... discussed; iii) electron (hole)transport and optical propertiesof semiconductors and their heterostructures; and iv)behavior of electrons in small and disordered structures. As much as possible ... structure.Electronic and Optoelectronic Properties of Semiconductor StructuresJasprit SinghUniversity of Michigan, Ann Arbor1.3. Crystal Structure 11Structure of the electronic device Structure of the ... case of GaAs and InP the CZ technique has to face problems arisingfrom the very high pressures of As and P at the melting temperature of the compounds.Not only does the chamber have to withstand...
... high coercivity of materials, the second term can take part of several tens percent of HC and the last one whereas can only reach several hundreds of gauss. Thus, the increasing of Co-concentration ... to the increasing of anisotropy property of ferrites Ni1-xCoxFe2O4, hence it was the increasing of HC. The increasing of HC proved that the soft magnetic property of ferrite NiFe2O4 ... to increasing of total magnetization of a molecule Ni1-xCoxFe2O4 and hence there is increasing of MS (table 3). Another side, it is known that the magnetizing process of hard ferrite...
... has structural and functional propertiesof RNase and participates indegradation of IL-1b mRNADanuta Mizgalska1, Paulina We˛ grzyn1, Krzysztof Murzyn2, Aneta Kasza1, Aleksander Koj1,Jacek ... 2,3 and 4, lower band). The levels of mutant and wild-type MCPIP mRNAs were higher when thesevectors were co-transfected with a vector overexpress-ing IL-1b (Fig. 5, lanes 3 and 4, upper bands). ... regulation of mRNA stability in inflam-matory processes. These authors found that MCPIPhas RNase propertiesand regulates the stability of IL-6 and IL-12p40 mRNA [4]. MCPIP-dependent degrada-tion of...
... Araujo Soares RM (2006)Secretion of serine peptidase by a clinical strain of Candida albicans: influence of growth conditions and cleavage of human serum proteins and extracellularmatrix components. ... effect of a 5 lm concentration of trappin-2towards C. albicans was time-dependent, reaching 92%after 6 h and 98% after 18 h (Fig. 5).Effect of NaCl and heparin on the antibacterial and antifungal ... antibacterial ⁄ fungicidal propertiesof trappin-2involve the cationic nature of the molecule, as assessedfrom the salt and heparin dependence of the antimicro-bial and antifungal effects.ResultsAntimicrobial...
... detector and x-scan soft-ware (Applied Photophysics). Spectra were analysed and intermediates of the reaction identified by global analysis and numerical integration methods using prokin software(Applied ... orf-4 and hemE) all putatively transcribed in thesame direction [7]. The second and fifth genes (aauA and aauB) encode the large and small subunits of AADH, respectively. The genes aauD and aauE ... theexpected mass of the a subunit to 40 421 Da, which iswithin error of the measured mass of 40 422 Da.Stopped-flow studies of the reductivehalf-reaction of AADHStudies of the reductive half-reaction...
... inhibition of growth of N. crassa and fluorescence of SYTOX greencould be observed (Fig. 5B). Similar results were obtainedfor all combinations of peptides and fungi. This suggeststhat inhibition of ... most active,inhibiting 50% of growth of N. crassa and F. culmorum at aconcentration of 0.8 lM(3.9 lgÆmL)1) and having an IC50 of 2 lM(9.7 lgÆmL)1) for growth of the yeast S. cerevisiae.F. ... LPS of Gram-negative bacteria, enabling the disruption of the outermembrane and facilitating the interaction of the toxin withthe inner membrane. In the presence of high Mg2+ions, theMIC of...
... Bal1,21Faculty of Chemistry, University of Wroclaw, Poland;2Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences,Warsaw, PolandA comparative study of thermodynamic and kinetic aspects of ... DAHKam-Cu(II)(B) and DAHKam-Ni(II) (C), calculated for 0.5 mMconcentrations of peptides and metal ions. The intensities of CD bands of 4N complexes(constructed by adding intensities at extremes of d–d bands ... nterpretation and modelling of C u(II) and Ni(II)transport by albumins. On the other hand, the directthermodynamic and kinetic characterization of Ni(II)binding at site I in HSA and BSA was...
... characteristics and mechanical propertiesof bamboo. Dissertation, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Beijing, China. pp. 147. Yusoff, M.N.M, A. Abd.Kadir, and A.H. Mohamed. 1992. Utilization of bamboo ... SG and bending properties 41 Figure 3-10. Schematic diagram of bamboo cross section showing removal of outer layer (A) and removal of inner layer (B) … … 42 viyear old bamboo. Three and ... (3) contact angle of different layers, (4) moisture content, SG, and bending properties, along longitudinal and radial directions of one, three, and five year old bamboo and determine the correlation...
