NEW AND NOTABLE:

David Keller

Making Movies of Molecular Motions
Biophys. J. 1998 74: 2743-2744. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Benoît Roux

Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Ion Channels: How Far Have We Gone and Where Are We Heading?
Biophys. J. 1998 74: 2744-2745. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Robert L. Ruff

Cells Use the Singular Properties of Different Channels to Produce Unique Electrical Songs
Biophys. J. 1998 74: 2745-2746. [Full Text] [PDF]  

BIOPHYSICAL THEORY AND MODELING:

David A. Lee and Julia M. Goodfellow

The pH-Induced Release of Iron from Transferrin Investigated with a Continuum Electrostatic Model
Biophys. J. 1998 74: 2747-2759. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

P. Chacón, F. Morán, J. F. Díaz, E. Pantos, and J. M. Andreu

Low-Resolution Structures of Proteins in Solution Retrieved from X-Ray Scattering with a Genetic Algorithm
Biophys. J. 1998 74: 2760-2775. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Paul So, Joseph T. Francis, Theoden I. Netoff, Bruce J. Gluckman, and Steven J. Schiff

Periodic Orbits: A New Language for Neuronal Dynamics
Biophys. J. 1998 74: 2776-2785. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Alain Pumir, Georges Romey, and Valentin Krinsky

Deexcitation of Cardiac Cells
Biophys. J. 1998 74: 2850-2861. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Robert J. Mashl and Robijn F. Bruinsma

Spontaneous-Curvature Theory of Clathrin-Coated Membranes
Biophys. J. 1998 74: 2862-2875. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

J. Mendieta, M. S. Díaz-Cruz, M. Esteban, and R. Tauler

Multivariate Curve Resolution: A Possible Tool in the Detection of Intermediate Structures in Protein Folding
Biophys. J. 1998 74: 2876-2888. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Liqun Gu, Weihong Liu, and Boris Martinac

Electromechanical Coupling Model of Gating the Large Mechanosensitive Ion Channel (MscL) of Escherichia coli by Mechanical Force
Biophys. J. 1998 74: 2889-2902. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Peter H. Barry

Derivation of Unstirred-Layer Transport Number Equations from the Nernst-Planck Flux Equations
Biophys. J. 1998 74: 2903-2905. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Gulshat T. Ibragimova and Rebecca C. Wade

Importance of Explicit Salt Ions for Protein Stability in Molecular Dynamics Simulation
Biophys. J. 1998 74: 2906-2911. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

CHANNELS, RECEPTORS, AND TRANSPORTERS:

S. Tripathi and S. B. Hladky

Streaming Potentials in Gramicidin Channels Measured with Ion-Selective Microelectrodes
Biophys. J. 1998 74: 2912-2917. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Yuri A. Kaulin, Ludmila V. Schagina, Sergey M. Bezrukov, Valery V. Malev, Alexander M. Feigin, Jon Y. Takemoto, John H. Teeter, and Joseph G. Brand

Cluster Organization of Ion Channels Formed by the Antibiotic Syringomycin E in Bilayer Lipid Membranes
Biophys. J. 1998 74: 2918-2925. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Jinming Song, Clare Midson, Elizabeth Blachly-Dyson, Michael Forte, and Marco Colombini

The Sensor Regions of VDAC Are Translocated from within the Membrane to the Surface during the Gating Processes
Biophys. J. 1998 74: 2926-2944. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

J. E. Richmond, D. E. Featherstone, H. A. Hartmann, and P. C. Ruben

Slow Inactivation in Human Cardiac Sodium Channels
Biophys. J. 1998 74: 2945-2952. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Irene Marten and Toshinori Hoshi

The N-Terminus of the K Channel KAT1 Controls Its Voltage-Dependent Gating by Altering the Membrane Electric Field
Biophys. J. 1998 74: 2953-2962. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

MEMBRANES:

D. P. Tieleman and H. J. C. Berendsen

A Molecular Dynamics Study of the Pores Formed by Escherichia coli OmpF Porin in a Fully Hydrated Palmitoyloleoylphosphatidylcholine Bilayer
Biophys. J. 1998 74: 2786-2801. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Ken-ichirou Akashi, Hidetake Miyata, Hiroyasu Itoh, and Kazuhiko Kinosita, Jr.

