Die vorliegende Diplomarbeit behandelt den Vergleich von QoS- und Mobilitätsmechanismen in der LTE/SAE-Architektur. Nach der Einführung in die LTE/SAE-Architektur wird dargestellt, wie die QoS und die Mobilität im Standard des 3GPP gewährleitet wird. Danach erfolgt eine Untersuchung der Technologien PMIP, Ethernet und MPLS, ob sie sich als Alternativen für die standardisierten Mechanismen eignen. In einem weiteren Kapitel wird ein eigenes Konzept zur QoS- und Mobilitätsverwaltung vorgestellt, und es erfolgen erste Betrachtungen. Abschließend wird ein Ausblick gegeben, wie das vorgestellte eigene Konzept weiter ausgebaut werden könnte.

The cytoskeleton is an intrinsic aspect of all cells, and is essential for many cellular events including cell motility, endocytosis, cell division and wound healing. Remodeling of the cytoskeleton in response to these cellular activities leads to significant alterations in the morphology of the cell. One such alteration is the formation of an actomyosin contractile array required for cytokinesis, wound healing and embryonic development. / Cellular structure and shape depends upon tensional prestress brought about by the organization of cytoskeletal components. Using the Xenopus laevis oocyte wound healing model, it is first described how diminished cellular tension affects the balance of the Rho family of GTPases, and subsequently prevents the formation of actomyosin contractile arrays. This suggests that cellular tension in the cell is not created at the level of the cytoskeletal elements but rather via the upstream signaling molecules: RhoA and Cdc42. / The role of N-WASP (Neural-Wiscott Aldrich Syndrome Protein), a mediator of Arp2/3 based actin polymerization, is next examined for its putative role in cellular wound healing. Xenopus laevis oocytes injected with mutant N-WASP constructs reveals in vivo evidence that functional N-WASP is required for appropriate contractile array formation and wound closure. / Lastly, it is revealed that the cellular structures involved with single cell wound healing in other model systems are also important for the initial repair of severed muscle cells. Actin, non-muscle myosin-II, microtubules, sarcomeric myosin and Cdc42 are all recruited and reorganized at the edge of damaged C2C12 myotubes. This data promotes the possibility that an actomyosin array may be established in injured muscle cells as well.

Thesis (Ph. D.) -- University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, 2004. / Vita. Bibliography: 106-117.

Thesis (Ph.D.). / Written for the Dept. of Biochemistry. Title from title page of PDF (viewed ). Includes bibliographical references.

