Melting of DNA in confined geometries - Arghya Maity; Navin Singh (European Biophysics Journal, 2020)

Albumin displacement at the air–water interface by Tween (Polysorbate) surfactants - Martin Rabe; Andreas Kerth; Alfred Blume; Patrick Garidel (European Biophysics Journal, 2020)
Tween (polysorbate) 20 and 80 are surfactants used for the development of parenteral protein drugs, due to their beneficial safety profile and stabilisation properties. To elucidate the mechanism by which Tween 20 and 80 stabilise proteins in aqueous solutions, either by a “direct” protein to surfactant interaction and/or by an interaction with the protein film at the air–water interface, we used spectroscopic (Infrared Reflection Absorption Spectroscopy, IRRAS) and microscopic techniques (Brewster Angle Microscopy, BAM) in combination with surface pressure measurements. To this end, the impact of both types of Tweens with regard to the displacement of the protein from the air–water interface was studied. As a model protein, human serum albumin (HSA) was used. The results for the displacement of the adsorbed HSA films by Tweens 20 and 80 can partially be understood on the basis of an orogenic displacement mechanism, which depends on the critical surface pressure of the adsorbed protein film. With increasing concentration of Tween in the sub-phase, BAM images showed the formation of different domain morphologies. IRRA-spectra supported the finding that at high protein concentration in the sub-phase, the protein film could not be completely displaced by the surfactants. Comparing the impact of both surfactants, we found that Tween 20 adsorbed faster to the protein film than Tween 80. The adsorption kinetics of both Tweens and the speed of protein displacement increased with rising surfactant concentration. Tween 80 reached significant lower surface pressures than Tween 20, which led to an incomplete displacement of the observed HSA film.

Chiral discrimination in a mutated IDH enzymatic reaction in cancer: a computational perspective - Masthan Thamim; Krishnan Thirumoorthy (European Biophysics Journal, 2020)

Structural aspects and activation mechanism of human secretory group IIA phospholipase - Anna K. Manukyan (European Biophysics Journal, 2020)

How accurate is circular dichroism-based model validation? - Gabor Nagy; Helmut Grubmüller (European Biophysics Journal, 2020)
Circular dichroism (CD) spectroscopy is highly sensitive to the secondary structure (SS) composition of proteins. Several methods exist to either estimate the SS composition of a protein or to validate existing structural models using its CD spectrum. The accuracy and precision of these methods depend on the quality of both the measured CD spectrum and the used reference structure. Using a large reference protein set with high-quality CD spectra and synthetic data derived from this set, we quantified deviations from both ideal spectra and reference structures due to experimental limitations. We also determined the impact of these deviations on SS estimation, CD prediction, and SS validation methods of the SESCA analysis package. With regard to the CD spectra, our results suggest intensity scaling errors and non-SS contributions as the main causes of inaccuracies. These factors also can lead to overestimated model errors during validation. The errors of the used reference structures combine non-additively with errors caused by the CD spectrum, which increases the uncertainty of model validation. We have further shown that the effects of scaling errors in the CD spectrum can be nearly eliminated by appropriate re-scaling, and that the accuracy of model validation methods can be improved by accounting for typical non-SS contributions. These improvements have now been implemented within the SESCA package and are available at: https://www.mpibpc.mpg.de/sesca .

Initial biophysical characterization of Amynthas gracilis giant extracellular hemoglobin (HbAg) - J. B. S. Oliveira; L. Ramos; C. O. Souza; I. Sebastião; C. Caruso; F. A. O. Carvalho; J. W. P. Carvalho; P. G. Morgante; P. S. Santiago (European Biophysics Journal, 2020)

Indenting soft samples (hydrogels and cells) with cantilevers possessing various shapes of probing tip - Joanna Zemła; Justyna Bobrowska; Andrzej Kubiak; Tomasz Zieliński; Joanna Pabijan; Katarzyna Pogoda; Piotr Bobrowski; Małgorzata Lekka (European Biophysics Journal, 2020)
The identification of cancer-related changes in cells and tissues based on the measurements of elastic properties using atomic force microscopy (AFM) seems to be approaching clinical application. Several limiting aspects have already been discussed; however, still, no data have shown how specific AFM probe geometries are related to the biomechanical evaluation of cancer cells. Here, we analyze and compare the nanomechanical results of mechanically homogenous polyacrylamide gels and heterogeneous bladder cancer cells measured using AFM probes of various tip geometry, including symmetric and non-symmetric pyramids and a sphere. Our observations show large modulus variability aligned with both types of AFM probes used and with the internal structure of the cells. Altogether, these results demonstrate that it is possible to differentiate between compliant and rigid samples of kPa elasticity; however, simultaneously, they highlight the strong need for standardized protocols for AFM-based elasticity measurements if applied in clinical practice including the use of a single type of AFM cantilever.

Biophysical study of phloretin with human serum albumin in liposomes using spectroscopic methods - Seda Karabulut; Mahmut Toprak (European Biophysics Journal, 2020)

The protein–surfactant stoichiometry governs the conformational switching and amyloid nucleation kinetics of tau K18 - Jaspreet Kaur; Anjali Giri; Mily Bhattacharya (European Biophysics Journal, 2020)

Low-resolution molecular shape, biochemical characterization and emulsification properties of a halotolerant esterase from Bacillus licheniformis - Ana Elisa T. Leite; Lorenzo Briganti; Evandro Ares de Araújo; Vanessa de Oliveira Arnoldi Pellegrini; Cesar Moyses Camilo; Igor Polikarpov (European Biophysics Journal, 2020)

Characterization of the apo-form of extracellular hemoglobin of Glossoscolex paulistus (HbGp) and its stability in the presence of urea - Ana E. B. Barros; Célia Sulzbacher Caruso; Fernanda Rosa Alves; Marcel Tabak; Francisco A. O. Carvalho (European Biophysics Journal, 2020)

Fast and synchronized fluctuations of cortical actin negatively correlate with nucleoli liquid–liquid phase separation in T cells - Ishay Wohl; Oren Yakovian; Yair Razvag; Meital Reches; Eilon Sherman (European Biophysics Journal, 2020)

Model lipid systems and their use to evaluate the phase state of biomembranes, their mechanical properties and the effect of non-conventional antibiotics: the case of daptomycin - Daniel Balleza; Andrea Mescola; Andrea Alessandrini (European Biophysics Journal, 2020)

Correction to: Kinetics of irreversible pore formation under constant electrical tension in giant unilamellar vesicles - Md. Kabir Ahamed; Mohammad Abu Sayem Karal; Marzuk Ahmed; Shareef Ahammed (European Biophysics Journal, 2020)

New wave-type mechanism of saltatory conduction in myelinated axons and micro-saltatory conduction in C fibres - J. E. Jacak; W. A. Jacak (European Biophysics Journal, 2020)
We present a new wave-type model of saltatory conduction in myelinated axons. Poor conductivity in the neuron cytosol limits electrical current signal velocity according to cable theory, to 1–3 m/s, whereas saltatory conduction occurs with a velocity of 100–300 m/s. We propose a wave-type mechanism for saltatory conduction in the form of the kinetics of an ionic plasmon-polariton being the hybrid of the electro-magnetic wave and of the synchronized ionic plasma oscillations in myelinated segments along an axon. The model agrees with observations and allows for description of the regulatory role of myelin. It explains also the mechanism of conduction deficiency in demyelination syndromes such as multiple sclerosis. The recently observed micro-saltatory conduction in ultrathin unmyelinated C fibers with periodic ion gate clusters is also explained.

