External reflection absorption infrared spectroscopy study of lung surfactant proteins SP-B and SP-C in phospholipid monolayers at the air/water interface.

abstract：:It is well known that electromagnetic fields cause mechanical forces. If one applies an electrical field to a suspension of microscopic particles, these particles realign themselves along the direction of the field and form pearl-chain-like aggregates. These chains are mostly single stranded but they are frequently mu...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Takashima S,Schwan HP

更新日期：1985-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Calcium channels in neurons mediate a wide variety of essential functions. In addition to contributing to action potential shape, they furnish a substrate that acts as an intracellular second messenger. This study shows that the shape of the neuronal action potential has characteristics that promote long openings of L...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Mazzanti M,Galli A,Ferroni A

更新日期：1992-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET) was used to reveal aspects of the mechanism of signal transduction by epidermal growth factor receptors (EGFR). The superpositions of epidermal growth factor (EGF), transforming growth factor-alpha (TGFalpha) and an antibody fragment (29.1) to the carbohydrate extremity of...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Martin-Fernandez M,Clarke DT,Tobin MJ,Jones SV,Jones GR

更新日期：2002-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The photoelectron quantum yields of 21 common amino acids and 15 polyamino acids were measured in the 180-240 nm wavelength region. On the average, the quantum yields of these two groups exhibit quite similar wavelength dependence. For lambda > 220 nm all amino acid and polyamino acid quantum yields are

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Dam RJ,Burke CA,Griffith OH

更新日期：1974-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Single-molecule epifluorescence microscopy was used to observe the translational motion of GPI-linked and native I-E(k) class II MHC membrane proteins in the plasma membrane of CHO cells. The purpose of the study was to look for deviations from Brownian diffusion that might arise from barriers to this motion. Detergen...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Vrljic M,Nishimura SY,Brasselet S,Moerner WE,McConnell HM

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:ATP synthase (F-ATPase) operates as an electrochemical-to-mechanical-to-chemical energy transducer with an astounding 360 degrees rotary motion of subunits epsilongammac(10-14) (rotor) against delta(alphabeta)(3)ab(2) (stator). The enzyme's torque as a function of the angular reaction coordinate in relation to ATP-syn...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Cherepanov DA,Junge W

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Solubility plays a major role in protein purification, and has serious implications in many diseases. We studied the effects of pH and mutations on protein solubility by calculating the transfer free energy from the condensed phase to the solution phase. The condensed phase was modeled as an implicit solvent, with a d...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Tjong H,Zhou HX

更新日期：2008-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Beat-to-beat alternation of the action potential duration (APD) in paced cardiac cells has been linked to the onset of lethal arrhythmias. Both experimental and theoretical studies have shown that alternans at the single cell level can be caused by unstable membrane voltage (V(m)) dynamics linked to steep APD-restitut...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Sato D,Shiferaw Y,Qu Z,Garfinkel A,Weiss JN,Karma A

更新日期：2007-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The outer membrane porin OmpF from Escherichia coli has been reconstituted into lipid bilayers of defined composition, and fluorescence spectroscopy is used to characterize its interaction with the surrounding lipid. OmpF is a trimer within the membrane. It contains two Trp residues per monomer, Trp(214) at the lipid-...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： O'Keeffe AH,East JM,Lee AG

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Slow fluorescence transients in Chlamydomonas reinhardi arise after transitions from high light intensities to low light or dark conditions. Characteristics of the newly described transient phenomena include: (a) A slow biphasic decrease in fluorescence yield occurs in the dark, followed by an even slower, hour long, ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Rice GE,Bannister TT

更新日期：1980-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Infrared spectroscopy has long been used to examine the average secondary structure and orientation of membrane proteins. With the recent utilization of site-specific isotope labeling (e.g., peptidic 1-(13)C = (18)O) it is now possible to examine localized properties, rather than global averages. The technique of site...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Arbely E,Kass I,Arkin IT

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adenylate kinase, an enzyme that catalyzes the phosphoryl transfer between ATP and AMP, can interconvert between the open and catalytically potent (closed) forms even without binding ligands. Several aspects of the enzyme elasticity and internal dynamics are analyzed here by atomistic molecular dynamics simulations co...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Pontiggia F,Zen A,Micheletti C

更新日期：2008-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Catch bonds are characterized by average lifetimes that initially increase with increasing tensile force. Recently, they have been implicated in T cell activation, where small numbers of antigenic receptor-ligand bonds at a cell-cell interface can stimulate a T cell. Here, we use computational methods to investigate s...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Pullen RH 3rd,Abel SM

更新日期：2017-07-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The small mechanosensitive channel, MscS, is a part of the turgor-driven solute efflux system that protects bacteria from lysis in the event of osmotic downshift. It has been identified in Escherichia coli as a product of the orphan yggB gene, now called mscS (Levina et al., 1999, EMBO J. 18:1730). Here I show that th...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Sukharev S

