Sodium dodecyl sulfate-resistant complexes of Alzheimer's amyloid beta-peptide with the N-terminal, receptor binding domain of apolipoprotein E.

abstract：:Single-molecule methods provide direct measurements of macromolecular dynamics, but are limited by the number of degrees of freedom that can be followed at one time. High-resolution rotor bead tracking (RBT) measures DNA torque, twist, and extension, and can be used to characterize the structural dynamics of DNA and d...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Ivanov IE,Lebel P,Oberstrass FC,Starr CH,Parente AC,Ierokomos A,Bryant Z

更新日期：2018-01-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The properties of vesicle membranes prepared from 16:0-SM, 16:0-DHSM, or DPPC were characterized using steady-state and time-resolved fluorescence spectroscopy and different fluorescent reporter molecules. The acyl-chain region was probed using free and phospholipid-bound 1,6-diphenyl-1,3,5-hexatriene. 16:0-DHSM was f...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Nyholm T,Nylund M,Söderholm A,Slotte JP

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is now rare to find biological, or genetic investigations that do not rely on the tools, data, and thinking drawn from the genomic sciences. Much of this revolution is powered by contemporary sequencing approaches that readily deliver large, genome-wide data sets that not only provide genetic insights but also uniq...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Schwartz DC

更新日期：2019-12-03 00:00:00

abstract：:A new Fourier series representation of supercoiled DNA is employed in Langevin dynamics simulations to study large-scale configurational motions of intermediate-length chains. The polymer is modeled as an ideal elastic rod subject to long-range van der Waals' interactions. The van der Waals' term prevents the self-con...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Liu G,Schlick T,Olson AJ,Olson WK

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Small amounts of paramagnetic cations quench the phosphorescence of DNA. Although the emission intensity is monotonic with increasing thymine content, the quenching efficiency is not. The cations quench from phosphate sites. ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Isenberg I,Rosenbluth R,Baird SL Jr

更新日期：1967-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Electrically excitable channels were expressed in Chinese hamster ovary cells using a vaccinia virus vector system. In cells expressing rat brain IIA Na+ channels only, brief pulses (< 1 ms) of depolarizing current resulted in action potentials with a prolonged (0.5-3 s) depolarizing plateau; this plateau was caused b...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Hsu H,Huang E,Yang XC,Karschin A,Labarca C,Figl A,Ho B,Davidson N,Lester HA

更新日期：1993-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Forces applied by intact mucus-propelling cilia were measured for the first time that we know of using a combined atomic force microscopy (AFM) and electrooptic system. The AFM probe was dipped into a field of beating cilia and its time-dependent deflection was recorded as it was struck by the cilia while the electroo...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Teff Z,Priel Z,Gheber LA

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The atomic force microscopy (AFM) indentation method combined with the brush model can be used to separate the mechanical response of the cell body from deformation of the pericellular layer surrounding biological cells. Although self-consistency of the brush model to derive the elastic modulus of the cell body has be...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Dokukin M,Ablaeva Y,Kalaparthi V,Seluanov A,Gorbunova V,Sokolov I

更新日期：2016-07-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Bases, nucleosides, nucleotides, and polynucleotides were exposed to chemically generated singlet oxygen to determine whether the species oxidized paralleled those oxidized in photodynamic reactions. In neutral or basic aqueous solution guanine, guanosine, deoxyguanosine, guanylic acid, deoxyguanylic acid, thymine, an...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Hallett FR,Hallett BP,Snipes W

更新日期：1970-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lateral tension in cell plasma membranes plays an essential role in regulation of a number of membrane-related intracellular processes and cell motion. Understanding the physical factors generating the lateral tension and quantitative determination of the tension distribution along the cell membrane is an emerging top...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Schweitzer Y,Lieber AD,Keren K,Kozlov MM

更新日期：2014-01-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Multiplex hybridization reactions of perfectly matched duplexes and duplexes containing a single basepair mismatch (SNPs) were investigated on DNA microarrays. Effects of duplex length, G-C percentage, and relative position of the SNP on duplex hybridization and SNP resolution were determined. Our theoretical model of...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Fish DJ,Horne MT,Searles RP,Brewood GP,Benight AS

更新日期：2007-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Molecular dynamics calculations demonstrated the conformational change in the prion protein due to Ala(117)-->Val mutation, which is related to Gerstmann-Sträussler-Sheinker disease, one of the familial prion diseases. Three kinds of model structures of human and mouse prion proteins were examined: (model 1) nuclear m...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Okimoto N,Yamanaka K,Suenaga A,Hata M,Hoshino T

更新日期：2002-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Magic-angle spinning nuclear magnetic resonance is well suited for the study of membrane proteins in the nativelike lipid environment. However, the natural cellular membrane is invariably more complex than the proteoliposomes most often used for solid-state NMR (SSNMR) studies, and differences may affect the structure...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Ward ME,Wang S,Munro R,Ritz E,Hung I,Gor'kov PL,Jiang Y,Liang H,Brown LS,Ladizhansky V

更新日期：2015-04-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Normally, isothermal titration calorimetry (ITC) is used to study binding reactions between two different biomolecules. Self-association processes leading to homo-oligomeric complexes have usually not been studied by ITC; instead, methods such as spectroscopy and analytical ultracentrifugation, which only provide affi...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Luke K,Apiyo D,Wittung-Stafshede P

