Nonequilibrium steady-state differences in partial pressure of CO 2 and in concentration of weak acids and bases between blood and tissue.

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：:We have interrogated the isothermal folding behavior of the DNA i-motif of the human telomere, dC19, and a high-stability i-motif-forming sequence in the promoter of the human DNA repair gene RAD17 using human physiological solution and temperature conditions. We developed a circular-dichroism-spectroscopy-based pH ti...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Rogers RA,Fleming AM,Burrows CJ

更新日期：2018-04-24 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA represents a promising therapeutic and prophylactic macromolecule in treating genetic diseases, infectious diseases and cancers. The therapeutic potential of DNA is directly related to how DNA transports within the targeted tissue. In this study, fluorescence photobleaching recovery was used to examine the diffusi...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Shen H,Hu Y,Saltzman WM

更新日期：2006-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:We have characterized the fluorescence properties of 6-dodecanoyl-2-dimethylamine-naphthalene (LAURDAN) in pure interfaces formed by sphingomyelin and 10 chemically related glycosphingolipids (GSLs).1 The GSLs contain neutral and anionic carbohydrate residues in their oligosaccharide chain. These systems were studied ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Bagatolli LA,Gratton E,Fidelio GD

更新日期：1998-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Monolayers prepared from myelin conserve all the compositional complexity of the natural membrane when spread at the air-water interface. They show a complex pressure-dependent surface pattern that, on compression, changes from the coexistence of two liquid phases to a viscous fractal phase embedded in a liquid phase....

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Rosetti CM,Maggio B

更新日期：2007-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Odorant-induced currents in mammalian olfactory receptor neurons have proved difficult to obtain reliably using conventional whole-cell recording. By using a mathematical model of the electrical circuit of the patch and rest-of-cell, we demonstrate how cell-attached patch measurements can be used to quantitatively ana...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Chiu P,Lynch JW,Barry PH

更新日期：1997-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nerve growth factor (NGF) mimics play an important role for therapies that target the receptor tyrosine kinase A (trkA). The N-terminal fragment of the NGF (N-term@NGF) was previously demonstrated to be an important determinant for affinity and specificity in the binding to trkA. Here we use a variety of computational...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Berrera M,Cattaneo A,Carloni P

更新日期：2006-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:We present a truly quantitative fluorescence recovery after photobleaching (FRAP) model for use with the confocal laser scanning microscope based on the photobleaching of a long line segment. The line FRAP method is developed to complement the disk FRAP method reported before. Although being more subject to the influe...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Braeckmans K,Remaut K,Vandenbroucke RE,Lucas B,De Smedt SC,Demeester J

更新日期：2007-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The ejection of DNA from a bacterial virus (i.e., phage) into its host cell is a biologically important example of the translocation of a macromolecular chain along its length through a membrane. The simplest mechanism for this motion is diffusion, but in the case of phage ejection a significant driving force derives ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Inamdar MM,Gelbart WM,Phillips R

更新日期：2006-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The conformation of single laminin molecules adsorbed on synthetic substrates is directly observed making use of the phase magnitude in tapping mode atomic force microscopy (AFM). With AFM, it is not possible to differentiate the proteins on the substrate if use is made of the height signal, since the roughness of the...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Rodríguez Hernández JC,Salmerón Sánchez M,Soria JM,Gómez Ribelles JL,Monleón Pradas M

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Skinned fibers of frog semitendinosus muscle could easily be stretched up to 8 mum or more in sarcomere length. Such extremely stretched fibers gave quite sharp optical diffraction patterns. The intensities of all observable diffraction lines were found to increase on application of electric field (10 similar to 100 V...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Umazume Y,Fujime S

更新日期：1975-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A challenge in the understanding of creatine kinase (CK) fluxes reflected by NMR magnetization transfer in the perfused rat heart is the choice of a kinetic model of analysis. The complexity of the energetic pathways, due to the presence of adenosine triphosphate (ATP)-inorganic phosphate (Pi) exchange, of metabolite ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Joubert F,Hoerter JA,Mazet JL

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The vibrational Raman spectra of both pure 1-alpha-dimyristoylphosphatidic acid (DMPA) liposomes and DMPA multilayers reconstituted with ferricytochrome c at pH 7 and pH 4, with either sodium or calcium as the cation, are reported as a function of temperature. Multilayers composed of a 1:1 mol ratio DMPA and dimyristo...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Vincent JS,Levin IW

更新日期：1991-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Viscoelastometric measurements of DNA from gamma-irradiated bacteria were used to identify the induction of double-strand breaks ( DSBs ) in the chromosome of Escherichia coli. It is shown by means of inhibitors of repair endonucleases and different repair mutants that most DSBs in DNA of E. coli, gamma-irradiated in ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Bresler SE,Noskin LA,Suslov AV

