BIOPHYSICAL THEORY AND MODELING:

Shlomo Trachtenberg, Dalia Fishelov, and Matania Ben-Artzi

Bacterial Flagellar Microhydrodynamics: Laminar Flow over Complex Flagellar Filaments, Analog Archimedean Screws and Cylinders, and Its Perturbations
Biophys. J. 2003 85: 1345-1357. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

D. Andreucci, P. Bisegna, G. Caruso, H.E. Hamm, and E. DiBenedetto

Mathematical Model of the Spatio-Temporal Dynamics of Second Messengers in Visual Transduction
Biophys. J. 2003 85: 1358-1376. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Appendix A & B]  

J. P. Nicolas

Molecular Dynamics Simulation of Surfactin Molecules at the Water-Hexane Interface
Biophys. J. 2003 85: 1377-1391. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

J. Sneyd, K. Tsaneva-Atanasova, J. I. E. Bruce, S. V. Straub, D. R. Giovannucci, and D. I. Yule

A Model of Calcium Waves in Pancreatic and Parotid Acinar Cells
Biophys. J. 2003 85: 1392-1405. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

José D. Faraldo-Gómez, Graham R. Smith, and Mark S. P. Sansom

Molecular Dynamics Simulations of the Bacterial Outer Membrane Protein FhuA: A Comparative Study of the Ferrichrome-Free and Bound States
Biophys. J. 2003 85: 1406-1420. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Razif R. Gabdoulline, Ursula Kummer, Lars F. Olsen, and Rebecca C. Wade

Concerted Simulations Reveal How Peroxidase Compound III Formation Results in Cellular Oscillations
Biophys. J. 2003 85: 1421-1428. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Lintao Bu and John E. Straub

Vibrational Frequency Shifts and Relaxation Rates for a Selected Vibrational Mode in Cytochrome c
Biophys. J. 2003 85: 1429-1439. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Shigehiko Hayashi, Emad Tajkhorshid, and Klaus Schulten

Molecular Dynamics Simulation of Bacteriorhodopsin's Photoisomerization Using Ab Initio Forces for the Excited Chromophore
Biophys. J. 2003 85: 1440-1449. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Katarzyna Ruszczynska, Krystyna Kamienska-Trela, Jacek Wojcik, Janusz Stepinski, Edward Darzynkiewicz, and Ryszard Stolarski

Charge Distribution in 7-Methylguanine Regarding Cation- Interaction with Protein Factor eIF4E
Biophys. J. 2003 85: 1450-1456. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Giorgio Favrin, Anders Irbäck, Björn Samuelsson, and Stefan Wallin

Two-State Folding over a Weak Free-Energy Barrier
Biophys. J. 2003 85: 1457-1465. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Anders Irbäck, Björn Samuelsson, Fredrik Sjunnesson, and Stefan Wallin

Thermodynamics of - and ß-Structure Formation in Proteins
Biophys. J. 2003 85: 1466-1473. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Table]  

Martin Falcke, Yun Li, James D. Lechleiter, and Patricia Camacho

Modeling the Dependence of the Period of Intracellular Ca²⁺ Waves on SERCA Expression
Biophys. J. 2003 85: 1474-1481. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Rainer A. Böckmann and Helmut Grubmüller

Conformational Dynamics of the F₁-ATPase ß-Subunit: A Molecular Dynamics Study
Biophys. J. 2003 85: 1482-1491. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Ho Sup Choi, June Huh, and Won Ho Jo

Similarity of Force-Induced Unfolding of Apomyoglobin to Its Chemical-Induced Unfolding: An Atomistic Molecular Dynamics Simulation Approach
Biophys. J. 2003 85: 1492-1502. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Essam Metwally, Heba A. Ismail, Joseph S. Davison, and Ronald Mathison

A Tree-Based Algorithm for Determining the Effects of Solvation on the Structure of Salivary Gland Tripeptide NH₃⁺-D-PHE-D-GLU-GLY-COO^-
Biophys. J. 2003 85: 1503-1511. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

CHANNELS, RECEPTORS, AND TRANSPORTERS:

Donald E. Elmore and Dennis A. Dougherty

Investigating Lipid Composition Effects on the Mechanosensitive Channel of Large Conductance (MscL) Using Molecular Dynamics Simulations
Biophys. J. 2003 85: 1512-1524. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Morten Grunnet, Hannne B. Rasmussen, Anders Hay-Schmidt, Maiken Rosenstierne, Dan A. Klaerke, Søren-Peter Olesen, and Thomas Jespersen

