Poly(3-hydroxybutyrate) (PHB) synthase (PhaC1) is the key enzyme of PHB synthesis in Ralstonia eutropha and other PHB-accumulating bacteria and catalyzes the polymerization of 3-hydroxybutyryl-CoA to PHB. Activity assays of R. eutropha PHB synthase are characterized by the presence of lag phases and by low specific activity. It is assumed that the lag phase is caused by the time necessary to co...

Increased free radical production and hyperinsulinemia are thought to play a role in experimental and human atherosclerosis, but the relation between the 2 abnormalities has not been studied. In 23 healthy volunteers, we measured the susceptibility of circulating low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol particles to in vitro copper sulfate oxidation (measured as the lag phase) and cell-mediate...

In Nature microbial populations are subject to fluctuating nutrient levels. Nutrient abundance fluctuations are important for evolutionary and ecological dynamics in microbial communities since they impact growth rates, population sizes and microbial physiology. Here we use automated continuous-culture devices and single-cell imaging to show that when populations of Escherichia coli are subject...

In this article, the author has used fractional calculus to explain the wave nature of heat propagation as well as heat conduction at molecular level with dual phase lag; in this row he proposed dual phase lag heat equation of fractional order. Modified Adomian Decomposition Method and New Iterative Method are applied to obtain the approximate analytical solutions of the proposed model. Numeric...