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... Environment of the Commission on the strategic direction of the CAFE programme The approaches to answering the questions were rather complex The procedure for preparing the report Health aspects of air ... The designations employed and the presentation of the material in this publication not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of the World Health Organization concerning the ... However, the results of the systematic review confirmed the existence of severe effects of PM and ozone on human health even at concentrations at the lower end of the current ranges Thus the objective...

Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 11:20

... hevamine, the oxygen atom of the N-acetyl group of the )1 sugar is positioned close to the C1 atom of the )1 sugar, and is hydrogen bonded to Tyr183 Asp125 makes a hydrogen bond to the nitrogen atom of ... substrate binding, as the Km value of the Tyr183Phe mutant hardly differs from that of the wild-type enzyme (Table 4), the Kcat value of this mutant has dropped by 80% (Table 4) From the structural ... away from the C1 atom of the )1 sugar (Fig 3) Apparently, as witnessed by the structure of the Asp125Ala/Glu127Ala mutant, the interaction with Tyr183 alone is not strong enough to keep the N-acetyl...

Ngày tải lên: 22/02/2014, 04:20

... when the first cold storm of the world sweeps over it, if the warm sunlight of love from the eyes of mother and father did not shine upon him like the soft reflection of divine light and love? The ... fall, so that only the tops of the trees and the peaks of the church steeples and the rising smoke from the houses defined the limits which separated the reality of the world from its reflection ... suggestions; to Prof Feuling, the eminent philologist, of the University of Wisconsin, for his literal version of the extracts from the "Deutsche Theologie," which preserve the quaintness of the original,...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 08:20

... necessity The most powerful of these Rajput chiefs was the Prince of Mewâr who had particularly attracted the attention of the Emperor by his support of the rebels The control of Mewâr rested upon the ... places, but declares at the bottom of page 135, "The reign of Akbar is one of the most important in the history of India; it is one of the most important in the history of the world"); Mountstuart ... devote themselves to his service, and, under the leadership of their own princes, proved themselves to be the best and truest soldiers of the imperial army, even far from their home in the farthest...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 12:20

... my hat and out darted one of the birds; then I lifted the hat from the other One of the females then rushed, apparently with notes of joy and congratulation, to one of the males, who gave her a ... variety of motion and attitude, from the peak of the barn or hay-shed As yet, you may have heard only the plaintive, homesick note of the bluebird, or the faint trill of the song sparrow; and the ... carry the head as if it were riveted to the body Not so the oven-bird, or the other birds that walk, as the cow-bunting, or the quail, or the crow They move the head forward with the movement of the...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 13:20

... inhibited the production of TNF-a by itself, i.e in the absence of Iris (data not shown) From these results, we conclude that the interaction site responsible for the anti-inflammatory effects of Iris ... contrast to the effect of rIris on fibrinolysis, an activity lost in the RCL mutant [21] This indepen3242 dence of the protease inhibitory activity of the anti-inflammatory activity of Iris was further ... ⁄ Pi The effect of these samples on cytokine production by PBMCs activated by LPS was then assessed as described above Prediction of interaction sites The prediction of binding sites from the...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 01:20

... inhibition of the PKC a, b1, b2, c, d, e and f isoform enzyme activity in the presence of the PKI55 protein and the derived peptides 5, and 9, all tested at a concentration of lM The data are the mean ... peptides The level of PKC a, b1, b2 and f isoforms was also studied Results Synthesis of peptides derived from PKI55 and their inhibitory effect on rat brain PKC A series of peptides was synthesized ... but acquired the ability to inhibit the e isoform, whereas peptide was only effective on the b1, e and f isoforms Interestingly, the inhibitory action of peptides and on the b1 isoform was found...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 05:20

... ‘nested PCR’, using the first PCR product as template To make use of the BamHI site in the vector and the XbaI site in the EhMGL1 gene, the product of the nested PCR was replaced with the corresponding ... Despite the heterogeneity of the EhMGL1 preparation used in the previous study [13], the kinetic constants of EhMGL1 in the present study largely agreed with the previous data, except that the relative ... Taken together, these findings suggest that EhMGL1 is responsible for the decomposition and the maintenance of the cellular concentrations of Met and Cys, whereas the physiological substrates of EhMGL2...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 05:20

... complexes, the assembly ensures the transfer of electrons from different sources to oxygen by the respiratory chain complexes and the coupling of proton uptake from the matrix compartment [28] The nature ... oxidation of the substrate DHO with the quinone cosubstrate was coupled to the reduction of the chromogen 2,6-dichloroindophenol The Km of DHO was determined by varying the concentration of DHO ... contact between the ubiquinone from the inner membrane and the active site of DHODH [23,27] Although there are some differences in processing and association in the organization of the fungal and...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 12:20

... and the first transmembrane domain (Fig 1B) Protein expression To verify that the constructs produce proteins of the expected masses, we attached the V5 epitope to the C terminus of the CRFR1 isoforms ... (Fig 2) The molecular mass (including tag) of these isoforms is listed in Table Thus, the mRNA from the alternatively spliced CRFR1 forms is translated into final protein products, which are the subject ... alpha isoform were similar for CRF and urocortin (Fig 3, Table 2) None of the other isoforms had any effect on cAMP accumulation when transfected alone with the exception of CRFR1h2 (Fig 3) In the...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 15:20

