RECEPTOR BINDING PROTEIN OF PROPHAGE REVERSIBLY RECOGNIZES THE LOW-MOLECULAR WEIGHT SUBUNIT OF THE SURFACE-LAYER PROTEIN SLPA IN CLOSTRIDIOIDES DIFFICILE

Receptor-binding proteins (RBPs) are located at the viral tail and mediate the initial recognition of phage to a specific bacterial host.Phage RBPs have co-evolved with numerous types of host receptors resulting in the formation of a diverse assortment Inserts of cognate pairs of RBP-receptors that function during the phage attachment step.Although

Endothelins (ETs) and sarafotoxins (SRTXs) belong to a family of vasoconstrictor peptides, which regulate pigment migration and/or production in vertebrate pigment cells.The teleost Carassius auratus erythrophoroma cell line, GEM-81, and Mus musculus B16 melanocytes express rhodopsin, as well as the ET receptors, ETB and ETA, respectively.Both cell

Abstract Background The major islands of the Western Mediterranean--Corsica, Sardinia, and the Balearic Islands--are continental terrenes that drifted towards their present day location following a retreat from their original position on the eastern Iberian Peninsula about 30 million years ago.Several studies have taken advantage of this well-dated