Sterol carrier protein-2 functions in phosphatidylinositol transfer and signaling.

abstract：:The effects of structural modifications of the flavin mononucleotide (FMN) prosthetic group of Clostridium pasteurianum flavodoxin on the kinetics of electron transfer to the oxidized form (from 5-deazariboflavin semiquinone produced by laser flash photolysis) and from the semiquinone form (to horse heart cytochrome c...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Simondsen RP,Tollin G

更新日期：1983-06-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The fluorescence intensity of the two flavin prosthetic groups, FMN and FAD, in neuronal nitric oxide synthase (nNOS) was found to decay highly nonexponentially, being best described by four fluorescence lifetimes. This excited state heterogeneity is the result of multiple flavin quenching sites which are due to sever...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Brunner K,Tortschanoff A,Hemmens B,Andrew PJ,Mayer B,Kungl AJ

更新日期：1998-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:S-Adenosylmethionine decarboxylase is a pyruvate-dependent enzyme. The enzyme forms a Schiff base with substrate, S-adenosylmethionine, through the pyruvoyl moiety. This facilitates the release of CO2 from the substrate, which must then be protonated on the alpha carbon in order to permit hydrolysis of the Schiff base...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Xiong H,Stanley BA,Pegg AE

更新日期：1999-02-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Nonenzymatic deamidation of asparagine and glutamine in peptides and proteins is a frequent modification both in vivo and in vitro. The biological effect is not completely understood, but it is often associated with protein degradation and loss of biological function. Here we describe the deamidation of CsgA, the majo...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Wang H,Shu Q,Frieden C,Gross ML

更新日期：2017-06-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The solution conformation is presented for representatives of each of the major classes of asparaginyl oligosaccharides. In this report the conformation of alpha(1-3)-, alpha(1-2)-, beta(1-2)-, and beta(1-4)-linked units is described. The conformational properties of these glycopeptides were determined by high-resolut...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Brisson JR,Carver JP

更新日期：1983-07-19 00:00:00

abstract：:d-2-Hydroxyglutarate dehydrogenase from Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAO1 (PaD2HGDH) catalyzes the oxidation of d-2-hydroxyglutarate to 2-ketoglutarate, which is a necessary step in the serine biosynthetic pathway. The dependence of P. aeruginosa on PaD2HGDH makes the enzyme a potential therapeutic target against P. aerugin...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Quaye JA,Gadda G

更新日期：2020-12-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Amyloid beta (Abeta) peptide amyloidogenesis, involving the formation of numerous distinct quaternary structures, appears to cause Alzheimer's disease. However, the precise identification of the toxic structure(s) and the neurotoxicity mechanism(s) remains elusive. Mutating the Abeta 1-40 Phe19-Phe20 backbone amide bo...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Bieschke J,Siegel SJ,Fu Y,Kelly JW

更新日期：2008-01-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The preparation, spectroscopic investigation, structure determination, conformational analysis, and modeling of the Dewar pyrimidinone photoproduct of thymidylyl-(3'----5')-thymidine, previously referred to as TpT3 [Johns, H. E., Pearson, M. L., LeBlanc, J. C., & Heilleiner, C. W. (1964) J. Mol. Biol. 9, 503-524], is ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Taylor JS,Garrett DS,Cohrs MP

更新日期：1988-09-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Folylpoly-gamma-glutamate synthetase (FPGS) is the enzyme responsible for metabolic trapping of reduced folate cofactors in cells for use in nucleotide and amino acid biosynthesis. There are two isoforms of FPGS expressed in mouse tissues, one is expressed in differentiated tissue, principally liver and kidney, and th...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Andreassi JL 2nd,Moran RG

更新日期：2002-01-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Chemical modification and proteolytic digestion studies have identified a transmembrane glutamic acid residue (E953) of the alpha subunit of the pig kidney Na, K-ATPase as a possible cation binding site [Goldshleger et al. (1992) Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 89, 6911-6915]. In addition, an adjacent glutamate (E954) i...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Van Huysse JW,Jewell EA,Lingrel JB

