Background: Varicella zoster virus (VZV) causes chickenpox in children and zoster (zona) in the elderly. Using RFLP-PCR method for detection of VZV specific SNPs ORF38, 54 and 62 could  distinguish the profile of VZV isolates. The aim of this study was to investigate enzymatic digestion pattern of VZV ORF38 and ORF54 in chickenpox patients using RFLP technique. <b...

objective: to determine the role of global genome methylation in gastritis lesion and its relation with clinicopathologic finding. materials and methods: the study was conducted on 44 gastritis and normal adjacent specimens using a technique composed of restriction enzyme digestion and pyrosequencing known as luma (luminometric methylation assay). at first, dna extracted from gastritis lesion a...

SCOPE This study aimed to assess the impact of the "often neglected" intestinal brush border membranes (BBMs) hydrolases on dietary peptides, exploring the possibility that the disintegration of proteins progressed in the small intestine up to a "core" of intrinsically stable oligopeptides, persisting independently on the up-stream breakdown. METHODS AND RESULTS Samples of sodium caseinate, s...

molecular experiment was conducted to confirm resistant to aryloxyphenoxypropionate herbicides in winter wild oat (avena ludoviciana duriu.) populations of wheat fields in khuzestan province, at faculty of agriculture of ferdowsi university, during year of 2006. first, 44 wild oat populations from ahvaz, andimeshk, shush, shushtar, ramhormoz, susangerd, and dezful cities with a susceptible popu...

A nonenzymatic digestion technique allows proteins to be well suited for collision-induced dissociation tandem mass spectrometry. This method utilizes microwaves and Dithiothreitol (DTT) to selectively cleave at aspartic acid (D) and disulfide bonds. This microwave digestion technique is reproducible and produces peptides with a shortened sequence length. Insulin I is used in this study to opti...

The influence of nature of the feed sample, feeding frequency and pore size on the influx of bacteria and protozoa into synthetic fiber bags suspended in the rumens of sheep fed different diets was studied. Counts of total culturable bacteria in bags with a pore size of 10 microns were less than 30% of the ruminal counts for animals that were fed the lucerne hay and high-roughage diets. The max...

In comparative proteomic studies, it is important to know the variability associated with sample preparation. In this study, we report the strategy of using SILAC (stable isotope labeling by amino acids in cell culture) to evaluate the effect of the variation in sample preparation for quantitative proteomics. Variability can be measured when equal amounts of light and heavy SILAC samples underg...

A method is described for the initial steps of sequence analysis of RNase T1-and pancreatic RN-ase-resistant oligonucleotides of RNA containing cytidylate residues labeled in vitro with 125I. In many cases an oligonucleotide sequence can be deduced from a consideration of (i) its relative position in the two-dimensional fingerprint (with DEAE thin layer homochromatographic second dimension), (i...

Ptal is a type II restriction endonuclease from the Cyanobacterial strain Phormidium tadzschicicum. This strain was obtained from the Collection of Algal Cultures of Leningrad University. Ptal recognizes the sequence 5'-TCCGGA-3' and cleaves between T and C. The enzyme was purified using the following chromatographic steps: 1) Phosphocelulose, 2) DEAESephadex. The enzyme was free of contaminati...

The coupling between a microalgal pond and an anaerobic digester is a promising alternative for sustainable energy production by transforming carbon dioxide into methane using solar energy. In this paper, we demonstrate the ability of the original ADM1 model and a modified version (based on Contois kinetics for the hydrolysis steps) to represent microalgae anaerobic digestion. Simulations were ...