Differences in the microrheology of human embryonic stem cells and human induced pluripotent stem cells.

abstract：:The structural changes in the photoreaction cycle of bacteriorhodopsin, a light-driven proton pump, was investigated at a resolution of 7 angstroms by a time-resolved x-ray diffraction experiment utilizing synchrotron x rays from an undulator of SPring-8. The x-ray diffraction measurement system, used in coupling with...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Oka T,Inoue K,Kataoka M,Yagi N

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Synchrotron x-ray scattering measurements were performed on dilute solutions of the purified hemocyanin subunit (Bsin1) from scorpion (Buthus sindicus) and the N-terminal functional unit (Rta) from a marine snail (Rapana thomasiana). The model-independent approach based on spherical harmonics was applied to calculate ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Grossmann JG,Ali SA,Abbasi A,Zaidi ZH,Stoeva S,Voelter W,Hasnain SS

更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of cross-bridge clustering and head-head competition on the mechanical response of skeletal muscle under equilibrium conditions is considered. For this purpose, the recent multiple site equilibrium cross-bridge model of Schoenberg (Schoenberg, M., 1985, Biophys. J., 48:467-475) is extended in accordance wit...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Tözeren A,Schoenberg M

更新日期：1986-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A master equation theory is formulated to describe the dependence of the fluorescence yield (phi) in photosynthetic systems on the number of photons (Y) absorbed per photosynthetic unit (or domain). This theory is applied to the calculation of the dependence of the fluorescence yield on Y in (a) fluorescence induction...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Paillotin G,Geacintov NE,Breton J

更新日期：1983-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A free radical probe was introduced into single barnacle muscle cells, and its freedom of motion inferred from the spin resonance spectra. The probe reported an average local viscosity of 5-10 cp compared with 1 cp for pure water. From a comparison of the temperature dependence of the probe's tumbling rate in model aq...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Sachs F,Latorre R

更新日期：1974-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human apolipoprotein E (apoE) is a 299-amino-acid protein with a molecular weight of 34 kDa. The difference between the apoE3 and apoE4 isoforms is a single residue substitution involving a Cys-Arg replacement at residue 112. ApoE4 is positively associated with atherosclerosis and late-onset and sporadic Alzheimer's d...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Chou CY,Lin YL,Huang YC,Sheu SY,Lin TH,Tsay HJ,Chang GG,Shiao MS

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We performed pressure-tuning hole-burning experiments on a modified cytochrome c protein in a glycerol/buffer glass. The shift and the broadening of the holes were investigated for various frequencies within the inhomogeneous band. On the basis of a simple model, we were able to estimate the interaction range between ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Lesch H,Schlichter J,Friedrich J,Vanderkooi JM

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prior work has shown that concentration profiles of platelets in flowing whole blood and of platelet-sized beads in flowing blood suspensions can include near-wall excesses. A model to describe this phenomenon was built about a single-component convective diffusion equation. To incorporate redistribution to preferred ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Yeh C,Calvez AC,Eckstein EC

更新日期：1994-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The photoreceptor rhodopsin is a G-protein coupled receptor that has recently been proposed to exist as a dimer or higher order oligomer, in contrast to the previously described monomer, in retinal rod outer segment disk membranes. Rhodopsin exhibits considerably greater thermal stability than opsin (the bleached form...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Edrington TC 5th,Bennett M,Albert AD

更新日期：2008-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Using CD spectroscopy, guanine tetraplex formation was studied with short DNA fragments in which cytosine residues were systematically added to runs of guanine either at the 5' or 3' ends. Potassium cations induced the G-tetraplex more easily with fragments having the guanine run at the 5' end, which is just an opposi...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Penázová H,Vorlicková M

更新日期：1997-10-01 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：:A dynamic model of smooth muscle contraction is presented and is compared with the mechanical properties of vascular smooth muscle in the rat portal vein. The model is based on the sliding filament theory and the assumption that force is produced by cross-bridges extending from the myosin to the actin filaments. Thus,...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Gestrelius S,Borgström P

更新日期：1986-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nonlinear optical Stokes ellipsometric (NOSE) microscopy was demonstrated for the analysis of collagen-rich biological tissues. NOSE is based on polarization-dependent second harmonic generation imaging. NOSE was used to access the molecular-level distribution of collagen fibril orientation relative to the local fiber...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Dow XY,DeWalt EL,Sullivan SZ,Schmitt PD,Ulcickas JRW,Simpson GJ

更新日期：2016-10-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The recently developed method of site-directed Fourier transform infrared dichroism for obtaining orientational constraints of oriented polymers is applied here to the transmembrane domain of the vpu protein from the human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1). The infrared spectra of the 31-residue-long vpu peptide r...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Kukol A,Arkin IT

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Analysis of trajectories of dynamical biological objects, such as breeding ants or cell organelles, is essential to reveal the interactions they develop with their environments. Many previous works used a global characterization based on parameters calculated for entire trajectories. In cases where transient behavior ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Huet S,Karatekin E,Tran VS,Fanget I,Cribier S,Henry JP

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A kinetic model of the effect of agonist and anesthetics on ligand-gated ion channels, developed in earlier work, is further refined and used to predict traces observed in fast-perfusion electrophysiological studies on recombinant GABAA receptors under a wide range of agonist and/or anesthetic concentrations. The mode...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Lee DK,Albershardt DJ,Cantor RS

