... insect-crustacean sister-group relationship is mainly based on the comparative analysisof neural characters in higher crustaceans (malacostracans) and insects For example, in both insects and malacostracans, ... Predators are not the only natural enemies of Daphnia The study of parasites (viruses, bacteria and multicellular parasites) has also gained momentum as a result of their influence on Daphnia ecology ... crustaceans are far from being resolved Several morphological and molecular studies have questioned the monophyly of crustaceans, and either Branchiopoda (such as Daphnia) or Malacostraca (lobster,...
... is an important multifunctional AAA+ ATPase with two Cterminal ATPase domains after the adaptor domain, which provide the energy for major conformational changes [124] VCP forms hexamers and ... molecular basis for ARF binding and membrane association of GGAs Dev Cell 4, 321– 332 Shiba, T., Kawasaki, M., Takatsu, H., Nogi, T., Matsugaki, N., Igarashi, N., Suzuki, M., Kato, R., Nakayama, ... which is a U box homologue of yeast Ufd2 [128], and interacts with and regulates the degradation of the proteasome-associated ataxin-3, forming a trimeric complex of ataxin-3, VCP, and UFD 2a [96,127,129–131]...
... binding channel, anda cycle of conformational change coupled to ATP binding and hydrolysis These conformational changes alter the likely ssRNA-binding channel in a manner that can explain how ATP ... (2005) have shown that Upf1, the central player of the surveillance complex, and ATR, a critical regulator of the DNA-damage-checkpoint pathway, are required for the degradation of histone mRNAs A ... Cunningham et al., 2000), which have a wide variety of endonucleolytic cleavage sites The general pathways of eukaryotic mRNA decay are illustrated in Figure 1-1 and critical enzymes and regulators are...
... pollutant loads per unit pixel and unit rainfall for each water quality parameter i and α is a normalization factor that depends on units and conversion factors Table Runoff coefficient and EMCs for ... compared with official land used data obtained from SCAG land use data The pollutant loading maps of all water quality parameters show that the low pollutant emitting areas correspond to open land use ... provides practical information with reasonable accuracy, which can be used for environmental planning and management Open land use corresponds to low pollutant loads for all water quality parameters...
... domain,” in Proceedings of International Conference on Advances in Stochastic Modelling and Data Analysis (ASMDA ’07), pp 1275–1281, Chania Crete, Greece, May-June 2007 [24] F Argenti and L Alparone, ... Neighborhoods of coefficients at adjacent positions (intrascale dependence) and scales (interscale dependence) are modeled as the product of two independent random variables: a Gaussian vector anda hidden ... to a higher value of local variance is richer than the frequency content ofa class that corresponds to a smaller value of local variance So, for the fusion ofa class corresponding to a smaller...
... took part in data acquisition, made the statistical analysisand interpretation of data, and helped drafting the manuscript OS and HL took part in revising the manuscript critically for important ... calcaneus and first metatarsal head The distance between the floor and the line in standing position between the markers on calcaneus and first metatarsal were added afterwards ND was calculated ... primarily based upon 3-D video analysis By the introduction of VSA we have demonstrated that a 2-D video system can be at least as reliable as the multiple camera systems in the traditional 3-D analysis...
... spray and point inoculations, disease assessments and detached leaf assays and normal light and SEM microscopy analysis GB carried out Bd root inoculations and CLSM analysisof root tissues and participated ... plant model available, Arabidopsis thaliana, because it is ideally suited to laboratory studies and there are extensive genetic and genomic resources available [20] Floral and foliar bioassays ... participated to Bd detached leaf assays AS and PN took part in designing and supervising the study and participated in drafting the manuscript All authors have read and approved the final manuscript...
... has made important and substantial contributions to design, acquisition of data, analysisand interpretation of data and drafted the manuscript AP, AL, CK, TB, LR, JL and ML have made substantial ... substantial contributions to treatment of patients, acquisition of data, interpretation of data and revised the manuscript critically JW has made substantial contribution to acquisition of data andanalysis ... integrated battery for transport The membrane oxygenator (PLS-QuadroxD, Maquet-Cardiopulmonary-AG) is made of polymethylpentene, which avoids plasma-leakage and has a total gas exchange surface of...
