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Electrophoretic mobility of colloidal particles in salt-free media
It is shown that the electrophoretic mobility μ of dilute spherical colloidal particles of radius a, carrying charge Q in a salt-free medium...
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Equilibrium Structure of Dendrimers – Results and Open Questions
We review the problem of the structure of dendrimers in solution. Special emphasis is placed on recent theoretical work and computer simulations of...
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Discrete Organic Nanotubes Based on a Combination of Covalent and Non-Covalent Approaches
Tubular organic nanostructures offering precise control over inner and outer surface functionality represent attractive building blocks for the...
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Insect Chemical Defense
Research on the defensive chemistry of insects during the last decade is reviewed, with special emphasis on non-volatile compounds. The isolation and...
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Introduction: Regulatory processes, an emerging feature in intracellular membrane traffic
The subject of this volume is the molecular mechanism of the intracellular membrane trafficking, a central eukaryotic cell biological process. In the...
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Aminoglycoside–Nucleic Acid Interactions: The Case for Neomycin
Aminoglycoside antibiotics are bactericidal drugs that have been at the forefront of antimicrobial therapy for almost five decades. The past decade...
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The Construction and Operation of Anion Sensors: Current Status and Future Perspectives
This chapter is intended to provide an insight into the construction and operation of anion sensing devices, rather than the chemistry of anion...
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Total Internal Reflection Fluorescence Microscopy in Single Molecule Nanobioscience
Recent development in total internal reflection fluorescence microscopy (TIRFM) has made it possible to directly monitor the behaviors of...
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Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging Microscopy (FLIM)
Fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy (FLIM) is a technique to map the spatial distribution of nanosecond excited state lifetimes within...
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Biosynthesis and function of tRNA wobble modifications
Post-transcriptional modifications at the first (wobble) position of the tRNA anticodon participate in the precise decoding of the genetic code that...
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Taxonomy and phylogenetic diversity among the yeasts
Yeasts are among the economically and scientifically most important eukaryotic microorganisms known. At present, there are 1,500 recognized species,...
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Recent Advances in the Chemistry of Difunctionalized Organo-Phosphorus and -Sulfur Compounds
Recent results related to the synthesis and reactivity of organocompounds substituted by both phosphorus and sulfur functional groups are reviewed....
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Donor-Acceptor Complexes of Low-Coordinated Cationic π-Bonded Phosphorus Systems
Cationic low-coordinated π-bonded phosphorus compounds add Lewis donors, such as amines or phosphines. In contrast to the trigonal bipyramide formed...
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On the Prebiotic Synthesis of Nucleobases, Nucleotides, Oligonucleotides, Pre-RNA and Pre-DNA Molecules
All the strategies for the prebiotic syntheses of RNA and DNA assume the adequate availability of the presumptive precursors such as purine and...
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Chitosan Chemistry: Relevance to the Biomedical Sciences
Chitin is well characterized in terms of analytical chemistry, is purified from accompanying compounds, and derivatized in a variety of fashions....
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From the Prebiotic Synthesis of α-Amino Acids Towards a Primitive Translation Apparatus for the Synthesis of Peptides
The demonstration that ribosomal peptide synthesis is a ribozyme-catalyzed reaction does not establish that amino acids and peptides have been...
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Genome evolution: Lessons from Genolevures
In the past years, yeast genome-sequencing programs have been widely developed. Two of them, namely Genolevures I and II, were devoted to the...
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Scientific and technical challenges for systems biology
Systems biology is an emergent discipline, yet can be rooted back almost a century when pioneering thoughts on system-oriented views were discussed....
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State of the Art. Chemical Synthesis of Biophosphates and their Analogues via PIII Derivatives
This chapter is concerned with preparation and applications of tricoordinate phosphorus compounds in synthesis of biophosphates and their structural...
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Complexes with a Metal-Phosphorus Triple Bond
A survey of the existing complexes containing a transition metal-phosphorus triple bond is presented. Based on the different types of these...