... within the inland waters, territorial sea or EEZ adjoining the USSR northern coast and that it includes seaways suitable for guiding vessels in ice Due to the vagueness concerning leading in Article ... (NSRA), including the Guide to Navigating through the Northern Sea Route (NSR Navigation Guide) and the Requirements for the Design, Equipment and Supplies of Vessels Navigating the Northern Sea ... pollution inthe Northern Sea Route 231 For Russia, ships must satisfy special crewing and training requirements for navigating in ice.56 For the USA, requirements as to manning, training, qualifications...
... clearly inthe footprints obtained even at 13 C and the lowest oxidant dose applied and inthe absence of MgCl2 Inthe footprints from reactions carried out inthe presence of 10 mm MgCl2, all these ... intramolecular stacking of thymine residues brings the two C(5)ẳC(6) bonds in close proximity, thereby increasing the probability of their attack by MnO4 and decreasing the effect of the negative phosphate ... the kinetics of nucleotide oxidation does not affect the intrinsic rate of the reaction and is due solely to the screening of the negative charge on the phosphate group, thereby diminishing the...
... psu inthe Gotland Deep Changes inthe surface water temperature inthe Baltic Sea are governed by the increased continental influence inthe east and the considerable north-south extent of the ... became inversely proportional to the salinity because the major source of the radionuclide was then identified inthe low saline waters of the Baltic Sea Since the Chernobyl accident, the Baltic Sea ... was the long-lasting stagnation inthe Baltic deep waters, the longest ever been observed during the Twentieth century As a result of the diminishing salinity and increasing temperature of the...
... [17–20] These studies demonstrated the role of ROS production inthe temperature-induced bleaching During thermal stress, although the enzymatic antioxidant defenses are induced [18,21–23], the additional ... subunit in regular type The large (p20) subunit in bold and the small subunit fit between the two domains Residues boxed are the component of substrate binding site Asterisks indicate the His ... the extensive gene loss in protostomes B After days of heat stress, the increase in at least two caspase-like activities detected inthe animal tissue and the DNA fragmentation induction in the...
... proteins on Q-Sepharose, in addition to the HmeCD-containing fraction further heme-containing fractions were observed which contained 20% of the total heme present inthe membrane fraction These ... of the much more intensive [2Fe)2S]1+ signal at g ¼ 1.890 (Fig 6A) These signals are indicative of spin–spin coupling between the different [4Fe)4S]1+ clusters inthe enzyme [33,34] The duroquinone ... polypeptides were determined by Edman degradation (Table 1) Using these sequences, the genome of A fulgidus was searched for corresponding genes [13] The amino-terminal sequence of the 53-kDa polypeptide...
... have their closest homologues inthe Sargasso Sea data set To further assess the viral nature of these unknown microbes, we studied the phylogenetic relationships between the corresponding Mimivirus ... (approximately to scale) The three colinear Mimivirus homologues are in green Unmatched ORF extremities are indicated by dots The two diagonal lines indicate where the two contigs are joined on the scaffold ... exhibiting a reciprocal best match relationship with the corresponding Mimivirus ORF (putative orthologues) (YES inthe rightmost column) The three cases (red lines in Table 1) exhibiting the best...
... have their closest homologues inthe Sargasso Sea data set To further assess the viral nature of these unknown microbes, we studied the phylogenetic relationships between the corresponding Mimivirus ... (approximately to scale) The three colinear Mimivirus homologues are in green Unmatched ORF extremities are indicated by dots The two diagonal lines indicate where the two contigs are joined on the scaffold ... exhibiting a reciprocal best match relationship with the corresponding Mimivirus ORF (putative orthologues) (YES inthe rightmost column) The three cases (red lines in Table 1) exhibiting the best...
... dry season will be substantially higher than inthe flood season Inthe dry season, even small increments inthesea level will affect large areas of the VMD On the other hand, water cover inthe ... Modeling the Water Regime inthe Delta The water level inthe Mekong Delta is in uenced by water discharge of the Mekong River as well as the tidal variations inthe South China Sea and the Gulf ... respectively, while there was only a minor effect on the m amsl contour line At the peak of the flood season in October, the shifts in contour lines are generally smaller and the northern part of the Delta...
