Two new species, Seira coroatensis sp. nov. and Seira diamantinae sp. nov., from different areas of Caatinga Biome, Northeastern Brazil, are described and illustrated in this paper. Seira coroatensis sp. nov. share some similarities with Seira mendoncae Bellini & Zeppelini and Seira ritae Bellini & Zeppelini, but presents a very distinct pattern of setae on dorsal head and mesothorax. In the ot...

Surimyia reemeri sp. n. and Carreramyia jatai sp. n. are described from the Brazilian Amazon. The diagnosis of Surimyia Reemer is emended to include S. reemeri sp. n. that differs from other species of the genus mainly by the shape of male terminalia and basoflagellomere length. In addition, S. rolanderi Reemer is recorded for Brazil for the first time. The key to species of Carreramyia Doesbur...

Lamprempis Wheeler & Melander, 1901 is a Neotropical genus with 22 known species. Two species collected in the Brazilian state of Maranhão, L. longipenis sp. nov. and L. triangulata sp. nov., are here described and illustrated. A published Lamprempis key is modified to include the newly described species.

Oedichirus flammeus Koch, 1939 (Zhejiang, East China), O. damingensis sp. n. (Guangxi, South China), and O. pengzhongi sp. n. (Hainan, South China) are (re-)described and illustrated. The genus is now represented in China by eight described species, six of them are micropterous. The latest key to the Oedichirus species of China is modified to include the new species. 

Two new species, Pselaphodes linae Yin & Li, sp. n. (Hainan, Fujian) and Pselaphodes shii Yin & Li, sp. n. (Hainan) are described from South China. Taiwanophodes minor Hlaváč is reported from outside Taiwan for the first time. Illustrations of major diagnostic features are provided for all treated taxa. The latest key to Chinese Pselaphodes is modified to include the new species.

Morimotoidius cavicola sp. n. is described and illustrated from a limestone cave called Guanfeng Dong in Yichun City of western Jiangxi Province, China. It is the second hypogean and highly morphologically modified species of the genus Morimotoidius recorded in China. M. cavicola sp. n. is easily recognized by its shorter pronotum which is less expanded medially than that in M. zhushandong Pang...

Fe-type nitrile hydratase (NHase) from Rhodococcus sp. N771 has a novel non-heme iron active center with two post-translationally modified cysteine residues, cysteine-sulfenic and -sulfinic acids. The modified residues are involved in the sequence motif, Cys-Xxx-Leu-Cys-Ser-Cys (Xxx = Ser(Fetype)/Thr(Co-type)), which is conserved among all known NHases as well as in the homologous enzyme, thioc...

Micro-domains of modified surface potential (SP) were created on hydroxyapatite films by direct patterning by mid-energy focused electron beam, typically available as a microprobe of Scanning Electron Microscopes. The SP distribution of these patterns has been studied on sub-micrometer scale by the Kelvin Probe Force Microscopy method as well as lysozyme adsorption. Since the lysozyme is positi...

In order to verify the protein enriched from pooled human sera to be a lung-specific protein surfactant protein-D (SP-D), we performed peptide mass fingerprinting (PMF)-based protein identification. MASCOT search results of the obtained PMF unequivocally demonstrated that it is identical to human SP-D. Meanwhile, we performed MALDI-QIT-TOF mass spectrometry-based N-glycomic analysis of the reco...