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Atomic structures of a bactericidal contractile nanotube in its pre- and postcontraction states

R-type pyocins are representatives of contractile ejection systems, a class of biological nanomachines that includes, among others, the bacterial type VI secretion system (T6SS) and contractile bacteriophage tails. We report atomic models of the Pseudomona ...

Nature Publishing Group2015

Structure and Biophysical Properties of a Triple-Stranded Beta-Helix Comprising the Central Spike of Bacteriophage T4

Laure Menin, Petr Leiman, Sergii Buth

Gene product 5 (gp5) of bacteriophage T4 is a spike-shaped protein that functions to disrupt the membrane of the target cell during phage infection. Its C-terminal domain is a long and slender -helix that is formed by three polypeptide chains wrapped aroun ...

Mdpi Ag2015

Lipid Builder: A Framework To Build Realistic Models for Biological Membranes

Matteo Dal Peraro, Thomas Lemmin, Giorgio Elikem Tamo, Christophe Bovigny, Nicolas Grégoire Maïno

The physical and chemical characterization of biological membranes is of fundamental importance for understanding the functional role of lipid bilayers in shaping cells and organelles, steering vesicle trafficking and promoting membrane-protein signaling. ...

Amer Chemical Soc2015

The H50Q Mutation Enhances alpha-Synuclein Aggregation, Secretion, and Toxicity

Giovanni Dietler, Hilal Lashuel, Francesco Simone Ruggeri, Anne-Laure Mahul Mellier, Bruno Claude Daniel Fauvet, Abid Oueslati, Martial Mbefo Kamdem, Ossama Mohamed Salah El-Dien El-Sayed Ibrahim Khalaf, Filip Vercruysse

Over the last two decades, the identification of missense mutations in the alpha-synuclein (alpha-Syn) gene SNCA in families with inherited Parkinson disease (PD) has reinforced the central role of alpha-Syn in PD pathogenesis. Recently, a new missense mut ...

American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology2014

Dynamics of capillary self-alignment for mesoscopic foil devices

Jürgen Brugger, Massimo Mastrangeli

We report experimental evidence for three sequential, distinct dynamic regimes in the capillary self-alignment of centimeter-sized foil dies released at large uniaxial offsets from equilibrium. We show that the initial transient wetting regime, along with ...

American Institute of Physics2013

Functional Characterization of the Mouse Olfactory Receptor mOR256-17 in Live Cells

Thamani Dahoun

Olfactory receptors (ORs) constitute the largest family of sensory membrane proteins in mammals. They play a key role within the olfactory system to recognize and discriminate a nearly unlimited number of structurally diverse odorant molecules. The molecul ...

EPFL2013

Intrinsic morphological diversity of thick-tufted layer 5 pyramidal neurons ensures robust and invariant properties of in silico synaptic connections

Henry Markram, Felix Schürmann, Srikanth Ramaswamy, Yun Wang

The morphology of neocortical pyramidal neurons is not only highly characteristic but also displays an intrinsic diversity that renders each neuron morphologically unique. We investigated the significance of this intrinsic morphological diversity in in sil ...

2012

Bridging Static and Dynamical Descriptions of Chemical Reactions: An ab Initio Study of CO2 Interacting with Water Molecules

Wanda Andreoni, Fabio Pietrucci

Extracting reliable thermochemical parameters from molecular dynamics simulations of chemical reactions, although based on ab initio methods, is generally hampered by difficulties in reproducing the results and controlling the statistical errors. This is a ...

Amer Chemical Soc2012

Investigation of Biophysical Properties of Biomolecules by Means of Atomic Force Microscopy

Jae Sun Jeong

Biomolecules are the building blocks of living organisms and perform the most important functions in a biological process. The aim of biophysics is to understand the biological functions of biomolecules in terms of their structure: structure and function o ...

EPFL2012

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