The height of biomolecules measured with the atomic force microscope depends on electrostatic interactions.

abstract：:Stabilization of the lipid bilayer membrane in red blood cells by its association with an underlying membrane-associated cytoskeleton has long been recognized as critical for proper red blood cell function. One of the principal connections between skeleton and bilayer is via linkages between band 3, the integral membr...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Butler J,Mohandas N,Waugh RE

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Most of the cellular ATP in living organisms is synthesized by the enzyme F(1)F(o)-ATP synthase. The water soluble F(1) part of the enzyme can also work in reverse and utilize the chemical energy released during ATP hydrolysis to generate mechanical motion. Despite the availability of a large amount of biochemical dat...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Dittrich M,Hayashi S,Schulten K

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The temperature dependence of drug blockade of a calcium-dependent potassium channel K(Ca) has been studied in cultured CA1 hippocampal neurons. Channel openings from a 70-pS K+ channel were recorded when inside-out patches were exposed to a bath solution containing 140 mM K+ and 0.2 mM Ca2+. The mean open times of ch...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： McLarnon JG,Wang XP

更新日期：1991-11-01 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：:Limited proteolysis of RNase-A yields a short N-terminal S-peptide segment and the larger S-protein. Binding of S-peptide to S-protein results in the formation of an enzymatically active RNase-S protein. S-peptide undergoes a transition from intrinsic disorder to an ordered helical state upon association with S-protei...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Luitz MP,Bomblies R,Zacharias M

更新日期：2017-10-03 00:00:00

abstract：:On the basis of its role in the analysis of mammillary compartmental systems, a matrix with non-zero elements in the first row, first column, and along the main diagonal and with zero elements elsewhere is called a mammillary matrix. It is pointed out that such matrices occur in a variety of biological problems includ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Hearon JZ

更新日期：1964-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe the use of asymmetric Ru-ligand complexes as a new class of luminescent probes that can be used to measure rotational motions of proteins. These complexes are known to display luminescent lifetimes ranging from 10 to 4000 ns. In this report, we show that the asymmetric complex Ru(bpy)2(dcbpy) (PF6)2 displa...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Terpetschnig E,Szmacinski H,Malak H,Lakowicz JR

更新日期：1995-01-01 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：: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：:Formation of α-helices is a fundamental process in protein folding and assembly. By studying helix formation in molecular simulations of a series of alanine-based peptides, we obtain the temperature-dependent α-helix propensities of all 20 naturally occurring residues with two recent additive force fields, Amber ff03w...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Best RB,de Sancho D,Mittal J

更新日期：2012-03-21 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine why elements of central pattern generators phase lock in a particular pattern under some conditions but not others, we tested a theoretical pattern prediction method. The method is based on the tabulated open loop pulsatile interactions of bursting neurons on a cycle-by-cycle basis and was tested in close...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Oprisan SA,Prinz AA,Canavier CC

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new stable substrate applicable to the observation of DNA molecules by atomic force microscopy (AFM) was fabricated from a ultrasmooth sapphire (alpha-Al2O3 single crystal) plate. The atomically ultrasmooth sapphire as obtained by high-temperature annealing has hydrophobic surfaces and could not be used for the AFM ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Yoshida K,Yoshimoto M,Sasaki K,Ohnishi T,Ushiki T,Hitomi J,Yamamoto S,Sigeno M

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Structural rearrangements of the myosin upper-50 kD subdomain are thought to play a key role in coordinating actin binding with nucleotide hydrolysis during the myosin ATPase cycle. Such rearrangements could open and close the active site in opposition to the actin-binding cleft, helping explain the opposing affinitie...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Robertson CI,Gaffney DP 2nd,Chrin LR,Berger CL

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Current methods for analysis of data from studies of protein-protein interactions using fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET) emerged from several decades of research using wide-field microscopes and spectrofluorometers to measure fluorescence from individual cells or cell populations. Inherent to most measure...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Singh DR,Raicu V

更新日期：2010-05-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The rate of muscle force redevelopment after release-restretch protocols has previously been interpreted using a simple two-state cross-bridge cycling model with rate constants for transitions between non-force-bearing and force-bearing states, f, and between force-bearing and non-force-bearing states, g. Changes in t...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Campbell K

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of aggregation of gramicidin A' (GA) on the phase structure of dipalmitoylphosphatidylcholine (DPPC) multilamellar vesicles was studied by cw-ESR using a chain-labeled lipid (16PC) at temperatures between 30 degrees and 45 degreesC that span the main phase transition of DPPC. Boundary lipids were observed o...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Ge M,Freed JH

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hemoglobin functions as a tetrameric oxygen transport protein, with each subunit containing a heme cofactor. Its denaturation, either in vivo or in vitro, involves autoxidation to methemoglobin, followed by cofactor loss and globin unfolding. We have proposed a global disassembly scheme for human methemoglobin, linkin...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Samuel PP,White MA,Ou WC,Case DA,Phillips GN Jr,Olson JS

