Solubilization of the Semliki Forest virus membrane with sodium dodecyl sulfate.

abstract：:Herpesvirus saimiri codes for a tyrosine kinase interacting protein (Tip) that interacts with both the SH3 domain and the kinase domain of the T-cell-specific tyrosine kinase Lck via two separate motifs. The activation of Lck by Tip is considered as a key event in the transformation of human T-lymphocytes during herpe...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Schweimer K,Hoffmann S,Bauer F,Friedrich U,Kardinal C,Feller SM,Biesinger B,Sticht H

更新日期：2002-04-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Alditol oxidase (AldO) from Streptomyces coelicolor A3(2) is a soluble monomeric flavin-dependent oxidase that performs selective oxidation of the terminal primary hydroxyl group of several alditols. Here, we report the crystal structure of the recombinant enzyme in its native state and in complex with both six-carbon...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Forneris F,Heuts DP,Delvecchio M,Rovida S,Fraaije MW,Mattevi A

更新日期：2008-01-22 00:00:00

abstract：:For nonspecific binding of oligopeptides and other cationic ligands, including proteins, to nucleic acid oligomers, we develop a model capable of quantifying and predicting the salt concentration dependence of the binding free energy (deltaG(o)obs) by way of an analytic treatment of the Coulombic end effect (CEE). Lig...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Shkel IA,Ballin JD,Record MT Jr

更新日期：2006-07-11 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：:The proton-translocating NADH-quinone oxidoreductase (NDH-1) of Paracoccus denitrificans is composed of 14 different subunits (Nqo1-Nqo14). Of these, seven subunits (Nqo7, Nqo8, and Nqo10-14) which are equivalent to the mitochondrial DNA-encoded subunits of complex I constitute the membrane segment of the enzyme compl...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Kao MC,Di Bernardo S,Matsuno-Yagi A,Yagi T

更新日期：2003-04-22 00:00:00

abstract：:myo-Inositol (mI) is widely distributed in all domains of life and is important for several cellular functions, including bacterial survival. The enzymes responsible for the bacterial catabolism of mI, encoded in the iol operon, can vary from one organism to another, and these pathways have yet to be fully characteriz...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Ramos-Figueroa JS,Aamudalapalli HB,Jagdhane RC,Smith J,Palmer DRJ

更新日期：2020-08-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Myosins are a superfamily of actin-binding motor proteins with significant variations in kinetic properties (such as actin binding affinity) between different isoforms. It remains unknown how such kinetic variations arise from the structural and dynamic tuning of the actin-myosin interface at the amino acid residue le...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Li M,Zheng W

更新日期：2013-11-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The equilibrium unfolding reaction of Ltn, a metamorphic C-class chemokine, was monitored by tryptophan fluorescence to determine unfolding free energies. Measurements revealed that addition of 150 mM NaCl stabilized the Ltn chemokine fold by approximately 1 kcal/mol. Specific mutations involving Arg23 and Arg43 also ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Tyler RC,Wieting JC,Peterson FC,Volkman BF

更新日期：2012-11-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The biosynthesis of osteocalcin (OC), a bone-specific, noncollagenous protein, is stringently regulated during differentiation of the osteoblast phenotype. Glucocorticoids, and also 1,25(OH)2D3, mediate the developmental regulation of OC gene transcription. In this study, we established that the -1097 to +23 promoter ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Heinrichs AA,Bortell R,Rahman S,Stein JL,Alnemri ES,Litwack G,Lian JB,Stein GS

更新日期：1993-10-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Band 3, the anion transport protein of human erythrocyte membranes, can be transferred from cells to liposomes and from liposomes back to cell membranes, retaining function and native orientation. After incubation with cells, sonicated phosphatidylcholine vesicles bind a transmembrane protein that comigrates with band...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Newton AC,Cook SL,Huestis WH

