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The role of lipid rafts in vesicle formation

2023

ABSTRACT The formation of membrane vesicles is a common feature in all eukaryotes. Lipid rafts are the best-studied example of membrane domains for both eukaryotes and prokaryotes, and their existence also is suggested in Archaea membranes. Lipid rafts are involved in the formation of transport vesicles, endocytic vesicles, exocytic vesicles, synaptic vesicles and extracellular vesicles, as well as enveloped viruses. Two mechanisms of how rafts are involved in vesicle formation have been proposed: first, that raft proteins and/or lipids located in lipid rafts associate with coat proteins that form a budding vesicle, and second, vesicle budding is triggered by enzymatic generation of cone-sh…

Synaptic vesiclesRaftsMembraneEnveloped virusTransport vesiclesCell BiologyExtracellular vesiclesExosomesEndocytic vesiclesJournal of Cell Science
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Integrazione di celle fotovoltaiche ibride nel vetromattone

2012

L’invenzione riguarda l’integrazione del vetromattone con celle solari ibride (organiche/inorganiche), conosciute come Dye-sensitized Solar Cell (DSC). La combinazione del vetromattone con le DSC consente di migliorare le prestazioni del prodotto originario rendendolo in grado di produrre energia pulita. Le caratteristiche di trasparenza e isolamento termo-acustico del prodotto possono essere regolate agendo sulla configurazione delle DSC. Il prodotto può essere assemblato a formare pannelli fotovoltaici per la realizzazione di facciate traslucide energeticamente “attive” in varie condizioni luminose (condizioni di luce diffusa o artificiale) e indipendentemente dall’angolo di radiazione so…

The integration of Dye-sensitized Solar Cell (DSC) with the glassblock is disclosed. The combination of the two technological elements the glassblock and the DSC module enhance their own peculiarities. The final complete product is ready-made for installation owns the qualities of the glassblock and produces sustainable energy at the same time. The transparency and the thermo-acoustic insulation may be modulated according to the specific requirements of each case of installation. The product may be used for example to create PV panels for glazed and translucent façades that are able to perform efficiently in all light conditions (even in diffuse light also converting internal artificial light) that are not dependant on the angle of the solar radiation and do not suffer from the high operative temperatures of functioning due to the peculiarities of the DSCs. DSCs are made of economic and biocompatible materials and are produced with low-cost and highly productive printing methods on rigid or flexible substrates. With the integration of DSC modules with the glassblock PV panels coincide with the envelope itself so that they do not need any further structures to be installed on and allow the possibility of subtract from the price of the panel the price of the substituted building element allowing further economies. DSCs can be printed in different colours and with various patterns offering to designers and customers the possibility of intervening on the glassblock aesthetical aspect also taking advantage of the peculiar modularity of the glassblock for larger compositions of drawings on the building’s façade. Seven Hypotheses of integration are discussed in order to obtain DSC-integrated glassblock ready for the construction of a precast and dry-assembled PV panel which can use the horizontal and vertical cavities between the glassblocks to house plastic profiles where the electric interconnections and the steel bars -useful for improve the mechanical resistance of the panel- are integrated.Settore ICAR/10 - Architettura Tecnica
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Pannello precompresso di vetromattoni assemblati a secco per la realizzazione di involucri traslucidi

2012

L’invenzione riguarda la realizzazione di un pannello di vetromattoni montati “a secco” -da impiegare per la realizzazione di involucri edilizi traslucidi anche nel caso di edifici alti- che è in grado di rispondere adeguatamente alle sollecitazioni orizzontali (quali quelle dovute a vento e sisma) grazie all’applicazione della tecnica della precompressione mondirezionale. Per offrire una risposta ai limiti imposti dalla tecnica di assemblaggio tradizionale dei vetromattoni (“ad umido”), l’applicazione della precompressione consente, infatti, di dare ai pannelli preassemblati “a secco” una rigidezza adeguata anche in direzione normale al loro piano di posa, sfruttando le buone caratteristic…

The invention is related to the construction of a glassblock panel “dry assembled” that can be used to build translucent building envelope even in high-rise buildings. This panel is able to contrast the horizontal actions due to wind and earthquake by means of the application of unidirectional pre-stressing technique. To overcame the limits due to the “wet assembly” system traditionally used to assemble the glassblocks the use of prestressing technique allow the panels to have an adequate mechanical resistance against the actions perpendicular to their installation plane. In this configuration the mechanical resistance of the glassblocks is exploited. The unidirectional prestressing (along the prevalent dimension of the panel) is obtained through the grip of the nuts inserted in the steel bars that are housed inside the glassblocks supporting profiles positioned in the vertical cavities between the glassblocks and passing through the horizontal profiles useful to separate glassblock rows from each other. The proper nuts grip opposing to the steel plates positioned at the top and bottom of the panel allow to prestress the panel. The steel plate are positioned on a plastic plate fixed to the lateral faces of the glassblocks by means of resins.Settore ICAR/10 - Architettura Tecnica
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Experimental Evidence on the Thermal Performance of Opaque Surfaces in Mediterranean Climate

