Reactivity of essential thiols of myosin. Chemical probes of the activated state.

abstract：:A likely entry/exit path for nitrogenase substrates, products, and/or protons involves residues α277(Arg), α192(Ser), and α356(Gly), all of which are highly conserved among MoFe proteins from different organisms. The α192(Ser) and α277(Arg) residues form part of a hydrogen-bonded network that also involves α195(His), ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Fisher K,Hare ND,Newton WE

更新日期：2014-10-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The melanocortin-4 receptor (MC4R) is involved in regulating energy homeostasis and is a potential therapeutic target for obesity and cachexia. Molecular interactions between peptide ligands and MC4R have been studied in detail. Less is known regarding the role of these interactions in the mechanism of MC4R activation...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Fleck BA,Ling N,Chen C

更新日期：2007-09-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Bioluminescence with luciferase-luciferin pairs is an attractive method for surveying cells in live tissues and whole organisms. Recent advances in luciferin chemistry and luciferase engineering are further expanding the scope of the technology. It is now possible to spy on cells in a variety of deep tissues and visua...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Rathbun CM,Prescher JA

更新日期：2017-10-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Indolicidin is an antimicrobial cationic peptide with broad-spectrum activity isolated from bovine neutrophils. An indolicidin analogue CP-11, ILKKWPWWPWRRK-NH(2), with improved activity against Gram-negative bacteria had increased positive charge and amphipathicity while maintaining the short length of the parent mol...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Rozek A,Powers JP,Friedrich CL,Hancock RE

更新日期：2003-12-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Significant concentrations (1-10 mM) of nickel(II) were found in solution after incubation of the potent carcinogen nickel subsulfide in 0.05 M Tris-HCl, pH 7.4, solutions containing DNA, rat liver microsomes, and NADPH. The presence of NADPH decreased the rate of solubilization of nickel subsulfide. The solubilized n...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Lee JE,Ciccarelli RB,Jennette KW

更新日期：1982-02-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The lateral stalk of ribosomes constitutes the GTPase-associated center and is responsible for recruiting translation factors to the ribosomes. The eukaryotic stalk contains a P-complex, in which one molecule of uL10 (formerly known as P0) protein binds two copies of P1/P2 heterodimers. Unlike bacterial uL10, eukaryot...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Choi KA,Yang L,Lee KM,Yu CW,Banfield DK,Ito K,Uchiumi T,Wong KB

更新日期：2019-09-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Specific binding of glutamate to its carrier was investigated by using cytoplasmic membrane vesicles prepared from Escherichia coli B. The binding activity was specifically affected by the Na+ and H+ concentrations of the medium. Cytoplasmic membrane vesicles from the mutant strain 36-39 that is defective in the Na+-d...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Fujimura T,Yamato I,Anraku Y

更新日期：1983-04-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Proton NMR studies were conducted on the complementary 15-mer duplex d(5'-TACTCTTCTTGACCT).(5'-AGGTCAAGAAGAGTA) (designated as unmodified 15-mer duplex) spanning a portion of the mouse c-Ha-ras protooncogene centered around codon 61. Identical studies were carried out on the same sequence, after specific modification ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Cho BP,Beland FA,Marques MM

更新日期：1992-10-13 00:00:00

abstract：:FixL is a sensor histidine kinase having a heme-containing domain as an O(2) sensing site. In the study presented here, Ile209 and Ile210 located near the heme iron of the heme domain of Rhizobium meliloti FixL (RmFixL) were mutated, and the mutational effects on the regulation of the kinase activity and the heme pock...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Mukai M,Nakamura K,Nakamura H,Iizuka T,Shiro Y

更新日期：2000-11-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Progressive cerebral amyloid beta-protein (A beta) deposition is believed to play a central role in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease (AD). Elevated levels of A beta(42) peptide formation have been linked to early-onset familial AD-causing gene mutations in the amyloid beta-protein precursor (A beta PP) and the ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Shearman MS,Beher D,Clarke EE,Lewis HD,Harrison T,Hunt P,Nadin A,Smith AL,Stevenson G,Castro JL

