Three-dimensional reconstruction of fibrin clot networks from stereoscopic intermediate voltage electron microscope images and analysis of branching.

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：:We have constructed a theory for diffusion through the pore of a single-ion channel by taking a limit of a random walk around a cycle of states. Similar to Levitt's theory of single-ion diffusion, one obtains boundary conditions for the Nernst-Planck equation that guarantee that the pore is occupied by at most one ion...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： McGill P,Schumaker MF

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using both quasi-elastic light scattering spectroscopy and angular dissymmetry in the intensity of the scattered light, we examined the onset of turbidity for intact calf lenses and for isolated nuclear cytoplasm. In the case of the nuclear cytoplasm these measurements demonstrate the presence of two kinds of scattere...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Delaye M,Clark JI,Benedek GB

更新日期：1982-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Excised inside-out membrane patches are useful for studying the cGMP-activated ion channels that generate the electrical response to light in retinal rod cells. We show that strong ionic current across a patch changes the driving force on the current by altering the ionic concentration near the surface membrane, an ef...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Zimmerman AL,Karpen JW,Baylor DA

更新日期：1988-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The coupling between the depolymerization of microtubules (MTs) and the motion of the Dam1 ring complex is now thought to play an important role in the generation of forces during mitosis. Our current understanding of this motion is based on a number of detailed computational models. Although these models realize poss...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Armond JW,Turner MS

更新日期：2010-04-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanisms by which the mammalian mitotic spindle is guided to a predefined orientation through microtubule-cortex interactions have recently received considerable interest, but there has been no dynamic model that describes spindle movements toward the preferred axis in human cells. Here, we develop a dynamic mod...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Corrigan AM,Shrestha R,Draviam VM,Donald AM

更新日期：2015-10-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The four-way DNA (Holliday) junction is an important postulated intermediate in the process of genetic recombination. Earlier studies have suggested that the junction exists in two alternative conformations, depending upon the salt concentration present. At high salt concentrations the junction folds into a stacked X ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Clegg RM,Murchie AI,Lilley DM

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Far infrared (FIR) spectral measurements of wild-type (WT) and D96N mutant bacteriorhodopsin thin films have been carried out using terahertz time domain spectroscopy as a function of hydration, temperature, and conformational state. The results are compared to calculated spectra generated via normal mode analyses usi...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Whitmire SE,Wolpert D,Markelz AG,Hillebrecht JR,Galan J,Birge RR

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The dynamic packaging of DNA into chromatin is a key determinant of eukaryotic gene regulation and epigenetic inheritance. Nucleosomes are the basic unit of chromatin, and therefore the accessible states of the nucleosome must be the starting point for mechanistic models regarding these essential processes. Although t...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Schlingman DJ,Mack AH,Kamenetska M,Mochrie SGJ,Regan L

更新日期：2014-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Hint2, one of the five members of the superfamily of the histidine triad AMP-lysine hydrolase proteins, is expressed in mitochondria of various cell types. In human adrenocarcinoma cells, Hint2 modulates Ca(2+) handling by mitochondria. As Hint2 is highly expressed in hepatocytes, we investigated if this protein affec...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Ndiaye D,Collado-Hilly M,Martin J,Prigent S,Dufour JF,Combettes L,Dupont G

更新日期：2013-09-03 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：:This paper describes a molecular dynamics and molecular mechanics study of the solvation and selectivity of the narrow pore and vestibule region of a model-built structure for the voltage-gated sodium channel. The particular structure used was one proposed by Guy and Durell. However, many of the features we saw would ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Singh C,Sankararamakrishnan R,Subramaniam S,Jakobsson E

更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Atrial fibrosis has been implicated in the development and maintenance of atrial arrhythmias, and is characterized by expansion of the extracellular matrix and an increased number of fibroblasts (Fbs). Electrotonic coupling between atrial myocytes and Fbs may contribute to the formation of an arrhythmogenic substrate....

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Maleckar MM,Greenstein JL,Giles WR,Trayanova NA

更新日期：2009-10-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The availability of very high magnetic fields of up to 170,000 gauss made it worthwhile to pursue the search for a critical change in the rate of four enzyme substrate reactions. The four enzymes were ribonuclease, polyphenol oxidase, peroxidase, and aldolase. The experiments showed that, to within +/-3%, no detectabl...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Rabinovitch B,Maling JE,Weissbluth M

更新日期：1967-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding the information processing ability of signal transduction pathways is of great importance because of their crucial roles in triggering various cellular responses. Despite continuing theoretical investigation, some important aspects of signal transduction such as a transient response and its connection to...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Morishita Y,Kobayashi TJ,Aihara K

更新日期：2006-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of intracellular (i) and extracellular (o) Na+ on pre-steady-state transient current associated with Na+/Na+ exchange by the Na+/K+ pump was investigated in the vegetal pole of Xenopus oocytes. Current records in response to 40-ms voltage pulses from -180 to +100 mV in the absence of external Na+ were subtr...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Holmgren M,Rakowski RF

