A total synthesis of apratoxin A was developed. Apratoxin A, isolated from Lyngbya spp. cyanobacteria, is representative of a growing class of marine cyanobacterial cyclodepsipeptides wherein discrete polypeptide and polyketide domains are merged by ester and amide or amide-derived linkages. In the apratoxins, the N terminus of the peptide domain [(Pro)-(N-Me-Ile)-(N-Me-ala)-(O-Me-Tyr)-(moCys)]...

A detailed geochemical study and a sequence stratigraphic interpretation have been conducted on a sedimentary sequence of the Upper Cretaceous La Luna Formation, in a section outcropping in the eastern ̄ank of the Middle Magdalena Basin (MMB), Colombia. The goals were to evaluate geochemical variability related to lithofacies and organic facies changes, characterize depositional environment and...

This study investigates whether and how the demand for animal-friendly pork can benefit from individual joint use of label “Animal Friendly,” “Organic,” “Local,” “Low Fat.” A choice experiment was conducted to collect data. The data were analyzed using random parameter logit latent class models. Three consumer segments identified. Consumers in Segment 1 (pro-welfare consumers—39% all respondent...

Initiator tRNAs are used exclusively for initiation of protein synthesis and not for the elongation step. We show, in vivo and in vitro, that the primary sequence feature that prevents the human initiator tRNA from acting in the elongation step is the nature of base pairs 50:64 and 51:63 in the TpsiC stem of the initiator tRNA. Various considerations suggest that this is due to sequence-depende...

Abstract This study was conducted in fruit production lathe house of the Department Of Horticulture And Landscape Gardening, station (B), College Agricultural Engineering Sciences, University Baghdad, Al-Jaadria for 8 months, began from 1/3/2019 to 1/9/2019 investigate responses C35 Citrus rootstock influence foliar spraying zinc and irrigation with smoking-water at 2 years old saplings. includ...

Chemistry of Dufour glands associated with the venom complex in Bracon cephi (Gahan) and Bracon lissogaster Muesebeck (Hymenoptera; Braconidae), two parasitoids of the wheat stem sawfly, Cephus cinctus Norton (Hymenoptera: Cephidae), was examined by solid phase micro-extraction (SPME) and gas chromatography/mass spectrometry. Homologous series of five chemical classes were detected in individua...

• >v r ABSTRACT ' v Chemical modification and limited enzymatic hydrolysis on isolated E. coli 5S RNA have provided informations on the * secondary-and tertiary structure compatible with pseudoknotted structures for the A-and B-conformers of the molecule. * Changes in the accessibility and reactivity of nucleotides * in loop C and at the stem of helix IV in two different 5S RNA *" conformers ar...