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Beckerle, Mary C. | LIM proteins in actin cytoskeleton mechanoresponse | The actin cytoskeleton assembles into branched networks or bundles to generate mechanical force for critical cellular processes such as establishment of polarity, adhesion, and migration. Stress fibers are contractile, actomyosin structures that physically couple to the extracellular matrix through ... | | 2014-01-01 |
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Minteer, Shelley D. | Characterizing efficiency of multi-Enzyme cascade-based biofuel cells by product analysis | The performance of biofuel cells with enzyme cascades have normally been characterized with open circuit potential, power density, and current density measurements. In this work, we demonstrate that with the method of quantitative product analysis by mass spectrometry, we can obtain other valuable i... | | 2014-01-01 |
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Minteer, Shelley D. | Controlled placement of enzymes on carbon nanotubes using comb-branched DNA | Immobilization is not only useful for preserving enzyme activity, but also to adhere an enzyme to a surface, such as an electrode, so that the enzyme does not leach into solution during testing. Current immobilization approaches do not readily allow for adjustments to the distance between the enzyme... | | 2014-01-01 |
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Bowling, David R. | Ecological processes dominate the 13C land disequilibrium in a Rocky Mountain subalpine forest | Fossil fuel combustion has increased atmospheric CO2 by ≈ 115 μmol mol1 since 1750 and decreased its carbon isotope composition (δ13C) by 1.7-2‰(the 13C Suess effect). Because carbon is stored in the terrestrial biosphere for decades and longer, the δ13C of CO2 released by terrestrial ecosyst... | | 2014-01-01 |
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Bohs, Lynn A. | Phylogeny of the carolinense clade of solanum (Solanaceae) inferred from nuclear and plastid DNA sequences | The large and economically important genus Solanum contains ca. 1,400 species distributed worldwide. One of the 12-14 major clades identified in the genus is the Leptostemonum clade, or the "spiny solanums." Previous molecular phylogenetic studies have identified 14 major clades in the spiny solanum... | | 2014-01-01 |
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Poulter, Charles Dale | Predicting the functions and specificity of triterpenoid synthases: a mechanism-based multi-intermediate docking approach | Terpenoid synthases construct the carbon skeletons of tens of thousands of natural products. To predict functions and specificity of triterpenoid synthases, a mechanism-based, multi-intermediate docking approach is proposed. In addition to enzyme function prediction, other potential applications of ... | | 2014-01-01 |
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Saam, Brian | Comment on: New limit on lorentz-invariance- and CPT-violating neutron spin interactions using a free-spin-precession 3He- 129Xe comagnetometer | In Ref. [1], the authors use a classical result for the magnetic field created by a uniform magnetization to analyze the effects of magnetic interactions between 3He and 129Xe nuclear spins. We point out that the classical result is not applicable for interaction between nuclear spins: the actual in... | | 2014-01-01 |
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Bromley, Benjamin C. | Predicted space motions for hypervelocity and runaway stars: proper motions and radial velocities for the GAIA Era | We predict the distinctive three dimensional space motions of hypervelocity stars (HVSs) and runaway stars moving in a realistic Galactic potential. For nearby stars with distances less than 10 kpc, unbound stars are rare; proper motions alone rarely isolate bound HVSs and runaways from indigenous h... | | 2014-01-01 |
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Bowling, David R. | Impacts of anthropogenic emissions and cold air pools on urban to montane gradients of snowpack ion concentrations in the Wasatch Mountains, Utah | Urban montane valleys are often characterized by periodic wintertime temperature inversions (cold air pools) that increase atmospheric particulate matter concentrations, potentially stimulating the deposition of major ions to these snow-covered ecosystems. We assessed spatial and temporal patterns o... | | 2014-01-01 |
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Poulter, Charles Dale | Tetartohedral twinning in IDI-2 from Thermus thermophilus: crystallization under anaerobic conditions | Type-2 isopentenyl diphosphate isomerase (IDI-2) is a key flavoprotein involved in the biosynthesis of isoprenoids. Since fully reduced flavin mononucleotide (FMNH2) is needed for activity, it was decided to crystallize the enzyme under anaerobic conditions in order to understand how this reduced co... | | 2014-01-01 |
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Morse, Michael David | Rotational analysis of the 30 1 band of the Ã6Σ+ ← X̃6Σ + system of CrCCH | The spectrum of chromium acetylide, CrCCH, has been investigated in the near-infrared region (10 500-14 500 cm−1) and an intense band system is observed. The 310 band of this system has been investigated at high resolution (0.025 cm−1) and this system is identified as the ˜A6 + ← ˜X6 + syste... | | 2014-01-01 |
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Armentrout, Peter B. | Theoretical investigation and reinterpretation of the decomposition of lithiated proline and N-Methyl Proline | Lithium cation complexes of proline (Pro) and N-methyl proline (NMP) have been collisionally activated with xenon in a guided ion beam tandem mass spectrometer (GIBMS). In addition to the loss of the intact ligand, Pro and NMP, we observed two prominent fragmentation pathways involving the loss of (... | | 2014-01-01 |
