Ordered arrays of Ca2+-ATPase on the cytoplasmic surface of isolated sarcoplasmic reticulum.

abstract：:Eukaryotic genomes are hierarchically organized into protein-DNA assemblies for compaction into the nucleus. Nucleosomes, with the (H3-H4)2 tetrasome as a likely intermediate, are highly dynamic in nature by way of several different mechanisms. We have recently shown that tetrasomes spontaneously change the direction ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Ordu O,Lusser A,Dekker NH

更新日期：2019-12-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Migratory cells are known to adapt to environments that contain wide-ranging levels of chemoattractant. Although biochemical models of adaptation have been previously proposed, here, we discuss a different mechanism based on mechanosensing, in which the interaction between biochemical signaling and cell tension facili...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Zmurchok C,Collette J,Rajagopal V,Holmes WR

更新日期：2020-10-20 00:00:00

abstract：:In an accompanying paper we reported the use of differential scanning calorimetry and optical densitometry to characterize the melting and aggregation of 160 bp fragments of calf thymus DNA during heating in the presence of divalent metal cations. Aggregation is observed as thermal denaturation begins and becomes more...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Duguid JG,Bloomfield VA

更新日期：1995-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ion channels assist and control the diffusion of ions through biological membranes. The conduction process depends on the structural characteristics of these nanopores, among which are the hydrophobicity and the afforded diameter of the conduction pathway. In this contribution, we use full atomistic free-energy molecu...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Treptow W,Tarek M

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new method for measuring the mechanical forces exerted by cells on the substratum and through the substratum to act on other cells is described. This method depends upon the growth of cells on a photoelastic substratum, polydimethylsiloxane coated with a near monolayer of fibronectin. Changes in the forces applied b...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Curtis A,Sokolikova-Csaderova L,Aitchison G

更新日期：2007-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:hbAP0 is a model membrane protein designed to possess an anesthetic-binding cavity in its hydrophilic domain and a cation channel in its hydrophobic domain. Grazing incidence x-ray diffraction shows that hbAP0 forms four-helix bundles that are vectorially oriented within Langmuir monolayers at the air-water interface....

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Churbanova IY,Tronin A,Strzalka J,Gog T,Kuzmenko I,Johansson JS,Blasie JK

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate (InsP3) acts on intracellular receptors to cause liberation of Ca2+ ions into the cytosol as repetitive spikes and propagating waves. We studied the processes underlying this regenerative release of Ca2+ by monitoring with high resolution the kinetics of Ca2+ flux evoked in Xenopus oocytes...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Parker I,Yao Y,Ilyin V

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bin/Amphiphysin/Rvs-homology (BAR) domains generate and sense membrane curvature by binding the negatively charged membrane to their positively charged concave surfaces. N-BAR domains contain an N-terminal extension (helix-0) predicted to form an amphipathic helix upon membrane binding. We determined the NMR structure...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Löw C,Weininger U,Lee H,Schweimer K,Neundorf I,Beck-Sickinger AG,Pastor RW,Balbach J

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The rat connexin40 gap junction channel is permeable to monovalent cations including tetramethylammonium and tetraethylammonium ions. Larger tetraalkyammonium (TAA(+)) ions beginning with tetrabutylammonium (TBA(+)) reduced KCl junctional currents disproportionately. Ionic blockade by tetrapentylammonium (TPeA(+)) and...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Musa H,Gough JD,Lees WJ,Veenstra RD

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Muscle contraction occurs as the result of actin-myosin interaction, which is mediated by the intermolecular forces exerted at the actin-myosin interface. To obtain information about the nature of these intermolecular forces, we tested the sensitivity of various contractile parameters of skinned skeletal muscle fibers...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Iwamoto H

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Myofilament length-dependent activation is a universal property of striated muscle, yet the molecular mechanisms that underlie this phenomenon are incompletely understood. Additionally, the rate by which sarcomere length (SL) is sensed and then transduced to form length-dependent activation is unknown. Here, using iso...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Mateja RD,de Tombe PP

更新日期：2012-07-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Spin inversion transfer (SIT) NMR experiments are reported probing the thermodynamics and kinetics of interconversion of two folded forms of a GCN4-like leucine zipper near room temperature. The peptide is 13Calpha-labeled at position V9(a) and results are compared with prior findings for position L13(e). The SIT data...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： d'Avignon DA,Bretthorst GL,Holtzer ME,Holtzer A

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell-mediated contraction plays a critical role in many physiological and pathological processes, notably organized contraction during wound healing. Implantation of an appropriately formulated (i.e., mean pore size, chemical composition, degradation rate) three-dimensional scaffold into an in vivo wound site effectiv...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Harley BA,Freyman TM,Wong MQ,Gibson LJ

更新日期：2007-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper we explore the properties of a mathematical model for the passive sodium permeability system of excitable membranes. This model is distinguished by the explicit inclusion of a rate constant which depends not on instantaneous voltage, but on rate of voltage change. Actually, the model is a rather modest m...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Jakobsson E,Scudiero C

更新日期：1975-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanism of high-voltage pulse-induced permeabilization of the stratum corneum, the outer layer of the skin, is still not completely understood. It has been suggested that joule heating resulting from the applied pulse may play a major role in disrupting the stratum corneum. In this study, electrical and ultrastr...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Gallo SA,Sen A,Hensen ML,Hui SW

