Spectral fluctuation of a single fluorophore conjugated to a protein molecule.

abstract：:Immature human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) virions have a lattice of Gag and Gag-Pol proteins anchored to the lumen of their envelope. Using electron microscopy, we demonstrate that HIV virus-like particles (VLPs) assembled by the viral protein Gag and tagged at its C-terminus with the fluorescent protein Dendra2 hav...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Saha I,Saffarian S

更新日期：2020-08-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Stress fibers are cellular contractile actomyosin machines central to wound healing, shear stress response, and other processes. Contraction mechanisms have been difficult to establish because stress fibers in cultured cells typically exert isometric tension and present little kinetic activity. In a recent study, livi...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Stachowiak MR,O'Shaughnessy B

更新日期：2009-07-22 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：: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：:The lipid matrix, or the lipid bilayer, of cell membranes is a natural binding site for amphipathic molecules, including antimicrobial peptides, pore-forming proteins, and many drugs. The unique property of pore-forming antimicrobial peptides is that they exhibit a threshold concentration (called the lethal concentrat...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Huang HW

更新日期：2009-04-22 00:00:00

abstract：:In adherent and motile neutrophils NAD(P)H concentration, flavoprotein redox potential, and production of reactive oxygen species and nitric oxide, are all periodic and exhibit defined phase relationships to an underlying metabolic oscillation of approximately 20 s. Utilizing fluorescence microscopy, we have shown in ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Rosenspire AJ,Kindzelskii AL,Simon BJ,Petty HR

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Globotriaosylceramide (Gb3), a glycosphingolipid found in the plasma membrane of animal cells, is the endocytic receptor of the bacterial Shiga toxin. Using x-ray reflectivity (XR) and grazing incidence x-ray diffraction (GIXD), lipid monolayers containing Gb3 were investigated at the air-water interface. XR probed Gb...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Watkins EB,Gao H,Dennison AJC,Chopin N,Struth B,Arnold T,Florent JC,Johannes L

更新日期：2014-09-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The self-assembly of myosin into filamentous structures is a highly cooperative and rapid process. Nevertheless, the presence of nonequivalent bonding interactions within the filament permits differential stabilization of several macromolecular assemblies of myosin under well-controlled ionic conditions in citrate/Tri...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Reisler E,Cheung P,Borochov N

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The power spectrum of current fluctuations and the complex admittance of squid axon were determined in the frequency range 12.5 to 5,000 Hx during membrane voltage clamps to the same potentials in the same axon during internal perfusion with cesium. The complex admittance was determined rapidly and with high resolutio...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Fishman HM,Leuchtag HR,Moore LE

更新日期：1983-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:O-acetylserine sulfhydrylase, a homo-dimeric enzyme from Salmonella typhimurium, covalently binds one pyridoxal 5'-phosphate molecule per subunit as a fluorescent coenzyme. Different tautomers of the Schiff base between the coenzyme and lysine 41 generate structured absorption and fluorescence spectra upon one-photon ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Chirico G,Bettati S,Mozzarelli A,Chen Y,Müller JD,Gratton E

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We use fluorescence correlation spectroscopy and fluorescence recovery after photobleaching to study vesicle dynamics inside the synapses of cultured hippocampal neurons labeled with the fluorescent vesicle marker FM 1-43. These studies show that when the cell is electrically at rest, only a small population of vesicl...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Shtrahman M,Yeung C,Nauen DW,Bi GQ,Wu XL

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To understand better the effect of electrostatics on the rigidity of the DNA double helix, we define DNA*, the null isomer of DNA, as the hypothetical structure that would result from DNA if its phosphate groups were not ionized. For the purposes of theoretical analysis, we model DNA* as identical to ordinary DNA but ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Manning GS

更新日期：2006-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The giant protein titin is responsible for the elasticity of nonactivated muscle sarcomeres. Titin-based passive stiffness in myocardium is modulated by titin-isoform switching and protein-kinase (PK)A- or PKG-dependent titin phosphorylation. Additional modulatory effects on titin stiffness may arise from disulfide bo...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Grützner A,Garcia-Manyes S,Kötter S,Badilla CL,Fernandez JM,Linke WA

更新日期：2009-08-05 00:00:00

abstract：:A sample preparation method using spherical glass ampoules has been used to achieve 1.5-Hz resolution in 1H magic-angle spinning (MAS) nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectra of aqueous multilamellar dispersions of 1,2-dioleoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine (DOPC) and 1-palmitoyl-2-oleoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine (P...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Zhou Z,Sayer BG,Hughes DW,Stark RE,Epand RM

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An equation is derived, which connects two functions P(r) and g(x), the first being related to the scattering intensity by a simple transformation, the second to the elctron density distribution of a spherically symmetric structure. This relation seems to be a suitable starting point for an analysis of shell structure...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Weick D

