Atomic mapping of the interactions between the antiviral agent cyanovirin-N and oligomannosides by saturation-transfer difference NMR.

abstract：:In an attempt to understand the mechanism by which transcription factors compete with histone octamers for cognate binding sites in chromatin, the effect of the histone binding protein nucleoplasmin on the binding of TFIIIA to nucleosomal 5S rRNA genes was tested. In this study, it was shown that, despite the previous...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Howe L,Itoh T,Katagiri C,Ausio J

更新日期：1998-02-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The major histocompatibility complex (HLA in humans) contains a relatively large set of gene loci in the HLA-D/DR region responsible for regulation of the immune response. The structural dissection of the protein products of these loci is a necessary accompaniment to understanding of this response. In this study, two ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Andrews DW,Bono MR,Strominger JL

更新日期：1982-12-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatic lipase (HL) hydrolysis of phosphatidylcholine (PC) was studied in recombinant high-density lipoprotein particles (r-HDL). r-HDL were made from cholate mixed micelles that contained PC, apo AI, and, in some cases, unesterified cholesterol. r-HDL were characterized using chemical composition, nondenaturing gradi...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Tansey JT,Thuren TY,Jerome WG,Hantgan RR,Grant K,Waite M

更新日期：1997-10-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Sphingosine, sphinganine, and other long-chain (sphingoid) bases inhibit protein kinase C in vitro and block cellular responses to agonists that are thought to act via this enzyme. To gain further insight into the mechanism of this inhibition, a series of long-chain analogues differing in alkyl chain length (11-20 car...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Merrill AH Jr,Nimkar S,Menaldino D,Hannun YA,Loomis C,Bell RM,Tyagi SR,Lambeth JD,Stevens VL,Hunter R

更新日期：1989-04-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Extracellular senile plaques composed predominantly of fibrillar amyloid-beta (Abeta) are a major neuropathological feature of Alzheimer's disease (AD). Genetic evidence and in vivo studies suggest that apolipoprotein E (apoE) may contribute to amyloid clearance and/or deposition. In vitro studies demonstrate that nat...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Munson GW,Roher AE,Kuo YM,Gilligan SM,Reardon CA,Getz GS,LaDu MJ

更新日期：2000-12-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The 1,2-diacyl-sn-glycerols (1,2-DGs) are the predominant naturally occurring isomer found in cell membranes, lipid droplets, and lipoproteins. They are involved in the metabolism of monoacylglycerols, triacylglycerols, and phospholipids. The 1,2-DGs participate in the activation of protein kinase C, in phosphorylatio...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Kodali DR,Fahey DA,Small DM

更新日期：1990-12-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Proteogenomic identification of translated small open reading frames in humans has revealed thousands of microproteins, or polypeptides of fewer than 100 amino acids, that were previously invisible to geneticists. Hundreds of microproteins have been shown to be essential for cell growth and proliferation, and many reg...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Na Z,Luo Y,Schofield JA,Smelyansky S,Khitun A,Muthukumar S,Valkov E,Simon MD,Slavoff SA

更新日期：2020-10-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Copper, zinc superoxide dismutase is a dimeric enzyme, and it has been shown that no cooperativity between the two subunits of the dimer is operative. The substitution of two hydrophobic residues, Phe 50 and Gly 51, with two Glu's at the interface region has disrupted the quaternary structure of the protein, thus prod...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Banci L,Benedetto M,Bertini I,Del Conte R,Piccioli M,Viezzoli MS

更新日期：1998-08-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Interaction between aggregates of amyloid beta protein (Abeta) and membranes has been hypothesized by many to be a key event in the mechanism of neurotoxicity associated with Alzheimer's disease (AD). Proposed membrane-related mechanisms of neurotoxicity include ion channel formation, membrane disruption, changes in m...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Qi W,Zhang A,Good TA,Fernandez EJ

更新日期：2009-09-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The mitogen-activated protein kinases (MAPKs) are key components of cellular signal transduction pathways, which are down-regulated by the MAPK phosphatases (MKPs). Catalytic activity of the MKPs is controlled both by their ability to recognize selective MAPKs and by allosteric activation upon binding to MAPK substrat...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Lu C,Liu X,Zhang CS,Gong H,Wu JW,Wang ZX

