Anisotropy of the Coulomb interaction between folded proteins: consequences for mesoscopic aggregation of lysozyme.

abstract：:Robust positioning of cells in a tissue against unavoidable noises is important for achieving normal and reproducible morphogenesis. The position in a tissue is represented by morphogen concentrations, and cells read them to recognize their spatial coordinates. From the engineering viewpoint, these positioning process...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Morishita Y,Iwasa Y

更新日期：2011-11-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The skeleton adapts to its mechanical usage, although at the cellular level, the distribution and magnitude of strains generated and their detection are ill-understood. The magnitude and nature of the strains to which cells respond were investigated using an atomic force microscope (AFM) as a microindentor. A confocal...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Charras GT,Horton MA

更新日期：2002-06-01 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：:The conformation of ribosomal protein S4 from Escherichia coli has been studied by circular dichroism (CD) and shown to possess unique conformation free in solution. The near ultraviolet spectrum suggests the existence of unique tertiary structural environment for the aromatic amino acid residues. The far ultraviolet ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Allen SH,Wong KP

更新日期：1978-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have interrogated the isothermal folding behavior of the DNA i-motif of the human telomere, dC19, and a high-stability i-motif-forming sequence in the promoter of the human DNA repair gene RAD17 using human physiological solution and temperature conditions. We developed a circular-dichroism-spectroscopy-based pH ti...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Rogers RA,Fleming AM,Burrows CJ

更新日期：2018-04-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The temperature dependence of drug blockade of a calcium-dependent potassium channel K(Ca) has been studied in cultured CA1 hippocampal neurons. Channel openings from a 70-pS K+ channel were recorded when inside-out patches were exposed to a bath solution containing 140 mM K+ and 0.2 mM Ca2+. The mean open times of ch...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： McLarnon JG,Wang XP

更新日期：1991-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA represents a promising therapeutic and prophylactic macromolecule in treating genetic diseases, infectious diseases and cancers. The therapeutic potential of DNA is directly related to how DNA transports within the targeted tissue. In this study, fluorescence photobleaching recovery was used to examine the diffusi...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Shen H,Hu Y,Saltzman WM

更新日期：2006-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The giant protein titin is responsible for the elasticity of nonactivated muscle sarcomeres. Titin-based passive stiffness in myocardium is modulated by titin-isoform switching and protein-kinase (PK)A- or PKG-dependent titin phosphorylation. Additional modulatory effects on titin stiffness may arise from disulfide bo...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Grützner A,Garcia-Manyes S,Kötter S,Badilla CL,Fernandez JM,Linke WA

更新日期：2009-08-05 00:00:00

abstract：:We have examined the kinetics and thermodynamics of the exchange of a fluorescent amphiphile derived from a phospholipid, NBD-DMPE, between serum albumin and the serum lipoproteins of high density (HDL2 and HDL3), LDL, and VLDL. Binding of the fluorescent lipid amphiphile to bovine serum albumin is characterized, at 3...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Estronca LM,Moreno MJ,Laranjinha JA,Almeida LM,Vaz WL

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The initial output of a time-resolved macromolecular crystallography experiment is a time-dependent series of difference electron density maps that displays the time-dependent changes in underlying structure as a reaction progresses. The goal is to interpret such data in terms of a small number of crystallographically...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Kostov KS,Moffat K

更新日期：2011-01-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Large bottlebrush complexes formed from the polysaccharide hyaluronan (HA) and the proteoglycan aggrecan contribute to cartilage compression resistance and are necessary for healthy joint function. A variety of mechanical forces act on these complexes in the cartilage extracellular matrix, motivating the need for a qu...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Innes-Gold SN,Berezney JP,Saleh OA

更新日期：2020-10-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Imaging in any plane other than horizontal in a microscope typically requires a reconstruction from multiple optical slices that significantly decreases the spatial and temporal resolution that can be achieved. This can limit the precision with which molecular events can be detected, for example, at intercellular cont...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Oddos S,Dunsby C,Purbhoo MA,Chauveau A,Owen DM,Neil MA,Davis DM,French PM

更新日期：2008-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Employing nonequilibrium molecular dynamics simulations, a comprehensive computational study of the photoinduced conformational dynamics of a photoswitchable bicyclic azobenzene octapeptide is presented. The calculation of time-dependent probability distributions along various global and local reaction coordinates rev...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Nguyen PH,Gorbunov RD,Stock G

更新日期：2006-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanisms that limit the speed at which striated muscles relax are poorly understood. This work presents, to our knowledge, novel simulations that show that the time course of relaxation is accelerated by interfilamentary movement resulting from series compliance; force drops faster when myosin heads move relativ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Campbell KS

更新日期：2016-02-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Guanidinium and acetamidinium, when added to the bathing solution in concentrations of approximately 0.1M, cause brief blocks in the single channel potassium currents from channels formed in planar lipid bilayers by gramicidin A. Single channel lifetimes are not affected indicating that the channel structure is not mo...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Hemsley G,Busath D

