Energy landscape of the prion protein helix 1 probed by metadynamics and NMR.

abstract：:The small mechanosensitive channel, MscS, is a part of the turgor-driven solute efflux system that protects bacteria from lysis in the event of osmotic downshift. It has been identified in Escherichia coli as a product of the orphan yggB gene, now called mscS (Levina et al., 1999, EMBO J. 18:1730). Here I show that th...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Sukharev S

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In permeabilized single fibers of fast (psoas) and slow (soleus) muscle from the rabbit, the effect of pH on isometric myofibrillar ATPase activity and force was studied at 15 degrees C, in the pH range 6.4-7.9. ATPase activity was measured photometrically by enzymatic coupling of the regeneration of ATP to the oxidat...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Potma EJ,van Graas IA,Stienen GJ

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Muscle contraction occurs as the result of actin-myosin interaction, which is mediated by the intermolecular forces exerted at the actin-myosin interface. To obtain information about the nature of these intermolecular forces, we tested the sensitivity of various contractile parameters of skinned skeletal muscle fibers...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Iwamoto H

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adaptation of the attractant response in Escherichia coli is attributable to the methylation of its transmembrane chemotactic receptors by the methyltransferase CheR. This protein contains two binding domains, one for the sites of methylation themselves and the other for a flexible tether at the C terminus of the rece...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Levin MD,Shimizu TS,Bray D

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Water plays an important role in enzyme structure and function in aqueous media. That role becomes even more important when one focuses on enzymes in low water media. Here we present results from molecular dynamics simulations of surfactant-solubilized subtilisin BPN' in three organic solvents (octane, tetrahydrofuran...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Yang L,Dordick JS,Garde S

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of the anionic tungsten carbonyl complex [W(CO)(5)SC(6)H(5)](-) and its fluorinated analog [W(CO)(5)SC(6)F(5)](-) on the electrical properties of the plasma membrane of mouse myeloma cells were studied by the single-cell electrorotation technique. At micromolar concentrations, both compounds gave rise to a...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Kürschner M,Nielsen K,von Langen JR,Schenk WA,Zimmermann U,Sukhorukov VL

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a simple method to obtain stable asymmetric giant unilamellar vesicles (GUVs). Fluorescence correlation spectroscopy was used to quantitatively characterize vesicle properties. After brain sphingomyelin (bSM) was exchanged into dioleoylphosphatidylcholine (DOPC) GUVs, lateral diffusion in the bSM-containing ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Chiantia S,Schwille P,Klymchenko AS,London E

更新日期：2011-01-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Concentrated solutions of bovine beta-lactoglobulin were studied using osmotic stress and rheological techniques. At pH 6.0 and 8.0, the osmotic pressure was largely independent of NaCl concentration and could be described by a hard sphere equation of state. At pH 5.1, close to the isoelectric point, the osmotic press...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Parker R,Noel TR,Brownsey GJ,Laos K,Ring SG

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate the mechanisms by which vesicles of pulmonary surfactant adsorb to an air-liquid interface, we measured the effect of different phospholipids and of their concentration both in the subphase and at the interface on this process. Adsorbing vesicles contained the hydrophobic surfactant proteins mixed with ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Walters RW,Jenq RR,Hall SB

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Toward quantitative description of protein aggregation, we develop a computationally efficient method to evaluate the potential of mean force between two folded protein molecules that allows for complete sampling of their mutual orientation. Our model is valid at moderate ionic strengths and accounts for the actual ch...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Chan HY,Lankevich V,Vekilov PG,Lubchenko V

更新日期：2012-04-18 00:00:00

abstract：:We present a detailed motion analysis of retrograde nerve growth factor (NGF) endosomes in axons to show that mechanical tugs-of-war and intracellular motor regulation are complimentary features of the near-unidirectional endosome directionality. We used quantum dots to fluorescently label NGF and acquired trajectorie...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Chowdary PD,Che DL,Zhang K,Cui B

更新日期：2015-06-02 00:00:00

abstract：:A microscopic model of passive transverse mass transport of small solutes in the viable epidermal layer of human skin is formulated on the basis of a hexagonal array of cells (i.e., keratinocytes) bounded by 4-nm-thick, anisotropic lipid bilayers and separated by 1-μm layers of extracellular fluid. Gap junctions and t...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Nitsche JM,Kasting GB

更新日期：2013-05-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The scattering and absorption coefficients of many homogeneous biological tissues such as muscle, skin, white matter in the brain, and dentin are often anisotropically oriented with respect to their bounding interface. In consequence the curves of equal intensity of re-emitted light on the surface of the slab will no ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Dudko OK,Weiss GH

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Late-onset heart failure (HF) is a known side effect of doxorubicin chemotherapy. Typically, patients are diagnosed when already at an irreversible stage of HF, which allows few or no treatment options. Identifying the causes of compromised cardiac function in this patient group may improve early patient diagnosis and...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Lewalle A,Land S,Merken JJ,Raafs A,Sepúlveda P,Heymans S,Kleinjans J,Niederer SA

更新日期：2019-12-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Stabilized intermediate redox states of cytochrome c are generated by radiolytic reduction of initially oxidized enzyme in glass matrices at liquid nitrogen temperature. In the intermediate states the heme group is reduced by hydrated electrons, whereas the protein conformation is restrained close to its oxidized form...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Cartling B

