... poor spatial resolution It is still necessary to require administration of intravenous contrast media for assessment ofthe lesion boundaries and tumor perfusion For ADC to be used in a clinical ... vis-a-vis surrounding organs DWI clearly discriminates the abnormal signal intensity of peritoneal dissemination from the signal arising from surrounding organs such as the bowel (Figs 9, 10) Fujii ... simultaneously to acquire MR data Each of these detectors contains spatial information that can be used as a substitute for time-consuming phase-encoding steps, thereby allowing both the acquisition...
... control strain We also tested the targeting to mitochondria of Su9-DHFR, in which the presequence of ATPase subunit of Neurospora crassa was fused to a passenger protein, DHFR As seen in Fig 5A, the ... yeast strains containing high copy levels of various CYP cDNAs as described previously [20] Briefly, yeast strains expressing various CYPs were grown on selective synthetic medium inthe presence ... and cloned into the same sites of yeast vector 5¢ BamH1 sense and 3¢ HindIII antisense primers were used to amplify the DHFR ⁄ 1A1 and cloned into the same sites of yeast vector The point mutant...
... adduct This in turn suggests that UDPNAG assists inthe assembly ofthe proper interactions inthe active site by stabilizing the closed conformation ofthe protein Inthe closed conformation, ... proteins This was interpreted as a lack of fosfomycin binding to these mutant proteins [12] Binding of fosfomycin to either wild-type MurA orthe K22 mutant proteins inthe absence of UDPNAG is ... From this it would follow that R120 is an important residue inthe stabilization ofthe closed conformation ofthe protein This hypothesis can be tested by assessing the extent ofthe conformational...
... of their capabilities to inict DNA strand scission inthe presence of ascorbate/O2 [192,243] The process was shown to be sensitive to the action of superoxide dismutase or catalase, implicating ... metalloporphyrin models Synthetic metalloporphyrins (Fig 3) were selectively tailored as models ofthe P450 active site to gain more detailed insight into the mechanistic basis of oxygen transfer ... these ndings raised serious questions as to the commonness ofthe oxygenating species operative inthe NADPH- and hydroperoxide-sustained hydroxylations In fact, evidence has been provided for the...
... opportunities Shippensburg University Small Business Initiative inthe Frehn Center for Management; offering information and assistance to individuals and groups planning to start a new business Best ... businesses in securing PennDOT contracts Best Practice Highlights Clarion University Support for Entrepreneurial and Existing Businesses – business accelerator/entrepreneurial initiatives; helping ... Partnerships linked to community and non-profits Corporate Alliances Specific and direct sponsorships or partnerships with area businesses Collaboration with Other Educational Institutions Partnerships...
... when the side-chain at residue 169 was changed (Fig 3A) These results suggest that the side-chain at residue 169 is responsible for the solvent accessibility of His210 The size ofthe side-chain ... (Asp102 for trypsin number) forms a solvent-inaccessible hydrogen bond with the side-chain of a conserved serine at the position of subsite S1 In API, His210 is also located in a solventinaccessible ... basis of substrate specificity inthe serine proteases Protein Sci 4, 337–360 Czapinska, H & Otlewski, J (1999) Structural and energetic determinants ofthe S1 -site specificity in serine proteases...
... protocol used for the expression of enzymes used has been previously described [16] RESULTS Choice of amino-acid substitutions Based on sequence comparisons, in most alkaline phosphatases, the dipeptide ... mesophilic sequences The mutagenesis targets were residues Trp260 and Ala219 ofthe catalytic site and His135 ofthe Mg2+ binding site The most striking result was the loss ofthe psychrophilic ... slight variations of its amino-acid sequence Crystallographic studies ofthe mutants, aiming to further test the hypotheses about the structural basis of kinetic findings, are in progress ACKNOWLEDGEMENT...
... promiscuous 4¢-phosphopantetheinyl transferase Sfp from Bacillus subtilis and fluoresceinyl CoA [23] The successful 4¢-phosphopantetheinylation of DptF was monitored by the in- gel fluorescence ofthe ... synthesized peptide is necessary Here, we report the results of a steady-state kinetic analysis of DptE The aim of this kinetic study was to determine the specificity of DptE for various fatty acids ... synthase-like enzymes or substrates from the primary metabolism with NRPSs or PKSs, as shown for aflatoxin produced by the fungi Asparagillus parasiticus and A flavus [39,40] In this example, the...
... concentrations was included inthe culture supernatant before ELISA The results for the OS ELISA ofthe representative clones are shown in Fig 3B While some clones showed a similar, or even superior, ... antigendependent increase in absorbance, others showed a decreased or diminished antigen-dependency To evaluate the OS-fitness ofthe clone, the ratio ofthe specific absorbance inthe presence of 10 lgÆmL)1 ... At least for these antibodies, theroleofthe VL domain might be to increase the affinity by supporting the VH domain The phenomenon may also be observed inthe chain shuffling experiments As antigen-induced...
