Attenuated total reflection Fourier transform infrared studies of redox changes in bovine cytochrome c oxidase: resolution of the redox Fourier transform infrared difference spectrum of heme a(3).

abstract：:Fluorescein isothiocyanate derivatization of the human lactotransferrin on Lys-264 inhibits the binding of the protein of human PHA-activated lymphocytes [Legrand, D., Mazurier, J., Maes, P., Rochard, E., Montreuil, J., & Spik, G. (1991) Biochem. J. 276, 733-738], indicating that part of the receptor-binding site is l...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Legrand D,Mazurier J,Elass A,Rochard E,Vergoten G,Maes P,Montreuil J,Spik G

更新日期：1992-09-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The spin label Tempo-maleimide, when "immobilized" in hemoglobin, is shown to exhibit motional fluctuation whose amplitude and/or frequency depend on temperature and solution conditions. These motional fluctuations are observable by several electron spin resonance techniques. For desalted hemoglobin the fluctuations a...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Johnson ME

更新日期：1978-04-04 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 binding to rat brain synaptosomes of a beta-scorpion toxin, i.e., toxin II of Centruroides suffusus suffusus (Css II), was studied as a function of pH, temperature, and concentration of some monovalent and divalent cations. At 10 degrees C and pH 6.0, the specific binding of 125I-labeled Css II corresponds to a si...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Jover E,Bablito J,Couraud F

更新日期：1984-03-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Comparative electrophoretic, thermal denaturation, and spectroscopic studies with dodecamers of the form d(ATTA-XGCX-TAAT) and their self-complementary counterparts suggest that actinomycin D (ACTD) binds strongly to a 5'GC3' site with flanking T/T mismatches and moderately to that with C/C mismatches but weakly to th...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Liu C,Chen FM

更新日期：1996-12-17 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：:Only beta-beta cross-links form when the alpha(3)(betaE(395)C)(3)gammaK(36)C (MF(1) residue numbers) double mutant subcomplex of TF(1), the F(1)-ATPase from the thermophilic Bacillus PS3, is slowly inactivated with CuCl(2) in the presence or absence of MgATP. The same slow rate of inactivation and extent of beta-beta ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Bandyopadhyay S,Allison WS

更新日期：2004-03-09 00:00:00

abstract：:β-2-Microglobulin (β2m) forms amyloid fibrils in the joints of patients undergoing dialysis treatment as a result of kidney failure. One of the ways in which β2m can be induced to form amyloid fibrils in vitro is via incubation with stoichiometric amounts of Cu(II). To better understand the structural changes caused b...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Borotto NB,Zhang Z,Dong J,Burant B,Vachet RW

更新日期：2017-02-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Reactive amyloidosis occurs during chronic inflammation and involves deposition of amyloid A (AA) fibrils in many organs. Amyloid A is derived by proteolysis from serum amyloid A component (SAA), a major acute-phase reactant in many species. Since spontaneous amyloidosis occurs commonly in Syrian hamsters, we have stu...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Webb CF,Tucker PW,Dowton SB

更新日期：1989-05-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The concentration of hyaluronic acid, chondroitin sulfate, and heparan sulfate was measured in rat brain at 2-day intervals from birth to 1 month of age, and in 40-day-old and adult animals. The levels of all three glycosaminoglycans increased after birth to reach a peak at 7 days after which they declined steadily, a...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Margolis RU,Margolis RK,Chang LB,Preti C

更新日期：1975-01-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Elongation factor Tu (EF-Tu) is a highly conserved GTPase that is responsible for supplying the aminoacylated tRNA to the ribosome. Upon binding to the ribosome, EF-Tu undergoes GTP hydrolysis, which drives a major conformational change, triggering the release of aminoacylated tRNA to the ribosome. Using a combination...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Lai J,Ghaemi Z,Luthey-Schulten Z

