Segmentation and classification of polarimetric SAR (PolSAR) imagery are very important for interpretation of PolSAR data. This paper presents a new object-oriented classification method which is based on Statistical Region Merging (SRM) segmentation algorithm and a two-level hierarchical clustering technique. The proposed method takes full advantage of the polarimetric information contained in...

Cytoplasmic dynein is a motor protein complex involved in microtubule-based cargo movement. Previous biochemical evidence suggests that dynein light chain subunits also exist outside the dynein complex. Here we show that the dynein light chain rp3 is present in both the cytoplasm and the nucleus. Nuclear rp3 binds to and assembles with the transcription factor SATB1 at nuclear matrix-associated...

Substitution of thymine with 5-bromouracil in DNA is known to change interaction between DNA and proteins, thereby inducing various biological phenomena. We hypothesize that A/T-rich scaffold/nuclear matrix attachment region (S/MAR) sequences are involved in the effects of 5-bromodeoxyuridine. We examined an interaction between DNA containing an intronic S/MAR sequence of the immunoglobulin hea...

Elastin is an extracellular matrix component with key structural and biological roles in elastic tissues. Interactions between resident cells tropoelastin, the monomer of elastin, underpin elastin's regulation cellular processes. However, nature tropoelastin–cell interactions contributions individual tropoelastin domains to these are only partly elucidated. In this study, we identified characte...

Treatment of gently prepared lysates of Escherichia coli with single-strand-specific endonuclease (SI or from mung beans) results in the release of about 90% of the DNA from membranes, as determined by the M band technique. The released DNA has an average molecular weight of about 1.2 X 10(8). Data obtained with endonuclease S1 fit a mathematical model in which substrate sites are at or near me...