Phosphatidylinositol (PI) 3-kinase plays an important role in the signalling of cell growth. We previously purified two types of PI 3-kinase from bovine thymus, a monomer from (PI 3-kinase I) and a heterodimer form (PI 3-kinase II) [Shibasaki, Homma and Takenawa (1991) J. Biol. Chem. 266, 8108-8114]. Here we examine the properties of these purified PI 3-kinases. Both PI 3-kinases were inhibited...

We report magnetic and electrical measurements of Nb Josephson junctions with strongly ferromagnetic barriers of Co, Ni, and Ni80Fe20 (Py). All these materials show multiple oscillations of critical current with a barrier thickness implying repeated 0-pi phase transitions in the superconducting order parameter. We show, in particular, that the Co barrier devices can be accurately modeled using ...

The pulvinar of primates, which connects with all visual areas, has been implicated in visual attention and in control of eye movements. Recently, five separate neurochemical subdivisions of a region termed the inferior pulvinar complex have been identified in monkeys (Gray et al. [1999] J Comp Neurol 409:452-468; Gutierrez et al. [1995] J Comp Neurol 363:545-562), and comparable subdivisions h...

High concentrations of orthophosphate (Pi) inhibited CO(2)-dependent O(2) evolution and prevented the inactivation of glucose-6-P dehydrogenase by light in intact spinach and barley chloroplasts. Addition of glycerate-3-P to chloroplasts inhibited by Pi in the light, induced O(2) evolution and caused rapid inactivation of glucose-6-P dehydrogenase. The activity of phosphofructokinase detected i...

Zusammenfassung We propose a framework for object tracking in image sequences, following the concept of tracking-by-segmentation. The separation of object and background is achieved by a consecutive semantic superpi-xel segmentation of the images, yielding tight object boundaries. I.e., in the first image a model of the object's characteristics is learned from an initial, incomplete annotation....

In this paper, we present some inequalities for the Co-PI index involving the some topological indices, the number of vertices and edges, and the maximum degree. After that, we give a result for trees. In addition, we give some inequalities for the largest eigenvalue of the Co-PI matrix of G.

1 Final report for AOARD/ ITC-PAC Grant 114071 “Silica & Germanate Glass High Power Fiber Laser Sources” Prepared: January 2014 PI and Co-PI information: Principal Investigator: Prof Tanya Monro Co investigators: A/Prof Heike Ebendorff-Heidepriem, A/Prof David Lancaster, Dr David Ottaway Institute for Photonics and Advanced Sensing (IPAS), The University of Adelaide, Australia Period of Investi...

Pi-pi stacking of hydrogen-bonded porphyrin and oligo(p-phenylene vinylene)s (OPVs) yields helical co-assemblies which exhibit energy transfer from OPV to porphyrin.

Phytic acid (PA) is a major source of inorganic phosphate (Pi) in the soil; however, the plant lacks the capacity to utilize it for Pi nutrition and growth. Microbial phytases constitute a group of enzymes that are able to remobilize Pi from PA. Thus, the use of these phytases to increase the capacity of higher plants to remobilize Pi from PA is of agronomical interest. In the current study, we...