Browsing by Subject "Structure"
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Behavioral Perspectives on Organizational Change: Practice Adoption, Product Culling, and Technological Search
(2016)This dissertation explores the complex process of organizational change, applying a behavioral lens to understand change in processes, products, and search behaviors. Chapter 1 examines new practice adoption, exploring ... -
Causes and functional consequences of denitrifying bacteria community structure in streams affected to varying degrees by watershed urbanization
(2011)Human welfare depends heavily on ecosystem services like water purification and nutrient cycling. Many of these ecosystem services, in turn, rely on reactions performed by microbes and yet remarkably little is known about ... -
Conformational Heterogeneity of a Multifunctional Protein
(2015)The structural plasticity conferred by conformational flexibility has increasingly been recognized as a likely determinant of function. For example, multiscale heterogeneity in the calmodulin central helix most likely helps ... -
Explorations in Olfactory Receptor Structure and Function
(2014)Olfaction is one of the most primitive of our senses, and the olfactory receptors that mediate this very important chemical sense comprise the largest family of genes in the mammalian genome. It is therefore surprising that ... -
Nanomechanics of Nucleic Acid Structures Investigated with AFM Based Force Spectroscopy
(2010)Nucleic acids are subjected to many different mechanical loadings inside. These loadings could cause large deformations and conformational changes to these molecules. This is why the mechanical properties of nucleic ... -
Structural Studies of Arabidopsis Thaliana Inositol Polyphosphate Multi-Kinase
(2009)Inositol Polyphosphate Multi-Kinase (IPMK, also known as ArgRIII, Arg82, and IPK2) is a central component of the inositol signaling system, catalyzing the phosphorylation of at least four different inositol polyphosphate ... -
Structure-Function Studies in Sulfite Oxidase with Altered Active Sites
(2009)Sulfite oxidase, a metabolically important enzyme, catalyzes the physiologically critical conversion of sulfite to sulfate in the terminal step of the degradation of sulfur containing compounds. The enzyme has been the focus ... -
Using C-Alpha Geometry to Describe Protein Secondary Structure and Motifs
(2015)X-ray crystallography 3D atomic models are used in a variety of research areas to understand and manipulate protein structure. Research and application are dependent on the quality of the models. Low-resolution experimental ...
