G-protein-dependent cell surface dynamics of the human serotonin1A receptor tagged to yellow fluorescent protein.

abstract：:The clam Scapharca inaequivalvis possesses two cooperative oxygen binding hemoglobins in its red cells: a homodimeric HbI and a heterotetrameric A2B2 HbII. Each AB dimeric half of HbII is assembled in a manner very similar to that of the well-studied HbI. This study presents crystal structures of HbII along with oxyge...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Ronda L,Bettati S,Henry ER,Kashav T,Sanders JM,Royer WE,Mozzarelli A

更新日期：2013-03-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Inducible nitric oxide synthase (iNOS) catalyzes the NADPH-dependent formation of nitric oxide (NO) and citrulline from L-arginine and O2. In addition to serving as substrate, L-arginine alters the enzyme's heme iron spin equilibrium, increases its NADPH oxidation, and promotes assembly of active dimeric iNOS from ina...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Sennequier N,Stuehr DJ

更新日期：1996-05-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Transferrin exhibits heterogeneity in glycosylation characteristic of pathological changes in alcohol abuse and congenital disorders in glycosylation. This study investigated an alternative approach in the detection of carbohydrate-deficient transferrin based on the premise that glycosylation may afford some degree of...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Valmu L,Kalkkinen N,Husa A,Rye PD

更新日期：2005-12-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Mitochondria isolated from coenzyme Q deficient yeast cells had no detectable NADH:cytochrome c reductase or succinate:cytochrome c reductase activity but contained normal amounts of cytochromes b and c1 by spectral analysis. Addition of the exogenous coenzyme Q derivatives including Q2, Q6, and the decyl analogue (DB...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Beattie DS,Clejan L

更新日期：1986-03-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The cell-surface component (alpha) which binds monomeric immunoglobulin E with high affinity is associated with a second polypeptide (beta) in the plasma membrane. The latter component tends to dissociate during purification of the alpha chain from detergent extracts of cells, even at neutral pHs and physiological ion...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Rivnay B,Wank SA,Poy G,Metzger H

更新日期：1982-12-21 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the effects of MA-5, a human-specific monoclonal antibody to the insulin receptor alpha-subunit, on transmembrane signaling in cell lines transfected with and expressing both normal human insulin receptors and receptors mutated in their beta-subunit tyrosine kinase domains. In cell lines expressing nor...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Sung CK,Han XL,Brunetti A,Maddux B,Yamamoto-Honda R,Goldfine ID

更新日期：1992-01-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Trypanosomes are purine-auxotrophic parasites that depend upon nucleoside hydrolase (NH) activity to salvage nitrogenous bases necessary for nucleic acid and cofactor synthesis. Nonspecific and purine-specific NHs have been widely studied, yet little is known about the 6-oxopurine-specific isozymes, although they are ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Vandemeulebroucke A,Minici C,Bruno I,Muzzolini L,Tornaghi P,Parkin DW,Versées W,Steyaert J,Degano M

更新日期：2010-10-19 00:00:00

abstract：:A cell-free system for synthesizing protein from wheat germ was used to translate the messenger RNA extracted from 16-day embryonic chick calvaria. A part of the product had properties similar to collagenous peptides and served as a substrate for prolyl hydroxylase, an enzyme specific for collagen. The level of potass...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Benveniste K,Wilczek J,Ruggieri A,Stern R

更新日期：1976-02-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytochrome P450 3A4 (CYP3A4) inhibitors ritonavir and cobicistat, currently administered to HIV patients as pharmacoenhancers, were designed on the basis of the chemical structure/activity relationships rather than the CYP3A4 crystal structure. To better understand the structural basis for CYP3A4 inhibition and the li...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Sevrioukova IF,Poulos TL

更新日期：2013-07-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Phospholipids containing a saturated fatty acid in the primary position and an unsaturated fatty acid in the secondary position are a major structural part of biological membranes. The mixed-chain hydrophobic core of the membranes is the diacylglycerol part. To better understand the core properties of membranes we hav...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Di L,Small DM

