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  • 1
    Publication Date: 2001-09-08
    Description: Bcl-2 family members bearing only the BH3 domain are essential inducers of apoptosis. We identified a BH3-only protein, Bmf, and show that its BH3 domain is required both for binding to prosurvival Bcl-2 proteins and for triggering apoptosis. In healthy cells, Bmf is sequestered to myosin V motors by association with dynein light chain 2. Certain damage signals, such as loss of cell attachment (anoikis), unleash Bmf, allowing it to translocate and bind prosurvival Bcl-2 proteins. Thus, at least two mammalian BH3-only proteins, Bmf and Bim, function to sense intracellular damage by their localization to distinct cytoskeletal structures.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Puthalakath, H -- Villunger, A -- O'Reilly, L A -- Beaumont, J G -- Coultas, L -- Cheney, R E -- Huang, D C -- Strasser, A -- CA 80188/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- R29 DC003299/DC/NIDCD NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2001 Sep 7;293(5536):1829-32.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Melbourne, P.O. Royal Melbourne Hospital, 3050 VIC, Australia.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11546872" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: *Adaptor Proteins, Signal Transducing ; Amino Acid Sequence ; Animals ; *Anoikis ; Apoptosis Regulatory Proteins ; Calmodulin-Binding Proteins/*metabolism ; Carrier Proteins/*chemistry/genetics/*metabolism ; Cell Line ; Cytoskeleton/metabolism ; *Drosophila Proteins ; Dyneins ; Gene Expression Profiling ; Humans ; *Membrane Proteins ; Mice ; Molecular Motor Proteins/*metabolism ; Molecular Sequence Data ; Mutation ; Myeloid Cell Leukemia Sequence 1 Protein ; *Myosin Type V ; Neoplasm Proteins/genetics/metabolism ; Nerve Tissue Proteins/*metabolism ; Protein Binding ; Protein Structure, Tertiary ; Protein Transport ; *Proto-Oncogene Proteins ; Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-bcl-2/chemistry/genetics/metabolism ; RNA, Messenger/analysis/genetics ; Transfection ; Two-Hybrid System Techniques
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  • 2
    Publication Date: 2007-09-29
    Description: The CCR5 co-receptor binds to the HIV-1 gp120 envelope glycoprotein and facilitates HIV-1 entry into cells. Its N terminus is tyrosine-sulfated, as are many antibodies that react with the co-receptor binding site on gp120. We applied nuclear magnetic resonance and crystallographic techniques to analyze the structure of the CCR5 N terminus and that of the tyrosine-sulfated antibody 412d in complex with gp120 and CD4. The conformations of tyrosine-sulfated regions of CCR5 (alpha-helix) and 412d (extended loop) are surprisingly different. Nonetheless, a critical sulfotyrosine on CCR5 and on 412d induces similar structural rearrangements in gp120. These results now provide a framework for understanding HIV-1 interactions with the CCR5 N terminus during viral entry and define a conserved site on gp120, whose recognition of sulfotyrosine engenders posttranslational mimicry by the immune system.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2278242/" target="_blank"〉〈img src="https://static.pubmed.gov/portal/portal3rc.fcgi/4089621/img/3977009" border="0"〉〈/a〉   〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2278242/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Huang, Chih-Chin -- Lam, Son N -- Acharya, Priyamvada -- Tang, Min -- Xiang, Shi-Hua -- Hussan, Syed Shahzad-Ul -- Stanfield, Robyn L -- Robinson, James -- Sodroski, Joseph -- Wilson, Ian A -- Wyatt, Richard -- Bewley, Carole A -- Kwong, Peter D -- P30 AI060354/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- U19 AI067854/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- U19 AI067854-03/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- Z99 AI999999/Intramural NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2007 Sep 28;317(5846):1930-4.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Vaccine Research Center, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17901336" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Amino Acid Sequence ; Antigens, CD4/*chemistry/immunology ; Crystallography, X-Ray ; HIV Antibodies/*chemistry/immunology ; HIV Envelope Protein gp120/*chemistry/immunology/metabolism ; HIV-1/metabolism ; Humans ; Models, Molecular ; Molecular Mimicry ; Molecular Sequence Data ; Nuclear Magnetic Resonance, Biomolecular ; Peptide Fragments/chemistry/metabolism ; Receptors, CCR5/*chemistry/metabolism ; Sulfates/metabolism ; Tyrosine/metabolism ; Virus Internalization