... for refining PAR models and determining the potential impact of the different angular distribution of PAR profiles in shaping crown morphology and in influencing light interception by the understory ... atmosphere to the viewer [27] Since the scattering is proportional to the inverse fourth power of the wavelength, the scattering of short PAR wavelengths is thus greater than the scattering of the longer ... plots The center of each plot was located at least m from the closest stem inthe middle of a group of trees Since the objective of the study was to examine the effect of the forest canopy on the...
... systems involving phenoloxidase enzymesThe deamination of amino acids, such as serine, phenylalanine, proline, methionine, and cysteine by birnessite, and the role of pyrogallol in influencing their ... mask the analytical problems described Changes inthe microbial composition of the inoculum may occur during the incubation (Table 1) Indeed, not all constituents of the inoculum contribute to the ... (1,2,203–205) In theory, an index integrating the enzyme activities that catalyze the reactions limiting the rate of the main metabolic processes could be used to measure microbial functional diversity The...
... activity Products of substrates containing aromatic amines, including the commonly used 7-amino-4-methylcoumarin, 7-amino-4-trifluoromethylcoumarin, and 6-aminoquinoline, are partially protonated at ... aminopeptidase induction operates, especially since amino acids are reported to act as inducers in some bacteria, rather than acting in their more predictable role as end-product inhibitors The ... substrate When the substrate is available inthe environment, there is a dramatic increase inthe production rate of the particular enzyme Synthesis continues at this amplified rate until the inducer...
... that of the SBW 25 strains The DAPGϩ strain caused a significant decrease inthe shootto-root ratio in comparison to that of the control and other inoculants, indicating plant stress F113 increased ... caused a decrease inthe available phosphate, thus causing an overall increase in activity The decrease in available P may have taken the form of an increase inthe available carbon inthe rhizosphere ... would increase the microbial P demand Inverse trends were found with the C and N cycle enzymesin comparison to the general trend found inthe P and S cycle enzymesThe F113 (DAPGϩ) strain was...
... chitin-containing fungi The degree of inhibition was proportional to the level of chitin inthe cell wall of the target fungus Combining the two enzymes resulted in a synergistic increase in antifungal ... Both the fungus and the host insect have developed mechanisms involved inthe host–parasitic interaction of these organisms; the insects release inhibitors against the fungal protease, in uencing ... de novo synthesis of a set of cell-wall-degrading enzymes that aid the parasite in penetrating the host and completing its destruction Lectins, the sugar-binding proteins or glycoproteins of nonimmune...
... and the state of the cells producing theenzymes is essential, because both affect the quantity of enzyme detected inthe environmental sample and the kinetics of the reaction Ultimately, the ... (28–30,94) The assumption in all of these studies is that the initial rate observed inthe incubated fresh soil sample represents that enzyme’s presence inthe soil prior to collection from the field The ... due to their physical location within the soil matrix (1,122) Further complications in interpreting or predicting biodecomposition kinetics may arise from the limited water solubility of the potential...
... concluded that the higher levels of these enzymesinthe upper part of the profile could be due to the presence of fungi (chitin inthe cell walls) and arthropods (chitin inthe exoskeleton) serving as ... result in low decomposition rates This has been examined by incubating pine needles in litter bags in a southern Italian pine forest (49) Both the C/N ratio and the lignin content of the litter ... was demonstrated for the fungal community inthe preceding experiments If the fungal populations are removed from the litter or their growth is inhibited from the beginning of the decomposition...
... LϪ1 in H O Several p H values inthe 4–12 range were obtained by adding HCl or NaO H (11) The state of the protein in solution is obtained from the spectral difference between the protein in solution ... quantity of bovine serum albumin (BSA) introduced inthe clay suspension increases, and at a pH corresponding to the i.e.p of the BSA (pH 4.7) The increase is linear, followed by a plateau The plateau ... Ref 52.) the reversal of the unfolding of the adsorbed enzyme therefore would be greater than the thermal energy, kT, available to the system Inadequacy of the Interfacial pH Hypothesis The irreversible...
... loading (73) In drinking water purification systems, sand filters containing microbial communities are used to remove potential pathogens by trapping them within the EPS matrix of the biofilm (72) In ... growth inthe vicinity of the roots, and, in turn, the microorganisms fix nitrogen, assist the plant in adsorption of nutrients from the soil, and protect the roots against pathogens Another example ... hydrolytic enzymes into the soil, and these enzymes are capable of hydrolyzing pesticides Degradation by fungal enzymes may be due to less specific enzymes, as inthe case of lignin-degrading enzyme...