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David T. Gallagher, N N. Smith, Soo-Kyung Kim, Howard Robinson, Prasad T. Reddy
he bacterial cyclic AMP receptor protein (CRP) has been studied extensively as a model allosterically controlled transcription factor, despite the lack of a crystal structure of its inactive (unliganded) form. We report the crystal structure at 2.0 Å
Joseph M. Antonucci, Anthony A. Giuseppetti, Justin N. O'Donnell, Gary E. Schumacher, Drago Skrtic
Objective: To assess the effect of the cavity design factor (C-factor) on polymerization stress development (PSD) in resin composites. Methods: An experimental resin (BT resin) was prepared, which contained 2,2-bis[p-(2 hydroxy-3 -methacryloxypropoxy
Michael W. Halter, John T. Elliott, Joseph B. Hubbard, Alessandro Tona, Anne L. Plant
A population of cells in culture displays a range of phenotypic responses, even when those cells are derived from a single cell and are exposed to a homogeneous environment. Phenotypic variability can have a number of sources, including the variable rates
Maritoni A. Litorja, Steven W. Brown, Yoshihiro Ohno, Chungsan Lin
The requirements for diagnostic and surgical lighting have remained largely unchanged over the past several years illumination level, glare, shadow and tissue heating reduction are the dominant factors in choosing a lighting system. Since human visual
Alexander W. Peterson, Michael W. Halter, Alessandro Tona, Kiran Bhadriraju, Anne L. Plant
Background A critical challenge in cell biology is quantifying the interactions of cells with their extracellular matrix (ECM) environment and the active remodeling by cells of their ECM. Fluorescence microscopy is a commonly employed technique for
Nozomi Sakakibara, Frederick P. Schwarz, Zvi Kelman
Minichromosome maintenance (MCM) helicase is the replicative helicase in archaea. The enzyme utilizes the energy derived from ATP hydrolysis to translocate along one strand of the DNA and unwind the complementary strand. Here, the effect of ATP and DNA on
Guldal Kirkali, N de Souza-Pinto, Pawel Jaruga, V. Bohr, Miral M. Dizdar
Cockayne syndrome (CS) is a human genetic disorder characterized by sensitivity to UV radiation, neurodegeneration, premature aging among other phenotypes. CS complementary group B (CS-B) gene (csb) encodes the CSB protein (CSB) that is involved in base
C M. O'Brien, L. Buermann, P. Butler, I. Csete, F. Gabris, A. Hakanen, J. -. Lee, M. Palmer, N. Saito, W. deViries
For the first time results are presented of an indirect comparison of ten national standards for air kerma for ten radiation qualities of the ISO 4037 narrow spectrum series in the range of 30 kV to 300 kV. Nine of the ten participants maintain primary air
B. O'Neill, Howard Vo, Mary Angstadt, Timothy P. Quinn, Victor Frenkel
High intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) is generally thought to interact with biological tissues in two ways: hyperthermia (heat) and acoustic cavitation. Pulsed mode HIFU has recently been demonstrated to increase the efficacy of a variety of drug
Rebecca A. Zangmeister, Rastislav Levicky, Kang Wang
The physical behavior of polyelectrolytes at solid-liquid interfaces presents challenges both in measurement and in interpretation. An informative, yet often overlooked, property that characterizes the equilibrium organization of these systems is their
Gregory A. Cooksey, Anne L. Plant, Francisco J. Atencia
The lack of simple interfaces for microfluidic devices with a large number of inlets significantly limits production and utilization of these devices. In this paper, we describe the fabrication of a reusable manifold that provides rapid world-to-chip
This book chapter provides background on wheelchairs, patient lift devices and the combination of mobile patient lift and transfer devices and research. The NIST Home Lift, Position and Rehabilitation (HLPR) Chair is detailed explaining the system, its use
Health care informatics deals with all the processes or "software" of the health care enterprise: modeling, design, simulation and implementation of health care information systems, support and control of manufacturing and its associated supply chains, and
Leonard F. Pease III, John T. Elliott, De-Hao D. Tsai, Michael R. Zachariah, Michael J. Tarlov
Here we describe the use of electrospray differential mobility analysis (ES-DMA), also known as gas-phase electrophoretic mobility molecular analysis (GEMMA), as a method for measuring low-order aggregates of proteins in solution. We demonstrate proof of
Formamidopyrimidines, 4,6-diamino-5-formamidopyrimidine (FapyAde) and 2,6-diamino-4-hydroxy-5-formamidopyrimidine (FapyGua), are among major lesions in DNA generated by hydroxyl radical attack, UV radiation or photosensitization in vitro and in vivo
Current forensic DNA typing is conducted in approximately eight to ten hours with steps including DNA extraction, quantitation, polymerase chain reaction (PCR) amplification of multiple short tandem repeat (STR) loci, capillary electrophoresis separation
Adele P. Peskin, Joe Chalfoun, Alden A. Dima, James J. Filliben
We compare manually segmented masks of cell images that are independently hand-selected by several different people, with a new semi-automated method for estimating reference data for images of cells with very sharp clear edges. By quantifying the large
Currently 120 different Y-chromosome short tandem repeat (Y-STR) markers are used by various genetic genealogy testing laboratories. In some cases, different laboratories may designate the same Y-STR allele with two different nomenclatures making data
J P. Jakupciak, Samantha D. Maragh, Maura E. Markowitz, Alissa K. Greenberg, Mohammad O. Hoque, A Maitra, Peter E. Barker, Paul D. Wagner, William N. Rom, Sudhir Srivastava, David Sidransky, Catherine D. O'Connell
Yadu D. Tewari, Brian E. Lang, Stephen R. Decker, Robert N. Goldberg
Microcalorimetry and high-performance liquid chromatography have been used to conduct a thermodynamic investigation of the following reactions: 1,4--D-xylobiose(aq) + H2O(l) = 2 D-xylose(aq), (1) 1,4--D-xylotriose + 2 H2O(l) = 3 D-xylose(aq), (2) D
Matt S. Munson, John Meacham, David J. Ross, Laurie E. Locascio
A method is described for an aptamer-based affinity assay using a combination of two non-conventional techniques, temperature gradient focusing (TGF) and field amplified continuous sample injection TGF (FACSI-TGF), with fluorescence detection. Human
Mary B. Satterfield, Marc L. Salit, Steven J. Choquette
As a critical component of any microarray experiment, scanner performance has the potential to contribute variability and bias, the magnitude of which is usually not quantified. Using Standard Reference Material (SRM) 2242, certified for Raman spectral
Kinlin L. Chao, Kap Lim, C Lehmann, V Doseeva, A J. Howard, Frederick P. Schwarz, Osnat Herzberg
The crystal structure of YdcF at a resolution of 0.18 nm reveals a fold of the adenine nucleotide α hydrolase-like family. Following the structural clues, a nucleotide binding screen was carried out employing isothermal titration calorimetry. The following