更新日期：2017-11-21 00:00:00

abstract：:13C NMR spectroscopy has been used to study the amino group environments and metal binding properties of 13C reductively methylated bovine alpha-lactalbumin. Bovine alpha-lactalbumin is a Ca2+ metalloprotein containing 12 lysyl amino groups and a free amino terminus. All 13 amino groups can be 13C-dimethylated without...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Gerken TA

更新日期：1984-09-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Tat, an essential human immunodeficiency virus type 1 protein interacts with the transactivation response element (TAR) and stimulates transcription from the viral long-terminal repeat (LTR). Blockage of Tat-TAR interaction halts viral transcription and hence replication. We have found that polyamide nucleic acid (PNA...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Mayhood T,Kaushik N,Pandey PK,Kashanchi F,Deng L,Pandey VN

更新日期：2000-09-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The major plasma membrane protein of human erythrocytes is the anion transport protein, termed protein 3. We previously reported a variant form of protein 3 that is elongated on the amino-terminal end of the molecule, which is exposed on the cytoplasmic side of the membrane, but otherwise its features are identical wi...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Hsu L,Morrison M

更新日期：1985-06-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET) has been used to investigate the conformation of the single stranded region for a series of fluorescent DNA template-primers bound to the Klenow fragment (KF) of Escherichia coli DNA polymerase I. Fluorescent derivatives of template-primer DNA, modified with tetramethylrho...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Furey WS,Joyce CM,Osborne MA,Klenerman D,Peliska JA,Balasubramanian S

更新日期：1998-03-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Arginase is a binuclear manganese metalloenzyme that serves as a therapeutic target for the treatment of asthma, erectile dysfunction, and atherosclerosis. In order to better understand the molecular basis of inhibitor affinity, we have employed site-directed mutagenesis, enzyme kinetics, and X-ray crystallography to ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Shishova EY,Di Costanzo L,Emig FA,Ash DE,Christianson DW

更新日期：2009-01-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Nitric oxide generated by bacterial nitric oxide synthase (NOS) increases the susceptibility of Gram-positive pathogens Staphylococcus aureus and Bacillus anthracis to oxidative stress, including antibiotic-induced oxidative stress. Not surprisingly, NOS inhibitors also improve the effectiveness of antimicrobials. Dev...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Holden JK,Dejam D,Lewis MC,Huang H,Kang S,Jing Q,Xue F,Silverman RB,Poulos TL

更新日期：2015-07-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Our recent demonstration that DNA polymerase X (Pol X), the DNA repair polymerase encoded by the African swine fever virus (ASFV), is extremely error prone during single-nucleotide gap filling led us to hypothesize that it might contribute to genetic variability in ASFV. For the infidelity of Pol X to be relevant, how...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Lamarche BJ,Showalter AK,Tsai MD

更新日期：2005-06-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Two dioxygenases (ARD and ARD') were cloned from Klebsiella pneumoniae that catalyze different oxidative decomposition reactions of an advanced aci-reductone intermediate, CH(3)SCH(2)CH(2)COCH(OH)=CH(OH) (I), in the methionine salvage pathway. The two enzymes are remarkable in that they have the same polypeptide seque...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Dai Y,Pochapsky TC,Abeles RH

更新日期：2001-05-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Endogenous lectins induce effects on cell growth by binding to antennae of natural glycoconjugates. These complex carbohydrates often present more than one potential lectin-binding site in a single chain. Using the growth-regulatory interaction of the pentasaccharide of ganglioside GM(1) with homodimeric galectin-1 on...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Siebert HC,André S,Lu SY,Frank M,Kaltner H,van Kuik JA,Korchagina EY,Bovin N,Tajkhorshid E,Kaptein R,Vliegenthart JF,von der Lieth CW,Jiménez-Barbero J,Kopitz J,Gabius HJ

更新日期：2003-12-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Structure formation and dimerization are concerted processes in the refolding of Arc repressor. The integrity of secondary structure in the transition state of Arc refolding has been investigated here by determining the changes in equilibrium stability and refolding/unfolding kinetics for a set of Ala --> Gly mutation...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Srivastava AK,Sauer RT