更新日期：1974-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Forces between type I collagen triple helices are studied in solvents of varying hydrogen-bonding ability. The swelling of collagen fibers in reconstituted films is controlled by the concentration of soluble polymers that are excluded from the fibers and that compete osmotically with collagen for available solvent. Th...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Kuznetsova N,Rau DC,Parsegian VA,Leikin S

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The process of clathrin self-assembly into closed shells with the Fullerene structure is investigated. It is argued that the shell size distribution is governed by the kinetics of assembly and depends on the rate of growth controlled by the free clathrin concentration. The particularly abundant small structures--the "...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Shraiman BI

更新日期：1997-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cornea is the primary refractive lens in the eye and transmits >90% of incident visible light. It has been suggested that the development of postoperative corneal haze could be due to an increase in light scattering from activated corneal stromal cells. Quiescent keratocytes are thought to produce crystallins that...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Gardner SJ,White N,Albon J,Knupp C,Kamma-Lorger CS,Meek KM

更新日期：2015-10-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Photosynthetic organisms drive their metabolism by converting light energy into an electrochemical gradient with high efficiency. This conversion depends on the diffusion of quinones within the membrane. In purple photosynthetic bacteria, quinones reduced by the reaction center (RC) diffuse to the cytochrome bc(1) com...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Scheuring S,Sturgis JN

更新日期：2006-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Wiener kernels have been measured for the light growth response of a number of mutants of Phycomyces which show abnormal phototropism (mad mutants). Representative mutants were chosen from the six complementation groups (madA to madF) associated with the light response pathway. One group, madA, associated with the inp...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Lipson ED

更新日期：1975-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Some membrane peptides, such as Alamethicin, form barrel-stave aggregates with a broad probability distribution of size (number of peptides in the aggregate). This distribution has been shown to depend on the characteristics of the lipid bilayer. A mechanism for this influence is suggested, in analogy to earlier work ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Cantor RS

更新日期：2002-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:K(ATP) channels are comprised of a pore-forming protein, Kir6.x, and the sulfonylurea receptor, SURx. Interaction of adenine nucleotides with Kir6.2 positively charged amino acids such as K185 and R201 on the C-terminus causes channel closure. Substitution of these amino acids with other positively charged residues ha...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Ribalet B,John SA,Weiss JN

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rhodobacter sphaeroides can swim toward a wide range of attractants (a process known as taxis), propelled by a single rotating flagellum. The reversals of motor direction that cause tumbles in Eschericia coli taxis are replaced by brief motor stops, and taxis is controlled by a complex sensory system with multiple hom...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Berry RM,Armitage JP

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Epithelial injury induces rapid recruitment of antimicrobial leukocytes to the wound site. In zebrafish larvae, activation of the epithelial NADPH oxidase Duox at the wound margin is required early during this response. Before injury, leukocytes are near the vascular region, that is, ∼100-300 μm away from the injury s...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Jelcic M,Enyedi B,Xavier JB,Niethammer P

更新日期：2017-05-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Adaptation of the attractant response in Escherichia coli is attributable to the methylation of its transmembrane chemotactic receptors by the methyltransferase CheR. This protein contains two binding domains, one for the sites of methylation themselves and the other for a flexible tether at the C terminus of the rece...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Levin MD,Shimizu TS,Bray D

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The fusion of a membrane-bounded vesicle with a target membrane is a key step in intracellular trafficking, exocytosis, and drug delivery. Molecular dynamics simulations have been used to study the fusion of small unilamellar vesicles composed of a dipalmitoyl-phosphatidylcholine (DPPC)/palmitic acid 1:2 mixture in at...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Knecht V,Marrink SJ

更新日期：2007-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The bovine eye lens protein, alpha L crystallin, has been studied with photon correlation spectroscopy and statical light scattering in the concentration range up to 200 g/l in different solvent conditions. At higher concentration (c greater than 70 g/l) the scattering behavior is quite complicated, which results in n...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Andries C,Clauwaert J

更新日期：1985-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The presence of two liquid-crystalline phases, alpha and beta, in mixed bilayers of dimyristoylphosphatidylcholine/cholesterol was detected by the changes in the distribution of the fluorescence lifetimes of t-PnA, as analyzed by the Maximum Entropy Method. The formation of the liquid-ordered beta-phase, in the 30-40 ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Reyes Mateo C,Ulises Acuña A,Brochon JC

更新日期：1995-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An approach is introduced to characterize conformational ensembles of intrinsically unstructured peptides on the atomic level using two-dimensional solid-state NMR data and their combination with molecular dynamics simulations. For neurotensin, a peptide that binds with high affinity to a G-protein coupled receptor, t...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Heise H,Luca S,de Groot BL,Grubmüller H,Baldus M

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have developed a novel, spectroscopic technique for high-sensitivity, label-free DNA quantification. We demonstrate that an optical resonance (whispering gallery mode) excited in a micron-sized silica sphere can be used to detect and measure nucleic acids. The surface of the silica sphere is chemically modified wit...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Vollmer F,Arnold S,Braun D,Teraoka I,Libchaber A

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00