A reaction-diffusion model to study RNA motion by quantitative fluorescence recovery after photobleaching.

abstract：:Atomically detailed simulations are used to compute the kinetics of the R-to-T transition in deoxy Scapharca hemoglobin. A computational approach called milestoning is utilized that combines 1), an efficient reaction path algorithm; and 2), a "fragment and glue" approach for classical trajectories. Milestoning compute...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Elber R

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The efficiency of various patterns of pulsatile stimulation is determined in a model in which a receptor becomes desensitized in the presence of its stimulatory ligand. The effect of stochastic or chaotic changes in the duration and/or interval between successive pulses in a series of square-wave stimuli is investigat...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Li Y,Goldbeter A

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Forces applied by intact mucus-propelling cilia were measured for the first time that we know of using a combined atomic force microscopy (AFM) and electrooptic system. The AFM probe was dipped into a field of beating cilia and its time-dependent deflection was recorded as it was struck by the cilia while the electroo...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Teff Z,Priel Z,Gheber LA

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The unfolding and folding of protein barnase has been extensively investigated in bulk conditions under the effect of denaturant and temperature. These experiments provided information about structural and kinetic features of both the native and the unfolded states of the protein, and debates about the possible existe...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Alemany A,Rey-Serra B,Frutos S,Cecconi C,Ritort F

更新日期：2016-01-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Functional RNAs can fold into intricate structures using a number of different secondary and tertiary structural motifs. Many factors contribute to the overall free energy of the target fold. This study aims at quantifying the entropic costs coming from the loss of conformational freedom when the sugar-phosphate backb...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Mak CH,Phan ENH

更新日期：2018-05-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The ionophore properties of magainin I, an antimicrobial and amphipathic peptide from the skin of Xenopus, were investigated in planar lipid bilayers. Circular dichroism studies, performed comparatively with alamethicin, in small or large unilamellar phospholipidic vesicles, point to a smaller proportion of alpha-heli...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Duclohier H,Molle G,Spach G

更新日期：1989-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigate the validity of continuum electrostatics in the gramicidin A channel using a recently determined high-resolution structure. The potential and electric field acting on ions in and around the channel are computed by solving Poisson's equation. These are then used in Brownian dynamics simulations to obtain...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Edwards S,Corry B,Kuyucak S,Chung SH

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report here several unusual features of inactivation of the rat Kv2.1 delayed rectifier potassium channel, expressed in Xenopus oocytes. The voltage dependence of inactivation was U-shaped, with maximum inactivation near 0 mV. During a maintained depolarization, development of inactivation was slow and only weakly ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Klemic KG,Shieh CC,Kirsch GE,Jones SW

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fission fragment tracks from uranium-stained biological preparations have been observed in the electron microscope in a study of the feasibility of their use as tracers. Virus, DNA, and tissue sections were stained with uranium, prepared for electron microscopy, irradiated in the high thermal neutron flux of a nuclear...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： MALMON AG

更新日期：1964-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pathway to membrane fusion in synthetic and biological systems is thought to pass through hemifusion, in which the outer leaflets are fused while the inner leaflets engage in a hemifusion diaphragm (HD). Fusion has been proposed to be completed by lysis of the expanded HD that matures from a localized stalklike in...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Warner JM,O'Shaughnessy B

更新日期：2012-08-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Phase-resolved monitoring of photoacoustic signals can provide information about the depth profile of a sample. We describe an application of this principle to determine the depth profiles of ligands and antitumor agents in mammalian cells. Measurements of the in-phase and quadrature components of the photoacoustic sp...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Narayanan K,Chandani S,Ramakrishna T,Rao CM

更新日期：1997-05-01 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 vibrational Raman spectra of both pure 1-alpha-dimyristoylphosphatidic acid (DMPA) liposomes and DMPA multilayers reconstituted with ferricytochrome c at pH 7 and pH 4, with either sodium or calcium as the cation, are reported as a function of temperature. Multilayers composed of a 1:1 mol ratio DMPA and dimyristo...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Vincent JS,Levin IW

更新日期：1991-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A computational framework is presented for studying the mechanical response of macromolecules. The method combines a continuum mechanics (CM) model for the mechanical properties of the macromolecule with a continuum electrostatic (CE) treatment of solvation. The molecules are represented by their shape and key physico...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Ma L,Yethiraj A,Chen X,Cui Q

更新日期：2009-05-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Pre-mRNA processing protein 40 (Prp40) is a nuclear protein that has a role in pre-mRNA splicing. Prp40 possesses two leucine-rich nuclear export signals, but little is known about the function of Prp40 in the export process. Another protein that has a role in protein export is centrin, a member of the EF-hand superfa...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Díaz Casas A,Chazin WJ,Pastrana-Ríos B

更新日期：2017-06-20 00:00:00

abstract：:ATP-sensitive K(+)-channels link metabolism and excitability in neurons, myocytes, and pancreatic islets. Mutations in the pore-forming subunit (Kir6.2; KCNJ11) cause neonatal diabetes, developmental delay, and epilepsy by decreasing sensitivity to ATP inhibition and suppressing electrical activity. Mutations of resid...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Koster JC,Kurata HT,Enkvetchakul D,Nichols CG

