Effects of hydration on mechanical properties of a highly sclerotized tissue.

abstract：:The clustering of ryanodine receptors (RyR2) into functional Ca2+ release units is central to current models for cardiac excitation-contraction (E-C) coupling. Using immunolabeling and confocal microscopy, we have analyzed the distribution of RyR2 clusters in rat and ventricular atrial myocytes. The resolution of the ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Chen-Izu Y,McCulle SL,Ward CW,Soeller C,Allen BM,Rabang C,Cannell MB,Balke CW,Izu LT

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lateral tension in cell plasma membranes plays an essential role in regulation of a number of membrane-related intracellular processes and cell motion. Understanding the physical factors generating the lateral tension and quantitative determination of the tension distribution along the cell membrane is an emerging top...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Schweitzer Y,Lieber AD,Keren K,Kozlov MM

更新日期：2014-01-07 00:00:00

abstract：:In recent in vitro experiments, it has been demonstrated that the 47-kDa fragment of the talin molecule and the 32-kDa fragment of the vinculin molecule interact with acidic phospholipids. By using a computer analysis method, we determined the hydrophobic and amphipathic stretches of these fragments and, by applying a...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Tempel M,Goldmann WH,Isenberg G,Sackmann E

更新日期：1995-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bovine brain phosphatidylserine (BBPS) vesicles were prepared with traces of dioleoylglycerol (18:1, 18:1 DAG) or hexadecane (HD) to determine the influence of changes in headgroup or acyl chain packing on divalent cation-induced lipid mixing rates. A stopped-flow apparatus was used to combine vesicles with 3 mM Ca2+ ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Walter A,Yeagle PL,Siegel DP

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present here the parmbsc0 force field, a refinement of the AMBER parm99 force field, where emphasis has been made on the correct representation of the alpha/gamma concerted rotation in nucleic acids (NAs). The modified force field corrects overpopulations of the alpha/gamma = (g+,t) backbone that were seen in long ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Pérez A,Marchán I,Svozil D,Sponer J,Cheatham TE 3rd,Laughton CA,Orozco M

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein solubility in aqueous solutions depends in a complicated and not well understood way on pH, salt type, and salt concentration. Why for instance does the use of two different monovalent salts, potassium thiocyanate and potassium chloride, produce such different results? One important and previously neglected so...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Boström M,Williams DR,Ninham BW

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The recently developed method of site-directed Fourier transform infrared dichroism for obtaining orientational constraints of oriented polymers is applied here to the transmembrane domain of the vpu protein from the human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1). The infrared spectra of the 31-residue-long vpu peptide r...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Kukol A,Arkin IT

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many different cell types are able to migrate by formation of a thin actin-based cytoskeletal extension. Recently, it became evident that this extension consists of two distinct substructures, designated lamellipodium and lamellum, which differ significantly in their kinetic and kinematic properties as well as their b...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Huber F,Käs J,Stuhrmann B

更新日期：2008-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Are protein nonpolar cavities filled with water molecules? Although many experimental and theoretical investigations have been done, particularly for the nonpolar cavity of IL-1 beta, the results are still conflicting. To study this problem from the thermodynamic point of view, we calculated hydration free energies of...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Oikawa M,Yonetani Y

更新日期：2010-06-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Certain environmental parameters are accessible to cells only indirectly and require an encoding step for cells to retrieve the relevant information. A prominent example is the phenomenon of quorum sensing by microorganisms, where information about cell density is encoded by means of secreted signaling molecules. The ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Drees B,Reiger M,Jung K,Bischofs IB

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Halorhodopsin (HR), the light-driven chloride transport pigment of Halobacterium halobium, was bleached and reconstituted with retinal analogues with the pi electron system interrupted at different locations (dihydroretinals). The absorption maxima of the artificial pigments formed with the dihydroretinals are found t...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Lanyi JK,Zimányi L,Nakanishi K,Derguini F,Okabe M,Honig B

更新日期：1988-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite the recognition that actin filaments are important for numerous cellular processes, and decades of investigation, the dynamics of in vitro actin filaments are still not completely understood. Here, we follow the time evolution of the length distribution of labeled actin reporter filaments in an unlabeled F-act...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Schmoller KM,Niedermayer T,Zensen C,Wurm C,Bausch AR

更新日期：2011-08-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of temperature (3 degrees-26 degrees C) on the nonlinear components of the displacement current were measured in internally perfused, voltage clamped squid axons. Steps of potential were applied from a holding potential of -70mV (outside ground) to values from -130 to +70mV and either the current or its in...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Bezanilla F,Taylor RE

更新日期：1978-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) measurement in the lung using gas magnetic resonance imaging is a promising technique with potential for reflecting changes in lung microstructure. Despite some recent impressive human applications, full interpretation of ADC measures remains an elusive goal, due to a lack of detai...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Pérez-Sánchez JM,Rodríguez I,Ruiz-Cabello J

更新日期：2009-07-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Activation of skeletal muscle ryanodine receptors (RyRs) by suramin and disulfonic stilbene derivatives (Diisothiocyanostilbene-2',2'-disulfonic acid (DIDS), 4,4'-dibenzamidostilbene-2,2'-disulfonic acid (DBDS),and 4,4'-dinitrostilbene-2,2'-disulfonic acid (DNDS)) was investigated using planar bilayers. One reversible...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： O'Neill ER,Sakowska MM,Laver DR

