A membrane model for cytosolic calcium oscillations. A study using Xenopus oocytes.

abstract：:The triplet state absorption and phosphorescence of Zn and Pd derivatives of myoglobin were compared. Both metal derivatives exhibit long triplet state lifetimes at room temperature, but whereas the Pd derivative showed exponential decay and an isosbestic point in the transient absorption spectra, the decay of the Zn ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Papp S,Vanderkooi JM,Owen CS,Holtom GR,Phillips CM

更新日期：1990-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of peptides, corresponding to sequences in the skeletal muscle dihydropyridine receptor II-III loop, on Ca(2+) release from sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR) and on ryanodine receptor (RyR) calcium release channels have been compared in preparations from normal and malignant hyperthermia (MH)-susceptible pigs. Pe...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Gallant EM,Curtis S,Pace SM,Dulhunty AF

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many traditional approaches to the analysis of sedimentation velocity data work poorly with data for low-molecular-weight solutes, which have sedimentation boundaries that are severely broadened by diffusion. An approach that has previously had some success is to directly fit these broad boundaries to approximate solu...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Philo JS

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Amyloid fibrils are associated with many neurodegenerative diseases. It was found that amyloidogenic oligomers, not mature fibrils, are neurotoxic agents related to these diseases. Molecular mechanisms of infectivity, pathways of aggregation, and molecular structure of these oligomers remain elusive. Here, we use all-...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Blinov N,Dorosh L,Wishart D,Kovalenko A

更新日期：2010-01-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The electronic structure of the circular aggregate of 18 bacteriochlorophyll a (BChl a) molecules responsible for the B850 absorption band of the light-harvesting 2 (LH2) complex of the photosynthetic purple bacterium Rhodopseudomonas acidophila has been studied by measuring fluorescence-excitation spectra of individu...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Ketelaars M,van Oijen AM,Matsushita M,Köhler J,Schmidt J,Aartsma TJ

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The kinetics of porin incorporation into black lipid membranes (BLM) made of phosphatidylinositol (PI) or oxidized cholesterol (Ox Ch) were studied by means of alternating current; the set-up was able to acquire resistance and capacitance simultaneously by means of a mixed double-frequency approach at 1 Hz and 1 KHz, ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Gallucci E,Micelli S,Monticelli G

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plant light-harvesting complex II (LHCII) is the key antenna complex for plant photosynthesis. We present coarse-grained molecular dynamics simulations of monomeric and trimeric LHCII in a realistic thylakoid membrane environment based on the Martini force field. The coarse-grained protein model has been optimized wit...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Thallmair S,Vainikka PA,Marrink SJ

更新日期：2019-04-23 00:00:00

abstract：:We present a theoretical and experimental analysis of the effects of nonlinear flow in a cone-plate viscometer. The analysis predicts that flow in the viscometer is a function of two parameters, the Reynolds number and the cone angle. Nonlinear flow occurs at high shear rates and causes spatial variations in wall shea...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Shankaran H,Neelamegham S

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nitrile hydratase (NHase) is an enzyme used in the industrial biotechnological production of acrylamide. The active site, which contains nonheme iron or noncorrin cobalt, is buried in the protein core at the interface of two domains, alpha and beta. Hydrogen bonds between betaArg-56 and alphaCys-114 sulfenic acid (alp...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Kubiak K,Nowak W

更新日期：2008-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:We report that voltage-gated Na+ channels (Na(V)) from rat muscle (mu1) expressed in HEK293 cells exhibit anomalous rectification of whole-cell outward current under conditions of symmetrical Na+. This behavior gradually fades with time after membrane break-in, as if a diffusible blocking substance in the cytoplasm is...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Huang CJ,Moczydlowski E

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the last decades, it has been demonstrated that many animal species orient in the Earth magnetic field. One of the best-studied examples is the use of the geomagnetic field by migratory birds for orientation and navigation. However, the biophysical mechanism underlying animal magnetoreception is still not understoo...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Solov'yov IA,Schulten K

更新日期：2009-06-17 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigate the permeability of lipid membranes for fluorescence dyes and ions. We find that permeability reaches a maximum close to the chain melting transition of the membranes. Close to transitions, fluctuations in area and compressibility are high, leading to an increased likelihood of spontaneous lipid pore fo...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Blicher A,Wodzinska K,Fidorra M,Winterhalter M,Heimburg T

更新日期：2009-06-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The crystal structure of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis homolog of the bacterial mechanosensitive channel of large conductance (Tb-MscL) provides a unique opportunity to consider mechanosensitive signal transduction at the atomic level. Molecular dynamics simulations of the Tb-MscL channel embedded in an explicit lipi...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Elmore DE,Dougherty DA

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Under various physiological and nonphysiological conditions, the intramembranous particles, as seen by freeze-fracture electron microscopy, may be in various degrees of aggregation. To compare various schemes for the measurement of the degree of aggregation, a computer program has been used to generate simulated aggre...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Donnell JT 2nd,Finegold LX

