• Title/Summary/Keyword: $T_m-shift$

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Establishment of a Tm-shift Method for Detection of Cat-Derived Hookworms

  • Fu, Yeqi;Liu, Yunqiu;Abuzeid, Asmaa M.I.;Huang, Yue;Zhou, Xue;He, Long;Zhao, Qi;Li, Xiu;Liu, Jumei;Ran, Rongkun;Li, Guoqing
    • Parasites, Hosts and Diseases
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    • v.57 no.1
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    • pp.9-15
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    • 2019
  • Melting temperature shift ($T_m-shift$) is a new detection method that analyze the melting curve on real-time PCR thermocycler using SYBR Green I fluorescent dye. To establish a $T_m-shift$ method for the detection of Ancylostoma ceylanicum and A. tubaeforme in cats, specific primers, with GC tail of unequal length attached to their 5' end, were designed based on 2 SNP loci (ITS101 and ITS296) of the internal transcribed spacer 1 (ITS1) sequences. The standard curve of $T_m-shift$ was established using the standard plasmids of A. ceylanicum (AceP) and A. tubaeforme (AtuP). The $T_m-shift$ method stability, sensitivity, and accuracy were tested with reference to the standard curve, and clinical fecal samples were also examined. The results demonstrated that the 2 sets of primers based on the 2 SNPs could accurately distinguish between A. ceylanicum and A. tubaeforme. The coefficient of variation (CV) of $T_m$- values of AceP and AtuP was 0.07% and 0.06% in ITS101 and was 0.06% and 0.08% in ITS296, respectively. The minimum detectable DNA concentration was $5.22{\times}10^{-6}$ and $5.28{\times}10^{-6}ng/{\mu}l$ samples of AceP and AtuP, respectively. The accuracy of $T_m-shift$ method reached 100% based on examination of 10 hookworm DNA samples with known species. In the clinical detection of hookworm in 69 stray cat fecal sample, the $T_m-shift$ detection results were consistent with the microscopic examination and successfully differentiated between the 2-hookworm species. In conclusion, the developed method is a rapid, sensitive and accurate technique and can provide a promising tool for clinical detection and epidemiological investigation of cat-derived hookworms.

Operation of a High-T$_c$ Rapid Single-Flux-Quantum 4-stage Shift Register

  • Park, J.H.;Kim, Y.H.;Kang, J.H.;Hahn, T.S.;Kim, C.H.;Lee, J.M.
    • Progress in Superconductivity
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    • v.1 no.2
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    • pp.105-109
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    • 2000
  • We have designed and fabricated a single-flux-quantum(SFQ) four-stage shift register using YBCO bicrystal Josephson junctions, and tested its operations using a digital measurement set-up. The circuit consists of 4 shift register stages and a read SQUID placed next to each side of the shift register. Each SQUID was inductively coupled to the nearby shift register stage. The major obstacle in testing the circuits was the interference between the two read SQUIDs, and we could get over the problem by determining the correct operation points of the SQUID from the simultaneously measured modulation curves. Loaded data ('1' or '0') were successfully shifted from a stage to the next by a controlled current pulse injected to the bias lines located between the stages, and the corresponding correct data shifts were observed with the two read SQUIDs.

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A Base AOP Bit-Parallel Non-Systolic for $AB^2+C$ Computing Unit for $GF(2^m)$ ($GF(2^m)$상의 AOP 기반 비-시스토릭 병렬 $AB^2+C$연산기)

  • Hwang Woon-Taek
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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    • v.10 no.9
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    • pp.1538-1544
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    • 2006
  • This paper proposes a non-systolic parallel $AB^2+C$ Computing unit based on irreducible AOP order m of $GF(2^m)$. Proposed circuit have only AND gates and EX-OR gates, composes of cyclic shift operation, multiplication operation power operation power-sum operation and addition operation using a merry irreducible AOP. Suggested operating a method have an advantage high speed data processing, low power and integration because of only needs AND gates and EX-OR gates. $AB^2+C$ computing unit has delay-time of $T_A+(1+[log^m_2])T_X$.

