We used 206.5-nm excited resonance Raman measurements to examine the angiotensin II (AII) secondary structure in H(2)O in the presence of dodecylphosphocholine (DPC) micelles, sodium dodecylsulfate (SDS) monomers and micelles, and in a 70% acetonitrile (ACN-d)-30% water solution. Our AII-SDS titration absorption studies indicate the formation of a 1:2 AII:SDS complex in which two negatively cha...

Vinexin, a recently identified cytoskeletal protein, contains three SH3 domains and plays important roles in regulation of cytoskeletal organization and signal transduction. Using whole-mount in situ hybridization, we showed here that expression of vinexin alpha, the longer vinexin transcript, is strictly regulated, although the shorter transcript, vinexin beta, is expressed almost ubiquitously...

This paper presents DPC++, an extension of C++ dedicated to object-oriented parallel and distributed programming on clusters of SMPs. DPC++ follows the active object model and provides language constructs for the exploration of both fineand coarse-grain parallelism. The main goal of the language is to encourage intuitivity in concurrent programming by means of implicit parallelism. We present a...

This paper presents a low power impulse-radio ultra-wideband (IR-UWB) receiver based on a reconfigurable, high speed analog correlator called distributed pulse correlator (DPC). The DPC incorporates built-in local template pulse generation, and hence significantly reduces the power consumption and circuit complexity of the analog correlation receiver. A chip prototype of the IR-UWB receiver was...

The grid voltage modulated direct power control (GVM-DPC) is a novel regulation method for grid-connected source inverters (VSI). However, interactions between real and reactive powers still exist in GVM-DPC under unbalanced condition, which may deteriorate its transient performance. This article proposes decoupling GVM-DPC-based VSI systems based on the dynamic feedforward compensation strateg...

Abstract Background Mepiquat chloride (DPC) is a chemical that extensively used to control internode growth and create compact canopies in cultured plants. Previous studies have suggested DPC could also inhibit gibberellin biosynthesis sugarcane. Unfortunately, the molecular mechanism underlying suppressive effects of on plant still largely unknown. Results In present study, we first obtained h...

We have characterized the pattern of connexin expression in embryonic and extraembryonic tissues during early mouse development. In the preimplantation blastocyst, at 3.5 days post coitum (dpc), immunofluorescent signals specific for connexin31 and connexin43 proteins were present in both the inner cell mass and the trophectoderm, as shown by confocal laser scan microscopy. Immediately after im...

Characterizing the structure of membrane proteins (MPs) generally requires extraction from their native environment, most commonly with detergents. Yet, the physicochemical properties of detergent micelles and lipid bilayers differ markedly and could alter the structural organization of MPs, albeit without general rules. Dodecylphosphocholine (DPC) is the most widely used detergent for MP struc...

Planning-based methods to guide switched hybrid systems from an initial state into a desired goal region opens an interesting field for control. The idea of the Domain Predictive Control (DPC) approach is to generate input signals affecting both the numerical states and the modes of the system by stringing together atomic actions to a logically consistent plan. However, the existing DPC approac...

A prospective fate map of the late gastrulation mouse primitive streak has been charted in 8.5 dpc mouse embryos developed in culture, using the lineage marker DiI to label groups of cells. As at earlier stages, the fate of cells in the 8.5 dpc primitive streak is regionalised such that successively more caudal regions of the streak give rise to more lateral mesoderm. While most labelled cells ...