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The cell walls of pteridophytes and other green plants - a review

Popper, Zoë A. (British Pteridological Society, 2006-12-22)

The cell wall is one of the defining characteristics of plants and is a fundamental component in normal growth and development. Cell wall composition is a potentially valuable source of phylogenetic information as notable ...

A census of human soluble protein complexes

Yang, Haixuan (Elsevier, 2012-08-11)

Cellular processes often depend on stable physical associations between proteins. Despite recent progress, knowledge of the composition of human protein complexes remains limited. To close this gap, we applied an integrative ...

Ceratopteris richardii (C-Fern): a model for investigating adaptive modification of vascular plant cell walls

Leroux, Olivier; Eeckhout, Sharon; Viane, Ronald L. L.; Popper, Zoë A. (Frontiers Media, 2013-09-23)

Plant cell walls are essential for most aspects of plant growth, development, and survival, including cell division, expansive cell growth, cell-cell communication, biomechanical properties, and stress responses. Therefore, ...

Chain transfer to solvent in the radical polymerization of structurally diverse acrylamide monomers using straight-chain and branched alcohols as solvents

Magee, Christopher; Sugihara, Yusuke; Zetterlund, Per B.; Aldabbagh, Fawaz (Royal Society of Chemistry, 2014-01-02)

Chain transfer to solvent in conventional radical polymerizations of N-tert-butylacrylamide (TBAM) and N-(2-morpholin-4-ylethyl) acrylamide (MEA) in a range of alcohol solvents is investigated. Mayo analysis of polymerization ...

Characterising the anisotropic mechanical properties of excised human skin

Ní Annaidh, Aisling; Destrade, Michel; Gilchrist, Michael D. (2012)

The mechanical properties of skin are important for a number of applications including surgery, dermatology, impact biomechanics and forensic science. In this study, we have investigated the influence of location and ...

Characteristic classes of complexified bundles

Rahm, Alexander D. (Summer School in Algebraic Topology: Sheaf theoretic methods in the theory of characteristic classes, 2007)

We examine the topological characteristic cohomology classes of complexified vector bundles . In particular, all the classes coming from real vector bundles are computed. We use characteristic classes with the ax-ioms of ...

Characterization of an extendable multi-leaf collimator for clinical electron beams

O'Shea, Tuathan P.; Foley, Mark J. (Institute of Physics, 2011)

An extendable x-ray multi-leaf collimator (eMLC) is investigated for collimation of electron beams on a linear accelerator. The conventional method of collimation using an electron applicator is impractical for conformal, ...

Charophytes: evolutionary giants and emerging model organisms

Domozych, David S.; Popper, Zoë A.; Sørensen, Iben (Frontiers Media, 2016-10-10)

Charophytes are the group of green algae whose ancestral lineage gave rise to land plants in what resulted in a profoundly transformative event in the natural history of the planet. Extant charophytes exhibit many features ...

Chemical, electrochemical and photochemical catalytic oxidation of water to dioxygen with mononuclear ru complexes

Roeser, Stephen; Farràs, Pau; Bozoglian, Fernando; Martínez, Marta; Benet-Buchholz, Jordi; Llobet, Antoni (Wiley, 2011-01-27)

Four new RuII[BOND]Cl and RuII[BOND]H2O complexes containing the meridional 2,2’:6’,2”-terpyridine (trpy) ligand and the chelating 2-(5-phenyl-1H-pyrazol-3-yl)pyridine (H3p) ligand of general formula in- and out-[RuII(tr ...

Circular polarization of synchrotron radiation in high magnetic fields

de Burca, Diarmaid; Shearer, Andrew (Oxford University Press, 2015-04-17)

The general model for incoherent synchrotron radiation has long been known, with the first theory being published by Westfold in 1959 and continued by Westfold and Legg in 1968. When this model was first developed, it was ...

Circularly-polarized plane waves in a deformed Hadamard material

Destrade, Michel (Elsevier, 2001-10-31)

Small-amplitude inhomogeneous plane waves propagating in any direction in a homogeneously deformed Hadamard material are considered. Conditions for circular polarization are established. The analysis relies on the use of ...

Cohomology of Coxeter arrangements and Solomon's descent algebra

Douglass, J. Matthew; Pfeiffer, Götz; Röhrle, Gerhard (American Mathematical Society, 2014-06-19)

We refine a conjecture by Lehrer and Solomon on the structure of the Orlik-Solomon algebra of a finite Coxeter group W and relate it to the descent algebra of W. As a result, we claim that both the group algebra of W and ...

Coiled coil type neoglycoproteins presenting three lactose residues

Sweeney, Sinclair M.; Bullen, Gemma A.; Gillis, Richard B.; Adams, Gary G.; Rowe, Arthur J.; Harding, Stephen E.; Tucker, James H.R.; Peacock, Anna F.A.; Murphy, Paul V. (Elsevier, 2016-02-06)

Scaffold design, synthesis and application are relevant for biomedical research. For example, multivalent interactions, such as those between cell surface glycoproteins and lectins can influence the potency and duration ...

A combined experimental and numerical study of stab-penetration forces

Ní Annaidh, Aisling; Cassidy, Mary; Curtis, Michael; Destrade, Michel; Gilchrist, Michael D. (Elsevier, 2013-12)

The magnitude of force used in a stabbing incident can be difficult to quantify, although the estimate given by forensic pathologists is often seen as 'critical' evidence in medico-legal situations. The main objective of ...

Combining glycocluster synthesis with protein engineering: an approach to probe into the significance of linker length in a tandem-repeat-type lectin (galectin-4)

Andre, Sabine; Wang, Guan-Nan; Gabius, Hans-Joachim; Murphy, Paul V. (Elsevier, 2014-05-07)

Complementarity in lectin-glycan interactions in situ is assumed to involve spatial features in both the lectin and the glycan, giving a functional meaning to structural aspects of the lectin beyond its carbohydrate-binding ...