Different structural and kinetic requirements for the interaction of Ran with the Ran-binding domains from RanBP2 and importin-beta.

abstract：:Centrioles are essential components of the animal centrosome and play crucial roles in the formation of cilia and flagella. They are cylindrical structures composed of nine triplet microtubules organized around a central cartwheel. Recent studies have identified spindle assembly abnormal protein SAS-6 as a critical co...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Gupta H,Badarudeen B,George A,Thomas GE,Gireesh KK,Manna TK

更新日期：2015-10-20 00:00:00

abstract：:A neutral protease has been extracted from the media of cultured metastatic tumor cells and purified approximately 1000 times after sequential ammonium sulfate fractionization, concanavalin A column chromatography, and molecular sieve chromatography. The protease has an apparent molecular weight of 70 000--80 000, is ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Liotta LA,Tryggvason K,Garbisa S,Robey PG,Abe S

更新日期：1981-01-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Known crystal structures of class II aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases complexed to their cognate tRNAs reveal that critical acceptor stem contacts are made by the variable loop connecting the beta-strands of motif 2 located within the catalytic core of class II synthetases. To identify potential acceptor stem contacts made ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Burke B,Yang F,Chen F,Stehlin C,Chan B,Musier-Forsyth K

更新日期：2000-12-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The structural and functional properties of G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) are often studied in a detergent micellar environment, but many GPCRs tend to denature or aggregate in short alkyl chain detergents. In our previous work [Lee, S., et al. (2016) J. Am. Chem. Soc.138, 15425-15433], we showed that GPCRs in a...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Lee S,Ghosh S,Jana S,Robertson N,Tate CG,Vaidehi N

更新日期：2020-06-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Ribosomal protein E-L30 unfolds reversibly at pH values between 7.0 and 4.5. Unfolding of the protein involves a fast and a slow equilibrium, which depend on the degree of protonation of His19 and His33. Both the fast equilibrium between protonated and deprotonated histidines and the slow equilibrium between folded an...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： van de Ven FJ,Hilbers CW

更新日期：1987-08-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Amyloid beta peptide (A beta) is released into the media of a variety of cells in culture during normal metabolism. The discovery of several missense mutations within or flanking the A beta region of the beta amyloid precursor protein (beta APP) in familial Alzheimer's disease provides strong evidence for a role of al...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Querfurth HW,Selkoe DJ

更新日期：1994-04-19 00:00:00

abstract：:kappa-Bungarotoxin (kappa-bgt) is a 66-residue peptide originally purified from snake venom that acts as an antagonist at certain acetylcholine receptors. It is one of four homologous kappa-neurotoxins that are distinguished from the structurally related alpha-neurotoxins by their ability to block the alpha 3-subunit-...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Fiordalisi JJ,al-Rabiee R,Chiappinelli VA,Grant GA

更新日期：1994-11-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Proteases specific for cleavage after acidic residues have been implicated in several disease states, including epidermolysis, inflammation, and viral processing. A serine protease with specificity toward glutamic acid substrates (Glu-SGP) has been crystallized in the presence of a tetrapeptide ligand and its structur...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Nienaber VL,Breddam K,Birktoft JJ

更新日期：1993-11-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Pseudomonas aeruginosa PA4872 was identified by sequence analysis as a structurally and functionally novel member of the PEP mutase/isocitrate lyase superfamily and therefore targeted for investigation. Substrate screens ruled out overlap with known catalytic functions of superfamily members. The crystal structure of ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Narayanan BC,Niu W,Han Y,Zou J,Mariano PS,Dunaway-Mariano D,Herzberg O

更新日期：2008-01-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The biochemical characteristics of the formation and disappearance of intercalator-induced DNA double-strand breaks (DSB) were studied in nuclei from mouse leukemia L1210 cells by using filter elution methodology [Bradley, M. O., & Kohn, K.W. (1979) Nucleic Acids Res. 7, 793-804]. The three intercalators used were 4'-...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Pommier Y,Schwartz RE,Kohn KW,Zwelling LA