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Rogachev, Andrey | Observation of shot noise in phosphorescent organic light-emitting diodes | We employed a cross correlation method to study current noise in phosphorescent organic light-emitting diodes. The noise spectra revealed two frequency-dependent components. The first component displays 1/ f 1.3 dependence and correlates with the light emission of the devices. The second component i... | | 2014-01-01 |
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Jorgensen, Erik | Interferometric localization microscopy | Interference of signal in Fourier space, emitted from single probes, is used to localize it by recording and computing the phase of the fringes. Such system has applications in super resolution localization microscopy. | | 2014-01-01 |
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Williams, Clayton C. | Atomic scale trap state characterization by dynamic tunneling force microscopy | Dynamic tunneling force microscopy (DTFM) is applied to the study of point defects in an inter-layer dielectric film. A recent development enables simultaneous acquisition of DTFM, surface potential, and topographic images while under active height feedback control. The images show no clear correlat... | | 2014-01-01 |
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Gondolo, Paolo | Wanted! Nuclear data for dark matter astrophysics | Astronomical observations from small galaxies to the largest scales in the universe can be consistently explained by the simple idea of dark matter. The nature of dark matter is however still unknown. Empirically it cannot be any of the known particles, and many theories postulate it as a new elemen... | | 2014-01-01 |
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Minteer, Shelley D. | Nickel cysteine complexes as anodic electrocatalysts for fuel cells | Compared to platinum, nickel is an inexpensive catalyst that can oxidize methanol in alkaline media. There is a desire to increase nickel loading during electrodeposition for improved performance. In this paper, a nickel cysteine complex (NiCys) is used as the precursor for electrodeposition on glas... | | 2014-01-01 |
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Mishchenko, Eugene | Equilibrium currents in chiral systems with nonzero Chern number | We describe a simple quantum-mechanical approach to calculating equilibrium particle current along the edge of a system with nontrivial band spectrum topology. The approach does not require any a priori knowledge of the band topology and, as a matter of fact, treats topological and nontopological co... | | 2014-01-01 |
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Farmer, Colleen G. | Unidirectional pulmonary airflow patterns in the savannah monitor lizard | The unidirectional airflow patterns in the lungs of birds have long been considered a unique and specialized trait associated with the oxygen demands of flying, their endothermic metabolism1 and unusual pulmonary architecture2,3. However, the discovery of similar flow patterns in the lungs of crocod... | | 2014-02-20 |
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Gondolo, Paolo | Axion cold dark matter in view of BICEP2 results | The properties of axions that constitute 100% of cold dark matter (CDM) depend on the tensor-to-scalar ratio r at the end of inflation. If r ¼ 0.20 þ0.07 −0.05 as reported by the BICEP2 Collaboration, then "half" of the CDM axion parameter space is ruled out. Namely, in the context of single-fie... | | 2014-01-01 |
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Hughes, Kelly T. | The effects of codon context on in vivo translation speed | We developed a bacterial genetic system based on translation of the his operon leader peptide gene to determine the relative speed at which the ribosome reads single or multiple codons in vivo. Low frequency effects of so-called ‘‘silent'' codon changes and codon neighbor (context) effects could... | | 2014-01-01 |
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Armentrout, Peter B. | The bond energy of ReO+: Guided ion-beam and theoretical studies of the reaction of Re+ (7S) with O2 | The kinetic-energy dependence of the Re+ + O2 reaction is examined using guided ion-beam mass spectrometry. The cross section for ReO+ formation from ground state Re+ (7S) is unusual, exhibiting two endothermic features. The kinetic energy dependence for ReO+ formation is analyzed to determine D0(Re... | | 2013-01-01 |
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Beckerle, Mary C. | Mathematical modeling of the dynamic mechanical behavior of neighboring sarcomeres in actin stress fibers | Actin stress fibers (SFs) in live cells consist of series of dynamic individual sarcomeric units. Within a group of consecutive SF sarcomeres, individual sarcomeres can spontaneously shorten or lengthen without changing the overall length of this group, but the underlying mechanism is unclear. We us... | | 2014-01-01 |
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Adler, Frederick R. | Deconvolution of isotope signals from bundles of multiple hairs | Segmental analysis of hair has been used in diverse fields ranging from forensics to ecology to measure the concentration of substances such as drugs and isotopes. Multiple hairs are typically combined into a bundle for segmental analysis to obtain a high-resolution series of measurements. Individua... | | 2014-01-01 |
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Armentrout, Peter B. | Fifty years of ion and neutral thermochemistry by mass spectrometry | Originating with the appearance potentials for "positive rays", the ability of mass spectrometry to obtain quantitative information about the energetics of both ions and neutrals has evolved dramatically. About 50 years ago, many of the techniques that are now common place were first implemented, th... | | 2014-01-01 |
