Three recombinant polypeptides, VP1-His, VP1-3N-His, and 3D2-His, were produced by Escherichia coli expression system. Recombinant VP1-His, VP1-3N-His, and 3D2-His were expressed as bands with molecular weights of 32, 38, and 30 kDa, respectively. These were purified by affinity chromatography using Ni-NTA Fast-flow resin and/or ion-exchange chromatography using DEAE-Sepharose Fast-flow resin. ...

Myocarditis and dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) are often caused by viral infections and occur more frequently in men than in women, but the reasons for the sex difference remain unclear. The aim of this study was to assess whether gene changes in the heart during coxsackievirus B3 (CVB3) myocarditis in male and female BALB/c mice predicted worse DCM in males. Although myocarditis (P = 4.2 × 10(-5...

Anionic lanthanide chloride clusters, Ln(n)Cl(3n+1)(-), were produced by electrospray ionization (ESI) of LnCl(3) in isopropanol, where Ln = La-Lu (except Pm); the clusters were characterized using a quadrupole ion trap mass spectrometer. High-abundance "magic number" clusters were apparent at n = 4 for the early Ln (La-Sm), and at n = 5 for the late Ln (Dy-Lu). Density functional theory comput...

pd capture processes at various energies have been analyzed based on solutions of 3N-Faddeev equations and using modern NN forces. The application of the Siegert theorem is compared to the explicit use of πand ρ-like exchange currents connected to the AV18 NN interaction. Overall good agreement with cross sections and spin observables has been obtained but leaving room for improvement in some c...

where Eel is the adiabatic electronic energy and ∆Xis = Xis−X◦ is are the 3N cartesian displacements with respect to the equilibrium X◦ is configuration, where i spans the atom indexes and s=x,y,z. This system can still be mapped on a set of 3N decoupled 1D harmonic oscillators by introducing the normal mode of vibration. We first start defining mass-weighted cartesian coordinates ua = √ mi∆Xis...

For all positive integers n, we prove the following divisibility properties: (2n + 3) ( 2n n ) ∣∣∣∣3(6n 3n )( 3n n ) and (10n + 3) ( 3n n ) ∣∣∣∣21(15n 5n )( 5n n ) . This confirms two recent conjectures of Z.-W. Sun. Some similar divisibility properties are given. Moreover, we show that, for all positive integers m and n, the product am ( am+bm−1 am )( an+bn an ) is divisible by m + n. In fact,...

We recently reported the synthesis and anti-inflammatory properties of a novel long chain polyunsaturated fatty acid (PUFA) with an oxygen atom in the beta-position, beta-oxa-21:3 n-3 (Z,Z,Z)-(octadeca-9,12,15-trienyloxy) acetic acid). Our data, from studies aimed at elucidating the mechanism of its action, show that pretreatment of human neutrophils with the beta-oxa-PUFA substantially depress...

Recently developed chiral nucleon-nucleon (NN) forces at next-to-leading order (NLO), that describe NN phase shifts up to about 100 MeV fairly well, have been applied to 3N and 4N systems. Faddeev-Yakubovsky equations have been solved rigorously. The resulting 3N and 4N binding energies are in the same range as found using standard NN potentials. In addition, low-energy 3N scattering observable...

In a series of papers, H.-C. Chan has studied congruence properties of a certain kind of partition function that arises from Ramanujan’s cubic continued fraction. This partition function a(n), is defined by ∑∞ n=0 a(n)q n = 1 (q;q)∞(q2;q2)∞ . In particular, he proved that a(3n + 2) ≡ 0 (mod 3). As Chan mentioned in his paper, it is natural to ask if there exists an analog of the rank or the cra...

We report the syntheses, electronic properties, andmolecular structures of a series of monoand dinuclear uranium(IV) hydrochalcogenido complexes supported by the sterically demanding but very flexible, single N-anchored tris(aryloxide) ligand (ArO)3N) 3 . The mononuclear complexes [((ArO)3N)U(DME)(EH)] (E 1⁄4 S, Se, Te) can be obtained from the reaction of the uranium(III) starting material [((...