Metal-ligand complexes as a new class of long-lived fluorophores for protein hydrodynamics.

abstract：:The adult form of the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor (AChR) consists of five subunits (alpha(2)betaepsilondelta), each having four transmembrane domains (M1-M4). The atomic model of the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor shows that the pore-lining M2 domains make no extensive contacts with the rest of the transmembran...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Corradi J,Spitzmaul G,De Rosa MJ,Costabel M,Bouzat C

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The chemical shifts of specific (13)C and (15)N labels distributed throughout KIAGKIA-KIAGKIA-KIAGKIA (K3), an amphiphilic 21-residue antimicrobial peptide, prove that the peptide is in an all alpha-helical conformation in the bilayers of multilamellar vesicles (MLVs) containing dipalmitoylphosphatidylcholine and dipa...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Toke O,Maloy WL,Kim SJ,Blazyk J,Schaefer J

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The motility of Amoeba proteus was examined using the technique of passive particle tracking microrheology, with the aid of newly developed particle tracking software, a fast digital camera, and an optical microscope. We tracked large numbers of endogeneous particles in the amoebae, which displayed subdiffusive motion...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Rogers SS,Waigh TA,Lu JR

更新日期：2008-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:It was previously reported (Chernomordik and Sowers, 1991) that erythrocyte ghosts which were exposed to a 42 degrees C, 10-min heat treatment would, upon electrofusion, produce over 15-20 s a fusion product with an "open lumen" (i.e., the fusion product became converted to one large sphere), while electrofusion of gh...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Wu Y,Sjodin RA,Sowers AE

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Toad ventricles were externally driven by periodic pulses while monophasic action potential (MAP) signals were recorded in seven excised and seven in situ ventricles. As the frequency was slowly increased in steps, the stimulated tissue displayed several dynamic characteristics. Hierarchies of periodic behavior, like ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Savino GV,Romanelli L,González DL,Piro O,Valentinuzzi ME

更新日期：1989-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Early afterdepolarizations (EADs) are voltage oscillations that occur during the repolarizing phase of the cardiac action potential and cause cardiac arrhythmias in a variety of clinical settings. EADs occur in the setting of reduced repolarization reserve and increased inward-over-outward currents, which intuitively ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Chang MG,Chang CY,de Lange E,Xu L,O'Rourke B,Karagueuzian HS,Tung L,Marbán E,Garfinkel A,Weiss JN,Qu Z,Abraham MR

更新日期：2012-06-20 00:00:00

abstract：:A new method is presented to measure local cytoplasmic deformation and rate of deformation in motile active neutrophils. The deformation is expressed in terms of biomechanical strains and strain rates. For this purpose small phagocytosed latex microspheres were used as intracellular markers. Planar Lagrangian and Eule...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Simon SI,Schmid-Schönbein GW

更新日期：1990-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fusion of lipid bilayers proceeds via a sequence of distinct structural transformations. Its early stage involves a localized, hemifused intermediate in which the proximal but not yet the distal monolayers are connected. Whereas the so-called stalk model most successfully accounts for the properties of the hemifused i...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： May S

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The auxiliary β subunit plays an important role in the regulation of voltage-gated calcium (CaV) channels. Recently, it was revealed that β2e associates with the plasma membrane through an electrostatic interaction between N-terminal basic residues and anionic phospholipids. However, a molecular-level understanding of...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Kim DI,Kang M,Kim S,Lee J,Park Y,Chang I,Suh BC

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The traditional theory of transport across capillary membranes via a laminar Poiseuille flow is shown to be invalid. It is demonstrated that the random, diffusive nature of the molecular flow and interactions with the "pore" walls play an important role in the transport process. Neither the continuum Navier-Stokes the...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Schindler AM,Iberall AS

更新日期：1973-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Photosynthetic organisms drive their metabolism by converting light energy into an electrochemical gradient with high efficiency. This conversion depends on the diffusion of quinones within the membrane. In purple photosynthetic bacteria, quinones reduced by the reaction center (RC) diffuse to the cytochrome bc(1) com...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Scheuring S,Sturgis JN

更新日期：2006-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Microorganisms often form complex multicellular assemblies such as biofilms and colonies. Understanding the interplay between assembly expansion, metabolic yield, and nutrient diffusion within a freely growing colony remains a challenge. Most available data on microorganisms are from planktonic cultures, due to the la...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Vulin C,Di Meglio JM,Lindner AB,Daerr A,Murray A,Hersen P

更新日期：2014-05-20 00:00:00

abstract：:It is now rare to find biological, or genetic investigations that do not rely on the tools, data, and thinking drawn from the genomic sciences. Much of this revolution is powered by contemporary sequencing approaches that readily deliver large, genome-wide data sets that not only provide genetic insights but also uniq...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Schwartz DC

更新日期：2019-12-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Molecular dynamics simulations in simplified models allow one to study the scaling properties of folding times for many proteins together under a controlled setting. We consider three variants of the Go models with different contact potentials and demonstrate scaling described by power laws and no correlation with the...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Cieplak M,Hoang TX

