... fluorescentcoloration of M. cavernosa and L. hemprichii is due to GFP-like proteins and not caused by a fluorescentphycoerythrin. The contribution of mcavRFP, EosFP and lhemOFP to the total content of soluble ... chromatography(data not shown) [20]. The spectral properties of thered form of cjarRFP are surprisingly similar to those of EosFP and other known representatives of green -to- red photoconvertible ... absorptions of the bands at pH 7.0 to provide a measure of coloration.bData from [19].cData from [41].ABDCFig. 1. Comparison of spectral properties of the green -to- red photoconverting...
... shown to be infectious and able to replicate efficiently in the newly describedHPV18 ⁄ E6E7-immortalized hepatocytes. In this experi-ment, interferon regulatory factor-7, a regulatory fac-tor of ... most useful research tool to date.Several membrane receptors are involved in the HCVentry process: CD81, SR-B1, LDLR and Claudin-1.The multiplication of candidate receptors and thepotential ... advantage of different sets of receptors to enter into target cells.Whereas the implications of CD81, SR-B1 and Clau-din-1 have been ascertained using the HCVpp and theHCVcc model, the role of LDLR...
... effectiveness of Ethernet transport and services. One area currently underconsideration is how to fully utilize fiber build-outs to continue to offer revenue-generatingservices such as voice, andto add ... Suite of Ethernet and TDM Services to Cost-Effectively Utilize Fiber NetworksCarriers and enterprises are looking for inexpensive ways to utilize their infrastructures to takeadvantage of the ... and 23” rack mount brackets, console cable,license for basic software and documentation01/06 • 102160AE LoopStar®711LoopStar®711Leveraging a Full Suite of Ethernet and TDM Services to...
... how to capture and deploy knowledge and duties of the operations, intelligence, logistics, and fire-support officers into operations, intelligence, logistics, and fire-support expert systems to ... these officers; • how to automate screening messages and establishing priorities to reduce information overload; • how to integrate the operations of the expert systems to support the command; ... flexible arms capable of coordinated motion. Research on end effectors the hands attached to a robot seeks to improve dexterity, enabling robots to handle a variety of parts or tools in complex...
... inflammatory cytokines. ICAM-1 con-tributes to multiple processes seen in central nervous system inflammatorydisease, for example migration of leukocytes to inflammatory sites, and adhesion of polymorphonuclear ... activates monocytes and macrophages to produce cytokines such as tumor necrosis factor- a and interleukins IL-1b and IL-6. These cytokines appear to be responsible for the neurotoxicityobserved ... the presence of cytokines.Natural ligands of ICAM- 1and LFA-1 are expressedon the surface of T and B lymphocytes, natural killercells, monocytes, macrophages and granulocytes [33], and interaction...
... synthase of Rhodobacter capsulatusresults in differential contributionsof DpH and Du in drivingthe ATP synthesis reactionPaola Turina and B. Andrea MelandriDepartment of Biology, Laboratory of ... absence of Du.(C)Theratioofthe best-fitting functions andof the data points of wild-type overmutant are plotted for data in the presence (d)andabsence(m)ofDu.1988 P. Turina and B. A. Melandri ... extent of flash-induced carotenoid shift and the extent of cyto-chrome c accessible photo-o xidizable RC, which werecomparable to those of w ild-type chromatophores (notshown).The mutant and...
... (POCI/SAU-MMO/61129/2004) and the Health Research Board (RP/2006/294) to J.V.F and Health Research Board Grant(RP/2005/107) and Science Foundation Ireland (SFI)Investigator Grant (05/IN.3/13859) to MMC. Theauthors ... antigenbinding and presentation to CD8+cytolytic T cells.In HFE, the proximity of the two a helices and thepresence of amino acid side chains that project intothe groove appear to prevent peptide ... absence of tunicamycin. Drugtreatments resulted in the accumulation of forms of the mutant proteins that were of lower apparentmolecular mass andof similar size to the unglycosy-lated form of...
... thought to be the sameLys185, is required to donate a proton to the C3 car-bonyl group of the keto-intermediate to facilitatedecarboxylation. Both a base and an acid are neededin the tautomerization ... tautomerization of the enediol intermediate to yield the ketone ribulose 5-phosphate product, withthe acid (Glu192) required to donate a proton to C1 of the enediol intermediate and the base (the ... per se. To better understand why these analogues have highaffinity andto help in rational drug design, we under-took a thermodynamic characterization of substrate and analogue binding to T. brucei...
... muscle and fat cells. To gain some insight intothis issue we subsequently monitored the effects of a number of inhibitors that target PI3K, the MAP kinase pathway,p38 MAP kinase and mTOR on ... establish the importance of GSK3 in theacute regulation of glucose transport in terms of itsregulatory control of GS in muscle and fat cells we haveinvestigated the effects of Li and the anilinomaleimide, ... thebinding of insulin to its receptor and activation of thereceptor kinase, which tyrosine phosphorylates intracellulartarget substrates, in particular insulin receptor substrate 1(IRS-1) and its...
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... concomitant intoxication of thepatient [7,35,51]. Moreover, binding of drugs to FA2reduces the affinity of FA7 and increases the affinity of FA1 ligands. Eventually, FA6 ligands are expected to affect ... 10)4m solution to a final concen-tration of 1.0 · 10)4m.Automatic flexible ligand-docking simulation to HSAwas performed using autodock 3.0 and the graphical userinterface autodocktools [54–56,68]. ... acertain extent of HSA interaction may be desirable to help drug solubilization and distribution, a too tightan interaction negatively affects the distribution to sites of action and dramatically...
... Vietnam; (2) to identify and calculate watershed and vegetation factors affecting storm runoff responses; (3) to analyze the relationship between watershed factors and runoff indices; and (4) to separately ... flow volumes at level 0.05. Storm rainfall, initial flow, season and storm duration are associated with 86.4% of the total variation in the log storm flow. Rainfall-runoff research in a catchment ... surface runoff. b) to determine influences of watershed characteristics, forest cover, and forest distribution on storm runoff responses of 15 representative watersheds in Vietnam; and to determine...
... isessential to understand their potential phototoxicity to the naturalbiota.The objective of the current study is to evaluate phototoxicity of nanoparticulate ZnO (nano-ZnO) and its bulk counterpart ... toxicity was not related to photocatalytic ROS generation. Dissolution of the ZnO particles to ionic zinc did not seem to be a major contributor to the observedtoxicity either. This non-photocatalytic, ... currentlyundergoing to further understand the underlying mechanism of the phototoxicity.As phototoxicity of nano-ZnO associated with ROS generationoccurred in as quickly as 2 h under NSL, toxicity of nano-ZnO...