... to the instructions of the kit from Ambion (Austin, TX, USA) The cDNA mix was synthesized from poly(A)+ mRNA using M-MLV reverse transcriptase The cDNA was joined with the adaptor provided by the ... is from the a-ScTXs, the second is from the b-ScTXs Birtoxin is the shortest The depressant and the long-chain excitatory are in the last two lines The right columns indicate percentage of similarities ... to the a-ScTxs (data not shown) However, due to the uniqueness of its sequence, it branches independently of the other a-ScTxs Figure also shows that the core of the three disulfide bridges of...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 16:20

... coil of the C-terminal end of the protein (C-terminal to helix IV) (not shown) The long distance between these two residues in the predicted tertiary structure would prevent the formation of an ... conserved iron ligands: the three histidines and the first glutamate ⁄ glutamine of the motif When using multiple clustalx [9] alignments of the MCA0715-encoded protein with members of the Hr (Fig 4A) ... distantly to the members of both the eukaryotic Hr and MHr subfamilies (Fig 5) The highest similarity between members of the haemerythrin family and McHr was observed with the Hr alpha chain of Lingula...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 17:20

... as the number of web pages containing the words the and ’and’ matched On the basis of these, we then calculate the probability of a certain qualia element given a certain role on the basis of ... allow to find an ideal cut-off point to increase the precision/recall trade-off of the learned structures We have abstracted from the issue of finding the appropriate cut-off, leaving this for future ... clue c, the query c(n) is sent to the web search engine and the abstracts of the first m documents matching this query are downloaded Then the snippets are processed to find matches of the pattern...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 02:21

... assumes that the thiol group of Cys135 adds to C6 of the pyrimidine ring, favoring the exit of the aminic group The subsequent addition of a water molecule and the expulsion of the active cysteine ... identity and 51% similarity to the TenA protein from B subtilis The 3D structure of the monomer is quite similar to that of the other members of the TenA family of known structure: twelve a-helices, ... biosynthesis Scheme of the pathway for the synthesis of thiamin in H pylori, based on the genes coding for enzymes potentially involved in thiamin biosynthesis identified to date The substrate of the...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 00:20

... sequence identity The length of the macrocypin (Mcp1) deduced amino acid sequence was 169 residues, with a molecular mass of 19 193 Da, while the length of the representatives of the other four groups ... coli, and the NH2-MGFE sequence of rMcp1 favours only partial cleavage The far-UV CD spectra of rMcp1 and rMcp4 confirmed the expectation from the sequences that the conformations of the inhibitors ... inhibitors of papain, cathepsin L and cathepsin V, with a mean Ki value of 0.5 nm Macrocypin was also an effective inhibitor of papain but exhibited weaker inhibition of cathepsin L and V than the other...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 02:20

... range from to 8.5, we studied thermal stability of 17b-HSDcl from CD and UV melting curves, from which the temperature of denaturation (Td) and the van’t Hoff enthalpy of denaturation (DH°vH) of ... stability These data thus show that the absence of induction of thermal stability by NADPH binding is the consequence of enthalpic compensation of the disturbed intramolecular interactions by the newly ... calculated from the far-UV CD spectra using contin software [21] The degree of reversibility of the urea- and GuHCl-induced unfolding of 17b-HSDcl was determined by measuring the CD spectrum of 17b-HSDcl...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 13:20

... pothesis have attempted to include these theories [5-8] The theory of Greaves and that of Kinlen have been discussed in one of the chapters in this book One of the limitations of the theory of ... the peak age of onset of ALL reflects the degree of susceptibility with which a child is born and, on the other hand, the degree of proliferation of the cells involved in the development of the ... factor, the effect of said exposure will vary according to the stage of development of the in‐ dividual or of the particular organ [47-52] Some of the factors that can influence the toxicity of a...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 12:20

... ratio of : 5000, appearance of a peptide product of correct mass for cleavage of the C-terminal glutamate from the b-endorphin peptide was observed after The amount of this product relative to the ... at the 5¢ end, and starts at nucleotide of the coding sequence The sequence at the 5¢ end of the mRNA was completed by 5¢ RACE, from which two independent clones gave identical sequences at the ... any of these substrates in the absence of the recombinant carboxypeptidase Because the activation of mammalian digestive procarboxypeptidases in vivo is known to be caused by cleavage of the...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 12:20

... is the angle between the projection of the tilt of the z axis on the xÂ, y plane (dened direction of tilt of z and the x axis), and j % a + c denes the location of the rhombic (x, y) axes The ... conservation of the magnetic anisotropies of low-spin hemin with His/cyanide ligation The 10 tilt of the major magnetic or z-axis is shown to be consistent with the % 10 tilt of the Fe-CN vector from the ... important portions of the protein that we have characterized above Thus parts of the FG corner move away from the heme and the B-helix moves closer to the heme in the WT metHb than in the rWT metHbH2O...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 17:22

... decline of the shares’ price during the first part of the year, there had not been any sign of depositors’ massive withdrawals before September This is a further proof that despite the existence of ... as a lender of last resort The first section will relate the story of the Northern Rock bank In light of those facts, the second section will discuss the impact of the changes introduced by internet ... branches formed, the length of the queue being aggravated by the break down of the bank website and its call center The reason for the initial panic has to be found in the type of deposit insurance...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 09:20