更新日期：1995-12-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Plasma high-density lipoprotein and apolipoprotein AI (apoAI) levels are suppressed by tumor necrosis factor alpha. To determine the molecular mechanisms responsible for the effect of TNF alpha on the apoAI promoter activity, HepG2 cells were exposed to both genetic and pharmacological modulators of TNF alpha-mediated...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Beers A,Haas MJ,Wong NC,Mooradian AD

更新日期：2006-02-21 00:00:00

abstract：:NG-Methyl-L-arginine (L-NMA) is one of the most commonly used inhibitors of the nitric oxide synthases (NOS). Results reported here demonstrate that L-NMA is an alternate substrate and a mechanism-based inhibitor of the inducible NOS purified from murine macrophages. The irreversible inhibition displays pseudo-first-o...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Olken NM,Marletta MA

更新日期：1993-09-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies of ligand binding to acetylcholinesterase (AChE) have demonstrated two sites of interaction. An acyl-enzyme intermediate is formed at the acylation site, and catalytic activity can be inhibited by ligand binding to a peripheral site. The three-dimensional structures of AChE-ligand complexes reveal a narrow and...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Mallender WD,Szegletes T,Rosenberry TL

更新日期：2000-07-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Sucrose density gradient shift assays were used to study the interactions of human glucocorticoid receptors (GR) with small DNA fragments either containing or lacking glucocorticoid response element (GRE) DNA consensus sequences. When crude cytoplasmic extracts containing [3H]triamcinolone acetonide [( 3H]TA) labeled ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Tully DB,Cidlowski JA

更新日期：1989-03-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Retinitis pigmentosa (RP), a neurodegenerative disorder, can arise from single point mutations in rhodopsin, leading to a cascade of protein instability, misfolding, aggregation, rod cell death, retinal degeneration, and ultimately blindness. Divalent cations, such as zinc and copper, have allosteric effects on misfol...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Gleim S,Stojanovic A,Arehart E,Byington D,Hwa J

更新日期：2009-03-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The two most basic charge isomers of myelin basic protein (BP), components 1 and 2 (C1 and C2), which presumably differ in the degree of deamidation, were purified from bovine BP by cation-exchange chromatography. Two additional specific types of posttranslational modifications were introduced into the purified isomer...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Cheifetz S,Boggs JM,Moscarello MA

更新日期：1985-09-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The conformational states of N-acylalanine dithio esters, involving rotational isomers about the RC(=O)NH--CH(CH3) and NHCH(CH3)--C(=S) bonds, are defined and compared to those of N-acylglycine dithio esters. The structure of N-(p-nitrobenzoyl)-DL-alanine ethyl dithio ester has been determined by X-ray crystallographi...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Lee H,Angus RH,Storer AC,Varughese KI,Carey PR

更新日期：1988-01-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Sendai virus particles are able to fuse with Pronase-neuraminidase-treated human erythrocyte membranes as well as with vesicles obtained from chromaffin granules of bovine medulla. Fusion is inferred either from electron microscopic studies or from the observation that incubation of fluorescently labeled (bearing octa...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Citovsky V,Laster Y,Schuldiner S,Loyter A

更新日期：1987-06-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Coiled coils (CCs) are among the best-understood protein folds. Nonetheless, there are gaps in our knowledge of CCs. Notably, CCs are likely to be structurally more dynamic than often considered. Here, we explore this in an abundant class of CCs, parallel dimers, focusing on polar asparagine (Asn) residues in the hydr...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Thomas F,Niitsu A,Oregioni A,Bartlett GJ,Woolfson DN

更新日期：2017-12-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The physiological roles of immunophilins are unclear, but many possess peptidyl-prolyl isomerase (PPIase) activity, and they have been found in all organisms examined to date, implying that they are involved in fundamental, protein-folding processes. The chloroplast thylakoid lumen of the higher plant Arabidopsis thal...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Edvardsson A,Shapiguzov A,Petersson UA,Schröder WP,Vener AV

