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By Jide Ajani
The continued non-appointment of Resident Electoral Commissioners, RECs, by President Muhammadu Buhari may scuttle the fidelity of the electoral process as the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, under Professor Mahmood Yakubu, is set to conduct the Continuous Voter Registration Exercise, CVR. To do this in a situation where not less than 33 states of the federation do not have RECs is to set the nation backwards to the era of Voter Register with names of foreigners on it. This report will show why such is not desirable
Professor Eme Awa
Saturday, December 5, 1987. Time was just some minutes before the hour of three. Professor Eme Onuoha Awa, then National Chairman of the National Electoral Commission, NEC, hurriedly authorised the issuance of a statement aired on the networks of the Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria, FRCN, as well as the Nigeria Television Authority, NTA. He needed to. His careful, well-orchestrated meticulous planning (which involved voter registration exercise) preceding the event of that day – the local government elections on no-party basis – had gone up in flames before his very eyes.
Awa, a clear-headed and well-respected professor of political science, had worked tirelessly with his team at the old Senate Building located at the Tafawa Balewa Square, then NEC headquarters, to ensure that the elections would go on well. This was some three years after the military had truncated the Second Republic. But what happened that day was that politicians ensured that the smoothness anticipated turned into ashes.
From stolen voters register, to ballot box stuffing and ballot box snatching, fighting at polling units and open inducement of NEC officials, it was chaos all over. Therefore, the statement issued before the close of polls that day was for few hours of extension of close of polls. The extension allowed the Commission to rectify some anomalies. That was in 1987.
Enter Attahiru Jega
When the Jega-led Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, took over in 2010 and began planning for the general elections under the Jonathan regime, it had the full complement of the structure of the Commission in place – in all ramifications – unlike what subsists now and which would be highlighted later.
Jega took the Commission and other stakeholders to Tinapa in Calabar, sometime around September in 2010 (effectively covered by this newspaper), where a retreat was conducted to analyse all the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats that may aid or deter the conduct of the elections.
From Jega's early steps, it was possible for all those who will eventually conduct the elections, especially in the states, to be involved in the visioning and early planning for the polls, starting with the compilation of the biometric voters register.
Consequent upon further investigations by Sunday Vanguard regarding Jega's move against electoral fraud with the full complement of the Advanced Automatic Fingerprint Identification System, AAFIS, it was discovered that some 3,600,397 (three million, six hundred thousand, three hundred and ninety seven) names were deleted from the Voter Register, VR, in 10 states (Kebbi, Zamfara, Taraba, Gombe, Benue, Kogi, Bayelsa, Akwa Ibom, Enugu and Abia) of the federation; and another 504,818 names from the register in respect of Anambra, Ekiti and Osun states.
The total names deleted from the Voter Register in the 13 states were 4,105,215 (four million, one hundred and five thousand, two hundred and fifteen).
The figures between 2011 and early 2014 were as follows:
Kebbi -1,638,308 but now 1,306,405
Zamfara – 2,045,131 but now 1,130,245
Taraba – 1,357,551 but now 1,184,950
Gombe – 1,318,377 but now 988,043
Benue – 2,390,884 but now 1,657,266
Kogi – 1,358,049 but now 1,234,074
Bayelsa – 640,372 but now 503,837
Akwa Ibom – 1,656,595 but now 1,443,227
Enugu – 1,374,583 but now 1,005,585
Abia – 1,536,264 but now 1,252,085
The import of this wonderful exercise carried out by Jega in his early days would be manifest within the context of the seemingly disturbing proposition of Professor Mahmood Yakubu and his team to conduct the very sensitive exercise of Continuous Voter Registration, CVR, ahead of the 2019 general elections without RECs in 33 states.
Today's INEC and Professor Yakubu
Now, several steps are important in preparing for general elections.
They include – but are not limited to – a review of laws guiding election based on contextual practices. This is necessary because of the need to resolve issues which constrain elections, registration of eligible voters; reviewing how to control party campaigns and financing within the ambits of the law; definition of contestable posts and the qualifications for contesting them – that is, the eligibility of candidates following their party and national electoral laws; recruiting ad-hoc election managers and procuring materials for the elections; as well as preparing for the resolution of election disputes, in no exact order.