KCNE4 Is an Inhibitory Subunit to Kv1.1 and Kv1.3 Potassium Channels
Biophys. J. 2003 85: 1525-1537. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Wei Tang, D. Brent Halling, D. J. Black, Patricia Pate, Jia-Zheng Zhang, Steen Pedersen, Ruth A. Altschuld, and Susan L. Hamilton

Apocalmodulin and Ca²⁺Calmodulin-Binding Sites on the Ca_V1.2 Channel
Biophys. J. 2003 85: 1538-1547. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Scott V. Adams and Louis J. DeFelice

Ionic Currents in the Human Serotonin Transporter Reveal Inconsistencies in the Alternating Access Hypothesis
Biophys. J. 2003 85: 1548-1559. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Leah J. Siskind, Amirparviz Davoody, Naomi Lewin, Stephanie Marshall, and Marco Colombini

Enlargement and Contracture of C₂-Ceramide Channels
Biophys. J. 2003 85: 1560-1575. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

MEMBRANES:

Alexander Spaar and Tim Salditt

Short Range Order of Hydrocarbon Chains in Fluid Phospholipid Bilayers Studied by X-Ray Diffraction from Highly Oriented Membranes
Biophys. J. 2003 85: 1576-1584. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Guohua Lei and Robert C. MacDonald

Lipid Bilayer Vesicle Fusion: Intermediates Captured by High-Speed Microfluorescence Spectroscopy
Biophys. J. 2003 85: 1585-1599. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Mitsuhiro Hirai, Hiroki Iwase, Tomohiro Hayakawa, Masaharu Koizumi, and Hiroshi Takahashi

Determination of Asymmetric Structure of Ganglioside-DPPC Mixed Vesicle Using SANS, SAXS, and DLS
Biophys. J. 2003 85: 1600-1610. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

M. Müller, K. Katsov, and M. Schick

A New Mechanism of Model Membrane Fusion Determined from Monte Carlo Simulation
Biophys. J. 2003 85: 1611-1623. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

J. Leng, S. U. Egelhaaf, and M. E. Cates

Kinetics of the Micelle-to-Vesicle Transition: Aqueous Lecithin-Bile Salt Mixtures
Biophys. J. 2003 85: 1624-1646. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Rainer A. Böckmann, Agnieszka Hac, Thomas Heimburg, and Helmut Grubmüller

Effect of Sodium Chloride on a Lipid Bilayer
Biophys. J. 2003 85: 1647-1655. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Thomas J. McIntosh, Adriana Vidal, and Sidney A. Simon

Sorting of Lipids and Transmembrane Peptides Between Detergent-Soluble Bilayers and Detergent-Resistant Rafts
Biophys. J. 2003 85: 1656-1666. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Nola Fuller, Carlos R. Benatti, and R. Peter Rand

Curvature and Bending Constants for Phosphatidylserine-Containing Membranes
Biophys. J. 2003 85: 1667-1674. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Thomas J. McIntosh

Organization of Skin Stratum Corneum Extracellular Lamellae: Diffraction Evidence for Asymmetric Distribution of Cholesterol
Biophys. J. 2003 85: 1675-1681. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Antoaneta V. Popova and Dirk K. Hincha

Intermolecular Interactions in Dry and Rehydrated Pure and Mixed Bilayers of Phosphatidylcholine and Digalactosyldiacylglycerol: A Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy Study
Biophys. J. 2003 85: 1682-1690. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Alexander Vogel, Holger A. Scheidt, and Daniel Huster

The Distribution of Lipid Attached Spin Probes in Bilayers: Application to Membrane Protein Topology
Biophys. J. 2003 85: 1691-1701. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

J. A. Szule and R. P. Rand

The Effects of Gramicidin on the Structure of Phospholipid Assemblies
Biophys. J. 2003 85: 1702-1712. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Aditya Mittal, Eugenia Leikina, Leonid V. Chernomordik, and Joe Bentz

Kinetically Differentiating Influenza Hemagglutinin Fusion and Hemifusion Machines
Biophys. J. 2003 85: 1713-1724. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

V. A. Frolov, A. Y. Dunina-Barkovskaya, A. V. Samsonov, and J. Zimmerberg

Membrane Permeability Changes at Early Stages of Influenza Hemagglutinin-Mediated Fusion
Biophys. J. 2003 85: 1725-1733. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Holly C. Gaede and Klaus Gawrisch

