the role of energy metabolism in the digestive system

... INVESTIGATING THE ROLE OF MENAQUINONE METABOLISM IN DORMANT MYCOBACTERIA BY ANTISENSE RNA THOMAS M FIEDLER NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINAGPORE 2007 Investigating the role of menaquinone metabolism ... synthesis during dormancy and its... focusing on the involved enzymes The focus of this study lies on the synthesis of the aromatic portion of menaquinone The synthesis of the ... contain approximately a 100 bp part of the upstream region of each gene including the Shine-Dalgarno site and about a third of the coding region of the genes of interest The

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... addressed. The report builds on extensive previous and on-going work of the OECD in the area of „green growth’. 3 The focus is on the role of institutional investors, again building on OECD work in ... institutional investors are offered appropriately structured financing vehicles. In order to achieve the goal of encouraging further investment in clean energy projects by institutional investors, ... INVESTORS IN FINANCING CLEAN ENERGY Decarbonising the world‟s energy system to avoid locking -in polluting technologies and unacceptably high emission levels will require doubling existing investment

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... of the role of PrP in breast cancer metabolism in the study model Picture showing different lactate production in normal and cancer situation Schematic overview of the role of PrP in cancer metabolism ... including the no-protein control. The values for the protein standards were plotted with a linear regression line through the standard points. The protein concentrations of the samples were then calculated ... differences in the role played by PrP in different cancer cells. However, closer scrutiny of our results show a trend of increasing expression of PrP correlating with increasing metastasis profile of the

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... role in raising the profile of women in management It will also discuss how the current findings on leadership are likely to impact on the career advancement of women in leadership roles in the ... raising the profile of women in management However, during this period of research, there was an emerging recognition of the importance of a concern for people in the behavioural theories as being ... anything towards raising the profile of women in management, as the theory was constructed as a male model at a time when women were not visible in paid employment One of the off shoots of the

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... THINKING TO THE LONG TERM Innovative financing of appropriate wastewater infrastructure should incorporate design, construction, operation, maintenance, upgrading and/or decommissioning Financing ... asp?getitem=685) Marine pollution Direct or indirect introduction by humans of substances or energy into the marine environment (including estuaries), resulting in harm to living resources, hazards ... choices in terms of the quantity and the quality of dis- charges to rivers and seas if a sustainable link is made from farms, rural areas and cities to the ecosystems surrounding them In some

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... modeling framework, in order to assess their... trees The largest plant height was obtained using linings of stone and marble During the first year of the study, when the lining ... in rainfed areas, even in the more marginal rainfed environments The continued application of conventional breeding and the recent developments in non-conventional breeding offer ... synthesis of the literature to assess the potential of actually achieving such significant increases in rainfed cereal yields beyond the baseline projections. It is essential in most of the

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... residues for binding the coenzyme The C-terminal domain has a largely a-helical structure, and serves mainly in substrate binding The active site is located in the interdomain cleft, and contains a highly ... mm), and so the choice of the constant level of Fru was not critical for determination of DKm (1.23 ± 0.15) The KIE data in Table are instrumental in delineating the kinetic mechanism of AfM1PDH ... value of $ 3, indicates that NADH binds to the enzyme prior to binding of Fru6P The absence of a KIE on kcat ⁄ Km for the substrate binding first is a clear requirement of the strictly ordered kinetic

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... as Points of Access into the Financial System The Role of African Post Offices in Payments The Role of Post Offices in International Remittances The Role of Post Offices in Savings The Role of ... On the other hand, in the course of the desk research in 2004, other countries that were not included in the list of 24 countries were found to have postal networks with an active role in financial ... or infrastructure in any of the programs to develop payments systems Risk of the postal network being marginalized in the payment system, and the cashless payment system not being widely accessible

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... capital, ... increase by 50 basis points, and the increase in in? ??ation is 50 basis points less than in the baseline case A banking sector that remains well-capitalized can thus reduce the length ... contract has the following structure Assume the presence of inter-period anonymity, which restricts the. .. the participation constraints of the bank and the investing households, ... however, by accounting for the role of bank capital in the transmission of shocks. In the model, investors provide the bulk of loanable funds but do not monitor firms receiving loans: this activity

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... Further examples are presented from the US including the Tar-Pamlico Basin in North Carolina (case of point-point source trading also allowing for point-non-point trade), the case of ... number of other on going and... with the inter-state trading case in the Murray-Darling Basin, and the more market-oriented approach in the Hunter River in the State of New South ... trading came into force in 1992 as part of the Murray-Darling Basin... due to the difficulties in addressing non-point source pollution The difficulties in controlling non-point

