... Regional Learning Alliance – workforce development and training/collaborations with business and industry; meeting the training and education needs of businesses within 60 mile radius in Northern Allegheny ... assisting businesses in their provision of services to government Cheyney University Disadvantaged Business Enterprise – collaborating with business, industry and government agencies; providing ... value Increased lifetime real income Improved quality of life Focus on Society (Maximizing Social Welfare) Increased productivity, real wealth, civic responsibility and participation TheRoleof Public...
... satisfactory inthe evaluation of nodal status in this patient group Since the highly cellular tissue in reactive lymph nodes may also show increased intensity, theroleof DWI and ADC in distinguishing ... enhancing cervical cancer (arrow) The tumor invades the cervical stroma (arrowhead) c DWI with b = 1,000 s/mm2 shows a well-defined hyperintensity mass inthe cervical area The shape ofthe uterine ... imaging technique (SENSE factor of 2) Imaging time of DWI was 90 s for 20 slices Detection of uterine malignancy The ADC values of uterine cancers are lower than of normal tissue On the other...
... Protein targeting to the microsomes requires the cotranslational insertion ofthe newly synthesized protein into the microsomal membrane, where the N-terminal hydrophobic signal sequence ofthe ... CYP2E1 Theroleof PKA in mitochondrial targeting of CYP2E1 was investigated using two approaches The first approach involved measuring the level of mitochondrial targeting of wild-type CYP2E1 in PKA-deficient ... suggesting that an open N-terminal signal domain is critical for protein targeting to the ER (Fig 2D) In contrast to the targeting of CYP1A1 requiring N-terminal truncation, we have shown that intact...
... enthalpies of binding and stoichiometries were determined from the binding isotherm by fitting a : binding model to the data using the software provided by the manufacturer Results Reaction of fosfomycin ... independent ofthe thermodynamic and kinetic properties ofthe binding process and is solely based on the detectability ofthe peptides of interest We have used this method to show that binding ... chain of K22 participates in fosfomycin binding, thus providing a rationale for the loss of fosfomycin binding to the K22V and K22E mutant proteins However, two other positively charged amino...
... iron-peroxo intermediate [11] The sum of these ndings points at the involvement of more than one active oxidant inthe diverse types of P450-catalyzed substrate processing [1215] The goal ofthe present ... reect ring opening of an epoxide intermediate at either of its two C-O bonds [219,220] The sum of these ndings strongly invokes the notion of oxygen activation during redox cycling ofthe diverse ... chameleons, in which small alterations inthe environment can cause drastic changes inthe reactivity ofthe active species [76] Further support in favour ofthe idea ofthe involvement of a high-valent...
... from the original position Inthe structural deviation, the solvent ASA ofthe side-chain of His210 increased with the decrease in size ofthe side-chain at residue 169 (Table and Fig 3A) However, ... of His210 The size ofthe side-chain at residue 169 and the pK2 showed a clear linear relationship (Fig 3B) The pK2 increased as the size ofthe residue at position 169 increased The effect of ... effect ofthe size ofthe residue at position 169 may be related to the solvent accessibility ofthe side-chain of His210 (Fig 3C) When the accessibility ofthe side-chain of His210 increased, the...
... value in this temperature range is considerably lowered On the basis ofthe model, the behavior ofthe G261A variant can be interpreted in terms of constraints introduced by the Ala side chain The ... [9] However, our incomplete understanding ofthe relation between enzyme properties and conformational flexibility limits the exploitation ofthe full potential of protein engineering inthe redesign ... are shown respectively By introducing an Ala residue inthe place of Gly it is expected that the conformational flexibility ofthe main chain can be constrained with a minimum perturbation of the...