更新日期：2007-08-21 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA-binding geometry and dynamics of a number of anthracyclines, including adriamycin and 4-demethoxydaunorubicin, interacting with DNA have been studied by means of linear dichroism and fluorescence techniques. The anthracycline chromophore is found to be approximately parallel to the plane of the DNA bases and to ha...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Eriksson M,Nordén B,Eriksson S

更新日期：1988-10-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The fungal neurotoxin alpha-cyclopiazonic acid (CPA), a nanomolar inhibitor of Ca(2+)-ATPase with a unique pentacyclic indole tetramic acid scaffold, is assembled by a three enzyme pathway CpaS, CpaD, and CpaO in Aspergillus sp. We recently characterized the first pathway-specific enzyme CpaS, a hybrid two module poly...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Liu X,Walsh CT

更新日期：2009-11-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Kinetic study of a series of compounds containing the thrombin-directed peptide D-Phe-ProboroArg-OH had indicated that the structure of the N-terminal blocking group may be correlated with binding [Kettner, C., Mersinger, L., & Knabb, R. (1990) J. Biol. Chem. 265, 18289-18297]. In order to further study this phenomeno...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Nienaber VL,Mersinger LJ,Kettner CA

更新日期：1996-07-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Actin depolymerizing activity in serum can be attributed to the two proteins brevin and vitamin D binding protein (DBP). To investigate their mechanisms of action, we used a number of techniques, including procedures involving the fluorescent pyrene-labeled actin probe, to compare the interaction of the two proteins w...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Lees A,Haddad JG,Lin S

更新日期：1984-06-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Apolipoprotein E (apoE) isoforms are key determinants of susceptibility to late-onset Alzheimer's disease (AD). The epsilon 4 and epsilon 2 alleles have been associated with increased and decreased risk for AD, respectively. We have generated and characterized transgenic mice in which the human apoE2 gene is expressed...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Georgopoulos S,McKee A,Kan HY,Zannis VI

更新日期：2002-07-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The active site of histidine decarboxylase (HDC) from Lactobacillus 30a contains a pyruvoyl cofactor sitting at the interface of two molecules in a trimer. Although exhibiting hyperbolic kinetics at pH 4.8, near its optimum, HDC is cooperative at pH 7.6, indicating that the units of the trimer communicate. A Hill plot...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Pishko EJ,Robertus JD

更新日期：1993-05-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Structures of several voltage-gated sodium (NaV) channels from bacteria have been determined recently, but the same feat might not be achieved for the mammalian counterparts in the near future. Thus, at present, computational studies of the mammalian NaV channels have to be performed using homology models based on the...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Patel D,Mahdavi S,Kuyucak S

更新日期：2016-03-29 00:00:00

abstract：:In Neurospora crassa, the expression of the nit-3 gene (nitrate reductase) is dependent upon nitrogen derepression and nitrate induction and is regulated by two positive-acting transcription factors, NIT2 and NIT4, and a negative regulator, NMR. The presence of a tightly linked cluster of NIT2 and NIT4 binding sites s...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Tao Y,Marzluf GA

更新日期：1998-08-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The structural determinants of substrate specificity of human liver cytochrome P450 2C8 (CYP2C8) were investigated using site-directed mutants chosen on the basis of a preliminary substrate pharmacophore and a three-dimensional (3D) model. Analysis of the structural features common to CYP2C8 substrates exhibiting a mi...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Melet A,Marques-Soares C,Schoch GA,Macherey AC,Jaouen M,Dansette PM,Sari MA,Johnson EF,Mansuy D

更新日期：2004-12-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Mild acid hydrolysis of Hafnia alvei strain 2 lipopolysaccharide released no O-specific polysaccharide but instead gave a monomeric octasaccharide repeating unit with N-acetylneuraminic acid as the reducing terminus. In addition, a dimer of the octasaccharide repeating unit, and also a decasaccharide composed of a fra...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Gamian A,Romanowska E,Dabrowski U,Dabrowski J

更新日期：1991-05-21 00:00:00