Carbon recycling and desaturation and elongation of linoleate, alpha-linolenate and docosahexaenoate in ten fetuses and two nursing infants of chow-fed rhesus monkey mothers were studied in vivo using uniformly labeled tracer molecules and high precision mass spectrometry. Doses of [U-13C]-18:2n-6, [U-13C]-18:3n-3 or [U-13C]-22:6n-3 free fatty acids were infused intravenously to the adults, and...

Acyltransferases are key contributors to triacylglycerol (TAG) synthesis and, thus, are of great importance for seed oil quality. The effects of increased or decreased expression of ACYL-COENZYME A:DIACYLGLYCEROL ACYLTRANSFERASE1 (DGAT1) or PHOSPHOLIPID:DIACYLGLYCEROL ACYLTRANSFERASE (PDAT) on seed lipid composition were assessed in several Camelina sativa lines. Furthermore, in vitro assays of...

In 2010, Hei-Chi Chan introduced the cubic partition function a(n) in connection with Ramanujan’s cubic continued fraction. Chan proved that ∑ n≥0 a(3n+ 2)q = 3 ∏ i≥1 (1− q3n)3(1− q) (1− qn)4(1− q2n)4 which clearly implies that, for all n ≥ 0, a(3n+ 2) ≡ 0 (mod 3). In the same year, Byungchan Kim introduced the overcubic partition function a(n). Using modular forms, Kim proved that ∑ n≥0 a(3n +...

Novel tertiary branched tetra-amines, quaternary branched penta-amines, linear penta-amines and linear hexa-amines were distributed as the major polyamines in six obligately extremely thermophilic eubacteria belonging to Thermoleophilum, Bacillus or Hydrogenobacter. The major polyamine of Thermoleophilum album and Thermoleophilum minutum was identified as a quaternary branched penta-amine, 4,4-...

Iodine is an element of fascinating chemical complexity, and numerous hypervalent iodine compounds reveal vital value of applications in organic synthesis. Investigation of the synthesis and application of new type of hypervalent iodine compound has extremely significant meaning. Here, the formation of CsIn (n > 1) compounds is predicted up to 200 GPa using an effective algorithm. The current r...

A connected graph G = (V, E) is said to be (a, d)antimagic, for some positive integers a and d, if its edges admit a labeling by all the integers in the set {1, 2, . . . , |E(G)|} such that the induced vertex labels, obtained by adding all the labels of the edges adjacent to each vertex, consist of an arithmetic progression with the first term a and the common difference d. Mirka Miller and Mar...

Scalar three-body force and the properties of the three-nucleon system with the dressed-bag model for N N interaction. Abstract. A multi-component formalism is developed to describe three-body systems with nonstatic pairwise interactions and non-nucleonic degrees of freedom. The dressed-bag model for N N interaction based on the formation of an intermediate six-quark bag dressed by a σ-field is...

The present study examined the effect of repeated gestation and lactation on the levels of long-chain n-6 polyunsaturated fatty acids in rat milk fat, and examined whether such levels might be modulated by supplementing the diet of the lactating dams with either (g/kg) 50 safflower oil (SFO; containing 800 g 18:2n-6/kg), or 50 evening primrose oil (EPO; containing 720 g 18:2n-6 and 90 g 18:3n-6...