Temperature-sensitive, unsaturated fatty acid (fabB) auxotrophs of Escherichia coli can grow at the restrictive temperature in the absence of unsaturated fatty acid in a medium with a high osmotic pressure. If a mutant culture was starved for unsaturated fatty acids and harvested just before the lysis started, the fatty acid composition of the cells was the same as that of cells grown until lat...

Clostridium acetobutylicum ATCC 824 gene CA_C0359 encodes a putative unsaturated rhamnogalacturonyl hydrolase (URH) with distant amino-acid sequence homology to YteR of Bacillus subtilis strain 168. YteR, like other URHs, has core structural homology to unsaturated glucuronyl hydrolases, but hydrolyzes the unsaturated disaccharide derivative of rhamnogalacturonan I. The crystal structure of the...

Drcarboxylic aciduria is a condition sometimes encountered during routine urine screening for inborn errors of metabolism [l] and may be due to ketosrs, a transient condition m some neonates [2] or a number of enzyme deficiencies mainly involving fatty acid metabolism or transport. Unsaturated dicarboxylic acids have also been reported m some of these conditions. These compounds are usually det...

A new type of unsaturated poly ester-amide was prepared by melt polycondensation and characterized completely. Influence of heat treatment conditions and cross-linking content on mechanical and degradation properties of unsaturated polyester-amide were studied. Results suggested that the newly synthesized unsaturated poly(ester-amide) possessed good heat stabilization properties. Mechanical...

The development of sustainable feed ingredients for monogastric livestock is nowadays considering insect meals and oils to replace or supplement conventional feedstuffs. Although the regulation on use products differs among countries resulting in restrictions diets meat producers, global research exploring all strengths weaknesses their inclusion. Therefore, whereas scientific literature has ex...

The research work comprising genetic studies for oil, fatty acid profile, seed cotton yield and lint percentage in eight parental lines (SLH-284, CIM-446, CIM-473, CIM-496, CIM-499, CIM-506, CIM-554, CIM-707) and their F3 populations was carried out during 2011 and 2012 at The University of Agriculture, Peshawar and Nuclear Institute for Food and Agriculture, Peshawar Pakistan. The genetic pote...

A Monte Carlo dynamics (MCD) scheme has been applied in a study of the effects of unsaturated double bonds on the internal conformational dynamics and orientational order of hydrocarbon chains arranged in a monolayer on the surface of an impenetrable interface. The MCD algorithm makes use of the high coordination {2 1 0) lattice for the representation of both sp3 and sp2 valence states of the c...

BACKGROUND C282Y hereditary haemochromatosis is an appropriate condition for population screening. Transferrin saturation, the best screening test to date, is relatively expensive, labour intensive, and cannot be automated. Unsaturated iron binding capacity is a surrogate marker of transferrin saturation and its measurement can be automated. AIMS To evaluate a screening strategy for C282Y her...