| | This journal provides immediate access to some articles. New and Notable Mechanisms of the Frank-Starling Law of the Heart: The Beat Goes On R. John Solaro PMCID: PMC2098723 The Regulation of Muscle Contraction: As in Life, It Keeps Getting More Complex C. G. dos Remedios PMCID: PMC2098728 The Great Hunt For Extra Compliance Jan Liphardt PMCID: PMC2098707 Biophysical Theory and Modeling The Role of Cavitation in Liposome Formation Eric S. Richardson, William G. Pitt, and Dixon J. Woodbury PMCID: PMC2098738 Folding and Misfolding of the Collagen Triple Helix: Markov Analysis of Molecular Dynamics Simulations Sanghyun Park, Teri E. Klein, and Vijay S. Pande PMCID: PMC2098736 A Water-Explicit Lattice Model of Heat-, Cold-, and Pressure-Induced Protein Unfolding Bryan A. Patel, Pablo G. Debenedetti, Frank H. Stillinger, and Peter J. Rossky PMCID: PMC2098741 A Theory of Protein Dynamics to Predict NMR Relaxation Esther Caballero-Manrique, Jenelle K. Bray, William A. Deutschman, Frederick W. Dahlquist, and Marina G. Guenza PMCID: PMC2098714 A Mining Minima Approach to Exploring the Docking Pathways of p-Nitrocatechol Sulfate to YopH Zunnan Huang and Chung F. Wong PMCID: PMC2098719 Dynamics of Learning in Cultured Neuronal Networks with Antagonists of Glutamate Receptors Yanling Li, Wei Zhou, Xiangning Li, Shaoqun Zeng, and Qingming Luo PMCID: PMC2098743 Channels, Receptors, and Electrical Signaling An Inactivation Gate in the Selectivity Filter of KCNQ1 Potassium Channels Gilad Gibor, Daniel Yakubovich, Avia Rosenhouse-Dantsker, Asher Peretz, Hella Schottelndreier, Guiscard Seebohm, Nathan Dascal, Diomedes E. Logothetis, Yoav Paas, and Bernard Attali PMCID: PMC2098732 An Activation Gating Switch in Kv1.2 Is Localized to a Threonine Residue in the S2-S3 Linker Saman Rezazadeh, Harley T. Kurata, Thomas W. Claydon, Steven J. Kehl, and David Fedida PMCID: PMC2098734 Two Gears of Pumping by the Sodium Pump Ronald J. Clarke and David J. Kane PMCID: PMC2098724 Stability of the Shab K+ Channel Conductance in 0 K+ Solutions: The Role of the Membrane Potential Froylán Gómez-Lagunas PMCID: PMC2098742 Speeding the Recovery from Ultraslow Inactivation of Voltage-Gated Na+ Channels by Metal Ion Binding to the Selectivity Filter: A Foot-on-the-Door? Julia Szendroedi, Walter Sandtner, Touran Zarrabi, Eva Zebedin, Karlheinz Hilber, Samuel C. Dudley, Jr., Harry A. Fozzard, and Hannes Todt PMCID: PMC2098733 Membranes Effect of Lipid Peroxidation on the Properties of Lipid Bilayers: A Molecular Dynamics Study Jirasak Wong-ekkabut, Zhitao Xu, Wannapong Triampo, I-Ming Tang, D. Peter Tieleman, and Luca Monticelli PMCID: PMC2098729 Effects of Hydrophobic Surfactant Proteins on Collapse of Pulmonary Surfactant Monolayers Florence Lhert, Wenfei Yan, Samares C. Biswas, and Stephen B. Hall PMCID: PMC2098737 Kinetics and Thermodynamics of the Association of Dehydroergosterol with Lipid Bilayer Membranes Luís M. B. B. Estronca, Maria João Moreno, and Winchil L. C. Vaz PMCID: PMC2098731 Protein-Induced Surface Structuring in Myelin Membrane Monolayers Carla M. Rosetti and Bruno Maggio PMCID: PMC2098705 Influence of Monolayer-Monolayer Coupling on the Phase Behavior of a Fluid Lipid Bilayer Alexander J. Wagner, Stephan Loew, and Sylvio May PMCID: PMC2098730 The Dynamic Orientation of Membrane-Bound Peptides: Bridging Simulations and Experiments Santi Esteban-Martín and Jesús Salgado PMCID: PMC2098706 Zwitterionic Phospholipids and Sterols Modulate Antimicrobial Peptide-Induced Membrane Destabilization A. James Mason, Arnaud Marquette, and Burkhard Bechinger PMCID: PMC2098721 Investigation of the Adsorption of PEG1500-12-Acyloxystearate Surfactants onto Phospholipid Bilayers: An Ellipsometry and Cryo-TEM Study Mauro Vaccaro, Christian von Corswant, and Olle Söderman PMCID: PMC2098744 Effect of the Structure of Lipids Favoring Disordered Domain Formation on the Stability of