Health-promoting effects have been attributed to a number of Bifidobacterium sp. strains. These effects as well as the ability to colonise the host depend on secreted proteins. Moreover, rational design of protein secretion systems bears the potential for the generation of novel probiotic bifidobacteria with improved health-promoting or therapeutic properties. To date, there is only very limite...

We have isolated cDNA clones specific for Arabidopsis thaliana cytosolic ribosomal protein Sl 1 and plastid ribosomal protein CS17, both of which are encoded in the nuclear genome, through the use of the corresponding soybean and pea cDNAs as probes, respectively. The nucleotide sequences of all four cDNAs were determined. The amino acid sequences derived from these cDNA sequences show that the...

Bacterial conjugation is a process that is mediated either by a direct cell-to-cell junction or by formation of a bridge between the cells. It is often used to transfer DNA constructs designed in Escherichia coli to recipient bacteria, yeast, plants and mammalian cells. Plasmids bearing the RK2/RP4 origin of transfer (oriT) are mostly mobilized using the E. coli S17-1/SM10 donor strains, in whi...

In this supplemental material additional scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) and atomic force microscopy (AFM) measurements as well as NMR, optical spectroscopy and gas chromatography (GC) characterization of the ve model compounds are provided. For CPNP and CHNP the synthetic route is described. CONTENTS I. STM/AFM supporting experiments S4 A. AFM simulation for CPNP and CHNP S4 B. BPI adsorpt...

The GSI1, GSI2 (as well as the RIKEN2 and the corrected GSI2) measurements of the Coulomb Dissociation (CD) of B are in good agreement with the most recent Direct Capture (DC) Be(p, γ)B reaction measurement performed at Weizmann and in agreement with the Seattle result. Yet it was claimed that the CD and DC results are sufficiently different and need to be reconciled. We show that these stateme...

The experimental landscape for the Be+ p radiative capture reaction is rapidly changing as new high precision data become available. We present an evaluation of existing data, detailing the treatment of systematic errors and discrepancies, and show how they constrain the astrophysical S factor sS17d, independent of any nuclear structure model. With theoretical models robustly determining the be...

We investigated the patterns of intron conservation in eukaryotes for five different genes. The genes examined were ribosomal proteins L8, Sl4 and S17, along with elongation factor 2B and triose phosphate isomerase. 1ntron conservation for S14, S17, and triose phosphate isomerase was determined for 32 species representing the major branches of multicellular eukaryotes. For 25 conserved introns ...

Symposia Presentations S01 Stem Cells During Development ....................................................................................S5 S02 Left Right Patterning ......................................................................................................S6 S03 Organogenesis I .........................................................................................................