Polynucleotide phosphorylase binds to ssRNA with same affinity as to ssDNA.

abstract：:Prostaglandin E synthase (PGES), which converts cyclooxygenase (COX)-derived prostaglandin H(2) (PGH(2)) to PGE(2), is known to comprise a group of at least three structurally and biologically distinct enzymes. Two of them are membrane-bound and have been designated as mPGES-1 and mPGES-2. mPGES-1 is a perinuclear pro...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Hara S,Kamei D,Sasaki Y,Tanemoto A,Nakatani Y,Murakami M

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two forms of baker's yease valyl-tRNA synthetase have been purified to apparent homogeneity by classical methods. It was demonstrated that one of the two forms of the enzyme originates from the other by proteolysis, the respective amounts of each form depending on the physiological state of the yeast. The species main...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Kern D,Giegé R,Robre-Saul S,Boulanger Y,Ebel JP

更新日期：1975-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For efficient DNA hydrolysis, Type III restriction endonuclease EcoP15I interacts with two inversely oriented recognition sites in an ATP-dependent process. EcoP15I consists of two methylation (Mod) subunits and a single restriction (Res) subunit yielding a multifunctional enzyme complex able to methylate or to hydrol...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Mackeldanz P,Alves J,Möncke-Buchner E,Wyszomirski KH,Krüger DH,Reuter M

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We are reporting here an analysis of the chymotryptic peptides obtained from the tryptic heme-binding fragment of flavocytochrome b2 (cytochrome b2 core). These results completely establish the sequence of the 96 residue-long fragment, for which preliminary evidence has been published before [24]. We also report full ...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Guiard B,Lederer F

更新日期：1976-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Direct demonstration of the reversible dissociation of native dimeric methionyl-tRNA synthetase from E. coli has been obtained using small angle neutron scattering and deuterated enzyme. Structural parameters of the fully deuterated dimer are very similar to the hydrogenated one. Analysis of the variations of the inte...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Dessen P,Zaccai G,Blanquet S

更新日期：1985-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The structure of ATP synthase subunit 4 was determined by using the oligonucleotide probe procedure. This subunit is the fourth polypeptide of the complex when classifying subunits in order of decreasing molecular mass. Its relative molecular mass is 25 kDa. The ATP4 gene was isolated and sequenced. The nucleotide seq...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Velours J,Arselin G,Paul MF,Galante M,Durrens P,Aigle M,Guerin B

更新日期：1989-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Four full-length cDNAs encoding the precursors of four K(+)-toxin-like peptides (named BmKK(1), BmKK(2), BmKK(3) and BmmKK(4), respectively) were first isolated from a venom gland cDNA library of the Chinese scorpion Buthus martensii Karsch. The deduced precursors of BmKK(1), BmKK(2) and BmKK(3) are all made of 54 ami...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Zeng XC,Peng F,Luo F,Zhu SY,Liu H,Li WX

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) is a heterogeneous group of breast cancer with one common feature: distinctly metastatic nature with higher rate of relapse and shorter survival compared with other subtypes of breast cancer. The epithelial to mesenchymal transition (EMT) is highly associated with cancer metastasis...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Liang L,Liu X,He J,Shao Y,Liu J,Wang Z,Xia L,Han T,Wu P

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have determined the DNA sequence of a 1-kilobase segment of the Escherichia coli chromosome. The segment contains glyW, a duplicate gene for tRNA3Gly, and its flanking regions. An insertion sequence, previously known to have occurred spontaneously within the sequenced fragment, was identified as IS1. Possible sites...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Tucker SD,Murgola EJ

更新日期：1985-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:IbpA/B, 16 kDa heat-shock proteins were recently described as recognizing heterologous protein inclusion bodies in Escherichia coli cells; the corresponding genes formed an operon regulated by the rpoH gene product, sigma 32 protein (Burland et al (1993) Genomics 16, 551; Allen et al (1992) J Bacteriol 174, 6938; Chua...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Laskowska E,Wawrzynów A,Taylor A

