Stamping vital cells - a force-based ligand receptor assay.

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：:Intramolecular electron transfer between CuA and heme a in solubilized bacterial (Paracoccus denitrificans) cytochrome c oxidase was investigated by pulse radiolysis. CuA, the initial electron acceptor, was reduced by 1-methylnicotinamide radicals in a diffusion-controlled reaction, as monitored by absorption changes ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Farver O,Grell E,Ludwig B,Michel H,Pecht I

更新日期：2006-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:In this work, we present experimental data, supported by a quantitative model, on the generation and effect of potential gradients across a tethered bilayer lipid membrane (tBLM) with, to the best of our knowledge, novel architecture. A challenge to generating potential gradients across tBLMs arises from the tethering...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Cranfield CG,Cornell BA,Grage SL,Duckworth P,Carne S,Ulrich AS,Martinac B

更新日期：2014-01-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Unsaturated phospholipid is the membrane component that is essential to the dynamic environment needed for biomembrane function. The dependence of the chain-melting transition temperature, T(t), of phospholipid bilayer membranes on the position, n(u), of the cis double bond in the glycerophospholipid sn-2 chain can be...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Marsh D

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new method of fluorescence microscopy for cell imaging has been developed that takes advantage of the spatial variations of fluorescence lifetimes in single cells as a source of image contrast, and thus it is named "fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy (flimscopy)". Since time-resolved fluorescence measurements ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Oida T,Sako Y,Kusumi A

更新日期：1993-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently, several studies have shown that short doubled-stranded DNA (dsDNA) loops more readily than the wormlike chain model predicts. In most of these experiments, the intrinsic bendedness of dsDNA, which in theory can dramatically influence looping dynamics, was either avoided or unaccounted for. To investigate the...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Le TT,Kim HD

更新日期：2013-05-07 00:00:00

abstract：:To characterize elastic properties and geometrical parameters of individual, whole myosin molecules during their interaction with actin we sparsely adsorbed myosin molecules to nanometer-sized microspheres. Thermally driven position fluctuations of these microspheres were recorded with the three-dimensional detection ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Scholz T,Altmann SM,Antognozzi M,Tischer C,Hörber JK,Brenner B

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nonlinear optical Stokes ellipsometric (NOSE) microscopy was demonstrated for the analysis of collagen-rich biological tissues. NOSE is based on polarization-dependent second harmonic generation imaging. NOSE was used to access the molecular-level distribution of collagen fibril orientation relative to the local fiber...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Dow XY,DeWalt EL,Sullivan SZ,Schmitt PD,Ulcickas JRW,Simpson GJ

更新日期：2016-10-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Little attention has been given to how the asymmetric lipid distribution of the plasma membrane might facilitate fusion pore formation during exocytosis. Phosphatidylethanolamine (PE), a cone-shaped phospholipid, is predominantly located in the inner leaflet of the plasma membrane and has been proposed to promote memb...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Kreutzberger AJB,Kiessling V,Liang B,Yang ST,Castle JD,Tamm LK

更新日期：2017-11-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Here we present an efficient implementation of line-scan fluorescence correlation spectroscopy (i.e., one-dimensional spatio-temporal image correlation spectroscopy) using a commercial laser scanning microscope, which allows the accurate measurement of diffusion coefficients and concentrations in biological lipid memb...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Ries J,Chiantia S,Schwille P

更新日期：2009-03-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of antibodies to glycophorin A on the rotational diffusion of band 3 in human erythrocyte membranes was investigated by transient dichrosim. Three antibodies that recognize different epitopes on the exofacial domain of glycophorin A all strongly reduce the rotational mobility of band 3. The effect is at mos...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Che A,Cherry RJ

更新日期：1995-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The bonding rules for actin filament bundles do not lead to a particular packing symmetry, but allow for either regular or disordered filament packing. Indeed, both hexagonal and disordered types of packing are observed in vivo. To investigate factors which control bundle order, as well as size, we examined the effect...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Stokes DL,DeRosier DJ

更新日期：1991-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ubiquinol cytochrome c oxidoreductase (bc1 complex) serves as an important electron junction in many respiratory systems. It funnels electrons coming from NADH and ubiquinol to cytochrome c, but it is also capable of producing significant amounts of the free radical superoxide. In situ and in other experimental system...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Bazil JN

更新日期：2017-10-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The Kir3.1/Kir3.4 channel is an inward rectifier, agonist-activated K(+) channel. The location of the binding site within the channel pore that coordinates polyamines (and is thus responsible for inward rectification) and the location of the gate that opens the channel in response to agonist activation is unclear. In ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Makary SM,Claydon TW,Dibb KM,Boyett MR

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We study a Brownian dynamics simulation model of a biopolymeric shell deformed by axial forces exerted at opposing poles. The model exhibits two distinct, linear force-extension regimes, with the response to small tensions governed by linear elasticity and the response to large tensions governed by an effective spring...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Banigan EJ,Stephens AD,Marko JF

