A girl aged 21⁄2/ years with Moebius syndrome was found to have a deletion of band q12.2 in chromosome 13 (46,XX,del(13Xq12.2)). This is the second report concerning involvement of chromosome 13q and Moebius syndrome. The observation raises the possibility that a gene responsible for Moebius syndrome is located in this region of chromosome 13. Moebius syndrome (MS) consists of congenital facial...

The Lactobacillus plantarum and pentosus genotypes existing in industrial-scale cucumber fermentations were defined using rep-PCR-(GTG)5. ability of each genotype to ferment cucumbers under various conditions was evaluated. Rep-PCR-(GTG)5 the technique capable illustrating most intraspecies discrimination compared sequencing housekeeping genes (recA, dnaK, pheS rpoA), MLST RAPD with primers LP1...

Aminopeptidase T (AP-T) is a metallo-dependent dimeric enzyme of Thermus aquaticus YT-1, an extremely thermophilic bacterium. We cloned the AP-T gene from T. aquaticus YT-1 into Escherichia coli using a synthetic oligonucleotide as a hybridization probe. The nucleotide sequence of the AP-T gene was found to encode 408 amino acid residues with GTG as a start codon. The molecular weight was calcu...

The presence of enterobacterial repetitive intergenic consensus (ERIC) sequences was demonstrated for the first time in the genome of Mycobacterium tuberculosis; these sequences have been found in transcribed regions of the chromosomes of gram-negative bacteria. In this study genetic diversity among clinical isolates of M. tuberculosis was determined by PCR with ERIC primers (ERIC-PCR). The stu...

A significant challenge for developers of inkjet printing technologies is achieving uniformity in areas of solid color. Non-uniformities can generally be classed as either twodimensional, including such phenomena as graininess, coalescence and mottle, or one-dimensional, usually termed banding. Banding is often the most objectionable print quality problem in digital prints. Much research has be...

Banded structures” of macroscopic dimensions can be induced by simple shear flow in many different types of soft matter systems. Depending on whether these bands extend along the gradient or vorticity direction, the banding transition is referred to as “gradient banding” or “vorticity banding,” respectively. The main features of gradient banding can be understood on the basis of a relatively si...

The mitotic chromosomes of several inbred strains of mice and a series of F(1) hybrids have been analyzed by quinacrine staining and further characterized by the centromeric heterochromatin banding (C-banding). Inbred strains had the same amount of C-banding material on homologous chromosomes but showed variation in the amount on different chromosomes. F(1) hybrids showed characteristics of eac...