The elastic properties of the Cryptococcus neoformans capsule.

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：:Phototropins, major blue-light receptors in plants, are sensitive to blue light through a pair of flavin mononucleotide (FMN)-binding light oxygen and voltage (LOV) domains, LOV1 and LOV2. LOV2 undergoes a photocycle involving light-driven covalent adduct formation between a conserved cysteine and the FMN C(4a) atom. ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Alexandre MT,Domratcheva T,Bonetti C,van Wilderen LJ,van Grondelle R,Groot ML,Hellingwerf KJ,Kennis JT

更新日期：2009-07-08 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：:Artificial lipidic bilayers are widely used as a model for the lipid matrix in biological cell membranes. We use the Pockels electro-optical effect to investigate the properties of an artificial lipidic membrane doped with nonlinear molecules in the outer layer. We report here what is believed to be the first electro-...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Hajj B,De Reguardati S,Hugonin L,Le Pioufle B,Osaki T,Suzuki H,Takeuchi S,Mojzisova H,Chauvat D,Zyss J

更新日期：2009-12-02 00:00:00

abstract：:We have used resonance Raman spectroscopy to probe the heme environment of a recently discovered NOS from the pathogenic bacterium Staphylococcus aureus, named SANOS. We detect two forms of the CO complex in the absence of L-arginine, with nu(Fe-CO) at 482 and 497 cm(-1) and nu(C-O) at 1949 and 1930 cm(-1), respective...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Chartier FJ,Couture M

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have constructed a theory for diffusion through the pore of a single-ion channel by taking a limit of a random walk around a cycle of states. Similar to Levitt's theory of single-ion diffusion, one obtains boundary conditions for the Nernst-Planck equation that guarantee that the pore is occupied by at most one ion...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： McGill P,Schumaker MF

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Various differential polarization images or Mueller images of model objects are generated using the equations derived in the previous paper (paper I of this series). These calculated images include models of the higher-order organization of metaphase chromosomes, and show the applicability of the differential polariza...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Kim M,Ulibarri L,Bustamante C

更新日期：1987-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new method for the investigation of ion translocating membrane proteins is presented. Protein containing membrane fragments or vesicles are adsorbed to a solid supported membrane. The solid supported membrane consists of a lipid monolayer on a gold evaporated or gold sputtered glass substrate which is coated with a ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Seifert K,Fendler K,Bamberg E

更新日期：1993-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Endophilins are SH3- and BAR domain-containing proteins implicated in membrane remodeling and vesicle formation. Endophilins A1 and A2 promote the budding of endocytic vesicles from the plasma membrane, whereas endophilin B1 has been implicated in vesicle budding from intracellular organelles, including the trans-Golg...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Li J,Barylko B,Eichorst JP,Mueller JD,Albanesi JP,Chen Y

更新日期：2016-08-09 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：:In this new method for studying the shape recovery of deformed red blood cells, three optical traps ("optical tweezers") induce a parachute-shaped red cell deformation, which is comparable to the deformation in small capillaries. The shape recovery is recorded, and a relaxation time is obtained for each individual red...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Bronkhorst PJ,Streekstra GJ,Grimbergen J,Nijhof EJ,Sixma JJ,Brakenhoff GJ

更新日期：1995-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The kinetics of force production in chemically skinned trabeculae from the guinea pig were studied by laser photolysis of caged ATP in the presence of Ca2+. Preincubation of the tissue during rigor with the enzyme apyrase was used to reduce the population of MgADP-bound cross-bridges (Martin and Barsotti, 1994). In un...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Martin H,Barsotti RJ

更新日期：1994-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A ternary lipid mixture of palmitoyl-oleoyl-phosphatidylcholine (POPC), palmitoyl-erythro-sphingosylphosphorylcholine (PSM), and cholesterol at a mixing ratio of 37.5:37.5:25 mol/mol/mol was characterized using fluorescence microscopy, (2)H NMR, and electron paramagnetic resonance spectroscopy. The synthetic PSM provi...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Bunge A,Müller P,Stöckl M,Herrmann A,Huster D

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We find evidence for a direct transition of insulin monomers into amyloid fibrils without measurable concentrations of oligomers or protofibrils, suggesting that fibrillogenesis may occur directly from assembly of denaturing insulin monomers rather than by successive transitions through protofibril nuclei. To support ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Pease LF 3rd,Sorci M,Guha S,Tsai DH,Zachariah MR,Tarlov MJ,Belfort G

更新日期：2010-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Thermal inactivation of T(4) and lambda bacteriophage shows two components of differing sensitivity are present. These cannot be interpreted as owing to nucleic acid and protein. One protein function-the inhibition of radiation-induced DNA degradation-is lost with quite different thermal kinetics. lambda heated in the...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Pollard EC,Solosko W

更新日期：1971-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many proteins are anchored to lipid bilayer membranes through a combination of hydrophobic and electrostatic interactions. In the case of the membrane-bound nonreceptor tyrosine kinase Src from Rous sarcoma virus, these interactions are mediated by an N-terminal myristoyl chain and an adjacent cluster of six basic ami...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Scheidt HA,Klingler J,Huster D,Keller S

