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A new cold-active β-galactosidase from Arthrobacter sp. S3* - gene cloning, overexpression, purification and properties
PublicationA psychrotrophic bacterium producing a cold-active β-galactosidase was isolated from Spitsbergen soil and classified as Arthrobacter sp. S3*. The gene encoding β-galactosidase was isolated from the genomic DNA library, sequenced, cloned, expressed in Escherichia coli, purified by ion exchange chromatography and characterized. The Arthrobaster sp. S3* β-galactosidase is a homotrimeric enzyme composed of 74,4 kDa subunits. It is...
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Energy Loss Coefficients ki in a Displacement Pump and Hydraulic Motor used in Hydrostatic Drives
PublicationThe article aims at defining and analysing the energy loss coefficients in design solutions of rotating displacement machines, with a piston machine as an example. The energy losses observed in these machines include mechanical loss, volumetric loss, and pressure loss. The scale and relations between these losses in different machines depend on machine design and manufacturing quality, and on operating parameters. The operating...
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A Comparison of Simplified Two-dimensional Flow Models Exemplified by Water Flow in a Cavern
PublicationThe paper shows the results of a comparison of simplified models describing a two-dimensional water flow in the example of a water flow through a straight channel sector with a cavern. The following models were tested: the two-dimensional potential flow model, the Stokes model and the Navier-Stokes model. In order to solve the first two, the boundary element method was employed, whereas to solve the Navier-Stokes equations, the...
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Wroclaw University of Technology Knowledge Repository - project objectives
PublicationKnowledge Repository is a project created in the Library and Scientific Information Centre of Wroclaw University of Technology (WrUT). Its main task will be collecting, sharing, and promoting scientific publications of researchers, postgraduates and students of WrUT. It will be also used for bibliometric analysis and reporting research output of WrUT scientific community.Knowledge Repository will closely cooperate with other databases...
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Symulacja napędów przekształtnikowych z zastosowaniem pakietu TCAD 7.
PublicationW artykule przedstawiono nowe możliwości symulatora układów i napędów energoelektronicznych TCad 7. Wskazano na udoskonalenia najnowszej wersji symulatora związane szczególnie z pracą wielookienkową, upełnieniem biblioteki elementów oraz wykorzystaniem definiowanych przez użytkownika bloków sterowaniatypu USER.
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Wykorzystanie mediów społecznościowych do promocji otwartości w badaniach naukowych na przykładzie Biblioteki Politechniki Gdańskiej
PublicationMedia społecznościowe są jednym ze sposobów na skuteczną promocję zasobów oraz usług bibliotecznych w obecnym świecie cyfrowym. Stanowią również niedocenianą możliwość komunikacji pomiędzy naukowcami, bibliotekarzami a czytelnikami. Biblioteka akademicka może aktywnie angażować się w proces upowszechniania dorobku naukowego uczelni, podejmując w tym celu różnorakie działania marketingowe, wykorzystując takie serwisy jak: Facebook,...
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Eye Blink Based Detection of Liveness in Biometric Authentication Systems Using Conditional Random Fields
PublicationThe goal of this paper was to verify whether the conditional random fields are suitable and enough efficient for eye blink detection in user authentication systems based on face recognition with a standard web camera. To evaluate this approach several experiments were carried on using a specially developed test application and video database.
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Enterprise Gamification - Learning as a Side Effect of Competition
PublicationGmification in companies can be used for driving desired employees behaviour that are advantageous to their development and performance improvement. This paper presents tools acquired from online social networking services and game mechanisms to encourage managers to compete by providing extended statistics and user profiles features in e-learning system.
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COLLABORATIVE LEARNING ENVIRONMENT FOR ENGINEERING EDUCATION (COLED)
PublicationCollaborative Learning Environment for Engineering Education is a European project implemented under the Erasmus + program, The main goal of 5 partners from 4 different European countries – Bulgaria, Poland, Portugal and Romania is to develop an innovative collaborative training approach, encompassing curricula related to the introduction of enterprise automation. Project activities are carried out in the period from Dctober 2018...
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Wordventure - cooperative wordnet editor. Architecture for lexical semantic aquisition
PublicationThis article presents architecture for acquiring lexical semanticsin a collaborative approach paradigm. The system enablesfunctionality for editing semantic networks in a wikipedia-like style. The core of the system is a user-friendly interface based on interactive graph navigation.It has been used for semantic network presentation,and brings simultaneously modification functionality.
