Non-arteritic ischemic optic neuropathy and supplemental nitric oxide usage.

Purpose: To report a case of Non-Arteritic Ischemic Optic Neuropathy (NAION) in a middle-aged bodybuilder in excellent physiological condition without any signs or symptoms of vasculopathy and a history of nitric oxide supplement usage.

Observations: The patient had visual acuity of 20/25 in the right eye, and 20/30 in the left eye, with a relative afferent pupillary defect and dyschromatopsia in the right eye. Visual field testing with Humphrey perimetry demonstrated an inferior altitudinal field defect OD.

Metal cofactors in the structure and activity of the fowlpox resolvase.

Poxvirus DNA replication generates linear concatemers containing many copies of the viral genome with inverted repeat sequences at the junctions between monomers. The inverted repeats refold to generate Holliday junctions, which are cleaved by the virus-encoded resolvase enzyme to form unit-length genomes. Here we report studies of the influence of metal cofactors on the activity and structure of the resolvase of fowlpox virus, which provides a tractable model for in vitro studies.

Myosin dynamics on the millisecond time scale.

Myosin is a motor protein associating with actin and ATP. It translates along actin filaments against a force by transduction of free energy liberated with ATP hydrolysis. Various myosin crystal structures define time points during ATPase showing the protein undergoes large conformation change during transduction over a cycle with approximately 10 ms periodicity.