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ras is a membrane-anchored signaling protein that serves as a hub for many signaling pathways and also plays a prominent role in cancer. The intrinsic behavior of Ras on the membrane has captivated the biophysics community in recent years, especially the possibility that it may form dimers. In this article, we describ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Chung JK,Lee YK,Denson JP,Gillette WK,Alvarez S,Stephen AG,Groves JT

更新日期：2018-01-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Evidence that the fluorophore sempervirene binds to nucleic acids is presented. The complexes were studied by fluorescence intensity, spectra, decay lifetime, and polarization methods. Both fluorescent and nonfluorescent complexes are formed. The sempervirene is rigidly fixed to DNA. If ethidium bromide and sempervire...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Burns VW

更新日期：1974-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fibril deposit formation of amyloid beta-protein (Abeta) in the brain is a hallmark of Alzheimer's disease (AD). Increasing evidence suggests that toxicity is linked to diffusible Abeta oligomers, which have been found in soluble brain extracts of AD patients, rather than to insoluble fibers. Here we report a study of...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Picone P,Carrotta R,Montana G,Nobile MR,San Biagio PL,Di Carlo M

更新日期：2009-05-20 00:00:00

abstract：:A simple method of simulating cell kinetics experiments, suitable for use on small generally available computers and capable of any degree of accuracy without increase of store required, is described. No assumption is necessary as to cycle-time distribution; the computer program, after being adjusted to generate perce...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Eaves G

更新日期：1972-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Atomic force microscopy (AFM) is nowadays frequently applied to determine interaction forces between biological molecules. Starting with the detection of the first discrete unbinding forces between ligands and receptors by AFM only several years ago, measurements have become more and more quantitative. At the same tim...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Willemsen OH,Snel MM,Cambi A,Greve J,De Grooth BG,Figdor CG

更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The problem of the desorption of a lipid molecule from a lipid vesicle (donor) and its incorporation into another vesicle (acceptor) at high acceptor concentrations, which has been investigated experimentally (Jones, J. D. and Thompson, T. E., 1990. Biochemistry, 29:1593-1600), is analyzed here from a theoretical poin...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Almeida PF

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been accepted that the force produced by a skeletal muscle myofibril depends on its cross-sectional area but not on the number of active sarcomeres because they are arranged in series. However, a previous study performed by our group showed that blocking actomyosin interactions within an activated myofibril and...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Mendoza AC,Rassier DE

更新日期：2020-04-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies in Shaker, a voltage-dependent potassium channel, suggest a coupling between activation and inactivation. This coupling is controversial in hERG, a fast-inactivating voltage-dependent potassium channel. To address this question, we transferred to hERG the S3-S4 linker of the voltage-independent channel, rolf, ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Choveau FS,El Harchi A,Rodriguez N,Louérat-Oriou B,Baró I,Demolombe S,Charpentier F,Loussouarn G

更新日期：2009-09-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The most probable source of force generation in muscle fibers in the rotation of the myosin head when bound to actin. This laboratory has demonstrated that ATP induces microsecond rotational motions of spin-labeled myosin heads bound to actin (Berger, C. L. E. C. Svensson, and D. D. Thomas. 1989. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Ostap EM,Thomas DD

更新日期：1991-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The rotation of the lever arm of myosin cross-bridges is believed to be responsible for muscle contraction. To resolve details of this rotation, it is necessary to observe a single cross-bridge. It is still impossible to do so in muscle fiber, but it is possible to investigate a small population of cross-bridges by si...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Borejdo J,Shepard A,Akopova I,Grudzinski W,Malicka J

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fast Ca(2+) release kinetics were measured in cardiac sarcoplasmic reticulum vesicles actively loaded with Ca(2+). Release was induced in solutions containing 1.2 mM free ATP and variable free [Ca(2+)] and [Mg(2+)]. Release rate constants (k) were 10-fold higher at pCa 6 than at pCa 5 whereas Ryanodine binding was hig...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Sánchez G,Hidalgo C,Donoso P

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cationic antimicrobial cationic peptides (CAMP) have been found in recent years to play a decisive role in hosts' defense against microbial infection. They have also been investigated as a new therapeutic tool, necessary in particular due to the increasing resistance of microbiological populations to antibiotics. The ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Howe J,Andrä J,Conde R,Iriarte M,Garidel P,Koch MH,Gutsmann T,Moriyón I,Brandenburg K

更新日期：2007-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein/lipid coassembly is an understudied phenomenon that is important to the function of antimicrobial peptides as well as the pathological effects of amyloid. Here, we study the coassembly process of PAP248-286, a seminal peptide that displays both amyloid-forming and antimicrobial activity. PAP248-286 is a peptid...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Vane EW,He S,Maibaum L,Nath A

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cyclic nucleotide-gated (CNG) channels, which were initially studied in retina and olfactory neurons, are activated by cytoplasmic cGMP or cAMP. Detailed comparisons of nucleotide-activated currents using nucleotide analogs and mutagenesis revealed channel-specific residues in the nucleotide-binding domain that regula...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Scott SP,Cummings J,Joe JC,Tanaka JC

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Detection algorithms are widely used for the analysis of single-channel data because they remove the background noise from the measured current signal and reconstruct the noise-free time series. Standard detection algorithms assume channels switching only between zero and full conductance. Many types of channels, howe...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Draber S,Schultze R

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00