Familial prion disease mutation alters the secondary structure of recombinant mouse prion protein: implications for the mechanism of prion formation.

abstract：:This study presents the first detailed examination by resonance Raman (RR) spectroscopy of the rates of solvent exchange for the C5 and C3 positions of the TPQ cofactor in several wild-type copper-containing amine oxidases and mutants of the amine oxidase from Hansenula polymorpha (HPAO). On the basis of crystal struc...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Green EL,Nakamura N,Dooley DM,Klinman JP,Sanders-Loehr J

更新日期：2002-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The crystal structure and spectroscopic properties of the periplasmic penta-heme cytochrome c nitrite reductase (NrfA) of Escherichia coli are presented. The structure is the first for a member of the NrfA subgroup that utilize a soluble penta-heme cytochrome, NrfB, as a redox partner. Comparison to the structures of ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Bamford VA,Angove HC,Seward HE,Thomson AJ,Cole JA,Butt JN,Hemmings AM,Richardson DJ

更新日期：2002-03-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Human ferrochelatase (EC 4.99.1.1) catalyzes the insertion ferrous iron into protoporphyrin IX as the last step in heme biosynthesis, an essential process to most organisms given the vast intracellular functions of heme. Even with multiple ferrochelatase structures available, the exact mechanism for iron insertion int...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Asuru AP,An M,Busenlehner LS

更新日期：2012-09-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The interactions between rhodopsin molecules in a micellar detergent solution (octyl glucoside) and in reconstituted phospholipid vesicles were studied in the dark and after bleaching. Resonance energy transfer measurements were used to monitor the proximity between rhodopsin monomers conjugated with a fluorescent don...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Borochov-Neori H,Fortes PA,Montal M

更新日期：1983-01-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Tau fibrillization is a potential therapeutic target for Alzheimer's and other neurodegenerative diseases. Small molecules capable of both inhibiting aggregation and promoting filament disaggregation have been discovered, but knowledge of their mechanism of action and potential for testing in biological models is frag...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Necula M,Chirita CN,Kuret J

更新日期：2005-08-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Proteolytic activation, oligomerization, and membrane insertion are three steps that precede channel formation by the bacterial toxin aerolysin. Using attenuated total reflection Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (ATR-FTIR) and hydrogen-deuterium exchange, the structural changes associated with each step were an...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Cabiaux V,Buckley JT,Wattiez R,Ruysschaert JM,Parker MW,van der Goot FG

更新日期：1997-12-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Merozoite surface protein 2 (MSP2), an abundant glycosylphosphatidylinositol-anchored protein on the surface of Plasmodium falciparum merozoites, is a promising malaria vaccine candidate. MSP2 is intrinsically disordered and forms amyloid-like fibrils in solution under physiological conditions. The 25 N-terminal resid...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Zhang X,Adda CG,Low A,Zhang J,Zhang W,Sun H,Tu X,Anders RF,Norton RS

更新日期：2012-02-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Retinoid X receptors (RXRs) are transcription factors with important functions in embryonic development, metabolic processes, differentiation, and apoptosis. A particular feature of RXRs is their ability to act as obligatory heterodimerization partners of class II nuclear receptors. At the same time, these receptors a...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Belorusova A,Osz J,Petoukhov MV,Peluso-Iltis C,Kieffer B,Svergun DI,Rochel N

更新日期：2016-03-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Two peptides designed for drug delivery were generated by the combination of a signal peptide with a nuclear localization sequence and are shown to facilitate the cellular internalization of small molecules which are covalently linked to these peptides. In order to understand the mechanism of internalization, the conf...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Chaloin L,Vidal P,Heitz A,Van Mau N,Méry J,Divita G,Heitz F

更新日期：1997-09-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Thiocyanate reacts noncatalytically with myeloperoxidase-derived HOCl to produce hypothiocyanite (OSCN(-)), thereby potentially limiting the propensity of HOCl to inflict host tissue damage that can lead to inflammatory diseases. However, the efficiency with which SCN(-) captures HOCl in vivo depends on the concentrat...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Xulu BA,Ashby MT

