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C Portier

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A comparison of statistical methods for low dose extrapolation utilizing time-to-tumor data.

The assessment of health risks due to low levels of exposure to potential environmental hazards based on the results of toxicological experiments necessarily involves extrapolation of results obtained at relatively high doses to the low dose region of interest. In this paper, different statistical extrapolation procedures which take into account both time-to-response and the presence of competing risks are compared using a large simulated data base. The study was designed to cover a range of plausible dose response models as well as to assess the effects of competing risks, background response, latency and experimental design on the performance of the different extrapolation procedures. It was found that point estimates of risk in the low dose region may differ from the actual risk by a factor of 1000 or more in certain situations, even when precise information on the time of occurrence of the particular lesion of interest is available. Although linearized upper confidence limits on risk can be highly conservative when the underlying dose response curve is sublinear in the low dose region, they were found not to exceed the actual risk in the low dose region by more than a factor of 10 in those cases where the underlying dose response curve was linear at low doses.

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A pseudoknot is required for efficient translational initiation and regulation of the Escherichia coli rpsO gene coding for ribosomal protein S15.

Escherichia coli ribosomal protein S15 down regulates its own synthesis by binding to its mRNA in a region overlapping the ribosome binding site, called the translational operator. This binding stabilizes a pseudoknot structure that exists in equilibrium with two stem-loop structures. When synthesized in excess over 16S rRNA, S15 binds to its translational operator and traps the ribosome on its loading site in a transient state, preventing the formation of the active ternary (30S-mRNA-rRNA(f)Met) complex. This inhibition can be suppressed by 16S rRNA, which displaces S15 from the mRNA. An extensive mutational analysis showed that the pseudoknot is the structural element required for S15 recognition and in vivo translational control. Specific sequence determinants are located in limited regions of the structure formed by the pseudoknot. An unexpected result is that the pseudoknot can exist in a variety of topologically equivalent structures recognizable and shapable by S15. Based on footprinting experiments and computer graphic modelling, S15 shields the two stems of the pseudoknot, sitting in the major groove of the coaxial stack.

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