OCCURRENCE OF ACYLATED TREHALOSES IN NOCARDIA

The Occurrence of Nocardia Species among Patients with Pulmonary Infection

Method: Three hundred and twenty-nine patients were included in this study during the period from October 2004 to January 2006. The patients were examined for the presence of acid-fast bacilli. Thin bacterial smears were prepared and stained by Ziehl Neelsen (ZN) stain. Two tubes of the Lowenstein-Jensen (LJ) medium were inoculated with 20 μl of the neutralized sputum sample that was obtained f...

Recombination between Nocardia Erythropolis and Nocardia Canicruria.

Adams, James N. (University of South Dakota, Vermillion). Recombination between Nocardia erythropolis and Nocardia canicruria. J. Bacteriol. 88:865-876. 1964.-Nutritionally complementary auxotrophic mutants derived from Nocardia erythropolis did not yield prototrophic recombinants when progeny from mixed cultures or newly mixed strains were inoculated onto minimal medium. Similarly, complementa...

The occurrence of SSPE in Iran

Metabolism of N-Acylated-Dopamine

N-oleoyl-dopamine (OLDA) is a novel lipid derivative of dopamine. Its biological action includes the interaction with dopamine and the transient receptor potential vanilloid (TRPV1) receptors. It seems to be synthesized in a dopamine-like manner, but there has been no information on its degradation. The aim of the study was, therefore, to determine whether OLDA metabolism proceeds the way dopam...

Structure determination of acylated proteins.

In conclusion, our results show that inhibitors of acylation may be developed on the basis of analogues of myristic acid. Such inhibitors inhibit not only the N-myristoyl transferase activity, but also acylation of proteins in intact cells. They are also able to inhibit virus acylation. Preliminary results show that they inhibit HIV release from infected H9 cells in culture and therefore may be...