HLH was first described by Farquhar and Claireaux in 1952 as a familial disease [1]. Interestingly in their cases hemophagocytosis, which has given the disease its name, could not be found during lifetime but was prominent on autopsy. Familial hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (FHLH) is an autosomal recessive disorder with an estimated frequency of 0.12/100 000 children per year [2]. Several g...

Mass attenuation coefficients and partial photon interactions have been calculated theoretically at incident photon energy 1 Kev to 100 GeV for garnet series of gemstones (Grosaularite (GS1), Pyrope(GS2), Spessarlite(GS3), Almandine(GS4), Uvarovite(GS5) and Androdite(GS6) using XCOM software [1]. The values of these parameters have been found to change significantly with incident photon energy ...

A laboratory study was undertaken to assess the optimal conditions for biodegradation of Bombay High (BH) crude oil. Among 130 oil degrading bacterial cultures isolated from oil contaminated soil samples, Micrococcus sp. GS2-22, Corynebacterium sp. GS5-66, Flavobacterium sp. DS5-73, Bacillus sp. DS6-86 and Pseudomonas sp. DS10-129 were selected for the study based on the efficiency of crude oil...

Herbicide phosphinothricin (PPT) inhibits glutamine synthetase (GS), a key enzyme in nitrogen assimilation, thus causing ammonia accumulation, glutamine depletion and eventually plant death. However, the growth response of Lotus corniculatus L. plants immersed in solutions with a broad range of PPT concentrations is biphasic, with pronounced stimulating effect on biomass production at concentra...

MOTIVATION The growing availability of genome-scale datasets has attracted increasing attention to the development of computational methods for automated inference of functional similarities among genes and their products. One class of such methods measures the functional similarity of genes based on their distance in the Gene Ontology (GO). To measure the functional relatedness of a gene set, ...

Gene selection is to detect the most significantly expressed genes under different conditions expression data. The current challenge in gene selection is the comparison of a large number of genes with limited patient samples. Thus it is trivial task in simple statistical analysis. Various statistical measurements are adopted by filter methods applied in gene selection studies. Their ability to ...

The 26 kilodalton, isoelectric point 6.3 and 6.5 (Gs1 and Gs2) polypeptides that increase in barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) roots during salt stress were isolated and identified. Both Gs1 and Gs2 had high sequence similarity to germin, a protein that increases significantly in germinating wheat seeds. Like germin, Gs1 and Gs2 were resistant to proteases and were glycosylated. Immunoblots were prob...

Unlike maize and wheat, where artificial selection is associated with an almost uniform increase in seed or grain size, domesticated rice exhibits dramatic phenotypic diversity for grain size and shape. Here we clone and characterize GS3, an evolutionarily important gene controlling grain size in rice. We show that GS3 is highly expressed in young panicles in both short- and long-grained variet...

Glycoconjugate vaccine is composed of polysaccharides (PSs) covalently linked with carrier protein. Glycosylation site selection, as a significant factor leading to heterogeneities of glycoconjugate structure, draws more and more attentions for its impact on the immunogenicity of glycoconjugate vaccine. To elucidate the relationship between glycosylation connectivity and immunogenicity of glyco...