Ligand-receptor-mediated attachment of lipid vesicles to a supported lipid bilayer - Vladimir P. Zhdanov (European Biophysics Journal, 2020)
The interaction of exosomes (cell-secreted $$\sim $$ ∼ 100 nm-sized extracellular vesicles) or membrane-enveloped virions with cellular lipid membranes is often mediated by relatively weak ligand-receptor bonds. Interactions of this type can be studied using vesicles and observing their attachment to receptors located in a lipid bilayer formed at a solid surface. The contact region between a vesicle and the supported lipid bilayer and accordingly the number of ligand-receptor pairs there can be increased by deforming a vesicle. Herein, I (i) estimate theoretically the corresponding deformation energy assuming a disk-like or elongated shape of vesicles, (ii) present the equations allowing one to track such deformations by employing total internal reflection fluorescence microscopy and surface plasmon resonance, and (iii) briefly discuss some related experimental studies.

Influence of cholesterol on electroporation in lipid membranes of giant vesicles - Mohammad Abu Sayem Karal; Md. Kabir Ahamed; Nadia Akter Mokta; Marzuk Ahmed; Shareef Ahammed (European Biophysics Journal, 2020)

Kinetics of irreversible pore formation under constant electrical tension in giant unilamellar vesicles - Md. Kabir Ahamed; Mohammad Abu Sayem Karal; Marzuk Ahmed; Shareef Ahammed (European Biophysics Journal, 2020)

Simulating diffusion from a cluster of point sources using propagation integrals - Dirk Gillespie (European Biophysics Journal, 2020)

Forces maintaining the DNA double helix - Peter L. Privalov; Colyn Crane-Robinson (European Biophysics Journal, 2020)
Despite the common acceptance that the enthalpy of DNA duplex unfolding does not depend on temperature and is greater for the CG base pair held by three hydrogen bonds than for the AT base pair held by only two, direct calorimetric measurements have shown that the enthalpic and entropic contributions of both base pairs are temperature dependent and at all temperatures are greater for the AT than the CG pair. The temperature dependence results from hydration of the apolar surfaces of bases that become exposed upon duplex dissociation. The larger enthalpic and entropic contributions of the AT pair are caused by water fixed by this pair in the minor groove of DNA and released on duplex dissociation. Analysis of the experimental thermodynamic characteristics of unfolding/refolding DNA duplexes of various compositions shows that the enthalpy of base pairing is negligibly small, while the entropic contribution is considerable. Thus, DNA base pairing is entropy driven and is coupled to the enthalpy driven van der Waals base pair stacking. Each of these two processes is responsible for about half the Gibbs energy of duplex stabilization, but all the enthalpy, i.e., the total heat of melting, results from dissociation of the stacked base pairs. Both these processes tightly cooperate: while the pairing of conjugate bases is critical for recognition of complementary strands, stacking of the flat apolar surfaces of the base pairs reinforces the DNA duplex formed.

Mathematical model of the ventricular action potential and effects of isoproterenol-induced cardiac hypertrophy in rats - Sevgi Şengül Ayan; Ahmet K. Sırcan; Mohamedou Abewa; Ahmet Kurt; Uğur Dalaman; Nazmi Yaraş (European Biophysics Journal, 2020)

Influence of crowding agents on the dynamics of a multidomain protein in its denatured state: a solvation approach - Sanjib K. Mukherjee; Saikat Biswas; Harshita Rastogi; Amrita Dawn; Pramit K. Chowdhury (European Biophysics Journal, 2020)

New insights into novel Escherichia coli colistin-resistant strains isolated from Argentina - Patricia Maturana; Melina Martinez; Diego Faccone; Liliana Semorile; Paulo C. Maffia; Axel Hollmann (European Biophysics Journal, 2020)

Viscoelasticity of multicellular systems caused by collective cell migration: dynamics at the biointerface - Ivana Pajic-Lijakovic; Milan Milivojevic (European Biophysics Journal, 2020)

The acid–base and redox properties of menaquinone MK-4, MK-7, and MK-9 (vitamin K2) in DMPC monolayers on mercury - Karuppasamy Dharmaraj; Javier Ignacio Román Silva; Heike Kahlert; Uwe Lendeckel; Fritz Scholz (European Biophysics Journal, 2020)
The acid–base and redox properties of the menaquinones MK-4, MK-7, and MK-9 (vitamin K 2 ) have been studied in DMPC monolayers on mercury electrodes. The monolayers were prepared by adhesion-spreading of menaquinone-spiked DMPC liposomes on a stationary mercury drop electrode. All three menaquinones possess $${\text{p}}K_{{\text{a}}}$$ p K a constants outside the experimentally accessible range, i.e., they are higher than about 12. The standard potentials of MK-4, MK-7, and MK-9 in the DMPC monolayers are very similar, i.e., 0.351, 0.326, and 0.330 V (corresponding to the biochemical standard potentials − 0.063, − 0.088, and − 0.085 V). Graphic abstract

Counteraction of osmolytes on pH-induced unfolding of xylose reductase from Debaryomyces nepalensis NCYC 3413 - Shwethashree Malla; Sathyanarayana N. Gummadi (European Biophysics Journal, 2020)

Extracellular ionic fluxes suggest the basis for cellular life at the 1/f ridge of extended criticality - Mariusz Pietruszka; Monika Olszewska (European Biophysics Journal, 2020)
The criticality hypothesis states that a system may be poised in a critical state at the boundary between different types of dynamics. Previous studies have suggested that criticality has been evolutionarily selected, and examples have been found in cortical cell cultures and in the human nervous system. However, no one has yet reported a single- or multi-cell ensemble that was investigated ex vivo and found to be in the critical state. Here, the precise 1/ f noise was found for pollen tube cells of optimum growth and for the physiological (“healthy”) state of blood cells. We show that the multi-scale processes that arise from the so-called critical phenomena can be a fundamental property of a living cell. Our results reveal that cell life is conducted at the border between order and disorder, and that the dynamics themselves drive a system towards a critical state. Moreover, a temperature-driven re-entrant state transition, manifest in the form of a Lorentz resonance, was found in the fluctuation amplitude of the extracellular ionic fluxes for the ensemble of elongating pollen tubes of Nicotiana tabacum L. or Hyacintus orientalis L. Since this system is fine-tuned for rapid expansion to reach the ovule at a critical temperature which results in fertilisation, the core nature of criticality (long-range coherence) offers an explanation for its potential in cell growth. We suggest that the autonomous organisation of expansive growth is accomplished by self-organised criticality, which is an orchestrated instability that occurs in an evolving cell. Graphic abstract

Exothermic transitions in the heat capacity profiles of human cerebrospinal fluid - Borislava Antonova; Emanuil Naydenov; Rumiana Koynova; Kalina Tumangelova-Yuzeir; Boris Tenchov (European Biophysics Journal, 2020)

Spatio-temporal correlations between catastrophe events in a microtubule bundle: a computational study - Makarand Diwe; Manoj Gopalakrishnan (European Biophysics Journal, 2020)

NMR and crystallographic structural studies of the Elongation factor P from Staphylococcus aureus - Alexander Golubev; Bulat Fatkhullin; Azat Gabdulkhakov; Aydar Bikmullin; Liliya Nurullina; Natalia Garaeva; Daut Islamov; Evelina Klochkova; Vladimir Klochkov; Albert Aganov; Iskander Khusainov; Shamil Validov; et al. (European Biophysics Journal, 2020)

Quinidine partially blocks mitochondrial voltage-dependent anion channel (VDAC) - Chetan Malik; Subhendu Ghosh (European Biophysics Journal, 2020)