更新日期：2010-03-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Glucarate dehydratase (GlucD) from Pseudomonas putida catalyzes the dehydration of both (D)-glucarate and (L)-idarate to 3-deoxy-(L)-threo-2-hexulosarate as well as their epimerization. (D)-[6-13C]Glucarate and (L)-[6-13C]idarate have been synthesized for use in continuous assay of the reactions catalyzed by GlucD by ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Palmer DR,Hubbard BK,Gerlt JA

更新日期：1998-10-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Muscle fiber contraction is regulated through calcium-induced changes in the conformation of troponin C. In this study, we explored the relationship between the stability of a specific helix in the protein and the metal ion affinity of associated binding sites. Serial replacement of the amino acid at position 130 caus...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Trigo-Gonzalez G,Awang G,Racher K,Neden K,Borgford T

更新日期：1993-09-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Coiled coils are simple models for studying the association of two polypeptide chains to form a folded protein. Previous work has shown that the folding of a coiled coil can be described by a two-state transition between two unfolded monomeric peptide chains and a folded coiled coil dimer. Here we report the thermodyn...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Bosshard HR,Dürr E,Hitz T,Jelesarov I

更新日期：2001-03-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The Pf1 gene 5 protein forms a large helical nucleoprotein complex (Mr = 3.1 x 10(7)) with single-stranded viral DNA, from which a 32 amino acid sequence rich in alanine, proline, and glutamine residues can be removed from the C-terminus by limited proteolysis. Sharp resonances in the 1H NMR spectrum of the Pf1 nucleo...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Davis KG,Plyte SE,Robertson SR,Cooper A,Kneale GG

更新日期：1995-01-10 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA alkylation-induced damage is one of the most efficacious anticancer therapeutic strategies. Enhanced DNA alkylation and weakened DNA repair capacity in cancer cells are responsible for the effectiveness of DNA-alkylating therapies. 5'-Flap endonuclease 1 (Fen1) is an important enzyme involved in base excision repa...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Panda H,Jaiswal AS,Corsino PE,Armas ML,Law BK,Narayan S

更新日期：2009-10-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Helicobacter pylori produces one monofunctional catalase, encoded by katA (hp0875). The crystal structure of H. pylori catalase (HPC) has been determined and refined at 1.6 A with crystallographic agreement factors R and R(free) of 17.4 and 21.9%, respectively. The crystal exhibits P2(1)2(1)2 space group symmetry and ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Loewen PC,Carpena X,Rovira C,Ivancich A,Perez-Luque R,Haas R,Odenbreit S,Nicholls P,Fita I

更新日期：2004-03-23 00:00:00

abstract：:X-ray crystallographic data have implicated Arg-292 as the residue responsible for the preferred side-chain substrate specificity of aspartate aminotransferase. It forms a salt bridge with the beta or gamma carboxylate group of the substrate [Kirsch, J. F., Eichele, G., Ford, G. C., Vincent, M. G., Jansonius, J. N., G...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Cronin CN,Kirsch JF

更新日期：1988-06-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Virulent strains of Clostridium sordellii cause gangrenous myonecrosis in humans. The released lethal toxin (TcsL) and hemorrhagic toxin (TcsH) are regarded as the major virulence factors. TcsL inactivates low molecular weight GTP-binding proteins of the Rho/Ras subfamilies by monoglucosylation. In cultured cell lines...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Schulz F,Just I,Genth H

更新日期：2009-09-29 00:00:00

abstract：:A soluble and fully functional 10.5 kDa fragment of the 18.2 kDa membrane-bound cytochrome c(552) from Paracoccus denitrificans has been heterologously expressed and (13)C/(15)N-labeled to study the structural features of this protein in both redox states. Well-resolved solution structures of both the reduced and oxid...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Reincke B,Pérez C,Pristovsek P,Lücke C,Ludwig C,Löhr F,Rogov VV,Ludwig B,Rüterjans H

更新日期：2001-10-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Reduced intracellular drug accumulation due to the activity of the drug efflux pump ABC (B1) is a major mechanism in the resistance of cancer cells to chemotherapy. ABC (B1) is a poly specific transporter, and the molecular mechanism of its complex translocation process remains to be elucidated. To understand the proc...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Storm J,Modok S,O'Mara ML,Tieleman DP,Kerr ID,Callaghan R

