Orbits of graphs under local complementation (LC) and edge local complementation (ELC) have been studied in several different contexts. For instance, there are connections between orbits of graphs and errorcorrecting codes. We define a new graph class, ELC-preserved graphs, comprising all graphs that have an ELC orbit of size one. Through an exhaustive search, we find all ELC-preserved graphs o...

OBJECTIVES Several studies found a significant association between earlobe crease (ELC) and cardiovascular disease (CVD). Metabolic syndrome (MS) is a group of high-risk factors that are a collection of cardiovascular risk factors. Scant data are available about the relationship between ELC and MS. The purpose of the current study was to examine the correlation between ELC and MS. METHODS A c...

Objectives: Diagonal ear lobe crease (ELC) has been introduced as a diagnostic physical sign for coronary artery disease (CAD) and the aim of this study was to evaluate the association between ELC and CAD in Iranians. Methodology: In a crosssectional study, 106 consecutive patients, referred from cardiologists for angiography, were studied for presence of ELC and CAD in four academic hospitals ...

We applied fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy to map the microenvironment of the myosin essential light chain (ELC) in permeabilized skeletal muscle fibers. Four ELC mutants containing a single cysteine residue at different positions in the C-terminal half of the protein (ELC-127, ELC-142, ELC-160, and ELC-180) were generated by site-directed mutagenesis, labeled with 7-diethylamino-3-(((...

The antitumor efficacy of EBV-induced molecule 1 ligand CC chemokine (ELC/CCL19) was evaluated in a murine lung cancer model. The ability of ELC/CCL19 to chemoattract both dendritic cells and T lymphocytes formed the rationale for this study. Compared with diluent-treated tumor-bearing mice, intratumoral injection of recombinant ELC/CCL19 led to significant systemic reduction in tumor volumes (...

This paper describes the application of edge-local complementation (ELC), defined for a simple bipartite graph, to a Tanner graph associated with a binary linear code, C. From a code perspective, various properties of ELC are described and discussed, mainly the special case of isomorphic ELC operations and the relationship to the automorphism group of the code, Aut(C), as well as the generaliza...

of a dissertation at the University of Miami. In this proposal, I have studied the HCM (hypertrophic cardiomyopathy) and DCM (dilated cardiomyopathy) disease causing mechanisms associated with mutations in the myosin regulatory (RLC) and essential (ELC) light chains. Specifically, four HCM mutations, RLC-A13T, RLC-K104E, ELC-A57G and ELC-M173V and one DCM mutation, RLC-D94A were studied. The RL...

The essential light chain of myosin (ELC) is known to be important for structural stability of the alpha-helical lever arm domain of the myosin head, but its function in striated muscle contraction is poorly understood. Two ELC isoforms are expressed in fast skeletal muscle, a long isoform and its NH(2)-terminal approximately 40 amino acid shorter counterpart, whereas only the long ELC is obser...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to investigate the association between earlobe crease (ELC) and cardio-ankle vascular index (CAVI) in asymptomatic hypertensive subjects. MATERIALS AND METHODS A total of 75 subjects with ELC and 75 age- and gender-matched patients without ELC were prospectively selected from subjects admitted to the Outpatient Cardiology Clinic. ELC was assigned to a perso...