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of the Ca(2+)-induced Ca2+ release blocker procaine on individual sarcoplasmic reticulum Ca2+ release channels have been examined in planar lipid bilayers. Procaine did not reduce the single channel conductance nor appreciably shorten the mean open times of the channel; rather, it increased the longest clo...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Zahradníková A,Palade P

更新日期：1993-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In dialyzed Myxicola axons substitution of heavy water (D2O) externally and internally slows both sodium and potassium kinetics and decreases the maximum conductances. Furthermore, this effect is strongly temperature dependent, the magnitude of the slowing produced by D2O substitution decreasing with increasing temper...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Schauf CL,Bullock JO

更新日期：1979-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The near-infrared charge transfer band at 760 nm (band III) has been investigated in deoxy and photodissociated dimeric Scapharca hemoglobin. At 300 K, the 10-ns spectrum of the carbonmonoxy derivative photoproduct is shifted by about 6 nm toward longer wavelengths with respect to the deoxy spectrum, both in buffer an...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Huang J,Leone M,Boffi A,Friedman JM,Chiancone E

更新日期：1996-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A sample preparation method using spherical glass ampoules has been used to achieve 1.5-Hz resolution in 1H magic-angle spinning (MAS) nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectra of aqueous multilamellar dispersions of 1,2-dioleoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine (DOPC) and 1-palmitoyl-2-oleoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine (P...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Zhou Z,Sayer BG,Hughes DW,Stark RE,Epand RM

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Translation is a central cellular process and the complexity of its mechanism necessitates mathematical frameworks to better understand system properties and make quantitative predictions. We have developed a gene sequence-specific mechanistic model for translation which accounts for all the elementary steps of transl...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Zouridis H,Hatzimanikatis V

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using molecular dynamics simulations, we studied the mode of association of the cell-penetrating peptide penetratin with both a neutral and a charged bilayer. The results show that the initial peptide-lipid association is a fast process driven by electrostatic interactions. The homogeneous distribution of positively c...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Lensink MF,Christiaens B,Vandekerckhove J,Prochiantz A,Rosseneu M

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Missense mutations in the membrane-binding actin-based motor protein, myosin-1a (Myo1a), have recently been linked to sensorineural deafness in humans. One of these mutations, E385D, impacts a residue in the switch II region of the motor domain that is present in virtually all members of the myosin superfamily. We sou...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Yengo CM,Ananthanarayanan SK,Brosey CA,Mao S,Tyska MJ

更新日期：2008-01-15 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：:Polarized photolysis experiments have been performed on the carbon monoxide complex of myoglobin to assess the effects of photoselection on the kinetics of ligand rebinding and to investigate the reorientational dynamics of the heme plane. The results are analyzed in terms of the optical theory developed in the preced...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Ansari A,Jones CM,Henry ER,Hofrichter J,Eaton WA

更新日期：1993-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Activation of skeletal muscle ryanodine receptors (RyRs) by suramin and disulfonic stilbene derivatives (Diisothiocyanostilbene-2',2'-disulfonic acid (DIDS), 4,4'-dibenzamidostilbene-2,2'-disulfonic acid (DBDS),and 4,4'-dinitrostilbene-2,2'-disulfonic acid (DNDS)) was investigated using planar bilayers. One reversible...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： O'Neill ER,Sakowska MM,Laver DR

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Employing nonequilibrium molecular dynamics simulations, a comprehensive computational study of the photoinduced conformational dynamics of a photoswitchable bicyclic azobenzene octapeptide is presented. The calculation of time-dependent probability distributions along various global and local reaction coordinates rev...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Nguyen PH,Gorbunov RD,Stock G

更新日期：2006-08-15 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：:The plasma membrane of cells has a complex architecture based on the bidimensional liquid-crystalline bilayer arrangement of phospho- and sphingolipids, which in turn embeds several proteins and is connected to the cytoskeleton. Several studies highlight the spatial membrane organization into more ordered (Lo or lipid...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Abbandonato G,Storti B,Tonazzini I,Stöckl M,Subramaniam V,Montis C,Nifosì R,Cecchini M,Signore G,Bizzarri R

更新日期：2019-02-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Calmodulin (CaM) expression is upregulated upon HIV-1 infection and interacts with proteins involved in viral processing, including the multifunctional HIV-1 MA protein. We present here the results of studies utilizing small-angle neutron scattering with contrast variation that, when considered in the light of earlier...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Taylor JE,Chow JYH,Jeffries CM,Kwan AH,Duff AP,Hamilton WA,Trewhella J

更新日期：2012-08-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The extracellular matrix contains components with remarkable mechanical properties, including fibronectin (Fn) fibers with extensibilities of >700% strain. We utilized what we consider a novel technique to quantify the extent of molecular unfolding that contributes to Fn fiber extension, and we compared this behavior ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Bradshaw MJ,Smith ML

更新日期：2011-10-05 00:00:00

abstract：:We report that long-chain poly-L-glutamine forms cation-selective channels when incorporated into artificial planar lipid bilayer membranes. The channel was permeable to alkali cations and H(+) ions and virtually impermeable to anions; the selectivity sequence based on the single-channel conductance was H(+) > Cs(+) >...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Monoi H,Futaki S,Kugimiya S,Minakata H,Yoshihara K

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00