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is structured as follows: This study investigates the adoption and use of Generalized Audit Software (GAS) by Indonesian audit firms. GAS is specialized software that enables the auditor to automate tasks including client risk assessment. The researcher believed GAS use in Indonesia is not widespread and one explanation for this is the absence of professionally qualified accountants (ADB, 2003) and the World Bank (2011) reported that audit practices in Indonesia face a quality related problem especially in mid-tier and small-sized firms.

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DNA of prokaryotes is in a nonequilibrium structural state, characterized as ÔactiveÕ DNA supercoiling. Alterations in this state a€ect many life processes and a homeostatic control of DNA supercoiling has been suggested [Menzel, R. & Gellert, M. (1983) Cell 34, 105±113]. We here report on a new method for quantifying homeostatic control of the high-energy state of in vivo DNA. The method involves making small perturbation in the expression of topoisomerase I, and measuring the e€ect on DNA supercoiling of a reporter plasmid and on the expression of DNA gyrase....

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The human b-globin gene locus is the subject of intense study, and over the past two decades a wealth of information has accumulated on how tissue-specific and stage-specific expression of its genes is achieved. The data are extensive and it would be difficult, if not impossible, to formulate a comprehensive model integrating every aspect of what is currently known. In this review, we introduce the fundamental characteristics of globin locus regulation as well as questions on which much of the current research is predicated.

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Bacteroides vulgatus has been shown to be involved in the aggravation of colitis. Previously, we separated two potent virulence factors, capsular polysaccharide (CPS) and lipopolysaccharide (LPS), from a clinical isolate of B. vulgatus and characterized the structure of CPS. In this study, we elucidated the structures of O-antigen polysaccharide (OPS) and lipid A in the LPS. LPS was subjected to weak acid hydrolysis to produce the lipid A fraction and polysaccharide fraction.

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Laboratory for Lipoprotein Chemistry and 4Flanders Interuniversity Institute for Biotechnology, Department of Medical Protein Research, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Biochemistry, Ghent University, Belgium; 2Laboratory of Biomolecular Dynamics, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium; 3Ecole Normale Supe´rieure, Paris, France Penetratin is a 16-amino-acid peptide, derived from the homeodomain of antennapedia, a Drosophila transcription factor, which can be used as a vector for the intracellular delivery of peptides or oligonucleotides....

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Agrobacterium tumefaciens is a Gram-negative, phytopathogenic bacterium and is characterized by an unique mode of action on dicotyledonous plants: it is able to genetically modify the host, and because of this feature, it is used as a tool for transgenic plants. Many experiments have demonstrated that lipopolysaccharides (LPSs) play an important role for the disease development, as they are involved in the adhesion process of the bacterium on the plant cell wall.

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Department of Nutritional Science, Faculty of Health and Welfare Science, Okayama Prefectural University, Soja, Japan; 2Division of Biological Science, Institute of Scientific and Industrial Research, Osaka University, Japan; 3Laboratory of Cell Dynamics, Graduate School of Bioagricultural Sciences, Nagoya University, Japan The function of the translation products of six different cDNAs for Acetabularia V-ATPase proteolipid subunit (AACEVAPD1 to AACEVAPD6 ) was examined using a Saccharomyces cerevisiae VMA3-deficient strain that lacked its own gene for one of the proteolipid subunits of V-AT...

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Department of Biochemistry, Eotvos Lorand University, and 2Biotechnology Research Group of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, ´ ´ ´ ´ Pazmany setany 1/C, Budapest, Hungary The molecular mechanism of the autolysis of rat a-chymotrypsin B was investigated. In addition to the two already known autolytic sites, Tyr146 and Asn147, a new site formed by Phe114 was identified. The former two sites and the latter one are located in the autolysis and the interdomain loops, respectivel

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Chromatin is a highly dynamic structure that plays an essential role in regulating all nuclear processes that utilize the DNA template including DNA repair, replication, transcription and recombination. Thus, the mechanisms by which chromatin structures are assembled and modified are questions of broad interest. This minireview will focus on two groups of proteins: (a) histone chaperones and (b) ATPdependent chromatin remodeling machines, that co-operate to assemble DNA and histone proteins into chromatin....

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The structure of post-translational modifications of human heparin cofactor II isolated from human serum and from recombinant Chinese hamster ovary cells and their effects on heparin binding have been characterized. Oligosaccharide chains were found attached to all three potential N-glycosylation sites in both protein preparations. The carbohydrate structures of heparin cofactor II circulating in blood are complex-type diantennary and triantennary chains in a ratio of 6 : 1 with the galactose being 90% sialylated with a2 fi 6 linked N-acetylneuraminic acid....

