Peptide structural analysis by solid-state NMR spectroscopy.

abstract：:The pharmacological therapy for gastrointestinal (GI) diseases, such as inflammatory bowel diseases, continues to present challenges in targeting efficacy. The need for maximal local drug exposure at the inflamed regions of the GI tract has led research to focus on a disease-targeted drug delivery approach. Smart nano...

journal_title：Biopolymers

authors： Bertoni S,Machness A,Tiboni M,Bártolo R,Santos HA

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The absorption, CD, and fluorescence emission spectra, and the fluorescence emission and depolarization lifetimes of the human granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor (hGM-CSF) and related peptides previously tested for their immunological activity, were measured in water at various pHs and temperatures to ob...

journal_title：Biopolymers

authors： Casté L,Zandomeneghi M,Houben JL,Rovero P,Pegoraro S,Revoltella PR,Brochon JC

更新日期：1995-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bleomycins A(2) and B(2) are the two active components in the antineoplastic drug Blenoxane. DNA is targeted by this drug in cancer cells and the mode of action of this drug involves DNA binding. Ambiguity exists as to the way in which bleomycin binds to DNA. Raman spectroscopy was used to examine both calf thymus DNA...

journal_title：Biopolymers

authors： Rajani C,Kincaid JR,Petering DH

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Experimental and computational methods of infrared microspectroscopy (IRI-MSP) and infrared spectral mapping (ISM) are presented. These methods are subsequently applied to the analysis of cirrhotic liver tissue. The sensitivity of infrared spectral mapping toward spectral changes caused by disease will be demonstrated...

journal_title：Biopolymers

authors： Diem M,Chiriboga L,Yee H

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Small amounts of phenolic compounds are being used as preservatives in pharmaceutical insulin preparations. It has been shown previously that these compounds bind to specific sites on the insulin hexamer and act as allosteric effectors, inducing a transformation of the T6 hexamer to the R6 hexamer, via a T3R3 intermed...

journal_title：Biopolymers

authors： Berchtold H,Hilgenfeld R

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Amyloid fibrils are considered to play causal roles in the pathogenesis of amyloid-related degenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's disease, type II diabetes mellitus, the transmissible spongiform encephalopathies, and prion disease. The mechanism of fibril formation is still hotly debated and remains an important op...

journal_title：Biopolymers

authors： Chen Y,He YJ,Wu M,Yan G,Li Y,Zhang J,Chen HF

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanisms of bridge-mediated electron transfer (ET) reactions vary from coherent deep tunneling to thermally activated hopping. This short review focuses on some developments in the study of protein ET mechanisms at the molecular and at the cellular levels. It explains experimental and theoretical work on the inf...

journal_title：Biopolymers

authors： Skourtis SS

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The natural amino acids are primarily helix breakers at the low assignment temperatures characteristic of many studies, but recent genomic analyses of thermophilic proteins suggest that at high temperatures, some breakers may become strong helix formers. Moreover, the breaker/former inventory has not been previously c...

journal_title：Biopolymers

authors： Nasr KA,Schubert CR,Török M,Kennedy RJ,Kemp DS

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The enzymatic activities of native myosin light chain kinases are subject to modification by interaction with Ca2(+)-calmodulin (CaM). The interaction between myosin light chain kinase isolated from turkey gizzard (tgMLCK) and calmodulin isolated from bovine testes (CaMbt) and wheat germ (CaMwg) has been examined by m...

journal_title：Biopolymers

authors： Garone L,Albaugh S,Steiner RF

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytochrome c3 from Desulfovibrio gigas is electrostatically adsorbed on Ag electrodes coated with self-assembled monolayers (SAMs) of 11-mercaptoundecanoic acid. The redox equilibria and electron transfer dynamics of the adsorbed four-heme protein are studied by surface enhanced resonance Raman spectroscopy. Immobiliz...

journal_title：Biopolymers

authors： Simaan AJ,Murgida DH,Hildebrandt P

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Simulated ir absorption and vibrational CD (VCD) spectra of four alanine-based octapeptides, each having its main chain constrained to a different secondary structure conformation, were analyzed and compared with experimental results for several different peptides. The octapeptide simulations were based on transfer of...

