Editorial: Weak Interactions in Molecular Machinery

Weak Molecular Interactions in Clathrin-Mediated Endocytosis

Clathrin-mediated endocytosis is a process by which specific molecules are internalized from the cell periphery for delivery to early endosomes. The key stages in this step-wise process, from the starting point of cargo recognition, to the later stage of assembly of the clathrin coat, are dependent on weak interactions between a large network of proteins. This review discusses the structural an...

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Weak Interactions*

Electromagnetism in Nonleptonic Weak Interactions *

We construct a low-energy effective field theory that permits the complete treatment of isospin-breaking effects in nonleptonic weak interactions to next-to-leading order. To this end, we enlarge the chiral Lagrangian describing strong and ∆S = 1 weak interactions by including electromagnetic terms with the photon as additional dynamical degree of freedom. The complete and minimal list of local...

Multisphalerons in the Weak Interactions

We construct multisphaleron solutions in the weak interactions. The multisphaleron solutions carry Chern-Simons charge n/2, where n is an integer. The well-known sphaleron has n = 1 and is spherically symmetric for vanishing mixing angle. In contrast the multisphalerons with n > 1 are only axially symmetric, even for vanishing mixing angle. The greater n, the stronger the energy density deforms...