Phosphoryl oxime inhibition of acetylcholinesterase during oxime reactivation is prevented by edrophonium.

abstract：:FixL is a heme-based oxygen-sensing histidine kinase that induces the expression of nitrogen fixation genes under hypoxic conditions. Oxygen dissociation from heme iron in the sensor domain of FixL initiates protein conformational changes that are transmitted to the histidine kinase domain, activating autophosphorylat...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Yamawaki T,Ishikawa H,Mizuno M,Nakamura H,Shiro Y,Mizutani Y

更新日期：2016-07-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The unfolding and refolding properties of human lysozyme and two amyloidogenic variants (Ile56Thr and Asp67His) have been studied by stopped-flow fluorescence and hydrogen exchange pulse labeling coupled with mass spectrometry. The unfolding of each protein in 5.4 M guanidine hydrochloride (GuHCl) is well described as...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Canet D,Sunde M,Last AM,Miranker A,Spencer A,Robinson CV,Dobson CM

更新日期：1999-05-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Proton nuclear magnetic resonance and ultraviolet circular dichroism spectroscopy have been used to probe the conformational ensemble of the tandemly repeating tetrapeptide unit of the circumsporozoite coat protein of the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum. Peptides based on the Asn-Ala-Asn-Pro and Asn-Pro-Asn-Ala...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Dyson HJ,Satterthwait AC,Lerner RA,Wright PE

更新日期：1990-08-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The mitochondrial folate transporter (MFT) was previously identified in human and hamster cells. Sequence homology of this protein with the inner mitochondrial membrane transporters suggested a domain structure in which the N- and C-termini of the protein are located on the mitochondrial intermembrane-facing surface, ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Perchiniak E,Lawrence SA,Kasten S,Woodard BA,Taylor SM,Moran RG

更新日期：2007-02-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The structure of the ca. 250 amino acid hormone binding domain of the human estrogen receptor (hER-LBD), expressed in E. coli and purified as a complex with estradiol, has been probed by selective proteolysis, with analysis of the protein fragments both by classical methods (SDS-PAGE and Edman N-terminal sequencing) a...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Seielstad DA,Carlson KE,Kushner PJ,Greene GL,Katzenellenbogen JA

更新日期：1995-10-03 00:00:00

abstract：:To describe the hydrophobic adsorption of charged molecules to bilayer membranes, one must recognize that the adsorption produces a change in the electrostatic potential at the surface of the membrane. The surface potential produced by the adsorption of the charged molecules can be described most simply by the Gouy eq...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： McLaughlin S,Harary H

更新日期：1976-05-04 00:00:00

abstract：:We report on the effect of the viscogenic agents glycerol and ficoll on the RNase T1 catalyzed turnover of GpA, GpC, GpU, and Torula yeast RNA. For wild-type enzyme, we find that the kcat/Km values for the transesterification of GpC and GpA as well as for the cleavage of RNA are inversely proportional to the relative ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Steyaert J,Wyns L,Stanssens P

更新日期：1991-09-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The intense charge transfer complex between the enolate of 3-thia-octanoyl-CoA and the oxidized flavin of the medium-chain acyl-CoA dehydrogenase is discharged by the ferricenium ion with irreversible inactivation of the enzyme. Charge transfer complex formation is a necessary, but insufficient, condition for oxidativ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Schaller RA,Thorpe C

更新日期：1995-12-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Complete proton assignments are reported for the 1H nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectrum of Escherichia coli thioredoxin in the oxidized (with active-site disulfide bridge) and reduced (with two sulfhydryl groups) states. The assignments were obtained by using an integrated assignment strategy in which spin syste...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Dyson HJ,Holmgren A,Wright PE

更新日期：1989-08-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Our laboratory has been studying the transcriptional regulation of the nuclear gene (ATPA) that encodes the alpha-subunit of the mammalian mitochondrial F1F0 ATP synthase complex. We have previously determined that the regulatory factor, upstream stimulatory factor 2 (USF2), can stimulate transcription of the ATPA gen...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Jordan EM,Worley T,Breen GA

更新日期：2003-03-11 00:00:00

abstract：:We have used nucleoside phosphorothioates (NTP alpha S) and a substitution-interference method to identify phosphate oxygens that appear to be important to guanosine cofactor addition in the self-splicing group I intron from Tetrahymena thermophila. For the majority of these phosphate oxygens, however, the effect of N...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Christian EL,Yarus M

