Views, Reviews, Redefining

Redefining our menu: Communications and Reviews

Our instructions to authors begin with a statement of the Journal's scope: " The Journal of General Physiology strives to publish original work of the highest quality that elucidates basic biological, chemical, or physical mechanisms of broad physiological significance " the interested prospective author, we suggest for your consideration the following samples. Regular Articles (e.g., Wang et a...

Reviews and Other Views

A review is presented of the p-process in Type II supernovae, one of its goals being to enlighten the changes in views on this nucleosynthesis mechanism since the work of Jean and Jim on the subject in 1975. Specific discussions are also devoted to cases of particular interest, like the light Mo and Ru stable isotopes, the rare nuclide 138 La or the radionuclide 146 Sm. Some comments of diverse...

Video views and reviews.

I could subtitle this feature “Kate’s Cool Video Clips” because the three Molecular Biology of the Cell (MBC) movies I review here were suggested by Kate Durda, a biology major at Colby College in Maine, who is compiling an index of MBC videos for ASCB. On a technical note, many of the video records I review in these features were obtained by “time-lapse photography”: that is, the images were c...

Running Head: Redefining Synaesthesia? Redefining Synaesthesia?

Views and Reviews Structure and Function of Profilin

Profilin is a ubiquitous actin monomer-binding protein, found in organisms from yeast to man. Biochemical studies indicate that profilin can regulate actin polymerization and have suggested some possible mechanisms. Early studies in Acanthamoebu, showing that profilin could reduce the rate and extent of actin polymerization, were consistent with a model in which free actin monomer is in equilib...