NEW AND NOTABLE:

Meyer B. Jackson

Subtle Shades of Permeability
Biophys. J. 2003 84: 2793-2794. [Full Text] [PDF]  

BIOPHYSICAL THEORY AND MODELING:

S. Skoulakis and J. M. Goodfellow

The pH-Dependent Stability of Wild-type and Mutant Transthyretin Oligomers
Biophys. J. 2003 84: 2795-2804. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Riccardo Spezia, Massimiliano Aschi, Alfredo Di Nola, Marilena Di Valentin, Donatella Carbonera, and Andrea Amadei

The Effect of Protein Conformational Flexibility on the Electronic Properties of a Chromophore
Biophys. J. 2003 84: 2805-2813. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

S. Garofoli and P. C. Jordan

Modeling Permeation Energetics in the KcsA Potassium Channel
Biophys. J. 2003 84: 2814-2830. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Ulrich Gerland, Ralf Bundschuh, and Terence Hwa

Mechanically Probing the Folding Pathway of Single RNA Molecules
Biophys. J. 2003 84: 2831-2840. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Necmettin Yildirim and Michael C. Mackey

Feedback Regulation in the Lactose Operon: A Mathematical Modeling Study and Comparison with Experimental Data
Biophys. J. 2003 84: 2841-2851. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Min Zhang, Paula Goforth, Richard Bertram, Arthur Sherman, and Leslie Satin

The Ca²⁺ Dynamics of Isolated Mouse ß-Cells and Islets: Implications for Mathematical Models
Biophys. J. 2003 84: 2852-2870. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Turgut Bastug and Serdar Kuyucak

Role of the Dielectric Constants of Membrane Proteins and Channel Water in Ion Permeation
Biophys. J. 2003 84: 2871-2882. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Traian Sulea and Enrico O. Purisima

Profiling Charge Complementarity and Selectivity for Binding at the Protein Surface
Biophys. J. 2003 84: 2883-2896. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Figures]  

K. Vengadesan and N. Gautham

Enhanced Sampling of the Molecular Potential Energy Surface Using Mutually Orthogonal Latin Squares: Application to Peptide Structures
Biophys. J. 2003 84: 2897-2906. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

A. E. Carlsson

Growth Velocities of Branched Actin Networks
Biophys. J. 2003 84: 2907-2918. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

S. A. Oprisan, V. Thirumalai, and C. C. Canavier

Dynamics from a Time Series: Can We Extract the Phase Resetting Curve from a Time Series?
Biophys. J. 2003 84: 2919-2928. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Robin T. Shealy, Anuradha D. Murphy, Rampriya Ramarathnam, Eric Jakobsson, and Shankar Subramaniam

Sequence-Function Analysis of the K⁺-Selective Family of Ion Channels Using a Comprehensive Alignment and the KcsA Channel Structure
Biophys. J. 2003 84: 2929-2942. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Bernardo A. Mello and Yuhai Tu

Perfect and Near-Perfect Adaptation in a Model of Bacterial Chemotaxis
Biophys. J. 2003 84: 2943-2956. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

CHANNELS, RECEPTORS, AND TRANSPORTERS:

Kwokyin Hui, Beiying Liu, and Feng Qin

Capsaicin Activation of the Pain Receptor, VR1: Multiple Open States from Both Partial and Full Binding
Biophys. J. 2003 84: 2957-2968. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Vladimir Avdonin, Xiang Dong Tang, and Toshinori Hoshi

Stimulatory Action of Internal Protons on Slo1 BK Channels
Biophys. J. 2003 84: 2969-2980. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Concepción Muro, Serguei M. Grigoriev, Dawn Pietkiewicz, Kathleen W. Kinnally, and María Luisa Campo

Comparison of the TIM and TOM Channel Activities of the Mitochondrial Protein Import Complexes
Biophys. J. 2003 84: 2981-2989. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Gerhard Schwarz, Christophe Danelon, and Mathias Winterhalter

On Translocation through a Membrane Channel via an Internal Binding Site: Kinetics and Voltage Dependence
Biophys. J. 2003 84: 2990-2998. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Oscar Moran, Alessandra Picollo, and Franco Conti

Tonic and Phasic Guanidinium Toxin-Block of Skeletal Muscle Na Channels Expressed in Mammalian Cells
Biophys. J. 2003 84: 2999-3006. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Shoji X. Takahashi, Scott Mittman, and Henry M. Colecraft

