The role of membrane stiffness and actin turnover on the force exerted by DRG lamellipodia.

abstract：:Spatial patterning of biochemical cues on the micro- and nanometer scale controls numerous cellular processes such as spreading, adhesion, migration, and proliferation. Using force microscopy we show that the lateral spacing of individual integrin receptor-ligand bonds determines the strength of cell adhesion. For spa...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Selhuber-Unkel C,Erdmann T,López-García M,Kessler H,Schwarz US,Spatz JP

更新日期：2010-02-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Amyloid diseases are traditionally characterized by the appearance of inter- and intracellular fibrillar protein deposits, termed amyloid. Historically, these deposits have been thought to be the etiology of the disease. However, recent evidence suggests that small oligomers of the amyloidogenic protein/peptide are th...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Ding H,Wong PT,Lee EL,Gafni A,Steel DG

更新日期：2009-08-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Cartilage has a limited capacity for self-repair and focal damage can eventually lead to complete degradation of the tissue. Early diagnosis of degenerative changes in cartilage is therefore essential. Contrast agent-based computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging provide promising tools for this purpose. How...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Shafieyan Y,Khosravi N,Moeini M,Quinn TM

更新日期：2014-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of the Ca(2+)-induced Ca2+ release blocker procaine on individual sarcoplasmic reticulum Ca2+ release channels have been examined in planar lipid bilayers. Procaine did not reduce the single channel conductance nor appreciably shorten the mean open times of the channel; rather, it increased the longest clo...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Zahradníková A,Palade P

更新日期：1993-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The clustering of ryanodine receptors (RyR2) into functional Ca2+ release units is central to current models for cardiac excitation-contraction (E-C) coupling. Using immunolabeling and confocal microscopy, we have analyzed the distribution of RyR2 clusters in rat and ventricular atrial myocytes. The resolution of the ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Chen-Izu Y,McCulle SL,Ward CW,Soeller C,Allen BM,Rabang C,Cannell MB,Balke CW,Izu LT

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Viral fusion peptides are short N-terminal regions of type-1 viral fusion proteins that are critical for virus entry. Although the importance of viral fusion peptides in virus-cell membrane fusion is established, little is known about how they function. We report the effects of wild-type (WT) hemagglutinin (HA) fusion...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Chakraborty H,Tarafdar PK,Klapper DG,Lentz BR

更新日期：2013-12-03 00:00:00

abstract：:A phospholipid chelate complexed with ytterbium (DMPE-DTPA:Yb3+) is shown to be readily incorporated into a model membrane system, which may then be aligned in a magnetic field such that the average bilayer normal lies along the field. This so-called positively ordered smectic phase, whose lipids consist of less than ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Prosser RS,Volkov VB,Shiyanovskaya IV

更新日期：1998-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:On the basis of its role in the analysis of mammillary compartmental systems, a matrix with non-zero elements in the first row, first column, and along the main diagonal and with zero elements elsewhere is called a mammillary matrix. It is pointed out that such matrices occur in a variety of biological problems includ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Hearon JZ

更新日期：1964-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plant light-harvesting complex II (LHCII) is the key antenna complex for plant photosynthesis. We present coarse-grained molecular dynamics simulations of monomeric and trimeric LHCII in a realistic thylakoid membrane environment based on the Martini force field. The coarse-grained protein model has been optimized wit...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Thallmair S,Vainikka PA,Marrink SJ

更新日期：2019-04-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Potassium accumulation associated with outward membrane potassium current was investigated experimentally in myelinated fibers and analyzed in terms of two models-three-compartment and diffusion in an unstirred layer. In the myelinated fibers, as in squid giant axons, the three-compartment model satisfactorily describ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Moran N,Palti Y,Levitan E,Stämpfli R

更新日期：1980-12-01 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：:The nucleus has a smooth, regular appearance in normal cells, and its shape is greatly altered in human pathologies. Yet, how the cell establishes nuclear shape is not well understood. We imaged the dynamics of nuclear shaping in NIH3T3 fibroblasts. Nuclei translated toward the substratum and began flattening during t...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Li Y,Lovett D,Zhang Q,Neelam S,Kuchibhotla RA,Zhu R,Gundersen GG,Lele TP,Dickinson RB

更新日期：2015-08-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell-reorganized fibronectin layers on polymer films providing a gradation of the binding strength between protein and substrate were analyzed by combined fluorescence and scanning force microscopy. The nanoscale fibronectin patterns exhibited paired parallel fibrils with characteristic spacings of 156, 233, 304, and ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Pompe T,Renner L,Werner C

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phase-lifetime spectroscopy was used to measure the kinetics of light-driven proton transients and M intermediate decay of purple membrane. The kinetics were measured in distilled water and in 0.4 M KCl over the pH range of 5.3-8.8. The low ionic strength data showed results that were comparable to previous data. The ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Sinton MH,Dewey TG

更新日期：1988-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Methods are described for discrimination of models of the gating kinetics and permeation of single ionic channels. Both maximum likelihood and regression procedures are discussed. In simple situations, where models are nested, standard hypothesis tests can be used. More commonly, however, non-nested models are of inte...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Horn R

