Biophysical Society 59th Annual Meeting Program Guide

444-P os B oard B224 REVISITING THE LINK BETWEEN LIPID MEMBRANE ELASTICITY AND MICROSCOPIC CONTINUUM MODELS. M. Mert Terzi , Kaushik Dayal, Luca Deseri, Markus Deserno 445-P os B oard B225 MOLECULAR LEVEL MODELING OF THE EFFECTS OF CHARGE AND SUGARS ON THE PHASE EQUILIBRIUM OF MODEL LIPID BILAYERS. Shauna Celeste Kennard , Mark J. Uline 446-P os B oard B226 EDGE STRUCTURE OF THROUGH PORE IN LIPID MEMBRANE. Sergey A. Akimov , Arseniy A. Mukovozov, Oleg V. Batishchev 447-P os B oard B227 BOLALIPID MEMBRANES: ELASTICITY THEORY APPROACH. Timur R. Galimzyanov , Petr I. Kuzmin, Sergey A. Akimov 448-P os B oard B228 PHYSICAL PROPERTIES AND MEMBRANE PACKING IN HYBRID ARCHAEOSOMES. Umme Ayesa , Parkson L.G. Chong 449-P os B oard B229 TEMPERATURE-DEPENDENT LIPID PHASE TRANSITIONS OCCURRING IN HIGHER ORGANISMS. Norman L. Gershfeld, Ralph Nossal 450-P os B oard B230 minority affairs travel awardee THERMOTROPIC BEHAVIOR OF CARDIOLIPIN AND DIMYRISTOYLPHOSPHATIDYLCHOLINE BILAYERS IN THE PRESENCE AND ABSENCE OF CALCIUM. Kasturi Mitra , Christine Schwall, Arlene Arlene Albert, Nathan Alder 451-P os B oard B231 LAMELLAR-HEXAGONAL TRANSITION KINETICS EXHIBIT AN EXPONENTIAL DEPENDENCE ON TEMPERATURE. Nathan L. Meyers, Peter L. Cook, Paul E. Harper Protein-Lipid Interactions I (Boards B232-B258) 452-P os B oard B232 PH-DEPENDENT CONFORMATIONAL CHANGES IN THE INFLUENZA A M2 FULL-LENGTH PROTEIN IN LIPID BILAYERS. E. Vindana Ekanayake , Riqiang Fu, Timothy A. Cross 453-P os B oard B233 CONFORMATIONAL CHANGES OF THE ABC TRANSPORTER MCJD REVEALED BY MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS. Ruo-Xu Gu , Valentina Corradi, Gurpreet Singh, Konstantinos Beis, Peter Tieleman 454-P os B oard B234 PROLINES AROUND HYPOTHETICAL ACTIVE SITE ARE IMPORTANT FOR THE STRUCTURE AND DYNAMICS OF THE OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN G FROM PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA. Iga Kucharska , Lukas Tamm 455-P os B oard B235 ANALYZING THE VIABILITY OF VARIOUS NATIVE MEMBRANE MIMICS FOR MEMBRANE PROTEINS USING SITE-DIRECTED SPIN LABELING EPR. Megan M. Dunagan , Indra D. Sahu, Rongfu Zhang, Andrew Craig, Robert McMarrick, Gary A. Lorigan 456-P os B oard B236 THE STRUCTURE OF THE OLIGOMERS FORMED BY THE CAVEOLIN MEMBRANE PROTEINS. Shuqi Wang , Yanli Zhang, Xinyan Zhang, Sorin Luca

457-P os B oard B237 EXPRESSION AND PURIFICATION OF HUMAN A2B RECEPTOR FOR SPECTROSCOPIC CHARACTERIZATION. Arash Foroutan , Anne S. Robinson 458-P os B oard B238 EFFECT OF AN APOPTOTIC MEMBRANE RAFT ON THE CONFORMATIONAL AND DYNAMICAL CHANGES OF CALRETICULIN. Lingyun Wang, Joanne E. Murphy-Ullrich, Yuhua Song 459-P os B oard B239 BINDING OF HALICTINE ANTIMICROBIAL PEPTIDES TO MODEL MEMBRANES COMPOSED OF POPC:POPG PHOSPHOLIPIDS. Tatiana M. Domingues , Katia R. Perez, Karin A. Riske 460-P os B oard B240 THE BEGINNING OF THE END: CARDIOLIPIN, CYTOCHROME C AND THE APOPTOTIC TRIGGER. Evan S. O’Brien , Nathaniel V. Nucci, Brian Fuglestad, Kathleen G. Valentine, A. Joshua Wand 461-P os B oard B241 minority affairs travel awardee PRION PROTEINS AND MECHANISMS OF INTERACTION WITH MODEL MEMBRANES. Patricia Soto , William Graft, Roger Gonzalez, Chad Nieri, Bo Zhao, Jason C. Bartz 462-P os B oard B242 FUNCTIONAL CHARACTERIZATION OF HUMAN RHODOPSIN MUTATIONS BY FLUORESCENCE IMAGING. Caihong Jiang 463-P os B oard B243 COEXISTENCE OF NATIVE-LIKE AND NON-NATIVE MISFOLDED FERRICYTOCHROME C ON THE SURFAC OF CARDIOLIPIN CONTAINING LIPOSOMES. Leah A. Pandiscia , Reinhard Schweitzer-Stenner 464-P os B oard B244 NEISSERIAL OPA PROTEIN DYNAMICS AND INTERACTION WITH HOST CEACAM RECEPTORS. Marissa K. Kieber , Tsega Solomon, Linda Columbus 465-P os B oard B245 MEMBRANE PROTEIN MISFOLDING ENFORCES THE POSITIVE-INSIDE RULE. Nicholas B. Last , Christopher Miller 466-P os B oard B246 DEVELOPING A UNIVERSAL STERIC TRAPPING STRATEGY FOR STUDYING FOLDING AND STABILITY OF HELICAL MEMBRANE PROTEINS. Ruiqiong Guo, Kristen A. Gaffney, Xuefei Huang, Heedeok Hong 467-P os B oard B247 STUDYING MEMBRANE PROTEIN FOLDING BY MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS. Jan Domanski , Mark Sansom, Philip Stansfeld, Robert Best 468-P os B oard B248 IDENTIFYING THE OLIGOMERIZATION STATE OF DEGP IN THE ABSENCE AND PRESENCE OF SUBSTRATE. Shawn M. Costello , Ashlee M. Plummer, Karen G. Fleming 469-P os B oard B249 THEORETICAL PREDICTION OF MUTATIONS IMPROVING THERMAL STABILITY OF ADENOSINE A2A RECEPTOR. Yuta Kajiwara, Satoshi Yasuda , Yuki Takamuku, Takeshi Murata, Masahiro Kinoshita

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