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Following tissue injury, the innate immune response is the first line of defense against possible pathogen infections. Through evolutionary pressures, the body automatically assumes infection which will be present post injury. Innate immunity... 

It is well known that survival and proliferation of microbial cells in the environment depend on the expression of advantageous phenotypes controlled by the genotype expression. It is becoming clear that such evolutionary pressure has resulted in a network of sensor mechanisms that transduce environmental stimuli into gene expression and hence a phenotype complementary to the prevail-... 

The Generation III reactors Evolutionary Pressurized Reactor has expanded safety features such as 2 separate 51 inch thick concrete walls with the inner one lined with metal. Each of the walls is strong enough to withstand the force of a large commercial airplane. 

How do proteins fold into their native structures To study the mechanism of protein folding is to seek an answer to this question. The astronomically large number of possible conformations suggests that proteins use some sort of directed mechanisms to fold. Under evolutionary pressure, these mechanisms have been refined such that proteins can fold reasonably quickly to well-defined functionally useful structures. We will review briefly the history of protein folding studies and discuss the theoretical studies in more detail. We will concentrate on recent developments and give a brief perspective of the future. 

Many heterocyclic compounds are biosynthesized by plants and animals and are biologically active. Over millions of years these organisms have been under intense evolutionary pressure, and their metabolites may be used to advantage for example, as toxins to ward off predators, or as colouring agents to attract mates or pollinating insects. Some heterocycles are fundamental to life, such as haem derivatives in blood and the... 

Because an alteration of this mass action ratio profoundly influences every reaction that involves ATP, organisms have been under strong evolutionary pressure to develop regulatory mechanisms that respond to the [ATP]/[ADP] ratio. Similar arguments show the importance of maintaining appropriate [NADH]/[NAD+] and [NADPH]/[NADP+] ratios. 

There is an evolutionary pressure on KM to increase with a consequent increase in cat. This evolutionary pressure rapidly decreases as KM becomes greater than [S]. At KM = [S], half of the enzyme is unbound, so according to equation 12.12 the rate is 50% of the maximum possible. At KM = 5[S], five-sixths of the enzyme is unbound, so the rate is 83% of the maximum. Any further increase in Ku gives only a marginal increase in the rate. 

There is a difference, however, between the evolutionary pressure on rates of... 

The evolutionary pressure on the aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases to bind the distinctive features of their correct substrates as tightly as possible (Chapter 13)... 

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