Distinctive Modulatory Effects of Five Human Auxiliary ß₂ Subunit Splice Variants on L-Type Calcium Channel Gating
Biophys. J. 2003 84: 3007-3021. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Mei Zhang, Yuliya V. Korolkova, Jie Liu, Min Jiang, Eugene V. Grishin, and Gea-Ny Tseng

BeKm-1 Is a HERG-Specific Toxin that Shares the Structure with ChTx but the Mechanism of Action with ErgTx1
Biophys. J. 2003 84: 3022-3036. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

MEMBRANES:

Celestine J. Thomas, V. Anbazhagan, M. Ramakrishnan, Nabil Sultan, Ira Surolia, and Musti J. Swamy

Mechanism of Membrane Binding by the Bovine Seminal Plasma Protein, PDC-109: A Surface Plasmon Resonance Study
Biophys. J. 2003 84: 3037-3044. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Josette V. Ricker, Nelly M. Tsvetkova, Willem F. Wolkers, Chad Leidy, Fern Tablin, Marjorie Longo, and John H. Crowe

Trehalose Maintains Phase Separation in an Air-Dried Binary Lipid Mixture
Biophys. J. 2003 84: 3045-3051. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Kevin J. Hallock, Dong-Kuk Lee, and A. Ramamoorthy

MSI-78, an Analogue of the Magainin Antimicrobial Peptides, Disrupts Lipid Bilayer Structure via Positive Curvature Strain
Biophys. J. 2003 84: 3052-3060. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Ana Coutinho and Manuel Prieto

Cooperative Partition Model of Nystatin Interaction with Phospholipid Vesicles
Biophys. J. 2003 84: 3061-3078. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Andrey Filippov, Greger Orädd, and Göran Lindblom

The Effect of Cholesterol on the Lateral Diffusion of Phospholipids in Oriented Bilayers
Biophys. J. 2003 84: 3079-3086. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Jagannathan Sundaram, Berlyn R. Mellein, and Samir Mitragotri

An Experimental and Theoretical Analysis of Ultrasound-Induced Permeabilization of Cell Membranes
Biophys. J. 2003 84: 3087-3101. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Richard M. Epand

Cholesterol in Bilayers of Sphingomyelin or Dihydrosphingomyelin at Concentrations Found in Ocular Lens Membranes
Biophys. J. 2003 84: 3102-3110. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Michael Rappolt, Andrea Hickel, Frank Bringezu, and Karl Lohner

Mechanism of the Lamellar/Inverse Hexagonal Phase Transition Examined by High Resolution X-Ray Diffraction
Biophys. J. 2003 84: 3111-3122. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Nathalie Hauet, Franck Artzner, François Boucher, Cécile Grabielle-Madelmont, Isabelle Cloutier, Gérard Keller, Pierre Lesieur, Dominique Durand, and Maïté Paternostre

Interaction between Artificial Membranes and Enflurane, a General Volatile Anesthetic: DPPC-Enflurane Interaction
Biophys. J. 2003 84: 3123-3137. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Thomas K. M. Nyholm, Matts Nylund, and J. Peter Slotte

A Calorimetric Study of Binary Mixtures of Dihydrosphingomyelin and Sterols, Sphingomyelin, or Phosphatidylcholine
Biophys. J. 2003 84: 3138-3146. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Ingrid J. Vereyken, J. Albert van Kuik, Toon H. Evers, Pieter J. Rijken, and Ben de Kruijff

Structural Requirements of the Fructan-Lipid Interaction
Biophys. J. 2003 84: 3147-3154. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

MUSCLE AND CONTRACTILITY:

D. A. Smith, R. Maytum, and M. A. Geeves

Cooperative Regulation of Myosin-Actin Interactions by a Continuous Flexible Chain I: Actin-Tropomyosin Systems
Biophys. J. 2003 84: 3155-3167. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

D. A. Smith and M. A. Geeves

Cooperative Regulation of Myosin-Actin Interactions by a Continuous Flexible Chain II: Actin-Tropomyosin-Troponin and Regulation by Calcium
Biophys. J. 2003 84: 3168-3180. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Thomas Palm, Norma J. Greenfield, and Sarah E. Hitchcock-DeGregori