更新日期：2017-11-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The first epidermal growth factor-like domain (EGF-1) from blood coagulation factor VII (FVII) contains two unusual O-linked glycosylation sites at Ser-52 and Ser-60. We report here a detailed study of the effect of O-fucosylation at Ser-60 on the structure of FVII EGF-1, its Ca2+-binding affinity, and its interaction...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Kao YH,Lee GF,Wang Y,Starovasnik MA,Kelley RF,Spellman MW,Lerner L

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The reaction of mushroom (Agaricus bisporus) tyrosinase with dioxygen in the presence of several o-diphenolic substrates has been studied by steady-state and transient-phase kinetics in order to elucidate the rate-limiting step and to provide new insights into the mechanism of oxidation of these substrates. A kinetic ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Rodríguez-López JN,Fenoll LG,García-Ruiz PA,Varón R,Tudela J,Thorneley RN,García-Cánovas F

更新日期：2000-08-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The murine urokinase-type plasminogen activator (uPA) gene has been isolated from a BALB/c liver DNA cosmid library and its nucleotide sequence established. The gene is organized into 11 exons comprising 34.7% of the 6710 base pair (bp) region spanning the interval between the presumed transcription initiation and pol...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Degen SJ,Heckel JL,Reich E,Degen JL

更新日期：1987-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The peptidyl trifluoromethyl ketones Ac-Phe-CF3 (1) and Ac-Leu-Phe-CF3 (2) are inhibitors of chymotrypsin. They differ in Ki (20 and 2 microM, respectively) as well as in their kinetics of association with chymotrypsin in that 1 is rapidly equilibrating, with an association rate too fast to be observed by steady-state...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Brady K,Wei AZ,Ringe D,Abeles RH

更新日期：1990-08-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The X-ray crystallographic structure of the photosynthetic reaction center from Rhodobacter sphaeroides obtained at high resolution has revealed a number of internal water molecules (Ermler, U., Fritzsch, G., Buchanan, S. K., and Michel, H. (1994) Structure 2, 925-936; Stowell, M. H. B., McPhillips, T. M., Rees, D. C....

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Tandori J,Sebban P,Michel H,Baciou L

更新日期：1999-10-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The structural consequences of specific base sequences in DNA can exert a strong influence on the function of DNA. It has previously been reported that the presence of multiple B-Z conformational junctions in constructed DNA oligomers results in unusually enhanced electrophoretic gel mobilities of these oligomers [Win...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Lu M,Guo Q,Kallenbach NR,Sheardy RD

更新日期：1992-05-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of substituting Pro-L209 with Tyr, Phe, Glu, and Thr in photosynthetic reaction centers (RCs) from Rhodobacter sphaeroides was investigated by monitoring the light-induced FTIR absorption changes associated with the photoreduction of the secondary quinone Q(B). Pro-L209 is close to a chain of ordered water ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Nabedryk E,Breton J,Sebban P,Baciou L

更新日期：2003-05-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Eukaryotic assimilatory nitrate reductase (NR) is a dimeric multidomain molybdo-heme-flavo protein that catalyzes the first and rate-limiting step in the nitrate assimilation of plants, algae, and fungi. Nitrate reduction takes place at the N-terminal molybdenum cofactor-containing domain. Reducing equivalents are der...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Lambeck I,Chi JC,Krizowski S,Mueller S,Mehlmer N,Teige M,Fischer K,Schwarz G

更新日期：2010-09-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Mucopolysaccharides were isolated from calf cerebral microvasculature and calf aorta. The only complex carbohydrates that exhibited anticoagulant activity were heparin-like components. The biologic potencies of calf cerebral and aortic heparin-like species were 2.92 units/mg of anti-factor Xa activity and 2.85 units/m...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Marcum JA,Rosenberg RD

更新日期：1984-04-10 00:00:00

abstract：:A series of double-helical oligodeoxyribonucleotides of sequence corresponding to a frame-shift mutational hot spot in the lambda CI gene, 5'-dGATGGGGCAG, are compared by proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy at 500 MHz of the exchangeable protons. Duplexes containing an extra guanine in a run of two, three, and four...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Woodson SA,Crothers DM

