Three-dimensional resolution doubling in wide-field fluorescence microscopy by structured illumination.

abstract：:To determine if hydrophobic surfactant proteins affect the stability of pulmonary surfactant monolayers at an air/water interface, the studies reported here compared the kinetics of collapse for the complete set of lipids in calf surfactant with and without the proteins. Monomolecular films spread at the surface of ca...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Lhert F,Yan W,Biswas SC,Hall SB

更新日期：2007-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Deuterium NMR spectroscopy was used to study how the positioning of a dimerization motif within a transbilayer polypeptide influences its orientation and dynamics in bilayers. Three polypeptide variants comprising glycophorin A transmembrane (GpATM) dimerization motifs incorporated into lysine-terminated poly-leucine-...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： McDonald MC,Booth V,Morrow MR

更新日期：2011-02-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The interactions between vitamin-A and beta-lactoglobulin have been investigated. We have found that two different complexes can be formed: one involving vitamin-A, and one involving a derivative of vitamin-A that most probably has a retro-beta-ionylidene structure. Room temperature absorption spectra for these comple...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Hemley R,Kohler BE,Siviski P

更新日期：1979-12-01 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：:Detection of the transition between the two myosin isoforms α- and β-myosin in living cardiomyocytes is essential for understanding cardiac physiology and pathology. In this study, the differences in symmetry of polarization spectra obtained from α- and β-myosin in various mammalian ventricles and propylthiouracil-tre...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Yuan C,Zhao X,Wang Z,Borg TK,Ye T,Khalpey ZI,Runyan RB,Shao Y,Gao BZ

更新日期：2020-03-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Properties of filamentous acetamidofluorescein-labeled actin and acetamidotetramethylrhodamine-labeled actin (AF and ATR-actin, respectively) were examined to resolve discrepancies in the reported translational diffusion coefficients of F-actin measured in vitro by FPR and other techniques. Using falling-ball viscomet...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Simon JR,Gough A,Urbanik E,Wang F,Lanni F,Ware BR,Taylor DL

更新日期：1988-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thermodynamic analysis of metabolic networks has recently generated increasing interest for its ability to add constraints on metabolic network operation, and to combine metabolic fluxes and metabolite measurements in a mechanistic manner. Concepts for the calculation of the change in Gibbs energy of biochemical react...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Jol SJ,Kümmel A,Hatzimanikatis V,Beard DA,Heinemann M

更新日期：2010-11-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Circadian rhythms possess the ability to robustly entrain to the environmental cycles. This ability relies on the phase synchronization of circadian rhythm gene regulation to different environmental cues, of which light is the most obvious and important. The elucidation of the mechanism of circadian entrainment requir...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Gunawan R,Doyle FJ 3rd

更新日期：2006-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Microtubules are cytoskeletal filaments whose self-assembly occurs by abrupt switching between states of roughly constant growth and shrinkage, a process known as dynamic instability. Understanding the mechanism of dynamic instability offers potential for controlling microtubule-dependent cellular processes such as ne...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Odde DJ,Cassimeris L,Buettner HM

更新日期：1995-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thermotropic phase transitions in single planar bilayers of glycerol mono-oleate have been investigated using quasi-elastic light scattering from thermally excited membrane fluctuations. In certain cases both spectroscopic and intensity information were derived from the observations. For solvent-free bilayers transiti...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Crawford GE,Earnshaw JC

更新日期：1986-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A brief summary of the major results in enhanced wound healing by electrolysis in animals and humans is presented along with the results of enhanced growth by electrolysis in plants. Hypotheses of normal and enhanced wound healing in animal and plants are reviewed. A comparison of the experimental results indicates st...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Gensler W

更新日期：1979-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Here we present an efficient implementation of line-scan fluorescence correlation spectroscopy (i.e., one-dimensional spatio-temporal image correlation spectroscopy) using a commercial laser scanning microscope, which allows the accurate measurement of diffusion coefficients and concentrations in biological lipid memb...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Ries J,Chiantia S,Schwille P

更新日期：2009-03-04 00:00:00

abstract：:We have measured, using infrared spectroscopy, the hydrogen/deuterium exchange rates of the amide protons in the photosynthetic antenna of Rhodospirillum rubrum. These measurements were made not only on the intact protein in detergent solution but also on two dissociated forms (B820 and B777). We have, on the basis of...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Sturgis J,Robert B,Goormaghtigh E

更新日期：1998-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Uncovering mechanisms that control the dynamics of microtubules is fundamental for our understanding of multiple cellular processes such as chromosome separation and cell motility. Building on previous theoretical work on the dynamic instability of microtubules, we propose here a stochastic model that includes all rel...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Padinhateeri R,Kolomeisky AB,Lacoste D

更新日期：2012-03-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Calculations are reported of the time-dependent Nernst-Planck equations for a thin permeable membrane between electrolytic solutions. Charge neutrality is assumed for the time-dependent case. The response of such a membrane system to step current input is measured in terms of the time and space changes in concentratio...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： COHEN H,COOLEY JW

