Structural studies of synthetic filaments prepared from column-purified myosin.

abstract：:We report a method to profile the torsional spring properties of proteins as a function of the angle of rotation. The torque is applied by superparamagnetic particles and has been calibrated while taking account of the magnetization dynamics of the particles. We record and compare the torsional profiles of single Prot...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： van Reenen A,Gutiérrez-Mejía F,van IJzendoorn LJ,Prins MW

更新日期：2013-03-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Annexins, found in most eukaryotic species, are cytosolic proteins that are able to bind negatively-charged phospholipids in a calcium-dependent manner. Annexin A4 (AnxA4) has been implicated in diverse cellular processes, including the regulation of exocytosis and ion-transport; however, its precise mechanistic role ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Crosby KC,Postma M,Hink MA,Zeelenberg CH,Adjobo-Hermans MJ,Gadella TW

更新日期：2013-05-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Dipole moment, enthalpy, and entropy changes were calculated for hypothetical structural units which control the opening and closing of ionic channels in axon membranes. The changes of these thermodynamic functions were calculated both for activation (transition to intermediate complex) and for the structural transfor...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Levitan E,Palti Y

更新日期：1975-03-01 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 effect of electric fields on dry oriented multibilayers of dimyristoylphosphatidylcholine (DMPC) was investigated by transmission Fourier transform infrared electric field modulated excitation (E-ME) spectroscopy. A periodic rectangular electric potential (0-150 V, 1.25 Hz, 28.4 degrees C +/- 0.2 degrees C) was ap...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Schwarzott M,Lasch P,Baurecht D,Naumann D,Fringeli UP

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Exposure of aqueous suspensions of fragments of the purple membrane of Halobacterium halobium to electric field pulses leads to transient linear dichroism phenomena. The effects are interpreted in terms of field-induced alignments of the bacteriorhodopsin chromophore. Two observed relaxation times (tau) are attributed...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Shinar R,Druckmann S,Ottolenghi M,Korenstein R

更新日期：1977-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:P188, a triblock copolymer of the form poly(ethylene oxide)-poly(propylene oxide)-poly(ethylene oxide) helps seal electroporated cell membranes, arresting the leakage of intracellular materials from the damaged cells. To explore the nature of the interaction between P188 and cell membranes, we have constructed a model...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Maskarinec SA,Hannig J,Lee RC,Lee KY

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The structure of fully hydrated gel phase dimyristoylphosphatidylcholine lipid bilayers was obtained at 10 degrees C. Oriented lipid multilayers were used to obtain high signal-to-noise intensity data. The chain tilt angle and an estimate of the methylene electron density were obtained from wide angle reflections. The...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Tristram-Nagle S,Liu Y,Legleiter J,Nagle JF

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Infrared spectroscopy has long been used to examine the average secondary structure and orientation of membrane proteins. With the recent utilization of site-specific isotope labeling (e.g., peptidic 1-(13)C = (18)O) it is now possible to examine localized properties, rather than global averages. The technique of site...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Arbely E,Kass I,Arkin IT

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The voltage-gated potassium channel protein KvLQT1 (Wang et al., 1996. Nature Genet. 12:17-23) is believed to underlie the delayed rectifier potassium current of cardiac muscle together with the small membrane protein minK (also named IsK) as an essential auxiliary subunit (Barhanin et al., 1996. Nature. 384:78-80; Sa...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Pusch M,Magrassi R,Wollnik B,Conti F

更新日期：1998-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The dependence of the fluorescence of catalase upon the concentration of added superoxide dismutase (SOD) indicates that SOD binds to saturable sites on catalase. The affinity of SOD for these sites varies with temperature, and with the concentration of each of three nominally inert polymeric additives--dextran 70, Fi...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Jiao M,Li HT,Chen J,Minton AP,Liang Y

更新日期：2010-08-04 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been previously demonstrated that the Stepanov equation provides a rather good description of the absorption/fluorescence spectra in Photosystem I, even though excited state equilibration is not rapid with respect to the excited state decay. In the present article this apparent contradiction is examined analyti...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Jennings RC,Garlaschi FM,Zucchelli G

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In permeabilized single fibers of fast (psoas) and slow (soleus) muscle from the rabbit, the effect of pH on isometric myofibrillar ATPase activity and force was studied at 15 degrees C, in the pH range 6.4-7.9. ATPase activity was measured photometrically by enzymatic coupling of the regeneration of ATP to the oxidat...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Potma EJ,van Graas IA,Stienen GJ

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The determination of intracellular protein concentrations is a prerequisite for understanding protein interaction networks in systems biology. Today, protein quantification is based either on mass spectrometry, which requires large cell numbers and sophisticated measurement protocols, or on quantitative Western blotti...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Chung YD,Sinzinger MD,Bovee-Geurts P,Krause M,Dinkla S,Joosten I,Koopman WJ,Adjobo-Hermans MJ,Brock R

更新日期：2011-12-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The Ca(2+) permeability of N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor (NMDA-R) channels was studied in human embryonic kidney cells transfected with the NR1-NR2A subunit combination. To determine the fractional Ca(2+) current (P(f)), measurements of fura-2-based Ca(2+) influx and whole-cell currents were made in symmetrical monova...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Schneggenburger R

