Phosphorus availability is limited in many natural ecosystems. Plants adapt to phosphate (Pi) deficiency by complex molecular processes. There is growing evidence suggesting that transcription factors are key components in the regulation of these processes. In this study, we characterized the function of ZAT6 (zinc finger of Arabidopsis 6), a cysteine-2/histidine-2 zinc finger transcription fac...

We present an in-depth study of masses and decays of excited scalar and pseudoscalar [Formula: see text] states in the Extended Linear Sigma Model (eLSM). The model also contains ground-state scalar, pseudoscalar, vector and axial-vector mesons. The main objective is to study the consequences of the hypothesis that the [Formula: see text] resonance, observed a decade ago by the BES Collaboratio...

Molecules of 5-methyl-2-phenyl-6,7-dihydrobenzo[h]pyrazolo[1,5-a]quinazoline, C21H17N3, (I), are linked into chains by a combination of a C-H...pi(arene) hydrogen bond and a pi-pi stacking interaction; in the closely related 5-methyl-2-(4-methylphenyl)-6,7-dihydrobenzo[h]pyrazolo[1,5-a]quinazoline, C22H19N3, (II), there are no hydrogen bonds and the molecules are linked into centrosymmetric dim...

Structures are reported here for eight further substituted N-aryl-2-chloronicotinamides, 2-ClC(5)H(3)NCONHC(6)H(4)X-4'. When X = H, compound (I) (C(12)H(9)ClN(2)O), the molecules are linked into sheets by N-H...N, C-H...pi(pyridyl) and C-H...pi(arene) hydrogen bonds. For X = CH(3), compound (II) (C(13)H(11)ClN(2)O, triclinic P1 with Z' = 2), the molecules are linked into sheets by N-H...O, C-H....

Laser induced fluorescence spectrum of NiBr in the visible region between 604 and 666 nm has been recorded and analyzed. Fourteen bands belonging to three electronic transition systems, namely, [15.1] (2)Delta(52)-X (2)Pi(32), [15.1] (2)Pi(32)-X (2)Pi(32), and [14.0] (2)Delta(52)-X (2)Pi(32) have been observed. Spectra of isotopic molecules were also observed and analyzed. Detailed analysis of ...

Phosphoinositides (PI) are important signaling molecules involved in the regulation of vesicular trafficking. We found that phosphatidylinositol 4-phosphate (PI4P) and phosphatidylinositol 4,5-biphosphate [PI(4,5)P(2)] increase the secretory response triggered by 10 mum Ca(2+) in streptolysin-O-permeabilized insulin-secreting INS-1E cells. In addition, nutrient-induced exocytosis was diminished...

Phosphoinositides serve as address labels for recruiting peripheral cytoplasmic proteins to specific subcellular compartments, and as endogenous factors for modulating the activity of integral membrane proteins. Phosphatidylinositol 4,5-bisphosphate (PI(4,5)P(2)) is a plasma-membrane (PM)-specific phosphoinositide and a positive cofactor required for the activity of most PM channels and transpo...

On a regular tetrahedron in spherical space there exist the finite number of simple closed geodesics. For any pair coprime integers $(p,q)$ it was found numbers $\alpha_1$ and $\alpha_2$ depending on $p$, $q$ satisfying inequalities $\pi/3< \alpha_1 < \alpha_2 2\pi/3$ such that with faces angle $\alpha \in \left( \pi/3, \right)$ exists unique, up to rigid motion tetrahedron, geodesic type $(p,q...