background: familial idiopathic basal ganglia calcification (ibgc) is a rare neurodegenerative disorder which is usually transmitted as an autosomal dominant trait. ibgc is genetically heterogeneous and slc20a2, on chromosome 8p21.1–8q11.23, is the first gene found in ibgc-affected patients with varied ancestry. on the other hand, several candidate genes for ibgc on chromosome 2q37, including t...

Yield stress materials flow if a sufficiently large shear stress is applied. Although such materials are ubiquitous and relevant for industry, there is no accepted microscopic description of how they yield, even in the simplest situations in which temperature is negligible and in which flow inhomogeneities such as shear bands or fractures are absent. Here we propose a scaling description of the...

The interaction forces between nanoscale colloidal particles coated with end-grafted Lennard-Jones homopolymers are calculated using off-lattice Monte Carlo simulations in the NVT ensemble. The focus of this work is on grafted polymers that are of approximately the same size as the nanoparticle, a regime intermediate to the star-polymer and Derjaguin limits. The effects of chain length (N), nan...

background: fragile histidine triad protein (fhit), as a known tumor suppressor protein, has been proposed to play crucial role in inhibiting p53 degradation by mdm2. studies have confirmed fhit interaction with p53 or mdm2, although functional interacting domains of fhit with mdm2 and/or p53 are not completely defined. thus, through determining the significant structural interacting domains of...

we have investigated the effect of theophylline on the kinetics of the catalytic subunit of protein kinase and related factors in lung tissue. the results show that the point of highest concentration of the c subunit of protein kinase which is active in casein phosphorylation is at 3h of incubation time, but in the presence of 100 ilg/ inl and 10µg/ml theophylline, this is shifted to i.s and 2....

background: the purpose of this study was to clone, express, and purify a novel multidomain fusion protein of micobacterium tuberculosis (mtb) in a prokaryotic system. methods: an hspx/esxs gene construct was synthesized and ligated into a pgh plasmid, e. coli top10 cells were transformed, and the vector was purified. the vector containing the construct and pet-21b (+) plasmid were digested wit...

Using the entire data sample of 980 fb−1 collected at or near ϒ(4S) resonance with Belle detector operating KEKB asymmetric-energy e+e− collider, we report measurement mass, width, and branching ratios Λc(2625)+ charmed baryon. The mass difference between Λc+ is measured to be M(Λc(2625)+)−M(Λc+)=341.518±0.006±0.049 MeV/c2. upper limit on width Γ(Λc(2625)+)<0.52 MeV/c2 90% confidence level. Bas...

conclusions the growth rate of information in bioinformatics databases could facilitate studies of live organisms prior to observation studies. two different protein classes could be causative agents of one disease. however, two related diseases from one disease group could consist of different protein classes. future research in the field of proteomics could allow modern insight to reshuffling...

antiproliferative protein (app) isolated from conditioned media of two androgen-independent prostatic carcinoma cell lines, pc3 and du-145 was shown to inhibit selectively cell proliferation of androgen-dependent prostate cancer cell line lncap in a dose dependent manner. this protein was further purified with hplc using hydrophobic interaction column (phenyl 5pw) and was used to study the modu...

background: sickle cell disease occurs due to a mutation in β chains and the substitution of valine instead of glutamate in the sixth position of the ß-chain that causes polymerization and vascular blockage. the aim of this study was to compare the serum c, s proteins and factor v leiden between sickle cell patients and the control group. materials and methods: in this case-control study, perfo...