journal_title：Biopolymers

authors： Bour P,Kubelka J,Keiderling TA

更新日期：2000-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The maltose transporter from Escherichia coli is one of the ATP-binding cassette (ABC) transporters that utilize the energy from ATP hydrolysis to translocate substrates across cellular membranes. Until 2011, three crystal structures have been determined for maltose transporter at different states in the process of tr...

journal_title：Biopolymers

authors： Li CH,Yang YX,Su JG,Liu B,Tan JJ,Zhang XY,Wang CX

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This work advances bottom-up design of bioinspired materials built from peptide-amphiphiles, which are a class of bioconjugates in which a biofunctional peptide is covalently attached to a hydrophobic moiety that drives self-assembly in aqueous solution. Specifically, this work highlights the importance of peptide con...

journal_title：Biopolymers

authors： Marullo R,Kastantin M,Drews LB,Tirrell M

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Structural characterization of G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) is hindered by the inherent hydrophobicity, flexibility, and large size of these signaling proteins. Insights into conformational preferences and the three-dimensional (3D) structure of domains of these receptors can be obtained using polypeptide fragm...

journal_title：Biopolymers

authors： Caroccia KE,Estephan R,Cohen LS,Arshava B,Hauser M,Zerbe O,Becker JM,Naider F

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Depsipeptide analogues of peptide sequences can help in elucidating the role of specific hydrogen bonds in determining the conformation in peptides. The repeating pentapeptide and hexapeptide sequences of elastin have been suggested to contain a type II beta-turn with a 4----1 hydrogen bond. Depsipeptide analogues of ...

journal_title：Biopolymers

authors： Arad O,Goodman M

更新日期：1990-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:GSK3β plays an important role in many physiological functions; dysregulated GSK3β is involved in human diseases such as diabetes, cancer, and Alzheimer's disease. This study uses MD simulations to determine the interaction between GSK3β and a peptide derived from GSKIP, a novel GSK3β interacting protein. Results show ...

journal_title：Biopolymers

authors： Tang XN,Lo CW,Chuang YC,Chen CT,Sun YC,Hong YR,Yang CN

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dynamic and static intensity light scattering techniques were employed to identify conditions allowing preparation of homogeneous solutions of distinct oligomeric states of RecA protein. These hydrodynamically distinguishable oligomer populations of RecA protein were obtained in homogeneous pure quantities sufficient ...

journal_title：Biopolymers

authors： Budzynski DM,Gao X,Benight AS

更新日期：1996-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An increasing number of RNAs are being discovered that perform their functions by undergoing large changes in conformation in response to a variety of cellular signals, including recognition of proteins and small molecular targets, changes in temperature, and RNA synthesis itself. The measurement of NMR residual dipol...

journal_title：Biopolymers

authors： Getz M,Sun X,Casiano-Negroni A,Zhang Q,Al-Hashimi HM

更新日期：2007-08-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacteria contain a diverse set of RNAs to provide tight regulation of gene expression in response to environmental stimuli. Bacterial small RNAs (sRNAs) work in conjunction with protein cofactors to bind complementary mRNA sequences in the cell, leading to up- or downregulation of protein synthesis. In vivo imaging of...

journal_title：Biopolymers

authors： Kitto RZ,Christiansen KE,Hammond MC

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The (Fe2S2)2+ complex of an artificial 20-peptide ligand, Ac-Pro-Tyr-Ser-Cys-Arg-Ala-Gly-Ala-Cys-Ser-Thr-Cys-Ala-Gly-Pro-Leu-Leu-T hr-Cys- Val-NH2, containing an invariant Cys-A-B-C-D-Cys-X-Y-Cys (A, B, C, D, X, Y = amino acid residues) fragment of plant-type ferredoxins was synthesized by a ligand exchange method wit...

journal_title：Biopolymers

authors： Ueyama N,Ueno S,Nakamura A,Wada K,Matsubara H,Kumagai S,Sakakibara S,Tsukihara T

更新日期：1992-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This work concerns the aggregation properties of (Gly-Val-Gly-Val-Pro)(251) rec, a polypentapeptide reflecting a highly conserved repetitive unit of the bioelastomer, elastin. On raising the temperature of aqueous solutions above 25 degrees C, this polypeptide was already known to undergo concurrent conformational cha...

