A 104-kD protein was coimmunoprecipitated with the estrogen receptor from the flowtrough of a phosphocellulose chromatography of MCF-7 cell nuclear extract. mAbs to this protein identified several cDNA clones coding for the human 104-kD major vault protein. Vaults are large ribonucleoprotein particles of unknown function present in all eukaryotic cells. They have a complex morphology, including...

Introduction: Acinetobacter baumannii is associated with hospital-acquired infections. Outer membrane protein A of A.baumannii (AbOmpA) is a well-characterized virulence factor which has important roles in pathogenesis of this bacterium. Methods: Based on our PCR-sequencing of ompA gene in the clinical isolates, AbOmpA protein can be categorized into two types, named here type-1 and type-2. We ...

Vaults are very large oligomeric ribonucleoproteins conserved among a variety of species. The rat vault 3D structure shows an ovoid oligomeric particle, consisting of 78 major vault protein monomers, each of approximately 861 amino acids. Vaults are probably the largest ribonucleoprotein structures in eukaryote cells, being approximately 70 nm in length with a diameter of 40 nm--the size of thr...

User privacy and template security are major concerns in the use of biometric systems. These are serious concerns based on the fact that once compromised, biometric traits can not be canceled or reissued. The Fuzzy Vault scheme has emerged as a promising method to alleviate the template security problem. The scheme is based on binding the biometric template with a secret key and scrambling it w...

A cross-sectional study of one thousand and sixty-five children (508 boys and 557 girls) from the Watertown School System was done in order to determine whether there is a relationship between airway obstruction, palatal vault formation and malocclusion. The age range was 5 to 12 years old with a mean age of 8.5 years. Breathing pattern was based on the lip competency (seal) of each individual....

Auguste Fabre was a French contractor specialized in the construction of masonry vaults. He founded his company 1896 and patented different systems light economic vaults, among them one for tile built thousands vaults France, Belgium Algeria, some great importance, such as dome Petit Palais international exhibition Paris 1900, or Congo Museum Tervuren (Belgium). Historicism breeding ground howe...