Structural role of the conserved cysteines in the dimerization of the viral transmembrane oncoprotein E5.

abstract：:Relations describing threshold fluctuation phenomena in nerves are derived by calculating the approximate response of the Hodgkin-Huxley (HH) axon to electrical noise. We use FitzHugh's reduced phase space approximation and describe the dynamics of a noisy nerve by a two-dimensional brownian motion. The theory predict...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Lecar H,Nossal R

更新日期：1971-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The channel-forming properties of two analogs of gramicidin, gramicidin-ethylenediamine (gram-EDA), and gramicidin-N,N-dimethylethylenediamine (gram-DMEDA) were studied in planar lipid bilayers, using protons as the permeant ion. These peptides have positively charged amino groups tethered to their C-terminal ends via...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Woolley GA,Zunic V,Karanicolas J,Jaikaran AS,Starostin AV

更新日期：1997-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have measured the kinetics of adsorption of small (12.5-nm radius) unilamellar vesicles onto SiO2, oxidized gold, and a self-assembled monolayer of methyl-terminated thiols, using a quartz crystal microbalance (QCM). Simultaneous measurements of the shift in resonant frequency and the change in energy dissipation a...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Keller CA,Kasemo B

更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two piezoelectric constants (polarization per unit stress, d=d'-id'', and polarization per unit strain, e=e'-ie''), the elastic constant, and dielectric constant are determined for oriented collagen at different hydration levels at 10 Hz from -150 to 50 degrees C. With no hydration (approximately 0% H2O), d' increases...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Fukada E,Ueda H,Rinaldi R

更新日期：1976-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two-dimensional electronic chirality-induced signals of excitons in the photosynthetic Fenna-Matthews-Olson complex from two species of green sulfur bacteria (Chlorobium tepidum and Prosthecochloris aestuarii) are compared. The spectra are predicted to provide sensitive probes of local protein environment of the const...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Voronine DV,Abramavicius D,Mukamel S

更新日期：2008-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Migratory cells are known to adapt to environments that contain wide-ranging levels of chemoattractant. Although biochemical models of adaptation have been previously proposed, here, we discuss a different mechanism based on mechanosensing, in which the interaction between biochemical signaling and cell tension facili...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Zmurchok C,Collette J,Rajagopal V,Holmes WR

更新日期：2020-10-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Robust positioning of cells in a tissue against unavoidable noises is important for achieving normal and reproducible morphogenesis. The position in a tissue is represented by morphogen concentrations, and cells read them to recognize their spatial coordinates. From the engineering viewpoint, these positioning process...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Morishita Y,Iwasa Y

更新日期：2011-11-16 00:00:00

abstract：:A combined experimental and theoretical study is performed on binary dilauroylphosphatidylcholine/distearoylphosphatidylcholine (DLPC/DSPC) lipid bilayer membranes incorporating bacteriorhodopsin (BR). The system is designed to investigate the possibility that BR, via a hydrophobic matching principle related to the di...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Dumas F,Sperotto MM,Lebrun MC,Tocanne JF,Mouritsen OG

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:At present, fluorescence recovery after photobleaching (FRAP) data are interpreted using various types of reaction-diffusion (RD) models: the model type is usually fixed first, and corresponding model parameters are inferred subsequently. In this article, we describe what we believe to be a novel approach for RD model...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Mai J,Trump S,Ali R,Schiltz RL,Hager G,Hanke T,Lehmann I,Attinger S

更新日期：2011-03-02 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：:Stress fibers are cellular contractile actomyosin machines central to wound healing, shear stress response, and other processes. Contraction mechanisms have been difficult to establish because stress fibers in cultured cells typically exert isometric tension and present little kinetic activity. In a recent study, livi...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Stachowiak MR,O'Shaughnessy B

更新日期：2009-07-22 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：:Fluorescence recovery after photobleaching (FRAP) has been used previously to investigate the kinetics of binding to biological surfaces. The present study adapts and further develops this technique for the quantification of mass transport and reaction parameters in bulk media. The technique's ability to obtain the bu...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Kaufman EN,Jain RK

更新日期：1991-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Steady state fluorescence polarization spectra and time-resolved emission decay kinetics have been measured in vitro from malignant and normal rat kidney tissue. The degrees of polarization and emission lifetimes from the cancerous and normal systems are different. The spectroscopic differences are attributed to envir...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Tata DB,Foresti M,Cordero J,Tomashefsky P,Alfano MA,Alfano RR

更新日期：1986-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Computational methods that predict three-dimensional structures from amino acid sequences have become increasingly accurate and have provided insights into structure-function relationships for proteins in the absence of structural data. However, the accuracy of computational structural models requires experimental app...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Tateyama M,Liu H,Yang AS,Cormier JW,Kass RS

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The structure and alignment of the amphipathic alpha-helical antimicrobial peptide PGLa in a lipid membrane is determined with high accuracy by solid-state 2H-NMR. Orientational constraints are derived from a series of eight alanine-3,3,3-d3-labeled peptides, in which either a native alanine is nonperturbingly labeled...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Strandberg E,Wadhwani P,Tremouilhac P,Dürr UH,Ulrich AS

