The proteomic composition of the Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana) Golgi apparatus is currently reasonably well documented; however, little is known about the relative abundances between different proteins within this compartment. Accurate quantitative information of Golgi resident proteins is of great importance: it facilitates a better understanding of the biochemical processes that take pla...

Measuring changes in protein or organelle abundance in the cell is an essential, but challenging aspect of cell biology. Frequently-used methods for determining organelle abundance typically rely on detection of a very few marker proteins, so are unsatisfactory. In silico estimates of protein abundances from publicly available protein spectra can provide useful standard abundance values but con...

background: the phylogenetic location of chinese spirometra sparganum isolates remains unclear. the aim of this study was to explore the phylogenetic location of the spirometra sparganum isolates from china. methods: the 28s ribosomal dna (rdna) d1 sequences of 14 spirometra sparganum isolates collected from thirteen locations in china were analyzed by using neighbor-joining (nj), maximum parsi...

background: the objectives of our research were to search for leishmania species in rodents in fars province, south of iran, and to compare molecular with conventional methods for detecting these para-sites. methods: rodents were captured using live traps and screened for leishmania species using molecular and conventional methods, including the taking of smears from each ear. nested pcr was em...

objectives: this current research was conducted in order to analyze the molecular characterization of isolated cryptosporidium spp. in the southwest of iran. materials and methods: in this survey, 390 fecal samples were collected from immunocompromised individuals and children under five-years-of-age. parasitic infection was evaluated using wet mount preparation, formalin ether, a modified acid...

in the present study, the diversity of trichoderma spp. was investigated in alkaline pistachio soils at different geographic area in kerman province, iran. a total of 161 trichoderma isolates were obtained and identified at the species level by analysis of their morphological characters and sequence analysis of their internal transcribed spacer regions of the rrna cluster and tef1 genes as phyl...

b a ckground: cutaneous leishmaniasis due to leishmania major is a serious and increasing problem affecting manyrural areas of 17 out of 31 provinces in iran. little is known about sand fly fauna and leishmaniases in eastern iran and no study has been carried out in sarbisheh county. the aim of this study was to determine sand flies composi- tion and probable leishmania infection to find the pr...

The critical importance of controlling the size and number of intracellular organelles has led to a variety of mechanisms for regulating the formation and growth of cellular structures. In this review, we explore a class of mechanisms for organelle growth control that rely primarily on the cytoplasm as a 'limiting pool' of available material. These mechanisms are based on the idea that, as orga...