Kinetic Mechanism of RNA Helix-Terminal Basepairing-A Kinetic Minima Network Analysis.

abstract：:Cholesterol is abundant in plasma membranes and exhibits a variety of interactions throughout the membrane. Chemical potential accounts for thermodynamic consequences of molecular interactions, and quantifies the effective concentration (i.e., activity) of any substance participating in a process. We have developed, t...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Ayuyan AG,Cohen FS

更新日期：2018-02-27 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：:The distribution of low concentrations of ganglioside GM1 in L-alpha-dipalmitoylphosphatidylcholine (DPPC) and DPPC/cholesterol monolayers supported on mica has been studied using atomic force microscopy (AFM). The monolayers studied correspond to a pure gel phase and a mixture of liquid-expanded (LE) and liquid-conde...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Yuan C,Johnston LJ

更新日期：2000-11-01 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：:The distal side of the heme pocket, known to regulate ligand affinity, is shown to be directly involved in subunit interactions. Valency hybrids with oxygen or carbon monoxide bound to the reduced chain are used to model R-state hemoglobin with different distal perturbations. Electron paramagnetic resonance of the oxi...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Levy A,Sharma VS,Zhang L,Rifkind JM

更新日期：1992-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy is used to demonstrate that different loads applied to a muscle fiber change the microenvironment of the nucleotide binding pocket of myosin. Permeabilized skeletal muscle fibers in rigor were labeled with a fluorescent ATP analog, 3'-DEAC-propylenediamine (pda)-ATP (3'-O-{N-[3...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Ibanez-Garcia D,Requejo-Isidro J,Webb MR,West TG,French P,Ferenczi MA

更新日期：2010-10-06 00:00:00

abstract：:We present a hybrid computational methodology to predict multiple energetically accessible conformations for G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) that might play a role in binding to ligands and different signaling partners. To our knowledge, this method, termed ActiveGEnSeMBLE, enables the first quantitative energy pr...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Dong SS,Goddard WA 3rd,Abrol R

更新日期：2016-06-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Calcium channels in neurons mediate a wide variety of essential functions. In addition to contributing to action potential shape, they furnish a substrate that acts as an intracellular second messenger. This study shows that the shape of the neuronal action potential has characteristics that promote long openings of L...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Mazzanti M,Galli A,Ferroni A

更新日期：1992-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The circadian clocks keeping time in many living organisms rely on self-sustained biochemical oscillations entrained by external cues, such as light, to the 24-h cycle induced by Earth's rotation. However, environmental cues are unreliable due to the variability of habitats, weather conditions, or cue-sensing mechanis...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Pfeuty B,Thommen Q,Lefranc M

更新日期：2011-06-08 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been repeatedly noted that the change of conformation of the molecules that serve as the ion-selective channels for sodium and potassium conductance in the nerve membrane will be accompanied by a change in the dipole moment of the molecule. This time-dependent change of dipole moment will produce transient curr...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Strandberg MW

更新日期：1977-09-01 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：: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：:The engulfment function of macrophages relies on complex molecular interactions involving both lipids and proteins. In particular, the clearance of apoptotic bodies (efferocytosis) is enabled by externalization on the cell target of phosphatidylserine lipids, which activate receptors on macrophages, suggesting that (l...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Justice MJ,Petrusca DN,Rogozea AL,Williams JA,Schweitzer KS,Petrache I,Wassall SR,Petrache HI

更新日期：2014-02-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Monolayers of a functional pulmonary surfactant (PS) can reach very low surface tensions well below their equilibrium value. The mechanism by which PS monolayers reach such low surface tensions and maintain film stability remains unknown. As shown previously by fluorescence microscopy, phospholipid phase transition an...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Zuo YY,Keating E,Zhao L,Tadayyon SM,Veldhuizen RA,Petersen NO,Possmayer F

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fluorescence lifetimes of dimeric rabbit muscle creatine kinase specifically dansylated at both active sites and the homologous monomeric lobster muscle arginine kinase singly dansylated were determined using phase-modulation methods with global analysis of overdetermined data sets. For both proteins, the data is adeq...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Grossman SH

更新日期：1991-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:NMR and CD studies have been used to analyze the model membrane-bound structure of the neuropeptide substance P (RPKPQQFFGLM-NH2, SP), which has previously been proposed as the NK1 receptor active form. Conformations were determined for the SP in the presence of aqueous solutions of zwitterionic dodecylphosphocholine ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Keire DA,Fletcher TG

