Nanog Fluctuations in Embryonic Stem Cells Highlight the Problem of Measurement in Cell Biology.

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：:Single-molecule methods provide direct measurements of macromolecular dynamics, but are limited by the number of degrees of freedom that can be followed at one time. High-resolution rotor bead tracking (RBT) measures DNA torque, twist, and extension, and can be used to characterize the structural dynamics of DNA and d...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Ivanov IE,Lebel P,Oberstrass FC,Starr CH,Parente AC,Ierokomos A,Bryant Z

更新日期：2018-01-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Actomyosin interactions were examined by using yeast actin mutants with alanines replacing charged amino acid pairs D24/D25, E99/E100, D80/D81, and E83/K84. In the in vitro motility experiments, actin filaments of D24A/D25A or E99A/E100A mutants moved in the presence of 0.7% methylcellulose at the velocities of wild-t...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Miller CJ,Cheung P,White P,Reisler E

更新日期：1995-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rates of diffusion through the extracellular space of thin sheets of myocardium from the right ventricular outflow tract of kittens were estimated at 23 degrees C for 45Ca2+ and an inert reference tracer, [14C]sucrose. The myocardial sheets were mounted in an Ussing chamber and equilibrated with Tyrode solution with v...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Safford RE,Bassingthwaighte JB

更新日期：1977-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of salt and pH titration on the selectivity of spin-labeled analogues of phosphatidic acid, phosphatidylserine, phosphatidylcholine, and stearic acid for the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor (nAcChoR) reconstituted into dioleoylphosphatidylcholine was examined at 0 degrees C using electron spin resonance sp...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Raines DE,Miller KW

更新日期：1993-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In many situations, cell-cell adhesion is mediated by multiple ligand-receptor pairs. For example, the interaction between T cells and antigen-presenting cells of the immune system is mediated not only by T cell receptors and their ligands (peptide-major histocompatibility complex) but also by binding of intracellular...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Coombs D,Dembo M,Wofsy C,Goldstein B

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A recent analysis of the normal modes of vibration of a ring formed by bringing together and sealing, with or without the addition of twist, the ends of rods that are straight when stress free is taken as the basis for a theory of the statistical thermodynamics of a canonical ensemble of DNA minicircles with specified...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Tobias I

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The UV-visible absorption and magnetic circular dichroism (MCD) spectra of the ferric, ferrous, CO-ligated forms and kinetic photolysis intermediates of the tetraheme electron-transfer protein cytochrome c3 (Cc3) are reported. Consistent with bis-histidinyl axial coordination of the hemes in this Class III c-type cyto...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： O'Connor DB,Goldbeck RA,Hazzard JH,Kliger DS,Cusanovich MA

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The electrical membrane potential (Vm) is one of the components of the electrochemical potential of protons across the biological membrane (proton motive force), which powers many vital cellular processes. Because Vm also plays a role in signal transduction, measuring it is of great interest. Over the years, a variety...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Mancini L,Terradot G,Tian T,Pu Y,Li Y,Lo CJ,Bai F,Pilizota T

更新日期：2020-01-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Over the last decade, functionally designed DNA nanostructures applied to lipid membranes prompted important achievements in the fields of biophysics and synthetic biology. Taking advantage of the universal rules for self-assembly of complementary oligonucleotides, DNA has proven to be an extremely versatile biocompat...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Czogalla A,Franquelim HG,Schwille P

更新日期：2016-04-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The antifungal polyene antibiotic amphotericin B forms channels in lipid membranes that are permeable to ions, water, and nonelectrolytes. Anion, cation, and ion pair coordination in the water-filled pore of the "barrel" unit of the channels was studied by molecular dynamics simulations. Unlike the case of the gramici...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Khutorsky V

更新日期：1996-12-01 00:00:00

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：:Amyloid fibrils are associated with many neurodegenerative diseases. It was found that amyloidogenic oligomers, not mature fibrils, are neurotoxic agents related to these diseases. Molecular mechanisms of infectivity, pathways of aggregation, and molecular structure of these oligomers remain elusive. Here, we use all-...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Blinov N,Dorosh L,Wishart D,Kovalenko A

更新日期：2010-01-20 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：:Aggregated Markov models are a widely used tool to model patch clamp data measured from single ion channels. These channels must obey the principle of detailed balance in thermodynamic equilibrium; otherwise, the channel is driven by an external source of energy. We investigate the power of a likelihood ratio test for...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Wagner M,Timmer J