Of all these steps, after the laws guiding elections, none is as important as the registration of eligible voters.
It is surprising, therefore, that INEC is proposing to commence this all important step in over 33 states without the constitutionally prescribed Resident Electoral Commissioners, RECs, in each state, supervising this exercise as was the practice in the past.
What INEC is proposing to do is to carry out this exercise by a cadre of administrative secretaries, some of whom have been indicted in a report by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, regarding the 2015 elections awaiting arraignment in court, to carry out this foundational step ahead of the 2019 elections.
To be fair, it should be noted that the duty of appointing RECs is that of the President and not INEC – a body that is obviously struggling to work with or without its requisite constitutionally prescribed manpower.
For the ruling party, All Progressives Congress (APC), Nigerians should not expect much redress in terms of their fears over the conduct of such an exercise without RECs because it would be self-indicting, having been unable to make the constitutionally required appointment. But the critical question to ask is: Where are the opposition parties in Nigeria? Are they only relevant for periodic election contest purposes and have no further role to play in the polity? Or are they mere supporters'-club-like political parties?
Political scientists, who have read and analysed the uses and abuses of political "voting machines" such as the Tammany Hall machine of New York, and the so-called Daley Machine of Chicago, appreciate the importance of vigilance in the early stages of preparations for general elections. Political groups, who were unable to develop efficient vigilant measures, some times end up losing vital votes.
This is because vigilant groups have been known to mobilise their votes or suppress the votes of their opponents through different forms of voting registration antics, apart from possibly populating the register with frivolous or non-existent voters, in the hope of making up votes with such names or substituting them with ineligible or unregistered voters.
The voting machines may also study the emerging demographics as voters register and, by predicting areas where they may have problems, use antics to erect electoral laws or ballot access barriers, districting misalignments and other chicaneries for demographics that may be adverse to their political interests.
For instance – and this has been documented – whereas INEC insisted, in 2014/2015, that collection of the Permanent Voter Cards, PVCs, could only be collected in person by their owners, a directive, which was obeyed to the letter in most parts of the South, was obeyed more in the breach than observance in the North.
In fact, this was what accounted for the higher PVC collection rate in the North than in the South – although former President Goodluck Jonathan's loss at the polls could not be solely pinned on this. It was his election to lose and he lost.
Given the many anomalies, which have beleaguered INEC, political groups, who are familiar with these sorts of jeopardies, based on lessons learnt from the history of election irregularities, amongst many others, are suspicious of the commencement of voters registration without RECs, particularly under pliable civil servants, some of whom, over the years, have been in the system when Nigeria had voters' register with names of foreigners populating it until the Jega-led team came and gave the country a better, more credible biometric register.
If some of these easily compromised and pliable civil servants are truly reliable and could be relied on and unsupervised by a higher authority to carry out an exercise like this, the simple question to ask is: Why was Nigeria having problems with the voters register until the Jega team came on board and conducted the 2011 and 2015 elections that have been adjuged as, though, not perfect, but engendered a clear remarkable departure from the previous elections?
Surely, unsupervised voters registration exercise to be carried out by civil servants, particularly some indicted "administrative secretaries", would be a recipe for the infusion of virus into the current register.
To recall the early signs of the cumulative jeopardies, which have beset the Commission, one must go back a little further to the early days of the regime.
In June 2015, the government applied a rule, unknown to Nigeria's current democratic practice, by appointing an Acting Chairperson for INEC by a directive from the Head of the Civil Service of the Federation, Barrister Danladi Kifasi. The position of the Chairperson of INEC is not that of a career civil service position, and, thus, it was alarming to political stakeholders the intention and the ethics informing it as well as the outcome. This was an unmitigated ethical flaw, because, from this first error of judgement, a wrong early signal was sent to political foes of no intentions to foster an independent and impartial electoral management body.
Recalling this background of events is necessary for teasing out the credibility gap that greeted INEC's recent announcement that elections would be held every third week (Saturday) of February in an election year even when it has undoubted power under the Constitution. To understand the incredulity which informed the announcement, INEC, as currently constituted, has no RECs in not less than 33 states of the federation.
