Conformation of magainin-2 and related peptides in aqueous solution and membrane environments probed by Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy.

abstract：:We determined the magnitude of the bend induced in DNA by an adenine-thymine tract by measuring the rate of cyclization of DNA oligonucleotides containing phased A tracts. A series of linear multimers with 2-bp single-stranded ends, in which the (A.T)6 tracts are separated by CG2-3C sequences and are positioned 10 and...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Koo HS,Drak J,Rice JA,Crothers DM

更新日期：1990-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The presence of high titers of anti-cardiolipin antibodies (ACA's) of autoimmune origin, which are known to bind to plasma beta2-glycoprotein I (aka apolipoprotein H), correlates clinically with autoimmune recurrent thrombosis. Soluble beta2-glycoprotein I binds to solid-phase ACA (immobilized on a surface plasmon res...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Sem DS,Baker BL,Victoria EJ,Jones DS,Marquis D,Yu L,Parks J,Coutts SM

更新日期：1998-11-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Site-directed mutagenesis has been used to construct three recombinant mutant hemoglobins (rHbs), rHb(beta L105W), rHb(alpha D94A/betaL105W), and rHb(alpha D94A). rHb(beta L105W) is designed to form a new hydrogen bond from beta 105Trp to alpha 94Asp in the alpha(1)beta(2) subunit interface to lower the oxygen binding...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Fang TY,Simplaceanu V,Tsai CH,Ho NT,Ho C

更新日期：2000-11-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The metalloenzyme Cu/Zn-superoxide dismutase (SOD1) catalyzes the reduction of superoxide anions into molecular oxygen and hydrogen peroxide. Hydrogen peroxide can oxidize SOD1, resulting in aberrant protein conformational changes, disruption of SOD1 function, and DNA damage. Cells may have evolved mechanisms of regul...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Auclair JR,Brodkin HR,D'Aquino JA,Petsko GA,Ringe D,Agar JN

更新日期：2013-09-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Metallo-beta-lactamases are a newly characterized family of zinc enzymes present in several pathogenic strains that represent an emerging clinical threat. Enzymes from different organisms exhibit an outstanding functional diversity, particularly in the metal ion requirements for activity. We have investigated the effe...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Rasia RM,Vila AJ

更新日期：2002-02-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Binding of urokinase-type plasminogen activator (uPA) to its cellular receptor (uPAR) renders the cell surface a favored site for plasminogen activation. Recently, a 15-mer peptide antagonist of the uPA-uPAR interaction, with an IC50 value of 10 nM, was identified using phage display technology [Goodson, R. J., Doyle,...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Ploug M,Ostergaard S,Hansen LB,Holm A,Danø K

更新日期：1998-03-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Alkalimetric, spectrophotometric, NMR, and resonance Raman titrations are reported for the sulfonamide Neoprontosil in aqueous solution. An assignment of the magnetic resonance peaks for each of the Neoprontosil protons has been made. Neoprontosil is shown to have two "coupled" iity of the microscopic pKs for these tw...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Carey PR,King RW

更新日期：1979-06-26 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate the effect of a reduced level of selenocysteine (Sec) tRNA[Ser]Sec in selenoprotein biosynthesis, two mouse embryonic stem (ES) cell lines heterozygous for the corresponding gene were generated by homologous recombination of the host genome with targeting vectors encoding a deleted or a disrupted tRNA[S...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Chittum HS,Baek HJ,Diamond AM,Fernandez-Salguero P,Gonzalez F,Ohama T,Hatfield DL,Kuehn M,Lee BJ

更新日期：1997-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The kinetics of self-association for beef liver glutamate dehydrogenase (EC 1.4.1.3) have been measured by using pressure perturbation in both the time domain and the frequency domain by monitoring scattered light intensity. The kinetic behavior is entirely consistent with the random self-association model proposed by...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Halvorson HR