Cholesterol-Containing Ordered Domains (Lipid Rafts): Identification of Multiple Raft-Stabilization Mechanisms Omar Bakht, Priyadarshini Pathak, and Erwin London PMCID: PMC2098711 Muscle and Contractility Effects of Sustained Length-Dependent Activation on In Situ Cross-Bridge Dynamics in Rat Hearts James T. Pearson, Mikiyasu Shirai, Hirotsugu Tsuchimochi, Daryl O. Schwenke, Takayuki Ishida, Kenji Kangawa, Hiroyuki Suga, and Naoto Yagi PMCID: PMC2098739 Nonlinear Force-Length Relationship in the ADP-Induced Contraction of Skeletal Myofibrils Yuta Shimamoto, Fumiaki Kono, Madoka Suzuki, and Shin'ichi Ishiwata PMCID: PMC2098727 Nucleic Acids Intrinsic Curvature of DNA Influences LacR-Mediated Looping Sachin Goyal, Todd Lillian, Seth Blumberg, Jens-Christian Meiners, Edgar Meyhöfer, and N. C. Perkins PMCID: PMC2098735 Elasticity of Short DNA Molecules: Theory and Experiment for Contour Lengths of 0.6–7 μm Yeonee Seol, Jinyu Li, Philip C. Nelson, Thomas T. Perkins, and M. D. Betterton PMCID: PMC2098713 Photobiophysics On the Effects of PufX on the Absorption Properties of the Light-Harvesting Complexes of Rhodobacter sphaeroides Tihamér Geyer PMCID: PMC2098715 Proteins The Distribution of Residues in a Polypeptide Sequence Is a Determinant of Aggregation Optimized by Evolution Elodie Monsellier, Matteo Ramazzotti, Patrizia Polverino de Laureto, Gian-Gaetano Tartaglia, Niccolò Taddei, Angelo Fontana, Michele Vendruscolo, and Fabrizio Chiti PMCID: PMC2098718 Nonnative Protein Polymers: Structure, Morphology, and Relation to Nucleation and Growth William F. Weiss, IV, Travis K. Hodgdon, Eric W. Kaler, Abraham M. Lenhoff, and Christopher J. Roberts PMCID: PMC2098717 Low Frequency Spectral Density of Ferrous Heme: Perturbations Induced by Axial Ligation and Protein Insertion Flaviu Gruia, Xiong Ye, Dan Ionascu, Minoru Kubo, and Paul M. Champion PMCID: PMC2098722 Supramolecular Assemblies Lipoplexes Formed by DNA and Ferrocenyl Lipids: Effect of Lipid Oxidation State on Size, Internal Dynamics, and ζ-Potential Melissa E. Hays, Christopher M. Jewell, Yukishige Kondo, David M. Lynn, and Nicholas L. Abbott PMCID: PMC2098709 Mechanical Properties of Spider Dragline Silk: Humidity, Hysteresis, and Relaxation T. Vehoff, A. Glišović, H. Schollmeyer, A. Zippelius, and T. Salditt PMCID: PMC2098708 Spectroscopy, Imaging, Other Techniques Sum Frequency Vibrational Spectroscopy: The Molecular Origins of the Optical Second-Order Nonlinearity of Collagen Israel Rocha-Mendoza, Diego R. Yankelevich, Mingshi Wang, Karen M. Reiser, Curt W. Frank, and André Knoesen PMCID: PMC2098726 Cell Biophysics Molecular Motor-Induced Instabilities and Cross Linkers Determine Biopolymer Organization D. Smith, F. Ziebert, D. Humphrey, C. Duggan, M. Steinbeck, W. Zimmermann, and J. Käs PMCID: PMC2098725 Fibroblast Adaptation and Stiffness Matching to Soft Elastic Substrates Jérôme Solon, Ilya Levental, Kheya Sengupta, Penelope C. Georges, and Paul A. Janmey PMCID: PMC2098710 Changes of the Membrane Lipid Organization Characterized by Means of a New Cholesterol-Pyrene Probe Laurent Le Guyader, Christophe Le Roux, Serge Mazères, Hafida Gaspard-Iloughmane, Heinz Gornitzka, Claire Millot, Christophe Mingotaud, and André Lopez PMCID: PMC2098716 Noise Propagation and Scaling in Regulation of Gonadotrope Biosynthesis Frederique Ruf, Fernand Hayot, Myung-June Park, Yongchao Ge, Gang Lin, Badrinath Roysam, and Stuart C. Sealfon PMCID: PMC2098712 Other Mechanisms of Laser-Induced Dissection and Transport of Histologic Specimens Alfred Vogel, Kathrin Lorenz, Verena Horneffer, Gereon Hüttmann, Dorthe von Smolinski, and Andreas Gebert PMCID: PMC2098740 Biophysical Letters Multifractality in the Peripheral Cardiovascular System from Pointwise Hölder Exponents of Laser Doppler Flowmetry Signals Anne Humeau, François Chapeau-Blondeau, David Rousseau, Maylis Tartas, Bérengère Fromy, and Pierre Abraham PMCID: PMC2098720 |
