Functional properties of the Drosophila melanogaster inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate receptor mutants.

abstract：:Inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate (InsP(3)) receptors (InsP(3)Rs) are intracellular Ca(2+) channels gated by the second messenger InsP(3). Here we describe a novel approach for recording single-channel currents through recombinant InsP(3)Rs in mammalian cells that applies patch-clamp electrophysiology to nuclei isolated fr...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Boehning D,Joseph SK,Mak DO,Foskett JK

更新日期：2001-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ejection of DNA from a bacterial virus (i.e., phage) into its host cell is a biologically important example of the translocation of a macromolecular chain along its length through a membrane. The simplest mechanism for this motion is diffusion, but in the case of phage ejection a significant driving force derives ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Inamdar MM,Gelbart WM,Phillips R

更新日期：2006-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Knowledge about the influenza fusion peptide (FP) membrane insertion mode is crucial for understanding its fusogenic mechanism. NMR and electron paramagnetic resonance experiments showed that in micelles, the FP inserted as a fixed-angle inverted V. In membranes, however, it was shown to insert as a straight α-helix (...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Légaré S,Lagüe P

更新日期：2012-05-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The excess oxygen concentration in the photosynthetic membranes of functioning oxygenic photosynthetic cells was estimated using classical diffusion theory combined with experimental data on oxygen production rates of cyanobacterial cells. The excess oxygen concentration within the plesiomorphic cyanobacterium Gloeoba...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Kihara S,Hartzler DA,Savikhin S

更新日期：2014-05-06 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied the cold unfolding of myoglobin with Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy and compared it with pressure and heat unfolding. Because protein aggregation is a phenomenon with medical as well as biotechnological implications, we were interested in both the structural changes as well as the aggregation behav...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Meersman F,Smeller L,Heremans K

更新日期：2002-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined the effects of brief current pulses on the pacemaker oscillations of the Purkinje fiber using the model of McAllister , Noble, and Tsien (1975. J. Physiol. [Lond.]. 251:1-57). This model was used to construct phase-response curves for brief electric stimuli to find "black holes," where rhythmic activity of...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Chay TR,Lee YS

更新日期：1984-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Actin dynamics is important in determining cell shape, tension, and migration. Methods such as fluorescent speckle microscopy and spatial temporal image correlation spectroscopy have been used to capture high-resolution actin turnover dynamics within cells in two dimensions. However, these methods are not directly app...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Chiu CL,Digman MA,Gratton E

更新日期：2013-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:We demonstrate the first, to our knowledge, integration of stimulated emission depletion (STED) with selective plane illumination microscopy (SPIM). Using this method, we were able to obtain up to 60% improvements in axial resolution with lateral resolution enhancements in control samples and zebrafish embryos. The in...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Friedrich M,Gan Q,Ermolayev V,Harms GS

更新日期：2011-04-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Polarized Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy has been used to study the structure of purple membrane from Halobacterium halobium. Membranes were oriented by drying a suspension of membrane fragments onto Irtran-4 slides. Dichroism measurements of the amide I, II and A peaks were used to find the average spatial o...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Rothschild KJ,Clark NA

更新日期：1979-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fusion of lipid bilayers proceeds via a sequence of distinct structural transformations. Its early stage involves a localized, hemifused intermediate in which the proximal but not yet the distal monolayers are connected. Whereas the so-called stalk model most successfully accounts for the properties of the hemifused i...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： May S

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phenotypic plasticity is posed to be a vital trait of cancer cells such as circulating tumor cells, allowing them to undergo reversible or irreversible switching between phenotypic states important for tumorigenesis and metastasis. While irreversible phenotypic switching can be detected by studying the genome, reversi...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Aw Yong KM,Sun Y,Merajver SD,Fu J

更新日期：2017-03-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Fluorescence recovery after photobleaching (FRAP) has been used previously to investigate the kinetics of binding to biological surfaces. The present study adapts and further develops this technique for the quantification of mass transport and reaction parameters in bulk media. The technique's ability to obtain the bu...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Kaufman EN,Jain RK

更新日期：1991-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It was shown previously that a significant fraction of the myosin crossbridges is attached to actin in the skinned rabbit psoas fibers under relaxed conditions at low ionic strength and low temperature (Brenner, B., M. Schoenberg, J. M. Chalovich, L. E. Greene, and E. Eisenberg. 1982. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. 79:72...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Yu LC,Brenner B

更新日期：1989-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An understanding of the structure-dynamics relationship is essential for understanding how a protein works. Prior research has shown that the activity of a protein correlates with intradomain dynamics occurring at picosecond to millisecond timescales. However, the correlation between interdomain dynamics and the funct...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Kumar L,Nash A,Harms C,Planas-Iglesias J,Wright D,Klein-Seetharaman J,Sarkar SK

更新日期：2020-07-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies have demonstrated that the carboxyl terminus of the gap junction protein Cx43 (Cx43CT) can act as an independent, regulatory domain that modulates intercellular communication in response to appropriate chemical stimuli. Here, we have used NMR, chemical cross-linking, and analytical ultracentrifugation...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Sorgen PL,Duffy HS,Spray DC,Delmar M

