Topological effects of the TATA box binding protein on minicircle DNA and a possible thermodynamic linkage to chromatin remodeling.

abstract：:The mechanism of the oxidative decarboxylation reaction catalyzed by the NAD-malic enzyme from Ascaris suum has been examined with several different divalent metal ion activators and dinucleotide substrates. Primary deuterium and tritium isotope effects have been obtained and, in combination with the partitioning rati...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Karsten WE,Gavva SR,Park SH,Cook PF

更新日期：1995-03-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Thermal perturbation of the dicluster ferredoxin from Acidianus ambivalens was investigated employing a toolbox of spectroscopic methods. FTIR and visible CD were used for assessing changes of the secondary structure and coarse alterations of the [3Fe4S] and [4Fe4S] cluster moieties, respectively. Fine details of the ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Todorovic S,Leal SS,Salgueiro CA,Zebger I,Hildebrandt P,Murgida DH,Gomes CM

更新日期：2007-09-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Each homologous lobe of human serum transferrin (hTF) has one Fe(3+) ion bound by an aspartic acid, a histidine, two tyrosine residues, and two oxygens from the synergistic anion, carbonate. Extensive characterization of these ligands in the N-terminal lobe has been carried out. Despite sharing the same set of ligands...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Mason AB,Halbrooks PJ,James NG,Connolly SA,Larouche JR,Smith VC,MacGillivray RT,Chasteen ND

更新日期：2005-06-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Staphylococcal fibronectin-binding protein (FnbA) is a surface-associated receptor responsible for the reversible binding of bacteria to human fibronectin and fibrin(ogen). Recently we have shown that FnbA serves as a substrate for coagulation factor XIIIa and undergoes covalent cross-linking to its ligands, resulting...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Anderson ET,Fletcher L,Severin A,Murphy E,Baker SM,Matsuka YV

更新日期：2004-09-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The HAMP domain is a conserved motif widely distributed in prokaryotic and lower eukaryotic organisms, where it is often found in transmembrane receptors that regulate two-component signaling pathways. The motif links receptor input and output modules and is essential to receptor structure and signal transduction. Rec...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Swain KE,Falke JJ

更新日期：2007-12-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Incubation of bovine plasma amine oxidase (BPAO) with benzylamine and various p-substituted analogues results in a time-dependent inactivation that is attributable to buildup of the H(2)O(2)-turnover product on the basis of protection afforded by coincubation with catalase. The mechanism of inactivation is distinct fr...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Lee Y,Shepard E,Smith J,Dooley DM,Sayre LM

更新日期：2001-01-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The interaction of poly[(G-C)] and poly[d(G-m5C)] with the antitumor antibiotic elsamicin A, which binds to alternating guanine + cytosine tracts in DNA, has been studied under the B and Z conformations. Both the rate and the extent of the B-to-Z transition are diminished by the antibiotic, as inferred by spectroscopi...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Jiménez-García E,Portugal J

更新日期：1992-11-24 00:00:00

abstract：:In Gram-negative bacteria, the first step of lipid A biosynthesis is catalyzed by UDP-N-acetylglucosamine acyltransferase (LpxA) through the transfer of a R-3-hydroxyacyl chain from the acyl carrier protein (ACP) to the 3-hydroxyl group of UDP-GlcNAc. Previous studies suggest that LpxA is a critical determinant of the...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Smith EW,Zhang X,Behzadi C,Andrews LD,Cohen F,Chen Y

更新日期：2015-09-29 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine whether ligand-receptor interactions could engender the selective uptake by deficient cells of enzyme-laden liposomes, aggregated human IgG was used to coat liposomes which had previously trapped purified hexosaminidase A (Hex A). By a new, high-yield procedure, Hex A was purified 7000-fold from human pla...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Cohen CM,Weissmann G,Hoffstein S,Awasthi YC,Srivastava SK

更新日期：1976-01-27 00:00:00

abstract：:d-2-Hydroxyglutarate dehydrogenase from Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAO1 (PaD2HGDH) catalyzes the oxidation of d-2-hydroxyglutarate to 2-ketoglutarate, which is a necessary step in the serine biosynthetic pathway. The dependence of P. aeruginosa on PaD2HGDH makes the enzyme a potential therapeutic target against P. aerugin...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Quaye JA,Gadda G

