... syndiotactic isomer (C) this is best achieved in the helical form However, although the helical syndiotactic structure (C) is favored over the linear isotactic structure (A) the energy difference is much ... Department of Chemistry at Southern Methodist University in 2010 Research interests include polymerization techniques, functional materials, coordination chemistry, catalysis, and the chemistry of hypervalent ... stereochemistry of the penultimate unit of the polymer chain into account when predicting the stereochemistry; further ab initio testing of this result is currently underway Figure Isotactic...
... problem After stripping the mid-span section, the attenuation disappeared - thus isolating the problem to the fiber sub-unit alone Although this, in itself, provided a potential field solution–stripping ... entire length of sub-unit material was both labor-intensive and risky to the fiber As a result, ADC set out to establish a craftfriendly procedure that would simplify the solution to the problem ... of the enclosure panel This prevents movement during any future maintenance activity Final Notes Ribbon cable is not susceptible to the same low temperature attenuation issue since the ribbon strands...
... catalytic histidine, H438(440) The persistence of activity in the presence of the protonated form of the catalytic histidine is inconsistent with the generally accepted mechanism for hydrolysis by ... The term k is the observed rate, kA is the limiting rate at high pH, kH is the rate for singly protonated form, kH2 is the limiting rate at low pH (zero in this case), K2 is the dissociation ... presence of excess BTC, BuChE is active even though H438 is protonated The existence of substantial activity for BuChE when the catalytic histidine is protonated is an unprecedented observation,...
... protonation of the distal His64 in Ngb is responsible for the pH-dependent changes in the oxygen affinity of this protein [10] Discussion Conformational stability of Ngb In this study, the conformational ... whereas the pH1 ⁄ displayed by Ngb is 3.3 (Fig 5A) It was recently shown that, at slightly acidic pH values, substitution of the distal His residue in Ngb shifts the heme ligation mechanism of Ngb towards ... revealed loss of the typical hexacoordinated His–Fe–His heme environment and indicated the presence of an ironcoordinated water molecule (His–Fe–H2O) On this basis, we used the H64Q mutant of Ngb to...
... equatorial area (Fig 6E,G), which suggests that this cell is entering mitosis and that duplication of basal bodies at the dorsal surface requires the disassembly of dorsal cilia In mitotic E focardii ... sequences at these locations, consistent with the possibility that the functions of the single c-tubulin found in most organisms may be partitioned between the two protistan isotypes Together, our results ... of the dorsal surface during cell division in E focardii is associated, perhaps causally, with disassembly of the equatorial cilia and their microtubules It is tempting to speculate that the ciliary...
... Can J Fish Aquat Sci Vol 56, 1999 sis is consistent with our preliminary analysis (Myers et al 1996) The common belief that there is no relationship between spawner biomass and recruitment is founded ... assistance We thank the hundreds of assessment biologists whose hard work made this metaanalysis possible Special thanks to Pamela Mace whose input was key to developing these ideas This paper is ... parameters is β The unknown vector β consists of the overall mean µ and the pβi s The vector β is related to y by the known model matrix X, whose elements are 0, 1, and Si,t ; the form of this matrix is...
... explored at all for this application or, in general, for gaseous phase applications In this respect, the novelty of this work is a detailed investigation of various TiO2 nanotubes, consisting of either ... consists of a quartz reactor (cutoff < 200 nm) where the photocatalyst bed is placed on quartz wool The reactor is 50 mm height, its diameter is 20 mm and the quartz wool support height is around ... analysis confirmed, the crystal size for anatase in TiO2-NT1 is similar to that of rutile in TiO2-NT3, thus the crystal size is not responsible for the observed difference This observation is even...
... Biochemistry 33, 106±115 35 Chen, Y.H., Yang, J.T & Martinez, H.M (1972) Determination of the secondary structure of proteins by circular dichroism and optical rotatory dispersion Biochemistry ... relatively more exposed to solvent However at pH 2.0 there is a decrease in the ¯uorescence emission intensity with a slight blue shift (% 3±4 nm) This blue-shifted ¯uorescence of stem bromelain at pH ... of stem bromelain is irreversible Fluorescence and CD data support the involvement of an intermediate state at pH 2.0 This state retains considerable secondary structure and is characterized by...
... of the 25 °C activity (data not shown) This is surprising, considering the fact that the protein displayed approximately 30% ATPase activity at °C This suggests that the DNA strand separation ... Consistent with this, the present study demonstrates that D323N and E324Q mutants of P syringae RecD not display ATPase and helicase activities in vitro However, a surprising finding here is that ... this study for stimulation of ATPase and preparation of various helicase substrates for RecD Table S2 Primers used in this study for cloning and mutagenesis of P syringae recD This material is...
