... B=MICBị=nwhere A and B are the MICs of drug A and drug B in the combination, MIC A and MICBare the MICs of drug A and drug B alone, FIC A and FICBare the FICs of drug A and drug B and n isthenumberof ... & Batoni G (2008) Comparative analysis of the bactericidal activities of amphibian peptide analoguesagainst multidrug-resistant nosocomial bacterial strains.Antimicrob Agents Chemother 52, ... thank M. Simmaco for use ofthe facilities andplatforms available in the DiMA Unit ofthe Sant’An-drea Hospital. This work was funded in part by ItalianMinistero dell’Universita`e Ricerca...
... are also made in the child DataTable. This isthe default. None Indicates that no action takes place. SetDefault Indicates that the DataColumn values in the child DataTable are to be set to the ... Cascade; therefore, when you change the DataColumn in the parent DataTable on which the ForeignKeyConstraint was created, then the same change is also made in any corresponding DataRow objects in the ... to the database. By default, DeleteRule is set to Cascade; therefore, when you delete a DataRow in the parent DataTable, any corresponding DataRow objects in the child DataTable are also deleted....
... chloroplast spinach GAPDH [35] w ere examined t oAthalianaBPativumBSoleraceaBNtabacumB A. thalianaAPsativumASoleraceaAChlamySynechocystisSynechococcusAthalianaBPativumBSoleraceaBNtabacumB A. thalianaAPsativumASoleraceaAChlamySynechocystisSynechococcusAthalianaBPativumBSoleraceaBNtabacumB A. thalianaAPsativumASoleraceaAChlamySynechocystisSynechococcus119119119119119120119121118119159159159159157158157160158159199199199199197198197200198199VI ... oAthalianaBPativumBSoleraceaBNtabacumB A. thalianaAPsativumASoleraceaAChlamySynechocystisSynechococcusAthalianaBPativumBSoleraceaBNtabacumB A. thalianaAPsativumASoleraceaAChlamySynechocystisSynechococcusAthalianaBPativumBSoleraceaBNtabacumB A. thalianaAPsativumASoleraceaAChlamySynechocystisSynechococcus119119119119119120119121118119159159159159157158157160158159199199199199197198197200198199VI ... a glutamic acid residue affects t he kinetic parameters of the R197E mutant. The K0.5forBPGAistwicethatofthewild-type recombinant GAPDH and the catalytic constant is onehalf with NADPH as cofactor....
... mutants) and per-manganese metal basis (manganesesuperoxide dismutase mutants).Table 2. Metal contents of mutant superoxide dismutases. Metal con-tent was measured by atomic absorbance and is ... purchased fromPharmacia Biotech (Vienna, Austria).Visualization and analysis of molecular structuresMolecular structures whose coordinates were obtainedfrom the RCSB database were visualized ... Peplow, F. Yamakura and T. Matsumoto for the analyses of iron and manganese in protein samples. We also wish tothank H. Steinman for the gift of E. coli OX32 6A. We finally thank MrM. Farrugia for...
... variants of TPP II ( i.e. rat,mouse, fruit fly, Arabidopsis thaliana, Caenorhabdit is elegansand Schizosaccharo myces pombe), and at least three humanEST-clones covering this area (GenBank a ... standard assay and the i mmunoreactivity was detected by Western blot analysisand quantitated as described i n Materials and methods. Open andfilled circles indicate the activity, and open and ... catalytic His264, and the proximity to the active site may explain the effect of oligomerization onenzyme activity. Even though the exact mechanism for complex formation and activation of the...
... the axisarea are of polar character. The water channel in the apo formofthe enzyme runs along the axis of the b-propeller through the whole domain and is onlyblocked by Cys236 in the area ... probably a consequence of a mistake incorporated by the TaKaRa Ex TaqÔ poly-merase and did not affect the enzymatic activity.MS The molecular mass ofthe recombinant b-fructofuranosi-dase was ... performs a nucleophilic attack on the anomeric carbon of fructose. The leaving group is carboxylate of Asp54.Dimerization The asymmetric units ofthe crystals of both the apoand complexed form...
... indicating that the thermalunfolding process ofthe precursor form follows a two-statetransition. The ratio ofthe unfolding enthalpy (DHcal)tothevan’t Hoff enthalpy (DHv) was 1.05 (DHcaland ... stabilization of proCPYagainst pressure.In contrast to the two-state transition ofthe precursor form, mature CPY showed a multistate transition: a firsttransition in the 0.1–150 MPa range, a ... or was obtained from Oriental Yeast Co. (Lot21003805) (Osaka, Japan) and proCPY was prepared as the same manner as CPY, with minor modifications. Dgly CPYand Dgly proCPY, in which the asparagine...