更新日期：2020-12-29 00:00:00

abstract：:C4'-oxidized (C4-AP) and C5'-oxidized abasic sites (DOB) that are produced following abstraction of a hydrogen atom from the DNA backbone reversibly form cross-links selectively with dA opposite a 3'-adjacent nucleotide, despite the comparable proximity of an opposing dA. A previous report on UvrABC incision of DNA su...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Ghosh S,Greenberg MM

更新日期：2015-10-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Phosphatidic (PtdOH) acid formation is recognized as an important step in numerous signaling pathways in both plants and mammals. To study the role of this lipid in signaling pathways, it is of major interest to be able to increase the amount of this lipid directly. Therefore, "caged" PtdOH was synthesized, which rele...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Goedhart J,Gadella TW Jr

更新日期：2004-04-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The diversity, abundance, and DNA sequence representation of poly(adenylic acid) containing RNA derived from cells of Achlya ambisexualis cultured in defined and undefined media have been determined. The kinetics of hybridization of polyadenylated RNA with complementary DNA were the same for both culture conditions an...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Rozek CE,Orr WC,Timberlake WE

更新日期：1978-02-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The sequence of events involved in poly(ethylene glycol)-mediated fusion of small unilamellar vesicles (SUVs) has been studied. Fusion events were monitored using light scattering for vesicle aggregation, the fluorescence lifetime of membrane probe lipids (DPHpPC and NBD-PS) for membrane mixing, the aqueous fluorescen...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Lee J,Lentz BR

更新日期：1997-05-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Six structural repeat motifs of 58 amino acids are found in the sequence of both mouse and human properdins. Twelve more examples of the motif are available from the sequences of thrombospondin, the terminal complement components, and the thrombospondin-related anonymous protein. The averaged Robson and Chou-Fasman se...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Perkins SJ,Nealis AS,Haris PI,Chapman D,Goundis D,Reid KB

更新日期：1989-09-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Mass spectrometry was used to identify the sites of covalent attachment of [(14)C]-17alpha-bromoacetamidopropylestradiol ([(14)C]17BAPE(2), an estradiol agonist) to the ligand-binding domain (LBD) of mouse estrogen receptor alpha (ERalpha). A glutathione S-transferase (GST)-LBD chimera protein was overexpressed in Esc...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Mattras H,Aliau S,Richard E,Bonnafous JC,Jouin P,Borgna JL

更新日期：2002-12-31 00:00:00

abstract：:The association-dissociation kinetics of ribosomes from Escherichia coli have been studied under various conditions in a light-scattering stopped-flow apparatus. The dissociation reaction at 2 mg/ml at 25 degrees C, induced by lowering the MgCl2 concentration from 18 to 3 mM, can best be described by three independent...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Görisch H,Goss DJ,Parkhurst LJ

更新日期：1976-12-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The properties of the Fe and Mo sites of the iron-molybdenum cofactor of nitrogenase with respect to binding and activation of N(2) have been studied by molecular mechanics calculations on the local protein environment and by density functional theory (DFT) calculations on subsections of the cofactor. The DFT calculat...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Durrant MC

更新日期：2002-11-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The inactivation of excited rhodopsin in the presence of ATP, rhodopsin kinase, and/or arrestin has been studied from its effect on the two subsequent steps in the light-induced enzymatic cascade: metarhodopsin II catalyzed activation of G-protein and G-protein-dependent activation of cGMP phosphodiesterase. The inact...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Bennett N,Sitaramayya A

更新日期：1988-03-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The thermotropic phase behavior of 10 mixed-chain phosphatidylcholines, in excess water, has been examined and compared with that of identical-chain C(16):C(16)PC by using high-resolution differential scanning calorimetry (DSC). The molecular weights (MW) of these 11 molecular species are the same, but their delta C/C...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Bultmann T,Lin HN,Wang ZQ,Huang CH

