Codon-dependent tRNA fluctuations monitored with fluorescence polarization.

abstract：:DNA bending is assumed to play a crucial role during recognition of the cAMP-responsive element (CRE) by transcription factors. However, diverging results have been obtained for the bending direction of the unbound double helix. The refined NMR structures present a bend directed toward the minor groove, while biochemi...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Derreumaux S,Fermandjian S

更新日期：2000-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The vibrational Raman spectra of both pure 1-alpha-dimyristoylphosphatidic acid (DMPA) liposomes and DMPA multilayers reconstituted with ferricytochrome c at pH 7 and pH 4, with either sodium or calcium as the cation, are reported as a function of temperature. Multilayers composed of a 1:1 mol ratio DMPA and dimyristo...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Vincent JS,Levin IW

更新日期：1991-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:ATP synthase (F-ATPase) operates as an electrochemical-to-mechanical-to-chemical energy transducer with an astounding 360 degrees rotary motion of subunits epsilongammac(10-14) (rotor) against delta(alphabeta)(3)ab(2) (stator). The enzyme's torque as a function of the angular reaction coordinate in relation to ATP-syn...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Cherepanov DA,Junge W

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Monolayers prepared from myelin conserve all the compositional complexity of the natural membrane when spread at the air-water interface. They show a complex pressure-dependent surface pattern that, on compression, changes from the coexistence of two liquid phases to a viscous fractal phase embedded in a liquid phase....

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Rosetti CM,Maggio B

更新日期：2007-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Adenylate kinase, an enzyme that catalyzes the phosphoryl transfer between ATP and AMP, can interconvert between the open and catalytically potent (closed) forms even without binding ligands. Several aspects of the enzyme elasticity and internal dynamics are analyzed here by atomistic molecular dynamics simulations co...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Pontiggia F,Zen A,Micheletti C

更新日期：2008-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The capability to image single microbial cell surfaces at nanometer scale under native conditions would profoundly impact mechanistic and structural studies of pathogenesis, immunobiology, environmental resistance, and biotransformation. Here, using in vitro atomic force microscopy, we have directly visualized high-re...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Plomp M,Leighton TJ,Wheeler KE,Malkin AJ

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Can individual cells, including live cells, be imaged using hard x rays? Common wisdom until now required sophisticated staining techniques for this task. We show instead that individual cells and cell details can be detected in culture solution and tissues with no staining and no other contrast-enhancing preparation....

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Hwu Y,Tsai WL,Chang HM,Yeh HI,Hsu PC,Yang YC,Su YT,Tsai HL,Chow GM,Ho PC,Li SC,Moser HO,Yang P,Seol SK,Kim CC,Je JH,Stefanekova E,Groso A,Margaritondo G

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pavlovian conditioning of the nudibranch mollusc Hermissenda crassicornis was previously shown to produce long-lasting reduction of two K+ currents measured across the Type B photoreceptor soma membrane (Alkon et al., 1982a; Alkon et al., 1985). Pavlovian conditioning of the rabbit was also shown to be followed by per...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Collin C,Ikeno H,Harrigan JF,Lederhendler I,Alkon DL

更新日期：1988-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Biological cells embedded in fibrous matrices have been observed to form intercellular bands of dense and aligned fibers through which they mechanically interact over long distances. Such matrix-mediated cellular interactions have been shown to regulate various biological processes. This study aimed to explore the eff...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Sopher RS,Tokash H,Natan S,Sharabi M,Shelah O,Tchaicheeyan O,Lesman A

更新日期：2018-10-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Plasma insulin measurements from mice, rats, dogs, and humans indicate that insulin levels are oscillatory, reflecting pulsatile insulin secretion from individual islets. An unanswered question, however, is how the activity of a population of islets is coordinated to yield coherent oscillations in plasma insulin. Here...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Fendler B,Zhang M,Satin L,Bertram R

更新日期：2009-08-05 00:00:00

abstract：:We have used chemical synthesis, electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR), and circular dichroism to detect and analyze the structural dynamics of a ryanodine receptor (RyR) peptide bound to calmodulin (CaM). The skeletal muscle calcium release channel RyR1 is activated by Ca2+-free CaM and inhibited by Ca2+-bound CaM. T...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Her C,McCaffrey JE,Thomas DD,Karim CB

更新日期：2016-12-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The efficiency of various patterns of pulsatile stimulation is determined in a model in which a receptor becomes desensitized in the presence of its stimulatory ligand. The effect of stochastic or chaotic changes in the duration and/or interval between successive pulses in a series of square-wave stimuli is investigat...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Li Y,Goldbeter A

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have used the elastic neutron scattering technique to investigate the dynamics of the two main saccharidic components of starch: amylose and amylopectin. The measurements were carried out in the temperature range of 20 to 320 K and at different hydration levels from the dry state up to 0.47 g saccharide/g D(2)O. In...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Di Bari M,Cavatorta F,Deriu A,Albanese G

更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transient receptor potential (TRP) channels are members of a large family of ion channels located in membranes rich in cholesterol, some of whose functions are affected by the cholesterol content of the membrane. Here, cholesterol binding to TRPs is studied using a docking procedure that allows the transmembrane surfa...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Lee AG

更新日期：2019-11-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Cholesterol is a key component of eukaryotic membranes, but its role in cellular biology in general and in lipid rafts in particular remains controversial. Model membranes are used extensively to determine the phase behavior of ternary mixtures of cholesterol, a saturated lipid, and an unsaturated lipid with liquid-or...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Bennett WFD,Shea JE,Tieleman DP

