Though early stages of yeast conjugation are well-mimicked by treatment with pheromones, the final degradation of the cell wall and membrane fusion of mating that leads to cytoplasmic mixing may require separate signals. Mutations that blocked cell fusion during mating in Saccharomyces cerevisiae were identified in a multipartite screen. The three tightest mutations proved to be partial-functio...

Very recently we revealed a large family of triangular lattice quantum spin liquid candidates named rare-earth chalcogenides, which features high-symmetry structure without structural/charge disorders and impurities, may serve as an ideal platform exploring physics. The knowledge crystalline electric-field (CEF) excitations is essential step to explore the fundamental magnetism systems. Here em...

Triosephosphate isomerase (TPI), a glycolytic enzyme, functions in catalyzing the interconversion of glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate and dihydroxyacetone phosphate and is generally upregulated in tumours. However, there are data suggesting loss in lymphomas. To determine its effects in chicken embryonal fibroblasts (CEF) a plasmid was constructed to allow transfection. Upon culture in a suitable med...

Characteristics of magnetic transitions in NpTGa5 with T=Co, Ni, Rh are explained in a unified way with use of a crystalline electric field (CEF) model of localized 5f electrons. The model takes a CEF doublet and a singlet as local states, and includes dipolar and quadrupolar intersite interactions in the mean-field theory. Diverse ordering phenomena are derived depending on the magnitude of in...

Twentieth-century atmospheric reanalysis datasets are substantially important for understanding climate in the early era of century. This paper first compares two sets twentieth-century reanalyses, NOAA-CIRES-DOE 20th Century Reanalysis Version 3 (20CRv3) and ECMWF century (ERA20C), as far summer low-level cross-equatorial flows (CEFs) over Asian-Australian monsoon region concerned. The results...

The intracellular distribution of specific protease, plasminogen activator (PA), has been examined in Rous sarcoma virus-transformed chick embryo fibroblasts (RSV-CEF). Cellular homogenates were fractionated by differential centrifugation followed by sucrose gradient centrifugation. The activities and the percent distribution of a series of marker enzymes, specific for different subcellular org...

We evaluated the relationships between proteins in cauda epididymis fluid (CEF) and fertility scores of dairy bulls. Fertility was expressed as the percentage point deviation (PD) of bull nonreturn rate from the average fertility of all bulls at an artificial insemination center. The number of services for each bull ranged from 1074 to 52 820, and PD values ranged from +7.7% to -6.6%. CEF from ...

In land plants, the NAD(P)H dehydrogenase (NDH) complex reduces plastoquinones and drives cyclic electron flow (CEF) around PSI. It also produces extra ATP for photosynthesis and improves plant fitness under conditions of abiotic environmental stress. To elucidate the role of CEF in salt tolerance of the photosynthetic apparatus, Na(+) concentration, chlorophyll fluorescence, and expression of ...

In chick embryo hepatocytes (CEH), stimulation of malic enzyme transcription by 3,3',5-tri-iodothyronine (T3) is mediated by a liver-specific and T3-inducible DNase I hypersensitive region (-3910 to -3640 bp) in the malic enzyme gene. Previous studies have shown that this region contains a cluster of five T3 response elements (T3REs), referred to as a T3 response unit (T3RU), plus three accesso...

Cancer cachexia involves the loss of weight, mainly in skeletal muscle and adipose tissue, that is not caused simply by anorexia. The syndrome includes anemia and immunosuppression along with a number of biochemical changes indicating systemic effects of the cancer. It is a major factor in morbidity and mortality from cancer. For 30 years beginning in 1948, a large number of studies reported is...