We have shown that bicelles prepared from dilauryl phosphatidylcholine (DLPC) and dipalmitoyl phosphatidylcholine (DPPC) align in a magnetic field under conditions similar to the more common dimyristoyl phosphatidylcholine (DMPC) bicelles. In addition, a model transmembrane peptide, P16, with a hydrophobic stretch of 24 A, and specific alanine-d(3) labels, was incorporated into all of the diffe...

Evidence demonstrating that configurations of polymers in the amorphous state are unperturbed by intermolecular interactions with neighboring chains is reviewed, with particular emphasis on recent results of neutron scattering by mixtures of deuterated and protonated species. Extension of this technique to larger angles than those required for determination of the radius of gryration establishe...

The insulin/interleukin-4 (IL-4) receptor (I4R) motif mediates the association of insulin receptor substrate (IRS)-2 with the interleukin-4 (IL-4)Ralpha chain and transduces mitogenic signals in response to IL-4. Its physiological functions were analyzed in mice with a germline point mutation that changed the motif's effector tyrosine residue into phenylalanine (Y500F). The Y500F mutation abrog...

A general theory for perturbations of an integrable planar map with a separatrix to a hyperbolic xed point has been developed in a previous lecture The splitting of the perturbed invariant curves was measured in rst order with respect to the parameter of perturbation by means of a periodic Melnikov function M de ned on the unperturbed separatrix In the case of planar twist maps M has zero mean ...

BACKGROUND The small molecule Eeyarestatin I (ESI) inhibits the endoplasmic reticulum (ER)-cytosol dislocation and subsequent degradation of ERAD (ER associated protein degradation) substrates. Toxins such as ricin and Shiga/Shiga-like toxins (SLTx) are endocytosed and trafficked to the ER. Their catalytic subunits are thought to utilise ERAD-like mechanisms to dislocate from the ER into the cy...

Two forms, α and β, are known for the racemic amino acid dl-me-thio-nine, C5H11NO2S. The phase transition between them, taking place around 326 K, is associated with sliding at the central inter-faces of the hydro-phobic regions in the crystal, leaving the hydrogen-bonding pattern unperturbed. For the high-temperature α phase, only a structure of rather low quality has been available [R factor ...

For piecewise expanding one-dimensional maps without periodic turning points we prove that isolated eigenvalues of small (random) perturbations of these maps are close to isolated eigenvalues of the unperturbed system. (Here “eigenvalue” means eigenvalue of the corresponding Perron-Frobenius operator acting on the space of functions of bounded variation.) This result applies e.g. to the approxi...

We use two-dimensional Brownian dynamics simulations to study the electrophoresis of a bead-rod chain through a narrow slit. A constant electric field is assumed to act inside and outside of the slit, and each bead on the chain is assigned a constant uniform charge. We calculate the dependence of the polymer transit velocity on chain length, slit dimensions (width-to-length ratio), and electric...