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Vuori, K., Pihlajaniemi, T., Myllyla, R. and Kivirikko, K.I. (1992) Site-directed mutagenesis of human protein disulfide isomerase - effect on the assembly, activity and endoplasmic-reticulum retention of human prolyl 4-hydroxylase in Spodoptera frugiperda insect cells. EMBO JoumalW, 4213-4217. 

The IQ is often the first validation activity completed when the lyophilizer arrives at the final installation site. Implementation of the protocol may begin as the lyophilizer is being installed. For example, verification of the electrical wiring and piping may be accomplished as part of the assembly activities. The appropriate approach to completing the IQ is dependent on the specific circumstances of the project. 

We now turn our attention to PED. As mentioned earlier, individual pellets become grossly deformed while in compacted assemblies, for example, in kneading sections of the Co-TSE. These volumewise particulate deformations make the particulate assemblies active participants in the process of melting through the mechanism of PED. Two questions must be addressed (a) how powerful a heat source term is PED and (b) how can the complex reality of compacted particulate assemblies undergoing large and repeated deformations be described and simulated mathematically ... 

The route of taxanes was finally unveiled with the use of a covalent ligand of the taxane binding site [21], Cyclostreptin, abacterial natural product [46,47] with weak, but irreversible tubulin assembly activity and strong apparent binding affinity for the paclit-axel site, covalently labels both a residue placed in the lumenal site of paclitaxel Asn228 and a residue previously proposed to be in the external binding site Thr220 (Fig. 3a). 

Joyce, T.H. Self Assembling Activation Agents Targeted Using Active Drug Release with Organic Nanotube or Alpha-DL Peptide Enclosed in Liposomes, 2004-807835 2005214356 (2005). 

Figure 2 Chemical reaction models for (a) isodesmic and (b) nucleated supramolecular assembly. 1 and K 2>1 are equilibrium constants for the elongation reactions, and Ka 1 and K a those for the conversion between assembly active and inactive forms of the monomer units. If /f aKa, then the nucleated assembly is self-catalyzed ( autosteric ) and if K a = Ka this is not so.

Individual monomeric building blocks interconvert between assembly-inactive and assembly-active conformational states ... 

Walker et al prepared lOa-spiro epoxide (42a) and its 7-methoxymethyl (MOM) ether (42b), which exhibited comparable cytotoxicity and tubulin assembly activity with paclitaxel. 

It has been estimated that the time needed for a country with the appropriate industrial infrastructure and pre-assembly activities to convert a significant quantity of fissionable material into a nuclear explosive device is ... 

The easiest way to construct active sites of artificial enzymes is self-assembly of the active sites as illustrated by the cartoon of 60. If the catalytic groups take highly productive positions in the self-assembled active site, cooperation among them can result in effective catalysis. It is difficult to induce the self-assembly in aqueous solutions by using hydrogen bonding or electrostatic interactions as intermolecular... 

Explain the key role of TATA-box-binding protein in assembling active transcription complexes. 

NE assembly can be assayed in either freshly prepared extracts or frozen extracts. Although we usually use extracts within 30 min of their preparation, extracts can retain the ability to assemble NEs after storage for up to 4 hr on ice. To freeze extracts, 0.2 ml of extract is mixed with 44 /tl of an unbuffered 2.2 M sucrose solution. The sucrose and extract are mixed with a wide-bore pipet tip. After mixing, each sample is immediately flash frozen in liquid nitrogen and stored at —80°C. Both the ratio of extract to sucrose and the total amount of extract frozen in one tube seem to be critical to retain NE assembly activity after the extract has been thawed (M. S. Carpenter, unpublished). Extracts are thawed on ice before use. Not all extracts retain the ability to assemble NEs after they have been frozen and thawed. 

