Evaluation of dynamic features of Escherichia coli 16S ribosomal RNA in homogeneous physiological solution.

abstract：:Branched cable voltage recording and voltage clamp analytical solutions derived in two previous papers are used to explore practical issues concerning voltage clamp. Single exponentials can be fitted reasonably well to the decay phase of clamped synaptic currents, although they contain many underlying components. The ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Major G

更新日期：1993-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The fusion peptides of HIV and influenza virus are crucial for viral entry into a host cell. We report the membrane-perturbing and structural properties of fusion peptides from the HA fusion protein of influenza virus and the gp41 fusion protein of HIV. Our goals were to determine: 1), how fusion peptides alter struct...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Haque ME,Koppaka V,Axelsen PH,Lentz BR

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding how polypeptides can efficiently and reproducibly attain a self-entangled conformation is a compelling biophysical challenge that might shed new light on our general knowledge of protein folding. Complex lassos, namely self-entangled protein structures characterized by a covalent loop sealed by a cystein...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Perego C,Potestio R

更新日期：2019-07-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent theoretical work on the cooperative equilibrium binding of myosin subfragment-1-ADP to regulated actin, as influenced by Ca2+, is extended here to the cooperative steady-state ATPase activity of myosin subfragment-1 on regulated actin. Exact solution of the general steady-state problem will require Monte Carlo ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Hill TL,Eisenberg E,Chalovich JM

更新日期：1981-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Mie theory of scattering is used to provide new information on how changes in particle volume, with no change in dry weight, should influence light scattering for various scattering angles and particle sizes. Many biological cells (e.g., algal cells, erythrocytes) and large subcellular structures (e.g., chloroplas...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Latimer P,Pyle BE

更新日期：1972-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Entropy Sampling Monte Carlo (ESMC) simulations were carried out to study the thermodynamics of the folding transition in the GCN4 leucine zipper (GCN4-lz) in the context of a reduced model. Using the calculated partition functions for the monomer and dimer, and taking into account the equilibrium between the monomer ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Mohanty D,Kolinski A,Skolnick J

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bipolar tetraether lipids (BTLs) are abundant in crenarchaeota, which thrive in both thermophilic and nonthermophilic environments, with wide-ranging growth temperatures (4-108°C). BTL liposomes can serve as membrane models to explore the role of BTLs in the thermal stability of the plasma membrane of crenarchaeota. I...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Chong PL,Sulc M,Winter R

更新日期：2010-11-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The presence of tryptophan residues as intrinsic fluorophores in most proteins makes them an obvious choice for fluorescence spectroscopic analyses of such proteins. Membrane proteins have been reported to have a significantly higher tryptophan content than soluble proteins. The role of tryptophan residues in the stru...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Chattopadhyay A,Mukherjee S,Rukmini R,Rawat SS,Sudha S

更新日期：1997-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The morphological features of α-synuclein (AS) amyloid aggregation in vitro and in cells were elucidated at the nanoscale by far-field subdiffraction fluorescence localization microscopy. Labeling AS with rhodamine spiroamide probes allowed us to image AS fibrillar structures by fluorescence stochastic nanoscopy with ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Roberti MJ,Fölling J,Celej MS,Bossi M,Jovin TM,Jares-Erijman EA

更新日期：2012-04-04 00:00:00

abstract：:RNA junctions are common secondary structural elements present in a wide range of RNA species. They play crucial roles in directing the overall folding of RNA molecules as well as in a variety of biological functions. In particular, there has been great interest in the dynamics of RNA junctions, including conformation...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Jung S,Schlick T

更新日期：2014-01-21 00:00:00

abstract：:X-ray fiber diffraction is one of the most useful methods for examining the structural details of live biological filaments under physiological conditions. To investigate biologically active or labile materials, it is crucial to finish fiber alignment within seconds before diffraction analysis. However, the convention...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Sugiyama T,Miyashiro D,Takao D,Iwamoto H,Sugimoto Y,Wakabayashi K,Kamimura S

更新日期：2009-12-16 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper describes an analysis of microscopic models for the coupling between ion flow and rotation of bacterial flagella. In model I it is assumed that intersecting half-channels exist on the rotor and the stator and that the driving ion is constrained to move together with the intersection site. Model II is based ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Läuger P

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report noncontact optical measurement of fast transient structural changes in the crustacean nerve during action potential propagation without the need for exogenous chemicals or reflection coatings. The technique, spectral domain optical coherence tomography, provides real-time cross-sectional images of the nerve ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Akkin T,Joo C,de Boer JF

更新日期：2007-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Fluo-3 is an unusual tetracarboxylate Ca2+ indicator. For recent lots supplied by Molecular Probes Inc. (Eugene, OR), FMAX, the fluorescence intensity of the indicator in its Ca(2+)-bound form, is approximately 200 times that of FMIN, the fluorescence intensity of the indicator in its Ca(2+)-free form. (For earlier lo...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Harkins AB,Kurebayashi N,Baylor SM

更新日期：1993-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cubic insulin crystals contain a binding site for monovalent cations in a cavity of the crystal dyad in which the bound cation is ligated by protein atomic dipoles and water molecules. These types of interaction are analogous to interactions that occur in small cation-selective carrier and channel molecules. X-ray dif...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Badger J,Kapulsky A,Gursky O,Bhyravbhatla B,Caspar DL

