The structure of melittin in membranes.

abstract：:Verapamil and amlodipine are calcium ion influx inhibitors of wide clinical use. They are partially charged at neutral pH and exhibit amphiphilic properties. The noncharged species can easily cross the lipid membrane. We have measured with solid-state NMR the structural changes induced by verapamil upon incorporation ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Meier M,Blatter XL,Seelig A,Seelig J

更新日期：2006-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:A detailed description of the construction and performance of a variable frequency cross-correlation phase fluorometer is reported. The phase fluorometer operates over the frequency range 1-160 MHz with a maximum resolution of a few picoseconds. The effects of distortions introduced by the light modulator and the nonl...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Gratton E,Limkeman M

更新日期：1983-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have measured the static magnetization of unreduced and reduced reaction centers that vary in their quinone content. Measurements were performed in the temperature range 0.7 degrees K less than T less than 200 degrees K and magnetic fields of up to 10 kG. The electronic g-value, crystal field parameters D, E, and t...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Butler WF,Johnston DC,Shore HB,Fredkin DR,Okamura MY,Feher G

更新日期：1980-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids (n-3 PUFA), enriched in fish oils, are increasingly recognized to have potential benefits for treating many human afflictions. Despite the importance of PUFA, their molecular mechanism of action remains unclear. One emerging hypothesis is that phospholipids containing n-3 PUFA acyl ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Williams JA,Batten SE,Harris M,Rockett BD,Shaikh SR,Stillwell W,Wassall SR

更新日期：2012-07-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Biofilm infections can consist of bacterial aggregates that are an order of magnitude larger than neutrophils, phagocytic immune cells that densely surround aggregates but do not enter them. Because a neutrophil is too small to engulf the entire aggregate, it must be able to detach and engulf a few bacteria at a time ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Davis-Fields M,Bakhtiari LA,Lan Z,Kovach KN,Wang L,Cosgriff-Hernandez EM,Gordon VD

更新日期：2019-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Single-particle tracking is an important technique in the life sciences to understand the kinetics of biomolecules. The analysis of apparent diffusion coefficients in vivo, for example, enables researchers to determine whether biomolecules are moving alone, as part of a larger complex, or are bound to large cellular c...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Vink JNA,Brouns SJJ,Hohlbein J

更新日期：2020-11-17 00:00:00

abstract：:We present a theoretical analysis of intracellular calcium waves propagated by calcium feedback at the inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate (IP3) receptor. The model includes essential features of calcium excitability, but is still analytically tractable. Formulas are derived for the wave speed, amplitude, and width. The calc...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Kupferman R,Mitra PP,Hohenberg PC,Wang SS

更新日期：1997-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Voltage gated potassium channels open and inactivate in response to changes of the voltage across the membrane. After removal of the fast N-type inactivation, voltage gated Shaker K-channels (Shaker-IR) are still able to inactivate through a poorly understood closure of the ion conduction pore. This, usually slower, i...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Oliva C,González V,Naranjo D

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mechanosensitive ion channels (MSCs) which could provide for fast osmoregulatory responses in bacteria, remain unidentified as molecular entities. MSCs from Escherichia coli (strain AW740) were examined using the patch-clamp technique, either (a) in giant spheroplasts, (b) after reconstitution by fusing native membran...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Sukharev SI,Martinac B,Arshavsky VY,Kung C

更新日期：1993-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several biologically important protein structures give rise to strong second-harmonic generation (SHG) in their native context. In addition to high-contrast optical sections of cells and tissues, SHG imaging can provide detailed structural information based on the physical constraints of the optical effect. In this st...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Plotnikov SV,Millard AC,Campagnola PJ,Mohler WA

更新日期：2006-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:We report here a method for the determination of the pKa of histidine in complex or heterogeneous systems amenable to neither solid-state nor solution NMR spectroscopy. Careful synthesis of a fluorenylmethyloxycarbonyl- and trityl-protected, C2-deuterated histidine produces a vibrational-probe-equipped amino acid that...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Braun GA,Pogostin BH,Pucetaite M,Londergan CH,Åkerfeldt KS

更新日期：2020-11-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Thermal inactivation of T(4) and lambda bacteriophage shows two components of differing sensitivity are present. These cannot be interpreted as owing to nucleic acid and protein. One protein function-the inhibition of radiation-induced DNA degradation-is lost with quite different thermal kinetics. lambda heated in the...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Pollard EC,Solosko W

更新日期：1971-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Kinesin-1 is an ATP-driven molecular motor that transports cellular cargo along microtubules. At low loads, kinesin-1 almost always steps forward, toward microtubule plus ends, but at higher loads, it can also step backward. Backsteps are usually 8 nm but can be larger. These larger backward events of 16 nm, 24 nm, or...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Toleikis A,Carter NJ,Cross RA

更新日期：2020-11-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The interaction with lipids of a synthetic peptide corresponding to the transmembrane domain of influenza hemagglutinin was investigated by means of electron spin resonance. A detailed analysis of the electron spin resonance spectra from spin-labeled phospholipids revealed that the major effect of the peptide on the d...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Ge M,Freed JH

更新日期：2011-01-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The current-voltage (I-V) relation of the background current, IK1, was studied in isolated canine cardiac Purkinje myocytes using the whole-cell, patch-clamp technique. Since Ba2+ and Cs+ block IK1, these cations were used to separate the I-V relation of IK1 from that of the whole cell. The I-V relation of IK1 was mea...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Shah AK,Cohen IS,Datyner NB

