... Occurrence and Removal of Pharmaceuticals in Drinking Water Treatment Plants, J of Water and Waste, 50(7), 581-586 Simpson J M., Santo Domingo J W and Reasoner D J (2002) Microbial Source Tracking: ... dissolved in predetermined concentration in 100 mL of each water sample contained in an Erlenmeyer flask The flasks were plugged with silicon carbide porous plugs and incubated in the dark with shaking ... incubation, the colonies obtained on the plates were counted The colonies were inoculated in sterilized water samples containing 10 mg/L tetracycline and incubated with shaking at 20°C for d The samples...
... following: x = x0 cosϕ − (y0 cosθ − z0 sinθ) sinθ (7) y” = (x0 sinϕ +(y0 cosθ − z0 sinθ) cosϕ) cosθ + (y0 sinθ + z0 cosθ) sinθ (8) z” = − (x sinϕ +(y cosθ − z sinθ) cosϕ) sinθ + ° ° ° (9) (y0 sinθ ... geometry and the importance of physical contact have been defined, we can discuss issues concerning these properties in APC connectors in the outside plant The effort to maintain physical contact in ... uncoupled and the endface geometry was measured The average, maximum, and minimum permanent changes in fiber height are shown in Table Page Endface Geometry and Connector Reliability in the Outside Plant...
... auxin signaling contributes to induction of immune responses inplants (Bari and Jones 2009) Some of the plant glutathione S-transferases (GSTs) are induced by plant hormones auxins and cytokinins ... receiver domain and a long C-terminal part containing a single-repeat MYB-type DNAbinding domain (Sakai et al 1998) called a GARP domain (Riechmann et al 2000) and the proline- and glutamine-rich ... Furthermore, minimal binding domain of BRI1 was determined using binding assays and recombinant BRI1 fragments (Kinoshita et al 2005) In other plant species, it was also shown that mutations in BRI1...
... is invariantly co-ordinated by the above essential proximal histidine (Fig 4A,C,D) However, in all C-domains of catalase– peroxidases, there is a conserved arginine (Arg622 in HalomarCPc) in ... corresponding position, indicating that these domains lost their ability to co-ordinate the heme Further, a conserved tryptophan (Trp311 in HalomarCPn, Trp179 in PisusatAPX, and Trp191 in SacchceCCP) ... of coding sequences currently in the database may affect this value Interestingly, none of the known fungal genomic DNA sequences in which KatG is included (listed in Table 1) contain an intron,...
... higher plant, rice, using cDNA and recombinant proteins The results suggest that plant DNA Pol k is a DNA repair enzyme which functions inplant meristematic and meiotic tissues Materials and methods ... suggesting that the DNA polymerase activity of this enzyme may be important for plant cells On the other hand, the N-terminal BRCT domain proposed to mediate protein–protein interactions involved in ... participates in alignment-based gap filling for nonhomologous DNA end joining [33] Therefore, Pol k may participate not only in BER but also in DNA doublestrand break repair and meiosis, and Pol b and...
... GAL4 DNA-binding domain with CfEcR ligand-binding domain cloned under the control of the 35S promoter in the pKYLX80 vector A fusion of VP16 activation domain and LmRXR ligand-binding domain cloned ... germinating the seeds collected from the in ltrated plants on medium containing 50 mgÆL)1 kanamycin The analysis of transgenic plants for luciferase induction level was carried out on T2 and ... activity in the absence of ligand and lower induced luciferase activity in the presence of ligand The transgenic plants containing the CfEcR:LmRXR switch showed a similar meth- Time course studies in...
... position of a plant within an ecosystem, the density of the plant stand or, in case of algae, water depth and transparency [3–6] In the last few years many advances in our molecular understanding of ... the PQ–cyt b6f complex and ⁄ or the ferredoxin ⁄ thioredoxin system (Fig 3) The interplay between the kinases and their substrates integrates these varying redox signals and initiates appropriate ... forests, and leaf area index values of 1–5 can be found in grasslands andin short-statured bushes [10] Thus, sunlight is absorbed, reflected or scattered to a great extent in all plant communities In...
... germinating the seeds collected from the in ltrated plants on a medium containing 50 mgÆL)1 kanamycin Resistant T1 plants surviving on kanamycin-containing medium were transferred to soil and then ... methoxyfenozide treatments and compared with CaMV 35S:AtZFP11-overexpressing plantsand wildtype control plants Low AtZFP11 mRNA levels were observed in both Arabidopsis and tobacco transgenic plants constitutively ... levels recorded in the plants treated with 80 nm methoxyfenozide were 6.1-fold and 429.2-fold higher than in the 35S: AtZFP11-overexpressing plantsand wild-type Arabidopsis plants, respectively...
... attract insect pollinators, giving CYP77A6 an indirect role in reproduction It is possible that the introduction of in- chain hydroxyl allows cross-linking of cutin, leading to reticulation and strengthening ... metabolizing fatty acids inplants F Pinot and F Beisson established for yeast belonging to the genus Candida Members of the CYP52 family enable Candida maltosa to grow on media containing aliphatic ... development andplant defence More studies are needed to confirm and elucidate the physiological meanings of P450 metabolizing FAs inplants as well as in animals [59] and microorganisms [60] Concerning...
... BIOLOGY INTELLIGENCE UNIT TZFIRA • CITOVSKY MBIU Tzvi Tzfira and Vitaly Citovsky Nuclear Import and Export inPlantsand Animals Nuclear Import and Export inPlantsand Animals MOLECULAR BIOLOGY INTELLIGENCE ... The following gives an overview over the motifs mapped in different nuclear proteins, including transcription factors, DNA- and RNA-binding proteins, viral proteins, kinases, and kinase adapters ... transactivation domain, and a C-terminal steroid-binding domain While in these early studies the domain required for nuclear matrix attachment was localized to the C-terminal steroid binding domain in hAR,...
