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Terrors of the table: the curious history of nutrition by Gratzer, W. B. (Walter Bruno)

“…Terrors of the Table is an absorbing account of the struggle to find the necessary ingredients of a healthy diet, and the fads and quackery that have always…”
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Giant molecules: from nylon to nanotubes by Gratzer, W. B. (Walter Bruno)

“…Our lives are dominated by giant molecules, which have remarkable properties, some of which are only just being discovered and exploited by science, though…”
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Actomyosin motor in the merozoite of the malaria parasite, Plasmodium falciparum: implications for red cell invasion by Pinder, J C, Fowler, R E, Dluzewski, A R, Bannister, L H, Lavin, F M, Mitchell, G H, Wilson, R J, Gratzer, W B

“…The genome of the malaria parasite, Plasmodium falciparum, contains a myosin gene sequence, which bears a close homology to one of the myosin genes found in…”
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Passion for DNA: Genes, Genomes, and Society by Watson, James D, Gratzer, Walter

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Minimum folding unit of dystrophin rod domain by Kahana, Edith, Gratzer, W. B

“…Fragments of the rod domain of dystrophin, which consists of spectrin-like repeating sequences, have been prepared by expression in Escherichia coli. The…”
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Perturbation of Red Blood Cell Membrane Rigidity by Extracellular Ligands by Paulitschke, M., Nash, G.B., Anstee, D.J., Tanner, M.J.A., Gratzer, W.B.

“…It is known that binding of extracellular antibodies against the major sialoglycoprotein, glycophorin A, reduces the deformability of the red blood cell…”
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Membrane Attachment Sites for the Membrane Cytoskeletal Protein 4.1 of the Red Blood Cell by Pinder, Jennifer C., Chung, Amy, Reid, Marion E., Gratzer, W.B.

“…The identity of the membrane binding sites for the membrane cytoskeletal protein 4.1 of the human red blood cell has been investigated. Exhaustive proteolysis…”
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conformation and phasing of dystrophin structural repeats by Kahana, E, Marsh, P J, Henry, A J, Way, M, Gratzer, W B

“…The presumptive rod domain of dystrophin contains a series of degenerate repeating sequences with homology to those of spectrin. To determine the relation of…”
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Association State of Human Red Blood Cell Band 3 and its Interaction With Ankyrin by Pinder, Jennifer C., Pekrun, A., Maggs, Alison M., Brain, A.P.R., Gratzer, W.B.

“…We have studied the association state of band 3, the anion channel and predominant transmembrane protein of the human red blood cell, and the anomalous…”
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Stability of the dystrophin rod domain fold: evidence for nested repeating units by Calvert, R., Kahana, E., Gratzer, W.B.

“…An examination of fragments of the human dystrophin rod domain, corresponding to a single structural repeating unit, showed that a critical chain length,…”
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Origins of the parasitophorous vacuole membrane of the malaria parasite, Plasmodium falciparum, in human red blood cells by DLUZEWSKI, A. R, MITCHELL, G. H, FRYER, P. R, GRIFFITHS, S, WILSON, R. J. M, GRATZER, W. B

“…We have attempted to determine whether the parasitophorous vacuole membrane, in which the malaria parasite (merozoite) encapsulates itself when it enters a red…”
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Fluorescence quenching of spectrin and other red cell membrane cytoskeletal proteins : relation to hydrophobic binding sites by KAHANA, E, PINDER, J. C, SMITH, K. S, GRATZER, W. B

“…The intrinsic fluorescence of spectrin is strongly quenched by low concentrations of 2-bromostearate. This results from binding at a series of hydrophobic…”
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Interaction of dystrophin fragments with model membranes by DeWolf, C., McCauley, P., Sikorski, A.F., Winlove, C.P., Bailey, A.I., Kahana, E., Pinder, J.C., Gratzer, W.B.

“…The interaction with membrane lipids of recombinant fragments of human dystrophin, corresponding to a single structural repeating unit of the rod domain, was…”
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Red cell membrane protein distribution during malarial invasion by DLUZEWSKI, A. R, FRYER, P. R, GRIFFITHS, S, WILSON, R. J. M, GRATZER, W. B

“…Immuno-gold labelling electron microscopy of thin sections was used to determine the distribution of red cell membrane and membrane skeleton proteins in the…”
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Contractile protein system in the asexual stages of the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum by Webb, S E, Fowler, R E, O'Shaughnessy, C, Pinder, J C, Dluzewski, A R, Gratzer, W B, Bannister, L H, Mitchell, G H

“…F-actin was detected in asexual-stage Plasmodium falciparum parasites by fluorescence microscopy of blood films stained with fluorescent phalloidin…”
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Association of Structural Repeats in the α-Actinin Rod Domain. Alignment of Inter-subunit Interactions by Flood, G., Kahana, E., Gilmore, A.P., Rowe, A.J., Gratzer, W.B., Critchley, D.R.

“…Fragments of the rod domain of chicken α-actinin, which comprises four spectrin-like repeat sequences, have been prepared by expression in Escherichia coli…”
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Analysis of the self-association of human red cell spectrin by Shahbakhti, F, Gratzer, W. B

“…The self-association equilibrium of spectrin has been studied by separating the molecular species present in the cooled reaction mixture by gel…”
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Control of malarial invasion by phosphorylation of the host cell membrane cytoskeleton by Rangachari, K, Dluzewski, A, Wilson, R. J. M, Gratzer, W. B

“…It has been shown that the entry of the malaria parasite into the red blood cell requires the presence of ATP in the host cell cytoplasm. In red blood cell…”
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Basis of unique red cell membrane properties in hereditary ovalocytosis by Schofield, A E, Tanner, M J, Pinder, J C, Clough, B, Bayley, P M, Nash, G B, Dluzewski, A R, Reardon, D M, Cox, T M, Wilson, R J

“…Hereditary ovalocytes from a Mauritian subject are extremely rigid, with a shear elastic modulus about three times that of normal cells, and have increased…”
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Properties of normal and mutant polypeptide fragments from the dimer self-association sites of human red cell spectrin by Lecomte, M C, Nicolas, G, Dhermy, D, Pinder, J C, Gratzer, W B

“…We have examined the properties and interactions of expressed polypeptide fragments from the N-terminus of the alpha-chain and the C-terminus of the beta-chain…”
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