An advantage of cell-free systems is the potential to evaluate independently cytosolic and membrane vesicle (MV) contributions to nuclear development. Membrane-free cytosol is obtained after ultracentrifugation of crude lysates and MVs can be recovered from the pellets. Both cytosolic extracts and MVs can be stored frozen without detectable loss of envelope assembly activity. They can also be manipulated easily by chemical or enzymatic treatments. Such manipulations have enabled the identification of distinct steps of male pronuclear formation and of factors required for each of these steps, notably in Xenopus (Lohka and Masui, 1984 Wilson and Newport, 1988 Vigers and Lohka, 1 1 Boman et al., 1992) and the sea urchin (Cameron and Poccia, 1994 Collas and Poccia, 1995a,b Collas etal., 1995). Studies in the sea urchin and surf clam have indicated that decondensation of sperm chromatin in vitro meets several criteria established by microinjection of sperm nuclei into living eggs (Cothren and Poccia, 1993) and by electron microscopy observations of normal pronuclear formation in vivo (Longo and Anderson, 19( 1970). 

Mean mass of uranium per assembly, kg Spacer/support grids per sub-assembly Active fuel length, mm... 

Several taxol analogs have been prepared in which taxol is linked to another molecule as a dimeric derivative. Thus the dimeric taxanes 13.2.1 and 13.2.2 were prepared by Appendino and Danieli and their colleagues from taxol and 2 -deacetoxyaustrospicatine (423). Although neither compound was cytotoxic, 13.2.2 retained approximately a third of taxol s tubulin-assembly activity. 

Samaranayake G, Magri NF, Jitrangsri C, Kingston DGI (1991) Modified Taxols. 5. Reaction of Taxol with Electrophilic Reagents, and Preparation of a Rearranged Taxol Derivative with Tubulin Assembly Activity. J Org Chem 56 5114... 

Advanced fuel assembly (AFA) has been developed both for replacement of standard fuel at the operating reactors, and for new nuclear power plants with advanced WWER. The main difference of AFA, being the most effective as to economy, from standard fuel is application of only zirconium stmctural materials in the assembly active part. This allowed (in combination with specially developed refuelling patterns) to reduce the specific consumption of uranium approximately by 13%. Application of gadolinium burnable absorber instead of boron absorber allows to reduce this index by approximately 5% more. Application of AFA allows also to reduce enrichment of makeup fuel. Using of uranium-gadolinium fuel allows to reduce neutron fluence to the reactor vessel, to improve flexibility of fuel cycle, to exclude expenses for operation and storage of burnable absorber rods. 

Product data interfacing-. The OEM defines on his own system the assembly activities and the references of concerned product components. However, to fulfill the equipment development operations, the GSN members should get some information about the OEM product (stracture, geometry, materials, etc.). Based on the meta-model stmcturing the relations between processes and products, the PDM system extracts from the OEM system only the relevant and authorized aircraft data (see Sect. 16.6). In the opposite way, data can be sent for DMU (see Chap. 13). 

A large number of core design parameters have direct influence on the above mentioned safety targets, but often in contradictory ways therefore the optimization of the core from a global point of view is a very complex matter whose solution requires a sensitivity analysis based on a wide range of parameters including number and location of fuel assemblies, active core height, pin diameter, number and location of GEM s, Pu enrichments and their distribution, possible utilization of burnable poisons and their location, radial profile of the Na void effect, etc.. 

Tendonitis, the most frequently diagnosed CTD, results from inflammation of tendons due to excessive use. Common symptoms are burning sensations, pain, and swelling at various sites in the hand, wrist, or arm. Tendinitis is common for workers required to extend their arms overhead during assembly activities. 

The plant layout features four main separated blocks of buildings to improve accessibility and facilitate parallel construction and assembly activities which help shortening the construction schedule. The plant has one entrance only for daily use, backed up by a second emergency exit. 

To study the moisture distribution in the canister, we made 14-McV neutron radiographs with a Cockcroft-Walton accelerator Using the Berger transfer method, neutrons transmitted through the assembly activated a copper sheet through the Cufn. nl Cu reaction. The reaction has a threshold of 11. MeV, so most of the scattered neutrons will not contribute to the activity. After a 30-min irradiation ( Cu has a half4ife of 9.9 min), the copper plate was loaded into a film holder for a 30-min exposure of a sheet of Kodak-type XR-5 high-speed x-ray film. 

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