Image-Based Measurement of H2O2 Reaction-Diffusion in Wounded Zebrafish Larvae.

abstract：:Hemolymph and protein-free hemolymph obtained from Loligo pealei were analyzed for cation concentration by the method of atomic absorption spectroscopy, for the following ions: Na+, K+, Ca++, and Mg++. No significant differences were seen in ion concentration between hemolymph and protein-free hemolymph. Of particular...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Shoukimas J,Adelman WJ Jr,Sege V

更新日期：1977-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The partial specific volume and adiabatic compressibility of proteins reflect the hydration properties of the solvent-exposed protein surface, as well as changes in conformational states. Reverse micelles, or water-in-oil microemulsions, are protein-sized, optically-clear microassemblies in which hydration can be expe...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Valdez D,Le Huérou JY,Gindre M,Urbach W,Waks M

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We continue in this paper the presentation of theoretical and experimental methods for the joint refinement of neutron and x-ray lamellar diffraction data for the analysis of fluid (L alpha phase) bilayer structure (Wiener, M. C., and S. H. White. 1991 a, b, c. Biophys. J. 59:162-173 and 174-185; Biochemistry. 30:6997...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Wiener MC,White SH

更新日期：1992-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:New experimental techniques, especially in the context of observing molecular dynamics, reveal the plasma membrane to be heterogeneous and "scale rich," from nanometers to microns and from microseconds to seconds. This is critical information, which shows that scale-dependent transport governs the molecular encounters...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Lyman E,Hsieh CL,Eggeling C

更新日期：2018-08-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Steady state fluorescence polarization spectra and time-resolved emission decay kinetics have been measured in vitro from malignant and normal rat kidney tissue. The degrees of polarization and emission lifetimes from the cancerous and normal systems are different. The spectroscopic differences are attributed to envir...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Tata DB,Foresti M,Cordero J,Tomashefsky P,Alfano MA,Alfano RR

更新日期：1986-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Model compound studies in the literature show how Hofmeister ion interactions affect protein stability. Although model compound results are typically obtained as salting-out constants, they can be used to find out how the interactions affect protein stability. The null point in the Hofmeister series, which divides pro...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Baldwin RL

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report here a method for the determination of the pKa of histidine in complex or heterogeneous systems amenable to neither solid-state nor solution NMR spectroscopy. Careful synthesis of a fluorenylmethyloxycarbonyl- and trityl-protected, C2-deuterated histidine produces a vibrational-probe-equipped amino acid that...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Braun GA,Pogostin BH,Pucetaite M,Londergan CH,Åkerfeldt KS

更新日期：2020-11-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Muscles have evolved to power a wide variety of movements. A protein component critical to varying power generation is the myosin isoform present in the muscle. However, how functional variation in muscle arises from myosin structure is not well understood. We studied the influence of the converter, a myosin structura...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Glasheen BM,Ramanath S,Patel M,Sheppard D,Puthawala JT,Riley LA,Swank DM

更新日期：2018-03-13 00:00:00

abstract：:A voltage clamp study has been performed in the presynaptic terminal of the squid stellate ganglion. After blockage of the voltage-dependent sodium and potassium conductances, an inward calcium current is demonstrated. Given a step-depolarization pulse, this voltage- and time-dependent conductance has an S-shaped onse...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Llinás R,Steinberg IZ,Walton K

更新日期：1981-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies have been performed on erythrocytes that have been subjected to a low shear stress of less than 100 dyn/cm(2) in a cone-and-plate viscometer. Alterations that were observed included decreased red cell survival, increased osmotic fragility, changes in the cation permeability of the red cell membrane, and a redu...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Nanjappa BN,Chang HK,Glomski CA

更新日期：1973-11-01 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：:Molecular dynamics simulations of the tripeptide Ala-Phe-Ala-O-tert-butyl interacting with dimyristoylphosphatidylcholine lipid bilayers have been carried out. The lipid and aqueous environments of the peptide, the alkyl chain order, and the lipid and peptide dynamics have been investigated with use of density profile...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Damodaran KV,Merz KM Jr,Gaber BP

更新日期：1995-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To elucidate effects of electrostatic interactions resulting from surface charges on structures and phase stability of cubic phases of lipid membranes, membranes of 1-monoolein (MO) and dioleoylphosphatidic acid (DOPA) (DOPA/MO membrane) mixtures have been investigated by small-angle x-ray scattering method. As increa...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Li SJ,Yamashita Y,Yamazaki M

更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sedimentation velocity analytical ultracentrifugation is an important tool in the characterization of macromolecules and nanoparticles in solution. The sedimentation coefficient distribution c(s) of Lamm equation solutions is based on the approximation of a single, weight-average frictional coefficient of all particle...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Brown PH,Schuck P

更新日期：2006-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The fundamental backbone dynamics of unfolded proteins arising due to intrinsic ϕ-ψ dihedral angle fluctuations dictate the course of protein folding, binding, assembly, and function. These internal fluctuations are also critical for protein misfolding associated with a range of human diseases. However, direct observa...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Jain N,Narang D,Bhasne K,Dalal V,Arya S,Bhattacharya M,Mukhopadhyay S

