The hypothesis that uncoupling protein 3 (UCP3) is an uncoupling protein involved in heat dissipation is not unequivocally supported. An update of in vitro, ex vivo and in vivo studies testing this hypothesis is presented. Data are provided showing that exercise induces a fatty acid-dependent increase in muscle UCP3 mRNA in humans. The proposed positive correlation between glycolytic capacity a...

Activity Recognition is a typical classification problem. The goal is to detect and recognize everyday activities of a person. This paper presents our approach to measurements and classification of a person’s movements. This is done by using two 3-axis radio accelerometers attached to the person’s body and by reconstruction and interpretation of the user’s behavior. We compared two machine lear...

Live-cell detection of intracellular enzyme activity requires that substrates are cell-permeable and that the generated products are easily detected and retained in cells. Our objective was to create a novel fluorogenic substrate that could be used for real-time detection of apoptosis in living cells. We have synthesized a highly cell-permeable caspase-3 substrate, DEVD-NucView488, by linking a...

Autographa californica nucleopolyhedrovirus (AcMNPV) DNA polymerase was purified from virus-infected cells using conventional chromatographic methods. The enzymatic activity of fractions eluting from single-stranded agarose gels was found to exactly coincide with a single polypeptide with an apparent molecular mass of approximately 110,000 Da on denaturing polyacrylamide gels stained with Cooma...

quinolones are broad-spectrum antibacterial agents.they have many clinical uses which are increasing.quinolones exert antibacterial activity primarily by inhibiting bacterial DNA gyrase.the inhibition of DNA gyrase by the quinolones are greatly influenced by the nature of the C-7 substituent on the quinolones molecule.substitution of bulky functional groupd is also possible in C-7 position.furt...