Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection is a major worldwide problem. Chronic hepatitis C is recognized as one of the major causes of cirrhosis, hepatocellular carcinoma, and liver failure. Although new, directly acting antiviral therapies are suggested to overcome the low efficacy and adverse effects observed for the current standard of treatment, an effective vaccine would be the only way to certai...

Let G be a connected graph and g non-negative integer. A vertex set S of is called g-extra cut if G−S disconnected each component has at least g+1 vertices. The connectivity the minimum cardinality one cut. For two graphs G1=(V1,E1) G2=(V2,E2), strong product G1⊠G2 defined as follows: its V1×V2 edge {(x1,x2)(y1,y2)|x1=x2 y1y2∈E2; or y1=y2 x1x2∈E1; x1x2∈E1 y1y2∈E2}, where (x1,x2),(y1,y2)∈V1×V2. ...

Interferon is important for anti-viral defense of the host. The E2, NS3/4A, and NS5A proteins of hepatitis C virus (HCV) have recently been reported to confront anti-viral action induced by interferon. However, roles of the individual HCV proteins in anti-interferon action are still not well understood. We have isolated an HCV strain, HCV-K, from a patient with acute hepatitis. Nucleotide seque...

Human papillomavirus type 16 (HPV-16) DNA replicates episomally and requires two virally expressed proteins, E1 and E2. The E1 protein has both helicase and ATPase activities and is absolutely required for viral DNA replication. The E2 protein is a potent transcriptional activator and greatly increases viral DNA replication by colocalizing E1 to the origin of replication. Recently, we character...

The behavior of natural estrogens was examined by separately spiking 17β-estradiol (E2) and estrone (E1) into semicontinuous activated sludge reactors operated under aerobic, anaerobic and sequential anaerobic/aerobic conditions. Under aerobic and anaerobic conditions, E1 was formed from E2. The conversion of E1 to E2 was maximum conversion of E2 to E1 was higher than t E1 to E2. Overall, the d...

Hepatitis C virus (HCV) is a small enveloped virus whose genome is a RNA molecule encoding a polyprotein that is processed by cellular and viral proteases to produce the 3 structural proteins (the core protein C and the 2 envelope proteins E1 and E2) and the 6 nonstructural proteins (NS2, NS3, NS4A, NS4B, NS5A and NS5B). The HCV genome exhibits a significant genetic heterogeneity. HCV isolates ...

class Value case class NumV(n: Int) extends Value case class BoolV(b: Boolean) extends Value (Technically, we could encode booleans as integers, but in general we will want to separate out the kinds of values.) Booleans and Conditionals Types Extending the interpreter // helpers def add(v1: Value, v2: Value): Value = (v1,v2) match { case (NumV(v1), NumV(v2)) => NumV (v1 + v2) } def mult(v1: Val...

The pyruvate dehydrogenase (E1) and acetyltransferase (E2) components of pig heart and ox kidney pyruvate dehydrogenase (PDH) complex were separated and purified. The E1 component was phosphorylated (alpha-chain) and inactivated by MgATP. Phosphorylation was mainly confined to site 1. Addition of E2 accelerated phosphorylation of all three sites in E1 alpha and inactivation of E1. On the basis ...

Let G be a graph with vertex set V(G) and edge E(G), let d(u,w) denote the length of u−w geodesic in G. For any v∈V(G) e=xy∈E(G), d(e,v)=min{d(x,v),d(y,v)}. distinct edges e1,e2∈E(G), R{e1,e2}={z∈V(G):d(z,e1)≠d(z,e2)}. Kelenc, Tratnik Yero [Discrete Appl. Math. 251 (2018) 204-220] introduced notion an resolving dimension graph: A subset S⊆V(G) is if |S∩R{e1,e2}|≥1 for dimension, edim(G), minimu...

The transmembrane (TM) domains of hepatitis C virus (HCV) envelope glycoproteins E1 and E2 have been shown to play multiple roles during the biogenesis of the E1E2 heterodimer. By using alanine scanning insertion mutagenesis within the TM domains of HCV envelope glycoproteins, we have previously shown that the central regions of these domains as well as the N-terminal part of the TM domain of E...