Allergic reactions to peanuts are a serious health problem because of their high prevalence, associated with potential severity, and chronicity. One of the three major allergens in peanut, Ara h 2, is a member of the conglutin family of seed storage proteins. Ara h 2 shows high sequence homology to proteins of the 2S albumin family. Presently, only very few structural data from allergenic prote...

SCOPE Allergens from nuts frequently induce severe allergic reactions in sensitive individuals. The aim of this study was to elucidate the physicochemical characteristics of natural Cor a 14, the 2S albumin from hazelnut. METHODS AND RESULTS Cor a 14 was purified from raw hazelnuts using a combination of precipitation and chromatographic techniques. The protein was analyzed using gel electrop...

First observations of the Bs → ψ(2S)η, B0 → ψ(2S)π+π− and Bs → ψ(2S)π+π− decays are made using a dataset corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 1.0 fb−1 collected by the LHCb experiment in proton–proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of √ s = 7 TeV. The ratios of the branching fractions of each of the ψ(2S) modes with respect to the corresponding J/ψ decays are B(Bs →ψ(2S)η) B(Bs →...

Caspase-2 (casp-2) is the most conserved caspase across species, and is one of the initiator caspases activated by various stimuli. The casp-2 gene produces several alternative splicing isoforms. It is believed that the long isoform, casp-2L, promotes apoptosis, whereas the short isoform, casp-2S, inhibits apoptosis. The actual effect of casp-2S on apoptosis is still controversial, however, and...

We consider the partition function of the boundary OSp(2S + 2|2S) coset sigma model on an annulus, based on the lattice regularization introduced in the companion paper. Using results for the action of OSp(2S+2|2S) and BL(2) on the corresponding spin chain, as well as mini-superspace and small g σ calculations, we conjecture the full spectrum and set of degeneracies on the entire critical line....

Color-suppressed decays of B mesons to final states with ψ(2S) mesons have been observed with the CLEO detector. The branching fractions for the decays B+ → ψ(2S)K+, B+ → ψ(2S)K∗(892)+, B0 → ψ(2S)K0, and B0 → ψ(2S)K∗(892)0 are measured to be (7.8±0.7±0.9)×10−4 , (9.2±1.9± 1.2)× 10−4, (5.0± 1.1± 0.6)× 10−4, and (7.6± 1.1± 1.0)× 10−4, respectively, where the first uncertainty is statistical and t...

Transport collision integrals of interacting atoms or ions are essential in modeling transport properties high-temperature gases and plasmas. Here, we obtained the potential energy curves (PECs) CH using state-of-the-art ab initio methods. The PECs were also extrapolated to investigate for C(3P)-H(2S), C(5S)-H(2S), C(1S)-H(2S), C(1D)-H(2S) interactions, which interactions between excited C(5S),...

Of 4-amino-5-chloro-2-methoxy-N-(1-ethyl-2-hydroxymethyl-4- pyrrolidinyl)benzamide, four optical isomers, (2S,4S)-1 (TKS159), (2S,4R)-25, (2R,4S)-26 and (2R,4R)-27, were prepared from optically active 4-amino-1-ethyl-2-hydroxymethylpyrrolidine di-p-toluenesulfonate [(2S,4S)-14, (2S,4R)-17, (2R,4S)-20 and (2R,4R)-23, respectively]. The requisites, (2S,4S)-14, (2S,4R)-17, (2R,4S)-20 and (2R,4R)-2...