Integrin-supported fast rate intracellular delivery of plasmid DNA by extracellular matrix protein embedded calcium phosphate complexes.

abstract：:Purine nucleoside phosphorylase (PNP) catalyzes the reversible phosphorolysis of purine ribonucleosides and 2'-deoxyribonucleosides, yielding the purine base and (2'-deoxy)ribose 1-phosphate as products. While this enzyme has been extensively studied, several questions with respect to the catalytic mechanism have rema...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Isaksen GV,Hopmann KH,Åqvist J,Brandsdal BO

更新日期：2016-04-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The aldehyde oxidoreductase from Desulfovibrio gigas belongs to the family of molybdenum hydroxylases. Besides a molybdenum cofactor which constitutes their active site, these enzymes contain two [2Fe-2S](2+,1+) clusters which are believed to transfer the electrons provided by the substrate to an acceptor which is eit...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： More C,Asso M,Roger G,Guigliarelli B,Caldeira J,Moura J,Bertrand P

更新日期：2005-08-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The human sterol carrier protein x (SCPx)/sterol carrier protein 2 (SCP2) gene gives rise to two mRNAs: a 2.8 kb mRNA encoding SCPx, a peroxisome-associated thiolase, and a 1.5 kb mRNA encoding SCP2, which is thought to be an intracellular lipid transfer protein. The SCPx/SCP2 gene is highly expressed in organs involv...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Ohba T,Holt JA,Billheimer JT,Strauss JF 3rd

更新日期：1995-08-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Helicobacter pylori produces one monofunctional catalase, encoded by katA (hp0875). The crystal structure of H. pylori catalase (HPC) has been determined and refined at 1.6 A with crystallographic agreement factors R and R(free) of 17.4 and 21.9%, respectively. The crystal exhibits P2(1)2(1)2 space group symmetry and ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Loewen PC,Carpena X,Rovira C,Ivancich A,Perez-Luque R,Haas R,Odenbreit S,Nicholls P,Fita I

更新日期：2004-03-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The synthetic peptide SNX-111 corresponding to the sequence of the omega-conopeptide MVIIA from the venom of the marine snail Conus magus is a highly potent and selective antagonist of N-type calcium channels. We have synthesized and characterized a large number of analogs of SNX-111 in order to elucidate the structur...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Nadasdi L,Yamashiro D,Chung D,Tarczy-Hornoch K,Adriaenssens P,Ramachandran J

更新日期：1995-06-27 00:00:00

abstract：:One of the distinctive features of eubacterial retinal-based proton pumps, proteorhodopsins, xanthorhodopsin, and others, is hydrogen bonding of the key aspartate residue, the counterion to the retinal Schiff base, to a histidine. We describe properties of the recently found eubacterium proton pump from Exiguobacteriu...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Balashov SP,Petrovskaya LE,Lukashev EP,Imasheva ES,Dioumaev AK,Wang JM,Sychev SV,Dolgikh DA,Rubin AB,Kirpichnikov MP,Lanyi JK

更新日期：2012-07-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Beta(2)-microglobulin (beta(2)m) forms amyloid fibrils that deposit in the musculo-skeletal system in patients undergoing long-term hemodialysis. How beta(2)m self-assembles in vivo is not understood, since the monomeric wild-type protein is incapable of forming fibrils in isolation in vitro at neutral pH, while elong...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Myers SL,Jones S,Jahn TR,Morten IJ,Tennent GA,Hewitt EW,Radford SE

更新日期：2006-02-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The existence of two conformational states of concanavalin A (Con A) with different metal ion binding properties has been recently demonstrated (Brown, R. D., Brewer, C. F., & Koenig, S. H. (1977) Biochemistry 16, 3883). Introduction of Mn2+ to the S1 site and Ca2+ to the S2 site of apo-Con A was shown to induce a con...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Koenig SH,Brewer CF,Brown RD 3rd

