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... exploited and converted to human-dominated land use and as such are no longer suitable habitat, and in predicting changes in species distributions associated with changes in land use and climate ... Conservation: A Handbook of Techniques Malcolm Ausden Conservation and Sustainable Use: A Handbook of Techniques E.J Milner-Gulland and J Marcus Rowcliffe Invasive Species Management: A Handbook of ... Principles and Techniques Mick N Clout and Peter A Williams Amphibian Ecology and Conservation: A Handbook of Techniques C Kenneth Dodd, Jr Insect Conservation: A Handbook of Approaches and Methods...

Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 17:20

... exploited and converted to human-dominated land use and as such are no longer suitable habitat, and in predicting changes in species distributions associated with changes in land use and climate ... Conservation: A Handbook of Techniques Malcolm Ausden Conservation and Sustainable Use: A Handbook of Techniques E.J Milner-Gulland and J Marcus Rowcliffe Invasive Species Management: A Handbook of ... Principles and Techniques Mick N Clout and Peter A Williams Amphibian Ecology and Conservation: A Handbook of Techniques C Kenneth Dodd, Jr Insect Conservation: A Handbook of Approaches and Methods...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 18:20

... fragility and oxidative damage of erythrocytes of zinc-deficient rats J Nutr 1997; 127: 1290–1296 Lajos N, Miki N, Sandor S Protein and non-protein sulfhydryls and disulfides in gastric mucosa and ... TCA and resuspended in 1.0 ml of M HCl for blank and M HCl containing 2% 2,4dinitrophenyl hydrazine After incubation for h at 37°C, protein samples were washed with alcohol and ethyl acetate, and ... gluteraldehyde Aldehyde was drained and rinsed times each of in phosphate buffer and post-fixed in osmium tetroxide for h After this, the samples were rinsed in distilled water and then dehydrated using...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 11:40

... helped thousands of students and clients get more out of their computers in areas from DOS to Windows Vista, as well as (X)HTML and Web development Working for clients and students — and just out ... differential, and full backups Windows Home Server presents backup and restore functionality in a manner that provides a sensible and usable default experience, and also offers flexibility to handle ... Accessing Files and Computers”: Windows Home Server provides a great deal of capability for remotely accessing files and computers, and Chapter 11 shows the reader how to configure and use this...

Ngày tải lên: 01/01/2014, 16:48

... to alter their health risks, and that health and educational professionals must mount new efforts to develop culturally appropriate and sensitive health programs and educational materials But, ... breast and colon cancers), cerebrovascular disease (hypertension and stroke), and non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (NIDDM) (National Center for Health Statistics, 1993) McGinnis and Foege ... use health messages, programs, and approaches based on white, middle-class values and culture, and then wondered why they were not enthusiastically embraced Research and educational efforts must...

Ngày tải lên: 13/02/2014, 08:20

... proportional random selection of primary and secondary sampling units (towns and sections, respectively), with the final units (individuals) being selected by means of random routes and sex- and age-based ... health status, co-morbidity, and lifestyle-related habits associated with LTPA and physical fitness in older people; and, 3) to analyze time trends in prevalence of LTPA and physical fitness in the ... sleeping > hours per day and those sleeping < hours per day Statistical analysis In this study we analyzed physical activity and physical fitness separately for men and women and we excluded respondents...

Ngày tải lên: 14/02/2014, 06:20

... both XBS and XAN involved in substrate interaction were selected based on the crystal structures of XBS and XAN soaked with xylotetraose and xylopentaose, respectively [12] (Fig 1), and were ... = 9.76 · 10)10 M and AzU = 50.8 · 10)10 M and for the wild-type XAN, X6U = 1.02 · 10)10 M, XyU = 7.72 · 10)10 M and AzU = 9.65 · 10)10 M for the activity on X6, Xylazyme AX and Azo-wheat AX, ... xylanases and other glycoside hydrolases will need to be determined Materials and methods Materials All chemicals, solvents and reagents were purchased from Sigma-Aldrich (Bornem, Belgium) and are...