更新日期：2008-03-25 00:00:00

abstract：:To test whether the Y-shaped conformation of the hammerhead ribozyme is maintained throughout the catalytic pathway, the cleavage properties of circular substrates which bind the ribozyme through helices I and II were determined. Constraining the position of helices I and II in this manner did not significantly alter ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Stage-Zimmermann TK,Uhlenbeck OC

更新日期：1998-06-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The structure of a mutant Escherichia coli thioredoxin with a glutamic acid substituted for a conserved lysine at position 36 adjacent to the active site has been solved using molecular replacement and refined at 2.0-A resolution to a crystallographic residual of 19.9%. The mutant was crystallized in an orthorhombic s...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Nikkola M,Gleason FK,Fuchs JA,Eklund H

更新日期：1993-05-18 00:00:00

abstract：:To date, rational redesign of glycosidase active-site clefts has been mainly limited to the removal of essential functionalities rather than their introduction. The glycoside hydrolase family 26 endo-beta-1,4-mannanase from the soil bacterium Cellulomonas fimi depolymerizes various abundant plant mannans. On the basis...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Hekmat O,Lo Leggio L,Rosengren A,Kamarauskaite J,Kolenova K,Stålbrand H

更新日期：2010-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Growth factor receptor-bound protein 14 (Grb14) is involved in growth factor receptor tyrosine kinase signaling. Here we report that light causes a major redistribution of Grb14 among the individual subcellular compartments of the retinal rod photoreceptor. Grb14 is localized predominantly to the inner segment, nuclea...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Rajala A,Daly RJ,Tanito M,Allen DT,Holt LJ,Lobanova ES,Arshavsky VY,Rajala RV

更新日期：2009-06-23 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to evaluate the contributions that histidine residues might play both in the catalytic activities of endonuclease V and in binding to nontarget DNA, the technique of oligonucleotide site directed mutagenesis was used to create mutations at each of the four histidine residues in the endonuclease V gene. Althou...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Augustine ML,Hamilton RW,Dodson ML,Lloyd RS

更新日期：1991-08-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The channel-forming protein OmpF porin from Escherichia coli spans the bacterial outer membrane. Each of the three monomers comprises a hollow, 16-stranded beta-barrel. These are associated to homotrimers which are unusually stable, due mostly to hydrophobic interactions between the beta-barrels. In addition, a loop, ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Phale PS,Philippsen A,Kiefhaber T,Koebnik R,Phale VP,Schirmer T,Rosenbusch JP

更新日期：1998-11-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Atomic force microscopy (AFM) is a technique widely used to image protein-DNA complexes, and its application has now been extended to the measurements of protein-DNA binding constants and specificities. However, the spreading of the protein-DNA complexes on a flat substrate, generally mica, is required prior to AFM im...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Sorel I,Piétrement O,Hamon L,Baconnais S,Cam EL,Pastré D

更新日期：2006-12-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of mutation of the conserved serine92 residue to alanine, valine, and leucine in pig myoglobin have been determined. In myoglobin crystal structures, the hydroxyl group of serine92 is within hydrogen-bonding distance of the N delta-H of histidine93, whose N epsilon coordinates the iron atom of the heme pro...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Smerdon SJ,Krzywda S,Wilkinson AJ,Brantley RE Jr,Carver TE,Hargrove MS,Olson JS

更新日期：1993-05-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently, it was demonstrated that bifunctional catalase-peroxidases (KatGs) are found not only in archaea and bacteria but also in lower eukaryotes. Structural studies and preliminary biochemical data of the secreted KatG from the rice pathogen Magnaporthe grisea (MagKatG2) suggested both similar and novel features w...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Gasselhuber B,Carpena X,Graf MM,Pirker KF,Nicolussi A,Sündermann A,Hofbauer S,Zamocky M,Furtmüller PG,Jakopitsch C,Oostenbrink C,Fita I,Obinger C

更新日期：2015-09-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Class I major histocompatibility complex (MHC) proteins present peptide antigens to T cells during the immune response against viruses. Peptides are loaded into newly synthesized class I heterodimers in the endoplasmic reticulum such that most or all cell surface class I molecules contain peptides derived from endogen...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Fahnestock ML,Johnson JL,Feldman RM,Tsomides TJ,Mayer J,Narhi LO,Bjorkman PJ

更新日期：1994-07-05 00:00:00