Molecular hinges in protein folding: the urea-denatured state of apomyoglobin.

abstract：:TP40 is a chimeric protein containing transforming growth factor alpha (TGF-alpha) at the N-terminus and a derivative of a 40,000-Da segment (PE40 delta cys) of Pseudomonas exotoxin (PE). PE40 delta cys contains domains Ib, II, and III of PE in which the cysteines are mutated to alanines. The rationale for inclusion o...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Sanyal G,Marquis-Omer D,Gress JO,Middaugh CR

更新日期：1993-04-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Halorhodopsin from Natronomonas pharaonis (NpHR) acts an inward-directed, light-driven chloride pump and forms a homotrimer. To evaluate effect of trimeric assembly, that is, intermolecular interaction, on the control or modulation of light-driven chloride pumping activity of individual HRs, it is important to underst...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Sasaki T,Aizawa T,Kamiya M,Kikukawa T,Kawano K,Kamo N,Demura M

更新日期：2009-12-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The classical complement pathway, which plays a vital role in preventing infection, is initiated by the action of the serine proteases C1r and C1s. We have examined the hydrolysis of substrates representing cleavage sequences in the physiological substrates for C1s, C2 and C4. These studies showed that the P(1)'-P(4)'...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： O'Brien G,Quinsey NS,Whisstock JC,Pike RN

更新日期：2003-12-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The major histocompatibility complex (HLA in humans) contains a relatively large set of gene loci in the HLA-D/DR region responsible for regulation of the immune response. The structural dissection of the protein products of these loci is a necessary accompaniment to understanding of this response. In this study, two ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Andrews DW,Bono MR,Strominger JL

更新日期：1982-12-21 00:00:00

abstract：:X-ray studies of the proofreading 3',5'-exonuclease site of the large (Klenow) fragment of DNA polymerase I have detected a binuclear metal complex consisting of a pentacoordinate metal (site A) which shares a ligand, Asp-355, with an octahedral metal (site B) [Freemont, P. S., Friedman, J. M., Beese, L. S., Sanderson...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Han H,Rifkind JM,Mildvan AS

更新日期：1991-11-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Colicin E3 is a 60 kDa, multidomain protein antibiotic that targets its ribonuclease activity to an essential region of the 16S ribosomal RNA of Escherichia coli. To prevent suicide of the producing cell, synthesis of the toxin is accompanied by the production of a 10 kDa immunity protein (Im3) that binds strongly to ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Walker D,Moore GR,James R,Kleanthous C

更新日期：2003-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:A previously unknown polypeptide myotoxin, designated myotoxin a, was isolated for the first time from prairie rattlesnake (Crotalus viridis viridis) venom. Electrophoretic homogeneity of myotoxin a was shown in beta-alanine disc gel polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis and in isoelectric focusing gel electrophoresis. M...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Cameron DL,Tu AT

更新日期：1977-05-31 00:00:00

abstract：:We have employed high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) to investigate the syntheses of histones H1 and H1o as synchronized cells traverse from mitosis to S phase. Chinese hamster (line CHO) cells were synchronized by mitotic selection, and, at appropriate times, they were pulse labeled for 1 h with [3H]lysine....

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： D'Anna JA,Thayer MM,Tobey RA,Gurley LR

更新日期：1985-04-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The value of reducing the activity of ornithine decarboxylase (ODC), a key enzyme in the biosynthesis of polyamines, is well-appreciated. Polyamines are necessary components for cell growth, and manipulation of polyamine homeostasis may be an effective strategy for the treatment of a number of disorders, including neo...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Ackermann JM,Kanugula S,Pegg AE

更新日期：2005-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:We have recently described a procedure for the purification of microtubule associated protein 1B (MAP1B) from calf brain [Pedrotti, B., & Islam K. (1995) Cell Motil. Cytoskeleton 30, 301-309], and this study further characterizes the purified protein and its interaction with microtubules. We show that purified MAP1B (...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Pedrotti B,Ulloa L,Avila J,Islam K