更新日期：1979-06-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Amyloid beta peptide (A beta) is released into the media of a variety of cells in culture during normal metabolism. The discovery of several missense mutations within or flanking the A beta region of the beta amyloid precursor protein (beta APP) in familial Alzheimer's disease provides strong evidence for a role of al...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Querfurth HW,Selkoe DJ

更新日期：1994-04-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Chloramphenicol acetyltransferase (CAT) reversibly transfers an acetyl group between CoA and the 3-hydroxyl of either chloramphenicol (Cm) or 1-acetylchloramphenicol (1AcCm). The products of the forward reactions, 3-acetylchloramphenicol (3-AcCm) and 1,3-diacetylchloramphenicol (1,3Ac2-Cm), are the substrates for the ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Murray IA,Derrick JP,White AJ,Drabble K,Wharton CW,Shaw WV

更新日期：1994-08-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The neutral glycosphingolipids of hairy cells from a patient with hairy cell leukemia were chemically analyzed by thin-layer and gas-liquid chromatography, mass spectrometry, combined gas chromatography-mass spectrometry, and glycosidase treatment. These cells were found to have compounds containing one to four sugars...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Lee WM,Klock JC,Macher BA

更新日期：1981-10-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The first transmembrane (TM1) helix in the red cell anion exchanger (AE1, Band 3, or SLC4A1) acts as an internal signal anchor that binds the signal recognition particle and directs the nascent polypeptide chain to the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) membrane where it moves from the translocon laterally into the lipid bila...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Fowler PW,Sansom MS,Reithmeier RA

更新日期：2017-02-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The reverse transcriptase (RT) from the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is initially expressed as a 66-kDa protein and is subsequently proteolytically processed in vivo to form a 66-kDa/51-kDa heterodimer. Comparison of circular dichroism spectra of the 66-kDa, 51-kDa, and heterodimeric forms of RT indicates that t...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Anderson SF,Coleman JE

更新日期：1992-09-08 00:00:00

abstract：:We have examined the conformational behavior under various unfolding conditions of a predominantly beta-sheet protein, cellular retinoic acid binding protein (CRABP). Urea unfolding-refolding of CRABP is a highly cooperative process that can be approximated by a two-state model. Acid denaturation is also cooperative a...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Liu ZP,Rizo J,Gierasch LM

更新日期：1994-01-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Determining the sequence of bond cleavages, and consequently the nature of intermediates, in enzyme-catalyzed reactions is a major goal of mechanistic enzymology. When significant primary isotope effects on V/K are observed for two different bond cleavages, both bonds may be broken in the same transition state or they...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Bahnson BJ,Anderson VE

更新日期：1991-06-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty-five different temperature-sensitive point mutations at 20 sites in the lysozyme gene of bacteriophage T4 have been identified. All of the mutations alter amino acid side chains that have lower than average crystallographic thermal factors and reduced solvent accessibility in the folded protein. This suggests t...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Alber T,Sun DP,Nye JA,Muchmore DC,Matthews BW

更新日期：1987-06-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The interaction of the recombinant hemoglobin from Vitreoscilla sp. (VHb) with the bacterial membrane of Escherichia coli cells has been investigated by measuring the propensity of VHb to interact with monolayers formed by natural bacterial phosholipids. The measurements showed that the protein is capable of penetrati...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Rinaldi AC,Bonamore A,Macone A,Boffi A,Bozzi A,Di Giulio A

更新日期：2006-04-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Life span regulation and inhibition of gene silencing in yeast have been linked to nicotinamide effects on Sir2 enzymes. The Sir2 enzymes are NAD(+)-dependent protein deacetylases that influence gene expression by forming deacetylated proteins, nicotinamide and 2'-O-acetyl-ADPR. Nicotinamide is a base-exchange substra...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Sauve AA,Schramm VL

更新日期：2003-08-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Using heteronuclear NMR spectroscopy, we demonstrate that a 13-residue peptide (MS-QIKRLLSEKKT) from the cytoplasmic tail of CD4 binds to Nef protein. This part of CD4 is critical for downregulation of CD4 by HIV-1 Nef [Aiken et al. (1994) Cell 76, 853-864]. We show that a control peptide without the central dileucine...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Grzesiek S,Stahl SJ,Wingfield PT,Bax A