Symmetry-breaking transitions in the early steps of protein self-assembly - Carmelo La Rosa; Marcello Condorelli; Giuseppe Compagnini; Fabio Lolicato; Danilo Milardi; Trang Nhu Do; Mikko Karttunen; Martina Pannuzzo; Ayyalusamy Ramamoorthy; Franca Fraternali; Francesca Collu; Human Rezaei; et al. (European Biophysics Journal, 2020)

Extraction of bioimpedance phase information from its magnitude using a non-uniform Kramers–Kronig transform - Abdulwadood A. Al-Ali; Ahmed S. Elwakil; Brent J. Maundy (European Biophysics Journal, 2020)

Molecular cloning and biochemical characterization of the phospholipid scramblase SCRM-1 from Caenorhabditis elegans - Muhasin Koyiloth; Sathyanarayana N. Gummadi (European Biophysics Journal, 2020)

Experimental study of the difference in deformation between normal and pathological, renal and bladder, cells induced by acoustic radiation force - Haibin Wang; Yupei Qiao; Jiehui Liu; Bo Jiang; Gutian Zhang; Chengwei Zhang; Xiaozhou Liu (European Biophysics Journal, 2020)

Interaction of polypyridyl Cr(III) complexes with bovine serum albumin - Pablo F. Garcia; Consuelo Coronel Arrechea; Alejandra Velo; Julieta Riva; Lidia M. Yudi; Gerardo A. Argüello (European Biophysics Journal, 2020)

Nucleation-dependent amyloid fibrillation of human GRASP55 in aqueous solution - S. Thirupathi Reddy; Vladimir N. Uversky; Antonio Jose Costa-Filho (European Biophysics Journal, 2020)

Amyloid formation of bovine insulin is retarded in moderately acidic pH and by addition of short-chain alcohols - David Bernson; Almedina Mecinovic; Md Tuhin Abed; Fredrik Limé; Per Jageland; Magnus Palmlöf; Elin K. Esbjörner (European Biophysics Journal, 2020)
Protein aggregation and amyloid formation are associated with multiple human diseases, but are also a problem in protein production. Understanding how aggregation can be modulated is therefore of importance in both medical and industrial contexts. We have used bovine insulin as a model protein to explore how amyloid formation is affected by buffer pH and by the addition of short-chain alcohols. We find that bovine insulin forms amyloid fibrils, albeit with different rates and resulting fibril morphologies, across a wide pH range (2–7). At pH 4.0, bovine insulin displayed relatively low aggregation propensity in combination with high solubility; this condition was therefore chosen as basis for further exploration of how bovine insulin’s native state can be stabilized in the presence of short-chain alcohols that are relevant because of their common use as eluents in industrial-scale chromatography purification. We found that ethanol and isopropanol are efficient modulators of bovine insulin aggregation, providing a three to four times retardation of the aggregation kinetics at 30–35% (vol/vol) concentration; we attribute this to the formation of oligomers, which we detected by AFM. We discuss this effect in terms of reduced solvent polarity and show, by circular dichroism recordings, that a concomitant change in α-helical packing of the insulin monomer occurs in ethanol. Our results extend current knowledge of how insulin aggregates, and may, although bovine insulin serves as a simplistic model, provide insights into how buffers and additives can be fine-tuned in industrial production of proteins in general and pharmaceutical insulin in particular.

NMR studies on the conformation, stability and dynamics of alamethicin in methanol - Yoshinori Miura (European Biophysics Journal, 2020)

An experimental system for real-time fluorescence recordings of cell membrane changes induced by electroporation - Ioan Tivig; Tudor Savopol; Eugenia Kovacs; Mihaela G. Moisescu (European Biophysics Journal, 2020)

Lipoic acid nanoforms based on phosphatidylcholine: production and characteristics - V. A. Shchelkonogov; S. O. Alyaseva; N. Yu. Lotosh; O. A. Baranova; A. V. Chekanov; E. Yu. Solov’eva; R. A. Kamyshinskii; R. G. Vasilov; N. S. Shastina; E. A. Korepanova; A. A. Anosov; A. A. Selishcheva (European Biophysics Journal, 2020)

Fatty acid transfer between serum albumins and shungite carbon nanoparticles and its effect on protein aggregation and association - Andrey Goryunov; Sergei Rozhkov; Natalia Rozhkova (European Biophysics Journal, 2020)

Effect of Escherichia coli on phospholipid monolayers: surface tensiometry and Brewster angle microscopy measurements - Masaya Okabe; Keijiro Taga; Akihiro Yoshino; Yasushi Yamamoto; Akiko Taneda; Suguru Shinoda; Shin Kanamasa; Zameer Shervani (European Biophysics Journal, 2020)

Binding of HasA by its transmembrane receptor HasR follows a conformational funnel mechanism - Thomas E. Exner; Stefanie Becker; Simon Becker; Audrey Boniface-Guiraud; Philippe Delepelaire; Kay Diederichs; Wolfram Welte (European Biophysics Journal, 2020)
HasR in the outer membrane of Serratia marcescens binds secreted, heme-loaded HasA and translocates the heme to the periplasm to satisfy the cell’s demand for iron. The previously published crystal structure of the wild-type complex showed HasA in a very specific binding arrangement with HasR, apt to relax the grasp on the heme and assure its directed transfer to the HasR-binding site. Here, we present a new crystal structure of the heme-loaded HasA arranged with a mutant of HasR, called double mutant (DM) in the following that seemed to mimic a precursor stage of the abovementioned final arrangement before heme transfer. To test this, we performed first molecular dynamics (MD) simulations starting at the crystal structure of the complex of HasA with the DM mutant and then targeted MD simulations of the entire binding process beginning with heme-loaded HasA in solution. When the simulation starts with the former complex, the two proteins in most simulations do not dissociate. When the mutations are reverted to the wild-type sequence, dissociation and development toward the wild-type complex occur in most simulations. This indicates that the mutations create or enhance a local energy minimum. In the targeted MD simulations, the first protein contacts depend upon the chosen starting position of HasA in solution. Subsequently, heme-loaded HasA slides on the external surface of HasR on paths that converge toward the specific arrangement apt for heme transfer. The targeted simulations end when HasR starts to relax the grasp on the heme, the subsequent events being in a time regime inaccessible to the available computing power. Interestingly, none of the ten independent simulation paths visits exactly the arrangement of HasA with HasR seen in the crystal structure of the mutant. Two factors which do not exclude each other could explain these observations: the double mutation creates a non-physiologic potential energy minimum between the two proteins and /or the target potential in the simulation pushes the system along paths deviating from the low-energy paths of the native binding processes. Our results support the former view, but do not exclude the latter possibility.

Study of molecular transport through a single nanopore in the membrane of a giant unilamellar vesicle using COMSOL simulation - Mohammad Abu Sayem Karal; Md. Kamrul Islam; Zaid Bin Mahbub (European Biophysics Journal, 2020)

In-cell structural dynamics of an EGF receptor during ligand-induced dimer–oligomer transition - Noga Kozer; Andrew H. A. Clayton (European Biophysics Journal, 2020)

The structure of N184K amyloidogenic variant of gelsolin highlights the role of the H-bond network for protein stability and aggregation properties - Matteo de Rosa; Alberto Barbiroli; Francesco Bonì; Emanuele Scalone; Davide Mattioni; Maria A. Vanoni; Marco Patrone; Michela Bollati; Eloise Mastrangelo; Toni Giorgino; Mario Milani (European Biophysics Journal, 2020)

Distance measurements in the F0F1-ATP synthase from E. coli using smFRET and PELDOR spectroscopy - Markus Burger; Stephan Rein; Stefan Weber; Peter Gräber; Sylwia Kacprzak (European Biophysics Journal, 2020)

Thermodynamics of DNA: heat capacity changes on duplex unfolding - Anatoliy Dragan; Peter Privalov; Colyn Crane-Robinson (European Biophysics Journal, 2019)
The heat capacity change, ΔCp, accompanying the folding/unfolding of macromolecules reflects their changing state of hydration. Thermal denaturation of the DNA duplex is characterized by an increase in ΔCp but of much lower magnitude than observed for proteins. To understand this difference, the changes in solvent accessible surface area (ΔASA) have been determined for unfolding the B-form DNA duplex into disordered single strands. These showed that the polar component represents ~ 55% of the total increase in ASA, in contrast to globular proteins of similar molecular weight for which the polar component is only about 1/3rd of the total. As the exposure of polar surface results in a decrease of ΔCp, this explains the much reduced heat capacity increase observed for DNA and emphasizes the enhanced role of polar interactions in maintaining duplex structure. Appreciation of a non-zero ΔCp for DNA has important consequences for the calculation of duplex melting temperatures ( T m ). A modified approach to T m prediction is required and comparison is made of current methods with an alternative protocol.

