Dynamics of DNA ejection from bacteriophage.

abstract：:The binding mechanism of sweet proteins to their receptor, a G-protein-coupled receptor, is not supported by direct structural information. In principle, the key groups responsible for biological activity (glucophores) can be localized on a small structural unit (sweet finger) or spread on a larger surface area. A rec...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： De Simone A,Spadaccini R,Temussi PA,Fraternali F

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cis-parinaric acid (PA) binds to a hydrophobic pocket formed between the heavy chain of myosin subfragment-1 (S1) and the 41-residue N-terminal of essential light chain 1 (A1). The binding is strong (Ka = 5.6 x 10(7) M-1) and rigid (polarization = 0.334). PA does not bind to myofibrils in which A1 has been extracted o...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Xiao M,Borejdo J

更新日期：1997-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The outer membrane (OM) of Gram-negative bacteria is composed of lipopolysaccharide (LPS) in the outer leaflet and phospholipids in the inner leaflet. The outer membrane protein H (OprH) of Pseudomonas aeruginosa provides an increased stability to the OMs by directly interacting with LPS. Here we report the influence ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Lee J,Patel DS,Kucharska I,Tamm LK,Im W

更新日期：2017-01-24 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：:The orientational order as determined by 2H NMR and the infrared frequencies of the C--H stretching modes of the methylene groups have been measured for several systems (POPC, POPC/cholesterol and POPE), all in the fluid phase, and then were compared; this work reveals an unexpected linear correlation between them. Th...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Kodati VR,Lafleur M

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Small single-domain proteins often exhibit only a single free-energy barrier, or transition state, between the denatured and the native state. The folding kinetics of these proteins is usually explored via mutational analysis. A central question is which structural information on the transition state can be derived fr...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Weikl TR

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Actin filaments are semiflexible polymers that display large-scale conformational twisting and bending motions. Modulation of filament bending and twisting dynamics has been linked to regulatory actin-binding protein function, filament assembly and fragmentation, and overall cell motility. The relationship between act...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： De La Cruz EM,Roland J,McCullough BR,Blanchoin L,Martiel JL

更新日期：2010-09-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The stability of the 1:1 complex of sodium ion with the dianion of guanosine 5'-monophosphate has been determined by means of a potentiometric titration employing a specific ion electrode. The stability constant for the reaction Na(+) + 5'-GMP(2-) Na(5'-GMP)(-) was found to be 2.85 +/- 0.36 M(-1) at 5 degrees C and an...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Walmsley JA,Pinnavaia TJ

更新日期：1982-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Conventional equations for enzyme kinetics are based on mass-action laws, that may fail in low-dimensional and disordered media such as biological membranes. We present Monte Carlo simulations of an isolated Michaelis-Menten enzyme reaction on two-dimensional lattices with varying obstacle densities, as models of biol...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Berry H

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Current analyses of protein sequence/structure relationships have focused on expected similarity relationships for structurally similar proteins. To survey and explore the basis of these relationships, we present a general sequence/structure map that covers all combinations of similarity/dissimilarity relationships an...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Gan HH,Perlow RA,Roy S,Ko J,Wu M,Huang J,Yan S,Nicoletta A,Vafai J,Sun D,Wang L,Noah JE,Pasquali S,Schlick T

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have studied the large increase in macroscopic potassium channel current caused by catecholamines in mammalian cardiac cells. An increase in macroscopic K current could result from either an increase in the single-channel current or by an increase in the number of channels that are open. Therefore, we have measured...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Bennett PB,Kass R,Begenisich T

更新日期：1989-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Catch bonds are characterized by average lifetimes that initially increase with increasing tensile force. Recently, they have been implicated in T cell activation, where small numbers of antigenic receptor-ligand bonds at a cell-cell interface can stimulate a T cell. Here, we use computational methods to investigate s...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Pullen RH 3rd,Abel SM

更新日期：2017-07-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The addition of 10(-3) M p-chloromercuribenzene sulfonate (PCMBS) to the solution bathing the mucosal surface of rabbit colon has no effect on the rate of active Na transport but blocks or reverses the inhibitory action of amiloride. The tissue must be exposed to PCMBS for 20-30 min for a complete blocking effect, and...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Gottlieb GP,Turnheim K,Frizzell RA,Schultz SG

更新日期：1978-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The TRPV1 cation nonselective ion channel plays an essential role in thermosensation and perception of other noxious stimuli. TRPV1 can be activated by low extracellular pH, high temperature, or naturally occurring pungent molecules such as allicin, capsaicin, or resiniferatoxin. Its noxious thermal sensitivity makes ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Ladrón-de-Guevara E,Dominguez L,Rangel-Yescas GE,Fernández-Velasco DA,Torres-Larios A,Rosenbaum T,Islas LD

更新日期：2020-02-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Immunocytochemical, biochemical, and molecular genetic studies indicate that apolipoprotein E (apoE) plays an important role in the process of amyloidogenesis-beta. However, there is still no clear translation of these data into the pathogenesis of amyloidosis-beta. Previous studies demonstrated sodium dodecyl sulfate...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Golabek AA,Kida E,Walus M,Perez C,Wisniewski T,Soto C