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interleukin-17 (IL-17) is a pro-inflammatory cytokine produced primarily by a subset of CD4(+)T cells, called Th17 cells, that is involved in host defense, inflammation and autoimmune disorders. The two most structurally related IL-17 family members, IL-17A and IL-17F, form homodimeric (IL-17A/A, IL-17F/F) and heterod...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Adachi H,Ishiguro A,Hamada M,Sakota E,Asai K,Nakamura Y

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alpha 1, 2-fucosyltransferase (FUT 1/2) is a rate-limiting enzyme that catalyzes the synthesis of Lewis y, a cell membrane-associated carbohydrate antigen. In human ovarian cancer, the upregulated expression of FUT1 and Lewis y is associated with advanced pathological stages and involved in cell proliferation, migrati...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Gao N,Liu J,Liu D,Hao Y,Yan L,Ma Y,Zhuang H,Hu Z,Gao J,Yang Z,Shi H,Lin B

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We screened a cDNA library of the primitive eukaryote Dictyostelium discoideum constructed in the expression vector lambda gt11 with a specific antiserum directed against S-adenosyl-L-homocysteine hydrolase (AdoHcy hydrolase) and isolated cDNA clones coding for fusion proteins with beta-galactosidase. The identity of ...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Guitton MC,Part D,Veron M

更新日期：1988-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The analysis of RNA from L5178 Y cells, by electrophoreis in 1.7% polyacrylamide gel, after short time labelling with [methyl-3H] methionine, shows that the three molecular species 47S, 46S and 45S RNA from the ribosomal RNA "45S fraction" are methylated. Comparative studies of the kinetics obtained after labelling fo...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Tiollais P,Auger MA,Galibert F

更新日期：1975-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Most evolutionists agree to consider that our present RNA/DNA/protein world has originated from a simpler world in which RNA played both the role of catalyst and genetic material. Recent findings from structural studies and comparative genomics now allow to get a clearer picture of this transition. These data suggest ...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Forterre P

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The activation of the antitumor protein antibiotic neocarzinostatin (NCS) by the carboxyl radical CO-2, a one-electron donor obtained selectively from gamma-ray irradiation of nitrous oxide-saturated formate buffer, has been investigated in the presence and in the absence of DNA at pH 4.7 and pH 7.0. The reaction of N...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Favaudon V

更新日期：1983-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 1956, when we started our collaboration, both Alick Isaacs and myself had done previous work on interference between inactive and active influenza viruses. We were aware of the state interference research had reached and of the two alternative explanations that had been envisaged. ...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Lindenmann J

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Streptomyces sp. 139 produces a novel exopolysaccharide (EPS) designated Ebosin which can bind IL-1R specifically and exhibits anti-rheumatic arthritis activity in vivo. With the Ebosin biosynthesis gene cluster (ste) consisting of 27 ORFs identified previously the focus of this study was to characterize the protein e...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Bai L,Chang M,Shan J,Jiang R,Zhang Y,Zhang R,Li Y

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability to measure the thermodynamic stability of proteins with precision is important for both academic and applied research. Such measurements rely on mathematical models of the protein denaturation profile, i.e. the relation between a global protein signal, corresponding to the folding states in equilibrium, an...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Bedouelle H

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The polysaccharide from Aloe vahombe (lilaceae) was submitted to partial hydrolyses by sulfuric, oxalic and phosphoric acid. Some oligosaccharides were isolated and investigated by chemical and 13C NMR spectroscopic methods. Their structure was determined. The results prove unambiguously that in the analyzed material ...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Radjabi-Nassab F,Ramiliarison C,Monneret C,Vilkas E

