The following papers were published by Dr. Fry’s laboratory with the acknowledged support of Conquer Fragile X Foundation.

1. Weisman-Shomer, P., Cohen, E. and Fry, M. Interruption of the fragile X syndrome expanded sequence d(CGG)n by interspersed d(AGG) trinucleotides diminishes the formation and stability of d(CGG)n tetrahelical structures. Nucleic Acids Res. 28: (2000) 1535-1541

2. Uliel, L., Weisman-Shomer, P., Oren-Jazan, H., Newcomb, T., Loeb, L.A., and Fry, M. Human Ku antigen tightly binds and stabilizes a tetrahelical form of the fragile X syndrome d(CGG)n expanded sequence. J. Biol. Chem. 275: (2000) 33134-33141

3. Kamath-Loeb, A.S., Loeb, L.A., Johansson, E., Burgers, P.M.J., and Fry, M. Interactions between the Werner syndrome helicase and DNA polymerase facilitate copying of tetraplex and hairpin structures of the d(CGG)n trinucleotide repeat sequence. J. Biol. Chem. 276: (2001) in press

Fundraising Golf Tournament Planned

The Golf Tournament Fundraising Committee met recently at The Governors Club to formulate plans for a fall event. The effort will be headed up by Kyle Henderson and assisting him will be Wende Banks, Gail Henderson and Barkley Henderson. We will be calling on many of our friends and supporters to help us make this an outstanding event.

Reception and Dinner for CFXF Parents and Grandparents

In NovemberMatthew Hollin’s grandparents, Harris and Sande Hollin, and Mr. and Mrs. William Bell hosted a reception and dinner for CFXF families and research supporters. It was held at the beautiful landmark Colony Hotel on Palm Beach. There were many comments from the guests and two of those particularly reflect the value of the “get-together”.

“Thank you ! We have had a great time venting and bragging and laughing !!”

“Thank you so very much, Harris. It felt so good to meet and share with other families going through the same experience. It felt so good to not have to explain.”