The Shugoshin (Sgo) protein family helps to ensure proper chromosome segregation by protecting cohesion at the centromere by preventing cleavage of the cohesin complex. Some Sgo proteins also influence other aspects of kinetochore-microtubule attachments. Although many Sgo members require Aurora B kinase to localize to the centromere, factors controlling delocalization are poorly understood and...

Ultrafast charge delocalization dynamics in an internal donor-acceptor copolymer poly(9,9-dioctylfluorenyl-co-bithiophene) (F8T2) and its blend with the fullerene derivative [6,6]-phenyl C61 butyric acid methyl ester (PCBM) was studied by resonant Auger spectroscopy measured around sulfur K-edge using the core-hole clock approach. The effect of thermal annealing on the charge transfer delocaliz...

We study delocalization transition in a one-dimensional electron system with quenched disorder by using supersymmetric (SUSY) methods. Especially we focus on effects of nonlocal correlation of disorder, for most of studies given so far considered δ-function type white noise disorder. We obtain wave function of the “lowest-energy” state which dominates partition function in the limit of large sy...

The influence of several substituents on the ring-opening elementary step of cyclobutene-like systems is analyzed computationally in detail. We focus on trans-1,2-disiloxycyclobutene-like molecules. Electronic effects (hyperconjugation and π delocalization) and geometrical constraints are decoupled and allow for an instructive analysis. It is found that the energy difference between closed and ...

Within the framework of density functional theory approach, we studied relationship between chemical nature intramolecular hydrogen bonds (HBs) and nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) parameters, J-couplings 1H-chemical shifts [δ(1H)], atoms involved in such o-hydroxyaryl Schiff bases during proton transfer process. For first time, shape dependence degree covalence HBs on 1J(N–H), 1J(O–H), 2hJ(O–N...