更新日期：1983-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite the enormous interest that has been devoted to the study of farnesyltransferase, many questions concerning its catalytic mechanism remain unanswered. In particular, several doubts exist on the structure of the active-site zinc coordination sphere, more precisely on the nature of the fourth ligand, which is dis...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Sousa SF,Fernandes PA,Ramos MJ

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Actomyosin interactions were examined by using yeast actin mutants with alanines replacing charged amino acid pairs D24/D25, E99/E100, D80/D81, and E83/K84. In the in vitro motility experiments, actin filaments of D24A/D25A or E99A/E100A mutants moved in the presence of 0.7% methylcellulose at the velocities of wild-t...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Miller CJ,Cheung P,White P,Reisler E

更新日期：1995-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We study dsDNA-RecA interactions by exerting forces in the pN range on single DNA molecules while the interstrand topological state is controlled owing to a magnetic tweezers setup. We show that unwinding a duplex DNA molecule induces RecA polymerization even at moderate force. Once initial polymerization has nucleate...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Fulconis R,Bancaud A,Allemand JF,Croquette V,Dutreix M,Viovy JL

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) measurement in the lung using gas magnetic resonance imaging is a promising technique with potential for reflecting changes in lung microstructure. Despite some recent impressive human applications, full interpretation of ADC measures remains an elusive goal, due to a lack of detai...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Pérez-Sánchez JM,Rodríguez I,Ruiz-Cabello J

更新日期：2009-07-22 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper describes a new technique that can be used to study chloroplast volume regulation in vivo. Nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy was used to measure relative amounts of chloroplast water in Acer platanoides leaves as they dried in air, and also in leaf disks exposed to aqueous polyethylene glycol, sucrose...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： McCain DC,Markley JL

更新日期：1992-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has long been appreciated that spatiotemporal dynamics of cell migration are under the control of intracellular signaling pathways, which are mediated by adhesion receptors and other transducers of extracellular cues. Further, there is ample evidence that aspects of cell migration are stochastic: how else could it ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Weiger MC,Ahmed S,Welf ES,Haugh JM

更新日期：2010-01-06 00:00:00

abstract：:A recently completed model of Ca concentration and movements in the cardiac cell diadic cleft space predicts that removal or neutralization of inner sarcolemmal (SL) leaflet anionic Ca-binding sites at the sarcolemmal border of this space will greatly diminish Na/Ca exchange-mediated Ca efflux. The present study tests...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Wang SY,Peskoff A,Langer GA

更新日期：1996-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell adhesion to the extracellular matrix (ECM) is highly active and plays a crucial role in various physiological functions. The active response of cells to physicochemical cues has been universally discovered in multiple microenvironments. However, the mechanisms to rule these active behaviors of cells are still poo...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Fang Y,Gong H,Yang R,Lai KWC,Quan M

更新日期：2020-06-02 00:00:00

abstract：:A nitroxide spin label attached to the C-terminus of the channel forming peptide alamethicin produces an enhancement of the nuclear spin-lattice relaxation rates of peptide protons as a result of both intermolecular and intramolecular magnetic dipole-dipole interactions. The intermolecular contribution provides eviden...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： North CL,Franklin JC,Bryant RG,Cafiso DS

更新日期：1994-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The geometry of domains in phospholipid bilayers of binary (1:1) mixtures of synthetic lecithins with a difference in chain length of four methylene groups has been studied by two independent, direct and complementary methods. Grazing incidence diffraction of neutrons provided gel domain sizes of less than 10 nm in bo...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Gliss C,Clausen-Schaumann H,Günther R,Odenbach S,Randl O,Bayerl TM

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Qx-Qy splitting observed in the fluorescence excitation spectra of Mg-mesoporphyrin-IX substituted horseradish peroxidase (MgMP-HRP) and of its complex with naphthohydroxamic acid (NHA) was studied by spectral hole burning techniques. The width of a hole directly burnt in the Qy band and that of a satellite hole i...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Suisalu A,Mauring K,Kikas J,Herenyi L,Fidy J

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite growing interest in light-driven ion pumps for use in optogenetics, current estimates of their transport rates span two orders of magnitude due to challenges in measuring slow transport processes and determining protein concentration and/or orientation in membranes in vitro. In this study, we report, to our kn...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Feroz H,Ferlez B,Lefoulon C,Ren T,Baker CS,Gajewski JP,Lugar DJ,Gaudana SB,Butler PJ,Hühn J,Lamping M,Parak WJ,Hibberd JM,Kerfeld CA,Smirnoff N,Blatt MR,Golbeck JH,Kumar M

更新日期：2018-07-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The adult form of the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor (AChR) consists of five subunits (alpha(2)betaepsilondelta), each having four transmembrane domains (M1-M4). The atomic model of the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor shows that the pore-lining M2 domains make no extensive contacts with the rest of the transmembran...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Corradi J,Spitzmaul G,De Rosa MJ,Costabel M,Bouzat C

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Trimethylamine-N-oxide (TMAO) in the cells of sharks and rays is believed to counteract the deleterious effects of the high intracellular concentrations of urea in these animals. It has been hypothesized that TMAO has the generic ability to counteract the effects of urea on protein structure and function, regardless o...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Baskakov I,Wang A,Bolen DW

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Drug-membrane interactions are well known but poorly understood. Here we describe dual measurements of membrane thickness change and membrane area change due to the binding of the amphipathic drug curcumin. The combined results allowed us to analyze the binding states of a drug to lipid bilayers, one on the water-memb...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Sun Y,Lee CC,Hung WC,Chen FY,Lee MT,Huang HW

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00