Tag Archives: Oxide

Phylogenetic framework and HMMs of sulfur-cycling proteins To discern sulfur-cycling genes or proteins from their functionally divergent homologues, phylogenetic analysis was conducted for 116 sulfur-cycling proteins (Supplementary Table 1). For each protein family, sequences of enzymes with biochemically validated functions, including related sequences of enzymes with divergent functions (outgroups), were identified by literature surveys and recovered from SwissProt61. Additional homologues …

A common sedative sometimes taken to get high is becoming deadlier. Research out this week finds that annual U.S. deaths caused by nitrous oxide, commonly known as laughing gas or whippits, have significantly spiked over the past decade and a half. Researchers at the University of Mississippi and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign conducted the study, an analysis of …