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Creative sprints: an unplanned broad agile evaluation and redesign process.
PublicationWe report how a request for routine usability work rapidly evolved into a novel agile process for evaluation and redesign. This process is described and then analysed to identify reasons for success. This analysis supports realistic knowledge transfer between User Experience professionals by outlining how similar future processes could succeed.
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THE PROBLEM OF THE CALCULATION OF THE FREQUENCY OF DIAGNOSTIC EXAMINATIONS BASED ON DEVICE’S PROPER OPERATION TIME
PublicationThe paper presents the proposal to apply the normal distribution to solve the problem of the frequency of diagnostic tests. Particular emphasis is placed on simplicity of the method. This method may be useful for the average user technical system. The method reduces the number of assumptions to a minimum. The results do not raise of serious doubts but they require verification of course.
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Eye-tracking Web Usability Research
PublicationIn this paper we present the results of a study that aims to evaluate the usability of three selected web services, based on eye–tracking and thinking aloud techniques. The gathered comments and observations, recapitulated and supported by particular measures, allow us to discover and describe typical user behavior pertaining to given tasks to solve.
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Boundary conditions for non-residential buildings from the user’s perspective: literature review
PublicationBackground and objective: This paper aims to review the boundary conditions (B/C) in specific categories (energy, building use, and lighting) within non-residential buildings to pave the way to a better understanding of users’ requirements and needs of the built environment. For this paper, B/C are understood as unique preconditions, specific characteristics for use, determining specific features of buildings, enabling an accurate...
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Changes in Functional and Spatial Layouts of Polish Single-Family Houses
PublicationArticle presents the evolution of functional and spatial layouts of single-family houses in Poland, with particular emphasis on the functions of a contemporary house. Singlefamily housing constitutes a significant part of the construction market in Poland. The way of forming functions in single-family buildings in the historical cycle has characteristic features resulting from the culture of the society in a given period. The functional...
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AITP - AI Thermal Pedestrians Dataset
Open Research DataAITP is a pedestrian detection dataset consisting of 9178 annotated thermal images. The training set contains 7801 images on which15448 pedestrians were labeled. The test set has 1377 images on which 2731 objects were marked. All images are in PNG file format (120x160) captured with FLIR Lepton Thermal Camera on the streets of Gdańsk, Poland. All pedestrians...
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Examining Quality of Hand Segmentation Based on Gaussian Mixture Models
PublicationResults of examination of various implementations of Gaussian mix-ture models are presented in the paper. Two of the implementations belonged to the Intel’s OpenCV 2.4.3 library and utilized Background Subtractor MOG and Background Subtractor MOG2 classes. The third implementation presented in the paper was created by the authors and extended Background Subtractor MOG2 with the possibility of operating on the scaled version of...
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WordVenture - COOPERATIVE WordNet EDITOR Architecture for Lexical Semantic Acquisition
PublicationThis article presents architecture for acquiring lexical semantics in a collaborative approach paradigm. The system enables functionality for editing semantic networks in a wikipedia-like style. The core of the system is a user-friendly interface based on interactive graph navigation. It has been used for semantic network presentation, and brings simultaneously modification functionality.
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Problemy w szkoleniu i egzaminowaniu rowerzystów w Polsce
PublicationArtykuł przedstawia diagnozę problemów, które wpływają na jakość poziomu szkolenia i egzaminowania rowerzystów w Polsce. W pierwszej części zaprezentowano statystyki dotyczące wypadków z udziałem rowerzystów w Polsce, mających miejsce na przestrzeni ostatnich lat. Kolejno opisano obowiązujący system szkolenia oraz egzaminowania rowerzystów, a także nauczycieli i instruktorów. Dodatkowo ukazano przykłady dobrej praktyki, które stosują...
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An approach to evaluation of arguments in trust cases
PublicationTrustworthiness of IT systems can be justified using the concept of a trust case. A trust case is an argument structure which encompasses justification and evidence supporting claimed properties of a system. It represents explicitly an expert's way of assessing that a certain object has certain properties. Trust cases can be developed collaboratively on the basis of evidence and justification of varying quality. They can be complex...
