Mechanistic and metabolic inferences from the binding of substrate analogues and products to arginase.

abstract：:Optical detection of triplet-state magnetic resonance (ODMR) is employed to study the complexes formed between gene 32 protein (GP32), a single-stranded DNA-binding protein from bacteriophage T4, and the heavy-atom-derivatized polynucleotides poly(5-HgU) and poly(5-BrU). The triplet-state properties of some of the try...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Khamis MI,Maki AH

更新日期：1986-10-07 00:00:00

abstract：:GxTX-1E is a neurotoxin recently isolated from Plesiophrictus guangxiensis venom that inhibits the Kv2.1 channel in pancreatic beta-cells. The sequence of the toxin is related to those of previously studied tarantula toxins that interact with the voltage sensors in Kv channels, and GxTX-1E interacts with the Kv2.1 cha...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Lee S,Milescu M,Jung HH,Lee JY,Bae CH,Lee CW,Kim HH,Swartz KJ,Kim JI

更新日期：2010-06-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Kinetic models are presented that allow the Na(+),K(+)-ATPase steady-state turnover number to be estimated at given intra- and extracellular concentrations of Na(+), K(+), and ATP. Based on experimental transient kinetic data, the models utilize either three or four steps of the Albers-Post scheme, that is, E(2) --> E...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Kong BY,Clarke RJ

更新日期：2004-03-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Guanine nucleotide dissociation stimulator (GDS) promotes the release of tightly bound GDP from various Ras superfamily proteins, including RhoA, Rac1, K-Ras, Rap1A, and Rap1B. It displays no significant sequence homology to other known exchange factors for small G-proteins. Studies are reported here of the mechanism ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Hutchinson JP,Eccleston JF

更新日期：2000-09-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The Fo membrane domain of the F1Fo-ATP synthase complex has been purified from bovine heart mitochondria. The purification procedure involves the removal of peripheral membrane proteins, including F1-ATPase, from submitochondrial particles with guanidine hydrochloride, followed by extraction of Fo and other membrane p...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Collinson IR,Runswick MJ,Buchanan SK,Fearnley IM,Skehel JM,van Raaij MJ,Griffiths DE,Walker JE

更新日期：1994-06-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacterial bioluminescence is a phenomenon resulting from the reaction of a two-component FMN-dependent aldehyde monooxygenase system, which comprises a bacterial luciferase and a flavin reductase. Bacterial luciferase (LuxAB) is one of the most extensively investigated two-component monooxygenases, while its reductase...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Nijvipakul S,Ballou DP,Chaiyen P

更新日期：2010-11-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The photoautotrophic freshwater cyanobacterium Synechococcus elongatus is widely used as a chassis for biotechnological applications as well as a photosynthetic bacterial model. In this study, a method for expanding the genetic code of this cyanobacterium has been established, thereby allowing the incorporation of unn...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Chemla Y,Friedman M,Heltberg M,Bakhrat A,Nagar E,Schwarz R,Jensen MH,Alfonta L

更新日期：2017-04-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Escherichia coli mannitol specific EII in membrane vesicles can be inhibited by the action of the oxidizable substrate-reduced phenazine methosulfate (PMS) in a manner similar to E. coli enzyme IIGlc [Robillard, G. T., & Konings, W. (1981) Biochemistry 20, 5025-5032]. The fact that reduced PMS and various oxidizing ag...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Roossien FF,Robillard GT

更新日期：1984-01-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The reaction of cytochrome c oxidase with hydrogen peroxide has been of great value in generating and characterizing oxygenated species of the enzyme that are identical or similar to those formed during turnover of the enzyme with dioxygen. Most previous studies have utilized relatively low peroxide concentrations (mi...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Zaslavsky D,Smirnova IA,Brzezinski P,Shinzawa-Itoh K,Yoshikawa S,Gennis RB

更新日期：1999-11-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Exchangeable imidazole NH proton nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) signals of the proximal histidine F8, which is directly coordinated to the paramagnetic porphyrin cobalt ion, have been measured for cobalt-substituted deoxyhemoglobins (deoxy-CoHb) and iron-cobalt hybrid hemoglobins, alpha (Co)2 beta (Fe)2 and alpha (F...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Inubushi T,Ikeda-Saito M,Yonetani T

更新日期：1983-06-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Phosphorescence from the lone tryptophan residue has been studied to monitor the interaction of myelin basic protein with phosphatidylserine vesicles. Spectral shifts in the phosphorescence of the protein in a glycerol-buffer (70:30 w/w) solvent at low temperature are consistent with fluorescence data obtained under a...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Vadas EB,Melançon P,Braun PE,Galley WC

更新日期：1981-05-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The major proton-transfer pathway into the buried active site of cytochrome c oxidase (CcO) is the D-pathway that begins with the subunit I residue Asp-132 on the inner protein surface (the cytoplasmic surface of the aa3-type CcO of Rhodobacter sphaeroides). Asp-132 is surrounded by residues from both subunits I and I...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Adelroth P,Hosler J

更新日期：2006-07-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The unfolded state and flexible linkers in the folded structure play essential roles in protein stability and folding and protein-protein interactions. Intrinsic to these roles is the fact that unfolded proteins and flexible linkers sample many different conformations. Polymer models may capture this and complement ex...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Zhou HX

更新日期：2004-03-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of ionic strength on the rate constant for electron transfer has been used to determine the magnitude and charge sign of the net electrostatic potential which exists in close proximity to the sites of electron transfer on various c-type cytochromes. The negatively charged ferricyanide ion preferentially rea...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Cheddar G,Meyer TE,Cusanovich MA,Stout CD,Tollin G

