Surface rheology and adsorption kinetics reveal the relative amphiphilicity, interfacial activity, and stability of human exchangeable apolipoproteins.

abstract：:Although both RNA and proteins have densely packed native structures, chain organizations of these two biopolymers are fundamentally different. Motivated by the recent discoveries in chromatin folding that interphase chromosomes have territorial organization with signatures pointing to metastability, we analyzed the b...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Liu L,Hyeon C

更新日期：2016-06-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The human brain may be regarded as an irreversible system which is constrained by a fixed inflow of free energy in the form of chemical nourishment from within the body and information from the environment. The evolution of the internal spontaneous process may be described as a path on the saddle surface of entropy pr...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Kirkaldy JS

更新日期：1965-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding the information processing ability of signal transduction pathways is of great importance because of their crucial roles in triggering various cellular responses. Despite continuing theoretical investigation, some important aspects of signal transduction such as a transient response and its connection to...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Morishita Y,Kobayashi TJ,Aihara K

更新日期：2006-09-15 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：:The lipid matrix, or the lipid bilayer, of cell membranes is a natural binding site for amphipathic molecules, including antimicrobial peptides, pore-forming proteins, and many drugs. The unique property of pore-forming antimicrobial peptides is that they exhibit a threshold concentration (called the lethal concentrat...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Huang HW

更新日期：2009-04-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The photochemical reaction process of bacteriorhodopsin in the nanosecond time range (-120-860 ns) was measured in the 1400-900 cm-1 region with an improved time resolved dispersive-type infrared spectrometer. The system is equipped with a newly developed detection unit whose instrumental response to a 5-ns laser puls...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Sasaki J,Yuzawa T,Kandori H,Maeda A,Hamaguchi H

更新日期：1995-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have considered whether lecithin surface films below the gel-liquid crystal transition temperature, Tc, are in unique physical states. In general, below Tc, equilibrium films do not exist when surface pressures, pi, exceed about 0.1 dyn/cm. Since surface pressure-surface area isotherms of lecithin films below Tc al...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Horn LW,Gershfeld NL

更新日期：1977-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Solute transport through the extracellular matrix is essential for cellular activities in articular cartilage. Increased solute transport via fluid convection may be a mechanism by which dynamic compression stimulates chondrocyte metabolism. However, loading conditions that optimally augment transport likely vary for ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Evans RC,Quinn TM

更新日期：2006-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Integrin-mediated adhesion of circulating neutrophils to endothelium during inflammation involves multiple adhesion molecules on both neutrophils and endothelium. Most studies of neutrophil adhesion have focused on adhesion to ICAM-1 (mediated by beta(2) integrins), but interaction with the endothelial ligand vascular...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Lomakina EB,Waugh RE

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In high light conditions, cyanobacteria dissipate excess absorbed energy as heat in the light-harvesting phycobilisomes (PBs) to protect the photosynthetic system against photodamage. This process requires the binding of the red active form of the Orange Carotenoid Protein (OCP(r)), which can effectively quench the ex...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Tian L,Gwizdala M,van Stokkum IH,Koehorst RB,Kirilovsky D,van Amerongen H

更新日期：2012-04-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Chromatin is partitioned on multiple length scales into subcompartments that differ from each other with respect to their molecular composition and biological function. It is a key question how these compartments can form even though diffusion constantly mixes the nuclear interior and rapidly balances concentration gr...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Erdel F,Rippe K

更新日期：2018-05-22 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：:Dynamic properties of class A beta-lactamase TEM-1 are investigated from molecular dynamics (MD) simulations. Comparison of MD-derived order parameters with those obtained from model-free analysis of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) relaxation data shows high agreement for N-H moieties within alpha- and beta-secondary...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Fisette O,Morin S,Savard PY,Lagüe P,Gagné SM

更新日期：2010-02-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Many membrane-bound molecules in cells form small clusters. It has been hypothesized that these clusters convert an analog extracellular signal into a digital intracellular signal and that this conversion increases signaling fidelity. However, the mechanism by which clusters digitize a signal and the subsequent effect...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Roob E 3rd,Trendel N,Rein Ten Wolde P,Mugler A

更新日期：2016-04-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The self-assembly of myosin into filamentous structures is a highly cooperative and rapid process. Nevertheless, the presence of nonequivalent bonding interactions within the filament permits differential stabilization of several macromolecular assemblies of myosin under well-controlled ionic conditions in citrate/Tri...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Reisler E,Cheung P,Borochov N

