Using an isoelectric-focusing (IEF) method developed to quantitate MM isoenzyme-creatine kinase (CK) sub-band activity, we identified a reproducible time-varying pattern of these sub-bands in the serum of eight patients with acute myocardial infarction (MI). Our observations are consistent with the view that MM3-CK (the M2-CK dimer, the pure gene product) is converted intravascularly to MM2-CK,...

Trichloroethylene (TCE)-transforming aquifer methanotrophs were evaluated for the influence of TCE oxidation toxicity and the effect of reductant availability on TCE transformation rates during methane starvation. TCE oxidation at relatively low (6 mg liter-1) TCE concentrations significantly reduced subsequent methane utilization in mixed and pure cultures tested and reduced the number of viab...

OBJECTIVE To determine the prevalence of impacted mandibular second molar (MM2) and the association between MM2 impaction and crowding. The clinical significance of the angle between first and second mandibular molar and of the space between the first mandibular molar (MM1) and the anterior margin of mandibular ramus in MM2 impaction were also evaluated. MATERIAL AND METHODS In this retrospec...

We present a novel classification method for splice sites prediction using support vector machine (SVM). The method first represents input sequences by sequence-based features, including the information of the distribution of tri-nucleotides and the conserved features surrounding the splice sites characterized by Markov model. An F-score based feature selection method is then used to select inf...

The genome of MM1 (40,248 bp), a temperate bacteriophage from the Spain(23F)-1 multiresistant epidemic clone of Streptococcus pneumoniae, is organized in 53 open reading frames (ORFs) and in at least five functional clusters. Bioinformatic and N-terminal amino acid sequence analyses enabled the assignment of possible functions to 26 ORFs. Analyses comparing the MM1 genome with those of other ba...

Abstract In recent years, dramatic outbursts have been identified toward massive protostars via infrared and millimeter dust continuum molecular maser emission. The longest lived outburst (>6 yr) persists in NGC 6334 I-MM1, a deeply embedded object with no near-IR counterpart. Using FORCAST HAWC+ on SOFIA, we obtained the first mid-IR images of this field since began. Despite being undetecte...

We have examined the expression of vimentin during the differentiation of mouse myeloid leukemia cells (M1), which were induced to differentiate into macrophages by exposure to conditioned medium (CM) obtained from rat embryo fibroblasts. The synthesis of vimentin, which was examined by two-dimensional gel electrophoresis, increased after 12-24 h of incubation of M1 cells in CM and the elevated...

Context. Star formation efficiency (SFE) theories are currently based on statistical distributions of turbulent cloud structures and a simple model of star formation from cores. They remain poorly tested, especially at the highest densities. Aims. We investigate the effects of gas density on the SFE through measurements of the core formation efficiency (CFE). With a total mass of ∼2 × 104 M , t...

The Edmonston vaccine strain of measles virus (MV-Edm) propagates efficiently in a broad range of human tumor cells, killing them selectively. However, the oncolytic potency of MV-Edm in different human tumor xenograft therapy models is highly variable and there is no convenient way to map the distribution of virus-infected tissues in vivo. To enhance the oncolytic potency of MV-Edm against rad...