更新日期：1987-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Enzyme function depends on specific conformational motions. We show that the temperature dependence of enzyme kinetic parameters can provide insight into these functionally relevant motions. While investigating the catalytic properties of IPMDH from Escherichia coli, we found that its catalytic efficiency (k(cat)/K(M,...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Hajdú I,Szilágyi A,Kardos J,Závodszky P

更新日期：2009-06-17 00:00:00

abstract：:To monitor the lateral segregation of lipids into liquid-ordered (Lo) and -disordered (Ld) phases in lipid membranes, environment-sensitive dyes that partition in both phases but stain them differently have been developed. Of particular interest is the dual-color F2N12S probe, which can discriminate the two phases thr...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Kilin V,Glushonkov O,Herdly L,Klymchenko A,Richert L,Mely Y

更新日期：2015-05-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The S4 transmembrane domain of the family of voltage-gated ion channels is generally thought to be the voltage sensor, whose translocation by an applied electric field produces the gating current. Experiments on hSkMI Na(+) channels and both Shaker and EAG K(+) channels indicate which S4 residues cross the membrane-so...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Lecar H,Larsson HP,Grabe M

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The statistical mechanics of cross-bridge action is considered in order to develop constitutive equations that express fiber tension as a function of degree of activation and time history of speed of contraction. The kinetic equation of A.F. Huxley (1) is generalized to apply to the partially activated state. The rate...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Tözeren A

更新日期：1985-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cytoskeletal activity of motile or adherent cells is frequently seen to induce detectable displacements of sufficiently compliant substrata. The physics of this phenomenon is discussed in terms of the classical theory of small-strain, plane-stress elasticity. The main results of such analysis is a transform expres...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Dembo M,Oliver T,Ishihara A,Jacobson K

更新日期：1996-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been repeatedly noted that the change of conformation of the molecules that serve as the ion-selective channels for sodium and potassium conductance in the nerve membrane will be accompanied by a change in the dipole moment of the molecule. This time-dependent change of dipole moment will produce transient curr...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Strandberg MW

更新日期：1977-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A review is given of the structure and dynamics of the flagellar rotary motor. Force-generating elements in a motor driving a tethered bacterium (a cell fixed to the substratum by a single flagellum) exert forces of order 20 pN while moving at speeds of order 1 micron/s. Force-generating elements in a motor driving a ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Berg HC

更新日期：1995-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Photoreverse reactions of octopus rhodopsin (Rh) from acid-metarhodopsin (Acid-Meta), which is the final product of the photoreaction of Rh, to Rh were studied by the time-resolved transient absorption and transient grating methods. The time course of the absorption signal showed a rapid change within 500 ns followed ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Inoue K,Tsuda M,Terazima M

更新日期：2007-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Slow stretch ramps (velocity: 0.17 fiber lengths s-1) were imposed during fused tetanic contractions of intact muscle fibers of the frog (1.4-3.0 degrees C; sarcomere length: 2.12-2.21 microns). Instantaneous force-extension relations were derived both under isometric conditions and during slow stretch by applying fas...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Månsson A

更新日期：1989-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The interactions of the hydrophobic pulmonary surfactant proteins SP-B and SP-C with 1,2-dipalmitoylphosphatidylcholine in mixed, spread monolayer films have been studied in situ at the air/water interface with the technique of external reflection absorption infrared spectroscopy (IRRAS). SP-C has a mostly alpha-helic...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Pastrana-Rios B,Taneva S,Keough KM,Mautone AJ,Mendelsohn R

更新日期：1995-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The diffusive motion of DNA-containing chromatin in live cells and isolated nuclei is investigated using a two-photon standing wave fluorescence photobleaching experiment with 100 nm spatial resolution. The chromatin is labeled using the minor groove binding dye Hoechst 33342. In live cells, the mean diffusion rate is...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Davis SK,Bardeen CJ

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Video-based particle tracking monitors the microscopic movement of labeled biomolecules and fluorescent probes within a complex cellular environment. Information gained from this technique enables us to extract the dynamic behavior of biomolecules and the local mechanical properties inside the cell from a tracked part...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Wu PH,Arce SH,Burney PR,Tseng Y

更新日期：2009-06-17 00:00:00

abstract：:A major challenge in synthetic gene delivery is to quantitatively predict the optimal design of polymer-based gene carriers (polyplexes). Here, we report a consistent, integrated, and fundamentally grounded computational methodology to address this challenge. This is achieved by accurately representing the spatio-temp...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Dinh AT,Pangarkar C,Theofanous T,Mitragotri S

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The muscle nicotinic receptor (AChR) is a pentamer of four different subunits, each of which contains four transmembrane domains (M1-M4). We recently showed that channel opening and closing rates of the AChR depend on a hydrogen bond involving a threonine at position 14' of the M4 domain in the alpha-subunit. To deter...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Bouzat C,Gumilar F,del Carmen Esandi M,Sine SM

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined four cardiomyopathy-causing mutations of troponin I that appear to disturb function by altering the distribution of thin filament states. The R193H (mouse) troponin I mutant had greater than normal actin-activated myosin-S1 ATPase activity in both the presence and absence of calcium. The rate of ATPase act...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Mathur MC,Kobayashi T,Chalovich JM

更新日期：2009-03-18 00:00:00