Correction scheme for experimental biases in differential absorption lidar tropospheric ozone measurements based on the analysis of shot per shot data samples.

From lidar signals detected with a shot per shot differential absorption lidar instrument tuned for tropospheric ozone measurements and recording each individual return, we reconstruct histograms of their sampled values for each channel of our digitizers. The analysis of their shape permits the correction of our measurements for experimental biases. In particular, a negative correlation is found between the skew of the histograms and the intensity of the backscattered light.

Mmf1p, a novel yeast mitochondrial protein conserved throughout evolution and involved in maintenance of the mitochondrial genome.

A novel protein family (p14.5, or YERO57c/YJGFc) highly conserved throughout evolution has recently been identified. The biological role of these proteins is not yet well characterized.

Disruption and basic functional analysis of five chromosome X novel ORFs of Saccharomyces cerevisiae reveals YJL125c as an essential gene for vegetative growth.

We describe the disruption and basic functional analysis of five novel open reading frames (ORFs) discovered during the sequencing of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae genome: YJL118w, YJL122w, YJL123c, YJL124c, YJL125c, located on chromosome X. Disruptions have been realized using the long-flanking homology-PCR replacement strategy (LFH-PCR; Wach et al., 1996) in the FY1679 diploid strain.

As in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, aspartate transcarbamoylase is assembled on a multifunctional protein including a dihydroorotase-like cryptic domain in Schizosaccharomyces pombe.

The organisation of the URA1 gene of Schizosaccharomyces pombe was determined from the entire cDNA cloned by the transformation of an ATCase-deficient strain of Saccharomyces cerevisiae. The URA1 gene encodes the bifunctional protein GLNase/CPSase-ATCase which catalyses the first two steps of the pyrimidine biosynthesis pathway. The complete nucleotide sequence of the URA1 cDNA was elucidated and the deduced amino-acid sequence was used to define four domains in the protein; three functional domains, corresponding to GLNase (glutamine amidotransferase), CPSase (carbamoylphosphate synthetase) and ATCase (aspartate transcarbamoylase) activities, and one cryptic DHOase (dihydroorotase) domain.

Allosteric regulation of carbamoylphosphate synthetase-aspartate transcarbamylase multifunctional protein of Saccharomyces cerevisiae: selection, mapping and identification of missense mutations define three regions involved in feedback inhibition by UTP.

The positive screening procedure previously described was used in order to select, clone and characterize mutants defective in negative feedback control by UTP of the yeast carbamoylphosphate synthetase-aspartate transcarbamylase protein (CPSase-ATCase). The selection procedure was improved by adding a general mapping method for dominant mutations in order to avoid sequencing the whole URA2 allele (7 kb). All 16 mutants obtained carry missense mutations leading to single amino acid replacements: five of them are located in the CPSase domain while the other 11 are in the ATCase domain.