Balance of Active, Passive, and Anatomical Cardiac Properties in Doxorubicin-Induced Heart Failure.

abstract：:The role of distance-dependent anisotropic reactivity and molecular geometry in the vicinity of localized reaction centers in influencing the rate of bimolecular diffusion-controlled reactions is analyzed in detail, both analytically and numerically. The effect of local molecular shape is considered within the model o...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Shushin AI,Barzykin AV

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Extracellular vesicles (EVs) are proposed to play important roles in intercellular communication. Two classes of EVs can be distinguished based on their intracellular origin. Exosomes are generated within endosomes and released when these fuse with the plasma membrane, whereas ectosomes bud directly from the plasma me...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Jackson CE,Scruggs BS,Schaffer JE,Hanson PI

更新日期：2017-09-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Sum-frequency vibrational spectroscopy (SFVS) is used to measure the intrinsic rate of lipid flip-flop for 1,2-dimyristoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine (DMPC), 1,2-dipalmitoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine (DPPC), and 1,2-distearoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine (DSPC) in planar-supported lipid bilayers (PSs). Asymmetric P...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Liu J,Conboy JC

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reattachment and healing of tendon to bone poses a persistent clinical challenge and often results in poor outcomes, in part because the mechanisms that imbue the uninjured tendon-to-bone attachment with toughness are not known. One feature of typical tendon-to-bone surgical repairs is direct attachment of tendon to s...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Hu Y,Birman V,Deymier-Black A,Schwartz AG,Thomopoulos S,Genin GM

更新日期：2015-01-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Titin is a very large (>3 MDa) protein found in striated muscle where it is believed to participate in myogenesis and passive tension. A prominent feature in the A-band portion of titin is the presence of an 11-domain super-repeat of immunoglobulin superfamily and fibronectin-type-III-like domains. Seven overlapping c...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Head JG,Houmeida A,Knight PJ,Clarke AR,Trinick J,Brady RL

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has long been appreciated that spatiotemporal dynamics of cell migration are under the control of intracellular signaling pathways, which are mediated by adhesion receptors and other transducers of extracellular cues. Further, there is ample evidence that aspects of cell migration are stochastic: how else could it ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Weiger MC,Ahmed S,Welf ES,Haugh JM

更新日期：2010-01-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The power spectrum of current fluctuations and the complex admittance of squid axon were determined in the frequency range 12.5 to 5,000 Hx during membrane voltage clamps to the same potentials in the same axon during internal perfusion with cesium. The complex admittance was determined rapidly and with high resolutio...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Fishman HM,Leuchtag HR,Moore LE

更新日期：1983-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neurons communicate by releasing neurotransmitters that are stored in intracellular vesicular compartments. PC12 cells are frequently used as a model secretory cell line that is described to have two subpools of vesicles: small clear vesicles and dense core vesicles. We measured transmitter molecules released from ves...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Adams RD,Harkins AB

更新日期：2014-12-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Tagging of individual proteins with genetically encoded fluorescent proteins (FPs) has been used extensively to study localization and interactions in live cells. Recent developments in single-molecule localization microscopy have enabled the dynamic visualization of individual tagged proteins inside living cells. How...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Ghodke H,Caldas VE,Punter CM,van Oijen AM,Robinson A

更新日期：2016-07-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Collective action by inverse-Bin/Amphiphysin/Rvs (I-BAR) domains drive micron-scale membrane remodeling. The macroscopic curvature sensing and generation behavior of I-BAR domains is well characterized, and computational models have suggested various mechanisms on simplified membrane systems, but there remain missing ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Jarin Z,Pak AJ,Bassereau P,Voth GA

更新日期：2021-01-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Small, icosahedral double-stranded DNA bacteriophage pack their genomes tightly into preformed protein capsids using an ATP-driven motor. Coarse-grain molecular-mechanics models provide a detailed picture of DNA packaging in bacteriophage, revealing how conformation depends on capsid size and shape, and the presence o...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Petrov AS,Harvey SC

更新日期：2008-07-01 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：:Ion channels and transporters are membrane proteins whose functions are driven by conformational changes. Classical biophysical techniques provide insight into either the structure or the function of these proteins, but a full understanding of their behavior requires a correlation of both these aspects in time. Patch-...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Kusch J,Zifarelli G

更新日期：2014-03-18 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：: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 intracellular and interstitial potentials associated with each cell or fiber in multicellular preparations carrying a uniformly propagating wave are important for characterizing the electrophysiological behavior of the preparation and in particular, for evaluating the source contributed by each fiber. The aforemen...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Henriquez CS,Trayanova N,Plonsey R

