Legionella organisms are environmental bacteria and accidental human pathogens that can cause severe pneumonia, termed Legionnaires' disease. These bacteria replicate within a pathogen-derived vacuole termed the Legionella-containing vacuole (LCV). Our understanding of the development and dynamics of this vacuole is based on extensive analysis of Legionella pneumophila. Here, we have characteri...

Sequence-based approach for motif prediction is of great interest and remains a challenge. In this work, we develop a local combinational variable approach for sequence-based helix-turn-helix (HTH) motif prediction. First we choose a sequence data set for 88 proteins of 22 amino acids in length to launch an optimized traversal for extracting local combinational segments (LCS) from the data set....

Intuitively, identification of nodes close to the network edge is key to the successful setup, and continued operation, of many sensor network protocols and applications. Many virtual coordinate constructions rely on the furthest set of nodes as beacons, and sensing applications may find useful the knowledge of the network edge. In this paper we propose local convex view (lcv) as a means to ide...

Leukocytoclastic vasculitis (LCV) is a neutrophilic inflammation of the blood vessels. LCV may present as a paraneoplastic syndrome occurring before, synchronously with, or after the diagnosis of malignancy. In this study, we report a unique case of multiple malignancies developing simultaneously in a patient with a long history of LCV. The patient was originally diagnosed with LCV and received...

Increased DNA-protein cross-linking (DPX) in circulating leukocytes has been proposed as a potential biomarker for exposure and genotoxic damage caused by inhalation of certain reactive chemicals, such as hexavalent chromium [Cr(VI)]. This study was designed to determine whether ingestion of a single dose of potassium dichromate alone [Cr(VI)] or potassium dichromate fully reduced to Cr(III) wi...

Dietrich W erner and Andreas Bernd Wolff Fachbereich Biologie, Botanisches Institut der Philipps-Universität Marburg, Karl-v.-Frisch­ straße, D-355 Marburg-L, Bundesrepublik Deutschland Z. Naturforsch. 42c, 537—541 (1987); received October 7, 1986 Glycine max, Root Hairs, Roots, Specific Proteins, Infection In root hairs from seedlings of Glycine max cultivars, isolated from the root system and...

In the peptidoglycan of Mycobacterium leprae, L-alanine of the side chain is replaced by glycine. When expressed in Escherichia coli, MurC (UDP-N-acetyl-muramate:L-alanine ligase) of M. leprae showed K(m) and V(max) for L-alanine and glycine similar to those of Mycobacterium tuberculosis MurC, suggesting that another explanation should be sought for the presence of glycine.

Soybean Mosaic Disease (SMD) is one of the most serious, devastating, and widespread diseases Glycine max (L.) Merry. caused by Virus (SMV). It more prevalent in low-lying ...

Improvement of Analytical Method for Propineb Residues in Glycine max (L.) Merrill and Pisum sativum L. using Deproteinization Process-Deproteinization,Dithiocarbamate,Propineb,Protein,Pulses

Coxiella burnetii is a gram-variable obligate intracellular bacterium which carries out its development cycle in the phagolysosome of eucaryotic cells. Ultrastructural analysis of C. burnetii, in situ and after Renografin purification, by transmission electron microscopy of lead-stained thin sections has revealed extreme pleomorphism as demonstrated by two morphological cell types, a large cell...