Biophysical reviewsPub Date : 2024-09-02eCollection Date: 2024-10-01DOI: 10.1007/s12551-024-01222-5
Florence Tama, Jianhan Chen
{"title":"Data Science for Integrated Dynamic Structural Biology-the 21st IUPAB Congress session summary commentary.","authors":"Florence Tama, Jianhan Chen","doi":"10.1007/s12551-024-01222-5","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s12551-024-01222-5","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The session \"Data Science for Integrated Dynamic Structural Biology\" was a notable success at the joint congress of the 21st IUPAB and the 62nd BSJ (Biophysics Society of Japan). This session included four invited talks and one contributed talk, which together delved into recent advancements in computational methods integrating physics, experimental data, and bioinformatics to study the structure and dynamic properties of molecular assemblies and their interactions.</p>","PeriodicalId":9094,"journal":{"name":"Biophysical reviews","volume":"16 5","pages":"529-531"},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2024-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11604889/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142766198","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Biophysical reviewsPub Date : 2024-08-31eCollection Date: 2024-12-01DOI: 10.1007/s12551-024-01221-6
Ariana Bujan, Silvia Del Valle Alonso, Nadia S Chiaramoni
{"title":"Photopolymerizable robust lipids towards reliability and their applications.","authors":"Ariana Bujan, Silvia Del Valle Alonso, Nadia S Chiaramoni","doi":"10.1007/s12551-024-01221-6","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s12551-024-01221-6","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Synthetic lipids have been studied as components in membrane models and drug delivery systems. Polymerizable phospholipids, especially photosensitive ones, can form new bilayer bonds when UV light irradiates. These phospholipids have been known since the 1980s, but in the last few years, new applications have been highlighted. Its use in drug delivery systems is interesting since the photopolymerization reaction produces highly stable vesicles. Additionally, the rearrangement of the acyl chains during the photopolymerization process can be applied in the generation of pores, resulting in systems that serve for drug-controlled release. In this article, our goal was to envision earlier photopolymers' publications towards the implications of these versatile phospholipids that led to proposed systems for drug delivery and controlled release of drugs at specific sites. This review offers a broad background towards a simple, reliable, and robust platform to make its application available.</p>","PeriodicalId":9094,"journal":{"name":"Biophysical reviews","volume":"16 6","pages":"773-782"},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2024-08-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11735817/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142999973","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Biophysical reviewsPub Date : 2024-08-31eCollection Date: 2024-08-01DOI: 10.1007/s12551-024-01214-5
Anthony Watts
{"title":"<i>Biophysical Reviews</i>' \"Meet the Editors Series\"-a profile of Anthony Watts.","authors":"Anthony Watts","doi":"10.1007/s12551-024-01214-5","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s12551-024-01214-5","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Soon after Biophysical Reviews was established as a Journal with Springer Verlag in 2009, I was asked to join the editorial board. I have juggled various editorial board responsibilities for several Journals over more than three decades, viewing this as a service to the ever-growing biophysics community. How I got to be involved with biophysics is a long story, but here are a few relevant explanations, with much omitted. Anthony Watts.</p>","PeriodicalId":9094,"journal":{"name":"Biophysical reviews","volume":"16 4","pages":"387-396"},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2024-08-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11415332/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142280234","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Biophysical reviewsPub Date : 2024-08-27eCollection Date: 2024-10-01DOI: 10.1007/s12551-024-01218-1
Ikuko Fujiwara, Sarah Köster
{"title":"Cell motility, cytoskeleton, and motor proteins-21st IUPAB Congress session commentary.","authors":"Ikuko Fujiwara, Sarah Köster","doi":"10.1007/s12551-024-01218-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s12551-024-01218-1","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The cytoskeleton is the major mechanical unit of the cell and is essential for cellular processes such as motility, division, and contraction. It consists of three types of biopolymers-actin filaments, microtubules, and intermediate filaments-along with passive cross-linkers and active motor proteins. This composite biological material determines the enormous viscoelastic adaptability of cells to varying mechanical demands. In the session entitled \"Cell Motility, Cytoskeleton, and Motor Proteins\" at the IUPAB 2024 Congress in Kyoto, Japan, we elucidated specific examples of cell mechanics and dynamics from a physical point of view, including different length scales from molecular to cellular, as well as in vitro reconstituted systems and cellular systems.</p>","PeriodicalId":9094,"journal":{"name":"Biophysical reviews","volume":"16 5","pages":"521-523"},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2024-08-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11604862/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142766204","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Biophysical reviewsPub Date : 2024-08-27eCollection Date: 2024-08-01DOI: 10.1007/s12551-024-01216-3
Wilma K Olson
{"title":"<i>Biophysical Reviews</i>: the official journal of the International Union for Pure and Applied Biophysics.","authors":"Wilma K Olson","doi":"10.1007/s12551-024-01216-3","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s12551-024-01216-3","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This editorial for Volume 16, Issue 4 of <i>Biophysical Reviews</i> highlights recent contributions to biophysics from many parts of the world. <i>Biophysical Reviews</i> is the official journal of the International Union for Pure and Applied Biophysics (IUPAB 2024). The international scope of the articles in the issue exemplifies the goals of IUPAB to organize worldwide advancements, co-operation, communication, and education in biophysics. The articles in the Issue are illustrative of the wide array of topics and quantitative approaches used by scientists from many fields to explore and understand how biology-indeed, all life-works.</p>","PeriodicalId":9094,"journal":{"name":"Biophysical reviews","volume":"16 4","pages":"383-385"},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2024-08-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11415318/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142280235","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Biophysical reviewsPub Date : 2024-08-21eCollection Date: 2024-10-01DOI: 10.1007/s12551-024-01220-7
