Generation and characterization of two transgenic mouse lines expressing human ApoE2 in neurons and glial cells.

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：:Rhodobacter sphaeroides strains lacking cytochrome c2 (cyt c2), the normal electron donor to P870+ in light-oxidized reaction center (RC) complexes, are unable to grow photosynthetically. However, spd mutations that suppress the photosynthetic deficiency of cyt c2 mutants elevate levels of the cyt c2 isoform, isocyt c...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Witthuhn VC Jr,Gao J,Hong S,Halls S,Rott MA,Wraight CA,Crofts AR,Donohue TJ

更新日期：1997-01-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Human NFU (also known as HIRIP5) has been implicated in cellular iron-sulfur cluster biosynthesis. Bacterial and yeast forms are smaller than the human protein and are homologous to the C-terminal domain of the latter. This C-terminal domain contains a pair of redox active cysteines and demonstrates thioredoxin-like a...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Liu Y,Qi W,Cowan JA

更新日期：2009-02-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Locusta migratoria apolipophorin III (apoLp-III) is a helix bundle exchangeable apolipoprotein that reversibly binds to lipoprotein surfaces. Structural reorganization of its five amphipathic alpha-helices enables the transition from the lipid-free to lipid-bound state. ApoLp-III-induced transformation of dimyristoylp...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Weers PM,Kay CM,Ryan RO

更新日期：2001-06-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutation of Pro94 to phenylalanine or alanine significantly alters the redox properties of the type I copper center of amicyanin. Each mutation increases the redox midpoint potential (E(m)) value by at least 140 mV and shifts the pK(a) for the pH dependence of the E(m) value to a more acidic value. Atomic resolution (...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Carrell CJ,Sun D,Jiang S,Davidson VL,Mathews FS

更新日期：2004-07-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The properties of the high-affinity single-stranded DNA (ssDNA) binding state of Escherichia coli recA protein have been studied. We find that all of the nucleoside triphosphates that are hydrolyzed by recA protein induce a high-affinity ssDNA binding state. The effect of ATP binding to recA protein was partially sepa...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Menetski JP,Varghese A,Kowalczykowski SC

更新日期：1988-02-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Inducible dimers are powerful tools for controlling biological processes through colocalizing signaling molecules. To be effective, an inducible system should have a dissociation constant in the "off" state that is greater (i.e., weaker affinity) than the concentrations of the molecules that are being controlled, and ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Zimmerman SP,Hallett RA,Bourke AM,Bear JE,Kennedy MJ,Kuhlman B

更新日期：2016-09-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Polymerase eta is a member of the Y family of DNA polymerases which is able to bypass thymine dimers efficiently and in a relatively error-free manner. To elucidate the mechanism of dimer bypass, the efficiency of dAMP and pyrene nucleotide insertion opposite the thymine dimer and its N3-methyl derivatives was determi...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Sun L,Zhang K,Zhou L,Hohler P,Kool ET,Yuan F,Wang Z,Taylor JS

更新日期：2003-08-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The Escherichia coli L-arabinose-binding protein (ABP) participates as a specific receptor in the transport of L-arabinose, D-fucose, and D-galactose through the periplasmic space. The wild-type protein binds L-arabinose about 40 times more strongly than D-fucose. A mutation of the protein at position 108 (Met-->Leu) ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Zacharias M,Straatsma TP,McCammon JA,Quiocho FA

更新日期：1993-07-27 00:00:00

abstract：:In vivo bioluminescence imaging (BLI) has become a standard, non-invasive imaging modality for following gene expression or the fate of proteins and cells in living animals. Currently, bioluminescent reporters used in laboratories are mostly derivatives of two major luciferase families: ATP-dependent insect luciferase...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Yeh HW,Wu T,Chen M,Ai HW

