Glycosylinositol phospholipid anchors of the scrapie and cellular prion proteins contain sialic acid.

abstract：:The fluorescence of Eu(III) is used to study the nature of the Ca(II) binding sites in the central cavity of the two-zinc(II) insulin hexamer. The dependence of the Eu(III) fluorescence lifetime upon Eu(III) stoichiometry indicates that there are three identical Eu(III) binding sites present in the two-zinc(II) insuli...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Alameda GK,Evelhoch JL,Sudmeier JL,Birge RR

更新日期：1985-03-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of pressure, up to 5 kbar, on multilamellar vesicles of 1,2-dipalmitoyl-sn-phosphatidylcholine perdeuterated in the acyl chains (DPPC-d62) were examined by using high-pressure NMR techniques. A deuterium probe was built, and the quadrupole splitting was measured against pressure at various temperatures. Th...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Driscoll DA,Samarasinghe S,Adamy S,Jonas J,Jonas A

更新日期：1991-04-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Formiminotransferase-cyclodeaminase denatured in 6 M guanidine hydrochloride (Gdn.HCl) refolds and reassembles to the native octameric structure upon dilution into buffer. Both enzymic activities are recovered to greater than 90%, and the renatured enzyme "channels" the formiminotetrahydropteroylpentaglutamate interme...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Findlay WA,MacKenzie RE

更新日期：1988-05-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The fluorescence properties of three variants of alpha-lactalbumin (alpha-LA) containing a single tryptophan residue were investigated under native, molten globule, and unfolded conditions. These proteins have levels of secondary structure and stability similar to those of the wild type. The fluorescence signal in the...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Chakraborty S,Ittah V,Bai P,Luo L,Haas E,Peng Z

更新日期：2001-06-19 00:00:00

abstract：:From the larger set of 191 variants at all the variable contact positions in the turkey ovomucoid third domain, we selected a subset that consists of Asp, Glu, His, and Lys residues at eight of the nine contiguous P6-P3' positions (residues 13-21), the exception being P3-Cys16 which is involved in a conserved disulfid...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Song J,Laskowski M Jr,Qasim MA,Markley JL

更新日期：2003-03-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The central importance of chorismate enzymes in bacteria, fungi, parasites, and plants combined with their absence in mammals makes them attractive targets for antimicrobials and herbicides. Two of these enzymes, anthranilate synthase (AS) and aminodeoxychorismate synthase (ADCS), are structurally and mechanistically ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Culbertson JE,Chung Dh,Ziebart KT,Espiritu E,Toney MD

更新日期：2015-04-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Isothermal titration calorimetry (ITC) measurements of the binding 1-beta carbohydrate-substituted galactopyranoside derivatives to galectin-1 from bovine spleen, a dimer with one binding site per subunit, were performed at 283-285 and 298 K. The disaccharides were lactose, methyl beta-lactoside, lactulose, 4-O-beta-D...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Schwarz FP,Ahmed H,Bianchet MA,Amzel LM,Vasta GR

更新日期：1998-04-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Five previously unknown hemorrhagic proteins, designated hemorrhagic toxins a,b,c,d, and e, were isolated from the venom of the western diamondback rattlesnake (Crotalus atrox). Molecular weights of hemorrhagic toxins a-e were determined to be 68 000, 24 000, 24 000, 24 000, and 25 700, respectively, by sodium dodecyl...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Bjarnason JB,Tu AT

更新日期：1978-08-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Hydrogen-bonding and ionic interactions play fundamental roles in macromolecular recognition and function. In contrast to lysines and arginines, how histidines mediate these interactions is less well-understood due to the unique properties of its side chain imidazole that include an aromatic ring with two titratable n...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Sepuru KM,Rajarathnam K

更新日期：2018-10-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Postsynaptic polypeptide neurotoxins isolated from the venoms of elapid and hydrophid snakes exhibit the ability to bind selectively to and inhibit different types of receptors that function in nerve signal transmission. On the basis of their amino acid sequences and three-dimensional structures, these neurotoxins are...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Fiordalisi JJ,al-Rabiee R,Chiappinelli VA,Grant GA

