First Measurement of Gamma(D*+) and Precision Measurement of m_D*+ - m_D0

We present the first measurement of the D*+ width using 9/fb of e+ e- data collected near the Upsilon(4S) resonance by the CLEO II.V detector. Our method uses advanced tracking techniques and a reconstruction method that takes advantage of the small vertical size of the CESR beam spot to measure the energy release distribution from the D*+ -> D0 pi+ decay. We find Gamma(D*+) = 96 +- 4 (Statistical) +- 22 (Systematic) keV. We also measure the energy release in the decay and compute Delta m = m(D*+) - m(D0) = 145.412 +- 0.002 (Statistical) +- 0.012 (Systematic) MeV/c^2Comment: 24 pages postscript, also available through http://w4.lns.cornell.edu/public/CLNS, submitted to PR

A922 Sequential measurement of 1 hour creatinine clearance (1-CRCL) in critically ill patients at risk of acute kidney injury (AKI)

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Oskar-induced endocytic activation and actin remodeling for anchorage of the Drosophila germ plasm

In many animals, germ-cell fate is specified by inheritance of the germ plasm, which is enriched in maternal RNAs and proteins. Assembly of the Drosophila germ (pole) plasm begins with the localization and translation of oskar (osk) RNA at the oocyte posterior pole. osk RNA produces two isoforms, long and short Osk. Short Osk recruits other pole plasm components, and long Osk restricts them to the oocyte cortex. Although molecular functions of long Osk remain mysterious, it is known to be involved in endocytic activation and actin cytoskeletal remodeling. We identified several vesicular trafficking machinery components that act downstream of long Osk in pole plasm assembly. These included the Rab5 effector protein Rabenosyn-5 (Rbsn-5) and the Golgi/endosomal protein Mon2, both of which were crucial for Osk-induced actin remodeling and the anchoring of pole plasm components. We propose that, in response to long Osk, the Rab5/Rbsn-5-dependent endocytic pathway promotes the formation of specialized vesicles, and Mon2 acts on these vesicles as a scaffold to instruct actin nucleators like Cappuccino and Spire to remodel the actin cytoskeleton, which anchors pole plasm components to the cortex. This mechanism may be applicable to the asymmetric localization of macromolecular structures such as protein-RNA complexes in other systems