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Conservative Elements. Elemental Distribution Overview. Hydrothermal Vent Fluids, Chemistry of. Mid-Ocean Ridge Geochemistry and Petrology. Volcanic Helium. 

The elements Na, K, Cl, SO, Br, B, and F are the most conservative major elements. No significant variations in the ratios of these elements to chlorine have been demonstrated. Strontium has a small (< 0.5%) depletion in the euphotic zone (Brass and Turekian, 1974) possibly due to the plankton Acantharia, which makes its shell from SrS04 (celestite). Calcium has been known since the 19th century to be about 0.5% enriched in the deep sea relative to surface waters. Alkalinity (HCOf") also shows a deep enrichment. These elements are controlled by the formation... 

The chemical reactivity of minor elements in seawater is strongly influenced by their specia-tion (see Stumm and Brauner, 1975). For example, the Cu ion is toxic to phytoplankton (Sunda and Guillard, 1976). Uranium (VI) forms the soluble carbonate complex, U02(C03)3, and as a result uranium behaves like an unreactive conservative element in seawater (Ku et ah, 1977). 

Bacterial promoters are approximately 40 nucleotides (40 bp or four turns of the DNA double helix) in length, a region small enough to be covered by an E coli RNA holopolymerase molecule. In this consensus promoter region are two short, conserved sequence elements. Approximately 35 bp upstream of the transcrip-... 

The P subunit is not as well conserved as the a subunit, with 91 % overall homology between the P subunit of sheep, pig, and human and 61% between the p subunit of human and Torpedo. Homologies between -subunit isoforms and the p subunit of H,K-ATPase are moderate, 25-30%, but some segments are well conserved. As shown in Table II, beta signatures 1 and 2 are preserved in the (6-subunit isoforms and P subunit of H,K-ATPase [70] as an indication that the positions of tryptophans and cysteines are well conserved elements. 

Due to the conservation of elements, the rank of J will lie less than or equal to K — E 1 In general, rank(J) = Ny < K - E, which implies that V = K — T eigenvalues of J are null. Moreover, since M is a similarity transformation, (5.51) implies that the eigenvalues of J and those of J are identical. We can thus limit the definition of the chemical time scales to include only the Nr finite ra found from (5.50). The other N components of the transformed composition vector correspond to conserved scalars for which no chemical-source-term closure is required. The same comments would apply if the Nr non-zero singular values of J were used to define the chemical time scales. 

We will now estimate the front velocity using the method of Guy (1984). Let us consider, in one dimension, the conservation of element i in a rock column (x = xt to x = x2) of unit section which contains a propagating front at the time-dependent position s(t). The discontinuity is handled by breaking the column at s = s(t). The amount of element i in the rock column only changes by fluid exchange through both ends of the column, hence... 

The procedure of generating probabilistic profile representations of patterns of conserved elements given only a few homologous family representatives contains three parts. 

The staphylococcal superantigens initially bind to conserved elements on major histocompatibility complex class II molecules with relatively high affinity (A(i 10 mol 1 ). These receptors are found in abundance, throughout the body, on antigen-presenting cells such as macrophages and monocytes. However, each toxin... 

The pharmacopeias have worked with the ICH process to facilitate the international environment of pharmaceutical research and product registration. On the other hand, the additional situation for compendia is that the standards which they have published now apply to all of the already marketed products. In that case a company has testing history and product history in their quality control departments. These are the most conservative elements within the pharmaceutical industry as is necessary to their task. Quality control departments are reluctant to change methods when they feel that their products are properly represented by the current of tests. Therefore, a tension is ereated between trying to develop harmonized standards, which facilitate one area of activity in the world of pharmaeeutieals, and not disturbing a satisfactory marketplace. A vast amount of progress has been made in the harmonization of phar-maeopeial methods. 

Lenhard, B., Sandelin, A., Mendoza, L., Engstrom, P., Jareborg, N., and Wasserman, W. W. (2003) Identification of conserved regulatory elements by comparative genome analysis. J. Biol. 2, 13. 

Fig. 2. Homology of chromatin remodeling ATPases to DNA translocases. Motifs I-III, V, and VI in the Sf2 helicase signature in the Swi/Snf superfamily (including yeast Motlp, Radl6p and Rad54p) are aligned and compared with the motifs in reverse gyrase Sf2-like signature and the PerA helicase Sfl signature. The conserved elements of the latter two are taken from Refs. [192] and [333], respectively.

Preliminary analysis of the geochemical data indicated that Ti and Nb, significantly concentrated in fine-grained rutile-anatase, were the most conserved elements during hydrothermal alteration and weathering. Due to its greater abundance and lower relative analytical error, Ti was selected as the conserved denominator element in the PER analysis. Changes in PER values for major- and trace-elements with distance from ore are listed in Table 1. 

A conserved element scatterplot of the hypogene lithogeochemical dataset (Fig. 2) illustrates that Zr/Ti02 ratios can be used to identify QB intrusive rocks. 

Fig. 7. Conserved element scatterpiot of supergene data Identical to Figure 2.

In contrast, volcanic rock classification by petrologic means is generally difficult because complete crystallization is not achieved, making it impossible to use the modal rock petrography as a classification criterion. As a result, classification of volcanic rocks has historically relied on lithogeochemistry, and the most successful approaches have employed conserved, trace element concentration ratios. These have been used as proxies for petrology to empirically classify volcanic rocks. Unfortunately, these trace elements are imperfect proxies for rock... 

Lithium is a conservative element in the ocean with a residence time of abont one million year. Its isotope composition is maintained by inputs of dissolved Li from rivers (average 5 Li + 23%c, Huh et al. 1998) and high-temperature hydrothermal fluids at ocean ridges at one hand and low temperature removal of Li into oceanic basalts and marine sediments at the other. Any variance in these sources and sinks thus should cause secular variations in the isotope composition of oceanic Li. And indeed in a first attempt Hoefs and Sywall (1997) interpreted Li isotope variations in well preserved carbonate shells as indicating secular variations of the oceanic Li-cycle. 

Fig. 5. Superposition of 26 kinase structures via their conserved structural elements, with ATP binding site highlighted. Adapted from ref. 61.

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