... method as per procedures stated by Takabatake et al (2002) Ten milliliter of activated-sludge-mixed liquor collected fromthe activated sludge reactor was lyophilized After the addition of 2mL of ... in PHA These standards were also digested and analyzed by gas chromatography Methyl benzoate was used as the internal standard The PHA content in dry sludge weight was calculated by dividing PHA ... 2mL of chloroform and acidified methanol (10% sulfuric acid with around 100mg /L of benzoic acid), the content in the tube was mixed well, and was digested at 100°C for day in a sealed test tube...
... reclaimed land andthe water discharged fromthe farms may have affected the results of this study Tetracycline degrading ability was exhibited by of 15 colonies of resistant bacteria isolated from ... 7.2 and 0.72 mL sample volumes andof samples with the 0.072 mL sample volume The density of tetracycline-degrading bacteria in the Unoke River samples was calculated to be 6.9 MPN/mL The density ... samples (1, 5, and 10 mg /L) , all deionized water samples, and Unoke River water samples (5 and 10 mg /L) , after dof incubation However, the density decreased in all rain water samples and the...
... andL J Sandlin ofthe Hartselle Water Treatment Plant maintained and operated the sampling equipment Some ofthe work was performed under the direction of Dr H J Webb under the provisions of ... elutriated through a sodium sulfate column This solution was transferred to a florisil column andthe residue elutriated with mixed ethers ( 15% diethyl and 85% petroleum), The ethers were volatilized ... the characteristics ofthe compound, the soil, andthe rate of application (Lichtenstein and Schulz 19598) Generally, BHC is much less stable in soils than DDT or toxaphene (Chisholm and Kublitsky...
... as SDS and LAS bind to the surface regions of protein, andthe surface regions would be unfolded and removed fromthe core structure ofthe enzyme slowly Then the scissile bonds concealed by the ... Thermostability (Tm: mid point in the thermally induced transition fromthe folded to the unfolded state) of wild-type ALP I, Sendai and D2 66N/Y269A-ALP I were estimated by differential scanning calorimetry ... respectively The green dotted lines indicate calculated hydrogen bonds (A) Wild-type ALP I (B) D2 66N-ALP I (C) Y269A-ALP I (D) D2 66N/Y269A-ALP I depend on the population ofthe amino acid alignment...
... the tricarboxylic acid cycle andthe glyoxylate cycle are catalyzed by differentially compartmentalized isoenzymes, analogous to the chloroplast cytosol isoenzymes involved in the Calvin cycle ... and mechanistically related steps in the tricarboxylic acid cycle and leucine biosynthesis are catalyzed by related enzymesThe evolutionary trees of class II NADP-ICDH (Fig 2C) and NAD-ICDH plus ... MATERIALS AND METHODS Amino-acid sequences for individual plant tricarboxylic acid cycle and glyoxylate cycle enzymesand their constituent subunits were extracted fromthe databases and compared...
... wonder whether the donor allele ofthe 5¢ part is the F allele or another allele belonging to the same B allelic lineage (excluding B1 and C), as they share the same simplified haplotype formula, up ... (C9LM*) which allows both the F and M alleles to be discriminated from all the others (Fig 8, Step IA) These two alleles will be subsequently distinguished after a second amplification which allows ... to alleles associated with high (black) or reduced (red) amounts of casein synthesized The M allele is derived from allele W by a single nucleotide transition CfiT (nucleotide 23/exon 9) leading...
... procedures An aliquot of solubilized TBY-2 mitochondria was depleted of free avins and other low molecular mass molecules by ultraltration procedures (B) Solubilized (dotted line) or ultraltered ... (Deventer, The Netherlands) Cell culture TBY-2 cells were routinely propagated and cultured at 27 C, essentially as described in [13] Protoplast, mitochondria and plastid preparation Protoplasts ... FMN and FAD contents of supernatants and pellets were measured in aliquots (580 lL) of neutralized perchloric acid extracts by means of HPLC (Gilson HPLC system including a model 306 pump and a...
... relatively low sample size of our study may have reduced the probability of picking up MDR cases and additionally, the two are different in coverage, one being nationwide andthe other localized ... study revealed relatively low levels of any resistance to first-line drugs (8.8%) in Ndola, and for the first time systematically investigated and documented absence of resistance to second-line drugs ... Switzerland, 4th edition, 2008 [10] S A Petroff., “A new and rapid method for the isolation and cultivation of tubercle bacilli directly form the sputum and feces,” The Journal of Experimental Medicine,...
... NADH, NAD, a-glucosidase, a -D- glucopyranoside, oxaloacetate, insulin, subtilisin, dimethyl sulfoxide, phenylmethylsulfonyl fluoride and dithiothreitol were obtained from Sigma Chemical Co (St Louis, ... enzymesfrom its fully denatured states In the present refolding study, the model substrate enzymes used were LDH, a-glucosidase and MDH Under the present experimental conditions (as described under ... coding sequence fromthe adult rat tau cDNA encoding the full-length 4R rat tau [25] was subcloned into the NdeI site ofthe pET-3c vector and introduced into BL21 (DE3) cells For a more detailed...
