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something that baffles understanding and cannot be explained; "how it got out is a mystery"; "it remains one of natures secrets" (同)enigma, secret, closed_book
a story about a crime (usually murder) presented as a novel or play or movie (同)mystery story, whodunit
be uncertain about; think about without fully understanding or being able to decide; "We puzzled over her sudden departure"
a game that tests your ingenuity
a particularly baffling problem that is said to have a correct solution; "he loved to solve chessmate puzzles"; "thats a real puzzler" (同)puzzler, mystifier, teaser
resembling an oracle in obscurity of thought; "the oracular sayings of Victorian poets"; "so enigmatic that priests might have to clarify it"; "an enigmatic smile" (同)oracular
not clear to the understanding; "I didnt grasp the meaning of that enigmatic comment until much later"; "prophetic texts so enigmatic that their meaning has been disputed for centuries" (同)enigmatical, puzzling
having an import not apparent to the senses nor obvious to the intelligence; beyond ordinary understanding; "mysterious symbols"; "the mystical style of Blake"; "occult lore"; "the secret learning of the ancients" (同)mystic, mystical, occult, secret, orphic
a medieval play representing episodes from the life of Christ
a narrative about a murder and how the murderer is discovered

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〈C〉『神秘的な物』(『事』) / 〈C〉好寄心(気がかり)を起こさせる物(事) / 〈C〉推理小説(劇,映画) / 〈U〉『神秘[性]』 / 〈C〉《複数形で》(宗数的)秘法,秘教;(古代ギリシア・ローマの)神秘儀式
《単数形で》(頭を)『悩ませる物』(『事』,『人』),難問,難物 / 《しばしば複合語で用いて》(遊び用の)『パズル』,判じ物,なぞ / 〈難問が〉〈人〉‘の'頭を悩ませる;(…について)〈頭〉をひねって考える《+『名』+『about』(『over』)+『名』》 / (…に)頭を悩ませる,(…を)頭をひねって考える《+『about』(『as to, over』)+『名』》
なぞのような,不可解な
『神秘的な』,不思議な / 理解(説明)しがたい,不可解な,なぞの
(特に)解きにくいなぞ;不可解なこと(もの,人)

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Look up mysterious, mysteriousness, or mystery in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

Mystery, mysteries, or mysterious may refer to:

Culture

Genres

Mystery fiction, a genre of detective fiction
Mystery film, a genre in cinema

Literature

Mystery (novel), a 1990 novel by American author Peter Straub
Mystery, a cat character in Emily the Strange
Mysteries (novel) or Mysterier, an 1892 existentialist novel by Knut Hamsun

Film and television

Mystery!, a long-running PBS program showcasing British detective fiction
Mystery TV, a Canadian digital television channel
Mystery (television), a children's television show
"Mystery" (Pee-wee's Playhouse), an episode of the children's show Pee-wee's Playhouse
Mystery (film), a 2012 Chinese drama film
Mystery, Alaska film

Music

Albums

Mysterious, a 1988 album by the Japanese singer Shizuka Kudō
Mystery (Vanilla Fudge album), a 1984 album by the American psychedelic-rock band Vanilla Fudge
Mystery (Mystery EP), the 1992 debut album by the Canadian progressive-rock band Mystery
Mystery (Faye Wong album), a 1994 album by the Chinese Cantopop singer Faye Wong
Mystery, a 2006 album by the Taiwanese-American Mandopop singer Evonne Hsu
Mystery Guest (album), a 2008 album by the Taiwanese Mandopop singer Yoga Lin

Songs

"Mysterious", a song from the 1999 album Eye II Eye by the German heavy-metal band Scorpions
"Mysterious" (song), a song from the 2005 album Jentina by the British hip hop/R&B rapper and singer-songwriter Jentina
"Mystery", a 1984 pop song, sometimes jazz, by the American a cappella group The Manhattan Transfer
"Mystery", a song from the 1984 album The Last in Line by the American heavy-metal band Dio
"Mystery", a song from the 1999 album Black Foliage: Animation Music Volume One by the psychedelic-rock band The Olivia Tremor Control
"Mystery" (Live song), a song from the 2006 album Songs from Black Mountain by the alternative-rock band Live
"Mystery", a comic song written and performed by Hugh Laurie for the British sketch-comedy television series A Bit of Fry & Laurie (1989–1995)

