https://www.selleckchem.com/products/voxtalisib-xl765-sar245409.html Research suggests that the electrophysiological correlates of consciousness are similar in hearing as in vision the auditory awareness negativity (AAN) and the late positivity (LP). However, from a recently proposed signal-detection perspective, these correlates may be confounded by performance, as the strength of the internal responses differs between aware and unaware trials. Here, we tried to apply this signal-detection approach to correct for performance in an auditory discrimination and detection task (N = 28). A large proportion of subjects had to be excluded because even a small response bias distorted the correction. For the remaining subjects, the correction mainly increased noise in the measurement. Furthermore, the signal-detection approach is theoretically problematic because it may isolate post-perceptual processes and eliminate awareness-related activity. Therefore, we conclude that AAN and LP are not confounded by performance and that the contrastive analysis identifies both as correlates of awareness.To improve the thermostability of r27RCL from Rhizopus chinensis and broaden its industrial applications, we used rational design (FoldX) according to ΔΔG calculation to predict mutations. Four thermostable variants S142A, D217V, Q239F, and S250Y were screened out and then combined together to generate a quadruple-mutation (S142A/D217V/Q239F/S250Y) variant, called m31. m31 exhibited enhanced thermostability with a 41.7-fold longer half-life at 60 °C, a 5 °C higher of topt, and 15.8 °C higher of T30 50 compared to that of r27RCL expressed in P. pastoris. Molecular dynamics simulations were conducted to analyze the mechanism of the thermostable mutant. The results indicated that the rigidity of m31 was improved due to the decreased solvent accessible surface area, a newly formed salt bridge of Glu292His171, and the increased ΔΔG of m31. According to the root-mean-square-fluctuation analys