Our previous study showed that approximately one-third of the nitrogen of 15N-labeled NO2 taken up into plants was converted to a previously unknown organic nitrogen (hereafter designated UN) that was not recoverable by the Kjeldahl method (Morikawa et al., 2004). In this communication, we discuss metabolic and physiological relevance of the UN based on our newest experimental results. All of t...

background: it has been claimed that by using different washing methods, the sperms can be separated according to size, motility, density, chromosomal content and surface markings and charge. these methods also reduce sperm chromatin deficiencies and screen the sperms before applying in assisted reproduction techniques. objective: this study compared simple density gradient methods and a combin...

‎let $g$ be a graph with vertex set $v(g)$ and edge set $x(g)$ and consider the set $a={0,1}$‎. ‎a mapping $l:v(g)longrightarrow a$ is called binary vertex labeling of $g$ and $l(v)$ is called the label of the vertex $v$ under $l$‎. ‎in this paper we introduce a new kind of graph energy for the binary labeled graph‎, ‎the labeled graph energy $e_{l}(g)$‎. ‎it depends on the underlying graph $g$...

Through a combination of selective extractions and molecular characterization techniques including Isoelectric Focusing Chromatography Electrospray Ionization Fourier-Transform Ion Cyclotron Resonance Mass spectrometry, structures diatom ( Phaeodactylum tricornutum ) coccolithophore Emiliania huxleyi )-associated biopolymers that are responsible for the distinct partitioning behavior between 21...

somatostatin analoges labeled with different radionuclides are able used for imaging and treatment of somatostatin receptor positive tumors. in this study tyr³-octreotide protected at lysine as an analoge of somatostatin was conjugated with bifunctional chelating agent 6-boc-hydrazinopyridine-3-carboxylic acid (boc-hynic) and after deprotecting of conjugate, purification was performed with prep...

The biodegradation of ring-14C- and methyl-14C-labeled paraquat by the soil yeast Lipomyces starkeyi was studied in vitro. It was found that the degradation of paraquat (acting as a sole source of culture nitrogen) resulted in the accumulation in the extracellular medium of radiolabeled acetic acid. The culture also evolved radiolabeled CO2. The results suggest that the degradation of paraquat ...

Cell lysates of acetate-grown Methanosarcina barkeri 227 were found to cleave acetate to CH4 and CO2. The aceticlastic reaction was identified by using radioactive methyl-labeled acetate. Cell lysates decarboxylated acetate in a nitrogen atmosphere, conserving the methyl group in methane. The rate of methanogenesis from acetate in the cell lysates was comparable to that observed with whole cell...