更新日期：1994-04-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The backbone dynamics of uniformly 15N-labeled interleukin-1 beta are investigated by using two-dimensional inverse detected heteronuclear 15N-1H NMR spectroscopy. 15N T1, T2, and NOE data at a spectrometer frequency of 600 MHz are obtained for 90% of the backbone amide groups. The data provide evidence for motions on...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Clore GM,Driscoll PC,Wingfield PT,Gronenborn AM

更新日期：1990-08-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Alzheimer's disease is a debilitating neurodegenerative disorder whose pathology has been linked to the aggregation and deposition of the amyloid β-peptide (Aβ) in neural tissue. A truly effective therapeutic agent remains elusive, and attention has recently turned to the use of natural products as effective antiaggre...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Lemkul JA,Bevan DR

更新日期：2012-07-31 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of acetylation on the conformation and association state of the inner core histone octamer isolated from HeLa cells was examined. Preparation of suitable quantities of pure acetylated and control inner core histones from HeLa cells required the development of a new preparative procedure. The results from size...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Prevelige PE Jr,Fasman GD

更新日期：1987-05-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The self-association properties of recombinant DNA derived human relaxin, and porcine relaxin isolated from porcine ovaries, have been studied by sedimentation equilibrium analytical ultracentrifugation and circular dichroism (CD). The human relaxin ultracentrifuge data were adequately defined by a monomer-dimer self-...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Shire SJ,Holladay LA,Rinderknecht E

更新日期：1991-08-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Glycogen synthase kinase 3β (GSK-3β) is a serine-threonine kinase belonging to the CMGC family that plays a key role in many biological processes, such as glucose metabolism, cell cycle regulation, and proliferation. Like most protein kinases, GSK-3β is regulated via multiple pathways and sites. We performed all-atom ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Buch I,Fishelovitch D,London N,Raveh B,Wolfson HJ,Nussinov R

更新日期：2010-12-28 00:00:00

abstract：:We have expressed the alpha and beta subunits of bacterial luciferase, encoded by luxA and luxB, from separate plasmids in Escherichia coli and developed an efficient purification scheme that yields many milligrams of protein of greater than 90% homogeneity. Earlier experiments showed that subunits synthesized separat...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Sinclair JF,Waddle JJ,Waddill EF,Baldwin TO

更新日期：1993-05-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The contribution of backbone hydrogen bonds in alpha-helices to the overall stability of a protein has been examined experimentally by replacing several backbone amide linkages in alpha-helix 39-50 of T4 lysozyme with ester linkages. T4 lysozyme variants wherein the backbone amide bonds between residues Ser38 and Leu3...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Koh JT,Cornish VW,Schultz PG

更新日期：1997-09-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The mammalian plasma vitamin D binding protein (DBP), or Gc-globulin, is recognized to have at least two functional properties: sterol binding and G-actin sequestration. Affinity labeling of the sterol binding site with the radioactive electrophilic ligand, 3 beta-(bromoacetoxy)-25-hydroxycholecalciferol, followed by ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Haddad JG,Hu YZ,Kowalski MA,Laramore C,Ray K,Robzyk P,Cooke NE

更新日期：1992-08-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Effects of paramagnetic shift reagents on the 13C NMR spectra obtained from single-walled vesicle dispersions of egg phosphatidylcholine enriched with 13C in the N-methyl carbons are investigated. Spectra obtained at 25.1 MHz show that, at Yb3+ to phospholipid molar ratios as low as 0.06, complete resolution of the N-...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Sears B,Hutton WC,Thompson TE

更新日期：1976-04-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Following a 1-h [3H]uridine pulse of cells of a human colon carcinoma line, 15% of the radioactivity in heterogeneous nuclear RNA associated with both chromatin and nuclear ribonucleoprotein was not digested to acid soluble fragments during a 2-h incubation with staphylococcal nuclease (EC 3.1.4.7). These [3H]uridine-...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Augenlicht LH,McCormick M,Lipkin M