更新日期：1965-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Single-molecule methods provide direct measurements of macromolecular dynamics, but are limited by the number of degrees of freedom that can be followed at one time. High-resolution rotor bead tracking (RBT) measures DNA torque, twist, and extension, and can be used to characterize the structural dynamics of DNA and d...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Ivanov IE,Lebel P,Oberstrass FC,Starr CH,Parente AC,Ierokomos A,Bryant Z

更新日期：2018-01-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Ultrasonic relaxation of multilamellar liposomes formed from dipalmitoylphosphatidylcholine was measured near the gel-to-liquid crystal transition by a differential ultrasonic resonator. The relaxation time and strength increased remarkably near the transition temperature, indicating a pseudocritical phenomenon. A qua...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Mitaku S,Jippo T,Kataoka R

更新日期：1983-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Electron-electron double resonance (ELDOR) and saturation-recovery spectroscopy employing 14N:15N stearic acid spin-label pairs have been used to study the effects of cholesterol on lateral diffusion and vertical fluctuations in lipid bilayers. The 14N:15N continuous wave electron-electron double resonance (CW ELDOR) ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Yin JJ,Feix JB,Hyde JS

更新日期：1987-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several strategies directed toward increasing the participation of minority students in physics and biophysics are presented. Since the number of minority students entering college with an interest in science and mathematics must be increased if we expect to see more students graduating in science, several programs ai...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Tanaka JC,Gladney LD

更新日期：1993-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hyaluronan (HA) is a highly hydrated polyanion, which is a network-forming and space-filling component in the extracellular matrix of animal tissues. Confocal fluorescence recovery after photobleaching (confocal-FRAP) was used to investigate intramolecular hydrogen bonding and electrostatic interactions in hyaluronan ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Gribbon P,Heng BC,Hardingham TE

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We measured the exocytotic response induced by flash photolysis of caged compounds in isolated mast cells and chromaffin cells. Vesicle fusion was measured by monitoring the cell membrane capacitance. The release of vesicular contents was followed by amperometry. In response to a GTP gamma S stimulus we found that the...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Oberhauser AF,Robinson IM,Fernandez JM

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A method for combining calculations of residue pKa's with changes in the position of polar hydrogens has been developed. The Boltzmann distributions of proton positions in hydroxyls and neutral titratable residues are found in the same Monte Carlo sampling procedure that determines the amino acid ionization states at ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Alexov EG,Gunner MR

更新日期：1997-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The photocycle of the photophobic receptor from Natronobacterium pharaonis, NpSRII, is studied by static and time-resolved step-scan Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy. Both low-temperature static and time-resolved spectra resolve a K-like intermediate, and the corresponding spectra show little difference within ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Hein M,Wegener AA,Engelhard M,Siebert F

更新日期：2003-02-01 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：:A discrete multistate kinetic model for water-wire proton transport is constructed and analyzed using Monte Carlo simulations. In the model, each water molecule can be in one of three states: oxygen lone-pairs pointing leftward, pointing rightward, or protonated (H(3)O(+)). Specific rules for transitions among these s...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Chou T

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have used the elastic neutron scattering technique to investigate the dynamics of the two main saccharidic components of starch: amylose and amylopectin. The measurements were carried out in the temperature range of 20 to 320 K and at different hydration levels from the dry state up to 0.47 g saccharide/g D(2)O. In...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Di Bari M,Cavatorta F,Deriu A,Albanese G

更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The characterization of the structural dynamics of proteins, including those that present a substantial degree of disorder, is currently a major scientific challenge. These dynamics are biologically relevant and govern the majority of functional and pathological processes. We exploited a combination of enhanced molecu...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Camilloni C,Schaal D,Schweimer K,Schwarzinger S,De Simone A

更新日期：2012-01-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Amantadine is known to block the M2 proton channel of the Influenza A virus. Here, we present a structure of the M2 trans-membrane domain blocked with amantadine, built using orientational constraints obtained from solid-state NMR polarization-inversion-spin-exchange-at-the-magic-angle experiments. The data indicates ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Hu J,Asbury T,Achuthan S,Li C,Bertram R,Quine JR,Fu R,Cross TA

更新日期：2007-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Maintenance of paroxysmal atrial fibrillation (AF) by fast rotors in the left atrium (LA) or at the pulmonary veins (PVs) is not fully understood. To gain insight into this dynamic and complex process, we studied the role of the heterogeneous distribution of transmembrane currents in the PVs and LA junction (PV-LAJ) i...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Calvo CJ,Deo M,Zlochiver S,Millet J,Berenfeld O

更新日期：2014-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:We have worked out a procedure for covalent binding of native biomacromolecules on flat gold surfaces for scanning probe microscopy in aqueous buffer solutions and for other nanotechnological applications, such as the direct measurement of interaction forces between immobilized macromolecules, of their elastomechanica...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Wagner P,Hegner M,Kernen P,Zaugg F,Semenza G

更新日期：1996-05-01 00:00:00