更新日期：2017-10-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The structural changes in the photoreaction cycle of bacteriorhodopsin, a light-driven proton pump, was investigated at a resolution of 7 angstroms by a time-resolved x-ray diffraction experiment utilizing synchrotron x rays from an undulator of SPring-8. The x-ray diffraction measurement system, used in coupling with...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Oka T,Inoue K,Kataoka M,Yagi N

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 3D model was developed and used to explore dynamics of phosphatidylinositol-4,5-bisphosphate (PIP2) signaling in cerebellar Purkinje neurons. Long-term depression in Purkinje neurons depends on coincidence detection of climbing fiber stimulus evoking extracellular calcium flux into the cell and parallel fiber stimul...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Brown SA,Morgan F,Watras J,Loew LM

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The theory of the electromagnetic blood flow measuring technique is extended from the well known case (conductive liquid flowing through an insulating tube) to more realistic situations. First the conductivity of the vessel is taken into account, and the electric potentials in both liquid and vessel wall are calculate...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： GESSNER U

更新日期：1961-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To understand better the effect of electrostatics on the rigidity of the DNA double helix, we define DNA*, the null isomer of DNA, as the hypothetical structure that would result from DNA if its phosphate groups were not ionized. For the purposes of theoretical analysis, we model DNA* as identical to ordinary DNA but ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Manning GS

更新日期：2006-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent measurements have demonstrated enzyme activity at hydrations as low as 3%. This raises the question of whether hydration-induced enzyme flexibility is important for activity. Here, to address this, picosecond dynamic neutron scattering experiments are performed on pig liver esterase powders at 0%, 3%, 12%, and ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Kurkal V,Daniel RM,Finney JL,Tehei M,Dunn RV,Smith JC

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied the effects of permeant ions on the gating of the large conductance Ca(2+)-activated K+ channel from rat skeletal muscle. Rb+ blockade of inward K+ current caused an increase in the open probability as though Rb+ occupancy of the pore interferes with channel closing. In support of this hypothesis, we direct...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Demo SD,Yellen G

更新日期：1992-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Forces generated by microtubule polymerization and depolymerization are important for the biological functioning of cells. The mean growth velocity, V, under an opposing force, F, has been measured by; Science 278:856-860) for single microtubules growing in vitro, but their analysis of the data suggested that V decrea...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Kolomeisky AB,Fisher ME

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nuclear receptor (NR) ligands occupy a pocket that lies within the core of the NR ligand-binding domain (LBD), and most NR LBDs lack obvious entry/exit routes upon the protein surface. Thus, significant NR conformational rearrangements must accompany ligand binding and release. The precise nature of these processes, h...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Martínez L,Sonoda MT,Webb P,Baxter JD,Skaf MS,Polikarpov I

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Atherosclerosis is a disease initiated by lipoprotein aggregation and deposition in artery walls. In this study, the de novo low-density lipoprotein aggregation process was examined. Nine major intermediates were identified in two stages of the aggregation process. In the aggregation stage, low-density lipoprotein mol...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Xu S,Lin B

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Depending on the nucleotide sequence, the temperature, and other conditions, RNA hairpin-folding kinetics can be very complex. The complexity with a wide range of cooperative and noncooperative kinetic behaviors arises from the interplay between the formation of the loops, the disruption of the misfolded states, and t...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Zhang W,Chen SJ

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Integrin-mediated signaling is crucial for cell-substrate adhesion and can be triggered from both intra- and extracellular interactions. Although talin binding is sufficient for inside-out activation of integrin, other cytoplasmic proteins such as α-actinin and filamin can directly interfere with talin-mediated integr...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Shams H,Mofrad MRK

更新日期：2017-08-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Members of the epidermal growth factor receptor family play important roles in various cellular processes, both in physiological and in pathological conditions. Dimerization and autophosphorylation of these receptor tyrosine kinases are key events of signal transduction. Details of the molecular events of the signalin...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Bagossi P,Horváth G,Vereb G,Szöllösi J,Tözsér J

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Current methods for fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET) microscopy of living cells involve taking a series of images with alternating excitation colors in separate camera exposures. Here we present a new FRET method based on polarization that requires only one camera exposure and thereby offers the possibili...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Mattheyses AL,Hoppe AD,Axelrod D

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We are interested in modeling the membrane-spanning domain of the serotonin 5-HT1A G-protein coupled receptor. This superfamily of proteins is predicted to share the topology of the seven transmembrane helices of bacteriorhodopsin (BR), even though no significant sequence homology had been identified. We found signifi...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Ballesteros JA,Weinstein H

更新日期：1992-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fluorescent proteins are often used as reporters of transcriptional activity. Here we present a mathematical characterization of a novel fluorescent reporter that was recently engineered to have a short half-life (approximately 12 min). The advantage of this destabilized protein is that it can track the transient tran...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Wang X,Errede B,Elston TC

更新日期：2008-03-15 00:00:00