Molecular mechanisms of how mercury inhibits water permeation through aquaporin-1: understanding by molecular dynamics simulation.

abstract：:Myosin II is a central mechanoenzyme in a wide range of cellular morphogenic processes. Its cellular localization is dependent not only on signal transduction pathways, but also on mechanical stress. We suggest that this stress-dependent distribution is the result of both the force-dependent binding to actin filaments...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Luo T,Mohan K,Srivastava V,Ren Y,Iglesias PA,Robinson DN

更新日期：2012-01-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Skinned fibers of frog semitendinosus muscle could easily be stretched up to 8 mum or more in sarcomere length. Such extremely stretched fibers gave quite sharp optical diffraction patterns. The intensities of all observable diffraction lines were found to increase on application of electric field (10 similar to 100 V...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Umazume Y,Fujime S

更新日期：1975-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many toxins and antimicrobial peptides permeabilize membrane vesicles by forming multimeric pores. Determination of the size of such pores is an important first step for understanding their structure and the mechanism of their self-assembly. We report a simple method for sizing pores in vesicles based on the different...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Ladokhin AS,Selsted ME,White SH

更新日期：1997-04-01 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：:Paxillin is an adaptor molecule involved in the assembly of focal adhesions. Using different fluorescence fluctuation approaches, we established that paxillin-EGFP is dynamic on many timescales within the cell, ranging from milliseconds to seconds. In the cytoplasmic regions, far from adhesions, paxillin is uniformly ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Digman MA,Brown CM,Horwitz AR,Mantulin WW,Gratton E

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Stearoylsphingomyelin (SSM) bilayers containing 0, 22, and 50 mol % cholesterol (Chol) and a pentadecanoyl-stearoylphosphatidylcholine (15SPC) bilayer containing 22 mol % Chol were molecular dynamics simulated at two temperatures (37 degrees C and 60 degrees C). 15SPC is the best PC equivalent of SSM. The Chol effect ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Róg T,Pasenkiewicz-Gierula M

更新日期：2006-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The organization of the normal collagen molecule and fibrils is reviewed and the detection, assay, and isolation of a collagenolytic enzyme from amphibian tadpole tissue are described and its possible significance in metamorphosis is discussed ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： GROSS J

更新日期：1964-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Skeletal muscle contraction is a canonical example of motor-driven force generation. Despite the long history of research in this topic, a mechanistic explanation of the collective myosin force generation is lacking. We present a theoretical model of muscle contraction based on the conformational movements of individu...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Lan G,Sun SX

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Molecular chaperones are large proteins or protein complexes from which many proteins require assistance in order to fold. One unique property of molecular chaperones is the cavity they provide in which proteins fold. The interior surface residues which make up the cavities of molecular chaperone complexes from differ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： White AD,Huang W,Jiang S

更新日期：2012-12-19 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper describes an analysis of microscopic models for the coupling between ion flow and rotation of bacterial flagella. In model I it is assumed that intersecting half-channels exist on the rotor and the stator and that the driving ion is constrained to move together with the intersection site. Model II is based ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Läuger P

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Optical potentiometric indicators have been used to monitor the transmembrane electrical potential (Em) of many cells and organelles. A better understanding of the mechanisms of dye response is needed for the design of dyes with improved responses and for unambiguous interpretation of experimental results. This paper ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Pratap PR,Novak TS,Freedman JC

更新日期：1990-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have studied the wavelength dependence of retinal Schiff base absorbencies on the protonation state of the chromophore at the multiconfigurational level of theory using second order perturbation theory (CASPT2) within an atomic natural orbital basis set on MP2 optimized geometries. Quantitative agreement between ca...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Sekharan S,Weingart O,Buss V

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present a new method for analyzing the dynamics of conformational fluctuations of individual flexible polymer molecules. In single-particle tracking (SPT), one end of the polymer molecule is tethered to an immobile substratum. A microsphere attached to the other end serves as an optical marker. The conformational f...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Qian H,Elson EL

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:FKBP12 was removed from ryanodine receptors (RyRs) by incubation of rabbit skeletal muscle terminal cisternae membranes with rapamycin. The extent of FKBP12 removal was estimated by immunostaining Western blots of terminal cisternae proteins. Single FKBP12-depleted RyR channels, incorporated into planar lipid bilayers...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Ahern GP,Junankar PR,Dulhunty AF

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of a transmembrane peptide on the domain structure of a two-component, two-phase lipid bilayer composed of dimyristoyl phosphatidylcholine (DMPC) and distearoyl phosphatidylcholine (DSPC) was examined by spin label electron spin resonance (ESR) spectroscopy. The peptide, pOmpA, is the hydrophobic, 25-residu...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Sankaram MB,Marsh D,Gierasch LM,Thompson TE

更新日期：1994-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cytoskeletal protein MreB is an essential component of the bacterial cell-shape generation system. Using a superresolution variant of total internal reflection microscopy with structured illumination, as well as three-dimensional stacks of deconvolved epifluorescence microscopy, we found that inside living Bacillu...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Olshausen PV,Defeu Soufo HJ,Wicker K,Heintzmann R,Graumann PL,Rohrbach A

