Phosphatidylglycerol functions as donor of the sn-glycerol 1-phosphate units in the synthesis in vitro of the 1,2-phosphodiester-linked glycerol phosphate backbone of the lipoteichoic acids of Bifidobacterium bifidum subsp. pennsylvanicum. The incorporation was catalysed by a membrane-bound enzyme system. After addition of chloroform/methanol the product formed coprecipitated with protein. The ...

This article presents the distribution of the dithiothreitol-based (DTT) redox activity of water-soluble airborne particulate matter (PM) from two urban sites in the city of Thessaloniki, northern Greece in four size ranges (<0.49, 0.49–0.97, 0.97–3.0 and >3 μm). Seasonal and spatial variations are examined. The correlations of the mass-normalized DTT activity with the content of PM in water-so...

For the precise assay of minute quantities of insulin in biological fluids, techniques using fibril formation (1) or paper chromatography (2), although specific for the insulin molecule, lack the required sensitivity. Methods based on the measurement in vivo of a fall in blood sugar in surgically modified rats (3) afford sensitivity, but lack both specificity and precision. In zvitro biological...

This investigation has sought to determine the significance of the wide range of extractable collagen fractions which appear to exist in growing connective tissues and to determine their position in the process of fibrogenesis. Carrageenin granulomata were induced in guinea pigs and, after injection of (14)C-glycine, this tissue and skin from the same animal were subjected to successive extract...

The biorefinery technology aiming at protein extraction is rising and identification of suitable plant biomass input with valuable compounds for needed. Forage crops have been evaluated by the Cornell Net Carbohydrate Protein System (CNCPS), result used as proxy extractable in a process. This serves helpful link between crop production refinery output; however, method has never validated. Such ...

A single injection of isoproterenol results, after a lag period of 20 hours, in a marked stimulation of DNA synthesis and cell proliferation in the mouse salivary gland. The incorporation of leucine-3H into three acidic nuclear protein fractions (nonhistone nuclear proteins) increases within 30 min following the administration of isoproterenol and does not return to control levels until 48 hour...

Deuterium to hydrogen ratios of 14 plant species from a salt marsh and lagoon were 55 per thousand depleted in deuterium relative to the environmental water. Carbon tetrachloride-extractable material from these plants was another 92 per thousand depleted in deuterium. This gave a fractionation factor from water to CCl(4) extract of 1.147. This over-all fractionation was remarkably constant for ...