Corrinoid (vitamin B12-like) cofactors contain various alpha-axial ligands, including 5,6-dimethylbenzimidazole (DMB) or adenine. The bacterium Salmonella enterica produces the corrin ring only under anaerobic conditions, but it can form "complete" corrinoids aerobically by importing an "incomplete" corrinoid, such as cobinamide (Cbi), and adding appropriate alpha- and beta-axial ligands. Under...

During the adaptive immune response, MHCII proteins display antigenic peptides on the cell surface of APCs for CD4(+) T cell surveillance. HLA-DM, a nonclassical MHCII protein, acts as a peptide exchange catalyst for MHCII, editing the peptide repertoire. Although they map to the same gene locus, MHCII proteins exhibit a high degree of polymorphism, whereas only low variability has been observe...

The terrestrial digital multimedia broadcasting (T-DMB) system provides one-way broadcasting service today and two-way interactive data services through a return channel of mobile telecommunications network are commercialized recently. The possible evolution of the T-DMB will be convergence between it and other services such as RFID, telematics, and so on. From this evolution point of view, int...

Inhibition of telomerase by inducing/stabilizing G-quadruplex formation is a promising strategy to design new anticancer drugs. We synthesized and characterized a new dinuclear complex [(dmb)2Ru(obip)Ru(dmb)2](4+) (dmb = 4,4'-dimethyl-2,2'-bipyridine, obip = (2-(2-pyridyl)imidazo[4,5-f][1,10]phenanthroline) with high affinity for both antiparallel and mixed parallel / antiparallel G-quadruplex ...

The purpose of the present study was to examine the changes in apparent mechanical properties of trabecular bone in the mandibular condyle during fetal development and to investigate the contributions of altering architecture, and degree and distribution of mineralization to this change. Three-dimensional, high-resolution micro-computed tomography (microCT) reconstructions were utilized to asse...

Excessive alcohol consumption induces oxidative stress and lipid accumulation in the liver. Mitochondria have long been recognized as the key target for alcoholic liver disease (ALD). Recently, the artificial mitochondria-targeted antioxidant MitoQ has been used to treat ALD effectively in mice. Here, we introduce the natural mitochondria-targeted antioxidant demethyleneberberine (DMB), which h...

A comprehensive theoretical study was carried out on a series of aryldimesityl borane (DMB) derivatives using Density Functional theory. Optimized geometries and electronic parameters like electron affinity, reorganization energy, frontiers molecular contours, polarizability and hyperpolarizability have been calculated by employing B3PW91/6-311++G (d, p) level of theory. Our results show that t...

Ethereal compounds, such as the commercially available extractant dibutyl carbitol (DBC), can extract Au(III) from acidic chloride media by ion solvation. Herein, various aromatic ether compounds comprising an ring and aliphatic chains were prepared to compare extraction affinity toward without dilution. Aromatic monoethers are not useful for of Au(III). Conversely, using 1,2-diethers increases...

At July 2008, the nationwide DMB (Digital Multimedia Broadcasting) has got started. As DMB device's volume of sales has been over 12 million already, the development of rapidly changing network systems has increased the dangers of infringing the copyright of DMB contents. For solving this problem, we suggest that real-time encryption algorithm without additional expenses, and implemented that o...

There are different Standards of digital multimedia transmission, for example DVB in Europe and ISDB in Japan and DMB in Korea, with different delivery system (example MPEG-2, MPEG-4).This paper describe an overview of Digital Multimedia Transmission (DMT) technologies. The economic aspects of digital content & software solution industry as a strategic key in the future will be discussed. The s...