... by the C domain ofthe initiation module of daptomycin That DptE and DptF are involved inthe lipidation process of daptomycin was first shown by Miao et al [1] In their work, the daptomycin gene ... is one ofthe few ACPs in which valine replaces isoleucine (I) or leucine (L) inthe conserved sequence To determine whether DptF is the putative partner of DptE, we expressed dptF using the pQTev ... a common ‘ping pong BI-BI’ mechanism [30–32], showed a KM of 18.3 lm for its cognate ACP Inthe case of CpPKS1-AL, the KM for the lipidation of ACP was 3.53 lm These findings are in good agreement...
... evaluate the OS-fitness ofthe clone, the ratio ofthe specific absorbance inthe presence of 10 lgÆmL)1 HEL to that inthe absence of HEL was taken as an index To analyze the effect ofthe type of each ... clear whether or not H39 is dominantly tuning the VH ⁄ VL interaction of other Fvs, including HyHEL-10 In addition, the effect ofthe H39 mutation on antigen binding has not yet been analyzed The ... in determining the interdomain interaction strength Results Construction of an FR2 combinatorial library To investigate the possible relationship between antigen-binding affinity and VH ⁄ VL interaction...
... Luther King ?, by considering the synonym of killer, the noun assassin, the Q&A system retrieved paragraphs with the correct answer Similarly, for the question Q206: Howfar is the moon ?, since ... generating unications ofthe question and answer semantic forms: Class L2-1: there is a one-to-one mapping between the binary dependencies ofthe question and binary dependencies from the answer ... when the fth answer was correct and if none ofthe rst ve answers were correct The Mean Reciprocal Answer Rank (MRAR) is used to compute the overall performance ofthe systems participating in the...
... followed by birthday This finding is just reverse ofthe finding of Belk (1973) Ruth, Brunel, Otnes (1999) classified categories of gift-giving into public occasion (i.e., Christmas, Chinese ... change their brand attitude, may suggest an interesting implication for the new brand advertising strategy Instead of focusing on the content ofthe message which only emphasizes the benefits ofthe ... (p.21) These results were the same if comparing between male and female behavior is the interesting finding of Othman and Lee’s study Givers will pay different attitude to these factors when choosing...
... apart from financing school Conley (2001) finds that a doubling of net worth results in an 8.3% increase inthe probability of attending college Further, when net worth is included inthe model, ... choose either ofthe latter two responses are defined as ―certain‖ youth, and there are 333 youth inthe final weighted sample of certain youth Youth who respond that their chances of attending a ... important for explaining wilt Inthe case of income, youth living in low-income households experience higher levels of wilt (45%) than youth living in either modest-income (35%) or high-income (23%)...
... [31], for evaluating theroleof Glc6P, we determined the effect of different inhibitor concentrations on the Glc6P content and the rate of glycogen synthesis in hepatocytes incubated with 15 ... that the increase of Glc6P inthe presence of S4048 was caused by the inhibition of Glc6P hydrolysis inthe absence of detectable changes in glucose phosphorylation S4048 causes inactivation of ... rather than the elevated concentration of Glc6P or Fru2,6P2, determines the increased glycolysis during activation of glucokinase However, following chronic elevation of Glc6P, an increase in...
... some of these documents (particularly the short ones) have all zeroes in them In other words, none ofthe bigrams from the training set appears in these reviews This suggests that the main problem ... First, we train a polarity classifier using all unigrams from the training set Second, we train another polarity classifier using all unigrams, bigrams, and trigrams We obtain an accuracy of 87.2% ... part of our verification of this hypothesis, we plot the learning curve for each ofthe above experiments We observe that a 99% accuracy was achieved in all cases even when only 200 training instances...
... strong indications for the involvement of a bacterial P450 inthe hydroxylation of octane in Rhodococcus rhodochrous, theroleof bacterial P450s in alkane degradation in addition to the well-established ... displaying the lowest similarity to the other P450s are those involved in oxylipin biosynthesis (2–6% amino acid identity) This can be explained in part by their bifunctional structure Conclusion In ... tight binding affinity was demonstrated towards lauric acid, resulting inthe synthesis of mainly x-1 hydroxylated 216 lauric acid, suggesting a roleinthe lipid oxidative metabolism Interestingly,...