Light structural functions

Fetisova Z G, Borisov A Y and Fok M V 1985 Analysis of structure-function correlations in light-harvesting photosynthetic antenna—structure optimization parameters J. Theoret. Biol. 112 41-75... 

This chapter is an introduction to methods-oriented microscopy. Because the contributing authors present methods in relation to their researches, plant cell structure-function relationships as revealed by light and electron microscopies are reviewed. Much of this conceptual and terminological information is summarized in tables that are augmented with references to either photomicrographs or electron micrographs of cells and tissues. 

Plant Cells and Tissues Structure-Function Relationships. Methods for the Cytochemical/Histochemical Localization of Plant Cell/Tissue Chemicals. Methods in Light Microscope Radioautography. Some Fluorescence Microscopical Methods for Use with Algal, Fungal, and Plant Cells. Fluorescence Microscopy of Aniline Blue Stained Pistils. A Short Introduction to Immunocytochemistry and a Protocol for Immunovi-sualization of Proteins with Alkaline Phosphatase. The Fixation of Chemical Forms on Nitrocellulose Membranes. Dark-Field Microscopy and Its Application to Pollen Tube Culture. Computer-Assisted Microphotometry. Isolation and Characterization of... 

Light, A., and E. L, Smith Amino acid analysis of peptides. and proteins. In, The Ih-oteins Compo.sition, Structure. Function". Vol. 1, 2—44. Ed. II. Neurath, Academic Press, 2nd Ed. 1963. 

The structure-function relationship of the indole-indoline binary alkaloids was relegated to obscurity until the recent achievement of methodologies for their complete syntheses (see Chapter 2, this volume). Our work with C-20 congeners of VBL has established that the complex interactions between this molecule and tubulin or microtubules can be modified by structural alteration. The various, concentration-dependent reactions of VBL with the microtubule system in vitro are sensitive to subtle modifications at a single molecular locus. In addition, these reactions are distinctive on a mechanistic level as seen from the unique activity profiles of most of our C-20 alkyl congeners. At first light, we can look toward the future with secured optimism. 

End view of energy-optimized parallel tetramer of the sodium channel helix 3. Colors light blue, a-carbon backbone red, acidic residues blue, basic residues yellow, polar and neutral residues and purple, lipophilic residues. This view is from the intracellular face of the membrane, at which the N terminus of each segment is predicted to be located. (From M. Montal, Proteins Structure, Function, and Genetics, vol. 8, University of California Press at San Diego, La Jolla, Calif., p. 226.)... 

Fox, S. W., Adachi, T., Stillwell, W., Ishima, Y. Photochemical synthesis of ATP Protomembrans and protometabolism, in Light Transducing Membranes Structure, Function, Evolution (ed.) Deamer, D. W., p. 61, New York, Academic Press 1978... 

GABAa Receptor Structure-Function Studies A Reexamination in Light of New Acetylcholine Receptor Structures Myles H. Akabas... 

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