Structure of astacin and implications for activation of astacins and zinc-ligation of collagenases.

Astacin, a digestive zinc-endopeptidase from the crayfish Astacus astacus L., is the prototype for the 'astacin family', which includes mammalian metallo-endopeptidases and developmentally regulated proteins of man, fruitfly, frog and sea urchin. Here we report the X-ray crystal structure of astacin, which reveals a deep active-site cleft, with the zinc at its bottom ligated by three histidines, a water molecule and a more remote tyrosine. The third histidine (His 102) forms part of a consensus sequence, shared not only by the members of the astacin family, but also by otherwise sequentially unrelated proteinases, such as vertebrate collagenases. It may therefore represent the elusive 'third' zinc ligand in these enzymes. The amino terminus of astacin is buried forming an internal salt-bridge with Glu 103, adjacent to His 102. Astacin pro-forms extended at the N terminus, as observed for some 'latent' mammalian astacin homologues, did not exhibit this 'active' conformation, indicating an activation mechanism reminiscent of trypsin-like serine proteinases.     

Security Analysis of Discrete Logarithm Based Cryptosystems

0 IntroductionNowthere are many well known cryptosystems based ondiscrete logarithms , such as the ElGamal cryptosys-tem[1]and the digital signature algorithm(DSA)[2]. Discretelogarithms have many advantages . Breaking the discrete log-arithm modulo pri mepappears to be somewhat harder thanfactoringintegern,and elliptic curve cryptosystems may usemuchsmaller keysizesthan RSA-basedcryptosystems of com-parable security.The discrete logarithmproblemover a group can be bro-ken down into a numb…     

Resource Search in Unstructured Peer-to-Peer System Based on Multiple-Tree Overlay Structure

We propose a multiple-tree overlay structure for resource discovery in unstructured P2P systems. Peers that have similar interests or hold similar type of resources will be grouped into a tree-like cluster. We exploit the heterogeneity of peers in each cluster by connecting peers with more capacities closer to the root of the tree. The capacity of a peer can be defined in different ways （e.g. higher network bandwidth, larger disk space, more data items of a certain type etc.） according to different needs of users or applications.     

SO_4~(2)/ZrO_2-SiO_2超强酸催化剂研究(Ⅲ)——酸性及比表面积(英文)

系统地研究了SO2 - 4/ZrO2 _SiO2 催化剂的酸性和比表面积 ,采用吸附吡啶的红外光谱法、BET法以及指示剂法考察了催化剂的组成、温度以及其他处理条件对催化剂酸强度以及催化剂比表面积的影响 .实验结果表明 :在硅锆比小于 10时 ,SO2 - 4/ZrO2 _SiO2 催化剂的比表面积随催化剂中硅锆比的增高而增大 ;在硅锆比为 10左右时 ,比表面积可高达 4 40m2 / g ,数倍于SO2 - 4/ZrO2 催化剂的比表面积 .在相同处理条件下 ,SO2 - 4/ZrO2 _SiO2 催化剂的酸强度低于SO2 - 4/ZrO2 的酸强度 .吸附吡啶的红外光谱证明该催化剂的表面酸点多为Lewis酸点     

双间隙加速管设计中几个问题的研究

对加速管的放电或击穿与绝缘环，电极材料，极间距离和真空度等因素的关系进行了分析，为加速管的设计提供了依据。以此研制的加速算运行正常。     

STABILITY CRITERIA FOR A CLASS OF UNCERTAINSYSTEMS WITH TIME—DELAY

Some stability criteria are obtained for a class of uncertain systems with time-delay usingLyapunov functional and analytic techniques. It is easy to check the criteria by making use of theboundedness of the uncertainties.     

基于强跟踪滤波器估计的最优融合方法

在分布式雷达数据处理模式中 ,数据融合是获得较精确的目标轨迹的主要环节。为克服卡尔曼滤波器对初始值敏感、鲁棒性差和对机动目标跟踪性能差的缺陷 ,通过利用各传感器的观测数据 ,采用强跟踪滤波器对目标进行跟踪 ,以改善目标状态估计的精度。对判定源于同一目标的状态估计值 ,给出了一种估计状态线进行性组合的最优融合准则。得出了实际数据的实验结果。     

一种改进的实信号IFFT算法

由于重量轻、体积小、功耗低、功能强的小卫星工作在无人干预的低温 ,高辐射的空间环境中 ,因此星上计算机系统必须满足集成度高、寿命长、可靠性高、抗辐射能力强的要求。针对立体测绘小卫星的特点 ,我们设计了满足上述要求的集集中控制与分布控制优点于一身的星上计算机系统 ,对其可靠性进行了分析 ,并对提高其可靠性应采取的关键技术进行了简要的论述。