In the Persian Gulf, Acropora- dominated coral reefs have been damaged by global and local disturbances. Inversion of coral colonies mostly occur due to anchoring and fishing in many coral reefs, particularly those established nearby human societies, like the coral reef of Hengam Island, in the Persian Gulf. The short term growth rates (weight increment) of inversely and normally transplanted c...

A mass spectrometric method is described for the rapid mapping of linear epitopes in proteins that are bound by monoclonal antibodies. The method consists of three steps. In the first step, an antigen protein is digested by a proteolytic enzyme to produce an appropriate set of peptide fragments. In the second step, peptide fragments containing the linear epitope are selected and separated from ...

The N-terminal large fragments of staphylococcal nuclease (SNase), SNase110 (1-110 residues), SNase121 (1-121 residues), and SNase135 (1-135 residues), and the fragment mutants G88W110, G88W121, V66W110 and V66W121 were studied by heteronuclear multidimensional NMR spectroscopy. Ensembles of co-existent native-like partially folded and unfolded states were observed for fragments. The persistent...

We previously demonstrated that the monoclonal antibody Mab6H8 raised against the second extracellular loop of the beta(2)-adrenoceptor (beta(2)-AR) had an agonist-like activity, mediated by the activation of L-type Ca(2+) channels by protein kinase A through the adenylyl cyclase pathway. We suggested that this Mab acts by stabilizing an active dimeric conformation of the beta(2)-AR. To substan...

background: the study evaluated qualitative pcr, primers 121-122 as a tool to follow up evolution parasite load of trypanosoma cruzi . methods: the study was conducted at the state university of maringa, in 2015. step 1, dilutions 1/10 were performed from t. cruzi -y strain to obtain preparations of 50,000-0.05 parasites/ml from which dna were extracted, quantified, and amplified. step 2, the e...