MarA47(Yp) from Yersinia pestis, showing 47% identity to Escherichia coli MarA in its N terminus, caused resistance to antibiotics and to organic solvents when expressed in both E. coli and Y. pestis. Resistance was linked to increased expression of the AcrAB multidrug efflux pump. In four of five spontaneous multidrug-resistant mutants of Y. pestis independently selected by growth on tetracycl...

Blue compact galaxies (BCG) are ideal objects in which to derive the primordial He abundance because they are chemically young and have not had a significant stellar He contribution. We discuss a self-consistent method which makes use of all the brightest He I emission lines in the optical range and solves consistently for the electron density of the He II zone. We pay particular attention to e...

Quantifying the exploitable gap between average farmer yields and yield potential (YP) is essential to prioritize research and formulate policies for food security at national and international levels. While irrigated maize accounts for 58% of total annual maize production in the Western U.S. Corn Belt, current yield gap in these systems has not been quantified. Our objectives were to quantify ...

The shape of pores in sedimentary rocks is dependent on the geometric structure rock matrix grains. Carbonate have more complex pore types compared to clastic due effects diagenesis and depositional environment. study analyzed deposition Kais carbonate barrier lagoon environments. It categorized into inter-particle, moldic/vuggy, micro-cracks. type a directly related its stiffness shear resista...

A number of patients with paradoxical sex chromosome complements (so-called XY females, XX and XO males) have been investigated with a series of 19 Yp and 4 Yq DNA probes to establish which region of the Y is essential for male sexual differentiation. Of the 23 XX males, 18 possessed one or more Yp probe sequences with only 5 lacking such sequences. Of 9 XY females examined, only one showed evi...

Enzymatic hydrolysis led to improve functional properties and biological activity of protein by-products, which can be further used as protein ingredients for food and feed applications. The effects of proteolytic enzyme modification of egg-yolk protein preparation (YP) and white protein preparation (WP), obtained as the by-products left during the course of lecithin, lysozyme, and cystatin iso...

A high level of sequence polymorphism combined with linkage disequilibrium has created a limited number of highly diverged haplotypes across the human Xp/Yp telomere junction region. To gain insight into the unusual genetic characteristics of this region, we have examined the orthologous sequences in the common chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes ), the gorilla (Gorilla gorilla) and the orang-utan (Pon...

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