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... currently a professor in the Department of demiology, College of Public Health at the University of Iowa She is anendowed Chair of Preventive Nutrition Education Her work has been inthe area of multi-center ... 6PREFACE This book is a combination of experiences in which I have been involvedover my professional career It brings a combination of ideas togetherthat include methods of communicating, strategies ... in-depth awareness of the importance offoods, their nutrient composition, and methods of food preparation shouldbe a focus Along with emphasis on diet is the immense importance ofdaily activity

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... Functional domains of the capsid protein of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 J Virol 68, 8180–8187 22 Reicin AS, O¨hagen A˚, Yin L, Ho¨glund S & Goff SP (1996) The role of Gag in human immunodeficiency ... pseudoatomic models of capsid-like particles [30,39]; (b) analyses of the effect of CA mutations on the assembly of mature capsid-like particles (Fig 2E,F) and⁄ or the formation of viral cores; the ... analysis of the precise residues and interac-tions involved in the NTD–CTD interface [46] Most of these involve side chains from helix 8 of the CTD which pack against the N-terminal end of helix 4 of

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... the part of the phosphate donor that is necessary for the dimer–tetramer transi-tion of native hTK1 purified from human lymphocytes was identified Further, the effect of the concentration of the ... slowly Results and Discussion Identification of the group inducing tetramerization of human TK1 Human TK1 has 234 amino acids and a subunit size of 25.5 kDa [18] Several reports have shown by ... absence of phosphate groups when applied at concentrations of 200 lgÆmL)1 or higher, Fig 3 Effect of nucleotides on hTK1 dThd substrate kinetics Native human TK1 (hTK1) was incubated with 3 m M of

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... activity of U937 cell homogenates The substrate was pre-sented in the form of mixed micelles produced using Triton X-100. (B) Time course of the effect of BEL on the proliferative capacity of U937 ... effect of MAFP on the Ca 2+ -independent PLA2activity of U937 cell homogenates The substrate was pre-sented in the form of mixed micelles produced using Triton X-100 (B) Time course of the effect of ... indicated Data are given as mean ± SE of triplicate deter-minations, representative of five independent experiments. Trang 5of the findings Quantification of the levels of PC, themajor membrane phospholipid

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... biochemical characterization of human ACMSD Results Cloning of ACMSD transcripts The complete coding sequence of human ACMSD was obtained from reverse-transcribed human kidney RNA, by using the ... reconstituted [21,33], catalytic activity of the human enzyme was not regained upon removal of EDTA and addition of metal-ions Figure 9 shows the hydrophobicity profiles of human and P fluorescens ACMSD, performed ... coordinate to A B C Fig 10 Homology modeling of human ACMSD I Prediction of the human enzyme structure (right) was made on the base of the crystal structure analysis of P fluorescens ACMSD (left), as described

Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 02:20

... the best of our knowledge, there has been no report on the promoter function of the human HO-2 Fig 7 Characterization of the human heme oxygenase (HO)-2 gene promoter (A) Identification of the ... after 7 days of normobaric hypoxia (10% oxygen) and returned to the basal level after 14 days of hypoxia [26] It is therefore of significance to study the regula-tion of HO-2 expression in human cells ... effect of hypoxia on the expression levels of HO-1 and HO-2 in various types of human cell line, including erythrole-ukemia and hepatoma cells We have shown that hyp-oxia reduces the expression of

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... treat patients with stable angina pec-toris, offers an in vivo model of mild myocardial ische-mia in humans Irrespective of a lack of alteration in levels of other conventional cardiac markers such ... to include only the 5¢-UTR of the mRNA [15,16] However, com-parison of the sequence of the 5¢-UTR of human pan-creatic DNASE1 mRNA reported previously [15] with the human genomic sequence showed ... Summary of relative luciferase activities of the reporter constructs containing the different length of 5¢ upstream sequence of the human DNASE1 exon 1 (A) or exon 1a (B) The different length of 5¢

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... The production of (Z)-3-MG-5-CoA by Gct is probably due to the possible trans-conformation of the 5-carboxyl group of (Z)-3-methylglutaconate. Table 2 Kinetic constants of AUH (human 3-methylglutaconyl-CoA ... bifunctional protein was named AUH (‘AU bind-ing homolog of enoyl-CoA hydratase’) The RNA-binding activity of the human protein and also of the murine homologue was investigated further, its biologi-cal ... Western blot analysis of brain extracts consistently revealed a 32 kDa AUH protein and it was thus assumed that the mature form of human AUH in brain has a molecular weight of 32 kDa (AUHp32) [15]

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... Dobson1 1 Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, UK 2 School of Biosciences, University of Nottingham, Loughborough, UK 3 School of Biology, University of Nottingham, UK Human lysozyme is ... 3 Fig 1 Structure of human wild-type lysozyme and location of the mutations discussed in this study The locations of the single-point mutations are shown on the structure of human wild-type lyso-zyme, ... lower, respectively, than that of wild-type human lysozyme More compre-hensive analysis of the secretion levels of 10 lysozyme variants shows that the low yields of these secreted proteins, under

Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 08:20

... molecular mass of the disulfide isomers of HPI and the enzyme-digested fragments were measured by ESI MS.The molecular mass of the mixture of scrambled isomers was measured by MALDI-TOF MS CD studies ... that of HPI and the denaturation curves are also shown in Fig.4.Comparison of the denaturation curves of PIP with those of HPI show that PIP is significantly more stable than HPI, regardless of ... concentration of denaturant Fig 3 Unfolding of HPI in the presence of denaturant and thiol cata-lyst Controls for the disulfide scrambling method include the lack of thiol catalyst and lack of denaturant

