High-resolution conformation and backbone dynamics of a soluble aggregate of apomyoglobin119.

abstract：:It has been previously demonstrated that the Stepanov equation provides a rather good description of the absorption/fluorescence spectra in Photosystem I, even though excited state equilibration is not rapid with respect to the excited state decay. In the present article this apparent contradiction is examined analyti...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Jennings RC,Garlaschi FM,Zucchelli G

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the budding yeast nucleus, transfer RNA (tRNA) genes are considered to localize in the vicinity of the nucleolus; however, the use of Hi-C and fluorescent repressor-operator system techniques has clearly indicated that the tRNA genes are distributed not only around the nucleolus but also at other nuclear locations....

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Tokuda N

更新日期：2020-05-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Atomic force microscopy (AFM) is nowadays frequently applied to determine interaction forces between biological molecules. Starting with the detection of the first discrete unbinding forces between ligands and receptors by AFM only several years ago, measurements have become more and more quantitative. At the same tim...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Willemsen OH,Snel MM,Cambi A,Greve J,De Grooth BG,Figdor CG

更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present a three-dimensional tracking routine for nondiffraction-limited particles, which significantly reduces pixel bias. Our technique allows for increased resolution compared to that of previous methods, especially at low magnification or at high signal/noise ratio. This enables tracking with nanometer accuracy ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： van Loenhout MT,Kerssemakers JW,De Vlaminck I,Dekker C

更新日期：2012-05-16 00:00:00

abstract：:In recent experimental reports, robust circadian oscillation of the phosphorylation level of KaiC has been reconstituted by incubating three cyanobacterial proteins, KaiA, KaiB, and KaiC, with ATP in vitro. This reconstitution indicates that protein-protein interactions and the associated ATP hydrolysis suffice to gen...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Nagai T,Terada TP,Sasai M

更新日期：2010-06-02 00:00:00

abstract：:A recipe is given for designing theoretical models for donor-acceptor systems in which fluorescence energy transfer and motion takes place simultaneously. This recipe is based on the idea that a system exhibiting both motion and fluorescence energy transfer can be modeled by specifying a number of "states" and the rat...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： van der Meer BW,Raymer MA,Wagoner SL,Hackney RL,Beechem JM,Gratton E

更新日期：1993-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chimeric antigen receptors (CARs) have recently been approved for the treatment of hematological malignancies, but our lack of understanding of the basic mechanisms that activate these proteins has made it difficult to optimize and control CAR-based therapies. In this study, we use phosphoproteomic mass spectrometry a...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Rohrs JA,Zheng D,Graham NA,Wang P,Finley SD

更新日期：2018-09-18 00:00:00

abstract：:In this work, we present experimental data, supported by a quantitative model, on the generation and effect of potential gradients across a tethered bilayer lipid membrane (tBLM) with, to the best of our knowledge, novel architecture. A challenge to generating potential gradients across tBLMs arises from the tethering...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Cranfield CG,Cornell BA,Grage SL,Duckworth P,Carne S,Ulrich AS,Martinac B

更新日期：2014-01-07 00:00:00

abstract：:RNA junctions are common secondary structural elements present in a wide range of RNA species. They play crucial roles in directing the overall folding of RNA molecules as well as in a variety of biological functions. In particular, there has been great interest in the dynamics of RNA junctions, including conformation...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Jung S,Schlick T

更新日期：2014-01-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Strain B(8-11) has been found to be very sensitive to postirradiation DNA degradation. Up to 98% of the DNA is degraded at optimum doses. The amount of residual DNA correlates with the retention of colony-forming ability (CFA). Studies of rates of degradation as a function of dose agree with the concept that a degradi...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Pollard EC,Tilberg A

更新日期：1972-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Low frequency audible vibrations are produced by human skeletal muscles undergoing sustained contraction. The effect is easily demonstrable with an electronic stethoscope which amplifies sound below 50 Hz. Autocorrelation analysis of the signal shows that it is periodic with a frequency 25 +/- 2.5 Hz. The quality of t...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Oster G,Jaffe JS

更新日期：1980-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Xenopus oocytes are widely employed for heterologous expression of cloned proteins, particularly electrogenic molecules such as ion channels and transporters. The high levels of expression readily obtained permit detailed investigations without interference from endogenous conductances. Injection of min K mRNA into Xe...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Tzounopoulos T,Maylie J,Adelman JP

更新日期：1995-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The products of MgATP hydrolysis bind to the nucleotide site of myosin and thus may be expected to inhibit the contraction of muscle fibers. We measured the effects of phosphate and MgADP on the isometric tensions and isotonic contraction velocities of glycerinated rabbit psoas muscle at 10 degrees C. Addition of phos...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Cooke R,Pate E

更新日期：1985-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The photocycle of the photophobic receptor from Natronobacterium pharaonis, NpSRII, is studied by static and time-resolved step-scan Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy. Both low-temperature static and time-resolved spectra resolve a K-like intermediate, and the corresponding spectra show little difference within ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Hein M,Wegener AA,Engelhard M,Siebert F

