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UDP-glucose 4-epimerase from saccharomyces fragilis. Presence of an essential arginine residue at the substrate-binding site of the enzyme
UDP-glucose 4-epimerase from Saccharomyces fragilis was inactivated by the arginine-specific reagents phenylglyoxal, 1,2-cyclohexanedione, and 2,3-butanedione following pseudo first order reaction kinetics. The reaction order with respect to phenylglyoxal was 1.8 and that with respect to the other two diones was close to unity. Protection afforded by substrate and competitive inhibitors against inactivation by phenylglyoxal and the reduced interaction of 1-anilinonaphthalene 8-sulfonic acid, a fluorescent probe for the substrate-binding region after phenylglyoxal modification, suggested the presence of an essential arginine residue at the substrate-binding region. Experiments with [7-14C]phenylglyoxal in the presence of UMP, a ligand known to interact at the substrate-binding region, showed that only the arginine residue at the active site could be modified by phenylglyoxal. The characteristic coenzyme fluorescence of the yeast enzyme was found to be enhanced three times in phenylglyoxal-inactivated enzyme suggesting the incorporation of the phenyl ring near the pyridine moiety of NAD
Chiral symmetry breaking and stability of quark droplets
We discuss the stability of strangelets -- quark droplets with strangeness --
in the Nambu--Jona-Lasinio model supplemented by a boundary condition for quark
confinement. Effects of dynamical chiral symmetry breaking are considered
properly inside quark droplets of arbitrary baryon number. We obtain the energy
per baryon number of quark droplets with baryon number from one to thousands.
It is shown that strangelets are not the ground states as compared with nuclei,
though they can be locally stable
Production and detection of doubly charmed tetraquarks
The feasibility of tetraquark detection is studied. For the cc\bar{u}\bar{d}
tetraquark we show that in present (SELEX, Tevatron, RHIC) and future
facilities (LHCb, ALICE) the production rate is promising and we propose some
detectable decay channels.Comment: 6 pages, 5 figure
Recrystallization of epitaxial GaN under indentation
We report recrystallization of epitaxial (epi-) GaN(0001) film under
indentation.Hardness value is measured close to 10 GPa, using a Berkovich
indenter. Pop-in burst in the loading line indicates nucleation of dislocations
setting in plastic motion of lattice atoms under stress field for the
recrystallization process. Micro-Raman studies are used to identify the
recrystallization process. Raman area mapping indicates the crystallized
region. Phonon mode corresponding to E2(high) close to 570 cm-1 in the as-grown
epi-GaN is redshifted to stress free value close to 567 cm-1 in the indented
region. Evolution of A1(TO) and E1(TO) phonon modes are also reported to
signify the recrystallization process.Comment: 10 pages, 3 figures
On polynomial solutions of Heun equation
By making use of a recently developed method to solve linear differential
equations of arbitrary order, we find a wide class of polynomial solutions to
the Heun equation. We construct the series solution to the Heun equation before
identifying the polynomial solutions. The Heun equation extended by the
addition of a term, - \s/x, is also amenable for polynomial solutions.Comment: 4 pages, No figur
Microstructural evolution in the intercritical heat affected zone of a boron containing modified 9Cr-1Mo steel
Type IV cracking observed in high Cr ferritic steels is attributed to poor creep properties of the intercritical heat affected zone (ICHAZ) of the weld joint which in turn associated with the partial transformation that take place in this zone during the weld thermal cycle and resulting refinement of the microstructure. Recent studies on steels with controlled addition of boron has shown that creep strength of ICHAZ in these steels are comparable to that of the base metal and the microstructure of this zone is significantly different from that of the steels with out boron. Hence in this paper microstructural evolution in the simulated ICHAZ of two different P91 steels, one without boron and another with boron and reduced nitrogen content has been studied. Results indicate that during heating part of the weld thermal cycle, austenite nucleate and grow into two different morphologies, globular and acicular which transform to martensite during cooling. The former is more prevalent along the prior austenite grain boundaries (PAGB) of the base metal while the latter along the lath boundaries of the tempered martensite within the grains. Results also show the transformation to austenite is delayed in the boron containing steels and austenite with both the morphologies are formed. However, growth of the globular austenite, formed along the PAGB is sluggish and hence PAGBs are discernable even after the transformation. This explains the difference in the microstructure of the of ICHAZ of steels with boron and without boron and this could also be the reason for the improved creep resistance of the weld joint of high Cr ferritic steels with controlled addition of boron
Study of the leptonic decays of pseudoscalar and vector mesons and of the semileptonic and decays
We present results for different observables in weak decays of pseudoscalar
and vector mesons with a heavy or quark. The calculations are done in a
nonrelativistic constituent quark model improved at some instances by heavy
quark effective theory constraints. We determine pseudoscalar and vector meson
decay constants that within a few per cent satisfy , a
result expected in heavy quark symmetry when the heavy quark masses tend to
infinity. We also analyze the semileptonic and decays for
which we evaluate the different form factors. Here we impose heavy quark
effective theory constraints among form factors that are not satisfied by a
direct quark model calculation. The value of the form factors at zero recoil
allows us to determine, by comparison with experimental data, the value of the
Cabbibo-Kobayashi-Maskawa matrix element. From the
semileptonic decay we get in perfect agreement with
our previous determination based on the study of the semileptonic decay and also in excellent agreement with a recent experimental
determination by the DELPHI Collaboration. We further make use of the partial
conservation of axial current hypothesis to determine the strong coupling
constants and . The
ratio agrees with the heavy quark symmetry
prediction of 1.Comment: 19 Latex pages,6 figures, references added, corrected typos, content
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A semiclassical analysis of the Efimov energy spectrum in the unitary limit
We demonstrate that the (s-wave) geometric spectrum of the Efimov energy
levels in the unitary limit is generated by the radial motion of a primitive
periodic orbit (and its harmonics) of the corresponding classical system. The
action of the primitive orbit depends logarithmically on the energy. It is
shown to be consistent with an inverse-squared radial potential with a lower
cut-off radius. The lowest-order WKB quantization, including the Langer
correction, is shown to reproduce the geometric scaling of the energy spectrum.
The (WKB) mean-squared radii of the Efimov states scale geometrically like the
inverse of their energies. The WKB wavefunctions, regularized near the
classical turning point by Langer's generalized connection formula, are
practically indistinguishable from the exact wave functions even for the lowest
() state, apart from a tiny shift of its zeros that remains constant for
large .Comment: LaTeX (revtex 4), 18pp., 4 Figs., already published in Phys. Rev. A
but here a note with a new referece is added on p. 1
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