... frequency and duration analysis The additional parameters required for such an analysis are the transition rates associated with the appropriate generating unit model The ERIS data base contains all ... Billinton and Allan ( ) that a three-state (UP, DOWN and one DERATED W N W Figure Three-state generating unit model Adequacy Assessment at Hierarchical Level I Generating capacity adequacy evaluation ... carrying capabilities ofa unit or asystemof units A detailed multistate model provides a more valid representation A generating unit can exist in a large number of derated states and therefore...
... from Ureaplasma parvum the following primers: F133N-fw (5¢-GATTTTTGTGGCT GGAACAGGAAACCCATATTTTACAACTGATTCG) and F133N-rv (5¢-CGAATCAGTTGTAAAATATGGGT TTCCTGTTCCAGCCACAAAAAT), with the altered ... bold and underlined The F13 3A mutation was created using the following primers: F133Afw (5¢-GTGGCTGGAACAGGAGCGCCATATTTTACA ACTGATTCG) and F13 3A- rv (5¢-CGAATCAGTTGTAA AATATGGCGCTCCTGTTCCAGCCAC) ... the lack of GTP activation [8] A comparison of UMPKs from U parvum, E coli and S solfataricus, chosen to represent mycoplasma, bacteria and archaea, showed that they all shared the same fold As...
... 5¢-CAAATTGGGGG CCCAGCAGCTGGGAAGTCTGAA-3¢ and 5¢-TTCAGA CTTCCCAGCTGCTGGGCCCCCAATTTG-3¢ for E19 9A, and 5¢-GAAGCTGGGAAGTCTGCACAGTCTGGAGCC AAG-3¢ and 5¢-CTTGGCTCCAGACTGTGCAGACTTCC CAGCTTC-3¢ for E20 4A ... 5¢-TTCGA GGCCCGCGCCGCAATTGGGGGCCCAGAA-3¢ and 5¢TTCTGGGCCCCCAATTGCGGCGCGGGCCTCGAA-3¢ for E19 0A, 5¢-ATTCCGGTTACTTTCGCGGCCCGCGC CCAAATT-3¢ and 5¢-AATTTGGGCGCGGGCCGCGA AAGTAACCGGAAT-3¢ for E19 0A, 5¢-CAAATTGGGGG ... thyroglobulin (mass of 669 kDa) and apoferritin (mass of 443 kDa) (Fig 4), with an average molecular mass of 613 ± 185 kDa, as calculated from the standard curve (not shown), corresponding to an average...
... (Stratagene, La Jolla, CA, USA) The primers used were: 5¢-TATATCATTCA GGATTATTTGTATCTTTTAGAATACGCTAAGGTG-3 ¢ (forward, the mutagenesis codon underlined) and 5¢-TT AGCGTATTCTAAAAGATACAAATAATCCTGAATGA ... protease aprE, at the transcriptional level [6] and, for that reason, TenA is often classified as ‘putative transcriptional regulator’ (http:// au.expasy.org/) A comparative analysisof several fully ... human gastric mucosa It has been associated with the development of several diseases, such as chronic gastritis, gastric and duodenal ulcer, gastric adenocarcinoma and mucosa-associated lymphoma...
... grade Purification of smelt AFP Blood plasma was obtained from a population of rainbow smelt (O mordax) caught in seawater along the northeastern coast of Newfoundland on 20 February 1997 and stored ... band corresponded to the gradual increase in intensity ofa higher-molecular-mass band The apparent molecular mass of this band was 38 kDa, which is substantially higher than the molecular mass ... was also analyzed on the same column and found to have a molecular mass of 41 kDa, which also indicates dimer formation (not shown) Fig HPLC gel-filtration analysisof smelt AFP Smelt AFP was applied...
