The FinO repressor of bacterial conjugation contains two RNA binding regions.

abstract：:The 600-MHz proton spectrum of dethiobiotin (prepared from d-biotin with Raney nickel) was measured in order to gain information pertaining to its stereochemical homogeneity. The spectrum demonstrated clearly that the material is a 6:1 mixture of two stereoisomers. The cis compound, corresponding to the stereochemistr...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Hofmann K,Zhang WJ,Romovacek H,Finn FM,Bothner-By AA,Mishra PK

更新日期：1984-06-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Two-dimensional (2D) proton magnetic resonance techniques used in conjunction with laser photochemically induced dynamic nuclear polarization (photo-CIDNP) spectroscopy have been applied to studying the kringle 4 domain from human plasminogen at 360 MHz. Out of 11 potential CIDNP-sensitive aromatic side chains, only 5...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： De Marco A,Zetta L,Petros AM,Llinás M,Boelens R,Kaptein R

更新日期：1986-12-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The first use of computer-simulation studies to examine heparin's structure has been reported. The product distributions obtained when porcine mucosal heparins were depolymerized with heparinase have been compared to computer-simulated distributions. The modeled distribution was relatively unaffected by the polydisper...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Linhardt RJ,Merchant ZM,Rice KG,Kim YS,Fitzgerald GL,Grant AC,Langer R

更新日期：1985-12-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Cathepsin L, a lysosomal cysteine protease, is overexpressed and secreted by malignantly transformed cells. However, the reason for secretion of this man 6-phosphate-containing lysosomal protease into the extracellular medium is not clear. We wished to determine whether there is a region within the primary sequence of...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Chauhan SS,Ray D,Kane SE,Willingham MC,Gottesman MM

更新日期：1998-06-09 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：:The membrane-bound beta-subunit of oxaloacetate decarboxylase from Klebsiella pneumoniae catalyzes the decarboxylation of carboxybiotin, which is coupled to Na(+) translocation and consumes a periplasmically derived proton. Upon site-directed mutagenesis of 20 polar and/or conserved residues within putative membrane-i...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Jockel P,Schmid M,Choinowski T,Dimroth P

更新日期：2000-04-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Biochemical and immunological properties of biosynthetically radiolabeled phosphatidylcholine-(PC-) binding proteins were investigated. The PC-binding proteins were extracted from the detergent lysate of biosynthetically radiolabeled P388D1 cells by affinity chromatography on PC-Sepharose and filtered through a Sephad...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Fernandez-Botran R,Suzuki T

更新日期：1985-04-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The binding of various forms of vanadate to myosin and myosin subfragment 1 (S-1) was studied by 51V NMR at increasing vanadate concentrations between 0.06 and 1.0 mM. The distribution of the various forms of vanadate in the solution depended on the total concentration of vanadate. At low concentrations, the predomina...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Ringel I,Peyser YM,Muhlrad A

更新日期：1990-09-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Transient contacts between denatured polypeptide chains are likely to play an important part in the initial stages of protein aggregation and fibrillation. To analyze the nature of such contacts, we have carried out a protein engineering study of the 102-residue protein U1A, which aggregates transiently in the wild-ty...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Otzen DE,Miron S,Akke M,Oliveberg M

更新日期：2004-10-19 00:00:00

abstract：:We have measured the temperature dependence of the oxygen-binding isotherms of human and bovine hemoglobin at pH 9.0 in 0.1 M borate buffer. In both hemoglobins the ionization of the Bohr protons is finished at this pH; therefore, their heat does not interfere with the measurements. Two sets of curves have been obtain...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Bucci E,Fronticelli C,Gryczynski Z

更新日期：1991-04-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Thirty single cysteine substitution mutants of T4 lysozyme have been prepared and spin-labeled with a sulfhydryl-specific nitroxide reagent in order to systematically investigate the relationship between nitroxide side-chain mobility and protein structure. The perturbation caused by replacement of a native residue wit...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Mchaourab HS,Lietzow MA,Hideg K,Hubbell WL

