... include: Fellow of the American Association of Advancement of Science (AAAS); Distinguished Lecturer of the School of Life Sciences, UIUC; Fellow and Lifetime Member of the National Academy of Sciences ... co-editor of this volume, joined him as a post-doc After Reno, Tom spent 20 years as professor of botany at the University of Wisconsin in Madison In 2008, Tom became professor and chair of the ... and Genetics of the C2 Cycle III Related Reactions and Interactions with Other Metabolic Pathways IV Measurement of Photorespiration V The Role of Photorespiration for the Evolution of C4 Photosynthesis...
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... empirical nature of the equations meant that they were not totally accurate [5] Also, for 5% of the forest stands, in the conversion of dry matter into carbon there was an error of 50 g C/kg of dry matter ... density of the wood depending on the stage of decomposition A Monte Carlos simulation was used to try to quantify the accuracy of these results An analysis of the inaccuracies in the levels of stocks ... = 0.00 and R2 = 0.01) Analysis of the levels of carbon stocks in the soil, depending on depth was made using the profiles, and types were distinguished (Fig 3) Profile types and 2, showing an...
Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 00:22
Potential biogas production from sewage sludge: A case study of the sewage treatment plant at Kwame Nkrumah university of science and technology, Ghana
... estimation of the biogas potential of the sludge the quality of the sludge was analysed and the results is presented below in Table The average litre of biogas produced from a kg of TVS found ... waste is composed of 68-72% CH4, 18-20% CO2, and 8% H2S [5] However, the average composition of biogas of different feedstock is presented in Table Table Average composition of biogas from different ... Digestion Support Software, Cork Institute of Technology, 2007 [7] Barelli D., Csambalik L., Mestas C and Santos D Economical and Environmental Analysis of a Biogas Plant within the Context of a Real...
Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 16:11
Lessons from East Asia''''a Recent Experience
... significant— from a small surplus of 0.1 percent of GDP in 1993 to a deficit of 1.2 16 percent of GDP in 1994, percent of GDP in 1995 and then almost percent of GDP in 1996 In Indonesia, the current ... of net foreign assets to reserve money growth of 72 percent in 1996 was offset by a significant contraction of domestic credit, which resulted in a much lower actual growth of reserve money of ... emergence of demand pressures during 1994-96 The case of the Philippines has been somewhat different, not only in terms of economic conditions, but also in the timing of the economic cycle during...
Ngày tải lên: 29/10/2013, 16:15
Tài liệu Báo cáo khóa học: UDPgalactose 4-epimerase from Saccharomyces cerevisiae A bifunctional enzyme with aldose 1-epimerase activity docx
... rotation of 180° about the C1 C2 bond followed by abstraction of the proton on the C5 oxygen and donation of a proton back to the C1 oxygen generated the product The crystal structure of L lactis ... in the presence of increasing amount of epimerase d, spontaneous mutarotation (only a-D-glucose); s, lg epimerase; n, lg epimerase Inset: Plot of rate constant vs micrograms of epimerase protein ... 0.16 units of UDP-glucose dehydrogenase, and 0.5 lg of epimerase The reaction was started by the addition of 0.35 mM UDP-galactose, and the increase in absorbance due to formation of NADH was...
Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 12:20
Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: N-Methyl-L-amino acid dehydrogenase from Pseudomonas putida A novel member of an unusual NAD(P)-dependent oxidoreductase superfamily ppt
... (97.9% and 99.1%, respectively) with those of the PP3591 gene of P putida KT2440 Results and Discussion Purication and subunit structure of NMAADH Identication of a gene encoding N-methyl-Lamino acid ... in a nal volume of mL Cloning and expression of NMAADH in E coli PCR primers were designed based on the nucleotide sequence of ORF PP3591 located on the 080 935 081 933-bp region of the P putida ... Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology of Japan, by Grantin-Aid for Encouragement of Young Scientists 15780070 (to HM) from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science,...
Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 16:20
Tài liệu BÁO CÁO " LIPID PRODUCTION FROM MICROALGAE AS A PROMISING CANDIDATE FOR BIODIESEL PRODUCTION " ppt
... microalgal strain of C vulgaris was kindly provided by Prof Hong-Nong Chou of The Institute of Fisheries Science, National Taiwan University, Taiwan All solvents and reagents were either of HPLC grade ... Figure Growth of Microalgae Under Various CO2 Flow Rrate of ( ) mL/min, ( ) 20 mL/min, ( ) 50 mL/min and ( ) 200 mL/min, all of which Supplied with an Air Flow Rate of L/min Table Range of pH Measured ... content of 70.02 mg/L medium The nitrogen depletion medium was provided by eliminating the addition of IBI (a) to result in a medium with a nitrogen content of 0.02 mg/L medium Effect of nitrogen...
