The effect of domain

Once entirely the domain of space-borne applications, the effects of high energy charged particles on electronics systems is now also a concern for terrestrial devices. Reconfigurable components such as FPGAs are particularly vulnerable to radiation single event effects (SEU) as they carry a large amount of memory within a relatively small amount of circuit area. This thesis presents a Silicon on Insulator (SOI) based configuration memory system in a radiation hard reconfiguration system.

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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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Conventional and saturation transfer electron paramagnetic resonance spectroscopy (EPR and ST EPR) was used to study the orientation of probe molecules in muscle fibers in different intermediate states of the ATP hydrolysis cycle. A separate procedure was used to obtain ST EPR spectra with precise phase settings even in the case of samples with low spectral intensity. Fibers prepared from rabbit psoas muscle were labeled with isothiocyanate spin labels at the reactive thiol sites of the catalytic domain of myosin....

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Csk-binding protein⁄phosphoprotein associated with glycosphingolipid-enriched domains is a transmembrane adaptor protein primarily involved in negative regulation of T-cell activation by recruitment of C-terminal Src kinase (Csk), a protein tyrosine kinase which represses Src kinase activity through C-terminal phosphorylation. Recruitment of Csk occurs via SH2-domain binding to PAG pTyr317, thus, the interaction is highly dependent on phosphorylation performed by the Src family kinase Fyn, which docks onto PAG using a dual-domain binding mode involving both SH3- and SH2-domains of Fyn....

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The thermal denaturation of streptokinase fromStrepto-coccus equisimilis(SK) together with that of a set of frag-ments encompassing each of its three domains has been investigated using differential scanning calorimetry (DSC). Analysis of the effects of pH, sample concentration and heating rates on the DSC thermograms has allowed us to find conditions where thermal unfolding occurs unequivo-callyunder equilibrium.

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Testican-1, a secreted proteoglycan enriched in brain, has a single thyropin domain that is highly homologous to domains previously shown to inhibit cysteine proteases. We demonstrate that purified recombinant human testican-1 is a strong competitive inhibitor of the lysosomal cysteine pro-tease, cathepsin L,withaKiof 0.7nM, but it does not inhibit the structurally related lysosomal cysteine protease cathep-sin B. Testican-1 inhibition of cathepsin L is independent of its chondroitin sulfate chains and is effective at both pH 5.5 and7.2.

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The ultimate step in Alzheimer’s disease Abgeneration involves c-secretase, which releases Abfrom its membrane-bound precursor. Asimilar presenilin-dependent proteolytic activity is implicated in the release of theNotch intracellular domain. We have developed a novel assay forc-secretase activity based on green fluorescent protein detection. This involves cotransfection of a substrate-activator based on the amyloid precursor protein or the Notch sequence and a fluorescent reporter gene.

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Spermadhesins are a family of 12–16 kDa proteins with a single CUB domain. PSP-I and PSP-II, the most abundant boar spermadhesins, are present in seminal plasma as a noncovalent heterodimer. Dimerization markedly affects the binding ability of the subunits. Notably, heparin and mannose 6-phosphate binding abilities of PSP-II are abolished, indicating that the corresponding binding sites may be located at (or near) the dimer interface.

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The growth factor pleiotrophin (PTN) has been reported to bind heparan sulfate and nucleolin, two components of the cell surface implicated in the attachment of HIV-1 particles to cells. Here we show that PTN inhibits HIV-1 infection by its capacity to inhibit HIV-1 particle attachment to the surface of permissive cells. The b-sheet domains of PTN appear to be implicated in this inhibitory effect on the HIV infection, in particular the domain containing amino acids 60–110. PTN binding to the cell surface is mediated by high and low affinity binding sites....

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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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The troponin (Tn) complex is formed by TnC, TnI and TnT and is respon-sible for the calcium-dependent inhibition of muscle contraction. TnC and TnI interact in an antiparallel fashion in which the N domain of TnC binds in a calcium-dependent manner to the C domain of TnI, releasing the inhibitory effect of the latter on the actomyosin interaction. While the crys-tal structure of the core cardiac muscle troponin complex has been deter-mined, very little high resolution information is available regarding the skeletal muscle TnI–TnC complex. ...

