We have determined the nucleotide sequences of the coding region in the last two coding exons of ABO genes (which occupy 91% of the soluble form of A1 transferase) from 7 individuals with weak subgroup phenotypes. Four of the individuals had an A3 phenotype and 3 individuals had a B3 phenotype. We determined the nucleotide sequences based on PCR followed by subcloning and DNA sequencing of the ...

This paper reports on the participation of the LKD team in the English entity linking task at the TAC KBP 2013. We evaluated various modifications and combinations of the MostFrequent-Sense (MFS) based linking, the Entity Co-occurrence based linking (ECC), and the Explicit Semantic Analysis (ESA) based linking. We employed two our Wikipediabased NER systems, the Entityclassifier.eu and the Semi...

Let [a, b] denote the integers between a and b inclusive and, for a finite subset X ⊆ Z, let diam (X) = max(X) − min(X). We write X <p Y provided max(X) < min(Y ). For a positive integer m, let f(m,m,m; 2) be the least integer N such that any 2-coloring ∆ : [1, N ] → {0, 1} has three monochromatic m-sets B1, B2, B3 ⊆ [1, N ] (not necessarily of the same color) with B1 <p B2 <p B3 and diam (B1) ...

Halalkalicoccus jeotgali B3(T), isolated from salt-fermented seafood from South Korea, is an extremely halophilic archaeon belonging to the family Halobacteriaceae. Here, we present the complete genome sequence of the type strain H. jeotgali B3(T) (3,698,650 bp, with a G+C content of 62.5%), which consists of one chromosome and six plasmids. This is the first complete genome sequence of the Hal...

Replication of coxsackievirus B3 occurred for days in cultures of murine neonatal skin fibroblasts in the absence of cytopathology and resulted in alteration of the plasma membrane. Dual immunofluorescence studies showed that the lectin Ulex europaeus agglutinin I bound only to cells producing viral capsid antigens. Cultures of coxsackievirus B3-inoculated murine neonatal skin fibroblasts showe...

CPS-1 is a subclass B3 metallo-β-lactamase from a Chryseobacterium piscium isolate collected from soil, showing 68% amino acid identity to the GOB-1 enzyme. CPS-1 was overproduced in Escherichia coli Rosetta (DE3), purified by chromatography, and biochemically characterized. This enzyme exhibits a broad-spectrum substrate profile, including penicillins, cephalosporins, and carbapenems, which ov...

Background & Aims: The most significant cause of infertility in men is the genetic deletion in the azoospermia factor (AZF) region that is caused by the process of intra- and inter-chromosomal homologous recombination in amplicons. Homologous recombination could also result in partial deletions in AZF region. The aim of this research was to determine the association between the partial AZFc del...

Many neuromuscular and central synapses exhibit activity-dependent plasticity. The sustained high-frequency firing needed to elicit some forms of plasticity are similar to those often required to release neuropeptides. We wanted to determine if neuropeptide release could contribute to post-tetanic potentiation (PTP) and chose neuromuscular synapses in buccal muscle I3a to explore this issue. Th...

We expressed the Arabidopsis thaliana gene for phytochelatin synthase (PCS(At)) in Mesorhizobium huakuii subsp. rengei B3, a microsymbiont of Astragalus sinicus, a legume used as manure. The PCS(At) gene was expressed under the control of the nifH promoter, which regulates the nodule-specific expression of the nifH gene. The expression of the PCS(At) gene was demonstrated in free-living cells u...