alpha-Cyclodextrin specifically inhibited raw starch digestion by Bacillus subtilis 65 alpha-amylase. The raw starch digestibility and alpha-cyclodextrin-Sepharose 6B adsorbability of this alpha-amylase were simultaneously lost when the specific domain corresponding to the affinity site essential for raw starch digestion was deleted by proteolysis. Occurrence of the affinity site on raw-starch-...

Individually, the metabolic demands of digestion or movement can be fully supported by elevations in cardiovascular performance, but when occurring simultaneously, vascular perfusion may have to be prioritized to either the gut or skeletal muscles. Burmese pythons (Python molurus) experience similar increases in metabolic rate during the digestion of a meal as they do while crawling, hence each...

The family dinner is an important social event that contributes to children's growth as active citizens in their community. This sociological study uses both quantitative and qualitative methods to study the family meal and finds that this meal is strongly correlated with the development of social cohesion and strong relationships among family members. There are many obstacles to achieving the ...

It is somewhat ironic that an important finding concerned with cellulose biosynthesis in higher plants (1) appeared just before the paper in this issue of the Proceedings by Smant et al. (2) describing genes from a plant parasitic nematode that encode proteins that degrade cellulose. Cellulose is the most abundant polymer on the planet and is an essential component of the plant cell wall. Altho...

Panibacillus sp. strain JCM 10914 is a xylanolytic alkaliphile isolated from the gut of a soil-feeding termite. Its draft genome sequence revealed various genes for hydrolytic enzymes and will facilitate studies on adaptation to the highly alkaline gut environment and its role in digesting soil organic matter in the gut.

We investigate methods of using CRC32 for compressing Web URL strings and sharing of URL lists between servers, caches, and URL switches. Using trace-based evaluation, we compare our new CRC32 digesting method against existing Bloom filter and incremental CRC19 methods. Our CRC32 method requires less CPU resources, generates equal or smaller size digests, achieves equal collision rates, and sim...