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Beatriz Domingo María Gasset Mario Durán-Prado Justo P. Castaño Antonio Serrano Thierry Fischer Juan Llopis 《Cellular and molecular life sciences : CMLS》2010,67(19):3345-3354
Membrane protein function is determined by the relative organization of the protein domains with respect to the membrane.
We have experimentally verified the topology of a protein with diverse orientations arising from a single primary sequence
(the cellular prion protein, PrPC), a novel somatostatin truncated receptor, and the Golgi-associated protein GPBP91. Tagging with fluorescent proteins (FP) allows location of their expression at the plasma membrane or at endomembranes, but
does not inform about their orientation. Exploiting the pH dependency of some FPs, we developed a pH exchange assay in which
extracellularly exposed FPs are quenched by application of low pH buffer. We constructed standards to demonstrate and calibrate
the assay, and the method was adapted for acidic organelle membrane proteins. This method can serve as a proof of concept,
experimentally confirming and/or discriminating in living cells among theoretical topology predictions, providing the proportion
of inside/outside orientation for proteins with multiple forms. 相似文献
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Erler J Birge N Kortelainen M Nazarewicz W Olsen E Perhac AM Stoitsov M 《Nature》2012,486(7404):509-512
In 2011, 100 new nuclides were discovered. They joined the approximately 3,000 stable and radioactive nuclides that either occur naturally on Earth or are synthesized in the laboratory. Every atomic nucleus, characterized by a specific number of protons and neutrons, occupies a spot on the chart of nuclides, which is bounded by 'drip lines' indicating the values of neutron and proton number at which nuclear binding ends. The placement of the neutron drip line for the heavier elements is based on theoretical predictions using extreme extrapolations, and so is uncertain. However, it is not known how uncertain it is or how many protons and neutrons can be bound in a nucleus. Here we estimate these limits of the nuclear 'landscape' and provide statistical and systematic uncertainties for our predictions. We use nuclear density functional theory, several Skyrme interactions and high-performance computing, and find that the number of bound nuclides with between 2 and 120 protons is around 7,000. We find that extrapolations for drip-line positions and selected nuclear properties, including neutron separation energies relevant to astrophysical processes, are very consistent between the models used. 相似文献
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Numerical state space models are efficiently implemented for the estimation of the underlying level and trend of a time series. The model specification is chosen so that the estimation is insensitive to outliers yet adapts rapidly to step changes in level. An example illustrates, by means of projection plots, how at times of uncertainty in the evolution of the series the inferred distribution of level and trend may be multi-modal. 相似文献
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XU Huaping WANG Yapei WANG Zhiqiang LIU Junqiu Mario Smet Wim Dehaen 《科学通报(英文版)》2006,51(19):2315-2321
Glutathione peroxidase (GPx) is a mammalian anti- oxidant seleno-enzyme that protects biomembranes and other cellular components from oxidative damage by catalyzing the reduction of a variety of hydroperoxides (ROOH), using glutathione (GSH) as the reduci… 相似文献
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Ramsés Fuenmayor Mario Bonucci Hernán López-Garay 《Systemic Practice and Action Research》1991,4(5):507-525
This article is a summary of an interpretive-systemic study of the University of Los Andes in Venezuela. Following the methodological guidelines of interpretive systemology, three interpretive contextual systems were designed in order to comprehend the sense of the university. These three interpretive contexts were derived from possible different interpretations of the University Law (Statutes). Results obtained from the thematic interpretation of university activities and decision taking reveal an institution removed from any of the missions depicted in the interpretive contexts. A fourth interpretive context was designed to provide an interpretation of the regulative role the institution plays in order to maintain a particular social order and power structure. This fourth interpretive context shows greater interpretive power with regard to actual university activities than the other three. 相似文献
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Incremental Classification with Generalized Eigenvalues 总被引:2,自引:0,他引:2
Claudio Cifarelli Mario R. Guarracino Onur Seref Salvatore Cuciniello Panos M. Pardalos 《Journal of Classification》2007,24(2):205-219
Supervised learning techniques are widely accepted methods to analyze data for scientific and real world problems. Most of
these problems require fast and continuous acquisition of data, which are to be used in training the learning system. Therefore,
maintaining such systems updated may become cumbersome. Various techniques have been devised in the field of machine learning
to solve this problem. In this study, we propose an algorithm to reduce the training data to a substantially small subset
of the original training data to train a generalized eigenvalue classifier. The proposed method provides a constructive way
to understand the influence of new training data on an existing classification function. We show through numerical experiments
that this technique prevents the overfitting problem of the earlier generalized eigenvalue classifiers, while promising a
comparable performance in classification with respect to the state-of-the-art classification methods. 相似文献
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Mario Vaneechoutte 《Foundations of Science》2000,5(4):429-456