更新日期：1996-03-05 00:00:00

abstract：:p-(Chloromercuri)benzoic acid inhibited the catalytic activity of Bacillus stearothermophilus farnesyl diphosphate synthase (FPP synthase), which contains only two cysteine residues at positions 73 and 289. In order to explore the role of the cysteine residues, either or both of them were replaced with phenylalanine o...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Koyama T,Obata S,Saito K,Takeshita-Koike A,Ogura K

更新日期：1994-10-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of tropomyosin alone on the binding of myosin subfragment 1 (S-1) to actin was compared to that of troponin-tropomyosin, with and without Ca2+. Over a range of ionic strength and with different ligands (adenyl-5'-yl imidodiphosphate, pyrophosphate, and adenosine 5'-diphosphate), tropomyosin confers slight c...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Williams DL Jr,Greene LE

更新日期：1983-05-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Oligonucleotide-directed triple helix formation normally requires a long tract of oligopyrimidine.oligopurine sequence. This limitation can be partially overcome by alternate-strand triple helix (or switch triple helix) formation which enables recognition of alternating oligopurine/oligopyrimidine sequences. The prese...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Marchand C,Sun JS,Bailly C,Waring MJ,Garestier T,Hélène C

更新日期：1998-09-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Association of the human papillomavirus (HPV) E2 protein with its palindromic DNA-binding site is a necessary step for transcriptional trans-activation. To study the interaction between DNA and E2, the carboxyl-terminal domain of HPV-11 E2 protein (E2C) was expressed in Escherichia coli and purified to homogeneity. Th...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Alexander KA,Phelps WC

更新日期：1996-07-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Putative domain--domain interactions of the monomeric bifunctional enzyme indoleglycerol phosphate synthase:phosphoribosyl anthranilate isomerase from Escherichia coli were probed by separating the domains on the gene level and expressing them as monofunctional proteins. The engineered monofunctional enzymes were foun...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Eberhard M,Tsai-Pflugfelder M,Bolewska K,Hommel U,Kirschner K

更新日期：1995-04-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Our previous studies revealed that interaction of fibrin with the very low density lipoprotein (VLDL) receptor plays a prominent role in transendothelial migration of leukocytes and thereby inflammation. The major goal of our subsequent studies is to establish the structural basis for this interaction. As the first st...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Banerjee K,Yakovlev S,Gruschus JM,Medved L,Tjandra N

更新日期：2018-07-31 00:00:00

abstract：:The size and surface curvature dependence of the properties and stability of single lamellar vesicles have been investigated by using a variety of physicochemical techniques. Dipalmitoylphosphatidylcholine single lamellar vesicles of sizes ranging between 200 and 900 A in diameter have been prepared by the French pres...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Lichtenberg D,Freire E,Schmidt CF,Barenholz Y,Felgner PL,Thompson TE

更新日期：1981-06-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Polyisoprenyl diphosphates play diverse and vital roles in cell function in health and disease. The counter-regulatory lipid signaling molecule, presqualene diphosphate (PSDP), is rapidly converted to its monophosphate form (PSMP) upon cell activation [Levy, B. D., Petasis, N. A., and Serhan, C. N. (1997) Nature 389, ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Carlo T,Petasis NA,Levy BD

更新日期：2009-04-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Extensive studies of the physiological protein-protein electron-transfer (ET) complex between yeast cytochrome c peroxidase (CcP) and cytochrome c (Cc) have left unresolved questions about how formation and dissociation of binary and ternary complexes influence ET. We probe this issue through a study of the photocycle...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Page TR,Hoffman BM

更新日期：2015-02-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The calcitonin/CGRP gene pre-mRNA is alternatively spliced in a tissue-specific manner resulting in the formation of calcitonin mRNA in thyroid C-cells and CGRP mRNA in neurons. Computer analysis of the RNA containing the 3' splice acceptor of the calcitonin-specific exon 4 predicts that this region has the potential ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Coleman TP,Roesser JR

