Despite recent improvements in treatment, ovarian cancer is still the leading cause of death from gynaecological malignancies. Today, marine mollusks are considered as natural source of new biologically and pharmacologically active compounds by scientists and the pharmaceutical industries. The aim of this study is to investigate the selective apoptotic effects of Turbo coronatus crude extract f...

The striped pattern of fushi tarazu (ftz) expression found in the blastoderm of the Drosophila melanogaster embryo is generated largely through complex interactions between multiple transcription factors that bind to the zebra element of the ftz gene. A motif in the zebra element, the FTZ-F1 recognition element (F1RE), has been shown to bind a transcription factor, FTZ-F1 alpha, that is a membe...

The cancellation level and phase were measured for the (f2-f1) distortion product in six normal-hearing ears as a function of input level (L1,L2) and the frequency separation of the two input signals (f1,f2, where f2 greater than f1). The effects of input level were examined for L1 and L2, varied together (L1 = L2) and separately. Typically, f1 was 1500 Hz while f2/f1 was either 1.16, 1.32, 1.4...

1 Belian categories 3 1.1 Complexes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 1.2 Diagram chase . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 1.3 Snake Lemma . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 1.4 Delta functors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....

The Escherichia coli uncA gene codes for the a subunit of the F1-sector of the membrane proton-ATPase. Mutations in this gene cause loss of ATPase and ATP synthesis activity and, in some instances, derangement of F1 structure. From three mutants (uncA401, uncA453, and uncA447), an F1 of normal size and subunit structure may be purified. In this work, purified soluble F1 from these three mutants...

Detailed understanding of the action of biological molecular machines must overcome the challenge of gaining a clear knowledge of the corresponding free-energy landscape. An example for this is the elucidation of the nature of converting chemical energy to torque and work in the rotary molecular motor of F1-ATPase. A major part of the challenge involves understanding the rotary-chemical couplin...

The freshwater angel fish (Pterophyllum scalare Schultze, 1823) is South American cichlid become very popular among aquarists. There is little information on their culture and aquarium husbandry. In this study growth performance and survival rate of angelfish subjected to different feeding frequencies were evaluated. Four groups of angel fish juveniles (0.87 ± 0.01 g; 3.98 ± 0.08 mm) were fed e...

F1-ATPase is the catalytic component of the ATP synthase molecular machine responsible for most of the uphill synthesis of ATP in living systems. The enormous advances in biochemical and structural studies of this machine provide an opportunity for detailed understanding of the nature of its rotary mechanism. However, further quantitative progress in this direction requires development of relia...

Lemma A.1 Consider two independent samples of sizes n0 and n1 from continuous distributions F0 and F1 with common support: X0,1, . . . , X0,n0 ∼ i.i.d. F0 and X1,1, . . . , X1,n1 ∼ i.i.d. F1. Let N = n0 + n1. Assume that the support of F0 and F1 is an interval inside [0, 1]. Let f0 and f1 be the densities of F0 and F1, respectively. Suppose that for any x in the supports of F0 and F1, f1(x)/f0(...