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Differential Radiation Sensitivities of Arabidopsis Plants at Various Developmental Stages
Arabidopsis plants were exposed to γ-rays of 200 Gy at one vegetative and three reproductive stages such as 23, 30, 36, and 43 days after sowing the seeds (DAS). The plants irradiated at certain re...
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Using Efficient RBF Network to Identify Interface Residues Based on PSSM Profiles and Biochemical Properties
Protein-protein interactions play a very important role in many biological processes, for example, information transfer along signaling pathways, and enzyme catalysis. Recently, scientists tried to predict the...
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Construction of Recombinant Escherichia coli Strains for Production of Poly-(3-hydroxybutyrate-co-3-hydroxyvalerate)
Plastic wastes constitute a worldwide environmental problem, and the demand for biodegradable plastics has become high. One of the most impor tant characteristics of microbial polyesters is that they are therm...
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Production of Biodiesel Fuel by Transesterification of Rapeseed Oil
Fatty acid methyl esters (FAMEs) show large potential applications as diesel substitutes, also known as biodiesel fuel. Biodiesel fuel as renewable energy is an alternative that can reduce energy dependence on...
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Effect of Doxycycline-Regulated Chaperone Expression on Recombinant Protein Productivity in CHO Cells
Human thrombopoietin (hTPO) is a potential therapeutic glycoprotein for the amelioration of thrombocytopenia associated with chemotherapy, irradiation and bone marrow transplantation. Posttranslational modific...
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A Divergence in the Biosynthetic Pathway and a New Role for Vitamin B6
Studies on resistance of the fungus Cercospora nicotianae to singlet oxygen generating photosensitizers revealed new insights into the biological role of vitamin B6. Heterologous expression of a gene originally i...
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The Complete Sequence of the Cyanelle Genome of Cyanophora paradoxa: The Genetic Complexity of a Primitive Plastid
The completion of genome sequencing of the cyanoplasts (here still called cyanelles) of Cyanophora paradoxa and of other primitive plastids provides strong evidence in favor of a common origin for all plastid typ...
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The Role of Abscisic Acid in the Regulation of Gene Expression during Drought Stress
A subset of drought-induced genes are regulated by the plant hormone abscisic acid (ABA). The currently characterized ABA-induced genes fall into a number of different categories including hydrophilic genes, o...
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Molecular Aspects of Cytochrome P450 2E1 and Its Roles in Chemical Toxicity
Cytochrome P450 2E1, previously known as P450LM3a, P450j, P450ac, or P450alc, has received a great deal of attention in recent years because of its vital role in the activation of many toxic chemicals (Yang, et a...
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Modulation of Xenobiotic Metabolism and Toxicity by Dietary Chemical
Dietary and nutritional factors are known to influence the biotransformation of drugs and environmental chemicals. Early studies by Wattenberg (Wattenberg, 1971) demonstrated that rats on commercial rat chow h...
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Simulations of Molecular Mechanisms in Radiation Damage to DNA
The article reviews recent attempts to integrate the description of the molecular events in radiation damage to DNA. The stages of indirect damage include diffusion of reactive radicals produced by energy depo...
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Biosynthesis and Role of Phospholipids in Yeast Membranes
An understanding of the global regulation of phospholipid biosynthesis in S. cerevisiae has emerged from studies in a number of laboratories. R. Lester and his colleague, C. Waechter, provided the original bioche...
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Thermodynamics of Enzyme Folding and Activity: Theory and Experiment
The thermodynamic cycle--perturbation method is a new theoretical approach for predicting how alterations in molecular structure will change the thermodynamics of any of a large number of possible molecular pr...
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Molecular Interaction Between Riboflavin and Salicylic Acid Derivatives in Non Polar Solvents
Salicylate is one of the oldest synthetic drugs and remains a widely used medical agent as analgetic and antipyretic. It is commonly known that the hydrogen bonding of salicylates in a biological system is rel...
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Towards an Understanding of the Mechanism of Cytokinin Activity in Mercurialis annua L. Sex Differentiation
The sexual differentiation system of Mercurialis, a dioecious plant, constitutes an integrated eukaryotic system. We have previously shown that the staminal and carpellate sexual differentiation programs are pres...
