Basal bodies comprise nine symmetric triplet microtubules that anchor forces produced by the asymmetric beat pattern of motile cilia. The ciliopathy protein Poc1 stabilizes basal bodies through an unknown mechanism. In poc1∆ cells, electron tomography reveals subtle defects in the organization of intertriplet linkers (A-C linkers) that connect adjacent triplet microtubules. Complete triplet mic...

Myotonic dystrophy is caused by an expansion of a CTG triplet repeat sequence in the 3' noncoding region of a protein kinase gene, yet the mechanism by which the triplet repeat expansion causes disease remains unknown. This report demonstrates that a DNase I hypersensitive site is positioned 3' of the triplet repeat in the wild-type allele in both fibroblasts and skeletal muscle cells. In three...

Density functional theory (UB3LYP/6-31G(d,p)) was used to determine substituent effects on the singlet-triplet-state energy gap for 21 meta-substituted phenylnitrenium ions. It was found that strongly electron-donating substituents stabilize the triplet state relative to the singlet state. With sufficiently strong meta electron donors (e.g., m,m'-diaminophenylnitrenium ion) the triplet is predi...

Triplet–triplet annihilation upconversion (TTA-UC) is a process by which lower energy photon can be upconverted to higher state. The incorporation of TTA-UC materials into solid-state hosts has enabled advances in solar and many other applications. choice host system is, however, far from trivial often calls for careful compromise between characteristics such as high molecular mobility, low oxy...

Abstract Significant progress has recently been made in the field of organic solid-state lasers. However, achieving lasing action from semiconductors under electrical excitation remains challenging due to losses introduced by triplet excitons. Here, we report experimental and theoretical results that confirm a positive contribution excitons for electrically-driven via bimolecular triplet-triple...

Excited triplet states of aromatic ketones and quinones are used as proxies to assess the reactivity of excited triplet states of the dissolved organic matter ((3)DOM*) in natural waters. (3)DOM* are crucial transients in environmental photochemistry responsible for contaminant transformation, production of reactive oxygen species, and potentially photobleaching of DOM. In recent photochemical ...

Singlet exciton fission is the spin-conserving transformation of one spin-singlet exciton into two spin-triplet excitons. This exciton multiplication mechanism offers an attractive route to solar cells that circumvent the single-junction Shockley-Queisser limit. Most theoretical descriptions of singlet fission invoke an intermediate state of a pair of spin-triplet excitons coupled into an overa...

Homogeneously doped crystals of charge transfer (CT-) complexes were grown by incorporating aromatic guest donors in host CT-crystals. The host crystals contained 1,2.4,5-tetracyanobenzene (TCNB) as acceptor and deuterated aromatic electron donors. By using such doped crystals CTcomplexes in a well defined configuration may be studied. The triplet states of the guest complexes were used as ESR ...

Myotonic dystrophy type 1 (DM1) is an inherited dominant muscular dystrophy caused by expanded CTG·CAG triplet repeats in the 3' untranslated region of the DMPK1 gene, which produces a toxic gain-of-function CUG RNA. It has been shown that the severity of disease symptoms, age of onset and progression are related to the length of the triplet repeats. However, the mechanism(s) of CTG·CAG triplet...