更新日期：2002-07-01 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：:In this study maximum shortening velocity (Vmax) and isometric tension (P0) in skinned single fibers from rat slow soleus (SOL) and fast superficial vastus lateralis (SVL) muscles were examined after varying degrees of filament lattice compression with dextran. In both fiber types Vmax was greatest in the absence of d...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Metzger JM,Moss RL

更新日期：1987-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Communication-deficient cells (the SKHep1 cell line) were stably transfected with a plasmid containing cDNA which encodes the major gap junction protein of rat liver, connexin32. Application of the dual whole-cell voltage clamp technique with patch electrodes to pairs of transfected SKHep1 cells revealed strong sensit...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Moreno AP,Eghbali B,Spray DC

更新日期：1991-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The backbone dynamics for the 29.5 kDa class A beta-lactamase PSE-4 is presented. This solution NMR study was performed using multiple field (15)N spin relaxation and amide exchange data in the EX2 regime. Analysis was carried out with the relax program and includes the Lipari-Szabo model-free approach. Showing simila...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Morin S,Gagné SM

更新日期：2009-06-03 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：:A novel system for measuring, simultaneously, ciliary beating and intracellular free calcium is presented. The advantages and dynamic nature of the system are demonstrated by measuring the effects of the calcium ionophore lonomycin and of extracellular ATP on ciliated rabbit trachea. The results are discussed with reg...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Korngreen A,Priel Z

更新日期：1994-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Steady state fluorescence polarization spectra and time-resolved emission decay kinetics have been measured in vitro from malignant and normal rat kidney tissue. The degrees of polarization and emission lifetimes from the cancerous and normal systems are different. The spectroscopic differences are attributed to envir...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Tata DB,Foresti M,Cordero J,Tomashefsky P,Alfano MA,Alfano RR

更新日期：1986-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of ionic strength on the macroscopic and microscopic redox potentials and the heme environment of cytochrome c3 from Desulfovibrio vulgaris Miyazaki F have been investigated by NMR and electrochemical methods. The redox potentials of this tetraheme protein are found to be ionic strength-dependent. Especiall...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Ohmura T,Nakamura H,Niki K,Cusanovich MA,Akutsu H

更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thin filament regulation of contraction is thought to involve the binding of two activating ligands: Ca2+ and strongly bound cross-bridges. The specific cross-bridge states required to promote thin filament activation have not been identified. This study examines the relationship between cross-bridge cycling and thin ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Wahr PA,Metzger JM

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The S4 segments of voltage-gated sodium channels are important parts of the voltage-sensing elements of these proteins. Furthermore, the addition of the isolated S4 polypeptide to planar lipid bilayers results in stepwise increases of ion conductivity. In order to gain insight into the mechanisms of pore formation by ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Mattila K,Kinder R,Bechinger B

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is now known that the flexibility of the troponin T (TnT) tail determines thin filament conformation and hence cross-bridge cycling properties, expanding the classic structural role of TnT to a dynamic role regulating sarcomere function. Here, using transgenic mice bearing R-92W and R-92L missense mutations in card...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： He H,Javadpour MM,Latif F,Tardiff JC,Ingwall JS

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Molecular dynamics simulations were performed to describe the function of the ion-channel-forming toxin α-hemolysin (αHL) in lipid membranes that were composed of either 1,2-diphytanoyl-sn-glycero-3-phospho-choline or 1-palmitoyl-2-oleoyl-sn-glycero-3-phospho-choline. The simulations highlight the importance of lipid ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Guros NB,Balijepalli A,Klauda JB

更新日期：2018-11-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The relative contributions of the allosteric and affinity factors toward the change in p50 have been calculated for a series of effectors of hemoglobin (Hb). Shifts in the ligand affinity of deoxy Hb and the values for 50% ligand saturation (p50) were obtained from oxygen equilibrium data. Because the high-affinity pa...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Marden MC,Bohn B,Kister J,Poyart C

更新日期：1990-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transcription factors use both protein-DNA and protein-protein interactions to assemble appropriate complexes to regulate gene expression. Although most transcription factors operate as monomers or dimers, a few, including the E26 transformation-specific family repressors Drosophila melanogaster Yan and its human homo...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Hope CM,Rebay I,Reinitz J

更新日期：2017-01-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Amyloid fibrils are associated with many neurodegenerative diseases. It was found that amyloidogenic oligomers, not mature fibrils, are neurotoxic agents related to these diseases. Molecular mechanisms of infectivity, pathways of aggregation, and molecular structure of these oligomers remain elusive. Here, we use all-...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Blinov N,Dorosh L,Wishart D,Kovalenko A

更新日期：2010-01-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The process of clathrin self-assembly into closed shells with the Fullerene structure is investigated. It is argued that the shell size distribution is governed by the kinetics of assembly and depends on the rate of growth controlled by the free clathrin concentration. The particularly abundant small structures--the "...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Shraiman BI

更新日期：1997-02-01 00:00:00