About 60 years ago H. Zassenhaus 17] classiied nite near-elds. In doing so he also gave a full description of those nite groups which have a representation D (over C) such that D(g) has no eigenvalue 1 for any nontrivial element g 2 G. In our terminology such a group is called semiregular. One of the results in 17] characterizes SL 2 (5) as the only perfect semiregular group. Clearly, if the un...

In this letter we derive a deformed Dirac equation invariant under the κ–Poincaré quantum algebra. A peculiar feature is that the square of the κ–Dirac operator is related to the second Casimir (the κ–deformed squared Pauli–Lubanski vector). The “spinorial” realization of the κ–Poincaré is obtained by a contraction of the coproduct of the real form of SOq(3, 2) using the 4–dimensional represent...

Sera from chagasic patients possess antibodies recognizing the carboxy-terminal part of the ribosomal P0 protein of Trypanosoma cruzi and the second extracellular loop of the human beta 1-adrenergic receptor. Comparison of both peptides showed that they contain a pentapeptide with very high homology (AESEE in P0 and AESDE in the human beta 1-adrenergic receptor). Using a competitive immunoenzym...

Plants employ post-transcriptional gene silencing (PTGS) as an antiviral defense response. In this mechanism, viral-derived small RNAs are incorporated into the RNA-induced silencing complex (RISC) to guide degradation of the corresponding viral RNAs. ARGONAUTE1 (AGO1) is a key component of RISC: it carries the RNA slicer activity. As a counter-defense, viruses have evolved various proteins tha...

The ribosomal stalk protein P0 is involved in the susceptibility to the antifungal sordarin derivatives, as reported for a number of Saccharomyces cerevisiae resistant mutants. Mammals and some lower eukaryotes are naturally resistant to these compounds. It is shown here that expression in S. cerevisiae of the ribosomal protein P0 from Homo sapiens and from other sordarin-resistant organisms re...

Vertebrate myelin contains two proteins that mediate compaction: protein zero (P0), an immunoglobulin gene superfamily member, or proteolipid proteins, 4-hydrophobic domain-motif proteins biogenetically unrelated to P0. The prevailing view has been that expression of P0 and proteolipid proteins is mutually exclusive; P0, which mediates myelin compaction in fish, is thought to be completely repl...

A gene for ribosomal protein P0 that belongs to the family of ribosomal P proteins was isolated from a Neurospora crassa cDNA library, using polyclonal antibodies against recombinant P0 protein from Saccharomyces cerevisiae. This is the first gene for ribosomal P0 protein to be cloned from filamentous fungi. The derived P0 protein sequence has a strong homology to other eukaryotic P0 proteins; ...

The spectra of both protons and alpha particles (1 ~ E ~ 7 MeV/nucleon) during 31 recurrent particle streams are fit well by an exponential in particle rigidity. Although the spectra show considerable temporal variation, the proton and alpha particle spectra are correlated such that the e-folding rigidities P0 (a) and P0 (p) of the two spectra are in the ratio P0 (a)/ P0 (p) = 1.5 ± 0.1. The co...

Let M ⊂ C and M ′ ⊂ C ′ be two smooth (C) generic submanifolds with p0 ∈ M and p ′ 0 ∈ M . We shall consider holomorphic mappings H : (C , p0) → (C ′ , p0), defined in a neighborhood of p0 ∈ C N , such that H(M) ⊂ M ′ (and, more generally, smooth CR mappings (M, p0) → (M , p0); see below). We shall always work under the assumption that M is of finite type at p0 in the sense of Kohn and Bloom–Gr...