Proton involvement in the transition from the "peroxy" to the ferryl intermediate of cytochrome c oxidase.

abstract：:Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) are important components of the host innate immune system. Papiliocin is a 37-residue AMP purified from larvae of the swallowtail butterfly Papilio xuthus. Magainin 2 is a 23-residue AMP purified from the skin of the African clawed frog Xenopus laevis. We designed an 18-residue hybrid pep...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Shin A,Lee E,Jeon D,Park YG,Bang JK,Park YS,Shin SY,Kim Y

更新日期：2015-06-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Binding of urokinase-type plasminogen activator (uPA) to its cellular receptor (uPAR) renders the cell surface a favored site for plasminogen activation. Recently, a 15-mer peptide antagonist of the uPA-uPAR interaction, with an IC50 value of 10 nM, was identified using phage display technology [Goodson, R. J., Doyle,...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Ploug M,Ostergaard S,Hansen LB,Holm A,Danø K

更新日期：1998-03-17 00:00:00

abstract：:RSC (remodel the structure of chromatin) is an essential chromatin remodeler of Saccharomyces cerevisiae that has been shown to have DNA translocase properties. We studied the DNA binding properties of a "trimeric minimal RSC" (RSCt) of the RSC chromatin remodeling complex and the effect of nucleotides on this interac...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Malik SS,Rich E,Viswanathan R,Cairns BR,Fischer CJ

更新日期：2011-09-20 00:00:00

abstract：:A well-defined region of pancreatic and other secreted phospholipase A2 (PLA2), which we call the i-face, makes a molecular contact with the interface to facilitate and control the events and processivity of the interfacial catalytic turnover cycles. The structural features of the i-face and its allosteric relationshi...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Yu BZ,Janssen MJ,Verheij HM,Jain MK

更新日期：2000-05-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Transfection of cos-1 cells with either prostaglandin endoperoxide H synthase-1 (PGHS-1) or -2 (PGHS-2) results in a mixed population of cells containing a diverse range of expressed enzyme. The use of fluorescent substrates and antibodies, in conjunction with fluorescence microscopy, provides the means to quantitate ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Morita I,Smith WL,DeWitt DL,Schindler M

更新日期：1995-05-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies of P-glycoprotein have demonstrated that its function can be modulated by phosphorylation. In the present study, inhibition of protein kinase C with calphostin C or stauroporine or prolonged treatment with the phorbol ester TPA decreased phosphorylation of P-glycoprotein, and impaired transport of vin...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Bates SE,Lee JS,Dickstein B,Spolyar M,Fojo AT

更新日期：1993-09-07 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：:Bacteriophage T7 RNA polymerase is a single-subunit enzyme which has a C-terminal amino acid sequence of Phe-Ala-Phe-Ala883 (FAFA883). Closely related hydrophobic sequences are present at the C termini of seven other single-subunit RNA polymerases, including the mitochondrial RNA polymerase. Mutations at any of the fo...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Gardner LP,Mookhtiar KA,Coleman JE

更新日期：1997-03-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The two flavodoxins (YkuN and YkuP) from Bacillus subtilis have been cloned, overexpressed in Escherichia coli and purified. DNA sequencing, mass spectrometry, and flavin-binding properties showed that both YkuN and YkuP were typical short-chain flavodoxins (158 and 151 amino acids, respectively) and that an error in ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Lawson RJ,von Wachenfeldt C,Haq I,Perkins J,Munro AW

更新日期：2004-10-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Several experimental approaches have been employed to independently determine rates of dissociation for Escherichia coli RNA polymerase from the T7 bacteriophage A1, A2, A3, and D promoters. Heparin challenge measurements employing abortive initiation turnover rates as an index of promoter occupancy were carried out o...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Cech CL,McClure WR

更新日期：1980-05-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein phosphatase 1 (PP1) is an essential and ubiquitous serine/threonine protein phosphatase that is regulated by more than 100 known inhibitor and targeting proteins. It is currently unclear how protein inhibitors distinctly and specifically regulate PP1 to enable rapid responses to cellular alterations. We demons...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Dancheck B,Nairn AC,Peti W

更新日期：2008-11-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The pre-steady-state reaction of indole and L-serine with the alpha 2 beta 2 complex of Escherichia coli tryptophan synthase has been investigated under different premixing conditions with rapid-scanning stopped-flow (RSSF) UV-visible spectroscopy for the spectral range 300-550 nm. When alpha 2 beta 2 was mixed with i...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Drewe WF Jr,Dunn MF

更新日期：1986-05-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Conceptually one may envisage that substrate binding sites on the ABC transporter P-gp cycle between high- and low-affinity conformations in response to signals arising from nucleotide hydrolysis to effect active transport. A radioligand binding assay was used to characterize the interaction of [3H]vinblastine with P-...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Martin C,Higgins CF,Callaghan R

更新日期：2001-12-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Threonyl-tRNA synthetase (ThrRS) must discriminate among closely related amino acids to maintain the fidelity of protein synthesis. Here, a pre-steady state kinetic analysis of the ThRS-catalyzed adenylation reaction was carried out by monitoring changes in intrinsic tryptophan fluorescence. Stopped flow fluorimetry f...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Bovee ML,Pierce MA,Francklyn CS

更新日期：2003-12-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The dissociation of the trypsin-sensitive basic tails of the core histones in core chromatin has been followed as a function of [NaCl] using proton NMR spectroscopy. The tails dissociate in a highly cooperative all or none manner over the salt concentration range 0.2-0.6 M, that is, below the salt concentration requir...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Walker IO

更新日期：1984-11-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacterial resistance to the aminoglycoside antibiotics is manifested primarily through the production of enzymes which covalently modify these drugs. The Enterococci and Staphylococci produce an ATP-dependent kinase, APH(3')-IIIa, which phosphorylates such antibiotics as kanamycin, amikacin, and neomycin, and this enz...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： McKay GA,Wright GD