更新日期：2020-03-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The structure of fully hydrated gel phase dimyristoylphosphatidylcholine lipid bilayers was obtained at 10 degrees C. Oriented lipid multilayers were used to obtain high signal-to-noise intensity data. The chain tilt angle and an estimate of the methylene electron density were obtained from wide angle reflections. The...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Tristram-Nagle S,Liu Y,Legleiter J,Nagle JF

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neurons communicate by releasing neurotransmitters that are stored in intracellular vesicular compartments. PC12 cells are frequently used as a model secretory cell line that is described to have two subpools of vesicles: small clear vesicles and dense core vesicles. We measured transmitter molecules released from ves...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Adams RD,Harkins AB

更新日期：2014-12-16 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate the properties of a pure liquid ordered (Lo) phase in a model membrane system, a series of saturated phosphatidylcholines combined with cholesterol were examined by variable temperature multinuclear (1H, 2H, 13C, 31P) solid-state NMR spectroscopy and x-ray scattering. Compositions with cholesterol conce...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Clarke JA,Heron AJ,Seddon JM,Law RV

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A two-dimensional (2D) model of lipid bilayers was developed and used to investigate a possible role of membrane lateral tension in membrane fusion. We found that an increase of lateral tension in contacting monolayers of 2D analogs of liposomes and planar membranes could cause not only hemifusion, but also complete f...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Chanturiya A,Scaria P,Kuksenok O,Woodle MC

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Functional RNAs can fold into intricate structures using a number of different secondary and tertiary structural motifs. Many factors contribute to the overall free energy of the target fold. This study aims at quantifying the entropic costs coming from the loss of conformational freedom when the sugar-phosphate backb...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Mak CH,Phan ENH

更新日期：2018-05-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Small-angle neutron scattering (SANS) is used to probe the solution structure of two protein therapeutics (monoclonal antibodies 1 and 2 (MAb1 and MAb2)) and their protein-protein interaction (PPI) at high concentrations. These MAbs differ by small sequence alterations in the complementarity-determining region but sho...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Yearley EJ,Zarraga IE,Shire SJ,Scherer TM,Gokarn Y,Wagner NJ,Liu Y

更新日期：2013-08-06 00:00:00

abstract：:In this article, we explore the information content of molecular force-field calculations. We make use of exhaustive lattice models of molecular conformations and reduced alphabet sequences to determine the relative resolving power of pairwise interaction-based force fields. We find that sequence-specific interactions...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Aynechi T,Kuntz ID

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In two-color fluorescence correlation spectroscopy (TCFCS), the fluorescence intensities of two fluorescently-labeled species are cross-correlated over time and can be used to identify static and dynamic interactions. Generally, fluorophore labels are chosen that do not undergo Förster resonance energy transfer (FRET)...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Hom EF,Verkman AS

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intracellular recordings of cortical neurons in vivo display intense subthreshold membrane potential (V(m)) activity. The power spectral density of the V(m) displays a power-law structure at high frequencies (>50 Hz) with a slope of approximately -2.5. This type of frequency scaling cannot be accounted for by traditio...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Bédard C,Destexhe A

更新日期：2008-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The Green's function technique is applied to a study of breathing modes in a DNA double helix which contains a region of different base pairs from the rest of the double helix. The calculation is performed on a G-C helix in the B conformation with four consecutive base pairs replaced by A-T. The average stretch in hyd...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Feng Y,Prohofsky EW

更新日期：1990-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The organization of filamentous actin and myosin II molecular motor contractility is known to modify the mechanical properties of the cell cortical actomyosin cytoskeleton. Here we describe a novel method, to our knowledge, for using force spectroscopy approach curves with tipless cantilevers to determine the actomyos...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Cartagena-Rivera AX,Logue JS,Waterman CM,Chadwick RS

更新日期：2016-06-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Cyclic GMP (cGMP) is the intracellular messenger mediating phototransduction in retinal rods, with its longitudinal diffusion in the rod outer segment (ROS) likely to be a factor in determining light sensitivity. From the kinetics of cGMP-activated currents in the truncated ROS of the salamander (Ambystoma tigrinum), ...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： Koutalos Y,Brown RL,Karpen JW,Yau KW

更新日期：1995-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously studied single, voltage-dependent, saxitoxin-(STX) blockable sodium channels from rat brain in planar lipid bilayers, and found that channel block by STX was voltage-dependent. Here we describe the effect of voltage on the degree of block and on the kinetics of the blocking reaction. From their volt...

journal_title：Biophysical journal

authors： French RJ,Worley JF 3rd,Krueger BK

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00