The Hill coefficient is commonly used to estimate the number of ligand molecules that are required to bind to a receptor to produce a functional effect. However, for a receptor with more than one ligand binding site, the Hill equation does not reflect a physically possible reaction scheme; only under the very specific condition of marked positive cooperativity does the Hill coefficient accurate...

A central challenge in designing and administering effective anticoagulants is achieving the proper therapeutic window and dosage for each patient. The Hill coefficient, nH, which measures the steepness of a dose-response relationship, may be a useful gauge of this therapeutic window. We sought to measure the Hill coefficient of available anticoagulants to gain insight into their therapeutic wi...

no unique method has been so far specified for determining the number of neurons in hidden layers of multi-layer perceptron (mlp) neural networks used for prediction. the present research is intended to optimize the number of neurons using two meta-heuristic procedures namely genetic and hill climbing algorithms. the data used in the present research for prediction are consumption data of water...

A chain of connected genes with activation-repression links is analysed. It is shown that for various promoter activity functions (parametrised by Hill coefficient) the equations describing the concentrations of transcription factors are perturbed completely integrable differential-difference of KdV-type. In the case of large Hill coefficient the proteomic signal along the gene network is given...

The Hill coefficient is often used as a direct measure of the cooperativity of binding processes. It is an essential tool for probing properties of reactions in many biochemical systems. Here, we analyze existing experimental data and demonstrate that the Hill coefficient characterizing the binding of transcription factors to their cognate sites can in fact be larger than one-the standard indic...

The DNA-dependent ATPase activity of the recA protein of Escherichia coli shows a complex dependence on ATP concentration. With a single-stranded (SS) DNA cofactor, the Hill coefficient for ATP is 3.3 at pH 8.1 and 1.4 at pH 6.2. With a double-stranded (DS) DNA cofactor, the Hill coefficient is 3.3 at pH 6.2 (no reaction is detectable at pH 8.1). In the presence of SS DNA, the Km for ATP is 20 ...

Variegate porphyria (VP) is characterized by photocutaneous lesions and acute neuropsychiatric attacks. Decreased protoporphyrinogen oxidase activity results in accumulation of protoporphyrin (ogen) IX and coproporphyrin (ogen) III. During acute attacks delta-aminolevulinic acid and porphobilinogen also increase, suggesting that porphobilinogen deaminase (PBG-D) may be rate limiting. We have ex...

A constitutive alkaline phosphatase was purified to apparent homogeneity as determined by polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis from mycelia of the wild strain 74A of the mold Neurospora crassa, after growth on acetate and in the presence of saturating amounts of inorganic phosphate (Pi) for 72 h at 30 degrees C. The molecular mass was 58 kDa and 56 kDa as determined by exclusion chromatography an...