Topography of Cells Revealed by Variable-Angle Total Internal Reflection Fluorescence Microscopy.

abstract：:The shape distributions of normal and hardened human and rabbit erythrocytes and platelets were obtained for edge-on orientations of a few hundred freely rotating cells from analyses of microphotographs obtained similarly as by Ponder(1930, Q. J. Exp. Physiol. 20:29) by phase-contrast microscopy at 800 X magnification...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Frojmovic MM,Panjwani R

更新日期：1976-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A simple method of generating electric field-induced concentration gradients in planar supported bilayers has been developed. Gradients of charged, fluorescently labeled probes were visualized by epifluorescence microscopy and could be observed at field strengths as low as 1 V/cm. Steady-state concentration gradients ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Groves JT,Boxer SG

更新日期：1995-11-01 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

abstract：:The brain Na+ channel-1 (BNC1, also known as MDEG1 or ASIC2) is a member of the DEG/ENaC cation channel family. Mutation of a specific residue (Gly430) that lies N-terminal to the second membrane-spanning domain activates BNC1 and converts it from a Na+-selective channel to one permeable to both Na+ and K+. Because al...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Adams CM,Price MP,Snyder PM,Welsh MJ

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The TRPV1 cation nonselective ion channel plays an essential role in thermosensation and perception of other noxious stimuli. TRPV1 can be activated by low extracellular pH, high temperature, or naturally occurring pungent molecules such as allicin, capsaicin, or resiniferatoxin. Its noxious thermal sensitivity makes ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Ladrón-de-Guevara E,Dominguez L,Rangel-Yescas GE,Fernández-Velasco DA,Torres-Larios A,Rosenbaum T,Islas LD

更新日期：2020-02-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Adsorption-desorption isotherms were obtained for water binding by 1,2-dimyristoylphosphatidylcholine in the temperature range 15 degrees-35 degrees C. The isotherms were analyzed by Brunauer et al.'s (BET) theory and also a polarization theory, the latter being more successful in fitting the data. There was some evid...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Wilkinson DA,Morowitz HJ,Prestegard JH

更新日期：1977-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability to discriminate between different cations efficiently is essential for the proper physiological functioning of many membrane transport proteins. One obvious mechanism of ion selectivity is when a binding site is structurally constrained by the protein architecture and its geometry is precisely adapted to f...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Roux B

更新日期：2010-06-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Intracellular cargo transport frequently involves multiple motor types, either having opposite directionality or having the same directionality but different speeds. Although significant progress has been made in characterizing kinesin motors at the single-molecule level, predicting their ensemble behavior is challeng...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Arpağ G,Shastry S,Hancock WO,Tüzel E

更新日期：2014-10-21 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper the geometrical properties of gel and fluid clusters of equimolar dimyristoylphosphatidylcholine/distearoylphosphatidylcholine (DMPC/DSPC) lipid bilayers are calculated by using an Ising-type model (Sugar, I. P., T. E. Thompson, and R. L. Biltonen. 1999. Biophys. J. 76:2099-2110). The model is able to pr...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Sugár IP,Michonova-Alexova E,Chong PL

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA beacons are short single-stranded chains which can form closed hairpin shapes through complementary base pairing at their ends. Contrary to the common polymer theory assumption that only their loop length matters, experiments show that their closing kinetics depend on the loop composition. We have modeled the clos...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Aalberts DP,Parman JM,Goddard NL

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using CD spectroscopy, guanine tetraplex formation was studied with short DNA fragments in which cytosine residues were systematically added to runs of guanine either at the 5' or 3' ends. Potassium cations induced the G-tetraplex more easily with fragments having the guanine run at the 5' end, which is just an opposi...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Penázová H,Vorlicková M

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Multiple nanosecond duration molecular dynamics simulations were performed on the transmembrane region of the Torpedo nicotinic acetylcholine receptor embedded within a bilayer mimetic octane slab. The M2 helices and M2-M3 loop regions were free to move, whereas the outer (M1, M3, M4) helix bundle was backbone restrai...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Hung A,Tai K,Sansom MS

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The recently developed CMAP correction to the CHARMM22 force field (C22) is evaluated from 25 ns molecular dynamics simulations on hen lysozyme. Substantial deviations from experimental backbone root mean-square fluctuations and N-H NMR order parameters obtained in the C22 trajectories (especially in the loops) are el...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Buck M,Bouguet-Bonnet S,Pastor RW,MacKerell AD Jr

更新日期：2006-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Solution small angle x-ray scattering can be used to study the association of transmembrane proteins solubilized in detergent micelles. We have used the alpha-helical transmembrane domain of the human erythrocyte glycophorin A (GpA) fused to the carboxyl terminus of monomeric staphylococcal nuclease (SN/GpA) as a mode...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Bu Z,Engelman DM

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Missense mutations in the membrane-binding actin-based motor protein, myosin-1a (Myo1a), have recently been linked to sensorineural deafness in humans. One of these mutations, E385D, impacts a residue in the switch II region of the motor domain that is present in virtually all members of the myosin superfamily. We sou...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Yengo CM,Ananthanarayanan SK,Brosey CA,Mao S,Tyska MJ

