Simultaneous tether extraction from endothelial cells and leukocytes: observation, mechanics, and significance.

abstract：:The effects of different cations on the hydrodynamic radius (RH) of a 48-bp synthetic DNA are measured by time-resolved fluorescence polarization anisotropy of intercalated ethidium. Relative statistical errors in RH are only approximately 1%. With increasing cation concentration, Na+ causes a small decrease in RH, Cs...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Fujimoto BS,Miller JM,Ribeiro NS,Schurr JM

更新日期：1994-07-01 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：:Model compound studies in the literature show how Hofmeister ion interactions affect protein stability. Although model compound results are typically obtained as salting-out constants, they can be used to find out how the interactions affect protein stability. The null point in the Hofmeister series, which divides pro...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Baldwin RL

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sedimentation velocity analytical ultracentrifugation is an important tool in the characterization of macromolecules and nanoparticles in solution. The sedimentation coefficient distribution c(s) of Lamm equation solutions is based on the approximation of a single, weight-average frictional coefficient of all particle...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Brown PH,Schuck P

更新日期：2006-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The solution structures of the N-terminal domains of protein S, a plasma vitamin K-dependent glycoprotein, and its homolog growth arrest specific protein 6 (Gas6) were predicted by molecular dynamics computer simulations. The initial structures were based on the x-ray crystallographic structure of the corresponding re...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Perera L,Li L,Darden T,Monroe DM,Pedersen LG

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Some low molecular weight biomolecules, i.e., NAD(P)H, are unstable at high temperatures. The use of these biomolecules by thermophilic microorganisms has been scarcely analyzed. Herein, NADH stability has been studied at different temperatures and viscosities. NADH decay increased at increasing temperatures. At incre...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Cuecas A,Cruces J,Galisteo-López JF,Peng X,Gonzalez JM

更新日期：2016-08-23 00:00:00

abstract：:We introduce here a novel Monte Carlo simulation method for studying the interactions of hydrophobic peptides with lipid membranes. Each of the peptide's amino acids is represented as two interaction sites: one corresponding to the backbone alpha-carbon and the other to the side chain, with the membrane represented as...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Kessel A,Shental-Bechor D,Haliloglu T,Ben-Tal N

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA release from lipoplexes is an essential step during lipofection and is probably a result of charge neutralization by cellular anionic lipids. As a model system to test this possibility, fluorescence resonance energy transfer between DNA and lipid covalently labeled with Cy3 and BODIPY, respectively, was used to mo...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Tarahovsky YS,Koynova R,MacDonald RC

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nerve growth factor (NGF) mimics play an important role for therapies that target the receptor tyrosine kinase A (trkA). The N-terminal fragment of the NGF (N-term@NGF) was previously demonstrated to be an important determinant for affinity and specificity in the binding to trkA. Here we use a variety of computational...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Berrera M,Cattaneo A,Carloni P

更新日期：2006-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Spontaneous conversion of beta-amyloid peptide (Abeta) from soluble monomer to insoluble fibril may underlie the neurodegeneration associated with Alzheimer's disease. A complete description of Abeta self-association kinetics requires identification of the oligomeric species present and the pathway of association, as ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Pallitto MM,Murphy RM

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Peptidoglycan hydrolases are bacterial secreted enzymes that cleave covalent bonds in the cell-wall peptidoglycan, thereby fulfilling major physiological functions during cell growth and division. Although the molecular structure and functional roles of these enzymes have been widely studied, the molecular details und...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Beaussart A,Rolain T,Duchêne MC,El-Kirat-Chatel S,Andre G,Hols P,Dufrêne YF

更新日期：2013-08-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Biological membranes are composed of a large number lipid species differing in hydrophobic length, degree of saturation, and charge and size of the headgroup. We now present data on the effect of hydrocarbon chain length of the lipids and headgroup composition on the lateral mobility of the proteins in model membranes...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Ramadurai S,Duurkens R,Krasnikov VV,Poolman B

更新日期：2010-09-08 00:00:00

abstract：:A recently developed technique for in vivo determination of the electrical resistance of vascular endothelium in microvessels was applied to the vessels in a thin frog muscle, m. cutaneus pectoris. The technique consists of injection of current via a glass micropipette into a capillary and measurement of the resulting...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Olesen SP,Crone C

更新日期：1983-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Negatively charged phospholipids are an important component of biological membranes. The thermodynamic parameters governing self-assembly of anionic phospholipids are deduced here from isothermal titration calorimetry. Heats of demicellization were determined for dioctanoyl phosphatidylglycerol (PG) and phosphatidylse...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Marsh D

更新日期：2012-03-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Kinetic measurements of the self-assembly of proteins into amyloid fibrils are often used to make inferences about molecular mechanisms. In particular, the lag time--the quiescent period before aggregates are detected--is often found to scale with the protein concentration as a power law, whose exponent has been used ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Eden K,Morris R,Gillam J,MacPhee CE,Allen RJ