Other

Mystery (band), a Canadian progressive-rock band formed in 1986

Religion

God is viewed as Mystery by theologians such as Ian Ramsey, Karl Rahner, and Gordon D. Kaufman
Greco-Roman mysteries, ancient religious cults whose rituals were not revealed to outsiders
Mystery play, such as Passion play
Sacred mysteries, beliefs which cannot be explained by normal reasoning, or esoteric teachings which are kept secret from the non-initiated

Other

The mysterious phenomena studied by Charles Fort
Mystery (pickup artist) (born 1971), stage name of entertainer Erik Von Markovik
Mystery (log canoe), a Chesapeake Bay log canoe
Mystery (lugger), a Mount's Bay lugger
USS Mystery, the name of more than one proposed or actual United States Navy ships
Mysterious (horse) (1970–1988), Thoroughbred racehorse

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English Journal

Right Brain: A reading specialist with alexia without agraphia: Teacher interrupted.

Cuomo J, Flaster M, Biller J.Author information From the Department of Neurology, Loyola University Chicago, Stritch School of Medicine, Maywood, IL.AbstractReading to children was a source of fulfillment in the life of M.P., a 40-year-old aunt, kindergarten teacher, and reading specialist. Whether in the classroom, the reading room, or the living room, M.P. found joy in the dual role of teacher and storyteller. For her, it was an important means of relating to those under her care. But all of that changed when, on a Thursday morning, M.P. found herself standing at the front of her class and holding in her hands an indecipherable mystery.
Neurology.Neurology.2014 Jan 7;82(1):e5-7. doi: 10.1212/01.wnl.0000438218.39061.93.
Reading to children was a source of fulfillment in the life of M.P., a 40-year-old aunt, kindergarten teacher, and reading specialist. Whether in the classroom, the reading room, or the living room, M.P. found joy in the dual role of teacher and storyteller. For her, it was an important means of rel
PMID 24379102

The Active Site Sulfenic Acid Ligand in Nitrile Hydratases can Function as a Nucleophile.

Martinez S, Wu R, Sanishvili R, Liu D, Holz RC.AbstractNitrile hydratase (NHase) catalyzes the hydration of nitriles to their corresponding commercially valuable amides at ambient temperatures and physiological pH. Several reaction mechanisms have been proposed for NHase enzymes however, the source of the nucleophile remains a mystery. Boronic acids have been shown to be potent inhibitors of numerous hydrolytic enzymes due to the open shell of boron, which allows it to expand from a trigonal planar (sp2) form to a tetrahedral form (sp3). Therefore, we examined the inhibition of the Co-type NHase from Pseudonocardia thermophila JCM 3095 (PtNHase) by boronic acids via kinetics and X-ray crystallography. Both 1-butaneboronic acid (BuBA) and phenylboronic acid (PBA) function as potent competitive inhibitors of PtNHase. X-ray crystal structures for BuBA and PBA complexed to PtNHase were solved and refined at 1.5, 1.6 and 1.3 Å resolution. The resulting PtNHase-boronic acid complexes represent a "snapshot" of reaction intermediates and implicate the cysteine-sulfenic acid ligand as the catalytic nucleophile, a heretofore unknown role for the αCys113-OH sul-fenic acid ligand. Based on these data, a new mechanism of action for the hydration of nitriles by NHase is presented.
Journal of the American Chemical Society.J Am Chem Soc.2014 Jan 2. [Epub ahead of print]
Nitrile hydratase (NHase) catalyzes the hydration of nitriles to their corresponding commercially valuable amides at ambient temperatures and physiological pH. Several reaction mechanisms have been proposed for NHase enzymes however, the source of the nucleophile remains a mystery. Boronic acids hav
PMID 24383915

Electron flow in multiheme bacterial cytochromes is a balancing act between heme electronic interaction and redox potentials.