Formation of Giant Liposomes Promoted by Divalent Cations: Critical Role of Electrostatic Repulsion
Biophys. J. 1998 74: 2973-2982. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Kaushik Nag, Jesus Perez-Gil, Miguel L. F. Ruano, Lynn Anne D. Worthman, June Stewart, Cristina Casals, and Kevin M. W. Keough

Phase Transitions in Films of Lung Surfactant at the Air-Water Interface
Biophys. J. 1998 74: 2983-2995. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

D. G. Hunter and B. J. Frisken

Effect of Extrusion Pressure and Lipid Properties on the Size and Polydispersity of Lipid Vesicles
Biophys. J. 1998 74: 2996-3002. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Ling-Gang Wu and William J. Betz

Kinetics of Synaptic Depression and Vesicle Recycling after Tetanic Stimulation of Frog Motor Nerve Terminals
Biophys. J. 1998 74: 3003-3009. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Mitsuhiro Hirai and Toshiharu Takizawa

Intensive Extrusion and Occlusion of Water in Ganglioside Micelles with Thermal Reversibility
Biophys. J. 1998 74: 3010-3014. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Muriel Golzio, Marie-Pierre Mora, Catherine Raynaud, Christine Delteil, Justin Teissié, and Marie-Pierre Rols

Control by Osmotic Pressure of Voltage-Induced Permeabilization and Gene Transfer in Mammalian Cells
Biophys. J. 1998 74: 3015-3022. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Sajith Jayasinghe, Melissa Barranger-Mathys, Jeffrey F. Ellena, Craig Franklin, and David S. Cafiso

Structural Features That Modulate the Transmembrane Migration of a Hydrophobic Peptide in Lipid Vesicles
Biophys. J. 1998 74: 3023-3030. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Markus Kürschner, Katja Nielsen, Christian Andersen, Vladimir L. Sukhorukov, Wolfdieter A. Schenk, Roland Benz, and Ulrich Zimmermann

Interaction of Lipophilic Ions with the Plasma Membrane of Mammalian Cells Studied by Electrorotation
Biophys. J. 1998 74: 3031-3043. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

MUSCLE AND CONTRACTILITY:

M. Regnier, D. M. Lee, and E. Homsher

ATP Analogs and Muscle Contraction: Mechanics and Kinetics of Nucleoside Triphosphate Binding and Hydrolysis
Biophys. J. 1998 74: 3044-3058. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

M. Regnier and E. Homsher

The Effect of ATP Analogs on Posthydrolytic and Force Development Steps in Skinned Skeletal Muscle Fibers
Biophys. J. 1998 74: 3059-3071. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

S. M. Frisbie, S. Xu, J. M. Chalovich, and L. C. Yu

Characterizations of Cross-Bridges in the Presence of Saturating Concentrations of MgAMP-PNP in Rabbit Permeabilized Psoas Muscle
Biophys. J. 1998 74: 3072-3082. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Cibele Sabido-David, Birgit Brandmeier, James S. Craik, John E. T. Corrie, David R. Trentham, and Malcolm Irving

Steady-State Fluorescence Polarization Studies of the Orientation of Myosin Regulatory Light Chains in Single Skeletal Muscle Fibers Using Pure Isomers of Iodoacetamidotetramethylrhodamine
Biophys. J. 1998 74: 3083-3092. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Seth C. Hopkins, Cibele Sabido-David, John E.T. Corrie, Malcolm Irving, and Yale E. Goldman

Fluorescence Polarization Transients from Rhodamine Isomers on the Myosin Regulatory Light Chain in Skeletal Muscle Fibers
Biophys. J. 1998 74: 3093-3110. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Yin Luo, Jing-Lun Wu, John Gergely, and Terence Tao

Localization of Cys¹³³ of Rabbit Skeletal Troponin-I with Respect to Troponin-C by Resonance Energy Transfer
Biophys. J. 1998 74: 3111-3119. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Tom Barman, Martin Brune, Corinne Lionne, Nicoletta Piroddi, Corrado Poggesi, Robert Stehle, Chiara Tesi, Franck Travers, and Martin R. Webb

