Resonant and localized breathing modes in terminal regions of the DNA double helix.

abstract：:We have developed new methodology for measuring intracellular pH (pHi) in cultured cell monolayers and epithelia by analyzing the emission spectra of the trapped fluorescent pH probe, 1,4-dihydroxyphthalonitrile (1,4-DHPN). This compound is unique since both its acid and base forms possess different fluorescence emiss...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Kurtz I,Balaban RS

更新日期：1985-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell adhesion provides not only physical linkage but also communication between the cell and its environment. As such, it is important to many cellular functions. Recently, the probability distribution of forming a low number of specific adhesive bonds in a short-duration contact has been described (Chesla et al., Bio...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Zhu C,Williams TE

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Guanidinium and acetamidinium, when added to the bathing solution in concentrations of approximately 0.1M, cause brief blocks in the single channel potassium currents from channels formed in planar lipid bilayers by gramicidin A. Single channel lifetimes are not affected indicating that the channel structure is not mo...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Hemsley G,Busath D

更新日期：1991-04-01 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：:Single-molecule studies allow the study of subtle activity differences due to local folding in proteins, but are time consuming and difficult because only a few molecules are observed in one experiment. We developed an assay where we can simultaneously measure the activity of hundreds of individual molecules. The assa...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Lee AI,Brody JP

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate (InsP3) acts on intracellular receptors to cause liberation of Ca2+ ions into the cytosol as repetitive spikes and propagating waves. We studied the processes underlying this regenerative release of Ca2+ by monitoring with high resolution the kinetics of Ca2+ flux evoked in Xenopus oocytes...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Parker I,Yao Y,Ilyin V

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Calmodulin (CaM) is a highly flexible calcium-binding protein that mediates signal transduction through an ability to differentially bind to highly variable binding sequences in target proteins. To identify how binding affects CaM motions, and its relationship to conformational entropy and target peptide sequence, we ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Smith DM,Straatsma TP,Squier TC

更新日期：2012-10-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Mathematical modeling of the cardiac action potential has proven to be a powerful tool for illuminating various aspects of cardiac function, including cardiac arrhythmias. However, no currently available detailed action potential model accurately reproduces the dynamics of the cardiac action potential and intracellula...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Mahajan A,Shiferaw Y,Sato D,Baher A,Olcese R,Xie LH,Yang MJ,Chen PS,Restrepo JG,Karma A,Garfinkel A,Qu Z,Weiss JN

更新日期：2008-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:A nitroxide spin label attached to the C-terminus of the channel forming peptide alamethicin produces an enhancement of the nuclear spin-lattice relaxation rates of peptide protons as a result of both intermolecular and intramolecular magnetic dipole-dipole interactions. The intermolecular contribution provides eviden...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： North CL,Franklin JC,Bryant RG,Cafiso DS

更新日期：1994-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present a model of cell motility generated by actomyosin contraction of the cell cortex. We identify, analytically, dynamical instabilities of the cortex and show that they yield steady-state cortical flows, which, in turn, can induce cell migration in three-dimensional environments. This mechanism relies on the re...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Hawkins RJ,Poincloux R,Bénichou O,Piel M,Chavrier P,Voituriez R

更新日期：2011-09-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The spontaneous folding of two Neisseria outer membrane proteins, opacity-associated (Opa)(60) and Opa(50) into lipid vesicles was investigated by systematically varying bulk and membrane properties. Centrifugal fractionation coupled with sodium dodecyl sulfate polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis mobility assays enable...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Dewald AH,Hodges JC,Columbus L

更新日期：2011-05-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The selective permeability to monovalent metal cations, as well as the relationship between cation permeation and gating kinetics, was investigated for native tetrodotoxin-insensitive Na-channels in guinea pig ventricular myocytes using the whole-cell patch clamp technique. By the measurement of inward unidirectional ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Kurata Y,Sato R,Hisatome I,Imanishi S

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Structural rearrangements of the myosin upper-50 kD subdomain are thought to play a key role in coordinating actin binding with nucleotide hydrolysis during the myosin ATPase cycle. Such rearrangements could open and close the active site in opposition to the actin-binding cleft, helping explain the opposing affinitie...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Robertson CI,Gaffney DP 2nd,Chrin LR,Berger CL

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Primary embryonic chick cells have been evaluated on the basis of their capacity to repair photochemical lesions produced in the deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) by ultraviolet (UV) radiation. The fate of one prominent class of UV photoproducts, cyclobutane pyrimidine dimers, was monitored by an in vitro enzymatic assay. U...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Paterson MC,Lohman PH,de Weerd-Kastelein EA,Westerveld A