Tropomyosin Ends Determine the Stability and Functionality of Overlap and Troponin T Complexes
Biophys. J. 2003 84: 3181-3189. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Nariman Naber, Sarah Rice, Marija Matuska, Ronald D. Vale, Roger Cooke, and Edward Pate

EPR Spectroscopy Shows a Microtubule-Dependent Conformational Change in the Kinesin Switch 1 Domain
Biophys. J. 2003 84: 3190-3196. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

NUCLEIC ACIDS:

I. M. Kulic and H. Schiessel

Nucleosome Repositioning via Loop Formation
Biophys. J. 2003 84: 3197-3211. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Daniel P. Aalberts, John M. Parman, and Noel L. Goddard

Single-Strand Stacking Free Energy from DNA Beacon Kinetics
Biophys. J. 2003 84: 3212-3217. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Yi-Tao Long, Chen-Zhong Li, Heinz-Bernhard Kraatz, and Jeremy S. Lee

AC Impedance Spectroscopy of Native DNA and M-DNA
Biophys. J. 2003 84: 3218-3225. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

PHOTOBIOPHYSICS:

L. L. Premvardhan, M. A. van der Horst, K. J. Hellingwerf, and R. van Grondelle

Stark Spectroscopy on Photoactive Yellow Protein, E46Q, and a Nonisomerizing Derivative, Probes Photo-Induced Charge Motion
Biophys. J. 2003 84: 3226-3239. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Zivile Katiliene, Evaldas Katilius, and Neal W. Woodbury

Energy Trapping and Detrapping in Reaction Center Mutants from Rhodobacter sphaeroides
Biophys. J. 2003 84: 3240-3251. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental Information]  

Melinda Lakatos, Janos K. Lanyi, Juliánna Szakács, and György Váró

The Photochemical Reaction Cycle of Proteorhodopsin at Low pH
Biophys. J. 2003 84: 3252-3256. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

PROTEINS:

Yu-Dong Cai, Guo-Ping Zhou, and Kuo-Chen Chou

Support Vector Machines for Predicting Membrane Protein Types by Using Functional Domain Composition
Biophys. J. 2003 84: 3257-3263. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

G. Bruce Birrell, Tatiana O. Zaikova, Aleksey V. Rukavishnikov, John F. W. Keana, and O. Hayes Griffith

Allosteric Interactions within Subsites of a Monomeric Enzyme: Kinetics of Fluorogenic Substrates of PI-Specific Phospholipase C
Biophys. J. 2003 84: 3264-3275. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

I. Sramala, V. Lemaitre, J. D. Faraldo-Gómez, S. Vincent, A. Watts, and W. B. Fischer

Molecular Dynamics Simulations on the First Two Helices of Vpu from HIV-1
Biophys. J. 2003 84: 3276-3284. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Qing Huang, Wasfi Al-Azzam, Kai Griebenow, and Reinhard Schweitzer-Stenner

Heme Structural Perturbation of PEG-Modified Horseradish Peroxidase C in Aromatic Organic Solvents Probed by Optical Absorption and Resonance Raman Dispersion Spectroscopy
Biophys. J. 2003 84: 3285-3298. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Shinpei Tanaka, Mitsuo Ataka, Kazuo Onuma, and Tomomi Kubota

Rationalization of Membrane Protein Crystallization with Polyethylene Glycol Using a Simple Depletion Model
Biophys. J. 2003 84: 3299-3306. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

SUPRAMOLECULAR ASSEMBLIES:

Alison J. Lin, Nelle L. Slack, Ayesha Ahmad, Cyril X. George, Charles E. Samuel, and Cyrus R. Safinya

Three-Dimensional Imaging of Lipid Gene-Carriers: Membrane Charge Density Controls Universal Transfection Behavior in Lamellar Cationic Liposome-DNA Complexes
Biophys. J. 2003 84: 3307-3316. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Jian Sun, Hector Viadiu, Aneel K. Aggarwal, and Harel Weinstein

Energetic and Structural Considerations for the Mechanism of Protein Sliding along DNA in the Nonspecific BamHI-DNA Complex
Biophys. J. 2003 84: 3317-3325. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Oleg N. Antzutkin, John J. Balbach, and Robert Tycko

Site-Specific Identification of Non-ß-Strand Conformations in Alzheimer's ß-Amyloid Fibrils by Solid-State NMR
Biophys. J. 2003 84: 3326-3335. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

