Contrasting molecular dynamics in red and purple membrane fractions of the Halobacterium halobium.

abstract：:The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has swept over the world in the past months, causing significant loss of life and consequences to human health. Although numerous drug and vaccine development efforts are underway, there are many outstanding questions on the mechanism of severe acute respiratory syndrom...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Barros EP,Casalino L,Gaieb Z,Dommer AC,Wang Y,Fallon L,Raguette L,Belfon K,Simmerling C,Amaro RE

更新日期：2020-11-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Multiple data are available on the self-assembly of mixtures of bilayer-forming amphiphiles, particularly phospholipids and micelle-forming amphiphiles, commonly denoted detergents. The structure of such mixed assemblies has been thoroughly investigated, described in phase diagrams, and theoretically rationalized in t...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Lichtenberg D,Ahyayauch H,Goñi FM

更新日期：2013-07-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Juxtacrine signaling is an important class of signaling systems that plays a crucial role in various developmental processes ranging from coordination of differentiation between neighboring cells to guiding axon growth during neurogenesis. Such signaling systems rely on the interaction between receptors on one cell an...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Yaron T,Cordova Y,Sprinzak D

更新日期：2014-11-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The cardiac muscle protein titin, responsible for developing passive elasticity and extensibility of muscle, possesses about 40 immunoglobulin-like (Ig) domains in its I-band region. Atomic force microscopy (AFM) and steered molecular dynamics (SMD) have been successfully combined to investigate the reversible unfoldi...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Gao M,Wilmanns M,Schulten K

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Soft x-ray tomography (SXT) is increasingly being recognized as a valuable method for visualizing and quantifying the ultrastructure of cryopreserved cells. Here, we describe the combination of SXT with cryogenic confocal fluorescence tomography (CFT). This correlative approach allows the incorporation of molecular lo...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Smith EA,McDermott G,Do M,Leung K,Panning B,Le Gros MA,Larabell CA

更新日期：2014-10-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Polymeric microcapsules with a light-absorbing dye incorporated in their shell can generate vapor microbubbles that can be spatiotemporally controlled by pulsed laser irradiation. These contrast agents of 6-8 μm in diameter can circulate through the vasculature, offering possibilities for ultrasound (molecular) imagin...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Lajoinie G,van Rooij T,Skachkov I,Blazejewski E,Veldhuis G,de Jong N,Kooiman K,Versluis M

更新日期：2017-05-09 00:00:00

abstract：:X-ray fiber diffraction is one of the most useful methods for examining the structural details of live biological filaments under physiological conditions. To investigate biologically active or labile materials, it is crucial to finish fiber alignment within seconds before diffraction analysis. However, the convention...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Sugiyama T,Miyashiro D,Takao D,Iwamoto H,Sugimoto Y,Wakabayashi K,Kamimura S

更新日期：2009-12-16 00:00:00

abstract：:This article shows that colchicine and taxol strongly influence the kinetics of L-type Ca channels in intact cardiac cells, and it suggests a mechanism for this action. It is known that colchicine disassociates microtubules into tubulin, and that taxol stabilizes microtubules. We have found that colchicine increases t...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Galli A,DeFelice LJ

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Stochastic effects in gene expression may result in different physiological states of individual cells, with consequences for pathogen survival and artificial gene network design. We studied the contributions of a regulatory factor to gene expression noise in four basic mechanisms of negative gene expression control: ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Komorowski M,Miekisz J,Kierzek AM

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report here a multiprotein blind test of a computer method to predict native protein structures based solely on an all-atom physics-based force field. We use the AMBER 96 potential function with an implicit (GB/SA) model of solvation, combined with replica-exchange molecular-dynamics simulations. Coarse conformatio...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Shell MS,Ozkan SB,Voelz V,Wu GA,Dill KA

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have used optical tweezers to study the elasticity of red cell membranes; force was applied to a bead attached to a permeabilized spherical ghost and the force-extension relation was obtained from the response of a second bead bound at a diametrically opposite position. Interruption of the skeletal network by disso...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Sleep J,Wilson D,Simmons R,Gratzer W

更新日期：1999-12-01 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：:In early development, Drosophila melanogaster embryos form a syncytium, i.e., multiplying nuclei are not yet separated by cell membranes, but are interconnected by cytoskeletal polymer networks consisting of actin and microtubules. Between division cycles 9 and 13, nuclei and cytoskeleton form a two-dimensional cortic...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Wessel AD,Gumalla M,Grosshans J,Schmidt CF

更新日期：2015-04-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Two rate-limiting mechanisms have been proposed to explain the gramicidin channel facilitated decay of the pH difference across vesicular membrane (delta pH) in the pH region 6-8 and salt (MCI, M+ = K+, Na+) concentration range 50-300 mM. 1) At low pH conditions (approximately 6), H+ transport through the gramicidin c...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Prabhananda BS,Kombrabail MH

更新日期：1996-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Crystallographic studies of insulin-protamine complexes, such as neutral protamine Hagedorn (NPH) insulin, have been hampered by high crystal solvent content, small crystal dimensions, and extensive disorder in the protamine molecules. We report herein in situ tapping mode atomic force microscopy (TMAFM) studies of cr...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Yip CM,Brader ML,Frank BH,DeFelippis MR,Ward MD