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Titin is known to interact with actin thin filaments within the I-band region of striated muscle sarcomeres. In this study, we have used a titin fragment of 800 kDa (T800) purified from striated skeletal muscle to measure the effect of this interaction on the functional properties of the actin– myosin complex. MALDI-TOF MS revealed that T800 contains the entire titin PEVK (Pro, Glu, Val, Lys-rich) 1 domain.

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A naturally occurring variant of the human androgen receptor (AR) named AR45 has been identified. It lacks the entire region encoded by exon 1 of the ARgene and is composed of the AR DNA-binding domain, hinge region and ligand-binding domain, preceded by a novel seven amino-acid long N-terminal extension. A survey of human tissues revealed that AR45 was expressed mainly in heart and skeletal muscle. In cotransfection experiments, AR45 inhibited AR function, an effect necessitating intact DNA- and ligand-binding properties. ...

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Mutations in the proteina-tropomyosin (Tm) can cause a disease known as familial hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. In order to understand how such mutations lead to protein dysfunction, three point mutations were introduced into cDNA encoding the human skeletal tropomyosin, and the recombinant Tms were produced at high levels in the yeast Pichia pastoris. Two mutations (A63V and K70T) were located in theN-terminal regionofTmandone (E180G)was located close to the calcium-dependent troponin T binding domain....

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The tissue-specific transcription factorsHNF1aandHNF1b are closely related homeodomain proteins conserved in vertebrate evolution. Heterozygous mutations in human HNF1b 1 but not inHNF1agenes are associated with kidney malformations. Overexpression of HNF1b in Xenopus embryos leads to defective pronephros development, while HNF1ahas no effect. We have defined the regions respon-sible for this functional difference between HNF1band HNF1ain transfected HeLa cells as well as in injected Xenopusembryos. ...

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The mechanism by which the CXC chemokine platelet fac-tor 4 (PF-4) inhibits endothelial cell proliferation is unclear. The heparin-binding domains of PF-4 have been reported to prevent vascular endothelial growth factor 165 (VEGF165 ) andfibroblast growth factor 2 (FGF2) frominteractingwith their receptors. However, other studies have suggested that PF-4 acts via heparin-binding independent interactions. Here, we compared the effects of PF-4 on the signalling events involved in the proliferation induced by VEGF165 , which binds heparin, and by VEGF121 , which does not....

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Molecular phylogeny among catalase–peroxidases, cyto-chromecperoxidases, and ascorbate peroxidases was ana-lysed. Sixty representative sequences covering all known subgroups of class I of the superfamily of bacterial, fungal, and plant heme peroxidases were selected. Each sequence analysed contained the typical peroxidase motifs evolved to bind effectively the prosthetic heme group, enabling per-oxidatic activity.

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The genesRv1318c, Rv1319c, Rv1320cand Rv3645 1 of Mycobacterium tuberculosisare predicted to code for four out of 15 adenylyl cyclases in this pathogen. The proteins consist of a membrane anchor, a HAMP region and a class IIIb adenylyl cyclase catalytic domain. Expression and purification of the isolated catalytic domains yielded aden-ylyl cyclase activity for all four recombinant proteins.

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As an effort to elucidate the quaternary structure of cyclomaltodextrinase I-5 (CDase I-5) as a function of pH and salt concentration, the dissoci-ation/association processes of the enzyme were investigated under various pH and salt conditions. Previous crystallographic analysis of CDase I-5 indicated that it existed exclusively as a dodecamer at pH 7.0, forming an assembly of six 3D domain-swapped dimeric subunits.

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Stress protein responses have evolved in part as a mechanism to protect cells from the toxic effects of environmental damaging agents. Oesophageal squamous epithelial cells have evolved an atypical stress response that results in the synthesis of a 53 kDa protein of undefined function named squamous epithelial-induced stress protein of 53 kDa (SEP53).

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