Low-resolution reconstruction of a synthetic DNA holliday junction.

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：:We modeled two different mechanisms, a shunting conductance and a slow sodium inactivation, to test whether they could modulate the active propagation of a train of action potentials in a dendritic tree. Computer simulations, using a compartmental model of a pyramidal neuron, suggest that each of these two mechanisms ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Migliore M

更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied the effects of permeant ions on the gating of the large conductance Ca(2+)-activated K+ channel from rat skeletal muscle. Rb+ blockade of inward K+ current caused an increase in the open probability as though Rb+ occupancy of the pore interferes with channel closing. In support of this hypothesis, we direct...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Demo SD,Yellen G

更新日期：1992-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:39K nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectra were readily obtained, in vivo, from rat muscle, kidney, and brain in 5-10 min with signal-to-noise ratios of approximately 20:1. Quantitation of the K+ signal was achieved by reference to an external standard of KCl/dysprosium nitrate as well as by reference to the proton ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Adam WR,Koretsky AP,Weiner MW

更新日期：1987-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Photoreverse reactions of octopus rhodopsin (Rh) from acid-metarhodopsin (Acid-Meta), which is the final product of the photoreaction of Rh, to Rh were studied by the time-resolved transient absorption and transient grating methods. The time course of the absorption signal showed a rapid change within 500 ns followed ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Inoue K,Tsuda M,Terazima M

更新日期：2007-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein solubility in aqueous solutions depends in a complicated and not well understood way on pH, salt type, and salt concentration. Why for instance does the use of two different monovalent salts, potassium thiocyanate and potassium chloride, produce such different results? One important and previously neglected so...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Boström M,Williams DR,Ninham BW

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cardiomyocytes have intracellular diffusion restrictions, which spatially compartmentalize ADP and ATP. However, the models that predict diffusion restrictions have used data sets generated in rat heart permeabilized fibers, where diffusion distances may be heterogeneous. This is avoided by using isolated, permeabiliz...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Sepp M,Vendelin M,Vija H,Birkedal R

更新日期：2010-06-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Aquaporin (AQP) functions as a water-conducting pore. Mercury inhibits the water permeation through AQP. Although site-directed mutagenesis has shown that mercury binds to Cys189 during the inhibition process, it is not fully understood how this inhibits the water permeation through AQP1. We carried out 40 ns molecula...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Hirano Y,Okimoto N,Kadohira I,Suematsu M,Yasuoka K,Yasui M

更新日期：2010-04-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Ca2+ transport through mitochondrial Ca2+ uniporter is the primary Ca2+ uptake mechanism in respiring mitochondria. Thus, the uniporter plays a key role in regulating mitochondrial Ca2+. Despite the importance of mitochondrial Ca2+ to metabolic regulation and mitochondrial function, and to cell physiology and pathophy...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Dash RK,Qi F,Beard DA

更新日期：2009-02-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Mechanical and two-dimensional (2D) x-ray diffraction studies suggest that during isometric steady-state contraction, strongly bound cross-bridges mostly occupy early states in the power stroke, whereas rigor or rigor-like cross-bridges could not be detected. However, it remained unclear whether cross-bridges accumula...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Radocaj A,Weiss T,Helsby WI,Brenner B,Kraft T

更新日期：2009-02-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The analysis of single-molecule fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET) trajectories has become one of significant biophysical interest. In deducing the transition rates between various states of a system for time-binned data, researchers have relied on simple, but often arbitrary methods of extracting rates fro...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： McKinney SA,Joo C,Ha T

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have studied the atomic level structure of mineralized articular cartilage with heteronuclear solid-state NMR, our aims being to identify the inorganic species present at the surfaces of the mineral crystals which may interact with the surrounding organic matrix and to determine which components of the organic matr...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Duer MJ,Friscić T,Murray RC,Reid DG,Wise ER

更新日期：2009-04-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Nanodiscs that hold a lipid bilayer surrounded by a boundary of scaffold proteins have emerged as a powerful tool for membrane protein solubilization and analysis. By combining nanodiscs and cell-free expression technologies, even completely detergent-free membrane protein characterization protocols can be designed. N...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Henrich E,Sörmann J,Eberhardt P,Peetz O,Mezhyrova J,Morgner N,Fendler K,Dötsch V,Wachtveitl J,Bernhard F,Bamann C

更新日期：2017-09-19 00:00:00

abstract：:In the budding yeast nucleus, transfer RNA (tRNA) genes are considered to localize in the vicinity of the nucleolus; however, the use of Hi-C and fluorescent repressor-operator system techniques has clearly indicated that the tRNA genes are distributed not only around the nucleolus but also at other nuclear locations....