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    Publication Date: 2010-04-03
    Description: Semiconservative DNA replication ensures the faithful duplication of genetic information during cell divisions. However, how epigenetic information carried by histone modifications propagates through mitotic divisions remains elusive. To address this question, the DNA replication-dependent nucleosome partition pattern must be clarified. Here, we report significant amounts of H3.3-H4 tetramers split in vivo, whereas most H3.1-H4 tetramers remained intact. Inhibiting DNA replication-dependent deposition greatly reduced the level of splitting events, which suggests that (i) the replication-independent H3.3 deposition pathway proceeds largely by cooperatively incorporating two new H3.3-H4 dimers and (ii) the majority of splitting events occurred during replication-dependent deposition. Our results support the idea that "silent" histone modifications within large heterochromatic regions are maintained by copying modifications from neighboring preexisting histones without the need for H3-H4 splitting events.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Xu, Mo -- Long, Chengzu -- Chen, Xiuzhen -- Huang, Chang -- Chen, She -- Zhu, Bing -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2010 Apr 2;328(5974):94-8. doi: 10.1126/science.1178994.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Graduate Program, Peking Union Medical College and Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing 100730, People's Republic of China.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20360108" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Amino Acid Sequence ; Aphidicolin/pharmacology ; Cell Cycle ; Chromatin/metabolism ; *Chromatin Assembly and Disassembly ; *DNA Replication ; Epigenesis, Genetic ; HeLa Cells ; Heterochromatin/metabolism ; Histones/*chemistry/*metabolism ; Humans ; Hydroxyurea/pharmacology ; Mass Spectrometry ; Molecular Sequence Data ; Nucleosomes/*metabolism ; Protein Multimerization ; S Phase ; Transfection
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  • 4
    Publication Date: 2013-07-28
    Description: The essential bacterial protein FtsZ is a guanosine triphosphatase that self-assembles into a structure at the division site termed the "Z ring". During cytokinesis, the Z ring exerts a constrictive force on the membrane by using the chemical energy of guanosine triphosphate hydrolysis. However, the structural basis of this constriction remains unresolved. Here, we present the crystal structure of a guanosine diphosphate-bound Mycobacterium tuberculosis FtsZ protofilament, which exhibits a curved conformational state. The structure reveals a longitudinal interface that is important for function. The protofilament curvature highlights a hydrolysis-dependent conformational switch at the T3 loop that leads to longitudinal bending between subunits, which could generate sufficient force to drive cytokinesis.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3816583/" target="_blank"〉〈img src="https://static.pubmed.gov/portal/portal3rc.fcgi/4089621/img/3977009" border="0"〉〈/a〉   〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3816583/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Li, Ying -- Hsin, Jen -- Zhao, Lingyun -- Cheng, Yiwen -- Shang, Weina -- Huang, Kerwyn Casey -- Wang, Hong-Wei -- Ye, Sheng -- 1F32GM100677-01A1/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- DP2 OD006466/OD/NIH HHS/ -- DP2OD006466/OD/NIH HHS/ -- F32 GM100677/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2013 Jul 26;341(6144):392-5. doi: 10.1126/science.1239248.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Life Sciences Institute, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310058 Zhejiang, P.R. China.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23888039" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Amino Acid Sequence ; Bacterial Proteins/*chemistry/genetics/*metabolism ; Cell Membrane/physiology ; Crystallography, X-Ray ; *Cytokinesis ; Cytoskeletal Proteins/*chemistry/genetics/*metabolism ; Escherichia coli/chemistry ; Guanosine Diphosphate/chemistry/metabolism ; Guanosine Triphosphate/metabolism ; Hydrolysis ; Hydrophobic and Hydrophilic Interactions ; Models, Molecular ; Molecular Dynamics Simulation ; Molecular Sequence Data ; Mycobacterium tuberculosis/*chemistry/physiology ; Point Mutation ; Protein Conformation ; Protein Multimerization ; Protein Subunits/chemistry/metabolism ; Staphylococcus aureus/chemistry
