{"title":"Molecular mechanisms of mitochondrial uncoupling: focus on 2,4-dinitrophenol.","authors":"Elena E Pohl, Olga Jovanović","doi":"10.1007/s00249-026-01827-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00249-026-01827-6","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":548,"journal":{"name":"European Biophysics Journal","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2026-03-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147466316","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Aleksei Pashchenko, Marie Pospíšilová, Johana Šternová, Leontýna Varvařovská, Romana Široká, Hana Kalábová, Taťána Jarošíková, Šarka Beková, Sara Cruciani, Alois Nečas, Petr Novotný, Jiří Rulc, Gracian Tejral, Bruno Sopko, Margherita Maioli, Evzen Amler
{"title":"Fluorescent bionanosensor for picomolar detection of biomarkers in fluids.","authors":"Aleksei Pashchenko, Marie Pospíšilová, Johana Šternová, Leontýna Varvařovská, Romana Široká, Hana Kalábová, Taťána Jarošíková, Šarka Beková, Sara Cruciani, Alois Nečas, Petr Novotný, Jiří Rulc, Gracian Tejral, Bruno Sopko, Margherita Maioli, Evzen Amler","doi":"10.1007/s00249-026-01825-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00249-026-01825-8","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":548,"journal":{"name":"European Biophysics Journal","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2026-03-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147466275","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Sedimentation velocity analytical ultracentrifugation (SV-AUC) for adeno-associated virus characterization: impact of cell alignment.","authors":"Qianyi Luo, Brandon L Doyle, Ivan L Budyak","doi":"10.1007/s00249-026-01836-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00249-026-01836-5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":548,"journal":{"name":"European Biophysics Journal","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2026-03-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147455100","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Evidence from computational infrared spectroscopy against vibrational detection of propionate by human olfactory receptor OR51E2.","authors":"Jacob Z Williams, Piotr E Marszalek, Weitao Yang","doi":"10.1007/s00249-026-01832-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00249-026-01832-9","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Despite its ubiquity in nature, some details of the animal olfactory system remain unclear. One such mystery is the mechanism by which olfactory receptors (ORs) recognize the olfactant molecules they bind to. Some evidence indicates that ORs can distinguish between molecules that differ only in isotopic composition, suggesting that olfactants' vibrational modes may play a role in their recognition. In 2023, the first experimental structure of a human olfactory receptor-OR51E2-was produced, providing opportunity to shed additional light on this problem computationally. We simulate the infrared spectrum of the olfactant propionate ([Formula: see text]), as well as all its possible deuterations, in the OR51E2 binding site by quantum mechanics/molecular mechanics, with atomic positions taken at 25 time points over a 500 ns molecular dynamics simulation. The protein environment does not change the vibrational spectrum qualitatively, even at physiological temperature. The high-frequency C-H modes are about [Formula: see text] higher in energy than their deuterated counterparts, while the modes associated with the carboxyl group are almost unaffected by the C/H isotopic substitution. Because [Formula: see text] binds to OR51E2 primarily via the carboxyl end, this result means that a vibrational component to propionate detection is unlikely.</p>","PeriodicalId":548,"journal":{"name":"European Biophysics Journal","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2026-03-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147455154","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Fátima C Escobedo-González, Andrea Gelardo, Gustavo A Titaux-Delgado, Miguel Mompeán
{"title":"Charged membrane interfaces reshape the nucleation landscape of RIPK3 amyloid variants.","authors":"Fátima C Escobedo-González, Andrea Gelardo, Gustavo A Titaux-Delgado, Miguel Mompeán","doi":"10.1007/s00249-026-01833-8","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s00249-026-01833-8","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":548,"journal":{"name":"European Biophysics Journal","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2026-03-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7618891/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147429959","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ana J Carvalho, M Raquel Pacheco, João P L Guerra, Nykola C Jones, Søren V Hoffmann, Tomás Calmeiro, Elvira Fortunato, Alice S Pereira, Pedro Tavares
{"title":"Biophysical insights into plasmid DNA binding by deinococcus grandis Dps nanocage.","authors":"Ana J Carvalho, M Raquel Pacheco, João P L Guerra, Nykola C Jones, Søren V Hoffmann, Tomás Calmeiro, Elvira Fortunato, Alice S Pereira, Pedro Tavares","doi":"10.1007/s00249-026-01830-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00249-026-01830-x","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":548,"journal":{"name":"European Biophysics Journal","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2026-03-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147363875","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Martina Nicoletti, Anna Crispino, Alessandro Loppini, Alessio Gizzi, Letizia Chiodo, Christian Cherubini, Simonetta Filippi
{"title":"Magnetic field based investigation of Brugada syndrome","authors":"Martina Nicoletti, Anna Crispino, Alessandro Loppini, Alessio Gizzi, Letizia Chiodo, Christian Cherubini, Simonetta Filippi","doi":"10.1007/s00249-026-01826-7","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s00249-026-01826-7","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Brugada syndrome (BrS) is an inherited cardiac disorder associated with and increased risk of sudden cardiac death. The syndrome is associated with a complex current distribution and repolarization dispersion. The traditional methods for the diagnosis rely on standard electrocardiographic (ECG) assessment of the cardiac dynamics. Recent advancements in magnetocardiography suggest that the magnetic-field based investigation of cardiac electrophysiology could offer novel perspectives for the investigation of current abnormalities in BrS patients which go beyond the conventional ECG capabilities to capture intricate current distributions. In this work, we propose a framework for the magnetic analysis of action potential disturbances in Brugada syndrome. We exploit a 1D reduced-order cable geometry for analyzing the relation between the pathological electrical activity in saddleback and coved type BrS and the corresponding magnetic field. Also, we compute transmural pseudo-magnetocardiograms and demonstrate their capabilities of detecting both types of BrS. Overall, our result highlight the potential of magnetic-field oriented investigation of cardiac disturbances related to BrS.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":548,"journal":{"name":"European Biophysics Journal","volume":"55 :","pages":"187 - 197"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2026-03-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s00249-026-01826-7.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147353228","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Clinical use of electrodermal activity and current developments.","authors":"Ali Yucel Kara, Nazan Dolu, Ferhan Esen","doi":"10.1007/s00249-026-01820-z","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00249-026-01820-z","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":548,"journal":{"name":"European Biophysics Journal","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2026-02-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147281760","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}