Os tumores hipofisários representam cerca de 10% a 15% das neoplasias intracranianas. Embora a etiopatogenia ainda não seja plenamente caracterizada, muitos mecanismos moleculares envolvidos na tumorigênese hipofisária já foram desvendados. Utilizandose da metodologia de arranjos de cDNA contendo aproximadamente 20.000 genes, nosso grupo recentemente comparou a expressão de duas condições distintas: um pool de quatro adenomas hipofisários clinicamente não funcionantes e a metástase de um carcinoma hipofisário não funcionante. Vários genes mostraram-se diferencialmente expressos, entre eles, CRABP1 (cellular retinoic acid binding protein 1), CRABP2 (cellular retinoic acid binding protein 2), GRP (gastrin-releasing peptide) e RERG (RAS-like, estrogen-regulated, growth inhibitor). Este estudo visou avaliar a expressão desses quatro genes em uma série de 59 adenomas hipofisários (30 adenomas clinicamente não funcionantes, 13 somatotrofinomas, 8 corticotrofinomas e 8 prolactinomas), comparando cada grupo tumoral com um conjunto de tecidos hipofisários normais. Enquanto os prolactinomas demonstraram expressão reduzida do RNAm dos genes CRABP1 e CRABP2 quando comparados ao grupo de tecidos normais, os somatotrofinomas apresentaram expressão reduzida apenas do RNAm de CRABP2. Os adenomas clinicamente não funcionantes, por sua vez, demonstraram menor expressão do RNAm de GRP e maior expressão do RNAm de RERG quando comparados ao grupo de hipófises normais. Portanto, observou-se que tanto o gene CRABP1 quanto os genes CRABP2, GRP e RERG apresentaram diferenças na expressão do transcrito entre os grupos de adenomas de hipófise, contudo, seu papel na tumorigênese hipofisária permanece a ser investigado. / Pituitary tumors account for approximately 10%-15% of the intracranial neoplasms. Although the pathogenesis is not fully characterized, many molecular mechanisms involved in pituitary tumorigenesis have been unraveled. Using the methodology of cDNA microarray containing approximately 20000 genes, our group recently compared the expression of two distinct conditions: a pool of four clinically nonfunctioning pituitary adenomas and a spinal cord metastasis of a nonfunctioning pituitary carcinoma. Several genes were shown to be differentially expressed, among them, CRABP1 (cellular retinoic acid binding protein 1), CRABP2 (cellular retinoic acid binding protein 2), GRP (gastrin-releasing peptide) and RERG (RAS-like, estrogen-regulated, growth inhibitor). This study aimed to evaluate the expression of these four genes in a series of 59 pituitary adenomas (30 nonfunctioning, 13 GH-secreting, 8 ACTH-secreting and 8 PRL-secreting adenomas), comparing each tumor group with a set of normal pituitary tissues. While PRL-secreting adenomas showed lower expression of CRABP1 and CRABP2 mRNA when compared with normal tissues, GH-secreting adenomas had only lower expression of CRABP2 mRNA. Clinically nonfunctioning adenomas showed lower expression of GRP mRNA and higher expression of RERG mRNA when compared with the normal pituitary glands. Therefore, it was observed that not only the CRABP1 gene but also the CRABP2, GRP and RERG genes showed differences in transcript expression between the groups of pituitary adenomas. However, their role in pituitary tumorigenesis remains to be investigated.

A síndrome de McCune Albrigth (SMA) é uma doença genética não hereditária, com incidência estimada entre 1/100.000 e 1/1.000.000 casos/ano. A SMA caracteriza-se clinicamente pela tríade: displasia óssea fibrosa (FD), manchas cutâneas café-com-leite e hiperfunção endócrina tais como: síndrome de Cushing, pseudo-puberdade precoce, hipertiroidismo, acromegalia. O diagnóstico da SMA clássica é usualmente baseado no quadro clínico associado a dosagens hormonais e exames de imagem, principalmente cintilografia do esqueleto. No entanto, quadros atípicos e formas parciais muitas vezes dificultam o diagnóstico preciso da síndrome. O objetivo deste estudo foi padronizar dentre as técnicas de PNA (peptide nucleic acid) e PCT em Tempo Real, para a detecção de polimorfismos de base única (SNPs), a técnica mais sensível para a discriminação das mutações ativadoras da subunidade da proteína G. Para este estudo foram selecionados 32 pacientes, 1 masculino e 31 femininos, com SMA, todos em seguimento no Hospital das Clínicas da Faculdade de Medicina da USP. Como resultado positivo, apresentamos nesse trabalho pela primeira vez o uso do RT-PCR genotipagem na detecção das mutações ativadoras da proteína G, em DNA extraído de tecidos afetados e em leucócitos de sangue periférico, sendo a técnica considerada sensível o suficiente para discriminar de forma simples e rápida as mutações ativadoras da PGs. Sugerimos nesse estudo o uso da técnica de discriminação alélica pelo sistema Taqman. Essa técnica possibilita a detecção destas mutações gsp no sangue periférico mesmo numa baixa porcentagem, uma vez que nem sempre o tecido afetado (gônada, osso, hipófise) é disponível. / The McCune-Albright Syndrome (MAS) is a genetic disease, with incidence estimated at 1/100.000 and 1/1000000 cases per year. MAS is clinically characterized by the triad: bone fibrous dysplasia (FD) café-au-lait skin spots and endocrine hyperfunction, such as: precocious puberty (PP), Cushing's syndrome, hyperthyroidism and acromegaly. The diagnosis of MAS is originally based on clinical characteristics associated with hormonal and imaging studies. However, atypical and partial forms often hamper the accurate diagnosis of the syndrome. For this study we selected 32 patients, 1male and 31 females, all being treated in Hospital das Clínicas, School of Medicine, University of São Paulo. As a positive result, we showed for the first time the use of Real Time PCR/genotyping for the detection of activating mutations of the stimulatory G protein, using blood leucocytes DNA. This technique was sensible and can bring fast results for the patient and the physician, making the diagnosis easier. Our study proposes the use of allelic discrimination by Taqman system, which can be used as a probe that allows the identification of specific genotypes. These techniques could help detect these mutations in peripheral blood when the affected tissue is not available.

