... dehydrogenase and prephenate dehydratase catalyze the biosynthesis of tyrosine and phenylalanine, respectively As this biosynthetic pathway is absent in mammals but is essential for the survival of bacteria ... encodes an intracellular CM (MtCM) Sasso et al [5], Prakash et al [6] and Kim et al [7] have characterized *MtCM Kim et al [7] have shown that *MtCM has in fact an extracellular destination in M tuberculosis ... shown, with the TSA from EcCM marking the active site The approximate positions ofthe N-termini and C-termini are labeled inthe same color as the polypeptide chain The three helices are labeled...
... software program (QSR International, Cambridge, MA, USA) The data analysis team members will include the clinician investigators and members ofthe research staff trained in qualitative research ... of Year 2, a follow-up patient medical chart audit is used to examine changes in adherence to guidelines and patient clinical outcomes between baseline and Year and baseline and Year ofthe intervention ... Pfizer Canada indirectly through the Champlain Cardiovascular Disease Prevention Network, Canadian Institutes for Health Research, andThe Ottawa Hospital Academic Medical Organization’s Innovation...
... ofa public authority and was an unforgivable sign of disrespect and dissension, the ultimate betrayal of filial piety, of family and clan, and, above all, the betrayal ofthe principle of jang, ... plays a key role in understanding how science has taken on a particular foundational standing My aim in what follows is to examine the origins ofand examine the rationale for a self-image of science ... Chinese As Lloyd notes elsewhere, The extant remains of Egyptian and Babylonian medicine, mathematics and astronomy can be combed in vain for a single example ofa text where an individual author...
... to have migrated to Xinjiang along a northern drug trafficking route [26,28] CRF08 is a predominant subtype among intravenous drug users (IDUs) in Guangxi andthe east part ofthe Yunnan province ... from India, but not Africa as India has (Additional file 1, Fig S2B) Finally, the dominant South American C epidemic appears to have derived from a single introduction from Africa ([45,46] and Additional ... cover a full HIV-1 genome of each subtype, meaning that there was a potential to form any BF recombinants in Argentina and that there was no need to assume that already-recombined genomes came...
... operating parameters on the performance and thermal characteristics ofthe system Description ofthe multi- stage evacuated solar desalination system The Multi- stage evacuated solar desalination ... M .A. , Al-Karaghouli A. A., Minasian A. N Photochemically assisted solar desalination of saline water Desalination 1992, 86(3), 317–324 [4] Mowla D, Karimi G Mathematical modeling of solar still in ... for the maximum year round performance Each evaporator and condenser tray has an area of 1m2 inclined at an angle of 16o (a) (b) Figure Coupling of Multi- stage evacuated solar desalination system...
... Department of Biotechnology (Govt of India) for partial financial support The authors thank Dinesh Kumar for recording the scanning electron micrographs and Shivcharan Prasad and Pinakin Makwana for ... aggregation of a- synuclein inthe absence of any cellular machinery It has been proposed that the auto-oxidation product of dopamine interacts with protofibrillar a- synuclein and converts it into ... determined by the bicinchoninic acid assay [38] using bovine serum albumin as a standard protein The pooled eluate fractions were dialysed against water and then lyophilized Gel electrophoresis and immunoblotting...
... Gramnegative and Gram-positive bacteria and their activity was compared with the activity of melittin and mastoparan (Table 1) Parabutoporin inhibits the growth of all Gram-negative bacteria ... amino acids) [19], peptides consisting of amino acids 7–22 of parabutoporin (an a- helical part having the four amino acids LAKK identical to mastoparan) andofthe first 28 amino acids ofthe opistoporins ... parabutoporin, this could explain the higher antibacterial activity on Gram-negative bacteria for parabutoporin compared to opistoporin Also with magainin analogs, an increase in antibacterial activity...
... consists ofa federation of 11 states in Peninsular Malaysia andthe states of Sabah and Sarawak inthe north of Kalimantan Kuala Lumpur, the national capital, Labuan UNEP/SCS – National Report Malaysia ... Malacca The Straits of Singapore The Straits of Singapore The Straits of Malacca The South China Sea The South China Sea The Straits of Singapore The Straits of Malacca The South China Sea The Straits ... aim ofthe national report is to review existing information on the use of, and threats to, the Malaysian coastal and marine resources off the Straits of Malacca andthe adjacent waters ofthe Andaman...
... one band was amplified from each ofthe different samples and Southern blot analysis using the probe prepared with the lac1 primers also revealed a single band Furthermore, all of these generated ... XYL, FA and VA all induced extracellular laccase production in P sajor-caju and transcription levels of three laccase genes were increased by FA and XYL [5] Higher levels of laccase mRNA were also ... (Bio-Rad) The isoelectric point ofthe enzyme was determined with the Phastsystem using PhastGel IEF 3–9 operated for 410 Vh and standard pI markers (Pharmacia) The standard assay conducted in 0.1...
... (Forward) TAAGCTACTACGTAAAGAATATATC (Reverse) GATAAGGTACCTGCACTGACACGGATGAAAGC (Forward) CATATATTCTTTACGTAGTAGCTTA (Reverse) FEBS Journal 272 (2005) 4091–4102 ª 2005 FEBS 4099 Molecular characterization ... Vpr was fused in- frame with a Gal4 DNA-binding domain and used as bait inthe yeast expression vector pGBT9 The GAL-4 activation domain tagged brain cDNA library (gift from Dr Srinivasan, Thomas ... Molecular characterization of ANKHD1 splice variant studies blast searches of VBARP revealed that this protein has homology to human ankyrin repeat and KH domain containing 1(ANKHD1) variants, and...
