Ligand Entry into Fatty Acid Binding Protein via Local Unfolding Instead of Gap Widening.

abstract：:We present a new method for the determination of structural parameters in biological membranes. Recording the continuous scattering of heavy-atom labeled membranes and applying elementary Fourier methods we obtain the scattering of the heavy-atom distribution alone. The details of this distribution are explored by dev...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Stamatoff J,Bilash T,Ching Y,Eisenberger P

更新日期：1979-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The formation and function of the mitotic spindle depends upon force generation by multiple molecular motors and by the dynamics of microtubules, but how these force-generating mechanisms relate to one another is unclear. To address this issue we have modeled the separation of spindle poles as a function of time durin...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Cytrynbaum EN,Scholey JM,Mogilner A

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new method for the investigation of ion translocating membrane proteins is presented. Protein containing membrane fragments or vesicles are adsorbed to a solid supported membrane. The solid supported membrane consists of a lipid monolayer on a gold evaporated or gold sputtered glass substrate which is coated with a ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Seifert K,Fendler K,Bamberg E

更新日期：1993-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacteriorhodopsin proteoliposomes were used as a model system to explore the applicability of micromechanical cantilever arrays to detect conformational changes in membrane protein patches. The three main results of our study concern: 1), reliable functionalization of micromechanical cantilever arrays with proteolipos...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Braun T,Backmann N,Vögtli M,Bietsch A,Engel A,Lang HP,Gerber C,Hegner M

更新日期：2006-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The aquaglyceroporin GlpF is a transmembrane channel of Escherichia coli that facilitates the uptake of glycerol by the cell. Its high glycerol uptake rate is crucial for the cell to survive in very low glycerol concentrations. Although GlpF allows both influx and outflux of glycerol, its structure, similar to the str...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Lu D,Grayson P,Schulten K

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Molecular dynamics simulations are performed on two hydrated dipalmitoylphosphatidylcholine bilayer systems: one with pure water and one with added NaCl. Due to the rugged nature of the membrane/electrolyte interface, ion binding to the membrane surface is characterized by the loss of ion hydration. Using this structu...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Pandit SA,Bostick D,Berkowitz ML

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It was shown previously that a significant fraction of the myosin crossbridges is attached to actin in the skinned rabbit psoas fibers under relaxed conditions at low ionic strength and low temperature (Brenner, B., M. Schoenberg, J. M. Chalovich, L. E. Greene, and E. Eisenberg. 1982. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. 79:72...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Yu LC,Brenner B

更新日期：1989-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The molecular cascade that controls switching of the direction of rotation of Escherichia coli flagellar motors is well known, but the conformational changes that allow the rotor to switch are still unclear. The signaling molecule CheY, when phosphorylated, binds to the C-ring at the base of the rotor, raising the pro...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Hosu BG,Berg HC

更新日期：2018-02-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Immobilization is a key step involved in probing molecular interactions using single-molecule force spectroscopy methods, including atomic force microscopy (AFM). To our knowledge, we describe a novel approach termed flexible nanoarray (FNA) in which the interaction between the two internally immobilized amyloid β pep...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Krasnoslobodtsev AV,Zhang Y,Viazovkina E,Gall A,Bertagni C,Lyubchenko YL

更新日期：2015-05-05 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study maximum shortening velocity (Vmax) and isometric tension (P0) in skinned single fibers from rat slow soleus (SOL) and fast superficial vastus lateralis (SVL) muscles were examined after varying degrees of filament lattice compression with dextran. In both fiber types Vmax was greatest in the absence of d...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Metzger JM,Moss RL

更新日期：1987-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of uncharged, dipolar phloretin on anion and cation conductance through a black lipid membrane can be used to study its adsorption behavior. The adsorption of phloretin can be described by a Langmuir isotherm with weak dipole-dipole interaction. ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： de Levie R,Rangarajan SK,Seelig PF,Andersen OS

更新日期：1979-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two mechanisms for the interaction of alternating electrical fields with biological tissue are the development of heat, via i(2)R losses, and field-induced force effects, via differences in passive electrical properties. It has been shown that for continuous wave (CW) fields in media of physiologic electrical conducti...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Sher LD,Kresch E,Schwan HP

更新日期：1970-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate the force generation properties of Chlamydomonas axonemal inner-arm dyneins in response to external force, we analyzed microtubule gliding on dynein-coated surfaces under shear flow. When inner-arm dynein c was used, microtubule translocation in the downstream direction accelerated with increasing flow ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Kikushima K,Kamiya R

更新日期：2009-09-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Embryonic and adult fibroblasts can be returned to pluripotency by the expression of reprogramming genes. Multiple lines of evidence suggest that these human induced pluripotent stem (hiPS) cells and human embryonic stem (hES) cells are behaviorally, karyotypically, and morphologically similar. Here we sought to deter...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Daniels BR,Hale CM,Khatau SB,Kusuma S,Dobrowsky TM,Gerecht S,Wirtz D

