The jasmonate-induced 60 kDa protein of barley exhibits N-glycosidase activity in vivo

AbstractUpon jasmonate treatment barley leaf segments express a putative ribosome-inactivating protein (JIP60). The influence of this protein on translation in planta has been analysed by using barley plants and tobacco plants transformed with a barley cDNA encoding JIP60. In both plant systems JIP60 exhibited N-glycosidase activity in vivo. The depurination of the 25S rRNA of tobacco and barley ribosomes led to accumulation of translationally inactive polysomes

Fragmented Self and Fragmented Responsibility: Pasiphae in Euripides\u2019 Cretans

This chapter analyses the particularly complex representation of responsibility and selfhood present in the speech of Pasiphae in Euripides\u2019 Cretans, in which the queen defends her act of falling in love with the bull. The chapter shows how Pasiphae is able to dissociate herself completely from her past actions by appealing to divine intervention, the role of her husband Minos, and an understanding of human morality and motivation that is rooted in hedonistic principles. Pasiphae\u2019s defence thus relies on a concept of the fragmentation of the self that reveals her as one of Euripides\u2019 most philosophically sophisticated female speakers