更新日期：1983-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Anticoagulation factor II (ACF II) isolated from the venom of Agkistrodon acutus is an activated coagulation factor X-binding protein in a Ca(2+)-dependent fashion with marked anticoagulant activity. The equilibrium unfolding/refolding of apo-ACF II, holo-ACF II, and Tb(3+)-reconstituted ACF II in guanidine hydrochlor...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Xu X,Liu Q,Xie Y

更新日期：2002-03-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The surface electrical charge density and the deformability of nucleosomal arrays have been characterized by quantitative agarose gel electrophoresis. Monodisperse linear DNA (2.5-3.3 kbp) was reconstituted with histone octamers into either saturated (approximately 1 nucleosome/200-bp DNA) or subsaturated (< 1 nucleos...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Fletcher TM,Krishnan U,Serwer P,Hansen JC

更新日期：1994-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although the importance of interactions involving both the cytosolic and transmembrane regions of SecY and SecE has been documented, no information has been available for the physical contact sites of these translocase subunits in their cytosolic domains. We now carried out site-specific cross-linking experiments to i...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Satoh Y,Mori H,Ito K

更新日期：2003-06-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Vitamin E is a dietary lipid that is essential for vertebrate health and fertility. The biological activity of vitamin E is thought to reflect its ability to quench oxygen- and carbon-based free radicals and thus to protect the organism from oxidative damage. However, recent reports suggest that vitamin E may also dis...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Valastyan S,Thakur V,Johnson A,Kumar K,Manor D

更新日期：2008-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Cesium-133 NMR studies have been carried out on suspended human erythrocytes and on perfused rat hearts in media containing CsCl. The resulting spectra exhibit two sharp resonances, arising from intra- and extracellular Cs+, separated in chemical shift by 1.0-1.4 ppm. Thus, intra- and extracellular resonances are easi...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Davis DG,Murphy E,London RE

更新日期：1988-05-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Respiration, photosynthesis, and metabolism require the transfer of electrons through and between proteins over relatively long distances. It is critical that this electron transfer (ET) occur with specificity to avoid cellular damage, and at a rate that is sufficient to support the biological activity. A multistep ho...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Choi M,Shin S,Davidson VL

更新日期：2012-09-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Oxidized cytochrome c oxidase exists in two reasonably well-defined conformations, a high-spin conformation with maximal absorption at 418 nm and a low-spin conformation with maximal absorption at 428 nm. The equilibrium between these two conformations has been studied as a function of pH, pressure, and temperature. p...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Kornblatt JA,Hui Bon Hoa G

更新日期：1982-10-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Carbohydrate-binding module (CBM) family 13 includes the "R-type" or "ricin superfamily" beta-trefoil lectins. The C-terminal CBM, CBM13, of xylanase 10A from Streptomyces lividans is a family 13 CBM that is not only structurally similar to the "R-type" lectins but also somewhat functionally similar. The primary funct...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Notenboom V,Boraston AB,Williams SJ,Kilburn DG,Rose DR

更新日期：2002-04-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The development of inhibitors of insulin-regulated aminopeptidase (IRAP), a membrane-bound zinc metallopeptidase, is a promising approach for the discovery of drugs for the treatment of memory loss such as that associated with Alzheimer's disease. There is, however, no consensus in the literature about the mechanism b...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Ascher DB,Cromer BA,Morton CJ,Volitakis I,Cherny RA,Albiston AL,Chai SY,Parker MW

更新日期：2011-04-05 00:00:00

abstract：:X-ray crystallographic studies have shown that DNA binding by human polymerase beta (pol beta) occurs primarily through two structurally and sequentially homologous helix-hairpin-helix (HhH) motifs, one in the fingers subdomain and the other in the 8-kDa domain [Pelletier, H., Sawaya, M. R., Wolfle, W., Wilson, S. H.,...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Pelletier H,Sawaya MR

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The 18 kDa translocator protein (TSPO), formerly known as the peripheral-type benzodiazepine receptor, has been reported to be closely associated with the mitochondrial permeability transition pore (MPTP). TSPO is believed to exert pro-apoptotic functions via modulation of MPTP opening. Cobalt chloride (CoCl(2)), whic...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Zeno S,Zaaroor M,Leschiner S,Veenman L,Gavish M

更新日期：2009-06-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The formation of tyrosine from phenylalanine catalyzed by rat liver phenylalanine hydroxylase is coupled to the generation of a 4a-hydroxy adduct from the requisite tetrahydropterin cofactor. As indicated by its circular dichroism (CD) spectrum, the optical activity of the adduct generated from racemic 6-methyltetrahy...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Dix TA,Bollag GE,Domanico PL,Benkovic SJ

更新日期：1985-06-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Uroporphyrinogen III synthase (U3S) catalyzes the asymmetrical cyclization of a linear tetrapyrrole to form the physiologically relevant uroporphyrinogen III (uro'gen III) isomer during heme biosynthesis. Here, we report four apoenzyme and one product complex crystal structures of the Thermus thermophilus (HB27) U3S p...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Schubert HL,Phillips JD,Heroux A,Hill CP

更新日期：2008-08-19 00:00:00

abstract：:We have used resonance energy transfer to read out the interactions of the alpha subunit of transducin (alpha T) with the transducin beta gamma subunit complex (beta gamma T) and to compare the rate of aluminum fluoride-induced alpha T activation, as reflected by the enhancement of the alpha T tryptophan fluorescence,...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Mittal R,Cerione RA,Erickson JW

更新日期：1994-08-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The temperature dependence of the packing (order) and fluidity (microviscosity) of rabbit small, intestinal brush border vesicle membranes and of liposomes made from their extracted lipids has been investigated by using a variety of lipid spin probes. The lipids in the brush border membrane are present essentially as ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Hauser H,Gains N,Semenza G,Spiess M

更新日期：1982-10-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The natural ATPase inhibitor (IF1) from beef heart mitochondria was labeled with phenyl (14C)isothiocyanate [(14C)PITC]. Chemical labeling by (14C)PITC does not modify the inhibitory properties of IF1, provided the number of residues of (14C)PITC bound per molecule of IF1 is lower than five to six, which corresponds t...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Klein G,Satre M,Dianoux AC,Vignais PV

更新日期：1980-06-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Proteolytic processing of the transmembrane domain of the amyloid precursor protein (APP) is a key component of Alzheimer's disease pathogenesis. Using C-terminally tagged APP derivatives, we have identified by amino-terminal sequencing a novel cleavage site of APP, at Leu-49, distal to the gamma-secretase site. This ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Weidemann A,Eggert S,Reinhard FB,Vogel M,Paliga K,Baier G,Masters CL,Beyreuther K,Evin G

更新日期：2002-02-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The duplex formed by annealing the formacetal backbone modified dodecamer d-(CGCGTTOCH2OTTGCGC) to its complementary strand, d(GCGCAAAACGCG) (duplex I), has been studied by NMR techniques and analyzed with reference to its unmodified counterpart (duplex II). Comparison of parameters such as 2D cross-peak intensities, ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Gao X,Brown FK,Jeffs P,Bischofberger N,Lin KY,Pipe AJ,Noble SA

更新日期：1992-07-14 00:00:00

abstract：:We have biochemically and kinetically characterized the polymerase and exonuclease activities of the third B-family polymerase (Dpo3) from the hyperthermophilic Crenarchaeon, Sulfolobus solfataricus (Sso). We have established through mutagenesis that despite incomplete sequence conservation, the polymerase and exonucl...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Bauer RJ,Begley MT,Trakselis MA

更新日期：2012-03-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Several recent studies have provided evidence that LIN28, a cytoplasmic RNA-binding protein, inhibits the biogenesis of members of the let-7 microRNA family at the Dicer step in both mammals and Caenorhabditis elegans. However, the precise mechanism of inhibition is still poorly understood. Here we report on an in vit...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Lightfoot HL,Bugaut A,Armisen J,Lehrbach NJ,Miska EA,Balasubramanian S

更新日期：2011-09-06 00:00:00