Initiation factor MP was purified 1570-fold with 67% recovery of total activity present in 0.5 M KCl extracts of rabbit reticulocyte ribosomes. Initiation factor MP forms a ternary complex with Met-tRNAf and GTP or a binary complex with Met-tRNAf alone, the details of which are presented in the accompanying paper (Safer, B., Adams, S. L., Anderson. W. F., and Merrick, W. C. (1975) J. Biol. Chem...

The diagram showing off-center nested spheres which is traditionally used to illustrate the Doppler effect, misleading and its trigonometric analysis leads errors concerning light, because electromagnetic aberration effects conform a wavefront surface that not sphere but an ellipsoid stretched along trajectory of source. Cartesian polar equations spherical ellipsoidal wavefronts are compared he...