Bien que divers mécanismes coopèrent pour empêcher les erreurs lors de la synthèse des protéines chez les bactéries, des erreurs traductionnelles de type « frameshift » (ETFs) ou « faux-sens » peuvent avoir lieu. En particulier, les ETFs ont été détectées à de faibles niveaux lors de la phase de croissance exponentielle et à des niveaux plus élevés durant la phase de croissance stationnaire chez Escherichia coli et Bacillus subtilis. Ces observations ont conduit les chercheurs à revoir le rôle de la "réponse stringente" dans la survenue des ETFs, qui constitue l’un des mécanismes clé de l'adaptation bactérienne aux changements nutritionnels. Elle découle de l'interaction entre un ribosome en cours de traduction et la protéines RelA/SpoT ce qui permet de détecter les ARNs de transfert (ARNts) non chargés et résulte en la production d'une molécule appelée (p)ppGpp . Dans une souche mutante relA incapable de synthétiser le (p)ppGpp, les ETFs sont fortement augmentées.Dans ce contexte, notre objectif principal a été de revisiter le rôle de la réponse stringente dans le contrôle des erreurs traductionnelles et de clarifier le rôle des deux métabolites antagonistes GTP et (p)ppGpp. Par exemple, le GTP stimule l'initiation de la traduction (en ciblant le facteur d'initiation IF2) alors que le (p)ppGpp inhibe l'initiation de la traduction (en rentrant en concurrence avec le GTP pour se fixer sur IF2).A cette fin, nous avons utilisé le modèle des bactéries à Gram positif B. subtilis, conçu trois systèmes rapporteurs distincts pour détecter les ETFs et construit une souche incapable de synthétiser du (p)ppGpp (appelée "(p)ppGpp0"). Nous avons observé qu'au cours de la croissance dans des milieux pauvres, les ETFs augmentent en l'absence de (p)ppGpp durant la phase exponentielle et que, contrairement à la souche sauvage, la souche (p)ppGpp0 présente un pic d’ETFs en milieu riche pendant la transition à la phase stationnaire. En contrôlant les niveaux intracellulaires de GTP dans la souche (p)ppGpp0, nous avons montré que l'abondance de GTP est le facteur qui déclenche l'apparition des ETFs. Néanmoins, après une "faible" induction de la biosynthèse du GTP conduisant à des taux de croissance sous-optimaux, le niveau d’ETFs forme toujours un pic lors de la transition vers la phase stationnaire, ce qui montre que le mode d'action du (p)ppGpp pour prévenir l'apparition des ETFs ne repose pas uniquement sur son action inhibitrice de la biosynthèse du GTP. Nous nous sommes alors concentrés sur l'effet inhibiteur du (p)ppGpp sur IF2 et avons mimé son action en injectant des drogues connues pour inhiber l'initiation de la traduction. Nous avons ainsi démontré qu'en réduisant l'initiation de la traduction lors de l'épuisement des aminoacyl-ARNts, la souche "(p)ppGpp0" est capable de contrôler de façon optimale le taux d’ETFs lors de la transition vers la phase stationnaire.Dans une deuxième partie, nous avons étudié comment la transcription et la traduction sont affectées par les variations du niveau de GTP et de (p)ppGpp. Nous avons observé que les gènes possédant un "+1" de transcription (TSS, « transcription start site ») composé de deux guanines (gènes artificiels et ARNs ribosomaux) ont vu leur taux de transcription positivement corrélés au taux de croissance à l'inverse des gènes possédant un TSS composé de deux adénines. Cette différence est encore plus prononcée pour la souche (p)ppGpp0 cultivée en milieu riche lors de l'ajout de guanosine (ce qui conduit à un niveau élevé de GTP).En conclusion, nous avons démontré que le (p)ppGpp contrôle le niveau d'erreurs traductionnelles lors de la croissance en régime permanent en abaissant les niveaux de GTP et lors d’un changement nutritionnel en inhibant spécifiquement l'initiation de la