An interactive domain

The question sustained throughout the project, and developed into four key principal research aims or foci, framing my research approach and helping to define the field covered. These concerned: abstracting musical basslines into an environmental domain; articulating building materials through vibration; composing for a tactile sensation bodily experience; understanding the dialogue between hearing and sensation, and how felt and audible aspects affect awareness and perception of each other.

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This research investigates the interactive effects of usability, the designer perspective and user expectations on the user experience (UX) of e-commerce websites. It incorporates the theoretical underpinnings of Norman’s (1988) seminal research specifically, Mental Models and Nielsen’s User Categories (1993) to explore the different mental models, domain and technology expertise of two distinct groups – users and designers – in the interaction with a selected system image, that of the e-commerce website.

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A series of thylakoid membrane proteins, including PsbX, PsbY and PsbW, are synthesized with cleavable signal peptides yet inserted using none of the known Sec/SRP/Tat/ Oxa1-type insertion machineries. Here, we show that, although superficially similar to Sec-type signal peptides, these thylakoidal signal peptides contain very different determinants.

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To establish an infection, Yersinia pseudotuberculosis utilizes a plasmid-encoded type III secretion machine that permits the translocation of several anti-host factors into the cytosol of target eukaryotic cells. Secreted YopD is essential for this process. Pre-secretory stabilization of YopD is mediated by an interaction with its cognate chaperone, LcrH. YopD possesses LcrH binding domains located in the N-terminus and in a predicted amphipathic domain located near the C-terminus. This latter domain is also critical for Yersinia virulence. ...

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Haematopoiesis, the differentiation of haematopoietic stem cells and progenitors into various lineages, involves complex interactions of transcription factors that modulate the expression of downstream genes and mediate proliferation and differentiation signals. Commitment of pluripotent haematopoietic stem cells to the erythroid lineage induces erythropoiesis, the production of red blood cells. This process involves a concerted progression through an erythroid burst forming unit (BFU-E), an erythroid colony forming unit (CFU-E), proerythroblast and an erythroblast....

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Membrane-bound transhydrogenases are conformationally driven proton-pumps which couple an inward proton translocation to the reversible reduction of NADP + by NADH(forward reaction). This reaction is stimulatedby an electrochemical protongradient,Dp, presumably throughan increased release of NADPH. The enzymes have three domains: domain II spans the membrane, while domain I and III are hydrophilic and contain the binding sites for NAD(H) andNADP(H), respectively.

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The estrogen receptor-related receptorc (ERRc/ERR3/ NR3B3) is an orphan member of the nuclear receptor superfamily closely related to the estrogen receptors. To explore the DNA binding characteristics, the protein–DNA interaction was studied in electrophoretic mobility shift assays (EMSAs). In vitro translated ERRc binds as a homodimer to direct repeats (DR) without spacing of the nuclear receptor half-site 5¢-AGGTCA-3¢(DR-0), to exten-dedhalf-sites, and to the inverted estrogen response element....

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Escherichia coli 3-phosphoglycerate dehydrogenase (PGDH) catalyzes the first step in serine biosynthesis, and is allosterically inhibitedby serine. Structural studies revealeda homotetramer in which the quaternary arrangement of subunits formed an elongated ellipsoid. Each subunit consisted of three domains: nucleotide, substrate and regu-latory. InPGDH, extensive interactions are formedbetween nucleotide binding domains.

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Erythroid dematin is a major component of red blood cell junctional complexes that link the spectrin±actin cytoskel-eton to the overlying plasma membrane. Transcripts of dematinarewidelydistributed includinghumanbrain, heart, lung, skeletalmuscle, andkidney.Invitro, dematinbinds and bundles actin ®laments in a phosphorylation-dependent manner. The primary structure of dematin consists of a C-terminal domain homologous to theÔheadpieceÕ domain of villin, an actin-binding protein of the brush border cyto-skeleton. ...

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The activity of m-calpain, a heterodimeric, Ca 2+ -dependent cysteine protease appears to be modulated by membrane interactions involving oblique-orientated a-helix formation by a segment, GTAMRILGGVI, in the protein’s smaller subunit. Here, graphical and hydrophobic moment-based analyses predicted that this segment may form ana-helix with strong structural resemblance to the influenza virus peptide, HA2, a known oblique-orientateda-helix former.