2013

The thermal insulation of buildings, intended as wrap feature which determines the dispersion of heat, the reference parameter is necessary to contain the thermal losses during the winter season. The transmittance of the opaque components, used as an indicator of the energy quality of a casing, together with the overall coefficient of dispersion, represents a proper descriptor of the behavior during the heating season. However, if a strong insulation in winter conditions brings only positive effects, the same cannot be said for the summer conditions. A high value of the insulation in the casing is convenient only when the gains free, either in the form of solar contribution that of endogeno…

Thermal insulation Energy performance of building Opaque surfaces Thermophysical of involucrOpacityMeteorologybusiness.industryGeneral EngineeringEnergy consumptionDynamic insulationThermal insulationThermalTransmittanceEnvironmental sciencebusinessCasingBuilding envelopeAdvanced Materials Research
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Energy requirement and kinetics of transport of poly(A)-free histone mRNA compared to poly(A)-rich mRNA from isolated L-cell nuclei.

1989

ATP-promoted efflux of poly(A)-rich RNA from isolated nuclei of prelabeled mouse lymphoma L5178y cells has an activation energy of 51.5 kJ/mol, similar to that found for the nuclear envelope nucleoside triphosphatase (48.1 kJ/mol) assumed to be involved in mediating nucleocytoplasmic transport of at least some RNA. Here we show that efflux of two specific poly(A)-rich mRNAs (actin and beta-tubulin) from isolated L-cell nuclei is almost totally dependent on the presence of ATP, while efflux of poly(A)-free histone mRNA (H4, H2B, and H1) also occurs to a marked extent in the absence of this nucleotide. Measurements of temperature dependence of transport rate revealed an activation energy of 5…

Transcription GeneticNuclear EnvelopeRNA transportBiochemistryHistonesMiceAnimalsNucleotideRNA MessengerBinding siteLeukemia L5178Actinchemistry.chemical_classificationCell NucleusMessenger RNALeukemia ExperimentalbiologyRNANucleic Acid HybridizationRibonucleotidesBlotting NorthernMolecular biologyKineticsHistoneEnzymechemistrybiology.proteinEnergy MetabolismPoly APlasmidsEuropean journal of biochemistry
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“Building Integrated Photovoltaics and DSSC-Glassblocks"

2012

According to many market analysts, Building Integrated Photovoltaics (BIPV) represents the future of photovoltaic (PV) industry as well as one of the strategies for the achievement of zero-energy building standards and UE goals for the next years. Dye-sensitised solar cell (DSSC) is a low-cost and very versatile solar technology, offering a wide range of possibilities in terms of colour, transparency and design: hence DSSC are particularly suited for BIPV and could give a big contribution in this direction. Starting from those considerations, this paper will show the first results of a research aimed at the integration of DSSC with the glassblock for the construction of multifunctional tran…

Translucent Building Envelope Glassblocks BIPV DSSCSettore ICAR/10 - Architettura Tecnica
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Identifying Rossby wave trains and quantifying their properties

2013

A novel method is introduced to automatically identify upper-level Rossby wave trains and to objectively diagnose their properties. Based on the envelope of the upper tropospheric meridional wind represented in a Hovmoller diagram, the algorithm identifies individual Rossby wave trains as objects. These depend to some extent on user defined parameters. The utility of the method is demonstrated in two areas of application. First, the skill of a particular numerical weather prediction model is analysed for a specific case of a long-lived Rossby wave train. For this purpose, a novel diagnostic is designed based on a Hovmoller diagram of the Rossby wave train objects that contains forecast data…

TroposphereAtmospheric ScienceSeries (mathematics)MeteorologyDiagramRossby waveTrainHovmöller diagramNumerical weather predictionEnvelope (mathematics)GeologyQuarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society
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Longitudinal analysis of Mycobacterium tuberculosis 19-kDa antigen-specific T cells in patients with pulmonary tuberculosis: association with disease…

