The crystallographic structure of a rice (Oryza sativa) cellulose synthase, OsCesA8, plant-conserved region (P-CR), one of two unique domains in the catalytic domain of plant CesAs, was solved to 2.4 Å resolution. Two antiparallel α-helices form a coiled-coil domain linked by a large extended connector loop containing a conserved trio of aromatic residues. The P-CR structure was fit into a mole...

This paper investigates the inflection-point instability that governs the flow disturbance initiated in the entrance region of a pulsating pipe flow. Under such a flow condition, the flow instability grows within a certain phase region in a pulsating cycle, during which the inflection point in the unsteady mean flow lifts away from the viscous effect-dominated region known as the Stokes layer. ...

The sizable symmetrical region, comprising 180 ribosomal RNA nucleotides, which has been identified in and around the peptidyl transferase center (PTC) in crystal structures of eubacterial and archaeal large ribosomal subunits, indicates its universality, confirms that the ribosome is a ribozyme and evokes the suggestion that the PTC evolved by gene fusion. The symmetrical region can act as a c...

An important problem in simulating ions in solution is the connection of the finite simulation region to the surrounding continuum bath. In this paper we consider this connection for a simulation of uncharged independent Brownian particles and discuss the relevance of the results to a simulation of charged particles (ions). We consider a simulation region surrounded by a buffer embedded in a co...

In a geocasting problem in ad hoc networks, a message is sent from one node to all the nodes located in a designated region. For example, monitoring center needs to contact all active sensors within a monitored area to either gather data from them periodically, or to provide its location to sensors covering certain area for event reporting. Intelligent flooding methods exist for this task when ...