更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Negatively charged phospholipids are an important component of biological membranes. The thermodynamic parameters governing self-assembly of anionic phospholipids are deduced here from isothermal titration calorimetry. Heats of demicellization were determined for dioctanoyl phosphatidylglycerol (PG) and phosphatidylse...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Marsh D

更新日期：2012-03-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Isothermal (27 degrees C) phase behavior of dimyristoyl phosphatidyl choline-cholesterol mixtures at various osmotic pressures and cholesterol contents was investigated by means of isothermal sorption microcalorimetry and (2)H-nuclear magnetic resonance. The calorimetric method allows for simultaneous measurement of t...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Sparr E,Hallin L,Markova N,Wennerström H

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Deuterium wide line NMR spectroscopy was used to study cholesterol effects on the ceramide portions of two glycosphingolipids (GSLs) distributed as minor components in fluid membranes. The common existence of very long fatty acids on GSLs was taken into account by including one glycolipid species with fatty acid chain...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Morrow MR,Singh D,Lu D,Grant CW

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phase-resolved monitoring of photoacoustic signals can provide information about the depth profile of a sample. We describe an application of this principle to determine the depth profiles of ligands and antitumor agents in mammalian cells. Measurements of the in-phase and quadrature components of the photoacoustic sp...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Narayanan K,Chandani S,Ramakrishna T,Rao CM

更新日期：1997-05-01 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：:To investigate the properties of a pure liquid ordered (Lo) phase in a model membrane system, a series of saturated phosphatidylcholines combined with cholesterol were examined by variable temperature multinuclear (1H, 2H, 13C, 31P) solid-state NMR spectroscopy and x-ray scattering. Compositions with cholesterol conce...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Clarke JA,Heron AJ,Seddon JM,Law RV

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A significant amount of work has been devoted to obtaining a detailed atomistic knowledge of the human hemoglobin mechanism. Despite this impressive research, to date, the ligand diffusion processes remain unclear and controversial. Using recently developed computational techniques, PELE, we are capable of addressing ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Lucas MF,Guallar V

更新日期：2012-02-22 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a statistical technique, the joint peristimulus time (PST) scatter diagram, for the analysis of data from simultaneously recorded neurons subjected to repeated stimulation. Distinguishable features in the scatter diagram are related to effects of the stimulus on the observed neurons and to functional relat...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Gerstein GL,Perkel DH

更新日期：1972-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Erythrocytes were electrofused with multiple rectangular voltage pulses to show an oscillatory movement, divided into swell phases and pump events. During each swell phase, which lasted from 0.5 s to more than 180 s, the fused cells' (doublets') volume increased by colloid osmotic swelling, and the membrane area was e...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Baumann M

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Unraveling the conformation of membrane-bound viral fusion peptides is essential for understanding how those peptides destabilize the bilayer topology of lipids that is important for virus-cell membrane fusion. Here, molecular dynamics (MD) simulations were performed to investigate the conformation of the 20 amino aci...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Huang Q,Chen CL,Herrmann A

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Excitation-contraction coupling in atrial cells is mediated by calcium (Ca) signaling between L-type Ca channels and Ryanodine receptors that occurs mainly at the cell boundary. This unique architecture dictates essential aspects of Ca signaling under both normal and diseased conditions. In this study we apply laser s...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Shiferaw Y,Aistrup GL,Wasserstrom JA

更新日期：2017-08-08 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：:Recent work has introduced a new fluorescent voltage sensor, ASAP1, which can monitor rapid trains of action potentials in cultured neurons. This indicator is based on the Gallus gallus voltage-sensitive phosphatase with the phosphatase domain removed and a circularly permuted GFP placed in the S3-S4 linker. However, ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Lee EEL,Bezanilla F

更新日期：2017-11-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) measurement in the lung using gas magnetic resonance imaging is a promising technique with potential for reflecting changes in lung microstructure. Despite some recent impressive human applications, full interpretation of ADC measures remains an elusive goal, due to a lack of detai...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Pérez-Sánchez JM,Rodríguez I,Ruiz-Cabello J

更新日期：2009-07-22 00:00:00

abstract：:In most studied microbial rhodopsins two conserved carboxylic acid residues (the homologs of Asp-85 and Asp-212 in bacteriorhodopsin) and an arginine residue (the homolog of Arg-82) form a complex counterion to the protonated retinylidene Schiff base, and neutralization of the negatively charged carboxylates causes re...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Li H,Govorunova EG,Sineshchekov OA,Spudich JL

更新日期：2014-04-15 00:00:00