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... letters (A and B), whereas the small t peptides are designated by lower case letters (a and b), so that the wild-type AChE and BChE are Aa and Bb, and the chimeras are Ab and Ba Comparisons of wild-type ... between human AChE and BChE The T variants of human AChE and human BChE are composed of a catalytic domain of approximately 500 residues, followed by small C-terminal t peptides of 40 and 41 residues, ... processing and the activity of AChE and BChE, notably those involving charged residues, the presence in peptide b of an additional tryptophan (W8) and the presence of six instead of five residues...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 03:20

... both in shape and in dimension to the fibrils of hTTR and sbTTR formed by heating The thick and straight morphology of heat-induced fibrils of hTTR, sbTTR and ecTRP is similar to that of amyloid fibrils ... Stability and fibril formation of TTR and TRP Fig DSC profiles of hTTR, sbTTR, and ecTRP The melting temperatures (Tm) were 97.8 °C for hTTR, 93.0 °C for sbTTR, and 66.7 °C for ecTRP Fig Analysis of tetramer ... samples, at any of the pH intervals tested (pH 2.0–12.0; data not shown) The white scale bar is 500 nm (B) EM images of fibrils of hTTR (a) and sbTTR (b) incubated at pH 4.5 (C) CR staining of hTTR incubated...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 01:20

... Jửrg, Field and Brants, the criminal justice systems of England and Wales and the Netherlands are typical examples of adversarial and inquisitorial systems, respectively.4 The English and American ... involve the interrogation and defence of the accused, the hearing and discussion of the evidence of witnesses, the examination of all of the facts and the assessment of the evidence Further, it ... influential of the European legal systems, namely England, France and Germany, the laws of, and developments in, many other countries including Austria, Belgium, Italy, Scotland and Switzerland will...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 03:20

... long as months Each L of culture medium contained 3±5 mg of 4sugOff17/455/481/486 BChED Puri®cation of 4sugOff17/455/481/486 BChED Units of activity are expressed as lmoles of substrate hydrolyzed ... The purity of the ®nal enzyme preparation was estimated to be greater than 98% based on its speci®c activity and the presence of a single band on SDS/PAGE Characterization of 4sugOff17/455/481/486 ... concentration of 6.6 mgámL)1 from a 0.1-M Mes buffer solution, pH 6.5 at 20 °C, containing 2.05±2.15 M (NH4)2SO4 (Fluka) and using drops of lL and a protein to reservoir ratio of : (v/v) Crystals...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 11:20

... to bind within each guanine, to form intrastrand and interstrand bifunctional and monofunctional adducts, etc Some of the proposed binding places of studied oligomers possessing a high affinity ... shoulder of Tel-1 is probably due to the co-existence of both parallel and antiparallel G4 structures in K+ solution [3,23] The CD pattern of Tel-1 is similar to the CD pattern of d(TAGGGTTAGGGT) and ... When the amount of platinum complexes achieves a molar ratio of four molecules per oligonucleotide, then the same effect is observed as for Tel-1 and Tel-2; the decrease of amplitude of the characteristic...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 06:20

... subunitsubunit interaction and substrate cooperativity of human m-NAD-ME Results Kinetic parameters of the human wild-type and E59 mutant m-NAD-MEs The kinetic parameters of the wild-type and E59 mutant ... Km,NAD and K0.5,Malate values of E59D were 2-fold and 4.4-fold higher, respectively, than that of the wild-type Furthermore, the kcat value of E59 mutant enzymes was only one-third to one-quarter of ... properties of residue 59 seem to have a great impact on the allosteric regulation of ME Activation constants of the human wild-type and E59 mutant m-NAD-MEs The activation constants of the wild-type and...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 06:20

... properties of grammars In R D Luce, R R Bush, and E Galanter, eds., H~ndbook of Mathematical Psychology If John Wiley Chomsky, N (1981) Knowledge of language: its elements and origins Phil Trans of ... thousand symbols that could appear in the ~ and ~ strings, then the vocabulary of recursive nonterminals would have to be increased in proportion (The second clause in the definition of profligacy ... cumbersome and inelegant form of grammar might well have to be accepted A CF-PSG offers, in some cases at least, an appallingly inelegant hypothesis as to the proper description of such a language, and...

Ngày tải lên: 24/03/2014, 01:21

... human cancer, through the development and progression of several types of malignant tumor An essential role of uPA and c-met in the migration and proliferation of human hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) ... uPA and c-met Fig Expression determination of mature miR-23b, uPA and c-met in human normal and HCC-derived cells (A) Real-time RT-PCR detection of miR-23b, uPA and c-met mRNAs The amounts of ... levels of miR-23b and of uPA and c-met AB2 control cells, which did not express uPA and c-met, displayed a high level of miR-23b, whereas the most aggressive HCC cells, which produced high levels of...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 23:20

... 0.56, with a maximum of 0.61 in liver and a minimum of 0.44 in testis The average correlation between the Gene Atlas and RNA-sequencing data is 0.27 and between Gene Atlas and Exon Array data ... Atlas and RNA-sequencing as well as the Gene Atlas and the Exon Array, the average correlation is 0.31 in both cases, with a minimum of 0.23 (muscle) and a maximum of 0.39 (cerebellum), and a ... detection sensitivity of the Gene Atlas has Figure Histogram of the numbers of present and absent protein interactions in each tissue The two leftmost bars show presence and absence according...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 01:20

