The present study assessed the effect of seed inoculation with single or multiple plant growth-promoting rhizobacterial (PGPR) strains on yield in spring wheat (Triticum aestivum spp. vulgare var. Kırık) and barley (Hordeum vulgare cv. Tokak) plants in both greenhouse and field conditions during the years 2007 and 2008. The treatments of wheat and barley plants during the first year include...

We have studied the spectral characteristics of the Diffuse Ionized Gas in two irregular galaxies with low metallicities and intermediate Star Formation Rates: ESO 245-G05 and Gr 8. The [OIII]/Hβ in these galaxies is higher than in the DIG of spiral galaxies but not as high as in other irregular galaxies previously studied, such as IC 10 and NGC 6822. The [NII]/Hα and [SII]/Hα ratios have very ...

Tauopathies are a heterogeneous group of neurodegenerative dementias involving perturbations in the levels, phosphorylation, or mutations of the microtubule-binding protein Tau. The heterogeneous pathology in humans and model organisms suggests differential susceptibility of neuronal types to wild-type (WT) and mutant Tau. WT and mutant human Tau-encoding transgenes expressed pan-neuronally in ...

The enzymatic activity of secreted phosphatidylinositol-specific phospholipase C (PI-PLC) enzymes is associated with bacterial virulence. Although the PI-PLC active site has no obvious lid, molecular-dynamics simulations suggest that correlated loop motions may limit access to the active site, and two Pro residues, Pro(245) and Pro(254), are associated with these correlated motions. Whereas the...

Platelet factor 4 (PF4) serves as a lineage-specific marker of megakaryocyte development. We previously identified two positively acting sequences in the human platelet factor 4 (hPF4) gene promoter that synergized to drive high-level luciferase reporter gene expression in vitro. Using portions of the hPF4 5'-flanking region linked to the lacZ reporter gene, we observed in this investigation th...

Human Fe65L2 is a member of the Fe65 protein family, which interacts with amyloid precursor protein (APP). Fe65L2 contains an N-terminal WW (Trp-Trp) domain followed by two phosphotyrosine-interaction domains, and consists of 486 amino acids. In the present study, we cloned and characterized two novel isoforms of Fe65L2, designated I-214 and I-245, which are produced by alternative splicing of ...