Decreased reactive oxygen generation during H2O2 decomposition in the presence of samples from human rectal cancer.

abstract：:The equilibrium structural ensemble of a 20-residue polyglutamic acid peptide (E(20)) was studied with FRET, circular dichroism, and molecular dynamics (MD) simulations. A FRET donor, o-aminobenzamide, and acceptor, 3-nitrotyrosine, were introduced at the N- and C-termini, respectively. Circular dichroism, steady stat...

journal_title：Biopolymers

authors： Finke JM,Jennings PA,Lee JC,Onuchic JN,Winkler JR

更新日期：2007-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Intermolecular NOE experiments have been used to explore interactions of water and ethanol molecules in 35% ethanol/65% water (v/v) with the peptide Trp-cage at temperatures from 5 to 25 degrees C. Magnetic dipole-dipole cross-relaxation terms sigma(HH) (NOE) and sigma(HH) (ROE) for interaction of solvent components w...

journal_title：Biopolymers

authors： Neuman RC Jr,Gerig JT

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The 83-residue conopeptide (p21a) and its corresponding nonhydroxylated analog were isolated from the injected venom of Conus purpurascens. The complete conopeptide sequences were derived from Edman degradation sequencing of fragments from tryptic, chymotryptic and cyanogen bromide digestions, p21a has a unique, 10-cy...

journal_title：Biopolymers

authors： Möller C,Marí F

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The de novo design of peptides and proteins has emerged as an approach for investigating protein structure and function. The success relies heavily on the ability to design relatively short peptides that can adopt stable secondary structures. To this end, substitution with α,β-dehydroamino acids, especially α,β-didehy...

journal_title：Biopolymers

authors： Gupta M,Chauhan VS

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Synthesis and CD and (13)C(alpha)-NMR studies in a near-neutral saline buffer are reported for a 65-residue peptide ((190)Tm(254)) comprising residues 190-254 of the alpha-tropomyosin chain. CD on a version disulfide cross-linked via the N-terminal cysteine side chains indicates that this dimer is highly helical and m...

journal_title：Biopolymers

authors： Emerson Holtzer M,Mints L,Hogue Angeletti R,d'Avignon DA,Holtzer A

更新日期：2001-10-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The coupling of nuC-O and deltaO-D vibrations in the 1200-900 cm(-1) IR range leads to band shifting in opposite directions, which provides information on intramolecular hydrogen bonding of carbohydrates in aqueous solution. The aqueous solution IR spectra of 2-acetamide-1,6-anhydro-2-deoxy-D-glucopyranose and cis-1,2...

journal_title：Biopolymers

authors： Carmona P,Molina M,Aboitiz N,Vicent C

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:G protein-coupled receptor kinase 2 (GRK2) plays a central role in the cellular transduction network. In particular, during chronic heart failure GRK2 is upregulated and believed to contribute to disease progression. Thereby, its inhibition offers a potential therapeutic solution to several pathological conditions. In...

journal_title：Biopolymers

authors： Gomez-Monterrey I,Carotenuto A,Cipolletta E,Sala M,Vernieri E,Limatola A,Bertamino A,Musella S,Grieco P,Trimarco B,Novellino E,Iaccarino G,Campiglia P

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is becoming increasingly clear that characterization of the protein ensemble-the collection of all conformations of which the protein is capable-will be a critical step in developing a full understanding of the linkage between structure, dynamics, and function. X-ray solution scattering in the small angle (SAXS) an...

journal_title：Biopolymers

authors： Makowski L,Gore D,Mandava S,Minh D,Park S,Rodi DJ,Fischetti RF

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The structural evolution of regenerated Bombyx mori silk fibroin during shearing with a Couette cell has been studied in situ by synchrotron radiation small- and wide-angle x-ray scattering techniques. An elongation of fibroin molecules was observed with increasing shear rate, followed by an aggregation phase. The agg...

journal_title：Biopolymers

authors： Rössle M,Panine P,Urban VS,Riekel C

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Depsipeptide analogues of peptide sequences can help in elucidating the role of specific hydrogen bonds in determining the conformation in peptides. The repeating pentapeptide and hexapeptide sequences of elastin have been suggested to contain a type II beta-turn with a 4----1 hydrogen bond. Depsipeptide analogues of ...

