... heme and warfarin, and the secondary ibuprofen-binding site (Fig 1) Results and Discussion Dynamics and hydration of tHSA Fig Heme (Protein Data Bank entry: 1O9X [22]), warfarin (Protein Data Bank ... propertiesof truncated albumin 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 G Fanali et al changes and role of buried water molecules during the sulfane sulfur transfer in Rhodanese from Azotobacter vinelandii: ... Allosteric propertiesof truncated albumin G Fanali et al Ibuprofen, a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory agent, and warfarin, a coumarinic anticoagulant drug, are considered to be stereotypical ligands...
... mixture oftype II andtype IV collagenases andtype XIV protease (SigmaAldrich), and inoculated onto dishes precoated with a mixture of gelatin, fibronectin, and laminin [33] HEK293 cells were transfected ... for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals published by the US National Institutes of Health Care and use of the animals were also in strict accordance with the guiding principles of the Physiological ... supported by a grant-in-aid for scientific research (19590251, 19659355) from the Ministry of Education, Science, Sports, and Culture of Japan, and by Health and Labor Sciences research grants (H15-PHYSI-001,...
... azogelatin assay at 40 °C and pH 3.6, 4.1, 4.5, 5.0 and 5.5 (Na acetate), pH 6.0, 6.5 and 6.9 (Na citrate), pH 6.9, 7.5, 7.9, 8.3, 8.7 and 9.1 (Tris/HCl) and pH 9.2, 9.6, 10.0 and 10.4 (Caps) All buffers ... buffer and 200-drop fractions were collected The absorbance values of these andof the chromatography fractions in subsequent steps were measured at 280 nm and their nonspeci®c proteinase and chymotrypsin/subtilisin-like ... preparations contained a Fig SDS/PAGE pattern of the puri®ed proteinase Lanes and 2: 0.5 and 1.5 lg of CM-HPLC puri®ed enzyme; lane 3: molecular mass standards protein of mass 28 663 50 Da Some puri®ed...
... structural and optical propertiesof GaSb/InGaAs type- II quantum dots grown on InP (100) substrate Zhang Shuhui1,2, Wang Lu*2, Shi Zhenwu2, Cui Yanxiang2, Tian Haitao2,3, Gao Huaiju2, Jia Haiqiang2, Wang ... spatial confinement of carriers in the QD and the nature of the direct transition type I transition It may be the reason that the PL intensity of the direct interband transition (type I) was strong ... (type- II) However, the high-energy peak in our work is almost independent of the excitation power which is a typical feature of the type- I band transition Therefore, the interband transition of...
... spectra of GaSb/InGaAs QD sample on InP substrate Dashed-dot and dashed lines show the PL spectra of type- II and type- I, respectively linear dependence of the PL peak energies and the third root of ... spatial confinement of carriers in the QD and the nature of the direct transition type I transition It may be the reason that the PL intensity of the direct interband transition (type I) was strong ... (type- II) However, the highenergy peak in our work is almost independent of the excitation power which is a typical feature of the type- I band transition Therefore, the interband transition of...
... spectra of GaSb/InGaAs QD sample on InP substrate Dashed-dot and dashed lines show the PL spectra of type- II and type- I, respectively linear dependence of the PL peak energies and the third root of ... spatial confinement of carriers in the QD and the nature of the direct transition type I transition It may be the reason that the PL intensity of the direct interband transition (type I) was strong ... (type- II) However, the highenergy peak in our work is almost independent of the excitation power which is a typical feature of the type- I band transition Therefore, the interband transition of...
... Wildtype hand bacteria Wildtype hand bacteria Wildtype hand bacteria Yeasts and filamentous fungi Aspergillus flavus QC 6658 Aspergillus fumigatus 27.5 Aspergillus niger 27.5 Candida albicans Candida ... mushrooms may have some antimicrobial properties, it was the aim of the current study to perform a microbiological assessment of both antibacterial and antifungal propertiesof Shiitake, as well ... markedly greater zones of inhibition This is the first report of extracts of shiitake mushroom displaying antipseudomonal properties in vitro and is of important clinical significance, as P aeruginosa...
... locally-dependent items andand use an eight-item version of the EDS However, given the results of our study, we believe that removing items and is not to be recommended MSA, CFA, and parametric IRT analyses ... Netherlands 2Department of Developmental and Clinical Psychology, Tilburg University, Tilburg, The Netherlands 3Department of Methodology and Statistics, Tilburg University, Tilburg, The Netherlands ... statistical analysis, writing the manuscript, and designing the tables; WE participated in statistical analysis and writing the manuscript; GN participated in data collection and preparation, and helped...
... made substantial contributions to conception and design, and to the analysis and interpretation of the data TRM and GWC handled acquisition of data All authors contributed to the manuscript revision ... diseases (DMARD) and with registry follow-up at one year, VARA and administrative data were used to create a gold standard and claims-based effectiveness algorithm The gold standard outcome was ... Ethnicity Caucasian, not Hispanic Non-Caucasian Hispanic Black, not Hispanic American Indian or Pacific Islander RA Drug Initiated Abatacept (5%) (3%) Adalimumab 74 (38%) 74 (24%) Etanercept 60 (31%)...
... many authors studied the performance of quantum refrigerator using ideal quantum Bose and Fermi gases [36-38] Bartana and Kosloff [39] and Wu et al [40] studied the thermodynamic performance of ... irreversibilities of heat resistance, internal friction and bypass heat leakage, and studied the optimal ecological performances of the quantum heat engines Besides performance of harmonic and spin-1/2 quantum ... working medium of the refrigerator The frequency of the thermal phonons of the hot and cold reservoirs are ωh and ωc , respectively, and the creation and annihilation operators of ˆ+ ˆ− ˆ+ ˆ−...
