... was not due to acontaminant. These studies show that the pattern ofbinding of polyanions to FSAP is identical to thepattern of their ability to activate FSAP.Polyanions as co-factors for the ... independently of any co-factor [16],PAI-1 is known to require heparin as a co-factor forinhibition of some of its targets such as thrombin[28]. The co-factor effect of heparin is due to achange in the ... inhibitor was used, this was added togetherwith FSAP to the plates with and without polyanionicco-factor 30 min before adding the chromogenic substrate.Characterization of FSAP–inhibitor interactionusing...
... catalytically inactive GnT-IIIin Huh6 cells, a hepatoblastoma cell lineIn order to determine whether a catalytically inactive GnT-III mutant serves a dominantnegative function by prevent-ing the action ... thought that dominant negatively acting molecules involve competitionwith the c orresponding endogenous wild-type molecules.Such competition could also occur in the case of the dominant negative ... Although themechanism of a ction of the dominantnegative mutant is notyet known, an understanding of this mechanism could lead to the discovery of a novel regulatory mechanism forglycosyltransferase...
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... produce liver metastases in two ways. The most frequent and rapid spread is due to exfoliated cells that are implanted into the surface of the abdominal or-gans, which correspond toliver implants ... ranges between 51 to 62 years. The disease-free period prior to the hepatectomy was between 29 to 48 months. Sixty-five percent are single lesions. In 37.5% - 90% hepatectomy was associated ... varied, measuring 1 to 18 cm. The margin of liver resection was R0 in 50% to 100%. Morbidity ranges from 0% to 21% with a mortality of 0%. The recurrence rate was 50 to 80%. Average actuarial...
... resources(customers) as appliances in value-creation processes. Role of customer The customer is the recipient ofgoods. Marketers do things to customers; they segment them,penetrate them, distribute to ... propositions. Firm–customer interaction The customer is an operand resource.Customers are acted on to createtransactions with resources. The customer is primarily an operantresource. Customers are activeparticipants ... marketing, in which the purpose ofthe firm is not to make and sell (Haeckel 1999) units of out-put but to provide customized services to customers andother organizations, the role of manufacturing...
... transmembraneGia-protein-coupled receptor such as FPR or FPRL-1[19]. Pretreatment with pertussis toxin (PTX) – a s pecificinhibitor of Gia-protein-coupled receptors – prior to the onset of the chemotactic ... Gram -negative bacteria,DRS-DA4 only exhibited direct antibacterial activityon Gram -negative bacteria, together with perturbationof the inner membrane against of Gram -negative àLaboratoire ... mitogen-activated protein kinase; MIC, minimum inhibitory concentration; MLV, multilamellar liposome vesicle; PMN,polymorphonuclear; PTX, pertussis toxin; SDF1-a, stromal cell-derived factor...
... formationbetween factor(s) present in normal and regeneratingrat liver with the )148 to )124 region ofc-junIn order to establish w hether the factors p resent in rRNE-dbind to the )148 to )124 region ... protein; NF-jun, nuclear factor-jun;NF-jB, nuclear factor-jB; RLjunRP, rat liver jun regulatory protein;rRLjunRP, r egenerating rat liver jun regulatory protein; RNE-d, rat liver nuclear extract-fraction ... proliferating liver, whichrecognize this element have been identified. The f actorsbinding to this region are in addition to the already knownregulatory factors that mediate induction response to growth...
... hypoxaemia from hepatopulmonary syndromewithout any other liver complication requiring liver transplan-tation at 25 years of age. She was found with macrovesicularsteatosis on protocol liver biopsy ... areneeded to accurately identify those children who are more likely to progress to end-stage liver disease.Interestingly, the two patients in our cohort who underwent liver transplantation had hepatopulmonary ... of other liver diseases based onstandard clinical, laboratory, imaging and/or liver biopsyfeatures. Laboratory tests to rule out other liver diseasesincluded a viral hepatitis panel (for hepatitis...
... as cytoplasmicproteins, as well as cytokines or ligands to cell surface receptors. We sug-gest that this fusion design is the most efficient way to prepare a BNC thatdelivers proteins to specific ... appears to be the most efficient way to prepare a BNC to conveyforeign proteins. Thus, fusing a suitable protein to thetail should be a convenient way of preparing a BNCthat delivers proteins to ... Bio-nanocapsules for protein deliveryFEBS Journal 272 (2005) 3651–3660 ª 2005 FEBS 3659viral vectors in humans. By contrast, liposomes as adrug delivery vector have no limits to mass productionand...
... indi-cated the factor to be 40 kDa and to bind to its recognitionsequence as a dimer.Keywords:c-jun; DNA–protein interaction; in vitro tran-scription; rat liver positive regulatory factor; transcriptionalregulation.Elucidation ... innormal rat liver. The positive regulatory factor interactingwith this region was purified to homogeneity and the cDNAcloning of the gene encoding this factor is in progress to helpin understanding ... positive regulatory factorfrom normal rat liver that activates transcription from thec-jun promoter by binding to the )148 to )124 region ofc-jun. Preincubation of fractionated rat liver nuclear...
... Gonza´lez-Rioja is indebted to the Departamento deIndustria, Comercio y Turismo and the Departamentode Educacio´n, Universidades e Investigacio´n (Gobi-erno Vasco) for a predoctoral fellowship.References1 ... alternativeintrinsic fluorophore. Indeed, Tyr81 (according to themaize numbering) fluorescence had been previouslyused to monitor lipid biding to ns-LTPmaize[11],ns-LTPbarley[33] and ns-LTPwheat[30,34,35].As ... 1structure compared to the basic surface ofns-LTPmaize(Fig. 2A,B). This seems to be a commonfeature of allergens in that they appear to containmore charged residues compared to their non-allergiccounterparts.The...
... inhibitors, andthe concentration was adjusted to 167 UÆmL)1. The suspen-sion was added to 4 vol. of buffer A containing 625 mmNaCl, protease inhibitors and a 1 ⁄ 25 vol. of 2-mercapto-ethanol. ... containing protease inhibitors, followed byadjustment of the volume to 500 UÆmL)1. The suspensionwas added to an equal volume of 40 mm Mes ⁄ KCl, pH 6.0,4% (v ⁄ v) Triton X-100, 0.6 m KCl, 20% ... proportion of thisprotein is localized to the nucleus to interact with nuc-lear actin needs to be examined.Group D contains a protein that appears to be acontaminant from peroxisomes as mentioned...
... expressed as a “bag-of-documents” vector. In this approach, wecompute the centroids of these vectors, onecorresponding to positive words and anothercorresponding tonegative words. This yieldsa ... ConvergenceUpdating F,G,S using the rules above leads to anasymptotic convergence to a local minima. Thiscan be proved using arguments similar to (Dinget al., 2006). We outline the proof of correctnessfor ... Centervsindhw@us.ibm.comAbstractSentiment classification refers to the taskof automatically identifying whether agiven piece of text expresses positive or negative opinion towards a subject at hand.The proliferation...