ATPase and Shortening Rates in Frog Fast Skeletal Myofibrils by Time-Resolved Measurements of Protein-Bound and Free P_i
Biophys. J. 1998 74: 3120-3130. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

NUCLEIC ACIDS:

John G. Duguid, Cynthia Li, Mei Shi, Mark J. Logan, Hector Alila, Alain Rolland, Eric Tomlinson, James T. Sparrow, and Louis C. Smith

A Physicochemical Approach for Predicting the Effectiveness of Peptide-Based Gene Delivery Systems for Use in Plasmid-Based Gene Therapy
Biophys. J. 1998 74: 2802-2814. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Ben Laurie, Vsevolod Katritch, Jose Sogo, Theo Koller, Jacques Dubochet, and Andrzej Stasiak

Geometry and Physics of Catenanes Applied to the Study of DNA Replication
Biophys. J. 1998 74: 2815-2822. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Shashidhar N. Rao

Molecular Mechanics Studies on the Conformations of 2',3'-Dideoxy-2',3'-Didehydroguanine Nucleoside, D4G
Biophys. J. 1998 74: 3131-3139. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Björn Åkerman

Effects of Supercoiling in Electrophoretic Trapping of Circular DNA in Polyacrylamide Gels
Biophys. J. 1998 74: 3140-3151. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Ioulia Rouzina and Victor A. Bloomfield

DNA Bending by Small, Mobile Multivalent Cations
Biophys. J. 1998 74: 3152-3164. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

PHOTOBIOPHYSICS:

Giovanni B. Strambini, Edi Gabellieri, Margherita Gonnelli, Sophie Rahuel-Clermont, and Guy Branlant

Tyrosine Quenching of Tryptophan Phosphorescence in Glyceraldehyde-3-Phosphate Dehydrogenase from Bacillus stearothermophilus
Biophys. J. 1998 74: 3165-3172. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Marc Polm and Klaus Brettel

Secondary Pair Charge Recombination in Photosystem I under Strongly Reducing Conditions: Temperature Dependence and Suggested Mechanism
Biophys. J. 1998 74: 3173-3181. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

PROTEINS:

Chingkuang Tu, Minzhang Qian, J. Nicole Earnhardt, Philip J. Laipis, and David N. Silverman

Properties of Intramolecular Proton Transfer in Carbonic Anhydrase III
Biophys. J. 1998 74: 3182-3189. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

D. André d'Avignon, G. Larry Bretthorst, Marilyn Emerson Holtzer, and Alfred Holtzer

Site-Specific Thermodynamics and Kinetics of a Coiled-Coil Transition by Spin Inversion Transfer NMR
Biophys. J. 1998 74: 3190-3197. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

SUPRAMOLECULAR ASSEMBLIES:

Sanford H. Leuba, Carlos Bustamante, Jordanka Zlatanova, and Kensal van Holde

Contributions of Linker Histones and Histone H3 to Chromatin Structure: Scanning Force Microscopy Studies on Trypsinized Fibers
Biophys. J. 1998 74: 2823-2829. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Sanford H. Leuba, Carlos Bustamante, Kensal van Holde, and Jordanka Zlatanova

Linker Histone Tails and N-Tails of Histone H3 Are Redundant: Scanning Force Microscopy Studies of Reconstituted Fibers
Biophys. J. 1998 74: 2830-2839. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Sophie Beugin, Katarina Edwards, Göran Karlsson, Michel Ollivon, and Sylviane Lesieur

New Sterically Stabilized Vesicles Based on Nonionic Surfactant, Cholesterol, and Poly(Ethylene Glycol)-Cholesterol Conjugates
Biophys. J. 1998 74: 3198-3210. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Matthew F. Paige, Jan K. Rainey, and M. Cynthia Goh

Fibrous Long Spacing Collagen Ultrastructure Elucidated by Atomic Force Microscopy
Biophys. J. 1998 74: 3211-3216. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Motonori Matsuno, Hideo Takeuchi, Stacy A. Overman, and George J. Thomas, Jr.

