Shikimate can be utilized as the sole source of carbon and energy of Corynebacterium glutamicum. Although biosynthesis and degradation of shikimate are well characterized in C. glutamicum, the transport of shikimate has hardly been studied. A mutant strain deficient in cgR_2523 loses the ability to grow on shikimate as well as to consume extracellular shikimate, indicating that the gene is invo...

designating imam ali (pbuh) as the successor of the messenger of allah (pbuh) is a source of shia-sunni split. to prove it, however, shia provides arguments found in the holy qur’an, hadith (tradition), wisdom, and history. it is worth to consider works of literature on the issue as well, yet little research has been done in this respect. this issue has been dealt with in the present article. a...

Shigella spp. are the causative agent of bacillary dysentery. Infection results in acute colonic injury due to the host inflammatory response. The mediators of the damage, infiltrating polymorphonuclear leukocytes (PMN), also resolve the infection. Shigella flexneri's virulence effectors are encoded on its large virulence plasmid and on pathogenicity islands in the chromosome. The SHI-2 pathoge...

todd lawson in article hermeneutic interpretation of pre-islamic and shiite، attempts to describe and assess the historical development of hermeneutics the twelver shia interpretation. this article is based on the shia interpretation of the phenomena of contemporary hermeneutics four province-based، compromise، mystical and esoteric (deafness hermeneutic) and philosophical - has lived provinces...

C Ca ar re e o of f t th he e T Te er rm mi in na al ll ly y I Il ll l: : R Re el li ig gi io ou us s P Pe er rs sp pe ec ct ti iv ve es s.. D Di is sc cu us ss si io on n.. A Aa as si im m P Pa ad de el la a, , M MD D: : Thank you so much for your presentation. I think it highlights the problem many of us in this room face whether we are physicians, Muslim chaplains , imams, or scholars. Dr. S...

some western scholars of shiite studies believe thatthe chief principle of justice in twelver shia islam or imamiyyah is rooted in mo’tazalediscourse while this principle has its roots in imam ali’s (as) theoretical and practical instructions. justice in imam ali’s view has an epistemological status which initiates from allah’s justice attribute; then it streams in cosmology; and after all it i...

the enforcement of hodood (divine prescribed punishment) in the major occultation era of imam mahdi is one of the remarkable subjects of twelver shia (imami) jurisprudence. referring to a juridical principle called adam-al-vilaayah (lack of guardianship); some shia jurists consider the task as the prerogative of infallible imam or his special representatives and maintain that the enforcement of...