... sequence analysis ofthe carB mutant alleles To check if strain A486 was altered in the carB gene, and in order to get further insights into the nature ofthe mutations ofthe carB gene in strains ... membrane-bound enzymes In Phycomyces the analysis ofthe deduced amino-acid sequence encoded by the carB gene reveals the presence of a transmembrane region near the C-terminus ofthe protein [17] De®ciencies ... found in addition to colonies showing the colour of each ofthe two parental strains involved in the construction of each heterokaryon (data not shown) Therefore, the mutation in strain A486 complemented...
... complete the characterization ofthe subcellular organizationofthe epidermis-located steps of MIA biosynthesis, we analyzed the subcellular localization of TDC using the transient expression of GFP-fusion ... Within the epidermal cells of leaves, the final step ofthe synthesis ofthe indole precursor of MIA is catalyzed by a TDC homodimer located exclusively in the cytosol with no passive diffusion to the ... shading ofthe compartment within the symbolized cells The presence of a question mark indicates contradictory ⁄ incomplete results The abbreviations ofthe uncharacterized enzymes and ofthe enzymes...
... payment systems These principles drew extensively from the Report ofthe Committee on Interbank Netting Schemes ofthe central banks ofthe Group of Ten countries (also known as the Lamfalussy ... contract between the buyer and seller is discharged and two new contracts are created, one between the CCP and the buyer and the other between the CCP and the seller The CCP thereby assumes the original ... measurement and aggregation of risk exposures across the FMI, the management of individual risk exposures and the interdependencies between them, and the assessment ofthe impact of various economic...
... neither affects the photosynthetic capability ofthe bacteria nor the efficiency of exchange ofthe ubiquinol molecules between the RC and the bc1, as judged from the reduction kinetics of cytochrome ... ambiguous the attribution ofthe PufXD2)19 strain to the wild-type or the PufDX cluster Isolation ofthe photosynthetic complexes from the mutant strains As described previously [16], the photosynthetic ... suppose that the discrepancy is related to the presence ofthe LH2 which could influence the shortening processes ofthe assembled PufX protein The exchange of ubiquinone between the RC and the cyt...
... between thethe spiral and the —CO— groups at the end of —NH— groups ofthe newly formed The two hydrogen atoms ofthe newly formed diketopiperazine ring- diketopiperazine ring imide groups ofthe ... parts 15 ofthe molecular structure of every enzyme and determine the specificity thereof Side-chains of one sort or another are probably attached to all sides ofthe protein portion ofthe enzyme ... carbon atoms at the free end ofthe spiral After assimilation of each new diketopiperazine ring, the configuration of atoms at the end ofthe spiral will be the same as it was before, the will spiral...
... Y-axis The maximal binding is a measure ofthe total number of receptors present in the tissue and the equilibrium dissociation constant is the measure ofthe affinity ofthe receptors for the radioligand ... from the degeneration of dopaminergic neurons in the pars compacta ofthe substantia nigra However, glutamatergic pathways play a leading role in the structural and functional organizationofthe ... activity of bax gene expression in thecerebral cortex ofthe 6-OHDA infused rats which indicated the ROS mediated neurodegeneration in thecerebral cortex Bax, one ofthe major pro-apoptotic family...
... addition, the arterial catheter allowed discontinuous measurement of transpulmonary cardiac output by injecting 10 mL ice cold saline into the proximal port ofthe central venous catheter The mean of ... formation of membrane-bound vesicles Key elements ofthe apoptotic pathway include changes in the gene expression ofthe pro-apoptotic protein Bax and the apoptosissuppressing protein Bcl-2 The extent ... and/or endothelial cells [30] rather than transport across the blood-brain barrier This is emphasized by the data of Mizushima and colleagues who demonstrated that the integrity ofthe blood-spinal...
... utility of qL in the first period, δ qL in the second period, δ2 qL in the third period, and so on, until δn-1 qL in the last period ofthe usable life span ofthe product Summing these values, the ... choice of purchase and their effort in fixing depend on hackers’ targeting and vice versa The analysis ofthe direct and indirect effects of changes in the user cost of precaution and the rate of ... software (e.g., econometrics or statistics software) Vendors of these products often cannot control the schedule of new technologies’ arrivals and the obsolescence of old products Hence, for them,...
... explores several decades of research into the industrial organizationof banking the study ofthe structure of individual banks, banking markets, and their interactions The book has two fundamental ... about the industrial organizationof banking to locate a single source of information about the status ofthe field as a whole, other than individual chapters or portions of chapters in the excellent ... alternative theories of bank behavior After considering the issue of outputs versus inputs of banking institutions, the chapter examines the theory of banks as portfolio managers It then turns...
