Antiferromagnetic metal exhibits diode-like behavior without external magnetic field

Antiferromagnetic (AF) materials are made up of atoms or molecules with atomic spins that align in antiparallel directions of ...
IEEE

Self-Dynamic and Static Biasing for Output Power and Efficiency Enhancement of Complementary Antiparallel Diode Pair Frequency Tripler

Abstract: A 157-GHz complementary antiparallel diode pair (CAPDP) frequency tripler using a combination of self-dynamic and static dc biasing to enhance output power and conversion efficiency is ...
C&EN

The Antiparallel Coiled-Coil Domain Allows Multiple Forward Step Sizes of Myosin X

Department of Physics, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Kowloon 999077, Hong Kong Department of Physics, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear ...
Europe PMC

Nanoscale Infrared Spectroscopy Identifies Parallel to Antiparallel β-Sheet Transformation of Aβ Fibrils.

Spontaneous aggregation of amyloid beta (Aβ) proteins leading to the formation of oligomers and eventually into fibrils has been identified as a key pathological signature of Alzheimer's disease. The ...
Frontiers

Functional Characterization of the Internal Symmetry of MRAP2 Antiparallel Homodimer

The melanocortin receptors are defined as a series of vital pharmaceutical targets to regulate neuronal appetite and maintain controllable body weight for mammals and teleosts. Melanocortin receptor ...
Scientific Research Publishing

Ghosh, I., Hamilton, A.D. and Regan, L. (2000) Antiparallel Leucine Zipper-Directed Protein Reassembly: Application to the Green Fluorescent Protein. Journal of the American ...

ABSTRACT: Tens of thousands of protein-protein interactions (PPIs) have been found in human cells and many of these macromolecular partnerships could determine the cell growth and death. Thus there is ...
CU Boulder News & Events

Length regulation of microtubule antiparallel overlaps by molecular motors

Hui-Shun Kuan and Meredith D. Betterton (2019). bioRxiv DOI:10.1101/743880. Download. During cell division, microtubules in the mitotic spindle form antiparallel overlaps near the center of the ...
eLife

Geometry of antiparallel microtubule bundles regulates relative sliding and stalling by PRC1 and Kif4A

Motor and non-motor crosslinking proteins play critical roles in determining the size and stability of microtubule-based architectures. Currently, we have a limited understanding of how geometrical ...
eLife

Antiparallel protocadherin homodimers use distinct affinity- and specificity-mediating regions in cadherin repeats 1-4

Protocadherins (Pcdhs) are cell adhesion and signaling proteins used by neurons to develop and maintain neuronal networks, relying on trans homophilic interactions between their extracellular cadherin ...
CU Boulder News & Events

Motor protein accumulation on antiparallel microtubule overlaps

Hui-Shun Kuan and Meredith D. Betterton (2016), Biophysical Journal 110, 2034. arXiv DOI: 1509.07219. DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2016.03.039. Download. Biopolymers serve as one-dimensional tracks on which ...
C&EN

A Set of Computationally Designed Orthogonal Antiparallel Homodimers that Expands the Synthetic Coiled-Coil Toolkit

Molecular engineering of protein assemblies, including the fabrication of nanostructures and synthetic signaling pathways, relies on the availability of modular parts that can be combined to give ...