In the extant Nigerian Constitution, INEC is one of the entities specially established under Section 153 of the Constitution – all listed therein have their functional components listed before their functions. In other words, the Constitution intends that function should follow structure and not structure after function.
But since the beginning of this regime, federal entities have been left to function in many instances without constitutional structure. It took the current regime over one year to execute the directive of just one line of the INEC component structure in paragraph 14 of the Third Schedule of the Constitution.
Two years after, the other compulsory component of INEC, as directed by the Constitution – the 36 RECs – remain vacant in not less than 33 of the states. In fairness to the officials at INEC, they have no role to play in this "constitutional negligence".
This is entirely the duty of the Presidency, but with many Boards of the Federal Government of Nigeria which stood dissolved and non-functional for years, it seems in character that electoral activities may suffer the same fate of governance neglect as other sectors of governance under this regime.
Whereas it may appear as though the leadership at INEC is intent on proactively working around the problem, it decided to kick-off with general elections' activities, since government is leisurely in it execution of the constitutional directive on how to compose the full structure of INEC. But by beating the gun, what are the dangers INEC actions may bring for political groups?
Despite Jega's careful planning and proactive steps, many will remember that some INEC staff compromised the exercise to some extent on the basis of which INEC had to do what it called clean-up of the register, just as Nigerians witnessed logistical difficulties that disrupted the first election day with some materials wasted after the first election was postponed. That experience points to the difficulties of planning elections without taking to account some difficulties in the field.
With the early faltering of the current INEC, which resulted in inconclusive elections, the sense of over-confidence, which the current leadership habours, appears misplaced and should have been tempered by field realities.
It already came out this past week with a tentative time-frame for elections which will guide a future schedule, and it further announced the intention to commence the Continuous Voter Registration, CVR, exercise shortly; but given what has been stated as facts, the lack of substantive leadership in its state offices and a recent history of political intent to undermine its autonomy, while not discounting the potential manipulation of political machines in such electoral activities if the system is weak, why is INEC proceeding thus? Is it being proactive or, as was to be the motive behind the nonsensical and controversial 30,000 Polling Units? Is this INEC also out to outdo good sense and virtuous electioneering?
Dangers of CVR without RECs
To have a clear understanding of the enormity of having a clean and valid register not polluted by a wrongly-timed CVR, this is how it works:
The over 119,000 Polling Units in Nigeria are the primary cells grouped into clusters – and that is the very point where rigging and a warped electoral process starts. These clusters are what make up the various wards in the country.
When prospective voters engage the registration exercise, each is expected to provide data made up of but not limited to names, date of birth, residential address. The persons faces are also captured.
For full-proof personalisation and to give effect to the one-man-one-vote system, the biometrics of each person is captured – because it has been proved that no two individuals have the same biometrics configuration in the world.
Mind you, at this stage, some individuals, out of a genuine fear that their data may not have been properly captured owing to the familiar glitches that characterise the registration exercise, may move to another polling unit to get registered again.
Yet, there are those who, doing the bidding of crooked politicians, could move round up to 20 polling units to register 20 times.
In some instances, some disgruntled and corrupt INEC officials, too, may elect to compromise the exercise by feeding multiple entries for a single person.
The objective of this cocktail of vices is just so that multiple Voter Cards, VCs, would be issued in the name of different persons but all geared towards empowering a politician with access to many cards – just imagine 1,000 individuals registering in 20 places and being issued with cards (1,000 x 20 = 2,0000). Sounds ridiculous!
All these are done at the polling unit level and are then brought together to create a register for wards, local governments, states and then the bulk VR itself for the country.
But before the final valid register is produced, another grueling, though scientific process, is engaged.
It is at this next stage that all the data for each registered person would be fed into a central system. This is where science demystifies criminality.
The raw data that is fed into the system creates a register of all that has happened in the field.
But that is not the register that Nigeria desires for a free and fair election.
Indeed, over the years, and as a consequence of relying on this type of raw data collection and compilation, Nigeria has never had a clean, valid VR.
What the system in place does is to clean the compiled data.
So, how does it work?
And this is where AAFIS came in.
Mind you, we already have a register.
