Gene expression in members of the family Bacillaceae becomes compartmentalized after the distinctive, asymmetrically located sporulation division. It involves complete compartmentalization of the activities of sporulation-specific sigma factors, sigma(F) in the prespore and then sigma(E) in the mother cell, and then later, following engulfment, sigma(G) in the prespore and then sigma(K) in the ...

Structural skeletal differences of the femoral neck of older Beijing-Chinese and Perth-Caucasian women were compared; adjusting for frame size-related differences, Beijing-Chinese have lower periosteal width; however, indices of internal bone distribution suggest that Beijing-Chinese may exhibit increased resistance to fracture that may relate to the reduced hip fracture incidence. INTRODUCTI...

The Bacillus subtilis gene pgsA, which codes for the phosphatidylglycerophosphate synthase that catalyzes the committed step for the synthesis of phosphatidylglycerol (PG), is essential since Pspac-pgsA cells require IPTG for growth. Removal of the inducer caused a dramatic decrease of PG content in the membranes of cells and retarded growth. At 60 min and 120 min after removal, it was reduced ...

abstract background: today, the rate of surgeries is increasing, but surgeries are canceled due to various reasons. unexpected cancellation of surgeries not only results in disorder in the operating room schedule, but also causes stress for patients and their family and increases costs. we determined the number and causes of surgery cancellations and areas for improvement. materials and methods...

Alternative sigma factors allow bacteria to reprogram global transcription rapidly and to adapt to changes in the environment. Here we report on growth- and cell division-dependent sigma(32) regulon activity in Escherichia coli in batch culture. By analyzing sigma(32) expression in growing cells, an increase in sigma(32) protein levels is observed during the first round of cell division after e...

in this note we characterize the compact weighted frobenius-perron operator $p$ on $l^1(sigma)$ and determine their spectra. we also show that every weakly compact weighted frobenius-perron operator on $l^1(sigma)$ is compact.

In the present paper a solution of the generalizedquadratic functional equation$$f(kx+ y)+f(kx+sigma(y))=2k^{2}f(x)+2f(y),phantom{+} x,yin{E}$$ isgiven where $sigma$ is an involution of the normed space $E$ and$k$ is a fixed positive integer. Furthermore we investigate theHyers-Ulam-Rassias stability of the functional equation. TheHyers-Ulam stability on unbounded domains is also studied.Applic...

sigma B is a secondary sigma factor of Bacillus subtilis. RNA polymerase containing sigma B transcribes a subset of genes that are expressed after heat shock or the onset of the stationary phase of growth. Three genes (rsbV, rsbW, and rsbX), cotranscribed with the sigma B structural gene (sigB), regulate sigma B-dependent gene expression. RsbW is the primary inhibitor of this system with the ot...

sigma(32) is the first alternative sigma factor discovered in Escherichia coli and can direct transcription of many genes in response to heat shock stress. To define the physiological role of sigma(32), we have used transcription profiling experiments to identify, on a genome-wide basis, genes under the control of sigma(32) in E. coli by moderate induction of a plasmid-borne rpoH gene under def...

Let $M_R$ be a non-zero‎ ‎module and ${mathcal F}‎: ‎sigma[M_R]times sigma[M_R]‎ ‎rightarrow$ Mod-$Bbb{Z}$ a bifunctor‎. ‎The‎ ‎$mathcal{F}$-reversibility of $M$ is defined by ${mathcal‎ ‎F}(X,Y)=0 Rightarrow {mathcal F}(Y,X)=0$ for all non-zero $X,Y$‎ ‎in $sigma[M_R]$‎. ‎Hom (resp‎. ‎Rej)-reversibility of $M$ is‎ ‎characterized in different ways‎. ‎Among other things‎, ‎it is shown‎ ‎th...