By screening for microbes that exhibit β-d-galactofuranosidase (Galf-ase) activity, a Streptomyces sp. strain, named JHA19, was isolated from a soil sample from Kagawa University, Japan, in 2010. Here, we report the results of whole-genome shotgun sequencing and found that the strain has four predicted Galf-ase genes.

Deep-blue-emitting benzo[c]fluorene-cored compounds featuring twisted peripheral moieties for suppressed concentration quenching of emission were synthesized and investigated as potential materials for light amplification. This detailed study of the effect of concentration on the spontaneous and stimulated emission, excited-state lifetime and susceptibility to form aggregates obtained for diffe...

BACKGROUND Nervous systems are largely bilaterally symmetric on a morphological level but often display striking degrees of functional left/right (L/R) asymmetry. How L/R asymmetric functional features are superimposed onto an essentially bilaterally symmetric structure and how nervous-system laterality relates to the L/R asymmetry of internal organs are poorly understood. We address these ques...

After a brief evaluation of some design choices of existing structure-oriented editors, several design aspects of the Agora Structure Editor (ASE) are discussed. In the design of ASE ergonomics has played a very important role. This contrasts strongly with existing systems, which seem to neglect it altogether.

Although accumulating data show that placenta is able to synthesize 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D3, the presence of cytochrome P(450) enzyme capable of converting 25-hydroxyvitamin D3 (250HD(3)) to the biologically active form of vitamin D in this tissue, has not been yet clearly established. In this study, we have investigated the presence of 25-hydroxyvitamin D3 1alpha-hydroxylase (1alpha-(OH)ase) ...

Short term inhalation of cigarette smoke (CS) induces significant lung inflammation due to an imbalance of oxidant/antioxidant mechanisms. Açai fruit (Euterpe oleracea) has significant antioxidant and anti-inflammatory actions. The present study aimed to determine whether oral administration of an açai stone extract (ASE) could reduce lung inflammation induced by CS. Thirty C57BL/6 mice were as...

From very recent studies, the area spectral efficiency (ASE) performance of downlink (DL) cellular networks will continuously decrease and finally to zero with the network densification in a fully loaded ultra-dense network (UDN) when the absolute height difference between a base station (BS) antenna and a user equipment (UE) antenna is larger than zero, which is referred as the ASE Crash. We r...

RNA-seq has become one of the major solutions for genome-wide inquiry of transcriptome variation. Allelespecific expression (ASE), which can be measured by RNA-seq but not by traditional microarray, provides a new perspective of transcriptome variation. Allelic imbalance of gene expression may be due to cis-acting genetic variant or parent-of-origin regulation. Currently this R package asSeq on...

Supercritical fluid extraction (SFE), ultrasonic extraction (USE), and accelerated solvent extraction (ASE) were compared with the well known Soxhlet extraction for the extraction of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins (PCDDs) from the XAD-2 resin which was used to adsorb PCDDs in the atmosphere. XAD-2 resin spiked with five PCDDs was chosen as a sample. The o...