The crystallization process

The objective of this project was to develop \(Ti{O_2}\) based multifunctional substrates through silver decoration, while simultaneously enhancing the photocatalytic performance of \(Ti{O_2}\) in the substrate. Employing Ag nanoparticles introduced additional functionality to the system, namely surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS), thus enabling the detection of trace amounts of organic molecules prior to their degradation, all with the same substrate.

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Depending on the origin of the water and the formation process, crystals are divided into three main types: snow crystals, ice crystals, and water crystals. From the shape of the crystal, the purity and the texture level are clearly reflected, then it enables us to assess the quality of the water.

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In the present paper, we reported the influence of the crystallization time on the crystallinity of the Fe-mordenite zeolite (Fe- MOR). The obtained results showed that, in order to reach the high crystallinity of zeolite the optimal duration of crystallization was about 36 h.

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The objective of the present work is to study the irradiation effects on third generation SiC fibers which fulfill the minimum requisites for nuclear applications, i.e. Hi-Nicalon type S, hereafter HNS, and Tyranno SA3, hereafter TSA3. With this purpose, these fibers have been ion-irradiated with 4 MeV Au ions at room temperature and increasing fluences.

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Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biology, University of Bari, Italy; 2Department of Zoology, Laboratory of Histology and Comparative Anatomy, University of Bari, Italy; 3Center for the Study of Mitochondria and Energy Metabolism (CNR) Bari, Italy Mitochondrial bioenergetic impairment has been found in the organelles isolated from rat liver during the prereplicative phase of liver regeneration.

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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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Thioredoxin is a ubiquitous dithiol oxidoreductase found in many organisms and involved in numerous biochemical processes. Human thioredoxin-like protein (hTRXL) is differentially expressed at different development stages of human fetal cerebrum and belongs to an expanding family of thioredoxins. We have solved the crystal structure of the recombinant N-terminal catalytic domain (hTRXL-N) of ˚ hTRXL in its oxidized form at 2.2-A resolution.

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We have recently expressed in bacteria the enzymatically active reverse transcriptase (RT) of bovine leukemia virus (BLV) [Perach, M. & Hizi, A. (1999) Virology 259, 176–189]. In the present study, we have studied in vitro two features of the DNA polymerase activity of BLV RT, the processivity of DNA synthesis and the fidelity of DNA synthesis. These properties were compared with those of the well-studied RTs of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) and murine leukaemia virus (MLV).

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Stimulation with granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (G-CSF) induces myeloid precursor cells to di€erentiate into neutrophils, and tyrosine phosphorylation of certain cellular proteins is crucial to this process. However, the signaling pathways for neutrophil di€erentiation are still obscure. As the Src-like tyrosine kinase, Lyn, has been reported to play a role in G-CSF-induced proliferation in avian lymphoid cells, we examined its involvement in G-CSF-induced signal transduction in mammalian cells....

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The promoter of the early growth response gene (Egr-1) has been described to be activated by ionizing radiation, and it seems to be clear that this process involves di€erent mitogen activated protein (MAP) kinases, dependent on the speci®c cell type examined. However, early steps leading to activation of the corresponding pathways and thus to overexpression of Egr-1 are not well understood.

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A number of antibiotics have been reported to disturb the decoding process in prokaryotic translation and to inhibit the function of various natural ribozymes. We investigated the e€ect of several antibiotics on in vitro splicing of a eukaryotic nuclear pre-mRNA (b-globin). Of the eight antibiotics studied, erythromycin, Cl-tetracycline and streptomycinwere identi®ed as splicing inhibitors in nuclear HeLa cell extract. TheKi values were 160, 180 and 230lM, respectively.

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The HIV-1 proteinase (PR) has proved to be a good target for antiretroviral therapy of AIDS, and various PR inhibi-tors are now in clinical use. However, there is a rapid selec-tionof viral variantsbearingmutations in theproteinase that are resistant to clinical inhibitors. Drug resistance also involves mutations of the nucleocapsid/p1 and p1/p6 clea-vage sites ofGag, bothin vitroandin vivo.

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Virus infection results in the activation of a set of cellular genes involved in host antiviral defense. IRF-3 has been identifiedas a critical transcription factor in this process. The activationmechanismof IRF-3 is not fully elucidated,yet it involves a conformational change triggered by the virus-dependent phosphorylation of its C-terminus. This con-formational change leads to nuclear accumulation,DNA binding and transcriptional transactivation.

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Once platelets are activated, the first event tooccur is a rapid change in shape, associated with Ca 2+ /calmodulin-dependent myosin light chain (MLC) phosphorylation and withRhokinase activation. The purpose of this studywas to investigate which is the biochemical pathway that leads to platelet shape change in response to convulxin, a selective GpVI activator, and to verify whether MLC phosphoryla-tion is essential for this process.

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Transglutaminase (TGase) fromStreptomyces mobaraensis is secreted as a precursor protein which is completely acti-vated by the endoprotease TAMEP, a member of the M4 protease family [Zotzel, J., Keller, P. & Fuchsbauer, H.-L. (2003) Eur. J. Biochem. 270, 3214–3222]. In contrast with the mature enzyme, TAMEP-activated TGase exhibits an additional N-terminal tetrapeptide (Phe-Arg-Ala-Pro) sug-gesting truncation, at least, by a second protease.

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Gelsolin is a multidomain and multifunction protein that nucleates the assembly of filaments and severs them. The activation of gelsolin by calcium is a multistep process involving many calcium binding sites that act to unfold the molecule from a tight structure to a more loose form in which three actin-binding sites become exposed. Low pHis alsoknowntoactivategelsolin, in theabsenceof calciumand this too results in an unfolding of the molecule.

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In the leukemic macrophage cell-line THP-1, a fraction of the secreted matrix metalloproteinase 9 (MMP-9) is linked to the core protein of chondroitin sulfate proteoglycans (CSPG). Unlike the monomeric and homodimeric forms of MMP-9, the addition of exogenous CaCl2 to the proMMP-9/CSPG complex resulted in an active gelatinase due to the induction of an autocatalytic removal of the N-terminal prodomain.

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Metabolite channelling, the process in which consecutive enzymes have confined substrate transfer in metabolic pathways, has been proposed as a biochemical mechanism that has evolved because it enhances catalytic rates and protects unstable intermediates. Results from experiments on the synthesis of radioactive urea [Cheung, C., Cohen, N.S. & Raijman, L (1989)J. Biol. Chem.264, 4038–4044] have been interpreted as implying channelling of arginine between argininosuccinate lyase and arginase in permeabi-lized hepatocytes. ...

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On chemokine stimulation, leucocytes produce and secrete proteolytic enzymes for innate immunedefencemechanisms. Some of these proteasesmodify the biological activity of the chemokines. For instance, neutrophils secrete gelatinase B (matrix metalloproteinase-9, MMP-9) and neutrophil col-lagenase (MMP-8) after stimulation with interleukin-8/ CXCL8 (IL-8). Gelatinase B cleaves and potentiates IL-8, generating a positive feedback.

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Prion diseases such as Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease are pos-sibly caused by the conversion of a normal cellular glyco-protein, the prion protein (PrP c ) into an abnormal isoform (PrP Sc ). The process that causes this conversion is unknown, but to understand it requires a detailed insight into the normal activity of PrP c . It has become accepted from results of numerous studies that PrP c is a Cu-binding protein and that its normal function requires Cu.

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