Determination of the oligomer size of amyloidogenic protein beta-amyloid(1-40) by single-molecule spectroscopy.

abstract：:The Ca(2+) permeability of N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor (NMDA-R) channels was studied in human embryonic kidney cells transfected with the NR1-NR2A subunit combination. To determine the fractional Ca(2+) current (P(f)), measurements of fura-2-based Ca(2+) influx and whole-cell currents were made in symmetrical monova...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Schneggenburger R

更新日期：1996-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A phenomenological theory for contracting muscle based on irreversible thermodynamics and the sliding filament theory is developed. The individual cross bridges, considered as subunits, are viewed as linear energy converters with constant transport coefficients. With this view of the subunits, phenomenological equatio...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Bornhorst WJ,Minardi JE

更新日期：1970-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The chromophore of octopus rhodopsin is 11-cis retinal, linked via a protonated Schiff base to the protein backbone. Its stable photoproduct, metarhodopsin, has all-trans retinal as its chromphore. The Schiff base of acid metarhodopsin (lambda max = 510 nm) is protonated, whereas that of alkaline metarhodopsin (lambda...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Koutalos Y,Ebrey TG,Gilson HR,Honig B

更新日期：1990-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Light-induced dielectrophoretic movement of polystyrene beads and lambda-DNA is studied using thin films of amorphous hydrogenated silicon as local photoaddressable electrodes with a diameter of 4 microm. Positive (high-field seeking) dielectrophoretic movement is observed for both types of objects. The absence of str...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Hoeb M,Rädler JO,Klein S,Stutzmann M,Brandt MS

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of Ca ion concentration on cross-bridge kinetics in a small bundle (one to three fibers) of chemically skinned rabbit psoas muscle is studied. The length of the muscle is oscillated in small amplitude sine waves (0.2% L0 peak-to-peak) at varying frequencies (0.125 -- 167 Hz), and the resulting amplitude and...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Kawai M,Cox RN,Brandt PW

更新日期：1981-08-01 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：:A significant amount of work has been devoted to obtaining a detailed atomistic knowledge of the human hemoglobin mechanism. Despite this impressive research, to date, the ligand diffusion processes remain unclear and controversial. Using recently developed computational techniques, PELE, we are capable of addressing ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Lucas MF,Guallar V

更新日期：2012-02-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The dependences of the steady-state critical concentration and average filament length of actin solutions, on the filament branching and capping rates, are calculated using a rate methodology based on the total number of actin filaments. The methodology generalizes calculations of the "treadmilling" actin concentratio...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Carlsson AE

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The absence of comprehensive measured kinetic values and the observed inconsistency in the available in vitro kinetic data has hindered the formulation of network-scale kinetic models of biochemical reaction networks. To meet this challenge we present an approach to construct a convex space, termed the k-cone, which c...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Famili I,Mahadevan R,Palsson BO

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The motor head of kinesin carries out microtubule binding, ATP hydrolysis, and force generation. Despite a high level of sequence and structural conservation, subtle variations in subdomains of the motor head determine family-specific properties. In particular, both Kinesin-1 (Kin-1) and Kinesin-5 (Kin-5) walk process...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Hesse WR,Steiner M,Wohlever ML,Kamm RD,Hwang W,Lang MJ

更新日期：2013-05-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Multiple data are available on the self-assembly of mixtures of bilayer-forming amphiphiles, particularly phospholipids and micelle-forming amphiphiles, commonly denoted detergents. The structure of such mixed assemblies has been thoroughly investigated, described in phase diagrams, and theoretically rationalized in t...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Lichtenberg D,Ahyayauch H,Goñi FM

更新日期：2013-07-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Two monocysteine mutants of cardiac muscle troponin C, cTnC(C35S) and cTnC(C84S), were genetically generated and labeled with the fluorescent probe 2-[4'-(iodoacetamido)anilino]naphthalene-6-sulfonic acid (IAANS) at Cys-84 and Cys-35, respectively. Cys-84 is located on helix D in the regulatory N-domain, and Cys-35 is...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Dong WJ,Wang CK,Gordon AM,Cheung HC

更新日期：1997-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The adhesion of giant unilamellar phospholipid vesicles to planar substrates coated with extracellular matrix mimetic cushions of hyaluronan is studied using quantitative reflection interference contrast microscopy. The absolute height of the vesicle membrane at the vicinity of the substrate is measured by considering...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Limozin L,Sengupta K

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many studies of specific protein-nucleic acid binding use short oligonucleotides or restriction fragments, in part to minimize the potential for nonspecific binding of the protein. However, when the specificity ratio is low, multiple nonspecifically bound proteins may occupy the region of DNA corresponding to one spec...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Tsodikov OV,Holbrook JA,Shkel IA,Record MT Jr