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The binding of lipopolysaccharide (LPS, also known as bacterial endotoxin) to human hemoglobin is known to result in oxidation of hemoglobin to methemoglobin and hemichrome. We have investigated the effects of the LPSs from smooth and rough Escherichia coliandSalmonella minnesotaon the rate of oxidation of native oxyhemoglobin A0and hemoglobin cross-linked between thea-99 lysines.

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The core complex ofRhodobacter sphaeroidesis formed by the association of the light-harvesting antenna 1 (LH1) and the reaction center (RC). The PufX protein is essential for photosynthetic growth; it is locatedwithin the core in a 1 : 1 stoichiometry with the RC. PufX is required for a fast ubiquinol exchange between the QBsite of the RC and the Qo site of the cytochromebc1complex.

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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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Previous structural andmutagenesis studies indicate that the invariant a-amino and a-carboxyl groups of glutamate receptor agonists are engaged in polar interactions with oppositely charged, conserved arginine and glutamate resi-dues in the ligand-binding domain ofa-amino-3-hydroxy-5-methyl-4-isoxazolepropionic acid receptor.To examine the role of these residues (R507 and E727 in the GluR-D subunit) in the discrimination between agonists and anta-gonists, we analyzed the ligand-binding properties of homomeric GluR-D and its soluble ligand-binding domain withmutations at thesepositions....

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The structure of the lipid A and core region of the lipo-polysaccharide (LPS) fromFrancisella tularensis(ATCC 29684) was analysed using NMR, mass spectrometry and chemical methods. The LPS contains a b-GlcN-(1–6)-GlcN lipid A backbone, but has a number of unusual structural features; it apparently has no substituent at O-1 of the reducing end GlcN residue in the lipid part in the major part of the population, no substituents at O-3 and O-4ofb-GlcN, and no substituent at O-4of the Kdo residue.

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We previously purified and characterized a peptide toxin, birtoxin, from the South African scorpion Parabuthus transvaalicus. Birtoxin is a 58-residue, long chain neurotoxin that has a unique three disulfide-bridged structure. Here we report the isolation and characterization of ikitoxin, a pep-tide toxin with a single residue difference, and a markedly reducedbiological activity, frombirtoxin. Bioassays onmice showed that high doses of ikitoxin induce unprovoked jumps, whereas birtoxin induces jumps at a 1000-fold lower concentration. ...

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The structure–activity relations of a series of synthetic phenoxazone drugs with aminoalkyl side chains of variable length and different terminal groups were investigated by examining their biological activity and DNA complexation affinity. Biological activitywas determined fromtheir ability to induce apoptosis and cell cycle perturbations (activation of cell cycle checkpoints) using the human malignant MOLT-3 cell line. The thermodynamic parameters of drug– DNA complexation were determined by differential scan-ning calorimetry....

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Novel chromogenic substrates for endo-b-galactosidase were designed on the basis of the structural features of keratan sulfate. Galb1-4GlcNAcb1-3Galb1-4GlcNAcb-pNP (2),which consists of two repeating units ofN-acetyl-lactosamine,was synthesized enzymatically by consecutive additions of GlcNAc and Gal residues top-nitrophenyl b-N-acetyllactosaminide. In a similar manner,Glc-NAcb1-3Galb1-4GlcNAcb-pNP (1),GlcNAcb1-3Galb1-4Glcb-pNP (3),Galb1-4GlcNAcb1-3Galb1-4Glcb-pNP (4), Galb1-3GlcNAcb1-3Galb1-4Glcb-pNP (5),and Galb1-6GlcNAcb1-3Galb1-4Glcb-pNP (6) were synthesized as analogues of2.

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Methyl-CpG-binding protein 2 (MeCP2) is a multifunc-tional protein involved in chromatin organization and silencing of methylated DNA. MAR-BD, a 125-amino-acid residue domain of chicken MeCP2 (cMeCP2, origin-ally named ARBP), is the minimal protein fragment required to recognize MAR elements and mouse satellite DNA. Here we report the solution structure of MAR-BD as determined by multidimensional heteronuclear NMR spectroscopy.

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Even though more than 200 three-dimensional structures of HIV-1 protease complexed to a variety of inhibitors are available in the Protein Data Bank; very few struc-tures of unliganded protein have been determined. We have recently solved structures of unliganded HIV-1 protease tethered dimer mutants to resolutions of 1.9 A˚ and 2.1 A ˚ , and have found that the flaps assume closed-flap conformation even in the absence of any bound lig-and.

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