The partial specific adiabatic compressibilities of myosin subfragment-1 (S1) and heavy meromyosin (HMM) of skeletal muscle in solution were determined by measuring the density and the sound velocity of the solution. The partial specific volumes of S1 and HMM were 0.713 and 0.711 cm3/g, respectively. The partial specific adiabatic compressibilities of S1 and HMM were 4.2 x 10(-12) and 2.9 x 10(...

BACKGROUND Percutaneous full-endoscopic discectomy (PED) is being increasingly used because of its potential to minimalize soft-tissue damage and decrease hospital stay. PED using the interlaminar approach (PED-IL) at L4-L5 is performed by only a few surgeons. To the best of our knowledge, the safety and efficacy of PED-IL at L4-L5, without experience in PED via a transforaminal approach (PED-T...

avian infectious bronchitis is an acute and highly contagious disease that mainly causes respiratory symptoms in poultry. a number of serotypes and variants of the viral agent with poor cross-protection are the major problem to achieve desired immunity from vaccination. the s1 subunit of s glycoprotein (spike) is the major determinant of ibv so that a minor change in amino acid sequence of this...

We consider QCD-like theories with one massless fermion in various representations of the gauge group SU(N). The theories are formulated on R3 ×S1. In the decompactification limit of large r(S1) all these theories are characterized by confinement, mass gap and spontaneous breaking of a (discrete) chiral symmetry (χSB). At small r(S1), in order to stabilize the vacua of these theories at a cente...

We consider QCD-like theories with one massless fermion in various representations of the gauge group SU(N). The theories are formulated on R3×S1. In the decompactification limit of large r(S1) all these theories are characterized by confinement, mass gap and spontaneous breaking of a (discrete) chiral symmetry (χSB). At small r(S1), in order to stabilize the vacua of these theories at a center...

We show that negative-stain electron microscopy and image processing of nucleotide-free (apo) striated muscle myosin-2 subfragment-1 (S1), possessing one light chain or both light chains, is capable of resolving significant amounts of structural detail. The overall appearance of the motor and the lever is similar in rabbit, scallop and chicken S1. Projection matching of class averages of the di...

The interaction between myosin subfragment 1 (S1) and actin filaments after the photolysis of P3-1-(2-nitrophenyl)ethyl ester of ATP (caged ATP) was analyzed with a newly developed freezing system using liquid helium. Actin and S1 (100 microM each) formed a ropelike double-helix characteristic of rigor in the presence of 5 mM caged ATP at room temperature. At 15 ms after photolysis, the ropelik...

For 7H-furo[3,2-g][1]benzopyran-7-one (psoralen), intersystem crossing (ISC) rate constants have been computed. Employing the Fermi golden rule, the harmonic approximation, and a pure-spin Born-Oppenheimer basis, both direct and vibronic spin-orbit (SO) coupling has been taken into account. Necessary data on electronic excitation energies and potential energy hypersurfaces originate from correl...

We set S1 = R/2πZ throughout. Let (M,ω) be a symplectic manifold. A symplectic S1-action on (M,ω) is a smooth family ψt ∈ Symp(M,ω), t ∈ S1, such that ψt+s = ψt ◦ ψs for any t, s ∈ S1. One can easily check that the corresponding vector fields Xt ≡ d dtψt ◦ψ −1 t is time-independent, i.e., Xt = X is constant in t. We call X the associated vector field of the given symplectic S1-action. Note that...