... that the conformational space of b-amino acids is larger than that of a- amino acids, but low-energy conformations ofthe b-amino acids backbone, corresponding to gauche rotamers around the Ca–Cb ... previously introduced inthe sequence ofthe C-terminal heptapeptide of NKA, another peptide ofthe tachykinin family that binds the NK-1 and NK-2 receptors [HGly8] NKA(4–10) is as potent as NKA and [Ala8]NKA ... Ac-HGly-NHMe, Ac-b2-HAla-NHMe and Ac-b3-HAlaNHMe have been generated and compared to the canonical structures ofthe corresponding a- amino acid Ac-Gly-NHMe The corresponding SP analogues substituted in...
... solvent Inthe peptide, this amino acid can be favorably replaced by Ala We speculate that inthe absence ofthe ionic interaction inthe peptide, a small, uncharged amino acid such as Ala may reduce ... result in steric hindrance with the main-chain nitrogen atom of K389, damaging the shape ofthe loop The above spatial arrangement explains that the HNE epitope does not form a continuous stretch of ... low, in comparison to the binding with the mAbs BH216, BH21 and BH6, suggesting that antibodies may have been partially induced against the linear isoform ofthe HNE peptide Although the binding...
... 5¢-CCTGATCGACGCACGAGT-3¢ and GT1-R, 5¢-TTTTGCAAGTCATAGTAATCAGTTT-3¢ for GTcDNA1 (2150 bp); and GT2-F, 5¢-CACCAGCAACTAC CTGATCGA-3¢ and GT2-R, 5¢-CACAAAATATGCTT CCAAGTGC-3¢ for GT-cDNA2 (3043 bp) RNA isolation and ... the former (data not shown) Further analysis ofthe ORF showed that it encodes a putative polypeptide of 533 amino acids, with a predicted molecular mass of 57 kDa anda pI of 8.34 A database ... GT-cDNA1 and GT-cDNA The two putative polyadenylation sites (ATTAAA) are indicated by an upright arrow (›) (B) The exon/intron boundaries ofthe split codons for arginine (between exon and exon...
... except that SDS was excluded Proteins were stained with CBB, and cellulase was visualized by activity staining on the gel Inthe case of activity staining, the gel contained 0.1% (w/v) CMC andthe ... N-Terminal amino-acid sequencing analysis indicated that the mature protein of P hilaris cellulase was a truncated form, which lacked a signal peptide composed ofthe first 21 amino acids Therefore, ... for 30 to load an SDS/polyacrylamide gel The SDS/ PAGE analysis detected three proteins bands by CBB staining and one activity band by activity staining Proteins including cellulase activity were...
... this case, when the values of all the parameters ofthe set P are strictly equal to their counterparts inthe set p andthe values of all the parameters ofthe set N are strictly equal to their ... 1992), has a corollary (Wirgin, 2004): when the values of all the parameters, except PK ofthe set P are strictly equal to their counterparts inthe set p andthe values of all the parameters ofthe ... λ′′ , µ′ and µ′′ are real, scalar constants, with the understanding that primed quantities are related to the real part and double primed quantitites to the imaginary part ofa complex parameter...
... This analysis revealed (for both Ru and UK3 strains) the presence ofa galactose residue (the additional 162 Da) inthe material of peak (Fig 3A, B) and both galactose and fucose (the additional ... [23], and amino-acid analysis was carried out on a Hitachi-835 analyzer (Tokyo, Japan) inthe standard mode for protein hydrolysate analysis with cation-exchange separation and ninhydrin postcolumn ... derivatives (A) Analysis ofa blank sample (eluate fraction between peaks in chromatographic profile shown in Fig 3) (B) Analysis ofa standard mixture containing Glc, Gal, Man, Fuc, GlcNAc, GalNAc,...
... were then analyzed in two separate lanes ofa nondenaturing PAGE Unlabeled native pig tubulin was run ina third slot to locate the position of native dimeric tubulin The autoradiogram ofthe ... misfolded and unstable and therefore unable to interact with Cof A Thus, b-T1 does not acquire a native-like conformation following its interaction with cpn60, ina manner similar to mammalian actin and ... Inclan and Nogales [47] Arrows and rectangles indicate b-sheets and a- helices, respectively The labels ÔLÕ and ÔMÕ indicate residues involved in longitudinal and lateral contacts between tubulin...
... treatment with neuraminidase (as indicated by – and +, respectively) The sialylated tetrasaccharide-containing glycoforms are indicated by an asterisk All strains were grown on media containing ... importance in strains that lack a capsular structure, which in itself provides serum resistance Recent data from our laboratory indicate that the ability of acapsular strains of H in uenzae to elaborate ... identification and structural analysis ofa Sial-lNnT unit in H in uenzae LPS MATERIALS AND METHODS Bacterial strains and culture conditions The H in uenzae strain RM118 (Rd) is derived from the same source...
... corresponding page and again ina navigational menu bar that appears at the bottom of each page allowing the student to move to any area ofthe site The external links inthe Resources and Web Links page ... appropriateness of graphics and icons, clarity and quality of information, suitability of external links, and clarity and perceived motivating and discussion promoting characteristics ofthe learning ... Health Education via the Web: Design and Formative Evaluation Figure 4: An example ofa Submit Page inthe Web learning environment All five areas ofthe individual activities are available...