Lateral Diffusion Rates of Lipid, Water, and a Hydrophobic Drug in a Multilamellar Liposome
Biophys. J. 2003 85: 1734-1740. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

MUSCLE AND CONTRACTILITY:

Takenori Yamada, Yasunori Takezawa, Hiroyuki Iwamoto, Suechika Suzuki, and Katsuzo Wakabayashi

Rigor-Force Producing Cross-Bridges in Skeletal Muscle Fibers Activated by a Substoichiometric Amount of ATP
Biophys. J. 2003 85: 1741-1753. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Hojjat Bazzazi, Margaret E. Kargacin, and Gary J. Kargacin

Ca²⁺ Regulation in the Near-Membrane Microenvironment in Smooth Muscle Cells
Biophys. J. 2003 85: 1754-1765. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Norbert Klauke, Godfrey L. Smith, and Jon Cooper

Stimulation of Single Isolated Adult Ventricular Myocytes within a Low Volume Using a Planar Microelectrode Array
Biophys. J. 2003 85: 1766-1774. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental]  

Bo Liang, Ying Chen, Chien-Kao Wang, Zhaoxiong Luo, Michael Regnier, Albert M. Gordon, and P. Bryant Chase

Ca²⁺ Regulation of Rabbit Skeletal Muscle Thin Filament Sliding: Role of Cross-Bridge Number
Biophys. J. 2003 85: 1775-1786. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

NUCLEIC ACIDS:

Richard Stefl, Thomas E. Cheatham, III, Nad'a Spacková, Eva Fadrná, Imre Berger, Jaroslav Koca, and Jirí Sponer

Formation Pathways of a Guanine-Quadruplex DNA Revealed by Molecular Dynamics and Thermodynamic Analysis of the Substates
Biophys. J. 2003 85: 1787-1804. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental Material]  

A. Madhumalar and Manju Bansal

Structural Insights into the Effect of Hydration and Ions on A-Tract DNA: A Molecular Dynamics Study
Biophys. J. 2003 85: 1805-1816. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Stéphanie Mangenot, Simon Keller, and Joachim Rädler

Transport of Nucleosome Core Particles in Semidilute DNA Solutions
Biophys. J. 2003 85: 1817-1825. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

PHOTOBIOPHYSICS:

Greg S. Harms, Galya Orr, Mauricio Montal, Brian D. Thrall, Steve D. Colson, and H. Peter Lu

Probing Conformational Changes of Gramicidin Ion Channels by Single-Molecule Patch-Clamp Fluorescence Microscopy
Biophys. J. 2003 85: 1826-1838. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Anny Follenius-Wund, Maryline Bourotte, Martine Schmitt, Fatih Iyice, Hans Lami, Jean-Jacques Bourguignon, Jacques Haiech, and Claire Pigault

Fluorescent Derivatives of the GFP Chromophore Give a New Insight into the GFP Fluorescence Process
Biophys. J. 2003 85: 1839-1850. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

PROTEINS:

Jan M. Kriegl, Florian K. Forster, and G. Ulrich Nienhaus

Charge Recombination and Protein Dynamics in Bacterial Photosynthetic Reaction Centers Entrapped in a Sol-Gel Matrix
Biophys. J. 2003 85: 1851-1870. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Alexander L. Tournier, Jiancong Xu, and Jeremy C. Smith

Translational Hydration Water Dynamics Drives the Protein Glass Transition
Biophys. J. 2003 85: 1871-1875. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Tomokazu Nada and Masahide Terazima

A Novel Method for Study of Protein Folding Kinetics by Monitoring Diffusion Coefficient in Time Domain
Biophys. J. 2003 85: 1876-1881. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Alain Sillen, Stefan Verheyden, Lotte Delfosse, Tania Braem, Johan Robben, Guido Volckaert, and Yves Engelborghs

Mechanism of Fluorescence and Conformational Changes of the Sarcoplasmic Calcium Binding Protein of the Sand Worm Nereis diversicolor upon Ca²⁺ or Mg²⁺ Binding
Biophys. J. 2003 85: 1882-1893. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Mario Hellings, Marc De Maeyer, Stefan Verheyden, Qiang Hao, Els J. M. Van Damme, Willy J. Peumans, and Yves Engelborghs

The Dead-End Elimination Method, Tryptophan Rotamers, and Fluorescence Lifetimes
Biophys. J. 2003 85: 1894-1902. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Gerard Giraud, Jan Karolin, and Klaas Wynne