Experimental determination of second virial coefficients by small-angle X-ray scattering: a problem revisited - Tyler Mrozowich; Donald J. Winzor; David J. Scott; Trushar R. Patel (European Biophysics Journal, 2019)

Electrostatic interactions of alkaline earth cations with 1,2-dimyristoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphatidic acid (DMPA) model membranes at neutral and acidic pH - Patrick Garidel; Alfred Blume (European Biophysics Journal, 2019)

Effect of lipid saturation on amyloid-beta peptide partitioning and aggregation in neuronal membranes: molecular dynamics simulations - Nikolaos Ntarakas; Inna Ermilova; Alexander P. Lyubartsev (European Biophysics Journal, 2019)
Aggregation of amyloid- $$β $$ β (Aβ) peptides, cleaved from the amyloid precursor protein, is known as a precursor of the Alzheimer’s disease (AD). It is also known that Alzheimer’s disease is characterized by a substantial decrease of the amount of polyunsaturated lipids in the neuronal membranes of the frontal gray matter. To get insight into possible interconnection of these phenomena, we have carried out molecular dynamics simulations of two fragments of A $$β $$ β peptide, A $$β $$ β $$_{1-28}$$ 1 - 28 and A $$β $$ β $$_{26-40}$$ 26 - 40 , in four different lipid bilayers: two monocomponent ones (14:0-14:0 PC, 18:0-22:6 PC), and two bilayers containing mixtures of 18:0-18:0 PE, 22:6-22:6 PE, 16:0-16:0 PC and 18:1-18:1 PC lipids of composition mimicking neuronal membranes in a “healthy” and “AD” brain. The simulations showed that the presence of lipids with highly unsaturated 22:6 cis fatty acids chains strongly affects the interaction of amyloid- $$β $$ β peptides with lipid membranes. The polyunsaturated lipids cause stronger adsorption of A $$β $$ β -peptides by the membrane and lead to weaker binding between peptides when the latter form aggregates. This difference in the behaviour observed in monocomponent bilayers is propagated in a similar fashion to the mixed membranes mimicking composition of neuronal membranes in “healthy” and “AD” brains, with “healthy” membrane having higher fraction of polyunsaturated lipids. Our simulations give strong indication that it can be physical–chemical background of the interconnection between amyloid fibrillization causing Alzheimer’s disease, and content of polyunsaturated lipids in the neuronal membranes.

Study of the complex coacervation mechanism between ovalbumin and the strong polyanion PSSNa: influence of temperature and pH - Wafa Feddaoui; Adel Aschi; Houda Bey; Tahar Othman (European Biophysics Journal, 2019)

Denaturation studies of Clarias gariepinus glutathione transferase in dilute and crowded solutions - Temidayo Ogunmoyole; Adedayo A. Fodeke; Isaac Olusanjo Adewale (European Biophysics Journal, 2019)

Investigation of spectral and kinetic properties of polymer films based on some analogs of bacteriorhodopsin - Anna B. Druzhko; Sergey K. Pirutin (European Biophysics Journal, 2019)

A statistical model for activation of Factor C by binding to LPS aggregates - Y. Miyagawa; K. Kikuchi; M. Tsuchiya; S. Adachi (European Biophysics Journal, 2019)

Obtaining precise and accurate results by ITC - Lee D. Hansen; Colette Quinn (European Biophysics Journal, 2019)

Effects of electrically-induced constant tension on giant unilamellar vesicles using irreversible electroporation - Mohammad Abu Sayem Karal; Md. Kabir Ahamed; Mostafizur Rahman; Marzuk Ahmed; Md. Mostofa Shakil; Khondkar Siddique-e-Rabbani (European Biophysics Journal, 2019)

Effects of bovine serum albumin (BSA) on the excited-state properties of meso-tetrakis(sulfonatophenyl) porphyrin (TPPS4) - Pablo J. Gonçalves; Fabio C. Bezerra; Luciane M. Almeida; Lais Alonso; Guilherme R. L. Souza; Antonio Alonso; Sergio C. Zílio; Iouri E. Borissevitch (European Biophysics Journal, 2019)

A new six-electrode electrical impedance technique for probing deep organs in the human body - Shamor Kanti Roy; Mohammad Abu Sayem Karal; Muhammad Abdul Kadir; Khondkar Siddique-e Rabbani (European Biophysics Journal, 2019)

Insights into conformation and membrane interactions of the acyclic and dicarba-bridged brevinin-1BYa antimicrobial peptides - Patrick Brendan Timmons; Donal O’Flynn; J. Michael Conlon; Chandralal M. Hewage (European Biophysics Journal, 2019)

On the motion of magnetotactic bacteria: theoretical predictions and experimental observations - Daniel Acosta-Avalos; Elton Rodrigues (European Biophysics Journal, 2019)

Phenotypic, structural, and ultrastructural analysis of triple-negative breast cancer cell lines and breast cancer stem cell subpopulation - Milene Pereira Moreira; Fábio André Brayner; Luiz Carlos Alves; Geovanni Dantas Cassali; Luciana Maria Silva (European Biophysics Journal, 2019)

Enzymatic activity of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 protease in crowded solutions - Ksenia Maximova; Jakub Wojtczak; Joanna Trylska (European Biophysics Journal, 2019)

Impact of semen-derived amyloid (SEVI) on sperm viability and motility: its implication in male reproductive fitness - Vijay Kumar; Pradeep G. Kumar; Jay Kant Yadav (European Biophysics Journal, 2019)

Unveiling the binding and orientation of the antimicrobial peptide Plantaricin 149 in zwitterionic and negatively charged membranes - Patricia S. Kumagai; Victor K. Sousa; Maressa Donato; Rosangela Itri; Leila M. Beltramini; Ana P. U. Araujo; Jochen Buerck; B. A. Wallace; Jose L. S. Lopes (European Biophysics Journal, 2019)

Biophysical characterization and molecular phylogeny of human KIN protein - José Renato Pattaro Júnior; Ícaro Putinhon Caruso; Quirino Alves de Lima Neto; Francisco Ferreira Duarte Junior; Fabiana dos Santos Rando; Edileusa Cristina Marques Gerhardt; Maria Aparecida Fernandez; Flávio Augusto Vicente Seixas (European Biophysics Journal, 2019)

57Fe enrichment in mice for β-thalassaemia studies via Mössbauer spectroscopy of blood samples - George Charitou; Charalambos Tsertos; Yannis Parpottas; Marina Kleanthous; Carsten W. Lederer; Marios Phylactides (European Biophysics Journal, 2019)

Are cell membrane nanotubes the ancestors of the nervous system? - H. Moysés Nussenzveig (European Biophysics Journal, 2019)

