The sequence of the fusion (F) glycoprotein of turkey rhinotracheitis virus (TRTV) has been deduced from cDNA clones derived from oligo(dT)-selected infected cell RNA. The protein consists of 538 amino acids, the F2 and F1 subunits containing 102 (including the F2-F1 connecting peptide RRRR) and 436 residues, respectively. Each subunit has one potential N-linked glycosylation site. The protein ...

[reaction: see text] Computational methods were used to determine the structure, bonding, and aggregation states of oxiranyllithium in the gas phase and in THF solution, at 200 and 298 K. THF solvation was modeled by microsolvation with explicit THF ligands, forming a supermolecule that includes the oxiranyllithium aggregate and its first solvation shell. Because oxiranyllithium has a chiral ce...

Materials and Methods The enzyme pyrophosphate dependent phosphofructokinasc (PFP), considered to play an important role in sucrosc Forwal-cl ~ ~ r i m c ~ BI was designed l.rom 3 rcgion of high metabolism i n plants, comprises two protein subunits encodhomology idcntil'icd by comparison ol. know11 PFP gcnc cd by separate genes. Part of the P-subunit gene was used as sequences f'rom castor bean...

This paper analyzes how a firm should adjust its marketing expenditures and its price to defend its position in an existing market from attack by a competitive new product. Our focus is to provide usable managerial recommendations on the strategy of response. In particular we show that if products can be represented by their position in a multiattribute space, consumers are heterogeneous and ma...

Propene homopolymers and propene–ethene copolymers with small amount of ethene were synthesized using three catalyst systems [pCH3OPh2C(2,7-diBuFlu)(Cp)]ZrCl2/Me2HNPh][B(C6F5)4] (Cat I), [p-CH3OPh2C(2,7-diBuFlu)(Cp)]ZrCl2/[Ph3C][B(C6F5)4] (Cat II) and [p-CH3OPh2C(2,7-diBuFlu)(Cp)]ZrCl2/MAO (Cat III) in propene bulk phase. The activity of the catalyst was dependent on the formed ion pair: Cat I ...

A yellow-leaf seedling marker, r, was used to determine if there was pref er en tial chromosome pairing in a group of tetraploid southern highbush blueberry hybrids. Plants with four copies of r (no copies of R) fail to develop anthocyanins, and cotyledons, hypo co t yls, leaves, stems, and other vegetative tissues have a bright yellow-green color. In the hybrids that were studied, two genomes ...

DUX4 (Double Homeobox Protein 4) is a nuclear transcription factor encoded at each D4Z4 unit of a tandem-repeat array at human chromosome 4q35. DUX4 constitutes a major candidate pathogenic protein for facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy (FSHD), the third most common form of inherited myopathy. A low-level expression of DUX4 compromises cell differentiation in myoblasts and its overexpressio...

Hepatitis B e antigen (HBeAg) is a secreted version of hepatitis B virus (HBV) core protein that promotes immune tolerance and persistent infection. It is derived from a translation product of the precore/core gene by two proteolytic cleavage events: removal of the amino-terminal signal peptide and removal of the carboxyl-terminal arginine-rich sequence. Four RXXR motifs are present at the carb...