Differential Intracellular Localization of Mitotic Centromere-associated Kinesin (MCAK) During Cell Cycle Progression in Human Jurkat T Cells (인체 Jurkat T 세포에 있어서 세포주기에 따른 MCAK 단백질의 세포 내 위치변화)

  • Jun Do Youn;Rue Seok Woo;Kim Su-Jung;Kim Young Ho
    • Journal of Life Science
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    • v.15 no.2 s.69
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    • pp.253-260
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    • 2005
  • Mitotic centromere-associated kinesin (MCAK), which is a member of the Kin I (internal motor domain) subfamily of kinesin-related proteins, is known to play a role in mitotic segregation of chromosome during M phase of the cell cycle. In the present study, we have produced a rat polyclonal antibody using human MCAK (HsMCAK) expressed in E. coli as the antigen. The antibody specifically recognized the HsMCAK protein (81 kDa), and could detect its nuclear localization in human Jurkat T cells and 293T cells by Western blot analysis. The specific stage of the cell cycle was obtained through blocking by either hydroxyl urea or nocodazole and subsequent releasing from each blocking for 2, 4, and 7 h. While the protein level of HsMCAK reached a maximum level in the S phase with slight decline in the $G_{2}-M$ phase, the electrophoretic mobility shift from $p81^{MCAK}\;to\;p84^{MCAK}$ began to be induced in the late S phase and reached a maximum level in the $G_{2}/M $ phase, and then it disappeared as the cells enter into the $G_{1}$ phase. Immunocytochemical analysis revealed that HsMCAK protein localized to centrosome and nucleus at the interphase, whereas it appeared to localize to the spindle pole, centromere of the condensed mitotic DNA, spindle fiber, or midbody, depending on the specific stage of the M phase. These results demonstrate that a rat polyclonal antibody raised against recombinant HsMCAK expressed in E. coli specifically detects human MCAK, and indicate that the electrophoretic mobility shift from $p81^{MCAK}\;to\;p84^{MCAK}$, which may be associated with its differential intracellular localization during the cell cycle, fluctuates with a maximum level of the shift at the $G_{2}-M$ phase.

A Study on the Construction of Parallel Multiplier over GF2m) (GF(2m) 상에서의 병렬 승산기 설계에 관한 연구)

  • Han, Sung-Il
    • Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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    • v.17 no.3
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    • pp.1-10
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    • 2012
  • A low-complexity Multiplication over GF(2m) and multiplier circuit has been proposed by using cyclic-shift coefficients and the irreducible trinomial. The proposed circuit has the parallel input/output architecture and shows the lower-complexity than others with the characteristics of the cyclic-shift coefficients and the irreducible trinomial modular computation. The proposed multiplier is composed of $2m^2$ 2-input AND gates and m (m+2) 2-input XOR gates without the memories and switches. And the minimum propagation delay is $T_A+(2+{\lceil}log_2m{\rceil})T_X$. The Proposed circuit architecture is well suited to VLSI implementation because it is simple, regular and modular.

Mössbauer Study on Crystallographic and Magnetic Properties of Mechanical Alloying Fe-M(M=Cr, Mn, Cu, Zn) Powders (기계적 합금화한 Fe계 분말 특성에 관한 뫼스바우어 분광학적 연구)

  • Park, Jae-Yoon;Choi, Jae-Joo
    • Journal of the Korean Magnetics Society
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    • v.17 no.1
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    • pp.26-29
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    • 2007
  • Fe-based powders, Fe-M(M=Cr, Mn, Cu, Zn), were prepared in Ar gas by mechanical alloying and their crystallographic and magnetic properties were investigated. X-ray diffraction indicates that the cubic lattice parameter increases for the M substitution. The distance of closest approach around M can explained the increase of lattice constant in Fe-M powders. $M\"{o}ssbauer$ spectroscopy measurements on Fe-M samples indicates the coexistence of ferromagnetic phases and paramagnetic phase that are created by the distribution of local environment M on Fe atom. On the other hand, The spread of line-width on $M\"{o}ssbauer$ spectra can be explained by the distribution of hyperfine magnetic fields. The results of quadrupole shift and isomer shift revealed that M substitutions in Fe-M powders didn't change both structure and the local charge distribution around Fe atom severely.

