Analytical ultracentrifugation is a free solution technique with no supplementary immobilization, columns or membranes required, and can be used to study self-association and hetero-interactions, stoichiometry, reversibility and interaction strength across a very large dynamic range (dissociation constants from 10(-12) M to 10(-1) M). In the present paper, we review some of the advances that ha...

The sterile alpha motif (SAM) domain is a protein interaction module that is present in diverse signal-transducing proteins. SAM domains are known to form homo- and hetero-oligomers. The crystal structure of the SAM domain from an Eph receptor tyrosine kinase, EphB2, reveals two large interfaces. In one interface, adjacent monomers exchange amino-terminal peptides that insert into a hydrophobic...

INTRODUCTION Hetero-aggressive behaviour in patients with mental disorders is frequent and requires special skills of doctors and other medical staff in order to urgently protect the patient and indicate hospitalization. OBJECTIVE The objective of this paper was to examine the frequency of the most common diagnostic categories in psychiatric patients with hetero-aggressive behaviour. The seco...

The archaeal and eukaryal clamp-loader and clamp proteins were investigated with the evolutionary trace method. The molecular phylogeny of the proteins suggested that the hetero-pentameric complex of the archaeal clamp-loader with two subunits (RFCL and RFCS) was not a preserved ancestral type, but a degenerated version of the eukaryal complex of five subunits (RFC1-5). The evolutionary trace o...

The present article reviews theoretical concepts that can contribute to the analysis of construction gender identity in interaction, moving on from heteronormativity, understood as normalization heterosexuality only, or more, legitimate form sexuality. Identity is discussed together with face, rapport and (im)politeness a discursive approach (van der Bom & Mills, 2015). It argued face build...

The fuzzy morphological associative memories (FMAM) have many attractive advantages, but their recall effects for hetero associative memories are poor. This shortcoming impedes the application of hetero-FMAM. Aiming at the problem, and inspired by the unified framework of morphological associative memories, a new method called no rounding reverse fuzzy morphological associative memories (NRFMAM...

We report the tailoring of the electronic structures of various structural phases of phosphorene (α-P, β-P, γ-P and δ-P) based homo- and hetero-bilayers through in-plane mechanical strains, vertical pressure and transverse electric field by employing density functional theory. In-plane biaxial strains have considerably modified the electronic bandgap of both homo- and hetero-bilayers while vert...

Orthologous proteins, form due to divergence of parental sequence, perform similar function under different environmental and biological conditions. Amino acid changes at locus specific positions form hetero-pairs whose role in BLOCK evolution is yet to be understood. We involve eight protein BLOCKs of known divergence rate to gain insight into the role of hetero-pairs in evolution. Our procedu...

Mobile Crowd Sensing (MCS) is a new paradigm which takes advantage of pervasive smartphones to efficiently collect data, enabling numerous novel applications. To achieve good service quality for a MCS application, incentive mechanisms are necessary to attract more user participation. Most of existing mechanisms apply only for the offline scenario where all users’ information are known a priori....

Hetero-nanoparticles represent a new class of nanomaterials exhibiting intriguing multifunctional and collective properties which could find applications in photovoltaics, fuel-cell catalysis, medical imaging and therapy, and electronics. In this paper, we report a novel polymer-single-crystal-templating (PSCryT) approach for the controllable synthesis of hetero-nanoparticles. 2D polymer single...