更新日期：1984-07-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies have shown that murine macrophages immunostimulated with interferon gamma and Escherichia coli lipopolysaccharide synthesize NO2-, NO3-, and citrulline from L-arginine by oxidation of one of the two chemically equivalent guanido nitrogens. The enzymatic activity for this very unusual reaction was foun...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Marletta MA,Yoon PS,Iyengar R,Leaf CD,Wishnok JS

更新日期：1988-11-29 00:00:00

abstract：:A series of monoclonal antibodies specific for distinguishable epitopes in chromosomal protein histone H5 were obtained from mice immunized with either free H5 or H5 . RNA complexes. The antibodies elicited by H5 could be distinguished from those elicited by H5 . RNA by their binding to native or acid-denatured H5, by...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Mendelson E,Bustin M

更新日期：1984-07-17 00:00:00

abstract：:To identify the elements which regulate the liver transcription of the human type II phospholipase A2 gene and its stimulation by interleukin 6, the 5' flanking region from -1614 to +806 and several 3' and 5' deleted fragments have been analyzed in CAT assays. Negative regulatory elements have been located in the regi...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Olivier JL,Fan Q,Salvat C,Ziari M,Kong L,Mangeney M,Bereziat G

更新日期：1994-06-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Neuroglobin (Ngb) is a recently discovered vertebrate heme protein that is expressed in the brain and can reversibly bind oxygen. Mammalian Ngb is involved in neuroprotection under oxidative stress conditions, such as ischemia and reperfusion. We previously demonstrated that human ferric Ngb binds to the alpha subunit...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Watanabe S,Wakasugi K

更新日期：2008-05-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The substrate specificity of the human enzyme glutathione reductase was changed from its natural substrate glutathione to trypanothione [N1,N8-bis(glutathionyl)spermidine] by site-directed mutagenesis of two residues. The glutathione analogue, trypanothione, is the natural substrate for trypanothione reductase, an enz...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Bradley M,Bücheler US,Walsh CT

更新日期：1991-06-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The structure of the copper site in oxidized and reduced Rhus vernicifera stellacyanin has been studied by X-ray absorption (XAFS) spectroscopy at different pH values. Data for the oxidized protein are consistent with the fourth ligand being an O- or N-donating ligand rather than a cysteine from the disulfide bridge. ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Strange RW,Reinhammar B,Murphy LM,Hasnain SS

更新日期：1995-01-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Low-temperature electronic absorption and room temperature circular dichroism (CD) and magnetic circular dichroism (MCD) spectra are reported for ascorbate oxidase. Bands attributable to d-d electronic transitions in the type 1 (blue) coppers (2B2 ground state) have been observed at 5800, 10000, and 12000 cm-1 (1725, ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Dooley DM,Dawson JH,Stephens PJ,Gray HB

更新日期：1981-03-31 00:00:00

abstract：:To gain insight into the folding of large proteins, we constructed a bovine beta-lactoglobulin (beta-lg) dimeric mutant, A34C/C121A beta-lg. In the mutant, a free thiol group of wild-type beta-lg at Cys121 was removed and two beta-lg molecules were linked by a disulfide bridge through Cys34 created at the dimer's inte...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Yagi M,Kameda A,Sakurai K,Nishimura C,Goto Y

更新日期：2008-06-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Escherichia coli were grown on 14.3% uniformly 13C-labeled glucose as the sole carbon source and challenged anaerobically with 90% 13C-labeled formaldehyde. The major multiply labeled metabolites were identified by 13C NMR spectroscopy to be glycerol and 1,2-propanediol, and a minor metabolite was shown to be 1,3-prop...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Hunter BK,Nicholls KM,Sanders JK

更新日期：1985-07-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Porcine aortic myosin is a smooth muscle contractile protein similar to its striated muscle counterpart. Electrophoresis in sodium dodecyl sulfate indicates that the molecule consists of three classes of subunits with polypeptide chain molecular weights of 192,000, 19,000, and 15,000. At 277 nm the absorption spectrum...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Frederiksen DW

