We have systematically characterized, by aqueous column chromatography on a size exclusion cross-linked dextran gel (Sephadex G-10), 12 solutes, 11 of which are known to affect protein stability. Six are chaotropes (water structure breakers) and destabilize proteins, while five are polar kosmotropes (polar water structure makers) and stabilize proteins. Analysis of the chromatographic behavior ...

Polar bears (Ursus maritimus) face extremely cold temperatures and periods of fasting, which might result in more severe energetic challenges than those experienced by their sister species, the brown bear (U. arctos). We have examined the mitochondrial and nuclear genomes of polar and brown bears to investigate whether polar bears demonstrate lineage-specific signals of molecular adaptation in ...

Meiotic chromosomes in an oocyte are not only a maternal genome carrier but also provide a positional signal to induce cortical polarization and define asymmetric meiotic division of the oocyte, resulting in polar body extrusion and haploidization of the maternal genome. The meiotic chromosomes play dual function in determination of meiosis: 1) organizing a bipolar spindle formation and 2) indu...

Structural patterns that have the same spatial periodicity but a phase offset give rise to peaks and anti-peaks (negative-going peaks) at the same q value in the SAXS structure function S(q). As an example, in ionic liquids we often find charge alternation, and at the distance where one finds a density enhancement of charges of the same type one also finds a depletion of charges of opposite sig...

In Cartesian coordinate systems, the angular separation-based star identification algorithms involve much trigonometric function computing. That delays the algorithm process. As in a polar coordinate system, the coordinates are denoted by angular values, it is potential to speed up the star identification process by adopting a polar coordinate system. An angular polar coordinate system is intro...

An effective rotation and scale invariant log-polar wavelet texture feature for image retrieval was proposed. The feature extraction process involves a log-polar transform followed by an adaptive row shift invariant wavelet packet transform. The log-polar transform converts a given image into a rotation and scale invariant but rowshifted image, which is then passed to the adaptive row shift inv...

Nuclear fusion is an essential process in the sexual reproduction of animals and plants. In flowering plants, nuclear fusion occurs three times: once during female gametogenesis, when the two polar nuclei fuse to produce the diploid central cell nucleus, and twice during double fertilization. The yeast Ig binding protein (BiP) is a molecular chaperone Hsp70 in the endoplasmic reticulum that reg...

Polar nuclear migration is crucial during the development of diverse eukaryotes. In plants, root hair growth requires polar nuclear migration into the outgrowing hair. However, knowledge about the dynamics and the regulatory mechanisms underlying nuclear movements in root epidermal cells remains limited. Here, we show that both auxin and Rho-of-Plant (ROP) signaling modulate polar nuclear posit...