... were used as controls 2.4 Gel retardation analysisA DNA fragment used for gel retardation analysis containing a sequence from the 5’-untranslated region of GS 1a was obtained by cleavage with ... infiltration of adult Arabidopsis thaliana plants, CR Acad Sci Paris, Life Sciences 816 (1993) 1194–1199 [6] Cánovas F.M., Cantón F.R., Gallardo F., Garc a- Gutiérrez A. , de Vicente A. , Accumulation ... obtained in the gel retardation assay The 173 bp long AT–1 fragment (starting at –720 bp) formed a complex that migrated more slowly than free DNA and that was not seen in the absence of nuclear...
... phases - that is, lag, early, mid, and late exponential and early and late stationary phases With these data, investigators should be able to obtain a dynamic picture of protein occupancy for ... supercoiling - a global transcriptional regulator for enterobacterial growth? Nat Rev Microbiol 2005, 3:157-169 Ali Azam T, Iwata A, Nishimura A, Ueda S, Ishihama A: Growth phase-dependent variation in ... E: Functional consequences of improved structural information on bacterial nucleoids Res Microbiol 1991, 142:229-238 Vora T, Hottes AK, Tavazoie S: Protein occupancy landscape ofa bacterial...
... we added 20 μM of IAA, GA, kinetin, and ACC and 50 μM of JA to 1/2 MS MS plates and processed them the same way All of the chemicals were purchased from Duchefa Biochemie except IAA (Sigma Aldrich) ... we PCR-amplified the genomic DNA with specifically designed dCAPS primers 5’- ccgcttcgttgctaacgttagatctaagct-3’ (forward) and 5’-ccagttaagattggtacagttacttaaacc-3’ (reverse), to generate a HindⅢ ... bri1 mutant alleles are dispersed in both an extracellular domain anda cytoplasmic kinase domain [4,16] The extracellular domain of BRI1 consists of LRRs anda 70-amino acid island containing unique...
... M, Kamegaya Y, Yokomori H, Han JY, Akiba Y, Nakamura M, Ishii H, Tsuchiya M: Roles of plasma membrane Ca++ – ATPase in the relaxation and contraction of hepatic sinusoidal endothelial fenestrae ... hepatocellular carcinoma Arch Pathol Lab Med 1987, 111:174-180 Ichida T, Hata K, Yamada S, Hatano T, Miyagiwa M, Miyabayashi C, Matsui S, Wisse E: Subcellular abnormalities of liver sinusoidal ... Madarame T, Masuda T, Suzuki A, Satodate R, Suzuki K, Sato S: Ultrastructural features of the vascular channel of human and experimentally induced hepatocellular carcinoma In: Cells of the Hepatic Sinusoid...
... Farré and Casado, 2001; Laroux et al., 2001), atherosclerosis and other cardiovascular disorders, inflammation and chronic inflammation (Laroux et al., 2001; Latha and Babu, 2001), burns (Latha ... structure, as structure and function go hand in hand Decades of effort using X-ray crystallography and NMR have produced thousands of protein and complex with binding partner structures and these ... and post ischemic e.g., damage to skin, heart, brain, kidney, liver, and intestinal tract pathologies (Sasaki and Joh, 2007) Table I.1: A partial list of diseases that have been linked to reactive...
... Rajagopalan N, Nirthanan S, Bertrand D, Sivaraman J and Kini RM., Structuralandfunctional characterization ofa novel homodimeric three-finger neurotoxin from the venom of Ophiophagus hannah ... Chun Shin Foo, Nandhakishore Rajagopalan, Selvanayagam Nirthanan, Daniel Bertrand, J Sivaraman, R Manjunatha Kini ; The 24th Annual Symposium of the Protein Society San Diego, USA, August - 5, 2010 ... delivery apparatus like the fangs in the venomous snakes Living snakes are found on every continent except for Antarctica and few islands such as Ireland, Iceland, andNew Zealand (Conant and Collins,...