... instances [18]. The limited availability of singu-
lar glycoforms has prompted a concerted effort to
develop new methods for their synthesis [8].
Biological methods to obtain glyco-
proteins
The natural ... [33], the first
reported modular total synthesis of a biologically rele-
vant glycoprotein. The immediate compatibility of
NCL and EPL methods has led to their widespread...
... particularly with regard to
arousal and sleep.
Molecular constituents of the UII
system
Presently, three molecules are known to form the UII
system: the UII receptor and the peptides UII and uro-
tensin-related ... reported the identifica-
tion of the UII receptor, an orphan receptor known
before as both GPR14 or SENR (for sensory epithe-
lium neuropeptides-like receptor...
... seems to have on the RNase activity
of the enzymes may be linked to an increase in Na
+
around the phosphate groups and the 2¢-OH, which
reduces the negative charge, and hence the affinity of the
enzyme ... for an
in-line attack on the scissile phosphate in the DNA
substrate. The role of the active-site magnesium ion is
to stabilize the phosphoanion transiti...
... the antioxidant iron che-
lator deferoxamine of PKA, localized in the mitochon-
drial matrix [21], promoted CREB binding to the
mtDNA D-loop. The presence in mitochondria of the
CREB factor and, ... in the expression of mitochondrially
encoded proteins of the respiratory chain prompted us
to investigate the mitochondrial import of the CREB
protein, synthesized in vitro,...
... exogenous
ligands, both the ferrous and ferric forms of Ngb are
hexacoordinated, with the proximal His64 being the
endogenous ligand. Therefore, Ngb ligand binding
requires the displacement of the intramolecular ... taken
from the reaction mixture, and the proteolysis was stopped
by adding to the mixture the inhibitor pepstatin
(enzyme ⁄ inhibitor molar ratio of 1 : 5)...
... and
equilibrated for 1 h in the shaking tonometer to ensure full
equilibration of the Hb to the gas atmosphere of the system.
The tonometer was then transferred to a Cecil CE2041 spec-
trophotometer (Cambridge, ... 2008 The Author Journal compilation ª 2008 FEBS 3381
The addition of ATP to stabilize the T state and to
impede the T to R transition caused th...
... the period of a week, the
1
H-NMR spectrum of
R120G aB-crystallin was monitored. Figure 3 shows the
aromatic and NH region of the 1D
1
H-NMR spectrum
and the NH to a,b,c-CH region of the 2D TOCSY ... and pH 7.0. (A) 1D spectra of the aromatic and NH region;
(B) cross-peaks from the NH to a,b,c-CH protons in TOCSY spectra. The increasing complexity of the spectr...
... instance the pareto-
optimal point (0.4,0.7). There is no other point with
either (metric1 > 0.4 and metric2 ≥ 0.7), or (met-
ric1 ≥ 0.4 and metric2 > 0.7). On the other hand,
the non-pareto ... of
pareto-optimal points. A hypothesis is weakly
pareto-optimal if there is no other hypothesis that
improves all the metrics; a hypothesis is pareto-
optimal if there is no other hy...
... engine,
and automatically annotating the snippets
with tags and features for training a
conditional random field model. At run-
time, the model is used to extracting
translation candidates for ... translations for a given phrase. The system
begins by submitting the given phrase as query to a
search engine to retrieve snippets, and generate
features for each t...
... allocentric (landmark-centered) features. For example, the top left figure shows
that when the word above occurs, our policy prefers to go to the north of the target landmark. The bottom
row shows the weights ... respect to two metrics: the order
in which we visit landmarks and the side we pass
them on.
To determine the order P
e
visits landmarks we
compute the...