Viscoelasticity variation in a biofilm-mediated Bacillus subtilis suspension induced by adding polyethylene glycol - Xiaoling Wang; Xing Shen; Zhaocan Wang; Yuhao Kong (European Biophysics Journal, 2019)

A model for the chemomechanical coupling of the mammalian cytoplasmic dynein molecular motor - Ping Xie (European Biophysics Journal, 2019)

Liposome production and concurrent loading of drug simulants by microfluidic hydrodynamic focusing - Wan-Zhen Sophie Lin; Noah Malmstadt (European Biophysics Journal, 2019)

Growth of a gas bubble in a perfused tissue in an unsteady pressure field with source or sink - K. G. Mohamed; S. A. Mohammadein (European Biophysics Journal, 2019)

Network analysis of dynamically important residues in protein structures mediating ligand-binding conformational changes - Tadeo E. Saldaño; Silvio C. E. Tosatto; Gustavo Parisi; Sebastian Fernandez-Alberti (European Biophysics Journal, 2019)

Stochastic and deterministic approaches to modelling calcium release in cardiac myocytes at different spatial arrangements of ryanodine receptors - B. I. Iaparov; A. S. Moskvin; I. Zahradník; A. Zahradníková (European Biophysics Journal, 2019)

Study of the mechanical properties of fresh and cryopreserved individual human oocytes - Elena Giolo; Monica Martinelli; Stefania Luppi; Federico Romano; Giuseppe Ricci; Marco Lazzarino; Laura Andolfi (European Biophysics Journal, 2019)

Inhibition of influenza virus activity by the bovine seminal plasma protein PDC-109 - Robert-William Welke; Ivan Haralampiev; Filip Schröter; Beate C. Braun; Andreas Herrmann; Christian Sieben; Peter Müller (European Biophysics Journal, 2019)

U-turn trajectories of magnetotactic cocci allow the study of the correlation between their magnetic moment, volume and velocity - Daniel Acosta-Avalos; Agnes Chacor de Figueiredo; Cassia Picanço Conceição; Jayane Julia Pereira da Silva; Kaio José Monteiro São Paulo Aguiar; Marciano de Lima Medeiros; Moacyr do Nascimento; Roger Duarte de Melo; Saulo Machado Moreira Sousa; Henrique Lins de Barros; Odivaldo Cambraia Alves; Fernanda Abreu (European Biophysics Journal, 2019)

Microenvironment of tryptophan residues in proteins of four structural classes: applications for fluorescence and circular dichroism spectroscopy - Vladislav Victorovich Khrustalev; Victor Vitoldovich Poboinev; Aleksander Nicolaevich Stojarov; Tatyana Aleksandrovna Khrustaleva (European Biophysics Journal, 2019)

Solution structure and backbone dynamics for S1 domain of ribosomal protein S1 from Mycobacterium tuberculosis - Biling Huang; Shihui Fan; Yan Liu; Yufen Zhao; Donghai Lin; Xinli Liao (European Biophysics Journal, 2019)

An estimate to the first approximation of microtubule rupture force - Sharyn A. Endow; Piotr E. Marszalek (European Biophysics Journal, 2019)

JOINT 12th EBSA congress and 10th ICBP – IUPAP congress, July 20-24, 2019, Madrid, Spain – Abstracts (European Biophysics Journal, 2019)

Regional Biophysics Conference: RBC2018 - Zoran Arsov; Tilen Koklič (European Biophysics Journal, 2019)

Synchrotron radiation-based FTIR spectro-microscopy of the brainstem of the hSOD1 G93A rat model of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis - Pavle Andjus; Stefan Stamenković; Tanja Dučić (European Biophysics Journal, 2019)

Biophysical modeling of wave propagation phenomena: experimental determination of pulse wave velocity in viscous fluid-filled elastic tubes in a gravitation field - Dejan Žikić; Bojana Stojadinović; Zorica Nestorović (European Biophysics Journal, 2019)

Application of small-angle neutron diffraction to the localization of general anesthetics in model membranes - P. Hrubovčák; T. Kondela; E. Ermakova; N. Kučerka (European Biophysics Journal, 2019)

Fluorescence-detected linear dichroism imaging in a re-scan confocal microscope equipped with differential polarization attachment - Gabor Steinbach; David Nagy; Gábor Sipka; Erik Manders; Győző Garab; László Zimányi (European Biophysics Journal, 2019)

From biophysics to ‘omics and systems biology - Marko Djordjevic; Andjela Rodic; Stefan Graovac (European Biophysics Journal, 2019)

Spectrokinetic characterization of photoactive yellow protein films for integrated optical applications - Szilvia Krekic; Dávid Nagy; Stefka G. Taneva; László Fábián; László Zimányi; András Dér (European Biophysics Journal, 2019)

Critical parameters maintaining authentic CRAC channel hallmarks - Adéla Krizova; Lena Maltan; Isabella Derler (European Biophysics Journal, 2019)

New coumarin- and phenoxazine-based fluorescent probes for live-cell STED nanoscopy - Stane Pajk; Hana Majaron; Matej Novak; Boštjan Kokot; Janez Štrancar (European Biophysics Journal, 2019)

An insight into pH-induced changes in FAD conformational structure by means of time-resolved fluorescence and circular dichroism - Rosario Esposito; Ines Delfino; Marianna Portaccio; Clara Iannuzzi; Maria Lepore (European Biophysics Journal, 2019)

Moving average filtering with deconvolution (MAD) for hidden Markov model with filtering and correlated noise - Ibrahim M. Almanjahie; Ramzan Nazim Khan; Robin K. Milne; Takeshi Nomura; Boris Martinac (European Biophysics Journal, 2019)

Possible sensor applications of selected DNA–surfactant complexes - Ewelina Nowak; Anna Wisła-Świder; Gohar Khachatryan; Maciej Fiedorowicz; Krzysztof Danel (European Biophysics Journal, 2019)

Thermodynamics of protein folding: methodology, data analysis and interpretation of data - Seyedeh Akram Shirdel; Khosrow Khalifeh (European Biophysics Journal, 2019)

Biophysical characterization of heme binding to the intrinsically disordered region of Bach1 - Kei Segawa; Miki Watanabe-Matsui; Kengo Tsuda; Toshitaka Matsui; Mikako Shirouzu; Kazuhiko Igarashi; Kazutaka Murayama (European Biophysics Journal, 2019)

Equilibrium partially folded states of B. licheniformis $$β $$ β -lactamase - Valeria A. Risso; Mario R. Ermácora (European Biophysics Journal, 2019)

Polymer translocation through a hairy channel mimicking the inner plug of a nuclear pore complex - Chibin Zhang; Zhiwei Cheng; Xiaohui Lin; Wenquan Chu (European Biophysics Journal, 2019)

Low cost non-electromechanical technique for the purification of giant unilamellar vesicles - Mohammad Abu Sayem Karal; Mostafizur Rahman; Md. Kabir Ahamed; Sayed Ul Alam Shibly; Marzuk Ahmed; Md. Mostofa Shakil (European Biophysics Journal, 2019)

Mechanical property of the helical configuration for a twisted intrinsically straight biopolymer - Zicong Zhou; Chen-Xu Wu (European Biophysics Journal, 2019)

β-Lactoglobulin associative interactions: a small-angle scattering study - Lilia Anghel; Andrey Rogachev; Alexander Kuklin; Raul Victor Erhan (European Biophysics Journal, 2019)

Slow relaxation during and after perturbation of bistable kinetics of gene expression - Vladimir P. Zhdanov (European Biophysics Journal, 2019)