更新日期：1996-06-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Hydrogenase from Chromatium vinosum contains 1 Ni, 11-12 Fe, and ca. 9 sulfides. EPR and Mössbauer studies of the enzyme prepared in four different oxidation states show that the enzyme contains two Fe4S4 and one Fe3S4 cluster. In the oxidized (2+) state, the Mössbauer parameters of the two Fe4S4 clusters are typical ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Surerus KK,Chen M,van der Zwaan JW,Rusnak FM,Kolk M,Duin EC,Albracht SP,Münck E

更新日期：1994-04-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Spectrin dimers interact weakly with F-actin under physiological solvent conditions (with an association constant of about 5 X 10(3) M-1 at 20 degrees C). In the presence of the membrane skeletal constituent, protein 4.1, strong binding is observed; an analysis of the profiles for formation of a ternary complex leads ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Ohanian V,Wolfe LC,John KM,Pinder JC,Lux SE,Gratzer WB

更新日期：1984-09-11 00:00:00

abstract：:We have assayed the cross-linking of oligonucleotides containing repeated mitomycin-reactive CpG sites in order to assess the factors that enhance activation of the carbamoyl function at C10, yielding efficient mitomycin cross-linking. Drugs studied include mitomycin C (MC), N-methylmitomycin A (NMA), and the aziridin...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Cera C,Egbertson M,Teng SP,Crothers DM,Danishefsky SJ

更新日期：1989-06-27 00:00:00

abstract：:A new method of calculation, based on a direct fitting of the protein fluorescence intensity observed upon coenzyme binding (H.-P. Lutz, unpublished results), is used to study the negative cooperative behavior of glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase from sturgeon muscle. The calculation procedure simultaneously el...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Branlant G,Eiler B,Biellmann JF,Lutz HP,Luisi PL

更新日期：1983-09-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Alkalimetric, spectrophotometric, NMR, and resonance Raman titrations are reported for the sulfonamide Neoprontosil in aqueous solution. An assignment of the magnetic resonance peaks for each of the Neoprontosil protons has been made. Neoprontosil is shown to have two "coupled" iity of the microscopic pKs for these tw...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Carey PR,King RW

更新日期：1979-06-26 00:00:00

abstract：:1H NMR spectral editing techniques can select the distinct signals of lactate, pyruvate, beta-hydroxybutyrate, and acetoacetate and provide a unique way to monitor the biochemical processes in vivo. These metabolite levels reflect the near-equilibrium dehydrogenase activity and therefore the cellular redox state. The ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Chung Y,Jue T

更新日期：1992-11-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Nucleosome assembly proteins (Naps) influence chromatin dynamics by directly binding to histones. Here we provide a comprehensive structural and biochemical analysis of a Nap protein from Caenorhabditis elegans (CeNap1). CeNap1 naturally lacks the acidic N-terminal tail and has a short C-terminal tail compared to many...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Sarkar P,Zhang N,Bhattacharyya S,Salvador K,D'Arcy S

更新日期：2019-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The cell-surface component (alpha) which binds monomeric immunoglobulin E with high affinity is associated with a second polypeptide (beta) in the plasma membrane. The latter component tends to dissociate during purification of the alpha chain from detergent extracts of cells, even at neutral pHs and physiological ion...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Rivnay B,Wank SA,Poy G,Metzger H

更新日期：1982-12-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Pluronic block copolymers (triblock copolymers of poly(ethylene oxide) and poly(propylene oxide)) exhibit a chemosensitizing effect on multidrug resistant cell lines. Changes in membrane permeability are hypothesized to be responsible because inhibition of drug transport mediated by both the multidrug-resistance-assoc...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Krylova OO,Pohl P

更新日期：2004-03-30 00:00:00

abstract：:We have determined the mechanism of DNA-dependent protein kinase (DNA-PK) inhibition by cis-diamminedichloroplatinum(II)-(cisplatin-) damaged DNA. We previously have demonstrated that Ku, the DNA binding subunit of DNA-PK, is capable of binding to DNA duplexes globally damaged with cisplatin but was unable to stimulat...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Turchi JJ,Patrick SM,Henkels KM

