Biophysical Journal

Special issue call for papers: Foundations of Membrane Biophysics: Dedicated to Wolfgang Helfrich. buff.ly/AkWX8gs

#OPENACCESS: How much do membrane lipids really influence transporter function? Hiett and colleagues combine NMR and isothermal titration calorimetry to study the multidrug transporter EmrE, revealing its surprising resilience to varied lipid environments. buff.ly/cgxJoTO

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#OPENACCESS: The Lassa virus fusion domain has structural plasticity and exploits bis(monoacylglycero)phosphate for fusion. Hallie N. Pennington, Kiruthika Prahadeesh, Quinn M. Mulvihill, Sungjai Shin, Wonpil Im, and Jinwoo Lee. buff.ly/ZjnYutV

#OPENACCESS: This study shows that an adhered white blood cell disrupts red blood cell partitioning at vascular bifurcations, which is amplified in diabetes, potentially altering oxygen delivery and microvascular hemodynamics. buff.ly/z1RxCh2

Special issue call for papers: Foundations of Membrane Biophysics: Dedicated to Wolfgang Helfrich. buff.ly/AkWX8gs

Special issue call for papers: Single-Molecule Approaches to Reveal Structural and Mechanistic Properties of the Genome. buff.ly/PA36EnK

Mixed-speed molecular motors move cargo faster on membranes. Heterogeneity in motor velocities can actually increase cargo transport speed and distance when motors are coupled on a membrane, revealing a functional advantage of velocity diversity. buff.ly/4NmKGKy

#OPENACCESS: Protein structure and coupled solvent dynamics in α-synuclein fibrils under controlled confinement. Katie Lynn Whitcomb and Kurt Warncke. buff.ly/JQki7Hu

#OPENACCESS: A new algorithm, patch deconvolution, accelerates volume reconstruction part of the Flow cytometry as compared to the existing methods, thereby supporting rapid cell sorting based on spatial features! buff.ly/jUQMbTW

Structural biology identifies a natural compound, oridonin, as a potent and broad-spectrum anticoronavius lead that blocks the substrate-binding site of the main protease from SARS-CoV-2, SARC-CoV, HCoV-NL63, and HCoV-229E. buff.ly/AmMuFDy

Study investigates shear stresses in capillary sprouts by combining 3D RBC-resolved simulations with in vivo blood vessel sprout reconstructions, showing how deformable red blood cells drive large time-dependent wall shear stress variations along sprouts. buff.ly/VA6i2og

#OPENACCESS: Molecular dynamics reveals how calcium drives hetero- versus homodimerization of type I collagen. Emily J. Johnson, Shangze Xu, João V. de Souza, Anthony Evans, Agnieszka K. Bronowska, and Elizabeth G. Canty-Laird. buff.ly/ysfZfdx

Special issue call for papers: Foundations of Membrane Biophysics: Dedicated to Wolfgang Helfrich. buff.ly/AkWX8gs

Special issue call for papers: Single-Molecule Approaches to Reveal Structural and Mechanistic Properties of the Genome. buff.ly/PA36EnK

#OPENACCESS: Transmembrane domains of fusion proteins promote stalk formation by inducing membrane disorder. Katharina C. Scherer, Chetan S. Poojari, and Jochen S. Hub. buff.ly/YCfdPnn

#OPENACCESS: DNA-PAINT resolves E-cadherin-independent cross-junctional F-actin organization in Drosophila embryonic tissue. Matthias Häring and Yuanshu Zhang et al. buff.ly/qrMTQC4

Read about the cover art for the newly released issue of Biophysical Journal on the BPS Blog: buff.ly/0tn9prc

Special issue call for papers: Viral Biophysics. buff.ly/JFuLPxQ

#OPENACCESS: Peptide properties predict multistate translocation kinetics via protective antigen nanopores. Jennifer M. Colby and Bryan A. Krantz. buff.ly/OUcoHxr