Daisuke Nakane, Isil Tulum
{"title":"Overview of the bacterial/archaeal supermolecular assembly session at the 21st IUPAB and the 62nd Biophysics Society of Japan joint congress.","authors":"Daisuke Nakane, Isil Tulum","doi":"10.1007/s12551-024-01220-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s12551-024-01220-7","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In this session, six invited speakers presented their innovative research to investigate the structure and dynamics of bacterial and archaeal supramolecular assembly systems. They explained their research from the perspective of bacterial genetics, molecular biology, biochemistry, biophysics, structural biology, cell biology, microscopy imaging, and molecular dynamics simulation. The session started with a section on the mechanism of pilus assembly in cyanobacteria. It then moved on to surface architecture of a nano-sized archaeon, bacterial flagellar protein export and assembly, flagella-driven motility in bacteria and other unique assembly systems. The session highlighted significant accomplishments in the field and also presented a variety of outstanding challenges.</p>","PeriodicalId":9094,"journal":{"name":"Biophysical reviews","volume":"16 5","pages":"533-536"},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2024-08-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11604868/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142766076","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Biophysical reviewsPub Date : 2024-08-20eCollection Date: 2024-10-01DOI: 10.1007/s12551-024-01219-0
Tomoaki Matsuura, Sheref S Mansy
{"title":"Session commentaries: synthetic and constructive biology.","authors":"Tomoaki Matsuura, Sheref S Mansy","doi":"10.1007/s12551-024-01219-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s12551-024-01219-0","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Synthetic biology is a broad field with a unifying theme of learning through building. At IUPAB2024 in Kyoto, Japan, five researchers gave lectures focusing on in vitro synthetic biology, where the built objects were not living cells but in vitro systems composed of biomolecules. The talks sparked lively discussions on the knowledge gained about living cells from in vitro reconstructions.</p>","PeriodicalId":9094,"journal":{"name":"Biophysical reviews","volume":"16 5","pages":"525-527"},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2024-08-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11604855/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142766102","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Biophysical reviewsPub Date : 2024-08-17eCollection Date: 2024-10-01DOI: 10.1007/s12551-024-01217-2
Tjaart P J Krüger
{"title":"<i>Biophysical Reviews'</i> \"Meet the IUPAB councillor series\": a brief profile of Tjaart P. J. Krüger.","authors":"Tjaart P J Krüger","doi":"10.1007/s12551-024-01217-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s12551-024-01217-2","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>It is a great privilege for me to have been elected to the IUPAB Council earlier this year and to represent the African continent on the Council. In this short commentary, I am giving a very brief account of my academic training, biophysics research activities, and biophysics educational and outreach activities in Africa.</p>","PeriodicalId":9094,"journal":{"name":"Biophysical reviews","volume":"16 5","pages":"519-520"},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2024-08-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11604883/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142766098","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Biophysical reviewsPub Date : 2024-08-12eCollection Date: 2024-08-01DOI: 10.1007/s12551-024-01215-4
Thomas C Bishop, Kelly M Thayer, Robert T Young
{"title":"The Albany Conversations Are Now the Next Generation Conversations: Albany @ Ruston.","authors":"Thomas C Bishop, Kelly M Thayer, Robert T Young","doi":"10.1007/s12551-024-01215-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s12551-024-01215-4","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This commentary is a report on the 1st Next Gen. Conversation: Albany @ Ruston 2024 held on the campus of Louisiana Tech University June 11-15, 2024. The 2nd Next Gen. Conversation will be held at Louisiana Tech University June 9-13, 2026. A planning meeting will be held in June 2025 at Louisiana Tech.</p>","PeriodicalId":9094,"journal":{"name":"Biophysical reviews","volume":"16 4","pages":"399-400"},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2024-08-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11415312/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142280236","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Biophysical reviewsPub Date : 2024-07-03eCollection Date: 2024-06-01DOI: 10.1007/s12551-024-01204-7
John H Maddocks, Pablo D Dans, Thomas H Cheatham, Sarah Harris, Charles Laughton, Modesto Orozco, Lois Pollack, Wilma K Olson
{"title":"Special issue: Multiscale simulations of DNA from electrons to nucleosomes.","authors":"John H Maddocks, Pablo D Dans, Thomas H Cheatham, Sarah Harris, Charles Laughton, Modesto Orozco, Lois Pollack, Wilma K Olson","doi":"10.1007/s12551-024-01204-7","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s12551-024-01204-7","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This editorial for Volume 16, Issue 3 of <i>Biophysical Reviews</i> highlights the three-dimensional structural and dynamic information encoded in DNA sequences and introduces the topics covered in this special issue of the journal on Multiscale Simulations of DNA from Electrons to Nucleosomes. <i>Biophysical Reviews</i> is the official journal of the International Union for Pure and Applied Biophysics (IUPAB 2024). The international scope of the articles in the issue exemplifies the goals of IUPAB to organize worldwide advancements, co-operation, communication, and education in biophysics.</p>","PeriodicalId":9094,"journal":{"name":"Biophysical reviews","volume":"16 3","pages":"259-262"},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2024-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11296990/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141888437","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}