Small-angle neutron scattering characterization of monoclonal antibody conformations and interactions at high concentrations.

abstract：:Deuterium nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy was used to study the thermotropic phase behavior of dilauroylphosphatidylcholine (DLPC) bilayers at pressures up to 221 MPa. Pressure was found to separate the liquid crystal to gel transition from the gel to ordered crystalline phase transition. The jump in chain ord...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Bonev B,Morrow MR

更新日期：1996-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The microenvironment between the plasma membrane and the near-membrane sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR) may play an important role in Ca(2+) regulation in smooth muscle cells. We used a three-dimensional mathematical model of Ca(2+) diffusion and regulation and experimental measurements of SR Ca(2+) uptake and the distribu...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Bazzazi H,Kargacin ME,Kargacin GJ

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Ciona intestinalis voltage-sensitive phosphatase (Ci-VSP) represents the first discovered member of enzymes regulated by a voltage-sensor domain (VSD) related to the VSD found in voltage-gated ion channels. Although the VSD operation in Ci-VSP exhibits original voltage dependence and kinetics compared to ion chann...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Lacroix JJ,Bezanilla F

更新日期：2012-08-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The strength of receptor-mediated cell adhesion is directly controlled by the mechanism of cohesive failure between the cell surface and underlying substrate. Unbinding can occur either at the locus of the specific bond or within the bilayer, which results in tearing the hydrophobic anchors from the membrane interior....

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Leckband D,Müller W,Schmitt FJ,Ringsdorf H

更新日期：1995-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Electron paramagnetic resonance spectroscopy was used to monitor the orientation of muscle cross-bridges attached to actin in a low force and high stiffness state that may occur before force generation in the actomyosin cycle of interactions. 2,3-butanedione monoxime (BDM) has been shown to act as an uncompetitive inh...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Zhao L,Naber N,Cooke R

更新日期：1995-05-01 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：:In this study stereochemically pure d-erythro-sphingomyelins (SMs) with either 16:0 or 18:1(cisDelta9) as the N-linked acyl-chain were synthesized. Our purpose was to examine the properties of these sphingomyelins and acyl-chain matched racemic (d-erythro/l-threo) sphingomyelins in model membranes. Liquid-expanded d-e...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Ramstedt B,Slotte JP

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Molecular diffusion process after the photo-induced electron injection to ferric cytochrome c (Fe(III) cyt c) in guanidine hydrochloride (GdnHCl) 3.5 M buffer solution is studied by the time-resolved transient grating technique. Circular dichroism studies have revealed that Fe(III) cyt c is unfolded under this conditi...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Nada T,Terazima M

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The engulfment function of macrophages relies on complex molecular interactions involving both lipids and proteins. In particular, the clearance of apoptotic bodies (efferocytosis) is enabled by externalization on the cell target of phosphatidylserine lipids, which activate receptors on macrophages, suggesting that (l...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Justice MJ,Petrusca DN,Rogozea AL,Williams JA,Schweitzer KS,Petrache I,Wassall SR,Petrache HI

更新日期：2014-02-04 00:00:00

abstract：:A computational framework is presented for studying the mechanical response of macromolecules. The method combines a continuum mechanics (CM) model for the mechanical properties of the macromolecule with a continuum electrostatic (CE) treatment of solvation. The molecules are represented by their shape and key physico...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Ma L,Yethiraj A,Chen X,Cui Q

更新日期：2009-05-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The plasma membrane (PM) serves as the functional interface between a cell and its environment, hosting extracellular signal transduction and nutrient transport among a variety of other processes. To support this extensive functionality, PMs are organized into lateral domains, including ordered, lipid-driven assemblie...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Levental KR,Lorent JH,Lin X,Skinkle AD,Surma MA,Stockenbojer EA,Gorfe AA,Levental I

更新日期：2016-04-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Morphogenesis involves the dynamic interplay of biochemical, mechanical, and electrical processes. Here, we ask to what extent can the course of morphogenesis be modulated and controlled by an external electric field? We show that at a critical amplitude, an external electric field can halt morphogenesis in Hydra rege...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Braun E,Ori H

更新日期：2019-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigate the validity of continuum electrostatics in the gramicidin A channel using a recently determined high-resolution structure. The potential and electric field acting on ions in and around the channel are computed by solving Poisson's equation. These are then used in Brownian dynamics simulations to obtain...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Edwards S,Corry B,Kuyucak S,Chung SH

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bax and Bid are proapoptotic proteins of the Bcl-2 family that regulate the release of apoptogenic factors from mitochondria. Although they localize constitutively in the cytoplasm, their apoptotic function is exerted at the mitochondrial outer membrane, and is related to their ability to form transbilayer pores. Here...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： García-Sáez AJ,Coraiola M,Dalla Serra M,Mingarro I,Menestrina G,Salgado J

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transcription factor (TF) proteins rapidly locate unique target sites on long genomic DNA molecules--and bind to them--during gene regulation. The search mechanism is known to involve a combination of three-dimensional diffusion through the bulk of the cell and one-dimensional sliding diffusion along the DNA. It is be...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Hu L,Grosberg AY,Bruinsma R

