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The ruins or the disappeared outnumber the survivors by several thousand to one.
NTPDases do not form phosphorylated intermediates during catalysis, a conclusion also supported by lack of vanadate sensitivity and Pi product inhibition [ 3 4 5 6 ] . The catalytic reaction appears to be irreversible and no partial reactions have been observed [ 7 8 ] . Divalent cations like Ca 2+or Mg 2+are required for activity, and maximal activity is reached when the concentrations of substrates and divalent cations are equal [ 1 ] . The specific activities of NTPDases vary over a broad range from ten thousand units for potato apyrase to less than one hundred units for chicken gizzard ecto-ATPase [ 9 10 ] . Sequence comparisons indicate that most of NTPDases contain five highly conserved regions, apyrase conserved region, ACR1 - ACR5 [ 9 11 ] . However, the catalytic sites have not been identified, although ACR1 and ACR4 have been implicated in β- and γ-phosphate binding, respectively [ 9 ] .
It was only when Penney provided aggregated reports via fax to account executives that a thousand vendors agreed.
These pairs generally have very different numbers of component sequences, ranging from only two to more than a few thousand sequences.
Three thousand loaves were shipped off anyway--the guards suspected a burglary, not a poisoning--and as a result some 2,000 of the 15,000 prisoners came down with food poisoning.