Abstract Background Growing large crop monocultures and heavily using pesticides enhances the evolution of pesticide-insensitive pests pathogens. To reduce pesticide use in cultivation, application priming-active compounds (PrimACs) is a welcome alternative. PrimACs strengthen plant immune system could thus help to protect plants with lower amounts pesticides. can be identified, for example, by...

Introduction From their transcriptional birth to their degradation, cellular mRNAs are coated with proteins in messenger ribonucleoprotein (mRNP) complexes. The mRNP composition controls every aspect of the life of the mRNA, from pre-mRNA processing to mRNA localization, translation and turnover. Transitions between these events are accompanied by major mRNP remodeling and exchange of mRNP prot...

We previously reported a 660-bp mouse mammary tumor virus (MMTV)-like env gene sequence in approximately 38% of human breast cancer DNA, but not in normal breasts or other tumors. This MMTV-like env gene sequence was expressed in 66% of the env gene-positive human breast cancers. An entire proviral structure was identified in human breast cancer DNA with high homology to MMTV and low homology t...

With 50 species of the genus Nepenthes L. currently described from the Philippines, it is without doubt that the country, along with the islands of Sumatra (Indonesia) and Borneo (Indonesia, Malaysia, Brunei), should be considered the center of diversity of the genus. In this work, we describe two new species. One species, N. aenigma sp. nov., is from Ilocos Norte province on Luzon Island and h...

In the early eighties, López, González-Arroyo and the present author proved that, if at a given Q 2 0 large enough for perturbative QCD to be valid, structure functions behave as a power of x for x → 0, then for all larger Q

This report describes a management scheme for flash memory-based storage systems. This scheme will be implemented into a flash memory-based FAT file system in the Ramos project running in the Institute of Information Science (IIS). Ramos project targets on building software components for real time and multimedia applications that most of the consumer electronic products can be easily construct...

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T he nematode C. elegans has exactly 302 neurons, and we know the developmental lineage and physical position of each of these cells within the organism. We also have the " connectome " : a wiring diagram of the C. elegans nervous system that tells us exactly which neurons are connected to each other. We know a lot about the nervous system of this organism, yet we don't know how its neuronal co...

The Ramos-Burkitt lymphoma (J3L) B cell line can be driven into apoptosis by a number of stimuli including antibody (antiIgM) dincted against the antigen receptor (AgR) [l]. In order to generate a synchronised population of cells prior to detennining their response to AgR ligation, we have used two separate agents hydroxyurea and nocodazole. Hydroxyurea induces arrest through inhibition of ribo...

PTP20, also known as HSCF/protein-tyrosine phosphatase K1/fetal liver phosphatase 1/brain-derived phosphatase 1, is a cytosolic protein-tyrosine phosphatase with currently unknown biological relevance. We have identified that the nonreceptor protein-tyrosine kinase Tec-phosphorylated PTP20 on tyrosines and co-immunoprecipitated with the phosphatase in a phosphotyrosine-dependent manner. The int...