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  • 5
    Publication Date: 2005-11-15
    Description: The third variable region (V3) of the HIV-1 gp120 envelope glycoprotein is immunodominant and contains features essential for coreceptor binding. We determined the structure of V3 in the context of an HIV-1 gp120 core complexed to the CD4 receptor and to the X5 antibody at 3.5 angstrom resolution. Binding of gp120 to cell-surface CD4 would position V3 so that its coreceptor-binding tip protrudes 30 angstroms from the core toward the target cell membrane. The extended nature and antibody accessibility of V3 explain its immunodominance. Together, the results provide a structural rationale for the role of V3 in HIV entry and neutralization.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2408531/" target="_blank"〉〈img src="https://static.pubmed.gov/portal/portal3rc.fcgi/4089621/img/3977009" border="0"〉〈/a〉   〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2408531/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Huang, Chih-chin -- Tang, Min -- Zhang, Mei-Yun -- Majeed, Shahzad -- Montabana, Elizabeth -- Stanfield, Robyn L -- Dimitrov, Dimiter S -- Korber, Bette -- Sodroski, Joseph -- Wilson, Ian A -- Wyatt, Richard -- Kwong, Peter D -- AI24755/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- AI31783/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- AI39429/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- AI40895/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- GM46192/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- Z99 AI999999/Intramural NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2005 Nov 11;310(5750):1025-8.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Vaccine Research Center, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16284180" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Amino Acid Sequence ; Antigens, CD4/chemistry/*metabolism ; Binding Sites ; Crystallization ; Crystallography, X-Ray ; HIV Antibodies/immunology ; HIV Envelope Protein gp120/*chemistry/immunology/metabolism ; HIV-1/*chemistry/immunology/metabolism ; Humans ; Hydrogen Bonding ; Immunodominant Epitopes ; Models, Molecular ; Molecular Sequence Data ; Peptide Fragments/*chemistry/immunology/metabolism ; Protein Binding ; Protein Conformation ; Protein Structure, Tertiary ; Receptors, CCR5/chemistry/metabolism ; Receptors, CXCR4/chemistry/metabolism
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    Publication Date: 2005-01-18
    Description: Cryptococcus neoformans is a basidiomycetous yeast ubiquitous in the environment, a model for fungal pathogenesis, and an opportunistic human pathogen of global importance. We have sequenced its approximately 20-megabase genome, which contains approximately 6500 intron-rich gene structures and encodes a transcriptome abundant in alternatively spliced and antisense messages. The genome is rich in transposons, many of which cluster at candidate centromeric regions. The presence of these transposons may drive karyotype instability and phenotypic variation. C. neoformans encodes unique genes that may contribute to its unusual virulence properties, and comparison of two phenotypically distinct strains reveals variation in gene content in addition to sequence polymorphisms between the genomes.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3520129/" target="_blank"〉〈img src="https://static.pubmed.gov/portal/portal3rc.fcgi/4089621/img/3977009" border="0"〉〈/a〉   〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3520129/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Loftus, Brendan J -- Fung, Eula -- Roncaglia, Paola -- Rowley, Don -- Amedeo, Paolo -- Bruno, Dan -- Vamathevan, Jessica -- Miranda, Molly -- Anderson, Iain J -- Fraser, James A -- Allen, Jonathan E -- Bosdet, Ian E -- Brent, Michael R -- Chiu, Readman -- Doering, Tamara L -- Donlin, Maureen J -- D'Souza, Cletus A -- Fox, Deborah S -- Grinberg, Viktoriya -- Fu, Jianmin -- Fukushima, Marilyn -- Haas, Brian J -- Huang, James C -- Janbon, Guilhem -- Jones, Steven J M -- Koo, Hean L -- Krzywinski, Martin I -- Kwon-Chung, June K -- Lengeler, Klaus B -- Maiti, Rama -- Marra, Marco A -- Marra, Robert E -- Mathewson, Carrie A -- Mitchell, Thomas G -- Pertea, Mihaela -- Riggs, Florenta R -- Salzberg, Steven L -- Schein, Jacqueline E -- Shvartsbeyn, Alla -- Shin, Heesun -- Shumway, Martin -- Specht, Charles A -- Suh, Bernard B -- Tenney, Aaron -- Utterback, Terry R -- Wickes, Brian L -- Wortman, Jennifer R -- Wye, Natasja H -- Kronstad, James W -- Lodge, Jennifer K -- Heitman, Joseph -- Davis, Ronald W -- Fraser, Claire M -- Hyman, Richard W -- AI47087/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- AI48594/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- R01 AI050184/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- R01 AI050184-05/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- R01 HL088905/HL/NHLBI NIH HHS/ -- R01 HL088905-04A2/HL/NHLBI NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2005 Feb 25;307(5713):1321-4. Epub 2005 Jan 13.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Institute for Genomic Research, 9712 Medical Center Drive, Rockville, MD 20850, USA. bjloftus@tigr.org〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15653466" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Alternative Splicing ; Cell Wall/metabolism ; Chromosomes, Fungal/genetics ; Computational Biology ; Cryptococcus neoformans/*genetics/pathogenicity/physiology ; DNA Transposable Elements ; Fungal Proteins/metabolism ; Gene Library ; Genes, Fungal ; *Genome, Fungal ; Humans ; Introns ; Molecular Sequence Data ; Phenotype ; Polymorphism, Genetic ; Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide ; Polysaccharides/metabolism ; RNA, Antisense ; Sequence Analysis, DNA ; Transcription, Genetic ; Virulence ; Virulence Factors/metabolism
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    Publication Date: 2014-07-12
    Description: Antiretroviral treatment (ART) of HIV infection suppresses viral replication. Yet if ART is stopped, virus reemerges because of the persistence of infected cells. We evaluated the contribution of infected-cell proliferation and sites of proviral integration to HIV persistence. A total of 534 HIV integration sites (IS) and 63 adjacent HIV env sequences were derived from three study participants over 11.3 to 12.7 years of ART. Each participant had identical viral sequences integrated at the same position in multiple cells, demonstrating infected-cell proliferation. Integrations were overrepresented in genes associated with cancer and favored in 12 genes across multiple participants. Over time on ART, a greater proportion of persisting proviruses were in proliferating cells. HIV integration into specific genes may promote proliferation of HIV-infected cells, slowing viral decay during ART.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4230336/" target="_blank"〉〈img src="https://static.pubmed.gov/portal/portal3rc.fcgi/4089621/img/3977009" border="0"〉〈/a〉   〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4230336/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Wagner, Thor A -- McLaughlin, Sherry -- Garg, Kavita -- Cheung, Charles Y K -- Larsen, Brendan B -- Styrchak, Sheila -- Huang, Hannah C -- Edlefsen, Paul T -- Mullins, James I -- Frenkel, Lisa M -- 201311CVI-322424-244686/Canadian Institutes of Health Research/Canada -- K23 AI077357/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- K23AI077357/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- P30 AI027757/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- R01 AI091550/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- R01 AI111806/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- R01AI091550/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2014 Aug 1;345(6196):570-3. doi: 10.1126/science.1256304. Epub 2014 Jul 10.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Seattle Children's Research Institute, 1900 9th Avenue, Seattle, WA 98101, USA. University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA. ; Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, USA. ; University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA. ; Seattle Children's Research Institute, 1900 9th Avenue, Seattle, WA 98101, USA. ; University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA. Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, USA. ; Seattle Children's Research Institute, 1900 9th Avenue, Seattle, WA 98101, USA. University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA. lfrenkel@uw.edu.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25011556" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Anti-HIV Agents/therapeutic use ; Base Sequence ; Basic-Leucine Zipper Transcription Factors/genetics ; Cell Proliferation ; Chromosomes, Human, Pair 6/genetics ; *Genes, Neoplasm ; Genetic Loci ; HIV Infections/drug therapy/*virology ; HIV-1/genetics/*physiology ; Humans ; Jurkat Cells ; Molecular Sequence Data ; Phylogeny ; *Virus Integration ; *Virus Latency ; Virus Replication ; env Gene Products, Human Immunodeficiency Virus/classification/genetics