更新日期：2015-02-03 00:00:00

abstract：:In multicellular organisms, single-fluorophore imaging is obstructed by high background. To achieve a signal/noise ratio conducive to single-molecule imaging, we adapted reflected light-sheet microscopy (RLSM) to image highly opaque late-stage Drosophila embryos. Alignment steps were modified by means of commercially ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Greiss F,Deligiannaki M,Jung C,Gaul U,Braun D

更新日期：2016-02-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The B1 domain of protein G has been a classic model system of folding for decades, the subject of numerous experimental and computational studies. Most of the experimental work has focused on whether the protein folds via an intermediate, but the evidence is mostly limited to relatively slow kinetic observations with ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Lapidus LJ,Acharya S,Schwantes CR,Wu L,Shukla D,King M,DeCamp SJ,Pande VS

更新日期：2014-08-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The impedance measured in a strip of heart tissue from the moth Hyalophora cecropia is fitted by circuit models of several configurations. The circuits include: (a) a single R-C circuit (b) a double R-C circuit (c) terminated transmission lines, and (d) a pattern of cells with cell-to-cell transmission paths. The last...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Stibitz GR,McCann FV

更新日期：1974-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The parameters of the immune response dynamics are usually estimated by the use of deterministic ordinary differential equations that relate data trends to parameter values. Since the physical basis of the response is stochastic, we are investigating the intensity of the data fluctuations resulting from the intrinsic ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Milutinovic D,De Boer RJ

更新日期：2007-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytochrome c3 (cyt c3) can mediate electron transport across phosphatidylcholine (PC)/cardiolipin (CL) and PC/phosphatidylglycerol (PG) membranes. A two-molecule process is involved in the electron transport across PC/CL membranes in the liquid-crystalline state. In contrast, a single-molecule process dominates the el...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Kim SM,Yamamoto T,Todokoro Y,Takayama Y,Fujiwara T,Park JS,Akutsu H

更新日期：2006-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The physical forces that underlie the exclusion of solutes from macromolecular surfaces can be probed in a similar way as the measurement of forces between macromolecules in condensed arrays using the osmotic stress technique and x-ray scattering. We report here the dependence of alcohol exclusion or, equivalently, th...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Stanley C,Rau DC

更新日期：2006-08-01 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：:The current article describes a new two-dimensional lambda-dynamics method to include proton tautomerism in continuous constant pH molecular dynamics (CPHMD) simulations. The two-dimensional lambda-dynamics framework is used to devise a tautomeric state titration model for the CPHMD simulations involving carboxyl and ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Khandogin J,Brooks CL 3rd

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Membrane potential of aortic endothelial cells under resting conditions is dominated by inward-rectifier K(+) channels belonging to the Kir 2 family. Regulation of endothelial Kir by membrane cholesterol was studied in bovine aortic endothelial cells by altering the sterol composition of the cell membrane. Our results...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Romanenko VG,Rothblat GH,Levitan I

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fusion of a vesicle with its target membrane is preceded by tethering or docking. However, the physical mechanism of vesicle-tethering is unknown. To study this mechanism, we used eosinophil secretory granules, which undergo stimulated homotypic fusion events inside the cell during degranulation. Using a dual optical ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Valero V,Nevian T,Ho D,Lindau M

更新日期：2008-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Ca2+ release from the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) contributes to Ca2+ transients in frog sympathetic ganglion neurons. Here we use video-rate confocal fluo-4 fluorescence imaging to show that single action potentials reproducibly trigger rapidly rising Ca2+ transients at 1-3 local hot spots within the peripheral ER-ric...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Cseresnyés Z,Schneider MF

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Here we model the Alzheimer beta-peptide ion channel with the goal of obtaining insight into the mechanism of amyloid toxicity. The models are built based on NMR data of the oligomers, with the universal U-shaped (strand-turn-strand) motif. After 30-ns simulations in the bilayer, the channel dimensions, shapes and sub...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Jang H,Zheng J,Nussinov R

更新日期：2007-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The skeletal muscles of chickens, frogs, and fish have been reported to express two isoforms (alpha and beta) of the sarcoplasmic reticulum calcium release channel (ryanodine receptor or RYR), while mammals express only one. We have studied patterns of RYR isoform expression in skeletal muscles from a variety of fish,...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： O'Brien J,Meissner G,Block BA

更新日期：1993-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Molecular chaperone Hsp70 plays important roles in the pathology of amyloid diseases by inhibiting aberrant aggregation of proteins. However, the biophysical mechanism of the interaction of Hsp70 with the intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) is unclear. Here, we report that Hsp70 inhibits aggregation of islet amyl...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Chilukoti N,Sil TB,Sahoo B,Deepa S,Cherakara S,Maddheshiya M,Garai K

更新日期：2021-01-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Limited proteolysis of RNase-A yields a short N-terminal S-peptide segment and the larger S-protein. Binding of S-peptide to S-protein results in the formation of an enzymatically active RNase-S protein. S-peptide undergoes a transition from intrinsic disorder to an ordered helical state upon association with S-protei...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Luitz MP,Bomblies R,Zacharias M

更新日期：2017-10-03 00:00:00