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A potassium-selective, chemically excitable channel, whose characteristics cannot be accurately described by constant-field theory, is studied by a new approach based on diffusion theory but with no need for the classical assumptions of constant field, homogeneous membrane, and equal phase-boundary potentials at both ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Schwartz TL,Kado RT

更新日期：1977-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Changes in the ultraviolet light scattering from a suspension of purple membrane fragments were detected during the photocycle of bacteriorhodopsin with a cross-correlation method. The scattered light intensity from a suspension of membrane fragments containing the protein bacteriorhodopsin was measured on a logarithm...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Czégé J,Reinisch L

更新日期：1990-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A recipe is given for designing theoretical models for donor-acceptor systems in which fluorescence energy transfer and motion takes place simultaneously. This recipe is based on the idea that a system exhibiting both motion and fluorescence energy transfer can be modeled by specifying a number of "states" and the rat...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： van der Meer BW,Raymer MA,Wagoner SL,Hackney RL,Beechem JM,Gratton E

更新日期：1993-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Maintenance of paroxysmal atrial fibrillation (AF) by fast rotors in the left atrium (LA) or at the pulmonary veins (PVs) is not fully understood. To gain insight into this dynamic and complex process, we studied the role of the heterogeneous distribution of transmembrane currents in the PVs and LA junction (PV-LAJ) i...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Calvo CJ,Deo M,Zlochiver S,Millet J,Berenfeld O

更新日期：2014-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Proteins must be stable to accomplish their biological function and to avoid enzymatic degradation. Constitutive proteolysis, however, is the main source of free amino acids used for de novo protein synthesis. In this paper the delicate balance of protein stability and degradability is discussed in the context of func...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Simon A,Dosztányi Zs,Rajnavölgyi E,Simon I

更新日期：2000-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to gain insight into how interactions between proteins and lipids in membranes are sensed at the protein-lipid interface. As a probe to analyze this interface, we used deuterium-labeled acyl chains that were covalently linked to a model transmembrane peptide. First, a perdeuterated palmitoyl ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Nyholm TK,van Duyl B,Rijkers DT,Liskamp RM,Killian JA

更新日期：2011-10-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Fibrin polymerizes to produce branching fibers forming a three-dimensional network, which has been difficult to visualize by conventional microscopy. Three-dimensional images of whole clots at high resolution were obtained from stereo-pair intermediate-voltage electron micrographs. Computer software was developed to p...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Baradet TC,Haselgrove JC,Weisel JW

更新日期：1995-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding cellular membrane processes is critical for the study of events such as viral entry, neurotransmitter exocytosis, and immune activation. Supported lipid bilayers are commonly used to model these membrane processes experimentally. Despite the relative simplicity of such a system, many important structural...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Kasson PM,Pande VS

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A filopodium is a cytoplasmic projection, exquisitely built and regulated, which extends from the leading edge of the migrating cell, exploring the cell's neighborhood. Commonly, filopodia grow and retract after their initiation, exhibiting rich dynamical behaviors. We model the growth of a filopodium based on a stoch...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Lan Y,Papoian GA

更新日期：2008-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Dual-trap optical tweezers are often used in high-resolution measurements in single-molecule biophysics. Such measurements can be hindered by the presence of extraneous noise sources, the most prominent of which is the coupling of fluctuations along different spatial directions, which may affect any optical tweezers s...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Ribezzi-Crivellari M,Ritort F

更新日期：2012-11-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Disruption of the integrity of the plasma membrane by amyloidogenic proteins is linked to the pathogenesis of a number of common age-related diseases. Although accumulating evidence suggests that adverse environmental stressors such as unbalanced levels of metal ions may trigger amyloid-mediated membrane damage, many ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Sciacca MF,Milardi D,Messina GM,Marletta G,Brender JR,Ramamoorthy A,La Rosa C

更新日期：2013-01-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The bacterial flagellar motor (BFM) is a molecular machine that rotates the helical filaments and propels the bacteria swimming toward favorable conditions. In our previous works, we built a stochastic conformational spread model to explain the dynamic and cooperative behavior of BFM switching. Here, we extended this ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Ma Q,Sowa Y,Baker MA,Bai F

更新日期：2016-03-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The water channel aquaporin-4 (AQP4) forms supramolecular clusters whose size is determined by the ratio of M1- and M23-AQP4 isoforms. In cultured astrocytes, differences in the subcellular localization and macromolecular interactions of small and large AQP4 clusters results in distinct physiological roles for M1- and...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Smith AJ,Verkman AS

更新日期：2015-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The cardiac muscle protein titin, responsible for developing passive elasticity and extensibility of muscle, possesses about 40 immunoglobulin-like (Ig) domains in its I-band region. Atomic force microscopy (AFM) and steered molecular dynamics (SMD) have been successfully combined to investigate the reversible unfoldi...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Gao M,Wilmanns M,Schulten K

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clostridium difficile (C. diff) is one of the most common and most severe hospital-acquired infections; its consequences range from lengthened hospital stay to outright lethality. C. diff causes cellular damage through the action of two large toxins TcdA and TcdB. Recently, there has been increased effort toward devel...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Swett RJ,Cisneros GA,Feig AL

更新日期：2013-07-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The accurate prediction of membrane-insertion probability for arbitrary protein sequences is a critical challenge to identifying membrane proteins and determining their folded structures. Although algorithms based on sequence statistics have had moderate success, a complete understanding of the energetic factors that ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Gumbart J,Roux B

更新日期：2012-02-22 00:00:00