We have studied the role of flavin adenine dinucleotide (FAD) in the in vivo assembly of peroxisomal alcohol oxidase (AO) in the yeast Hansenula polymorpha. In previous studies, using a riboflavin (Rf) autotrophic mutant, an unequivocal judgement could not be made, since Rf-limitation led to a partial block of AO import in this mutant. This resulted in the accumulation of AO precursors in the c...

Agarose (AP) from red algae has a long history as food ingredients in East Asia. Agaro-oligosaccharides (AO) derived from AP have shown potential prebiotic effects. However, the human gut microbes responsible for the degradation of AO and AP have not yet been fully investigated. Here, we reported that AO and AP can be degraded and utilized at various rates by fecal microbiota obtained from diff...

BACKGROUND Agent Orange (AO) was a mixture of phenoxy herbicides, containing several dioxin impurities including 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin (TCDD). Various military herbicides, including AO, were sprayed by the US military and allied forces for military purposes during the Vietnam War. This study was performed to identify the associations between the AO exposure and mortality in Korean...

BACKGROUND When performing catheter ablation of atrioventricular nodal reentrant tachycardia (AVNRT), it can be difficult to maintain a safe distance from the His recording site to avoid AV block in patients with a short distance between this recording site to the coronary sinus (CS) ostium (small triangle of Koch [TOK]). In this study, we sought to identify parameters predicting small TOK and ...

lic fraction, is a major member of the molybdenum hydroxylase family along with xanthine oxidase. AO plays an important role in the oxidation of endogenous and exogenous Nheterocyclic compounds as well as aliphatic and aromatic aldehydes. A typical endogenous substrate for AO is retinal, which is transformed to biologically active retinoic acid. In contrast to an electrophilic attack by microso...

The time-course of plasma angiotensinogen (Ao), elastase-alpha 1-protease inhibitor complex (EL alpha 1PI), antithrombin III (AT III) and C-reactive protein (CRP) have been investigated of six patients suffering from adult respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). The total plasma Ao level (active and inactive Ao) varied in individuals but was increased up to five-fold. An increasing amount of inac...

Numerical simulations of atmospheric turbulence and adaptive optics (AO) wavefront correction are performed to investigate the time scale for fringe motion in optical interferometers with spatial filters. These simulations focus especially on partial AO correction, where only a finite number of Zernike modes are compensated. The fringe motion is found to depend strongly on both the aperture dia...