Discrimination of leukemic Jurkat cells from normal lymphocytes via novo label-free cytometry based on fluctuation of image gray values - Ishay Wohl; Naomi Zurgil; Yaron Hakuk; Maria Sobolev; Mordechai Deutsch (European Biophysics Journal, 2019)

The optimal size of protocells from simple entropic considerations - Yoelsy Leyva; Osmel Martin; Noel Perez; José Suarez-Lezcano; Manuel Fundora-Pozo (European Biophysics Journal, 2019)

Two-dimensional mass spectrometry: new perspectives for tandem mass spectrometry - Maria A. van Agthoven; Yuko P. Y. Lam; Peter B. O’Connor; Christian Rolando; Marc-André Delsuc (European Biophysics Journal, 2019)

Correction to: Possible scenarios of DNA double-helix unzipping process in single-molecule manipulation experiments - Oleksii Zdorevskyi; Sergey N. Volkov (European Biophysics Journal, 2019)

Slowing down DNA translocation velocity using a LiCl salt gradient and nanofiber mesh - Han Yan; Daming Zhou; Biao Shi; Ziyin Zhang; Haibing Tian; Leyong Yu; Yunjiao Wang; Xiyun Guan; Zuobin Wang; Deqiang Wang (European Biophysics Journal, 2019)

Algal cell response to laboratory-induced cadmium stress: a multimethod approach - Nadica Ivošević DeNardis; Jadranka Pečar Ilić; Ivica Ružić; Nives Novosel; Tea Mišić Radić; Andreas Weber; Damir Kasum; Zuzana Pavlinska; Ria Katalin Balogh; Bálint Hajdu; Alžbeta Marček Chorvátová; Béla Gyurcsik (European Biophysics Journal, 2019)

A study of Love wave acoustic biosensors monitoring the adhesion process of tendon stem cells (TSCs) - Huiyan Wu; Hongfei Zu; James H.-C. Wang; Qing-Ming Wang (European Biophysics Journal, 2019)

NMR model structure of the antimicrobial peptide maximin 3 - Silvia Benetti; Patrick Brendan Timmons; Chandralal M. Hewage (European Biophysics Journal, 2019)

Do thermal treatments influence the ultrafast opto-thermal processes of eumelanin? - Adalberto Brunetti; Marcella Arciuli; Leonardo Triggiani; Fabio Sallustio; Anna Gallone; Raffaele Tommasi (European Biophysics Journal, 2019)

Quantitative characterization of temperature-independent polymer–polymer interaction and temperature-dependent protein–protein and protein–polymer interactions in concentrated polymer solutions - Adedayo A Fodeke (European Biophysics Journal, 2019)

Magnetic material diversity in Brazilian ants: displacement behaviour and environmental adaptability - Darci M. S. Esquivel; Eliane Wajnberg; Leonel Cardozo de Menezes e Souza; Daniel Acosta-Avalos; Márcia Barbosa Pinho; Ana Yoshi Harada (European Biophysics Journal, 2019)

Concentration-dependent effects of mercury and lead on Aβ42: possible implications for Alzheimer’s disease - Daniela Meleleo; Gabriella Notarachille; Vincenzo Mangini; Fabio Arnesano (European Biophysics Journal, 2019)

Hydration differences between the major and minor grooves of DNA revealed from heat capacity measurements - Anatoliy I. Dragan; Christopher M. Read; Colyn Crane-Robinson (European Biophysics Journal, 2019)

Repeatability, precision, and accuracy of the enthalpies and Gibbs energies of a protein–ligand binding reaction measured by isothermal titration calorimetry - Vaida Paketurytė; Vaida Linkuvienė; Georg Krainer; Wen-Yih Chen; Daumantas Matulis (European Biophysics Journal, 2019)

Probing the effect of a room temperature ionic liquid on phospholipid membranes in multilamellar vesicles - S. Mitra; D. Ray; G. Bhattacharya; R. Gupta; D. Sen; V. K. Aswal; S. K. Ghosh (European Biophysics Journal, 2019)

The correlation of crystalline and elemental composition of urinary stones with a history of bacterial infections: TXRF, XRPD and PCR-DGGE studies - Michał Arabski; Ilona Stabrawa; Aldona Kubala-Kukuś; Katarzyna Gałczyńska; Dariusz Banaś; Łukasz Piskorz; Ewa Forma; Magdalena Bryś; Waldemar Różański; Marek Lipiński (European Biophysics Journal, 2019)

Modulation of the aggregation of an amyloidogenic sequence by flanking-disordered region in the intrinsically disordered antigen merozoite surface protein 2 - Wei Zhang; Jiahai Zhang; Christopher A. MacRaild; Raymond S. Norton; Robin F. Anders; Xuecheng Zhang (European Biophysics Journal, 2019)

Cell-based assays and molecular dynamics analysis of a boron-containing agonist with different profiles of binding to human and guinea pig beta2 adrenoceptors - Marvin A. Soriano-Ursúa; Martiniano Bello; Christian F. Hernández-Martínez; Iván Santillán-Torres; Ruth Guerrero-Ramírez; José Correa-Basurto; José-Antonio Arias-Montaño; José G. Trujillo-Ferrara (European Biophysics Journal, 2019)

Electrostatic mechanism of V600E mutation-induced B-Raf constitutive activation in colorectal cancer: molecular implications for the selectivity difference between type-I and type-II inhibitors - Tie Liu; Zhaoshun Wang; Peng Guo; Na Ding (European Biophysics Journal, 2019)

Structurally modified bacteriorhodopsin as an efficient bio-sensitizer for solar cell applications - T. C. Sabari Girisun; C. Jeganathan; N. Pavithra; S. Anandan (European Biophysics Journal, 2019)

A quantitative model of the bovine casein micelle: ion equilibria and calcium phosphate sequestration by individual caseins in bovine milk - Etske Bijl; Thom Huppertz; Hein van Valenberg; Carl Holt (European Biophysics Journal, 2019)

Structural characterisation of a full-length mitochondrial outer membrane TOM40 preprotein translocase: implications for its interaction with presequence peptides - Wei Feng; Jinwen Li; Yanjun Liang; Yongqiang Zhang; Shu Jie Li (European Biophysics Journal, 2019)

Effect of triphenylphosphonium moiety on spatial structure and biointeractions of stereochemical variants of YRFK motif - Ruslan Garifullin; Dmitriy S. Blokhin; Rezeda A. Akhmadishina; Natalia V. Petrova; Alexandra M. Kusova; Vladimir V. Klochkov; Timur I. Abdullin (European Biophysics Journal, 2019)

Correlative iPALM and SEM resolves virus cavity and Gag lattice defects in HIV virions - Meike Pedersen; Shirin Jamali; Ipsita Saha; Rainer Daum; Mourad Bendjennat; Saveez Saffarian (European Biophysics Journal, 2019)

Differential effect of Androctonus australis hector venom components on macrophage KV channels: electrophysiological characterization - Dalila Khemili; Carmen Valenzuela; Fatima Laraba-Djebari; Djelila Hammoudi-Triki (European Biophysics Journal, 2019)

Comment on Tamagawa and Ikeda’s reinterpretation of the Goldman–Hodgkin–Katz equation - Thomas Heimburg (European Biophysics Journal, 2018)

Another interpretation of the Goldman–Hodgkin–Katz equation based on Ling’s adsorption theory - Hirohisa Tamagawa; Kota Ikeda (European Biophysics Journal, 2018)

Affinity determination of biomolecules: a kinetic model for the analysis of pre-equilibrium titration curves - Emilie Vanhove; Marc Vanhove (European Biophysics Journal, 2018)

Enzymatic removal of protein fouling from self-assembled cellulosic nanofilms: experimental and modeling studies - Sagheer A. Onaizi (European Biophysics Journal, 2018)

