Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Foggia Medical School, Via L. Pinto, 71122 Foggia, Italy Department of Basic Medical Sciences, Neuroscience and Sense Organs, Section of Human Anatomy and Histology, University of Bari “A. Moro”, Piazza Giulio Cesare 11, 70124 Bari, Italy Institute of Physical Chemistry, Department of Biophysical Chemistry, University of Heidelberg...

Expansive growth is central to development, morphogenesis, and sensory responses of algal, fungal and plant cells. These walled cells generate turgor pressure by absorbing water. The turgor pressure produces irreversible (plastic) and reversible (elastic) deformations in a wall whose mechanical properties are regulated biochemically. These biophysical processes (water uptake and wall deformatio...

MPI for Biophysical Chemistry Göttingen, Am Fassberg 11, 37077 Göttingen, Germany b Free University Berlin, Inst. of Experimental Physics, Arnimallee 14, 14195 Berlin, Germany Magnetic Resonance Center (CERM) and Department of Chemistry, University of Florence, Via Luigi Sacconi 6, 50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Italy Bruker Biospin GmbH, Silberstreifen 4, 76287 Rheinstetten, Germany e Technische Univ...

The origin of the genetic code in the context of an RNA world is a major problem in the field of biophysical chemistry. In this paper, we describe how the polymerization of amino acids along RNA templates can be affected by the properties of both molecules. Considering a system without enzymes, in which the tRNAs (the translation adaptors) are not loaded selectively with amino acids, we show th...

Cytokine regulation of lymphocyte growth and proliferation is essential for matching nutrient consumption with cell state. Here, we examine how cellular biophysical changes that occur immediately after growth factor depletion promote adaptation to reduced nutrient uptake. After growth factor withdrawal, nutrient uptake decreases, leading to apoptosis. Bcl-xL expression prevents cell death, with...

From the Department of Physiology, Nijmegen Center for Molecular Life Sciences, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Center, 6500 HB Nijmegen, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, the Max-Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Theoretical and Computational Biophysics Department, Am Fassberg, D-37077, Göttingen, Germany, and the Department of Chemistry, University of Edinburgh, Kings Buildings, West M...

This research aims to analysis the biophysical characteristics of watershed of Deli River to know potential flooding in Medan. The research is conducted at Deli River, which is located in 3 locations in North Sumatera namely Karo Regency, Deli Serdang and Medan City. Indonesia. This research used field survey method, survey activity in the form of observation and verification of characterizatio...

This article addresses the question of what information and new insights atomic force microscopy (AFM) provides that are of importance and relevance to cellular biophysical chemistry research. Three enabling aspects of AFM are discussed: (a) visualization of membrane structural features with nanometer resolution, such as microvilli, ridges, porosomes, lamellapodia, and filopodia; (b) revealing ...

The use of fluorescent nucleic acid base analogues is becoming increasingly important in the fields of biology, biochemistry and biophysical chemistry as well as in the field of DNA nanotechnology. The advantage of being able to incorporate a fluorescent probe molecule close to the site of examination in the nucleic acid-containing system of interest with merely a minimal perturbation to the na...