Structural investigation of the binding of a herpesviral protein to the SH3 domain of tyrosine kinase Lck.

abstract：:The 86-amino acid colicin E9 immunity protein (Im9), which inhibits the DNase activity of colicin E9, has been overexpressed in Escherichia coli and isotopically enriched with 15N and 13C. Using the 3D CBCANH and CBCA(CO)NH experiments, we have almost completely assigned the backbone 13C resonances and extended previo...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Osborne MJ,Breeze AL,Lian LY,Reilly A,James R,Kleanthous C,Moore GR

更新日期：1996-07-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The light-driven enzyme NADPH:protochlorophyllide oxidoreductase (POR) catalyzes the reduction of protochlorophyllide (Pchlide) to chlorophyllide (Chlide), a key regulatory step in the chlorophyll biosynthesis pathway. As POR is light activated, it allows intermediates in the reaction pathway to be observed by initiat...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Heyes DJ,Ruban AV,Hunter CN

更新日期：2003-01-21 00:00:00

abstract：:A modified form of procollagen was extracted with 10 M urea from the skin of lambs with dermatosparaxis, a disease which is produced by a genetic defect in the conversion of procollagen to collagen. The extracts contained little if any alpha1 and alpha2 chains of normal type I collagen, and instead they contained the ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Becker U,Timpl R

更新日期：1976-06-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The monoamine transporter of the chromaffin granule membranes can be specifically labeled by the photoaffinity reagent 7-azido-8-[125I]iodoketanserin. The characteristics of the labeled protein have been investigated. Two-dimensional gel electrophoresis of the labeled membranes indicated a MW of about 70,000 and an is...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Isambert MF,Gasnier B,Botton D,Henry JP

更新日期：1992-02-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Tk-subtilisin from the hyperthermophiolic archaeon Thermococcus kodakaraensis matures from Pro-Tk-subtilisin upon autoprocessing and degradation of Tk-propeptide [Tanaka, S., Saito, K., Chon, H., Matsumura, H., Koga, Y., Takano, K., and Kanaya, S. (2007) J. Biol. Chem. 282, 8246-8255]. It requires Ca(2+) for folding a...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Takeuchi Y,Tanaka S,Matsumura H,Koga Y,Takano K,Kanaya S

更新日期：2009-11-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The interaction of the Escherichia coli single-stranded DNA binding protein (SSB) with oligo- and poly-nucleotides has been studied by 270-MHz 1H NMR spectroscopy and fast kinetic techniques. d(pT)8 and poly(dT) were used to study noncooperative and cooperative binding, respectively. The H6, H1', and CH3 resonances of...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Römer R,Schomburg U,Krauss G,Maass G

更新日期：1984-12-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The presence of a N-(2-deoxy-D-erythro pentofuranosyl)urea (henceforth referred to as deoxyribosylurea) residue, ring fragmentation product of a thymine, in a frameshift situation in the sequence 5'd(AGGACCACG).d(CGTGGurTCCT) has been studied by 1H and 31P nuclear magnetic resonance and molecular dynamics. At equilibr...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Gervais V,Cognet JA,Guy A,Cadet J,Téoule R,Fazakerley GV

更新日期：1998-01-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The capsular polysaccharide (CPS) structure of Campylobacter jejuni contributes to its robust fitness. Many strains contain heptose moieties in their CPS units. The precursor heptose is GDP-d-glycero-α-d-manno-heptose; modifications to the stereochemistry at C3-C6 as well as additions of methyl and phosphoramidate gro...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Huddleston JP,Raushel FM

更新日期：2019-09-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The labeling of chloroplast coupling factor 1 by 3'-O-(4-benzoyl)benzoyl-ATP (BzATP) was studied. When the enzyme was incubated with approximately 10 microM BzATP and 6 mM MgCl2 at pH 7.9 for approximately 20 min and passed through two Sephadex G-50 centrifuge columns, three BzATP molecules were bound per coupling fac...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Admon A,Hammes GG

