For novel biotechnology-based termite control, we developed a cellulose bait containing freeze-dried genetically engineered yeast which expresses a protozoacidal lytic peptide attached to a protozoa-recognizing ligand. The yeast acts as a 'Trojan-Horse' that kills the cellulose-digesting protozoa in the termite gut, which leads to the death of termites, presumably due to inefficient cellulose d...

Alteromonas-like strains KMM 241(T) and KMM 642, isolated from marine invertebrate specimens, were investigated to clarify their taxonomic position. The novel isolates were aerobic, Gram-negative, motile, slightly halophilic and heterotrophic and hydrolysed polysaccharides. They did not hydrolyse urea, gelatin or casein and produced acid weakly from carbohydrates. The DNA G + C content ranged b...

The Venus flytrap digests and absorbs its prey, but how does it coordinate digestion and absorption to maximise the efficiency of this highly evolved mechanism? A new study that combines direct recordings from cells within the trap along with molecular characterization of nutrient transport reveals a complex and coordinated suite of mechanisms that underlie this elegant process.

medicines and of the methods of preparing and prescribing them, with a sketch of their action, physiological and therapeutic. There is a chapter on weights, measures, and pharmaceutical apparatus, another on the sources, selection and adulteration of drugs, including their active principles. The operations of pharmacy, crystallizing, decocting, digesting, distilling, &c., are fully and practica...

Resin coupled with m-aminophenylbornic acid was used to isolate a glycosylated component from homogenate of earthworm (Eisenia fetida). The fraction showed a single band on SDS-PAGE with a molecular weight of 34, 193 Da determined by mass spectroscopy. The N-terminal region is AQVCCPDI, different from those of earthworm fibrinolytic enzymes reported previously (Nakajima et al. 1993). This glyco...

Soluble soybean polysaccharides (SSPS) extracted from soybean cotyledons are acidic polysaccharides, and exhibited a pectin-like structure. After digesting galacturonan with polygalacturonase, two novel galacturonan (GN) fragments, which were directly linked to xylosyl oligosaccharides, were obtained. One consisted of (beta-D-Xyl)7 branched at the C-3 site of 1,4-linked (alpha-D-GalA)4, and the...

Acute pancreatitis is a serious and potentially fatal condition, caused by the pancreas self-digesting with its own accidentally activated enzymes. diagnosis based on combination of clinical, biological radiological evidence. The absence lipase elevation during acute extremely rare can sometimes make difficult therefore delay treatment. We will report case 27-year-old female patient, no previou...

The 6.10-Mb genome sequence of the aerobic chitin-digesting gliding bacterium Flavobacterium johnsoniae (phylum Bacteroidetes) is presented. F. johnsoniae is a model organism for studies of bacteroidete gliding motility, gene regulation, and biochemistry. The mechanism of F. johnsoniae gliding is novel, and genome analysis confirms that it does not involve well-studied motility organelles, such...