更新日期：2000-07-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Four-coordinate metalloporphyrins activate soluble guanylyl cyclase. Ni(II)PPIX and Cu(II)PPIX are high affinity activators, with activation constants of 24 and 17 nM, respectively. Both metalloporphyrins remain stably bound to the enzyme, enabling spectroscopic characterization of the Ni(II)- and Cu(II)-reconstituted...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Carr HS,Tran D,Reynolds MF,Burstyn JN,Spiro TG

更新日期：2002-08-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Type 1 diabetes (T1D) is an autoimmune disease characterized by an insulin deficiency. Ever since the discovery of insulin almost 100 years ago, patients with T1D have relied on multiple daily insulin injections to survive an otherwise deadly disease. Despite decades of research and clinical trials, no treatment exist...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Gaglia J,Kissler S

更新日期：2019-10-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Human S-adenosylmethionine decarboxylase (AdoMetDC) was expressed in high yield in Escherichia coli using the pIN-III(lppP-5) expression vector and purified to apparent homogeneity using affinity chromatography on methylglyoxal bis(guanylhydrazone)-Sepharose. The inactivation of the purified enzyme by 5'-deoxy-5'-[(3-...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Shantz LM,Stanley BA,Secrist JA 3rd,Pegg AE

更新日期：1992-07-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Using our hemoglobin expression system in Escherichia coli, we have constructed three recombinant hemoglobins (rHbs) with amino acid substitutions located in the alpha(1)beta(1) and alpha(1)beta(2) subunit interfaces and in the distal heme pocket of the alpha-chain: rHb(alphaV96W, betaN108K), rHb(alphaL29F, alphaV96W,...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Jeong ST,Ho NT,Hendrich MP,Ho C

更新日期：1999-10-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The C-terminus of interferon-gamma (IFNgamma) contains a nuclear localization sequence (NLS) required for the activation and nuclear translocation of the transcription factor STAT1alpha and induction of IFNgamma-activated genes. On the basis of this and other studies, we developed a peptide mimetic of IFNgamma that po...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Subramaniam PS,Flowers LO,Haider SM,Johnson HM

更新日期：2004-05-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The first step in sulfur mobilization for the biosynthesis of Fe-S clusters under oxidative stress and iron starvation in Escherichia coli involves a cysteine desulfurase SufS. Its catalytic reactivity is dependent on the presence of a sulfur acceptor protein, SufE, which acts as the preferred substrate for this enzym...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Selbach BP,Pradhan PK,Dos Santos PC

更新日期：2013-06-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Twelve site-directed mutants of rat cytochrome P450 2B1 distributed over seven positions and four putative substrate recognition sites (SRS) were constructed and expressed in COS cells. Function was examined using androstenedione and testosterone as substrates. Substitutions at positions 303, 360, and 473 did not mark...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： He Y,Luo Z,Klekotka PA,Burnett VL,Halpert JR

更新日期：1994-04-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Trypanosoma brucei ornithine decarboxylase was reconstituted by coexpression of two polypeptides corresponding to residues 1-305 and residues 306-425 in Escherichia coli. The two peptides were coexpressed, at wild-type levels, from a single transcriptional unit that was separated by a 15-nucleotide untranslated region...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Osterman AL,Lueder DV,Quick M,Myers D,Canagarajah BJ,Phillips MA

更新日期：1995-10-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The 1H resonances of the high-potential [4Fe-4S]2+ ferredoxin from Chromatium vinosum have been assigned through conventional sequential methodology applied to 2D NMR spectra. Almost 80% of the residues were identified using standard 2D COSY, HOHAHA, and NOESY pulse sequences. These residues correspond to four segment...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Gaillard J,Albrand JP,Moulis JM,Wemmer DE

更新日期：1992-06-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The solution secondary structure of the highly active Y55F/Y88F "Tyr-14-only" mutant of delta 5-3-ketosteroid isomerase complexed with 19-nortestosterone hemisuccinate has been shown to consist of three helices, a six-stranded mixed beta-sheet, and five turns. The steroid binds near the general acid, Tyr-14, on helix ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Zhao Q,Abeygunawardana C,Gittis AG,Mildvan AS

更新日期：1997-12-02 00:00:00