and retroviruses. She is studying the enzyme's role in preventing DNA replication mistakes. To better understand the structural basis for enzyme action and regulation, Vértessy will investigate the role that dUTPase plays in maintaining the integrity of DNA, first by determining its structure-based regulatory patterns. The next step—determining its cellular role—will require manipulation of the enzyme. She will assess how human tumor cells respond to decreased dUTPase levels, using the technique of RNA interference to assess the enzyme's role as a survival factor.
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Ervin Welker
Hungarian Academy of Sciences Biological Research Center
Szeged, Hungary

Of all the degenerative brain disorders with no known cure, those resulting from infectious proteins called prions are among the most confounding. The mystery touches on a fundamental question in biology—how proteins fold into their unique, functional shapes. Deadly Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, which can result from inherited genetic mutations, and a variant form caused by infection from diseased cows, are diseases associated with proteins that have acquired an alternative fold that makes themdangerous. To find out how the abnormal prion protein acquires that alternative fold, Ervin Welker, a Hungarian molecular biologist, plans to determine the structural scaffold of segments of the disease-associated prion form and then use computer modeling to obtain the three-dimensional structure of the complete molecule. This structure is critical to understanding the prion's function and ability to interact with other proteins. Furthermore, the newly-named HHMI international research scholar hopes his search for mutations affecting the protein's conversion to an abnormal form will contribute to finding a cure for prion disease.
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Andrey Zaraisky
Shemyakin-Ovchinnikov Institute of Bio-organic Chemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences
Moscow, Russia

The ability to reason sets humans apart from other vertebrates. The region of the brain where this occurs is called the forebrain—the unique part of the vertebrate brain that is responsible for higher cognitive functions. Having already identified a novel gene called Anf, which helps shape the developing forebrain, developmental biologist Andrey Zaraisky now hopes to identify the other genes involved in the regulatory cascade of the earliest stages of forebrain development. To do so, the HHMI international research scholar will investigate four disparate proteins involved in previously unknown mechanisms of forebrain development regulation.
   

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