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The electrophysiological properties of the cation channel of the purified nicotinic acetylcholine receptor (AChR) reconstituted in planar lipid bilayers were characterized. Single-channel currents were activated by acetylcholine, carbamylcholine and suberyldicholine. The single channel conductance (28 pS in 0.3 M NaCl...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Montal M,Labarca P,Fredkin DR,Suarez-Isla BA

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Unlike most transmembrane proteins, phospholipids can migrate from one leaflet of the membrane to the other. Because this spontaneous lipid translocation (flip-flop) tends to be very slow, cells facilitate the process with enzymes that catalyze the transmembrane movement and thereby regulate the transbilayer lipid dis...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Doktorova M,Heberle FA,Marquardt D,Rusinova R,Sanford RL,Peyear TA,Katsaras J,Feigenson GW,Weinstein H,Andersen OS

更新日期：2019-03-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Plasmodium falciparum malaria-infected red blood cells (IRBCs), or erythrocytes, avoid splenic clearance by adhering to host endothelium. Upregulation of endothelial receptors intercellular adhesion molecule-1 (ICAM-1) and cluster of differentiation 36 (CD36) are associated with severe disease pathology. Most in vitro...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Lim YB,Thingna J,Kong F,Dao M,Cao J,Lim CT

更新日期：2020-01-07 00:00:00

abstract：:We have studied the kinetics of N epsilon-fluorescein isothiocyanate-lysine-23 cobra alpha-toxin (FITC-toxin) binding to the membrane-associated acetylcholine receptor from the Torpedo californica electric organ. The fluorescent toxin not only enabled us to monitor the binding reaction continuously but also to examine...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Cheung AT,Johnson DA,Taylor P

更新日期：1984-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:On the basis of its role in the analysis of mammillary compartmental systems, a matrix with non-zero elements in the first row, first column, and along the main diagonal and with zero elements elsewhere is called a mammillary matrix. It is pointed out that such matrices occur in a variety of biological problems includ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Hearon JZ

更新日期：1964-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The initial output of a time-resolved macromolecular crystallography experiment is a time-dependent series of difference electron density maps that displays the time-dependent changes in underlying structure as a reaction progresses. The goal is to interpret such data in terms of a small number of crystallographically...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Kostov KS,Moffat K

更新日期：2011-01-19 00:00:00

abstract：:A two-dimensional stochastic model for the dynamics of microtubules in gliding-assay experiments is presented here, which includes the viscous drag acting on the moving fiber and the interaction with the kinesins. For this purpose, we model kinesin as a spring, and explicitly use parameter values to characterize the m...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Gibbons F,Chauwin JF,Despósito M,José JV

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Helicobacter pylori arginase, a bimetallic enzyme, is crucial for pathogenesis of the bacterium in human stomach. Despite conservation of the signature motifs in all arginases, the H. pylori homolog has a non-conserved motif (153ESEEKAWQKLCSL165), whose role was recently shown to be critical for its stability and func...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： George G,Kombrabail M,Raninga N,Sau AK

更新日期：2017-03-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell/matrix adhesions are modulated by cytoskeletal or external stresses and adapt to the mechanical properties of the extracellular matrix. We propose that this mechanosensitivity arises from the activation of a mechanosensor located within the adhesion itself. We show that this mechanism accounts for the observed di...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Nicolas A,Safran SA

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The composition and electrolyte concentration of the aqueous bathing environment have important consequences for many biological processes and can profoundly affect the behavior of biomolecules. Nevertheless, because of computational limitations, many molecular simulations of biophysical systems can be performed only ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Zavadlav J,Sablić J,Podgornik R,Praprotnik M

更新日期：2018-05-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Annelids possess giant extracellular oxygen carriers that exhibit a hexagonal bilayer appearance and have molecular masses of approximately 3.5 MDa. By small angle x-ray scattering (SAXS), Eudistylia vancouverii chlorocruorin and Macrobdella decora hemoglobin were investigated in solution. On the basis of the experime...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Krebs A,Durchschlag H,Zipper P

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Amperometry recording reveals the exocytosis of catecholamine from individual vesicles as a sequential process, typically beginning slowly with a prespike foot, accelerating sharply to initiate a spike, reaching a peak, and then decaying. This complex sequence reflects the interplay between diffusion, flux through a f...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Jackson MB,Hsiao YT,Chang CW

更新日期：2020-07-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The following arguments are presented for the observation that curves relating free Ca2+ and force development of thin filament regulated myofilaments of skinned muscle fibers have Hill coefficient (n) greater than 4, which is the number of Ca2+ binding sites on troponin: Activation of the myofilaments is a process re...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Shiner JS,Solaro RJ

更新日期：1984-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A mathematical model is formulated for the development of a population of cells in which the individual members may grow and divide or die. A given cell is characterized by its age and volume, and these parameters are assumed to determine the rate of volume growth and the probability per unit time of division or death...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Bell GI,Anderson EC

更新日期：1967-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is accepted that bicarbonate reabsorption in the proximal tubule is mediated by H+ secretion, but several aspects of this process have remained controversial. To examine some of these issues, we have developed a model that allows for spatial variations in the concentrations of CO2, HCO3-, and H2CO3 within the tubul...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Wang KW,Deen WM

更新日期：1980-08-01 00:00:00