... workers abroad yearly Most of them are working in countries where English is not the mother tongue ofthe citizens or not an official language ofthe state At the present time, there are more than 400,000 ... the success of other countries in lowering the starting grade for language learning, we should offer the teaching of a foreign language starting from the first grades; - Given the fact that the ... the language barrier Another example ofthe importance of foreign languages can be seen in the United States, the hot pot of different languages and cultures The US State Department in particular...
... with an advantage even under these conditions, such as the minimization ofthe risk of loss, the maximization ofthe chance of gain, or the minimization ofthe regret the decision maker may suffer ... implementation ofthe laws necessary for the reform ofthe economic system These include the National Assembly (NA), the country's legislature; the Standing Committee (SC) ofthe National Assembly, ... low that there were three commercial banks who offered loan to the JV company These banks might foresee the profitability ofthe project They therefore, did not hesitate to provide their quotations...
... construct an explicit model on the computer ofthe assumptions behind the plan.3 The plan called for a 20 percent annual sales growth, a continuation ofthe growth rate ofthe past ten years And it ... microworld gave them a unique window on the future As their strategy retreat continued, the management team saw the core issue as either lowering their growth targets or transforming their sales organization ... that you are the manager of a claims adjusting office, sitting with your partner, another claims office manager, in front of a personal computer screen displaying the status ofthe ' 'claims...
... The samples were first photoconverted in the absence of excess NADPH to form the NADP+-bound enzyme The extent ofthe redshift following the addition of different concentrations of NADPH was then ... kinase therefore still remains unclear The main line of evidence for the existence of a PORphosphatase is the observation by Wiktorsson et al [9] of an inhibition, by NaF and ATP, ofthe loss ofthe ... present The possibility of other explanations of these effects cannot therefore be excluded CONCLUSIONS The present study emphasizes the close relationship existing between the local organization of...
... difference in the adequacy ofthe parsings of natural-language sentences will be alterations ofthe format itself in terms of increasing the degree of context-sensitivity This in effect means that the ... appropriate subroutines This raises the further question ofthe functions and design ofthe executive routine and subroutines In this type of parsing program, the function ofthe executive routine will ... view the executive routine ofthe algorithm which contains the grammar as the actual parsing algorithm and to view the remaining portions as forms of input data Leaving aside the matters of rule...
... a draft of three consensus statements - the first dealing with the limits ofthe field of concern for the psychiatry of old age, the second addressing theorganizationof services for the elderly ... mental health ofthe elderly This document, which is a follow-up of a first Consensus Statement on Psychiatry ofthe Elderly, gives the broad outlines oftheorganizationof care for the aged It ... scope of psychiatry ofthe elderly That consensus statement defines the specialty of psychiatry ofthe elderly as a branch of psychiatry that forms part ofthe multidisciplinary delivery of mental...
... loss, within affected cells, ofthe two alleles of a given CCM gene Loss of one ofthe alleles (first hit) would be the result of a germline mutation and loss ofthe second allele (second hit) ... K569E, were detected in the CCM lesion and were shown to be absent in the blood ofthe patient However, the data were difficult to interprete because ofthe nature ofthe mutations which were ... occur somatically This hypothesis is not easy to test because ofthe heterogeneous cellular nature of CCM lesions and the very limited number of endothelial cells lining the capillary cavities Indeed,...
... Ib in the genome of this snake These findings provide clues to the evolutionary position ofthe neurotoxic V a aspis population with respect to the other snakes studied The genome of one of these ... with the neutral evolution theory, which states that the strong conservation of exons serves to maintain the function ofthe mature protein [26] The protein-coding regions ofthe PLA2 genes of ... and the 5¢ part of exon encode the mature protein; exon encodes the 5¢-UTR, and exon and part of exon encode the signal peptide The 110 nucleotides at the 3¢ end of exon encode the 3¢-UTR The...
... is therefore the measure ofthe minimum number of bits that is required to communicate the information about the entire inventory through the transmission channel The lower the value of FE the ... ratio of all the inventories of size less than or equal to 40 We neglect the inventories ofthe size greater than 40 since they are extremely rare (less than 0.5% ofthelanguagesof UPSID), and therefore, ... comparing the RRs ofthe real and the random inventories The results show that 107 Figure 2: The scatter-plot ofthe redundancy ratio RR of each ofthe consonant inventories (y-axis) versus the inventory...