Breuer M, Rosso KM, Blumberger J.Author information Department of Physics and Astronomy, University College London, London WC1E 6BT, United Kingdom.AbstractThe naturally widespread process of electron transfer from metal reducing bacteria to extracellular solid metal oxides entails unique biomolecular machinery optimized for long-range electron transport. To perform this function efficiently, microorganisms have adapted multiheme c-type cytochromes to arrange heme cofactors into wires that cooperatively span the cellular envelope, transmitting electrons along distances greater than 100 Å. Implications and opportunities for bionanotechnological device design are self-evident. However, at the molecular level, how these proteins shuttle electrons along their heme wires, navigating intraprotein intersections and interprotein interfaces efficiently, remains a mystery thus far inaccessible to experiment. To shed light on this critical topic, we carried out extensive quantum mechanics/molecular mechanics simulations to calculate stepwise heme-to-heme electron transfer rates in the recently crystallized outer membrane deca-heme cytochrome MtrF. By solving a master equation for electron hopping, we estimate an intrinsic, maximum possible electron flux through solvated MtrF of 104-105 s-1, consistent with recently measured rates for the related multiheme protein complex MtrCAB. Intriguingly, our calculations show that the rapid electron transport through MtrF is the result of a clear correlation between heme redox potential and the strength of electronic coupling along the wire: thermodynamically uphill steps occur only between electronically well-connected stacked heme pairs. This observation suggests that the protein evolved to harbor low-potential hemes without slowing down electron flow. These findings are particularly profound in light of the apparently well-conserved staggered cross-heme wire structural motif in functionally related outer membrane proteins.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A.2014 Jan 2. [Epub ahead of print]
The naturally widespread process of electron transfer from metal reducing bacteria to extracellular solid metal oxides entails unique biomolecular machinery optimized for long-range electron transport. To perform this function efficiently, microorganisms have adapted multiheme c-type cytochromes to
PMID 24385579

Method development for forensic identification of biodiesel based on chemical fingerprints and corresponding diagnostic ratios.

Yang Z1, Hollebone BP2, Wang Z3, Yang C3, Brown C3, Landriault M3.Author information 1Key Laboratory of Catalysis and Materials Science of the State Ethnic Affairs Commission & Ministry of Education, Key Laboratory of Analytical Chemistry of the State Ethnic Affairs Commission, College of Chemistry and Materials Science, South-Central University for Nationalities, Wuhan 430074, PR China; Emergencies Science and Technology Section, EOALRSD, Science and Technology Branch, Environment Canada, Canada. Electronic address: yangzeyu72@163.com.2Emergencies Science and Technology Section, EOALRSD, Science and Technology Branch, Environment Canada, Canada. Electronic address: bruce.hollebone@ec.gc.ca.3Emergencies Science and Technology Section, EOALRSD, Science and Technology Branch, Environment Canada, Canada.AbstractA forensic identification method based on the chemical fingerprinting of the first generation of biodiesel (fatty acid alkyl esters as effective components), and several corresponding diagnostic ratios was developed and validated. The distribution of major fatty acid methyl esters (FAMEs) and polar compounds (free fatty acids, glycerol, monoacylglycerides, and free sterols) in several representative above biodiesel products commercially available in Canada were positively quantified and compared, a number of cross-plots of diagnostic ratios of target FAMEs and sterols were developed for biofuel correlation and differentiation. It was found that the cross-plots of FAME ratios, for example, the sum of the di-unsaturated relative to saturated homologues of FAMEs (D/S) versus the sum of the mono-saturated to saturated FAMEs (M/S), and the sum of di-unsaturated to mono-saturated FAMEs (D/M) versus the sum of the mono-saturated to saturated FAMEs (M/S), could cluster samples clearly into their individual feedstock. The cross-plots of diagnostic ratios of individual major sterols (cholesterol, brassicasterol, campesterol, β-stiosterol and stigmasterol) to the total sterols were also developed and proved to be effective in identifying biodiesel sources due to their self-normalizing effect on sterol data. The case study of a mystery biodiesel spill using this method showed that the two real samples can be tightly clustered into biodiesel from animal fat (Ban) group. However, the significant discrepancy of free fatty acids, glycerol, monoacylglycerides and sterol concentrations between the two real samples indicated their different producing batches.
Forensic science international.Forensic Sci Int.2014 Jan;234:86-94. doi: 10.1016/j.forsciint.2013.11.001. Epub 2013 Nov 14.
A forensic identification method based on the chemical fingerprinting of the first generation of biodiesel (fatty acid alkyl esters as effective components), and several corresponding diagnostic ratios was developed and validated. The distribution of major fatty acid methyl esters (FAMEs) and polar
PMID 24378307