更新日期：2000-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is known that, while melittin at micromolar concentrations is unfolded under conditions of low ionic strength at neutral pH, it adopts a tetrameric alpha-helical structure under conditions of high ionic strength, at alkaline pH, or at high peptide concentrations. To understand the mechanism of the conformational tr...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Goto Y,Hagihara Y

更新日期：1992-01-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The association of ferredoxin with ferredoxin:NADP+ reductase (both proteins from spinach chloroplasts) was characterized by isothermal titration calorimetry and fluorescence quenching titration. The formation of the complex is mainly driven by a positive entropy change (delta S = 125 +/- 8 J mol-1 K-1). The calorimet...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Jelesarov I,Bosshard HR

更新日期：1994-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Hybridization experiments with variants of an oligomeric protein often provide important information regarding subunit structure, function, and interactions. In some systems, however, the variants are so similar electrophoretically and chromatographically that purification of individual hybrids is not feasible. Theref...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Gibbons I,Schachman HK

更新日期：1976-01-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Using solution peptide synthesis, we have made three series of N alpha-formylated homooligopeptides, from the dipeptide to the heptapeptide, derived from L-methionine, L-norleucine, and S-methyl-L-cysteine and related to the chemotactic peptide N alpha-formylmethionylleucylphenylalanine. Compounds were prepared to det...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Toniolo C,Bonora GM,Showell H,Freer RJ,Becker EL

更新日期：1984-02-14 00:00:00

abstract：:In clostridial-type ferredoxins, each of the two [4Fe-4S]2+/+ clusters receives three of its four ligands from a CysXXCysXXCys motif. Azotobacter vinelandii ferredoxin I (AvFdI) is a seven-iron ferredoxin that contains one [4Fe-4S]2+/+ cluster and one [3Fe-4S]+/0 cluster. During the evolution of the 7Fe azotobacter-ty...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Kemper MA,Gao-Sheridan HS,Shen B,Duff JL,Tilley GJ,Armstrong FA,Burgess BK

更新日期：1998-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Leucine aminopeptidase (LAP) is a protease requiring two divalent metal cations per subunit for activity. Zn2+, Mg2+, and Co2+ metal-substituted forms of LAP have been prepared and investigated kinetically. Substitution of metal into the two binding sites independently resulted in the preparation of Zn2+Zn2+, Mg2+Zn2+...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Allen MP,Yamada AH,Carpenter FH

更新日期：1983-08-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Self-assembled nanostructures that are sensitive to environmental stimuli are promising nanomaterials for drug delivery. In this class, disulfide-containing redox-sensitive strategies have gained enormous attention because of their wide applicability and simplicity of nanoparticle design. In the context of nucleic aci...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Dutta K,Das R,Medeiros J,Thayumanavan S

更新日期：2021-01-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Hemopexin is a plasma glycoprotein that has two structural domains (I and II) and binds and transports heme particularly to liver cells. Differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) studies show that hemopexin is largely stabilized by heme, which binds exclusively to domain I. The melting temperature (Tm) of heme-hemopexin...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Wu ML,Morgan WT

更新日期：1993-07-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The carboxyl-terminal region of factor IX (residues 403-415) contains several natural mutations which result in mild to severe forms of hemophilia B. A battery of factor IX minigene expression vectors carrying various mutations in the C-terminal region were constructed and studied by transient expression assay using H...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Kurachi S,Pantazatos DP,Kurachi K

更新日期：1997-04-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The three complete human LDL receptor homology regions of the LDL receptor-related protein (sLRP2, sLRP3, and sLRP4) have been expressed in Pichia pastoris SMD1168 with constitutive coexpression of the receptor-associated protein (RAP). Each sLRP was purified to homogeneity after deglycosylation using a combination of...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Croy JE,Shin WD,Knauer MF,Knauer DJ,Komives EA

