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Either Sic1 accumulation or Clb2 degradation is proposed to be sufficient to sustain mitotic exit [ 3 ] . Although cdc15-2 mutants are defective in both processes, ectopic activation of either one should restore exit from mitosis and growth.
However, strains defective for glucose repression can grow on this medium as they express SUC2 even in the presence of 2-DG.
While F-box deleted Pop2p expressed from plasmids reduced Rum1p half-life to ~20 minutes in pop2 mutants, F-box-deleted Pop1p was completely defective in rescuing the Rum1p proteolysis defect of pop1 mutants (Fig.
Therefore, the defective generation of IL-4 producers from RA synovial fluid under conditions that induced IL-4-producing effector cells from blood memory T cells suggested that the rheumatoid microenviroment played an important role in selecting or modifying the precursor effector memory population.
It was held, in these popular reports, that the discovery of the shared defective gene seen to cause the symptoms would eventually lead to a cure not only for dyslexia but for freshman composition--perhaps even for government prose.