We evaluated the antibacterial activities of selected edible Korean plant seeds against the food-borne pathogens Staphylococcus aureus KCTC1927, Escherichia coli KCTC2593, Salmonella typhimurium KCTC2054, and Bacillus cereus KCTC1014. While screening for antibacterial agents, we discovered that wheat germ extract contains 2,6-dimethoxy-1,4-benzoquinone (DMBQ) and is highly inhibitory to S. aure...

The nucleus-encoded mitochondria-targeted proteins, multiple organellar RNA editing factors (MORF3, MORF5, and MORF6), interact with Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana) PURPLE ACID PHOSPHATASE2 (AtPAP2) located on the chloroplast and mitochondrial outer membranes in a presequence-dependent manner. Phosphorylation of the presequence of the precursor MORF3 (pMORF3) by endogenous kinases in wheat g...

An 11S protein composed of six polypeptide chains was previously purified from a salt extract of dog pancreas microsomal membranes and shown to be required for translocation of nascent secretory protein across the microsomal membrane (Wistar and Blobel 1980 Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A. 77:7112-7116). This 11S protein, termed signal recognition protein (SRP), has been shown here (a) to inhibi...

The agglutination responses of three Drosophila cell lines to concanavalin A and wheat germ agglutinin have been examined. Although the cell lines were originally derived from late embryonic stages of the Ore-R strain of Drosophila melanogaster. they show quantitative differences in lectininduced agglutination. Line 1 cells were least agglutinable with both lectins. All three cdl lines reached ...

BACKGROUND The growing field of proteomics and systems biology is resulting in an ever increasing demand for purified recombinant proteins for structural and functional studies. Here, we show a systematic approach to successfully express a full-length protein of interest by using cell-free and cell-based expression systems. RESULTS In a pre-screen, we evaluated the expression of 960 human ful...

We describe here a form of myopathy which occurs predominantly in women during the climacteric period or after, and appears to have characteristic features. The condition has been largely overlooked in the past. Its recognition is of special importance since improvement may occur during treatment with wheat germ oil or cortisone. Our clinical experience is based upon a study of 12 patients, of ...

The properties of a highly malignant human melanoma variant cell line which metastasizes in nude mice in a tissue-specific pattern are described. The variant, called 70-W, was isolated from the MeWo malignant melanoma by exposure of the latter to stepwise increasing concentrations of the toxic lectin, wheat germ agglutinin. After nine cycles of treatment a population of wheat germ agglutinin-re...

The hypersensitive reaction in incompatible wheat-rust interactions is characterized by an increase in lipoxygenase activity detectable as early as 28 h after penetration o f the pathogen. In contrast, lipoxygenase activity in the compatible interaction did not increase until the onset of sporulation. Lipoxygenase activity also increased following treatment o f wheat leaves with an elicitor fra...

Moisture adsorption rates for stored grains are important for accurate modeling of drying and storage. Wheat and barley samples at initial moisture contents typical of grain storage were exposed to several levels of higher humidity at two temperatures to measure adsorption rates. The best fit to the data was achieved with the Page equation and the cellular diffusion equations. The adsorption ra...