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![Flourescence titration.Steady state fluorescence emission spectra of MtBPL in absence and presence of biotin. [BPL]â=â2 µM, [biotin]â=â50 µM. All spectra were obtained in standard buffer at 20°C.](/imgs/rescaled137/2384007_pone.0002320.g005.png) | Ligand specificity of group I biotin protein ligase of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. | pone-0002320-g005: Flourescence titration.Steady state fluorescence emission spectra of MtBPL in absence and presence of biotin. [BPL]β=β2 Β΅M, [biotin]β=β50 Β΅M. All spectra were obtained in standard buffer at 20Β°C.Bottom Line: MtBPL forms 11 H-bonds with biotin, relative to 35 with bio-5'AMP.The enzyme catalyzed transfer of biotin to BCCP was confirmed by incorporation of radioactive biotin and by Avidin blot.MtBPL has low affinity (K(b) = 1.06x10(-6) M) for biotin relative to EcBirA... | Purushothaman S, Gupta G, Srivastava R, Ramu VG, et al. - PLoS ONE (2008) |
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 | Pharmacokinetics and Excretion Studies on CDRI-85/92, an Antiulcer Proton Pump Inhibitor. | f3-scipharm-2012-80-167: Representative (urine oral noncannulated) Semi-log Plot of ΞU/Ξt versus Time midpoint, where Kel is elimination rate contant, Ke is excretion rate constantBottom Line: Following the 20 mg/kg oral dose, maximum serum concentration (C(max)) was found to be 469.28 Β± 45.52 ng/ml after 1.0 h.Based on AUC values, the absolute bioavailability of the CDRI 85/92 was 70.5% after oral administration.It was found to be excreted in urine... | Srivastava P - (2011) |
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 | Mechanical ventilator for delivery of o(2) in brief pulses. | Figure 3: Helium concentration at the airway for two breaths of 100% helium after equilibration with 100% oxygen.Bottom Line: We designed a ventilator for large animal and human studies that provides mechanical ventilation to a subject inside an MR scanner through 25 feet of small-bore connecting tubing, and tested its capabilities using helium as a surrogate for (17)O(2).After switching... | Baumgardner JE, Mellon EA, Tailor DR, Mallikarjunarao K, et al. - Open Biomed Eng J (2008) |
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 | A trivalent virus-like particle vaccine elicits protective immune responses against seasonal influenza... | pone-0006032-g004: HAI titers against mouse-adapted viruses.Week 5 serum HAI antibody responses were assessed against ma-NC/99 virus. Bars indicate geometric mean titer (GMT) +/β SEM.Bottom Line: Mice vaccinated with the TVV had higher level of influenza specific CD8+ T cell responses than a commercial trivalent inactivated vaccine (TIV).Ferrets vaccinated with the highest dose of the VLP vaccine and then challenged with the homologous H3N2 virus had... | Ross TM, Mahmood K, Crevar CJ, Schneider-Ohrum K, et al. - PLoS ONE (2009) |
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 | Getting to grips with strangles: an effective multi-component recombinant vaccine for the protection... | ppat-1000584-g008: Histopathological examinations of Septavacc and control ponies.Evaluation was done using the scoring system described in Materials and Methods. Non-vaccinated (open symbols) and vaccinated (closed symbols) for individual ponies and median values are shown....Bottom Line: Antibiotic treatment is usually ineffective.Thus, a safe and effective vaccine against S. equi is highly desirable.Vaccinated horses had significantly reduced incidence of lymph node swelling (p = 0.0013) lymph node abscessation (p = 0.00001), fewer days of... | Guss B, Flock M, Frykberg L, Waller AS, Robinson C, et al. - PLoS Pathog. (2009) |
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![Sensation and signaling of α-ketoglutarate by heterotrimeric forms of PII. Initial rates of GS adenylylation by ATase (AT activity) were measured as described in Materials and Methods. Conditions were 2.5 μM GS, 0.1 μM ATase, 0.5 mM [α-32P]ATP, PII heterotrimers with the concentration of wild-type subunits at 3 μM, and α-ketoglutarate as indicated: (â) heterotrimers containing one wild-type subunit and two Î47â53 subunits and (â¼) heterotrimers containing one wild-type subunit and two G89A subunits.](/imgs/rescaled137/2786245_bi-2009-011594_0001.png) | Sensation and signaling of alpha-ketoglutarate and adenylylate energy charge by the Escherichia coli... | fig1: Sensation and signaling of Ξ±-ketoglutarate by heterotrimeric forms of PII. Initial rates of GS adenylylation by ATase (AT activity) were measured as described in Materials and Methods. Conditions were 2.5 ΞΌM GS, 0.1 ΞΌM ATase, 0.5 mM [Ξ±-32P]ATP, PII heterotrimers...Bottom Line: When ATP was present, ADP dramatically reduced the K(act) for wild-type PII, and this effect was antagonized by alpha-ketoglutarate.Consequently, when ATP was present, the antagonism between ADP and alpha-ketoglutarate allowed each of these effectors to influence... | Jiang P, Ninfa AJ - Biochemistry (2009) |