... existence of a 2-D hexagonal structure of a p6mm symmetry. The distance between two pore centres is about 6nm and the high wall thickness (6-7nm) is beneficial to thermal and hydrothermal stabilities ... activity and selectivity in the oxidation of glucose. When increasing the content of Pt loading, most Pt nanoparticles aggregated outside the channels of SBA-15 with size of 10-15nm and catalytic ... VNU Journal of Science, Natural Sciences and Technology 26 (2010) 183-190 183 Study on the characteristics and catalytic propertiesof Pt/SBA-15 in the selective oxidation of D-Glucose Tran...
... [20]:koff¼ðkoffð2ÞÂð½ibuprofen=ðK2½ibuprofenÞþðkoffð3ÞÂð½ibuprofen=ðK3½ibuprofenÞÞ þ kþoffð7Þwhere koff(2) and koff(3)indicate values of koffoccurring atK2< [ibuprofen] ... buffer) and 20.0 °C [20], in the absence and pres-ence of ibuprofen (final concentration, 1.0 · 10)7to1.0 · 10)2m). The excess of NO was pumped off gentlybefore recording of ligand dissociation ... atK2< [ibuprofen] < K3, and at K2< K3< [ibuprofen],respectively, and kþoffis the koffvalue obtained in theabsence of ibuprofen.Data analysisKinetic and thermodynamic data were...
... present analysis of enzymatic properties of ChiG, or by our analysis of the ChiG and ChiCstructures.Despite the deletion of the B-loop, the two putativecatalytic residues Glu68 and Glu77 are ... cell pelletwas resuspended in 15 mL of ice-cold spheroplast buffer(10 mL of 1 m Tris ⁄ HCl, pH 8.0, 17.1 g of sucrose,100 lL of 0.5 m EDTA, pH 8.0, and 200 lL of phenyl-Bacterial family 19 chitinase ... thatcatalyze the hydrolysis of chitin, a carbohydrate poly-mer of 1,4-b-linked GlcNAc. Chitin is found in thecuticle of insect shells, in shells of crustaceans, and inthe cell walls of many fungi, making...
... NdeI and BamHI and ligated into the expression vector pFLAG1 at the uniqueNdeI and BglII sites.Expression of HRPC in E. coli W31110, isolation of inclusion bodies, refolding and purification of ... strength of the Fe-Imbond but also the stability of the different oxidationstates. In fact, the potential sensitivity and dependence of enzyme properties on the structural characteristics of the ... a significant impacton the propertiesof His170. The strength of the hydro-gen bond between the proximal His and Asp residues, and thus the imidazolate character of the His is expec-ted to...
... Søren Andersen and ProfessorPeter Roepstorff (University of Southern Denmark,Odense) for recording the presented MALDI-TOF ⁄TOF spectrum, and Tove Olafsen and Anna M. Wu(University of California ... Buus2 and Inger Sandlie11 Department of Molecular Biosciences and Centre for Immune Regulation, University of Oslo, Norway2 Institute of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, University of Copenhagen, ... half-life of Fig. 4. Analysis of b2m and hFcRn HCs byMALDI-TOF MS prior to reduction of disulfide bonds (aliquot 1). Spectra wererecorded after iodoacetamide treatment and tryptic digestion of gel-separated...
... carbon to silicon and silicon monoxide, and then silicon reacts withiron to form FeSi2[18]. The second step is thatFeSi2is evaporated on the surface of the pellets and the thermalcouple to ... dividedinto monocentric and polycentric nucleation, and growth step into periodic stable growth and peri-odic unstable growth [19]. Thus the combination of dierent nucleation and growth processes ... dierent forms of SiONWs, which issimilar to the growth model of Si nanowires [20].The formation process of polyp-shaped SiONWsis considered to be due to the coexistence of monocentric and polycentric...
... effects of size and shape of Si-nc on theincorporation of group-III (B and Al), group-IV (C and Ge) and group-V (N and P) impurities. Single-doping has been investigatedboth in spherical and faceted-like ... FE and the electronic properties of the Si-nc are influenced by the insertion of more and more impurities. We call this insertion of several impuritiesmultidoping. Fig. 9 shows how the FE of ... that the electronic propertiesof B- and P-codopedSi-nc are qualitatively and quantitatively different from those of either B- or P- single-doped Si-nc. The presence of both a n and a pimpurity...