Diffusion of the second messengers in the cytoplasm acts as a variability suppressor of the single photon response in vertebrate phototransduction.

abstract：:BP100 (KKLFKKILKYL-NH(2)) is a short cecropin A-melittin hybrid peptide, obtained through a combinatorial chemistry approach, which is highly effective in inhibiting both the in vitro and in vivo growth of economically important plant pathogenic Gram-negatives. The intrinsic Tyr fluorescence of BP100 was taken advanta...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Ferre R,Melo MN,Correia AD,Feliu L,Bardají E,Planas M,Castanho M

更新日期：2009-03-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Membrane domains known as rafts are rich in cholesterol and sphingolipids, and are thought to be thicker than the surrounding membrane. If so, monolayers should elastically deform so as to avoid exposure of hydrophobic surfaces to water at the raft boundary. We calculated the energy of splay and tilt deformations nece...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Kuzmin PI,Akimov SA,Chizmadzhev YA,Zimmerberg J,Cohen FS

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The electric quadrupole moment of the deuterium nucleus provides a nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) probe of electric field gradients, and thereby of organization of tissue water. 8-17% of H(2)O in rat muscle and brain was replaced by D(2)O from 50% deuterated drinking water. The peak height of the steady-state NMR sp...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Cope FW

更新日期：1969-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cyclic 3'5' adenosine monophosphate (cAMP)-dependent-protein kinase (PKA) signaling is a fundamental regulatory pathway for mediating cellular responses to hormonal stimuli. The pathway is activated by high-affinity association of cAMP with the regulatory subunit of PKA and signal termination is achieved upon cAMP dis...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Krishnamurthy S,Moorthy BS,Xin Xiang L,Xin Shan L,Bharatham K,Tulsian NK,Mihalek I,Anand GS

更新日期：2014-09-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Hair cells of the inner ear can power spontaneous oscillations of their mechanosensory hair bundle, resulting in amplification of weak inputs near the characteristic frequency of oscillation. Recently, dynamic force measurements have revealed that delayed gating of the mechanosensitive ion channels responsible for mec...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Barral J,Jülicher F,Martin P

更新日期：2018-01-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies have demonstrated a calcium-dependent interaction of calmodulin (CaM) and Fas that is regulated during Fas-induced apoptosis in several cell lines, including cholangiocarcinoma, Jurkat cells, and osteoclasts. The binding of CaM and Fas has been identified on residues 231-254 of Fas; the V254N point mu...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Suever JD,Chen Y,McDonald JM,Song Y

更新日期：2008-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Molecular dynamics simulations have been applied to the DNA octamer d(GCGCA-GAAC). d(GTTCGCGC), which has an adenine bulge at the center to determine the pathway for interconversion between the stacked and extended forms. These forms are known to be important in the molecular recognition of bulges. From a total of ~35...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Feig M,Zacharias M,Pettitt BM

更新日期：2001-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The opening and closing of the CFTR Cl- channel are regulated by ATP hydrolysis at its two nucleotide binding domains (NBDs). However, the mechanism and functional significance of ATP hydrolysis are unknown. Sequence similarity between the NBDs of CFTR and GTP-binding proteins suggested the NBDs might have a structure...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Carson MR,Welsh MJ

更新日期：1995-12-01 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：:The photophysics of the complex forming reaction of Ca2+ and Fura-2 are investigated using steady-state and time-resolved fluorescence measurements. The fluorescence decay traces were analyzed with global compartmental analysis yielding the following values for the rate constants at room temperature in aqueous solutio...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Van den Bergh V,Boens N,De Schryver FC,Ameloot M,Steels P,Gallay J,Vincent M,Kowalczyk A

更新日期：1995-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of salt and pH titration on the selectivity of spin-labeled analogues of phosphatidic acid, phosphatidylserine, phosphatidylcholine, and stearic acid for the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor (nAcChoR) reconstituted into dioleoylphosphatidylcholine was examined at 0 degrees C using electron spin resonance sp...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Raines DE,Miller KW

更新日期：1993-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Disruption of the integrity of the plasma membrane by amyloidogenic proteins is linked to the pathogenesis of a number of common age-related diseases. Although accumulating evidence suggests that adverse environmental stressors such as unbalanced levels of metal ions may trigger amyloid-mediated membrane damage, many ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Sciacca MF,Milardi D,Messina GM,Marletta G,Brender JR,Ramamoorthy A,La Rosa C

更新日期：2013-01-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The raft hypothesis proposes that microdomains enriched in sphingolipids, cholesterol, and specific proteins are transiently formed to accomplish important cellular tasks. Equivocally, detergent-resistant membranes were initially assumed to be identical to membrane rafts, because of similarities between their composit...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Casadei BR,Domingues CC,de Paula E,Riske KA

更新日期：2014-06-03 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined the effects of brief current pulses on the pacemaker oscillations of the Purkinje fiber using the model of McAllister , Noble, and Tsien (1975. J. Physiol. [Lond.]. 251:1-57). This model was used to construct phase-response curves for brief electric stimuli to find "black holes," where rhythmic activity of...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Chay TR,Lee YS

