Profile Hidden Markov Model (Profile-HMM) is an efficient statistical approach to represent protein families. Currently, several databases maintain valuable protein sequence information as profile-HMMs. There is an increasing ...

Inhibitor of apoptosis protein (IAP) is a family of intracellular proteins that plays an essential role in the regulation of apoptosis. Recently, we and others discovered a new member of this family, termed Livin. Many ...

Introduction: Percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) is a nonsurgical technique carried out frequently to treat patients suffering obstructive coronary artery disease. These patients are treated with a combination of ...

Foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) is a highly contagious vesicular disease caused by foot-andmouth disease virus (FMDV), which infects cloven-hoofed animals resulting in severe economic losses. Because very early detection of ...

A novel human Krüppel-associated box (KRAB) type zinc finger protein encoding gene, ZNF304, was obtained by AU-motif-directed display and RACE. This gene, which contains a tandem AU motif in the 3' untranslated region, has ...

Brucellosis is a zoonotic infectious disease caused by bacteria of the genus Brucella. Brucella melitensis, Brucella abortus, and Brucella suis are the most pathogenic species of this genus causing the majority of human ...

Single Tube Nested PCR (ST-nPCR) is of value to clinical laboratories with limited settings for the detection of fastidious microorganisms. The detection sensitivity of ST-nPCR is dependent on ensuring minimal leftovers ...

Central nervous system involvement is a well recognized complication of systemic non-Hodgkin lymphoma. Most central nervous system recurrences occur within the first 2 years after the initial diagnosis and are considered ...

Human CCL4/macrophage inflammatory protein (MIP)-1beta and CCL3/MIP-1alpha are two highly related molecules that belong to a cluster of inflammatory CC chemokines located in chromosome 17. CCL4 and CCL3 were formed by ...

SslE, the Secreted and surface-associated lipoprotein from Escherichia coli, has recently been associated to the M60-like extracellular zinc-metalloprotease sub-family which is implicated in glycan recognition and processing. ...