更新日期：1987-06-02 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to more clearly define the structure of human plasma fibronectin (PFn) under physiologic buffer conditions, we determined the mean harmonic rotational relaxation times (rho H) of PFn and the thrombin-derived 190/170-kDa PFn fragment using steady-state fluorescence polarization. These measurements utilized the...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Benecky MJ,Kolvenbach CG,Wine RW,DiOrio JP,Mosesson MW

更新日期：1990-03-27 00:00:00

abstract：:In prokaryotes, the first three enzymes in pyrimidine biosynthesis, carbamoyl phosphate synthetase (CPS), aspartate transcarbamoylase (ATC), and dihydroorotase (DHO), are commonly expressed separately and either function independently (Escherichia coli) or associate into multifunctional complexes (Aquifex aeolicus). I...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Zhang P,Martin PD,Purcarea C,Vaishnav A,Brunzelle JS,Fernando R,Guy-Evans HI,Evans DR,Edwards BF

更新日期：2009-02-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of phosphorylation at Ser40 of rat tyrosine hydroxylase on the affinities of catechols have been determined with both the ferric and ferrous forms of the enzyme. Phosphorylation had no effect on the Ki value for the inhibition of the ferrous enzyme by either dopamine or DOPA when the initial rate of turnov...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Ramsey AJ,Fitzpatrick PF

更新日期：1998-06-23 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：:The GTP-binding proteins or GTPases comprise a superfamily of proteins that provide molecular switches in numerous cellular processes. The "GTPase switch" paradigm, in which a GTPase acts as a bimodal switch that is turned "on" and "off" by external regulatory factors, has been used to interpret the regulatory mechani...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Shan SO,Schmid SL,Zhang X

更新日期：2009-07-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Hirudin is the most potent and specific thrombin inhibitor from medicinal leech with a Ki value of 2.2 x 10(-14) M. It consists of an active site inhibitor segment, hirudin1-48, a fibrinogen-recognition exosite inhibitor segment, hirudin55-65, and a linker, hirudin49-54, connecting these inhibitor segments. The role o...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Tsuda Y,Szewczuk Z,Wang J,Yue SY,Purisima E,Konishi Y

更新日期：1995-07-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Isolation and characterization of a novel radiation-induced product, i.e., the 8-hydroxyguanine residue, produced in deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), 2'-deoxyguanosine, and 2'-deoxyguanosine 5'-monophosphate by gamma-irradiation in aqueous solution, are described. For this purpose, gamma-irradiated DNA was first hydrolyze...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Dizdaroglu M

更新日期：1985-07-30 00:00:00

abstract：:When stoichiometric amounts of tropomyosin (TM) are bound to F-actin in the presence of 2 mM ATP, the MG2+-activated acto-heavy meromyosin (HMM) ATPase is inhibited by about 60% in 5 mM MgCl2-30 mM KCl. If the concentration of MgCl2 is reduced to 1 mM, the inhibition disappears because TM no longer binds to F-actin. I...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Eaton BL,Kominz DR,Eisenberg E

更新日期：1975-06-17 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：:Light-harvesting complex II (LHC-II) regulates the light energy distribution between photosystem I and II in plants. This process is mediated by phosphorylation of the LHC-II protein, which depends on the oxidation state of photosynthetic electron carriers. In addition to this regulatory mechanism, it has recently bee...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Rogl H,Kühlbrandt W,Barth A

更新日期：2003-09-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Human ecto-ATPase (E-NTPDase 2) and chicken ecto-ATP-diphosphohydrolase (E-NTPDase 8) are cell surface nucleotidases with two transmembranous domains, one each at the N- and C-termini. Hydrolysis of substrates occurs in active sites residing in their extracellular domains. Human ecto-ATPase activity is decreased by NP...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Mukasa T,Lee Y,Knowles AF

更新日期：2005-08-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The photocycle of the blue-light photoreceptor protein Photoactive Yellow Protein (PYP) was studied at reduced relative humidity (RH). Photocycle kinetics and spectra were measured in thin films of PYP in which the relative humidity was set at values between 29 and 98% RH with saturated solutions of various salts. We ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： van der Horst MA,van Stokkum IH,Dencher NA,Hellingwerf KJ

