From owner-biophysics@net.bio.net Sun Jul 07 23:00:00 1996 Path: biosci!biosci!not-for-mail From: "Carol Gross" Newsgroups: bionet.prof-society.biophysics Subject: Biophysical Society WWW/Gopher update Date: 8 Jul 1996 12:25:40 -0700 Organization: BIOSCI International Newsgroups for Molecular Biology Lines: 40 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Approved: cgross@biosci.cbs.umn.edu Distribution: world Message-ID: <199607081907.OAA02766@biosci.cbs.umn.edu> Reply-To: "Carol Gross" NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net BIOPHYSICAL SOCIETY WWW/GOPHER SERVERS New additions and updates - June 17-July 8,1996 WWW URL: http://biosci.cbs.umn.edu/biophys/biophys.html Gopher address: biosci.cbs.umn.edu, port 70 Follow the path: CBS Departments-->Biophysical Journal ------------------------------------------------------------- Biophysical Society Pages - new home page imagemap and subpage banners Meetings: - Parallel Programming and High Performance Computing (in Molecular Biology) September 1-9, 1996 - Heidelberg, Germany - Second International Conference on Molecular Structural Biology (ICMSB 97) September 10-14, 1997 - Vienna, Austria - Computational Biology: Methods in Biomolecular Imaging (ASBMB) October 25-28, 1996 - Houston, TX - Optical Diagnostics Of Biological Fluids II February 8-14, 1997 - San Jose, CA Related Sites - Medical and Health Website (http://haven.ios.com/~allcomp/health.html) - SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering (http://www.spie.org/) If you have suggestions for the Biophysical Society servers, please send email to cgross@biosci.cbs.umn.edu. **************************************************************** Carol Gross cgross@biosci.cbs.umn.edu Biophysics Internet Coordinator 612-625-5262 (voice) University of Minnesota 612-625-5780 (fax) Department of Biochemistry **************************************************************** From owner-biophysics@net.bio.net Wed Jul 17 23:00:00 1996 Path: biosci!biosci!not-for-mail From: "Carol Gross" Newsgroups: bionet.prof-society.biophysics Subject: Biophys J-September 1996 Date: 18 Jul 1996 14:28:39 -0700 Organization: BIOSCI International Newsgroups for Molecular Biology Lines: 328 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Approved: cgross@biosci.cbs.umn.edu Distribution: world Message-ID: <199607182114.QAA10331@biosci.cbs.umn.edu> Reply-To: "Carol Gross" NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net Biophysical Journal - Accepted Manuscripts Volume 71, Number 3 - September 1996 ======================================== NEW AND NOTABLE COMMENTARIES B60430 Release of Secretory Vesicle Contents: Regulation After Fusion?. Louis J. DeFelice. BIOPHYSICAL THEORY AND MODELING B50707 Motor Protein Mechanics: A Stochastic Model with Minimal Mechanochemical Coupling. Thomas Duke and Stanislas Leibler. B50869 Electrostatic Coupling Between Retinal Isomerization and the Ionization State of Glu-204: A General Mechanism for Proton Release in Bacteriorhodopsin. Rosemary V. Sampogna and Barry Honig. B50921 Ab Initio Molecular Dynamics Study of Proton Transfer in a Poly-Glycine Analog of the Ion Channel Gramicidin A. Diane E. Sagnella, Kari Laasonen and Michael L. Klein. B60051 Grand Canonical Ensemble Monte Carlo Simulation of the dCpG/Proflavine Crystal Hydrate. H. Resat and M. Mezei. B60141 Insertion and Hairpin Formation of Membrane Proteins: A Monte Carlo Study. A. Baumgartner. B60188 A Mathematical Description of mPSC Generation at CNS Synapses. Vladimir V. Uteshev and Peter S. Pennefather. B60246 Formation