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10th Annual Senior Research Symposium Of The Department Of Biological Sciences, Chemistry And Biochemistry, Messiah College Dec 2010

10th Annual Senior Research Symposium Of The Department Of Biological Sciences, Chemistry And Biochemistry, Messiah College

School of Science, Engineering & Health (SEH) Symposium

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A Kinesin Motor In A Force-Producing Conformation, Elisabeth Heuston, C. Eric Bronner, F Jon Kull, Sharyn A. Endow Jul 2010

A Kinesin Motor In A Force-Producing Conformation, Elisabeth Heuston, C. Eric Bronner, F Jon Kull, Sharyn A. Endow

Dartmouth Scholarship

Kinesin motors hydrolyze ATP to produce force and move along microtubules, converting chemical energy into work by a mechanism that is only poorly understood. Key transitions and intermediate states in the process are still structurally uncharacterized, and remain outstanding questions in the field. Perturbing the motor by introducing point mutations could stabilize transitional or unstable states, providing critical information about these rarer states.


A Guide To The Continuing Investigation Of The Relationship Between The Cytoskeleton And Cell Wall In Developing Buds Of Physcomitrella Patens, Derek Brockman May 2010

A Guide To The Continuing Investigation Of The Relationship Between The Cytoskeleton And Cell Wall In Developing Buds Of Physcomitrella Patens, Derek Brockman

Senior Honors Projects

Persistent questions in biology address the nature of tissue organization and how information encoded in the genome can be manifested as a physical form. While the ‘final’ product of gene expression is a protein, science has yet to elucidate how those proteins are able to interact with other cellular components and external forces to generate a specific cell shape. This complex process is critical in determining not only the shape of an individual cell but also that of an entire organ. In plants, cell shape is controlled by cellulose microfibrils of the cell wall, which are typically oriented perpendicular to …