BACKGROUND In the food industry, the use of pectinase preparations with high pectin esterase (PE) activity leads to the release of methanol, which is strictly regulated in food products. Herein, a pectin-degrading enzyme (PDE) complex exhibiting low PE activity of three Aspergillus sojae ATCC 20235 mutants (M3, DH56 and Guserbiot 2.230) was investigated. Production of exo-/endo-polygalacturonas...

We examined the concentration-dependent blocking effects of intracellular Mg2+ on L-type Ca2+ channels in cardiac myocytes using the whole cell patch-clamp technique. The increase of L-type Ca2+ channel current (I(Ca)) (due to relief of Mg2+ block) occurred in two temporal phases. The rapid phase (runup) transiently appeared early (<5 min) in dialysis of the low-Mg2+ solution; the slow phase be...

Given two sequences A = a 1 a 2 : : :a m and B = b 1 b 2 : : :b n , m n, over some alphabet , a common subsequence C = c 1 c 2 : : :c l of A and B is a sequence that can be obtained from both A and B by deleting zero or more (not necessarily adjacent) symbols. Finding a common subsequence of maximallength is called the Longest CommonSubsequence (LCS) Problem. Two new algorithms based on the wel...

Regulation of tissue-specific alpha-amylase (Amy) expression in Drosophila melanogaster was investigated with a newly developed method that detects the distribution of alpha-amylase allozymes in midguts of single adults or third-instar larvae. Trans regulation was found for alpha-amylase production in the posterior midgut (PMG) of adults, whereas cis regulation was demonstrated for the larval m...

English. A cognitively plausible parsing algorithm should perform like the human parser in critical contexts. Here I propose an adaptation of Earley’s parsing algorithm, suitable for Phase-based Minimalist Grammars (PMG, Chesi 2012), that is able to predict complexity effects in performance. Focusing on self-paced reading experiments of object clefts sentences (Warren & Gibson 2005) I will asso...

BACKGROUND Pallister-Killian syndrome (PKS) is a rare multisystem developmental syndrome usually caused by mosaic tetrasomy of chromosome 12p that is known to be associated with neurological defects. METHODS We describe two patients with PKS, one of whom has bilateral perisylvian polymicrogyria (PMG), the other with macrocephaly, enlarged lateral ventricles and hypogenesis of the corpus callo...

&lt;span&gt;This paper analyzes the performance of a pico hydropower plant consisting an axial hydro turbine integrated with permanent magnet generator (PMG) and connected to power converter. The proposed system is aimed obtain wide operation range gain more captured while maintaining time-harmonic distortion in voltage (THDv) that meets standard. PMG specification 1 kW, phase, 235 V, 50 Hz, 83...

Dimensionally stable crosslinked poly(arylene piperidinium)-based AEMs were fabricated and used for alkaline water electrolysis. A high current density of 880 mA cm −2 at 2.2 V in 1 M KOH was achieved by using non-PMG catalysts.