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Tokuda N

更新日期：2020-05-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Autoregulatory feedback loops are one of the most common network motifs. A wide variety of stochastic models have been constructed to understand how the fluctuations in protein numbers in these loops are influenced by the kinetic parameters of the main biochemical steps. These models differ according to 1) which subce...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Holehouse J,Cao Z,Grima R

更新日期：2020-04-07 00:00:00

abstract：:In this work we have designed a simple system to investigate empirically the image contrast of tapping-mode atomic force microscopy (TMAFM). We modified the cantilever tips with protein molecules (bovine serum albumin or goat anti-biotin antibody) and used these protein-modified cantilevers to scan poly-L-lysine films...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： You H,Yu L

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cyclic GMP (cGMP) is the intracellular messenger mediating phototransduction in retinal rods, with its longitudinal diffusion in the rod outer segment (ROS) likely to be a factor in determining light sensitivity. From the kinetics of cGMP-activated currents in the truncated ROS of the salamander (Ambystoma tigrinum), ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Koutalos Y,Brown RL,Karpen JW,Yau KW

更新日期：1995-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Biological spread cells exist in a perpetually fluctuating state and therefore cannot be described in terms of a unique deterministic system. For modeling approaches to provide novel insight and uncover new mechanisms that drive cell behavior, a framework is required that progresses from traditional deterministic meth...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： McEvoy E,Shishvan SS,Deshpande VS,McGarry JP

更新日期：2018-12-18 00:00:00

abstract：:In two-color fluorescence correlation spectroscopy (TCFCS), the fluorescence intensities of two fluorescently-labeled species are cross-correlated over time and can be used to identify static and dynamic interactions. Generally, fluorophore labels are chosen that do not undergo Förster resonance energy transfer (FRET)...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Hom EF,Verkman AS

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dispersed pump-dump-probe spectroscopy has the ability to characterize and identify the underlying ultrafast dynamical processes in complicated chemical and biological systems. This technique builds on traditional pump-probe techniques by exploring both ground- and excited-state dynamics and characterizing the connect...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Larsen DS,Vengris M,van Stokkum IH,van der Horst MA,de Weerd FL,Hellingwerf KJ,van Grondelle R

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The brain Na+ channel-1 (BNC1, also known as MDEG1 or ASIC2) is a member of the DEG/ENaC cation channel family. Mutation of a specific residue (Gly430) that lies N-terminal to the second membrane-spanning domain activates BNC1 and converts it from a Na+-selective channel to one permeable to both Na+ and K+. Because al...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Adams CM,Price MP,Snyder PM,Welsh MJ

更新日期：1999-03-01 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 molecular motor protein myosin VI moves toward the minus-end of actin filaments with a step size of 30-36 nm. Such large step size either drastically limits the degree of complex formation between dimer subunits to leave enough length for the lever arms, or requires an extension of the lever arms' crystallographic...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Liu Y,Hsin J,Kim H,Selvin PR,Schulten K

更新日期：2011-06-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Fundamental mechanisms governing cell size control and homeostasis are still poorly understood. The relationship between sizes at division and birth in single cells is used as a metric to categorize the basis of size homeostasis. Cells dividing at a fixed size regardless of birth size (sizer) are expected to show a di...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Facchetti G,Knapp B,Chang F,Howard M

更新日期：2019-11-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Presented here is a quantitative model of the wrapping and unwrapping of the DNA around the histone core of the nucleosome that suggests a mechanism by which this transition can be controlled: alteration of the charge state of the globular histone core. The mechanism is relevant to several classes of posttranslational...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Fenley AT,Adams DA,Onufriev AV

更新日期：2010-09-08 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：:Previous mathematical modeling of beta cell electrical activity has involved single cells or, recently, clusters of identical cells. Here we model clusters of heterogeneous cells that differ in size, channel density, and other parameters. We use gap-junctional electrical coupling, with conductances determined by an ex...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Smolen P,Rinzel J,Sherman A

更新日期：1993-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have examined the mechanisms underlying the voltage sensitivity of alpha-amino-3-hydroxy-5-methyl-4-isoxazolepropionate receptors in voltage-clamped outside-out patches and whole cells taken from the nucleus magnocellularis of the chick. Responses to either glutamate or kainate had outwardly rectifying current-volt...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Raman IM,Trussell LO

更新日期：1995-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Time-resolved dielectric loss (TRDL) measurements are reported for the photochemical excitation of bacteriorhodopsin (bR) in solid films of Halobacterium halobium purple membranes. These measurements provide an independent confirmation for the existence of an important component of charge separation in these membranes...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： McIntosh AR,Boucher F

更新日期：1991-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have investigated the phase behavior of self-assembled lyotropic liquid crystals (LC) formed by ternary mixtures of oleoylethanolamide (OEA), water and arginine. OEA, a natural analog of the endogenous cannabinoid anandamide involved in the peripheral regulation of feeding, was selected as a main component due to i...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Mohammady SZ,Pouzot M,Mezzenga R

更新日期：2009-02-18 00:00:00