of Ordered Domains in Membrane-Bound DNA. Nily Dan. CHANNELS, RECEPTORS, AND TRANSPORTERS B50729 pH Regulation of Connexin43: Molecular Analysis of the Gating Particle. Jose F. Ek-Vitorin, Guillermo Calero, Gregory E. Morley, Wanda Coombs, Steven M. Taffet, and Mario Delmar. B50782 Single-Channel Analysis of Inactivation-Defective Rat Skeletal Muscle Sodium Channels Containing the F1304Q Mutation. John H. Lawrence, David W. Orias, Jeffery R. Balser, H. Bradley Nuss, Gordon F. Tomaselli, Brian O'Rourke, and Eduardo Marban. B50942 Locations of Local Anesthetic Dibucaine in Model Membranes and the Interaction between Dibucaine and a Na+-Channel Inactivation gate Peptide as Studied by 2H- and 1H-NMR Spectroscopies. Yoshihiro Kuroda, Masahiro Ogawa, Hirosato Nasu, Maiko Terashima, Mikio Kasahara, Yasunori Kiyama, Misako Wakita, Yasuhiro Fujiwara, Nobutaka Fujii, and Terumichi Nakagawa. B60111 Use-dependence of TTX Block of Sodium Channels. A Revival of the Trapped-ion Mechanism. Franco Conti, Alessandra Gheri, Micheal Pusch, and Oscar Moran. B60218 Interaction Between Ion Channel-Inactivating Peptides and Anionic Phospholipid Vesicles as Model Targets. Jose A. Encinar, Asia M. Fernandez, Francisco Gavilanes, Juan P. Albar, Jose A. Ferragut, and Jose M. Gonzalez-Ros. ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY B50814 Voltage-clamp Studies of Gap Junction Between Uterine Muscle Cells During Term and Preterm Labor. Hiroshi Miyoshi, Mary B. Boyle, Lynette B. MacKay,and Robert E. Garfield. B60040 A Biophysical Model for Defibrillation of Cardiac Tissue. James P. Keener and A. V. Panfilov. MEMBRANES B50535 Spontaneous Formation of Interfacial Lipid-Protein Monolayers During Adsorption from Vesicles. Kaushik Nag, Jesus Perez Gil, Antonio Cruz, Nathan H. Rich, and Kevin M. W. Keough. B50794 Lateral Diffusion in Planar Lipid Bilayers: A FRAP Investigation of its Modulation by Lipid Composition, Cholesterol or Alamethicin Content and Divalent Cations. S. Ladha, A. R. Mackie, L. J. Harvey, D. C. Clark, E. J. A. Lea, M. Brullemans, and H. Duclohier. B50900 Accelerated Interleaflet transport of Phosphatidylcholine Molecules in Membranes Under Deformation. Robert M. Raphael and Richard E. Waugh. B50916 What is the Surface Tension of a Lipid Bilayer Membrane?. Fritz Jahnig. B60052 Phase Behavior of Stratum Corneum Lipids in Mixed Langmuir-Blodgett Monolayers. E. ten Grotenhuis, R. A. Demel, M. Ponec, D. R. Boer, J. C. van Miltenburg, and J. A. Bouwstra. B60071 Oriented DMPC/Ganglioside Membranes: an FTIR ATR Spectroscopic Study. Band Assignments, Orientational, and Hydrational and Phase Behaviour, and Effects of Ca2+ Binding. Elke Muller, Andrea Giehl, Gunter Schwarzmann, Konrad Sandhoff, and Alfred Blume. B60150 Preferential Partitioning of Melittin into the Air/Water Interface. Structural and Thermodynamic Implications.. Gerhard Wackerbauer, Ingrid Weis, and Gerhard Schwarz. B60198 Distribution and Diffusivity of a Hydrophobic Probe Molecule in the Interior of a Membrane. Theory and Simulation. M. L. Huertas, V. Cruz, J. J. Lopez Cascales, A. U. Acuna, and J. Garcia de la Torre. B60203 On Simulating Lipid Bilayers with an Applied Surface Tension: Periodic Boundary Conditions and Undulations. Scott E. Feller and Richard W. Pastor. B60232 Thermotropic Properties of Phosphatidylethanols. Olga P. Bondar and Elizabeth S. Rowe. B60288 Spontaneous Vesicle Formation at Lipid Bilayer Membranes. David A. Edwards, Faith Schneck, Ingrid Zhang, Anthony M. J. Davis, Hongming Chen, and Robert Langer. B60576 Commentary: Surface Tension of Biomembranes. Benoit