The Contribution of the Ankyrin Repeat Domain of TRPV1 as a Thermal Module.

abstract：:The sorting of lipids and proteins in cellular trafficking pathways is a process of central importance in maintaining compartmentalization in eukaryotic cells. However, the mechanisms behind these sorting phenomena are currently far from being understood. Among several mechanistic suggestions, membrane curvature has b...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Tian A,Baumgart T

更新日期：2009-04-08 00:00:00

abstract：:We present a three-dimensional tracking routine for nondiffraction-limited particles, which significantly reduces pixel bias. Our technique allows for increased resolution compared to that of previous methods, especially at low magnification or at high signal/noise ratio. This enables tracking with nanometer accuracy ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： van Loenhout MT,Kerssemakers JW,De Vlaminck I,Dekker C

更新日期：2012-05-16 00:00:00

abstract：:For immobilized nitroxide spin-labels with a well-defined interprobe geometry, resolved dipolar splittings can be observed in continuous wave electron paramagnetic resonance (CW-EPR) spectra for interelectron distances as large as 30 A using perdeuterated probes. In this work, algorithms are developed for calculating ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Hustedt EJ,Smirnov AI,Laub CF,Cobb CE,Beth AH

更新日期：1997-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dendrites of cerebellar Purkinje cells (PCs) respond to brief excitations from parallel fibers with lasting plateau depolarizations. It is unknown whether these plateaus are local events that boost the synaptic signals or they propagate to the soma and directly take part in setting the cell firing dynamics. To address...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Genet S,Sabarly L,Guigon E,Berry H,Delord B

更新日期：2010-07-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Annexins, found in most eukaryotic species, are cytosolic proteins that are able to bind negatively-charged phospholipids in a calcium-dependent manner. Annexin A4 (AnxA4) has been implicated in diverse cellular processes, including the regulation of exocytosis and ion-transport; however, its precise mechanistic role ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Crosby KC,Postma M,Hink MA,Zeelenberg CH,Adjobo-Hermans MJ,Gadella TW

更新日期：2013-05-07 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been hypothesized, from earlier studies on single-tether extraction from individual leukocytes and human umbilical vein endothelial cells, that during rolling of leukocytes on the endothelium, simultaneous extraction of membrane nanotubes (tethers) occurs, resulting in enhancement of the force decrease on the a...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Girdhar G,Shao JY

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sarcomere lengths, cell widths, indices of stiffness, and striation pattern uniformity were determined from radially compressed isolated adult cardiac myocytes from the rat. Single cells were bathed in a series of relaxing solutions containing 0-15% concentrations of nonpenetrating long chain polymers PVP-40 and dextr...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Roos KP,Brady AJ

更新日期：1990-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Structured illumination microscopy is a method that can increase the spatial resolution of wide-field fluorescence microscopy beyond its classical limit by using spatially structured illumination light. Here we describe how this method can be applied in three dimensions to double the axial as well as the lateral resol...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Gustafsson MG,Shao L,Carlton PM,Wang CJ,Golubovskaya IN,Cande WZ,Agard DA,Sedat JW

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The polyunsaturated fatty acid docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) makes up approximately 50% of the lipid chains in the retinal rod outer segment disk membranes and a large fraction of the lipid chains in the membranes of neuronal tissues. There is an extensive literature concerned with the dietary requirements for essential ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Everts S,Davis JH

更新日期：2000-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intrinsically disordered proteins play important roles throughout biology, yet our understanding of the relationship between their sequences, structural properties, and functions remains incomplete. The dynamic nature of these proteins, however, makes them difficult to characterize structurally. Many disordered protei...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Nygaard M,Kragelund BB,Papaleo E,Lindorff-Larsen K

更新日期：2017-08-08 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined the kinetics of voltage-dependent sodium currents in cerebellar Purkinje neurons using whole-cell recording from dissociated neurons. Unlike sodium currents in other cells, recovery from inactivation in Purkinje neurons is accompanied by a sizeable ionic current. Additionally, the extent and speed of recov...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Raman IM,Bean BP

更新日期：2001-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Myosin II is a central mechanoenzyme in a wide range of cellular morphogenic processes. Its cellular localization is dependent not only on signal transduction pathways, but also on mechanical stress. We suggest that this stress-dependent distribution is the result of both the force-dependent binding to actin filaments...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Luo T,Mohan K,Srivastava V,Ren Y,Iglesias PA,Robinson DN

更新日期：2012-01-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Cellular differentiation proceeds along complicated pathways, even when it is induced by extracellular signaling molecules. One of the major reasons for this complexity is the highly multidimensional internal dynamics of cells, which sometimes causes apparently stochastic responses in individual cells to extracellular...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Morita S,Takanezawa S,Hiroshima M,Mitsui T,Ozaki Y,Sako Y

更新日期：2014-11-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Force spectroscopy is commonly used to measure the kinetics of processes occurring in single biological molecules. These measurements involve attaching the molecule of interest to micron-sized or larger force probes via compliant linkers. Recent theoretical work has described how the properties of the probes and linke...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Neupane K,Woodside MT

更新日期：2016-07-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Cholesterol, due to its condensing effect, is considered an important regulator of membrane thickness. Other sterols, due to their structural similarities to cholesterol, are often assumed to have a universal effect on membrane properties similar to the condensing effect of cholesterol, albeit possibly to different de...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Hung WC,Lee MT,Chung H,Sun YT,Chen H,Charron NE,Huang HW

