Torque generation mechanism of F1-ATPase upon NTP binding.

abstract：:Fluorescence correlation microscopy (FCM), the combination of fluorescence correlation spectroscopy (FCS) and digital microscopy (Brock and Jovin, 1998. Cell. Mol. Biol. 44:847-856), has been implemented for measuring molecular diffusion and association in living cells with explicit consideration of autocorrelations a...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Brock R,Hink MA,Jovin TM

更新日期：1998-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two-dimensional solid-state 31P NMR has been used to investigate the orientational exchange of phospholipids in gel and liquid-crystalline aqueous multilamellar dispersions and oriented multibilayers, and in biological membranes. In liquid-crystalline L alpha multilamellar dispersions, orientational exchange originate...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Fenske DB,Jarrell HC

更新日期：1991-01-01 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：:A brief summary of the major results in enhanced wound healing by electrolysis in animals and humans is presented along with the results of enhanced growth by electrolysis in plants. Hypotheses of normal and enhanced wound healing in animal and plants are reviewed. A comparison of the experimental results indicates st...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Gensler W

更新日期：1979-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Purple membranes were adsorbed on freestanding lipid bilayers, termed nano-black lipid membranes (nano-BLMs), suspending the pores of porous alumina substrates with average pore diameters of 280 nm. Nano-BLMs were obtained by first coating the upper surface of the highly ordered porous alumina substrates with a thin g...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Horn C,Steinem C

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The distribution of a selection of cationic fluorescent dyes can be used to measure the membrane potential of individual cells with a microfluorometer. The essential attributes of these dyes include membrane permeability, low membrane binding, spectral properties which are insensitive to environment, and, of course, s...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Ehrenberg B,Montana V,Wei MD,Wuskell JP,Loew LM

更新日期：1988-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We elucidate the physics of protein dynamical transition via 10-100-ns molecular dynamics simulations at temperatures spanning 160-300 K. By tracking the energy fluctuations, we show that the protein dynamical transition is marked by a crossover from nonstationary to stationary processes that underlie the dynamics of ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Okan OB,Atilgan AR,Atilgan C

更新日期：2009-10-07 00:00:00

abstract：:2D-ELDOR spectroscopy has been employed to study the dynamic structure of the liquid-ordered (Lo) phase versus that of the liquid-crystalline (Lc) phase in multibilayer phospholipid vesicles without (Lc) and with (Lo) cholesterol, using end-chain and headgroup labels and spin-labeled cholestane. The spectra are in mos...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Costa-Filho AJ,Shimoyama Y,Freed JH

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The single photon response in vertebrate phototransduction is highly reproducible despite a number of random components of the activation cascade, including the random activation site, the random walk of an activated receptor, and its quenching in a random number of steps. Here we use a previously generated and tested...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Bisegna P,Caruso G,Andreucci D,Shen L,Gurevich VV,Hamm HE,DiBenedetto E

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Identifying the basic module of enzymatic amplification as an irreversible cycle of messenger activation/deactivation by a "push-pull" pair of opposing enzymes, we analyze it in terms of gain, bandwidth, noise, and power consumption. The enzymatic signal transduction cascade is viewed as an information channel, the de...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Detwiler PB,Ramanathan S,Sengupta A,Shraiman BI

更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Subdenaturing concentrations of guanidine hydrochloride (GdnHCl) stabilize proteins. For ferrocytochrome c the stabilization is detected at subglobal level with no measured change in global stability. These deductions are made by comparing observed rates of thermally driven ferrocytochrome cHCO reactions with global u...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Kumar R,Prabhu NP,Yadaiah M,Bhuyan AK

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Density-gradient centrifugation of disintegrated cells from a variety of plants gave two kinds of chlorophyll particles from all except the blue-green algae. As in previous procedures using detergents, the lighter Fraction 1 particles usually had greater absorption at longer wavelengths; they always had a lower ratio ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Brown JS

更新日期：1969-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present an analysis of physical chemical constraints on the accuracy of DNA micro-arrays under equilibrium and nonequilibrium conditions. At the beginning of the article we describe an algorithm for choosing a probe set with high specificity for targeted genes under equilibrium conditions. The algorithm as well as ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Bhanot G,Louzoun Y,Zhu J,DeLisi C

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We study the folding of small proteins inside confining potentials. Proteins are described using an effective potential model that contains the Ramachandran angles as degrees of freedom and does not need any a priori information about the native state. Hydrogen bonds, dipole-dipole-, and hydrophobic interactions are t...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Ojeda P,Garcia ME,Londoño A,Chen NY

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Over a large range of salt and spermidine concentrations, short DNA fragments precipitated by spermidine (a polyamine) sediment in a pellet from a dilute isotropic supernatant. We report here that the DNA-condensed phase consists of a cholesteric liquid crystal in equilibrium with a more concentrated phase. These resu...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Sikorav JL,Pelta J,Livolant F

