The replacement of terminal benzimidazole-pyridine binding units in the neutral di-tridentate segmental ligand L1 with phenanthroline in L10 reduces the number of torsional degrees of freedom by two units. Reactions of these ligands with trivalent europium or lutetium cations yield structurally similar self-assembled dinuclear triple-stranded [Ln₂(Lk)₃]⁶⁺ complexes, thus demonstrating that the ...

Many approaches had been reported to successfully reduce the transition temperature of FePt from A1 to L10 phase, though without detailed knowledge. In this work, we deposited the metastable AgPt layer adjacent to the Fe layer and addressed the importance of vacancies in the disorder–order transition of FePt at reduced temperatures on the basis of a kinetic diffusion model. The decomposition of...

Mycobacterium tuberculosis kills about 2 million people annually and antibiotic resistance is a cause of increased mortality. Therefore, development of new antituberculosis drugs is urgent for the control of widespread tuberculosis infections. For this purpose, we performed an innovative screen to identify new agents that disrupt the function of ribosomes in M. tuberculosis. Two bacterial ribos...

Ribosomal protein genes are often controlled by autoregulatory mechanisms in which a protein encoded in the operon can either bind to newly synthesized rRNA during rapid growth or to a similar target in its mRNA during poor growth conditions. The rplJL operon encodes the ribosomal L10(L12)4 complex. In Escherichia coli L10(L12)4 represses its translation by binding to the rplJL leader transcrip...

The pathogenic mechanisms of lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-induced lung injury have not been classified. This study examined the physiological changes after endotoxin inhalation and related those to features of pulmonary inflammation in mice. Pulmonary mechanics, histopathology, and bronchoalveolar lavage fluid (BALF) from BALB/c mice were analysed at different occasions (3, 24, 48 and 72 h) after i...

Pseudomonas monteilii is a versatile bacterium found in various niches. A newly isolated strain, P. monteilii QM, can effectively produce indigoids from indoles. Here we present a 5.76-Mb assembly of the P. monteilii genome for the first time. It may provide abundant molecular information for the transformation of aromatics.

Identified neurons from the abdominal ganglion of the marine mollusc Aplysia californica make specific transmitter-mediated synapses in dissociated cell culture. The cholinergic interneuron L10 makes synapses in vitro with one group of its follower cells, the left upper quadrant cells, and these connections exhibit the features of these synapses in vivo when the postsynaptic cells are plated wi...

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BACKGROUND The potential biofuel plant Jatropha curcas L. is affected by larvae of Archips micaceanus (Walker), a moth of the family Tortricidae. The hybrid Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) δ-endotoxin protein Cry1Ab/1Ac confers resistance to lepidopteran insects in transgenic rice. RESULTS Here, we report the production of a marker-free transgenic line of J. curcas (L10) expressing Cry1Ab/1Ac usi...

An Fe/Au monatomic multilayer, consisting of alternating single Fe and Au layers, has been studied by means of the self-consistent full-potential linearized augmented plane wave method. We show by total energy minimization that this artificial thin film is in the tetragonal L10 ordered structure with the ratio of the interlayer spacing to the intralayer lattice constant at 0.865. In this config...