更新日期：1996-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The physical characteristics which govern the water relations of the giant-celled sporangiophore of Phycomyces blakesleeanus were measured with the pressure probe technique and with nanoliter osmometry. These properties are important because they govern water uptake associated with cell growth and because they may in...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Cosgrove DJ,Ortega JK,Shropshire W Jr

更新日期：1987-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Guanidinium and acetamidinium, when added to the bathing solution in concentrations of approximately 0.1M, cause brief blocks in the single channel potassium currents from channels formed in planar lipid bilayers by gramicidin A. Single channel lifetimes are not affected indicating that the channel structure is not mo...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Hemsley G,Busath D

更新日期：1991-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Communication between cells is crucial for proper functioning of multicellular organisms. The recently discovered membranous tubes, named tunneling nanotubes, that directly bridge neighboring cells may offer a very specific and effective way of intercellular communication. Our experiments on RT4 and T24 urothelial cel...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Veranic P,Lokar M,Schütz GJ,Weghuber J,Wieser S,Hägerstrand H,Kralj-Iglic V,Iglic A

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mechanosensitivity in voltage-gated calcium channels could be an asset to calcium signaling in healthy cells or a liability during trauma. Recombinant N-type channels expressed in HEK cells revealed a spectrum of mechano-responses. When hydrostatic pressure inflated cells under whole-cell clamp, capacitance was unchan...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Calabrese B,Tabarean IV,Juranka P,Morris CE

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:PSII catalyzes the oxidation of water and reduction of plastoquinone in oxygenic photosynthesis. PSII contains an oxygen-evolving complex, which is located on the lumenal side of the PSII reaction center and which contains manganese, calcium, and chloride. Four sequential photooxidation reactions are required to gener...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： De Riso A,Jenson DL,Barry BA

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neutron scattering and nuclear magnetic resonance relaxation experiments are combined with molecular dynamics (MD) simulations in a novel, to our knowledge, approach to investigate the change in internal dynamics on substrate (camphor) binding to a protein (cytochrome P450cam). The MD simulations agree well with both ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Miao Y,Yi Z,Cantrell C,Glass DC,Baudry J,Jain N,Smith JC

更新日期：2012-11-21 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, we used microbeam grazing-incidence small-angle x-ray scattering (muGISAXS) to investigate in situ protein nucleation and crystal growth assisted by a protein nanotemplate, and introduced certain innovations to improve the method. Our aim was to understand the protein nanotemplate method in detail, as t...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Gebhardt R,Pechkova E,Riekel C,Nicolini C

更新日期：2010-08-09 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：:Focal adhesion kinase (FAK) is a central focal adhesion protein that promotes focal adhesion turnover, but the role of FAK for cell mechanical stability is unknown. We measured the mechanical properties of wild-type (FAKwt), FAK-deficient (FAK-/-), FAK-silenced (siFAK), and siControl mouse embryonic fibroblasts by mag...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Fabry B,Klemm AH,Kienle S,Schäffer TE,Goldmann WH

更新日期：2011-11-02 00:00:00

abstract：:A previously established multiscale population genetics model posits that fitness can be inferred from the physical properties of proteins under the physiological assumption that a loss of stability by any protein confers the lethal phenotype to an organism. Here, we develop this model further by positing that replica...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Chen P,Shakhnovich EI

更新日期：2010-04-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Small amounts of paramagnetic cations quench the phosphorescence of DNA. Although the emission intensity is monotonic with increasing thymine content, the quenching efficiency is not. The cations quench from phosphate sites. ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Isenberg I,Rosenbluth R,Baird SL Jr

更新日期：1967-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The wormlike-chain (WLC) model is widely used to describe the energetics of DNA bending. Motivated by recent experiments, alternative, so-called subelastic chain models were proposed that predict a lower elastic energy of highly bent DNA conformations. Until now, no unambiguous verification of these models has been ob...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Schöpflin R,Brutzer H,Müller O,Seidel R,Wedemann G

更新日期：2012-07-18 00:00:00

abstract：:In maximally activated skinned fibers, the rate of tension redevelopment (ktr) following a rapid release and restretch is determined by the maximal rate of cross-bridge cycling. During submaximal Ca2+ activations, however, ktr regulation varies with thin filament dynamics. Thus, decreasing the rate of Ca2+ dissociatio...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Regnier M,Rivera AJ,Chase PB,Smillie LB,Sorenson MM

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The solubility of aqueous solutions of lysozyme in the presence of polyethylene glycol and various alkaline salts was studied experimentally. The protein-electrolyte mixture was titrated with polyethylene glycol, and when precipitation of the protein occurred, a strong increase of the absorbance at 340 nm was observed...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Boncina M,Rescic J,Vlachy V

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00