更新日期：2008-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Fluorescence correlation spectroscopy (FCS) is generally used to obtain information about the number of fluorescent particles in a small volume and the diffusion coefficient from the autocorrelation function of the fluorescence signal. Here we demonstrate that photon counting histogram (PCH) analysis constitutes a nov...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Chen Y,Müller JD,So PT,Gratton E

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Starzak and Starzak (1978. IEEE Trans. Biomed. Eng. 25:201-204.) proposed that, in cyclic application of current and voltage-clamps, the fidelity of the match of the output current with the original stimulus could be used to measure the spatial uniformity of voltage in a membrane. However, they failed to find such a m...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Moore JW,Stockbridge N,Schiff SJ

更新日期：1982-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:On the basis of its role in the analysis of mammillary compartmental systems, a matrix with non-zero elements in the first row, first column, and along the main diagonal and with zero elements elsewhere is called a mammillary matrix. It is pointed out that such matrices occur in a variety of biological problems includ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Hearon JZ

更新日期：1964-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neuronal synapses are highly specialized structures for communication between nerve cells. Knowledge about their molecular organization and dynamics is still incomplete. The large multidomain protein Bassoon plays a major role in scaffolding and organizing the cytomatrix at the active zone of neurotransmitter release ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Jose M,Nair DK,Altrock WD,Dresbach T,Gundelfinger ED,Zuschratter W

更新日期：2008-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Electrical bursting oscillations of mammalian pancreatic beta-cells are synchronous among cells within an islet. While electrical coupling among cells via gap junctions has been demonstrated, its extent and topology are unclear. The beta-cells also share an extracellular compartment in which oscillations of K+ concent...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Stokes CL,Rinzel J

更新日期：1993-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Small-angle neutron scattering (SANS) is used to probe the solution structure of two protein therapeutics (monoclonal antibodies 1 and 2 (MAb1 and MAb2)) and their protein-protein interaction (PPI) at high concentrations. These MAbs differ by small sequence alterations in the complementarity-determining region but sho...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Yearley EJ,Zarraga IE,Shire SJ,Scherer TM,Gokarn Y,Wagner NJ,Liu Y

更新日期：2013-08-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of cholesterol (Chol) on phospholipid bilayers include ordering of the fatty acyl chains, condensing of the lipids in the bilayer plane, and promotion of the liquid-ordered phase. These effects depend on the type of phospholipids in the bilayer and are determined by the nature of the underlying molecular i...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Aittoniemi J,Niemelä PS,Hyvönen MT,Karttunen M,Vattulainen I

更新日期：2007-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The spontaneous folding of two Neisseria outer membrane proteins, opacity-associated (Opa)(60) and Opa(50) into lipid vesicles was investigated by systematically varying bulk and membrane properties. Centrifugal fractionation coupled with sodium dodecyl sulfate polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis mobility assays enable...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Dewald AH,Hodges JC,Columbus L

更新日期：2011-05-04 00:00:00

abstract：:We show prolonged contraction of permeabilized muscle fibers of the frog during which structural order, as judged from low-angle x-ray diffraction, was preserved by means of partial cross-linking of the fibers using the zero-length cross-linker 1-ethyl-3-[3-dimethylamino)propyl]carbodiimide. Ten to twenty percent of t...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Bershitsky S,Tsaturyan A,Bershitskaya O,Mashanov G,Brown P,Webb M,Ferenczi MA

更新日期：1996-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite the importance of lipid rafts, commonly defined as liquid-ordered domains rich in cholesterol and in lipids with high gel-to-fluid melting temperatures (T(m)), the rules for raft formation in membranes are not completely understood. Here, a fluorescence-quenching strategy was used to define how lipids with low...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Bakht O,Pathak P,London E

更新日期：2007-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The development of strategies to measure plasma membrane osmotic water permeability (Pf) in epithelial cells has been motivated by the identification of a family of molecular water channels. A general approach utilizing interferometry to measure cell shape and volume was developed and applied to measure Pf in cell lay...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Farinas J,Verkman AS

更新日期：1996-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neutrophils rely on rapid changes in morphology to ward off invaders. Time-resolved dynamics of spreading human neutrophils after activation by the chemoattractant fMLF (formyl methionyl leucyl phenylalanine) was observed by RICM (reflection interference contrast microscopy). An image-processing algorithm was develope...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Sengupta K,Aranda-Espinoza H,Smith L,Janmey P,Hammer D

更新日期：2006-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Formation of liquid-ordered domains in model membranes can be linked to raft formation in cellular membranes. The lipid stoichiometry has a governing influence on domain formation and consequently, biochemical hydrolysis of specific lipids has the potential to remodel domain features. Activation of phospholipase A(2) ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Simonsen AC

更新日期：2008-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:A theoretical framework is developed to study the dynamics of protein folding. The key insight is that the search for the native protein conformation is influenced by the rate r at which external parameters, such as temperature, chemical denaturant, or pH, are adjusted to induce folding. A theory based on this insight...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Lois G,Blawzdziewicz J,O'Hern CS

更新日期：2008-09-15 00:00:00