更新日期：1993-01-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The binding of epidermal growth factor (EGF) to epidermal growth factor receptor (EGF receptor) induces dimerization of the receptor and activation of its protein tyrosine kinase. Each of these three steps was followed as a function of the concentrations of EGF and of EGF receptor. Binding of EGF was followed by sedim...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Sherrill JM,Kyte J

更新日期：1996-05-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Botulinum neurotoxins (BoNTs) elicit flaccid paralysis through cleavage of SNARE proteins within peripheral neurons. There are seven serotypes of the BoNTs, termed A-G, which differ in the SNARE protein and/or site that is cleaved. BoNTs are single-chain toxins that comprise an N-terminal zinc metalloprotease domain t...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Baldwin MR,Barbieri JT

更新日期：2007-03-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The turnover of the collagen triple-helical structure (collagenolysis) is a tightly regulated process in normal physiology and has been ascribed to a small number of proteases. Several members of the matrix metalloproteinase (MMPs) family possess collagenolytic activity, and the mechanisms by which these enzymes proce...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Minond D,Lauer-Fields JL,Cudic M,Overall CM,Pei D,Brew K,Moss ML,Fields GB

更新日期：2007-03-27 00:00:00

abstract：:4-Chlorobenzoyl-coenzyme A (4-CBA-CoA) dehalogenase catalyzes the hydrolysis of 4-CBA-CoA to 4-hydroxybenzoyl-coenzyme A (4-HBA-CoA) via a nucleophilic aromatic substitution pathway involving the participation of an active site carboxylate side chain in covalent catalysis. In this paper we report on the identification...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Yang G,Liu RQ,Taylor KL,Xiang H,Price J,Dunaway-Mariano D

更新日期：1996-08-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study uses CO as a surrogate for oxygen to probe how substrate binding triggers oxygen activation in peptidylglycine monooygenase (PHM). Infrared stretching frequencies (ν(C ≡ O)) of the carbonyl (CO) adducts of copper proteins are sensitive markers of Cu(I) coordination and are useful in probing oxygen re...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Kline CD,Blackburn NJ

更新日期：2016-12-06 00:00:00

abstract：:PT-ACRAMTU ([PtCl(en)(ACRAMTU-S)](NO(3))(2), en = ethane-1,2-diamine, ACRAMTU = 1-[2-(acridin-9-ylamino)ethyl]-1,3-dimethylthiourea) is a cytotoxic platinum-acridine conjugate previously shown to form adducts with the N3 endocyclic nitrogen of adenine in the DNA minor groove. This unusual observation and our prior det...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Budiman ME,Bierbach U,Alexander RW

更新日期：2005-08-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The stereochemical problem involving a pro-pro-prochiral phosphorus center, the hydrolysis of adenosine 5'-monophosphate to adenosine and inorganic phosphate catalyzed by the venom 5'-nucleotidase, has been studied by use of chiral [16O, 17O, 18O]thiophosphates (Psi). (Rp)- and (Sp)-[alpha-18O1]Adenosine 5'-thiophosph...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Tsai MD

更新日期：1980-11-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Betaine-homocysteine S-methyltransferase (BHMT) is a zinc-dependent enzyme that catalyzes the transfer of a methyl group from glycine betaine (Bet) to homocysteine (Hcy) to form dimethylglycine (DMG) and methionine (Met). Previous studies in other laboratories have indicated that catalysis proceeds through the formati...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Castro C,Gratson AA,Evans JC,Jiracek J,Collinsová M,Ludwig ML,Garrow TA

更新日期：2004-05-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The interaction of bovine spleen profilin with ATP- and ADP-G-actin and poly(L-proline) has been studied by spectrofluorimetry, analytical ultracentrifugation, and rapid kinetics in low ionic strength buffer. Profilin binding to G-actin is accompanied by a large quenching of tryptophan fluorescence, allowing the measu...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Perelroizen I,Marchand JB,Blanchoin L,Didry D,Carlier MF

更新日期：1994-07-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Laser light scattering has been applied to a systematic study of a heterogeneous solution of tubulin at low temperature--conditions under which tubulin assembly into microtubules does not take place. Methods of analyzing laser light scattering results obtained from solutions containing multiple components are discusse...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Gethner JS,Flynn GW,Berne BJ,Gaskin F

