The effect of a thrombin receptor agonist peptide (TRAP-6) on the release of nitric oxide (NO) and platelet activating factor (PAF) from resting and calcium-ionophore (A23187)-activated rat peritoneal mast cells (RPMC) was studied using a platelet aggregation bioassay. RPMC spontaneously released NO, which inhibited TRAP-6-, ADP-, and PAF-stimulated platelet aggregation. This effect of NO was a...

The family of Toll-like receptors (TLRs) plays a pivotal role in host defense against pathogens. However, overstimulation of these receptors may lead to uncontrolled general inflammation and eventually to systemic organ dysfunction or failure. With the intent to control overwhelming inflammation during gram-negative bacterial sepsis, we constructed soluble fusion proteins of the lipopolysacchar...

Display technologies such as yeast and phage display offer powerful alternatives to traditional immunization-based antibody discovery, but require conversion of displayed proteins into soluble form prior to downstream characterization. Here we utilize amber suppression to implement a yeast-based switchable display/secretion system that enables the immediate production of soluble, antibody-like ...

a faunistic list of syrphidae sampled in the agroecosystems of neyshabur (khorasan-razavi province) through malaise, yellow water traps and hand net is hereby presented for the first time. a total of 22 species were collected, including 13 species through malaise trap, 5 through yellow water trap as well as representatives of all species sampled through hand net. among the species collected, 8 ...

Genetic screens in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae have identified many proteins involved in the secretory pathway, most of which have orthologues in higher eukaryotes. To investigate whether there are additional proteins that are required for secretion in metazoans but are absent from yeast, we used genome-wide RNA interference (RNAi) to look for genes required for secretion of recombinant ...

Baker's yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae) represents a very popular single-celled eukaryotic model organism which has been studied extensively by various methods and whose genome has been completely sequenced. It was also among the first living organisms that were manipulated by optical tweezers and it is currently a frequent subject of optical micromanipulation experiments. We built a microflui...