The membrane-interacting abilities of three sequences representing the putative fusogenic subdomain of the Ebola virus transmembrane protein have been investigated. In the presence of calcium, the sequence EBO(GE) (GAAIGLAWIPYFGPAAE) efficiently fused unilamellar vesicles composed of phosphatidylcholine, phosphatidylethanolamine, cholesterol, and phosphatidylinositol (molar ratio, 2:1:1:0.5), a...

The removal of the 5' cap structure by the DCP1-DCP2 decapping complex irreversibly commits eukaryotic mRNAs to degradation. In human cells, the interaction between DCP1 and DCP2 is bridged by the Ge-1 protein. Ge-1 contains an N-terminal WD40-repeat domain connected by a low-complexity region to a conserved C-terminal domain. It was reported that the C-terminal domain interacts with DCP2 and m...

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Plant breeding has a long history of developing varieties with desirable traits in response to the needs of both growers and consumers. Although the bases for most of these traits are not known genetically or biochemically, conventional breeding combines these multiple traits to create new hybrids and stable varieties that are safe and not generally subject to safety assessment. With the advent...

Reaction of [GeCl(2)(dioxane)] with [18]aneS(6) (1,4,7,10,13,16-hexathiacyclooctadecane) gives the neutral [GeCl(2)([18]aneS(6))] which forms a supramolecular sheet network involving exocyclic coordination, with the macrocycles bridging Ge atoms which are in a pseudo-trigonal bipyramidal environment from two Cl and two S atoms (saw-horse), with one lone pair assumed to occupy the remaining equa...

As the number of systems which offer annotations on digital documents increases, robust anchoring of annotations is a key challenge. It is especially important if the annotator lacks write-access to the document being annotated. For example, if someone makes an annotation on a web page today and the web page changes tomorrow, what happens to the annotation? One approach is simply to “orphan” th...

A model describing the anisotropic electron mobility in strained Si has been developed. Our analytical model includes the effect of strain-induced splitting of the conduction band valleys in Si, inter-valley scattering, and doping dependence. Monte Carlo simulations were performed to verify the results for the complete range of Ge contents and for a general orientation of the SiGe buffer. Our m...

Holes in nanowires have drawn significant attention recent years because of the strong spin-orbit interaction, which plays an important role constructing Majorana zero modes and manipulating qubits. Here, from strongly anisotropic leakage current spin blockade regime for a double dot, we extract full g-tensor find that field is plane with azimuthal angle 59{\deg} to axis nanowire. The direction...