A model of effective diffusion and tortuosity in the extracellular space of the brain.

abstract：:The channel-forming properties of two analogs of gramicidin, gramicidin-ethylenediamine (gram-EDA), and gramicidin-N,N-dimethylethylenediamine (gram-DMEDA) were studied in planar lipid bilayers, using protons as the permeant ion. These peptides have positively charged amino groups tethered to their C-terminal ends via...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Woolley GA,Zunic V,Karanicolas J,Jaikaran AS,Starostin AV

更新日期：1997-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Direct spectroscopic measurements of rotational motions of proteins and large protein segments are crucial to understanding the molecular dynamics of protein function. Fluorescent probes and spin labels attached to proteins have proved to be powerful tools in the study of large-scale protein motions. Fluorescence depo...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Thomas DD

更新日期：1978-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The solution structures of the N-terminal domains of protein S, a plasma vitamin K-dependent glycoprotein, and its homolog growth arrest specific protein 6 (Gas6) were predicted by molecular dynamics computer simulations. The initial structures were based on the x-ray crystallographic structure of the corresponding re...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Perera L,Li L,Darden T,Monroe DM,Pedersen LG

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nonlinear optical Stokes ellipsometric (NOSE) microscopy was demonstrated for the analysis of collagen-rich biological tissues. NOSE is based on polarization-dependent second harmonic generation imaging. NOSE was used to access the molecular-level distribution of collagen fibril orientation relative to the local fiber...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Dow XY,DeWalt EL,Sullivan SZ,Schmitt PD,Ulcickas JRW,Simpson GJ

更新日期：2016-10-04 00:00:00

abstract：:A new method is presented to describe the low shear rate behavior of blood. We observed the response of a thin layer of sedimenting blood to a graded shear stress in a wedge-shaped chamber. The method allows quantitation of the degree of phase separation between red cells and plasma, and extracts the yield stress of t...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Morris CL,Smith CM 2nd,Blackshear PL Jr

更新日期：1987-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Benjamin Franklin, mostly known for his participation in writing The Declaration of Independence and work on electricity, was also one of the first scientists to seek to understand the properties of oil monolayers on water surfaces. During one of his many voyages across the Atlantic Ocean, Franklin observed that oil h...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Wang DN,Stieglitz H,Marden J,Tamm LK

更新日期：2013-01-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Tension and dynamic stiffness of passive rabbit psoas, rabbit semitendinosus, and waterbug indirect flight muscles were investigated to study the contribution of weak-binding cross-bridges and elastic filaments (titin and minititin) to the passive mechanical behavior of these muscles. Experimentally, a functional diss...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Granzier HL,Wang K

更新日期：1993-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A simple method of generating electric field-induced concentration gradients in planar supported bilayers has been developed. Gradients of charged, fluorescently labeled probes were visualized by epifluorescence microscopy and could be observed at field strengths as low as 1 V/cm. Steady-state concentration gradients ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Groves JT,Boxer SG

更新日期：1995-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nonequilibrium molecular dynamics (NEMD) computer simulations are used to calculated the bulk modulus for a dimyristoylphosphatidylcholine bilayer. A methodology is developed whereby NEMD can be effectively used to calculate material properties for complex systems that undergo long time-scale conformational changes. I...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Ayton G,Smondyrev AM,Bardenhagen SG,McMurtry P,Voth GA

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phospholipids with covalently attached poly(ethylene glycol) (PEG lipids) are commonly used for the preparation of long circulating liposomes. Although it is well known that lipid/PEG-lipid mixed micelles may form above a certain critical concentration of PEG-lipid, little is known about the effects of PEG-lipids on l...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Edwards K,Johnsson M,Karlsson G,Silvander M

更新日期：1997-07-01 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：:Estimates of the free myoplasmic [Ca2+] ([Ca2+]i) with fluorescent dyes are complicated by the fact that some properties of these dyes are altered in the intracellular environment. In the present study indo-1 was used to measure [Ca2+]i in isolated muscle fibers from Xenopus frogs. Fluorescent ratio signals obtained f...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Westerblad H,Allen DG

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper, femtosecond pump-probe spectroscopy in the visible region of the spectrum has been used to examine the ultrafast dynamics of the retinal excited state in both the native trimeric state and the monomeric state of bacteriorhodopsin (bR). It is found that the excited state lifetime (probed at 490 nm) incre...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Wang J,Link S,Heyes CD,El-Sayed MA

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An analytical electromechanical model of a spherical cell exposed to an alternating electric field was used to calculate shear stress generated in the cellular membrane. Shape deformation of Neurospora crassa (slime) spheroplasts was measured. Statistical analysis permitted empirical evaluation of creep of the cellula...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Poznański J,Pawłowski P,Fikus M

更新日期：1992-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A ternary lipid mixture of palmitoyl-oleoyl-phosphatidylcholine (POPC), palmitoyl-erythro-sphingosylphosphorylcholine (PSM), and cholesterol at a mixing ratio of 37.5:37.5:25 mol/mol/mol was characterized using fluorescence microscopy, (2)H NMR, and electron paramagnetic resonance spectroscopy. The synthetic PSM provi...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Bunge A,Müller P,Stöckl M,Herrmann A,Huster D