更新日期：2015-08-04 00:00:00

abstract：:We study DNA supercoiling in a quantitative fashion by micromanipulating single linear DNA molecules with a magnetic field gradient. By anchoring one end of the DNA to multiple sites on a magnetic bead and the other end to multiple sites on a glass surface, we were able to exert torsional control on the DNA. A rotatin...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Strick TR,Allemand JF,Bensimon D,Croquette V

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Actin filaments are semiflexible polymers that display large-scale conformational twisting and bending motions. Modulation of filament bending and twisting dynamics has been linked to regulatory actin-binding protein function, filament assembly and fragmentation, and overall cell motility. The relationship between act...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： De La Cruz EM,Roland J,McCullough BR,Blanchoin L,Martiel JL

更新日期：2010-09-22 00:00:00

abstract：:A systematic new approach to derive multiscale coarse-grained (MS-CG) models has been recently developed. The approach employs information from atomistically detailed simulations to derive CG forces and associated effective potentials. In this work, the MS-CG methodology is extended to study two peptides representing ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Zhou J,Thorpe IF,Izvekov S,Voth GA

更新日期：2007-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Coarse-grained (CG) models of biomolecules have recently attracted considerable interest because they enable the simulation of complex biological systems on length-scales and timescales that are inaccessible for atomistic molecular dynamics simulation. A CG model is defined by a map that transforms an atomically detai...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Zhang Z,Lu L,Noid WG,Krishna V,Pfaendtner J,Voth GA

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of agarose on nucleation of hen egg white lysozyme crystal was examined quantitatively using a temperature-jumping technique. For the first time, to our knowledge, the inhibition of agarose during the nucleation of lysozyme was quantified in two respects: a), the effect of increasing interfacial nucleation ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Wang L,Liu XY

更新日期：2008-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Conduction speed (theta) in single myelinated Rana pipiens sciatic nerve fibers has been precisely measured using intracellular recording and on-line digital computer techniques. The dependence of relative speed on external Na concentration at 15 degrees C has been found to be ln(theta(1)/theta(2)) = 0.524 (+/-0.018) ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Hardy WL

更新日期：1973-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Model compound studies in the literature show how Hofmeister ion interactions affect protein stability. Although model compound results are typically obtained as salting-out constants, they can be used to find out how the interactions affect protein stability. The null point in the Hofmeister series, which divides pro...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Baldwin RL

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Experimental variables of optical tweezers instrumentation that affect RNA folding/unfolding kinetics were investigated. A model RNA hairpin, P5ab, was attached to two micron-sized beads through hybrid RNA/DNA handles; one bead was trapped by dual-beam lasers and the other was held by a micropipette. Several experimen...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Wen JD,Manosas M,Li PT,Smith SB,Bustamante C,Ritort F,Tinoco I Jr

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new microscopic technique is demonstrated that combines attributes from both near-field scanning optical microscopy (NSOM) and fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET). The method relies on attaching the acceptor dye of a FRET pair to the end of a near-field fiber optic probe. Light exiting the NSOM probe, whic...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Vickery SA,Dunn RC

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of Mg++ on the spatial organization of nuclei from rat hepatocytes are analyzed in the range 0-60 mM, in the presence of suitable concentrations of KCl to reproduce physiological conditions. It is shown that the scatter-signal distribution measured by means of a flow microfluorimeter is greatly affected by...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Grattarola M,Carlo P,Giannetti G,Finollo R,Viviani R,Chiabrera A

更新日期：1985-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Actin dynamics is important in determining cell shape, tension, and migration. Methods such as fluorescent speckle microscopy and spatial temporal image correlation spectroscopy have been used to capture high-resolution actin turnover dynamics within cells in two dimensions. However, these methods are not directly app...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Chiu CL,Digman MA,Gratton E

更新日期：2013-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The rate of exchange of urea across the membranes of human erythrocytes (red blood cells) was quantified on the 1-s to 2-min timescale. (13)C-urea was hyperpolarized and subjected to rapid dissolution and the previously reported (partial) resolution of (13)C NMR resonances from the molecules inside and outside red blo...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Pagès G,Puckeridge M,Liangfeng G,Tan YL,Jacob C,Garland M,Kuchel PW

更新日期：2013-11-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Results are presented of nonphotochemical-hole-burning experiments on the mitochondrial specific dye rhodamine 800 incubated with two human ovarian surface epithelial cell lines: OSE(tsT)-14 normal cells and OV167 carcinoma cells. This dye is selective for the plasma and inner membranes of the mitochondria, as shown b...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Walsh RJ,Reinot T,Hayes JM,Kalli KR,Hartmann LC,Small GJ

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a cell-populated collagen gel, intrinsic fiber structure visible in differential interference contrast images can provide markers for an in situ strain gauge to quantify cell-gel mechanics, while optical sections of fluorescent protein distribution capture cytoskeletal kinematics. Mechanics quantification can be de...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Vanni S,Lagerholm BC,Otey C,Taylor DL,Lanni F

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00