traduction, assurant une allocation parcimonieuse des ressources au sein de la bactérie. / Even though diverse mechanisms cooperate to prevent protein synthesis errors in bacteria, missense and translational frameshift errors (TFEs) can occur . In particular, TFEs were detected at low levels in the exponential growth phase and at higher levels in the stationary phase in both Escherichia coli and Bacillus subtilis. This observation led researchers to revisit the role of the “stringent response” in the occurrence of TFEs since it is the key mechanism involved in the bacterial adaptation to nutritional downshifts. It relies on the interaction between the RelA/SpoT proteins and the translating ribosomes, which leads to the detection of uncharged tRNAs and to the production of an alarmone called (p)ppGpp. In a relA mutant strains unable to synthesize (p)ppGpp, translational errors are highly increased.In this context, the main goal of our work was to revisit the role of the stringent response in the translational error control and to clarify the role of the two key, antagonistic metabolites GTP and (p)ppGpp. Indeed, while GTP enhances translation initiation (targeting the initiation factor IF2) and elongation (targeting the elongation factor EF-Tu) , (p)ppGpp inhibits GTP biosynthesis (reducing the enzyme activity of Gmk, HprT and GuaB) and translation initiation (competing with GTP on IF2).For this purpose, we used the Gram positive model bacterium B. subtilis, designed three distinct reporter systems to detect TFEs and built a strain unable to synthesize (p)ppGpp (called “(p)ppGpp0”). We observed that during growth in poor media TFEs were increased in the absence of (p)ppGpp in the exponential phase (i.e. steady-state growth) and that by contrast to the wild type, the (p)ppGpp0 strain exhibited a TFE burst during the transition in rich medium to the stationary phase. By controlling intracellular levels of GTP in the (p)ppGpp0 strain, we showed that GTP abundance is the trigger factor of TFEs occurrence. Nevertheless, upon a "weak" induction of GTP biosynthesis leading to sub-optimal growth rates, the TFEs rate still peaked during the transition to the stationary phase, which demonstrated that the mode of action of (p)ppGpp to prevent TFEs occurrence did not only rely on its inhibition of GTP biosynthesis. We then focused on the (p)ppGpp inhibitory effect on IF2 and mimicked its action by injecting drugs known to inhibit translation initiation. Hence, we demonstrated that by reducing translation initiation (injecting drugs) upon aminoacyl-tRNAs depletion (p)ppgGp0 wild-strain type cells is are able to optimally control the rate of TFEs in the transition to the stationary phase. The same conclusion is obtained even in presence of a high GTP level.In a second part, we studied how transcription and translation are affected by variations in GTP and (p)ppGpp abundances. We observed that genes possessing a transcription start site (TSS) made of two guanines were more importantly transcribed at higher growth rates than genes possessing a TSS made of two adenines. This difference was even more pronounced for (p)ppGpp0 strains grown in rich medium upon guanosine addition (leading to a high level of GTP). Moreover, the ribosomal RNAs (rrns; for which the TSS is a guanine) synthesis level seemed to be positively correlated to GTP levels during exponential growth in poor and rich media as observed by the modulation of GTP biosynthesis.In conclusion, we demonstrated that (p)ppGpp controls the occurrence of translational errors during steady-state growth by decreasing GTP levels and during a nutritional downshift by specifically inhibiting translation initiation ensuring a parsimonious , which also globally affects resource allocation.