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The interactions between vitamin-A and beta-lactoglobulin have been investigated. We have found that two different complexes can be formed: one involving vitamin-A, and one involving a derivative of vitamin-A that most probably has a retro-beta-ionylidene structure. Room temperature absorption spectra for these comple...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Hemley R,Kohler BE,Siviski P

更新日期：1979-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cholesterol, due to its condensing effect, is considered an important regulator of membrane thickness. Other sterols, due to their structural similarities to cholesterol, are often assumed to have a universal effect on membrane properties similar to the condensing effect of cholesterol, albeit possibly to different de...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Hung WC,Lee MT,Chung H,Sun YT,Chen H,Charron NE,Huang HW

更新日期：2016-05-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of lysolipids on phospholipid layer curvature and bending elasticity were examined using x-ray diffraction and the osmotic stress method. Lysolipids with two different head groups, phosphatidylcholine (PC) and phosphatidylethanolamine (PE), and differing hydrocarbon chains were mixed with the hexagonal-for...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Fuller N,Rand RP

更新日期：2001-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transport of large proteins into the nucleus involves two events, binding of the cargo protein to a transport receptor in the cytoplasm and passage of the cargo-transporter complex through the selective permeability barrier of the nuclear pore complex. The permeability barrier is formed by largely disordered polypepti...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Dölker N,Zachariae U,Grubmüller H

更新日期：2010-06-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Chiral objects which scatter and absorb preferentially left versus right circularly polarized light give rise to bright-field circular dichroism (CD) images containing contributions from both these two phenomena. These contributions are separated and characterized mathematically, and the effect of the dimensions of th...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Finzi L,Ulibarri L,Bustamante C

更新日期：1991-06-01 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：:We derive the statistics of the signals generated by shape fluctuations of large molecules studied by feedback tracking microscopy. We account for the influence of intramolecular dynamics on the response of the tracking system and derive a general expression for the fluorescence autocorrelation function that applies w...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： McHale K,Mabuchi H

更新日期：2010-07-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The wormlike-chain (WLC) model is widely used to describe the energetics of DNA bending. Motivated by recent experiments, alternative, so-called subelastic chain models were proposed that predict a lower elastic energy of highly bent DNA conformations. Until now, no unambiguous verification of these models has been ob...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Schöpflin R,Brutzer H,Müller O,Seidel R,Wedemann G

更新日期：2012-07-18 00:00:00

abstract：:A general analytical description of the equilibrium and reaction kinetics of DNA multiplex hybridization has been developed. In this approach, multiplex hybridization is considered to be a competitive multichannel reaction process: a system wherein many species can react both specifically and nonspecifically with one ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Horne MT,Fish DJ,Benight AS

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The salt dependence of the binding free energy of five protein-protein hetero-dimers and two homo-dimers/tetramers was calculated from numerical solutions to the Poisson-Boltzmann equation. Overall, the agreement with experimental values is very good. In all cases except one involving the highly charged lactoglobulin ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Bertonati C,Honig B,Alexov E

更新日期：2007-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The coat protein of tobacco mosaic virus is known to form three different classes of aggregate, depending on environmental conditions, namely helical, disk, and A-protein. Among the disk aggregates, there are four-layer, six-layer, and long stacks, which can be obtained by varying the ionic strength and temperature co...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Díaz-Avalos R,Caspar DL

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The serine protease inhibitor antithrombin undergoes extensive conformational changes during functional interaction with its target proteases. Changes include insertion of the reactive loop region into a beta-sheet structure in the protein core. We explore the possibility that these changes are linked to water transfe...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Liang J,McGee MP

更新日期：1998-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Profiles of negatively stained gap junctions have been measured by grid sectioning. After normal levels of electron irradiation, the membrane thickness shrinks to about half that of unirradiated controls, but no shrinkage occurs in the hexagonal lattice plane. Even under low irradiation conditions, there is significan...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Sosinsky GE,Jésior JC,Caspar DL,Goodenough DA

更新日期：1988-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The channels present on the surface membrane of isolated rat flexor digitorum brevis muscle fibers were surveyed using the patch clamp technique. 85 out of 139 fibers had a novel channel which excluded the anions chloride, sulfate, and isethionate with a permeability ratio of chloride to sodium of less than 0.05. The ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Chua M,Betz WJ

更新日期：1991-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Structures of truncated versions of the influenza A virus M2 proton channel have been determined recently by x-ray crystallography in the open conformation of the channel, and by NMR in the closed state. The structures differ in the position of the bound inhibitors. The x-ray structure shows a single amantadine molecu...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Chuang GY,Kozakov D,Brenke R,Beglov D,Guarnieri F,Vajda S

更新日期：2009-11-18 00:00:00