Using direct and cell extraction-based (indirect) isolation methods, DNA was obtained from environmental samples with largely differing characteristics (loam soil, sand soil, sediment, activated sludge, and compost) and evaluated with respect to the comprised bacterial diversity and its suitability for expression cloning in Escherichia coli. Indirect DNA extraction methods yielded 10 to 100-fol...

Abstract A central dispute in understanding Frege’s philosophy concerns how the sense of a complex expression relates to senses its component expressions. According one reading, is whole built from On this interpretation, Frege an early proponent structured propositions. rival reading says that compose by functional application: value function denoted for arguments remaining components. I argue...

Using direct and cell extraction-based (indirect) isolation methods, DNA was obtained from environmental samples with largely differing characteristics (loam soil, sand soil, sediment, activated sludge, and compost) and evaluated with respect to the comprised bacterial diversity and its suitability for expression cloning in Escherichia coli. Indirect DNA extraction methods yielded 10 to 100-fol...

ricin, the toxic lectin extracted from the castor bean plant (ricinus communis), consists of an a chain (rta) and a b chain (rtb). anti-a chain abs and anti-b chain abs can neutralize toxins in vivo and in vitro via blocking the binding of the toxin to the cell. also, rtb protein is able to serve as an antigen deliver to the mucosal immune system and act as an immunoadjuant. here, the genomic d...

The adaptation of bacteria to changes in their environment involves adjustments in the expression of genes coding for enzymes, regulators, membrane transporters, etc. [14], [26], [17]. These adjustments are controlled by gene regulatory networks ensuring the coordinated expression of clusters of functionally related genes. A realistic view of gene regulatory networks does not only include direc...

This study shows a mechanism for the increase of signal transducer and activator of transcription 1 (STAT1) in Epstein-Barr virus-immortalized cells. Latent membrane protein 1 (LMP-1) expression was sufficient to induce STAT1 expression, DNA binding, and transcriptional activity. LMP-1-expressing cells can induce an increase in STAT1 expression in LMP-negative cells in the same culture, suggest...

BACKGROUND Sepsis could induce indirect acute lung injury(ALI), and pulmonary vasomotor dysfunction. While low tidal volume is advocated for treatment of ALI patients. However, there is no evidence for low tidal volume that it could mitigate pulmonary vasomotor dysfunction in indirect ALI. Our study is to evaluate whether low tidal volume ventilation could protect the pulmonary vascular functio...

The sip gene encoding for a conserved highly immunogenic surface protein of Streptococcus agalactiae was amplified using polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and subcloned into prokaryotic expression vector pET32a (+) and expressed as a recombinant protein in E. coli BL21 (DE3). An indirect enzyme linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) was developed using the purified Sip protein as a coating antigen, w...

conclusions our results have shown that indirect mr arthrography had greater diagnostic accuracy in regards to the sensitivity, specificity, and positive and negative predictive values than conventional mri in knee pathologies. results in all of the pathologies studied, the sensitivity, specificity, and the positive and negative predictive values were evaluated. a high rate of accuracy was foun...