更新日期：1987-10-01 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：:We report here several unusual features of inactivation of the rat Kv2.1 delayed rectifier potassium channel, expressed in Xenopus oocytes. The voltage dependence of inactivation was U-shaped, with maximum inactivation near 0 mV. During a maintained depolarization, development of inactivation was slow and only weakly ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Klemic KG,Shieh CC,Kirsch GE,Jones SW

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In its most restrictive interpretation, the notion of chromatin remodeling refers to the action of chromatin-remodeling enzymes on nucleosomes with the aim of displacing and removing them from the chromatin fiber (the effective polymer formed by a DNA molecule and proteins). This local modification of the fiber struct...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Blossey R,Schiessel H

更新日期：2018-05-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Structure factor amplitudes and phases can be computed directly from electron cryomicroscopy images. Inherent aberrations of the electromagnetic lenses and other instrumental factors affect the structure factors, however, resulting in decreased accuracy in the determined three-dimensional reconstruction. In contrast, ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Thuman-Commike PA,Tsuruta H,Greene B,Prevelige PE Jr,King J,Chiu W

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The phase transitions of dipalmitoylphosphatidylethanolamine (DPPE) in excess water have been examined by low-angle time-resolved x-ray diffraction and calorimetry at low scan rates. The lamellar subgel/lamellar liquid-crystalline (L(c) --> L(alpha)), lamellar gel/lamellar liquid-crystalline (L(beta) --> L(alpha)), an...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Yao H,Hatta I,Koynova R,Tenchov B

更新日期：1992-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:OVER A DECADE AND A HALF AGO, WHEN THE FIRST VISIBLE MEMBRANE SUSPENSION CIRCULAR DICHROIC (CD) SPECTRUM OF THE PURPLE MEMBRANE (PM) WAS PRESENTED, TWO MECHANISMS WERE PROPOSED TO ACCOUNT FOR THE OBSERVED BIPHASIC SHAPED CD BAND: (a) excitonic interactions among the retinals of the sole protein bacteriorhodopsin (bR) ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Cassim JY

更新日期：1992-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Actin, a highly conserved cytoskeletal protein found in all eukaryotic cells, facilitates cell motility and membrane remodeling via a directional polymerization cycle referred to as treadmilling. The nucleotide bound at the core of each actin subunit regulates this process. Although the biochemical kinetics of treadmi...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Saunders MG,Tempkin J,Weare J,Dinner AR,Roux B,Voth GA

更新日期：2014-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The diffusion of beta-enolase and creatine phosphokinase in muscle cells has been studied by modulated fringe pattern photobleaching. Beta-enolase is mobile in the sarcoplasm. At 20 degrees C, the diffusion coefficient is 13.5 +/- 2.5 microm2 s(-1) in the cytosol and 56 microm2 s(-1) in aqueous media. As in the case o...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Arrio-Dupont M,Foucault G,Vacher M,Douhou A,Cribier S

更新日期：1997-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Electron-electron double resonance (ELDOR) and saturation-recovery spectroscopy employing 14N:15N stearic acid spin-label pairs have been used to study the effects of cholesterol on lateral diffusion and vertical fluctuations in lipid bilayers. The 14N:15N continuous wave electron-electron double resonance (CW ELDOR) ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Yin JJ,Feix JB,Hyde JS

更新日期：1987-12-01 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：:We report constraints on the supramolecular structure of amyloid fibrils formed by the 40-residue beta-amyloid peptide associated with Alzheimer's disease (A beta(1-40)) obtained from solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) measurements of intermolecular dipole-dipole couplings between (13)C labels at 11 carbon s...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Balbach JJ,Petkova AT,Oyler NA,Antzutkin ON,Gordon DJ,Meredith SC,Tycko R

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this new method for studying the shape recovery of deformed red blood cells, three optical traps ("optical tweezers") induce a parachute-shaped red cell deformation, which is comparable to the deformation in small capillaries. The shape recovery is recorded, and a relaxation time is obtained for each individual red...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Bronkhorst PJ,Streekstra GJ,Grimbergen J,Nijhof EJ,Sixma JJ,Brakenhoff GJ

更新日期：1995-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigate the microsecond-timescale kinetics of the RNA hairpin ga*cUUCGguc. The fluorescent nucleotide 2-aminopurine (a*) reports mainly on base stacking. Ten kinetic traces and the temperature denaturation curve are globally fitted to four-state models of the free-energy surface. In the best-fitting sequential ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Sarkar K,Meister K,Sethi A,Gruebele M

更新日期：2009-09-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Formation of the inverted hexagonal (H(II)) phase from the lamellar (L(alpha)) phase of bovine brain-extracted phosphatidylcholine (BBPC) and phosphatidylethanolamine (BBPE) was investigated using 31P-NMR with or without cholesterol. When the ratio of BBPC to BBPE was 1:1, the H(II) formation was observed in the prese...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Hayakawa E,Naganuma M,Mukasa K,Shimozawa T,Araiso T

更新日期：1998-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We show prolonged contraction of permeabilized muscle fibers of the frog during which structural order, as judged from low-angle x-ray diffraction, was preserved by means of partial cross-linking of the fibers using the zero-length cross-linker 1-ethyl-3-[3-dimethylamino)propyl]carbodiimide. Ten to twenty percent of t...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Bershitsky S,Tsaturyan A,Bershitskaya O,Mashanov G,Brown P,Webb M,Ferenczi MA

更新日期：1996-09-01 00:00:00