The alignment of a voltage-sensing peptide in dodecylphosphocholine micelles and in oriented lipid bilayers by nuclear magnetic resonance and molecular modeling.

abstract：:Here, we present a structural and dynamic description of CBP-ID4 at atomic resolution. ID4 is the fourth intrinsically disordered linker of CREB-binding protein (CBP). In spite of the largely disordered nature of CBP-ID4, NMR chemical shifts and relaxation measurements show a significant degree of α-helix sampling in ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Piai A,Calçada EO,Tarenzi T,Grande AD,Varadi M,Tompa P,Felli IC,Pierattelli R

更新日期：2016-01-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Deuterium NMR spectroscopy was used to study how the positioning of a dimerization motif within a transbilayer polypeptide influences its orientation and dynamics in bilayers. Three polypeptide variants comprising glycophorin A transmembrane (GpATM) dimerization motifs incorporated into lysine-terminated poly-leucine-...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： McDonald MC,Booth V,Morrow MR

更新日期：2011-02-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The elastic theory of flexural waves in thin rods accurately predicts the velocity of flagellar bending waves over a wide range of viscosities. This shows that flagella behave as a purely mechanical system for the transmission of these waves. An evaluation of the total bending moment reveals that this moment occurs in...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Rikmenspoel R

更新日期：1971-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We performed hole-burning Stark effect experiments on cytochrome c in which the iron of the herne was either removed or replaced by Zn. According to the experiments, the free-base compound has an effective inversion center, even in the protein. The Zn compound, on the other hand, shows quite peculiar features: in the ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Köhler M,Gafert J,Friedrich J,Vanderkooi JM,Laberge M

更新日期：1996-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Formation of protrusions and protein segregation on the membrane is of a great importance for the functioning of the living cell. This is most evident in recent experiments that show the effects of the mechanical properties of the surrounding substrate on cell morphology. We propose a mechanism for the formation of me...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Veksler A,Gov NS

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A triple mutant of sperm whale myoglobin (Mb) [Leu(B10) --> Tyr, His(E7) --> Gln, and Thr(E10) --> Arg, called Mb-YQR], investigated by stopped-flow, laser photolysis, crystallography, and molecular dynamics (MD) simulations, proved to be quite unusual. Rebinding of photodissociated NO, O2, and CO from within the prot...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Brunori M,Cutruzzolà F,Savino C,Travaglini-Allocatelli C,Vallone B,Gibson QH

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cellular differentiation proceeds along complicated pathways, even when it is induced by extracellular signaling molecules. One of the major reasons for this complexity is the highly multidimensional internal dynamics of cells, which sometimes causes apparently stochastic responses in individual cells to extracellular...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Morita S,Takanezawa S,Hiroshima M,Mitsui T,Ozaki Y,Sako Y

更新日期：2014-11-18 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper is concerned with the nature of the transmembrane potential induced in an inactive nerve fiber lying in an impressed potential field within a nerve trunk. The impressed potential field is assumed to be produced by the synchronous activity of other fibers within the trunk; an expression for the induced trans...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Clark JW Jr,Plonsey R

更新日期：1971-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Differentiation from a multipotent stem or progenitor state to a mature cell is an essentially irreversible process. The associated changes in gene expression patterns exhibit time-directionality. This "arrow of time" in the collective change of gene expression across multiple stable gene expression patterns (attracto...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Wang J,Xu L,Wang E,Huang S

更新日期：2010-07-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Biological membranes are constantly exposed to forces. The stress-strain relation in membranes determines the behavior of many integral membrane proteins or other membrane related-proteins that show a mechanosensitive behavior. Here, we studied by force spectroscopy the behavior of supported lipid bilayers (SLBs) subj...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Alessandrini A,Seeger HM,Caramaschi T,Facci P

更新日期：2012-07-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Apolipoprotein H (ApoH), also known as beta(2)-glycoprotein I, is a plasma glycoprotein with its in vivo physiological and pathogenic roles being closely related to its interaction with negatively charged membranes. Although the three-dimensional crystal structure of ApoH has been recently solved, direct evidence abou...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Wang F,Xia XF,Sui SF

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Morphogenesis involves the dynamic interplay of biochemical, mechanical, and electrical processes. Here, we ask to what extent can the course of morphogenesis be modulated and controlled by an external electric field? We show that at a critical amplitude, an external electric field can halt morphogenesis in Hydra rege...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Braun E,Ori H

更新日期：2019-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Lipid droplets (LDs) are cytosolic organelles that protrude from the endoplasmic reticulum membrane under energy-rich conditions. How an LD buds off from the endoplasmic reticulum bilayer is still elusive. By using a continuous media description, we computed the morphology of a lipid droplet embedded in between two id...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Deslandes F,Thiam AR,Forêt L

更新日期：2017-07-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Global analysis techniques are described for frequency domain fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy (FLIM) data. These algorithms exploit the prior knowledge that only a limited number of fluorescent molecule species whose lifetimes do not vary spatially are present in the sample. Two approaches to implementing the...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Verveer PJ,Squire A,Bastiaens PI

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Propagation speed of an impulse is influenced by previous activity. A pulse following its predecessor too closely may travel more slowly than a solitary pulse. In contrast, for some range of interspike intervals, a pulse may travel faster than normal because of a possible superexcitable phase of its predecessor's wake...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Miller RN,Rinzel J