... transcription of TLR2, TLR4, TLR5 and TLR9 Methods Isolation and culture of cells Human monocytes and neutrophils were isolated from EDTA-anticoagulated peripheral venous blood of normal human ... variety of tissues.[16, 17, 22, 23] This study examined the expression of TLR2, TLR4, TLR5, and TLR9 in normal primary human professional phagocytes Constitutive expression of TLR2, TLR4, and TLR9 ... Relative constitutive expression of neutrophil TLR2, TLR4, TLR5, and TLR9 expressed as percentages of monocyte expression of these TLRs in normal human monocytes and neutrophils mRNA was prepared...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 16:23

... phosphorylation status of Akt and ERK for stage III cells There was a baseline of Akt and ERK phosphorylation without adding ECM FN and LAM increased phosphorylation of Akt and ERK, and LAM had greater ... conception and design, collection and assembly of data, data analysis and interpretation, and manuscript writing, LLC assisted with collection and assembly of data, data analysis and interpretation, ... Page of 10 FN and LAM-induced enhancement of IPC differentiation depends on Akt and ERK activation To examine the involvement of Akt and ERK activation in enhancing IPC differentiation by FN and...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 05:21

... global molecular profiling in the skeletal muscle of cancer patients and relate our findings to clinical status Page of 12 Methods Men and non-pregnant women over 18 years of age were recruited ... analysis (Table and Figure 2; Supplemental figure in Additional data file 3) Candidate gene approach: analysis of FOXO transcription factors and components of the ubiquitin proteasome and autophagy ... subjects and that of correlated negatively with it Validation of these genes by qRT-PCR provided excellent technical confirmation of the microarray results Biological validation of TIE1 and CaMKIIβ...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 12:20

... Reverse transcription was performed by standard procedures, starting from 100 ng of total RNA of each cell batch and using a mixture of oligo(dT) and random hexamers Amplification assays were ... This, and the elimination of cDNA preparations that display prominent bands on gels (indicative of the selective amplification of particular mRNAs), results in a normalization process and allows ... made of repeated segments of about 25 amino acids The amino acid composition of FLG2 is very similar to that of filaggrin, with a high content of serine (22%), glycine (20%), histidine (10%) and...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 07:21

... improve the performance of dodecylmaltoside, variation of ionic strength and pH, and addition of glycerol, lipid, and ligands were investigated [16,19,27,51] Solubilization of the H1 receptor in ... of their widespread physiological relevance, relatively little is known about structure and receptor–ligand interactions of the histamine receptors Elucidation of the structure and dynamics of ... fragmentation of the receptor was observed, initially without loss of ligand binding capacity It has been reported before that limited fragmentation of GPCRs can occur without loss of ligand binding...

Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 14:20

... components When profiling the transcriptome of thousands of samples from different tissues and different conditions, the subtle variations within the same class of samples give way to the grand differences ... skin and gastrointestinal organs, Page of 11 human and mouse data clustered side by side on both X and Y axis (Figure 3) Within such tissue clusters of human and mouse, while the same tissue of ... patterns of human-mouse orthologs are conserved The cross-species conservation of expression profiles of tissue-specific genes and housekeeping genes is the foundation for the similar landscapes of...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 22:23

... peptide, we required the presence of an MS3 spectrum and a combined score for MS2 and MS3 of above 43 These criteria formally correspond to a level of false positives of p = 0.01 × 0.05 = 0.0005 or ... transmembrane regions, and alternative splicing, and allows analysis of biological function and cellular roles Results of Protein Center analysis, including the occurrence of proteins in one, two, ... subclass of enzymes is composed of seven protein kinases and nine phosphatases The next largest groups of proteins are 55 transporter proteins and 51 structural molecules (each comprising almost 6% of...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 16:21

... globular adiponectin and the C- terminus of GLP-1-A through the linker, which could make the N-terminus of GLP-1-A and the C-terminus of gAdiponectin be free and interact productively with their ... the C-terminus of GLP-1-A Compared with native GLP-1, the fusion protein has a modified site and larger molecular size, and may circumvent the rapid inactivation and renal clearance of GLP-1 Studies ... sonicated and centrifuged to separate the supernatant and inclusion body Part of the production was applied to 12% SDS–PAGE analysis and Western blot analysis (A) SDS-PAGE analysis: Most of the...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 11:10

... Eight AN rats and 20 SD rats were used for the study of BMP4, and 16 AN rats and 21 SD rats for the study of BMP6 Animal protocols were approved by the University of Virginia Animal Use and Research ... (Lanes 1, and 3), BstXI (Lanes 4, 5, and 6), and BglII plus EcoRV (Lanes 7, 8, and 9) M, 1-kb DNA ladder Lanes 1, 4, and 7, 293A cells; Lanes 2, 5, and 8, ADrBMP6 DNA; Lanes 3, 6, and 9, ADhBMP6 ... electrophoresis and cloned into the EcoRV site of pShuttleCMV after having been blunted with T4 DNA polymerase The purified rat BMP4 and BMP6 PCR products and the recombinant plasmids of pShuttle-rBMP4 and...

Ngày tải lên: 31/10/2012, 17:08

... knowledge A better understanding of friction and wear could save an enormous amount of energy and money, which would be positive for economy and ecology On the other hand, friction is not only ... results of moving a probe of known Miller surface of a perfect crystal and calculate how energy is generated in the various phonon modes of the crystal as a function of time.” From another point of ... pressures of about 1.5 GPa Generally, the pressures in nanoscale contacts can be much higher than the bulk yield pressure and of the order of magnitude of the theoretical yield pressure of defect-free...

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