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... absence of S-S bonds and the low number of conserved residues in this part of the sequence Only later did the large N-terminal unit become involved in the binding of Cbl [13,14] Assembly of two ... pairs 4-7⁄ 3C4 and 2-2⁄ 3C4, where binding of the second mAb of the pair was inhibited by < 20% Interaction of mAbs with the C-terminal domain of human TC was determined using peptides TCp11 ... Specificity of monoclonal anti-(human transcobalamin) sera and their effect on the functional properties of transcobalamin nd, not done. mAb Epitope cluster Precipitation of Apo-TC (%) Precipitation of

Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 01:20

... the general features of the recently determined X-ray structure of human BuChE [7,8] In particular, most of the essential features of the catalytic site (i.e a catalytic triad of Ser-His-Glu, an ... mechanism of action of chymotrypsin: the role of the low barrier hydrogen bond Biochemistry 36, 4576–4584. 46 Warshel, A (1998) Electrostatic origin of the catalytic power of enzymes and the role of ... strong polarization of the C–O bond by the dipoles of the oxyanion hole in conjunction with the influence of a close nucleophile like the Oc of the catalytic serine The same type of adduct was observed

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... Fig 10 Comparative analysis of bidimensional PAGE, SouthWestern and Western blotting for human lymphocytes Two samples of 50 lg of total nuclear protein of normal human lymphocytes, previously ... EMSA assay.Two micrograms of total nuclear proteins derived from CCRF-CEM cells or from human lymphocytes were incubated with 1.5 lg of poly(dIdC), 1 lg of CT and 1 ng of c32P-labelled GT oligomer ... cross-linking assay.Two micrograms of total nuclear proteins derived from CCRF-CEM cells or from human lymphocytes were incubated with 1.5 lg of poly(dIdC), 1 lg of CT and 1 ng of c 32 P-labelled GT oligomer,

Ngày tải lên: 21/02/2014, 00:20

... hetero-oligomerization of D2Land D2Sis of particular interest as it may affect the function of the two isoforms of the receptors, with possible direct consequences on the effect of antipsychotic drugs ... represen-tative of at least three independent experiments For co-expression of the differentially tagged receptors, a multiplicity of infection (m.o.i.) of 7 was used for each baculovirus. Fig 1 Expression of ... protein-coupled receptors (GPCR) represent one of the largest families of genes in the human genome They are responsible for the detection of a large variety of stimuli and control many physiological

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... inhibition of our human mutants, the role of each residue studied may be discussed taking into account previous knowledge of the biochemistry of equine aromatase [30–32] and the docu-mented model of ... that an increase of the hydrophobic character of this part of the human active site modified the aromatization efficiency of androstenedione but increased the inhibition potency of MR 20814 and ... position of the ligand and the orientation of the hydrophobic group of V370 (modification of dihedral angles) to decrease this interaction V370 is highly conserved suggesting an important role of this

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... theDISCOVER_3 module ofINSIGHT IIwas used at a constant temperature of 298.0 K for 5000 steps of 1.0 fs time-step R E S U L T S Model structure of human LPL All model structures of dimeric human LPL were ... developed for human LPL The kit contains two kinds of LPL monoclo-nal antibody against human LPL purified from postheparin plasma One of the monoclonal antibodies, has an epitope similar to that of the ... of hydrogen, modification of bonds, potentials of forcefield, and fixation of heavy atom, backbone, and Ca, were performed for molecular mechanics calculations and then the energy minimization of

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... 1 Department of Pediatrics, Haukeland University Hospital, Bergen, Norway 2 Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Bergen, Norway 3 Department of Biomedicine, University of Bergen, Norway ... aggregation of the protein (data not shown) This instability of the pro-tein precluded an estimate of equilibrium thermody-namic parameters, and thus also measurement of the effect of ligands ... dia-betes of the young (GCK-MODY), GCK permanent neonatal diabetes mellitus, and GCK congenital hyper-insulinism of infancy [6–11] Some of the mutations greatly reduce the binding affinity of MgATP2)

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 00:20

... the creation, retention and loss of inventors is an aspect of the mobility of human resources, it is a subset of the overall mobility experience in a system of innovation Similarly, formal research ... description of causes and effects of mobility, the remainder of this chapter offers characteristics of mobility analyses across these different focuses Causal conditions Many discussions of mobility ... Africa’s system of innovation, a few primary effects of mobility on a system of innovation are now described Effects As the survey of causal conditions indicates, mobility of human resources

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... injection of 50 lg per mouse of the emulsion in Freund’s incomplete adjuvant (Difco Laboratories) at 2-week intervals after the first immunization A final dose of 50 lg of human hTNF-a in tail vein of ... mAb Sequencing of the cDNA of the variable region of ETNF-6 mAb was performed, and this was followed by molecular modeling of its three-dimensional struc-ture The heavy chain of ETNF-6 (ETNF-6-H) ... chromatograms After a reaction time of 47.2 h, the amount of TP41-1 at a retention time of 11 min decreased, because of frag-mentation The fragment was observed at a retention time of 13 min (indicated by

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... V2 Fig 4 Role of TRIM5a and homology model of its PRYSPRY domain (A) The hypothesized role of TRIM5a in the HIV-1 viral life cycle (B) A homology model of the PRYSPRY domain of human TRIM5a [65]. ... presence of CyPA [48] The exact role of CyPA in the viral lifecycle is unclear and remains a subject of intense debate [49– 51] The significance of this interaction is supported by an alignment of primate ... model of the PRYSPRY domain of human TRIM5a using the known structures of the same domain from three other proteins [66–68] Furthermore, these authors showed that alanine mutations at clusters of

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