Roux. MUSCLES AND CONTRACTILITY B50925 Effects of MgATP and MgADP on the Cross-Bridge Kinetics of Rabbit Soleus Slow-twich Muscle Fibers. Gang Wang and Masataka Kawai. B60079 Mechanical and Structural Properties Underlying Contraction of Skeletal Muscle after Partial EDC Cross-Linking. Sergey Bershitsky, Andrey Tsaturyan, Olga Bershitskaya, Gregory Mashanov, Paul Brown, Martin Webb, and Michael A. Ferenczi. B60087 On the Theory of Muscle Contraction: Filament Extensibility and the Development of Isometric Force and Stiffness. Srboljub M. Mijailovich, Jeffrey J. Fredberg, and James P. Butler. B60202 The Bundling of Actin with Poly(Ethylene Glycol) 8000 in the Presence and Absence of Gelsolin. Jeremy Goverman, Louis A. Schick, and Jay Newman. NUCLEIC ACIDS B50607 Constructing Optimal Backbone Segments for Joining Fixed DNA Base Pairs. J. Mazur, R. L. Jernigan, and A. Sarai. B50608 Interdependence of Conformational Variables in Double Helical DNA. A. Sarai, R. L. Jernigan, and J. Mazur. B60008 23Na-NMR Study of the Effect of Organic Osmolytes on DNA Conterion atmosphere. S. Flock, R. Labarbe, and C. Houssier. B60020 Comparison of the Solution and Crystal Conformations of (G+C)-Rich Fragments of DNA. Michaela Vorlickova, Juan A. Subirana, Jana Chladkova, Iva Tejralova,Tam Huyn-Dinh, Lubos Arnold, and Jaroslav Kypr. B60036 Crystal Structure of the Self-Complementary 5'-Purine Start Decamer d(GCGCGCGCGC) in the Z-DNA Conformation - Part I. Changill Ban, Boopathy Ramakrishnan, and Muttaiya Sundaralingam. B60067 Is There an Error Correcting Code in the Base Sequence in DNA?. Larry S. Liebovitch, Yi Tao, Angelo T. Todorov, and Leo Levine. B60127 Crystal Structure of the Self-Complementary 5'-Purine Start Decamer d(GCACGCGTGC) in the A-DNA Conformation - Part II. Changill Ban and Muttaiya Sundaralingam. PHOTOBIOPHYSICS B50832 Spectral Broadening of Interacting Pigments. Polarized Absorption by Photosynthetic Proteins. Oscar J. G. Somsen, Rienk van Grondelle, and Herbert van Amerongen. B60041 Catalysis of the Retinal Subpicosecond Photomerization Process in Acid Purple Bacteriorhodopsin and Some Bacteriorhodopsin Mutants by Chloride Ions. S. L. Logunov, M. A. El-Sayed, and J. K. Lanyi. B60157 Effects of Sequential Stimuli on Halobacterium salinarium Photobehaviour. Sabina Lucia, Matilde Ferraro, Giovanni Cercignani, and Donatella Petracchi. PROTEINS B50742 Ligand Binding to Heme Proteins: VI. Interconversion of Taxonomic Substates in Carbonmonoxymyoglobin. J. Bruce Johnson, Don C. Lamb, Hans Frauenfelder, Joachim D. Muller, Ben McMahon, G. Ulrich Nienhaus, and Robert D. Young. B50824 Structural and Sequence Characteristics of Long Alpha Helices in Globular Proteins. Sandeep Kumar and Manju Bansal. B60031 Molecular Diffusion into Horse Spleen Ferritin. A Notroxide Radical Spin Probe Study. Xiaoke Yang and N. Dennis Chasteen. B60042 Nanosecond Time-Resolved Absorption Studies of Human Oxyhemoglobin Photolysis Intermediates. Ebrahim Ghelichkhani, Robert A. Goldbeck, James W. Lewis, and David S. Kliger. B60149 Stability of the Dystrophin Rod Domain Fold: Evidence for Nested Repeating Units. Rosaleen Calvert, Edith Kahana, and W. B. Gratzer. B60282 A Hydrodynamic Examination of the Dimeric Cytoplasmic Domain of the Human Erythrocyte Anion Transporter, Band 3. Helmut Colfen, Stephen E. Harding, Jonathan M. Boulter, and Anthony Watts. SPECTROSCOPY, IMAGING, OTHER TECHNIQUES B50645 Infrared Nonlinear Optical Measurements of Membrane Potential in Photoreceptor Cells. Ilan Ben-Oren, Gadi Peleg, Aaron Lewis, Baruch Minke, and Leslie Loew. B60083 