Protein phosphorylation and signal transduction.
It is now generally accepted that protein phosphorylation-dephosphorylation has a role in the regulation of essentially all cellular functions. Thus, it is of interest that this process is involved in signal transduction. Nonetheless, the extent to which protein phosphorylation participates in signaling is truly remarkable. Almost every known signaling pathway eventually impinges on a protein kinase, or in some instances, a protein phosphatase. The diversity of these enzymes is noteworthy, and it is of interest that many biotechnology companies are eyeing them as potentially important targets for drugs. Such drugs may have important therapeutic applications, and in any event, they certainly will be useful to investigators who study signal transduction. Indeed, this already has been proven to be true.
In this paper, we present a robust approach of automatic detection and recognition of road signs in national roads, starting from the images resulting from a video stream taken by a camera embarked on a vehicle. Our approach is composed of three main phases: the first phase is to extract video stream images containing a circle or a triangle. This extraction is performed respectively by Hough transformation and Ramer-Douglas-Peucker filter, the second phase consists of extraction areas of the calculated image, in the previous phase. In the third and last phase, we proceed to a matching of the extracted image areas with signs of reference by comparison of interest points extracted by the SURF method and the matching method FLANN.