Die vorliegende Diplomarbeit behandelt den Vergleich von QoS- und Mobilitätsmechanismen in der LTE/SAE-Architektur. Nach der Einführung in die LTE/SAE-Architektur wird dargestellt, wie die QoS und die Mobilität im Standard des 3GPP gewährleitet wird. Danach erfolgt eine Untersuchung der Technologien PMIP, Ethernet und MPLS, ob sie sich als Alternativen für die standardisierten Mechanismen eignen. In einem weiteren Kapitel wird ein eigenes Konzept zur QoS- und Mobilitätsverwaltung vorgestellt, und es erfolgen erste Betrachtungen. Abschließend wird ein Ausblick gegeben, wie das vorgestellte eigene Konzept weiter ausgebaut werden könnte.

With the deployment of Long Term Evolution (LTE) networks, mobile networks will become an important infrastructure component in the cloud ecosystem.  However, in the cloud computing era, traditional routing and switching platforms do not meet the requirements of this new trend, especially in a mobile network environment. With the recent advances in software switches and efficient virtualization using commodity servers, Software Defined Networking (SDN) has emerged as a powerful technology to meet the new requirements for supporting a new generation of cloud service. This thesis describers an experimental investigation of cloud computing, SDN, and a mobile network’s packet core. The design of a mobile network exploiting the evolution of SDN is also presented. The actual implementation consists of a GTP enabled Open vSwitch together with the transparent mode of mobile network SDN evolution. Open vSwitch is a SDN product designed for computer networks. The implementation extends Open vSwitch with an implementation of the GTP protocol. This extension enables Open vSwitch to be an excellent SDN component for mobile networks. In transparent mode, a cloud data center is deployed without making any modification to the existing mobile networks.  In the practical evaluation of the GTP-U tunnel protocol implementation, the measured metrics are UDP and TCP throughput, end-to-end latency and jitter.  Two experiments have been conducted and described in the evaluation chapter. Cloud computing has become one of the hottest Internet topics. It is attractive for the mobile network to adopt cloud computing technology in order to enjoy the benefits of cloud computing. For example, to reduce network construction cost, make the network deployment more flexible, etc. This thesis presents an potential direction for mobile network cloud computing. Since this thesis relies on open source projects, readers may use the results to explore a feasible direction for mobile network cloud computing evolution. / Med utbyggnaden av långa (LTE) Term Evolution nätverk, mobila nätverk kommer blivit en viktig infrastruktur komponent i molnet ekosystemet. Men i cloud computing eran, uppfyller traditionella routing och switching plattformar inte kraven i denna nya trend, särskilt i ett mobilnät miljö. Med de senaste framstegen i programvara växlar och effektiv virtualisering påråvaror servrar, programvarustyrd Nätverk (SDN) har utvecklats till en kraftfull teknik för att möta de nya kraven för att stödja en ny generation av molntjänst. Denna avhandling beskrivarna en försöksverksamhet inriktad undersökning av cloud computing, SDN och ett mobilnät är Packet Core. Utformningen av ett mobilnät utnyttja SDN utveckling presenteras också. Det faktiska genomförandet består av en GTP aktiverad Open Vswitch tillsammans med transparent läge av mobilnätet SDN evolution. Öppna Vswitch är en SDN-produkt avsedd för datornätverk. Genomförandet utökar Open Vswitch med en implementering av GTP-protokollet. Denna uppgradering gör Open Vswitch vara som en utmärkt SDN komponent för mobila nätverk. I transparent läge är ett moln datacenter utplacerade utan göra eventuella ändringar till befintliga mobilnät. I den praktiska utvärderingen av GTP-U tunnel protokollimplementering, de uppmätta mått är UDP och TCP genomströmning, end-to-end-latens, jitter och paketförluster.  Tvåexperiment har utförts i utvärderingen kapitlet. Cloud computing har blivit en av de hetaste av Internet. Således kan framtiden för det mobila nätet ocksåanta teknik cloud computing och dra nytta av cloud computing. Till exempel minska kostnaderna nätbyggnad, gör nätverket distribuera mer flexibla, etc. .. Denna avhandling presenterar en möjlig inriktning för mobilnät cloud computing. Eftersom denna avhandling bygger påopen source-projekt, läsarna använda resultatet av den att utforska möjliga riktning mobilnät cloud computing utveckling.

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