Bilayer Tension
Mostrando 1-12 de 27 artigos, teses e dissertações.
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1. Strength of 3Y-TZP and feldspathic porcelain subjected to different cooling methods
AIM: To investigate the effect of the cooling rate on flexural strength of monolayer and bilayer porcelain/zirconia (Y-TZP) bars. METHODS: Forty-five specimens were made for each design group: (PM) monolithic specimens of veneer porcelain Vita VM9 (Vita, Germany); (ZM) monolithic specimens of zirconia (ZiHP; ProtMat, Brazil); (PB) bilayer specimens zir
Braz. J. Oral Sci.. Publicado em: 2014-04
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2. SÃntese e caracterizaÃÃo de surfactantes glicosÃdicos a partir da amilose e alquil fenÃis extraÃdos do LCC. / Synthesis and characterization of glycosidic surfactantes from amylose and alkyl extracted phenols of the LCC.
Nonionic surfactants are synthesised from renewable raw materials such as fat acids and sugars. They are dermatological safe, biodegradable and provide excellent surface active properties, such as good wettability, good foaming production and good cleaning ability. The present work deals with the synthesis and characterization of alkyl polyglycosides where t
Publicado em: 2007
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3. Propriedades de vesículas unilamelares gigantes / Properties of Giant Unillamelar Vesicles
The stability of giant unilamellar vesicles (GUVs) has been monitored by phase contrast and fluorescence microscopy, using sugar gradients, sodium 1,3,6,8 pirene tetrasulfonate (PTS) as fluorescent probe, 1,1-dimethyl-4,4-bipiridinium chloride (MV) as fluorescence quencher and 2-(12-(7-nitrobenz-2-oxa-1,3-diazol-4-il) amino) dodecanoyl-1-hexadecanoyl-sn-glic
Publicado em: 2006
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4. Interações entre bicamadas lipídicas e interfaces hidrofóbicas / Interactions between lipid bilayers and hydrophobic interfaces
Determinations of surface tension (γ) at the air--water interface, contact angles (Θ), and in and ex-situ ellipsometric mean thickness (d) were used to study the interaction between dioctadecyldimethylammonium bromide (DODAB) small vesicles and spin-coated polystyrene sulfate (PSS) films on silicon wafers. Upon the adition of NaCl (50 mM final conc
Publicado em: 2003
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5. Mechanosensitive Closed-Closed Transitions in Large Membrane Proteins: Osmoprotection and Tension Damping
Multiconformation membrane proteins are mechanosensitive (MS) if their conformations displace different bilayer areas. Might MS closed-closed transitions serve as tension buffers, that is, as membrane “spandex”? While bilayer expansion is effectively instantaneous, transitions of bilayer-embedded MS proteins are stochastic (thermally activated) so spande
The Biophysical Society.
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6. Dynamically stabilized pores in bilayer membranes.
Zhelev and Needham have recently created large, quasistable pores in artificial lipid bilayer vesicles. Initially created by electroporation, the pores remain open for up to several seconds before quickly snapping shut. This result is surprising, in light of the large line tension for holes in bilayer membranes and the rapid time scale for closure of large p
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7. What is the surface tension of a lipid bilayer membrane?
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8. On simulating lipid bilayers with an applied surface tension: periodic boundary conditions and undulations.
As sketched in Fig. 1, a current molecular dynamics computer simulation of a lipid bilayer fails to capture significant features of the macroscopic system, including long wavelength undulations. Such fluctuations are intrinsically connected to the value of the macroscopic (or thermodynamic) surface tension (cf. Eqs. 1 and 9; for a related treatment, see Broc
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9. Incorporation of surface tension into molecular dynamics simulation of an interface: a fluid phase lipid bilayer membrane.
In this paper we report on the molecular dynamics simulation of a fluid phase hydrated dimyristoylphosphatidylcholine bilayer. The initial configuration of the lipid was the x-ray crystal structure. A distinctive feature of this simulation is that, upon heating the system, the fluid phase emerged from parameters, initial conditions, and boundary conditions d
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10. Analytic models for mechanotransduction: Gating a mechanosensitive channel
Analytic estimates for the forces and free energy generated by bilayer deformation reveal a compelling and intuitive model for MscL channel gating analogous to the nucleation of a second phase. We argue that the competition between hydrophobic mismatch and tension results in a surprisingly rich story that can provide both a quantitative comparison with measu
National Academy of Sciences.
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11. Depletion of membrane skeleton in red blood cell vesicles.
A possible physical interpretation of the partial detachment of the membrane skeleton in the budding region of the cell membrane and consequent depletion of the membrane skeleton in red blood cell vesicles is given. The red blood cell membrane is considered to consist of the bilayer part and the membrane skeleton. The skeleton is, under normal conditions, bo
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12. Bax, but not Bcl-xL, decreases the lifetime of planar phospholipid bilayer membranes at subnanomolar concentrations
Release of proteins through the outer mitochondrial membrane can be a critical step in apoptosis, and the localization of apoptosis-regulating Bcl-2 family members there suggests they control this process. We used planar phospholipid membranes to test the effect of full-length Bax and Bcl-xL synthesized in vitro and native Bax purified from bovine thymocytes
The National Academy of Sciences.