Dominant Driving Forces in Human Telomere Quadruplex Binding-Induced Structural Alterations.

abstract：:Although the majority of free cellular cholesterol is present in the plasma membrane, cholesterol homeostasis is principally regulated through sterol-sensing proteins that reside in the cholesterol-poor endoplasmic reticulum (ER). In response to acute cholesterol loading or depletion, there is rapid equilibration betw...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Olsen BN,Bielska AA,Lee T,Daily MD,Covey DF,Schlesinger PH,Baker NA,Ory DS

更新日期：2013-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Structure factor amplitudes and phases can be computed directly from electron cryomicroscopy images. Inherent aberrations of the electromagnetic lenses and other instrumental factors affect the structure factors, however, resulting in decreased accuracy in the determined three-dimensional reconstruction. In contrast, ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Thuman-Commike PA,Tsuruta H,Greene B,Prevelige PE Jr,King J,Chiu W

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The lateral mobility of pyrenyl phospholipid probes in dimyristoylphosphatidylcholine (DMPC) vesicles was determined from the dependence of the pyrene monomeric and excimeric fluorescence yields on the molar probe ratio. The analysis of the experimental data makes use of the milling crowd model for two-dimensional dif...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Sassaroli M,Vauhkonen M,Perry D,Eisinger J

更新日期：1990-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy is used to demonstrate that different loads applied to a muscle fiber change the microenvironment of the nucleotide binding pocket of myosin. Permeabilized skeletal muscle fibers in rigor were labeled with a fluorescent ATP analog, 3'-DEAC-propylenediamine (pda)-ATP (3'-O-{N-[3...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Ibanez-Garcia D,Requejo-Isidro J,Webb MR,West TG,French P,Ferenczi MA

更新日期：2010-10-06 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study maximum shortening velocity (Vmax) and isometric tension (P0) in skinned single fibers from rat slow soleus (SOL) and fast superficial vastus lateralis (SVL) muscles were examined after varying degrees of filament lattice compression with dextran. In both fiber types Vmax was greatest in the absence of d...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Metzger JM,Moss RL

更新日期：1987-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is known that the action of general anesthetics is proportional to their partition coefficient in lipid membranes (Meyer-Overton rule). This solubility is, however, directly related to the depression of the temperature of the melting transition found close to body temperature in biomembranes. We propose a thermodyn...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Heimburg T,Jackson AD

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A long-standing question about membrane structure and function is the degree to which the physical properties of the inner and outer leaflets of a bilayer are coupled to one another. Using our recently developed methods to prepare asymmetric vesicles, coupling was investigated for vesicles containing phosphatidylcholi...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Chiantia S,London E

更新日期：2012-12-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Sedimentation velocity is a powerful tool for the analysis of complex solutions of macromolecules. However, sample turbidity imposes an upper limit to the size of molecular complexes currently amenable to such analysis. Furthermore, the breadth of the particle size distribution, combined with possible variations in th...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Mächtle W

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The proteorhodopsin family consists of retinal proteins of marine bacterial origin with optical properties adjusted to their local environments. For green proteorhodopsin, a highly specific mutation in the EF loop, A178R, has been found to cause a surprisingly large redshift of 20 nm despite its distance from the chro...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Mehler M,Scholz F,Ullrich SJ,Mao J,Braun M,Brown LJ,Brown RC,Fiedler SA,Becker-Baldus J,Wachtveitl J,Glaubitz C

更新日期：2013-07-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Fibrillar aggregation of the protein ataxin-3 is linked to the inherited neurodegenerative disorder Spinocerebellar ataxia type 3, a member of the polyQ expansion disease family. We previously reported that aggregation and stability of the nonpathological form of ataxin-3, carrying an unexpanded polyQ tract, are modul...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Masino L,Nicastro G,De Simone A,Calder L,Molloy J,Pastore A

更新日期：2011-04-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Information processing and decision-making is based upon logic operations, which in cellular networks has been well characterized at the level of transcription. In recent years, however, both experimentalists and theorists have begun to appreciate that cellular decision-making can also be performed at the level of a s...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： de Ronde W,Rein ten Wolde P,Mugler A

更新日期：2012-09-05 00:00:00

abstract：:An experimental procedure is described which consists of cutting the canal duct, inserting a micropipette and administering known volumetric displacements to the cupula. The cupula is made visible by dying the endolymph. Known displacements are administered to the cupula, and the time constant of the return to its equ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Grant JW,Van Buskirk WC

更新日期：1976-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Changes in the ultraviolet light scattering from a suspension of purple membrane fragments were detected during the photocycle of bacteriorhodopsin with a cross-correlation method. The scattered light intensity from a suspension of membrane fragments containing the protein bacteriorhodopsin was measured on a logarithm...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Czégé J,Reinisch L

更新日期：1990-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine the effect of hydration on the dynamics of a protein complex, we used deuterium nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) techniques to examine a trimethoprim (TMP)/E. coli dihydrofolate reductase (DHFR) complex in its lyophilized, partially hydrated, polycrystalline, and ammonium sulfate-precipitated states. The ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Yang QX,Huang FY,Huang TH,Gelbaum L

更新日期：1993-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The suprachiasmatic nucleus governs daily variations of physiology and behavior in mammals. Within single neurons, interlocked transcriptional/translational feedback loops generate circadian rhythms on the molecular level. We present a mathematical model that reflects the essential features of the mammalian circadian ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Becker-Weimann S,Wolf J,Herzel H,Kramer A