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Numerous membrane-transport proteins are major drug targets, and therefore a key ingredient in pharmaceutical development is the availability of reliable, efficient tools for membrane transport characterization and inhibition. Here, we present the use of evanescent-wave sensing for screening of membrane-protein-mediat...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Brändén M,Tabaei SR,Fischer G,Neutze R,Höök F

更新日期：2010-07-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The extracellular matrix contains components with remarkable mechanical properties, including fibronectin (Fn) fibers with extensibilities of >700% strain. We utilized what we consider a novel technique to quantify the extent of molecular unfolding that contributes to Fn fiber extension, and we compared this behavior ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Bradshaw MJ,Smith ML

更新日期：2011-10-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Using both quasi-elastic light scattering spectroscopy and angular dissymmetry in the intensity of the scattered light, we examined the onset of turbidity for intact calf lenses and for isolated nuclear cytoplasm. In the case of the nuclear cytoplasm these measurements demonstrate the presence of two kinds of scattere...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Delaye M,Clark JI,Benedek GB

更新日期：1982-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:By exploring a recent model in which DNA bending elasticity, described by the wormlike chain model, is coupled to basepair denaturation, we demonstrate that small denaturation bubbles lead to anomalies in the flexibility of DNA at the nanometric scale, when confined in two dimensions (2D), as reported in atomic-force ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Destainville N,Manghi M,Palmeri J

更新日期：2009-06-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Molecular diffusion process after the photo-induced electron injection to ferric cytochrome c (Fe(III) cyt c) in guanidine hydrochloride (GdnHCl) 3.5 M buffer solution is studied by the time-resolved transient grating technique. Circular dichroism studies have revealed that Fe(III) cyt c is unfolded under this conditi...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Nada T,Terazima M

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Synchrotron x-ray scattering measurements were performed on dilute solutions of the purified hemocyanin subunit (Bsin1) from scorpion (Buthus sindicus) and the N-terminal functional unit (Rta) from a marine snail (Rapana thomasiana). The model-independent approach based on spherical harmonics was applied to calculate ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Grossmann JG,Ali SA,Abbasi A,Zaidi ZH,Stoeva S,Voelter W,Hasnain SS

更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Unlike most transmembrane proteins, phospholipids can migrate from one leaflet of the membrane to the other. Because this spontaneous lipid translocation (flip-flop) tends to be very slow, cells facilitate the process with enzymes that catalyze the transmembrane movement and thereby regulate the transbilayer lipid dis...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Doktorova M,Heberle FA,Marquardt D,Rusinova R,Sanford RL,Peyear TA,Katsaras J,Feigenson GW,Weinstein H,Andersen OS

更新日期：2019-03-05 00:00:00

abstract：:KATP channels assemble from four regulatory SUR1 and four pore-forming Kir6.2 subunits. At the single-channel current level, ATP-dependent gating transitions between the active burst and the inactive interburst conformations underlie inhibition of the KATP channel by intracellular ATP. Previously, we identified a slow...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Drain P,Geng X,Li L

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nonbleachable rhodopsins containing retinal moieties with fixed 11-ene structures have been prepared. When the nonbleachable rhodopsin analogue corresponding to the natural pigment was flash-photolysed at 20.8 degrees C, no absorption changes occurred at the monitoring wavelengths of 380, 480, and 580 nm for the time ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Mao B,Tsuda M,Ebrey TG,Akita H,Balogh-Nair V,Nakanishi K

更新日期：1981-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using molecular dynamics simulations, we studied the mode of association of the cell-penetrating peptide penetratin with both a neutral and a charged bilayer. The results show that the initial peptide-lipid association is a fast process driven by electrostatic interactions. The homogeneous distribution of positively c...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Lensink MF,Christiaens B,Vandekerckhove J,Prochiantz A,Rosseneu M

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The dependence of the fluorescence of catalase upon the concentration of added superoxide dismutase (SOD) indicates that SOD binds to saturable sites on catalase. The affinity of SOD for these sites varies with temperature, and with the concentration of each of three nominally inert polymeric additives--dextran 70, Fi...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Jiao M,Li HT,Chen J,Minton AP,Liang Y

更新日期：2010-08-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The S4 segments of voltage-gated sodium channels are important parts of the voltage-sensing elements of these proteins. Furthermore, the addition of the isolated S4 polypeptide to planar lipid bilayers results in stepwise increases of ion conductivity. In order to gain insight into the mechanisms of pore formation by ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Mattila K,Kinder R,Bechinger B

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The glutamate-activated current in photoreceptors has been attributed both to a sodium/glutamate transporter and to a glutamate-activated chloride channel. We have further studied the glutamate-activated current in single, isolated photoreceptors from the tiger salamander using noise analysis on whole-cell patch-clamp...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Larsson HP,Picaud SA,Werblin FS,Lecar H

更新日期：1996-02-01 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：:Critical to biological processes such as secretion and transport, protein-lipid interactions within the membrane and at the membrane-water interface still raise many questions. Here we examine the role of lipid headgroups in these interactions by using gramicidin A (gA) channels in planar bilayers as a probe. We show ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Rostovtseva TK,Petrache HI,Kazemi N,Hassanzadeh E,Bezrukov SM

更新日期：2008-02-15 00:00:00