The amino acid and lipide composition of a highly active toxohormone preparation (TH2) from human malignant tissues was investigated. Approximately 80 per cent of the TH: could be accounted for as polypeptide, with leucine, alanine, glutamic, and aspartic acid being present in the highest concentrations. The remaining ~0 per cent consisted largely of phospholipides. The TH~ fraction was divided...

Pitaya is one of the most important commercial cactus fruit. Pitaya fruits are easy to get injury during postharvest handling and storage. Pre-harvest and postharvest calcium treatments have been used to maintain flesh firmness and extend shelf life of many fruits. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effects of calcium treatments on maintaining pitaya fruit quality during cold storage. Pi...

With P-to-S converted waves recorded at seismic stations of the US Transportable Array we image the fine structure of upper mantle and transition zone (TZ) beneath the western US. We map the topographies of seismic discontinuities by stacking data by common conversion points along profiles. Systematic depth and amplitude measurements are performed not only for the well-known ‘410’ and ‘660’ int...

Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Oxford, John Radcliffe Hospital, Headington, Oxford OX3 9DS, UK Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Nebraska Medical Center, 985870 Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska 6198-5870, USA Department of Biology, The Johns Hopkins University, 3400 North Charles Street, Baltimore, Maryland 21218, USA Correspondin...

We would like to thank the editors of this volume, along with John Miller, Scott Page, and seminar participants at the Santa Fe Institute for helpful comments on earlier drafts of this paper. † PriceWaterhouseCoopers, 1301 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10019, [email protected] ‡ NBER and The Johns Hopkins University. Correspondence to Christopher Carroll, Department of Econom...

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The S-nitrosylated forms of certain proteins such as albumin have been thought to be circulating endogenous reservoirs of nitric oxide (NO) and may have potential as NO donors in therapeutic applications. In this study, we investigated the characteristics of R410C, a genetic variant of human serum albumin with two free thiols at positions 34 (Cys-34) and 410 (Cys-410), as a NO carrier via S-nit...

Machado-Joseph Disease (MJD) is the most prevalent autosomal dominantly inherited cerebellar ataxia. It is caused by an expanded CAG repeat in the ATXN3 gene, which translates into a polyglutamine tract within the ataxin-3 protein. Present treatments are symptomatic and do not prevent disease progression. As calpain overactivation has been shown to contribute to mutant ataxin-3 proteolysis, tra...

Using high-resolution stacks of precursors to the seismic phase SS, we investigated seismic discontinuities associated with mineralogical phase changes approximately 410 and 660 kilometers (km) deep within Earth beneath South America and the surrounding oceans. Detailed maps of phase boundary topography revealed deep 410- and 660-km discontinuities in the down-dip direction of subduction, incon...

In complement to the JDS4 traditional fish survey (TFS, mainly by electrofishing), a eDNA metabarcoding-based has been implemented within framework of monitoring program organized DNAqua-Net and in collaboration with INTERREG "MEASURES" program. Water samples were collected at 29 sites from source mouth Danube River, 18 tributaries. Two water (mean volume L per sample) each site filtered situ. ...