更新日期：1984-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A HU-like protein (HBl) of Bifidobacterium longum was purified and characterized. HBl is heat-stable and acid-resistant, and has a molecular weight of about 9.1 kDa as estimated by its mobility on electrophoresis. HBl is intermediate in basicity (pI 9.8) between the HU-1 and HU-2 proteins of Escherichia coli, and is d...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Goshima N,Kano Y,Imamoto F

更新日期：1990-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microalgae can produce large quantities of triacylglycerols (TAGs) and other neutral lipids that are suitable for making biofuels and as feedstocks for green chemistry. However, TAGs accumulate under stress conditions that also stop growth, leading to a trade-off between biomass production and TAG yield. Recently, in ...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Prioretti L,Carriere F,Field B,Avilan L,Montané MH,Menand B,Gontero B

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Innate immune system is the first line of host defense against invading microorganisms. It relies on a limited number of germline-encoded pattern recognition receptors that recognize conserved molecular structures of microbes, referred to as pathogen-/microbe-associated molecular patterns (PAMPs/MAMPs). Bacterial cell...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Ray A,Cot M,Puzo G,Gilleron M,Nigou J

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The reactivity of sonicated phosphatidylcholine-cholesterol liposomes with cholesterol : oxygene oxydoreductase, an enzyme which catalyses the oxidation of the 3 beta hydroxyl group of cholesterol to a ketone group, is compared with that of ternary system phosphatidylcholine-cholesterol-Thesit. Regardless to the phosp...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Peynet J,Delattre J,Canal J,Rousselet F,Girard ML

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Numerous studies have reported the beneficial effects of antioxidants in human diseases. Among their biological effects, a majority of antioxidants scavenge reactive radicals in the body, thereby reducing oxidative stress that is associated with the pathogenesis of many diseases. Antioxidant dendrimers are a new class...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Lee CY,Nanah CN,Held RA,Clark AR,Huynh UG,Maraskine MC,Uzarski RL,McCracken J,Sharma A

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:TcrX/Y is one of the twelve two component system (TCS) present in Mycobacterium tuberculosis. We have investigated the TcrX/Y interaction by in silico studies, pull down assay, radioactive phosphotransfer, surface plasmon resonance as well as crosstalk analysis of TcrY with TcrA - a non-cognate response regulator. Seq...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Bhattacharya M,Biswas A,Das AK

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Our understanding of plant meiosis is rapidly increasing thanks to the model Arabidopsis thaliana. Here we present the results of a screening for meiotic mutants carried out with a library containing 30,719 T-DNA insertion lines. An average of one mutant per 1000 lines was recovered. Several phenotypic classes could b...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Mercier R,Grelon M,Vezon D,Horlow C,Pelletier G

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Long non-coding RNAs constitute the most abundant part of the transcribed mammalian genome. lncRNAs affect all essential processes in the living cell including transcription, splicing, translation, replication, shaping of chromatin and post translational modification of proteins. Alterations in lncRNA expression have ...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Smekalova EM,Kotelevtsev YV,Leboeuf D,Shcherbinina EY,Fefilova AS,Zatsepin TS,Koteliansky V

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glycosylphosphatidylinositol phospholipase D (GPI-PLD) has been proposed to be responsible for cleaving membrane-associated glycosylphosphatidyl inositol (GPI) molecules to generate inositol phosphoglycan (IPGs), which have growth factor-mimetic properties. We have cloned the mouse liver GPI-PLD cDNA, which has a sequ...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Flores-Borja F,Kieszkievicz J,Church V,Francis-West PH,Schofield J,Rademacher TW,Lund T

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Some physico-chemical properties of R140G and K141Q mutants of human small heat shock protein HspB1 associated with hereditary peripheral neuropathy were analyzed. Mutation K141Q did not affect intrinsic Trp fluorescence and interaction with hydrophobic probe bis-ANS, whereas mutation R140G decreased both intrinsic fl...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Nefedova VV,Datskevich PN,Sudnitsyna MV,Strelkov SV,Gusev NB

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00