Two standard strains of Helicobacter pylori, grown on solid or in liquid medium, were studied for their binding to sialic acid-containing glycosphingolipids on thin-layer plates. NCTC 11637, but not strain 11638, bound to mixtures of gangliosides of various human and animal origins with similar binding patterns and also to polyglycosylceramides of human erythrocytes, leukocytes, and placenta. T...

A riboflavin carrier protein has been purified from human pregnancy and umbilical cord sera by affinity chromatography and fast protein liquid chromatography. This protein has a similar molecular weight to the chicken egg riboflavin carrier protein and shares other physicochemical properties, such as pI and riboflavin binding characteristics, with the avian counterpart. A high degree of immunol...

Binding energies and density profiles of two-dimensional systems of liquid He with different geometries are studied by means of a zero-range density functional adjusted to reproduce the line tension obtained in a previous diffusion Monte Carlo calculation DMC=0.121 K/Å . It is shown that this density functional provides accurate results for the binding energy of large clusters with a reasonable...

phase inversion in liquid-liquid dispersions corresponds to the transitional boundary between oil-in-aqueous dispersion and aqueous-in-oil dispersion. a theoretical model based on simple assumptions was proposed to predict phase inversion point, ambivalence region and the hysteresis effect of inversion. experimental data from the literature were used to validate the model and results were compa...

The aim of this study was to investigate the crystallization behavior nano-wire SiO2-Li2O glass ceramic during slow cooling process by using density functional theory (DFT). For purpose, extended tight-binding with self-consistent charge (SCC-DFTB) used geometric optimization and molecular dynamics (MD) for model system. structural development analysed radial distribution function (RDF) at dete...

The Unitary Correlation Operator Method (UCOM) is employed to treat short-range correlations in both, homogeneous liquid and small droplets of bosonic 4 He atoms. The dominating short-range correlations in these systems are described by an unitary transformation in the two-body relative coordinate, applied either to the many-body state or to the Hamiltonian and other operators. It is shown that...

Liquid water present in polycrystalline ice at the interstices between ice crystals results in a network of liquid-filled veins and nodes within a solid ice matrix, making ice a low porosity porous media. Here we used nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) relaxation and time dependent self-diffusion measurements developed for porous media applications to monitor three dimensional changes to the vein...

Stress granules are non-membrane bound RNA-protein (RNP) assemblies that form when translation initiation is limited and contain a biphasic structure with stable core structures surrounded by a less concentrated shell. The order of assembly and disassembly of these two structures remains unknown. Time course analysis of granule assembly suggests that core formation is an early event in granule ...

A technique for the selective measurement of diffusive gradients in thin-films (DGT) for free Cu2+ ions was developed using a 0.030 M solution of polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) as the liquid binding phase with the liquid-type DGT devices (PVA DGT). The PVA DGT had a substantial binding capacity at pH 5.6 - 8.6 and concentrations of competitive Na+ up to 0.7 M. The measurements of PVA DGT and cupric io...

Electron transfer reaction rate constants at semiconductor/liquid interfaces are calculated using the Fermi Golden Rule and a tight-binding model for the semiconductors. The slab method and a z-transform method are employed in obtaining the electronic structures of semiconductors with surfaces and are compared. The maximum electron transfer rate constants at Si/viologen and InP/Me2Fc 1/0 interf...