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To understand the thermodynamic exclusion of Na(+) relative to K(+) from the S(2) site of the selectivity filter, the distribution P(X)(epsilon) (X = K(+) or Na(+)) of the binding energy (epsilon) of the ion with the channel is analyzed using the potential distribution theorem. By expressing the excess chemical potent...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Dixit PD,Merchant S,Asthagiri D

更新日期：2009-03-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The sarcoplasmic reticulum channel (ryanodine receptor) from cardiac myocytes was reconstituted into planar lipid bilayers consisting of 1-palmitoyl-2-oleoyl-phosphatidylethanolamine (POPE) and 1-palmitoyl-2-oleoyl-phosphatidylcholine (POPC) in varying ratios. The channel activity parameters, i.e., open probability an...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Cannon B,Hermansson M,Györke S,Somerharju P,Virtanen JA,Cheng KH

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Observation of cell membrane buckling and cell folding in micropipette aspiration experiments was used to evaluate the bending rigidity of the red blood cell membrane. The suction pressure required to buckle the membrane surface initially was found to be about one-half to two-thirds of the pressure that caused the cel...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Evans EA

更新日期：1983-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:High speed cinemicrographs were made of sea urchin sperm at temperatures varying from 22 to 6 degrees C. Apparatus, combining a television camera and a video digitizer, was constructed to scan individual flagellar images and to digitize the flagellar waveforms. With appropriate smoothing and averaging procedures, the ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Rikmenspoel R,Isles CA

更新日期：1985-03-01 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：:Adsorption-desorption isotherms were obtained for water binding by 1,2-dimyristoylphosphatidylcholine in the temperature range 15 degrees-35 degrees C. The isotherms were analyzed by Brunauer et al.'s (BET) theory and also a polarization theory, the latter being more successful in fitting the data. There was some evid...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Wilkinson DA,Morowitz HJ,Prestegard JH

更新日期：1977-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many animals regulate power generation for locomotion by varying the number of muscle fibers used for movement. However, insects with asynchronous flight muscles may regulate the power required for flight by varying the calcium concentration ([Ca(2+)]). In vivo myoplasmic calcium levels in Drosophila flight muscle hav...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Wang Q,Zhao C,Swank DM

更新日期：2011-11-02 00:00:00

abstract：:High resolution dynamics and structural information has been resolved from 2H solid-state NMR spectra of the Val-1 side-chain of the gramicidin channel in a lipid bilayer. Both powder pattern lineshapes and spectra from uniformly aligned samples of gramicidin in lipid bilayers have been analyzed to achieve a fully con...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Lee KC,Cross TA

更新日期：1994-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To monitor the lateral segregation of lipids into liquid-ordered (Lo) and -disordered (Ld) phases in lipid membranes, environment-sensitive dyes that partition in both phases but stain them differently have been developed. Of particular interest is the dual-color F2N12S probe, which can discriminate the two phases thr...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Kilin V,Glushonkov O,Herdly L,Klymchenko A,Richert L,Mely Y

更新日期：2015-05-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Interactions between the graft copolymer poly(L-lysine)-g-poly(ethylene glycol), PLL-g-PEG, and two kinds of surface-supported lipidic systems (supported phospholipid bilayers and supported vesicular layers) were investigated by a combination of microscopic and spectroscopic techniques. It was found that the applicati...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Rossetti FF,Reviakine I,Csúcs G,Assi F,Vörös J,Textor M

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A dimeric alamethicin analog with lysine at position 18 in the sequence (alm-K18) was previously shown to form stable anion-selective channels in membranes at pH 7.0 [Starostin, A. V., R. Butan, V. Borisenko, D. A. James, H. Wenschuh, M. S. Sansom, and G. A. Woolley. 1999. Biochemistry. 38:6144-6150]. To probe the cha...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Borisenko V,Sansom MS,Woolley GA

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The diffusion of beta-enolase and creatine phosphokinase in muscle cells has been studied by modulated fringe pattern photobleaching. Beta-enolase is mobile in the sarcoplasm. At 20 degrees C, the diffusion coefficient is 13.5 +/- 2.5 microm2 s(-1) in the cytosol and 56 microm2 s(-1) in aqueous media. As in the case o...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Arrio-Dupont M,Foucault G,Vacher M,Douhou A,Cribier S

更新日期：1997-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Diluted bull semen samples were bombarded with a 24 Mev proton beam. Dose response curves for the fraction of cells which survived the bombardment and for the average velocity of the surviving cells were measured. Target theory indicated a cross section of the sensitive volume of 2.1 x 10(-10) cm(2). Respiration measu...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Rikmenspoel R,van Herpen G

更新日期：1969-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Membrane proteins diffuse within the membrane, form oligomers and supramolecular assemblies. Using high-speed atomic force microscopy, we present direct experimental measure of an in-membrane-plane interaction potential between membrane proteins. In purple membranes, ATP-synthase c-rings formed dimers that temporarily...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Casuso I,Sens P,Rico F,Scheuring S

更新日期：2010-10-06 00:00:00