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Optimized Computational Intelligence Model for Estimating the Flexural Behavior of Composite Shear Walls
PublicationThis article presents a novel approach to estimate the flexural capacity of reinforced concrete-filled composite plate shear walls using an optimized computational intelligence model. The proposed model was developed and validated based on 47 laboratory data points and the Transit Search (TS) optimization algorithm. Using 80% of the experimental dataset, the optimized model was selected by determining the unknown coefficients of...
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The literature review on boundary conditions of use for non-residential buildings
PublicationThis paper describes the results of qualitative and quantitative literature reviews on boundary conditions within educational buildings, emphasising the users' perspective. The reviews were performed before and during the COVID-19 pandemic using Scopus, Taylor& Francis, Web of Science databases. The boundary conditions understood as special characteristics for use and or precondition, determining specific features of buildings...
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The literature review on boundary conditions of use for non-residential buildings. Educational buildings.
PublicationThis paper describes the results of qualitative and quantitative literature reviews on boundary conditions within educational buildings, emphasising the users' perspective. The studies were performed before and during the COVID-19 pandemic using Scopus, Taylor& Francis, and Web of Science databases. The boundary conditions are understood as special characteristics for use and or precondition, determining specific features of...
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Study on VR Application Efficiency of Selected Android OS Mobile Devices
PublicationCurrently, the number of scenarios for using VR (Virtual Reality) technology grows every year. Yet, there are still issues associated with it, related with the performance of the mobile device itself. The aim of this work is to perform an analysis of the effectiveness of virtual reality applications in case of mobile platforms. We put the main emphasis on examining the performance and efficiency of four different hardware and software...
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Completeness and Consistency of the System Requirement Specification
PublicationAlthough the System Requirement Specification, as a first formal and detailed document, is the base for the software project in classic software methodologies, there is a noticeable problem of assuring the completeness of this document. The lack of its completeness causes uncertainty of the project foundations. This was one of motivations for agile methodologies – if the SRS cannot be easily validated, if it can change in late project...
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Depth Images Filtering In Distributed Streaming
PublicationIn this paper, we propose a distributed system for point cloud processing and transferring them via computer network regarding to effectiveness-related requirements. We discuss the comparison of point cloud filters focusing on their usage for streaming optimization. For the filtering step of the stream pipeline processing we evaluate four filters: Voxel Grid, Radial Outliner Remover, Statistical Outlier Removal and Pass Through....
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Maria Kamińska mgr
People2008 - 2009Studia Podyplomowe - Broker InformacjiWydział Zarządzania i Komunikacji Społecznejna Uniwersytecie Jagiellońskim1978 - 1982Wydział Filologiczny na Uniwersytecie Łódzkim,Bibliotekoznawstwo i Informacja Naukowa _ Autorka publikacji z zakresu infobrokerstwa, twóczyni serwisu dziedzinowego o kontrolowanej jakości ©Wikidot EKOLOGICZNY (polecany m.in. przez BazTOL). Trener/Wykładowca - projekt szkoleniowy „Bibliotekarz...
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Data on LEGO sets release dates and retail prices combined with aftermarket transaction prices between June 2018 and June 2023.
Open Research DataThe dataset contains LEGO bricks sets item count and pricing history for AI-based set pricing prediction.
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Interactive Information Retrieval Algorithm for Wikipedia Articels
PublicationThe article presents an algorithm for retrieving textual information in documents collection. The algorithm employs a category system that organizers the repository and using interaction with user improves search precision. The algorithm was implemented for simple English Wikipedia and the first evaluation results indicates the proposed method can help to retrieve information from large document repositories.
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Anna Sobolewska mgr
PeopleBiogram Anna Sobolewska pracuje w Bibliotece Politechniki Gdańskiej w Sekcji Budowy Zbiorów Cyfrowych i Multimedialnych na stanowisku starszego bibliotekarza. Ukończyła studia na Wydziale Historycznym Uniwersytetu Mikołaja Kopernika, na kierunku Bibliotekoznawstwo i Informacja Naukowa. W Bibliotece Politechniki Gdańskiej zajmuje się zbiorami zabytkowymi, ich katalogowaniem zarówno formalnym jak i przedmiotowym, ich udostępnianiem...