更新日期：1974-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In addition to the annular or boundary lipids that surround the transmembrane surface of the potassium channel KcsA from Streptomyces lividans, x-ray crystallographic studies have detected one anionic lipid molecule bound at each protein-protein interface in the homotetrameric structure, at sites referred to as nonann...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Marius P,Zagnoni M,Sandison ME,East JM,Morgan H,Lee AG

更新日期：2008-03-01 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：:We demonstrate the ability of pulsed dipolar electron spin resonance (ESR) spectroscopy (PDS) to report on the conformation of Cu-Zn superoxide dismutase (SOD1) through the sensitive measurement of dipolar interactions between inherent Cu(2+) ions. Although the extent and the anisotropy of the Cu ESR spectrum provides...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Merz GE,Borbat PP,Pratt AJ,Getzoff ED,Freed JH,Crane BR

更新日期：2014-10-07 00:00:00

abstract：:In the photoactive yellow protein, PYP, both Glu46 and Tyr42 form hydrogen bonds to the phenolic OH group of the p-hydroxycinnamoyl chromophore. Previous work on replacement of the carboxyl group of Glu46 by an amide group (Glu46Gln) has shown that changing the nature of this hydrogen bond has a minimal effect on the ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Devanathan S,Lin S,Cusanovich MA,Woodbury N,Tollin G

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phytochromes sense red/far-red light and control many biological processes in plants, fungi, and bacteria. Although the crystal structures of dark- and light-adapted states have been determined, the molecular mechanisms underlying photoactivation remain elusive. Here, we demonstrate that the conserved tongue region of...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Gustavsson E,Isaksson L,Persson C,Mayzel M,Brath U,Vrhovac L,Ihalainen JA,Karlsson BG,Orekhov V,Westenhoff S

更新日期：2020-01-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The elastic properties of cylindrical segments of sarcolemma were studied in single striated fibers of the frog semitendinosus muscle. All measurements were made on membranes of retraction zones, cell segments from which the sarcoplasm had retracted. Quantitative morphological studies indicated that three deforming fo...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Fields RW

更新日期：1970-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Myelin basic protein (MBP) is predominantly found in the membranes of the myelin sheath of the central nervous system and is involved in important protein-protein and protein-lipid interactions in vivo and in vitro. Furthermore, divalent transition metal ions, especially Zn(2+) and Cu(2+), seem to directly affect the ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Bund T,Boggs JM,Harauz G,Hellmann N,Hinderberger D

更新日期：2010-11-03 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：:We argue that membrane viscosity, η(m), plays a prominent role in the thermal fluctuation dynamics of micron-scale lipid domains. A theoretical expression is presented for the timescales of domain shape relaxation, which reduces to the well-known η(m) = 0 result of Stone and McConnell in the limit of large domain size...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Camley BA,Esposito C,Baumgart T,Brown FL

更新日期：2010-09-22 00:00:00

abstract：:It is shown that if x(t) is the solution of a second order differential equation, with real negative characteristic roots (not necessarily distinct), which exhibits an extremum at t = T, then T|x(T)|/|A| [UNK] 1/e where A is the area under the x(t) curve. This result is compared to a special case previously derived by...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： HEARON JZ

更新日期：1961-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Low-power continuous-wave laser radiation is used to form a very stable microbubble at the end of a specially etched and metalized optical fiber probe. We demonstrate that the microbubble, which is firmly attached to the fiber probe, can be used to benignly trap and manipulate living swine sperm cells as well as human...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Diop M,Taylor R

更新日期：2006-05-15 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：:Using a method they developed, Stamatoff and Krimm (1976) have phased swelling data from nerve myelin. Although most phases agree with those I determined previously, there are a few differences. In this letter the two different phasings, theirs and my own, are used to compute the corresponding electron-density profile...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Blaurock AE

更新日期：1979-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fission fragment tracks from uranium-stained biological preparations have been observed in the electron microscope in a study of the feasibility of their use as tracers. Virus, DNA, and tissue sections were stained with uranium, prepared for electron microscopy, irradiated in the high thermal neutron flux of a nuclear...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： MALMON AG

更新日期：1964-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A newly developed water-soluble phosphor suitable for measuring oxygen pressure in the blood (Green 2W) was used for noninvasive, in vivo imaging of oxygen distribution in the vascular systems of mice. Oxygen quenches the phosphorescence of Green 2W, measured in the presence of 2% albumin, according to the Stern-volme...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Vinogradov SA,Lo LW,Jenkins WT,Evans SM,Koch C,Wilson DF

更新日期：1996-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An equation is derived, which connects two functions P(r) and g(x), the first being related to the scattering intensity by a simple transformation, the second to the elctron density distribution of a spherically symmetric structure. This relation seems to be a suitable starting point for an analysis of shell structure...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Weick D

更新日期：1974-03-01 00:00:00