But the register we have is just the result of the compilation of all that happened in the field – including, ridiculously of course, the putative genetically engineered 20,000 prospective voters by just 1,000 people.
And whereas the process of AAFIS is slow (and should be), it is the surest way to ensure that Nigeria gets a clean and valid VR.
That was not the first time it would be attempted.
Once the AAFIS process is engaged, using a cluster of computer systems, polling unit by polling unit, each registered voter's data is presented and mapped – face, biometrics and all that.
Because science has succeeded in putting a lie to crookedness, individuals, who had tried to be smart by doing multiple registration, would have their names popping up in the system separately (assuming they chose to use fake names).
But the science of AAFIS is that fake biometrics cannot be used.
And herein lies the catch: No matter how many times an individual registers, the systems have been designed in such a way that even having registered 20 times, all the registration inputs would all fall into one single registration because the biometrics is one and one alone.
So, the product of the exercise is what is known as the Valid Voter Register, VVR.
That is what was used for the 2015 elections with the added complement of the Card Reader, CR.
Unfortunately, because of the inadequacy and non-functionality of some CRs, INEC announced late that Saturday March 28, 2015, that voters with valid cards should be allowed to vote where the CR failed to identify the eligible voter.
Now, the danger in allowing the CVR to commence in the absence of RECs means there would be no senior authority to supervise the exercise and, therefore, exposing it to the shenanigans of politicians working with civil servants.
And, as noted earlier, whereas it is not the function of Professor Yakubu to appoint RECs, President Buhari should ensure that the appointments are made quickly.
Because it was the fidelity of the process that ensured that his election was considered free and fair to a large extent. It is that fidelity that is now in danger of being polluted.


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Laura Kelly is a Research Officer in Outcomes Measurement in the Health Services Research Unit. Laura has interests in research methodology, psychometric measure development, e-health and experiences of health. She is currently working on a number of projects including the development of a Patient-Reported Outcome Measure for a range of long-term conditions and the development of an instrument to assess self-management in people with type 2 diabetes using computer-based interventions. She is also involved in research regarding the use of patient reported outcomes in clinical care.
Laura has completed a DPhil in Population Health which was funded by a NIHR programme examining the role of patients' experiences as a resource for choice and decision making in health care. Laura obtained a BA (Hons) in Politics and Social Policy from Queens University Belfast and subsequently completed a MSc in Applied Social Research in Trinity College, Dublin. Prior to coming to Oxford, she spent time as a research assistant in Brunel University developing an assessment tool to measure health-related quality of life for people with neurological damage to their spinal cord using intermittent self-catheterisation.
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Wow! The lightning one is definitely a nice catch!! The overall atmosphere is really dramatic. I'm thinking if you could adjust the level and curve a little bit, and bring up the lightness and contrast a little bit, it'd be an even more striking and powerful image to look at. again, nice catch!!
This series is so dynamic because of the richness/saturation of color. I love how each photo seems to portray one prominent color and wonder what a large series of images, all of a different color, would look like. I am also very interested in the defined shadow in the second photo and wonder if the overlay of the shadow following the line of the animal's leg was intentional.
These are very interesting and bold photos! I noticed in the description it says "Unique Screen Captures." The second photo definitely seems to be from a video game. Are these both scenes from game play? If so, that is a very interesting idea! My first thought was "well, this isnt photography if it's a video game," but after thinking about it…you are still using a "camera" and snapping a photo, which means you are still thinking like a photographer. You still have to think about the composition before taking the shot. I think that this opens up a good deal of discussion on the definitions and barriers of photography! Nicely done.
Very interesting concepts. Considering you're snapping photos of already digital subjects, the composition of each seems extremely calculated. The contrast in these images is intense; in the bottom photo the ground. blood mark, and the shadow immediately catch the eye due to not only the color of the ground, but the flatness of it. These images have really opened my eyes to some different possibilities one can go with digital photography.
I think the fact that these are screen shots is a bit lazy on your part (as "photography") but it is important to comment on the appropriation involved with website such as Tumblr where artists are collecting inspiration from unknown sources and redistributing that. I think the fact you stole these photos and rearranged them isn't really photography but more of a web installation. If you are interested in that I would explore the digital art world since your piece only exists in cyber space.