更新日期：1989-07-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Whole tRNA preparation obtained from a human cell line (HT-29) of colon carcinoma and purified specific Escherichia coli tRNA were reacted with pyridoxal 5'-phosphate, reduced by sodium borohydride and digested with RNase A and snake venom phosphodiesterase. Two-dimensional chromatography of the pyridoxal 5'-phosphate...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Kopelovich L,Wolfe G

更新日期：1977-08-09 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：:The correlation of the UVRR nuW3 mode with the tryptophan chi(2,1) dihedral angle [Maruyama and Takeuchi (1995) J. Raman Spectrosc. 26, 319; Miura et al. (1989) J. Raman Spectrosc. 20, 667; Takeuchi (2003) Biopolymers 72, 305] has been extended to a full, 360 degrees rotation. The 3-fold periodicity of the relationshi...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Juszczak LJ,Desamero RZ

更新日期：2009-03-31 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 covalent affinity probe maltosyl isothiocyanate (MITC) has been used previously to identify the glucose transporter of human erythrocytes as a component of band 3. By use of limited proteolysis, the site on the Mr 100 000 protein to which MITC attaches has been localized to a 17 000-dalton region near the center o...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Shelton RL Jr,Langdon RG

更新日期：1985-05-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Sulfolobus solfataricus P2 DNA polymerase IV (Dpo4) is a thermostable archaeal enzyme and a member of the error-prone and lesion-bypass Y-family. In this paper, for the first time, the fidelity of a Y-family polymerase, Dpo4, was determined using pre-steady-state kinetic analysis of the incorporation of a single nucle...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Fiala KA,Suo Z

更新日期：2004-02-24 00:00:00

abstract：:ISU-type proteins mediate cluster transfer to apo protein targets. Rate constants have been determined for cluster transfer from ISU to apo Fd for both Homo sapiens and Schizosaccharomyces pombe proteins, and cross reactions have also been examined. Substitution of a key aspartate residue of ISU is found to decrease t...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Wu SP,Wu G,Surerus KK,Cowan JA

更新日期：2002-07-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein L is a multidomain protein expressed at the surface of some strains of the anaerobic bacterial species Peptostreptococcus magnus. It has affinity for immunoglobulin (Ig) through interaction with framework structures in the variable Ig light chain domain. The Ig-binding activity is located to five homologous re...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Wikström M,Drakenberg T,Forsén S,Sjöbring U,Björck L

更新日期：1994-11-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Prion diseases are associated with a conformational switch in the prion protein (PrP) from its normal cellular form (denoted PrP(C)) to a disease-associated "scrapie" form (PrP(Sc)). A number of PrP(Sc)-like conformations can be generated by incubating recombinant PrP(C) at low pH, indicating that protonation of key r...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Hosszu LL,Tattum MH,Jones S,Trevitt CR,Wells MA,Waltho JP,Collinge J,Jackson GS,Clarke AR

更新日期：2010-10-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Gp is a major GTP-binding protein of human placenta and platelets [Evans, T., Brown, M. L., Fraser, E. D., & Northup, J. K. (1986) J. Biol. Chem. 261, 7052-7059]. High-affinity guanine nucleotide binding is associated with a polypeptide migrating identically with H-ras on SDS-PAGE. We have characterized the interactio...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Tamir A,Fawzi AB,Northup JK

更新日期：1990-07-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Peptides have important biomedical applications, but poor correlation between in vitro and in vivo activities can limit their development for clinical use. The ability to generate peptides and monitor their expression with new mass spectrometric methods and biological activities in vivo would be an advantage for the d...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Muthunayake NS,Islam R,Inutan ED,Colangelo W,Trimpin S,Cunningham PR,Chow CS

更新日期：2020-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Membranes derived from free floating granulosa cells in porcine ovarian follicular fluid were used as a starting material for structural characterization of both LH/hCG and FSH receptors. The receptors were highly hormone-specific and showed single classes of high-affinity binding sites (Kd = 19-74 pM). Their molecula...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Yarney TA,Sairam MR,Bhargavi GN,Mohapatra SK

更新日期：1990-04-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The interfacial interactions of cholesterol with sphingomyelins (SMs) containing various homogeneous acyl chains have been investigated by Langmuir film balance approaches. Low in-plane elasticity among the packed lipids was identified as an important physical feature of the cholesterol-sphingomyelin liquid-ordered ph...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Li XM,Momsen MM,Smaby JM,Brockman HL,Brown RE

更新日期：2001-05-22 00:00:00

abstract：:High hydrostatic pressure has been shown to cause reversible dissociation of the isolated apo beta 2 dimer of tryptophan synthase from Escherichia coli into enzymatically inactive monomers [Seifert, T., Bartholmes, P., & Jaenicke, R. (1982) Biophys. Chem. 15, 1-8]. Addition of the coenzyme pyridoxal 5'-phosphate affec...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Seifert T,Bartholmes P,Jaenicke R

更新日期：1985-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The recA locus of pathogenic mycobacteria differs from that of nonpathogenic species because it contains large intervening sequences nested in the RecA homology region that are excised by an unusual protein-splicing reaction. In vivo assays indicated that Mycobacterium tuberculosis recA partially complemented Escheric...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Kumar RA,Vaze MB,Chandra NR,Vijayan M,Muniyappa K

更新日期：1996-02-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Factor XII was purified approximately 14 000-fold from bovine plasma by ammonium sulfate fractionation followed by heparin-agarose, DEAE-Sephadex, CM-cellulose, arginine-agarose, and benzamidine-agarose column chromatography. By this method, about 15 mg of protein was purified from 15 L of plasma with an overall yield...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Fujikawa K,Walsh KA,Davie EW

更新日期：1977-05-17 00:00:00