Single channels and surface potential of linear gramicidins.

abstract：:Insects have developed an efficient host defense against microorganisms, which involves humoral and cellular mechanisms. Numerous data highlight similarities between defense responses of insects and innate immunity of mammals. The fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster, is a favorable model system for the analysis of the ...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Levy F,Rabel D,Charlet M,Bulet P,Hoffmann JA,Ehret-Sabatier L

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The structural difference of flavonoids strongly affects the binding process with plasma proteins. This work in here mainly concerns about the molecular property-binding affinity relationship of dietary flavonoids for common rat plasma proteins (CRPP). The magnitudes of binding constants between flavonoids and CRPP we...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Xiao J,Cao H,Chen T,Yang F,Liu C,Xu X

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Botulinum neurotoxins (BoNT, serotypes A-G) and tetanus neurotoxin (TeNT) are bacterial proteins that comprise a light chain (M(r) approximately 50) disulfide linked to a heavy chain (M(r) approximately 100). By inhibiting neurotransmitter release at distinct synapses, these toxins cause two severe neuroparalytic dise...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Humeau Y,Doussau F,Grant NJ,Poulain B

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The class I glutamine (Gln) tRNA synthetase interacts with the anticodon and acceptor stem of glutamine tRNA. RNA hairpin helices were designed to probe acceptor stem and anticodon stem-loop contacts. A seven-base pair RNA microhelix derived from the acceptor stem of tRNA(Gln) was aminoacylated by Gln tRNA synthetase....

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Wright DJ,Martinis SA,Jahn M,Söll D,Schimmel P

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 1998, the concept of "green chemistry" was established through twelve principles with the aim of improving the eco-efficiency of chemical processes and to judge, whether or not, a chemical process is sustainable. Currently, numerous processes do not obey to most of these principles (large energy usage, formation of...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Durand E,Lecomte J,Villeneuve P

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell-to-cell movement of Poa semilatent virus (genus Hordeivirus) in infected plants is mediated by three viral 'triple gene block' (TGB) proteins. One of those termed TGBp3 is an integral membrane protein essential for intracellular transport of other TGB proteins and viral genomic RNA to plasmodesmata. TGBp3 targeti...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Shemyakina EA,Erokhina TN,Gorshkova EN,Schiemann J,Solovyev AG,Morozov SY

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Crystals of flavoenzyme L-lactate oxidase from Aerococcus viridans (LOX) have been obtained that diffract to 3.0 A resolution (P2(1)2(1)2(1), a = 118.4 A, b = 138.4 A, c = 194.6 A). Crystallographic studies suggest that the enzyme may exist as an octameric form with non-crystallographic two- and four-fold axes in the ...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Morimoto Y,Yorita K,Aki K,Misaki H,Massey V

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Complexes of purified 40S ribosomal subunits and initiation factor 3 from rabbit reticulocytes were crosslinked using the reversible protein crosslinking reagent, 2-iminothiolane, under conditions shown previously to lead to the formation of dimers between 40S proteins but not higher multimers. The activity of both th...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Tolan DR,Hershey JW,Traut RT

更新日期：1983-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The presence of marker genes encoding antibiotic or herbicide resistances in genetically modified plants poses a number of problems. Various techniques are under development for the removal of unwanted marker genes, while leaving required transgenes in place. The aim of this brief review is to describe the principal m...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Scutt CP,Zubko E,Meyer P

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Viral expression was analyzed in ten cell clones of a Friend erythroleukemia cell line (HFL/b cell line [3]), which had lost its capacity to produce infectious particles. All the ten subclones were non producers but expressed spleen focus forming virus (SFFV) polypeptides in the form of p48-p50gag and gp50-gp52env. On...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Moreau-Gachelin F,Robert-Lezenes J,Mathieu-Mahul D,Gisselbrecht S,Larsen CJ

更新日期：1983-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Fatty acids (FAs), and especially monounsaturated FAs (MUFAs) stimulate GLP-1 release. However, lipotoxicity is indicated in GLP-1 secreting cells following long-term exposure to elevated levels of saturated FAs (SFAs) in vivo and in vitro, where in vitro studies indicate that cosupplementation with MUFAs co...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Ntika S,Thombare K,Aryapoor M,Kristinsson H,Bergsten P,Krizhanovskii C

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1) Isonitrile derivatives of synthetic polyamides, polyesters and polyalcohols, of polysaccharides such as cellulose, cross-linked dextran and agarose, linear dextran and of cross-linked and linear polyacrylamide were prepared. 2) Proteins and low-molecular-weight ligands were bound covalently to these materials by fo...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Goldstein L

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:I have been involved in research on oxysterols since 1963 and this review is intended to cover some of the most important aspects of this work. The first project dealed with 7α-hydroxy-4-cholesten-3-one. My successful synthesis of this steroid with high specific radioactivity allowed a demonstration that it is a bile ...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Björkhem I

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of various concentrations of 2-fluoro-2-deoxy-D-glucose (FDG) on the aerobic metabolism of glucose and the reciprocal effect of glucose on the metabolism of FDG in glucose-grown repressed Saccharomyces cerevisiae cells were studied at 30 degrees C in a standard pyrophosphate medium containing 5 x 10(7) cel...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Tran-Dinh S,Courtois A,Wietzerbin J,Bouet F,Herve M

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The dissociation of bound polyribosomes from ewe lactating mammary gland, by EDTA or Puromycin-KC1 treatment releases Messenger Ribonucleoprotein particles (mRNP'S) which sediment in sucrose gradients as a single component having a sedimentation coefficient of about 22S. RNAs derived from mRNPs sediment between 9S and...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Assairi L,Gaye P,Houdebine LM