... falling in line with that of other fungal PPOs A.M Mayer / Phytochemistry 67 (2006) 2318–2331 Location and properties of PPO inplantsand fungi 4.1 Plant PPO An early report by Rathjen and Robinson ... is difficult Surprisingly, early work by Robinson and his co-workers indicate the presence of only a single PPO gene in grape vine (Dry and Robinson, 1994) 3.2 Methyl jasmonate and PPO The response ... absent in most plant PPO genes reported so far However, in banana an intron is also thought to be present (Gooding et al., 2001), and banana tissues contain at least four distinct genes coding for...
... (¼NH)-containing Heavy Metal Bindings and Their Interactions with Thiol Peptides amino acid that plays a central role in binding to and transport of Ni, especially in Ni-hyper-accumulating plants ... 20% less in transgenic plants than in wild-type plants The numbers of both long and short trichomes in the transgenic plants were 25% higher than in that of wild-type plants, indicating the active ... aquatic plants, and many higher plantsand their cell cultures (Inouhe 2005) In addition, overexpression of PCS genes efficiently increases the Cd-tolerance inplants as well as in yeast and bacteria...
... Stress inPlants – Mechanisms and Adaptations information for the dissection of the plant response to salinity and try to find future applications for ameliorating the impact of salinity on plants, ... understand the causes of chilling-induced photoinhibition (Hogewoning & Harbinson, 2007) The individual leaves were divided into a shaded zone and two illuminated, chilled zones Chilling up to d in ... photoinhibition in bean leaves was determined as changes in the Fv/Fm ratio and the images of the ratio are reported in Figure Initial values of Fv/Fm were 0.796, 0.784 and 0.741 for plants maintained in...
... inPlants carboxyterminal calmodulin-like domain containing EF-hand calcium-binding sites plus a N-terminal protein kinase domain (Cheng et al., 2002) Thus, the signaling pathways activated in ... enzymes involved in ROS detoxification inplants Also forward genetic screens have yielded significant insight into the metabolism and signalling in response to abiotic stress andin ROS signalling ... signaling inplants (Bari and Jones, 2009) The production of proteinase inhibitors (PIs) and other anti-nutritive compounds such as polyphenol oxidase (PPO), threonine deaminase (TD), leucine amino...
... DNA is rapidly evolving inplantsand animals, so adaptation of the major centromere DNAbinding proteins would maintain an interface with the conserved kinetochore machinery Indeed, regions of ... Characterization of internal DNA-binding and C-terminal dimerization domains of human centromere/kinetochore autoantigen CENP-C in vitro: role of DNA-binding and self-associating activities in kinetochore ... observed for the poorly mapped carboxy-terminal DNA-binding domain in our slidingwindow analysis, suggesting either that this DNA-binding domain is not evolving adaptively or that strong negative...
... evaporative demand (Tab V) Our results point to the dominant role of a tree hydraulic capacity in determining patterns of stomatal behaviour in spruce trees In addition to maintaining a long-term ... conductance andplant carbon gain [12] However, Niinemets [28] recently analyzed a huge amount of data on Picea abies (L.) Karst and Pinus sylvestris L., covering 126 stands of various height and age, and ... alone does not explain the decline in foliar photosynthetic rates with increasing tree age and size In addition to size-related changes in foliar morphology, stomatal conductance, and carboxylation...
... proteins differ inplantsand animals A subset of animal andplant START proteins contain an amino-terminal PH domain, which is found in a wide variety of eukaryotic proteins implicated in signaling ... activity and Goodpasture (GP) antigen binding affinity, two functions that involve the serine-rich domains In contrast, the plant PHSTART proteins contain a plant- specific carboxy-terminal domain (of ... START domains are also found in various multidomain proteins implicated in signal transduction [2], suggesting a regulatory role for START-domain proteins involving lipid/sterol binding To investigate...
... activity, indicating that neither process is constitutive Genomic arrangement of plantand animal miRNA genes In plants, most miRNA-encoding loci comprise independent, non-protein-coding transcription ... in plants, but one short hairpin intron in rice (MIR1429) generates specific miRNA/miRNA* reads indicative of mirtron processing [58] In addition to other types of Drosha-independent miRNAs in ... hairpin small RNA loci in plants, but they might conceivably play species-specific roles [70] However, as in Drosophila, artificial hairpins are useful for reverse genetics in plants, indicating...
... medicinal plants is generally avoided during pregnancy, but once the infant is born, both mother and infant use a variety of medicinal plants During interviews the preparation and use of 49 plant ... closest kin At the menstruation hut the mother helps herself to cook and boil water, and takes care of her infant The husband assists by collecting medicinal plantsand supplying food and water, ... inside and near heat, washing only with hot water, drinking hot drinks, eating hot food, and staying away from draughts [36] Confinement as a term is fairly broad and can include steam bath and...
... proteins reside or function in the NE remains to be determined In addition to their difference in size and SUN domain locations, these protein subfamilies are distinct in other interesting ways ... Figure Conservation of functional domains inplantand animal SUN-domain proteins Comparative diagrams of SUN-domain proteins depicting protein sizes and domain locations (see Table 2) The positions ... between plantsand animals and the importance of the NE inplant biology, knowledge of the plant NE proteome remains limited [20-23] SUN-Domain Proteins Are Highly Conserved SUN-domain proteins have...