2007 GORDON RESEARCHCONFERENCE ON POLYAMINES
Posters

１．ENZO AGOSTINELLI (UNIVERSITY OF ROME "LA SAPIENZA")
Lysosomotropic Compounds and Polyamine Oxidation Products in Cancer
Therapy
２．I D ALGRANATI (FUNDACION INSTITUTO LELOIR)
Trypanosoma cruzi as a model system to study the expression of exogenous
genes coding for polyamine-biosynthetic enzymes
３．KERSTI ALM (LUNDS UNIVERSITET)
To be announced
４．SHRIDHAR BALE (CORNELL UNIVERSITY)
Structural insights into putrescine activation of human S-adenosylmethionine
decarboxylase
５．SUSANNA BOMAN (UNIVERSITY OF KUOPIO)
Activated polyamine catabolism depletes ATP pools in fetal fibroblasts
６．VERIDIANA CANO (SAO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY)
Mutational analyses of human eIF5A-1: Identification of amino acid residues
critical for hypusine modification and eIF5A activity
７．MARC CERRADA-GIMENEZ (UNIVERSITY OF KUOPIO)
Enhanced gluconeogenesis coupled with glucose sensitivity on a transgenic
mouse line with activated polyamine catabolism
８．MANAS CHATTOPADHYAY (LBG, NIDDK, NIH)
Spermidine functions in yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae)

９．RUPESH CHATURVEDI (DIVISION OF GASTROENTEROLOGY,DEPT. OF MEDICINE
Ornithine Decarboxylase Inhibits Nitric Oxide Production in Infiltrating
Gastric Macrophages During Helicobacter pylori Infection
１０．CAMILA DIAS (UNESP- SCHOOL OF PHARMACEUTICALSCIENCES)
Structural modeling and mutational analysis of yeast eIF5A reveal new criticalresidues and an essential C-terminal alpha-helix
１１．TERAYA DONALDSON (ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OFMEDICINE)
Comparative Investigation of Methylthio Activity in Apicomplexan Purine
Nucleoside Phosphorylase
１２．DAVID FEITH (PENN STATE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OFMEDICINE)
Development of a transgenic mouse model with inducible and tissue-specificantizyme-1 expression
１３．ALISON FRASER (JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY)
To be announced
１４．TACHA ZI FULGHAM (UMEA UNIVERSITY)
Spermidine Synthase, a Myc target and potential target for cancer treatment
１５．ANDREW GOODWIN (JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY)Enterotoxigenic Bacteroides fragilis and inflammatory cytokines induce
spermine oxidase (SMO) in human colorectal cancer cell line HT29/c1
１６．AVTAR HANDA/SAVITHRI NAMBEESAN (PURDUE
UNIVERSITY)
Dissecting roles of polyamines in plant growth and development using
forward and reverse genetics

１７．KYOHEI HIGASHI (CHIBA UNIVERSITY)
Identification of a Spermidine Excretion Protein Complex (MdtJI)in Escherichia coli
１８．WALID HOURY (UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO)
X-ray structure of the E. coli inducible Lysine Decarboxylase (LdcI/CadA):
Implications to the bacterial stringent response
１９．YI HUANG (JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY)
Reexpression of aberrantly silenced genes by novel polyamine analogues
through Inhibition of lysine-specific demethylase 1 (LSD1) in human colon
carcinoma cells
２０．MERVI HYVONEN (UNIVERSITY OF KUOPIO)
Support of cellular growth by optically active alpha-methylated polyamine
analogues
２１．YOSHIHIKO IKEGUCHI (JOSAI UNIVERSITY)
Apoptosis Signal - regulating Kinase 1 affects polyamine contents and thesensitivity of mouse fibroblasts to polyamine analogs
２２．VERONICA JOHANSSON (LUND UNIVERSITY)
Polyamine depletion causes DNA damage in human breast cancer cell lines
２３．NAVNEET KAUR (UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA)
Designing the Polyamine Pharmacophore: Influence of N-substituents on thetransport behavior of polyamine conjugates
２４．TUOMO KEINANEN (UNIVERSITY OF KUOPIO)
Control of the regioselectivity and stereospecificity of enzyme catalysis withsmall guide molecules
２５．PAUL KONG THOO LIN (THE ROBERT GORDON UNIVERSITY)
The in vitro Apoptotic studies of anticancer agent bisnaphthalimidopropylspermidine and spermine derivatives

