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Here's why: Editors like to publish theories they find surprising.
It is not surprising that VO 2+can functionally replace Ca 2+in the hydrolysis of both ATP and ADP by soluble CD39, although the enzymatic activity is about 25% of that with Ca 2+as the cofactor, since F 1 -ATPase also hydrolyzes ATP at a decreased rate when VO 2+replaces Mg 2+ [ 21 ] .
The Washington Post and New York Times lead with the surprising result of Indonesia's first truly contested presidential election in nearly 50 years: the victory (in a vote taken in the national legislature, not among the general public) of a first-time office-holder, an aging, frail, and nearly blind Muslim cleric named Abdurrahman Wahid.
Their molecular properties were at first surprising: they proved to be antagonists of other signaling factors, mostly of bone morphogenetic proteins (BMPs) and also of WNT (a secreted protein homologous to the
This limited detection of SL1 is not surprising as both the poor processivity of reverse transcriptase and the positioning of the vector sequence primer near the beginning of the insert result in low representation of the initial 5' nucleotides of a transcript among EST collections.