更新日期：1981-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Computations on sodium channel gating were conducted using a closed-open-inactivated coupled kinetic scheme. The time constant of inactivation (tauh) derives a voltage dependency from coupling to voltage-dependent activation even when rate constants between inactivated and other states are strictly voltage independent...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Goldman L

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Frog skeletal muscle fibers, mechanically skinned under water-saturated silicone oil, swell upon transfer to aqueous relaxing medium (60 mM KCl; 3 mM MgCl(2); 3 mM ATP; 4 mM EGTA; 20 mM Tris maleate; pH = 7.0; ionic strength 0.15 M). Their cross-sectional areas, estimated with an elliptical approximation, increase 2.3...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Godt RE,Maughan DW

更新日期：1977-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new method for measuring the mechanical forces exerted by cells on the substratum and through the substratum to act on other cells is described. This method depends upon the growth of cells on a photoelastic substratum, polydimethylsiloxane coated with a near monolayer of fibronectin. Changes in the forces applied b...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Curtis A,Sokolikova-Csaderova L,Aitchison G

更新日期：2007-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:We introduce an approach based on the recently introduced functional mode analysis to identify collective modes of internal dynamics that maximally correlate to an external order parameter of functional interest. Input structural data can be either experimentally determined structure ensembles or simulated ensembles, ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Krivobokova T,Briones R,Hub JS,Munk A,de Groot BL

更新日期：2012-08-22 00:00:00

abstract：:PSII catalyzes the oxidation of water and reduction of plastoquinone in oxygenic photosynthesis. PSII contains an oxygen-evolving complex, which is located on the lumenal side of the PSII reaction center and which contains manganese, calcium, and chloride. Four sequential photooxidation reactions are required to gener...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： De Riso A,Jenson DL,Barry BA

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a pure fluid-phase lipid, the dependence of the lateral diffusion coefficient on the size of the diffusing particle may be obtained from the Saffman-Delbrück equation or the free-volume model. When diffusion is obstructed by immobile proteins or domains of gel-phase lipids, the obstacles yield an additional contrib...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Saxton MJ

更新日期：1993-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Skinned fibers of frog semitendinosus muscle could easily be stretched up to 8 mum or more in sarcomere length. Such extremely stretched fibers gave quite sharp optical diffraction patterns. The intensities of all observable diffraction lines were found to increase on application of electric field (10 similar to 100 V...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Umazume Y,Fujime S

更新日期：1975-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Slow stretch ramps (velocity: 0.17 fiber lengths s-1) were imposed during fused tetanic contractions of intact muscle fibers of the frog (1.4-3.0 degrees C; sarcomere length: 2.12-2.21 microns). Instantaneous force-extension relations were derived both under isometric conditions and during slow stretch by applying fas...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Månsson A

更新日期：1989-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have measured the electronic circular dichroism (ECD) of the ferri- and ferro-states of several natural cytochrome c derivatives (horse heart, chicken, bovine, and yeast) and the Y67F mutant of yeast in the region between 300 and 750 nm. Thus, we recorded the ECD of the B- and Q-band region as well as the charge-tr...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Dragomir I,Hagarman A,Wallace C,Schweitzer-Stenner R

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We aimed to investigate insulin amyloid fibril polymorphism caused by salt effects and heating temperature and to visualize the structural differences of the polymorphisms in situ using Raman imaging without labeling. The time course monitoring for amyloid formation was carried out in an acidic condition without any s...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Ishigaki M,Morimoto K,Chatani E,Ozaki Y

更新日期：2020-06-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The determination of intracellular protein concentrations is a prerequisite for understanding protein interaction networks in systems biology. Today, protein quantification is based either on mass spectrometry, which requires large cell numbers and sophisticated measurement protocols, or on quantitative Western blotti...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Chung YD,Sinzinger MD,Bovee-Geurts P,Krause M,Dinkla S,Joosten I,Koopman WJ,Adjobo-Hermans MJ,Brock R

更新日期：2011-12-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The bacterial flagellar motor is a rotary molecular machine that rotates the helical filaments that propel swimming bacteria. Extensive experimental and theoretical studies exist on the structure, assembly, energy input, power generation, and switching mechanism of the motor. In a previous article, we explained the ge...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Bai F,Lo CJ,Berry RM,Xing J

更新日期：2009-04-22 00:00:00

abstract：:A 250 ps molecular dynamics simulation of the dimyristoylphosphatidylcholine (DMPC)-based lipid bilayer, including explicit water molecules, is reported. The solvent environment of the head groups and other structural properties of the bilayer have been analyzed and compared with experimental results as well as our pr...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Damodaran KV,Merz KM Jr

更新日期：1994-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Can individual cells, including live cells, be imaged using hard x rays? Common wisdom until now required sophisticated staining techniques for this task. We show instead that individual cells and cell details can be detected in culture solution and tissues with no staining and no other contrast-enhancing preparation....

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Hwu Y,Tsai WL,Chang HM,Yeh HI,Hsu PC,Yang YC,Su YT,Tsai HL,Chow GM,Ho PC,Li SC,Moser HO,Yang P,Seol SK,Kim CC,Je JH,Stefanekova E,Groso A,Margaritondo G

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a puffing method for changing solutions near one surface of lipid bilayers that allows simultaneous measurement of channel activity and extent of solution change at the bilayer surface. Ion adsorption to the lipid headgroups and screening of the bilayer surface charge by mobile ions provided a convenient p...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Laver DR,Curtis BA

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00