SUMMARY Two-component signal transduction, featuring highly conserved histidine kinases (HKs) and response regulators (RRs), is one of the most prevalent signalling schemes in prokaryotes. RRs function as phosphorylation-activated switches to mediate diverse output responses, mostly via transcription regulation. As bacterial genomes typically encode multiple two-component proteins for distinct ...

We study the sum of many independent spike trains and ask whether the resulting spike train has Poisson statistics or not. It is shown that for a non-Poissonian statistics of the single spike train, the resulting sum of spikes has exponential interspike interval (ISI) distributions, vanishing the ISI correlation at a finite lag but exhibits exactly the same power spectrum as the original spike ...

HE red color of the cultivated tomato, Lycopersicon esculentum Mill. is due to T the carotenoid lycopene. LEROSEN et al. (1941) and ZECHMEISTER et al. (1941) first analyzed the carotenoids of yellow (rr) and tangerine (tt) strains, each of which differs from the red by a single recessive gene. MACKINNEY and JENKINS (1952), JENKINS and MACKINNEY (1953), and TOMES et al. (1953) have examined the ...

Textile industries release dangerous wastewater that contain dyes into the environment. Due to their toxic, carcinogenic and mutagenic nature, they must be removed before discharge. Liquid–liquid extraction has proven an efficient method for removal of these dyes. As extractants, deep eutectic solvents (DESs) have shown excellent results in recent years, as well presenting several green propert...

Currently, the reduction of reactive dyes present in the textile effluent is a big challenge due to the threat to the environment. Existing physical and chemical methods contains many drawbacks. In the present scenario microbial reduction pays much attention and current focus of research. Therefore, the present study isolated dye decolorizing bacterium Exiguiobacterium aurantiacum (TSL7) from a...

We conducted a comparative case-control analysis of stomach cancer and atrophic gastritis involving 427 cases with stomach cancer, 1414 cases with atrophic gastritis, and 3014 control subjects based on a questionnaire survey conducted for the subjects who received gastroscopic examination at Aichi Cancer Center Hospital from April 1985 to March 1989. The risk of atrophic gastritis in both males...