... construction as its structure, as observed by NMR (unpublished results), is similar to that found in other members of the HPr family and the His6-tag is disordered in solution, making no contacts with ... the curves cannot be superimposed This is classical evidence of the accumulation of an equilibrium intermediate [46] It is worth mentioning here that this is the first time such an intermediate ... technical assistance This work was supported by Projects GV-00-024-5, and CTIDIB/2002/6 from Generalitat Valenciana; Project BIO2000-1081, from the Spanish Ministry of Science; and FIS01/0004-02...
... exhibited no Mn-particle peak This result indicates that Mn was dispersed uniformly within Al-SBA-16-MA15%, whereas it was poorly dispersed in Al-SBA-16-MN15%, and Mn oxides existed as large-sized particles ... Al-incorporated sample is hereafter referred to as Al-SBA-16 The amount of Mn impregnated using Mn(NO ) (98%, Aldrich, St Louis, MO, USA) and Mn(CH3COO)2 (> 99%, Aldrich, St Louis, MO, USA) as the ... the ozone conversion In this study, the gas-phase reaction of benzene with ozone was shown to be negligible Results and discussion Characterization of Al-SBA-16 Table lists the textural properties...
... respectively The visible emission is related to the defects-related deep level emission such as oxygen vacancies and Ni interstitials Finally, there are a weak and a broad visible emission band at ... °C This synthetic technique has the following advantages: firstly, it is a one-step synthesis approach, making it easy to control the growth kinetics Secondly, the synthesis needs no sophisticated ... and the analysis in the NiO nanoparticles/nanoflowers indicates an atomic ratio of 86% Ni and 14% O, which is very near to the theoretical value (7% error is attributed to the analysis technique)...
... performance at low SNR is poorer than that of the noncooperative scheme To solve this issue, we introduce the adaptive AF strategy where the choice of a transmission scheme is based on the channel ... of this new adaptive AF strategy is to evaluate the qualities of the three schemes (SISO, AF, and NLOS) and to select the best of them Generalization to the N-relay case S and destination D is ... the adaptive AF strategy is to consider all possible transmission schemes and decide which one to select In order to better understand this strategy, the one-relay case is detailed, before the...
... development of Arabidopsis cold acclimation is discussed Results Physiological consequences of the cold treatments on Arabidopsis photosynthetic apparatus Eight-week old Arabidopsis plants were transferred ... Transcription of nuclear genes is also known to be orchestrated by photosynthesis products [3,4] A wealth of global gene expression data is now available from Arabidopsis plants exposed to various ... Arabidopsis leaves after four thylakoid proteins isolated Phosphothreonine-immunoblot ofdifferent treatments Figure Phosphothreonine-immunoblot of thylakoid proteins isolated from Arabidopsis leaves...
... for genetic analysis in lieu of the hybrid Similar to the results with the hybrid, four regions of the root tip with distinctly different elongation characteristics were distinguished (Figure 1; ... of the latter might involve genes for secondary wall synthesis [10] To experimentally make this distinction a third pair-wise comparison (C2/3) was included to compare expression of genes between ... ether, (3) in membrane lipid synthesis, (4) in raffinose synthesis, (5) in UDP-sugar synthesis, and (6) in phytate and phosphoinositide synthesis [26] Nitrogen metabolism Transcripts for a putative...
... Distilled water Tris HCl, 10 mM, pH 7.3 Distilled water 15 hr min o/nc 30 37°C 37°C RTd 95°C 37°C RTd PBS a The aim of this step is to eliminate proteins within the section which could otherwise ... highly statistically significant (p < 0.0001, Mann-Whitney test) and consistent with published intracellular vector DNA profiles assessed by quantitative Southern blotting [4] This is, to our ... DNA Flap is a cis-acting DNA motif that is implicated in HIV-1 nuclear import The inhibition of nuclear import in the absence of this motif, although not absolute, points to a mechanistic implication...
... environments is easily accomplished That is, we consider BW in the low density environment to be a different trait from BW in the high density environment, allowing for the establishment of a ... selection for BW is practiced in this type of environment, a further understanding of the effects on genetic correlations of BW with other traits within this type of environment is necessary In ... corresponding unknown fixed effects, gj is modeled as the additive genetic, polygenic contribution to BW, and ej is the corresponding unknown residual The distribution of the unobservable additive...