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Rodney A. King
Researcher at Western Kentucky University
Publications - 29
Citations - 968
Rodney A. King is an academic researcher from Western Kentucky University. The author has contributed to research in topics: RNA polymerase & Antitermination. The author has an hindex of 15, co-authored 27 publications receiving 817 citations. Previous affiliations of Rodney A. King include Virginia Commonwealth University & National Institutes of Health.
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A Broadly Implementable Research Course in Phage Discovery and Genomics for First-Year Undergraduate Students
Tuajuanda C. Jordan,Sandra H. Burnett,Susan Carson,Steven M. Caruso,Kari Clase,Randall J. DeJong,John J. Dennehy,Dee R. Denver,David Dunbar,Sarah C. R. Elgin,Ann M. Findley,Chris R. Gissendanner,Urszula Golebiewska,Nancy Guild,Grant A. Hartzog,Wendy H. Grillo,Gail P. Hollowell,Lee E. Hughes,Allison Johnson,Rodney A. King,Lynn O. Lewis,Wei Li,Frank Rosenzweig,Michael R. Rubin,Margaret S. Saha,James Sandoz,Christopher D. Shaffer,Barbara J. Taylor,Larissa K. Temple,Edwin Vazquez,Vassie C. Ware,Lucia P. Barker,Kevin W. Bradley,Deborah Jacobs-Sera,Welkin H. Pope,Daniel A. Russell,Steven G. Cresawn,David Lopatto,Cheryl Bailey,Graham F. Hatfull +39 more
TL;DR: A general model in which faculty and teaching assistants from diverse academic institutions are trained to teach a research course for first-year undergraduate students focused on bacteriophage discovery and genomics is developed, showing that this alliance-sourced model not only substantially advances the field of phage genomics but also stimulates students’ interest in science, positively influences academic achievement, and enhances persistence inScience, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) disciplines.
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Characterization of peptidyl boronic acid inhibitors of mammalian 20 S and 26 S proteasomes and their inhibition of proteasomes in cultured cells.
R. C. Gardner,S. J. Assinder,Gary Christie,Grant G. F. Mason,R. Markwell,H. Wadsworth,M. McLaughlin,Rodney A. King,M. C. Chabot-Fletcher,J. Breton,David Allsop,A. J. Rivett +11 more
TL;DR: The usefulness of peptidyl boronic acid inhibitors for investigations of proteasome-mediated protein degradation was confirmed by the observation that Bz-Phe-boroLeu and Cbz-Leu- Leu-boro Leu pinacol ester inhibited NFkappaB activation with IC(50) values comparable to their K(i) values for purified proteasomes.
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Isolation of salmonella bacteriophages from swine effluent lagoons.
TL;DR: The isolated phages have potential as typing reagents, specific indicators, and biocontrol agents of Salmonella, and in limited host range tests, 66 isolates recovered by the enrichment protocol produced plaques only on Enteritidis and Typhimurium strains ofSalmonella and none produced plaque on lagoon isolates of Citrobacter, Escherichia, Proteus, Providencia, or Serratia.
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Transcripts That Increase the Processivity and Elongation Rate of RNA Polymerase
TL;DR: This work proposes that the central effector is a transcript that directly alters the elongation properties of RNA polymerase, and it is suggested that this transcript is encoded by the cis-acting antitermination sites of lambdoid phage HK022.
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Alzheimer's Disease:correlation of the suppression of β-Amyloid peptide secretion from cultured cells with inhibition of the chymotrypsin-like activity of the proteasome
Gary Christie,R. Markwell,Carol W. Gray,L. Smith,F. Godfrey,F. Mansfield,H. Wadsworth,Rodney A. King,Michael R. McLaughlin,D. G. Cooper,Robin V. Ward,D. R. Howlett,Tobias Hartmann,Stefan F. Lichtenthaler,Konrad Beyreuther,John R. Underwood,S. K. Gribble,Roberto Cappai,Colin L. Masters,A. Tamaoka,R. L. Gardner,A. J. Rivett,Eric Karran,David Allsop +23 more
TL;DR: It is found that the ability of the peptide aldehyde and boronate inhibitors to suppress Aβ formation from cells correlated extremely well with their potency as CLIP inhibitors, concluding that the proteasome may be involved either directly or indirectly in A β formation.