A model for protein translation: polysome self-organization leads to maximum protein synthesis rates.

abstract：:During inflammation, flowing leukocytes tether to and roll on vascular surfaces through the association and dissociation of selectin/ligand bonds. The interactions of P- and L- selectins with their respective ligands exhibit catch-slip bonds, such that increasing force initially prolongs and then shortens bond lifetim...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Wayman AM,Chen W,McEver RP,Zhu C

更新日期：2010-08-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Hydrophobic interactions between a bilayer and its embedded membrane proteins couple protein conformational changes to changes in the packing of the surrounding lipids. The energetic cost of a protein conformational change therefore includes a contribution from the associated bilayer deformation energy (DeltaGdef0), w...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Lundbaek JA,Andersen OS

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of distance-dependent anisotropic reactivity and molecular geometry in the vicinity of localized reaction centers in influencing the rate of bimolecular diffusion-controlled reactions is analyzed in detail, both analytically and numerically. The effect of local molecular shape is considered within the model o...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Shushin AI,Barzykin AV

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two-dimensional solid-state 31P NMR has been used to investigate the orientational exchange of phospholipids in gel and liquid-crystalline aqueous multilamellar dispersions and oriented multibilayers, and in biological membranes. In liquid-crystalline L alpha multilamellar dispersions, orientational exchange originate...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Fenske DB,Jarrell HC

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:KL(4) is a 21-residue functional peptide mimic of lung surfactant protein B, an essential protein for lowering surface tension in the alveoli. Its ability to modify lipid properties and restore lung compliance was investigated with circular dichroism, differential scanning calorimetry, and solid-state NMR spectroscopy...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Antharam VC,Elliott DW,Mills FD,Farver RS,Sternin E,Long JR

更新日期：2009-05-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Small amounts of paramagnetic cations quench the phosphorescence of DNA. Although the emission intensity is monotonic with increasing thymine content, the quenching efficiency is not. The cations quench from phosphate sites. ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Isenberg I,Rosenbluth R,Baird SL Jr

更新日期：1967-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Trimethylamine-N-oxide (TMAO) in the cells of sharks and rays is believed to counteract the deleterious effects of the high intracellular concentrations of urea in these animals. It has been hypothesized that TMAO has the generic ability to counteract the effects of urea on protein structure and function, regardless o...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Baskakov I,Wang A,Bolen DW

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Myo1b is a myosin that is exquisitely sensitive to tension. Its actin-attachment lifetime increases > 50-fold when its working stroke is opposed by 1 pN of force. The long attachment lifetime of myo1b under load raises the question: how are actin attachments that last >50 s in the presence of force regulated? Like mos...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Lewis JH,Greenberg MJ,Laakso JM,Shuman H,Ostap EM

更新日期：2012-06-20 00:00:00

abstract：:We study the folding mechanism of a triple beta-strand WW domain from the Formin binding protein 28 (FBP28) at atomic resolution with explicit water model using replica exchange molecular dynamics computer simulations. Extended sampling over a wide range of temperatures to obtain the free energy, enthalpy, and entropy...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Mu Y,Nordenskiöld L,Tam JP

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The difference in the surface charge distribution between light-adapted and dark-adapted purple membranes was investigated with electric dichroism measurements from approximately pH 5 to pH 11. Purple membrane sheets in solution are oriented in a weak electric field by their permanent dipole moment, which is due to th...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Otomo J,Ohno K,Takeuchi Y,Ikegami A

更新日期：1986-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fiber orientation and ventricular geometry are incorporated in a mathematical model for ejection fraction of the human left ventricle. The inadequacy of circularly oriented or "constrictor" fibers to explain high ejection fractions of cylindrical, spherical, or ellipsoidal reference ventricles is demonstrated. A class...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Sallin EA

更新日期：1969-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report on a molecular dynamics (MD) simulation of carboxy-myoglobin (MbCO) embedded in a water-trehalose system. The mean square fluctuations of protein atoms, calculated at different temperatures in the 100-300 K range, are compared with those from a previous MD simulation on an H2O-solvated MbCO and with experime...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Cottone G,Cordone L,Ciccotti G

更新日期：2001-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Biological systems often have to measure extremely low concentrations of chemicals with high precision. When dealing with such small numbers of molecules, the inevitable randomness of physical transport processes and binding reactions will limit the precision with which measurements can be made. An important question ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Kaizu K,de Ronde W,Paijmans J,Takahashi K,Tostevin F,ten Wolde PR

更新日期：2014-02-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Forces applied by cells to substrates can be measured using soft substrates with embedded displacement markers. Traction forces are retrieved from microscopic images by determining the displacements of these markers and fitting the generating forces. Here we show that using elastic films of 5-10-microm thickness one c...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Merkel R,Kirchgessner N,Cesa CM,Hoffmann B

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present the measurement of the force required to rupture a single protein-sugar bond using a methodology that provides selective discrimination between specific and nonspecific binding events and helps verify the presence of a single functional molecule on the atomic force microscopy tip. In particular, the interac...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Ratto TV,Langry KC,Rudd RE,Balhorn RL,Allen MJ,McElfresh MW

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The fluorescein arsenical hairpin binder (FlAsH) shows much promise to determine the relative orientations of protein regions and structures even in living cells and in the plasma membrane. In this study, we characterized FlAsH's photophysical properties by steady-state anisotropy and time-resolved single photon count...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Spille JH,Zürn A,Hoffmann C,Lohse MJ,Harms GS

