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Na+ and Ca2+ Fluxes and Differentiation of Transformed Cells
Alterations in cation fluxes across the plasma membrane appear to play a central role in the regulation of cellular growth and differentiation [1,2,4,6–8,17,19]. Oocyte maturation is stimulated by Ca2+ release in...
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Serology of Mycoplasma-Like Organisms
The discovery of mycoplasma-like organisms associated with several plant yellows diseases (5, 7) has widened the scope not only of mycoplasmology but in the field of microbiology as well. In less than 20 years...
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T-Cell Recognition of HLA Class I Molecules
The purpose of the Class I T-Cell Clone component of the Tenth Workshop (10WS) was to determine the extent to which HLA class I molecules express polymorphisms recognizable by alloreactive or antigen-specific ...
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A Study of Ethanol Fermentation Using a Flocculent Strain of Zymomonas mobilis
Zymomonas mobilis is widely studied for being used in ethanol fermentation(1). Ethanol fermentation by Z. mobilis in different processes such as recycling cells, immobilized cells and flocculent granules is co...
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Synthesis, Structure and Properties of some Mo—Fe—S, Mo—S Model Compounds for the Mo—Fe Center and the First Coordination Sphere of the Mo—Atom in Nitrogenase
Nitrogenase is a two-component redox enzyme that catalyzes the reduction of dinitrogen to ammonia. The structure and function of Mo in the MoFe-protein of this enzyme has been the subject of a number of invest...
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Effects of Acute and Chronic Ethanol Administration on the Poly-Phosphoinositide Signaling Activity in Brain
Ethanol ingestion is known to exert diverse physiological effects on many body organs including the central nervous system (CNS). While excess acute ethanol intake can result in sedation, chronic ingestion is ...
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Map** Using Human Blood Composition Data
The map** of elemental composition using INAA on the base of whole blood and hair of inhabitants (2500 samples) was made in Uzbekistan (CIS). The average concentrations of 15 elements (24 for hair) were dete...
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Use of Nuclear Analytical Techniques in Bioenvironmental Studies
Bioenvironmental studies remain to be one of the most important fields of applied analytical chemistry. At present time, more than 50% of nuclear analytical studies deal with bioenvironmental investigations. T...
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Investigation of Element Speciation in Atmosphere
Elemental composition of rain water was determined with the use of instrumental neutron activation analysis. Solid water-insoluble fractions were separated by filtration through membrane filters. Filtrates wer...
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EP Receptor Subtype-Dependence of Regulation of Immune Cellular Functions by Prostaglandin E2
The recognition that some eicosanoids are potent inflammatory mediators was based on initial findings of the smooth muscle, microvascular, epithelial cell and nociceptive neural effects of prostaglandins (PGs)...
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Antifungal Sterol Biosynthesis Inhibitors
Herbal medicines and related drugs used to treat infective organisms were available in ancient cultures and detailed in the first pharmacopoeia reported in 1146 ad, titled “Antidotarium Niclai” (Grun, 1991). Duri...
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Detection of Low Frequency Modes of S1/S2 and QA/Q A - in Photosystem II by Light-Induced Fourier Transform Infrared Difference Spectroscopy
Several new structural and mechanistic models for photosynthetic water oxidation predict unique molecular structures for each S state of the OEC that should present characteristic signals in the low frequency ...
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A Subfamily of G Protein-Coupled Cellular Receptors for Lysophospholipids and Lysosphingolipids
The lipid phosphoric acids, including lysophosphatidic acid (LPA) and sphingosine 1-phosphate (S1P), are generated from membranes of many different types of stimulated cells. In extracellular fluids, these dis...
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The Crystal Structure of Mitochondrial Cytochrome bc 1 Complex
The cytochrome bc 1 complex (commonly known as ubiquinol-cytochrome c reductase, or complex III) is a segment of the mitochondrial respiratory chain that catalyzes antimycin-sensitive electron transfe...
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Human Alcohol Dehydrogenase Family
Alcohol dehydrogenase (ADH), a NAD+-dependent zinc-containing dimeric enzyme, functions as a rate-limiting step in the mammalian ethanol metabolism (Edenberg and Bosron, 1997; Yin, 1996; Crabb et al., 1987). Prim...
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Antimicrobial and Chemotactic Activities of ω-Conotoxin Cyclic Analogues
The family of ω-conotoxins isolated from paralytic venomous of Conus snails has been known to be an antagonist of presynaptic N-type calcium ion channels. They share certain similarities to the newly discovered f...
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The Use of a C-FOS-GFP Reporter System for Monitoring Apoptosis of Animal Cells Induced by Exotoxins of Pseudomonas Aeruginosa
A reporter gene system based on the expression of green fluorecense protein (GFP) was developed for monitoring the dynamics of apoptotic cell death. The expression plasmid was stably introduced into CHO-DHFR− cel...
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Functional and Structural Comparisons of Linear and Dendritic Arrays of Polypeptides
Bioactive biopolymers with repeating sequences are often found in nature. Polypeptides usually contain an array of linear repeats, whereas both linear and dendritic repeats are found in polysaccharides. To det...
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Orthogonal ligation of free peptides
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Orthogonal segment ligation
