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... conformational change. The current study describes the localization of the mAb F11 epitope tothe C-lobe of hTF, specifically to residues 365–401 that are located in the C1 domain. Inparticular, these results ... (Table 1). To confirm the mAb F11 epitope, the hTF-5D con-struct, which showed the greatest reactivity with the mAb F11, was mutated at two different residues to mimic the sequence of either pig ... fragments into the pGEX 4T3vector The hTF fragments were subcloned into the pGEX 4T3vector for the expression of GST fusion proteins. Briefly, the pBluescript–hTF clones were digested with either XhoIand...
... condition for Late Pleistocene alluvial deposits and weathering crust (Q13b) to be formed. These deposits are spread from the land to -100m water depth on the shelf. The colorful clays contain ... available. The pH value of clays varies from 6,9 to 7,5, Eh from -20mv to +150mv and Kt from 0,7 to 1,4. These environment indicators proved a brackish transitional environment from river tothe ... South tothe North and upward according a cross line. On the map of depositional environment, distance between Late Holocene paleoriver channels tothe recent one is about 200 to 1000m to the...
... Working Group Report toThe Advisory Committee tothe Director Continue to Share and Coordinate Resources and Tools The DIWG recommends that the NIH continue to strengthen efforts to identify common ... Draft Report to The Advisory Committee tothe Director June 15, 2012 Data and Informatics Working Group Report toThe Advisory Committee tothe Director is a ... this area should be brought to bear to benefit both NIH staff and the extramural community. The DIWG also recommends that the NIH continue efforts to share and coordinate tools across the ICs,...
... microinjection, to create transgenic animals in which the MACs are maintained autonomously [81]. In the context of human germline gene therapy, these specialised constructs would be expected to give ... contributed tothe embryo, the resultant offspring will be chimeric (up to ca. 50% of animals). The ESC contribution to a mouse can high (up to ca. 80% of the cells), and will often include the germline ... this paper is to consider the potential for applying the available genetic modification (GM) technologies tothe goal of achieving human germline gene therapy. If germline gene therapy does...
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... enzyme. The finding that the two linked phosphate groupsin pyrophosphate are sufficient for formation of the tetramer clearly shows that neither the base nor the sugar plays a role in the oligomerization ... appears to agree with the structural conditionsfor ATP binding tohuman TK1. In the first crystalstructure of TK1-type enzymes of human and myco-plasmic origin [14], the feedback inhibitor dTTP ... and the ratio between the two forms depends on the dThdconcentration [24]. According to this model, the simul-taneous presence in the assay of the two forms willresult in the apparent negative co-operative...
... for the Secretary by the end of the year. The Committee also sends letters tothe Secretary after each meeting. The letters serve as a vehicle for the Committee to raise other issues with the ... bundling provisions in the Affordable Care Act have the potential to bring much-needed change to health care, but the challenge lies in ensuring these new models are designed to work as well for ... seasonal fruits for the students to try, talked about the quantity of fruit and vegetables that they need to eat each day, and the need to have a variety of color on their plate. They were shown...
... specific tothe activity ofonly p53 would be a great improvement tothe assayand further work will be required to develop such aprocedure.An additional aspect of the assay to consider is the paradox ... muta-tions, allowing the study of their effect on tumourigene-sis. By introducing the mutation into the humanizedTP53 allele rather than wild-type mouse Tp53, the impact of the mutation on the structure ... human can-cer. A comparison of the TP53 mutation spectra gen-erated by the in vitro assay with the spectra ofmutations in human tumours may test such hypothe-ses. Nevertheless, it is apparent...
... sequencewas used to direct the protein synthesis into the secre-tory pathway. L31 [21], the cDNA clone used in previ-ous studies aimed at mapping the epitopes of the mAbsagainst M1 tothe C-terminal ... show that the 166M1 and 62M1 epi-topes appear to be insensitive to reduction. The factthat the recombinant MUC5AC is cleaved during itsbiosynthesis allows us to delimit the region where the reduction-insensitive ... 481 are antibodies against MUC5AC, with epitopes locatedin the MUC5AC C-terminal cysteine-rich part.Further localization of the epitopes of 45M1,2-12 M1 and 166M1In order to further locate the...
... came into forceon July 11, 1991. The declaration together with the two covenants and the two protocols are commonly recognized as the International Bill of Human Rights. Some feel that the bill ... that the three key elements of anyrights system are a. The rights holders and their rights;b. The duty bearers and their obligations corresponding tothe rights of the rights holders; andc. The ... refined. The four Geneva conventions of 1949 are the major sources of the law of armed conflict. They arethe Convention Relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War; the Convention...
... bars plotted on the x-axis to the left of the figure, and the corresponding fraction of the total 10,000-m2 target area is indicated by red circles and plotted on the axis to the right.5 ... missiles over other attack modes are not in the destructive power that they can carry; they are in the way they carry that power and the distance from which they allow an adversary to control ... target to target. For example, phone calls or other threats have histori-cally proven useful to trigger evacuation of people from the immediate area of a target; once they are evacuated, the people...
... and the Law of the Sea – Report tothe 60th session of the General Assembly, 4 March 2005, para. 104. Chapter 2: Threatstothe Marine Environment 25find their way into the sea from the ... though the latter is by now largely prohibited by the London Dumping Convention.149 Threats to humans and the environment very much depend on the activity, the biodistribution and the half-life ... destabilise thereef structure.190 For instance, in the coral -reef banks in the Tortugas Ecological Reserve and the Tortugas Bank (United States), an anchor scar that covers an area exceeding...