更新日期：1991-07-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The aminoacylase-1/metallopeptidase 20 (Acy1/M20) family features several l-aminoacylases useful in biocatalysis. Mammalian Acy1, in particular, has been applied in racemic resolution and reverse hydrolysis. Despite recent advances in our understanding of the active site architecture and functioning, determinants of A...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Lindner HA,Alary A,Wilke M,Sulea T

更新日期：2008-04-08 00:00:00

abstract：:SopE and SopE2 are delivered by the Salmonella type III secretion system into eukaryotic cells to promote cell invasion. SopE and SopE2 are potent guanine nucleotide exchange factors (GEFs) for Rho GTPases Cdc42 and Rac1 and constitute a novel class of Rho GEFs. Although the sequence of SopE-like GEFs is not at all ho...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Williams C,Galyov EE,Bagby S

更新日期：2004-09-28 00:00:00

abstract：:VSTx1 is a voltage sensor toxin from the spider Grammostola spatulata that inhibits KvAP, an archeabacterial voltage-activated K(+) channel whose X-ray structure has been reported. Although the receptor for VSTx1 and the mechanism of inhibition are unknown, the sequence of the toxin is related to hanatoxin (HaTx) and ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Jung HJ,Lee JY,Kim SH,Eu YJ,Shin SY,Milescu M,Swartz KJ,Kim JI

更新日期：2005-04-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The carboxypeptidase inhibitor from Russet Burbank potatoes (C. A. Ryan et al. (1974b), J. Biol. Chem 249, 5495) is a mixture of approximately equal amounts of two polypeptide chains containing 38 and 39 amino acid residues, respectively. The chains differ in their amino terminal sequence only, one beginning with smal...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Hass GM,Nau H,Biemann K,Grahn DT,Ericsson LH,Neurath H

更新日期：1975-03-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Picosecond absorption spectroscopy has been used to investigate energy-transfer dynamics within the LH1 and LH2 light-harvesting complexes of three mutants of Rhodobacter sphaeroides. We demonstrate that both complexes are inhomogeneous; each contains a specialized pigment pool which absorbs maximally at a longer wave...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Hunter CN,Bergström H,van Grondelle R,Sundström V

更新日期：1990-04-03 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA binding modes of distamycin (DST) were investigated via comparative binding studies with oligomeric duplexes of the form d(GCG-X-GCG).d(CGC-Y-CGC), where Y is complementary to X and X = 4- or 5-base binding site. It was found that 1:1 and 2:1 drug-duplex complexes exhibit distinctly different circular dichroic (CD...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Chen FM,Sha F

更新日期：1998-08-11 00:00:00

abstract：:A series of truncated forms of His(6)-tagged gp91phox were expressed, solubilized, and purified in the presence of 30 microM FAD. The truncated gp91phox with the longest sequence in the C-terminal region (221-570) (gp91C) showed the highest activity (turnover rate, 0.92) for NADPH diaphorase in the presence of either ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Nisimoto Y,Ogawa H,Miyano K,Tamura M

更新日期：2004-07-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Self-assembled nanostructures that are sensitive to environmental stimuli are promising nanomaterials for drug delivery. In this class, disulfide-containing redox-sensitive strategies have gained enormous attention because of their wide applicability and simplicity of nanoparticle design. In the context of nucleic aci...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Dutta K,Das R,Medeiros J,Thayumanavan S

更新日期：2021-01-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The acid-base properties of ionophore A23187 in methanol-water solutions (0--95% w/w) and bound to unilamellar vesicles of dimyristoylphosphatidylcholine were examined by ultraviolet and fluorescence spectroscopy, and the spectral properties for the acidic and basic forms were defined under these conditions. Standard ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Kauffman RF,Taylor RW,Pfeiffer DR

更新日期：1982-05-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Human DNA primase synthesizes short RNA primers that DNA polymerase alpha then elongates during the initiation of all new DNA strands. Even though primase misincorporates NTPs at a relatively high frequency, this likely does not impact the final DNA product since the RNA primer is replaced with DNA. We used an extensi...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Urban M,Joubert N,Purse BW,Hocek M,Kuchta RD

更新日期：2010-02-02 00:00:00