SPECTROSCOPY, IMAGING, OTHER TECHNIQUES:

A. Ponti, P. Vallotton, W. C. Salmon, C. M. Waterman-Storer, and G. Danuser

Computational Analysis of F-Actin Turnover in Cortical Actin Meshworks Using Fluorescent Speckle Microscopy
Biophys. J. 2003 84: 3336-3352. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Malte Wachsmuth, Thomas Weidemann, Gabriele Müller, Urs W. Hoffmann-Rohrer, Tobias A. Knoch, Waldemar Waldeck, and Jörg Langowski

Analyzing Intracellular Binding and Diffusion with Continuous Fluorescence Photobleaching
Biophys. J. 2003 84: 3353-3363. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Antonio J. Costa-Filho, Richard H. Crepeau, Petr P. Borbat, Mingtao Ge, and Jack H. Freed

Lipid-Gramicidin Interactions: Dynamic Structure of the Boundary Lipid by 2D-ELDOR
Biophys. J. 2003 84: 3364-3378. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Megan E. Núñez, Mark O. Martin, Lin K. Duong, Elaine Ly, and Eileen M. Spain

Investigations into the Life Cycle of the Bacterial Predator Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus 109J at an Interface by Atomic Force Microscopy
Biophys. J. 2003 84: 3379-3388. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

CELL BIOPHYSICS:

Marc Herant, William A. Marganski, and Micah Dembo

The Mechanics of Neutrophils: Synthetic Modeling of Three Experiments
Biophys. J. 2003 84: 3389-3413. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Samuel Bernard, Laurent Pujo-Menjouet, and Michael C. Mackey

Analysis of Cell Kinetics Using a Cell Division Marker: Mathematical Modeling of Experimental Data
Biophys. J. 2003 84: 3414-3424. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Raymund Y. K. Pun and Steven J. Kleene

Contribution of Cyclic-Nucleotide-Gated Channels to the Resting Conductance of Olfactory Receptor Neurons
Biophys. J. 2003 84: 3425-3435. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

BIOENERGETICS:

Valdur Saks, Andrey Kuznetsov, Tatiana Andrienko, Yves Usson, Florence Appaix, Karen Guerrero, Tuuli Kaambre, Peeter Sikk, Maris Lemba, and Marko Vendelin

Heterogeneity of ADP Diffusion and Regulation of Respiration in Cardiac Cells
Biophys. J. 2003 84: 3436-3456. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY:

Adrián Rodríguez-Contreras and Ebenezer N. Yamoah

Effects of Permeant Ion Concentrations on the Gating of L-Type Ca²⁺ Channels in Hair Cells
Biophys. J. 2003 84: 3457-3469. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Veniamin Y. Sidorov, Marcella C. Woods, and John P. Wikswo

Effects of Elevated Extracellular Potassium on the Stimulation Mechanism of Diastolic Cardiac Tissue
Biophys. J. 2003 84: 3470-3479. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

OTHER:

Elizabeth Rhoades and Ari Gafni

Micelle Formation by a Fragment of Human Islet Amyloid Polypeptide
Biophys. J. 2003 84: 3480-3487. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

CORRECTIONS:

Heng Zhu, Metin Bilgin, Jason Ptacek, David Hall, Antonio Casamayor, Paul Bertone, Nelson Lopez, Ning Lan, Ronald Jansen, Scott Bidlingmaier, Geeta Devgan, Perry Miller, Mark Gerstein, Michael Snyder, Giovanni Settanni, Joerg Gsponer, Amedeo Caflisch, Hunter Martin, Marcus Bell, Richard Hager, Robert J. Barsotti, Paul W. Chun, Cecile Fradin, David Zbaida, Michael Elbaum, T R Shaikh, D Thomas, F Samatey, H Matsunami, K Imada, K Namba, D J DeRosier, Wolfgang J. Parak, Teresa Pellegrino, Rosanne Boudreau, Mark Le Gros, Daniele Gerion, Christine M. Micheel, Carolyn A. Larabell, Paul Alivisatos, Chandran Rigor Sabanayagam, Daniel Koster, Amit Meller, Guocheng Yang, Kimberly A. Woodhouse, and Christopher M. Yip

Errata
Biophys. J. 2003 84: 3488-3490. [Full Text] [PDF]  

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