Ngày tải lên: 21/02/2014, 10:20
Tài liệu BÁO CÁO " LIPID PRODUCTION FROM MICROALGAE AS A PROMISING CANDIDATE FOR BIODIESEL PRODUCTION " docx
... microalgal strain of C vulgaris was kindly provided by Prof Hong-Nong Chou of The Institute of Fisheries Science, National Taiwan University, Taiwan All solvents and reagents were either of HPLC grade ... Figure Growth of Microalgae Under Various CO2 Flow Rrate of ( ) mL/min, ( ) 20 mL/min, ( ) 50 mL/min and ( ) 200 mL/min, all of which Supplied with an Air Flow Rate of L/min Table Range of pH Measured ... content of 70.02 mg/L medium The nitrogen depletion medium was provided by eliminating the addition of IBI (a) to result in a medium with a nitrogen content of 0.02 mg/L medium Effect of nitrogen...
Ngày tải lên: 21/02/2014, 10:20
Research on Intrusion Detection and Response: A Survey pdf
... family of intrusion detection systems,” in Proceedings of the 9th European software engineering conference held jointly with 10th ACM SIGSOFT international symposium on Foundations of software ... (FP) One of the parameters to measure the quality of an IDS is the number of its FP alarms The smaller is the number of false positives, the better is the IDS International Journal of Network ... accuracy of the HP technology depends on the number of HPs distributed in the system (population of the HP farm) The larger the population of the HPs the more International Journal of Network...
Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 23:20
Báo cáo khoa học: 7,8-Diaminoperlargonic acid aminotransferase from Mycobacterium tuberculosis, a potential therapeutic target Characterization and inhibition studies pptx
... reverse the effect of such antibiotics by taking up external biotin However, such a transporter remains elusive in the annotated genes of M tuberculosis [10,11], and reversal of the amiclenomycin ... [18,19] We have reported the total synthesis of natural amiclenomycin [20] and some of its analogues [21] and have deciphered the mode of action of this antibiotic at the molecular level [2225] ... purication The sequence of the recombinant genes was veried by DNA sequencing The functionality of the recombinant enzymes was demonstrated in vivo by transforming E coli C26 8 bioA cells with both...
Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 11:20
Báo cáo khoa học: Expression and characterization of the protein Rv1399c from Mycobacterium tuberculosis A novel carboxyl esterase structurally related to the HSL family docx
... in LB medium after h of IPTG induction (Fig 1) Purification and refolding of Rv1399c Given the large quantity of insoluble material obtained [up to 160 mg of protein from L of cell culture (Table ... 215 nm, indicating that Rv1399c is composed of 22% of a-helices, 25% of b-strand and 39% of random coil The catalytic triad is located at the bottom of a small ˚ ˚ pocket, 20 A length and 10 A ... expression of Rv1399c The Rv1399c gene product encodes a 318 amino acid protein with a molecular mass of 31.7 kDa and a calculated pI of 4.53 and belongs to the Lip family that consists of 21 members...
Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 16:20
Báo cáo khoa học: Molecular cloning, expression and characterization of cDNA encoding cis-prenyltransferases from Hevea brasiliensis A key factor participating in natural rubber biosynthesis pdf
... IPTG; S2, supernatant of the homogenate of E coli BL21(DE3)/pETHRT2 with IPTG; PC, pellet of the homogenate of E coli BL21(DE3)/pET32b without IPTG; P1, pellet of the homogenate of E coli BL21(DE3)/pETHRT1 ... that of yeast dolichols (C80–C100; 1.1–1.3 kDa) GPC analysis of the rubber material synthesized by the action of purified HRT2 in the absence of WBP indicated the production of a small amount of ... Overexpression of HRT1 and HRT2 in E coli and purification of HRT2 The pETHRT1 and pETHRT2 were constructed and introduced into E coli BL21(DE3) The expression of these genes were induced by addition of 0.5...
Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 21:20
Báo cáo khoa học: Studies on structure–function relationships of indolepyruvate decarboxylase from Enterobacter cloacae, a key enzyme of the indole acetic acid pathway ppt
... integral of with respect to the indole protons is consistent with the occurrence of the enol form of indolepyruvate (Fig 1) In the course of the establishment of the equilibrium % 85% of the enol ... (triplets of 5-H and 6-H at 7.12 and 7.18 p.p.m., doublets of 4-H and 7-H at 7.43 and 7.75 p.p.m and the singlet of 2-H at 7.81 p.p.m with identical integrals of all signals) The additional singlet of ... sequence of the purified enzyme (Met-Arg-Thr-Pro-Tyr-Cys-Val-Ala) is identical to that of the nucleotide sequence of the EcIPDC gene (DCIP_ENTCL) Fig pH dependence of the oligomeric state of EcIPDC...
Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 02:20
Báo cáo Y học: The mechanism of nitrogen monoxide (NO)-mediated iron mobilization from cells NO intercepts iron before incorporation into ferritin and indirectly mobilizes iron from ferritin in a glutathione-dependent manner pot
... effects of 0.1 mgÆmL)1 of apoTf, apolactoferrin, or BSA (as a protein control) on 59Fe mobilization during incubation with increasing concentrations of GSNO (0.025–0.5 mM) However, apoTf, apolactoferrin ... NO-mediated 59Fe mobilization to the efficacy of the well-characterized Fe chelators, DFO and 311 [34,41] Each of the NO-generators resulted in the release of 18–24% of total cellular 59Fe, whereas the ... concentration of 0.05 mM, and then plateaued at 0.5 mM (Fig 2A) When assessing the effect of NO on intracellular 59Fe distribution, a GSNO concentration of 0.05 mM decreased ferritin-59Fe levels to 26% of...
Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 22:20
Timing of default from tuberculosis treatment: a systematic review pot
... mean timing of default from therapy Aggregate estimates of the time of default or mean default rates by week ⁄ month of therapy were not calculated given the large heterogeneity of study populations, ... The vast majority of studies returned by the search strategy focused on determinants of default and on different rates of default in different regimens with no mention of timing of default Furthermore, ... studies Given that in most of the studies selected for final review timing of default was not the primary outcome of interest, we did not explicitly explore the possibility of publication bias While...
Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 03:20
Prevention of Environmental Pollution From Agricultural Activity: A CODE OF GOOD PRACTICE pot
... of certain farm storage facilities, for example slurry stores, silos and sheep dipping facilities Annex B has details of SEPA offices l In the event of a pollution emergency your first point of ... diffuse pollution Run-off from farm roads and yards, the surface of fields and dusty roofs after rainfall are all potential sources of pollution There is therefore a wide range of potential diffuse ... detailed inventory of the quality of the land and the condition of both topsoil and subsoil and a detailed specification and method statement 3.19 The assessment of the suitability of a waste and...
Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 16:20
Báo cáo Y học: The Fe-only nitrogenase and the Mo nitrogenase from Rhodobacter capsulatus A comparative study on the redox properties of the metal clusters present in the dinitrogenase components doc
... FeFe protein preparations in view of the lability of the protein even in the presence of only trace amounts of oxygen [8] For the sake of direct comparison, MoFe protein samples were treated under ... turnover signal A control spectrum of a sample containing the same amount of Rc2Fe ( 0.6 mgÆmL)1) in the absence of Rc1Fe protein, confirmed that the intensity of the Rc2Fe signal was marginal under ... enzymatic reduction of the MoFe protein at a Rc2Mo/Rc1Mo ratio of : 10 the FeMoco EPR signal (representing the E0 state) maintained 30% of its intensity In addition, no signal indicative of an oxidized...
Ngày tải lên: 18/03/2014, 01:20
Báo cáo khoa học: A guide to taming a toxin – recombinant immunotoxins constructed from Pseudomonas exotoxin A for the treatment of cancer ppt
... efficacy of RITs might also be practical If only a single cycle of treatment is required to achieve a complete tumor remission, the appearance of neutralizing antibodies after that cycle of treatment ... framework region of the Fv [25–27] A cytotoxic fragment of PE can be inserted at the C-terminus of one of the two Fv polypeptide chains (Fig 1) The generation and production of PE-based RITs ... reduction of a disulfide bond between residues C26 5 and C28 7, which provides a second covalent linkage Thus, both a reduction and a proteolysis step are necessary for PE intoxication [61] The C26 5 -C28 7...
Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 15:21
Báo cáo khoa học: Unprecedented pathogen-inducible complex oxylipins from flax – linolipins A and B docx
... content of the leaves during these stages comprised 50–71 nmolÆg)1 of fresh weight (Fig 5) The lack of EDE in young flax leaves correlated with an absence of free (x5Z)-etherolenic acid and a lack of ... for compound lacked a strong multiplet of olefinic protons of a-linolenic acid, which was present in the spectrum of compound This indicates the absence of an a-linolenate moiety in compound 2, ... second member of linolipin family The amount of this linolipin is significantly increased in infected flax leaves (Fig 1) Identification of compound 2, linolipin B The age dependence of linolipin...
Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 05:22
Báo cáo khoa học: dehydrogenase from Arabidopsis thaliana, a flavoprotein involved in vitamin C biosynthesis pot
... kinetics of the AtGALDH-mediated oxidation of L-galactono-1,4-lactone (B) MichaelisMenten kinetics of the AtGALDH-mediated oxidation of L-gulono-1,4-lactone (C) AtGALDH activity as a function of pH ... results in easier loss of FAD, indicating that the interaction of Leu56 with the cofactor is of hydrophobic nature and may also involve a steric effect The thermal stability of variant L56H was ... FAD cofactor The possible advantages of such a mode of avin binding include saturation of the active site with cofactor in avin decient environments, anchoring of the isoalloxazine ring, and modulating...
Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 07:20