更新日期：2005-06-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The first committed step of guanine nucleotide biosynthesis is the oxidation of inosine 5'-monophosphate (IMP) to xanthosine 5'-monophosphate (XMP) catalyzed by IMP dehydrogenase. The reaction involves the reduction of NAD(+) with the formation of a covalent enzyme intermediate (E-XMP). Hydrolysis of E-XMP requires th...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Guillén Schlippe YV,Hedstrom L

更新日期：2005-09-06 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA-DNA interstrand cross-links are thought to be important for the cytotoxicity of many chemotherapeutic agents. To study this more definitively, adduct site-specific methods are used to construct a plasmid with a single nitrogen mustard interstrand cross-link (inter-HN2-pTZSV28). Replication efficiency (RE = [coloni...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Berardini M,Mackay W,Loechler EL

更新日期：1997-03-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Our earlier NMR study showed that a two-disulfide variant of hen lysozyme containing intra-alpha-domain disulfide bridges, C6-C127 and C30-C115, is partially folded, with the alpha domain tightly folded to the nativelike conformation and the beta domain flexible or unfolded. With a view that the formation of a third d...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Yokota A,Hirai K,Miyauchi H,Iimura S,Noda Y,Inoue K,Akasaka K,Tachibana H,Segawa S

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The NADH absorbance spectrum of nicotinoprotein (NADH-containing) alcohol dehydrogenase from Amycolatopsis methanolica has a maximum at 326 nm. Reduced enzyme-bound pyridine dinucleotide could be reversibly oxidized by acetaldehyde. The fluorescence excitation spectrum for NADH bound to the enzyme has a maximum at 325...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Piersma SR,Visser AJ,de Vries S,Duine JA

更新日期：1998-03-03 00:00:00

abstract：:CYP2C19 is selective for the 4'-hydroxylation of S-mephenytoin while the highly similar CYP2C9 has little activity toward this substrate. To identify critical amino acids determining the specificity of human CYP2C19 for S-mephenytoin 4'-hydroxylation, we constructed chimeras by replacing portions of CYP2C9 containing ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Tsao CC,Wester MR,Ghanayem B,Coulter SJ,Chanas B,Johnson EF,Goldstein JA

更新日期：2001-02-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Oligodeoxynucleotides modified site-specifically with dG-(+)-trans- and dG-(+)-cis-anti-BPDE (7,8-dihydroxy-9,10-epoxy-7,8,9,10-tetrahydrobenzo[a]pyrene) or dG-(-)-trans- and dG-(-)-cis-anti-BPDE were used as templates in primer extension reactions catalyzed by the Klenow fragment of Escherichia coli DNA polymerase I....

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Shibutani S,Margulis LA,Geacintov NE,Grollman AP

更新日期：1993-07-27 00:00:00

abstract：:N-RAP is a recently discovered muscle-specific protein found at cardiac intercalated disks. Double immunogold labeling of mouse cardiac muscle reveals that vinculin is located immediately adjacent to the fascia adherens region of the intercalated disk membrane, while N-RAP extends approximately 100 nm further toward t...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Zhang JQ,Elzey B,Williams G,Lu S,Law DJ,Horowits R

更新日期：2001-12-11 00:00:00

abstract：:A structural understanding of the nature and scope of serpin inhibition mechanisms has been limited by the inability so far to crystallize any serpin-proteinase complex. We describe here the application of [(1)H-(15)N]-HSQC NMR on uniformly and residue-selectively (15)N-labeled serpin alpha(1)-proteinase inhibitor (Pi...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Peterson FC,Gordon NC,Gettins PG

更新日期：2000-10-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Isopentenyl diphosphate:dimethylallyl diphosphate isomerase (EC 5.3.3.2) catalyzes the antarafacial [1.3] allylic rearrangement of isopentenyl diphosphate (IPP) to its electrophilic allylic isomer dimethylallyl diphosphate (DMAPP). Active-site thiols at C138 and C139 were recently identified by covalent modification u...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Street IP,Coffman HR,Baker JA,Poulter CD

更新日期：1994-04-12 00:00:00