更新日期：1984-04-01 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：:At low surface concentrations that permit formation of impermeable membranes, neuronal soluble N-ethyl maleimide sensitive factor attachment protein receptor (SNARE) proteins form a stable, parallel, trans complex when vesicles are brought into contact by a low concentration of poly(ethylene glycol) (PEG). Surprisingl...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Dennison SM,Bowen ME,Brunger AT,Lentz BR

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intramolecular electron transfer between CuA and heme a in solubilized bacterial (Paracoccus denitrificans) cytochrome c oxidase was investigated by pulse radiolysis. CuA, the initial electron acceptor, was reduced by 1-methylnicotinamide radicals in a diffusion-controlled reaction, as monitored by absorption changes ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Farver O,Grell E,Ludwig B,Michel H,Pecht I

更新日期：2006-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Phospholipids have been treated as dimers on a hexagonal lattice, and a move has been introduced that allows the dimers to move and change their orientation on the lattice. Simulations have been performed in which phospholipid chains have been treated as being either independent or infinitely coupled thermodynamically...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Jerala R,Almeida PF,Biltonen RL

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three features appear to characterize steady-state light adaptation in vertebrate cone photoreceptors: (a) the shape of the "log intensity-response" curve at different levels of adaptation is the same, the only change with adaptation is in the position of the point on the curve about which the cones operate; (b) at hi...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Dawis SM,Purple RL

更新日期：1982-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rearrangement of tertiary structure in response to mechanical force (termed tertiary structure elasticity) in the tandem Ig chain is the first mode of elastic response for muscle protein titin. Tertiary structure elasticity occurs at low stretching forces (few tens of pN), and was described at atomic resolution in a r...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Hsin J,Schulten K

更新日期：2011-02-16 00:00:00

abstract：:In rat mesenteric arteries, smooth muscle cells exhibit intercellular calcium waves in response to local phenylephrine stimulation. These waves have a velocity of approximately 20 cells/s and a range of approximately 80 cells. We analyze these waves in a theoretical model of a population of coupled smooth muscle cells...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Koenigsberger M,Seppey D,Bény JL,Meister JJ

更新日期：2010-07-21 00:00:00

abstract：:We report detection and quantification of ultraviolet (UV) damage in DNA at a single molecule level by atomic force microscopy (AFM). By combining the supercoiled plasmid relaxation assay with AFM imaging, we find that high doses of medium wave ultraviolet (UVB) and short wave ultraviolet (UVC) light not only produce ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Jiang Y,Ke C,Mieczkowski PA,Marszalek PE

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Equilibrium binding ligands usually increase protein thermal stability by an amount proportional to the concentration and affinity of the ligand. High-throughput screening for the discovery of drug-like compounds uses an assay based on thermal stabilization. The mathematical description of this stabilization is well d...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Cimmperman P,Baranauskiene L,Jachimoviciūte S,Jachno J,Torresan J,Michailoviene V,Matuliene J,Sereikaite J,Bumelis V,Matulis D

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nuclear transport receptors (NTRs) mediate nucleocytoplasmic transport via their affinity for unstructured proteins (polymers) in the nuclear pore complex (NPC). Here, we have modeled the effect of NTRs on polymeric structure in the nanopore confinement of the NPC central conduit. The model explicitly takes into accou...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Osmanović D,Ford IJ,Hoogenboom BW

更新日期：2013-12-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Trimethylamine-N-oxide (TMAO) in the cells of sharks and rays is believed to counteract the deleterious effects of the high intracellular concentrations of urea in these animals. It has been hypothesized that TMAO has the generic ability to counteract the effects of urea on protein structure and function, regardless o...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Baskakov I,Wang A,Bolen DW

更新日期：1998-05-01 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 recent thermodynamic model describes a reversible reaction between cholesterol (C) and phospholipid (P) to form a condensed complex C(nq)P(np). Here q and p are relatively prime integers used to define the stoichiometric composition, and n is a measure of cooperativity. The present study applies this model to the sc...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Anderson TG,McConnell HM

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The CLC family of chloride channels and transporters is a functionally diverse group of proteins important in a wide range of physiological processes. ClC-4 and ClC-5 are localized to endosomes and seem to play roles in the acidification of these compartments. These proteins were recently shown to function as Cl(-)/H(...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Osteen JD,Mindell JA

更新日期：2008-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Enveloped viruses must bind to a receptor on the host membrane to initiate infection. Membrane fusion is subsequently initiated by a conformational change in the viral fusion protein, triggered by receptor binding, an environmental change, or both. Here, we present a strategy to disentangle the two processes of recept...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Rawle RJ,Boxer SG,Kasson PM

更新日期：2016-07-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Ribosomes isolated from growing hyphae of Neurospora crassa contain 53 per cent protein and 47 per cent RNA and have a sedimentation coefficient of 81S at 20 degrees C and infinite dilution. These ribosomes are stable at pH 7.4 in the presence of 0.01 M and 0.002 M MgCl(2) but undergo a dissociation into smaller parti...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： STORCK R

更新日期：1963-01-01 00:00:00