On the possibility of nonthermal biological effects of pulsed electromagnetic radiation.

abstract：:Trimethylamine-N-oxide (TMAO) in the cells of sharks and rays is believed to counteract the deleterious effects of the high intracellular concentrations of urea in these animals. It has been hypothesized that TMAO has the generic ability to counteract the effects of urea on protein structure and function, regardless o...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Baskakov I,Wang A,Bolen DW

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Herein, we identify the coordination environment of Cu²(+) in the human α1-glycine receptor (GlyR). GlyRs are members of the pentameric ligand-gated ion channel superfamily (pLGIC) that mediate fast signaling at synapses. Metal ions like Zn²(+) and Cu²(+) significantly modulate the activity of pLGICs, and metal ion co...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Ruthstein S,Stone KM,Cunningham TF,Ji M,Cascio M,Saxena S

更新日期：2010-10-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The continuum and single jump treatments of ion transport through black lipid membranes predict experimentally distinguishable results, even when the same mechanistic assumptions are made and the same potential-distance profile is used. On the basis of steady-state current-voltage curves for nonactin-mediated transpor...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： van Dijk C,de Levie R

更新日期：1985-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The hyperpolarization-activated cyclic nucleotide-modulated (HCN) cation channels are opened by membrane hyperpolarization, while their activation is modulated by the binding of cyclic adenosine monophosphate (cAMP) in the cytoplasm. Here we investigate the molecular basis of cAMP channel modulation by performing mole...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Berrera M,Pantano S,Carloni P

更新日期：2006-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:In the photocycle of bacteriorhodopsin (bR) from Halobacterium salinarum mutant L93A, the O-intermediate accumulates and the cycling time is increased approximately 200 times. Nevertheless, under continuous illumination, the protein pumps protons at near wild-type rates. We excited the mutant L93A in purple membrane w...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Tóth-Boconádi R,Keszthelyi L,Stoeckenius W

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have explored the electromechanical properties of DNA on a nanometer-length scale using an electric field to force single molecules through synthetic nanopores in ultrathin silicon nitride membranes. At low electric fields, E < 200 mV/10 nm, we observed that single-stranded DNA can permeate pores with a diameter >/...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Heng JB,Aksimentiev A,Ho C,Marks P,Grinkova YV,Sligar S,Schulten K,Timp G

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We revisit a heteropolymer collapse theory originally introduced to explore how the balance between hydrophobic interactions and configurational entropy determines the thermal stability of globular proteins at ambient pressure. We generalize the theory by introducing a basic statistical mechanical treatment for how pr...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Cheung JK,Shah P,Truskett TM

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The rate of muscle force redevelopment after release-restretch protocols has previously been interpreted using a simple two-state cross-bridge cycling model with rate constants for transitions between non-force-bearing and force-bearing states, f, and between force-bearing and non-force-bearing states, g. Changes in t...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Campbell K

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aromatic monocarboxylic acids are known to significantly potentiate the mechanical response of skeletal muscle fibers. In this study we investigated the effects of enantiomers of 2-(4-chlorophenoxy)propionic acid, chemically one of the simplest aromatic monocarboxylic acids with chiral properties, on mechanical thresh...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Heiny JA,Jong D,Bryant SH,Conte-Camerino D,Tortorella V

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A theoretical framework is developed to study the dynamics of protein folding. The key insight is that the search for the native protein conformation is influenced by the rate r at which external parameters, such as temperature, chemical denaturant, or pH, are adjusted to induce folding. A theory based on this insight...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Lois G,Blawzdziewicz J,O'Hern CS

更新日期：2008-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The heterologous expression and purification of membrane proteins represent major limitations for their functional and structural analysis. Here we describe a new method of incorporation of transmembrane proteins in planar lipid bilayer starting from 1 pmol of solubilized proteins. The principle relies on the direct i...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Milhiet PE,Gubellini F,Berquand A,Dosset P,Rigaud JL,Le Grimellec C,Lévy D

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Photosystem II contains two well-characterized tyrosine radicals, D(.) and Z(.). Z is an electron carrier between the primary chlorophyll donor and the manganese catalytic site and is essential for enzymatic function. On the other hand, D forms a stable radical with no known role in oxygen evolution. D(.) and Z(.) giv...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Ma C,Barry BA

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The channels present on the surface membrane of isolated rat flexor digitorum brevis muscle fibers were surveyed using the patch clamp technique. 85 out of 139 fibers had a novel channel which excluded the anions chloride, sulfate, and isethionate with a permeability ratio of chloride to sodium of less than 0.05. The ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Chua M,Betz WJ

更新日期：1991-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cubic insulin crystals contain a binding site for monovalent cations in a cavity of the crystal dyad in which the bound cation is ligated by protein atomic dipoles and water molecules. These types of interaction are analogous to interactions that occur in small cation-selective carrier and channel molecules. X-ray dif...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Badger J,Kapulsky A,Gursky O,Bhyravbhatla B,Caspar DL

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy is a method of choice for the experimental determination of protein secondary structure. Numerous approaches have been developed during the past 15 years. A critical parameter that has not been taken into account systematically is the selection of the wavenumbers used for buildi...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Goormaghtigh E,Ruysschaert JM,Raussens V