... Mechanical Engineering, in 2007, for the Faculty of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering under the Department of Plant and Automotive Engineering He is now the Head for Department of Plant and ... Maheswar D., Reddy K.V.K Comparision of diesel engine performance and emissions from neat and transesterified cotton seed oil Jordan Journal of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering 2009, 3, 190–197 ... denoted by JB5 and JB20 The propertiesof DF and JBD blends (JB5, JB20) were measured and determined by Samion [7] Table shows the propertiesof test fuels Table The propertiesof test fuels [7]...
... Interband Transitions in Quantum Wells 358 358 361 9.5 INDIRECT INTERBAND TRANSITIONS 364 9.6 INTRABAND TRANSITIONS 9.6.1 Intraband Transitions in Bulk Semiconductors 9.6.2 Intraband Transitions ... principles and actual devices Electronic and Optoelectronic Propertiesof Semiconductor Structures provides engineering and physics students and practitioners with complete and coherent coverage of key ... to understand the difference between metals, insulators, and semiconductors and how electrons respond to external forces in solids An understanding of electrons, holes, and carrier transport eventually...
... (511) and (440) These planes are indications of the presence of a spinel cubic structure The diffraction lines corresponding to a cubic, spinel -type and crystalline phase provides clear evidence of ... the wavelength of the X-ray, θ the angle between the incident and diffracted beams (degree) and d the particle size of the sample (nm) (in Table 1) 3.2 FT-IR spectroscopy The band wavenumber ... result in an increasing magnetic moment per formula of Ni1-xCoxFe2O4 and equivalently, an enhancement of magnetization [7].The dependence of saturation magnetization Ms as a function of Co2+ concentration...
... in Myanmar, 84% in Indonesia and 62% in Thailand (10) It was D N Fernando and R de A Seneviratna 14 Table Self-assessed "health status" by some psychosocial factors and indicators of use of health ... included: semi tandem stand, full tandem stand, rising from chair without using arms and shoulder external rotation (full) A younger member of the household present at the time of the interview ... prepare own meals and handle money A limited number of tests of physical performance for assessing the functioning of upper and lower extremities were carried out, using standard procedures These...
... lanes 2,3 and 4, lower band) The levels of mutant and wild -type MCPIP mRNAs were higher when these vectors were co-transfected with a vector overexpressing IL-1b (Fig 5, lanes and 4, upper bands) ... (endogenous and exogenous) starts degradation of IL-1b mRNA and also of its own transcript For this reason, the level of mRNA for the wildtype form of MCPIP and the level of mRNA for IL-1b (Fig 5A, lane ... vector, the level of mRNA for the mutant form of MCPIP was higher (Fig 5A, lane 4, upper band) than when wildtype MCPIP was co-transfected (Fig 5A, lane 3, upper band) At this stage of the study,...
... (2.8 A and 2.6 A) and Glu19 (2.7 A), and ˚ ˚ two water molecules (1.7 A and 1.9 A) (Fig 4E) In ˚ M5, the side chains of Asp76 (1.9 A) and Asp27 ˚ (2.4 A) of a symmetry-related molecule and four ... influence the transversal relaxation Conversely, two equivalents of the ion cause the shift and disappearance of several signals, without the concomitant appearance of any new resonance This anomalous ... Rearrangement of the Glu19 and Asp23 side chains influences the main chain of residues 19–22 and produces a rotation of the Leu21 and Trp88 side chains, which is coupled with a small but significant...
... albicans was time-dependent, reaching 92% after h and 98% after 18 h (Fig 5) Effect of NaCl and heparin on the antibacterial and antifungal activities of trappin-2 The antimicrobial and antifungal ... aureus and C albicans Heparin, at a heparin : trappin-2 ratio of 10, significantly decreased, but did not abolish, the antibacterial and antifungal activities of trappin-2 (Fig 7) These antifungal and ... dependence of the antimicrobial and antifungal effects Results Antimicrobial effects of recombinant wild -type trappin-2 and trappin-2 A62D ⁄ M63L We tested the antibacterial activity of trappin-2...
... denitrificans Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek 72, 219–228 14 van Spanning RJ, Wansell CW, Reijnders WN, Oltmann LF & Stouthamer AH (1990) Mutagenesis of the gene encoding amicyanin of Paracoccus denitrificans and ... (isosbestic point of PES) Observed rates were obtained by fitting to the standard single exponential expression TTQ reaction centre Analysis of wild -type and mutant forms of AADH with a range of substrates ... orf-4 and hemE) all putatively transcribed in the same direction [7] The second and fifth genes (aauA and aauB) encode the large and small subunits of AADH, respectively The genes aauD and aauE...
... and erythromycin Parabutoporin and opistoporin enhance the antibacterial activity of cefuroxime Mastoparan shows no synergism with any of the tested antibiotics against L monocytogenes None of ... testing of inhibition of superoxide production in human granulocytes Because inhibition of superoxide production by granulocytes has been reported for mastoparan [31], and because this is a fast and ... their antibacterial activity [20], parabutoporin and opistoporin were tested on Gramnegative and Gram-positive bacteria and their activity was compared with the activity of melittin and mastoparan...
... complexes of VIHN [11] and the DAHam complexes of Cu(II) and Ni(II) [31] were studied previously Tables and thus present only the novel data: protonation constants for DAHKam and VIHN, and stability ... Logarithmic values of *K and cK constants for model peptides and other XYH peptide analogues, representing the high-end and the low-end of anity series The values of constants were calculated ... Characterization of the copper (II) and nickel (II)-transport site of human serum albumin Studies of copper (II) and nickel (II) binding to peptide 124 of human serum albumin by 13C and 1H NMR spectroscopy...