更新日期：1993-05-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The circadian clock allows organisms to accurately predict the earth's rotation and modify their behavior as a result. Genetic analyses in a variety of organisms have defined a mechanism based largely on gene expression feedback loops. However, as we delve more deeply into the mechanisms of circadian timekeeping, we a...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Hoyle NP,O'Neill JS

更新日期：2015-01-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of pyridoxal 5'-phosphate (PLP) in the radical-mediated amino group migration catalyzed by lysine 2,3-aminomutase from Clostridia SB4 has been investigated by electron spin echo envelope modulation (ESEEM) spectroscopy. This pulsed electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) method was used to estimate the distance...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Ballinger MD,Frey PA,Reed GH,LoBrutto R

更新日期：1995-08-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Enterokinase has been isolated from the contents of bovine duodena and purified 1200-fold in 41% yield. The isolation procedure employed DEAE chromatography, affinity chromatography on immobilized p-aminobenzamidine, and gel filtration. The resultant pure enzyme exhibits a single band on sodium dodecyl sulfate gel ele...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Anderson LE,Walsh KA,Neurath H

更新日期：1977-07-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Soluble inorganic pyrophosphatase (PPase) is one of the better understood phosphoryl-transfer enzymes and is distinctive in having four divalent metal ions at the active site. Here we determine pH profiles for wild-type Saccharomyces cerevisiae PPase (Y-PPase) and for 14 of its active site variants and consider the ef...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Pohjanjoki P,Lahti R,Goldman A,Cooperman BS

更新日期：1998-02-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The biosynthesis of epothilones, a family of hybrid polyketide (PK)/nonribosomal peptide (NRP) antitumor agents, provides an ideal system to study a hybrid PK/NRP natural product with significant biomedical value. Here the third enzyme involved in epothilone production, the five domain 195 kDa polyketide synthase (PKS...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： O'Connor SE,Chen H,Walsh CT

更新日期：2002-04-30 00:00:00

abstract：:NanGIR1 is a catalytic element inserted in the P6 loop of a group I intron (NanGIR2) in the small subunit rRNA precursor of the protist Naegleria andersoni [Einvik, C., Decatur, W. A., Embley, T. M., Vogt, V. M., and Johansen, S. (1997) RNA 3, 710-720]. It catalyzes site-specific hydrolysis at an internal processing s...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Jabri E,Aigner S,Cech TR

更新日期：1997-12-23 00:00:00

abstract：:One of the distinctive features of eubacterial retinal-based proton pumps, proteorhodopsins, xanthorhodopsin, and others, is hydrogen bonding of the key aspartate residue, the counterion to the retinal Schiff base, to a histidine. We describe properties of the recently found eubacterium proton pump from Exiguobacteriu...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Balashov SP,Petrovskaya LE,Lukashev EP,Imasheva ES,Dioumaev AK,Wang JM,Sychev SV,Dolgikh DA,Rubin AB,Kirpichnikov MP,Lanyi JK

更新日期：2012-07-24 00:00:00

abstract：:4-Hydroxybenzoyl-coenzyme A (4-HBA-CoA) thioesterase catalyzes the hydrolysis of 4-HBA-CoA to 4-hydroxybenzoate and CoA. X-ray crystallographic analysis of the liganded enzyme has shown that the benzoyl thioester and pantetheine moieties of the substrate ligand are bound in a narrow crevice while the nucleotide moiety...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Zhuang Z,Song F,Zhang W,Taylor K,Archambault A,Dunaway-Mariano D,Dong J,Carey PR

更新日期：2002-09-17 00:00:00

abstract：:A new type of thrombin exo-site inhibitor has been designed with enhanced inhibitory potency and increased metabolic stability. With the aid of the model of the structure of the thrombin-hirudin fragment complex [Yue, S.-Y., DiMaio, J., Szewczuk, Z., Purisima, E. O., Ni, F., & Konishi, Y. (1992) Protein Eng. 5, 77-85]...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Szewczuk Z,Gibbs BF,Yue SY,Purisima EO,Konishi Y