journal_title：Biopolymers

authors： Arad O,Goodman M

更新日期：1990-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adrenocorticotropin (ACTH) (1-10), an adrenocorticotropin hormone fragment, has been studied by molecular dynamics (MD) simulation in an NPT ensemble in an explicit dodecylphosphocholine (DPC) micelle. Two starting configurations of the peptide/micelle system, corresponding to the insertion and surface-binding modes, ...

journal_title：Biopolymers

authors： Gao X,Wong TC

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We applied dynamic light scattering technique on the model system of hen egg lysozyme in salt-free aqueous ethanol solution to study the mechanism of denaturation and aggregation of protein. At low ethanol concentration [0-63% (v/v)], the fast relaxation mode was observed, which was caused by lysozyme molecules in the...

journal_title：Biopolymers

authors： Tanaka S,Oda Y,Ataka M,Onuma K,Fujiwara S,Yonezawa Y

更新日期：2001-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Decomposition of CD spectra for the unfolding of both coiled-coil and single-helical molecules is carried out via the convex constraint algorithm (CCA) [A. Perczel, M. Hollósi, G. Tusnády, and G. D. Fasman (1991) Protein Engineering, Vol. 4, pp. 669-679]. Examined are (1) our thermal unfolding data for rabbit alpha al...

journal_title：Biopolymers

authors： Holtzer ME,Holtzer A

更新日期：1995-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Infrared spectra of poly(D,L-alanine), poly(L-glutamic acid), poly(L-lysine), silk fibroin, and tropomyosin have been registered for various conformations of the polypeptide chain. Assuming additivity of the main- and side-chain absorption, spectral parameters of amide I and II absorption bands corresponding to alpha-...

journal_title：Biopolymers

authors： Venyaminov SYu,Kalnin NN

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The kinetics of the hydrodynamic volume change associated with the unfolding and refolding of a globular protein can be observed using high performance size exclusion chromatography. Chromatographic profiles that evidence such dynamics can be simulated using equations in which chromatographic partitioning and the conf...

journal_title：Biopolymers

authors： Shalongo W,Jagannadham M,Stellwagen E

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the past two decades, keratin biomaterials have shown impressive results as scaffolds for tissue engineering, wound healing, and nerve regeneration. In addition to its intrinsic biocompatibility, keratin interacts with specific cell receptors eliciting beneficial biochemical cues. However, during extraction from na...

journal_title：Biopolymers

authors： Parker RN,Roth KL,Kim C,McCord JP,Van Dyke ME,Grove TZ

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Elastin-like polypeptide (ELP) fusions have been designed to allow large-scale, nonchromatographic purification of many soluble proteins by using the inverse transition cycling (ITC) method; however, the sensitivity of the aqueous lower critical solubility phase transition temperature (T(t)) of ELPs to the addition of...

journal_title：Biopolymers

authors： Thapa A,Han W,Simons RH,Chilkoti A,Chi EY,López GP

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The two hemoglobin structures determined by Max Perutz, the liganded R-state, which has high oxygen affinity, and the unliganded T-state with low oxygen affinity, were landmarks in molecular and structural biology (Perutz and Lehman, Nature 1968, 219, 902-909; Bolton and Perutz, Nature 1970, 28, 551-552; Perutz et al....

journal_title：Biopolymers

authors： Dodson E,Dodson G

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ultraviolet hyperchromicity experiments indicate that in DNA duplex formation, a C-T mismatch is destabilizing in the center of a duplex, but behaves as a stable base pair at the terminus of a duplex. The C-T base pair is thought to contain two hydrogen bonds, but has thermodynamic parameters (delta Ho and delta Go of...

journal_title：Biopolymers

authors： Vanhommerig SA,van Genderen MH,Buck HM

更新日期：1991-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A desire to replicate the structural and functional complexity of proteins with structured, sequence-specific oligomers motivates study of the structural features of water-soluble peptoids (N-substituted glycine oligomers). Understanding the molecular-level details of peptoid self-assembly in water is essential to adv...

journal_title：Biopolymers

authors： Fuller AA,Huber J,Jimenez CJ,Dowell KM,Hough S,Ortega A,McComas KN,Kunkel J,Asuri P

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nuclear magnetic resonance and optical experiments are combined to determine the rms amplitude of local angular motion of purines in DNA in solution. A 12 base-pair duplex DNA with the sequence d(CGCGAATTCGCG)2 is deuterated at the H8 positions of adenine and guanine by exchange with solvent at 55 degrees C. The deute...

