Multiwavelength analysis of the kinetics of reduction of cytochrome aa3 by cytochrome c.

abstract：:Phosphatidylethanolamine (PE) and phosphatidylglycerol (PG) are the main lipid components of the inner bacterial membrane. A computer model for such a membrane was built of palmitoyloleoyl PE (POPE) and palmitoyloleoyl PG (POPG) in the proportion 3:1, and sodium ions (Na+) to neutralize the net negative charge on each...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Murzyn K,Róg T,Pasenkiewicz-Gierula M

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Myoplasmic free calcium transients were measured with antipyrylazo III in voltage clamped segments of frog skeletal muscle fibers and were used to calculate the rate of release (Rrel) of calcium from the sarcoplasmic reticulum. Intramembrane charge movement was measured for the same pulses in the same fibers. During a...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Simon BJ,Schneider MF

更新日期：1988-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigate the conditions under which nonideality in solution influences the Donnan equilibrium. Of the various parameters that characterize this equilibrium, the osmotic pressure established across the Donnan membrane is found to be particularly sensitive to intermolecular interactions between the diffusible and ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Stell G,Joslin CG

更新日期：1986-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Numerous dyes are available or under development for probing the structural and functional properties of biological membranes. Exogenous chromophores adopt a range of orientations when bound to membranes, which have a drastic effect on their biophysical behavior. Here, we present a method that employs optical anisotro...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Reeve JE,Corbett AD,Boczarow I,Wilson T,Bayley H,Anderson HL

更新日期：2012-09-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The biophysical properties and cellular distribution of ion channels largely determine the input/output relationships of electrically excitable cells. A variety of patch pipette voltage clamp techniques are available to characterize ionic currents. However, when used by themselves, such techniques are not well suited ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Anson BD,Roberts WM

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tortuosity of the extracellular space describes hindrance posed to the diffusion process by a geometrically complex medium in comparison to an environment free of any obstacles. Calculating tortuosity in biologically relevant geometries is difficult. Yet this parameter has proved very important for many processes in t...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Hrabe J,Hrabetová S,Segeth K

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this article we present a study of a new class of surfactants denoted as PEG1500-12-acyloxystearates, which have potential use as pharmaceutical solubilizers. These amphiphilic molecules present interesting properties with regard to cell damage effects. PEG1500-12-acyloxystearates with C(14) to C(16) acyloxy chains...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Vaccaro M,von Corswant C,Söderman O

更新日期：2007-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of cholesterol on the dynamics and the structural properties of two different spin probes, the sterol type CSL and the phospholipid type 16-PC, in POPC/cholesterol oriented multilayer model membranes were examined. Our results are consistent with a nonideal solution containing cholesterol-rich clusters cre...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Shin YK,Freed JH

更新日期：1989-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present a molecular model of a chromatophore vesicle from Rhodobacter sphaeroides. These vesicles are ideal benchmark systems for molecular and systemic simulations, because they have been well studied, they are small, and they are naturally separated from their cellular environment. To set up a photosynthetic chai...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Geyer T,Helms V

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spin-label saturation transfer EPR (ST-EPR) methods have been used to study the sickle hemoglobin (HbS) aggregation behaviors induced by slow deoxygenation at a constant temperature of 30 degrees C, and by a rapid temperature increase from 1 degree to 30 degrees C for fully deoxygenated HbS. For slow deoxygenation at ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Thiyagarajan P,Johnson ME

更新日期：1983-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the context of reduced protein models, Monte Carlo simulations of three de novo designed helical proteins (four-member helical bundle) were performed. At low temperatures, for all proteins under consideration, protein-like folds having different topologies were obtained from random starting conformations. These sim...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Sikorski A,Kolinski A,Skolnick J

更新日期：1998-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A method for life cycle analysis in mammalian cells which utilizes the collection function has been applied to the Chinese hamster ovary grown in suspension. The following durations were found for the various parts of the life cycle: S, 4.13 hours; G1, 4.71 hours; G2, 2.81 hours; mitosis, 0.81 hours. The cell has a to...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： PUCK TT,SANDERS P,PETERSEN D

更新日期：1964-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Singlet-singlet annihilation experiments have been performed on trimeric and aggregated light-harvesting complex II (LHCII) using picosecond spectroscopy to study spatial equilibration times in LHCII preparations, complementing the large amount of data on spectral equilibration available in literature. The annihilatio...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Barzda V,Gulbinas V,Kananavicius R,Cervinskas V,van Amerongen H,van Grondelle R,Valkunas L

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In many situations, cell-cell adhesion is mediated by multiple ligand-receptor pairs. For example, the interaction between T cells and antigen-presenting cells of the immune system is mediated not only by T cell receptors and their ligands (peptide-major histocompatibility complex) but also by binding of intracellular...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Coombs D,Dembo M,Wofsy C,Goldstein B

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Diverse microbial communities coordinate group behaviors through signal exchange, such as the exchange of acyl-homoserine lactones (AHLs) by Gram-negative bacteria. Cellular communication is prone to interference by neighboring microbes. One mechanism of interference is signal destruction through the production of an ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Silva KP,Chellamuthu P,Boedicker JQ

更新日期：2017-03-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The absence of comprehensive measured kinetic values and the observed inconsistency in the available in vitro kinetic data has hindered the formulation of network-scale kinetic models of biochemical reaction networks. To meet this challenge we present an approach to construct a convex space, termed the k-cone, which c...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Famili I,Mahadevan R,Palsson BO