更新日期：2019-03-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The generation of multiprotein complexes at receptors and adapter proteins is crucial for the activation of intracellular signaling pathways. In this study, we used multiple biochemical and biophysical methods to examine the binding properties of several SH2 and SH3 domain-containing signaling proteins as they interac...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Houtman JC,Higashimoto Y,Dimasi N,Cho S,Yamaguchi H,Bowden B,Regan C,Malchiodi EL,Mariuzza R,Schuck P,Appella E,Samelson LE

更新日期：2004-04-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The cytokinin-active isoprenoid nucleosides of Agrobacterium tumefaciens transfer ribonucleic acid were identified by high-pressure liquid chromatography, permethylation, and mass spectroscopy. Besides the expected 6-[(3-methylbut-2-enyl)amino]-9-(beta-D-ribofuranosyl)purine (i6A) and its 2-methylthio derivative (ms2i...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Morris RO,Regier DA,Olson RM Jr,Struxness LA,Armstrong DJ

更新日期：1981-10-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The insulin hexamer is an allosteric protein widely used in formulations for the treatment of diabetes. The hexamer exhibits positive and negative cooperativity and apparent half-site binding activity, reflecting the interconversion of three allosteric states, designated as T6, T3R3, and R6. The hexamer contains two s...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Bonaccio M,Ghaderi N,Borchardt D,Dunn MF

更新日期：2005-05-31 00:00:00

abstract：:The formation and role of arachidonic acid (AA) and its metabolites during gonadotropin releasing hormone- (GnRH-) induced gonadotropin secretion were investigated in primary cultures of rat pituitary cells. Prelabeled cells ([3H]AA) responded to GnRH challenge with increased formation (about 2-fold) of the leukotrien...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Dan-Cohen H,Sofer Y,Schwartzman ML,Natarajan RD,Nadler JL,Naor Z

更新日期：1992-06-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Factor VII (proconvertin) has been purified approximately 5 x 10(5)-fold from bovine plasma with an overall yield of 30%. The isolation procedure involves barium sulfate adsorption and elution, DEAE-Sephadex batchwise adsorption and elution, benzamidine-agarose column chromatography, heparin-agarose column chromatogra...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Kisiel W,Davie EW

更新日期：1975-11-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Ornithine decarboxylase (ODC) catalyzes the first committed step in the biosynthesis of polyamines, and it has been identified as a drug target for the treatment of African sleeping sickness, caused by Trypanosoma brucei. ODC is a pyridoxal 5'-phosphate (PLP) dependent enzyme and an obligate homodimer. X-ray structura...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Jackson LK,Brooks HB,Osterman AL,Goldsmith EJ,Phillips MA

更新日期：2000-09-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Guinea pig liver transglutaminase (TGase) reacts with 0.1 mM N-Cbz-L-Glu(gamma-p-nitrophenyl ester)Gly (5, prepared herein, K(M) = 0.02 mM) to undergo rapid acylation that can be followed spectrophotometrically at 400 nm (pH 7.0, 25 degrees C). Deacylation of the transiently formed thiolester acyl enzyme intermediate ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Leblanc A,Gravel C,Labelle J,Keillor JW

更新日期：2001-07-27 00:00:00

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：:The effect of the polyene antibiotic amphotericin B on the electron paramagnetic resonance spectra of lipid probes intercalated in model membranes was examined. When the antibiotic was added to the aqueous phase, no spectral effects occurred. However, when the antibiotic was incorporated during membrane preparation, c...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Aracava Y,Smith IC,Schreier S

更新日期：1981-09-29 00:00:00

abstract：:A soluble and fully functional 10.5 kDa fragment of the 18.2 kDa membrane-bound cytochrome c(552) from Paracoccus denitrificans has been heterologously expressed and (13)C/(15)N-labeled to study the structural features of this protein in both redox states. Well-resolved solution structures of both the reduced and oxid...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Reincke B,Pérez C,Pristovsek P,Lücke C,Ludwig C,Löhr F,Rogov VV,Ludwig B,Rüterjans H