Hydration facilitates oxygenation of hemocyanin: perspectives from molecular dynamics simulations - Khair Bux; Syed Abid Ali; Syed Tarique Moin (European Biophysics Journal, 2018)

Effect of drug amlodipine on the charged lipid bilayer cell membranes DMPS and DMPS + DMPC: a molecular dynamics simulation study - Abbas Yousefpour; Sepideh Amjad-Iranagh; Fatemeh Goharpey; Hamid Modarress (European Biophysics Journal, 2018)

A topological transition from bimolecular quadruplex to G-triplex/tri-G-quadruplex exhibited by truncated double repeats of human telomere - Mohan Kumar; Mahima Kaushik; Shrikant Kukreti (European Biophysics Journal, 2018)

Evidence of oligomerization of bovine insulin in solution given by NMR - S. V. Efimov; Yu. O. Zgadzay; N. B. Tarasova; V. V. Klochkov (European Biophysics Journal, 2018)

Possible scenarios of DNA double-helix unzipping process in single-molecule manipulation experiments - Oleksii Zdorevskyi; Sergey N. Volkov (European Biophysics Journal, 2018)

Measuring translational diffusion of 15N-enriched biomolecules in complex solutions with a simplified 1H-15N HMQC-filtered BEST sequence - Shenggen Yao; Thomas G. Meikle; Ashish Sethi; Frances Separovic; Jeffrey J. Babon; David W. Keizer (European Biophysics Journal, 2018)

Analytical ultracentrifugation (AUC): a seminal tool offering multiple solutions - Olwyn Byron; Ivo Nischang; Trushar R. Patel (European Biophysics Journal, 2018)

A simple cell-alignment protocol for sedimentation velocity analytical ultracentrifugation to complement mechanical and optical alignment procedures - Guy Channell; Vlad Dinu; Gary G. Adams; Stephen E. Harding (European Biophysics Journal, 2018)

Production of membrane proteins for characterisation of their pheromone-sensing and antimicrobial resistance functions - Aalishaa A. Azam; Jean M. Kinder; G. Nasir Khan; Ade Alase; Pikyee Ma; Yang Liu; James R. Ault; Peter J. F. Henderson; Babur Z. Chowdhry; Bruce D. Alexander; Stephen E. Harding; Mary K. Phillips-Jones (European Biophysics Journal, 2018)

The Svedberg Lecture 2017. From nano to micro: the huge dynamic range of the analytical ultracentrifuge for characterising the sizes, shapes and interactions of molecules and assemblies in Biochemistry and Polymer Science - Stephen E. Harding (European Biophysics Journal, 2018)

Prediction and analysis of analytical ultracentrifugation experiments for heterogeneous macromolecules and nanoparticles based on Brownian dynamics simulation - J. García de la Torre; J. G. Hernández Cifre; A. I. Díez Peña (European Biophysics Journal, 2018)

AUC measurements of diffusion coefficients of monoclonal antibodies in the presence of human serum proteins - Robert T. Wright; David Hayes; Peter J. Sherwood; Walter F. Stafford; John J. Correia (European Biophysics Journal, 2018)

Analytical band centrifugation revisited - Cornelia M. Schneider; Helmut Cölfen (European Biophysics Journal, 2018)

Ionomer and protein size analysis by analytical ultracentrifugation and electrospray scanning mobility particle sizer - Simon E. Wawra; Martin Thoma; Johannes Walter; Christian Lübbert; Thaseem Thajudeen; Cornelia Damm; Wolfgang Peukert (European Biophysics Journal, 2018)

Two-dimensional grid optimization for sedimentation velocity analysis in the analytical ultracentrifuge - Haram Kim; Emre Brookes; Weiming Cao; Borries Demeler (European Biophysics Journal, 2018)

Multi-speed sedimentation velocity simulations with UltraScan-III - Tayler L. Williams; Gary E. Gorbet; Borries Demeler (European Biophysics Journal, 2018)

Multi-wavelength analytical ultracentrifugation of human serum albumin complexed with porphyrin - Courtney N. Johnson; Gary E. Gorbet; Heidi Ramsower; Julio Urquidi; Lorenzo Brancaleon; Borries Demeler (European Biophysics Journal, 2018)

Precise determination of protein extinction coefficients under native and denaturing conditions using SV-AUC - Andreas Hoffmann; Kerstin Grassl; Janine Gommert; Christian Schlesak; Alexander Bepperling (European Biophysics Journal, 2018)

The self-association and thermal denaturation of caprine and bovine β-lactoglobulin - Jennifer M. Crowther; Jane R. Allison; Grant A. Smolenski; Alison J. Hodgkinson; Geoffrey B. Jameson; Renwick C. J. Dobson (European Biophysics Journal, 2018)

Multi-speed sedimentation velocity implementation in UltraScan-III - Gary E. Gorbet; Subhashree Mohapatra; Borries Demeler (European Biophysics Journal, 2018)

Recent advances in the UltraScan SOlution MOdeller (US-SOMO) hydrodynamic and small-angle scattering data analysis and simulation suite - Emre Brookes; Mattia Rocco (European Biophysics Journal, 2018)

Controlled depolymerisation assessed by analytical ultracentrifugation of low molecular weight chitosan for use in archaeological conservation - Jennifer M. K. Wakefield; Richard B. Gillis; Gary G. Adams; Caitlin M. A. McQueen; Stephen E. Harding (European Biophysics Journal, 2018)

Interaction studies of a protein and carbohydrate system using an integrated approach: a case study of the miniagrin–heparin system - Trushar R. Patel; Tabot M. D. Besong; Markus Meier; Kevin McEleney; Stephen E. Harding; Donald J. Winzor; Jörg Stetefeld (European Biophysics Journal, 2018)

Obituary: Nico van Nuland 1961–2017 - André Matagne; Christopher M. Dobson (European Biophysics Journal, 2018)

Effect of glycerol on photobleaching of cytochrome Raman lines in frozen yeast cells - Konstantin A. Okotrub; Nikolay V. Surovtsev (European Biophysics Journal, 2018)

Novel approaches to probe the binding of recoverin to membranes - Kim Potvin-Fournier; Geneviève Valois-Paillard; Marie-Claude Gagnon; Thierry Lefèvre; Pierre Audet; Line Cantin; Jean-François Paquin; Christian Salesse; Michèle Auger (European Biophysics Journal, 2018)

Spatiotemporal relationships defining the adaptive gating of the bacterial mechanosensitive channel MscS - Uğur Çetiner; Andriy Anishkin; Sergei Sukharev (European Biophysics Journal, 2018)

Ferritin from the haemolymph of adult ants: an extraction method for characterization and a ferromagnetic study - Eliane Wajnberg; Odivaldo C. Alves; Jonas Perales; Surza Lucia G. da Rocha; André Teixeira Ferreira; Luiz Cláudio Cameron; Darci M. S. Esquivel; Maria de Lourdes Barriviera (European Biophysics Journal, 2018)

Dynamic surface tension and adsorption mechanism of surfactin biosurfactant at the air–water interface - Sagheer A. Onaizi (European Biophysics Journal, 2018)

Mechanisms of antifreeze proteins investigated via the site-directed spin labeling technique - Antonia Flores; Justin C. Quon; Adiel F. Perez; Yong Ba (European Biophysics Journal, 2018)

Comparative study of phototoxicity of protoporphyrin IX synthetic and extracted from ssp Rattus novergicus albinus rats toward murine melanoma cells - E. R. Reis; L. P. Ferreira; E. M. D. Nicola; I. Borissevitch (European Biophysics Journal, 2018)

