In situ mechanical analysis of myofibrillar perturbation and aging on soft, bilayered Drosophila myocardium.

abstract：:There is increasing evidence that UVA radiation, which makes up approximately 95% of the solar UV light reaching the Earth's surface and is also commonly used for cosmetic purposes, is genotoxic. However, in contrast to UVC and UVB, the mechanisms by which UVA produces various DNA lesions are still unclear. In additio...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Jiang Y,Rabbi M,Kim M,Ke C,Lee W,Clark RL,Mieczkowski PA,Marszalek PE

更新日期：2009-02-01 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：: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：:M2delta, one of the transmembrane segments of the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor, is a 23-amino-acid peptide, frequently used as a model for peptide-membrane interactions. In this and the companion article we describe studies of M2delta-membrane interactions, using two different computational approaches. In the pres...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Kessel A,Haliloglu T,Ben-Tal N

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In multicellular organisms, single-fluorophore imaging is obstructed by high background. To achieve a signal/noise ratio conducive to single-molecule imaging, we adapted reflected light-sheet microscopy (RLSM) to image highly opaque late-stage Drosophila embryos. Alignment steps were modified by means of commercially ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Greiss F,Deligiannaki M,Jung C,Gaul U,Braun D

更新日期：2016-02-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The triplet state absorption and phosphorescence of Zn and Pd derivatives of myoglobin were compared. Both metal derivatives exhibit long triplet state lifetimes at room temperature, but whereas the Pd derivative showed exponential decay and an isosbestic point in the transient absorption spectra, the decay of the Zn ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Papp S,Vanderkooi JM,Owen CS,Holtom GR,Phillips CM

更新日期：1990-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alterations in bone tissue composition during osteoporosis likely disrupt the mechanical environment of bone cells and may thereby initiate a mechanobiological response. It has proved challenging to characterize the mechanical environment of bone cells in vivo, and the mechanical environment of osteoporotic bone cells...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Verbruggen SW,Mc Garrigle MJ,Haugh MG,Voisin MC,McNamara LM

更新日期：2015-04-07 00:00:00

abstract：:In addition to being the gateway for all access to the eukaryotic genome, chromatin has in recent years been identified as carrying an epigenetic code regulating transcriptional activity. Though much is known about the biochemistry of this code, little is understood regarding the different fiber structures through whi...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Depken M,Schiessel H

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Proteins fold and function inside cells that are crowded with macromolecules. Here, we address the role of the resulting excluded volume effects by in vitro spectroscopic studies of Pseudomonas aeruginosa apoazurin stability (thermal and chemical perturbations) and folding kinetics (chemical perturbation) as a functio...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Christiansen A,Wittung-Stafshede P

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many toxins and antimicrobial peptides permeabilize membrane vesicles by forming multimeric pores. Determination of the size of such pores is an important first step for understanding their structure and the mechanism of their self-assembly. We report a simple method for sizing pores in vesicles based on the different...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Ladokhin AS,Selsted ME,White SH

更新日期：1997-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fatty acid binding proteins play an important role in the transportation of fatty acids. Despite intensive studies, how fatty acids enter the protein cavity for binding is still controversial. Here, a gap-closed variant of human intestinal fatty acid binding protein was generated by mutagenesis, in which the gap is lo...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Xiao T,Lu Y,Fan JS,Yang D

更新日期：2020-01-21 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：:The formulation of Lorente de Nó for the potential distribution in a volume conductor due to a contained bioelectric source is reviewed. The aforementioned formula is based on data taken from the bioelectric source in air (excised). This work is extended to the derivation of a formula which depends upon quantities ava...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： PLONSEY R

更新日期：1964-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cardiac excitation-contraction coupling is initialized by the release of Ca from the sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR) in response to a sudden increase in local cytosolic [Ca] ([Ca]i) within the junctional cleft. We have tested the hypothesis that functional ryanodine receptor (RyR) regulation plays a major role in the regu...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Shannon TR,Wang F,Bers DM

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Receptor activity modifying proteins (RAMPs) are a family of single-pass transmembrane proteins that dimerize with G-protein-coupled receptors. They may alter the ligand recognition properties of the receptors (particularly for the calcitonin receptor-like receptor, CLR). Very little structural information is availabl...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Simms J,Hay DL,Wheatley M,Poyner DR

更新日期：2006-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Myxicola giant axons internally injected with tetraethylammonium chloride to block potassium currents were examined under voltage clamp. The sodium inactivation time constants obtained from the decline in INa during step depolarizations were substantially smaller than those obtained using conditioning prepulses to the...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Schauf CL,Pencek TL,Davis FA

更新日期：1976-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intracellular passive Ca2+, buffering was measured in voltage-clamped rat ventricular myocytes. Cells were loaded with indo-1 (K+ salt) to an estimated cytosolic concentration of 44 +/- 5 microM (Mean +/- SEM, n = 5), and accessible cell volume was estimated to be 24.5 +/- 3.6 pl. Ca2+ transport by the sarcoplasmic re...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Berlin JR,Bassani JW,Bers DM