Of the two, I am drawn to the first photo. I enjoy the organic feeling of this piece – the colors, scene, and composition are all successfully fantasy, yet somehow still believable. I'm a bit distracted by the starkness of the human shadow in the second. I'm assuming that 'unique screen shots' means that this image is likely from the digital world, so I'm wondering what the shot could have looked like if the shadow were to be removed completely. I think it could be beneficial to the image and to the series. Just a thought.
Wow, really cool idea to use screenshots of digital programs as a form of photography. I appreciate the concepts you have put in juxtaposition here. I see the wild waves in a storm representing the wrath of nature and the bottom photo representing the wrath of man. I really like the composition of the first photo, it has an incredibly majestic quality. The composition of the bottom photo, however, I think could be improved. I really like the positions of both of the figures, and the viewpoint gives an interesting angle, but I the shadow bugs me where it now lies. The composition is lacking balance, and I think that could be achieved by moving the shadow.
I think these images are poignant and very interesting. The familiar first person view from a video game is very effective. The point of view being that which any player would see in that virtual space, enables any viewer to imagine themselves there, especially through the shadow. I remember seeing some images from the photographer Adam Ekberg of empty landscapes fro Grand Theft Auto. i don't think he has them on his website anymore but he might be a good person to talk to. What I like in your images is the focus on the human presence and isolation in a constructed reality. I'd like to see more!
Wow! Very interesting photographs—both as individual photos, and as a pair seen together. The first photo is hardly recognizable as a screenshot, but when paired with the second, one second-guesses oneself. That makes for a really fascinating juxtaposition. The second photo is more obviously a screenshot, but the moment you captured seems really unique. The shadow of a human figure just overlaps the dead deer; the hand close to its head or neck. Is the figure going to further mutilate or defile the dead/dying animal, or is it there to help somehow? The uncertainty in this photo keeps me interested.


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I was completely out of ideas for trying to fix this problem. If the system works fine, connect one device at a time to identify the exact hardware causing problems. So if you see a flag in the system tray with mark next to it ( warning of issues ) mine was to check your Windows update settings as i had Your guide has been very helpful: updated, well written, easy to follow even for who like me has just a bare knowledge of the English language. 50$ are the minimum donation,
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WATCH: Liberals Throw Massive Anti-Trump Celebration, Immediately Get HUMILIATED
They got what was coming to them!
President Trump broke a promise. He said I would get tired of winning. I will NEVER get tired of winning!
The Union Pub in Washington, D.C., made a party yesterday morning out of James Comey's Senate testimony. The bar offered to buy a round every time Donald Trump tweeted — but the president kept QUIET. Awesome. (via BizPacReview)
.@UnionPub in DC will give away free drinks only if #Trump tweets about #Comey during his hearing… Stuart spoke with the general manager: pic.twitter.com/yjyUzfnm5L
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Liberals were awaiting Comey's testimony like Christmas morning. They assumed Comey would confirm the alleged obstruction of justice and collusion between President Trump and the Russian government.
The Union Pub quickly filled up that Thursday morning with thirsty liberals. They assumed that this would finally be the end of President Trump and they were going to drink and celebrate.
However, Comey's testimony only exonerated President Trump leaving liberals looking foolish, once again, as all of their insane conspiracy theories were proven wrong.
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The former FBI director's testimony ultimately revealed that Democrats have been pursuing a witch hunt. President Trump has never been under investigation for connections to the Russian government, and Comey admitted to being an FBI leaker and that he lied under oath.
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Childrens Medical Research Institute
Childrens Medical Research Institute
A+ Network, Childrens Medical Research Institute and Mt Sinai Hospital | Date: 2017-01-25
Provided herein are methods for facilitating or inducing stable transgene integration and expression in a proliferating cell, comprising administering to the cell (i) a recombinant AAV (rAAV) vector comprising the transgene flanked by transposon-derived inverted terminal repeat sequences, which sequences are in turn flanked by AAV-derived inverted terminal repeat regions, and (ii) a source of a transposase that recognises said transposon-derived inverted terminal repeat sequences and directs the genomic integration of the transgene into the genome of the proliferating cell. Also provided are methods and transgene delivery systems for the treatment or prevention of diseases affecting, associated with or characterised by proliferating cells, including paediatric liver diseases, bone marrow diseases and cancer.
