Probing the energetics of dissociation of carbonic anhydrase-ligand complexes in the gas phase.

abstract：:The ryanodine receptor (RyR) of skeletal muscle contains two functional domains: a carboxyl-terminal hydrophobic domain that forms the putative conduction pore of the calcium release channel, and a large cytoplasmic domain that corresponds to the "foot structure." To understand the contribution of the foot structure t...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Bhat MB,Zhao J,Hayek S,Freeman EC,Takeshima H,Ma J

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Viral infection begins with the binding of a virus to a specific target on the surface of the host cell, followed by viral genome delivery into the host and a continuation of the infection process. Before binding occurs, the virus must first find its receptor by a process whose details are largely unknown. We applied ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Rothenberg E,Sepúlveda LA,Skinner SO,Zeng L,Selvin PR,Golding I

更新日期：2011-06-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The biophysical characterization of nonfunctional protein aggregates at physiologically relevant temperatures is much needed to gain deeper insights into the kinetic and thermodynamic relationships between protein folding and misfolding. Dynamic and static laser light scattering have been employed for the detection an...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Chow C,Kurt N,Murphy RM,Cavagnero S

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The primary drivers of yeast endocytosis are actin polymerization and curvature-generating proteins, such as clathrin and BAR domain proteins. Previous work has indicated that these factors may not be capable of generating the forces necessary to overcome turgor pressure. Thus local reduction of the turgor pressure, v...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Scher-Zagier JK,Carlsson AE

更新日期：2016-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Actomyosin interactions were examined by using yeast actin mutants with alanines replacing charged amino acid pairs D24/D25, E99/E100, D80/D81, and E83/K84. In the in vitro motility experiments, actin filaments of D24A/D25A or E99A/E100A mutants moved in the presence of 0.7% methylcellulose at the velocities of wild-t...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Miller CJ,Cheung P,White P,Reisler E

更新日期：1995-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Segmentation of the Drosophila melanogaster embryo results from the dynamic establishment of spatial mRNA and protein patterns. Here, we exploit recent temporal mRNA and protein expression measurements on the full surface of the blastoderm to calibrate a dynamical model of the gap gene network on the entire embryo cor...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Bieler J,Pozzorini C,Naef F

更新日期：2011-07-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Deposition of amyloid-β (Aβ) fibers in the extracellular matrix of the brain is a ubiquitous feature associated with several neurodegenerative disorders, especially Alzheimer's disease (AD). Although many of the biological aspects that contribute to the formation of Aβ plaques are well addressed at the intra- and inte...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Hoore M,Khailaie S,Montaseri G,Mitra T,Meyer-Hermann M

更新日期：2020-08-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Many experiments have measured the effect of force on the dissociation of single selectin bonds, but it is not yet clear how the force dependence of molecular dissociation can influence the rolling of cells expressing selectin molecules. Recent experiments using constant-force atomic force microscopy or high-resolutio...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Caputo KE,Lee D,King MR,Hammer DA

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:ATP-sensitive K(+)-channels link metabolism and excitability in neurons, myocytes, and pancreatic islets. Mutations in the pore-forming subunit (Kir6.2; KCNJ11) cause neonatal diabetes, developmental delay, and epilepsy by decreasing sensitivity to ATP inhibition and suppressing electrical activity. Mutations of resid...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Koster JC,Kurata HT,Enkvetchakul D,Nichols CG

更新日期：2008-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Proteins are denatured in aqueous urea solution. The nature of the molecular driving forces has received substantial attention in the past, whereas the question how urea acts at different phases of unfolding is not yet well understood at the atomic level. In particular, it is unclear whether urea actively attacks fold...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Stumpe MC,Grubmüller H

更新日期：2009-05-06 00:00:00

abstract：:A detailed electron spin resonance (ESR) study of mixtures of 1-palmitoyl-2-oleoyl-phosphatidylcholine (POPC) and phosphatidylserine (POPS) in oriented multilayers in the liquid crystalline phase is reported with the purpose of characterizing the effects of headgroup mixing on the structural and dynamical properties o...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Ge M,Budil DE,Freed JH

更新日期：1994-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The voltage dependence of light-induced proton pumping was studied with bacteriorhodopsin (bR) from Halobacterium salinarum, expressed in the plasma membrane of oocytes from Xenopus laevis in the range -160 mV to +60 mV at different light intensities. Depending on the applied field, the quenching effect by blue light,...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Nagel G,Kelety B,Möckel B,Büldt G,Bamberg E

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Paxillin is an adaptor molecule involved in the assembly of focal adhesions. Using different fluorescence fluctuation approaches, we established that paxillin-EGFP is dynamic on many timescales within the cell, ranging from milliseconds to seconds. In the cytoplasmic regions, far from adhesions, paxillin is uniformly ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Digman MA,Brown CM,Horwitz AR,Mantulin WW,Gratton E

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thermal inactivation of T(4) and lambda bacteriophage shows two components of differing sensitivity are present. These cannot be interpreted as owing to nucleic acid and protein. One protein function-the inhibition of radiation-induced DNA degradation-is lost with quite different thermal kinetics. lambda heated in the...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Pollard EC,Solosko W

