shiga toxin (stx) is the principal virulence factor of shigatoxigenic escherichia coli (stec), a food-born pathogen associated disease with uncomplicated diarrhea or the hemolytic-uremic syndrome. in this study, rabbit polyclonal anti recombinant a, b subunits of shiga toxin and holotoxin antisera were raised and employed for immunological purpose. by immunoblotting, these antisera recognized r...

The extensive application of the hybridoma technology for tissue phenotyping has demonstrated in the last decade that a number of heterodimeric molecules consisting of noncovalently associated α and β subunits (Hynes, 1992), named integrins, play a major role in cell-to-cell and cellto-interstitium interactions as well as in cell trafficking (Hemler, 1990; Albelda and Buck, 1990). The structura...

introduction: several potyviruses infecting gramineous plants have been reported from iran. mosaic is the most widespread viral disease affecting sugarcane and maize production. sugarcane mosaic virus (scmv) is one of the causal agents of mosaic disease, which was first described in ohio in 1963. scmv belonging to the genus potyvirus, family potyviridae, is a single-stranded positive sense rna ...

background: there are only four drugs for treating african trypanosomiasis, a devastating disease in sub-saharan africa. with slow discovery of better drugs, vaccination is viewed as the best method of control. we previously showed that antibodies to native trypanosoma brucei brucei tubulin inhibit the growth of trypanosomes in culture. here, we aimed to determine the effect of antibodies to ba...

There are by now several attempts to make the theory of the field of one element F1 rigorous. In [10] the authors formalize the transition from rings to schemes on a categorial level and apply this machinery to the category of sets to obtain the category of F1-schemes as in [1]. In [3] and [5] the authors extend the definition of rings in order to capture a structure that deserves to be called ...

In an earlier work, we showed that if the Hodge conjecture holds for all complex abelian varieties of CM-type, then the Tate conjecture holds for all abelian varieties over finite fields (Milne 1999b). In this article, we extract from the proof a statement (Theorem 1.1) that sometimes allows one to deduce the Tate conjecture for the powers of a single abelian variety A over a finite field from ...

We study, as hypersurfaces in toric varieties, elliptic Calabi–Yau fourfolds for F-theory compactifications dual to E8 × E8 heterotic strings compactified to four dimensions on elliptic Calabi–Yau threefolds with some choice of vector bundle. We describe how to read off the vector bundle data for the heterotic compactification from the toric data of the fourfold. This map allows us to construct...

Mirror Symmetry for Calabi-Yau hypersurfaces in toric varieties is by now well established. However, previous approaches to it did not uncover the underlying reason for mirror varieties to be mirror. We are able to calculate explicitly vertex algebras that correspond to holomorphic parts of A and B models of Calabi-Yau hypersurfaces and complete intersections in toric varieties. We establish th...

Abstract Background Plasmodium vivax transmission-blocking vaccines (TBVs) are receiving increasing attention. Based on excellent activities of the PbPH (PBANKA_0417200) and PbSOP26 (PBANKA_1457700) antigens in berghei , their orthologs P. PVX_098655 (PvPH) PVX_101120 (PvSOP26), were selected for evaluation potential as TBVs. Methods Fragments PvPH (amino acids 22–304) PvSOP26 30–272) expressed...