更新日期：1988-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The main goal of this study is to investigate the role of mitochondrial [Ca(2+)], [Ca(2+)](m), in the possible up-regulation of the NADH production rate during increased workload. Such up-regulation is necessary to support increased flux through the electron transport chain and increased ATP synthesis rates. Intact ca...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Brandes R,Bers DM

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The S4 segments of voltage-gated sodium channels are important parts of the voltage-sensing elements of these proteins. Furthermore, the addition of the isolated S4 polypeptide to planar lipid bilayers results in stepwise increases of ion conductivity. In order to gain insight into the mechanisms of pore formation by ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Mattila K,Kinder R,Bechinger B

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Combining an azobenzene chromophore with the bis-cysteinyl active-site sequence of the protein disulfide isomerase (PDI) we constructed a simple but promising model for allosteric conformational rearrangements. Paralleling cellular signaling events, an external trigger, here absorption of a photon, leads to a structur...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Löweneck M,Milbradt AG,Root C,Satzger H,Zinth W,Moroder L,Renner C

更新日期：2006-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Nanodiscs that hold a lipid bilayer surrounded by a boundary of scaffold proteins have emerged as a powerful tool for membrane protein solubilization and analysis. By combining nanodiscs and cell-free expression technologies, even completely detergent-free membrane protein characterization protocols can be designed. N...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Henrich E,Sörmann J,Eberhardt P,Peetz O,Mezhyrova J,Morgner N,Fendler K,Dötsch V,Wachtveitl J,Bernhard F,Bamann C

更新日期：2017-09-19 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper describes the use of electrospray ionization-Fourier transform ion cyclotron mass spectrometry (ESI-FTICR-MS) to study the relative stabilities of noncovalent complexes of carbonic anhydrase II (CAII, EC 4.2.1.1) and benzenesulfonamide inhibitors in the gas phase. Sustained off-resonance irradiation collisi...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Gao J,Wu Q,Carbeck J,Lei QP,Smith RD,Whitesides GM

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The salt dependence of the binding free energy of five protein-protein hetero-dimers and two homo-dimers/tetramers was calculated from numerical solutions to the Poisson-Boltzmann equation. Overall, the agreement with experimental values is very good. In all cases except one involving the highly charged lactoglobulin ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Bertonati C,Honig B,Alexov E

更新日期：2007-03-15 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

abstract：:The strength of receptor-mediated cell adhesion is directly controlled by the mechanism of cohesive failure between the cell surface and underlying substrate. Unbinding can occur either at the locus of the specific bond or within the bilayer, which results in tearing the hydrophobic anchors from the membrane interior....

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Leckband D,Müller W,Schmitt FJ,Ringsdorf H

更新日期：1995-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Carbonic anhydrase (CA) is a thoroughly studied enzyme. Its primary role is the rapid interconversion of carbon dioxide and bicarbonate in the cells, where carbon dioxide is produced, and in the lungs, where it is released from the blood. At the same time, it regulates pH homeostasis. The inhibitory function of sulfon...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Jonsson BH,Liljas A

更新日期：2020-10-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Density-gradient centrifugation of disintegrated cells from a variety of plants gave two kinds of chlorophyll particles from all except the blue-green algae. As in previous procedures using detergents, the lighter Fraction 1 particles usually had greater absorption at longer wavelengths; they always had a lower ratio ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Brown JS

更新日期：1969-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The reported rates of thermal 13-cis to all-trans isomerization of the protonated Schiff base of retinal (PSBR) in solution and in bacteriorhodopsin (BR) are shown to be correlated with the red shift in the absorption maximum of the chromophore, though the linear fit is different for BR and for a model PSBR in solutio...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Milder SJ

更新日期：1991-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gramicidin is a polypeptide antibiotic that forms monovalent cation-specific channels in membrane environments. In organic solvents and in lipids containing unsaturated fatty acid chains, it forms a double-helical "pore" structure, in which two monomers are intertwined. This form of gramicidin can bind two cations ins...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Chen Y,Wallace BA

更新日期：1996-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding protein phase behavior is important for purification, storage, and stable formulation of protein drugs in the biopharmaceutical industry. Glycoproteins, such as monoclonal antibodies (MAbs) are the most abundant biopharmaceuticals and probably the most difficult to crystallize among water-soluble protein...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Ahamed T,Esteban BN,Ottens M,van Dedem GW,van der Wielen LA,Bisschops MA,Lee A,Pham C,Thömmes J

更新日期：2007-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Conserved active-site elements in myosins and other P-loop NTPases play critical roles in nucleotide binding and hydrolysis; however, the mechanisms of allosteric communication among these mechanoenzymes remain unresolved. In this work we introduced the E442A mutation, which abrogates a salt-bridge between switch I an...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Trivedi DV,David C,Jacobs DJ,Yengo CM

更新日期：2012-06-06 00:00:00