We provide indirect evidence that six axonemal proteins here referred to as "dynein regulatory complex" (drc) are located in close proximity with the inner dynein arms 12 and 13. Subsets of drc subunits are missing from five second-site suppressors, pf2, p f3, suppI3, suD:4, and suppz 5, that restore flagellar motility but not radial spoke structure of radial spoke mutants. The absence of drc c...

Existing researches on performance analysis of SCTP’s Concurrent Multipath Transfer (CMT-SCTP) usually use DropTail algorithm as queue management algorithm without considering the impact of the background traffic. However, the background traffic of realistic network environments has an important impact on the QoS of SCTP. Besides, more and more Active Queue Management (AQM) algorithms have been...

BACKGROUND Trichinella spiralis expresses paramyosin (Ts-PMY) not only as a structural protein but also as an immunomodulatory protein to protect the worm from being attacked by host complement components. In this study, the functions of PMY in the viability and the growth development of T. spiralis were confirmed at the first time by silencing the gene function with RNA interference technique....

TO THE EDITOR—On 20 May 2013, the world’s first human-infected case of H6N1 bird flu was reported in Taiwan. A novel avian-origin influenza A(H6N1) virus was confirmed by the National Influenza Center, Centers for Disease Control, Taiwan, and the patient has already recovered. The H6 subtype influenza viruses were first identified in turkeys in 1965, and make up one of the most commonly recogni...

It has been suggested that in systemic sclerosis (SSc) the primary fault is in the microcirculation.' If this were so, then topical glyceryl trinitrate (GTN) might favourably influence skin blood flow and elasticity in areas of sclerodermatous skin change. Ten patients (three men, seven women; median age 48 years, range 24-70) fulfilling the American Rheumatism Association criteria for SSc2 wer...

Conjugal transfer of pTiC58 requires two regions, tra which contains the oriT and several genes involved in DNA processing and a region of undefined size and function that is located at the 2-o'clock position of the plasmid. Using transposon mutagenesis with Tn3HoHo1 and a binary transfer system, we delimited this second region, called trb, to an 11-kb interval between the loci for vegetative r...

It has been suggested that in systemic sclerosis (SSc) the primary fault is in the microcirculation.' If this were so, then topical glyceryl trinitrate (GTN) might favourably influence skin blood flow and elasticity in areas of sclerodermatous skin change. Ten patients (three men, seven women; median age 48 years, range 24-70) fulfilling the American Rheumatism Association criteria for SSc2 wer...