journal_title：Biopolymers

authors： Manno M,Emanuele A,Martorana V,San Biagio PL,Bulone D,Palma-Vittorelli MB,McPherson DT,Xu J,Parker TM,Urry DW

更新日期：2001-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Amidated kyotorphin (L-Tyr-L-Arg-NH2; KTP-NH2) causes analgesia when systemically administered. The lipophilic ibuprofen-conjugated derivative of KTP-NH2 has improved analgesic efficacy. However, fast degradation by peptidases impacts negatively in the pharmacodynamics of these drugs. In this work, selected derivative...

journal_title：Biopolymers

authors： Serrano ID,Ramu VG,Pinto AR,Freire JM,Tavares I,Heras M,Bardaji ER,Castanho MA

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies have demonstrated that His 12 plays a major role in the pH-dependent stability of the helix formed by the isolated C-peptide (residues 1-13 of ribonuclease A). Here, amino acid replacement experiments show that His 12+ stabilizes the C-peptide helix chiefly by interacting with Phe 8. The Phe 8 ... His...

journal_title：Biopolymers

authors： Shoemaker KR,Fairman R,Schultz DA,Robertson AD,York EJ,Stewart JM,Baldwin RL

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A Monte Carlo method has been developed for generating the conformations of short single-stranded DNAs from arbitrary starting states. The chain conformers are constructed from energetically favorable arrangements of the constituent mononucleotides. Minimum energy states of individual dinucleotide monophosphate molecu...

journal_title：Biopolymers

authors： Erie DA,Breslauer KJ,Olson WK

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In recent years, a revolution has occurred in the basic sciences, which exploits novel single molecule detection and manipulation tools to track and analyze biopolymers in unprecedented detail. A recent Gordon Research Conference style meeting, hosted by the University of Michigan, highlighted current status and futur...

journal_title：Biopolymers

authors： Walter NG,Meiners JC,Meyhofer E,Neubig RR,Sunahara RK,Perkins NC,Steel DG,Swanson JA

更新日期：2007-02-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The results are presented for the deconvolution of IR spectra of disaccharides and polysaccharides with alpha and beta configurations of the 1 --> 4 glycosidic linkage (maltose, cellobiose, amylose, and cellulose), as well as of their corresponding monosaccharides (alpha- and beta-D-glucose) in the 1200-920 cm(-1) fre...

journal_title：Biopolymers

authors： Nikonenko NA,Buslov DK,Sushko NI,Zhbankov RG

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the present paper we describe the synthesis, purification, and single crystal x-ray analysis of the cyclic pentapeptide cyclo-(Pro-Phe-Phe-beta-Ala-beta-Ala). This compound crystallizes in the orthorhombic space group P2I2I2I from methanol and adopts in the solid state an unusual conformation characterized by a cis...

journal_title：Biopolymers

authors： Lombardi A,Saviano M,Nastri F,Maglio O,Mazzeo M,Pedone C,Isernia C,Pavone V

更新日期：1996-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A suite of FORTRAN programs, PREF, is described for calculating preference functions from the data base of known protein structures and for comparing smoothed profiles of sequence-dependent preferences in proteins of unknown structure. Amino acid preferences for a secondary structure are considered as functions of a s...

journal_title：Biopolymers

authors： Juretić D,Lee B,Trinajstić N,Williams RW

更新日期：1993-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Natural cellulose molecules have a strong tendency of being aggregated into larger structures. Thus, the imaging of isolated individual cellulose molecules is hampered for a long time. In this work, we manage to observe, for the first time, the isolated individual natural cellulose chains on a sample surface by means ...

journal_title：Biopolymers

authors： Wan Z,Li L,Cui S

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report on an unrestrained molecular dynamics simulation of the flavin mononucleotide (FMN)-RNA aptamer. The simulated average structure maintains both cross-strand and intermolecular FMN-RNA nuclear Overhauser effects from the nmr experiments and has all qualitative features of the nmr structure including the G10-U...

journal_title：Biopolymers

authors： Schneider C,Sühnel J

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00