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L1CAM binds ErbB receptors through Ig-like domains coupling cell adhesion and neuregulin signalling.
During nervous system development different cell-to-cell communication mechanisms operate in parallel guiding migrating neurons and growing axons to generate complex arrays of neural circuits. How such a system works in coordination is not well understood. Cross-regulatory interactions between different signalling pathways and redundancy between them can increase precision and fidelity of guidance systems. Immunoglobulin superfamily proteins of the NCAM and L1 families couple specific substrate recognition and cell adhesion with the activation of receptor tyrosine kinases. Thus it has been shown that L1CAM-mediated cell adhesion promotes the activation of the EGFR (erbB1) from Drosophila to humans. Here we explore the specificity of the molecular interaction between L1CAM and the erbB receptor family. We show that L1CAM binds physically erbB receptors in both heterologous systems and the mammalian developing brain. Different Ig-like domains located in the extracellular part of L1CAM can support this interaction. Interestingly, binding of L1CAM to erbB enhances its response to neuregulins. During development this may synergize with the activation of erbB receptors through L1CAM homophilic interactions, conferring diffusible neuregulins specificity for cells or axons that interact with the substrate through L1CAM
Advancing COVID-19 response through community participation: Lessons learned from community–academic research partnerships for health
Community Health Sciences, Counseling and Counseling Psycholog
The Spitzer South Pole Telescope Deep Field Survey: Linking galaxies and halos at z=1.5
We present an analysis of the clustering of high-redshift galaxies in the
recently completed 94 deg Spitzer-SPT Deep Field survey. Applying flux and
color cuts to the mid-infrared photometry efficiently selects galaxies at
in the stellar mass range , making this
sample the largest used so far to study such a distant population. We measure
the angular correlation function in different flux-limited samples at scales
(corresponding to physical distances Mpc) and
thereby map the one- and two-halo contributions to the clustering. We fit halo
occupation distributions and determine how the central galaxy's stellar mass
and satellite occupation depend on the halo mass. We measure a prominent peak
in the stellar-to-halo mass ratio at a halo mass of , 4.5 times higher than the value. This supports
the idea of an evolving mass threshold above which star formation is quenched.
We estimate the large-scale bias in the range and the satellite
fraction to be , showing a clear evolution compared to
. We also find that, above a given stellar mass limit, the fraction of
galaxies that are in similar mass pairs is higher at than at . In
addition, we measure that this fraction mildly increases with the stellar mass
limit at , which is the opposite of the behavior seen at low-redshift.Comment: 32 pages, 22 figures. Published in MNRA
Drift of a polymer chain in disordered media
We consider the drift of a polymer chain in a disordered medium, which is
caused by a constant force applied to the one end of the polymer, under
neglecting the thermal fluctuations. In the lowest order of the perturbation
theory we have computed the transversal fluctuations of the centre of mass of
the polymer, the transversal and the longitudinal size of the polymer, and the
average velocity of the polymer. The corrections to the quantities under
consideration, which are due to the interplay between the motion and the
quenched forces, are controlled by the driving force and the degree of
polymerization. The transversal fluctuations of the Brownian particle and of
the centre of mass of the polymer are obtained to be diffusive. The transversal
fluctuations studied in the present Letter may also be of relevance for the
related problem of the drift of a directed polymer in disordered media and its
applications.Comment: 11 pages, RevTex, Accepted for publication in Europhysics Letter
On time and the quantum-to-classical transition in Jordan-Brans-Dicke quantum gravity
Any quantum theory of gravity which treats the gravitational constant as a
dynamical variable has to address the issue of superpositions of states
corresponding to different eigenvalues. We show how the unobservability of such
superpositions can be explained through the interaction with other
gravitational degrees of freedom (decoherence). The formal framework is
canonically quantized Jordan-Brans-Dicke theory. We discuss the concepts of
intrinsic time and semiclassical time as well as the possibility of tunneling
into regions corresponding to a negative gravitational constant. We calculate
the reduced density matrix of the Jordan-Brans-Dicke field and show that the
off-diagonal elements can be sufficiently suppressed to be consistent with
experiments. The possible relevance of this mechanism for structure formation
in extended inflation is briefly discussed.Comment: 10 pages, Latex, ZU-TH 15/93, BUTP-93/1
DIFFERENTIAL EVOLUTION ALGORITHM APPLIED IN A NUMERICAL COST OPTIMIZATION DESIGN OF A SHELL AND-TUBE HEAT EXCHANGER
Shell-and-tube heat exchangers are the most common heat exchangers that can be found in several industrial applications. The reduction of the investment cost and the operation of this equipment it’s one of main industrial designers and entrepreneurs aim. With the intention of reducing total costs of a shell-and-tube heat exchangers, as proposed by Caputo et al. (2008), employed in this present study the optimization technique called Differential Evolution (DE), which basically consists in a calculation mechanism, supported on operators of “crossing” and “mutation” differential, through mathematical and heuristics arguments that indicate your adequacy for function optimization. This study is defined as a mono-objective optimization problem and the total cost of a shell-and-tube heat exchanger is the objective function. To this, it was taken as a design variable intern diameter tube, the outer diameter of the shell and the spacing between baffles or deflectors. The results reached in this work were compared with the same problem when used GA (Genetics Algorithms), PSO (Particle Swarm Optimization), QPSO (Quantum Particle Swarm Optimization) and QPSOZ (Quantum Particle Swarm Optimization by Zaslavskii). Regarding the literature, the capital investment in the heat exchange reduces corresponding in 15.2% and consequently the depreciation charge of the equipment decrease approximately 12.5%. In general, the total cost of the shell-and-tube heat exchange in analysis, presented a reduction of 15%, showing the potential of applied method in this study, the technique DE
Stochastics theory of log-periodic patterns
We introduce an analytical model based on birth-death clustering processes to
help understanding the empirical log-periodic corrections to power-law scaling
and the finite-time singularity as reported in several domains including
rupture, earthquakes, world population and financial systems. In our
stochastics theory log-periodicities are a consequence of transient clusters
induced by an entropy-like term that may reflect the amount of cooperative
information carried by the state of a large system of different species. The
clustering completion rates for the system are assumed to be given by a simple
linear death process. The singularity at t_{o} is derived in terms of
birth-death clustering coefficients.Comment: LaTeX, 1 ps figure - To appear J. Phys. A: Math & Ge
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