... due to the heterogeneity ofthe content of multilocular cells in different regions of a given WAT depot [11] Ten days of cold-exposure increased the number of multilocular cells and induced the ... 10-day cold exposure, however, induced the emergence of UCP1 expression in WAT multilocular cells Figure 2A and B show multilocular cells and UCP1 positive multilocular cells in WT and b3KO mouse ... C57BL/6J wild-type (WT) (A) and b3KO (B) mice exposed to °C for 10 days Note the presence of multilocular cells andof UCP1 positive multilocular cells Bar, 31.74 lm The mean area ofthe adipocytes...
... Metabolism Wiley, London Fell, D (1997) Understanding the Control of Metabolism Portland Press Ltd, London Cornish-Bowden, A (1995) Fundamentals of Enzyme Kinetics Portland Press Ltd, London Jungermann, ... glucose and low quasi-steady-state concentrations of glycerol resulted in the simultaneous occurrence of glycolysis from glucose and gluconeogenesis fromthe added glycerol The rate of carbohydrate ... glucose pool gave the advantage of reducing the likelihood of glucose, newly formed from glycerol, being subsequently glycolysed In the absence of added glucose, about 90% ofthe glycerol taken up was...
... to disrupt the mitochondrial membranes [25] The absorbance change was calibrated by addition of standard aliquots of Ca2+ to the medium A standard curve was obtained fromthe pooled results of ... mitochondrial Ca2+ content and increase of CsA-sensitive permeability to sucrose ofthe mitochondria isolated fromthe residual liver mass Analysis ofthe structural and functional state of mitochondria ... reconstitutes the original mass ofthe liver [1,2] The residual hepatocytes re-enter the cell cycle while the normal homeostatic mechanisms that couple cell cycle re-entry to cell death are suspended [29,30]...
... material The [3H]fucose-1-P was eluted with mL of 250 mM NH4HCO3 The eluate (400 lL) was counted with liquid scintillation and luminescence counter (Wallac Trilux, Turku, Finland) Cloning of GDP -L- fucose ... previous studies [21,23] The wide expression oftheenzymes involved in the salvage pathway of GDP -L- fucose can also be deduced fromthe large amount of data available from different EST libraries ... elucidated, thus futher studies are needed Acknowledgements We thank Tuula Kallioinen and Sirkka-Liisa Kauranen for skilled technical assistance in molecular biology, and Kati Venalainen and ¨ ¨ Leena...
... that the Kursk collided with another vessel in the Barents Sea, and usually blame an unspecified foreign submarine All 118 officers and sailors aboard were killed The Russian governmental commission ... al, 2005; Katz and Lin 2003) The syntactic dependency relations of a candidate sentence are matched against the syntactic dependency relations in the question in order to decide if the candidate ... knowledge resource The LCC system (Moldovan & Rus, 2001; Harabagiu et al 2004) uses a logic prover to select answer from related passages With the aid of extended WordNet and knowledge base, the...
... study CL collected the data CL and TP performed statistical analysis and drafted the manuscript All authors revised the manuscript critically and approved the final manuscript Acknowledgements The ... consulted andthe committee considered this study not liable for formal approval as only staff members participated andthe study was part ofthe hospitals internal actions to initiate Page of ... 1.1 million inhabitants The unit consists of wards with a total number of 21 beds One ofthe wards (ward F) is specialised to serve offenders with learning (intellectual) disabilities The other...
... Methods, and individual colonies were picked and re-amplified Lane represents the homoduplex (HD) control and represents the probe hybridized to itself Lane represents the heteroduplex profile ofthe ... patients, following institutional and trial specified IRB regulations The design and conduct ofthe HALT-C trial have been described [21] Briefly, in the initial or lead-in course of therapy, all patients ... amplified by both Taq and HF-2 enzymesThe first lane of each gel represents the homoduplex probe control, obtained by hybridizing the radiolabeled probe to its non-labeled self The homoduplex...
... manuscript and performed the statistical analyses, TWP designed the study protocol and coordinated the data collection All authors read and approved the final manuscript Acknowledgements We would like ... femoral tunnel was drilled through the tibial tunnel The autograft was fixed with a poly L- lactic acid (PLLA) canulated interference screw at the proximal and distal point of graft (Linvatec, Largo, ... (KT-1000) andthe grade of OA (Kellgren and Fairbanks score ofthe operated knee, difference in Kellgren and Fairbanks score between operated and contralateral non operated knee) Table 5: Radiological...
... 1988) The flight activity started in the studied localities at the end of May or at the beginning of June depending on the actual weather C alpina flew first, followed by C erythrogaster and C ... morphologically as well as bionomically a very variable species The pale specimens significantly varied in size in the collected material There were also found big dark specimens mainly with dark dorsal ... (according to Vrška, Hort 2004) were found and traps were operated in both forest types in parallel (Table 1) The traps were installed fromthe end of April to the end of October and emptied in...