The use of molecular virology is described. Emphasis is placed on molecular biology, especially methods involving gene technology. The respective techniques allow characterisation of viruses by molecular cloning and nucleotide sequencing as well as the development of new diagnostic tools and vaccines. Genetically engineered live viruses serve as examples to study potential risks of vaccines der...

Metalloprotein junctions are used as model systems in the field of molecular bioelectronics to mimic electronic circuits. The junction lifetime increase achieved with electrochemical nearfield trapping enables thorough characterisation.

All the molecular molybdenum fluorides, MoF to 6 , have been identified in argon matrices with first characterisation of and 2 (bond angle ca. 133°), reassignment IR bands 3 identification a new band for 5 .

The synthesis and characterisation of an immobilised molecular ruthenium catalyst for the selective oxidation organic substrates in fully aqueous media with high selectivity over competing oxygen evolution reaction is reported.

Over the past forty years, considerable advances have been made in our understanding of the way in which the physical properties of polymers can be related to their chemical structure.1 The ability to interpret changes in the observed physical properties in terms of changes in chemical structure requires knowledge of the way in which polymer chains are organised at micron and submicron levels. ...

Matrix isolation infrared (IR) studies have been carried out on the vaporisation of the alkali-metal azides MN3 (M = Na, K, Rb and Cs). The results show that under high vacuum conditions, molecular KN3, RbN3 and CsN3 are present as stable high-temperature vapour species, together with variable amounts of nitrogen gas and the corresponding metal atoms. The characterisation of these molecular azi...

Research from a wide range of model systems such as Chlamydomonas, C. elegans and mice have shown that intraflagellar transport (IFT) is a bidirectional motility of large protein complexes along cilia and flagella that is essential for building and maintaining these organelles. Since its discovery in 1993, much progress has been made in uncovering the molecular and functional basis of IFT. Pres...