Production and characterization of bifunctional enzymes. Substrate channeling in the aspartate pathway.

abstract：:The third intracellular loop (IL3) of G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) is an important contact domain between GPCRs and their G proteins. Previously, the IL3 of Ste2p, a Saccharomyces cerevisiae GPCR, was suggested to undergo a conformational change upon activation as detected by differential protease susceptibilit...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Umanah GK,Huang LY,Maccarone JM,Naider F,Becker JM

更新日期：2011-08-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Regulation of cellular processes by dietary nutrients is known to affect the likelihood of cancer development. One class of cancer-preventive nutrients, isothiocyanates (ITCs), derived from the consumption of cruciferous vegetables, is known to have various effects on cellular biochemistry. One target of ITCs is macro...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Crichlow GV,Fan C,Keeler C,Hodsdon M,Lolis EJ

更新日期：2012-09-25 00:00:00

abstract：:A statistical mechanical partition function for phospholipid bilayers is constructed to obtain a theoretical description of the chain melting phase transition in lipid bilayer membranes and of the phase diagrams for two-component bilayers. In addition to providing an accurate representation of the transition temperatu...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Jacobs RE,Hudson BS,Andersen HC

更新日期：1977-10-04 00:00:00

abstract：:D-Xylose isomerase (XI) is a heat-stable homotetrameric enzyme used in industry for the production of high-fructose corn syrups by isomerization of D-glucose into D-fructose. To carry out biochemical and structural studies of this enzyme and of its engineered variants, a rapid and convenient method of purification of ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Mrabet NT

更新日期：1992-03-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Thiolases are CoA-dependent enzymes which catalyze the formation of a carbon-carbon bond in a Claisen condensation step and its reverse reaction via a thiolytic degradation mechanism. Mitochondrial acetoacetyl-coenzyme A (CoA) thiolase (T2) is important in the pathways for the synthesis and degradation of ketone bodie...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Haapalainen AM,Meriläinen G,Pirilä PL,Kondo N,Fukao T,Wierenga RK

更新日期：2007-04-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The fidelity of DNA strand transfer reactions catalyzed by human immunodeficiency virus type 1 reverse transcriptase has been studied in vitro. A model system involving two sequential DNA strand transfers was developed to simulate the process of forced copy-choice recombination. A propensity for nucleotide misincorpor...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Peliska JA,Benkovic SJ

更新日期：1994-04-05 00:00:00

abstract：:A Ca(2+)-activated thiol protease was purified from Drosophila melanogaster. The procedure involves Phenyl-Sepharose, Reactive Red-Agarose and Q-Sepharose fast flow (or MonoQ) chromatographic steps. The enzyme eluting from Q-Sepharose fast flow seems to be homogeneous as judged by silver staining on SDS-PAGE: it consi...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Pintér M,Stierandova A,Friedrich P

更新日期：1992-09-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Translesion synthesis (TLS) is a mutagenic branch of cellular DNA damage tolerance that enables bypass replication over DNA lesions carried out by specialized low-fidelity DNA polymerases. The replicative bypass of most types of DNA damage is performed in a two-step process of Rev1/Polζ-dependent TLS. In the first ste...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Pustovalova Y,Magalhães MT,D'Souza S,Rizzo AA,Korza G,Walker GC,Korzhnev DM

更新日期：2016-04-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Crude calf thymus DNA-dependent RNA polymerase, RNA polymerase B (ribonucleoside triphosphate: RNA nucleotidyltransferase, EC 2.7.7.6), was incubated with the tritium labeled, potent inhibitor [3H]amanin, in order to form the enzymatically inactive [3H]amanin-polymerase complex ([3H]A-P complex). Subsequent purificati...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Brodner OG,Wieland T

更新日期：1976-08-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The HAMP domain is a conserved motif widely distributed in prokaryotic and lower eukaryotic organisms, where it is often found in transmembrane receptors that regulate two-component signaling pathways. The motif links receptor input and output modules and is essential to receptor structure and signal transduction. Rec...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Swain KE,Falke JJ