journal_title：Biopolymers

authors： Nuutero S,Fujimoto BS,Flynn PF,Reid BR,Ribeiro NS,Schurr JM

更新日期：1994-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Conformational analysis of the neurohypophyseal hormones oxytocin (OT) and arginine-vasopressin (AVP) has been carried out using two different computational approaches and three force fields, namely by the Electrostatically Driven Monte Carlo (EDMC) method, with the Empirical Conformational Energy Program for Peptides...

journal_title：Biopolymers

authors： Liwo A,Tempczyk A,Ołdziej S,Shenderovich MD,Hruby VJ,Talluri S,Ciarkowski J,Kasprzykowski F,Lankiewicz L,Grzonka Z

更新日期：1996-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The spectroscopic properties of syringomycin E, an antibiotic lipodepsinonapeptide associated with pathological states in plants, have been investigated by uv absorbance and CD spectroscopies, and by the synthesis of relevant model compounds. Initial studies [E. Vaillo, A. Ballio, P. L. Luisi, and R. M. Thomas (1990) ...

journal_title：Biopolymers

authors： Vaillo E,Ballio A,Luisi PL,Thomas RM

更新日期：1992-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Near uv CD spectra of Trp residues in proteins frequently show a complex line shape deriving from the overlap of 1La and 1Lb electronic transitions. This study presents an original empirical method of resolving these components, based on the near uv CD spectra of well-defined complexes of calmodulin domains with targe...

journal_title：Biopolymers

authors： Barth A,Martin SR,Bayley PM

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The hinge region links the antigen binding Fab part to the constant Fc domain in immunoglobulins. For the hinge peptide derivative [AcThr(OtBu)-Cys-Pro-Pro-Cys-Pro-Ala-ProNH2]2 the assignment of the 1H and 13C resonances was achieved by two-dimensional nmr techniques: total correlation spectroscopy (TOCSY), nuclear Ov...

journal_title：Biopolymers

authors： Kessler H,Mronga S,Müller G,Moroder L,Huber R

更新日期：1991-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Study of model beta-hairpin peptides allows for better understanding of the factors involved in the formation of beta-sheet secondary structure in proteins. It is known that turn sequence, sidechain-sidechain interactions, interstrand hydrogen bonding, and beta-sheet propensity of residues are all important for beta-h...

journal_title：Biopolymers

authors： Riemen AJ,Waters ML

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fluorescein-labeled antibodies are widely used in clinical assays and fluorescence microscopy. The fluorescent signal per labeled antibody is limited by fluorescein self-quenching, which occurs when the antibody is heavily labeled with multiple fluoresceins. We examined immunoglobulin G (IgG) when labeled with 0.7 to ...

journal_title：Biopolymers

authors： Lakowicz JR,Malicka J,Huang J,Gryczynski Z,Gryczynski I

更新日期：2004-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Molecular structures for parallel DNA and RNA double helices with Hoogsteen pairing are proposed for the first time. The DNA helices have sugars in the C2'-endo region and the phosphodiester conformations are (trans, gauche-), and the RNA helices have sugars in the C3'-endo region and the phosphodiester conformations ...

journal_title：Biopolymers

authors： Raghunathan G,Miles HT,Sasisekharan V

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Seven water-insoluble (1 --> 3)-beta-D-glucan fractions TM8-1 to TM8-7 with weight-average molecular mass M(w) ranged from 2.22 to 77.4 x 10(4) obtained from the sclerotia of Pleurotus tuber-regium were carboxymethylated to produce the water-soluble fractions CTM8-1 to CTM8-7 with M(w) ranged from 3.87 to 87.8 x 10(4)...

journal_title：Biopolymers

authors： Zhang M,Zhang L,Cheung PC

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A natural rubber was identified and characterized for the first time in the latex of the perennial Mediterranean shrub Euphorbia characias. Four different methods, i.e., acetone, acetic acid, trichloroacetic acid, and Triton® X-100, followed by successive treatments with cyclohexane/ethanol, were employed to extract t...

journal_title：Biopolymers

authors： Spanò D,Pintus F,Mascia C,Scorciapino MA,Casu M,Floris G,Medda R

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00