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The development of strategies to measure plasma membrane osmotic water permeability (Pf) in epithelial cells has been motivated by the identification of a family of molecular water channels. A general approach utilizing interferometry to measure cell shape and volume was developed and applied to measure Pf in cell lay...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Farinas J,Verkman AS

更新日期：1996-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The switch 1 region of myosin forms a lid over the nucleotide phosphates as part of a structure known as the phosphate-tube. The homologous region in kinesin-family motors is more open, not interacting with the nucleotide. We used molecular dynamics (MD) simulations to examine a possible displacement of switch 1 of th...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Minehardt TJ,Cooke R,Pate E,Kollman PA

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We study the folding of small proteins inside confining potentials. Proteins are described using an effective potential model that contains the Ramachandran angles as degrees of freedom and does not need any a priori information about the native state. Hydrogen bonds, dipole-dipole-, and hydrophobic interactions are t...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Ojeda P,Garcia ME,Londoño A,Chen NY

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Articular cartilage is the connective tissue that lines joints and provides a smooth surface for joint motion. Because cartilage is avascular, molecular transport occurs primarily via diffusion or convection, and cartilage matrix structure and composition may affect diffusive transport. Because of the inhomogeneous co...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Leddy HA,Guilak F

更新日期：2008-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Molecular diffusion process after the photo-induced electron injection to ferric cytochrome c (Fe(III) cyt c) in guanidine hydrochloride (GdnHCl) 3.5 M buffer solution is studied by the time-resolved transient grating technique. Circular dichroism studies have revealed that Fe(III) cyt c is unfolded under this conditi...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Nada T,Terazima M

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hypothetical hydroxide and proton migration along the linear water chain in Aquaporin GlpF from Escherichia coli are studied by ab initio Car-Parrinello molecular dynamics simulations. It is found that the protein stabilizes a bipolar single file of water. The single file features a contiguous set of water-water hydro...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Jensen MØ,Röthlisberger U,Rovira C

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Current viral docking models have relied upon the assumption that bond formation and breakage are independent of viral and docking surface geometry, as well as the forces exerted on the bonds. This assumption, known as the equivalent site hypothesis (ESH), is examined in detail using a newly developed simulation techn...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： English TJ,Hammer DA

更新日期：2004-06-01 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：:In vitro and in situ tests have been run to characterize the reaction of the mettalochromic indicator, arsenazo III, with calcium. Job plots as well as plots of indicator absorbance vs. [Ca2+] at different indicator concentrations show a 1:1 reaction stoichiometry. Equilibrium analysis and analysis using Adair's equat...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Ahmed Z,Kragie L,Connor JA

更新日期：1980-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The structural properties of a crucial transmembrane helix for proton translocation in vacuolar ATPase are studied using double site-directed spin-labeling combined with electron spin resonance (ESR) (or electron paramagnetic resonance) and circular dichroism spectroscopy in sodium dodecyl sulfate micelles. For this p...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Vos WL,Vermeer LS,Hemminga MA

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Paxillin is an adaptor molecule involved in the assembly of focal adhesions. Using different fluorescence fluctuation approaches, we established that paxillin-EGFP is dynamic on many timescales within the cell, ranging from milliseconds to seconds. In the cytoplasmic regions, far from adhesions, paxillin is uniformly ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Digman MA,Brown CM,Horwitz AR,Mantulin WW,Gratton E

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Molecular dynamics simulations of protein folding and unfolding are often carried out at temperatures (400-600 K) that are much higher than physiological or room temperature to speed up the (un)folding process. Use of such high temperatures changes both the protein and solvent properties considerably, compared to phys...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Walser R,Mark AE,van Gunsteren WF

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To explain the effect of profilin on actin critical concentration in a manner consistent with thermodynamic constraints and available experimental data, we built a thermodynamically rigorous model of actin steady-state dynamics in the presence of profilin. We analyzed previously published mechanisms theoretically and ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Yarmola EG,Dranishnikov DA,Bubb MR

更新日期：2008-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Microstructured surfaces provide a unique framework to probe cell migration and cytoskeletal dynamics in a standardized manner. Here, we report on the steady-state occupancy probability of cells in asymmetric two-state microstructures that consist of two fibronectin-coated adhesion sites connected by a thin guidance c...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Fink A,Brückner DB,Schreiber C,Röttgermann PJF,Broedersz CP,Rädler JO

更新日期：2020-02-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Interactions between millimeter waves (MMWs) and biological systems have received increasing attention due to the growing use of MMW radiation in technologies ranging from experimental medical devices to telecommunications and airport security. Studies have shown that MMW exposure alters cellular function, especially ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Shapiro MG,Priest MF,Siegel PH,Bezanilla F

更新日期：2013-06-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Spontaneous conversion of beta-amyloid peptide (Abeta) from soluble monomer to insoluble fibril may underlie the neurodegeneration associated with Alzheimer's disease. A complete description of Abeta self-association kinetics requires identification of the oligomeric species present and the pathway of association, as ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Pallitto MM,Murphy RM

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00