Abbreviations : HMDS, 1,1,1,3,3,3-hexamethyldisilazane; TMCS, trimethylchlorosilane; cholesterol, Cholest-5-en-3b-ol; oxysterols, cholesterol oxidation products; 7-ketocholesterol, cholest-5-en-3b-ol-7-one; cholestanetriol, cholestan-3b,5a,6b-triol; a-epoxycholesterol, cholestan-5a,6a-epoxy-3b-ol; 25-hydroxycholesterol, cholest-5-en-3b,25-diol; 7a-hydroxycholesterol, Cholest-5-en-3b,7a-diol; 7b...

Based on our initial design, we synthesized two series of coumarin ring-opening derivatives by the reactions of hydrolysis and methylation. Results of antifungal screening in vitro showed that the target compounds exhibited potent activity against the six common pathogenic fungi. Compounds 6b, 6e, 6g, 6i, 7b and 7c were identified as the most active ones, and the EC50 values of these active com...

OBJECTIVE To identify serotypes and susceptibility of S. pneumoniae strains from 48 children with invasive infections and 50 carriers. MATERIAL AND METHODS Typing was performed by the Quellung reaction and susceptibility by Kirby-Bauer and Etest according to CLSI standards. RESULTS Of 31 meningeal strains, serotypes 19F, 3, 6B, 14 and 23F were predominant. Resistance to penicillin and STX w...

Lectins extracted from corn (Zea mays L.) kernel with Tris-HCl buffer pH 7.5 were isolated from the crude extract by affinity chromatography on Sepharose 6B-N-acetyl-d-galactosamine and Sepharose 6B-methylalpha-d-mannoside, and also by lectin affinity chromatography using concanavalin A and Lens culinaris lectin as ligands. According to preferential monosaccharide specificity, salt-soluble lect...

PURPOSE To map the gene that causes brittle cornea syndrome (BCS). METHODS Five patients from four families, all of Jewish Tunisian origin, were recruited into the study. Four of the five patients had red hair. DNA from the five patients and 104 control chromosomes was typed with seven 16q polymorphic markers surrounding the hair color gene, MC1R. RESULTS A common haplotype in the homozygou...

Quenching probe PCR (QP-PCR) analysis was used to determine the frequency of ganciclovir (GCV) resistance among clinical isolates of human herpesvirus 6B (HHV-6B) obtained from patients with primary viral infection and viral reactivation. Forty-two HHV-6B clinical isolates were repeatedly recovered from 15 hematopoietic stem cell transplant (HSCT) recipients, and 20 isolates were recovered from...

Most of humanity is chronically infected with human herpesvirus 6 (HHV-6), with viral replication controlled at least in part by a poorly characterized CD4 T cell response. Identification of viral epitopes recognized by CD4 T cells is complicated by the large size of the herpesvirus genome and a low frequency of circulating T cells responding to the virus. Here, we present an alternative to cla...