Low-Frequency Modes of Peptides and Globular Proteins in Solution Observed by Ultrafast OHD-RIKES Spectroscopy
Biophys. J. 2003 85: 1903-1913. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

SUPRAMOLECULAR ASSEMBLIES:

Ariel Fernández and Ridgway Scott

Dehydron: A Structurally Encoded Signal for Protein Interaction
Biophys. J. 2003 85: 1914-1928. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

SPECTROSCOPY, IMAGING, OTHER TECHNIQUES:

Hongxue Cai, Claus-Peter Richter, and Richard S. Chadwick

Motion Analysis in the Hemicochlea
Biophys. J. 2003 85: 1929-1937. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

J. R. Mourant, Y. R. Yamada, S. Carpenter, L. R. Dominique, and J. P. Freyer

FTIR Spectroscopy Demonstrates Biochemical Differences in Mammalian Cell Cultures at Different Growth Stages
Biophys. J. 2003 85: 1938-1947. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Lindsey N. Hillesheim and Joachim D. Müller

The Photon Counting Histogram in Fluorescence Fluctuation Spectroscopy with Non-Ideal Photodetectors
Biophys. J. 2003 85: 1948-1958. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Yong-Bin Yan, Qi Wang, Hua-Wei He, Xin-Yao Hu, Ri-Qing Zhang, and Hai-Meng Zhou

Two-Dimensional Infrared Correlation Spectroscopy Study of Sequential Events in the Heat-Induced Unfolding and Aggregation Process of Myoglobin
Biophys. J. 2003 85: 1959-1967. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Rainer Eckel, Robert Ros, Alexandra Ros, Sven David Wilking, Norbert Sewald, and Dario Anselmetti

Identification of Binding Mechanisms in Single Molecule–DNA Complexes
Biophys. J. 2003 85: 1968-1973. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Frank Vollmer, Stephen Arnold, Dieter Braun, Iwao Teraoka, and Albert Libchaber

Multiplexed DNA Quantification by Spectroscopic Shift of Two Microsphere Cavities
Biophys. J. 2003 85: 1974-1979. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Wayne W. Wright, Gregory T. Guffanti, and Jane M. Vanderkooi

Protein in Sugar Films and in Glycerol/Water as Examined by Infrared Spectroscopy and by the Fluorescence and Phosphorescence of Tryptophan
Biophys. J. 2003 85: 1980-1995. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

CELL BIOPHYSICS:

Miriam Cohen, Eugenia Klein, Benjamin Geiger, and Lia Addadi

Organization and Adhesive Properties of the Hyaluronan Pericellular Coat of Chondrocytes and Epithelial Cells
Biophys. J. 2003 85: 1996-2005. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental Material]  

Chantarawan Saengkhae, Chatchanok Loetchutinat, and Arlette Garnier-Suillerot

Kinetic Analysis of Rhodamines Efflux Mediated by the Multidrug Resistance Protein (MRP1)
Biophys. J. 2003 85: 2006-2014. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Douglas S. Fudge, Kenn H. Gardner, V. Trevor Forsyth, Christian Riekel, and John M. Gosline

The Mechanical Properties of Hydrated Intermediate Filaments: Insights from Hagfish Slime Threads
Biophys. J. 2003 85: 2015-2027. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Fatima H. Labeed, Helen M. Coley, Hilary Thomas, and Michael P. Hughes

Assessment of Multidrug Resistance Reversal Using Dielectrophoresis and Flow Cytometry
Biophys. J. 2003 85: 2028-2034. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Aleksandar Jeremic, Marie Kelly, Sang-Joon Cho, Marvin H. Stromer, and Bhanu P. Jena

Reconstituted Fusion Pore
Biophys. J. 2003 85: 2035-2043. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

BIOENERGETICS:

Christiane Burzik, Georg Kaim, Peter Dimroth, Ernst Bamberg, and Klaus Fendler

Charge Displacements during ATP-Hydrolysis and Synthesis of the Na⁺-Transporting F_oF₁-ATPase of Ilyobacter tartaricus
Biophys. J. 2003 85: 2044-2054. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Elizabeth L. Gross and Douglas C. Pearson, Jr.

Brownian Dynamics Simulations of the Interaction of Chlamydomonas Cytochrome f with Plastocyanin and Cytochrome c₆
Biophys. J. 2003 85: 2055-2068. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

CORRECTIONS:

Correction
Biophys. J. 2003 85: 2069(3) [Full Text] [PDF]  

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