更新日期：2011-02-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Tethered membranes have been proven during recent years to be a powerful and flexible biomimetic platform. We reported in a previous article on the design of a new architecture based on the self-assembly of a thiolipid on ultrasmooth gold substrates, which shows extremely good electrical sealing properties as well as ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Atanasov V,Knorr N,Duran RS,Ingebrandt S,Offenhäusser A,Knoll W,Köper I

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Actin is ubiquitous globular protein that polymerizes into filaments and forms networks that participate in the force generation of eukaryotic cells. Such forces are used for cell motility, cytokinesis, and tissue remodeling. Among those actin networks, we focus on the actin cortex, a dense branched network beneath th...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Bussonnier M,Carvalho K,Lemière J,Joanny JF,Sykes C,Betz T

更新日期：2014-08-19 00:00:00

abstract：:We carried out experiments on single isolated myofibrils in which thin filaments had been functionally removed, leaving the connecting (titin) filaments as the sole agent taking up the length change. With technical advances that gave sub-nanometer detectability we examined the time course of single sarcomere-length ch...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Blyakhman F,Tourovskaya A,Pollack GH

更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cornea is the primary refractive lens in the eye and transmits >90% of incident visible light. It has been suggested that the development of postoperative corneal haze could be due to an increase in light scattering from activated corneal stromal cells. Quiescent keratocytes are thought to produce crystallins that...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Gardner SJ,White N,Albon J,Knupp C,Kamma-Lorger CS,Meek KM

更新日期：2015-10-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Giant vesicles formed of 1,2-dipalmitoylphosphatidylcholine (DPPC) and sterols (cholesterol or ergosterol) in water and water/ethanol solutions have been used to examine the effect of sterol composition and ethanol concentration on the area compressibility modulus (K(a)), overall mechanical behavior, vesicle morpholog...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Tierney KJ,Block DE,Longo ML

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several investigators have demonstrated that under conditions where little or no gas exchange occurs across the alveolar capillary membrane the PCO(2) is higher in the alveolus than in the mixed venous blood, whereas there are no PO(2) differences. Gurtner et al. have explained the DeltaPCO(2) by a model in which H(+)...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Gurtner GH

更新日期：1972-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The hydrophobic surfactant proteins, SP-B and SP-C, greatly accelerate the adsorption of the surfactant lipids to an air/water interface. Previous studies of factors that affect curvature suggest that vesicles may adsorb via a rate-limiting structure with prominent negative curvature, in which the hydrophilic face of ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Chavarha M,Loney RW,Rananavare SB,Hall SB

更新日期：2013-02-05 00:00:00

abstract：:In addition to the annular or boundary lipids that surround the transmembrane surface of the potassium channel KcsA from Streptomyces lividans, x-ray crystallographic studies have detected one anionic lipid molecule bound at each protein-protein interface in the homotetrameric structure, at sites referred to as nonann...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Marius P,Zagnoni M,Sandison ME,East JM,Morgan H,Lee AG

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Atomic force microscopy (AFM) can be used to probe the mechanics of molecular recognition between surfaces. In the application known as "chemical force" microscopy (CFM), a chemically modified AFM tip probes a surface through chemical recognition. When modified with a biological ligand or receptor, the AFM tip can dis...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Mazzola LT,Frank CW,Fodor SP,Mosher C,Lartius R,Henderson E

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have monitored the organization and dynamics of the hemolytic peptide melittin in membranes containing cholesterol by utilizing the intrinsic fluorescence properties of its functionally important sole tryptophan residue and circular dichroism spectroscopy. The significance of this study is based on the fact that th...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Raghuraman H,Chattopadhyay A

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The surprising observation that pressures of the order of 150 atmospheres can restore consciousness to an anesthetized animal has long been central to theories of the molecular mechanisms underlying general anesthesia. We have constructed a high-pressure gas chamber to test for "pressure reversal" of the best availabl...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Moss GW,Lieb WR,Franks NP

更新日期：1991-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Purple photosynthetic bacteria harvest light using pigment-protein complexes which are often arranged in pseudo-organelles called chromatophores. A model of a chromatophore from Rhodospirillum photometricum was constructed based on atomic force microscopy data. Molecular-dynamics simulations and quantum-dynamics calcu...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Chandler DE,Strümpfer J,Sener M,Scheuring S,Schulten K

更新日期：2014-06-03 00:00:00

abstract：:We present a theory for proton diffusion through an immobilized protein membrane perfused with an electrolyte and a buffer. Using a Nernst-Planck equation for each species and assuming local charge neutrality, we obtain two coupled nonlinear diffusion equations with new diffusion coefficients dependent on the concentr...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Zabusky NJ,Deem GS

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human apolipoprotein E (apoE) is a 299-amino-acid protein with a molecular weight of 34 kDa. The difference between the apoE3 and apoE4 isoforms is a single residue substitution involving a Cys-Arg replacement at residue 112. ApoE4 is positively associated with atherosclerosis and late-onset and sporadic Alzheimer's d...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Chou CY,Lin YL,Huang YC,Sheu SY,Lin TH,Tsay HJ,Chang GG,Shiao MS

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00