T HIS minireview discusses recent information about the septin family of proteins, which suggests that the septins may be elements of a new filament system that functions in all or most eukaryotic cells. Septins are found in a wide variety of eukaryotes, are important for cytokinesis, and may compose or regulate a ubiquitous filament system that has not been previously recognized. A more extens...

Introduction The daughter of a first-cousin marriage from Saudi Arabia died at age 7y/o of an unexplained periodic fever illness. At two years of age, the proband presented with recurrent fever attacks associated with febrile seizures, severe anemia, septic arthritis, diarrhea, and severe vomiting causing multiple ICU submissions. Considering her ancestry, she was thought to have an FMF-like di...

Neurexophilin was discovered as a neuronal glycoprotein that is copurified with neurexin Ialpha during affinity chromatography on immobilized alpha-latrotoxin (Petrenko et al., 1996). We have now investigated how neurexophilin interacts with neurexins, whether it is post-translationally processed by site-specific cleavage similar to neuropeptides, and whether related neuropeptide-like proteins ...

Family Loranthaceae is charactherized by parasitic nature of its species. Tribal people give importance to members of this family for their wild edible, medicinal values and withcraft and superstitious uses. In this connection, ethnobotanical survey among Mahadeokoli tribe was carried out in five districts namely Ahmadnagar, Nasik, Pune, Raigad and Thane. Information collected during field surv...

a limited series of studies on capital structure have been conducted on small-to-medium size enterprises (smes). recent family-bases business literature suggests that these processes are influenced by firm owners’ attitudes toward the utility of debt as a form of financing. other factors like culture, entrepreneurial characteristics, and prior experiences may also be involved. this study intend...

If a man has a matchmaking network, will this increase his chance of marrying? If so, do the different types of network ties play different roles? Using survey data from X County in Anhui Province (N = 412), we analyze the determinants of first marriage probability for 18 to 50year-old rural Chinese men in terms of their social networks. Age at first marriage for rural Chinese men is concentrat...