Fructokinase from beef liver is shown to be specific for the /3-furanose anomer of D-fructose (and the LY anomer of Lsorbose) by showing that certain 2,5-anhydroalditols are substrates, while other 2,5-anhydro compounds, 2,6-anhydro-D-mannitol, and 2,6-anhydro-D-glucitol are not. Km and Ir,,, values relative to D-fructose at pH 7.5, 25”, 4 mu MgATP are 2,5-anhydro-D-mannitol (1.7 mu, 1.97); 2,5...

We have cloned two rearranged heavy chain variable region (VH) genes from the IgG-producing human cell line CESS. The VH gene, which is linked to the mu chain constant region (C mu) gene, has two deletions at residues 45-62 and 82A-90, the former of which corresponds closely to the second complementarity-determining region (CDR2). These results could indicate that translocation of CDR2 occurred...

In this paper, we study the existence of entire solutions for the following elliptic system △mu = p(x)f(v),△lv = q(x)g(u), x ∈ R, where 1 < m, l < ∞, f, g are continuous and non-decreasing on [0,∞), satisfy f(t) > 0, g(t) > 0 for all t > 0 and the Keller-Osserman condition. We establish conditions on p and q that are necessary for the existence of positive solutions, bounded and unbounded, of t...

The support of the tensor product decomposition integrable irreducible highest weight representations a symmetrizable Kac-Moody Lie algebra g <mml:annotation encoding="applic...

In the present work we are concerned with following Kirchhoff-Choquard-type equation $$-M(||\nabla u||_{2}^{2})\Delta u +Q(x)u + \mu(V(|\cdot|)\ast u^2)u = f(u) \mbox{ in } \mathbb{R}^2 , $$ for $M: \mathbb{R} \rightarrow \mathbb{R}$ given by $M(t)=a+bt$, $ \mu >0 $, V a sign-changing and possible unbounded potential, Q continuous external potential nonlinearity $f$ exponential critical growth....

Let G = (V ,E) be a simple connected graph and λ1(G) be the largest Laplacian eigenvalue of G. In this paper, we prove that: 1. λ1(G) = max{du +mu : u ∈ V } if and only if G is a regular bipartite or a semiregular bipartite graph, where du and mu denote the degree of u and the average of the degrees of the vertices adjacent to u, respectively. 2. λ1(G) = 2 + √ (r − 2)(s − 2) if and only if G is...

Little data exist for the mechanical properties of individual irreversible or reversible sickle cells (ISC and RSC, respectively), nor is the process of ISC formation well understood. For oxygenated ISC and density-fractionated RSC, we have used micropipette techniques to measure cell surface area (SA) and volume (V), membrane shear elastic modulus (mu), time constant for viscoelastic shape rec...

For every given real value of the ratio $\mu:=A_X/G_X>1$ arithmetic and geometric means a positive random variable $X$ $v>0$, exact upper bounds on right- left-tail probabilities $\mathsf{P}(X/G_X\ge v)$ $\mathsf{P}(X/G_X\le are obtained, in terms $\mu$ $v$. In particular, these imply that $X/G_X\to1$ probability as $A_X/G_X\downarrow1$. Such result may be viewed converse to reverse Jensen ineq...

Studies of the amino acid sequences around half-cystine residues in an immunoglobulin M have revealed an unexpectedly high number. At least 14 different sequences were found in the mu chain (V(HIII) subclass). Four of these were involved in interchain disulfide bridges and at least 10 in intrachain bridges. Five came from the kappa chain (kappa(III) subclass, Inv b). Several others, although ha...