更新日期：2016-05-10 00:00:00

abstract：:We compared wild-type rat skeletal muscle NaChs (micro1) and a mutant NaCh (Y1586K) that has a single amino acid substitution, lysine (K) for tyrosine (Y), at position 1586 in the S6 transmembrane segment of domain 4. In Y1586K, macroscopic current decay is faster, the V(1/2) of the activation curve is shifted in the ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： O'Reilly JP,Wang SY,Wang GK

更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Equatorial x-ray diffraction patterns were obtained from single skinned rabbit psoas fibers during various degrees of activation under isometric conditions at ionic strength 170 mM and 6-9 degrees C. By direct calcium activation, contraction was homogeneous throughout the preparation, and by using a cycling technique ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Brenner B,Yu LC

更新日期：1985-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Determining the spatial relationship of individual proteins in dense assemblies remains a challenge for superresolution nanoscopy. The organization of aquaporin-4 (AQP4) into large plasma membrane assemblies provides an opportunity to image membrane-bound AQP4 antibodies (AQP4-IgG) and evaluate changes in their spatia...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Soltys JN,Meyer SA,Schumann H,Gibson EA,Restrepo D,Bennett JL

更新日期：2017-04-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Plasma insulin measurements from mice, rats, dogs, and humans indicate that insulin levels are oscillatory, reflecting pulsatile insulin secretion from individual islets. An unanswered question, however, is how the activity of a population of islets is coordinated to yield coherent oscillations in plasma insulin. Here...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Fendler B,Zhang M,Satin L,Bertram R

更新日期：2009-08-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The solution structures of the N-terminal domains of protein S, a plasma vitamin K-dependent glycoprotein, and its homolog growth arrest specific protein 6 (Gas6) were predicted by molecular dynamics computer simulations. The initial structures were based on the x-ray crystallographic structure of the corresponding re...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Perera L,Li L,Darden T,Monroe DM,Pedersen LG

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We propose mechanisms by which the transmembrane domain of vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV-TMD) promotes both initiation of fusion and formation of a fusion pore. Time courses of polyethyleneglycol (PEG)-mediated fusion of 25 nm small unilamellar vesicles composed of dioleoylphosphatidylcholine, dioleoylphosphatidylet...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Sengupta T,Chakraborty H,Lentz BR

更新日期：2014-09-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Downstream processes that discriminate between DNA adducts of a third generation platinum antitumor drug oxaliplatin and conventional cisplatin are believed to be responsible for the differences in their biological effects. These different biological effects are explained by the ability of oxaliplatin to form DNA addu...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Malina J,Novakova O,Vojtiskova M,Natile G,Brabec V

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aquaporin (AQP) functions as a water-conducting pore. Mercury inhibits the water permeation through AQP. Although site-directed mutagenesis has shown that mercury binds to Cys189 during the inhibition process, it is not fully understood how this inhibits the water permeation through AQP1. We carried out 40 ns molecula...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Hirano Y,Okimoto N,Kadohira I,Suematsu M,Yasuoka K,Yasui M

更新日期：2010-04-21 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：:Homooligomerization of proline utilization A (PutA) bifunctional flavoenzymes is intimately tied to catalytic function and substrate channeling. PutA from Bradyrhizobium japonicum (BjPutA) is unique among PutAs in that it forms a tetramer in solution. Curiously, a dimeric BjPutA hot spot mutant was previously shown to...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Korasick DA,Campbell AC,Christgen SL,Chakravarthy S,White TA,Becker DF,Tanner JJ

更新日期：2018-06-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Fluorescent proteins are often used as reporters of transcriptional activity. Here we present a mathematical characterization of a novel fluorescent reporter that was recently engineered to have a short half-life (approximately 12 min). The advantage of this destabilized protein is that it can track the transient tran...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Wang X,Errede B,Elston TC

更新日期：2008-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Ceramides have been implicated in the initiation of apoptosis by permeabilizing the mitochondrial outer membrane to small proteins, including cytochrome c. In addition, ceramides were shown to form large metastable channels in planar membranes and liposomes, indicating that these lipids permeabilize membranes directly...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Anishkin A,Sukharev S,Colombini M

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The adsorption of hydrophobic ions such as tetraphenylborate to thin lipid membranes is known to saturate at approximately 0.1 ion/(nm)2. This saturation can be quantitatively explained by electrostatic repulsion between the ions if they are treated as discrete, mobile particles that adsorb within the lipid at least p...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Tsien RY,Hladky SB

更新日期：1982-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nuclear calcium is a key signal in the dialogue between synapse and nucleus that controls the genomic responses required for persistent adaptations, including memory and acquired neuroprotection. The amplitude and duration of nuclear calcium transients specify activity-induced transcriptional changes. However, the pre...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Bengtson CP,Freitag HE,Weislogel JM,Bading H

更新日期：2010-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The scattering and absorption coefficients of many homogeneous biological tissues such as muscle, skin, white matter in the brain, and dentin are often anisotropically oriented with respect to their bounding interface. In consequence the curves of equal intensity of re-emitted light on the surface of the slab will no ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Dudko OK,Weiss GH

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00