Aerobic granular sludge (AGS) is a recent innovative technology and considered forthcoming biological process for sustainable wastewater treatment. AGS composed of the dense microbial consortium aerobic, anaerobic, facultative types bacteria. The mechanism formation its stability long-term operation still subject current research. On other hand, makes treatment in cost-effective way. However, o...

The interphase nucleus of the cells of several tissues of Lacandonia schismatica was studied using electron microscopy cytochemical and immunocytochemical methods. The EDTA staining procedure, preferential for RNP, contrasted the Lacandonia granules and perichromatin fibrils. These granules were found to be relatively resistant to RNAse hydrolysis, but they were easily digested if RNAse treatme...

We imaged and analysed the motion of single insulin secretory granules near the plasma membrane in live pancreaticβ-cells, from normal and diabetic Goto–Kakizaki (GK) rats, using total internal reflection fluorescence microscopy (TIRFM). In normal rat primary β-cells, the granules that were fusing during the first phase originate from previously docked granules, and those during the second phas...

The regulation of translation and mRNA degradation in eukaryotic cells involves the formation of cytoplasmic mRNP granules referred to as P-bodies and stress granules. The yeast Pbp1 protein and its mammalian ortholog, Ataxin-2, localize to stress granules and promote their formation. In Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Pbp1 also interacts with the Pab1, Lsm12, Pbp4, and Dhh1 proteins. In this work, w...

Eosinophils, leukocytes involved in allergic, inflammatory and immunoregulatory responses, have a distinct capacity to rapidly secrete preformed granule-stored proteins through piecemeal degranulation (PMD), a secretion process based on vesicular transport of proteins from within granules for extracellular release. Eosinophil-specific granules contain cytokines and cationic proteins, such as ma...

Two starch granule-bound proteins (SGP), SGP-140 and SGP-145, were preferentially associated with A-type starch granules (>10 microm) in developing and mature wheat (Triticum aestivum) kernels. Immunoblotting and N-terminal sequencing suggested that the two proteins were different variants of SBEIc, a 152-kD isoform of wheat starch-branching enzyme. Both SGP-140 and SGP-145 were localized to th...

A starch formulation of Bacillus thuringiensis Berliner is being developed as a component in a pest management system to control Ostrinia nubi/alis (Hubner). Palatability is one property of starch formulations which must be investigated; this study was done to identify materials that will cause O. nubi/alis larvae to feed readily on starch granules. A two-choice behavioral bioassay was develope...