更新日期：2007-12-04 00:00:00

abstract：:This study highlights the effect of incorporation of locked nucleic acid (LNA) on improving the functional efficacy of DNAzymes against microRNAs (antagomirzymes). DNAzymes were designed against two different sites of miR-27a, which were encompassed both within the precursor and mature form of miRNA. The cleavage and ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Kaur H,Scaria V,Maiti S

更新日期：2010-11-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The function of Lys-59, Arg-141, and Arg-277 in PAPS binding and catalysis of the flavonol 3-sulfotransferase was investigated. Affinity chromatography of conservative mutants with PAPS analogues allowed us to determine that Lys-59 interacts with the 5' portion of the nucleotide, while Arg-141 interacts with the 3' po...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Marsolais F,Laviolette M,Kakuta Y,Negishi M,Pedersen LC,Auger M,Varin L

更新日期：1999-03-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Induced fit has been postulated to be an important component of ligand interactions with proteins, including protein-DNA interactions. We imagined that the entropic cost of induced fit might be highly dependent on the local protein sequence context around critical contact residues. To investigate this question, we ana...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Ribas de Pouplana L,Auld DS,Kim S,Schimmel P

更新日期：1996-06-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The intense charge transfer complex between the enolate of 3-thia-octanoyl-CoA and the oxidized flavin of the medium-chain acyl-CoA dehydrogenase is discharged by the ferricenium ion with irreversible inactivation of the enzyme. Charge transfer complex formation is a necessary, but insufficient, condition for oxidativ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Schaller RA,Thorpe C

更新日期：1995-12-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The limited proteolysis approach was used to analyze the conformational features of human growth hormone (hGH) under acidic solvent conditions (A-state). Pepsin was used as the proteolytic probe because of its poor substrate specificity and its activity at low pH. Limited proteolysis of hGH in its A-state results in a...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Spolaore B,Polverino de Laureto P,Zambonin M,Fontana A

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Deuterium magnetic resonance spectra (55.26 MHz) of cholesterol-3 alpha-d1 and epicholesterol-3 beta-d1 in dipalmitoylglycerophosphocholine (DPPC) liposomes were measured as a function of sterol-to-phospholipid ratio below (24 degrees C) and above (60 degrees C) the phase transition temperature of DPPC. From the quadr...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Murari R,Murari MP,Baumann WJ

更新日期：1986-03-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Whether hydrogen bonds between side chains are energetically significant in proteins and peptides has been controversial. A method is given here for measuring these interactions in peptide helices by comparing the helix contents of peptides with 1, 2, or 3 interactions. Results are given for the glutamine--aspartate (...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Huyghues-Despointes BM,Klingler TM,Baldwin RL

更新日期：1995-10-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The intense intrinsic fluorescence emissions from several clinically relevant camptothecin drugs have been exploited in order to determine (1) the structural basis of drug binding to lipid bilayers, (2) the lipid bilayer stability of each drug's alpha-hydroxylactone moiety, a pharmacophore which is essential for antit...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Burke TG,Mishra AK,Wani MC,Wall ME

更新日期：1993-05-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Perturbations within the transactivation and carboxy-terminal domains of HIV-1 Rev were examined for effects on Rev responsive element (RRE) binding activities in vitro and biological activity in vivo. Binding affinities, specificities, and multimerization of the transactivation mutants M10 and Rev/Rex M10-16 on the R...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Daly TJ,Rennert P,Lynch P,Barry JK,Dundas M,Rusche JR,Doten RC,Auer M,Farrington GK

更新日期：1993-08-31 00:00:00

abstract：:In the processes of DNA replication, recombination, and repair, duplex DNA can transiently form branched structures, such as Holliday junctions, as well as base pair mismatches and bulges. These stages have altered ligand and protein binding properties from normal double helical DNA. A variety of ligands have been rep...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Hernández LI,Zhong M,Courtney SH,Marky LA,Kallenbach NR