更新日期：2003-11-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies have established that the mechanism of species-specific sponge cell reaggregation in vitro involves at least three components: a species-specific aggregation factor, its cell surface receptors, and Ca2+ ions. Here we report about the binding of Microciona 125I-labeled aggregation factor to cells and t...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Jumblatt JE,Schlup V,Burger MM

更新日期：1980-03-04 00:00:00

abstract：:We have analyzed by band-shift assays HeLa cell protein-DNA interactions on a stable cruciform DNA molecule. The stable cruciform was formed by heteroduplexing the HindIII-SphI fragment of SV40 virus DNA that contains the origin of replication with a derivative mutant containing a heterologous substitution at the cent...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Pearson CE,Ruiz MT,Price GB,Zannis-Hadjopoulos M

更新日期：1994-11-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Site-directed mutagenesis and high-resolution two-dimensional (2D) proton nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) were used to probe the structural and functional roles of a highly conserved residue, Asp-49, in the interfacial catalysis by bovine pancreatic phospholipase A2 (PLA2, overexpressed in Escherichia coli). Accordin...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Li Y,Yu BZ,Zhu H,Jain MK,Tsai MD

更新日期：1994-12-13 00:00:00

abstract：:We have used site-directed mutagenesis to alter the [Fe-S] cluster composition of Escherichia coli dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) reductase (DmsABC). The electron-transfer subunit (DmsB) of this enzyme contains 16 Cys residues arranged in 4 groups (I-IV) which provide ligands to 4 [4Fe-4S] clusters [Cammack, R., & Weiner, ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Rothery RA,Weiner JH

更新日期：1991-08-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Type IIS restriction endonuclease Eco31I harbors a single HNH active site and cleaves both DNA strands close to its recognition sequence, 5'-GGTCTC(1/5). A two-domain organization of Eco31I was determined by limited proteolysis. Analysis of proteolytic fragments revealed that the N-terminal domain of Eco31I is respons...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Jakubauskas A,Sasnauskas G,Giedriene J,Janulaitis A

更新日期：2008-08-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The nonspecific phospholipase C from Bacillus cereus is a zinc metalloenzyme that catalyzes the hydrolysis of phospholipids to yield diacylglycerol and a phosphate monoester. Glu-4 has been proposed as a potential candidate for the general base in the hydrolysis reaction and was shown to interact with the substrate he...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Tan CA,Roberts MF

更新日期：1998-03-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Coenzyme A (CoA)-transferases catalyze transthioesterification reactions involving acyl-CoA substrates, using an active-site carboxylate to form covalent acyl anhydride and CoA thioester adducts. Mechanistic studies of class I CoA-transferases suggested that acyl-CoA binding energy is used to accelerate rate-limiting ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Mullins EA,Kappock TJ

更新日期：2012-10-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The structural features of a chemically modified DNA template strand may promote error-prone DNA synthesis during replication. The resulting higher incidence of mutations, in turn, can eventually lead to tumor initiation. Structural insights into this process can be monitored by studying chemically modified base adduc...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Cosman M,Hingerty BE,Geacintov NE,Broyde S,Patel DJ

更新日期：1995-11-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Primase DnaG is an essential bacterial enzyme that synthesizes short ribonucleotide primers required for chromosomal DNA replication. Inhibitors of DnaG can serve as leads for development of new antibacterials and biochemical probes. We recently developed a nonradioactive in vitro primase-pyrophosphatase assay to iden...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Biswas T,Green KD,Garneau-Tsodikova S,Tsodikov OV

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The natural ATPase inhibitor (IF1) from beef heart mitochondria was labeled with phenyl (14C)isothiocyanate [(14C)PITC]. Chemical labeling by (14C)PITC does not modify the inhibitory properties of IF1, provided the number of residues of (14C)PITC bound per molecule of IF1 is lower than five to six, which corresponds t...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Klein G,Satre M,Dianoux AC,Vignais PV

更新日期：1980-06-24 00:00:00