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Self Organizing Maps for Visualization of Categories
PublicationVisualization of Wikipedia categories using Self Organizing Mapsshows an overview of categories and their relations, helping to narrow down search domains. Selecting particular neurons this approach enables retrieval of conceptually similar categories. Evaluation of neural activations indicates that they form coherent patterns that may be useful for building user interfaces for navigation over category structures.
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Data visualization of marine objects on digital maps
PublicationThe paper presents the implementation of two multithreaded applications for data visualization of marine objects written in C#, designed to run on operator consoles with 32-bit or 64-bit Windows 7 OS. The article describes the most important functionality and features of the developed C# .NET user controls for data visualization on digital maps and in the configurable tables.
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Angażujący wykład z Mentimeter – warsztat stacjonarny
EventsCNE zaprasza na stacjonarne warsztaty do Sali Kreatywnej w Hydromechanice. Będziemy projektować wykłady w Mentimeter. Na warsztat obowiązują zapisy (link na stronie cne.pg.edu.pl). Szkolenie będzie transmitowane.
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TRWAŁOŚĆ PROJEKTU ERASMUS+ SP4CE - STUDIUM PRZYPADKU
PublicationProjekt ERASMUS+ Partnerstwo Strategiczne na Rzecz Kreatywności i Przedsiębiorczości (ang. Strategic Partnership for Creativity and Entrepreneurship - SP4CE) dotyczył wdrażania i upowszechniania innowacyjnych rozwiązań wzmacniających współpracę europejską w dziedzinie kształcenia i szkolenia zawodowego. Działania projektowe były związane z promowaniem innowacyjnych praktyk w edukacji oraz szkoleniach poprzez wspieranie spersonalizowanych...
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Neural Approximators for Variable-Order Fractional Calculus Operators (VO-FC)
PublicationThe paper presents research on the approximation of variable-order fractional operators by recurrent neural networks. The research focuses on two basic variable-order fractional operators, i.e., integrator and differentiator. The study includes variations of the order of each fractional operator. The recurrent neural network architecture based on GRU (Gated Recurrent Unit) cells functioned as a neural approximation for selected...
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Self-Supervised Learning to Increase the Performance of Skin Lesion Classification
PublicationTo successfully train a deep neural network, a large amount of human-labeled data is required. Unfortunately, in many areas, collecting and labeling data is a difficult and tedious task. Several ways have been developed to mitigate the problem associated with the shortage of data, the most common of which is transfer learning. However, in many cases, the use of transfer learning as the only remedy is insufficient. In this study,...
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Diagnosing wind turbine condition employing a neural network to the analysis of vibroacoustic signals
PublicationIt is important from the economic point of view to detect damage early in the wind turbines before failures occur. For this purpose, a monitoring device was built that analyzes both acoustic signals acquired from the built-in non-contact acoustic intensity probe, as well as from the accelerometers, mounted on the internal devices in the nacelle. The signals collected in this way are used for long-term training of the autoencoder...
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Justyna Płotka-Wasylka dr hab. inż.
PeopleUrodziła się w Słupsku (24.03.1986).W 2005 roku ukończyła I Liceum Ogólnokształcące im. Jana II Sobieskiego w Wejherowie i rozpoczęła studia na Wydziale Chemicznym Politechniki Gdańskiej. Po ich ukończeniu w 2010 rozpoczęła pracę naukową na tej uczelni, uzyskując w 2014 roku stopień doktora nauk chemicznych. Tematem jej rozprawy doktorskiej, wykonywanej pod kierunkiem prof. Marka Biziuka oraz dr Caluma Morrisona (Uniwersytet w...
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Podejście środowiskowe w dydaktyce projektowania Sustainable approach in teaching of design
PublicationThe aim of the paper is to assess the inclusion of academic teaching design to the process of sustainable development and proposals for an integrated approach in training architects. The article presents an original interpretation of environmental design in the field of architecture and urban planning. The significance of the environmental perspective is presented in the context of growing spatial and social fragmentation. The...
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Utilization of fuzzy rules in computer character animation
PublicationThe chapter presents a method for automatic enhancement of computer character animation utilizing fuzzy inference. First the user designs a prototype version of animation, with keyframes only for important poses, roughly describing the action. Then animation is enriched with new motion phases calculated by the fuzzy inference system using descriptors given by the user. Various degrees of motion fluency and naturalness are possible...