更新日期：1988-01-12 00:00:00

abstract：:11Beta-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase type 1 (11beta-HSD1) catalyzes the conversion of 11-dehydrocorticosterone to its active form corticosterone in rodents (or cortisone to cortisol in humans). The reductive reaction of the 11-keto to 11-hydroxyl is the pivotal switch in the activation of glucocorticoids. An excess of ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Zhang J,Osslund TD,Plant MH,Clogston CL,Nybo RE,Xiong F,Delaney JM,Jordan SR

更新日期：2005-05-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Monomeric sarcosine oxidase is a flavoenzyme that catalyzes the oxidation of the methyl group in sarcosine (N-methylglycine). Rapid reaction kinetic studies under anaerobic conditions at pH 8.0 show that the enzyme forms a charge transfer Michaelis complex with sarcosine (E-FAD(ox).sarcosine) that exhibits an intense ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Zhao G,Jorns MS

更新日期：2006-05-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The resonance Raman spectra of yeast ferri- and ferro-iso-1-cytochrome c dissolved in H2O and D2O are reported. Hydrogen exchange in the protein leads to distinct spectral changes of heme vibrational bands, particularly in the region between 670 and 710 cm-1 and at approximately 443 and approximately 450 cm-1. The lat...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Hildebrandt P,Vanhecke F,Heibel G,Mauk AG

更新日期：1993-12-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to investigate the molecular action of lithocholic acid (LCA), known as a selective inhibitor of DNA polymerase beta (pol beta). The 39-kDa pol beta was separated proteolytically into two fragments of the template-primer binding domain (8 kDa) and the catalytic domain (31 kDa). LCA bound ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Mizushina Y,Ohkubo T,Sugawara F,Sakaguchi K

更新日期：2000-10-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Reactive metabolites of environmental chemicals and drugs can cause site specific damage to the p53 tumor suppressor gene in a major pathway for genotoxicity. We report here a high-throughput, cell-free, 96-well plate magnetic bead-enzyme system interfaced with LC-MS/MS sequencing for bioactivating test chemicals and ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Malla S,Kadimisetty K,Jiang D,Choudhary D,Rusling JF

更新日期：2018-07-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The binding of a ligand to cell surface receptors initiates a cascade of intracellular signals that generate responses to the external stimuli. Thus, this event plays a pivotal role in the mechanism of transmembrane signaling. Activin is a member of a cytokine family that is involved in diverse biological processes. T...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Greenwald J,Le V,Corrigan A,Fischer W,Komives E,Vale W,Choe S

更新日期：1998-11-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The structural underpinnings of enzyme substrate specificity are investigated in a pair of copper amine oxidases (CAOs) from Hansenula polymorpha (HPAO-1 and HPAO-2). The X-ray crystal structure (to 2.0 A resolution) and steady state kinetic data of the second copper amine oxidase (HPAO-2) are presented for comparison...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Chang CM,Klema VJ,Johnson BJ,Mure M,Klinman JP,Wilmot CM

更新日期：2010-03-23 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA sequences containing homopurine d(G1-3A)n tracts are known to be capable of adopting non-B-DNA conformations. The structural polymorphism of these sequences is a direct consequence of the structural properties of the homopurine d(G1-3A)n tracts. Depending on the conditions, d(GA)n DNA sequences can form antiparall...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Huertas D,Azorín F

更新日期：1996-10-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Complementary DNA clones coding for the human secreted carbonic anhydrase isozyme (CA VI) have been isolated and their nucleotide sequences determined. These clones identify a 1.45-kb mRNA that is present in high levels in parotid submandibular salivary glands but absent in other tissues such as the sublingual gland, ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Aldred P,Fu P,Barrett G,Penschow JD,Wright RD,Coghlan JP,Fernley RT

更新日期：1991-01-15 00:00:00