Biophysical Journal -- Table of Contents (95 [5])

BIOPHYSICAL THEORY AND MODELING:

Agustí Emperador, Oliver Carrillo, Manuel Rueda, and Modesto Orozco: Exploring the Suitability of Coarse-Grained Techniques for the Representation of Protein Dynamics
Biophys. J. 2008 95: 2127-2138; Published ahead of print on May 16, 2008 as doi:10.1529/biophysj.107.119115. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Hiroaki Chiba, Natalie S. Schneider, Satoshi Matsuoka, and Akinori Noma: A Simulation Study on the Activation of Cardiac CaMKII ${delta}$ -Isoform and Its Regulation by Phosphatases
Biophys. J. 2008 95: 2139-2149; Published ahead of print on May 23, 2008 as doi:10.1529/biophysj.107.118505. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Anatoly M. Ruvinsky and Ilya A. Vakser: Chasing Funnels on Protein-Protein Energy Landscapes at Different Resolutions
Biophys. J. 2008 95: 2150-2159; Published ahead of print on May 30, 2008 as doi:10.1529/biophysj.108.132977. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Luigi Catacuzzeno, Bernard Fioretti, and Fabio Franciolini: Modeling Study of the Effects of Membrane Surface Charge on Calcium Microdomains and Neurotransmitter Release
Biophys. J. 2008 95: 2160-2171; Published ahead of print on May 23, 2008 as doi:10.1529/biophysj.107.124909. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplement]

Michael I. Monine and Jason M. Haugh: Signal Transduction at Point-Blank Range: Analysis of a Spatial Coupling Mechanism for Pathway Crosstalk
Biophys. J. 2008 95: 2172-2182; Published ahead of print on May 23, 2008 as doi:10.1529/biophysj.108.128892. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplement]

Clark A. Miller and Daniel A. Beard: The Effects of Reversibility and Noise on Stochastic Phosphorylation Cycles and Cascades
Biophys. J. 2008 95: 2183-2192; Published ahead of print on May 30, 2008 as doi:10.1529/biophysj.107.126185. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Geneviève Dupont, Aurélie Abou-Lovergne, and Laurent Combettes: Stochastic Aspects of Oscillatory Ca²⁺ Dynamics in Hepatocytes
Biophys. J. 2008 95: 2193-2202; Published ahead of print on May 30, 2008 as doi:10.1529/biophysj.108.133777. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Heiko Enderling, Nelson R. Alexander, Emily S. Clark, Kevin M. Branch, Lourdes Estrada, Cornelia Crooke, Jérôme Jourquin, Nichole Lobdell, Muhammad H. Zaman, Scott A. Guelcher, Alexander R. A. Anderson, and Alissa M. Weaver: Dependence of Invadopodia Function on Collagen Fiber Spacing and Cross-Linking: Computational Modeling and Experimental Evidence
Biophys. J. 2008 95: 2203-2218; Published ahead of print on May 30, 2008 as doi:10.1529/biophysj.108.133199. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplement]

M. Hamsa Priya, J. K. Shah, D. Asthagiri, and M. E. Paulaitis: Distinguishing Thermodynamic and Kinetic Views of the Preferential Hydration of Protein Surfaces
Biophys. J. 2008 95: 2219-2225; Published ahead of print on May 30, 2008 as doi:10.1529/biophysj.108.133553. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

CHANNELS, RECEPTORS, AND ELECTRICAL SIGNALING:

Yi-der Chen, Shaokun Wang, and Arthur Sherman: Identifying the Targets of the Amplifying Pathway for Insulin Secretion in Pancreatic β-Cells by Kinetic Modeling of Granule Exocytosis
Biophys. J. 2008 95: 2226-2241; Published ahead of print on May 30, 2008 as doi:10.1529/biophysj.107.124990. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Sara I. Börjesson, Sven Hammarström, and Fredrik Elinder: Lipoelectric Modification of Ion Channel Voltage Gating by Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids
Biophys. J. 2008 95: 2242-2253; Published ahead of print on May 23, 2008 as doi:10.1529/biophysj.108.130757. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Francesco Miceli, Maria Virginia Soldovieri, Ciria C. Hernandez, Mark S. Shapiro, Lucio Annunziato, and Maurizio Taglialatela: Gating Consequences of Charge Neutralization of Arginine Residues in the S₄ Segment of K_v7.2, an Epilepsy-Linked K⁺ Channel Subunit
Biophys. J. 2008 95: 2254-2264; Published ahead of print on May 30, 2008 as doi:10.1529/biophysj.107.128371. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Simone Furini, Carmen Domene, Michele Rossi, Marco Tartagni, and Silvio Cavalcanti: Model-Based Prediction of the ${alpha}$ -Hemolysin Structure in the Hexameric State
Biophys. J. 2008 95: 2265-2274; Published ahead of print on May 23, 2008 as doi:10.1529/biophysj.107.127019. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Guillem Portella, Jochen S. Hub, Martin D. Vesper, and Bert L. de Groot: Not Only Enthalpy: Large Entropy Contribution to Ion Permeation Barriers in Single-File Channels
Biophys. J. 2008 95: 2275-2282; Published ahead of print on May 30, 2008 as doi:10.1529/biophysj.108.130609. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Irene Iscla, Robin Wray, and Paul Blount: On the Structure of the N-Terminal Domain of the MscL Channel: Helical Bundle or Membrane Interface
Biophys. J. 2008 95: 2283-2291; Published ahead of print on May 30, 2008 as doi:10.1529/biophysj.107.127423. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplement]