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Things You Might Not Know about the k-Nearest Neighbors Algorithm
PublicationRecommender Systems aim at suggesting potentially interesting items to a user. The most common kind of Recommender Systems is Collaborative Filtering which follows an intuition that users who liked the same things in the past, are more likely to be interested in the same things in the future. One of Collaborative Filtering methods is the k Nearest Neighbors algorithm which finds k users who are the most similar to an active user...
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DEPTH IMAGES FILTERING IN DISTRIBUTED STREAMING
PublicationIn this paper we discuss the comparison of point cloud filters focusing on their applicability for streaming optimization. For the filtering stage within a stream pipeline processing we evaluate three filters: Voxel Grid, Pass Through and Statistical Outlier Removal. For the filters we perform series of the tests aiming at evaluation of changes of point cloud size and transmitting frequency (various fps ratio). We propose a distributed...
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Plasma models, contribution matrix for detector setup and generated projections for plasma emissivity reconstruction in fusion devices
Open Research DataThe original plasma models for fusion devices, together with the complementary detector setup in the form of a contribution matrix and generated projections. Samples are packed inside a Plasma Tomography Format (PTF) files which is a part of the Plasma Tomography in Fusion Devices Python package, and inside the general JSON format. The constructed dataset...
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Z punktu widzenia uzytkownika.
PublicationW artykule przedstawiono wspólczesne podejscia stosowane w zakresie zapewnienia jakosci uzytkowej oprogramowania i uslug interaktywnych. Omowiono projektowanie zorientowane na uzytkownika (UCD - User Centred Design) jako widodacy kierunek w zapewnieniu satysfakcji uzytkownika koncowego oraz dokonano przegladu technik projektowo-ewaluacyjnych stosowanych w tym zakresie.
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Usability Techniques Possible to Use in Diagnostic Tools Interface Improvement
PublicationThe development of diagnostic tools has caused a rapid increase in the amount of information generated and presented, necessitating the use of computer displays as an interface to data presentation and the use of modern diagnostic tools. The paper presents methods for testing usability that can be used in designing and improving the quality of interfaces of modern diagnostic tools that use communication through graphical user interfaces.
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FEEDB: A multimodal database of facial expressions and emotions
PublicationIn this paper a first version of a multimodal FEEDB database of facial expressions and emotions is presented. The database contains labeled RGB-D recordings of people expressing a specific set of expressions that have been recorded using Microsoft Kinect sensor. Such a database can be used for classifier training and testing in face recognition as well as in recognition of facial expressions and human emotions. Also initial experiences...
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Developing competences for cooperation in international teams - tools and methods
PublicationThe article presents the training methods that can be used to develop intercultural competences which are extremely important while working in intercultural teams. The mentioned methods like: case-studies, collaborating, role-play simulations, team working, video presentations and others are presented on the basis of authors’ experiences while teaching the international groups of students at Faculty of Management and Economics...
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Emotion Recognition and Its Applications
PublicationThe paper proposes a set of research scenarios to be applied in four domains: software engineering, website customization, education and gaming. The goal of applying the scenarios is to assess the possibility of using emotion recognition methods in these areas. It also points out the problems of defining sets of emotions to be recognized in different applications, representing the defined emotional states, gathering the data and...
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Kolekcja muzyczna Kazimierza Czekotowskiego (1901-1972) w zbiorach Biblioteki Głównej Akademii Muzycznej im. Stanisława Moniuszki w Gdańsku
PublicationThe Main Library of Stanisław Moniuszko Academy of Music in Gdansk gathers and stores many collections submitted by different people, especially by the pedagogues of the Academy. One of them is a collection of notes used in artistic work and maybe in vocal teaching by the outstanding Polish singer Kazimierz Czekotowski. The article describes the contents of the collection, particularly the items concerning composers and publishers....
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Isolation of the GFA1 gene encoding glucosamine-6-phosphate synthase of Sporothrix schenckii and its expression in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
PublicationGlucosamine-6-phosphate synthase (GlcN-6-P synthase) is an essential enzyme involved in cell wall biogenesis that has been proposed as a strategic target for antifungal chemotherapy. Here we describe the cloning and functional characterization of Sporothrix schenckii GFA1 gene which was isolated from a genomic library of the fungus. The gene encodes a predicted protein of 708 amino acids that is homologous to GlcN-6-P synthases...