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A refined mesoscopic model for the cumulative effect of repulsive excluded volume protein-protein interaction and attractive protein-surface interaction upon the properties of a trace protein capable of fiber formation is presented. The model predicts that very small changes in the magnitude of bulk volume occupancy o...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Minton AP

更新日期：2019-11-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Intracellular Ca2+ was determined with the fura-2 technique during electrically induced contractions in the rabbit rectococcygeus smooth muscle at 22 degreesC. The muscles were electrically activated to give short, reproducible contractions. Intracellular [Ca2+] increased during activation; the increase in [Ca2+] prec...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Arner A,Malmqvist U,Rigler R

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Single-molecule imaging analysis of chemotactic response in eukaryotic cells has revealed a stochastic nature in the input signals and the signal transduction processes. This leads to a fundamental question about the signaling processes: how does the signaling system operate under stochastic fluctuations or noise? Her...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Ueda M,Shibata T

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A system based on two designed peptides, namely the cationic peptide K, (KIAALKE)3, and its complementary anionic counterpart called peptide E, (EIAALEK)3, has been used as a minimal model for membrane fusion, inspired by SNARE proteins. Although the fact that docking of separate vesicle populations via the formation ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Rabe M,Aisenbrey C,Pluhackova K,de Wert V,Boyle AL,Bruggeman DF,Kirsch SA,Böckmann RA,Kros A,Raap J,Bechinger B

更新日期：2016-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of the presence of a minor antenna component in light-harvesting complexes of photosynthetic bacteria is investigated with numerical simulation employing the transition probability matrix method. A model antenna system of hexagonal symmetry is adopted, using as a working hypothesis that the minor component ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Fischer MR,Hoff AJ

更新日期：1992-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cartilage stiffness was measured ex vivo at the micrometer and nanometer scales to explore structure-mechanical property relationships at smaller scales than has been done previously. A method was developed to measure the dynamic elastic modulus, |E(*)|, in compression by indentation-type atomic force microscopy (IT A...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Stolz M,Raiteri R,Daniels AU,VanLandingham MR,Baschong W,Aebi U

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Deuterium NMR spectroscopy was used to study how the positioning of a dimerization motif within a transbilayer polypeptide influences its orientation and dynamics in bilayers. Three polypeptide variants comprising glycophorin A transmembrane (GpATM) dimerization motifs incorporated into lysine-terminated poly-leucine-...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： McDonald MC,Booth V,Morrow MR

更新日期：2011-02-02 00:00:00

abstract：:We revisit a heteropolymer collapse theory originally introduced to explore how the balance between hydrophobic interactions and configurational entropy determines the thermal stability of globular proteins at ambient pressure. We generalize the theory by introducing a basic statistical mechanical treatment for how pr...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Cheung JK,Shah P,Truskett TM

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Crystallographic structure and deuterium accessibility comparisons of CcO in different redox states have suggested conformational changes of mechanistic significance. To predict the intrinsic flexibility and low energy motions in CcO, this work has analyzed available high-resolution crystallographic structures with Pr...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Buhrow L,Ferguson-Miller S,Kuhn LA

更新日期：2012-05-02 00:00:00

abstract：:High resolution dynamics and structural information has been resolved from 2H solid-state NMR spectra of the Val-1 side-chain of the gramicidin channel in a lipid bilayer. Both powder pattern lineshapes and spectra from uniformly aligned samples of gramicidin in lipid bilayers have been analyzed to achieve a fully con...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Lee KC,Cross TA

更新日期：1994-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell migration is based on an actin treadmill, which in turn depends on recycling of G-actin across the cell, from the rear where F-actin disassembles, to the front, where F-actin polymerizes. To analyze the rates of the actin transport, we used the Virtual Cell software to solve the diffusion-drift-reaction equations...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Novak IL,Slepchenko BM,Mogilner A

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Molecular dynamics simulations supplement single-molecule pulling experiments by providing the possibility of examining the full free energy landscape using many coordinates. Here, we use an all-atom structure-based model to study the force and temperature dependence of the unfolding of the protein filamin by applying...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Sun L,Noel JK,Sulkowska JI,Levine H,Onuchic JN

更新日期：2014-12-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The antagonizing effect of high pressure against anesthesia is well known. With purified firefly luciferase, however,. Biophys. J. 60:1309-1314) reported that high pressure did not affect the initial flash intensity. Firefly luciferase emits a burst of light when the substrates luciferin and ATP are added in the prese...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Ueda I,Minami H,Matsuki H,Inoue T

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In multicellular organisms, single-fluorophore imaging is obstructed by high background. To achieve a signal/noise ratio conducive to single-molecule imaging, we adapted reflected light-sheet microscopy (RLSM) to image highly opaque late-stage Drosophila embryos. Alignment steps were modified by means of commercially ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Greiss F,Deligiannaki M,Jung C,Gaul U,Braun D

更新日期：2016-02-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Under various physiological and nonphysiological conditions, the intramembranous particles, as seen by freeze-fracture electron microscopy, may be in various degrees of aggregation. To compare various schemes for the measurement of the degree of aggregation, a computer program has been used to generate simulated aggre...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Donnell JT 2nd,Finegold LX

更新日期：1981-09-01 00:00:00