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V Vasseur

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PubMed2001

[Prevalence of HBV and HCV infections and incidence of HCV infection after 3, 6 and 12 months detention in La Santé prison, Paris].

The concentration of a marginal population (35% drug addicts) in prisons necessitates systematic and rigorous screening for hepatitis B and hepatitis C in subjects at risk. In June 1998, a screening program was initiated to determine the prevalence of HBV and HBC infections in prisoners and to determine the incidence after 3, 6 and 12 months detention. The screening program was proposed to 900 prisoners in a Paris prison (Maison d'arrêt de Paris-La Santé) from June 3 to November 10, 1998. The program included hepatitis B and hepatitis C serology at incarceration. For prisoners who were seronegative for HCV at incarceration, a new HCV serology was proposed after 3, 6 and 12 months detention. It was postulated that HCV contamination could occur during incarceration (syringe sharing, tattooing). After one year of incarceration, no seroconversions for HCV were observed among the prisoners participating in this study. These findings should be interpreted with caution due to the particular detention conditions at the prison involved, raising important methodology interrogations concerning this type of survey.

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PubMed2000

[A clear look].

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Buprenorphine↗

PubMed1995

Trichoderma harzianum genes induced during growth on Rhizoctonia solani cell walls.

Trichoderma harzianum is a biocontrol agent that attacks a range of economically important phytopathogenic fungi. In an attempt to identify genes specifically expressed by T. harzianum during growth on cell walls of Rhizoctonia solani, we carried out differential screening of an induced cDNA library. In this paper we report the analysis of the sequence and expression of two cDNA clones that encode putative mycoparasitism-related proteins of T. harzianum. One of these clones corresponds to a gene, inda1, that encodes a protein of 570 amino acids with a predicted molecular mass of 62,853 Da. The predicted amino acid sequence of inda1 showed a high degree of similarity with amino acid permeases from several other organisms. The other cDNA clone corresponds to a gene, indc11, that encodes a novel protein of 340 amino acids with a predicted molecular mass of 37,010 Da. The use of this methodology should provide specific genetic markers to follow mycoparasitism by Trichoderma spp.

Amino Acid Sequence↗

PubMed1994

Sequence analysis and expression studies of a gene encoding a novel serine + alanine-rich protein in Trichoderma harzianum.

The promoters of constitutive genes have proven themselves to be useful parts of expression vectors for genetic engineering in different organisms. Based on a differential screening of an induced cDNA library, we have used a new approach to isolate constitutively expressed genes which can be used for this purpose. Following this strategy, we have isolated constitutively expressed cDNA clones of the mycoparasitic fungus Trichoderma harzianum. One of these cDNA clones corresponds to a gene (cob4) that encodes a novel serine + alanine-rich protein. The predicted amino acid (aa) sequence of this protein (171 aa, deduced M(r) 15,564, pI 12.49) displays a motif that is also found in structural proteins of different species and in a yeast thermoinducible protein. Northern (RNA) blot analysis has demonstrated that cob4 is expressed during growth when glucose or cell walls of a phytopathogenic fungus are provided as carbon source. Hybridizations of T. harzianum genomic DNA indicate that this gene most probably belongs to a multigene family.

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PubMed1991

Non-specificity of a colorimetric method for the estimation of N-acetyl-D-glucosamine.

The colorimetric method of Reissig et al. for the estimation of N-acetylamino sugars, is often used as a specific method for the quantification of the N-acetyl-D-glucosamine. Although this assay is more sensitive to the monomer, it recognizes all soluble N-acetyl-D-glucosamine oligomers. This result is very important because this method is extensively used in biology for the estimation of chitinolytic activity.

Acetylglucosamine↗