Commitment to Sustainable Development Goals in marketing communications of ferry companies.

Companies are not legally obliged to disclose their commitment to Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Despite this, many decide to build their competitive position on the basis of marketing communications about sustainability practices. This paper investigates the landscape of sustainability communications practices within ferry operators in the Baltic Sea Region.

Purification and characteristics of an enzyme with both bilirubin oxidase and laccase activities from mycelium of the basidiomycete Pleurotus ostreatus.

A homogenous enzyme with both bilirubin oxidase and laccase activities was isolated from a submerged culture of the basidiomycete Pleurotus ostreatus mycelium and characterized. The yield of the enzyme was 127 microg/g dry biomass of the mycelium. The specific activity of the enzyme was 21 and 261 U/mg to bilirubin and to a laccase substrate ABTS, respectively.

Modification of transport function of plasma albumin during atherosclerosis and diabetes mellitus.

Parameters characterizing the processes of association, transport, and dissociation of fatty acid molecules on the corresponding binding sites of plasma albumin in patients with atherosclerosis and diabetes mellitus were studied by electron paramagnetic resonance method. In these patients transport function of albumin differed from normal. It should be emphasized that these differences were specific for atherosclerosis and diabetes mellitus, which is of considerable diagnostic value.

Modeling of electrostatic recognition processes in the mammalian mitochondrial steroid hydroxylase system.

Adrenodoxin reductase (AR) and adrenodoxin (Adx) are components of the mammalian mitochondrial steroid-hydroxylating system. Crystal structures of Adx, AR and a cross-linked Adx-AR complex have recently been determined. Based on these, we have carried out a modeling and docking study to characterize the recognition between AR, Adx and cytochrome c (Cytc).

Isoforms of thyroxin-binding globulin as markers of ecologically induced pathologies.

The content of thyroxin-binding globulin isoforms differing by the carbohydrate constituent is significantly increased in the blood of coronary patients and patients with insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus compared to normal and is comparable to that in cancer patients. Enhanced biosynthesis of abnormal proteins due to structural and functional reorganization of plasma membranes is probably responsible for accumulation of thyroxin-binding globulin isoforms.