In our previous study, we found that the open reading frame bl0675 in the genome of Bifidobacterium longum subsp. longum isolated from human feces encoded a novel putative fimbrial protein, was highly polymorphic, and had five variants (A, B, C, D, and E types). The aim of this study was to evaluate the affinity of these variants to porcine colonic mucins (PCMs). Protein-binding properties were...

Phylogenetic comparative methods (PCMs) use data on species traits and phylogenetic relationships to shed light on evolutionary questions. Recently, Smaers and Vinicius suggested a new PCM, Independent Evolution (IE), which purportedly employs a novel model of evolution based on Felsenstein's Adaptive Peak Model. The authors found that IE improves upon previous PCMs by producing more accurate e...

We present a web server for pair-wise alignment of membrane protein sequences, using the program AlignMe. The server makes available two operational modes of AlignMe: (i) sequence to sequence alignment, taking two sequences in fasta format as input, combining information about each sequence from multiple sources and producing a pair-wise alignment (PW mode); and (ii) alignment of two multiple s...

Investigating properties of phase change materials (PCMs) is an important issue due to their extensive use in heat storage systems and thermal regulation devices. Improvement the efficiency such should be based on a better knowledge microscopic mechanisms governing rheological characteristics PCMs. This may accomplished by molecular simulations aforementioned quantities linkage with macroscale ...

Most concrete employs organic phase change materials (PCMs), although there are different types available for more specialised use. Organic PCMs the material of choice due to their greater heat fusion and lower cost in comparison other PCMs. Phase transition an example latent storage (LHSMs) that may store or release thermal energy at certain temperatures. A occurs when a solid changes from sta...