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many animals regulate power generation for locomotion by varying the number of muscle fibers used for movement. However, insects with asynchronous flight muscles may regulate the power required for flight by varying the calcium concentration ([Ca(2+)]). In vivo myoplasmic calcium levels in Drosophila flight muscle hav...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Wang Q,Zhao C,Swank DM

更新日期：2011-11-02 00:00:00

abstract：:PROPPINs (β-propellers that bind polyphosphoinositides) are a family of PtdIns3P- and PtdIns(3,5)P2-binding proteins that play an important role in autophagy. We analyzed PROPPIN-membrane binding through isothermal titration calorimetry (ITC), stopped-flow measurements, mutagenesis studies, and molecular dynamics (MD)...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Busse RA,Scacioc A,Krick R,Pérez-Lara Á,Thumm M,Kühnel K

更新日期：2015-05-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Calculations are reported of the time-dependent Nernst-Planck equations for a thin permeable membrane between electrolytic solutions. Charge neutrality is assumed for the time-dependent case. The response of such a membrane system to step current input is measured in terms of the time and space changes in concentratio...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： COHEN H,COOLEY JW

更新日期：1965-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The antagonizing effect of high pressure against anesthesia is well known. With purified firefly luciferase, however,. Biophys. J. 60:1309-1314) reported that high pressure did not affect the initial flash intensity. Firefly luciferase emits a burst of light when the substrates luciferin and ATP are added in the prese...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Ueda I,Minami H,Matsuki H,Inoue T

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nisin is an antimicrobial peptide used as food preservative. To gain some insights into the hypothesis that its bactericidal activity is due to the perturbation of the lipid fraction of the bacterial plasmic membrane, we have investigated the effect of nisin on model phosphatidylcholine (PC) membranes. We show that ni...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： El Jastimi R,Edwards K,Lafleur M

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The suprachiasmatic nucleus governs daily variations of physiology and behavior in mammals. Within single neurons, interlocked transcriptional/translational feedback loops generate circadian rhythms on the molecular level. We present a mathematical model that reflects the essential features of the mammalian circadian ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Becker-Weimann S,Wolf J,Herzel H,Kramer A

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A subsarcolemmal tubular system network (SSTN) has been detected in skeletal muscle fibers by confocal imaging after the removal of the sarcolemma. Here we confirm the existence and resolve the fine architecture and the localization of the SSTN at an unprecedented level of detail by examining extracellularly applied t...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Jayasinghe ID,Lo HP,Morgan GP,Baddeley D,Parton RG,Soeller C,Launikonis BS

更新日期：2013-06-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Many complex cellular processes from mitosis to cell motility depend on the ability of the cytoskeleton to generate force. Force-generating systems that act on elastic cytoskeletal elements are prone to oscillating instabilities. In this work, we have measured spontaneous shape and movement oscillations in motile fish...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Barnhart EL,Allen GM,Jülicher F,Theriot JA

更新日期：2010-03-17 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA represents a promising therapeutic and prophylactic macromolecule in treating genetic diseases, infectious diseases and cancers. The therapeutic potential of DNA is directly related to how DNA transports within the targeted tissue. In this study, fluorescence photobleaching recovery was used to examine the diffusi...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Shen H,Hu Y,Saltzman WM

更新日期：2006-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:An attempt was made to confirm previous reports of resonant-like dielectric absorption of plasmid DNA in aqueous solutions at 1-10 GHz. The dielectric properties of the sample were measured using an automatic network analyzer with two different techniques. One technique used an open-ended coaxial probe immersed in the...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Foster KR,Epstein BR,Gealt MA

更新日期：1987-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The optical scattering coefficient of a dilute, well-solubilized eumelanin solution has been accurately measured as a function of incident wavelength, and found to contribute <6% of the total optical attenuation between 210 and 325 nm. At longer wavelengths (325-800 nm), the scattering was less than the minimum sensit...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Riesz J,Gilmore J,Meredith P

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vinculin activation plays a critical role in focal adhesion initiation and formation. In its native state, vinculin is in an autoinhibitory conformation in which domain 1 prevents interaction of the vinculin tail domain with actin by steric hindrance. Once activated, vinculin is able to interact with both actin and ta...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Golji J,Mofrad MR

更新日期：2010-08-09 00:00:00

abstract：:In addition to being the gateway for all access to the eukaryotic genome, chromatin has in recent years been identified as carrying an epigenetic code regulating transcriptional activity. Though much is known about the biochemistry of this code, little is understood regarding the different fiber structures through whi...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Depken M,Schiessel H

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The energy transfer and charge separation kinetics of a photosystem I (PS I) core particle of an antenna size of 100 chlorophyll/P700 has been studied by combined fluorescence and transient absorption kinetics with picosecond resolution. This is the first combined picosecond study of transient absorption and fluoresce...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Holzwarth AR,Schatz G,Brock H,Bittersmann E

更新日期：1993-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ca2+ entry under resting conditions may be important for contraction of vascular smooth muscle, but little is known about the mechanisms involved. Ca2+ leakage was studied in the A7r5 smooth muscle-derived cell line by patch-clamp techniques. Two channels that could mediate calcium influx at resting membrane potential...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Obejero-Paz CA,Jones SW,Scarpa A

更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00