Effects of pH on myofibrillar ATPase activity in fast and slow skeletal muscle fibers of the rabbit.

abstract：:The endoplasmic reticulum (ER) in plant cells forms a highly dynamic network of complex geometry. ER network morphology and dynamics are influenced by a number of biophysical processes, including filament/tubule tension, viscous forces, Brownian diffusion, and interactions with many other organelles and cytoskeletal e...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Lin C,White RR,Sparkes I,Ashwin P

更新日期：2017-07-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Genomics is a sequence-based informatics science and a three-dimensional-structure-based material science. However, in practice, most genomics researchers utilize sequence-based informatics approaches or three-dimensional-structure-based material science techniques, not both. This division is, at least in part, the re...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Li Z,Sun R,Bishop TC

更新日期：2020-05-05 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：:Uncovering mechanisms that control the dynamics of microtubules is fundamental for our understanding of multiple cellular processes such as chromosome separation and cell motility. Building on previous theoretical work on the dynamic instability of microtubules, we propose here a stochastic model that includes all rel...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Padinhateeri R,Kolomeisky AB,Lacoste D

更新日期：2012-03-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Microbes inhabiting Earth have adapted to diverse environments of water, air, soil, and often at the interfaces of multiple media. In this study, we focus on the behavior of Caulobacter crescentus, a singly flagellated bacterium, at the air/water interface. Forward swimming C. crescentus swarmer cells tend to get phys...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Morse M,Huang A,Li G,Maxey MR,Tang JX

更新日期：2013-07-02 00:00:00

abstract：:A detailed experimental description of molecular dynamics requires an accurate description of the global correlation time. For the gramicidin cation-selective channel the local dynamics of the polypeptide backbone are thought to play a very significant role in the functional process of this channel which occurs on the...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Lee KC,Hu W,Cross TA

更新日期：1993-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA beacons are short single-stranded chains which can form closed hairpin shapes through complementary base pairing at their ends. Contrary to the common polymer theory assumption that only their loop length matters, experiments show that their closing kinetics depend on the loop composition. We have modeled the clos...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Aalberts DP,Parman JM,Goddard NL

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Purified cytochrome c oxidase CO complex from beef heart has been studied by Fourier transform infrared absorbance difference spectroscopy. Photolysis at 10-20 Kelvin results in dissociation of a3FeCO, formation of CuBCO, and perturbation of the a3-heme and CuB complex. The vibrational perturbation spectrum between 90...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Park S,Pan LP,Chan SI,Alben JO

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:M2delta, one of the transmembrane segments of the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor, is a 23-amino-acid peptide, frequently used as a model for peptide-membrane interactions. In this and the companion article we describe studies of M2delta-membrane interactions, using two different computational approaches. In the pres...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Kessel A,Haliloglu T,Ben-Tal N

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this article, we demonstrate the new method of pulsed interleaved excitation (PIE), which can be used to extend the capabilities of multiple-color fluorescence imaging, fluorescence cross-correlation spectroscopy (FCCS), and single-pair fluorescence resonance energy transfer (spFRET) measurements. In PIE, multiple ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Müller BK,Zaychikov E,Bräuchle C,Lamb DC

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacterial swimming speed is sometimes known to increase with viscosity. This phenomenon is peculiar to bacterial motion. Berg and Turner (Nature. 278:349-351, 1979) indicated that the phenomenon was caused by a loose, quasi-rigid network formed by polymer molecules that were added to increase viscosity. We mathematica...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Magariyama Y,Kudo S

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The partition coefficients (K(P)) of a series of single-chain and double-chain fluorescent amphiphiles, between solid ordered (P(beta') and L(beta)) and liquid disordered (L(alpha) of the type l(d)) lipid phases coexisting in the same lipid bilayer, was studied using steady-state fluorescence emission anisotropy. The ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Mesquita RM,Melo E,Thompson TE,Vaz WL

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reconstruction of genome-scale metabolic networks is now possible using multiple different data types. Constraint-based modeling is an approach to interrogate capabilities of reconstructed networks by constraining possible cellular behavior through the imposition of physicochemical laws. As a result, a steady-state fl...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Price ND,Schellenberger J,Palsson BO

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prior work has shown that concentration profiles of platelets in flowing whole blood and of platelet-sized beads in flowing blood suspensions can include near-wall excesses. A model to describe this phenomenon was built about a single-component convective diffusion equation. To incorporate redistribution to preferred ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Yeh C,Calvez AC,Eckstein EC

更新日期：1994-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two-dimensional 1H NMR spectroscopy over a range of temperature through thermal unfolding has been applied to the low-spin, ferric cyanide complex of myoglobin from Aplysia limacina to search for intermediates in the unfolding and to characterize the effect of temperature on the magnetic properties and electronic stru...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Xia Z,Nguyen BD,Brunori M,Cutruzzolà F,La Mar GN