更新日期：2002-01-01 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：:Red blood cells (RBCs) have highly deformable viscoelastic membranes exhibiting complex rheological response and rich hydrodynamic behavior governed by special elastic and bending properties and by the external/internal fluid and membrane viscosities. We present a multiscale RBC model that is able to predict RBC mecha...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Fedosov DA,Caswell B,Karniadakis GE

更新日期：2010-05-19 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：:The effects of low pH, and of alkaline earth cations, were examined on calcium uptake by pinched-off nerve terminals (synaptosomes). This uptake appears to be mediated by voltage-sensitive Ca channels (J. Physiol. 247:617, 1975). Ca uptake was measured in low (5 mM) or high (77 mM) potassium media. The extra uptake pr...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Nachshen DA,Blaustein MP

更新日期：1979-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Normal coordinate analyses and vibrational assignments are presented for the dimethyl phosphate anion [(CH3O)2PO2-] and its deuteriomethyl [(CD3O)2PO2-] and carbon-13 [(13CH3O)2PO2-] derivatives in the gauche-gauche conformation. The dimethyl phosphate anion, which is the simplest model for the nucleic acid phosphodie...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Guan Y,Wurrey CJ,Thomas GJ Jr

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent research suggests that the diastolic ryanodine-receptor-mediated release of Ca(2+) (J(leak)) from the sarcoplasmic reticulum of ventricular myocytes occurs in spark and nonspark forms. Further information about the role(s) of these release manifestations is scarce, however. This study addresses whether the frac...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Santiago DJ,Ríos E,Shannon TR

更新日期：2013-03-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Benjamin Franklin, mostly known for his participation in writing The Declaration of Independence and work on electricity, was also one of the first scientists to seek to understand the properties of oil monolayers on water surfaces. During one of his many voyages across the Atlantic Ocean, Franklin observed that oil h...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Wang DN,Stieglitz H,Marden J,Tamm LK

更新日期：2013-01-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Human immunodeficiency virus-1 viral infectivity factor (Vif) is an intrinsically disordered protein responsible for the ubiquitination of the APOBEC3 (A3) antiviral proteins. Vif folds when it binds Cullin-RING E3 ligase 5 and the transcription cofactor CBF-β. A five-protein complex containing the substrate receptor ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Ball KA,Chan LM,Stanley DJ,Tierney E,Thapa S,Ta HM,Burton L,Binning JM,Jacobson MP,Gross JD

更新日期：2019-04-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Immunocytochemical, biochemical, and molecular genetic studies indicate that apolipoprotein E (apoE) plays an important role in the process of amyloidogenesis-beta. However, there is still no clear translation of these data into the pathogenesis of amyloidosis-beta. Previous studies demonstrated sodium dodecyl sulfate...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Golabek AA,Kida E,Walus M,Perez C,Wisniewski T,Soto C

更新日期：2000-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two-photon excitation (TPE) spectra of Fura-2, -4F, -6F, -FF, and Furaptra were characterized using a tunable (750-850 nM) ultra-short pulse laser. Two-photon fluorescence of these dyes was studied in free solution and in the cytosol of isolated rabbit ventricular cardiomyocytes. The TPE spectra of the Ca(2+)-free and...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Wokosin DL,Loughrey CM,Smith GL

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Members of the epidermal growth factor receptor family play important roles in various cellular processes, both in physiological and in pathological conditions. Dimerization and autophosphorylation of these receptor tyrosine kinases are key events of signal transduction. Details of the molecular events of the signalin...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Bagossi P,Horváth G,Vereb G,Szöllösi J,Tözsér J

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The size of a cell is central to many functions, including cellular communication and exchange of materials with the environment. This modeling and experimental study focused on understanding how the size of a cell determines its ability to uptake nanometer-scale extracellular materials from the environment. Several m...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Khetan J,Shahinuzzaman M,Barua S,Barua D

更新日期：2019-01-22 00:00:00

abstract：:General anesthesia is a relatively safe medical procedure, which for nearly 170 years has allowed life saving surgical interventions in animals and people. However, the molecular mechanism of general anesthesia continues to be a matter of importance and debate. A favored hypothesis proposes that general anesthesia res...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Covarrubias M,Barber AF,Carnevale V,Treptow W,Eckenhoff RG

更新日期：2015-11-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Giant vesicles formed of 1,2-dipalmitoylphosphatidylcholine (DPPC) and sterols (cholesterol or ergosterol) in water and water/ethanol solutions have been used to examine the effect of sterol composition and ethanol concentration on the area compressibility modulus (K(a)), overall mechanical behavior, vesicle morpholog...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Tierney KJ,Block DE,Longo ML

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A phospholipid chelate complexed with ytterbium (DMPE-DTPA:Yb3+) is shown to be readily incorporated into a model membrane system, which may then be aligned in a magnetic field such that the average bilayer normal lies along the field. This so-called positively ordered smectic phase, whose lipids consist of less than ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Prosser RS,Volkov VB,Shiyanovskaya IV

更新日期：1998-11-01 00:00:00