Calcium binding decreases the stokes radius of calmodulin and mutants R74A, R90A, and R90G.

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：: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：:2D-ELDOR spectroscopy has been employed to study the dynamic structure of the liquid-ordered (Lo) phase versus that of the liquid-crystalline (Lc) phase in multibilayer phospholipid vesicles without (Lc) and with (Lo) cholesterol, using end-chain and headgroup labels and spin-labeled cholestane. The spectra are in mos...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Costa-Filho AJ,Shimoyama Y,Freed JH

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We apply topography and recognition (TREC) imaging to the analysis of whole, untreated human tissue for what we believe to be the first time. Pseudoexfoliation syndrome (PEX), a well-known cause of irreversible blindness worldwide, is characterized by abnormal protein aggregation on the anterior lens capsule of the ey...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Creasey R,Sharma S,Craig JE,Gibson CT,Ebner A,Hinterdorfer P,Voelcker NH

更新日期：2010-09-08 00:00:00

abstract：:A computational analysis of d(GGGGTTTTGGGG)(2) guanine quadruplexes containing either lateral or diagonal four-thymidine loops was carried out using molecular dynamics (MD) simulations in explicit solvent, locally enhanced sampling (LES) simulations, systematic conformational search, and free energy molecular-mechanic...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Fadrná E,Spacková N,Stefl R,Koca J,Cheatham TE 3rd,Sponer J

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Proliferation of mammalian cells, even under conditions of unlimited growth, presents a complex problem because of the interaction of deterministic and stochastic processes. Division of the cell cycle into a finite number of parts establishes a multidimensional vector space. In this space an arbitrary culture can be r...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Hahn GM

更新日期：1966-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microsecond rotational motions of nitroxide spin labels are measured primarily with saturation transfer electron paramagnetic resonance (ST-EPR). In the present study we have used model system experiments to quantitatively evaluate different ST-EPR spectral parameters, both in-phase and out-of-phase, with an emphasis ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Squier TC,Thomas DD

更新日期：1986-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Calculations based on the known dimensions of bull spermatozoa show that the scattered light intensity is strongly dependent upon the relative orientation of the particle to the incident beam. The magnitude of this effect of apparently much greater than for other systems where motility has been investigated by dynamic...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Harvey JD,Woolford MW

更新日期：1980-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alamethicin is a 19-residue hydrophobic peptide, which is extended by a C-terminal phenylalaninol but lacks residues that might anchor the ends of the peptide at the lipid-water interface. Voltage-dependent ion channels formed by alamethicin depend strongly in their characteristics on chain length of the host lipid me...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Marsh D,Jost M,Peggion C,Toniolo C

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacterial endotoxins (lipopolysaccharides (LPS)) are strong elicitors of the human immune system by interacting with serum and membrane proteins such as lipopolysaccharide-binding protein (LBP) and CD14 with high specificity. At LPS concentrations as low as 0.3 ng/ml, such interactions may lead to severe pathophysiolo...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Kaconis Y,Kowalski I,Howe J,Brauser A,Richter W,Razquin-Olazarán I,Iñigo-Pestaña M,Garidel P,Rössle M,Martinez de Tejada G,Gutsmann T,Brandenburg K

更新日期：2011-06-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The geometry of domains in phospholipid bilayers of binary (1:1) mixtures of synthetic lecithins with a difference in chain length of four methylene groups has been studied by two independent, direct and complementary methods. Grazing incidence diffraction of neutrons provided gel domain sizes of less than 10 nm in bo...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Gliss C,Clausen-Schaumann H,Günther R,Odenbach S,Randl O,Bayerl TM

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Current far-field fluorescence nanoscopes provide subdiffraction resolution by exploiting a mechanism of fluorescence inhibition. This mechanism is implemented such that features closer than the diffraction limit emit separately when simultaneously exposed to excitation light. A basic mechanism for such transient fluo...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Testa I,Wurm CA,Medda R,Rothermel E,von Middendorf C,Fölling J,Jakobs S,Schönle A,Hell SW,Eggeling C

更新日期：2010-10-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Unsaturated phospholipid is the membrane component that is essential to the dynamic environment needed for biomembrane function. The dependence of the chain-melting transition temperature, T(t), of phospholipid bilayer membranes on the position, n(u), of the cis double bond in the glycerophospholipid sn-2 chain can be...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Marsh D

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have used electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) to probe the homo- and heterooligomeric interactions of reconstituted sarcoplasmic reticulum Ca-ATPase (SERCA) and its regulator phospholamban (PLB). SERCA is responsible for restoring calcium to the sarcoplasmic reticulum to allow muscle relaxation, whereas PLB inhib...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： James ZM,McCaffrey JE,Torgersen KD,Karim CB,Thomas DD

更新日期：2012-09-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Eukaryotic DNA is packaged into the cell nucleus as a nucleoprotein complex, chromatin. Despite this condensed state, access to the DNA sequence must occur during gene expression and other essential genetic events. Here we employ optical tweezers stretching of reconstituted chromatin fibers to investigate the release ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Pope LH,Bennink ML,van Leijenhorst-Groener KA,Nikova D,Greve J,Marko JF