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The photophysics of the complex forming reaction of Ca2+ and Fura-2 are investigated using steady-state and time-resolved fluorescence measurements. The fluorescence decay traces were analyzed with global compartmental analysis yielding the following values for the rate constants at room temperature in aqueous solutio...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Van den Bergh V,Boens N,De Schryver FC,Ameloot M,Steels P,Gallay J,Vincent M,Kowalczyk A

更新日期：1995-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Internally perfused squid giant axons with intact sodium inactivation gating were prepared for gating current experiments. Gating current records were obtained in sinusoidally driven dynamic steady states and as dynamic transients as functions of the mean membrane potential and the frequency of the command sinusoid. C...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Fohlmeister JF,Adelman WJ Jr

更新日期：1986-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell migration is based on an actin treadmill, which in turn depends on recycling of G-actin across the cell, from the rear where F-actin disassembles, to the front, where F-actin polymerizes. To analyze the rates of the actin transport, we used the Virtual Cell software to solve the diffusion-drift-reaction equations...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Novak IL,Slepchenko BM,Mogilner A

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The interaction of DNA with the polyamine spermine(4+) (Spm(4+)), sodium ions, and water molecules has been studied using molecular dynamics computer simulations in a system modeling a DNA crystal. The simulation model consisted of three B-DNA decamers in a periodic hexagonal cell, containing 1200 water molecules, 8 S...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Korolev N,Lyubartsev AP,Laaksonen A,Nordenskiöld L

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Morphine spin labeled on the phenolic hydroxy group has been prepared using commercially available reagents and characterized by thin layer chromatography, mass spectroscopy, and electron spin resonance spectroscopy. It has been shown that morphine modified in this way retains some opiate activity, does not pass throu...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Copeland ES,Boykin ME,Kelley JA,Kullberg MP

更新日期：1975-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The energy transfer processes between carotenoids and Chls have been studied by femtosecond transient absorption in the CP29-WT complex, which contains only two carotenoids per polypeptide located in the L1 and L2 sites, and in the CP29-E166V mutant in which only the L1 site is occupied. The comparison of these two sa...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Croce R,Müller MG,Caffarri S,Bassi R,Holzwarth AR

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein aggregation is linked to more than 30 human pathologies, including Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases. Since small oligomers that form at the beginning of the fibrillation process probably are the most toxic elements, therapeutic strategies involving fibril fragmentation could be detrimental. An alternative ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Pagano RS,López Medus M,Gómez GE,Couto PM,Labanda MS,Landolfo L,D'Alessio C,Caramelo JJ

更新日期：2014-08-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Cellular plasma membranes have domains that are defined, in most cases, by cytoskeletal elements. The outer half of the bilayer may also contain domains that organize glycosylphosphatidylinositol (GPI)-linked proteins. To define outer membrane barriers, we measured the resistive force on membrane bound beads as they w...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Suzuki K,Sterba RE,Sheetz MP

更新日期：2000-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The partition coefficients (K(P)) of a series of single-chain and double-chain fluorescent amphiphiles, between solid ordered (P(beta') and L(beta)) and liquid disordered (L(alpha) of the type l(d)) lipid phases coexisting in the same lipid bilayer, was studied using steady-state fluorescence emission anisotropy. The ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Mesquita RM,Melo E,Thompson TE,Vaz WL

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The electrical membrane potential (Vm) is one of the components of the electrochemical potential of protons across the biological membrane (proton motive force), which powers many vital cellular processes. Because Vm also plays a role in signal transduction, measuring it is of great interest. Over the years, a variety...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Mancini L,Terradot G,Tian T,Pu Y,Li Y,Lo CJ,Bai F,Pilizota T

更新日期：2020-01-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The persistence length of titin from rabbit skeletal muscles was measured using a combination of static and dynamic light scattering, and neutron small angle scattering. Values of persistence length in the range 9-16 nm were found for titin-II, which corresponds to mainly physiologically inelastic A-band part of the p...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Di Cola E,Waigh TA,Trinick J,Tskhovrebova L,Houmeida A,Pyckhout-Hintzen W,Dewhurst C

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies on aurein 2.2 and 2.3 in DMPC/DMPG and POPC/POPG membranes have shown that bilayer thickness and phosphatidylglycerol content have a significant impact on the interaction of these peptides with membrane bilayers. Further examination with the DiSC(3)5 assay has indicated that aurein 2.2 induces greater...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Cheng JT,Hale JD,Kindrachuk J,Jenssen H,Elliott M,Hancock RE,Straus SK

更新日期：2010-11-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The physical mechanism underlying the voltage-dependent gating of K channels is usually addressed theoretically using molecular dynamics simulations. However, besides being computationally very expensive, this approach is presently unable to fully predict the behavior of fundamental variables of channel gating such as...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Catacuzzeno L,Franciolini F

更新日期：2019-11-19 00:00:00