We aimed to investigate and understand the characterization and distribution of the autB gene in Neisseria meningitidis in China. autB is flanked by two conservative genes, smpB and glcD, and it can be present in the majority of meningococcal isolates, but not in 053442 of clonal complex 4821 (CC4821) which contains a 968 bp sequence. In this study, we sequenced the intervenient region between ...

اللغة والثقافة وجهان لعملة واحدة، ولا ينفك تعليم العربية عن ثقافتها، وقد اعتبرها الباحثون مهارة خامسة تصاحب المهارات اللغوية الأربع؛ الاستماع، والتحدث، والقراءة، والكتابة؛ وذلك لأنها مكون أساسي ومكمل للمحتوى اللغوي، وينبغي أن تندمج الثقافة في مادة وتعلم استنادا إلى تعلم يتوقف على مقدار نمو المهارة وفي الوقت ذاته الحصيلة الثقافية الفكرية.
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A new lead fluoroborate glass (PbO-PbF2-B2O3) doped with ytterbium (Yb:PbFB) is presented. Samples with different concentrations of Yb3+ were produced and had their emission cross-sections, fluorescence lifetimes and minimum pump intensities determined. They have high refractive index of 2.2 and a density of 4.4 g/cm3. For a doping level of 1.153x1020 ions/cm3, the fluorescence lifetime, after ...

A cDNA encoding alpha-class glutathione S-transferase Yc (GSTYc) has been isolated from a Syrian hamster kidney library, and its nucleotide sequence (968 bp) has been determined. Analysis of the deduced amino acid sequence revealed a high level of identity between Syrian hamster GSTYc, rat GST Yc1 and Yc2 and mouse GSTYc. Northern-blot experiments demonstrated that Syrian hamster GSTYc expressi...

combination of myocardial, skin, hair, and enamel abnormalities. J Invest Dermatol 2010;130:968–978. 33. Kamisago M, Sharma SD, DePalma SR, Solomon S, Sharma P, McDonough B, Smoot L, Mullen MP, Woolf PK, Wigle ED, Seidman JG, Seidman CE. Mutations in sarcomere protein genes as a cause of dilated cardiomyopathy. N Engl J Med 2000;343:1688–1696. 34. Li D, Morales A, Gonzalez-Quintana J, Norton N,...

The NAR online Molecular Biology Database Collection is a public resource that contains links to the databases described in this issue of Nucleic Acids Research, previous NAR database issues, as well as a selection of other molecular biology databases that are freely available on the web and might be useful to the molecular biologist. The 2007 update includes 968 databases, 110 more than the pr...

This paper presents an overview of Dr. Mabry’s accomplishments in his career as a natural product chemist, first at the University of Zürich as a post-doctorate and since 1962 as a faculty member at the University of Texas at Austin in the Department of Botany until the late 1990’s when the Biological Sciences programs at UT-Austin were completely reorganized; then until his retirement in 2006,...