更新日期：1979-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The navel orangeworm, Amyelois transitella (Walker), is an agricultural insect pest that can be controlled by disrupting male-female communication with sex pheromones, a technique known as mating disruption. Insect pheromone-binding proteins (PBPs) provide fast transport of hydrophobic pheromones through the aqueous s...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Xu X,Xu W,Rayo J,Ishida Y,Leal WS,Ames JB

更新日期：2010-02-23 00:00:00

abstract：:L-Aspartate oxidase (Laspo) catalyzes the conversion of L-Asp to iminoaspartate, the first step in the de novo biosynthesis of NAD(+). This bacterial pathway represents a potential drug target since it is absent in mammals. The Laspo R386L mutant was crystallized in the FAD-bound catalytically competent form and its t...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Bossi RT,Negri A,Tedeschi G,Mattevi A

更新日期：2002-03-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The hydrogen exchange behavior of the N-terminal helical segment in horse heart cytochrome c was studied in both the reduced and the oxidized forms by use of two-dimensional nuclear magnetic resonance methods. The amide protons of the first six residues are not H bonded and exchange rapidly with solvent protons. The m...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Wand AJ,Roder H,Englander SW

更新日期：1986-03-11 00:00:00

abstract：:In the course of measuring the concentrations of retinoic acids (RA) in bovine plasma, a major peak was observed which comigrated with 9-cis-RA on normal-phase high-performance liquid chromatography. Rechromatography of this retinoic on reverse-phase high-performance liquid chromatography showed that it was distinct f...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Horst RL,Reinhardt TA,Goff JP,Nonnecke BJ,Gambhir VK,Fiorella PD,Napoli JL

更新日期：1995-01-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Mg2+ is important for the RNase activity of the hammerhead ribozyme. To investigate the binding properties of Mg2+ to the hammerhead ribozyme, cleavage rates and CD spectra for substrates containing inosine or guanosine at the cleavage site were measured. The 2-amino group of this guanosine interfered with the rate of...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Koizumi M,Ohtsuka E

更新日期：1991-05-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Trypanosoma and Leishmania, pathogens responsible for diseases such as African sleeping sickness, Chagas' heart disease, or Oriental sore, are two of the very few genera that do not use the ubiquitous glutathione/glutathione reductase system to keep a stable cellular redox balance. Instead, they rely on trypanothione ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Stoll VS,Simpson SJ,Krauth-Siegel RL,Walsh CT,Pai EF

更新日期：1997-05-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The structure formed from the DNA oligonucleotide d(G4T4G4) (Oxy-1.5), which contains the Oxytricha telomere repeat T4G4, has been investigated by two-dimensional 1H and 31P NMR spectroscopy. Sequence-specific assignments have been obtained for the 1H and 31P resonances, using a combination of methods including compar...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Smith FW,Feigon J

更新日期：1993-08-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Nitric oxide (NO) synthases (NOS) are thiolate-ligated heme-, tetrahydrobiopterin (BH(4))-, and flavin-containing monooxygenases which catalyze the NADPH-dependent conversion of L-arginine (L-Arg) to NO AND citrulline. NOS consists of two domains: an N-terminal oxygenase (heme- and BH(4)-bound) domain and a C-terminal...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Sono M,Ledbetter AP,McMillan K,Roman LJ,Shea TM,Masters BS,Dawson JH

更新日期：1999-11-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The thylakoid transmembrane DeltapH is the sole energy source driving translocation of precursor proteins by the DeltapH/Tat machinery. Consequently, proton translocation must be coupled to precursor translocation. For the precursor of the 17 kDa protein of the oxygen-evolving complex (pOE17), the protein translocatio...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Musser SM,Theg SM

更新日期：2000-07-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Insulin is very prone to form amyloid fibrils under slightly destabilizing conditions, and the B-chain region plays a critical role in the fibrillation. We show here that the isolated B-chain peptide of bovine insulin also forms fibrils at both acidic and neutral pH. When a mixture of insulin and the B-chain peptide w...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Hong DP,Fink AL

更新日期：2005-12-20 00:00:00