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the photocycle of bacteriorhodopsin (bR) from Halobacterium salinarum mutant L93A, the O-intermediate accumulates and the cycling time is increased approximately 200 times. Nevertheless, under continuous illumination, the protein pumps protons at near wild-type rates. We excited the mutant L93A in purple membrane w...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Tóth-Boconádi R,Keszthelyi L,Stoeckenius W

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To characterize elastic properties and geometrical parameters of individual, whole myosin molecules during their interaction with actin we sparsely adsorbed myosin molecules to nanometer-sized microspheres. Thermally driven position fluctuations of these microspheres were recorded with the three-dimensional detection ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Scholz T,Altmann SM,Antognozzi M,Tischer C,Hörber JK,Brenner B

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The stoichiometric matrix, S, represents a mapping of reaction rate vectors into a space of concentration time derivatives. The left null space of the stoichiometric matrix contains the dynamic invariants: a combination of concentration variables, referred to as metabolic pools, whose total concentration does not chan...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Famili I,Palsson BO

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The stability of the 1:1 complex of sodium ion with the dianion of guanosine 5'-monophosphate has been determined by means of a potentiometric titration employing a specific ion electrode. The stability constant for the reaction Na(+) + 5'-GMP(2-) Na(5'-GMP)(-) was found to be 2.85 +/- 0.36 M(-1) at 5 degrees C and an...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Walmsley JA,Pinnavaia TJ

更新日期：1982-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The release of GDP from GTPases signals the initiation of a GTPase cycle, where the association of GTP triggers conformational changes promoting binding of downstream effector molecules. Studies have implicated the nucleotide-binding G5 loop to be involved in the GDP release mechanism. For example, biophysical studies...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Guilfoyle AP,Deshpande CN,Font Sadurni J,Ash MR,Tourle S,Schenk G,Maher MJ,Jormakka M

更新日期：2014-12-16 00:00:00

abstract：:A new method is presented to describe the low shear rate behavior of blood. We observed the response of a thin layer of sedimenting blood to a graded shear stress in a wedge-shaped chamber. The method allows quantitation of the degree of phase separation between red cells and plasma, and extracts the yield stress of t...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Morris CL,Smith CM 2nd,Blackshear PL Jr

更新日期：1987-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Photosystem II contains two well-characterized tyrosine radicals, D(.) and Z(.). Z is an electron carrier between the primary chlorophyll donor and the manganese catalytic site and is essential for enzymatic function. On the other hand, D forms a stable radical with no known role in oxygen evolution. D(.) and Z(.) giv...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Ma C,Barry BA

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pathway to membrane fusion in synthetic and biological systems is thought to pass through hemifusion, in which the outer leaflets are fused while the inner leaflets engage in a hemifusion diaphragm (HD). Fusion has been proposed to be completed by lysis of the expanded HD that matures from a localized stalklike in...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Warner JM,O'Shaughnessy B

更新日期：2012-08-22 00:00:00

abstract：:We present a theoretical and experimental analysis of the effects of nonlinear flow in a cone-plate viscometer. The analysis predicts that flow in the viscometer is a function of two parameters, the Reynolds number and the cone angle. Nonlinear flow occurs at high shear rates and causes spatial variations in wall shea...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Shankaran H,Neelamegham S

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We used high-resolution atomic force microscopy to image the compaction of linear and circular DNA by the yeast mitochondrial protein Abf2p, which plays a major role in packaging mitochondrial DNA. Atomic force microscopy images show that protein binding induces drastic bends in the DNA backbone for both linear and ci...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Friddle RW,Klare JE,Martin SS,Corzett M,Balhorn R,Baldwin EP,Baskin RJ,Noy A

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The elastic theory of flexural waves in thin rods accurately predicts the velocity of flagellar bending waves over a wide range of viscosities. This shows that flagella behave as a purely mechanical system for the transmission of these waves. An evaluation of the total bending moment reveals that this moment occurs in...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Rikmenspoel R

更新日期：1971-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has recently been observed in situ in mice that insulin takes approximately 10 min to be transported 20 microm into the t-tubule networks of skeletal muscle fibers. The mechanisms for this slow transport are unknown. It has been suggested that the biochemical composition of the t-tubular space that may include larg...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Shorten PR,McMahon CD,Soboleva TK

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In total internal reflection fluorescence microscopy (TIRFM), fluorophores near a surface can be excited with evanescent waves, which decay exponentially with distance from the interface. Penetration depths of evanescent waves from 60 nm to 300 nm were generated by varying the angle of incidence of a laser beam. With ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Rohrbach A

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Negatively charged phospholipids are an important component of biological membranes. The thermodynamic parameters governing self-assembly of anionic phospholipids are deduced here from isothermal titration calorimetry. Heats of demicellization were determined for dioctanoyl phosphatidylglycerol (PG) and phosphatidylse...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Marsh D

更新日期：2012-03-07 00:00:00

abstract：:A new model is proposed to account for the apparent conductance changes of the sodium, or early, channel in nerve fiber membranes. In this model it is assumed that the channels are gated at the interior side of the membrane and are resistively limited at the exterior side by sodium selective barriers of high resistanc...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Hoyt RC,Strieb JD

更新日期：1971-11-01 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