Imaging the Internal and External Pore Structure of Membranes in Fluid: Tapping Mode Scanning Ion Conductance Microscopy. Roger Proksch, Ratnesh Lal, Paul K. Hansma, Dan Morse, and Galen Stucky. B60145 Line Scanning Microphotolysis for Diffraction Limited Measurements of Lateral Diffusion. Peter Wedekind, Ulrich Kubitscheck, Oliver Heinrich, and Reiner Peters. CELL BIOPHYSICS B60242 Exocytotic Release from Individual Granules Ehhibits Similar Properties at Mast and Chromaffin Cells. Karin Pihel, Eric R. Travis, Ricardo Borges, andR. Mark Wightman. B60304 Mechanism and Size Cutoff for Steric Exclusion from Actin-Rich Cytoplasmic Domains. Lee W. Janson, Keith Ragsdale, and Katherine Lupy-Phelps. TEACHING BIOPHYSICS B60253 Teaching Light Scattering Spectroscopy: The Dimension and Shape of Tobacco Mosaic Virus. Nuno C. Santos and Miguel A. R. B. 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If you have suggestions for the Biophysical Society servers, please send email to cgross@biosci.cbs.umn.edu. **************************************************************** Carol Gross cgross@biosci.cbs.umn.edu Biophysics Internet Coordinator 612-625-5262 (voice) University of Minnesota 612-625-5780 (fax) Department of Biochemistry **************************************************************** From owner-biophysics@net.bio.net Wed Jul 31 23:00:00 1996 Path: biosci!biosci!not-for-mail From: "Carol Gross" Newsgroups: bionet.prof-society.biophysics Subject: Biophysical Society WWW/Gopher server update Date: 1 Aug 1996 09:09:26 -0700 Organization: BIOSCI International Newsgroups for Molecular Biology Lines: 55 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Approved: cgross@biosci.cbs.umn.edu Distribution: world Message-ID: <199608011602.LAA28131@biosci.cbs.umn.edu> Reply-To: "Carol Gross" NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net BIOPHYSICAL SOCIETY WWW/GOPHER SERVERS New additions and updates - July 24 - August 1,1996 WWW URL: http://biosci.cbs.umn.edu/biophys/biophys.html Gopher address: biosci.cbs.umn.edu, port 70 Follow the path: CBS Departments-->Biophysical Journal ------------------------------------------------------------- Employment: - FASEB Career Resources Meetings: WWW - Structure and dynamics functional of proteins October 1-4, 1996 - Sainte-Adele, Quebec, Canada - Triangle Biophysics Symposium on Dynamics of Biomembranes October 24-26, 1996 - Chapel Hill, North Carolina, U.S.A - 16th Annual SPRBM Conference October 9-12, 1996 - Chicago, Illinois (http://http.bsd.uchicago.edu/~btc/sprbm96) Gopher - Fourth International Near-field Optics Conference February 9-13, 1997 - Jerusalem, Israel Abstracts due September 1, 1996 Other Societies and associated Publications: - American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics (ASPET) - American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB) - Molecular Biology of the Cell (ASCB) - Science (ACS) - Journal of Immunology (AAI) - The American Physiological Society (APS) - Journal of Biological Chemistry (ASBMB) - FASEB Journal (FASEB) - Argentina Society of Biophysics Related Sites: - NCBI Structure Group - Molecular Modelling Database Service from WWW-Enterez If you have suggestions for the Biophysical Society servers, please send email to cgross@biosci.cbs.umn.edu. **************************************************************** Carol Gross cgross@biosci.cbs.umn.edu Biophysics Internet Coordinator 612-625-5262 (voice) University of Minnesota 612-625-5780 (fax) Department of Biochemistry ****************************************************************