更新日期：2015-03-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Enterococcus hirae V1-ATPase is a molecular motor composed of the A3B3 hexamer ring and the central stalk. In association with ATP hydrolysis, three catalytic AB pairs in the A3B3 ring undergo conformational changes, which lead to a 120° rotation of the central stalk. To understand how the conformational changes of th...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Isaka Y,Ekimoto T,Kokabu Y,Yamato I,Murata T,Ikeguchi M

更新日期：2017-03-14 00:00:00

abstract：:During inflammation, flowing leukocytes tether to and roll on vascular surfaces through the association and dissociation of selectin/ligand bonds. The interactions of P- and L- selectins with their respective ligands exhibit catch-slip bonds, such that increasing force initially prolongs and then shortens bond lifetim...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Wayman AM,Chen W,McEver RP,Zhu C

更新日期：2010-08-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Structures of the blood clotting enzyme thrombin complexed with hirugen and two active site inhibitors, RWJ-50353 10080(N-methyl-D-phenylalanyl-N-[5-[(aminoiminomethyl)amino]-1- [[(2-benzothiazolyl)carbonyl]butyl]-L-prolinamide trifluoroacetate hydrate) and RWJ-50215 (N-[4-(aminoiminomethyl)amino-1-[2- (thiazol-2-ylca...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Matthews JH,Krishnan R,Costanzo MJ,Maryanoff BE,Tulinsky A

更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously observed that the hydrophobic polyelectrolyte poly(2-ethylacrylic acid) solubilizes lipid membranes in a pH-dependent manner, and we have exploited this phenomenon to prepare lipid vesicles that release their contents in response to pH, light, or glucose (Thomas, J. L., and D. A. Tirrell. Acc. Chem....

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Thomas JL,Barton SW,Tirrell DA

更新日期：1994-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Octyl-beta-thioglucopyranoside (octyl thioglucoside, OTG) is a nonionic surfactant used for the purification, reconstitution, and crystallization of membrane proteins. The thermodynamic properties of the OTG-membrane partition equilibrium are not known and have been investigated here with high-sensitivity titration ca...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Wenk MR,Seelig J

更新日期：1997-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The current rapid expansion of biological knowledge offers a great opportunity to rationally engineer biological systems that respond to signals such as light and chemical inducers by producing specific proteins. Turning on and off the production of proteins on demand holds great promise for creating significant biote...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Tuttle LM,Salis H,Tomshine J,Kaznessis YN

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The susceptibility of the Neurospora crassa (slime) cellular membrane to electroporation and electrodestruction in an alternating electric field was further investigated. The results were analyzed according to the dynamic rheological model of the cytoplasmic membrane. Based on an analytical description of membrane sus...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Pawlowski P,Szutowicz I,Rózycki S,Zieliński J,Fikus M

更新日期：1996-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The x-ray structure analysis of photosystem I (PS I) crystals at 4-A resolution (Schubert et al., 1997, J. Mol. Biol. 272:741-769) has revealed the distances between the three iron-sulfur clusters, labeled F(X), F(1), and F(2), which function on the acceptor side of PS I. There is a general consensus concerning the as...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Shinkarev VP,Vassiliev IR,Golbeck JH

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oriented solid-state NMR in combination with multiple-residue-specific (15)N labeling and extensive numerical spectral analysis is proposed to determine helix conformations of large membrane proteins in native membranes. The method is demonstrated on uniaxially oriented samples of (15)N-methionine, -valine, and -glyci...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Vosegaard T,Kamihira-Ishijima M,Watts A,Nielsen NC

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using polarography and suitable mathematical analysis, the oxygen permeability of an individual layer of a bilayered tissue may be determined if the oxygen consumption and permeability of the other layer are known. Results obtained on rabbit cornea indicate that the permeability of the epithelium is about four times t...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Freeman RD,Fatt I

更新日期：1972-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Evidence that the fluorophore sempervirene binds to nucleic acids is presented. The complexes were studied by fluorescence intensity, spectra, decay lifetime, and polarization methods. Both fluorescent and nonfluorescent complexes are formed. The sempervirene is rigidly fixed to DNA. If ethidium bromide and sempervire...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Burns VW

更新日期：1974-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The bacterial flagellar motor couples the flow of protons across the cytoplasmic membrane to the rotation of a helical flagellar filament. Using tethered cells, we have measured the stall torque required to block this rotation and compared it with the torque of the running motor over a wide range of values of proton-m...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Meister M,Berg HC

更新日期：1987-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A major challenge in the study of biomolecular assemblies is to identify reaction coordinates that precisely monitor conformational rearrangements. This is central to the interpretation of single-molecule fluorescence resonance energy transfer measurements, where the observed dynamics depends on the labeling strategy....

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Levi M,Nguyen K,Dukaye L,Whitford PC

更新日期：2017-12-19 00:00:00

abstract：:We report that voltage-gated Na+ channels (Na(V)) from rat muscle (mu1) expressed in HEK293 cells exhibit anomalous rectification of whole-cell outward current under conditions of symmetrical Na+. This behavior gradually fades with time after membrane break-in, as if a diffusible blocking substance in the cytoplasm is...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Huang CJ,Moczydlowski E

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00