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 | Central nervous system rather than immune cell-derived BDNF mediates axonal protective effects early... | Fig6: Exacerbation of EAE after early BDNF deletion in bone marrow chimeric mice. Bone marrow chimeric mice were generated using either BDNFindβ/β mice or control mice as recipients and wild type mice as donors (a) or vice versa using wild-type mice as recipients...Bottom Line: In contrast, deletion of BDNF later in the disease course of EAE did not result in significant changes, either in the disease course or in axonal integrity.Finally, the therapeutic effect of glatiramer acetate, a well-characterized disease-modifying drug with... | Lee DH, Geyer E, Flach AC, Jung K, Gold R, et al. - Acta Neuropathol. (2011) |
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 | Gamma-synuclein is an adipocyte-neuron gene coordinately expressed with leptin and increased in human... | fig3: Reduction of Ξ³-synuclein and leptin mRNA levels by short-term treatment with the PPARΞ³ agonist GW1929 in mature 3T3-L1 adipocytes. RNA from mature (12 d differentiated) 3T3-L1 adipocytes was isolated from cells exposed to various doses of the non-TZD GW1929...Bottom Line: Gamma-synuclein mRNA increased from trace levels in preadipocytes to high levels in mature 3T3-L1 adipocytes and decreased approximately 50% following treatment with the PPARgamma agonist GW1929 (P < 0.01).Expression correlated with leptin transcript levels... | Oort PJ, Knotts TA, Grino M, Naour N, Bastard JP, et al. - J. Nutr. (2008) |
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 | Stent application for the treatment of cerebral aneurysms. | Figure 4: OvalizationBottom Line: The physical features, the dimensions, and the functional characteristics of the stents show considerable differences.Nevertheless, they require much experience in clinical practice as well as knowledge of the stents to treat cerebral aneurysms safely and effectively.In... | Kim BM, Kim DJ, Kim DI - Neurointervention (2011) |
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 | Oncogenic K-Ras and basic fibroblast growth factor prevent Fas-mediated apoptosis in fibroblasts through... | Figure 6: Pretreatment with bFGF inhibits Fas-mediated apoptosis. (A) FH2 cells were pretreated with 100 ng/ml EGF, 100 ng/ml IGF or 10 ng/ml bFGF for 16 h, and then stimulated with 200 ng/ml agonistic anti-Fas mAb RK-8 for the indicated times. Cell viability was measured...Bottom Line: Among the target molecules of Ras, including Raf (mitogen-activated protein kinase kinase kinase [MAPKKK]), phosphatidylinositol 3 (PI-3) kinase, and Ral guanine nucleotide exchange factor (RalGDS), only the constitutively active form of Raf (Raf-CAAX) could... | Kazama H, Yonehara S - J. Cell Biol. (2000) |
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![Assembly of full-length Sup35p into protein fibrils in the presence of cytosolic fractions from [PSI+] and [psiâ] cells.Soluble Sup35p (7 µM) was incubated at 10°C in assembly buffer with no addition (solid circles) or containing 0.48 mg/ml of fraction 4 from [PSI+] (solid squares), or [psiâ] (solid triangles) cells. The time course of Sup35p assembly in the presence of cytosolic fraction 6 from [PSI+] or [psiâ] cells superimposes to that with no addition. Statistic analysis of the differences in fluorescence intensity between fractions was made using a Student T-test calculation. The P values were 0.03, 0.017 and 0.6 for fraction 4 [PSI+] versus fraction 6 [PSI+], fraction 4 [psiâ] versus fraction 6 [PSI+] and fraction 4 [psiâ] versus fraction 4 [PSI+] comparisons, respectively.](/imgs/rescaled137/3172207_pone.0023659.g001.png) | Qualitative and quantitative multiplexed proteomic analysis of complex yeast protein fractions that modulate... | pone-0023659-g001: Assembly of full-length Sup35p into protein fibrils in the presence of cytosolic fractions from [PSI+] and [psiβ] cells.Soluble Sup35p (7 Β΅M) was incubated at 10Β°C in assembly buffer with no addition (solid circles) or containing 0.48 mg/ml of fraction...Bottom Line: However, other protein classes might be involved in [PSI(+)] formation.We designed a functional proteomic study that combines two techniques to identify modulators of Sup35p aggregation and describe the changes associated to [PSI(+)] formation.We identify changes... | Redeker V, Hughes C, Savistchenko J, Vissers JP, et al. - PLoS ONE (2011) |
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 | Characterisation of exogenous folate transport in Plasmodium falciparum. | fig1: (a) Uptake of folates over the erythrocytic cycle of P. falciparum. Synchronised HB3 cultures (initial 4% parasitaemia) were sampled every 7β9Β h, cells spun down, washed with pABA/folate depleted medium and incubated at 37Β Β°C in 1Β ml RPMI1640 containing...Bottom Line: Dinitrophenol and nigericin, which strongly facilitate the equilibration of H(+) ions across biological membranes and thus abolish or substantially reduce the proton gradient, inhibited folate uptake profoundly.The ATPase inhibitor concanamycin A also greatly... | Wang P, Wang Q, Sims PF, Hyde JE - Mol. Biochem. Parasitol. (2007) |