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The antimitotic depsipeptide dolastatin 15 was radiolabeled with tritium in its amino-terminal dolavaline residue. Dolastatin 15, although potently cytotoxic, is a relatively weak inhibitor oftubulin assembly and does not inhibit the binding ofany other ligand to tubulin. The only methodo-logy found to demonstrate an interaction between the dep-sipeptide and tubulin was Hummel–Dreyer equilibrium chromatography on Sephadex G-50 superfine. The average apparent Kd value obtained in these studies was about 30lM, with no difference observed when column size or tubulin concentration was varied....

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The goal of this study was to relate conformational changes in the N-terminal domain of chicken troponin I (TnI) to Ca 2+ activation of the actin–myosin interaction.The two cysteine residues in this region (Cys48 and Cys64) were labeled with two sulfhydryl-reactive pyrene-containing fluorophores [N-(1-pyrene)maleimide, and N-(1-pyrene)-iodoacetamide].The labeled TnI showed a typical fluores-cence spectrum: two sharp peaks of monomer fluorescence and a broad peak of excimer fluorescence arising from the formation of an excited dimer (excimer)....

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The X-ray structure of mistletoe lectin I (MLI), a type-II ribosome-inactivatingprotein (RIP), cocrystallized with galactose is described. The model was refined at 3.0 A ˚ resolution to an R-factor of 19.9% using21 899 reflections, with Rfree 24.0%. MLI forms a homodimer (A–B)2in the crystal, as it does in solution at high concentration. The dimer is formed through contacts between the N-terminal domains of two B-chains involvingweak polar and non-polar interactions.

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The natriuretic peptide receptor-A (NPR-A) is composed of an extracellu-lar ligand-binding domain, a transmembrane-spanning domain, a kinase homology domain (KHD) and a guanylyl cyclase domain. Because the presence of ATP or adenylylimidodiphosphate reduces atrial natriuretic peptide (ANP) binding and is required for maximal guanylyl cyclase activ-ity, a direct interaction of ATP with the receptor KHD domain is plaus-ible.

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Recently, a new protein containing a disintegrin domain, alternagin-C (Alt-C), was purified fromBothrops alternatus venom. Unlike other disintegrins, in Alt-C an ECD amino acid motif takes the place of the RGD sequence. Most dis-integrins contain an RGD/KGD sequence and are very potent inhibitors of platelet aggregation, as well as other cell interactions with the extracellular matrix, including tumor cell metastasis and angiogenesis. The present study investi-gated the effects of Alt-C on human neutrophil chemotaxis in vitro and the activation of integrin-mediated pathways....

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We report here the first crystal structure of a stable isosteric analogue of 1,3-bisphospho-D-glyceric acid (1,3-BPGA) bound to the catalytic domain of Trypanosoma cruzi glycosomal glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase (gGAPDH)in which the two phosphoryl moieties interact with Arg249. This complex possibly illustrates a step of the catalytic process by which Arg249 may induce compression of the product formed, allowing its expulsion fromthe active site.

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Tetracycline repressor (TetR), which constitutes the most commonmechanismof bacterial resistance to an antibiotic, is a homodimeric protein composed of two identical sub-units, each of which contains a domain possessing a helix– turn–helix motif and a domain responsible for binding tetra-cycline. Binding of tetracycline in the protein pocket is accompanied by conformational changes in TetR, which abolish the specific interaction between the protein and DNA.

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The enzymes pyruvate decarboxylase (E1) and dihydro-lipoyl dehydrogenase (E3) bind tightly but in a mutually exclusive manner to the peripheral subunit-binding domain (PSBD) of dihydrolipoyl acetyltransferase in the pyruvate dehydrogenase multienzyme complex of Bacillus stearo-thermophilus.

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Multiple ankyrin repeat motif-containing proteins play an important role in protein–protein interactions. ANKHD1 proteins are known to possess multiple ankyrin repeat domains and a single KH domain with no known function. Using yeast two-hybrid system analysis, we identified a novel splice variant of ANKHD1. This splice variant of ANKHD1, which we designated as HIV-1 Vpr-binding ankyrin repeat protein (VBARP), does not contain the signature KH domain, and codes for only a single ankyrin repeat motif. ...

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Abdominal-B(Abd-B) is a complex homeotic gene with a difficult task: one transcript determines the identity of four different abdominal segments throughout development in Drosophila.

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