更新日期：1976-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of DNA oligonucleotides complementary to potato spindle tuber viroid (PSTVd) on viroid infection were investigated. The oligonucleotides were used to form hybrids with PSTVd in the infection mixture. A 75% reduction of viroid infection was found when an oligonucleotide complementary to nucleotides 79-110 o...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Matousek J,Trnĕná L,Arnold L,Dĕdic P,Rakouský S,Steger G,Riesner D

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The eukaryotic genome is compacted in the cell nucleus, in a way that allows its faithful and ordered replication each cell cycle. Chromatin is organized into topologically constrained loops that are anchored to the nuclear matrix by specific attachment regions (SARs). Chromatin loops were proposed to correspond to re...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Hyrien O,Maric C,Lucas I

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper provides an overview of the usefulness of the resonance Raman (RR) spectroscopy in the determination of the structural and electronic properties of heme(s) included in c-type cytochromes. It reviews the mode assignments presently available for heme c and includes recent RR data on the most important subclas...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Desbois A

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sequence analysis of the Lutzomyia (Lu.) ayacuchensis salivary gland cDNA library identified a short peptide containing an RGD (Arg-Gly-Asp) sequence flanked by two cysteine residues in the C-terminal end as the most abundant transcript. In the present study, a recombinant protein of the RGD-containing peptide, design...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Kato H,Gomez EA,Fujita M,Ishimaru Y,Uezato H,Mimori T,Iwata H,Hashiguchi Y

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anaerobiospirillum succiniciproducens phosphoenolpyruvate (PEP) carboxykinase catalyses the reversible metal-dependent formation of oxaloacetate (OAA) and ATP from PEP, ADP and CO(2). Mutations of PEP carboxykinase have been constructed where the residues His(225) and Asp(263), two residues of the enzyme's putative Mn...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Jabalquinto AM,González-Nilo FD,Laivenieks M,Cabezas M,Zeikus JG,Cardemil E

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Peroxisomes are subcellular organelles which are present in virtually every eukaryotic cell and catalyze a large number of metabolic functions. The importance of peroxisomes for humans is stressed by the existence of a large group of genetic diseases in which either the biogenesis of peroxisomes is impaired or one of ...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Wanders RJ

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In vitro cycling rates of E. coli ribosomes and of elongation factors EF-Tu and EF-G have been obtained and these are compatible with translation rates in vivo. We show that the rate of translocation is faster than 50 s-1 and therefore that the EF-G function is not a rate limiting step in protein synthesis. The in viv...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Bilgin N,Kirsebom LA,Ehrenberg M,Kurland CG

更新日期：1988-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The open reading frame PA3859 of Pseudomonas aeruginosa encodes an intracellular carboxylesterase belonging to a group of microbial enzymes (EC 3.1.1.1) that catalyze the hydrolysis of aliphatic and aromatic esters with a broad substrate specificity. With few exceptions, for this class of enzymes, belonging to the α/β...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Pesaresi A,Lamba D

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Gag-encoded nucleocapsid protein NCp7 (72 amino acids) from HIV-1, the regulatory protein, Vpr (96 amino acids) and numerous derivatives have been synthesized by solid phase method and their structures determined by 2D NMR. In NCp7, the two highly folded zinc fingers of the Cx2Cx4Hx4C type are in close spacial pro...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Roques BP,Morellet N,de Rocquigny H,Déméné H,Schueler W,Jullian N

更新日期：1997-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The combination of cDNA and RNA sequencing techniques has enabled determination of the complete sequence of one of the mRNAs coding for the precursor of the small subunit of ribulose bisphosphate carboxylase of Nicotiana sylvestris. In this 898-nucleotide-long mRNA, 540 nucleotides code for the entire 180-amino-acid-l...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Pinck M,Guilley E,Durr A,Hoff M,Pinck L,Fleck J

更新日期：1984-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nitrogen fixation in A. vinelandii and R. leguminosarum bacteroides shows identical characteristics with respect to the dependence on membrane energization, the sensitivity to uncouplers, the ATP/ADP-ratio, and the dependences on flavodoxinhydroquinone as electrondonor. Although we have been successful in preparing in...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Veeger C,Laane C,Scherings G,van Zeeland Wolbers L

更新日期：1978-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The automation of the mica surface displacement of a surface force apparatus (SFA) increases the accuracy of the intermolecular force measurements that is obtained without the presence of the experimenter. The automatic device cancels any thermal drift and the stability of the mica surfaces is optimum. The distance be...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Gauthier-Manuel B,Gallinet JP

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Diacylglycerol kinase (DGK) phosphorylates diacylglycerol to produce phosphatidic acid (PA). The η isozyme of DGK is abundantly expressed in C2C12 myoblasts. However, the role of DGKη in skeletal muscle cells remains unknown. In the present study, we showed that DGKη was downregulated at an early stage of myogenic dif...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Sakai H,Murakami C,Usuki T,Lu Q,Matsumoto KI,Urano T,Sakane F

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Snake venom phospholipases A2 (PLA2) share high sequence identities and a conserved structural scaffold, but show important functional differences. Only a few PLA2s have been purified and characterized from coral snake (Micrurus spp.) venoms, and their role in envenomation remains largely unknown. In this report, we d...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Rey-Suárez P,Núñez V,Saldarriaga-Córdoba M,Lomonte B

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Theoretical and experimental investigations on the conformations of synthetic polytripeptides, with Gly-R2-R3 general repetitive sequence, are of great interest for the comprehension of the factors which contribute to the triple helix stabilization. Using appropriate molecules as models, we have investigated by the PC...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Cabrol D,Broch H,Vasilescu D

更新日期：1981-11-01 00:00:00