The ability to undergo polarised cell growth is fundamental to the development of almost all walled organisms. Fungi are characterised by yeasts and moulds, and both cellular forms have been studied extensively as tractable models of cell polarity. Chitin is a hallmark component of fungal cell walls. Chitin synthesis is essential for growth, viability and rescue from many conditions that impair...

Predictions of the number of faint polarised radio sources that can be detected by SKA pathfinder telescopes and the SKA depend on the polarisation properties of radio sources with a total flux density around 1 mJy. Total intensity source counts suggest a transition in the dominant population from AGN to galaxies around this flux density, and the properties of brighter radio sources may not be ...

While searching for potential candidate molecules relevant for the pathogenesis of endometriosis, we discovered a 2910 bp cDNA encoding a novel putative 411 amino acid integral membrane protein which we called shrew-1. The putative open-reading frame was confirmed with antibodies against shrew-1 peptides which labelled a protein of ca. 48 kDa in extracts of shrew-1 mRNA positive tissue and also...

Much of our knowledge about QCD and the structure of hadrons (mainly nucleons) has been gained from Deep Inelastic Scattering (DIS) experiments such as eN → eX or νN → μX . The (inclusive) cross sections are determined by structure functions F1 and F2 when summing over beam and target polarisations (and an additional F3 when using neutrino beams), and g1, g2 when both the beam and target are su...

Polarisation of cells is crucial for vectorial transport of ions and solutes. In literature, however, proteins specifically targeted to the apical or basolateral membrane are often studied in non-polarised cells. To investigate whether these data can be extrapolated to expression in polarised cells, we studied several membrane-specific proteins. In polarised MDCK cells, the Aquaporin-2 water ch...

This work describes the first observations of the ionisation of neon in a metastable atomic state utilising a strong-field, few-cycle light pulse. We compare the observations to theoretical predictions based on the Ammosov-Delone-Krainov (ADK) theory and a solution to the time-dependent Schrödinger equation (TDSE). The TDSE provides better agreement with the experimental data than the ADK theor...

The metal–molecule interface provides highly attractive fields that interact with each other, such as in charge transfer. However, little is known about the materials localised at the interface. Polarised Raman measurement represents an attractive research field related to metal surfaces. The polarised SERS signal has a highly polarised character because of the anisotropic EM feature on the met...