Zhijian Huang and Emad Tajkhorshid: Dynamics of the Extracellular Gate and Ion-Substrate Coupling in the Glutamate Transporter
Biophys. J. 2008 95: 2292-2300; Published ahead of print on May 30, 2008 as doi:10.1529/biophysj.108.133421. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

MEMBRANES:

Suliana Manley, Margaret R. Horton, Szymon Lecszynski, and Alice P. Gast: Sorting of Streptavidin Protein Coats on Phase-Separating Model Membranes
Biophys. J. 2008 95: 2301-2307; Published ahead of print on May 23, 2008 as doi:10.1529/biophysj.107.124024. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Azucena Gonzalez-Horta, David Andreu, Michael R. Morrow, and Jesús Perez-Gil: Effects of Palmitoylation on Dynamics and Phospholipid-Bilayer-Perturbing Properties of the N-Terminal Segment of Pulmonary Surfactant Protein SP-C as Shown by ²H-NMR
Biophys. J. 2008 95: 2308-2317; Published ahead of print on May 23, 2008 as doi:10.1529/biophysj.108.132845. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Yen Sun, Chang-Chun Lee, Wei-Chin Hung, Fang-Yu Chen, Ming-Tao Lee, and Huey W. Huang: The Bound States of Amphipathic Drugs in Lipid Bilayers: Study of Curcumin
Biophys. J. 2008 95: 2318-2324; Published ahead of print on May 30, 2008 as doi:10.1529/biophysj.108.133736. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Felix Campelo, Harvey T. McMahon, and Michael M. Kozlov: The Hydrophobic Insertion Mechanism of Membrane Curvature Generation by Proteins
Biophys. J. 2008 95: 2325-2339; Published ahead of print on May 30, 2008 as doi:10.1529/biophysj.108.133173. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Karen Sabatini, Juha-Pekka Mattila, and Paavo K. J. Kinnunen: Interfacial Behavior of Cholesterol, Ergosterol, and Lanosterol in Mixtures with DPPC and DMPC
Biophys. J. 2008 95: 2340-2355; Published ahead of print on May 30, 2008 as doi:10.1529/biophysj.108.132076. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Norbert Kucerka, John F. Nagle, Jonathan N. Sachs, Scott E. Feller, Jeremy Pencer, Andrew Jackson, and John Katsaras: Lipid Bilayer Structure Determined by the Simultaneous Analysis of Neutron and X-Ray Scattering Data
Biophys. J. 2008 95: 2356-2367; Published ahead of print on May 23, 2008 as doi:10.1529/biophysj.108.132662. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplement]

MUSCLE AND CONTRACTILITY:

John Jeremy Rice, Fei Wang, Donald M. Bers, and Pieter P. de Tombe: Approximate Model of Cooperative Activation and Crossbridge Cycling in Cardiac Muscle Using Ordinary Differential Equations
Biophys. J. 2008 95: 2368-2390; Published ahead of print on January 30, 2008 as doi:10.1529/biophysj.107.119487. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplement]

Mark S. Miller, Panagiotis Lekkas, Joan M. Braddock, Gerrie P. Farman, Bryan A. Ballif, Thomas C. Irving, David W. Maughan, and Jim O. Vigoreaux: Aging Enhances Indirect Flight Muscle Fiber Performance yet Decreases Flight Ability in Drosophila
Biophys. J. 2008 95: 2391-2401; Published ahead of print on May 30, 2008 as doi:10.1529/biophysj.108.130005. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

PHOTOBIOPHYSICS:

Sergei P. Balashov, Eleonora S. Imasheva, Jennifer M. Wang, and Janos K. Lanyi: Excitation Energy-Transfer and the Relative Orientation of Retinal and Carotenoid in Xanthorhodopsin
Biophys. J. 2008 95: 2402-2414; Published ahead of print on May 30, 2008 as doi:10.1529/biophysj.108.132175. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

PROTEINS:

Nathalie Colloc'h, Laure Gabison, Gérald Monard, Muhannad Altarsha, Mohamed Chiadmi, Guillaume Marassio, Jana Sopkova-de Oliveira Santos, Mohamed El Hajji, Bertrand Castro, Jacques H. Abraini, and Thierry Prangé: Oxygen Pressurized X-Ray Crystallography: Probing the Dioxygen Binding Site in Cofactorless Urate Oxidase and Implications for Its Catalytic Mechanism
Biophys. J. 2008 95: 2415-2422; Published ahead of print on March 28, 2008 as doi:10.1529/biophysj.107.122184. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplement]

