Biophysical Society 62nd Annual Meeting | Program Guide

Platform Protein Structure and Conformation I 10:45 am–12:45 pm, South, Level Two, Room 215/216 Co-Chairs Jordan Chill, Bar Ilan University, Israel Catherine A. Musselman, University of Colorado-Denver 136-Plat 10:45 am CHARACTERIZING E. COLI PHOSPHOENOLPYRUVATE CARBOXYKINASE CONFORMATIONAL STATES THROUGH SMALL ANGLE X-RAY SCATTERING.  Greg L. Hura , Henry Y.H. Tang, John A. Tainer 137-Plat 11:00 am FROM DISORDERED POLYPEPTIDE TO FUNCTIONAL REGULATOR: A STRUCTURAL VIEW OF WASP-INTERACTING PROTEIN AND ITS COMPLEX WITH WASP IN HUMAN T-CELLS.  Adi Halle-Bikovski, Eva Rozentur-Shkop, Hadassa Shaked, Mira Barda-Saad, Jordan H. Chill 138-Plat 11:15 am INVESTIGATING THE CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITIONS OF HUMAN ADI- POCYTE FATTY ACID BINDING PROTEIN UPON BINDING LEUKOTRIENE B4 BY SOLUTION-STATE NMR SPECTROSCOPY.  Kim N. Ha , Youlin Xia, Yenchi Tran, Gianluigi Veglia, David A. Bernlohr 139-Plat 11:30 am CPOW Travel Awardee HISTONE H3 TAIL CONFORMATION REGULATES NUCLEOSOME ASSOCIA- TION BY THE BPTF PHD FINGER.  Emma A. Morrison , Samuel Bowerman, Kelli Sylvers, Jeff Wereszczynski, Catherine A. Musselman 11:45 am flash talks 140-Plat 12:00 pm SINGLE-MOLECULE FRET REVEALS AN ADDITIONAL CONFORMATIONAL STATE OF HIV-1 ENVELOPE GLYCOPROTEIN CRITICAL FOR VACCINE DESIGN. Maolin Lu , Xiaochu Ma, Castillo-Menendez Luis R., Utz Ermel, Terry Daniel S., Jay Gorman, Nick Reichard, Kevin Wang, Jonathan Grover, Andres Finzi, James B. Munro, Peter D. Kwong, Scott C. Blanchard, Joseph Sodroski, Walther Mothes 141-Plat 12:15 pm HYBRID STRUCTURE OF THE RAGA/C-RAGULATOR MTORC1 ACTIVATION COMPLEX . Ming-Yuan Su , Kyle K. Morris, Do Jin Kim, Yangxue Fu, Rosalie Lawrence, Goran Stjepanovic, Roberto Zoncu, James H. Hurley 142-Plat 12:30 pm VINCULIN AND ITS FUNDAMENTAL ROLE IN ACTIN BUNDLING FORMA- TION.  Ernesto Alva Sevilla , Andrey Krokhotin, Nikolay V. Dokholyan Platform

146-Plat 11:30 am SURFACE SENSING, MOTILITY APPENDAGES, AND EXTRACELLULAR ELEC- TRON TRANSPORT IN P. AERUGINOSA AND S. ONEIDENSIS.  Gerard Wong 147-Plat 11:45 am MEMBRANE TENSION INHIBITS WALL SYNTHESIS VIA ELECTRICAL DEPOLARIZATION TO BALANCE BACTERIAL CELL ENVELOPE EXPANSION.  Kerwyn Casey Huang , Enrique Rojas, Julie Theriot 148-Plat 12:00 pm A PHYSIOLOGICAL ROLE FOR THE KCH K + CHANNEL IN E. COLI.  Steve Lockless , Sarah Beagle 149-Plat 12:15 pm IS THERE A ROLE FOR MECHANOSENSITIVE CHANNELS IN FORMATION AND MAINTENANCE OF BACTERIAL BIOFILMS?  Boris Martinac 150-Plat 12:30 pm MEMBRANE TENSION AND THE CHARGE STATE OF CELLS.  Rob Phillips Platform EFFECT OF PRESSURE ON THE CONFORMATIONAL LANDSCAPE OF A LARGE LOOP DNA HAIRPIN IN THE PRESENCE OF SALTS AND OSMOLYTES.  Satyajit Patra , Vitor D. Schuabb, Rosario Oliva, Roland Winter 152-Plat 11:00 am MULTISCALE MODELING AND SIMULATION OF MULTIVALENT CATION IN- DUCED DNA CONDENSATION.  Tiedong Sun , Alexander Mirzoev, Nikolay Korolev, Alexander Lyubartsev, Lars Nordenskiöld 153-Plat 11:15 am STRUCTURE AND DYNAMICS OF NUCLEIC ACID MOLECULES STUDIED BY PULSED EPR.  Thomas F. Prisner , Claudia M. Grytz, Markus Graenz, Philipp E. Spindler, Nicole Erlenbach, Andriy Marko, Pavol Cekan, Snorri Th Sigurdsson 154-Plat 11:30 am EQUILIBRIUM CONFORMATIONAL DISTRIBUTIONS OF BENT DNA IN COMPLEX WITH IHF MAPPED WITH FLUORESCENCE LIFETIME MEASURE- MENTS. Mitch Connolly, Viktoriya Zvoda , Anjum Ansari 155-Plat 11:45 am DISSECTING THE MECHANISM OF HP1 MEDIATED CHROMATIN COMPAC- TION VIA SINGLE MOLECULE DNA CURTAINS. Madeline M. Keenen , Adam G. Larson, Geeta J. Narlikar, Sy Redding 156-Plat 12:00 pm NUCLEAR ARCHITECTURE CONTROLS THE TIMESCALES OF GENOMIC IN- TERACTIONS.  Yaojun Zhang , Nimish Khanna, Olga Dudko, Cornelis Murre 157-Plat 12:15 pm CHROMATIN ORGANIZATION BY AN INTERPLAY OF LOOP EXTRUSION AND COMPARTMENTAL SEGREGATION.  Johannes Nuebler , Geoffrey Fudenberg, Maxim Imakaev, Nezar Abdennur, Leonid Mirny 158-Plat 12:30 pm LONG-RANGE STRUCTURAL CHANGES IN THE MEIOTIC NUCLEUS RE- VEALED BY CHANGES IN STRESS COMMUNICATION ALONG THE CHRO- MOSOME.  Trent Newman, Bruno G. Beltran , James McGehee, Cori Cahoon, Daniel Elnatan, Daniel Chu, Sean Burgess, Andrew Spakowitz DNA Structure and Dynamics 10:45 am–12:45 pm, Esplanade, Room 154 Co-Chairs Bruno Beltran, Stanford University Thomas Prisner, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany 151-Plat 10:45 am

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Bacterial Electrophysiology: From Single Cells to Biofilms 10:45 am–12:45 pm, Esplanade, Room 153

Co-Chairs Gurol Suel, University of California, San Diego Joel Kralj, University of Colorado-Boulder 143-Plat 10:45 am VOLTAGE AND CALCIUMMEDIATE E. COLI MECHANOSENSATION. 

Joel Kralj 144-Plat

11:00 am ELECTRICAL SIGNALING IN BIOFILMS.  Gurol Suel 145-Plat 11:15 am

PROBING PHENAZINE ELECTRON TRANSFER AND RETENTION IN PSEUDO- MONAS AERUGINOSA BIOFILMS.  Scott H. Saunders , Matthew D. Yates, Edmund C. M. Tse, Jacqueline K. Barton, Leonard M. Tender, Dianne K. Newman

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