The reactivity of parthenolide (PRT), a natural sesquiterpene lactone from Tanacetum parthenium (Asteraceae), with human serum albumin (HSA) was studied by UHPLC/+ESI-QqTOF MS analysis after tryptic digestion of albumin samples after incubation with this compound. It was found that the single free cysteine residue, C34, of HSA (0.6 mM) reacted readily with PRT when incubated at approximately 13...

The specific activity of uridine diphosphate N-acetylglucosamine-4-epimerase increases during spherulation of Physarum polycephalum, a process that involves the synthesis of galactosamine walls. This increase is prevented by the addition of cycloheximide.

We have previously observed the apparent displacement of microfilaments over microtubules in the backbone structure of permeabilized flagellates of Physarum polycephalum upon addition of ATP (Uyeda, T. Q. E , and M. Furuya. 1987. Protoplasma.

Feverfew (Tanacetum parthenium L.) (Asteraceae) is a medicinal plant traditionally used for the treatment of fevers, migraine headaches, rheumatoid arthritis, stomach aches, toothaches, insect bites, infertility, and problems with menstruation and labor during childbirth. The feverfew herb has a long history of use in traditional and folk medicine, especially among Greek and early European herb...

Biomechanical Signaling Physarum polycephalum, a slime mold with one cell and no brain, is remarkable new model for understanding basal cognition. Its living material deforms its own structure to interact the objects around it. In article number 2008161, Michael Levin co-workers show that senses strain in substrate, using biomechanical signaling assess environment express preferences as directi...

Parthenium hysterophorus is a weed of global significance causing great losses in India. Health challenges recorded in humans and animals are serious. Its management requires a collective approach of government and non-government agencies. Present study focuses to measure the prevalence and severity of Parthenium hysterophorus and experiments were designed to study its germination, seed dispers...

The slime mould Physarum polycephalum is known to construct protoplasmic transport networks which approximate proximity graphs by foraging for nutrients during its plasmodial life cycle stage. In these networks, nodes are represented by nutrients and edges are represented by protoplasmic tubes. These networks have been shown to be efficient in terms of length and resilience of the overall netwo...

An acidic nucleolar phosphoprotein with a subunit M(r) of 70,000 was purified as an apparent dimer of 139,000 from isolated nuclei of the slime mold Physarum polycephalum. The protein was purified without the aid of strong dissociating agents after its selective phosphorylation in isolated nuclei by a polyamine-mediated reaction. Its amino acid composition resembled that of a nucleolar phosphop...