Childrens Medical Research Institute and Mount Sinai Hospital | Date: 2015-03-23
Provided herein are methods for facilitating or inducing stable transgene integration and expression in a proliferating cell, comprising administering to the cell (i) a recombinant AAV (rAAV) vector comprising the transgene flanked by transposon-derived inverted terminal repeat sequences, which sequences are in turn flanked by AAV-derived inverted terminal repeat regions, and (ii) a source of a transposase that recognises said transposon-derived inverted terminal repeat sequences and directs the genomic integration of the transgene into the genome of the proliferating cell. Also provided are methods and transgene delivery systems for the treatment or prevention of diseases affecting, associated with or characterised by proliferating cells, including paediatric liver diseases, bone marrow diseases and cancer.
Pera M.F.,University of Southern California |
Tam P.P.L.,Childrens Medical Research Institute |
Tam P.P.L.,University of Sydney
Nature | Year: 2010
During early mammalian development, as the pluripotent cells that give rise to all of the tissues of the body proliferate and expand in number, they pass through transition states marked by a stepwise restriction in developmental potential and by changes in the expression of key regulatory genes. Recent findings show that cultured stem-cell lines derived from different stages of mouse development can mimic these transition states. They further reveal that there is a high degree of heterogeneity and plasticity in pluripotent populations in vitro and that these properties are modulated by extrinsic signalling. Understanding the extrinsic control of plasticity will guide efforts to use human pluripotent stem cells in research and therapy. © 2010 Macmillan Publishers Limited. All rights reserved.
The General Hospital Corporation and Childrens Medical Research Institute | Date: 2010-05-21
There is provided a method for promoting dynamin ring formation and/or maintenance of dynamin rings in a cell, comprising treating the cell with an effective amount of a dynamin ring stabilizer, or a prodrug or pharmaceutically acceptable salt of the dynamin ring stabilizer. The maintenance or accumulation of dynamin ring formation has particular application in the prophylaxis or treatment of a kidney disease or condition characterized by proteinuria. A dynamin ring stabilizer can be any agent that interacts with dynamin to promote dynamin ring assembly and/or inhibit dynamin ring disassembly. There are also provided methods for prophylaxis or treatment of podocyte dysfunction and/or maintaining or inducing actin cytoskeleton formation in a cell utilizing dynamin ring stabilizers, and for screening a test agent for use as a dynamin ring stabilizer.
Cesare A.J.,Childrens Medical Research Institute |
Cesare A.J.,University of Sydney |
Cesare A.J.,Salk Institute for Biological Studies |
Reddel R.R.,Childrens Medical Research Institute |
Reddel R.R.,University of Sydney
Nature Reviews Genetics | Year: 2010
Unlimited cellular proliferation depends on counteracting the telomere attrition that accompanies DNA replication. In human cancers this usually occurs through upregulation of telomerase activity, but in 10ĝ€"15% of cancers ĝ€" including some with particularly poor outcome ĝ€" it is achieved through a mechanism known as alternative lengthening of telomeres (ALT). ALT, which is dependent on homologous recombination, is therefore an important target for cancer therapy. Although dissection of the mechanism or mechanisms of ALT has been challenging, recent advances have led to the identification of several genes that are required for ALT and the elucidation of the biological significance of some phenotypic markers of ALT. This has enabled development of a rapid assay of ALT activity levels and the construction of molecular models of ALT. © 2010 Macmillan Publishers Limited. All rights reserved.
Henson J.D.,Childrens Medical Research Institute |
Reddel R.R.,Childrens Medical Research Institute |
Reddel R.R.,University of Sydney
FEBS Letters | Year: 2010
Alternative Lengthening of Telomeres (ALT) activity can be deduced from the presence of telomere length maintenance in the absence of telomerase activity. More convenient assays for ALT utilize phenotypic markers of ALT activity, but only a few of these assays are potentially definitive. Here we assess each of the current ALT assays and their implications for understanding the ALT mechanism. We also review the clinical situations where availability of an ALT activity assay would be advantageous. The prevalence of ALT ranges from 25% to 60% in sarcomas and 5% to 15% in carcinomas. Patients with many of these types of ALT[+] tumors have a poor prognosis. © 2010 Federation of European Biochemical Societies.
