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Longer treatment may be necessary to inhibit TM2H (p53 null) mammary epithelial cells as preliminary results indicate TM2H cells did not recover after 3 days of SAHA treatment (data not shown).
13 As discussed above, based on recent preliminary findings from the Health Effects Institute, the magnitude of mortality from shorttern exposure (Alternative Estimate) and hospital/ER admissions estimates (both estimates) may be either under or overestimated by an uncertain amount.
When the preliminary assessment indicates that the data are sufficiently reliable, use the data.
While some of the combinations do not necessarily enhance the simple approach of using only 3-residue fragments with a straight-forward monte carlo procedure, the combination of using fragments and the 14-state model for making moves, with MC and GA search techniques for the sampling, shows a significant improvement, which we hope to demonstrate at CASP5 by further extending the preliminary studies described here.
The main focus of the present study was to characterize the in vitro assembly and GTPase of the mutant proteins, but we also did a preliminary survey of their in vivo function by testing their ability to complement the temperature sensitive mutant ftsZ84.