P. Thomen, P. J. Lopez, U. Bockelmann, J. Guillerez, M. Dreyfus, and F. Heslot: T7 RNA Polymerase Studied by Force Measurements Varying Cofactor Concentration
Biophys. J. 2008 95: 2423-2433. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Yelena A. Arnautova and Harold A. Scheraga: Use of Decoys to Optimize an All-Atom Force Field Including Hydration
Biophys. J. 2008 95: 2434-2449; Published ahead of print on May 23, 2008 as doi:10.1529/biophysj.108.133587. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Enrico Di Stasio, Stefano Lancellotti, Flora Peyvandi, Roberta Palla, Pier Mannuccio Mannucci, and Raimondo De Cristofaro: Mechanistic Studies on ADAMTS13 Catalysis
Biophys. J. 2008 95: 2450-2461; Published ahead of print on May 23, 2008 as doi:10.1529/biophysj.108.131532. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplement]

Nina V. Visser, Adrie H. Westphal, Arie van Hoek, Carlo P. M. van Mierlo, Antonie J. W. G. Visser, and Herbert van Amerongen: Tryptophan-Tryptophan Energy Migration as a Tool to Follow Apoflavodoxin Folding
Biophys. J. 2008 95: 2462-2469. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Emily R. Miraldi, Peter J. Thomas, and Laura Romberg: Allosteric Models for Cooperative Polymerization of Linear Polymers
Biophys. J. 2008 95: 2470-2486; Published ahead of print on May 23, 2008 as doi:10.1529/biophysj.107.126219. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplement]

Yeshitila Gebremichael, Jhih-Wei Chu, and Gregory A. Voth: Intrinsic Bending and Structural Rearrangement of Tubulin Dimer: Molecular Dynamics Simulations and Coarse-Grained Analysis
Biophys. J. 2008 95: 2487-2499; Published ahead of print on May 30, 2008 as doi:10.1529/biophysj.108.129072. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplement]

Yechun Xu, Jacques-Philippe Colletier, Martin Weik, Hualiang Jiang, John Moult, Israel Silman, and Joel L. Sussman: Flexibility of Aromatic Residues in the Active-Site Gorge of Acetylcholinesterase: X-ray versus Molecular Dynamics
Biophys. J. 2008 95: 2500-2511; Published ahead of print on May 23, 2008 as doi:10.1529/biophysj.108.129601. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

SPECTROSCOPY, IMAGING, OTHER TECHNIQUES:

William J. Galush, Jeffrey A. Nye, and Jay T. Groves: Quantitative Fluorescence Microscopy Using Supported Lipid Bilayer Standards
Biophys. J. 2008 95: 2512-2519; Published ahead of print on May 30, 2008 as doi:10.1529/biophysj.108.131540. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplement]

Xin Xu, Carolina Carrasco, Pedro Jose de Pablo, Julio Gomez-Herrero, and Arvind Raman: Unmasking Imaging Forces on Soft Biological Samples in Liquids When Using Dynamic Atomic Force Microscopy: A Case Study on Viral Capsids
Biophys. J. 2008 95: 2520-2528; Published ahead of print on May 30, 2008 as doi:10.1529/biophysj.108.132829. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

CELL BIOPHYSICS:

Jianwen Wendy Gu, Werner Hemmert, Dennis M. Freeman, and A. J. Aranyosi: Frequency-Dependent Shear Impedance of the Tectorial Membrane
Biophys. J. 2008 95: 2529-2538; Published ahead of print on May 30, 2008 as doi:10.1529/biophysj.107.124727. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplement]

Nipa A. Mody and Michael R. King: Platelet Adhesive Dynamics. Part I: Characterization of Platelet Hydrodynamic Collisions and Wall Effects
Biophys. J. 2008 95: 2539-2555; Published ahead of print on May 30, 2008 as doi:10.1529/biophysj.107.127670. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Nipa A. Mody and Michael R. King: Platelet Adhesive Dynamics. Part II: High Shear-Induced Transient Aggregation via GPIb ${alpha}$ -vWF-GPIb ${alpha}$ Bridging
Biophys. J. 2008 95: 2556-2574; Published ahead of print on May 30, 2008 as doi:10.1529/biophysj.107.128520. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Urszula Golebiewska and Suzanne Scarlata: G ${alpha}$ _q Binds Two Effectors Separately in Cells: Evidence for Predetermined Signaling Pathways
Biophys. J. 2008 95: 2575-2582; Published ahead of print on May 30, 2008 as doi:10.1529/biophysj.108.129353. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

BIOENERGETICS:

Akos A. Gerencser, Judit Doczi, Beata Töröcsik, Ella Bossy-Wetzel, and Vera Adam-Vizi: Mitochondrial Swelling Measurement In Situ by Optimized Spatial Filtering: Astrocyte-Neuron Differences
Biophys. J. 2008 95: 2583-2598; Published ahead of print on April 18, 2008 as doi:10.1529/biophysj.107.118620. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplement]