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physics.bio-ph2025★ 1 cited

FILM: Mapping organellar metabolism by mid-infrared photothermal modulated fluorescence

Jianpeng Ao, Jiaze Yin, Haonan Lin +10

Metabolism unfolds within specific organelles in eukaryotic cells. Lysosomes are highly metabolically active organelles, and their metabolic states dynamically influence signal tra…

physics.bio-ph2023

Gene regulatory interactions limit the gene expression diversity

Orr Levy, Shubham Tripathi, Scott D. Pope +2

The diversity of expressed genes plays a critical role in cellular specialization, adaptation to environmental changes, and overall cell functionality. This diversity varies dramat…

physics.bio-ph2023★ 23 cited

A Markovian dynamics for C. elegans behavior across scales

Antonio C. Costa, Tosif Ahamed, David Jordan +1

How do we capture the breadth of behavior in animal movement, from rapid body twitches to aging? Using high-resolution videos of the nematode worm , we show that a sing…

physics.bio-ph2023★ 33 cited

Kinetics of the xanthophyll cycle and its role in photoprotective memory and response

Audrey Short, Thomas P. Fay, Thien Crisanto +4

Efficiently balancing photochemistry and photoprotection is crucial for survival and productivity of photosynthetic organisms in the rapidly fluctuating light levels found in natur…

physics.bio-ph2019★ 159 cited

Non-uniform growth and surface friction determine bacterial biofilm morphology on soft substrates

Chenyi Fei, Sheng Mao, Jing Yan +5

During development, organisms acquire three-dimensional shapes with important physiological consequences. While the basic mechanisms underlying morphogenesis are known in eukaryote…

physics.bio-ph2018★ 68 cited

Full-Field Interferometric Imaging of Propagating Action Potentials

Tong Ling, Kevin C. Boyle, Georges Goetz +5

Currently, cellular action potentials are detected using either electrical recordings or exogenous fluorescent probes sensing calcium concentration or transmembrane voltage. Ca ima…

physics.bio-ph2017★ 339 cited

The 2015 super-resolution microscopy roadmap

Stefan Hell, Steffen Sahl, Mark Bates +24

Far-field optical microscopy using focused light is an important tool in a number of scientific disciplines including chemical, (bio)physical and biomedical research, particularly…

physics.bio-ph2017★ 16 cited

Quantitative Connection Between Ensemble Thermodynamics and Single-Molecule Kinetics: A Case Study Using Cryogenic Electron Microscopy and Single-Molecule Fluorescence Resonance Energy Transfer Investigations of the Ribosome

Colin D. Kinz-Thompson, Ajeet K. Sharma, Joachim Frank +2

At equilibrium, thermodynamic and kinetic information can be extracted from biomolecular energy landscapes by many techniques. However, while static, ensemble techniques yield ther…

physics.bio-ph2016★ 56 cited

Controlling uncertainty in aptamer selection

Fabian Spill, Zohar B. Weinstein, Atena Irani Shemirani +3

The search for high-affinity aptamers for targets such as proteins, small molecules, or cancer cells remains a formidable endeavor. Systematic Evolution of Ligands by EXponential E…

physics.bio-ph2016★ 66 cited

An Unsupervised Method for Quantifying the Behavior of Interacting Individuals

Ugne Klibaite, Gordon J. Berman, Jessica Cande +2

Social behaviors involving the interaction of multiple individuals are complex and frequently crucial for an animal's survival. These interactions, ranging across sensory modalitie…

physics.bio-ph2016★ 40 cited

Identification of Bifurcations from Observations of Noisy Biological Oscillators

Joshua D. Salvi, Dáibhid Ó Maoiléidigh, A. J. Hudspeth

Hair bundles are biological oscillators that actively transduce mechanical stimuli into electrical signals in the auditory, vestibular, and lateral-line systems of vertebrates. A b…

physics.bio-ph2016★ 55 cited

Single-Molecule Imaging of Nav1.6 on the Surface of Hippocampal Neurons Reveals Somatic Nanoclusters

Elizabeth J. Akin, Laura Solé, Ben Johnson +4

Voltage-gated sodium (Na) channels are responsible for the depolarizing phase of the action potential in most nerve cells, and Na channel localization to…

physics.bio-ph2016★ 95 cited

A Computational Model of YAP/TAZ Mechanosensing

Meng Sun, Fabian Spill, Muhammad H. Zaman

In cell proliferation, stem cell differentiation, chemoresistance and tissue organization, the ubiquitous role of YAP/TAZ continues to impact our fundamental understanding in numer…

physics.bio-ph2015★ 22 cited

Effects of 3D Geometries on Cellular Gradient Sensing and Polarization

Fabian Spill, Vivi Andasari, Michael Mak +2

During cell migration, cells become polarized, change their shape, and move in response to various internal and external cues. Cell polarization is defined through the spatio-tempo…

physics.bio-ph2015★ 2 cited

Scaling and optimal synergy: Two principles determining microbial growth in complex media

Francesco Alessandro Massucci, Roger Guimerà, Luís A. Nunes Amaral +1

High-throughput experimental techniques and bioinformatics tools make it possible to obtain reconstructions of the metabolism of microbial species. Combined with mathematical frame…

physics.bio-ph2010★ 258 cited

Single-molecule derivation of salt dependent base-pair free energies in DNA

J. M. Huguet, C. V. Bizarro, N. Forns +3

Accurate knowledge of the thermodynamic properties of nucleic acids is crucial to predicting their structure and stability. To date most measurements of base-pair free energies in…

physics.bio-ph2007★ 80 cited

Force unfolding kinetics of RNA using optical tweezers. II. Modeling experiments

M. Manosas, J. -D. Wen, P. T. X. Li +4

By exerting mechanical force it is possible to unfold/refold RNA molecules one at a time. In a small range of forces, an RNA molecule can hop between the folded and the unfolded st…

physics.bio-ph2007★ 152 cited

Force unfolding kinetics of RNA using optical tweezers. I. Effects of experimental variables on measured results

J. -D. Wen, M. Manosas, P. T. X. Li +4

Experimental variables of optical tweezers instrumentation that affect RNA folding/unfolding kinetics were investigated. A model RNA hairpin, P5ab, was attached to two micron-sized…

physics.bio-ph2002★ 120 cited

A two-state kinetic model for the unfolding of single molecules by mechanical force

F. Ritort, C. Bustamante, I. Tinoco

We investigate the work dissipated during the irreversible unfolding of single molecules by mechanical force, using the simplest model necessary to represent experimental data. The…

physics.bio-ph2002★ 602 cited

Mechanisms of noise-resistance in genetic oscillators

Jose M. G. Vilar, Hao Yuan Kueh, Naama Barkai +1

A wide range of organisms use circadian clocks to keep internal sense of daily time and regulate their behavior accordingly. Most of these clocks use intracellular genetic networks…

physics.bio-ph2000

Synchronisation, binding and the role of correlated firing in fast information transmission

Simon R. Schultz, Huw D. R. Golledge, Stefano Panzeri

Does synchronization between action potentials from different neurons in the visual system play a substantial role in solving the binding problem? The binding problem can be studie…

physics.bio-ph2000★ 38 cited

Temporal correlations and neural spike train entropy

Simon R. Schultz, Stefano Panzeri

Sampling considerations limit the experimental conditions under which information theoretic analyses of neurophysiological data yield reliable results. We develop a procedure for c…

physics.bio-ph1999★ 1 cited

A unified approach to the study of temporal, correlational and rate coding

S. Panzeri, S. R. Schultz

We demonstrate that the information contained in the spike occurrence times of a population of neurons can be broken up into a series of terms, each of which reflect something abou…