更新日期：1996-08-13 00:00:00

abstract：:A core Y61F mutant of the gene 5 single-stranded DNA-binding protein (g5p) of f1 bacterial virus aggregated when expressed from a plasmid, but, after refolding in vitro, it behaved much like wild-type and may be a stability or folding mutant. Circular dichroism (CD) titrations showed the same cooperative polynucleotid...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Thompson TM,Mark BL,Gray CW,Terwilliger TC,Sreerama N,Woody RW,Gray DM

更新日期：1998-05-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The X-ray structures of the ligand free (apo) and the Mg(2+)*o-succinylbenzoate (OSB) product complex of o-succinylbenzoate synthase (OSBS) from Escherichia coli have been solved to 1.65 and 1.77 A resolution, respectively. The structure of apo OSBS was solved by multiple isomorphous replacement in space group P2(1)2(...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Thompson TB,Garrett JB,Taylor EA,Meganathan R,Gerlt JA,Rayment I

更新日期：2000-09-05 00:00:00

abstract：:In the present study we establish that specific members of the Sp1 family of transcription factors (Sp1 and Sp3) bind to all six GC-rich motifs (elements 1-6) present in the proximal promoter of the human cell cycle inhibitor p21(WAF-1/Cip1) gene. Competition analysis showed that Sp1 and Sp3 bound with high affinity t...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Koutsodontis G,Moustakas A,Kardassis D

更新日期：2002-10-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Helix-helix interactions within membranes are dominated by van der Waals packing motifs and side chain-side chain hydrogen bond formation, which act in tandem to determine the residues that comprise the interface between two given helices. To explore in a systematic manner the tertiary contacts between transmembrane h...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Johnson RM,Heslop CL,Deber CM

更新日期：2004-11-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Binding mechanisms of ADPR-transferase to restricted double-stranded DNA fragments of SV40 and pBR322 DNA were determined by nuclease protection techniques. Top and bottom strands of double-stranded DNA were identified by specific labeling with 32P. Protection against specific exonucleases identified binding of ADPR-t...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Sastry SS,Buki KG,Kun E

更新日期：1989-06-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The heat production for the reaction steps of ATP hydrolysis by heavy meromyosin has been reexamined by using a reaction-type calorimeter. So far, the values reported for the heat production have varied substantially among research groups. The present results obtained in 0.3 M KCl, 10 mM MgCl2, and 20 mM Tris-HCl at p...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Yamada T,Shimizu H,Suga H

更新日期：1981-07-21 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：:Human carbonic anhydrase II (CAII) possesses a binding site for an acidic motif (D887ADD) within the carboxyl-terminal region (Ct) of the human erythrocyte chloride/bicarbonate anion exchanger, AE1. In this study, the amino acid sequence comprising this AE1 binding site was localized to the first 17 residues of CAII, ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Vince JW,Carlsson U,Reithmeier RA

更新日期：2000-11-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The specificity of trypsin for Arg- and Lys-containing substrates depends upon the presence of Asp189 at the base of the primary binding pocket. The crystal structure of anionic rat trypsin D189S complexed with BPTI reveals that removal of the aspartate side chain permits the binding of a well-ordered acetate ion in a...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Perona JJ,Hedstrom L,Wagner RL,Rutter WJ,Craik CS,Fletterick RJ

更新日期：1994-03-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The second-order rate constants for the reactions between nitrogen monoxide and oxymyoglobin or oxyhemoglobin, determined by stopped-flow spectroscopy, increase with increasing pH. At pH 7.0 the rates are (43.6 +/- 0.5) x 10(6) M(-1) x s(-1) for oxymyoglobin and (89 +/- 3) x 10(6) M(-1) x s(-1) for oxyhemoglobin (per ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Herold S,Exner M,Nauser T

更新日期：2001-03-20 00:00:00