２６．DANA-LYNN KOOMOA (CANCER RESEARCH CENTER OFHAWAI'I)
The role of putrescine, spermidine and spermine in cell cycle and cell survival
in neuroblastoma cells
２７．DEBORA KRAMER (ROSWELL PARK CANCER INSTITUTE)
Direct Measurement of SSAT-induced Polyamine Metabolic Flux
２８．SHIN KURIHARA (RIKEN BRC-JCM)
A Novel Putrescine degradation Pathway Involves Gamma-glutamylatedIntermediates of Escherichia Coli K-12
２９．JEONGMI LEE (UT SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER)
Evolution of substrate specificity in the type IV ornithine decarboxylase
family３０．DIANE MCCLOSKEY (PENN STATE COLLEGE OF MEDICINE)
Importance of glutamic acid 247 to catalysis by and inhibition ofS-adenosylmethionine decarboxylase
３１．SALIM MERALI (TEMPLE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OFMEDICINE)
Mechanism and tissue specificity of nicotine-mediated lungS-adenosylmethionine reduction and resistance to Pneumocystis infection
３２．JOHN MITCHELL (NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY)
Antizyme induction and the response of tumor cells to polyamine analogs
３３．TRACY MURRAY-STEWART (JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY)
Inhibition of Lysine Specific Demethylase-1, LSD-1, by Polyamine Analogues
in Human Acute Myeloid Leukemia Cell Lines
３４．SHORENA NADARAIA (PENN STATE COLLEGE OF MEDICINE)
Structural and Functional Studies of Spermidine Synthase

３５．SHANNON NOWOTARSKI (PENNSYLVANIA STATE
UNIVERSITY)Egr-1 as a Putative Transcriptional Regulator of Ornithine Decarboxylase(ODC)
３６．MAKIKO OHKIDO (JIKEI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE)
Hematopoietic cells are sensitive to high putresicine even before migrating
into the fetal liver
３７．FRANCISCA SANCHEZ-JIMENEZ (UNIVERSITY OF MALAGA)
A trip towards a multilayer and extended view of amine metabolism assisted
by Systems Biology technologies: the need of a consensus group
３８．JOLITA SECKUTE (CORNELL UNIVERSITY)
To be announced
３９．KOICHIRO SHIOKAWA (TEIKYO UNIVERSITY)
Execution of maternal program of apoptosis in Xenopus early embryos
exposed to high temperature and/or treated with putresine, spermidine,spermine, caldopentamine, or caldohexamine
４０．ERIKA SODERSTJERNA (LUND UNIVERSITY)
Differential sensitivity to polyamine analogue treatment in neuroblastoma celllines
４１．YUSUKE TERUI (CHIBA INSTITUTE 0F SCIENCE)
Syntheses of RpoN, Cra, and H-NS are enhanced by polyamines at the levelof translation in Eschericia coli
４２．YUICHI TSUBOI (KYOTO UNIVERSITY)
A novel putrescine importer, PuuP, of Escherichia coli
４３．TAKESHI UEMURA (CHIBA UNIVERSITY)
Identification and characterization of polyamine preferential uptake proteinsin Saccharomyces cerevisiae

４４．ANNE UIMARI (UNIVERSITY OF KUOPIO)
Regulation and intracellular localization of the SSAT-EGFP fusion protein
４５．LAURIE VON KALM (UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA)
A Drosophila model to identify polyamine-drug conjugates that target thepolyamine transporter in an intact epithelium
４６．HEATHER WALLACE (UNIVERSTIY OF ABERDEEN)
To be announced
４７．XIAOJING WANG (PENN STATE COLLEGE OF MEDICINE)
Localization of spermine synthase and its possible roles
４８．ERIN WILLERT (UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERNMED CENTER)
Trypanosomatid S-adenyosylmethionine decarboxylase is activated byheterodimer formation with an inactive paralog
４９．KEITH WILSON (VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OFMEDICINE)
Ornithine Decarboxylase Inhibits Nitric Oxide Production in Infiltrating
Gastric Macrophages During Helicobacter pylori Infection
５０．LAN XIAO (UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND)
Regulation of ATF-2 mRNA Stability by RNA-Binding Protein HuR
Following Polyamine Depletion in Intestinal Epithelial Cells