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Solid phase amplification (SPA), a new method to amplify DNA, is characterized by the use of surface-bound primers. This limits the amplification to two-dimensional surfaces and therefore allows the easy parallelization of DNA amplification in a single system. SPA leads to the formation of small but dense DNA brushes,...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Mercier JF,Slater GW

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The incompressibility of the lipid bilayer keeps the total surface area of the red cell membrane constant. Local conservation of membrane surface area requires that each surface element of the membrane skeleton keeps its area when its aspect ratio is changed. A change in area would require a flow of lipids past the in...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Fischer TM

更新日期：1992-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of electric fields on dry oriented multibilayers of dimyristoylphosphatidylcholine (DMPC) was investigated by transmission Fourier transform infrared electric field modulated excitation (E-ME) spectroscopy. A periodic rectangular electric potential (0-150 V, 1.25 Hz, 28.4 degrees C +/- 0.2 degrees C) was ap...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Schwarzott M,Lasch P,Baurecht D,Naumann D,Fringeli UP

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The susceptibility of the Neurospora crassa (slime) cellular membrane to electroporation and electrodestruction in an alternating electric field was further investigated. The results were analyzed according to the dynamic rheological model of the cytoplasmic membrane. Based on an analytical description of membrane sus...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Pawlowski P,Szutowicz I,Rózycki S,Zieliński J,Fikus M

更新日期：1996-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The dynamics of proton transfer between the surface of purple membrane and the aqueous bulk have recently been investigated by the Laser Induced Proton Pulse Method. Following a Delta-function release of protons to the bulk, the system was seen to regain its state of equilibrium within a few hundreds of microseconds. ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Schätzler B,Dencher NA,Tittor J,Oesterhelt D,Yaniv-Checover S,Nachliel E,Gutman M

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Direct spectroscopic measurements of rotational motions of proteins and large protein segments are crucial to understanding the molecular dynamics of protein function. Fluorescent probes and spin labels attached to proteins have proved to be powerful tools in the study of large-scale protein motions. Fluorescence depo...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Thomas DD

更新日期：1978-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many membrane-bound molecules in cells form small clusters. It has been hypothesized that these clusters convert an analog extracellular signal into a digital intracellular signal and that this conversion increases signaling fidelity. However, the mechanism by which clusters digitize a signal and the subsequent effect...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Roob E 3rd,Trendel N,Rein Ten Wolde P,Mugler A

更新日期：2016-04-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Fluorescence polarization, P, of 1,6-diphenyl-1,3,5-hexatriene was studied in Escherichia coli B/r. Modification of nutritional conditions was not compensated by homeoviscous adaptation, demonstrated to exist for temperature variations. Cell diameter, which is known also to vary with nutrition but not with temperature...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Zaritsky A,Parola AH,Abdah M,Masalha H

更新日期：1985-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To record post synaptic potentials or electrical activity from processes of single cells in a central nervous system (CNS) preparation in situ, voltage sensitive dyes can be injected intracellularly, thereby staining only the cell under investigation. We report the structure, evaluation, and synthesis of 11 fluorescen...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Grinvald A,Salzberg BM,Lev-Ram V,Hildesheim R

更新日期：1987-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Small single-domain proteins often exhibit only a single free-energy barrier, or transition state, between the denatured and the native state. The folding kinetics of these proteins is usually explored via mutational analysis. A central question is which structural information on the transition state can be derived fr...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Weikl TR

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied the effects of permeant ions on the gating of the large conductance Ca(2+)-activated K+ channel from rat skeletal muscle. Rb+ blockade of inward K+ current caused an increase in the open probability as though Rb+ occupancy of the pore interferes with channel closing. In support of this hypothesis, we direct...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Demo SD,Yellen G

更新日期：1992-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to gain insight into how interactions between proteins and lipids in membranes are sensed at the protein-lipid interface. As a probe to analyze this interface, we used deuterium-labeled acyl chains that were covalently linked to a model transmembrane peptide. First, a perdeuterated palmitoyl ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Nyholm TK,van Duyl B,Rijkers DT,Liskamp RM,Killian JA

更新日期：2011-10-19 00:00:00

abstract：:This work describes the first cell-based model of tumor-induced angiogenesis. At the extracellular level, the model describes diffusion, uptake, and decay of tumor-secreted pro-angiogenic factor. At the cellular level, the model uses the cellular Potts model based on system-energy reduction to describe endothelial cel...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Bauer AL,Jackson TL,Jiang Y

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of internally and externally applied sulfhydryl reagents on the bioelectric properties of the giant axon of the squid Loligo pealeii and Dosidicus gigas were studied. Cysteine-HCl (400 mM, pH 7.3) was used to remove axoplasm from the perfusion channel. Oxidizing agents (1 to 60 mM) tended to increase the d...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Huneeus-Cox F,Fernandez HL,Smith BH

更新日期：1966-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The interaction of cells in a tissue depends on the nature of the extracellular matrix. The electrical properties of the narrow extracellular space are unknown. Here we consider cell adhesion mediated by extracellular matrix protein on a solid substrate as a model system. We culture human embryonic kidney (HEK293) cel...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Gleixner R,Fromherz P

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00