更新日期：1981-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Peptidoglycan hydrolases are bacterial secreted enzymes that cleave covalent bonds in the cell-wall peptidoglycan, thereby fulfilling major physiological functions during cell growth and division. Although the molecular structure and functional roles of these enzymes have been widely studied, the molecular details und...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Beaussart A,Rolain T,Duchêne MC,El-Kirat-Chatel S,Andre G,Hols P,Dufrêne YF

更新日期：2013-08-06 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 calyx of Held is a giant nerve terminal that forms a glutamatergic synapse in the auditory pathway. Due to its large size, it offers a number of advantages for biophysical studies, including voltage-clamp of both pre- and postsynaptic compartments and the loading with indicator dyes and caged compounds. Three aspe...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Neher E

更新日期：2017-01-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The conformation of ribosomal protein S4 from Escherichia coli has been studied by circular dichroism (CD) and shown to possess unique conformation free in solution. The near ultraviolet spectrum suggests the existence of unique tertiary structural environment for the aromatic amino acid residues. The far ultraviolet ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Allen SH,Wong KP

更新日期：1978-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanical properties of cross-linked microtubule bundles were measured from outer pillar cells isolated from the mammalian inner ear. Measurements were made using a three-point bending test and were incorporated into a mathematical model designed to distinguish between the stiffness contributions from microtubule...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Tolomeo JA,Holley MC

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study presents a simplified version of the quasi-one-dimensional theory (Wu, J., E. A. Johnson, and J. M. Kootsey. 1996. A quasi-one-dimensional theory for anisotropic propagation of excitation in cardiac muscle. Biophys. J. 71:2427-2439) with two components of the extracellular current, along and perpendicular t...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Wu J,Wikswo JP Jr

更新日期：1997-11-01 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：:Cryoelectron microscopy has been used to study the reorganization of unilamellar cationic lipid vesicles upon the addition of DNA. Unilamellar DNA-coated vesicles, as well as multilamellar DNA lipid complexes, could be observed. Also, DNA induced fusion of unilamellar vesicles was found. DNA appears to adsorb to the o...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Huebner S,Battersby BJ,Grimm R,Cevc G

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Binding features of heroin in whole blood and in blood fractions were delineated by measuring the selective spin-lattice relaxation rates of heroin protons in physiologic conditions. Interaction with some receptor located in the whole human blood or in the human plasma was detected and the apparent binding constant ca...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Barni Comparini I,Gaggelli E,Marchettini N,Valensin G

更新日期：1985-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The chromophore of octopus rhodopsin is 11-cis retinal, linked via a protonated Schiff base to the protein backbone. Its stable photoproduct, metarhodopsin, has all-trans retinal as its chromphore. The Schiff base of acid metarhodopsin (lambda max = 510 nm) is protonated, whereas that of alkaline metarhodopsin (lambda...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Koutalos Y,Ebrey TG,Gilson HR,Honig B

更新日期：1990-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Our ability to understand speech requires neural tuning with high frequency resolution, but the peripheral mechanisms underlying sharp tuning in humans remain unclear. Sharp tuning in genetically modified mice has been attributed to decreases in spread of excitation of tectorial membrane traveling waves. Here we show ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Farrahi S,Ghaffari R,Sellon JB,Nakajima HH,Freeman DM

更新日期：2016-09-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Many approaches for studying the transmembrane potential (TMP) induced during the treatment of biological cells with pulsed electric fields have been reported. From the simple analytical models to more complex numerical models requiring significant computational resources, a gamut of methods have been used to recapitu...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Murovec T,Sweeney DC,Latouche E,Davalos RV,Brosseau C

更新日期：2016-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Gap junctions formed of connexin46 (Cx46) and connexin50 (Cx50) in lens fiber cells are crucial for maintaining lens transparency. We determined the functional properties of homotypic Cx46, heterotypic Cx46/Cx50, and heteromeric Cx46/Cx50 channels in a communication-deficient neuroblastoma (N2A) cell line, using dual ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Hopperstad MG,Srinivas M,Spray DC

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present a molecular model of a chromatophore vesicle from Rhodobacter sphaeroides. These vesicles are ideal benchmark systems for molecular and systemic simulations, because they have been well studied, they are small, and they are naturally separated from their cellular environment. To set up a photosynthetic chai...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Geyer T,Helms V

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Probes and biosensors that incorporate luminescent Tb(III) or Eu(III) complexes are promising for cellular imaging because time-gated microscopes can detect their long-lifetime (approximately milliseconds) emission without interference from short-lifetime (approximately nanoseconds) fluorescence background. Moreover, ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Rajendran M,Miller LW

更新日期：2015-07-21 00:00:00

abstract：:We study the stochastic dynamics of growth and shrinkage of single actin filaments taking into account insertion, removal, and ATP hydrolysis of subunits either according to the vectorial mechanism or to the random mechanism. In a previous work, we developed a model for a single actin or microtubule filament where hyd...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Ranjith P,Mallick K,Joanny JF,Lacoste D

更新日期：2010-04-21 00:00:00