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    Publication Date: 2004-12-03
    Description: The thinning and intensification of the cross tail current sheet during the substorm growth phase are analyzed during the CDAW 6 substorm (22 Mar. 1979) using two complementary methods. The magnetic field and current sheet development are determined using data from two spacecraft and a global magnetic field model with several free parameters. These results are compared with the local calculation of the current sheet location and structure previously done by McPherron et al. Both methods lead to the conclusion that an extremely thin current sheet existed prior to the substorm onset, and the thicknesses estimated by the two methods at substorm onset agree relatively well. The plasma data from the ISEE 1 spacecraft at 13 R(sub E) show an anisotropy in the low energy electrons during the growth phase which disappears just before the substorm onset. The global magnetic model results suggest that the field is sufficiently stretched to scatter such low energy electrons. The strong stretching may improve the conditions for the growth of the ion tearing instability in the near Earth tail at substorm onset.
    Keywords: GEOPHYSICS
    Type: ESA, Substorms 1; p 131-135
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    Publication Date: 2011-08-24
    Description: The ISEE spacecraft in the geomagnetic tail frequently crossed the high-latitude boundary of the plasma sheet. On a number of these crossings on the morningside (between 15 RE and 22 RE) the ISEE instruments detected an enhanced population of low-energy electrons and ions immediately adjacent to the plasma sheet boundary layer (PSBL). The electrons in this low-energy layer (LEL) have energies less than a few hundred eV, and they are aligned along the magnetic field direction propagating in the tailward direction. The ions have energies less than 100 eV and are also streaming along the magnetic field direction but in the earthward direction. These particles are clearly distinguished from the bulk of the particles in the plasma sheet and the PSBL. These observations may help clarify where the various particle features in the geomagnetic tail map to in the ionosphere. It is suggested that the LEL maps to the soft (less than 1 keV) electron precipitation region poleward of the plasma sheet boundary.
    Keywords: GEOPHYSICS
    Type: Journal of Geophysical Research (ISSN 0148-0227); 97; A3, M; 2943-295
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    Publication Date: 2011-08-24
    Description: The global magnetic field configuration during the growth phase of the Coordinated Data Analysis Workshop (CDAW) 6 substorm (March 22, 1979, 1054 UT) is modeled using data from two suitably located spacecraft and temporally evolving variations of the Tsyganenko magnetic field model. These results are compared with a local calculation of the current sheet location and thickness carried out by McPherron et al. (1987) and Sanny et al. (this issue). Both models suggest that during the growth phase the current sheet rotated away from its nominal location, and simultaneously thinned strongly. The locations and thickness obtained from the two models are in good agreement. The global model suggests that the peak current density is approximately 120 nA/sq m and that the cross-tail current almost doubled its intensity during this very strong growth phase. The global model predicts a field configuration that is sufficiently stretched to scatter thermal electrons, which may be conducive to the onset of ion tearing in the tail. The electron plasma data further support this scenario, as the anisotropy present in the low-energy electrons disappears close to the substorm onset. The electron contribution to the intensifying current in this case is of the order of 10% before the isotropization of the distribution.
    Keywords: GEOPHYSICS
    Type: Journal of Geophysical Research (ISSN 0148-0227); 99; A4; p. 5793-5803
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