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Coarse-grained molecular dynamics simulations are applied to explore the experimentally observed ability of the liquid-ordered (lo)/liquid-disordered (ld) phase boundary to facilitate viral membrane fusion. Surprisingly, a formed fusion stalk can be both attracted (i.e., stalkophilic) and repelled (i.e., stalkophobic)...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Risselada HJ

更新日期：2017-06-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Loss of myelin in the central nervous system (CNS) leads to debilitating neurological deficits. High-resolution optical imaging of myelin in the CNS of animal models is limited by a lack of in vivo myelin labeling strategies. We demonstrated that third harmonic generation (THG) microscopy-a coherent, nonlinear, dye-fr...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Farrar MJ,Wise FW,Fetcho JR,Schaffer CB

更新日期：2011-03-02 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：:The opening of basepairs plays a key role in DNA replication and transcription, and in the action of DNA repair and modification enzymes. In this article, we have used proton exchange to define the energetics of the pathways for basepair opening in two DNA 17-mer duplexes. The rates of exchange of imino protons with s...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Coman D,Russu IM

更新日期：2005-11-01 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：:Recent suggestions of nanoscale heat confinement on the surface of synthetic and biogenic magnetic nanoparticles during heating by radio frequency-alternating magnetic fields have generated intense interest because of the potential utility of this phenomenon for noninvasive control of biomolecular and cellular functio...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Davis HC,Kang S,Lee JH,Shin TH,Putterman H,Cheon J,Shapiro MG

更新日期：2020-03-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Membranes of the lens of the eye of mammals have two particular characteristics, high concentrations of sphingomyelin, and dihydrosphingomyelin and cholesterol. We have studied the miscibility of cholesterol with both egg sphingomyelin and with dihydrosphingomyelin made by hydrogenation of egg sphingomyelin. At a chol...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Epand RM

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The one-dimensional information of genomic DNA is hierarchically packed inside the eukaryotic cell nucleus and organized in a three-dimensional (3D) space. Genome-wide chromosome conformation capture (Hi-C) methods have uncovered the 3D genome organization and revealed multiscale chromatin domains of compartments and ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Shinkai S,Sugawara T,Miura H,Hiratani I,Onami S

更新日期：2020-05-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Fluorescence recovery after photobleaching (FRAP) is a powerful technique to study molecular dynamics inside living cells. During the past years, several laboratories have used FRAP to image the motion of RNA-protein and other macromolecular complexes in the nucleus and cytoplasm. In the case of mRNAs, there is growin...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Braga J,McNally JG,Carmo-Fonseca M

更新日期：2007-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper describes an analysis of microscopic models for the coupling between ion flow and rotation of bacterial flagella. In model I it is assumed that intersecting half-channels exist on the rotor and the stator and that the driving ion is constrained to move together with the intersection site. Model II is based ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Läuger P

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The last decade established that the dynamic properties of the phosphoproteome are central to function and its modulation. The temporal dimension of phosphorylation effects remains nonetheless poorly understood, particularly for intrinsically disordered proteins. Osteopontin, selected for this study due to its key rol...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Lenton S,Grimaldo M,Roosen-Runge F,Schreiber F,Nylander T,Clegg R,Holt C,Härtlein M,García Sakai V,Seydel T,Marujo Teixeira SC

更新日期：2017-04-25 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：:Migratory cells are known to adapt to environments that contain wide-ranging levels of chemoattractant. Although biochemical models of adaptation have been previously proposed, here, we discuss a different mechanism based on mechanosensing, in which the interaction between biochemical signaling and cell tension facili...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Zmurchok C,Collette J,Rajagopal V,Holmes WR

更新日期：2020-10-20 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper, we report on the presence of cation binding areas on bovine serum amine oxidase, where metal ions of the groups IA and IIA, such as Na(+), K(+), Cs(+), Mg(2+), and Ca(2+), bind with various affinities. We found a cation-binding area that influences the enzyme activity if occupied, so that the catalytic ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Di Paolo ML,Scarpa M,Corazza A,Stevanato R,Rigo A

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated whether the cysteine residues in Shaker potassium (K+) channels are essential for activation and inactivation gating or for modulation of activation gating by external zinc (Zn2+). Mutants of the Shaker K+ channel were prepared in which all seven cysteine residues were replaced (C-less). These changes ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Boland LM,Jurman ME,Yellen G

更新日期：1994-03-01 00:00:00