Biophysical Journal

Special issue call for papers: Fifty Years of Protein Dynamics: Celebrating Andy McCammon and the Evolution of Computational Biophysics. buff.ly/bXSSitB

#OPENACCESS: Bacterial lipids traverse the hydrophobic groove of TamB. Yiechang Lin and Ben Corry. buff.ly/S2ULK3a

#OPENACCESS: Think of a bunk bed where the top and bottom sleepers refuse to match positions. Cell membrane layers can organize differently, revealing surprising "anti-registered" patterns. Membranes have more personality than we thought! buff.ly/unuyFEX

With or without Lamin-A: how telomere dynamics change. Hidalgo-Soria et al. track hundreds of chromatin loci in live cells, revealing how loss of Lamin-A leads to faster, more directed, and more coordinated telomere motion. buff.ly/mhvB1kN

In the New and Notable "Perinuclear actin airbag protects the nucleus from shock," Allen P. Liu highlights the paper "Transient Perinuclear Actin Rings Prevent Cell Aging and Apoptosis via Nuclear Mechanical Protection." buff.ly/ksCOLHr

#OPENACCESS: Heart tissue behaves like city traffic after road closures: block a few streets and the detours can create unexpected jams. This study explores how ablation reshapes electrical flow and afterdepolarization. buff.ly/olzj7OB

Special issue call for papers: Genome Organization: Integrating Mathematics, Physics, and Computation for Advances in Biology and Medicine. buff.ly/SOz36Nf

An extension of a previously validated coarse-grain RNA model now provides molecular insight into how temperature and ions govern RNA conformational transitions. buff.ly/Zc7idIO

Carignano et al. introduce a new framework for interpreting genome architecture: Self-Returning Excluded Volume (SR-EV) reveals how heterogeneous chromatin ensembles give rise to multimodal experimental observations. buff.ly/hIxJROS

Special issue call for papers: The Past, Present, and Future of Muscle Biophysics. buff.ly/rvM7kMA

#OPENACCESS: Iomeprol X-ray contrast media alter conformation and affinity of the ATP binding pocket of actin. Elek Telek, Gábor Hild et al. buff.ly/p0q0SL5

#OPENACCESS: Impact of N-terminal dimerization on formin homology 1 domain polymer dynamics and actin assembly. Katharine Bogue, Bryan Christian, Margot E. Quinlan, and Jun Allard. buff.ly/r8KFcQ0

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In the New and Notable "Full reach at arm’s length," Ying S. Hu highlights the paper "Disentangling the role of epitope spacing and antibody flexibility on avidity: A quantitative model for competition and bivalency in biosensor assays." buff.ly/E5LupnS

#OPENACCESS: Hydra rebuilds itself like a LEGO set where the instruction manual and the pieces appear at the same time. Polarity and body shape don't wait for each other—they grow together. Nature multitasks better than most of us. buff.ly/bb6A0er

#OPENACCESS: Gating shift to an ohmic mode of TREK-1 channel induced by docosahexaenoic acid. Emilie Bechard, Jean-Yves Le Guennec, and Marie Demion. buff.ly/ZxIInbc

#OPENACCESS: In this study, the authors show that fluorinated tryptophan can be used as a tool to probe conformational exchange in electron transfer reactions monitored by 19F NMR. buff.ly/0WKOHnX

Special issue call for papers: Physical Properties of Cells: From Measurement to Medicine, A Tribute to Jochen Guck. buff.ly/tLccKCB

#OPENACCESS: Proton hopping and secondary gating reveal a universal transport mechanism in a minimal bacterial transporter EmrE. Da Teng, Merissa Brousseau, Jong Ho Choi, Katherine A. Henzler-Wildman, and Gregory A. Voth. buff.ly/GCEA1j5

Yang et al. combine experiments and simulations to understand how epithelial cells maintain nuclear mechanical integrity under mechanical and osmotic stress, revealing a reversible perinuclear actin ring that transiently limits nuclear envelope tension. buff.ly/P1PA20C