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present a hybrid computational methodology to predict multiple energetically accessible conformations for G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) that might play a role in binding to ligands and different signaling partners. To our knowledge, this method, termed ActiveGEnSeMBLE, enables the first quantitative energy pr...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Dong SS,Goddard WA 3rd,Abrol R

更新日期：2016-06-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Titin is a giant filamentous polypeptide of multidomain construction spanning between the Z- and M-lines of the cardiac muscle sarcomere. Extension of the I-band segment of titin gives rise to a force that underlies part of the diastolic force of cardiac muscle. Titin's force arises from its extensible I-band region, ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Trombitás K,Freiburg A,Centner T,Labeit S,Granzier H

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using the molecular dynamics simulation technique, we studied the changes occurring in a dipalmitoylphosphatidylcholine (DPPC):cholesterol (CH) membrane at 50 mol% sterol when cholesterol is replaced with cholesterol sulfate (CS). Our simulations were performed at constant pressure and temperature on a nanosecond time...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Smondyrev AM,Berkowitz ML

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We used optical tweezers to analyze the effect of jasplakinolide and cyclodextrin on the force exerted by lamellipodia from developing growth cones (GCs) of isolated dorsal root ganglia (DRG) neurons. We found that 25 nM of jasplakinolide, which is known to inhibit actin filament turnover, reduced both the maximal exe...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Amin L,Ercolini E,Shahapure R,Migliorini E,Torre V

更新日期：2012-06-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Ion channel behavior can depend strongly on temperature, with faster kinetics at physiological temperatures leading to considerable changes in currents relative to room temperature. These temperature-dependent changes in voltage-dependent ion channel kinetics (rates of opening, closing, inactivating, and recovery) are...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Lei CL,Clerx M,Beattie KA,Melgari D,Hancox JC,Gavaghan DJ,Polonchuk L,Wang K,Mirams GR

更新日期：2019-12-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of lysolipids on phospholipid layer curvature and bending elasticity were examined using x-ray diffraction and the osmotic stress method. Lysolipids with two different head groups, phosphatidylcholine (PC) and phosphatidylethanolamine (PE), and differing hydrocarbon chains were mixed with the hexagonal-for...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Fuller N,Rand RP

更新日期：2001-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Receptor activity modifying proteins (RAMPs) are a family of single-pass transmembrane proteins that dimerize with G-protein-coupled receptors. They may alter the ligand recognition properties of the receptors (particularly for the calcitonin receptor-like receptor, CLR). Very little structural information is availabl...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Simms J,Hay DL,Wheatley M,Poyner DR

更新日期：2006-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Coliphage T4 was used as a model system to study the mechanism of biological inactivation produced by tritium decay. Experimentally, tritiated precursors were incorporated into phage DNA (thymidine-(3)H) or into phage protein ((3)H-amino acids). The ratio of killing efficiencies for decays originating in phage DNA to ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Funk F,Person S,Bockrath RC Jr

更新日期：1968-09-01 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 classical cable equation, in which membrane conductance is considered constant, is modified by including the linearized effect of membrane potential on sodium and potassium ionic currents, as formulated in the Hodgkin-Huxley equations for the squid giant axon. The resulting partial differential equation is solved ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Sabah NH,Leibovic KN

更新日期：1969-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Directly measured forces between DNA helices in ordered arrays have been reduced to simple force coefficients and mathematical expressions for the interactions between pairs of molecules. The tabulated force parameters and mathematical expressions can be applied to parallel molecules or, by transformation, to skewed m...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Podgornik R,Rau DC,Parsegian VA

更新日期：1994-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Some plant leaves display complex, orientation-dependent, proton nuclear magnetic resonance (1H NMR) spectra. The spectral patterns vary as the angle between the leaf surface and the applied magnetic field is varied. They also vary with temperature and with the quantity of absorbed manganous ions, but they are indepen...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： McCain DC,Markley JL

更新日期：1985-11-01 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：:Rates of diffusion through the extracellular space of thin sheets of myocardium from the right ventricular outflow tract of kittens were estimated at 23 degrees C for 45Ca2+ and an inert reference tracer, [14C]sucrose. The myocardial sheets were mounted in an Ussing chamber and equilibrated with Tyrode solution with v...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Safford RE,Bassingthwaighte JB

更新日期：1977-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In recent experimental reports, robust circadian oscillation of the phosphorylation level of KaiC has been reconstituted by incubating three cyanobacterial proteins, KaiA, KaiB, and KaiC, with ATP in vitro. This reconstitution indicates that protein-protein interactions and the associated ATP hydrolysis suffice to gen...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Nagai T,Terada TP,Sasai M

更新日期：2010-06-02 00:00:00