In Drosophila melanogaster the reciprocal "Ping-Pong" cycle of PIWI-interacting RNA (piRNA)-directed RNA cleavage catalyzed by the endonuclease (or "Slicer") activities of the PIWI proteins Aubergine (Aub) and Argonaute3 (AGO3) has been proposed to expand the secondary piRNA population. However, the role of AGO3/Aub Slicer activity in piRNA amplification remains to be explored. We show that AGO...

Succinyl coenzyme A synthetase from Escherichia coli does not exhibit a steady state kinetic pattern indicative of “ping-pong” kinetics, despite the fact that catalytic participation of a phosphorylated enzyme covalent intermediate has been established. Instead, kineti.c patterns are consistent with the sequential addition of all substrates, to form a quaternary complex, before the release of a...

Understanding the kinetic mechanism of enzyme inactivation by suicide substrate is relevance for optimal design new drugs with pharmacological and therapeutic applications. Suicide usually occurs via a two-step mechanism, although there are enzymes such as peroxidase catalase in which H2O2 happens single step. The approximate solution ordinary differential equation (ODE) system one step kinetic...

Quantum secure direct communication protocols offer confidential transmission of classic information over the quantum channel without a prior key agreement. The ping-pong based protocols provide asymptotic security and detailed analysis of the security level provided by each variant of the protocol is required. The paper presents a general method of calculation of the eavesdropped information a...

We show that for any n ≥ 2, two elements selected uniformly at random from a symmetrized Euclidean ball of radius X in SLn(Z) will generate a thin free group with probability tending to 1 as X → ∞. This is done by showing that the two elements will form a ping-pong pair, when acting on a suitable space, with probability tending to 1. On the other hand, we give an upper bound less than 1 for the...

Both supraventricular or ventricular mechanisms of bidirectional VT (BVT) have been proposed in the past, involving either focal or reentrant mechanisms.(Levy 1989) A supraventricular mechanism with alternating LAFB and LPFB(Rosenbaum 1969)was largely excluded with the advent of intracardiac recordings, which failed to show a His bundle potential preceding the alternating QRS complexes during B...

Sound Pong is an electronic ensemble composition for four performers using four Wii-motes and four pairs of RecSpecs. The eight-channel work takes an historical look at the gaming experience through the use of modern controllers set inside a classic 8-bit aesthetic. Similar to the early video game Pong, or Robert Rauschenberg’s Open Score, an object is hit between players from in and around a d...

In the next generation of wireless network such as long term evolution (LTE) and worldwide interoperability for microwave access (WiMAX), always best connected concept is required. However in many situation handoff failures and unnecessary handoff are triggered causing degradation of quality of service. In this paper our main focus is on the handoff decision problem which affects the number of ...

The miniature Ping (mPing) is a recently discovered endogenous miniature inverted repeat transposable element (MITE) in rice, which can be mobilized by tissue culture or irradiation. It is reported here that mPing, together with one of its putative transposase-encoding partners, Pong, was efficiently mobilized in somatic cells of intact rice plants of two distinct cultivars derived from germina...

Tratamento conservador da fratura em ping pong lactente utilizando aspiração a vácuo – relato de caso / Conservative treatment of fracture in an infant using vacuum aspiration - case report