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Isolated sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR) vesicles with polymerized calcium pump protein were freeze-dried and rotary shadowed following uranyl acetate stabilization. This technique allows direct observation of a single side of the vesicle without requiring optical filtering. The heads of individual ATPase molecules, proje...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Ferguson DG,Franzini-Armstrong C,Castellani L,Hardwicke PM,Kenney LJ

更新日期：1985-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tagging of individual proteins with genetically encoded fluorescent proteins (FPs) has been used extensively to study localization and interactions in live cells. Recent developments in single-molecule localization microscopy have enabled the dynamic visualization of individual tagged proteins inside living cells. How...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Ghodke H,Caldas VE,Punter CM,van Oijen AM,Robinson A

更新日期：2016-07-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The potassium selective, inward rectifier current (IK1) is known to be responsible for maintaining the resting membrane potential of quiescent ventricular myocytes. However, the contribution of this current to the different phases of the cardiac action potential has not been adequately established. In the present stud...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Ibarra J,Morley GE,Delmar M

更新日期：1991-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The nanomechanical response of supported lipid bilayers has been studied by force spectroscopy with atomic force microscopy. We have experimentally proved that the amount of ions present in the measuring system has a strong effect on the force needed to puncture a 1,2-dimyristoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine bilayer wi...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Garcia-Manyes S,Oncins G,Sanz F

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tip links are thought to gate the mechanically sensitive transduction channels of hair cells, but how they form during development and regeneration remains mysterious. In particular, it is unclear how tip links are strung between stereocilia so that they are oriented parallel to a single axis; why their polarity is un...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Tompkins N,Spinelli KJ,Choi D,Barr-Gillespie PG

更新日期：2017-10-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The structure of a membrane-embedded alpha-helical reference protein, the M13 major coat protein, is characterized under different conditions of hydrophobic mismatch using fluorescence resonance energy transfer in combination with high-throughput mutagenesis. We show that the structure is similar in both thin (14:1) a...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Vos WL,Schor M,Nazarov PV,Koehorst RB,Spruijt RB,Hemminga MA

更新日期：2007-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Back-of-the-envelope or rule-of-thumb calculations involving rough estimates of quantities play a central scientific role in developing intuition about the structure and behavior of physical systems, for example in so-called Fermi problems in the physical sciences. Such calculations can be used to powerfully and quant...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Johnston IG,Rickett BC,Jones NS

更新日期：2014-12-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The oligomerization of the plasma membrane calcium pump (PMCA) in phospholipid/detergent micelles was evaluated using a combined spectroscopic and kinetic approach and related to the enzyme stability. Energy transfer between fluorescein-5'-isothiocyanate and eosin-5'-isothiocyanate attached to different PMCA molecules...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Levi V,Rossi JP,Castello PR,González Flecha FL

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Enveloped viruses must bind to a receptor on the host membrane to initiate infection. Membrane fusion is subsequently initiated by a conformational change in the viral fusion protein, triggered by receptor binding, an environmental change, or both. Here, we present a strategy to disentangle the two processes of recept...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Rawle RJ,Boxer SG,Kasson PM

更新日期：2016-07-12 00:00:00

abstract：:We present a molecular system where polymerization is controlled externally by tuning the elastic energy of the monomers. The elastic energy, provided by a DNA molecular spring, destabilizes the monomer state through a process analogous to domain swapping. This energy can be large (of approximately 10 kT) and thus dri...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Wang A,Zocchi G

更新日期：2009-03-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Intracellular cargo transport frequently involves multiple motor types, either having opposite directionality or having the same directionality but different speeds. Although significant progress has been made in characterizing kinesin motors at the single-molecule level, predicting their ensemble behavior is challeng...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Arpağ G,Shastry S,Hancock WO,Tüzel E

更新日期：2014-10-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Small-angle x-ray scattering (SAXS) of biological macromolecules in solutions is a widely employed method in structural biology. SAXS patterns include information about the overall shape and low-resolution structure of dissolved particles. Here, we describe how to transform experimental SAXS patterns to feature vector...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Franke D,Jeffries CM,Svergun DI

更新日期：2018-06-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The skeleton adapts to its mechanical usage, although at the cellular level, the distribution and magnitude of strains generated and their detection are ill-understood. The magnitude and nature of the strains to which cells respond were investigated using an atomic force microscope (AFM) as a microindentor. A confocal...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Charras GT,Horton MA

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although both RNA and proteins have densely packed native structures, chain organizations of these two biopolymers are fundamentally different. Motivated by the recent discoveries in chromatin folding that interphase chromosomes have territorial organization with signatures pointing to metastability, we analyzed the b...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Liu L,Hyeon C

更新日期：2016-06-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Coarse-grained (CG) models of biomolecules have recently attracted considerable interest because they enable the simulation of complex biological systems on length-scales and timescales that are inaccessible for atomistic molecular dynamics simulation. A CG model is defined by a map that transforms an atomically detai...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Zhang Z,Lu L,Noid WG,Krishna V,Pfaendtner J,Voth GA

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00