Lipases are promising enzymes that catalyze the hydrolysis of triacylglycerol ester bonds at the oil/water interface. Apart from allowing biocatalyst reuse, immobilization can also affect enzyme structure consequently influencing its activity, selectivity, and stability. The lipase from Penicillium sp. section Gracilenta (CBMAI 1583) was successfully immobilized on supports bearing butyl, pheny...

Large, atypical peripheral ossifying fibromas are known as giant peripheral ossifying fibromas.  These lesions have often been associated with heterogeneous clinical and radiographic characteristics subsequently leading to their misdiagnosis.  Biopsies have been the gold standard for the diagnosis of such lesions.  This study reports on an acute presentation of giant peripheral ossifying fibrom...

Background & Importance: Hydatid disease of the spine is rare but constitutes approximately 50% of bone involvement cases in human hydatidosis. It is a severe condition associated with a high rate of morbidity, disability and mortality. Case Presentation: In the present paper, we report an intriguing case of cervical spinal hydatid disease mimicking traumatic burst fracture. Con...

The C-terminal V5 domain is one of the most variable domains in Protein Kinase C isoforms (PKCs). V5 confers isoform specificity on its parent enzyme through interactions with isoform-specific adaptor proteins and possibly through specific intra-molecular interactions with other PKC domains. The structural information about V5 domains in solution is sparse. The objective of this work was to det...

The removal mechanisms of three hormone mimicking organic compounds by nanofiltration (NF) membranes have been examined. Two NF membranes having different pore sizes were used in laboratory-scale nanofiltration experiments with feed solutions spiked with a hormone mimicking compound—nonylphenol, tertbutylphenol, or bisphenol A. Retention of the compounds was determined at various solution chemi...

In vitro evaluation of specific anti-Candida albicans sera antibodies based on synthetically prepared complement receptor 3-related protein (CR3-RP) mimicking the structure of native complement receptor 3 in a cohort of 72 patients with atopy and recurrent Candida vulvovaginitis (RVC) revealed effective humoral response against Candida CR3-RP. The most significant have been IgM and IgA isotype ...

round ligament leiomyoma of uterus is rare. it can be presented as inguinal swelling mimicking the inguinal hernia or lymph node. surgical excision is its curative treatment. definitive diagnosis is made by histopathological examination. a 32 year old pregnant patient having round ligament leiomyoma as diagnosed histopathologically in recep tayyip erdogan university hospital in 2014 was present...

In the present study, we fabricated an ultrasensitive sandwich-type electrochemical aptasensor for thrombin (TB) based on a triplex signal amplification strategy. The hemin/G-quadruplex horseradish peroxidase-mimicking DNAzyme (HRP-DNAzyme) as well as blocking reagent-horseradish peroxidase (HRP) and iron telluride nanorods (FeTe NRs) could simultaneously amplify the electrochemical signal of t...

Given a capacitated undirected graph G = (V,E) with a set of terminals K ⊂ V , a mimicking network is a smaller graph H = (VH , EH) that exactly preserves all the minimum cuts between the terminals. Specifically, the vertex set of the sparsifier VH contains the set of terminals K and for every bipartition U,K − U of the terminals K, the size of the minimum cut separating U from K − U in G is ex...

Eisosomes help sequester a subgroup of plasma membrane proteins into discrete membrane domains that colocalize with sites of endocytosis. Here we show that the major eisosome component Pil1 in vivo is a target of the long-chain base (LCB, the biosynthetic precursors to sphingolipids)-signaling pathway mediated by the Pkh-kinases. Eisosomes disassemble if Pil1 is hyperphosphorylated (i) upon ove...