更新日期：1997-06-17 00:00:00

abstract：:We have investigated in detail the cooperativity which we had previously observed in the pH titration profiles of the histidine residues of rabbit tropomyosin [Edwards, B. F. P., & Sykes, B. D. (1978) Biochemistry 17, 684]. Nonpolymerizing tropomyosin was prepared by carboxypeptidase digestion, and the titration profi...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Edwards BF,Sykes BD

更新日期：1981-07-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Solution scattering studies were performed on a ligand-binding domain (S1S2) of a glutamate receptor ion channel (GluR) in order to study GluR-binding and signal-transduction mechanisms. The core of the ligand-binding domain is homologous to prokaryotic periplasmic binding proteins (PBP), whose binding mechanism invol...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Abele R,Svergun D,Keinänen K,Koch MH,Madden DR

更新日期：1999-08-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Listeriolysin O (LLO) is the most important virulence factor of the intracellular pathogen Listeria monocytogenes. Its main task is to enable escape of bacteria from the phagosomal vacuole into the cytoplasm. LLO belongs to the cholesterol-dependent cytolysin (CDC) family but differs from other members, as it exhibits...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Bavdek A,Gekara NO,Priselac D,Gutiérrez Aguirre I,Darji A,Chakraborty T,Macek P,Lakey JH,Weiss S,Anderluh G

更新日期：2007-04-10 00:00:00

abstract：:FtmPT1 is a fungal indole prenyltransferase that catalyzes the reaction of tryptophan derivatives with dimethylallyl pyrophosphate to form various biologically active compounds. Herein, we describe detailed studies of FtmPT1 catalysis involving dimethylallyl pyrophosphate and Brevianamide F following the native pathwa...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Pan LL,Yang Y,Merz KM Jr

更新日期：2014-09-30 00:00:00

abstract：:In this communication, we present data which describe optimum conditions for reverse transcription of large ribonucleic acid (RNA) templates into deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) transcripts by the avian retrovirus reverse transcriptase in vitro. In contrast to previous studies, we have optimized all of the reaction compon...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Retzel EF,Collett MS,Faras AJ

更新日期：1980-02-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Site-directed mutagenesis has been used to replace alanine 305 with phenylalanine (A305F) and serine (A305S) in the active site of cytochrome P450 3A4 (CYP3A4). Enzyme kinetics for diazepam, erythromycin, nifedipine, and testosterone metabolism have been determined for both mutants and wild-type CYP3A4. The A305F muta...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Fowler SM,Riley RJ,Pritchard MP,Sutcliffe MJ,Friedberg T,Wolf CR

更新日期：2000-04-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Minibrain kinase/dual-specificity tyrosine phosphorylation regulated kinase 1A (MNB/DYRK1A) is a proline/arginine-directed serine/threonine kinase implicated in the learning deficits of Down syndrome. Epigallocatechin-3-gallate (EGCG), the major tea polyphenolic compound, is a potent MNB/DYRK1A inhibitor. In this stud...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Adayev T,Chen-Hwang MC,Murakami N,Wegiel J,Hwang YW

更新日期：2006-10-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Hybridization experiments with variants of an oligomeric protein often provide important information regarding subunit structure, function, and interactions. In some systems, however, the variants are so similar electrophoretically and chromatographically that purification of individual hybrids is not feasible. Theref...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Gibbons I,Schachman HK

更新日期：1976-01-13 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe the development and characterization of substance P labeled at Lys3 with fluorescein ([fluorescein Lys3]SP) as a fluorescent probe for the neurokinin 1 (NK1) receptor. [fluorescein Lys3]SP is an agonist at the human NK1 receptor, with an affinity for both the high-affinity and low-affinity binding states o...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Tota MR,Daniel S,Sirotina A,Mazina KE,Fong TM,Longmore J,Strader CD

更新日期：1994-11-08 00:00:00