更新日期：1971-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The current-voltage (I-V) relation of the background current, IK1, was studied in isolated canine cardiac Purkinje myocytes using the whole-cell, patch-clamp technique. Since Ba2+ and Cs+ block IK1, these cations were used to separate the I-V relation of IK1 from that of the whole cell. The I-V relation of IK1 was mea...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Shah AK,Cohen IS,Datyner NB

更新日期：1987-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA release from lipoplexes is an essential step during lipofection and is probably a result of charge neutralization by cellular anionic lipids. As a model system to test this possibility, fluorescence resonance energy transfer between DNA and lipid covalently labeled with Cy3 and BODIPY, respectively, was used to mo...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Tarahovsky YS,Koynova R,MacDonald RC

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The kinetics of redistribution of lipid-like molecules between the membranes of two fused spherical vesicles is studied by solving the time-dependent diffusion equation of the system. The effects on the probe redistribution rate of pore size at the fusion junction and the relative sizes of the vesicles are examined. I...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Rubin RJ,Chen YD

更新日期：1990-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bipolar tetraether lipids (BTLs) are abundant in crenarchaeota, which thrive in both thermophilic and nonthermophilic environments, with wide-ranging growth temperatures (4-108°C). BTL liposomes can serve as membrane models to explore the role of BTLs in the thermal stability of the plasma membrane of crenarchaeota. I...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Chong PL,Sulc M,Winter R

更新日期：2010-11-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The 77-K resonance Raman vibrational spectrum of intact goldfish rod photoreceptors containing 3,4-dehydro (A2) retinal is dominated by scattering from the 9-cis component of the steady state at all excitation wavelengths. Intact goldfish photoreceptors were regenerated with an A1-retinal chromophore to determine whet...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Barry B,Mathies RA,Pardoen JA,Lugtenburg J

更新日期：1987-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A simple formula for the expansion rate U of the bilayer membrane perimeter was derived by the solution of the hydrodynamic and the Laplace equations at small rates and small contact angles: U = theta delta/6 micron ln (h/e 3/2 h0), where theta is the equilibrium contact angle between the bilayer membrane and the Plat...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Dimitrov DS

更新日期：1981-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The S4 segments of voltage-gated sodium channels are important parts of the voltage-sensing elements of these proteins. Furthermore, the addition of the isolated S4 polypeptide to planar lipid bilayers results in stepwise increases of ion conductivity. In order to gain insight into the mechanisms of pore formation by ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Mattila K,Kinder R,Bechinger B

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The opening and closing of the CFTR Cl- channel are regulated by ATP hydrolysis at its two nucleotide binding domains (NBDs). However, the mechanism and functional significance of ATP hydrolysis are unknown. Sequence similarity between the NBDs of CFTR and GTP-binding proteins suggested the NBDs might have a structure...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Carson MR,Welsh MJ

更新日期：1995-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Proteins fold and function inside cells that are crowded with macromolecules. Here, we address the role of the resulting excluded volume effects by in vitro spectroscopic studies of Pseudomonas aeruginosa apoazurin stability (thermal and chemical perturbations) and folding kinetics (chemical perturbation) as a functio...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Christiansen A,Wittung-Stafshede P

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a recent publication, the structural details of an interaction between the Rhodobacter sphaeroides reaction center and the anionic phospholipid diphosphatidyl glycerol (cardiolipin) were described (K. E. McAuley, P. K. Fyfe, J. P. Ridge, N. W. Isaacs, R. J. Cogdell, and M. R. Jones, 1999, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Wakeham MC,Sessions RB,Jones MR,Fyfe PK

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Conditions for which a ligand reversibly bound to a cell surface dissociates and then rebinds to the surface have been theoretically examined. The coupled differential equations that describe reaction at the interface between sites on a plane and three-dimensional solution have been described previously (Thompson, N. ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Lagerholm BC,Thompson NL

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The surprising observation that pressures of the order of 150 atmospheres can restore consciousness to an anesthetized animal has long been central to theories of the molecular mechanisms underlying general anesthesia. We have constructed a high-pressure gas chamber to test for "pressure reversal" of the best availabl...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Moss GW,Lieb WR,Franks NP

更新日期：1991-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The diffusion of Ca as it converges to the external mouth of a Ca channel is examined. Diffusional limitation on Ca ions entering Ca channels during current flow, cause local extracellular Ca depletions. Such extracellular Ca depletions have been reported in cardiac muscle. The cardiac sarcolemma has a large number of...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Bers DM,Peskoff A

更新日期：1991-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intracellular Ca2+ was determined with the fura-2 technique during electrically induced contractions in the rabbit rectococcygeus smooth muscle at 22 degreesC. The muscles were electrically activated to give short, reproducible contractions. Intracellular [Ca2+] increased during activation; the increase in [Ca2+] prec...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Arner A,Malmqvist U,Rigler R

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have examined the role of the environment on the interactions between transmembrane helices using, as a model system, the dimerization of the glycophorin A transmembrane helix. In this study we have focused on micellar environments and have examined a series of detergents that include a range of alkyl chain lengths...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Fisher LE,Engelman DM,Sturgis JN

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dual-color fluorescence cross-correlation analysis is a powerful tool for probing interactions of different fluorescently labeled molecules in aqueous solution. The concept is the selective observation of coordinated spontaneous fluctuations in two separate detection channels that unambiguously reflect the existence o...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Heinze KG,Rarbach M,Jahnz M,Schwille P

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00