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... securities increase their value once the development of the general price index, being among one of the few profitable ways of investing in conditions of rising inflation. The influence given by international ... present the influence of investment funds on the economic growth in Romania between 2007 and 2010. Unfortunately some of the main findings of the paper are: insignificant share of investment ... share of the amounts of money invested in UCITs is very small compared to the savings invested in credit institutions – though it is increasing since 2009 – we can’t talk about a shift of the investments

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... using the c oncen tration of protein in the extract as an internal standard. The activity of ()119/+178) PS1CAT in the pres- ence of the empty vector was taken as 100%. The values represented in the ... domain. ERM contains two DNA binding inhibitory domains flanking the Ets domain: the central 87 amino acid inhibitory domain is poorly conserved a nd virtually specific to ERM, and the C-terminal ... sequenced. Cloning of ERM Two independent clones containing the entire ERM cDNA were obtained by yeast one-hybrid screening of a human brain cDNA library from Clontech [26]. The cDNA was then inserted into

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... workforce by offering instructional programs, matching instruction to the needs of business and industry, and helping individuals learn throughout their lives. Instructional Programs Teaching excellence ... The Role of Higher Education in Economic Development Page 10 of 12 Examples of support for enhancing the technology infrastructure by Alliance institutions include the following: • In ... seamless instruction • identifying ways to increase the value placed on education within the region The Role of Higher Education in Economic Development Page 8 of 12 Examples of P-20 initiatives

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... frequency) The survey is the basic for my study ? ?The role of sentence stress in enhancing English speaking competence of HPU English majors” A survey within the scope of the study is conducted at HPU The ... major aim of the study is to collect and analyze the data regarding the recognition and the utilization of sentence stress To find out the attitude of students towards the needs of enhancing English ... English learning time The table below indicates the time of learning English of all the third year English majors As it can be seen from the table, of all the students, none of 43 them has learnt

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... similar to those of the wild-type enzyme but the degree of stabilization of the flavin semiquinone and the redox properties in the free form of Y238S are different. The binding of the carboxylic ... in RgDAAO share the characteristics of being flexible and adapting their conformation depending on the size of the ligand side chain [27]. Our results indicate that the role of Y223 and Y238 in ... in binding were observed for Y238 mutants with the ligands tested (Table 2). These results indicate that the mode of ligand binding is retained in the two mutants, and that the alteration of the

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... m M ), which is in approximate agreement with the limiting rate constant of 4.3 s )1 determined above. The maximum concentration of the intermediate under these conditions was 91% of the initial enzyme ... obtained in the absence of exogenous imidazoles. Formation of Compound I again showed saturation kinetics (Fig. 6), and a nonlinear least-squares fit of the data to Eqn (7) in the pres- ence of ... titration of the distal histidine presumably still in? ??uences Compound I formation, but the pK a is not experimentally accessible. For CcP, examination of the role of the distal histidine residue in Compound

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... pre-writing planning, on-writing monitoring of errors, post-writing checking and reflection Zhang: Investigating the Role of Metacognitive Knowledge in English Writing 28 of their writing ... metacognitive knowledge in the English writing of Chinese EFL learners, in the hope of shedding some light on the teaching and learning of EFL writing skill in China. 2. Literature Review ... obtained the following major findings: 43 Zhang: Investigating the Role of Metacognitive Knowledge in English Writing. .. knowledge in English writing The results of

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... source of financing for enterprises, if their own capital is excluded. In summary, the deepening process of the financial markets has rendered the dominance of the banking sector in the financial system. ... under the framework of financial globalization. II. Review of Institution Building in the Financial Sector A. Main driving forces of institution building A review of the developments of China’s financial ... performance. 2. Role of the central bank The central bank has played a role of policy designing and implementation in the process of institution building in the financial sector. The promulgation of The...

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... ( 39 ). The renewed interest in examining the indications for BCG vaccination in the United States included consideration of the wide range of vaccine efficacies deter- mined by clinical trials ... to explore the sources of the heterogeneity in the efficacy of the BCG vaccine reported in the individual studies. Using a model that included the geographic latitude of the study site and the data ... <5 mm induration after skin testing with 5 TU of PPD tuberculin. The Tice strain of BCG is administered percutaneously; 0.3 mL of the reconstituted vaccine is usually placed on the skin in the lower...

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... an important role in the financial system of the U.S. economy. They complement the role of large banks by special- izing in relationship banking and providing credit to small businesses—a sector ... understanding issues facing community banks. I. THE CURRENT ROLE OF COMMUNITY BANKS The banking system in the United States has always been unique in the sense of containing large numbers of small ... understanding of business conditions in the communities they serve. In this way, the bifurcated banking system has served the needs of a diverse U.S. economy composed of businesses of all shapes and...

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