Transcendental Bouquet

A bouquet of chromosomes.

During meiotic prophase, telomeres attach to the inner nuclear envelope and cluster to form the so-called meiotic bouquet. Although this has been observed in almost all organisms studied, its precise function remains elusive. The coincidence of telomere clustering and initiation of chromosome synapsis has led to the hypothesis that the bouquet facilitates homologous chromosome pairing and synap...

Transcendental Elitism

The Young Bouquet and Its Boundary

The classification results for the extreme characters of two basic “big” groups, the infinite symmetric group S(∞) and the infinite-dimensional unitary group U(∞), are remarkably similar. It does not seem to be possible to explain this phenomenon using a suitable extension of the Schur-Weyl duality to infinite dimension. We suggest an explanation of a different nature that does not have analogs...

Von Willebrand factor folds into a bouquet.

The large glycoprotein von Willebrand factor (vWF) serves an important role in orchestrating the blood vessel’s response to injury. It is released from activated endothelial cells and forms long multimeric strings that bind exposed extracellular matrix and circulating platelets and thereby initiate the formation of a platelet plug sealing the wound. Central to this process is the rapid transiti...

Projections of Bouquet Graph with Two Cycles

In this paper we investigate the projections of bouquet graph B with two cycles. A projection of B is said to be trivial if only trivial embeddings are obtained from the projection. It is shown that, to cover all nontrivial projections of B, at least three embeddings of B are needed. We also show that a nontrivial projection of B is covered by one of some two embeddings if the image of each cyc...