更新日期：1991-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The electric quadrupole moment of the deuterium nucleus provides a nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) probe of electric field gradients, and thereby of organization of tissue water. 8-17% of H(2)O in rat muscle and brain was replaced by D(2)O from 50% deuterated drinking water. The peak height of the steady-state NMR sp...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Cope FW

更新日期：1969-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Polymeric microcapsules with a light-absorbing dye incorporated in their shell can generate vapor microbubbles that can be spatiotemporally controlled by pulsed laser irradiation. These contrast agents of 6-8 μm in diameter can circulate through the vasculature, offering possibilities for ultrasound (molecular) imagin...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Lajoinie G,van Rooij T,Skachkov I,Blazejewski E,Veldhuis G,de Jong N,Kooiman K,Versluis M

更新日期：2017-05-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The chemical unfolding transition of a protein was simulated, including the presence of an intermediate (I) in equilibrium with the native (N) and unfolded (U) states. The calculations included free energies of unfolding, DeltaGuw, in the range of 1.4 kcal/mol to 10 kcal/mol and three different global m-values. The si...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Soulages JL

更新日期：1998-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Changes in free energy are normally used to track the effect of temperature on the stability of proteins and hydrophobic interactions. Use of this procedure on the aqueous solubility of hydrocarbons, a standard representation of the hydrophobic effect, leads to the conclusion that the hydrophobic effect increases in s...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Schellman JA

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The influence of mass transport on ligand binding to receptor immobilized in a polymer matrix, as detected with an evanescent wave biosensor, was investigated. A one-dimensional computer model for the mass transport of ligand between the bulk solution and the polymer gel and within the gel was employed, and the influe...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Schuck P

更新日期：1996-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Collagen fibrils form extracellular networks that regulate cell functions and provide mechanical strength to tissues. Collagen fibrillogenesis is an entropy-driven process promoted by warming and reversed by cooling. Here, we investigate the influence of noncovalent interactions mediated by the collagen triple helix o...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： de Wild M,Pomp W,Koenderink GH

更新日期：2013-07-02 00:00:00

abstract：:In cardiac muscle, troponin (Tn) and tropomyosin inhibit actin and myosin interactions through the steric blocking of myosin binding to F-actin. Ca2+ binding to Tn C modulates this inhibition. Thin filaments become activated upon Ca2+ binding, which enables strong binding of myosin with a concomitant release of ATP hy...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Solís C,Kim GH,Moutsoglou ME,Robinson JM

更新日期：2018-11-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Muscles have evolved to power a wide variety of movements. A protein component critical to varying power generation is the myosin isoform present in the muscle. However, how functional variation in muscle arises from myosin structure is not well understood. We studied the influence of the converter, a myosin structura...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Glasheen BM,Ramanath S,Patel M,Sheppard D,Puthawala JT,Riley LA,Swank DM

更新日期：2018-03-13 00:00:00

abstract：:A structural model is suggested for axon membranes consisting of a double layer of lipid and phospholipid molecules in which the polar ends of certain phospholipids change their orientation and combining properties under the influence of an electric field. The phosphate groups act as ion exchange "gates" for the contr...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： GOLDMANN DE

更新日期：1964-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent development of titratable coions has paved the way for realizing all-atom molecular dynamics at constant pH. To further improve physical realism, here we describe a technique in which proton titration of the solute is directly coupled to the interconversion between water and hydroxide or hydronium. We test the ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Chen W,Wallace JA,Yue Z,Shen JK

更新日期：2013-08-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Deuterium magnetic resonance is applied to the study of the liquid crystalline and gel phases, and of the phase transition, of a multilamellar dispersion of chain perdeuterated (d62)-dipalmitoyl phosphatidylcholine/H2O. Analysis of the deuterium spectra in terms of the moments of the spectra allows one to make quantit...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Davis JH

更新日期：1979-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The folding pathway of the small α/β protein GB1 has been extensively studied during the past two decades using both theoretical and experimental approaches. These studies provided a consensus view that the protein folds in a two-state manner. Here, we reassessed the folding of GB1, both by experiments and simulations...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Morrone A,Giri R,Toofanny RD,Travaglini-Allocatelli C,Brunori M,Daggett V,Gianni S

更新日期：2011-10-19 00:00:00

abstract：:An approach is described using fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET) to detect inhomogeneity in lipid organization, on distance scales of the order of tens of nanometers or greater, in lipid bilayers. This approach compares the efficiency of energy transfer between two matched fluorescent lipid donors, differi...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Silvius JR

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cytoplasm of a living cell is a dynamic environment through which intracellular components must move and mix. In motile, rapidly deforming cells such as human neutrophils, bulk cytoplasmic flow couples cell deformation to the transport and dispersion of cytoplasmic particles. Using particle-tracking measurements i...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Koslover EF,Chan CK,Theriot JA

更新日期：2017-11-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Macromolecular transport between the nucleus and cytoplasm occurs through the nuclear pore complexes (NPCs). The NPC in the budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae is a 60-MDa structure embedded in the nuclear envelope and composed of ~30 proteins, termed nucleoporins or nups. Here we present a large-scale analysis of ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Damelin M,Silver PA

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00