2003

CD8(+) T cells play a central role in immune protection against infection with Mycobacterium tuberculosis. One of the target epitopes for anti-M. tuberculosis directed CD8(+) T cells is the HLA-A2-restricted 19-kDa lipoprotein peptide VLTDGNPPEV. T cell clones directed against this epitope recognized not only the nominal peptide ligand, but also a closely related peptide (VPTDPNPPEV) from the HIV envelope gp120 (HIV(env) gp120) protein characterized by IFN-gamma release. This cross-reactivity was confirmed in ex vivo in M. tuberculosis 19-kDa tetramer-sorted T cells from patients with tuberculosis and in HIVgp120 tetramer-reactive T cells sorted from HIV(+) patients. M. tuberculosis 19-kDa …

TuberculosisHIV AntigensT cellImmunologyEpitopes T-LymphocyteHIV InfectionsCD146 AntigenBiologyCD8-Positive T-LymphocytesCross ReactionsHIV Envelope Protein gp120medicine.disease_causeEpitopeMycobacterium tuberculosisInterferon-gammaViral ProteinsAntigenBacterial ProteinsAntigens CDT-Lymphocyte SubsetsHLA-A2 AntigenmedicineImmunology and AllergyHumansTuberculosisLongitudinal StudiesNeural Cell Adhesion MoleculesAntigens BacterialMembrane GlycoproteinsMolecular MimicryGranulocyte-Macrophage Colony-Stimulating FactorT lymphocyteMycobacterium tuberculosisOncogene Proteins Viralmedicine.diseasebiology.organism_classificationVirologyPeptide FragmentsDNA-Binding ProteinsMolecular mimicrymedicine.anatomical_structureImmunologyInterleukin-4CD8BiomarkersEuropean journal of immunology
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Association of AUUUA-binding Protein with A + U-rich mRNA during nucleo-cytoplasmic transport

1992

Resealed nuclear envelope (NE) vesicles from rat liver containing entrapped exogenous RNA were used to study the effect of adenosine+uridine binding factor (AUBF), present in cytosolic cell extracts, on ATP-dependent transport of A+U-rich RNA (AU+RNA) and A+U-free RNA (AU-RNA) across the NE. This factor specifically binds to A+U-rich sequences present in the 3' untranslated regions of lymphokine and cytokine mRNAs, containing overlapping AUUUA boxes (granulocyte-macrophage colony stimulating factor, interleukin-3). Addition of AUBF to the extravesicular compartment markedly increased the efflux of the in vitro transcribed, capped and polyadenylated AU+ RNAs. Export of entrapped AU- control …

Untranslated regionCytoplasmAdenosineTranscription GeneticPolyadenylationNuclear EnvelopeMolecular Sequence DataRNA-binding proteinBiologyCell LineStructural BiologyTranscription (biology)EndoribonucleasesAnimalsHumansNuclear MatrixRNA MessengerBinding siteNuclear export signalUridineMolecular BiologyCell NucleusMessenger RNABinding SitesBase SequenceGranulocyte-Macrophage Colony-Stimulating FactorInterferon-alphaRNA-Binding ProteinsRNAMolecular biologyRatsKineticsLiverRibonucleoproteinsInterleukin-3Carrier ProteinsPlasmidsPolyribonucleotidesProtein BindingJournal of Molecular Biology
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On the Correlation and Ergodic Properties of the Squared Envelope of SOC Rayleigh Fading Channel Simulators

2012

Published version of an article in the journal: Wireless Personal Communications. Also available from the publisher at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11277-011-0493-2 In this paper, we investigate the correlation and ergodic properties of the squared envelope of a class of autocorrelation-ergodic (AE) sum-of-cisoids (SOC) simulation models for mobile Rayleigh fading channels. Novel closed-form expressions are presented for both the ensemble and the time autocorrelation functions (ACFs) of the SOC simulation model’s squared envelope. These expressions have been derived by assuming that the SOC model’s inphase and quadrature (IQ) components have arbitrary autocorrelation and cross-correlation pr…

VDP::Mathematics and natural science: 400::Information and communication science: 420::Communication and distributed systems: 423Stochastic processmobile communicationsAutocorrelationEstimatorchannel simulatorsComputer Science ApplicationsQuadrature (mathematics)sum-of-cisoidsNarrowbandsum-of-sinusoidsNorm (mathematics)VDP::Technology: 500::Information and communication technology: 550::Telecommunication: 552StatisticsApplied mathematicsErgodic theoryergodic processesElectrical and Electronic EngineeringRayleigh fading channelssquared envelopeMathematicsRayleigh fadingWireless Personal Communications
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