In order to explore new more powerful ultrashort pulse laser and tunable laser for diode-pumping, this paper reports the growth and spectral assessment of Yb(3+)-doped KBaGd(MoO(4))(3) crystal. An Yb(3+):KBaGd(MoO(4))(3) crystal with dimensions of 50×40×9 mm(3) was grown by the TSSG method from the K(2)Mo(2)O(7) flux. The investigated spectral properties indicated that Yb(3+):KBaGd(MoO(4))(3) c...

Powders of Y2O3 co-doped with Yb3+ and Er3+ composed of well-crystallized nanoparticles (30 to 50 nm in diameter) with no adsorbed ligand species on their surface are prepared by polymer complex solution method. These powders exhibit up-conversion emission upon 978-nm excitation with a color that can be tuned from green to red by changing the Yb3+/Er3+ concentration ratio. The mechanism underly...

結晶性配位高分子（CCP）および多孔質なCCPであるMOFにおける金属イオン交換は，新たな機能性物質の合成法として有効である。CCPおよびMOFの結晶構造の柔軟性がイオン交換反応特性に大きく影響するはずであるが，これまでそのような議論はほとんどされてこなかった。本研究では，Ce3＋とビス（4-ニトロフェニル）リン酸が形成するCCP（CeL3）を合成し，CeL3中のCe3＋と水溶液中に過剰に存在するランタノイドイオン（Ln3＋; Ln3＋≠Ce3＋）の交換反応を調べた。原子番号が隣合うTm3＋とYb3＋で配位高分子中の金属イオンモル分率がおおよそ0と1になるという，原子番号に対して不連続に変化する極めて珍しい選択性序列を見出した。溶液条件次第では，Er3＋とYb3＋およびYb3＋とLu3＋で不連続な変化となった。CeL3でのイオン交換反応が進行するには，イオン交換反応によって生じる混合...

Members of the copper uptake transporter (CTR) family from yeast, plants, and mammals including human are required for cellular uptake of the essential metal copper. Based on biochemical data, CTRs have three transmembrane domains and have been shown to oligomerize in the membrane. Among individual members of the family, there is little amino acid sequence identity, raising questions as to how ...

Detecting the direction of visual movement is fundamental for every sighted animal in order to navigate, avoid predators, or detect conspecifics. Algorithmic models of correlation-type motion detectors describe the underlying computation remarkably well. They consist of two spatially separated input lines that are asymmetrically filtered in time and then interact in a nonlinear way. However, th...

Glutamate transporters in the brain remove the neurotransmitter from the synapse by cotransport with three sodium ions into the surrounding cells. Recent structural work on an archaeal homolog suggests that, during substrate translocation, the transport domain, including the peripheral transmembrane helix 3 (TM3), moves relative to the trimerization domain in an elevator-like process. Moreover,...

Trophoblast invasion likely depends on complex cross talk between the fetal and maternal tissues and may involve the modulation of phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase (PI3K)/AKT signaling activity in maternal decidual cells. In this report, we studied implantation in Pten(tm1Hwu/tm1Hwu);Amhr2(tm3(cre)Bhr/+) mice, which lack the PI3K signaling antagonist gene Pten in myometrial and stromal/decidual ce...

The influence of Eu3+ on the upconversion (UC) fluorescence of Er3+ in Y2O3:Er, Yb3+ nanocrystals was investigated. Room-temperature UC spectra show that the intensity ratio of red to green lights was increased from 8.6 to 19.3 with 1.0 mol% Eu3+ doping. Additionally, with the increase of Eu3+ ion concentration, the n values for both green and red UC emissions in Y2O3:Er, Yb3+ nanocrystals beco...

The experimental demonstration of a diode-pumped passively mode-locked femtosecond laser based on an Yb3+:CaGdAlO4 single crystal is reported. The oscillator is directly diode pumped by a high-brightness 5 W fiber coupled laser diode, and pulses are produced by use of a semiconductor saturable-absorber mirror. It permits the production of pulses as short as 47 fs at 1050 nm, which are to our kn...

Understanding how the multidrug resistance phenotype is manifest in human cancer cells will require inslajat into the mechanism of assembly, transmembrane topology, and Intracellular trafficking ofhuman P-glyco protein (MDR1). Previously, we showed that MDR1 amino terminus biogenesis occurred through an unexpected Interaction between novel topogenic sequence subtypes and that transmembrane topo...