更新日期：1998-11-10 00:00:00

abstract：:We have used circular dichroism and frequency-domain fluorescence spectroscopy to determine how the site-specific substitution of Tyr138 with either Phe138 or Gln138 affects the structural coupling between the opposing domains of calmodulin (CaM). A double mutant was constructed involving conservative substitution of ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Sun H,Yin D,Coffeen LA,Shea MA,Squier TC

更新日期：2001-08-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The crystal structure of Pseudomonas putida cytochrome P-450cam in the substrate-free form has been refined at 2.20-A resolution and compared to the substrate-bound form of the enzyme. In the absence of the substrate camphor, the P-450cam heme iron atom is hexacoordinate with the sulfur atom of Cys-357 providing one a...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Poulos TL,Finzel BC,Howard AJ

更新日期：1986-09-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The apolipoproteins of insect lipophorin were dissociated in guanidinium chloride and isolated by gel permeation chromatography. Over 98% of the total lipid in lipophorin was associated with apolipophorin I (apoLp-I), thus suggesting this apolipoprotein to be the lipid binding component of the particle. ApoLp-I was de...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Kawooya JK,Wells MA,Law JH

更新日期：1989-08-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The synthesis of activated sulfate (adenosine 5'-phosphosulfate, APS) and inorganic pyrophosphate from ATP and SO4 is remarkably unfavorable: K(eq) approximately 10(-8) under presumed, near-physiological conditions. Consequently, ATP sulfurylases, which catalyze APS synthesis, suffer approximately 10(8)-fold losses in...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Sun M,Leyh TS

更新日期：2006-09-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The fosfomycin (1) resistance proteins FosA and FosX in pathogenic microorganisms are related to a catalytically promiscuous progenitor encoded in a phn operon in Mesorhizobium loti. The mlr3345 gene product (FosX(Ml)) from M. loti has a very low epoxide hydrolase activity and even lower glutathione transferase activi...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Brown DW,Schaab MR,Birmingham WR,Armstrong RN

更新日期：2009-03-10 00:00:00

abstract：:ZFY, a male-associated Zn-finger protein encoded by the human Y chromosome, exhibits a distinctive two-finger repeat: whereas odd-numbered domains fit a general consensus, even-numbered domains exhibit systematic differences. Do these odd and even sequences encode structurally distinct surfaces for DNA recognition? As...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Kochoyan M,Keutmann HT,Weiss MA

更新日期：1991-07-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The thermotropic behavior of purified human complement protein C9 was investigated by high-sensitivity differential scanning calorimetry. When dissolved in physiological buffers (pH 7.2, 150 mM NaCl), C9 underwent three endothermic transitions with transition temperatures (Tm) centered at about 32, 48, and 53 degrees ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Lohner K,Esser AF

更新日期：1991-07-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The DNA interstrand cross-link (ICL) resulting from the C4'-oxidized abasic site (C4-AP) is a unique clustered lesion comprised of a cross-link adjacent to a nick. The ICL is a substrate for the UvrABC nucleotide excision repair system. The strand containing the nick is preferentially incised, but the nick influences ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Sczepanski JT,Jacobs AC,Van Houten B,Greenberg MM

更新日期：2009-08-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The bacterial alpha-lytic protease (alphaLP) is synthesized as a precursor containing a large N-terminal pro region (Pro) transiently required for correct folding of the protease [Silen, J. L., and Agard, D. A. (1989) Nature 341, 462-464]. Upon folding, the precursor is autocatalyticly cleaved to yield a tight-binding...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Anderson DE,Peters RJ,Wilk B,Agard DA

更新日期：1999-04-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The zinc-endopeptidase light chain of botulinum A neurotoxin undergoes autocatalytic fragmentation that is accelerated by the presence of the metal cofactor, zinc [Ahmed, S. A. et al. (2001) J. Protein Chem. 20, 221-231]. We show in this paper that >95% fragmented light chain obtained in the absence of added zinc reta...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Ahmed SA,McPhie P,Smith LA

更新日期：2003-11-04 00:00:00