The phytopathogenic bacterium Agrobacterium tumefaciens is unique in that it possesses both linear and circular DNA chromosomes in addition to a plant-tumor-inducing (Ti) plasmid. We analyzed the two chromosomal DNA molecules in strain MAFF301001, whose Ti plasmid has already been sequenced completely. Physical maps of the chromosomal DNAs were constructed by Southern hybridization experiments ...

The fully annotated genome sequence of the European strain, 26695 was first published in 1997 and, in 1999, it was directly compared to the USA isolate J99, promoting two standard laboratory isolates for Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) research. With the genomic scaffolds available from these important genomes and the advent of benchtop high-throughput sequencing technology, a bacterial genome ...

Recently Bacon, Childs and van Dam showed that the “pretty good measurement” (PGM) is optimal for the Hidden Subgroup Problem on the dihedral group Dn in the case where the hidden subgroup is chosen uniformly from the n involutions. We show that, for any group and any subgroup H , the PGM is the optimal one-register experiment in the case where the hidden subgroup is a uniformly random conjugat...

The human gene loci phosphoglucomutase(1) (PGM(1), EC 2.7.5.1) and 6-phosphogluconate dehydrogenase (6PGD, EC 1.1.1.43), which are located on human chromosome one, have been assigned to a specific region of the short arm of that chromosome, by use of a hybrid cell line derived from a Chinese hamster cell line deficient in hypoxanthine phosphoribosyl transferase and a strain of human diploid fib...

The diurnal cycle strongly influences many plant metabolic and physiological processes. Arabidopsis thaliana rosettes were harvested six times during 12-h-light/12-h-dark treatments to investigate changes in gene expression using ATH1 arrays. Diagnostic gene sets were identified from published or in-house expression profiles of the response to light, sugar, nitrogen, and water deficit in seedli...

Phosphoglucomutase (PGM) catalyses the interconversion of glucose 1-phosphate (G1P) and glucose 6-phosphate (G6P) and exists as plastidial (pPGM) and cytosolic (cPGM) isoforms. The plastidial isoform is essential for transitory starch synthesis in chloroplasts of leaves, whereas the cytosolic counterpart is essential for glucose phosphate partitioning and, therefore, for syntheses of sucrose an...

The effects of short-term burst (5 min at 1.8 m/s) swimming and long-term cruiser (60 min at 1.2 m/s) swimming on maximal enzyme activities and enzyme distribution between free and bound states were assessed for nine glycolytic and associated enzymes in tissues of horse mackerel, Trachurus mediterraneus ponticus. The effects of exercise were greatest in white muscle. The activities of phosphofr...

We studied the effects of administration of several cytokines, including progenipoietin-1 (ProGP-1), Flt-3 ligand (FL), granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (G-CSF), and granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor in a pegylated form (pGM-CSF), on dendritic cell (DC) populations in mouse spleen. ProGP-1 produced the most striking increase in overall DC numbers, apparently more than its co...

This paper describes patterns of allozyme variation in the butterfly, Maniola jurtina (L.). Twelve loci, of which four were polymorphic (PGM, PGI, IDH-l and IDH-2), were screened across 14 populations in south-east England. The patterns described are not in agreement with expectation for a sedentary butterfly in which alleles are neutral to selection, for geographically distant populations diff...