An evolutionary point of view is proposed to make more appropriate distinctions between experience, awareness and consciousness. Experience can be defined as a characteristic linked closely to specific pattern matching, a characteristic already apparent at the molecular level at least. Awareness can be regarded as the special experience of one or more central, final modules in the animal neuronal brain. Awareness is what experience is to animals.Finally, consciousness could be defined as reflexive awareness. The ability for reflexive awareness is distinctly different from animal and human awareness and depends upon the availability of a separate frame of reference, as provided by symbolic language. As such, words have made reflexive awareness – a specific and infrequent form of awareness – possible. Conciousness might be defined as the experience evoked by considering, i.e. thinking about experiences themselves.If there is a hard problem of explaining consciousness, than this actually must be considered as the hard problem already met when trying to explain basic experience, since its nature remains elusive. 相似文献
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Viré E Brenner C Deplus R Blanchon L Fraga M Didelot C Morey L Van Eynde A Bernard D Vanderwinden JM Bollen M Esteller M Di Croce L de Launoit Y Fuks F 《Nature》2006,439(7078):871-874
The establishment and maintenance of epigenetic gene silencing is fundamental to cell determination and function. The essential epigenetic systems involved in heritable repression of gene activity are the Polycomb group (PcG) proteins and the DNA methylation systems. Here we show that the corresponding silencing pathways are mechanistically linked. We find that the PcG protein EZH2 (Enhancer of Zeste homolog 2) interacts-within the context of the Polycomb repressive complexes 2 and 3 (PRC2/3)-with DNA methyltransferases (DNMTs) and associates with DNMT activity in vivo. Chromatin immunoprecipitations indicate that binding of DNMTs to several EZH2-repressed genes depends on the presence of EZH2. Furthermore, we show by bisulphite genomic sequencing that EZH2 is required for DNA methylation of EZH2-target promoters. Our results suggest that EZH2 serves as a recruitment platform for DNA methyltransferases, thus highlighting a previously unrecognized direct connection between two key epigenetic repression systems. 相似文献
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Ro DK Paradise EM Ouellet M Fisher KJ Newman KL Ndungu JM Ho KA Eachus RA Ham TS Kirby J Chang MC Withers ST Shiba Y Sarpong R Keasling JD 《Nature》2006,440(7086):940-943
Malaria is a global health problem that threatens 300-500 million people and kills more than one million people annually. Disease control is hampered by the occurrence of multi-drug-resistant strains of the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum. Synthetic antimalarial drugs and malarial vaccines are currently being developed, but their efficacy against malaria awaits rigorous clinical testing. Artemisinin, a sesquiterpene lactone endoperoxide extracted from Artemisia annua L (family Asteraceae; commonly known as sweet wormwood), is highly effective against multi-drug-resistant Plasmodium spp., but is in short supply and unaffordable to most malaria sufferers. Although total synthesis of artemisinin is difficult and costly, the semi-synthesis of artemisinin or any derivative from microbially sourced artemisinic acid, its immediate precursor, could be a cost-effective, environmentally friendly, high-quality and reliable source of artemisinin. Here we report the engineering of Saccharomyces cerevisiae to produce high titres (up to 100 mg l(-1)) of artemisinic acid using an engineered mevalonate pathway, amorphadiene synthase, and a novel cytochrome P450 monooxygenase (CYP71AV1) from A. annua that performs a three-step oxidation of amorpha-4,11-diene to artemisinic acid. The synthesized artemisinic acid is transported out and retained on the outside of the engineered yeast, meaning that a simple and inexpensive purification process can be used to obtain the desired product. Although the engineered yeast is already capable of producing artemisinic acid at a significantly higher specific productivity than A. annua, yield optimization and industrial scale-up will be required to raise artemisinic acid production to a level high enough to reduce artemisinin combination therapies to significantly below their current prices. 相似文献
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Among the group IV elements, only carbon forms stable double bonds with oxygen at ambient conditions. At variance with silica and germania, the non-molecular single-bonded crystalline form of carbon dioxide, phase V, only exists at high pressure. The amorphous forms of silica (a-SiO2) and germania (a-GeO2) are well known at ambient conditions; however, the amorphous, non-molecular form of CO2 has so far been described only as a result of first-principles simulations. Here we report the synthesis of an amorphous, silica-like form of carbon dioxide, a-CO2, which we call 'a-carbonia'. The compression of the molecular phase III of CO2 between 40 and 48 GPa at room temperature initiated the transformation to the non-molecular amorphous phase. Infrared spectra measured at temperatures up to 680 K show the progressive formation of C-O single bonds and the simultaneous disappearance of all molecular signatures. Furthermore, state-of-the-art Raman and synchrotron X-ray diffraction measurements on temperature-quenched samples confirm the amorphous character of the material. Comparison with vibrational and diffraction data for a-SiO2 and a-GeO2, as well as with the structure factor calculated for the a-CO2 sample obtained by first-principles molecular dynamics, shows that a-CO2 is structurally homologous to the other group IV dioxide glasses. We therefore conclude that the class of archetypal network-forming disordered systems, including a-SiO2, a-GeO2 and water, must be extended to include a-CO2. 相似文献