更新日期：2000-08-01 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：:Embryonic and adult fibroblasts can be returned to pluripotency by the expression of reprogramming genes. Multiple lines of evidence suggest that these human induced pluripotent stem (hiPS) cells and human embryonic stem (hES) cells are behaviorally, karyotypically, and morphologically similar. Here we sought to deter...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Daniels BR,Hale CM,Khatau SB,Kusuma S,Dobrowsky TM,Gerecht S,Wirtz D

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have identified two kinetically distinct modes of block, by lidocaine, of cardiac sodium channels, activated by batrachotoxin and incorporated into planar lipid bilayers. Here, we analyze the slow blocking mode which appears as a series of nonconducting events that increase in frequency and duration with increasing...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Zamponi GW,Doyle DD,French RJ

更新日期：1993-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Flavin mononucleotide (FMN) and flavin-adenine dinucleotide (FAD) are essential flavoprotein cofactors. A riboflavin kinase (RFK) activity catalyzes riboflavin phosphorylation to FMN, which can then be transformed into FAD by an FMN:adenylyltransferase (FMNAT) activity. Two enzymes are responsible for each one of thes...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Lans I,Seco J,Serrano A,Burbano R,Cossio P,Daza MC,Medina M

更新日期：2018-09-18 00:00:00

abstract：:In an earlier paper which models the cell-cell (or virus-cell) fusion complex as two partial spherical vesicles joined at a narrow neck (Rubin, R. J., and Yi-der Chen. 1990. Biophys. J. 58:1157-1167), the redistribution by diffusion of lipid-like molecules through the neck between the two fused cell surfaces was studi...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Chen YD,Rubin RJ,Szabo A

更新日期：1993-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Widely disparate viruses enter the host cell through an endocytic pathway and travel the cytoplasm inside an endosome. For the viral genetic material to be delivered into the cytoplasm, these viruses have to escape the endosomal compartment, an event triggered by the conformational changes of viral endosomolytic prote...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Lagache T,Danos O,Holcman D

更新日期：2012-03-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Directly measured forces between DNA helices in ordered arrays have been reduced to simple force coefficients and mathematical expressions for the interactions between pairs of molecules. The tabulated force parameters and mathematical expressions can be applied to parallel molecules or, by transformation, to skewed m...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Podgornik R,Rau DC,Parsegian VA

更新日期：1994-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of Hofmeister anions on the perpendicular and lateral equation-of-state (EOS) of the dipalmitoylphosphatidylcholine lamellar phase discussed in the companion article are here examined using appropriate free energy models for the intra- and interbilayer interactions. Minimizing the free energy with respect ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Leontidis E,Aroti A,Belloni L,Dubois M,Zemb T

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The insertion of myelin basic protein into microemulsion droplets of sodium bis (2-ethylhexyl) sulfosuccinate (AOT) has been studied by quasi-elastic light scattering. Measurements were made at both low and high molar ratios of water to surfactant, as a function of protein occupancy. The hydrodynamic radii of filled a...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Chatenay D,Urbach W,Cazabat AM,Vacher M,Waks M

更新日期：1985-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We introduce an approach based on the recently introduced functional mode analysis to identify collective modes of internal dynamics that maximally correlate to an external order parameter of functional interest. Input structural data can be either experimentally determined structure ensembles or simulated ensembles, ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Krivobokova T,Briones R,Hub JS,Munk A,de Groot BL

更新日期：2012-08-22 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a model that relates the maximum shortening velocity of a muscle fiber, Vm, to the kinetics of the dissociation of a myosin head from actin. At Vm, the positive work exerted by cross-bridges attached in the powerstroke must be balanced by cross-bridges that have been carried by movement of the filaments in...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Cooke R,White H,Pate E

更新日期：1994-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The anisotropy of the spin-lattice relaxation time (T1) and the spin-spin relaxation times (T2) of water protons in skeletal muscle tissue have been studied by the spin-echo technique. Both T1 and T2 have been measured for the water protons of the tibialis anterior muscle of mature male rats for theta = 0, 55, and 90 ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Kasturi SR,Chang DC,Hazlewood CF

更新日期：1980-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Single actin filaments were analyzed in solutions ranging from dilute (0.2 microgram/ml), where filaments interact only with solvent, to concentrations (4.0 mg/ml) at which F-actin forms a nematic phase. A persistence length of approximately 1.8 microns and an average length of approximately 22 microns (Kaufmann et al...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Käs J,Strey H,Tang JX,Finger D,Ezzell R,Sackmann E,Janmey PA

更新日期：1996-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies in Shaker, a voltage-dependent potassium channel, suggest a coupling between activation and inactivation. This coupling is controversial in hERG, a fast-inactivating voltage-dependent potassium channel. To address this question, we transferred to hERG the S3-S4 linker of the voltage-independent channel, rolf, ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Choveau FS,El Harchi A,Rodriguez N,Louérat-Oriou B,Baró I,Demolombe S,Charpentier F,Loussouarn G

更新日期：2009-09-02 00:00:00

abstract：:This study reports the solid-state NMR spectroscopic characterization of the amino-proximate transmembrane domain (TM-A) of a diverged microsomal delta12-desaturase (CREP-1) in a phospholipid bilayer. A series of TM-A peptides were synthesized with 2H-labeled side chains (Ala-53, -56, and -63, Leu-62, Val-50), and the...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Gibbons WJ Jr,Karp ES,Cellar NA,Minto RE,Lorigan GA

更新日期：2006-02-15 00:00:00