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cell membrane of Valonia utricularis contains an electrogenic carrier system for chloride (Wang et al., Biophys J. 59:235-248 (1991)). The electrical impedance of V. utricularis was measured in the frequency range between 1 Hz and 50 kHz. The analysis of the impedance spectra from V. utricularis and its comparison...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Wang J,Zimmermann U,Benz R

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The salt dependence of the binding free energy of five protein-protein hetero-dimers and two homo-dimers/tetramers was calculated from numerical solutions to the Poisson-Boltzmann equation. Overall, the agreement with experimental values is very good. In all cases except one involving the highly charged lactoglobulin ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Bertonati C,Honig B,Alexov E

更新日期：2007-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Photosynthetic organisms drive their metabolism by converting light energy into an electrochemical gradient with high efficiency. This conversion depends on the diffusion of quinones within the membrane. In purple photosynthetic bacteria, quinones reduced by the reaction center (RC) diffuse to the cytochrome bc(1) com...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Scheuring S,Sturgis JN

更新日期：2006-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The folding of short alanine-based peptides with different numbers of lysine residues is simulated at constant temperature (274 K) using the rigid-element Monte Carlo method. The solvent-referenced potential has prevented the multiple-minima problem in helix folding. From various initial structures, the peptides with ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Sung SS

更新日期：1995-03-01 00:00:00

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：:We simulate a simple phenomenological model describing phase behavior in a multicomponent membrane, a model capable of producing macroscopic phase separation, modulated phases, and microemulsions, all of which have been discussed in terms of raft phenomena. We show that one effect of thermal fluctuations on the mean-f...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Shlomovitz R,Maibaum L,Schick M

更新日期：2014-05-06 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：:The distribution of low concentrations of ganglioside GM1 in L-alpha-dipalmitoylphosphatidylcholine (DPPC) and DPPC/cholesterol monolayers supported on mica has been studied using atomic force microscopy (AFM). The monolayers studied correspond to a pure gel phase and a mixture of liquid-expanded (LE) and liquid-conde...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Yuan C,Johnston LJ

更新日期：2000-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Qx-Qy splitting observed in the fluorescence excitation spectra of Mg-mesoporphyrin-IX substituted horseradish peroxidase (MgMP-HRP) and of its complex with naphthohydroxamic acid (NHA) was studied by spectral hole burning techniques. The width of a hole directly burnt in the Qy band and that of a satellite hole i...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Suisalu A,Mauring K,Kikas J,Herenyi L,Fidy J

更新日期：2001-01-01 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：:Atomic force microscopy (AFM) can be used to probe the mechanics of molecular recognition between surfaces. In the application known as "chemical force" microscopy (CFM), a chemically modified AFM tip probes a surface through chemical recognition. When modified with a biological ligand or receptor, the AFM tip can dis...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Mazzola LT,Frank CW,Fodor SP,Mosher C,Lartius R,Henderson E

更新日期：1999-06-01 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：:Cytoplasmic free Mg(2+) concentration ([Mg(2+)]i) was measured in rat ventricular myocytes with a fluorescent indicator furaptra (mag-fura-2) introduced by AM-loading. By incubation of the cells in a high-K(+) (Ca(2+)- and Mg(2+)-free) solution, [Mg(2+)]i decreased from ? 0.9 mM to 0.2 to 0.5 mM. The lowered [Mg(2+)]i...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Tashiro M,Inoue H,Konishi M

更新日期：2014-11-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Fluorescence correlation spectroscopy (FCS) is generally used to obtain information about the number of fluorescent particles in a small volume and the diffusion coefficient from the autocorrelation function of the fluorescence signal. Here we demonstrate that photon counting histogram (PCH) analysis constitutes a nov...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Chen Y,Müller JD,So PT,Gratton E

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We compared wild-type rat skeletal muscle NaChs (micro1) and a mutant NaCh (Y1586K) that has a single amino acid substitution, lysine (K) for tyrosine (Y), at position 1586 in the S6 transmembrane segment of domain 4. In Y1586K, macroscopic current decay is faster, the V(1/2) of the activation curve is shifted in the ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： O'Reilly JP,Wang SY,Wang GK

更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many multicellular communities propagate signals in a directed manner via excitable waves. Cell-to-cell heterogeneity is a ubiquitous feature of multicellular communities, but the effects of heterogeneity on wave propagation are still unclear. Here, we use a minimal FitzHugh-Nagumo-type model to investigate excitable ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Zhai X,Larkin JW,Süel GM,Mugler A

更新日期：2020-04-07 00:00:00