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 | Zoledronic acid preserves bone structure and increases survival but does not limit tumour incidence in... | pone-0019389-g001: Zoledronic acid treatment improves mouse survival but does not reduce the number of metastases.(A) Kaplan-Meier survival plot of mice given an intra-arterial injection of RM1(BM) cells followed by treatment with the 100 Β΅g/kg or 20 Β΅g/kg zoledronic dosing...Bottom Line: ZOL treatment also led to a decreased serum osteocalcin and TRAP 5b levels.However, ZOL treatment did not inhibit the cells ability to metastasise to bone as the number of bone-metastases was similar in both treated and untreated mice.ZOL treatment provided... | Hung TT, Chan J, Russell PJ, Power CA - PLoS ONE (2011) |
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 | Qri7/OSGEPL, the mitochondrial version of the universal Kae1/YgjD protein, is essential for mitochondrial... | Figure 8: osgl-1(RNAi) mutants are hypersensitive to the EB induced mitochondrial DNA depletion. The ability of the eri-1, eri-1;osgl-1(RNAi) and eri-1; mtssb-1(RNAi) L1 larvae to grow and develop to adulthood on increasing concentration of EB was analyzed. The eri-1...Bottom Line: Phylogenetic analyses indicate that the eukaryotic Qri7(OSGEPL) proteins originated from bacterial YgjD proteins.We have recently shown that the archaeal Kae1 protein is a DNA-binding protein that exhibits apurinic endonuclease activity in vitro.We show here... | Oberto J, Breuil N, Hecker A, Farina F, Brochier-Armanet C, et al. - Nucleic Acids Res. (2009) |
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 | The impact of ambient temperature on mortality among the urban population in Skopje, Macedonia during... | Figure 2: The relationship between average daily number deaths from all causes and average monthly temperature for the period 1996β2000.Bottom Line: Excess winter mortality was calculated as winter deaths (deaths occurring in December to March) minus the average of non-winter deaths (April to July of the current year and August to November of the previous year).In this study the average daily total of deaths... | Kendrovski VT - BMC Public Health (2006) |
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 | Platelet glycoprotein ibalpha is a counterreceptor for the leukocyte integrin Mac-1 (CD11b/CD18). | Figure 7: Epitope map of mAbs to GP IbΞ±. Schematic representation of the extracellular domain of GP IbΞ±. The GP IbΞ± mAbs employed were: AK2, AP1, VM16d, SZ2, and WM23. AK2 binds within the first leucine-rich repeat (amino acid residues 36β58). AP1 and VM16d bind...Bottom Line: The specificity of the interaction was confirmed by the finding that neutrophils from wild-type mice, but not from Mac-1-deficient mice, bound to purified GP Ibalpha and to adherent platelets, the latter adhesion being inhibited by pretreatment of the platelets... | Simon DI, Chen Z, Xu H, Li CQ, Dong J, McIntire LV, et al. - J. Exp. Med. (2000) |
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 | Pervasive natural selection in the Drosophila genome? | pgen-1000495-g004: The effects of genetic draft on the trajectory of a neutral allele.(A) Simulated trajectory of a neutral allele affected by recurrent selective sweeps, from its origin on a single chromosome to fixation in the population. The population mutation and recombination...Bottom Line: Analyses of genetic variation within and between species reveal that much of the Drosophila genome is under purifying selection, and thus of functional importance, and that a large fraction of coding and noncoding differences between species are adaptive.The... | Sella G, Petrov DA, Przeworski M, Andolfatto P - PLoS Genet. (2009) |
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 | Do stress responses promote leukemia progression? An animal study suggesting a role for epinephrine and... | pone-0019246-g002: Time dependent effects of co-administration of epinephrine and corticosterone on survival rates.Co-administration of epinephrine and corticosterone simultaneously with tumor injection (βͺ, nβ=β30) significantly decreased survival rates. Administration...Bottom Line: Searching for mediating mechanisms, we found that each of the stress factors transiently suppressed NK activity against CRNK-16 and YAC-1 lines on a per NK basis.In contrast, the direct effects of stress factors on CRNK-16 proliferation, vitality, and VEGF... | Inbar S, Neeman E, Avraham R, Benish M, Rosenne E, et al. - PLoS ONE (2011) |
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 | Reverse and conventional chemical ecology approaches for the development of oviposition attractants for... | pone-0003045-g007: Resolution of MOP stereoisomers on a chiral column.(A) Partially resolved enantiomers of MOP. (B) Random mixture of stereoisomers showing two clusters of well separated stereoisomers: erythro- and threo-MOP. (C) The pheromone isolated from egg rafts of Cx....Bottom Line: We employed novel and conventional chemical ecology approaches to identify potential attractants, which were demonstrated in field tests to be effective for monitoring populations of Cx. p. quinquefasciatus in human dwellings.By using both CquiOBP1 as a molecular... | Leal WS, Barbosa RM, Xu W, Ishida Y, Syed Z, et al. - PLoS ONE (2008) |
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