更新日期：1992-09-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The MexA-MexB-OprM efflux pump exports structurally and functionally diverse xenobiotics and confers multi-drug resistance on Pseudomonas aeruginosa cells. The MexB transporter traverses the inner membrane twelve times, bears two large periplasmic domains and has two homologous tandem repeats. To test whether two homo...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Eda S,Yoneyama H,Nakae T

更新日期：2003-06-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Alanine scanning mutagenesis, double mutant cycles, and X-ray crystallography were used to characterize the interface between the anti-hen egg white lysozyme (HEL) antibody D1.3 and HEL. Twelve out of the 13 nonglycine contact residues on HEL, as determined by the high-resolution crystal structure of the D1.3-HEL comp...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Dall'Acqua W,Goldman ER,Lin W,Teng C,Tsuchiya D,Li H,Ysern X,Braden BC,Li Y,Smith-Gill SJ,Mariuzza RA

更新日期：1998-06-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Vc H-NOX (or VCA0720) is an H-NOX (heme-nitric oxide and oxygen binding) protein from facultative aerobic bacterium Vibrio cholerae. It shares significant sequence homology with soluble guanylyl cyclase (sGC), a NO sensor protein commonly found in animals. Similar to sGC, Vc H-NOX binds strongly to NO and CO with affi...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Wu G,Liu W,Berka V,Tsai AL

更新日期：2013-12-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Cysteine desulfurases (CDs) are pyridoxal-5'-phosphate (PLP)-dependent enzymes that cleave sulfur from cysteine via an enzyme cysteinyl persulfide intermediate. In vitro studies of these enzymes have generally employed dithiothreitol as a cosubstrate to reductively cleave the persulfide intermediate, and it has been s...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Behshad E,Parkin SE,Bollinger JM Jr

更新日期：2004-09-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The formation and role of arachidonic acid (AA) and its metabolites during gonadotropin releasing hormone- (GnRH-) induced gonadotropin secretion were investigated in primary cultures of rat pituitary cells. Prelabeled cells ([3H]AA) responded to GnRH challenge with increased formation (about 2-fold) of the leukotrien...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Dan-Cohen H,Sofer Y,Schwartzman ML,Natarajan RD,Nadler JL,Naor Z

更新日期：1992-06-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Proteins performing multiple biochemical functions are called "moonlighting proteins" or extreme multifunctional (EMF) proteins. Mitochondrial cytochrome c is an EMF protein that binds multiple partner proteins to act as a signaling molecule, transfers electrons in the respiratory chain, and acts as a peroxidase in ap...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Deacon OM,Karsisiotis AI,Moreno-Chicano T,Hough MA,Macdonald C,Blumenschein TMA,Wilson MT,Moore GR,Worrall JAR

更新日期：2017-11-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The vanadate cofactor in vanadium chloroperoxidase has been studied using UV-VIS absorption spectroscopy. A band is present in the near-UV that is red-shifted as compared to free vanadate and shifts in both position and intensity upon change in pH. Mutation of vanadate binding residues has a clear effect on the spectr...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Renirie R,Hemrika W,Piersma SR,Wever R

更新日期：2000-02-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The cDNA that encodes the proenzyme form of human fibroblast collagenase has been expressed in Escherichia coli. It has been shown by a number of criteria to be functionally identical with the enzyme isolated from human sources. Mutations of each of three cysteine residues found in procollagenase were constructed by s...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Windsor LJ,Birkedal-Hansen H,Birkedal-Hansen B,Engler JA

更新日期：1991-01-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Membrane proteins are embedded in a lipid bilayer and maintain strong interactions with lipid molecules. Tightly bound lipids are responsible for vertical positioning and integration of proteins in the membrane and for assembly of multisubunit complexes and occasionally act as substrates. In this work we present the l...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Wöhri AB,Wahlgren WY,Malmerberg E,Johansson LC,Neutze R,Katona G

更新日期：2009-10-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The cAMP-dependent protein kinase (cAPK) plays an essential role during differentiation and fruit morphogenesis in Dictyostelium discoideum. The presence of an open reading frame on the gene, pkaC (previously named either Dd PK2 or Dd PK3 by different groups), predicts a 73-kDa polypeptide with 54% similarity to the c...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Anjard C,Etchebehere L,Pinaud S,Véron M,Reymond CD

更新日期：1993-09-21 00:00:00