Biophysical Society 60th Annual Meeting

Caitlin E. Scott , University of Kentucky 1039-Pos, B16 MOLECULAR DYNAMICS STUDY OF DIVALENT ION COORDINATION IN EF HAND PROTEINS. M. de la Encarnacion Solesio Torregrosa , New York University College of Dentistry 1524-Pos, B501 CONTRIBUTION OF INORGANIC POLYPHOSPHATE TOWARDS REGULATION OF MITOCHONDRIAL FREE CALCIUM. Cholpon Tilegenova , Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center 1370-Pos, B347 ELUCIDATION OF MOLECULAR MECHANISM UNDERLYING KCSA’S HYSTERETIC GATING BEHAVIOR. Yan Yan , Emory University 1173-Pos, B150 HU PROTEIN AND DNA SUPERCOILING DRAMATICALLY ENHANCE LAC- REPRESSOR-MEDIATED DNA LOOPING. MOLECULAR MECHANISM OF THE SYNAPTOTAGMIN-SNARE COMPLEX THAT IS ESSENTIAL FOR SYNCHRONOUS SYNAPTIC NEUROTRANSMITTER RELEASE. Tuesday Sinan Can , University of California, Berkeley 2259-Pos, B403 KINESIN’S FRONT HEAD IS GATED BY THE BACKWARD ORIENTATION OF ITS NECK LINKER. Irem Celen , University of Delaware 1727-Plat MULTI-SCALE SPATIO-TEMPORAL DYNAMICS OF HISTONE MODIFICATIONS. Robert E. del Carlo , University of Nevada School of Medicine 2161-Pos, B305 POINT-MUTATIONS IN SKELETAL MUSCLE VOLTAGE-GATED SODIUM CHANNELS CONFER RESISTANCE TO TETRODOTOXIN: BUT AT A COST? Jeevan B. Gc , Florida International University 1862-Pos, B6 INTERDOMAIN INTERACTIONS AND THE MECHANISM OF STRUCTURAL TRANSFORMATION IN RFAH. Nnanya U. Kalu , The Catholic University of America 2094-Pos, B238 DOES LIPID COMPOSITION REGULATE ANTHRAX TOXIN UPTAKE? Minmin Luo , Louisiana State University School of Medicine and Health Sciences Center 2266-Pos, B410 TRAPPING THE TRANSITION STATE OF KINESIN-5 PRODUCES A DIFFERENT MULTIMOTOR FORCE OUTCOME THAN INHIBITING PRODUCT RELEASE. Fabio C. Zegarra , University of Houston 1051-Pos, B28 THE COMBINED EFFECT OF MACROMOLECULAR CROWDING AND CHEMICAL INTERFERENCE ON THE DYNAMICS OF APOAZURIN FOLDING. Qiangjun Zhou , Stanford University 1561-Pos, B538

Andrew M. Fuchs , University of Wisconsin, Madison 1168-Pos, B145 NASCENT PROTEINS INTERACT WITH KEY REGIONS OF THE OUTER SURFACE OF THE RIBOSOME. Leland B. Gee , University of California, Davis 1592-Pos, B569 A GATED SUBSTRATE CHANNEL REVEALED IN NITROGENASE THROUGH A COMBINED IR AND MOLECULAR DYNAMICS STUDY. Bence Hegyi , University of California, Davis 1347-Pos, B324 CAMKII INHIBITOR KN-93 DIRECTLY BLOCKS IKR IN CARDIAC MYOCYTES. Stephania Irwin , University of Alberta 1143-Pos, B120 INFLUENCE OF FAMILIAL PARKINSON’S DISEASE MUTATIONS ON MITOCHONDRIAL LOCALIZATION AND SECONDARY STRUCTURE OF PINK1. Pei-I Ku , University of Utah 1072-Pos, B49 REGULATION OF ALIX DURING EXOCYTIC VESICLE RELEASE AND ASSEMBLY OF ESCRT PROTEINS ON THE PLASMA MEMBRANE. Jayson V. Lingan , University of Rochester Medical Center 1518-Pos, B495 PERMEABILITY TRANSITION PORE CLOSURE INCREASES MITOCHONDRIAL MATURATION AND MYOCYTE DIFFERENTIATION IN THE NEONATAL HEART. William Marsiglia , New York University 1097-Pos, B74 NMR EXPERIMENTS ON WILD-TYPE AND MUTANT FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR KINASES REVEAL CONFORMATIONAL DYNAMICS ASSOCIATED WITH ENZYME ACTIVATION. Favinn A. Maynard , University of Colorado, Denver 1258-Pos, B235 MECHANISM OF STRONG MEMBRANE BINDING BY SYNAPTOTAGMIN 7 C2A DOMAIN: INSIGHT FROM MUTATION AND LIPID COMPOSITION DEPENDENCE. Joshua Mayourian , Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai 1340-Pos, B317 MODELING ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL INTERACTIONS BETWEEN MESENCHYMAL STEM CELLS AND CARDIOMYOCYTES FOR IMPROVED CELL DELIVERY CARDIOTHERAPEUTICS. Keith J. Mickolajczyk , Pennsylvania State University 961-Plat KINETICS OF NUCLEOTIDE-DEPENDENT STRUCTURAL TRANSITIONS IN THE KINESIN-1 HYDROLYSIS CYCLE. Rami Musharrafieh , University of Arizona 1279-Pos, B256 COMPUTATIONAL AND EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES OF LIPID-PROTEIN INTERACTIONS IN BIOMEMRANE FUNCTION. Premila Samuel , Rice University 1043-Pos, B20 AN IN VITRO INVESTIGATION OF GLOBIN FOLDING AND EXPRESSION.

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