... occurrence of a different type (type I) of fatty acid biosyntheticpathway in the human host from that ofthe malariaparasite, make this pathway an attractive target fordeveloping antimalarial agents ... for the analysis of the conformational stability of other acyl carrier proteins.AbbreviationsAAS, acyl-ACP synthase; ACP, acyl carrier protein; AcpS, holo-ACP synthase; apo-ACP, Plasmodium falciparum ... form and the holo form displayed a reversible two-state unfolding mechanism. The analysis of iso-thermal denaturation data provides values for the conformational stability of the two proteins. Although...
... significantly to the disappear-ance of nitrotyrosinated tubulin, the tyrosination/detyrosin-ation at the C-terminus of a- tubulin isthe main operatingmechanism. Furthermore, when cells maximally ... dysfunction.ACKNOWLEDGEMENTSWe thank Drs Carlos E. Argaran˜ a and Mario Guido for criticalreading ofthe manuscript, Mrs S. N. Deza and Mrs M. G. Schachnerfor technical assistance and Dr Stephen Anderson ... Secretarı´adeCienciayTe´cnicadelaUniver-sidad Nacional de Co´rdoba y Agencia Co´rdoba Ciencia del Gobiernode la Provincia de Co´rdoba, Argentina.REFERENCES1. Barra, H.S., Arce, C .A. ,...
... formation at the terminator site. When the adjacent uracil-rich sequence is being transcribed, the affinity ofthe dA–U base pairs is insufficient to stabil-ize the DNA–RNA duplex, and the transcript,together ... implicated in transcriptional activation andrepression, regulation of alternative splicing, regula-tion of mRNA stability, translational activation orrepression and RNA packaging. It was also shownrecently ... sugar–phosphate backbone of the nucleotide in subsite 6 and the formation of the alternative subsite 7 are a consequence ofthe inaccessi-bility of Trp8 in this crystal form. In addition to their...
... D36N-15-CATCCTTCCCTATCTCAACATCCAGCTGGTTTACT-3D341N-15-AAGGGGAGAACTCAACGGAACACCGGAGG-3D389N 5-CACTCTCGAAGAGTTCATAAACGAAGTGAAGAAGAATCTC-35-GAGATTCTTCTTCACTTCGTTTATGAACTCTTCGAGAGTG-3M. Karlstroăm ... 5’-CCTGGAGAAATCGATCATGAGCTTCGCTCAGTCGTG-3’5’-CACGACTGAGCGAAGCTCATGATCGATTTCTCCAGG-3’F205M 5’-AAAAGGTCGACATCTGGATGGCGACGAAAGACACGATC-3’5’-GATCGTGTCTTTCGTCGCCATCCAGATGTCGACCTTTT-3’D36N ... different conformations, the large and the small domains of each homologue were comparedseparately. The rmsd values between the C a -carbons of the large domain of TmIDH and that of PcIDH andHcIDH...
... protozoa, CCT has been characterized at the genesequence level in the ciliate Tetrahymena pyriformis [19,20],in the diplomonadide Giardia lamblia and the parabasilideTrichomonas vaginalis [21]. ... nondenaturing PAGE; the ratios of labeled to unlabeledtubulins are indicated on the top of each lane and the arrow indicates the position ofthe b-tubulin/CCT complex. (B) The amounts of the tubulin ... CCT were quantitated by the use ofa phosphori-mager and expressed as a fraction ofthe maximum amount of boundlabeled tubulin and plotted as a function ofthe ratio of labeled : un-labeled tubulin.Ó...
... a rather unimportant factor. The younger age during the first visit and the regular breast exam are positively correlated with the choice ofa male gynecologist. Other parameters, such as ... JOURNAL đ VOLUME 4, ISSUE 1 (2010) using as a dependent variable the potential preference ofa male gynecologist, the age of the first visit and the breast exam presented, in comparison to the ... social relationships. According to the literature, the patients believe that a female gynecologist is more compassionate and largely possesses the so called humanitarian values, whereas there...
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... the case of CyPB in complexes with Suc-Ala-trans-Pro-Ala-pNA and Ac-Ala-Ala-trans-Pro-Ala-AMC, the largedistortion in the orientation of Ala1 and Ala2 of Ala-Prowith //w torsional angles of ... using a 32-mer primer of 5Â-AAAAAGAATTCATCGATATGTTCAAATCGACC-3Â with EcoRIadded at the 5Â end of ClaI, a 23-mer primer of 3Â-CGAGACGGCATTCCTAGGTTTTT-5Â, and pATtrpEPPIa as a template. The P ... [5,17,18,26–29] andshorter peptides such as Ala-Pro, Ala-Pro-Phe, Ala-Ala-Pro-Ala and Ala-Ala-Pro-Ala-Ala i nhibit cis to transisomerase activity of calf thymus CyPA [27]. It wassuggested that in the...