Alginate is a linear and acidic polysaccharide, composed of (1 → 4) linked β-D-mannuronic acid (ManA) and α-L-guluronic acid (GulA). The ratio of ManA to GulA (M/G) is one of the most important factors for the application of alginate and its derivatives in various areas. In this work, a robust and accurate method was developed to analyze M/G using high-performance anion-exchange chromatography ...

A five-gene cluster around the gene in Clostridium cellulovorans that encodes endoglucanase EngL, which is involved in plant cell wall degradation, has been cloned and sequenced. As a result, a mannanase gene, manA, has been found downstream of engL. The manA gene consists of an open reading frame with 1,275 nucleotides encoding a protein with 425 amino acids and a molecular weight of 47, 156. ...

The international standard ISO 9798-6 specifies MANA protocols for data authentication and an application of the MANA I protocol to public key authentication and key exchange. The resulting protocol is called the MANA certificate protocol an can be viewed as a passkey based key agreement protocol. In this paper we present an application of MANA certificate protocol to a wireless security associ...

The objective of this study was to explore demographic and economic characteristics associated with household food security of 2,784 low-income households with pre-school aged children receiving food supplements from the Colombian Plan for Improving Food and Nutrition in Antioquia - MANA (Mejoramiento Alimentario y Nutricional de Antioquia) in the Department of Antioquia, Colombia. Included in ...

Synchronizing cell growth, division and DNA replication is an essential property of all living cells. Accurate coordination of these cellular events is especially crucial for bacteria, which can grow rapidly and undergo multifork replication. Here we show that the metabolic protein ManA, which is a component of mannose phosphotransferase system, participates in cell wall construction of the rod...

In this study, we present the first complete genome sequence of Lactobacillus rennini ACA-DC 565, a strain isolated from a traditional Greek overripened Kopanisti cheese called Mana. Although the species has been associated with cheese spoilage, the strain ACA-DC 565 may contribute to the intense organoleptic characteristics of Mana cheese.

F. Metze, J. McDonough, H. Soltau, and A. Waibel Interactive Systems Laboratories Universität Karlsruhe (TH) Karlsruhe, Germany fmetze|jm d|soltau|waibelg ira.uka.de A. Lavie, S. Burger, C. Langley, L. Levin, and T. Schultz Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA, USA falavie|sburger| langley|lsl| tanja+g s. mu.edu F. Pianesi, R. Cattoni, G. Lazzari, N. Mana, and E. Pianta ITC-irst Trento, It...

Atom transfer radical polymerization (ATRP) has been successfully employed to obtain a new derivative of hyaluronic acid (HA) able to change its solubility as a function of external pH and then to be potentially useful for intestinal release of bioactive molecules, included enzymes and proteins. In particular, a macroinitiator has been prepared by linking 2-bromo-2-methypropionic acid (BMP) to ...