Cesare A.J.,Childrens Medical Research Institute |
Cesare A.J.,University of Sydney
BioEssays | Year: 2014
Double strand break (DSB) repair is suppressed during mitosis because RNF8 and downstream DNA damage response (DDR) factors, including 53BP1, do not localize to mitotic chromatin. Discovery of the mitotic kinase-dependent mechanism that inhibits DSB repair during cell division was recently reported. It was shown that restoring mitotic DSB repair was detrimental, resulting in repair dependent genome instability and covalent telomere fusions. The telomere DDR that occurs naturally during cellular aging and in cancer is known to be refractory to G2/M checkpoint activation. Such DDR-positive telomeres, and those that occur as part of the telomere-dependent prolonged mitotic arrest checkpoint, normally pass through mitosis without covalent ligation, but result in cell growth arrest in G1 phase. The discovery that suppressing DSB repair during mitosis may function primarily to protect DDR-positive telomeres from fusing during cell division reinforces the unique cooperation between telomeres and the DDR to mediate tumor suppression. © 2014 The Author. Bioessays published by WILEY Periodicals, Inc.
Chircop M.,Childrens Medical Research Institute
Small GTPases | Year: 2014
Rho GTPases regulate a diverse range of cellular functions primarily through their ability to modulate microtubule dynamics and the actin-myosin cytoskeleton. Both of these cytoskeletal structures are crucial for a mitotic cell division. Specifically, their assembly and disassembly is tightly regulated in a temporal manner to ensure that each mitotic stage occurs in the correct sequential order and not prematurely until the previous stage is completed. Thus, it is not surprising that the Rho GTPases, RhoA, and Cdc42, have reported roles in several stages of mitosis: cell cortex stiffening during cell rounding, mitotic spindle formation, and bi-orient attachment of the spindle microtubules to the kinetochore and during cytokinesis play multiple roles in establishing the division plane, assembly, and activation of the contractile ring, membrane ingression, and abscission. Here, I review the molecular mechanisms regulating the spatial and temporal activation of RhoA and Cdc42 during mitosis, and how this is critical for mitotic progression and completion.
Engholm-Keller K.,University of Southern Denmark |
Engholm-Keller K.,Childrens Medical Research Institute |
Larsen M.R.,University of Southern Denmark
Proteomics | Year: 2013
Phosphorylation, the reversible addition of a phosphate group to amino acid side chains of proteins, is a fundamental regulator of protein activity, stability, and molecular interactions. Most cellular processes, such as inter- and intracellular signaling, protein synthesis, degradation, and apoptosis, rely on phosphorylation. This PTM is thus involved in many diseases, rendering localization and assessment of extent of phosphorylation of major scientific interest. MS-based phosphoproteomics, which aims at describing all phosphorylation sites in a specific type of cell, tissue, or organism, has become the main technique for discovery and characterization of phosphoproteins in a nonhypothesis driven fashion. In this review, we describe methods for state-of-the-art MS-based analysis of protein phosphorylation as well as the strategies employed in large-scale phosphoproteomic experiments with focus on the various challenges and limitations this field currently faces. © 2013 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim.
Speidel D.,Childrens Medical Research Institute
Trends in Cell Biology | Year: 2010
Apoptosis induced by p53 is firmly established as a central mechanism of tumour suppression. In addition to its complex functions as a nuclear transcription factor, p53 can act in the cytosol and mitochondria to promote apoptosis through transcription-independent mechanisms. Recent studies have shown that physical and functional interactions of p53 with various members of the Bcl-2 family provide the basis for this alternative route of p53-mediated cell death. However, different models of how these interactions promote apoptosis have been proposed. This review focuses on the mechanisms, regulation and physiological roles of transcription-independent p53 activities and highlights recent findings suggesting that the utilisation of these activities provides a promising alternative strategy for p53-based cancer therapy. © 2009 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.