更新日期：2001-10-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The distance between the calcium site (site I) and the zinc site (site II) in alpha-lactalbumin was estimated from Forster energy-transfer measurements between donor Eu(III) [or Tb(III)] at site I and acceptor Co(II) at site II to be 11.5 +/- 1.5 A. Intersite distances were also measured between the bis-ANS [4,4'-bis[...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Musci G,Berliner LJ

更新日期：1986-08-26 00:00:00

abstract：:In an effort to extend automated Edman degradation to nanomole quantities of protein, the method of sequenator analysis described by Edman and Begg (Edman, P., and Begg, G. (1967), Eur. J. Biochem. 1, 80) was modified to permit long degradations in the absence of carrier proteins. By using an aqueous 0.1 M Quadrol pro...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Brauer AW,Margolies MN,Haber E

更新日期：1975-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutagenesis and cross-linking measurements have identified specific contact interactions between the cytosolic and the transmembrane sequences of phospholamban (PLB) and the Ca-ATPase, and in conjunction with the high-resolution structures of PLB and the Ca-ATPase, have been used to construct models of the PLB-ATPase ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Li J,Xiong Y,Bigelow DJ,Squier TC

更新日期：2004-01-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The fusion of different protein domains via peptide linkers is a powerful, modular approach to obtain proteins with new functions. A detailed understanding of the conformational behavior of peptide linkers is important for applications such as fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET)-based sensor proteins and mul...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Evers TH,van Dongen EM,Faesen AC,Meijer EW,Merkx M

更新日期：2006-11-07 00:00:00

abstract：:N-(1-Pyrenyl)iodoacetamide has been used to introduce fluorescent probes into Escherichia coli RNA polymerase. After an incubation time of 15 min, approximately 2 pyrene equiv was introduced per enzyme molecule. There was no further increase in modification after more extended periods of incubation. Neither calf thymu...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Johnson RS,Bowers M,Eaton Q

更新日期：1991-01-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The kinetic parameters (kpol, Kd app) for all possible correct and incorrect pairing between the A, T, G, and C bases were determined for wild-type (WT) rat DNA polymerase beta (pol beta) and the R283A mutant under pre-steady-state kinetic assay conditions. The base substitution fidelities of these two proteins were t...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Ahn J,Werneburg BG,Tsai MD

更新日期：1997-02-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The aminolysis of the depsipeptide m-[[(phenylacetyl)glycyl]oxy]benzoic acid (1) by D-phenylalanine, catalyzed by the beta-lactamase of Enterobacter cloacae P99, is inhibited by the product of the reaction, (phenylacetyl)glycyl-D-phenylalanine (2), by the peptide analogue of 1, m-[(phenylacetyl)-glycinamido]benzoic ac...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Pazhanisamy S,Pratt RF

更新日期：1989-08-22 00:00:00

abstract：:In a family of proteins, often the three-dimensional structure has been experimentally determined only for one member or a few members of the family. Homology modeling can be used to model the structures of all other members of the family and thus allow comparison of these structures. This approach was applied to hete...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Kosloff M,Elia N,Selinger Z

更新日期：2002-12-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The conformation of two fragments derived from anti-poly(D-alanyl) antibodies, the divalent fragment (Fab')2 and the monovalent fragment Fab', was studied by small-angle X-ray scattering before and after interaction with the tetra-D-alanine amide hapten. More than 90% of the combining sites were occupied by the hapten...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Pilz I,Kratky O,Licht A,Sela M

更新日期：1975-03-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of normo (NTG)- and hypertriglyceridemic (HTG)-VLDL on cultured human umbilical vein endothelial cell (HUVEC) surface-localized fibrinolysis was examined following pre-incubation with NTG-, HTG-VLDL, LDL (1-20 micrograms/mL) or buffer (control). Ligand binding assays, using 125I-labeled tcu-PA, t-PA, or Glu...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Li XN,Koons JC,Benza RL,Parks JM,Varma VK,Bradley WA,Gianturco SH,Taylor KB,Grammer JR,Tabengwa EM,Booyse FM

更新日期：1996-05-14 00:00:00