Role of pairwise interactions between M1 and M2 domains of the nicotinic receptor in channel gating.

abstract：:We describe the use of asymmetric Ru-ligand complexes as a new class of luminescent probes that can be used to measure rotational motions of proteins. These complexes are known to display luminescent lifetimes ranging from 10 to 4000 ns. In this report, we show that the asymmetric complex Ru(bpy)2(dcbpy) (PF6)2 displa...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Terpetschnig E,Szmacinski H,Malak H,Lakowicz JR

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pore-forming alpha 1 subunit of L-type calcium (Ca2+) channels is the molecular target of Ca2+ channel blockers such as phenylalkylamines (PAAs). Association and dissociation rates of (-)devapamil were compared for a highly PAA-sensitive L-type Ca2+ channel chimera (Lh) and various class A Ca2+ channel mutants. Th...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Degtiar VE,Aczél S,Döring F,Timin EN,Berjukow S,Kimball D,Mitterdorfer J,Hering S

更新日期：1997-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a recent publication, the structural details of an interaction between the Rhodobacter sphaeroides reaction center and the anionic phospholipid diphosphatidyl glycerol (cardiolipin) were described (K. E. McAuley, P. K. Fyfe, J. P. Ridge, N. W. Isaacs, R. J. Cogdell, and M. R. Jones, 1999, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Wakeham MC,Sessions RB,Jones MR,Fyfe PK

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have refined the structure of the DNA Three-Way Junction complex, TWJ-TC, described in the companion paper by quantitative analysis of two 2D NOESY spectra (mixing times 60 and 200 ms) obtained in D2O solution. NOESY crosspeak intensities extracted from these spectra were used in two kinds of refinement procedure: ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Ouporov IV,Leontis NB

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:N-BAR domains are protein modules that bind to and induce curvature in membranes via a charged concave surface and N-terminal amphipathic helices. Recently, molecular dynamics simulations have demonstrated that the N-BAR domain can induce a strong local curvature that matches the curvature of the BAR domain surface fa...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Blood PD,Swenson RD,Voth GA

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Deuterium wide line NMR spectroscopy was used to study cholesterol effects on the ceramide portions of two glycosphingolipids (GSLs) distributed as minor components in fluid membranes. The common existence of very long fatty acids on GSLs was taken into account by including one glycolipid species with fatty acid chain...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Morrow MR,Singh D,Lu D,Grant CW

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of quinidine on single inward rectifier K channels were investigated in cell-attached patches with 4.5 mM pipette potassium concentrations. Under these conditions, the single-channel slope conductance of the predominant conductance level of the inward rectifier channels was 3.9 +/- 0.3 pS at membrane poten...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Balser JR,Roden DM,Bennett PB

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:More than 30 years ago, Nozaki and Tanford reported that the pK values for several amino acids and simple substances in 6 M guanidinium chloride differed little from the corresponding values in low salt (Nozaki, Y., and C. Tanford. 1967. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 89:736-742). This puzzling and counter-intuitive result hinders...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Garcia-Mira MM,Sanchez-Ruiz JM

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Water plays an important role in enzyme structure and function in aqueous media. That role becomes even more important when one focuses on enzymes in low water media. Here we present results from molecular dynamics simulations of surfactant-solubilized subtilisin BPN' in three organic solvents (octane, tetrahydrofuran...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Yang L,Dordick JS,Garde S

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Deuterium magnetic resonance is applied to the study of the liquid crystalline and gel phases, and of the phase transition, of a multilamellar dispersion of chain perdeuterated (d62)-dipalmitoyl phosphatidylcholine/H2O. Analysis of the deuterium spectra in terms of the moments of the spectra allows one to make quantit...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Davis JH

更新日期：1979-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aggregation of alpha-synuclein (α-syn) and huntingtin (htt) into fibrillar assemblies in nerve and glial cells is a molecular hallmark of Parkinson's and Huntington's diseases. Within the aggregation process, prefibrillar and fibrillar oligomeric species form. Prefibrillar assemblies rather than fibrils are nowada...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Pieri L,Madiona K,Bousset L,Melki R

更新日期：2012-06-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The present article considers the influence of heterogeneity in a mobile analyte or in an immobilized ligand population on the surface binding kinetics and equilibrium isotherms. We describe strategies for solving the inverse problem of calculating two-dimensional distributions of rate and affinity constants from expe...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Svitel J,Balbo A,Mariuzza RA,Gonzales NR,Schuck P

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The location of the photopigment molecules relative to the lipid hydrocarbon core of retinal receptor disk membranes was unknown. The photopigment molecules could occur entirely on the surface of the membrane, completely embedded in its hydrocarbon core, or at some intermediate location protruding into both the aqueou...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Blasie JK

更新日期：1972-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A mean-field statistical mechanical theory has been developed to describe molecular distributions in interphases. The excluded volume interaction has been modeled in terms of a reversible work that is required to create a cavity of the solute size against a pressure tensor exerted by the surrounding interphase molecul...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Xiang TX,Anderson BD

更新日期：1994-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The lateral mobility of pyrenyl phospholipid probes in dimyristoylphosphatidylcholine (DMPC) vesicles was determined from the dependence of the pyrene monomeric and excimeric fluorescence yields on the molar probe ratio. The analysis of the experimental data makes use of the milling crowd model for two-dimensional dif...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Sassaroli M,Vauhkonen M,Perry D,Eisinger J