更新日期：2013-09-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of cholesterol (Chol) on phospholipid bilayers include ordering of the fatty acyl chains, condensing of the lipids in the bilayer plane, and promotion of the liquid-ordered phase. These effects depend on the type of phospholipids in the bilayer and are determined by the nature of the underlying molecular i...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Aittoniemi J,Niemelä PS,Hyvönen MT,Karttunen M,Vattulainen I

更新日期：2007-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Lateral mobility of molecules on cell membranes has been recently studied by fluorescence photobleaching recovery (FPR) techniques. The interpretation of these results in terms of diffusion along the membranes is based on the assumption that the surface is planar, although biological membranes may have blebs and micro...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Aizenbud BM,Gershon ND

更新日期：1982-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Five highly homologous epidermal growth factor receptor ligands were studied by mass spectral analysis, hydrogen/deuterium (H/D) exchange via attenuated total reflectance Fourier transform-infrared spectroscopy, and two-dimensional correlation analysis. These studies were performed to determine the order of events dur...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Iloro I,Narváez D,Guillén N,Camacho CM,Guillén L,Cora E,Pastrana-Ríos B

更新日期：2008-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:We have examined the morphology and osmotic properties of large unilamellar vesicles (LUVs) prepared by extrusion. Contrary to expectations, we observe by cryo-electron microscopy that such vesicles, under isoosmotic conditions, are non-spherical. This morphology appears to be a consequence of vesicle passage through ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Mui BL,Cullis PR,Evans EA,Madden TD

更新日期：1993-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Influenza A virus M2 protein is known to form acid-activated, proton-selective, amantadine-sensitive channels. We directly measured proton uptake in vesicles containing reconstituted M2 by monitoring external pH after addition of valinomycin to vesicles with 100-fold-diluted external [K(+)]. External pH typically incr...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Moffat JC,Vijayvergiya V,Gao PF,Cross TA,Woodbury DJ,Busath DD

更新日期：2008-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The photocycle of the photophobic receptor sensory rhodopsin II from N. pharaonis was analyzed by varying measuring wavelengths, temperature, and pH, and by exchanging H2O with D2O. The data can be satisfactorily modeled by eight exponents over the whole range of modified parameters. The kinetic data support a model s...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Chizhov I,Schmies G,Seidel R,Sydor JR,Lüttenberg B,Engelhard M

更新日期：1998-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Small-angle neutron and x-ray scattering experiments have been performed on type 2 tissular transglutaminase to characterize the conformational changes that bring about Ca(2+) activation and guanosine triphosphate (GTP) inhibition. The native and a proteolyzed form of the enzyme, in the presence and in the absence of ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Mariani P,Carsughi F,Spinozzi F,Romanzetti S,Meier G,Casadio R,Bergamini CM

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ionotropic glutamate receptors are essential for fast synaptic nerve transmission. Recent x-ray structures for the ligand-binding (S1S2) region of the GluR2 alpha-amino-3-hydroxy-5-methyl-4-isoxazole propionic acid (AMPA)-sensitive receptor have suggested how differences in protein/ligand interactions may determine wh...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Arinaminpathy Y,Sansom MS,Biggin PC

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The morphological features of α-synuclein (AS) amyloid aggregation in vitro and in cells were elucidated at the nanoscale by far-field subdiffraction fluorescence localization microscopy. Labeling AS with rhodamine spiroamide probes allowed us to image AS fibrillar structures by fluorescence stochastic nanoscopy with ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Roberti MJ,Fölling J,Celej MS,Bossi M,Jovin TM,Jares-Erijman EA

更新日期：2012-04-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The influence of mass transport on ligand binding to receptor immobilized in a polymer matrix, as detected with an evanescent wave biosensor, was investigated. A one-dimensional computer model for the mass transport of ligand between the bulk solution and the polymer gel and within the gel was employed, and the influe...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Schuck P

更新日期：1996-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The antifungal polyene antibiotic amphotericin B forms channels in lipid membranes that are permeable to ions, water, and nonelectrolytes. Anion, cation, and ion pair coordination in the water-filled pore of the "barrel" unit of the channels was studied by molecular dynamics simulations. Unlike the case of the gramici...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Khutorsky V

更新日期：1996-12-01 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：:A subsarcolemmal tubular system network (SSTN) has been detected in skeletal muscle fibers by confocal imaging after the removal of the sarcolemma. Here we confirm the existence and resolve the fine architecture and the localization of the SSTN at an unprecedented level of detail by examining extracellularly applied t...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Jayasinghe ID,Lo HP,Morgan GP,Baddeley D,Parton RG,Soeller C,Launikonis BS

更新日期：2013-06-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Nanodiscs that hold a lipid bilayer surrounded by a boundary of scaffold proteins have emerged as a powerful tool for membrane protein solubilization and analysis. By combining nanodiscs and cell-free expression technologies, even completely detergent-free membrane protein characterization protocols can be designed. N...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Henrich E,Sörmann J,Eberhardt P,Peetz O,Mezhyrova J,Morgner N,Fendler K,Dötsch V,Wachtveitl J,Bernhard F,Bamann C

更新日期：2017-09-19 00:00:00