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate diffusion processes in agarose gel, nanoparticles with sizes in the range between 1 and 140 nm have been tested by means of fluorescence correlation spectroscopy. Understanding the diffusion properties in agarose gels is interesting, because such gels are good models for microbial biofilms and cells cyt...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Fatin-Rouge N,Starchev K,Buffle J

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The lateral distribution of N-[10(1-pyrenyl)decanoyl]-sphingomyelin (PyrSPM) and N-[10(1-pyrenyl)decanoyl]-glucocerebroside (PyrGlcCer) was studied in multilamellar vesicles of 1,2-dipalmitoyl-, 1,2-dimyristoyl-, and 1-palmitoyl-2-oleoyl-phosphatidylcholine (DPPC, DMPC, and POPC, respectively) under anaerobic conditio...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Hresko RC,Sugár IP,Barenholz Y,Thompson TE

更新日期：1987-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The crowded environment of cells poses a challenge for rapid protein-protein association. Yet, it has been established that the rates of association are similar in crowded and in dilute solutions. Here we probe the pathway leading to fast association between TEM1 β-lactamase and its inhibitor protein BLIP in crowded s...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Phillip Y,Harel M,Khait R,Qin S,Zhou HX,Schreiber G

更新日期：2012-09-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Synthetic filaments prepared from column-purified rabbit skeletal myosin by slow dialysis exhibit characteristic bipolar organization and 14-nm axial subunit spacing. Backbone substructure can be discerned in high resolution micrographs in the form of striations of 3--4-nm width and slight angular tilt from the direct...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Koretz JF

更新日期：1979-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The possibility that the chlorophyll (chl) ring distortions observed in the crystal structures of chl-protein complexes are involved in the transition energy modulation, giving rise to the spectral forms, is investigated. The out-of-plane chl-macrocycle distortions are described using an orthonormal set of deformation...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Zucchelli G,Brogioli D,Casazza AP,Garlaschi FM,Jennings RC

更新日期：2007-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of transepithelial potential difference (psi) on Na and Cl flux across toad bladder was assessed by measuring isotopic flux between identical media at various values of psi. The contribution of edge damage to ionic permeability was eliminated, resulting in relatively high spontaneous psi (-97 +/-4 mv) and l...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Walser M

更新日期：1972-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The interpretation of phi-values has led to an understanding of the folding transition state ensemble of a variety of proteins. Although the main guidelines and equations for calculating phi are well established, there remains some controversy about the quality of the numerical values obtained. By analyzing a complete...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Cobos ES,Candel AM,Martinez JC

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The last decade established that the dynamic properties of the phosphoproteome are central to function and its modulation. The temporal dimension of phosphorylation effects remains nonetheless poorly understood, particularly for intrinsically disordered proteins. Osteopontin, selected for this study due to its key rol...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Lenton S,Grimaldo M,Roosen-Runge F,Schreiber F,Nylander T,Clegg R,Holt C,Härtlein M,García Sakai V,Seydel T,Marujo Teixeira SC

更新日期：2017-04-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Tropomyosin (Tm) paracrystal formation induced by Mg2+ was studied by monitoring increases in light scattering. Paracrystals formed above a critical Tm concentration with lag phases in the time courses at pH 7.5 and 6.0, indicating that condensation polymerization processes are involved. The kinetic data at pH 7.5 rea...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Ishii Y,Lehrer SS

更新日期：1989-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of low pH, and of alkaline earth cations, were examined on calcium uptake by pinched-off nerve terminals (synaptosomes). This uptake appears to be mediated by voltage-sensitive Ca channels (J. Physiol. 247:617, 1975). Ca uptake was measured in low (5 mM) or high (77 mM) potassium media. The extra uptake pr...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Nachshen DA,Blaustein MP

更新日期：1979-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The electrophoretic behavior of defined DNA and RNA oligonucleotide duplexes from 10 to 20 bp in length has been investigated as a function of salt conditions, gel concentration, and temperature. The RNA oligomers migrated much more slowly than the DNA oligomers of the same sequence under all conditions. From sediment...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Bonifacio GF,Brown T,Conn GL,Lane AN

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many multicellular communities propagate signals in a directed manner via excitable waves. Cell-to-cell heterogeneity is a ubiquitous feature of multicellular communities, but the effects of heterogeneity on wave propagation are still unclear. Here, we use a minimal FitzHugh-Nagumo-type model to investigate excitable ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Zhai X,Larkin JW,Süel GM,Mugler A

更新日期：2020-04-07 00:00:00

abstract：:We present a qualitative computer graphics approach to the characterization of forces important to the assembly of beta domains that should have general utility for examining protein interactions and assembly. In our approach, the nature of the molecular surface buried by the domain contacts, the specificity of the re...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Getzoff ED,Tainer JA,Olson AJ

更新日期：1986-01-01 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：:We have obtained clear evidence for the flexibility of native scallop adductor thin filaments by studying the temperature and ionic strength dependence of the average decay constants obtained from intensity fluctuation spectroscopic (IFS) measurements. The low-angle (10-25 degrees ), average decay constants obtained f...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Newman J,Carlson FD

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00