更新日期：1994-11-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The interaction of a nitroxide spin-labeled derivative of ouabain with sheep kidney Na,K-ATPase and the motional behavior of the ouabain spin label-Na,K-ATPase complex have been studied by means of electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) and saturation-transfer EPR (ST-EPR). Spin-labeled ouabain binds with high affinity...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Mahaney JE,Grisham CM

更新日期：1992-02-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The successive high-resolution differential scanning calorimetric (DSC) thermograms for aqueous dispersions of a homologous series of mixed-chain phosphatidylcholines, C(X):C(X + 6)PC, have been recorded and analyzed. In this series of saturated mixed-chain phosphatidylcholines, the total number of carbon atoms in the...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Wang ZQ,Lin HN,Huang CH

更新日期：1990-07-31 00:00:00

abstract：:A recirculating Langendorff heart preparation is used to characterize the endogenous antithrombin associated reversibly with murine vascular endothelium. Rat hearts are perfused clear of blood and then recirculated with a physiological salt solution. Addition of heparin educes antithrombin activity continuously into t...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Felsch JS,Owen WG

更新日期：1994-01-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Nitrosylhemoglobin (HbFe(II)NO) has been shown to be generated in vivo from the reaction of deoxyHb with NO(*) as well as with nitrite. Despite the physiological importance attributed to this form of Hb, its reactivity has not been investigated in detail. In this study, we showed that the rate of oxidation of HbFe(II)...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Herold S,Röck G

更新日期：2005-04-26 00:00:00

abstract：:NLRP4 is a member of the nucleotide-binding and leucine-rich repeat receptor (NLR) family of cytosolic receptors and a member of an inflammation signaling cascade. Here, we present the crystal structure of the NLRP4 pyrin domain (PYD) at 2.3 Å resolution. The NLRP4 PYD is a member of the death domain (DD) superfamily ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Eibl C,Grigoriu S,Hessenberger M,Wenger J,Puehringer S,Pinheiro AS,Wagner RN,Proell M,Reed JC,Page R,Diederichs K,Peti W

更新日期：2012-09-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Heme oxygenases convert heme to free iron, CO, and biliverdin. Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Candida albicans express putative heme oxygenases that are required for the acquisition of iron from heme, a critical process for fungal survival and virulence. The putative heme oxygenases Hmx1 and CaHmx1 from S. cerevisiae an...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Kim D,Yukl ET,Moënne-Loccoz P,Montellano PR

更新日期：2006-12-12 00:00:00

abstract：:In this work, we obtain the data needed to predict chemical interactions of polyethylene glycols (PEGs) and glycerol with proteins and related organic compounds and thereby interpret or predict chemical effects of PEGs on protein processes. To accomplish this, we determine interactions of glycerol and tetraEG with >30...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Knowles DB,Shkel IA,Phan NM,Sternke M,Lingeman E,Cheng X,Cheng L,O'Connor K,Record MT

更新日期：2015-06-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Endogenous DNA damage occurs at a rate of at least 20,000 lesions per cell per day. Base excision repair (BER) is a key pathway for maintaining genome stability. Several pol beta variants were identified as conferring resistance to 3'-azido-3'-deoxythymidine (AZT) in Escherichia coli (Kosa et al. (1999) J. Biol. Chem....

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Murphy DL,Kosa J,Jaeger J,Sweasy JB

更新日期：2008-08-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) exemplifies the family of receptor tyrosine kinases that mediate numerous cellular processes, including growth, proliferation, and differentiation. Moreover, gene amplification and EGFR mutations have been identified in a number of human malignancies, making this receptor an imp...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Truong TH,Carroll KS

更新日期：2012-12-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The tyrosine kinase c-Abl is implicated in a variety of cellular processes that are tightly regulated by c-Abl kinase activity and/or by interactions between c-Abl and other signaling molecules. The interaction of c-Abl with the Abl interactor protein Abi2 is shown to be negatively regulated by phosphorylation of seri...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Jung JH,Pendergast AM,Zipfel PA,Traugh JA

更新日期：2008-01-22 00:00:00