Publications by authors named "Jordan Munson"
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- Climate change is making droughts (periods without rain) happen more often and for longer periods of time, which is bad for ecosystems.
- Scientists did a big experiment in many places around the world to see how one year of drought affects grasslands and shrublands.
- They found that extreme drought can reduce plant growth much more than expected, especially in dry areas with fewer types of plants, showing that these places are more at risk.
Vaccines that incorporate peptide mimics of tumor antigens, or mimotope vaccines, are commonly used in cancer immunotherapy and function by eliciting increased numbers of T cells that cross-react with the native tumor antigen. Unfortunately, they often elicit T cells that do not cross-react with or that have low affinity for the tumor antigen. Using a high affinity tumor-specific T cell clone, we identified a panel of mimotope vaccines for the dominant peptide antigen from a mouse colon tumor that elicits a range of tumor protection following vaccination.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFCrystallographic analyses of an active HIV-1 ribonuclease H domain show structural features that distinguish it from the inactive form.
Acta Crystallogr D Biol Crystallogr
July 1993
. An active recombinant preparation of the carboxy-terminal ribonuclease H (RNase H) domain of HIV-I reverse transcriptase has produced crystals of several different forms, including a trigonal prism form (P3(1); a = b = 52.03, c = 113.
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