NMR comparison of hyphal and yeast Candida albicans serotype B mannans - Peter Bystrický; Eva Machová; Slavomír Bystrický (European Biophysics Journal, 2018)

Effects of pH and aggregation in the human prion conversion into scrapie form: a study using molecular dynamics with excited normal modes - Angelica Nakagawa Lima; Ronaldo Junio de Oliveira; Antônio Sérgio Kimus Braz; Maurício Garcia de Souza Costa; David Perahia; Luis Paulo Barbour Scott (European Biophysics Journal, 2018)

Auto-fluorescence of a silk fibroin-based scaffold and its interference with fluorophores in labeled cells - Mehdi Amirikia; Seyed Mohammad Ali Shariatzadeh; Seyed Gholam Ali Jorsaraei; Malek Soleimani Mehranjani (European Biophysics Journal, 2018)

Reduced cooperativity of voltage-gated sodium channels in the hippocampal interneurons of an aged mouse model of Alzheimer’s disease - Carlos Perez; Ghanim Ullah (European Biophysics Journal, 2018)

An image-processing method to detect sub-optical features based on understanding noise in intensity measurements - Tripta Bhatia (European Biophysics Journal, 2018)

A sumatriptan coarse-grained model to explore different environments: interplay with experimental techniques - Irene Wood; Juan M. R. Albano; Pedro L. O. Filho; Veronica Muniz Couto; Marcelo A. de Farias; Rodrigo V. Portugal; Eneida de Paula; Cristiano L. P. Oliveira; Monica Pickholz (European Biophysics Journal, 2018)

Calorimetric markers for monitoring of multiple myeloma and Waldenström’s macroglobulinemia patients - Svetla Todinova; Sashka Krumova; Avgustina Danailova; Violeta Petkova; Margarita Guenova; Georgi Mihaylov; Lidia Gartcheva; Stefka Germanova Taneva (European Biophysics Journal, 2018)

Spatial scales of living cells and their energetic and informational capacity - Edward Bormashenko; Alexander Voronel (European Biophysics Journal, 2018)

Cell membrane biophysics with optical tweezers - H. Moysés Nussenzveig (European Biophysics Journal, 2018)

A fundamental study of photoluminescence modulation from DNA-wrapped single-walled carbon nanotubes - Shusuke Oura; Masahiro Ito; Yoshikazu Homma; Kazuo Umemura (European Biophysics Journal, 2018)

Why, so far, have epidemics always eventually petered out? Quasispecies theory suggests a (testable!) answer - Andreas Dress (European Biophysics Journal, 2018)

Manfred Eigen: From relaxation kinetics to evolution (European Biophysics Journal, 2018)

Membrane electroporation: chemical thermodynamics and flux kinetics revisited and refined - Eberhard Neumann; Sergej Kakorin (European Biophysics Journal, 2018)

Immuno-receptors: from recognition to signaling and function - Israel Pecht (European Biophysics Journal, 2018)

There and back again: from the origin of life to single molecules - Petra Schwille (European Biophysics Journal, 2018)

Molecular evolution between chemistry and biology - Peter Schuster (European Biophysics Journal, 2018)

From quasispecies to quasispaces: coding and cooperation in chemical and electronic systems - John S. McCaskill (European Biophysics Journal, 2018)

Studies on Manfred Eigen's model for the self-organization of information processing - W. Ebeling; R. Feistel (European Biophysics Journal, 2018)

Self-organization and information in biosystems: a case study - Hermann Haken (European Biophysics Journal, 2018)

Kinetics of the B-A transition of DNA: analysis of potential contributions to a reaction barrier - Dietmar Porschke (European Biophysics Journal, 2018)

Quasispecies and virus - Esteban Domingo; Celia Perales (European Biophysics Journal, 2018)

Fluorescence-based monitoring of electronic state and ion exchange kinetics with FCS and related techniques: from T-jump measurements to fluorescence fluctuations - Rudolf Rigler; Jerker Widengren (European Biophysics Journal, 2018)

Pre-aggregation kinetics and intermediates of α-synuclein monitored by the ESIPT probe 7MFE - Jonathan A. Fauerbach; Thomas M. Jovin (European Biophysics Journal, 2018)

Inability of DNAzymes to cleave RNA in vivo is due to limited Mg $$^{2+}$$ 2 + concentration in cells - Julian Victor; Gerhard Steger; Detlev Riesner (European Biophysics Journal, 2018)

Manfred Eigen: the realization of his vision of Biophysical Chemistry - Herbert Jäckle; Carmen Rotte; Peter Gruss (European Biophysics Journal, 2018)

Fractal analysis of lateral movement in biomembranes - Lech Gmachowski (European Biophysics Journal, 2018)

Erlang flow of hydrophilic pore formation and closure events in a lipid bilayer during phase transition resulting from diffusion in the radius space - A. A. Anosov; A. A. Sharakshane; E. Yu. Smirnova; O. Yu. Nemchenko (European Biophysics Journal, 2018)

Intrinsic thermodynamics of high affinity inhibitor binding to recombinant human carbonic anhydrase IV - Aurelija Mickevičiūtė; David D. Timm; Marius Gedgaudas; Vaida Linkuvienė; Zhiwei Chen; Abdul Waheed; Vilma Michailovienė; Asta Zubrienė; Alexey Smirnov; Edita Čapkauskaitė; Lina Baranauskienė; Jelena Jachno; et al. (European Biophysics Journal, 2018)

Allowance for radial dilution in evaluating the concentration dependence of sedimentation coefficients for globular proteins - Trushar R. Patel; Donald J. Winzor; David J. Scott (European Biophysics Journal, 2018)

Simulation of the osmosis-based drug encapsulation in erythrocytes - Duobiao Ge; Lili Zou; Chengpan Li; Sen Liu; Shibo Li; Sijie Sun; Weiping Ding (European Biophysics Journal, 2018)

Effects of methotrexate on the quality of oocyte maturation in vitro - N. Tian; J. Yu; Sh. Zhang; W. Y. Ma; T. Wang; Y. M. Wang (European Biophysics Journal, 2018)

Modulation of the flavin–protein interactions in NADH peroxidase and mercuric ion reductase: a resonance Raman study - Julie Keirsse-Haquin; Thierry Picaud; Luc Bordes; Adrienne Gomez de Gracia; Alain Desbois (European Biophysics Journal, 2018)

Proton pump inhibitors have pH-dependent effects on the thermostability of the carboxyl-terminal domain of voltage-gated proton channel Hv1 - Qing Zhao; Weiyan Zuo; Shangrong Zhang; Yongqiang Zhang; Chuanyong Li; Shu Jie Li (European Biophysics Journal, 2018)

Mechanism of salt-induced activity enhancement of a marine-derived laccase, Lac15 - Jie Li; Yanan Xie; Rui Wang; Zemin Fang; Wei Fang; Xuecheng Zhang; Yazhong Xiao (European Biophysics Journal, 2018)

Mitotic spindle: kinetochore fibers hold on tight to interpolar bundles - Iva M. Tolić (European Biophysics Journal, 2018)

Biophysical Approaches to Protein Folding and Disease, a satellite meeting to the IUPAB-EBSA congress - Mauro Dalla Serra; Robert J. C. Gilbert; André Matagne; Patrick England (European Biophysics Journal, 2018)

A kinetic view of acid-mediated tumor invasion - Ahmed M. Fouad (European Biophysics Journal, 2018)

Conformational changes, from β-strand to α-helix, of the fatty acid-binding protein ReP1-NCXSQ in anionic lipid membranes: dependence with the vesicle curvature - Vanesa V. Galassi; Silvina R. Salinas; Guillermo G. Montich (European Biophysics Journal, 2018)