The crystal structure of Escherichia coli integration host factor complexed with DNA reveals how the sequence-specificity of DNA binding can be determined almost entirely by the structural features of the DNA itself and not by direct readout of the base sequence. There are lessons to be drawn for other DNA-binding motifs.

I am a 23 year old female who enjoys a few glasses of wine but, in my opinion, doesn't drink more than the average college student. A few weeks ago, I had quite a bit to drink and haven't felt the same since. I am dizzy, forgetful, confused and my liver is very tender to the touch. I have continued to have a few glasses of wine a couple nights out of the week and it seems to be the only thing t...

Let's look at the simplest case first: two competitors, say the Comets and the Meteors. If they play each other enough, the better one will win more games and so we'll know which is better. To illustrate, suppose the Comets would win a game 55% of the time. • If they play once, then there is a 45% chance the Meteors would win, a minor upset since the Comets are slightly better. • If they play t...

In an influential study, Bender et al. [Bender S, Bloom N, Card D, Van Reenen J, Wolter S (2018) Management practices, workforce selection, and productivity. J. Labor Econom. 36(S1):S371–S409] document consistent relationships between management productivity, composition using administrative data from German firms matched to ratings of their practices the World Survey. We replicate extend analy...

We consider random mappings from an n–element set into itself with constraints on coalescence as introduced by Arney and Bender. A local limit theorem for the distribution of the number of predecessors of a random point in such a mapping is presented by using a generating function approach and singularity analysis.

M. Bender,* K. Rutz, P.-G. Reinhard, J. A. Maruhn, and W. Greiner Institut für Theoretische Physik, Universität Frankfurt, Robert-Mayer-Strasse 10, D-60325 Frankfurt am Main, Germany Institut für Theoretische Physik II, Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Staudtstrasse 7, D-91058 Erlangen, Germany Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung mbH, Planckstrasse 1, D-64291 Darmstadt, Germany Joint Institute ...

Biological methods available for determining the nutritive value of proteins have recently been reviewed by Allison (1955), Bender (1958) and Adrian & Rerat (1958), and several reports of comparisons between methods for the evaluation of selected proteins have appeared (Rutger’s University : Bureau of Biological Research, 1950; Forbes & Yohe, 1955 ; Chapman, Castillo & Campbell, 1959; Rippon, 1...