更新日期：1977-12-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Guanidine hydrochloride (GdnHCl) and thermally induced unfolding measurements on the oxidized form of Escherichia coli thioredoxin at pH 7 were combined for the purpose of assessing the functional dependence of unfolding free energy changes on denaturant concentration over an extended GdnHCl concentration range. Conve...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Santoro MM,Bolen DW

更新日期：1992-05-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Peptidyl derivatives of diphenyl (alpha-aminoalkyl)phosphonates have been synthesized and are effective and specific inhibitors of serine proteases at low concentrations. Z-PheP(OPh)2 irreversibly reacts with chymotrypsin (kobsd/[I] = 1200 M-1 s-1) and does not react with two elastases. The best inhibitor for most chy...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Oleksyszyn J,Powers JC

更新日期：1991-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Biogenesis of pyrroloquinoline quinone (PQQ) in Klebsiella pneumoniae requires the expression of six genes (pqqA-F). One of these genes (pqqE) encodes a 43 kDa protein (PqqE) that plays a role in the initial steps in PQQ formation [Veletrop, J. S., et al. (1995) J. Bacteriol. 177, 5088-5098]. PqqE contains two highly ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Wecksler SR,Stoll S,Tran H,Magnusson OT,Wu SP,King D,Britt RD,Klinman JP

更新日期：2009-10-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Backbone amide dynamics of the Escherichia coli tryptophan repressor protein (WT-TrpR) and two functionally distinct variants, L75F-TrpR and A77V-TrpR, in their holo (l-tryptophan corepressor-bound) form have been characterized using (15)N nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) relaxation. The three proteins possess very si...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Tripet BP,Goel A,Copie V

更新日期：2011-06-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The ribosome-dependent stringent factor reaction was found to be nonspecific with regard to the number of phosphate groups linked to the 5' position of guanosine nucleotides. Both GMP and guanosine 5'-tetraphosphate could accept a pyrophosphoryl group from ATP although at a much lower rate than GDP or GTP. Guanosine 5...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Sy J

更新日期：1975-03-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Human type-alpha transforming growth factor (hTGF alpha) is a small mitogenic protein containing 50 amino acids and three disulfide bonds. It has both sequence and structural homology with epidermal growth factor (EGF). While the three-dimensional structures of hTGF alpha and other EGF-like proteins have been studied ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Li YC,Montelione GT

更新日期：1995-02-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Strong absorbance of water at 1645 cm-1 has previously prevented dependable observation of infrared spectra of H2O solutions in the carbonyl region. We have obtained reliable spectra in pure water and in alcohol-water mixtures in this region and used them to study A.U polynucleotide interaction. Spectra in pure water ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Miles HT,Frazier J

更新日期：1978-07-11 00:00:00

abstract：:To better understand origin recognition and initiation of DNA replication, we have examined by NMR complexes formed between the origin-binding domain of SV40 T antigen (T-ag-obd), the initiator protein of the SV40 virus, and cognate and noncognate DNA oligomers. The results reveal two structural effects associated wit...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Bradshaw EM,Sanford DG,Luo X,Sudmeier JL,Gurard-Levin ZA,Bullock PA,Bachovchin WW

更新日期：2004-06-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Paranemic crossover DNA (PX-DNA) is a four-stranded multicrossover structure that has been implicated in recombination-independent recognition of homology. Although existing evidence has suggested that PX is the DNA motif in homologous pairing (HP), this conclusion remains ambiguous. Further investigation is needed bu...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Kizer M,Huntress ID,Walcott BD,Fraser K,Bystroff C,Wang X

更新日期：2019-03-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Specific enzymatic and chemical degradation of neutral lipid and phospholipid fractions from rat liver revealed the presence of novel types of lipid metabolites bearing a short-chain diol backbone. Diol-derived lecithin and cephalin analogs were readily cleaved by phospholipase C (EC 3.1.4.3) from Bacillus cereus, alt...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Baumann WJ,Schupp E,Lin JT

更新日期：1975-02-25 00:00:00