更新日期：2016-08-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Employing nonequilibrium molecular dynamics simulations, a comprehensive computational study of the photoinduced conformational dynamics of a photoswitchable bicyclic azobenzene octapeptide is presented. The calculation of time-dependent probability distributions along various global and local reaction coordinates rev...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Nguyen PH,Gorbunov RD,Stock G

更新日期：2006-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:PROPPINs (β-propellers that bind polyphosphoinositides) are a family of PtdIns3P- and PtdIns(3,5)P2-binding proteins that play an important role in autophagy. We analyzed PROPPIN-membrane binding through isothermal titration calorimetry (ITC), stopped-flow measurements, mutagenesis studies, and molecular dynamics (MD)...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Busse RA,Scacioc A,Krick R,Pérez-Lara Á,Thumm M,Kühnel K

更新日期：2015-05-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Iberiotoxin, a toxin purified from the scorpion Buthus tamulus is a 37 amino acid peptide having 68% homology with charybdotoxin. Charybdotoxin blocks large conductance Ca(2+)-activated K+ channels at nanomolar concentrations from the external side only (Miller, C., E. Moczydlowski, R. Latorre, and M. Phillips. 1985. ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Candia S,Garcia ML,Latorre R

更新日期：1992-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eukaryotic DNA is packaged into the cell nucleus as a nucleoprotein complex, chromatin. Despite this condensed state, access to the DNA sequence must occur during gene expression and other essential genetic events. Here we employ optical tweezers stretching of reconstituted chromatin fibers to investigate the release ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Pope LH,Bennink ML,van Leijenhorst-Groener KA,Nikova D,Greve J,Marko JF

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA bending is assumed to play a crucial role during recognition of the cAMP-responsive element (CRE) by transcription factors. However, diverging results have been obtained for the bending direction of the unbound double helix. The refined NMR structures present a bend directed toward the minor groove, while biochemi...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Derreumaux S,Fermandjian S

更新日期：2000-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present here an efficient and accurate procedure for modeling of the three-dimensional structures of polypeptides in the explicit solvent water based on molecular dynamics calculations. Using the toxic domain analog of heat-stable enterotoxin as a model peptide, we examined the utilities of two molecular dynamics t...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Tsujishita H,Moriguchi I,Hirono S

更新日期：1994-06-01 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：:Raman spectroscopic data indicate that the conformations of the two hydrocarbon chains of dipalmitoyl phosphatidylcholine in aqueous dispersions of the lipid differ signficantly. The compounds 1-palmitoyl, 2-palmitoyl-d31-3-sn-phosphatidylcholine and 1-palmitoyl-d31, 2-palmitoyl-3-sn-phosphatidylcholine were synthesiz...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Gaber BP,Yager P,Peticolas WL

更新日期：1978-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thymine dimers were irradiated in aqueous solution with (60)Co gamma-rays in N(2) or O(2). Thymine and unidentified non-UV-absorbing products appeared. The thymine was identified by spectrophotometry, chromatography, and ability to support the growth of Escherichia coli 15 T(-). Residual dimer was determined by a UV-r...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Deering RA,Snipes W

更新日期：1968-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Individual ion activities were calculated for Ca(2+) in pure solutions of CaCl(2) and in mixtures of CaCl(2) with MgCl(2) and with NaCl, using different conventions to obtain gamma(Ca2+). The results were compared with potentiometric measurements, using calcium specific electrodes. It is found that significant differe...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Shatkay A

更新日期：1968-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Imaging in any plane other than horizontal in a microscope typically requires a reconstruction from multiple optical slices that significantly decreases the spatial and temporal resolution that can be achieved. This can limit the precision with which molecular events can be detected, for example, at intercellular cont...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Oddos S,Dunsby C,Purbhoo MA,Chauveau A,Owen DM,Neil MA,Davis DM,French PM

更新日期：2008-11-15 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：:Low frequency audible vibrations are produced by human skeletal muscles undergoing sustained contraction. The effect is easily demonstrable with an electronic stethoscope which amplifies sound below 50 Hz. Autocorrelation analysis of the signal shows that it is periodic with a frequency 25 +/- 2.5 Hz. The quality of t...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Oster G,Jaffe JS

更新日期：1980-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report on a molecular dynamics (MD) simulation of carboxy-myoglobin (MbCO) embedded in a water-trehalose system. The mean square fluctuations of protein atoms, calculated at different temperatures in the 100-300 K range, are compared with those from a previous MD simulation on an H2O-solvated MbCO and with experime...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Cottone G,Cordone L,Ciccotti G

更新日期：2001-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The participation of amino-terminal domains in human ether-a-go-go (eag)-related gene (HERG) K(+) channel gating was studied using deleted channel variants expressed in Xenopus oocytes. Selective deletion of the HERG-specific sequence (HERG Delta138-373) located between the conserved initial amino terminus (the eag or...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Viloria CG,Barros F,Giráldez T,Gómez-Varela D,de la Peña P

更新日期：2000-07-01 00:00:00