更新日期：2018-06-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The rate of muscle force redevelopment after release-restretch protocols has previously been interpreted using a simple two-state cross-bridge cycling model with rate constants for transitions between non-force-bearing and force-bearing states, f, and between force-bearing and non-force-bearing states, g. Changes in t...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Campbell K

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The AXH domain of protein Ataxin 1 is thought to play a key role in the misfolding and aggregation pathway responsible for Spinocerebellar ataxia 1. For this reason, a molecular level understanding of AXH oligomerization pathway is crucial to elucidate the aggregation mechanism, which is thought to trigger the disease...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Grasso G,Morbiducci U,Massai D,Tuszynski JA,Danani A,Deriu MA

更新日期：2018-01-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The E462R mutation in the fifth position of the AID (alpha1 subunit interaction domain) region in the I-II linker is known to significantly accelerate voltage-dependent inactivation (VDI) kinetics of the L-type CaV1.2 channel, suggesting that the AID region could participate in a hinged-lid type inactivation mechanism...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Dafi O,Berrou L,Dodier Y,Raybaud A,Sauvé R,Parent L

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A model for the Na-K exchange pump was applied to data on Na(+)-loaded frog sartorius muscle, and was used to relate the rate of adenosine triphosphate (ATP) hydrolysis to the electrical properties of the cell membrane. Membrane hyperpolarization was considered to arise from an electrical current which was produced by...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Rapoport SI

更新日期：1971-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper, we report on the presence of cation binding areas on bovine serum amine oxidase, where metal ions of the groups IA and IIA, such as Na(+), K(+), Cs(+), Mg(2+), and Ca(2+), bind with various affinities. We found a cation-binding area that influences the enzyme activity if occupied, so that the catalytic ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Di Paolo ML,Scarpa M,Corazza A,Stevanato R,Rigo A

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of low pH, and of alkaline earth cations, were examined on calcium uptake by pinched-off nerve terminals (synaptosomes). This uptake appears to be mediated by voltage-sensitive Ca channels (J. Physiol. 247:617, 1975). Ca uptake was measured in low (5 mM) or high (77 mM) potassium media. The extra uptake pr...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Nachshen DA,Blaustein MP

更新日期：1979-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:O-acetylserine sulfhydrylase, a homo-dimeric enzyme from Salmonella typhimurium, covalently binds one pyridoxal 5'-phosphate molecule per subunit as a fluorescent coenzyme. Different tautomers of the Schiff base between the coenzyme and lysine 41 generate structured absorption and fluorescence spectra upon one-photon ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Chirico G,Bettati S,Mozzarelli A,Chen Y,Müller JD,Gratton E

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using a method they developed, Stamatoff and Krimm (1976) have phased swelling data from nerve myelin. Although most phases agree with those I determined previously, there are a few differences. In this letter the two different phasings, theirs and my own, are used to compute the corresponding electron-density profile...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Blaurock AE

更新日期：1979-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A long-standing question about membrane structure and function is the degree to which the physical properties of the inner and outer leaflets of a bilayer are coupled to one another. Using our recently developed methods to prepare asymmetric vesicles, coupling was investigated for vesicles containing phosphatidylcholi...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Chiantia S,London E

更新日期：2012-12-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of the long-lived fluorescence probe coronene (mean value of tau(FL) approximately 200 ns) is described for investigating submicrosecond lipid dynamics in DPPC model bilayer systems occurring below the lipid phase transition. Time-resolved fluorescence emission anisotropy decay profiles, measures as a function...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Davenport L,Targowski P

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nucleoprotein filament formation by recombinases is central to homologous recombination. To follow this process, we used fluorescent human Rad51 recombinase to visualize the interactions with double-stranded DNA (dsDNA). Fluorescence imaging revealed that Rad51 filament formation on dsDNA initiates from multiple nucle...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Mameren Jv,Modesti M,Kanaar R,Wyman C,Wuite GJ,Peterman EJ

更新日期：2006-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:We have determined directly the effects of the inhibitory peptide phospholamban (PLB) on the rotational dynamics of the calcium pump (Ca-ATPase) of cardiac sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR). This was accomplished by comparing mouse ventricular SR, which has PLB levels similar to those found in other mammals, with mouse atri...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Voss JC,Mahaney JE,Jones LR,Thomas DD

更新日期：1995-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chiral objects which scatter and absorb preferentially left versus right circularly polarized light give rise to bright-field circular dichroism (CD) images containing contributions from both these two phenomena. These contributions are separated and characterized mathematically, and the effect of the dimensions of th...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Finzi L,Ulibarri L,Bustamante C

更新日期：1991-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Purified cytochrome c oxidase CO complex from beef heart has been studied by Fourier transform infrared absorbance difference spectroscopy. Photolysis at 10-20 Kelvin results in dissociation of a3FeCO, formation of CuBCO, and perturbation of the a3-heme and CuB complex. The vibrational perturbation spectrum between 90...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Park S,Pan LP,Chan SI,Alben JO

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A discussion is given of the general role of diffusion in enzyme kinetics based upon a rigorous theory for bimolecular association and dissociation steps that was presented previously, and criteria are formulated for the dependence of the over-all rate on medium viscosity. With these criteria it is possible to conclud...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Schurr JM

更新日期：1970-08-01 00:00:00