Enhanced ceramide glycosylation catalyzed by glucosylceramide synthase (GCS) limits therapeutic efficiencies of antineoplastic agents including doxorubicin in drug-resistant cancer cells. Aimed to determine the role of GCS in tumor response to chemotherapy, a new mixed-backbone oligonucleotide (MBO-asGCS) with higher stability and efficiency has been generated to silence human GCS gene. MBO-asG...

In this paper a simple algorithm for adaptation of the complex baseband weights of a transmit antenna array using feedback from the receiver is proposed and analyzed. The system utilizes stochastic gradient adaptation to maximize the power delivered to the receiver for a constrained transmission power, which provides both fading diversity and beam steering gain. Dual perturbed transmission weig...

A interação entre três corantes aniônicos azo: C.I. Vermelho Ácido 14 (AR14), C.I. Vermelho Ácido 1 (AR1), C.I. Laranja Ácido 7 (AO7) e um surfactante catiônico, o brometo de tetradeciltrimetilamônio (TTAB), foi investigada por meio da técnica de eletrodo seletivo para surfactante. O eletrodo seletivo para TTAB foi construído e usado para determinar a concentração de monômeros TTAB e, também, d...

The purpose of this study was to provide a statistical description of the breath-to-breath variations in ventilation during steady breathing in both rest and during light exercise, with the end-tidal gases controlled by using an end-tidal forcing system. Sixty data sets were studied, only one of which was white (i.e., did not show autocorrelation). Three simple autoregressive moving average (AR...

This paper illustrates the main results of a spatio-temporal interpolation process PM10 concentrations at daily resolution using set 410 monitoring sites, distributed throughout Italian territory, for year 2015. The is based on Bayesian hierarchical model where spatial-component represented through Stochastic Partial Differential Equation (SPDE) approach with lag-1 temporal autoregressive compo...

The expression of σ(54)-dependent Pseudomonas putida Pu promoter is activated by XylR activator when cells are exposed to a variety of aromatic inducers. In this study, the transcriptional activation of the P. putida Pu promoter was recreated in the heterologous host Escherichia coli. Here we show that the cAMP receptor protein (CRP), a well-known carbon utilization regulator, had an inhibitory...

DNA arrays were used to investigate the functional role of Rox1 in mediating acclimatization to anaerobic conditions in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Multiple growth conditions for wild-type and rox1 null strains were used to identify open reading frames with a statistically robust response to this repressor. These results were compared to those obtained for a wild-type strain in response to oxygen...

Throughout this paper we consider smooth maps of positive codimensions, having only stable singularities (see [Ar2], §1.4 in Chapter 1). We prove a conjecture due to M. Kazarian, connecting two classifying spaces in singularity theory for this type of singular maps.. These spaces are: 1) Kazarian’s space (generalising Vassiliev’s algebraic complex and) showing which cohomology classes are repre...

To investigate the mechanism of interaction of gramicidin S-like antimicrobial peptides with biological membranes, a series of five decameric cyclic cationic beta-sheet-beta-turn peptides with all possible combinations of aromatic D-amino acids, Cyclo(Val-Lys-Leu-D-Ar1-Pro-Val-Lys-Leu-D-Ar2-Pro) (Ar identical with Phe, Tyr, Trp), were synthesized. Conformations of these cyclic peptides were com...