... semantic form Step 3: The assessment ofthe similarities of dependencies Inthe third step, two classes of similar dependencies are considered, generating unications ofthe question and answer semantic ... marked accordingly Step 2: The identication ofthe question concepts The second step identies the question words, their synonyms, morphological derivations or WordNet hypernyms inthe answer semantic ... Section presents the approach of devising keyword alternations whereas Section details the recognition of question reformulations Section evaluates the results ofthe Q&A system and Section summarizes...
... is located inthe social definition of roles and statuses, not inthe feeling-state of one or another type of personality” (p.6-7) Whereas sociological ambivalence in conceptualized as resulting ... history in other disciplines – notably, psychology and sociology (Otnes, Lowery and Shrum 1997) Up to date, the research of Otnes and co-authors (1997) is the most significant study in consumer ... and graduation Bussey (1967), in a study inthe U.K., found that the most popular occasion is Christmas, which is followed by birthday This finding is just reverse ofthe finding of Belk (1973)...
... worth inthe PSID is a continuous variable that sums separate values for a business, checking or savings accounts, real estate, stocks, and other assets, and subtracts out credit card and other ... These findings suggest that the process of accumulating school savings may have effects apart from financing school Conley (2001) finds that a doubling of net worth results in an 8.3% increase ... estimate a series of logistic regressions across seven models using PROC SURVEYLOGISTIC (SAS Institute Inc., 2008) Because a small portion of households have more than one young adult living in...
... changes in glucose phosphorylation S4 048 causes inactivation of phosphorylase As the elevation of Glc6P causes inactivation of phosphorylase in hepatocytes [14], the increase in Glc6P caused by S4 048 ... ¼ 18) or 20 mm glucose (1.5 ± 0.1 vs 1.5 ± 0.1) These results suggest that the increase of Glc6P inthe presence of S4 048 was caused by the inhibition of Glc6P hydrolysis inthe absence of detectable ... activation of synthase and inactivation of phosphorylase (conversion of phosphorylase-a to phosphorylase-b, Fig 1) As phosphorylase-a is a potent allosteric inhibitor of glycogen synthase phosphatase,...
... documents (particularly the short ones) have all zeroes in them In other words, none ofthe bigrams from the training set appears in these reviews This suggests that the main problem with the bigram ... ofthe feature lists sorted by WLLR confirms our hypothesis that each ofthe two classes has its own set of distinguishing features Experiments with the book domain To understand whether these ... Perhaps more importantly, an analysis of these results show that the various types of features interact in an interesting manner, allowing us to draw conclusions that provide new insights into...
... either pseudogenes or act on different substrates such as long-chain alkanes Other organisms possess several types of enzymes; Al borkumensis contains two alkane hydroxylases and two CYP15 3s [19] ... fatty acids is Theroleof P450 in microbial fatty acid metabolism an essential step inthe alkane assimilation process On the other hand, P45 0s are also involved inthe synthesis of special fatty ... subterminal ending (e.g CYP52) Several classes of P45 0s involved in either metabolization or biosynthesis processes and with different regiospecificities are discussed Whenever possible, the internationally...
... exposure to interest rate risk TheRole for Hedging inthe Theory of Corporate Finance The foregoing discussion has focused on increased volatility in financial markets as the major factor behind ... swaps have a notional principal of $1, unless otherwise noted Uses of Interest Rate Swaps—Synthetic Financing Firms use interest rate swaps to change the effective maturity of interest-bearing assets ... “free lunch.” As the following discussion will show, the risks responsible for increasing quality-spread differentials not disappear when firms use interest rate swaps Criticisms ofthe Comparative...
... has indeed folded, the force is again increased to unfold the same molecule Inthe two examples shown in Figures A and B we observe a staircase of unfolding events consisting of step increases ... investigate the molecular mechanisms involved in these processes The dynamics of protein folding and chemical reactions is intrinsically linked to the structure ofthe transition state By designing ... proteins Indeed, using these techniques, it becomes possible to explore theroleofthe solvent environment in protein collapse[42] and the dynamics of protein folding.[47] Therefore, in order...
... maintained in multiple accounts within the organisation The organisation is in some sense wasting resources and duplicating efforts in maintaining separate profiles with (mostly) the same information ... theroleof contractual obligations Business process level: Issues also arise at the business process level, where progress towards the adoption by organisations of common methods for IdM systems ... assist organisations in providing online access to existing services and in offering additional services It can help businesses to build online customer relationships, to improve and customise...
... modulate the input signals inthe form of ATP or its degradation products, as well as the specific intracellular signalling outputs from each subclass of receptors Finally, all these different intracellular ... phosphodiesterase in retinal cells [65,66,69,72] In addition to all the components listed above some regulators of G-protein signalling (RGS proteins), responsible for turning off the Ga subunit, ... rafts in neuronal cells regardless ofthe isolation method used (detergent-based or detergent-free) and the activation status ofthe receptor [87] Inthe same study, these authors also reported...