Distributions of Hyperfine Parameters in Amorphous $Fe_{83}B_9Nb_7Cu_1$ Alloys (비정질 $Fe_{83}B_9Nb_7Cu_1$의 M$\)

  • 윤성현;김성백;김철성
    • Journal of the Korean Magnetics Society
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    • v.9 no.6
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    • pp.271-277
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    • 1999
  • Amorphous $Fe_{83}B_9Nb_7Cu_1$ alloy has been studied by M$\"{o}$ssbauer spectroscopy. Revised Vincze method was used and distributions of hyperfine field, isomer shift, and quadrupole line broadening of the sample at various temperatures have been evaluated and Curie temperature and $H_{hf}\;(0)$ were calculated to be 393 K and 231 kOe, respectively. Temperature variation of reduced average hyperfine field shows a flattered curvein comparison with the Brillouin curve for S=1. This behavior can be explained on the basis of Handrich molecular field model, in which the parameter Δ, which is a measure of fluctuation in exchange interactions, is assumed to have the temperature dependence ${Delta}=0.75-0.64{\tau}+0.47{\tau}^2$ where $\tau$ is $T/T_C$. At low temperature, the average hyperfine field can be fitted to $H_{hf}\;(T)=H_{hf}\;(0)\;[1-0.44\;(T/T_C)^{3/2}-0.28(T/T_C)^{5/2}-… ]$, which indicates the presence long wave length spin wave excitations. At temperature near TC, reduced average hyperfine field varies as $1.00\;[1-T/T_C]^{0.39}$. It is also found that half-width of the hyperfine field distribution was 102 kOe (3.29 mm/s) at 13 K and decreased monotonically as temperature increased. Above the Curie temperature, an average quadrupole splitting value of 0.43 mm/s was found. Average line broadening due to quadrupole splitting distribution was 0.31 mm/s at 13 K and decreases monotonically to 0.23 mm/s at 320 K, whereas that due to the isomer shift distribution is 0.1 mm/s at 13 K and 0.072 mm/s at 320 K, which is much smaller than that of both hyperfine field and quadrupole splitting. The temperature dependence of the isomer shift can be fitted within the harmonic approximation to a Deybe model with a Debye temperature ${Theta}_D=424{\pm}5K$.TEX>.

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Effects of Higher-order RNA Structure on Ribosomal Frameshifting Event for the Expression of pol Gene Products of Human T-cell Leukemia Virus Type I (HTLV-l) (Human T-cell leukemia Virus Type I (HTLV-I) 에서 RNA 고차구조가 pol 유전자의 발현에 필요한 Ribosomal Frameshifting 에 미치는 영향)

  • 남석현
    • Korean Journal of Microbiology
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    • v.30 no.6
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    • pp.472-478
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    • 1992
  • Synthesis of the pol gene products of HTLV-I requires rihosomes to shift frame twice in - I direction while translating genome-size mRNA. We havc made a lI1utagcni/cd RNA in which the gag and pro genes are aligned to allow synthe,.is of a largcr amount of the Gag-Pro-Pol polyproteins by a single frameshifting. Using this mutant, wc could examine the questions whether the predicted RNA secondary or tertiary structure downstream of the shift site is operative as a determinant for - I frameshifting. Deletion analysis showed that the stem-loop structure is essential for efficient frameshifting in the pro-pol overlap, but formation of a pseudoknot is less important.

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