Ngày tải lên: 14/02/2014, 19:20

... 38-kDa and 19-kDa proteins were mixed and subjected to nondenaturing PAGE, these proteins comigrated with each other, showing a broad protein band that differed from the respective original bands and ... time-dependent enhancement of the 57-kDa band with a concomitant diminution of the 38-kDa and 19-kDa bands, as analyzed by SDS ⁄ PAGE (Fig 3A) The 38-kDa and 19-kDa bands did not disappear completely ... wild-type 37-kDa mature form were incubated at pH and 50 °C for 10 and then subjected to SDS ⁄ PAGE, the 19-kDa band disappeared, whereas the 37-kDa band remained (Fig 2C) During the course of our...

Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 07:20

... Padgett, W.L., Oshunleti, O., Daly, J.W & Kirk, K.L (2000) Syntheses of (R )and (S)-2- and 6-fluoronorepinephrine and (R)- and (S)-2- and 6-fluoroepinephrine: effect of stereochemistry on fluorine-induced ... and Leu23, which are displaced ˚  0.5 A with respect to inhibitors 1–5 2- and 3-Fluorobenzyloxy side groups The mono-substituted inhibitors and are fluoro-substituted in the ortho (2-fluoro) and ... Bubendorf, Switzerland) The measurements were performed in 96-well plates with a Fluoroscan plate reader (Labsystems, Helsinki, Finland) Excitation and emission wavelengths were 355 nm and 500 nm, respectively...

Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 16:20

... 100 and 128 are highly conserved among serpins (F119 and F147, respectively, in a1PI) [2] and buried in the hydrophobic interface between hF and b-sheet A (Fig 5) The substrate behaviour and ... lgÆmL)1 ampicillin and 34 lgÆmL)1 chloramphenicol and incubated overnight at room temperature The cultures were diluted : 20 and incubated at 37 °C until a D600 between 0.7 and 0.9 A final concentration ... Na2HPO4) and opened with sonication The bacterial lysates were cleared by centrifugation (15 000 g, 30 min) and filtration (0.22 lm), supplemented with M NaCl, 10 mM imidazole and 5% glycerol, and...

Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 11:20

... exhibited a comparable pattern of bands, although two bands of 60 and 150 kDa strongly visible at 10 months (lane 1) were absent at 27 months, and an important band of 70 kDa (lane 2) emerged in ... intense signals of 70 and 50 kDa, while the bands at 60 and 150 kDa vanished With oxyblot (Fig 4C), antibodies stained carbonylated proteins mainly in band ranges of 30–60 and 70–120 kDa at 10 ... from 10-month-old (lane 1) and from 27-month-old rats (lane 2) Standard molecular masses (lane 3) The arrow and arrowhead show the disappearance and appearance of bands, respectively Ó FEBS...

Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 11:20

... Kdo, and tetrasaccharide 1-monophosphate (TS 1-MP) One-dimensional 1H- and 31P-, and two-dimensional homo- (1H,1H-DQF-COSY) and heteronuclear (1H,13C-,1H,31P-HMQC) NMR spectroscopy (Figs and 6) and ... I Goroncy, H Luthje and V ¨ Susott for technical assistance and S Kusumoto (Osaka/Japan) for lipid A (compound 506) and L Hawkins (North Andover, MA USA) for compound B1233 and for reading the ... C18:0, C20:0 and 3-OH-C20:0 MALDI-MS and ESI-MS analysis As a first step in the structural analysis, LPS and de-Oacylated LPS of C trachomatis serotype E was analyzed by MALDI-TOF and ESI-FT-ICR...

Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 23:20

... based on their effects on stability and activity parameters of RNase-A Functional stability and activity by osmolytes Results and Discussion Protein stability and enzyme activity have a well-correlated ... Fig (see also Table 1) that sugars and methylamines affect both the thermodynamic (DGD°) and the kinetic (Km and kcat) properties, whereas polyols, amino acids and amino acid derivatives not have ... xylitol, adonitol, mannitol) and amino acids and derivatives (glycine, alanine, proline, serine, lysine, b-alanine and taurine) that have no significant effects on both DGD° and kcat (b) Class II represents...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 00:20

... polyacrylamide gel in denaturing and reducing conditions, and by western blotting (A) Coomassie-stained bands of isolated Hpt (lane 1), standard ApoE (lane 2), standard ApoA-I (lane 3), and partially purified ... HRP-conjugated avidin and ECL Coomassiestained bands of VLDL and LDL proteins are shown in lanes and 2, respectively VLDL and LDL proteins, blotted onto the PVDF membrane and incubated with biotinylated ... anti-Hpt IgG and rabbit anti-goat HRP-conjugated IgG Two bands, reacting with the antibodies and with the molecular masses of b and a2 (41 and 21 kDa, respectively), were detected (Fig 4, lanes and 6)...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 00:20

... co-improvement in stability and activity For example, the T1 ⁄ values for AS4 and AS6 were 6.7 and 11.2 °C higher, respectively, and the catalytic activities were improved by 2.8- and 2.0-fold, respectively ... wild-type protein and two mutants, AS4 and AS7, were purified to homogeneity with purification yields of over 40%, and investigated for their stability and activity at temperatures between 40 and 80 °C ... stability and catalytic activity of S toebii TPL Materials and methods Materials Sodium pyruvate and PLP were obtained from Musashino Shoji (Tokyo, Japan) and Fluka (Seelze, Germany), respectively, and...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 00:20

... food and drug biosynthesis applications; (g) enzyme immobilization may increase heat stability and therefore, improve biocatalyst performance; and (h) protein engineering by rational design and ... hydrophilicities and charges at given environmental conditions, such as temperature, concentration, ionic strength and pH Thus, the diverse chemical and physical properties of proteins and surfaces ... understanding of structural differences between hyperthermozymes and their mesophilic and thermophilic homologs, as well as the effect of immobilization on their structural rearrangement and resulting...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 05:20

... ATPase domain and C-terminal helix [36] showing the location of residues that were mutated The TRP, RDF and DEL sequences are shown in green, dark blue and red, respectively The b domain and C-terminal ... adjacent ATPase domains of a ring and consists of three highly conserved motifs One ATPase domain contributes the Walker A and B motifs that mediate nucleotide binding and hydrolysis respectively, ... ATPase domain incorporating a structure rich in b strands (b domain), an N-terminal microtubule interacting and trafficking (MIT) domain [28–30] and a final C-terminal a helix [31] In previous studies,...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 05:20

... screening Error-prone PCR and DNA shuffling were separately used to create a randomized library of protein variants based on the Q143A hMnSOD template One hundred and fifty thousand QC774 transformants ... cloning site of the vector by digestion with NcoI and PstI This vector backbone was excised from an agarose gel and purified For both standard and error-prone PCR amplification of hMnSOD genes, ... grant GM54903 (DS) and National Science Foundation CAREER Award Bes-0348107 (HZ) We thank Patrick Quint and Diane Cabelli for help with kinetics, and Chingkuang Tu for assistance and helpful discussion...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 11:20

... blue and red, respectively The BIR2 and BIR3 domains are shown in green The dashed yellow lines connect the ATIF peptides of each AFP monomer and the IBM-interacting grooves of the BIR2 and BIR3 ... cell lines and tissues has shown that many tumor cell lines and tissues have constitutively higher levels of active caspase and free cytochrome c in the absence of apoptotic stimuli and yet are ... cord serum using ion-exchange, affinity and gel-filtration chromatography as described previously [27] The purity and homogeneity of the protein were assessed by SDS ⁄ PAGE and western blotting with...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 12:20

... expression and purification The 44/750 variant was expressed in large quantities in spinner flasks and purified by a combination of ionexchange chromatography, Lentil-Lectin Sepharose chromatography and ... both in cell lysates and conditioned media, and the results are summarized in Fig and Table 2, respectively Of the 13 variants, only 274/587 (the putative catalytic domain) and 274/750 (the polypeptide ... CuSO4 Three days later, the cells and conditioned media were harvested and processed as described in the Materials and methods Conditioned media were dialyzed and concentrated, if desired Carboxypeptidase...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 15:20