更新日期：2006-03-01 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：:To probe the complexity of the cell membrane organization and dynamics, it is important to obtain simple physical observables from experiments on live cells. Here we show that fluorescence correlation spectroscopy (FCS) measurements at different spatial scales enable distinguishing between different submicron confinem...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Wawrezinieck L,Rigneault H,Marguet D,Lenne PF

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present a single virion method to determine absolute distributions of copy number in the protein composition of viruses and apply it to herpes simplex virus type 1. Using two-color coincidence fluorescence spectroscopy, we determine the virion-to-virion variability in copy numbers of fluorescently labeled tegument ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Clarke RW,Monnier N,Li H,Zhou D,Browne H,Klenerman D

更新日期：2007-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigate the permeability of lipid membranes for fluorescence dyes and ions. We find that permeability reaches a maximum close to the chain melting transition of the membranes. Close to transitions, fluctuations in area and compressibility are high, leading to an increased likelihood of spontaneous lipid pore fo...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Blicher A,Wodzinska K,Fidorra M,Winterhalter M,Heimburg T

更新日期：2009-06-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Alkaline sucrose sedimentation studies of DNA from mouse lymphoma cells (L5178Y) treated with caffeine have demonstrated the following effects. Caffeine (at a concentration of 1.6 mM) does not introduce strand breaks into preformed DNA nor does it inhibit the rejoining of gamma-ray-induced strand breaks. Although it d...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Lehmann AR

更新日期：1972-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In cardiac muscle, troponin (Tn) and tropomyosin inhibit actin and myosin interactions through the steric blocking of myosin binding to F-actin. Ca2+ binding to Tn C modulates this inhibition. Thin filaments become activated upon Ca2+ binding, which enables strong binding of myosin with a concomitant release of ATP hy...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Solís C,Kim GH,Moutsoglou ME,Robinson JM

更新日期：2018-11-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Global analysis techniques are described for frequency domain fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy (FLIM) data. These algorithms exploit the prior knowledge that only a limited number of fluorescent molecule species whose lifetimes do not vary spatially are present in the sample. Two approaches to implementing the...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Verveer PJ,Squire A,Bastiaens PI

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In rat mesenteric arteries, smooth muscle cells exhibit intercellular calcium waves in response to local phenylephrine stimulation. These waves have a velocity of approximately 20 cells/s and a range of approximately 80 cells. We analyze these waves in a theoretical model of a population of coupled smooth muscle cells...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Koenigsberger M,Seppey D,Bény JL,Meister JJ

更新日期：2010-07-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The application of a digital computer to the processing of data from single neurons is described. Examples from experimental data are presented to demonstrate the usefulness of certain types of computations. These methods are placed in a descriptive mathematical framework. Other easily attainable computations are sugg...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： GERSTEIN GL,KIANG NY

更新日期：1960-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many aspects of chromatin biology are influenced by the nuclear compartment in which a locus resides, from transcriptional regulation to DNA repair. Further, the dynamic and variable localization of a particular locus across cell populations and over time makes analysis of a large number of cells critical. As a conseq...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Zhao Y,Schreiner SM,Koo PK,Colombi P,King MC,Mochrie SG

更新日期：2016-07-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The harmonic mode analysis method was used to characterize the conformational deformability of regular Watson-Crick paired, mismatch- and bulge-containing RNA. Good agreement between atomic Debye-Waller factors derived from x-ray crystallography of a regular RNA oligonucleotide and calculated atomic fluctuations was o...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Zacharias M,Sklenar H

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Detection of the transition between the two myosin isoforms α- and β-myosin in living cardiomyocytes is essential for understanding cardiac physiology and pathology. In this study, the differences in symmetry of polarization spectra obtained from α- and β-myosin in various mammalian ventricles and propylthiouracil-tre...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Yuan C,Zhao X,Wang Z,Borg TK,Ye T,Khalpey ZI,Runyan RB,Shao Y,Gao BZ

更新日期：2020-03-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Cardiomyocytes have intracellular diffusion restrictions, which spatially compartmentalize ADP and ATP. However, the models that predict diffusion restrictions have used data sets generated in rat heart permeabilized fibers, where diffusion distances may be heterogeneous. This is avoided by using isolated, permeabiliz...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Sepp M,Vendelin M,Vija H,Birkedal R

更新日期：2010-06-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of ultraviolet light (UV) irradiation on the rate of DNA replication in synchronized Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cells were investigated. A technique for measuring semiconservative DNA replication was employed that involved growing the cells in medium containing 5-bromodeoxyuridine and subsequently determi...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Meyn RE,Hewitt RR,Thomas LF,Humphrey RM

更新日期：1976-05-01 00:00:00