更新日期：1996-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ca(2+) ion effect on protoplasmic streaming in an internodal cell of Nitella has been investigated for various temperatures. We have found that the protoplasmic streaming at low temperature is remarkably affected by the Ca(2+) ions in the internodal cell but larger concentrations of the Ca(2+) ions are needed to suppr...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Takamatsu A,Aoki T,Tsuchiya Y

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The small mechanosensitive channel, MscS, is a part of the turgor-driven solute efflux system that protects bacteria from lysis in the event of osmotic downshift. It has been identified in Escherichia coli as a product of the orphan yggB gene, now called mscS (Levina et al., 1999, EMBO J. 18:1730). Here I show that th...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Sukharev S

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Steady-state and time-resolved fluorescence spectroscopy was used to follow the local and global changes in structure and dynamics during chemical and thermal denaturation of unlabeled human serum albumin (HSA) and HSA with an acrylodan moiety bound to Cys34. Acrylodan fluorescence was monitored to obtain information ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Flora K,Brennan JD,Baker GA,Doody MA,Bright FV

更新日期：1998-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The kinetic properties of the three taxonomic A substates of sperm whale carbonmonoxy myoglobin in 75% glycerol/buffer are studied by flash photolysis with monitoring in the infrared stretch bands of bound CO at nu(A0) approximately 1967 cm-1, nu(A1) approximately 1947 cm-1, and nu(A3) approximately 1929 cm-1 between ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Johnson JB,Lamb DC,Frauenfelder H,Müller JD,McMahon B,Nienhaus GU,Young RD

更新日期：1996-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We assess the cross-reactivity of both cellular as well as recombinant E- and N-cadherins using functionalized bead arrays assembled on atomic-force-microscope cantilevers. This new approach builds upon and enhances the utility of a recently developed force probe that integrates a custom-built, horizontal atomic force...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Ounkomol C,Yamada S,Heinrich V

更新日期：2010-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Diffusion of the chloride salts of Li, Na, K, Rb, and Cs from water into 1-butanol and from 1-butanol into water was examined at temperatures from 13-40 degrees C. Distribution coefficients, interfacial transfer coefficients, Arrhenius activation energy, free energy of activation, enthalpy, and entropy of activation w...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Ting HP,Bertrand GL,Sears DF

更新日期：1966-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Solubility plays a major role in protein purification, and has serious implications in many diseases. We studied the effects of pH and mutations on protein solubility by calculating the transfer free energy from the condensed phase to the solution phase. The condensed phase was modeled as an implicit solvent, with a d...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Tjong H,Zhou HX

更新日期：2008-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:In the outer hair cell (OHC), the extracisternal space (ECiS) is a conduit and reservoir of the molecular and ionic substrates of the lateral wall, including those necessary for electromotility. To determine the mechanisms through which molecules are transported in the ECiS of the OHC, we selectively imaged the time-d...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Gliko O,Saggau P,Brownell WE

更新日期：2009-08-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Peptidoglycan hydrolases are bacterial secreted enzymes that cleave covalent bonds in the cell-wall peptidoglycan, thereby fulfilling major physiological functions during cell growth and division. Although the molecular structure and functional roles of these enzymes have been widely studied, the molecular details und...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Beaussart A,Rolain T,Duchêne MC,El-Kirat-Chatel S,Andre G,Hols P,Dufrêne YF

更新日期：2013-08-06 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined the effect of temperature (12-40°C) on local and global Ca2+ signals mediated by inositol trisphosphate receptor/channels (IP3R) in human neuroblastoma (SH-SY5Y) cells. The amplitudes and spatial spread of local signals arising from single IP3R (blips) and clusters of IP3R (puffs) showed little temperature...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Dickinson GD,Parker I

更新日期：2013-01-22 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：:Microbes inhabiting Earth have adapted to diverse environments of water, air, soil, and often at the interfaces of multiple media. In this study, we focus on the behavior of Caulobacter crescentus, a singly flagellated bacterium, at the air/water interface. Forward swimming C. crescentus swarmer cells tend to get phys...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Morse M,Huang A,Li G,Maxey MR,Tang JX

更新日期：2013-07-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Pressure versus distance relations have been obtained for solid (gel) and neat (liquid-crystalline) phase uncharged lipid bilayers by the use of x-ray diffraction analysis of osmotically stressed monoglyceride aqueous dispersions and multilayers. For solid phase monoelaidin bilayers, the interbilayer repulsive pressur...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： McIntosh TJ,Magid AD,Simon SA

更新日期：1989-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cells control organelle size with great precision and accuracy to maintain optimal physiology, but the mechanisms by which they do so are largely unknown. Cilia and flagella are simple organelles in which a single measurement, length, can represent size. Maintenance of flagellar length requires an active transport pro...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Ludington WB,Ishikawa H,Serebrenik YV,Ritter A,Hernandez-Lopez RA,Gunzenhauser J,Kannegaard E,Marshall WF

更新日期：2015-03-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Sickle hemoglobin forms long, multistranded polymers that account for the pathophysiology of the disease. The molecules in these polymers make significant contacts along the polymer axis (i.e., axial contacts) as well as making diagonally directed contacts (i.e., lateral contacts). The axial contacts do not engage the...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Wang Y,Ferrone FA

更新日期：2013-11-05 00:00:00