更新日期：1984-04-01 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：:The incompressibility of the lipid bilayer keeps the total surface area of the red cell membrane constant. Local conservation of membrane surface area requires that each surface element of the membrane skeleton keeps its area when its aspect ratio is changed. A change in area would require a flow of lipids past the in...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Fischer TM

更新日期：1992-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The interplay between epigenetic modification and chromatin compaction is implicated in the regulation of gene expression, and it comprises one of the most fascinating frontiers in cell biology. Although a complete picture is still lacking, it is generally accepted that the differentiation of embryonic stem (ES) cells...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Chalut KJ,Höpfler M,Lautenschläger F,Boyde L,Chan CJ,Ekpenyong A,Martinez-Arias A,Guck J

更新日期：2012-11-21 00:00:00

abstract：:In addition to being the gateway for all access to the eukaryotic genome, chromatin has in recent years been identified as carrying an epigenetic code regulating transcriptional activity. Though much is known about the biochemistry of this code, little is understood regarding the different fiber structures through whi...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Depken M,Schiessel H

更新日期：2009-02-01 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：:Synchrotron radiation circular dichroism, Fourier transform infrared, and nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopies, and small-angle x-ray scattering were used to monitor the reversible thermal unfolding of hen egg white lysozyme. The results were compared with crystal structures and high- and low-temperature structur...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Meersman F,Atilgan C,Miles AJ,Bader R,Shang W,Matagne A,Wallace BA,Koch MH

更新日期：2010-10-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Using both analytical solutions obtained from simplified systems and numerical results from more realistic cases, we investigate the role played by the dielectric constant of membrane proteins epsilon(p) and pore water epsilon(w) in permeation of ions across channels. We show that the boundary and its curvature are th...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Baştuğ T,Kuyucak S

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The influence of electrostatic multipole moments up to hexadecapole on the dynamics of photodissociated carbon monoxide (CO) in myoglobin is investigated. The CO electrostatic potential is expressed as an expansion into atomic multipole moments of increasing order up to octopole which are obtained from a distributed m...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Plattner N,Meuwly M

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Object contrast is one of the most important parameters of macromolecular imaging. Low-voltage transmission electron microscopy has shown an increased atom contrast for carbon materials, indicating that amplitude contrast contributions increase at a higher rate than phase contrast and inelastic scattering. Here, we st...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Majorovits E,Angert I,Kaiser U,Schröder RR

更新日期：2016-02-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The viral genome and replicative enzymes of the human immunodeficiency virus are encased in a shell consisting of assembled mature capsid protein (CA). The core shell is a stable, effective protective barrier, but is also poised for dissolution on cue to allow transmission of the viral genome into its new host. In thi...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Ehrlich LS,Liu T,Scarlata S,Chu B,Carter CA

更新日期：2001-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of aggregation of gramicidin A' (GA) on the phase structure of dipalmitoylphosphatidylcholine (DPPC) multilamellar vesicles was studied by cw-ESR using a chain-labeled lipid (16PC) at temperatures between 30 degrees and 45 degreesC that span the main phase transition of DPPC. Boundary lipids were observed o...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Ge M,Freed JH

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding the fundamentals of genome packaging in viral capsids is important for finding effective antiviral strategies and for utilizing benign viral particles for gene therapy. While the structure of encapsidated genomic materials has been routinely characterized with experimental techniques such as cryo-electro...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Kim J,Wu J

更新日期：2015-10-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Interactions between the graft copolymer poly(L-lysine)-g-poly(ethylene glycol), PLL-g-PEG, and two kinds of surface-supported lipidic systems (supported phospholipid bilayers and supported vesicular layers) were investigated by a combination of microscopic and spectroscopic techniques. It was found that the applicati...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Rossetti FF,Reviakine I,Csúcs G,Assi F,Vörös J,Textor M

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The giant protein titin is responsible for the elasticity of nonactivated muscle sarcomeres. Titin-based passive stiffness in myocardium is modulated by titin-isoform switching and protein-kinase (PK)A- or PKG-dependent titin phosphorylation. Additional modulatory effects on titin stiffness may arise from disulfide bo...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Grützner A,Garcia-Manyes S,Kötter S,Badilla CL,Fernandez JM,Linke WA

更新日期：2009-08-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Myoglobin (Mb) is a model system for ligand binding and migration. The energy barriers (ΔG) for ligand migration in Mb have been studied in the past by experiment and theory and significant differences between different approaches were found. From experiment, it is known that Mb can assume a large number of conformati...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Plattner N,Meuwly M

更新日期：2012-01-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The blood stage malaria parasite, the merozoite, has a small window of opportunity during which it must successfully target and invade a human erythrocyte. The process of invasion is nonetheless remarkably rapid. To date, mechanistic models of invasion have focused predominantly on the parasite actomyosin motor contri...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Dasgupta S,Auth T,Gov NS,Satchwell TJ,Hanssen E,Zuccala ES,Riglar DT,Toye AM,Betz T,Baum J,Gompper G

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00