Orientations of Tyrosines 21 and 24 in Coat Subunits of Ff Filamentous Virus: Determination by Raman Linear Intensity Difference Spectroscopy and Implications for Subunit Packing
Biophys. J. 1998 74: 3217-3225. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

SPECTROSCOPY, IMAGING, OTHER TECHNIQUES:

S. John T. van Noort, Kees O. van der Werf, Andre P. M. Eker, Claire Wyman, Bart G. de Grooth, Niek F. van Hulst, and Jan Greve

Direct Visualization of Dynamic Protein-DNA Interactions with a Dedicated Atomic Force Microscope
Biophys. J. 1998 74: 2840-2849. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Iain D. G. Macdonald, Andrew W. Munro, and W. Ewen Smith

Fatty Acid-Induced Alteration of the Porphyrin Macrocycle of Cytochrome P450 BM3
Biophys. J. 1998 74: 3241-3249. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

N. M. Sijtsema, C. Otto, G. M. J. Segers-Nolten, A. J. Verhoeven, and J. Greve

Resonance Raman Microspectroscopy of Myeloperoxidase and Cytochrome b₅₅₈ in Human Neutrophilic Granulocytes
Biophys. J. 1998 74: 3250-3255. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Anja Vinckier, Pietro Gervasoni, Frank Zaugg, Urs Ziegler, Peter Lindner, Peter Groscurth, Andreas Plückthun, and Giorgio Semenza

Atomic Force Microscopy Detects Changes in the Interaction Forces between GroEL and Substrate Proteins
Biophys. J. 1998 74: 3256-3263. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Brian A. Korgel, John H. van Zanten, and Harold G. Monbouquette

Vesicle Size Distributions Measured by Flow Field-Flow Fractionation Coupled with Multiangle Light Scattering
Biophys. J. 1998 74: 3264-3272. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Fangjun Wu, Arne Gericke, Carol R. Flach, Tanya R. Mealy, Barbara A. Seaton, and Richard Mendelsohn

Domain Structure and Molecular Conformation in Annexin V/1,2-Dimyristoyl-sn-Glycero-3-Phosphate/Ca²⁺ Aqueous Monolayers: A Brewster Angle Microscopy/Infrared Reflection-Absorption Spectroscopy Study
Biophys. J. 1998 74: 3273-3281. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

CELL BIOPHYSICS:

Mientao A. Tsai, Richard E. Waugh, and Peter C. Keng

Passive Mechanical Behavior of Human Neutrophils: Effects of Colchicine and Paclitaxel
Biophys. J. 1998 74: 3282-3291. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Gary B. Chapman and Giles R. Cokelet

Flow Resistance and Drag Forces Due to Multiple Adherent Leukocytes in Postcapillary Vessels
Biophys. J. 1998 74: 3292-3301. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Ping Xia, Peter M. Bungay, Carter C. Gibson, Olga N. Kovbasnjuk, and Kenneth R. Spring

Diffusion Coefficients in the Lateral Intercellular Spaces of Madin-Darby Canine Kidney Cell Epithelium Determined with Caged Compounds
Biophys. J. 1998 74: 3302-3312. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

BIOENERGETICS:

G. Venturoli, F. Drepper, J. C. Williams, J. P. Allen, X. Lin, and P. Mathis

Effects of Temperature and G° on Electron Transfer from Cytochrome c₂ to the Photosynthetic Reaction Center of the Purple Bacterium Rhodobacter sphaeroides
Biophys. J. 1998 74: 3226-3240. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY:

Blake D. Anson and William M. Roberts

A Novel Voltage Clamp Technique for Mapping Ionic Currents from Cultured Skeletal Myotubes
Biophys. J. 1998 74: 2963-2972. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

CORRECTIONS:

Correction for vol. 74, p. 532
Biophys. J. 1998 74: 3313(6) [Full Text] [PDF]  

Correction for vol. 74, p. 1149
Biophys. J. 1998 74: 3313(6) [Full Text] [PDF]  

Correction for vol. 74, p. 1286
Biophys. J. 1998 74: 3313(6) [Full Text] [PDF]  

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