更新日期：1996-07-02 00:00:00

abstract：:N-Acyl ethanolamines (NAEs) constitute a large and diverse class of signaling lipids that includes the endogenous cannabinoid anandamide. Like other lipid transmitters, NAEs are thought to be biosynthesized and degraded on-demand rather than being stored in vesicles prior to signaling. The identification of enzymes in...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Leung D,Saghatelian A,Simon GM,Cravatt BF

更新日期：2006-04-18 00:00:00

abstract：:1-Deoxy-D-fructose was synthesized in 27% yield from D-glucosamine in a three-step procedure involving Raney nickel desulfurization and oxidative deamination with 3,5-di-tert-butyl- 1,2-benzoquinone applied to appropriate intermediates. 1-Deoxyfructose and its reduction products, 1-deoxyglucitol and 1-deoxymannitol, w...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Dills WL Jr,Meyer WL

更新日期：1976-10-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Earlier thermodynamic studies of the intermolecular interactions between mature oxytocin and neurophysin, and of the effects of these interactions on neurophysin folding, raised questions about the intramolecular interactions of oxytocin with neurophysin within their common precursor. To address this issue, the disulf...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Eubanks S,Lu M,Peyton D,Breslow E

更新日期：1999-10-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The genomic hypervariation of human immunodeficiency virus 1 (HIV-1) could result from misincorporations by the viral reverse transcriptase. We developed an assay for reverse transcriptase fidelity during RNA-dependent as well as DNA-dependent DNA polymerization in vitro. A lacZ alpha RNA fragment transcribed by T3 RN...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Ji JP,Loeb LA

更新日期：1992-02-04 00:00:00

abstract：:A new actinoleukin-like antitumor antibiotic, BBM-928A, has been shown to interact with isolated DNA molecules. BBM-928A contains two substituted quinolines linked by a cyclic decapeptide. Quenching effects of the covalently closed superhelical PM2 DNA on the BBM-928A fluorescence revealed a strong interaction with an...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Huang CH,Mong S,Crooke ST

更新日期：1980-11-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Pea histones H2a, H2b, H3, and H4 have been isolated and their interactions studied by fluorescence anisotropy, light scatter, and circular dichroism. Histones H3 and H4 are almost identical in plants and animals, but plant histones H2a and H2b differ markedly from their mammalian counterparts. Pea H2b has a molecular...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Spiker S,Isenberg I

更新日期：1977-05-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The EcDos protein belongs to a group of heme-based sensors that detect their ligands with a heme-binding PAS domain. Among these various heme-PAS proteins, EcDos is unique in having its heme iron coordinated at both axial positions to residues of the protein. To achieve its high affinities for ligands, one of the axia...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Gonzalez G,Dioum EM,Bertolucci CM,Tomita T,Ikeda-Saito M,Cheesman MR,Watmough NJ,Gilles-Gonzalez MA

更新日期：2002-07-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The occurrence of 8-oxo-7,8-dihydroguanine (OG) in the genome, as one of the major DNA oxidative damages, has been implicated in an array of biological processes, ranging from mutagenesis to transcriptional regulation. Genome-wide mapping of oxidative damages could shed light on the underlying cellular mechanism. In t...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Fang Y,Zou P

更新日期：2020-01-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The rate of depolymerization of microtubules upon lowering the temperature was found to depend on the amount of time elapsed since the beginning of the assembly process. In the first minutes following self-assembly at 37 degrees C, microtubules are more cold sensitive and depolymerize faster than later at the steady s...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Bonne D,Pantaloni D

更新日期：1982-03-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Fluorescence recovery after photobleaching was used to measure the diffusion coefficient of green fluorescent protein (GFP, 27 kDa) in Escherichia coli in the presence or absence of four coexpressed proteins: cytoplasmic maltose binding protein (42 kDa), tau-40 (45 kDa), alpha-synuclein (14 kDa), or calmodulin (17 kDa...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Slade KM,Baker R,Chua M,Thompson NL,Pielak GJ

更新日期：2009-06-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The solution structure of Cucurbita maxima trypsin inhibitor-V (CMTI-V), which is also a specific inhibitor of the blood coagulation protein, factor XIIa, was determined by 1H NMR spectroscopy in combination with a distance-geometry and simulated annealing algorithm. Sequence-specific resonance assignments were made f...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Cai M,Gong Y,Kao JL,Krishnamoorthi R

更新日期：1995-04-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The thermodynamic quantities of the anti-dinitrophenyl antibody-hapten interaction are reported for rabbit, goat, and guinea pig antibodies. Rabbit and goat antibodies had similar exothermic enthalpy changes for their reaction with 2,4-dinitrophenyl-L-lysine (-13.9 and -14.8 kcal/mol, respectively). The enthalpy chang...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Halsey JF,Cebra JJ,Biltonen RL

更新日期：1975-11-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The interaction of bleomycin A2 with DNA has been examined by fluorescence spectroscopy and proton magnetic resonance techniques. Fluorescence bands observed at 353 and 405 nm in the spectrum of bleomycin were assigned to the bithiazole and 4-aminopyrimidine rings, respectively. Quenching of bithiazole fluorescence by...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Chien M,Grollman AP,Horwitz SB

更新日期：1977-08-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The nuclear tRNA 3' processing activity from wheat has been characterized and partially purified. Several characteristics of the wheat nuclear 3' processing enzyme now allow this activity to be distinguished from its mitochondrial counterpart. The nuclear enzyme is an endonuclease, which we termed nuclear RNase Z. The...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Mayer M,Schiffer S,Marchfelder A

更新日期：2000-02-29 00:00:00