更新日期：1990-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The formation of linear protein fibrils has previously been shown to be enhanced by volume exclusion or crowding in the presence of a high concentration of chemically inert protein or polymer, and by adsorption to membrane surfaces. An equilibrium mesoscopic model for the combined effect of both crowding and adsorptio...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Hoppe T,Minton AP

更新日期：2015-02-17 00:00:00

abstract：:A new microscopic technique is demonstrated that combines attributes from both near-field scanning optical microscopy (NSOM) and fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET). The method relies on attaching the acceptor dye of a FRET pair to the end of a near-field fiber optic probe. Light exiting the NSOM probe, whic...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Vickery SA,Dunn RC

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Shaker-like channels, the activation gate is formed at the bundle crossing by the convergence of the inner S6 helices near a conserved proline-valine-proline motif, which introduces a kink that allows for electromechanical coupling with voltage sensor motions via the S4-S5 linker. Human ether-a-go-go-related gene (...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Thouta S,Sokolov S,Abe Y,Clark SJ,Cheng YM,Claydon TW

更新日期：2014-03-04 00:00:00

abstract：:A new experimental approach has been developed to study the distribution of local electrostatic potential around specific protons in biologically important molecules. The approach is the development of a method denoted as "spin label/spin probe," which was proposed by one of us (. Mol. Biol. 6:498-507). The proposed m...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Likhtenshtein GI,Adin I,Novoselsky A,Shames A,Vaisbuch I,Glaser R

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Flagellin is the subunit of the bacterial filament, the micrometer-long propeller of a bacterial flagellum. The protein is believed to undergo unfolding for transport through the channel of the filament and to refold in a chamber at the end of the channel before being assembled into the growing filament. We report a t...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Chng CP,Kitao A

更新日期：2008-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The structure of dynamic states in biological networks is of fundamental importance in understanding their function. Considering the elementary reaction structure of reconstructed metabolic networks, we show how appreciation of a gradient matrix, G =dv/dx (where v is the vector of fluxes and x is the vector of concent...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Jamshidi N,Palsson BØ

更新日期：2009-09-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite the enormous interest that has been devoted to the study of farnesyltransferase, many questions concerning its catalytic mechanism remain unanswered. In particular, several doubts exist on the structure of the active-site zinc coordination sphere, more precisely on the nature of the fourth ligand, which is dis...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Sousa SF,Fernandes PA,Ramos MJ

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present a minimal model of plasma membrane heterogeneity that combines criticality with connectivity to cortical cytoskeleton. The development of this model was motivated by recent observations of micron-sized critical fluctuations in plasma membrane vesicles that are detached from their cortical cytoskeleton. We i...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Machta BB,Papanikolaou S,Sethna JP,Veatch SL

更新日期：2011-04-06 00:00:00

abstract：:In this review, we focus on the early events in the process of fibroblast spreading on fibronectin matrices of different rigidities. We present a focused position piece that illustrates the many different tests that a cell makes of its environment before it establishes mature matrix adhesions. When a fibroblast is pla...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Wolfenson H,Iskratsch T,Sheetz MP

更新日期：2014-12-02 00:00:00

abstract：:A new Fourier series representation of supercoiled DNA is employed in Langevin dynamics simulations to study large-scale configurational motions of intermediate-length chains. The polymer is modeled as an ideal elastic rod subject to long-range van der Waals' interactions. The van der Waals' term prevents the self-con...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Liu G,Schlick T,Olson AJ,Olson WK

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aqueous proline solutions are deceptively simple as they can take on complex roles such as protein chaperones, cryoprotectants, and hydrotropic agents in biological processes. Here, a molecular level picture of proline/water mixtures is developed. Car-Parrinello ab initio molecular dynamics (CPAIMD) simulations of aqu...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Troitzsch RZ,Tulip PR,Crain J,Martyna GJ

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Red fluorescent proteins are important tools in fluorescence-based life science research. Recently, we have introduced eqFP611, a red fluorescent protein with advantageous properties from the sea anemone Entacmaea quadricolor. Here, we have studied the submillisecond light-driven intramolecular dynamics between bright...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Schenk A,Ivanchenko S,Röcker C,Wiedenmann J,Nienhaus GU

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Topical microbicide products are being developed for the prevention of sexually transmitted infections. These include vaginally-applied gels that deliver anti-HIV molecules. Gels may also provide partial barriers that slow virion diffusion from semen to vulnerable epithelium, increasing the time during which anti-HIV ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Lai BE,Henderson MH,Peters JJ,Walmer DK,Katz DF

更新日期：2009-11-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Actin is one of the main components of the architecture of cells. Actin filaments form different polymer networks with versatile mechanical properties that depend on their spatial organization and the presence of cross-linkers. Here, we investigate the mechanical properties of actin bundles in the absence of cross-lin...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Rückerl F,Lenz M,Betz T,Manzi J,Martiel JL,Safouane M,Paterski-Boujemaa R,Blanchoin L,Sykes C

更新日期：2017-09-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The distal side of the heme pocket, known to regulate ligand affinity, is shown to be directly involved in subunit interactions. Valency hybrids with oxygen or carbon monoxide bound to the reduced chain are used to model R-state hemoglobin with different distal perturbations. Electron paramagnetic resonance of the oxi...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Levy A,Sharma VS,Zhang L,Rifkind JM

更新日期：1992-03-01 00:00:00