The phosphorylation state of the RNA polymerase II C-terminal repeat domain (CTD) regulates progression through the mRNA biogenesis cycle. Termination of transcription and recycling of RNA polymerase II is promoted by an interaction between the general transcription factor IIF (TFIIF) and the TFIIF-associating CTD phosphatase (FCP1). The acidic C-terminal region of FCP1 is disordered in the fre...

We show that, for a stationary version of Hammersley’s process, with Poisson sources on the positive x-axis and Poisson sinks on the positive y-axis, the variance of the length of a longest weakly North–East path L(t, t) from (0,0) to (t, t) is equal to 2E(t −X(t))+, where X(t) is the location of a second class particle at time t . This implies that both E(t −X(t))+ and the variance of L(t, t) ...

Many hemorrhagic fever viruses require BSL-3 or BSL-4 laboratory containment for study. The necessary safety precautions associated with this work often contribute to longer assay times and lengthy decontamination procedures. Here we will discuss recent advances in RNA fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) that not only allow entirely new investigations into the replication of these viruses...

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To determine if cases of invasive aspergillosis (IA) were caused by strains of Aspergillus fumigatus with unique characteristics, strains from immunosuppressed patients with IA were compared to strains obtained from sputa of patients with cystic fibrosis and to strains from the environment. An extremely high genomic diversity was observed among the 879 strains typed by Southern blotting with a ...

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Foodborne botulism is a potentially fatal, paralytic illness that can cause large outbreaks. A possible increase in botulism incidence during 2001 in the Republic of Georgia prompted this study. We reviewed surveillance data and abstracted records of patients with botulism who were hospitalized from 1980 to 2002. During this period, 879 botulism cases were detected. The median annual incidence ...

Six hundred and thirty-two blood samples from 879 consecutive admissions to one resettlement camp for Indochinese refugees in Great Britain were screened for markers of hepatitis B (HB) virus infection. The overall prevalence of HB surface antigen (HBsAg) was 15%, being 16% in those aged 40 years or less, and falling to 8% in those older than 40 (P less than 0.05). No significant difference in ...

We give a short proof of the following geometric inequality: for any two triangular meshes A and B of the same polygon C, if the number of vertices in A is at most the number of vertices in B, then the maximum length of an edge in A is at least the minimum distance between two vertices in B. Here the vertices in each triangular mesh include the vertices of the polygon and possibly additional St...