更新日期：1976-08-24 00:00:00

abstract：:In a large number of plant species hydroxynitrile lyases catalyze the decomposition of cyanohydrins in order to generate hydrogen cyanide upon tissue damage. Hydrogen cyanide serves as a deterrent against herbivores and fungi. In vitro hydroxynitrile lyases are proficient biocatalysts for the stereospecific synthesis ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Dreveny I,Andryushkova AS,Glieder A,Gruber K,Kratky C

更新日期：2009-04-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Haemadin is a 57-amino acid thrombin inhibitor from the land-living leech Haemadipsa sylvestris, whose structure has recently been determined in complex with human alpha-thrombin. Here we communicate the effect of ionic strength on the kinetics of the inhibition of human alpha-thrombin by haemadin, by using thrombin m...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Richardson JL,Fuentes-Prior P,Sadler JE,Huber R,Bode W

更新日期：2002-02-26 00:00:00

abstract：:N-Ethylmaleimide modified heavy meromyosin in only 3-fold activated by actin rather than 200-fold as is normal heavy meromyosin (Silverman, R., Eisenberg, E., and Kielley, W. W. (1972), Nature (London) 240, 207). Ultracentrifuge studies demonstrated that in the absence of ATP the N-ethylmaleimide modified heavy merom...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Mulhern S,Eisenberg E,Kielley WW

更新日期：1975-08-26 00:00:00

abstract：:A set of peptides derived from the N-terminal domain of the ribosomal protein L9 (NTL9) have been characterized in an effort to define the minimum unit of this domain required to fold and to provide model peptides for the analysis of electrostatic interactions in the unfolded state. NTL9 is a 56-residue alpha-beta pro...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Horng JC,Moroz V,Rigotti DJ,Fairman R,Raleigh DP

更新日期：2002-11-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of RNA secondary structure on the kinetics of DNA synthesis catalyzed by HIV-1 RT was determined using a 66 nucleotide RNA template containing a stable 12 base pair hairpin structure. Prior to reaching the hairpin structure, the primer elongation by RT was fast and the kinetics of polymerization was not aff...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Suo Z,Johnson KA

更新日期：1997-10-14 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated how the intrinsic sequence-dependent properties probed via the phosphate linkages (BI ↔ BII equilibrium) influence the preferred shape of free DNA, and how this affects the nucleosome formation. First, this exploits NMR solution studies of four B-DNA dodecamers that together cover 39 base pairs of the ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Xu X,Ben Imeddourene A,Zargarian L,Foloppe N,Mauffret O,Hartmann B

更新日期：2014-09-09 00:00:00

abstract：:ATP and the fluorescent substrate analogue TNP-ATP bind competitively to the gastric H,-K-ATPase. Substrate and product completely reverse the fluorescence enhancement caused by TNP-ATP binding to the enzyme. The fluorophore is displaced monophasically from apoenzyme. However, ATP displaces TNP-ATP from the Mg2+-quenc...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Faller LD

更新日期：1989-08-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Regulation of cellular response is an important mechanism for controlling cellular functions. The transmembrane signaling of the hormone receptors is regulated by GTP-binding proteins (GTPases) and their associated proteins. Our previous studies demonstrated that the bifunctional GTP-binding protein, G alpha h (transg...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Baek KJ,Das T,Gray CD,Desai S,Hwang KC,Gacchui R,Ludwig M,Im MJ

更新日期：1996-02-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to investigate the molecular action of lithocholic acid (LCA), known as a selective inhibitor of DNA polymerase beta (pol beta). The 39-kDa pol beta was separated proteolytically into two fragments of the template-primer binding domain (8 kDa) and the catalytic domain (31 kDa). LCA bound ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Mizushina Y,Ohkubo T,Sugawara F,Sakaguchi K

更新日期：2000-10-17 00:00:00

abstract：:We have investigated the role of the labile terminal domains of the core histones on the stability of the subunits of the protein core of the nucleosome by studying the thermodynamic behavior of the products of limited trypsin digestion of these subunits. The thermal stabilities of the truncated H2A-H2B dimer and the ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Karantza V,Freire E,Moudrianakis EN

更新日期：2001-10-30 00:00:00