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Experiments have shown that the ability of the HIV-1 virus to infect cells can be greatly diminished by deactivation of the N-terminal (fusion) peptide of its glycoprotein gp41. Deactivation can be achieved by the deletion of several amino acid residues, or replacement of a hydrophobic residue with a polar residue, to...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Maddox MW,Longo ML

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The distribution of a selection of cationic fluorescent dyes can be used to measure the membrane potential of individual cells with a microfluorometer. The essential attributes of these dyes include membrane permeability, low membrane binding, spectral properties which are insensitive to environment, and, of course, s...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Ehrenberg B,Montana V,Wei MD,Wuskell JP,Loew LM

更新日期：1988-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The structure and dynamics of a large segment of Ste2p, the G-protein-coupled alpha-factor receptor from yeast, were studied in dodecylphosphocholine (DPC) micelles using solution NMR spectroscopy. We investigated the 73-residue peptide EL3-TM7-CT40 consisting of the third extracellular loop 3 (EL3), the seventh trans...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Neumoin A,Arshava B,Becker J,Zerbe O,Naider F

更新日期：2007-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The proposition is made that the red cell membrane is a two-dimensional, incompressible material and a general stress-strain law is developed for finite deformations. In the linear form, the character of such a material is analogous to a two-dimensional Mooney material (e.g., rubber), indicating that the molecular str...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Evans EA

更新日期：1973-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We develop a model of tyrosine phosphorylation and activation of the T-cell receptor (TCR) by localization to regions of close membrane-membrane proximity (close contact) that physically exclude tyrosine phosphatases such as CD45. Phosphatase exclusion generates regions of low phosphatase and high kinase activity and ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Burroughs NJ,Lazic Z,van der Merwe PA

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The influence of patch electrode glass composition on macroscopic IV relations in inside-out patches of the cGMP-activated ion channel from rod photoreceptors was examined for a soda lime glass, a Kovar sealing glass, a borosilicate glass, and several soft lead glasses. In several glasses the shape or magnitude of the...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Furman RE,Tanaka JC

更新日期：1988-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The actin cytoskeleton fulfills numerous key cellular functions, which are tightly regulated in activity, localization, and temporal patterning by actin binding proteins. Tropomyosins and gelsolin are two such filament-regulating proteins. Here, we investigate how the effects of tropomyosins are coupled to the binding...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Kis-Bicskei N,Bécsi B,Erdődi F,Robinson RC,Bugyi B,Huber T,Nyitrai M,Talián GC

更新日期：2018-02-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Here we present an efficient implementation of line-scan fluorescence correlation spectroscopy (i.e., one-dimensional spatio-temporal image correlation spectroscopy) using a commercial laser scanning microscope, which allows the accurate measurement of diffusion coefficients and concentrations in biological lipid memb...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Ries J,Chiantia S,Schwille P

更新日期：2009-03-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The shape distributions of normal and hardened human and rabbit erythrocytes and platelets were obtained for edge-on orientations of a few hundred freely rotating cells from analyses of microphotographs obtained similarly as by Ponder(1930, Q. J. Exp. Physiol. 20:29) by phase-contrast microscopy at 800 X magnification...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Frojmovic MM,Panjwani R

更新日期：1976-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has long been appreciated that spatiotemporal dynamics of cell migration are under the control of intracellular signaling pathways, which are mediated by adhesion receptors and other transducers of extracellular cues. Further, there is ample evidence that aspects of cell migration are stochastic: how else could it ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Weiger MC,Ahmed S,Welf ES,Haugh JM

更新日期：2010-01-06 00:00:00

abstract：:PROPPINs (β-propellers that bind polyphosphoinositides) are a family of PtdIns3P- and PtdIns(3,5)P2-binding proteins that play an important role in autophagy. We analyzed PROPPIN-membrane binding through isothermal titration calorimetry (ITC), stopped-flow measurements, mutagenesis studies, and molecular dynamics (MD)...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Busse RA,Scacioc A,Krick R,Pérez-Lara Á,Thumm M,Kühnel K

更新日期：2015-05-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The ionic strength dependence of the electron self-exchange rate constants of cytochromes c, c551, and b5 has been analyzed in terms of a monopole-dipole formalism (van Leeuwen, J.W. 1983. Biochim. Biophys. Acta. 743:408-421). The dipole moments of the reduced and oxidized forms of Ps. aeruginosa cytochrome c551 are 1...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Dixon DW,Hong X,Woehler SE

更新日期：1989-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The separation method, flow field-flow fractionation (flow FFF), is coupled on-line with multiangle laser light scattering (MALLS) for simultaneous measurement of the size and concentration of vesicles eluting continuously from the fractionator. These size and concentration data, gathered as a function of elution time...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Korgel BA,van Zanten JH,Monbouquette HG

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Difference spectra between resting and excited nerve in the infrared region between 2000 and 1000 cm(-1) have been examined with a resolution of 0.5 cm(-1). Spectra were obtained with a modified Perkin-Elmer model 521 grating infrared spectrophotometer (Perkin-Elmer Corp., Instrument Div., Norwalk, Conn.), and the sig...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Sherebrin MH,MacClement BA,Franko AJ

更新日期：1972-08-01 00:00:00