更新日期：2006-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Transmembrane osmotic gradients applied on large unilamellar 1-palmitoyl-2-oleoyl-phosphatidylcholine vesicles were used to modulate the potency of melittin to induce leakage. Melittin, an amphipathic peptide, changes the permeability of vesicles, as studied using the release of entrapped calcein, a fluorescent marker...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Benachir T,Lafleur M

更新日期：1996-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Deuterium nuclear magnetic resonance was used to monitor lipid acyl-chain orientational order in suspensions of dipalmitoylphosphatidylcholine (DPPC) and dipalmitoylphosphatidylglycerol (DPPG) containing Ca(2+) and the lung surfactant proteins SP-A and SP-B separately and together. To distinguish between protein-lipid...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Morrow MR,Temple S,Stewart J,Keough KM

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We introduce an approach based on the recently introduced functional mode analysis to identify collective modes of internal dynamics that maximally correlate to an external order parameter of functional interest. Input structural data can be either experimentally determined structure ensembles or simulated ensembles, ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Krivobokova T,Briones R,Hub JS,Munk A,de Groot BL

更新日期：2012-08-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The last decade established that the dynamic properties of the phosphoproteome are central to function and its modulation. The temporal dimension of phosphorylation effects remains nonetheless poorly understood, particularly for intrinsically disordered proteins. Osteopontin, selected for this study due to its key rol...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Lenton S,Grimaldo M,Roosen-Runge F,Schreiber F,Nylander T,Clegg R,Holt C,Härtlein M,García Sakai V,Seydel T,Marujo Teixeira SC

更新日期：2017-04-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Dispersed pump-dump-probe spectroscopy has the ability to characterize and identify the underlying ultrafast dynamical processes in complicated chemical and biological systems. This technique builds on traditional pump-probe techniques by exploring both ground- and excited-state dynamics and characterizing the connect...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Larsen DS,Vengris M,van Stokkum IH,van der Horst MA,de Weerd FL,Hellingwerf KJ,van Grondelle R

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present an analysis of physical chemical constraints on the accuracy of DNA micro-arrays under equilibrium and nonequilibrium conditions. At the beginning of the article we describe an algorithm for choosing a probe set with high specificity for targeted genes under equilibrium conditions. The algorithm as well as ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Bhanot G,Louzoun Y,Zhu J,DeLisi C

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cationic liposomes (CLs) are used worldwide as gene vectors (carriers) in nonviral clinical applications of gene delivery, albeit with unacceptably low transfection efficiencies (TE). We present three-dimensional laser scanning confocal microscopy studies revealing distinct interactions between CL-DNA complexes, for b...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Lin AJ,Slack NL,Ahmad A,George CX,Samuel CE,Safinya CR

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent advances in imaging technology have revealed oscillations of cyclic adenosine monophosphate (cAMP) in insulin-secreting cells. These oscillations may be in phase with cytosolic calcium oscillations or out of phase. cAMP oscillations have previously been modeled as driven by oscillations in calcium, based on the...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Peercy BE,Sherman AS,Bertram R

更新日期：2015-07-21 00:00:00

abstract：:We have obtained new insights into the behavior of a class of excitable systems when a stimulus, or parameter, is slowly tuned through a threshold value. Such systems do not accommodate no matter how slowly a stimulus ramp is applied, and the stimulus value at onset of repetitive activity shows a curious, nonmonotonic...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Rinzel J,Baer SM

更新日期：1988-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tip links are thought to gate the mechanically sensitive transduction channels of hair cells, but how they form during development and regeneration remains mysterious. In particular, it is unclear how tip links are strung between stereocilia so that they are oriented parallel to a single axis; why their polarity is un...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Tompkins N,Spinelli KJ,Choi D,Barr-Gillespie PG

更新日期：2017-10-17 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：:Ubiquinol cytochrome c oxidoreductase (bc1 complex) serves as an important electron junction in many respiratory systems. It funnels electrons coming from NADH and ubiquinol to cytochrome c, but it is also capable of producing significant amounts of the free radical superoxide. In situ and in other experimental system...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Bazil JN

更新日期：2017-10-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Water plays an important role in enzyme structure and function in aqueous media. That role becomes even more important when one focuses on enzymes in low water media. Here we present results from molecular dynamics simulations of surfactant-solubilized subtilisin BPN' in three organic solvents (octane, tetrahydrofuran...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Yang L,Dordick JS,Garde S

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pathway to membrane fusion in synthetic and biological systems is thought to pass through hemifusion, in which the outer leaflets are fused while the inner leaflets engage in a hemifusion diaphragm (HD). Fusion has been proposed to be completed by lysis of the expanded HD that matures from a localized stalklike in...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Warner JM,O'Shaughnessy B

更新日期：2012-08-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Some low molecular weight biomolecules, i.e., NAD(P)H, are unstable at high temperatures. The use of these biomolecules by thermophilic microorganisms has been scarcely analyzed. Herein, NADH stability has been studied at different temperatures and viscosities. NADH decay increased at increasing temperatures. At incre...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Cuecas A,Cruces J,Galisteo-López JF,Peng X,Gonzalez JM

更新日期：2016-08-23 00:00:00