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    • Calixarene-mediated assembly of a small antifungal protein 

      Alex, Jimi M.; Rennie, Martin L.; Engilberge, Sylvain; Lehoczki, Gábor; Dorottya, Hajdu; Fizil, Ádám; Batta, Gyula; Crowley, Peter B. (International Union of Crystallography, 2019-02-05)
      Synthetic macrocycles such as calixarenes and cucurbiturils are increasingly applied as mediators of protein assembly and crystallization. The macrocycle can facilitate assembly by providing a surface on which two or more ...

    • Carboxylic acids production and electrosynthetic microbial community evolution under different CO2 feeding regimes 

      Dessì, Paolo; Sánchez, Carlos; Mills, Simon; Cocco, Francesco Giuseppe; Isipato, Marco; Ijaz, Umer Z.; Collins, Gavin; Lens, Piet N.L. (Elsevier, 2020-10-15)
      Microbial electrosynthesis (MES) is a potential technology for CO2 recycling, but insufficient information is available on the microbial interactions underpinning electrochemically-assisted reactions. In this study, a MES ...

    • Catastrophic thinning of dielectric elastomers 

      Zurlo, G.; Destrade, Michel; DeTommasi, M.; Puglisi, G. (American Physical Society, 2017-02-15)
      We provide an energetic insight into the catastrophic nature of thinning instability in soft electroactive elastomers. This phenomenon is a major obstacle to the development of giant actuators, yet it is neither completely ...

    • Cell complexes database for the Bianchi groups 

      Rahm, Alexander D. (NUI Galway, 2016-05-18)
      This is a database of quotients by Bianchi groups of two-dimensional cellular equivariant retracts of Hyperbolic three-space. The Bianchi groups SL(2, A), with A the ring of integers in the imaginary quadratic number field ...

    • Cell culture media analysis using rapid spectroscopic methods 

      Ryder, Alan G. (Elsevier, 2018-09-24)
      Cell culture media (CCM) used in industrial biotechnology are complex mixtures of molecules and elements that are inherently difficult to analyze comprehensively. CCM quality analysis is of utmost importance for efficient ...

    • Cell cycle-dependent formation of Cdc45-Claspin complexes in human cells is compromized by UV-mediated DNA damage 

      Broderick, Ronan; Rainey, Michael D.; Santocanale, Corrado; Nasheuer, Heinz-Peter (Wiley, 2013-08-02)
      The replication factor Cdc45 has essential functions in the initiation and elongation steps of eukaryotic DNA replication and plays an important role in the intra-S-phase checkpoint. Its interactions with other replication ...

    • Cell cycle-dependent mobility of Cdc45 determined in vivo by fluorescence correlation spectroscopy 

      Broderick, Ronan; Ramadurai, Sivaramakrishnan; Tóth, Katalin; Togashi, Denisio M.; Ryder, Alan G.; Langowski, Jörg; Nasheuer, Heinz-Peter (Public Library of Science, 2012-04-19)
      Eukaryotic DNA replication is a dynamic process requiring the co-operation of specific replication proteins. We measured the mobility of eGFP-Cdc45 by Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy (FCS) in vivo in asynchronous ...

    • Cell cycle-dependent mobility of Cdc45 in living cells determined by fluorescence correlation spectroscopy. 

      Broderick, Ronan; Ramadurai, Sivaramakrishnan; Togashi, Denisio M.; Ryder, Alan G.; Langowski, Jorg (Public Library of Science, 2012)
      Eukaryotic DNA replication is a dynamic process requiring the co-operation of specific replication proteins. We measured the mobility of eGFP-Cdc45 by Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy (FCS) in vivo in asynchronous ...

    • Cell wall evolution and diversity 

      Fangel, Jonatan U.; Ulvskov, Peter; Knox, J. P.; Mikkelsen, Maria Dalgaard; Harholt, Jesper; Popper, Zoë A.; Willats, William G. T. (Frontiers Media, 2012-07-06)
      Plant cell walls display a considerable degree of diversity in their compositions and molecular architectures. In some cases the functional significance of a particular cell wall type appears to be easy to discern: secondary ...

    • 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 ...

    • Cephalopod recipes 2021: 21 recipes for octopus, cuttlefish and squid from Spain, France, Ireland and Portugal 

      Roumbedakis, C.; Amiero, J.; Pita, C.; Longo, C.; Montero, C.; Mendes, R.; Matos, F.; Monteiro, S.; Larivain, A.; Davoren, Sadie; O'Leary, A.; Lago, R.; Romón, J.; Pierce, G. J.; Power, Anne Marie (Cephs and Chefs (Interreg Atlantic Area Community Engagement Publications), 2021)
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    • 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 glyphosate exposures among amenity horticulturists using multiple spot urine samples 

      Connolly, Alison; Basinas, Ioannis; Jones, Kate; Galea, Karen S.; Kenny, Laura; McGowan, Padraic; Coggins, Marie A. (Elsevier, 2018-07-08)
      Background Glyphosate has recently received much public attention following its Group 2A probably carcinogenic to humans classification from the International Agency for Research on Cancer. Despite the widespread ...

    • 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 amplified piezoelectric actuator for multiple reference optical coherence tomography 

      O'Gorman, Sean; Neuhaus, Kai; Alexandrov, Sergey; Hogan, Josh; Wilson, Carol; McNamara, Paul M.; Leahy, Martin (Optica, 2018-08-30)
      The characterization of an amplified piezoelectric actuator (APA) as a new axial scanning method for multiple-reference optical coherence tomography (MR-OCT) is described. MR-OCT is a compact optical imaging device based ...

    • 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, ...

    • Characterization of Lysozyme PEGylation products using polarized Excitation Emission Matrix (pEEM) spectroscopy 

      de Faria E Silva, Ana Luiza; Elcoroaristizabal, Saioa; Ryder, Alan G. (Wiley, 2020-07-07)
      The growing use of therapeutic proteins requires accurate measurement techniques for measuring biophysical and structural changes during manufacturing. This is particularly true for PEGylation of proteins, because ...