Magnetic tweezers are a powerful technique to perform high-throughput and high-resolution
force spectroscopy experiments at the single-molecule level. The camera-based detection …

Several plant families generate polyols, the reduced form of monosaccharides, as one of
their primary photosynthetic products. Together with sucrose (Suc) or raffinose, these polyols …

A point mutation in the thi1 gene, involved in the synthesis of thiamin, has been identified in
a tz-201 mutant line of Arabidopsis thaliana. The mutation occurs in a conserved protein …

Sucrose is the major product of photosynthesis in many higher plants. It is transported from
the source tissue through the phloem to various sink tissues to support plant growth, …

A collection of 237,954 sugarcane ESTs was examined in search of signal transduction genes.
Over 3,500 components involved in several aspects of signal transduction, transcription, …

MODERN sugarcane cultivars are complex hybrids resulting from crosses among several
species of the Saccharum genus. Traditional breeding methods have been extensively …

Enzymatic reactions often occur concomitantly with a conformational change of the enzyme,
and such a study belongs to the mechanochemistry field of research. Single-molecule …

RNA synthesis is at the heart of gene expression, the RNA products serving in cellular
organisms as protein blueprints, structural/functional components of molecular machines or …

Single molecule biophysics experiments have enabled the observation of biomolecules
with a great deal of precision in space and time, eg nucleic acids mechanical properties and …

MTERF1 (mitochondrial transcription termination factor 1) is a protein that binds downstream
the 16S rRNA gene of the human mitochondria∼ 16.6 kbp circular genome, which encodes …