Rhodopseudomonas palustris has emerged as a model microbe for the anaerobic metabolism of p-coumarate, which is an aromatic compound and a primary component of lignin. However, under anaerobic conditions, R. palustris must actively eliminate excess reducing equivalents through a number of known strategies (e.g., CO2 fixation, H2 evolution) to avoid lethal redox imbalance. Others had hypothesize...

The chaperone protein DnaJ and sigma (σ) factor σ32 (often called RpoH) play important roles in the heat-shock response in Escherichia coli. Previous studies have demonstrated increased heat tolerance accompanied by increased RpoH concentrations in E. coli treated with a sub-minimal inhibitory concentrations (MIC) of kanamycin. DnaJ, along with other chaperone proteins, forms a complex with Rpo...

Drought stress causes severe metabolic dysfunctions by formation of oxidative stress that may lead to damage in DNA, inactivation of enzymes, and lipid peroxidation. Plants have developed different morphological, physiological, and biochemical mechanisms to withstand the drought stress. Plant growth regulators (PGRs) are...

The nanomaterials have important application in different field of science such as biology and pharmacology, which draws the attention of biologists towards this field of study more than before. As the worldwide mortality rate is high due to the pathogens and especially because of the bacteria associated Aeromonas and the antibacterial effect of metal nanoparticles is well known for ce...

The present study demonstrates the potential of nutrient-alginate encapsulation of shoot tips of sunflower, Helianthus annuus (hyb. Azargol) for synthetic seed technology, which could be useful in germplasm distribution and exchange. Shoot tips from in vitro shoot cultures derived from mature seed explants were encapsulated in 3% sodium alginate and 100 mM CaCl2. 2H...

BACKGROUND Flexible fiberoptic bronchoscopy was performed prior to functional endoscopic sinus surgery (FESS) while under general anesthesia to collect bronchoalveolar lavage fluid (BALF) for lower respiratory tract cultures in patients with cystic fibrosis (CF). METHODS A retrospective chart review was performed on all CF patients who underwent combined FESS and bronchoscopy between January ...

mycoplasma and ureaplasma species are the most serious contaminants of cell cultures and this remains one of the major problem encountered in biological research using cell cultures. the aim of this study was to investigate the rate of mycoplasma and a total of 100 different cell culture specimens including, r228, hela, vero, mdck, l20, rd and hep2 were collected. then the specimens were invest...

Let G be an additive finite abelian group with exponent exp(G). Let S = g1 · . . . · gl be a sequence over G and k(S) = ord(g1)+· · ·+ord(gl) be its cross number. Let η(G) (resp. t(G)) be the smallest integer t such that every sequence of t elements (repetition allowed) from G contains a non-empty zero-sum subsequence T of length |T | ≤ exp(G) (resp. k(T ) ≤ 1). It is easy to see that t(G) ≥ η(...

Classification of blocks of subband samples according to their energy and variable bit allocation within the subsequent classes has demonstrated considerable gains in coding efficiency. The gains due to classification increase as smaller blocks are used; however, this increases the overheads for transmitting the classification information. In this paper, a quadtree based method is proposed. Thi...