更新日期：2008-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:A model is presented for the steric interaction between a plasma membrane protein and the membrane cytoskeleton in the human erythrocyte. The cytoskeleton is treated as a network of polymer chains attached to a flat bilayer, and the membrane protein is a hemisphere of effective radius R(e) with center on the bilayer e...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Boal DH,Boey SK

更新日期：1995-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thermodynamically rigorous free energy methods in principle allow the exact computation of binding free energies in biological systems. Here, we use thermodynamic integration together with molecular dynamics simulations of a DNA-protein complex to compute relative binding free energies of a series of mutants of a prot...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Beierlein FR,Kneale GG,Clark T

更新日期：2011-09-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanisms by which extracellular electric field stimuli induce the (re)excitation of cardiac cells in various stages of refractoriness are still not well understood. We modeled the interactions between an isolated cardiac cell and imposed extracellular electric fields to determine the mechanisms by which relative...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Fishler MG,Sobie EA,Thakor NV,Tung L

更新日期：1996-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The properties of vesicle membranes prepared from 16:0-SM, 16:0-DHSM, or DPPC were characterized using steady-state and time-resolved fluorescence spectroscopy and different fluorescent reporter molecules. The acyl-chain region was probed using free and phospholipid-bound 1,6-diphenyl-1,3,5-hexatriene. 16:0-DHSM was f...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Nyholm T,Nylund M,Söderholm A,Slotte JP

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nitrile hydratase (NHase) is an enzyme used in the industrial biotechnological production of acrylamide. The active site, which contains nonheme iron or noncorrin cobalt, is buried in the protein core at the interface of two domains, alpha and beta. Hydrogen bonds between betaArg-56 and alphaCys-114 sulfenic acid (alp...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Kubiak K,Nowak W

更新日期：2008-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:We have used electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) to probe the homo- and heterooligomeric interactions of reconstituted sarcoplasmic reticulum Ca-ATPase (SERCA) and its regulator phospholamban (PLB). SERCA is responsible for restoring calcium to the sarcoplasmic reticulum to allow muscle relaxation, whereas PLB inhib...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： James ZM,McCaffrey JE,Torgersen KD,Karim CB,Thomas DD

更新日期：2012-09-19 00:00:00

abstract：:This study presents what is, to our knowledge, a novel technique by means of which the ratio of the single gating charges of voltage-gated rat brain IIA (rBIIA) sodium and Shaker potassium ion channels was estimated. In the experiment, multiple tandems of enhanced green fluorescent protein were constructed and inserte...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Gamal El-Din TM,Grögler D,Lehmann C,Heldstab H,Greeff NG

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The interactions between phospholipid molecules in suspensions have been studied by using mass spectrometry. Electrospray mass spectra of homogeneous preparations formed from three different phospholipid molecules demonstrate that under certain conditions interactions between 90 and 100 lipid molecules can be preserve...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Hanson CL,Ilag LL,Malo J,Hatters DM,Howlett GJ,Robinson CV

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phospholipids have been treated as dimers on a hexagonal lattice, and a move has been introduced that allows the dimers to move and change their orientation on the lattice. Simulations have been performed in which phospholipid chains have been treated as being either independent or infinitely coupled thermodynamically...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Jerala R,Almeida PF,Biltonen RL

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding the information processing ability of signal transduction pathways is of great importance because of their crucial roles in triggering various cellular responses. Despite continuing theoretical investigation, some important aspects of signal transduction such as a transient response and its connection to...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Morishita Y,Kobayashi TJ,Aihara K

更新日期：2006-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The structural dynamics of bovine erythrocyte Cu, Zn superoxide dismutase (BSOD) was studied by time-resolved fluorescence spectroscopy. BSOD is a homodimer containing a single tyrosine residue (and no tryptophan) per subunit. Frequency-domain fluorometry revealed a heterogeneous fluorescence decay that could be descr...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Ferreira ST,Stella L,Gratton E

更新日期：1994-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The study of mechanotransduction relies on tools that are capable of applying mechanical forces to elicit and assess cellular responses. Here we report a new (to our knowledge) technique, called two-bubble acoustic tweezing cytometry (TB-ATC), for generating spatiotemporally controlled subcellular mechanical forces on...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Chen D,Sun Y,Gudur MS,Hsiao YS,Wu Z,Fu J,Deng CX

更新日期：2015-01-06 00:00:00

abstract：:This work presents a discrete multidomain model that describes ionic diffusion pathways between connected cells and within the interstitium. Unlike classical models of impulse propagation, the intracellular and extracellular spaces are represented as spatially distinct volumes with dynamic/static boundary conditions t...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Roberts SF,Stinstra JG,Henriquez CS

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Purified cytochrome c oxidase CO complex from beef heart has been studied by Fourier transform infrared absorbance difference spectroscopy. Photolysis at 10-20 Kelvin results in dissociation of a3FeCO, formation of CuBCO, and perturbation of the a3-heme and CuB complex. The vibrational perturbation spectrum between 90...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Park S,Pan LP,Chan SI,Alben JO

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Branched cable voltage recording and voltage clamp analytical solutions derived in two previous papers are used to explore practical issues concerning voltage clamp. Single exponentials can be fitted reasonably well to the decay phase of clamped synaptic currents, although they contain many underlying components. The ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Major G

更新日期：1993-07-01 00:00:00