更新日期：1978-10-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Flavin-dependent histone demethylases catalyze the posttranslational oxidative demethylation of mono- and dimethylated lysine residues, producing formaldehyde and hydrogen peroxide in addition to the corresponding demethylated protein. In vivo, histone demethylase LSD1 (KDM1; BCH110) is a component of the multiprotein...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Hwang S,Schmitt AA,Luteran AE,Toone EJ,McCafferty DG

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A type II topoisomerase is essential for decatenating DNA replication products, and it accomplishes this task by passing one DNA duplex through a transient break in a second duplex. The B' domain of topoisomerase II contains three highly conserved motifs, EGDSA, PL(R/K)GK(I/L/M)LNVR, and IMTD(Q/A)DXD. We have investig...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： West KL,Meczes EL,Thorn R,Turnbull RM,Marshall R,Austin CA

更新日期：2000-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Rod outer segment membrane guanylate cyclase (ROS-GC) transduction system is a central component of the Ca(2+)-sensitive phototransduction machinery. The system is composed of two parts: Ca(2+) sensor guanylate cyclase activating protein (GCAP) and ROS-GC. GCAP senses Ca(2+) impulses and inhibits the cyclase. This ope...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Venkataraman V,Duda T,Vardi N,Koch KW,Sharma RK

更新日期：2003-05-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of cysteine modification and variations in pH on the equilibrium parameters for inducer and operator binding to the lactose repressor protein were examined. Operator binding affinity was minimally affected by increasing the pH from 7.5 to 9.2, whereas inducer binding was decreased for both the unliganded p...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Daly TJ,Matthews KS

更新日期：1986-09-23 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：:The photoautotrophic freshwater cyanobacterium Synechococcus elongatus is widely used as a chassis for biotechnological applications as well as a photosynthetic bacterial model. In this study, a method for expanding the genetic code of this cyanobacterium has been established, thereby allowing the incorporation of unn...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Chemla Y,Friedman M,Heltberg M,Bakhrat A,Nagar E,Schwarz R,Jensen MH,Alfonta L

更新日期：2017-04-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Properties of the mycobacterial polymethylpolysaccharide-lipid complex have been investigated by fluorometric techniques. From the dissociation constant for the O-methyglucose polysaccharide-parinaric acid complex at 293 K, a Gibbs free energy (delta G degree) of -33.65 kJ/mol was obtained. The Kd decreased with incre...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Kiho T,Ballou CE

更新日期：1988-07-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Saccharomyces cerevisiae myristoylCoA:protein N-myristoyltransferase (Nmt1p) is an essential enzyme that catalyzes the transfer of myristic acid (C14:0) from myristoylCoA to the N-terminus of cellular proteins with a variety of functions. Nmts from an assortment of species display remarkable in vivo specificity for th...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Bhatnagar RS,Schall OF,Jackson-Machelski E,Sikorski JA,Devadas B,Gokel GW,Gordon JI

更新日期：1997-06-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Chemical derivatization studies have been directed at the sulfhydryl group of D-beta-hydroxybutyrate dehydrogenase, a lipid-requiring enzyme. Reaction with N-ethylmaleimide leads to progressive and parallel loss of both enzymic activity and coenzyme binding. Both functions are lost when 1 equiv of sulfhydryl is deriva...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Latruffe N,Brenner SC,Fleischer S

更新日期：1980-11-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Tropomyosin (TM) is a coiled-coil that binds head-to-tail along the helical actin filament. The ends of 284-residue tropomyosins are believed to overlap by about nine amino acids. The present study investigates the function of the N- and C-terminal overlap regions. Recombinant tropomyosins were produced in Escherichia...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Moraczewska J,Hitchcock-DeGregori SE

更新日期：2000-06-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The far-ultraviolet circular dichroism spectra of bovine and human prothrombin, prothrombin fragment 1, prethrombin 1, prothrombin fragment 2, and prethrombin 2 (prethrombin 2des(1--13)) were determined and the method of Chen et al. [Chen, Y. H., Yang, J. T., & Martinez, H. M. (1972) Biochemistry 11, 4120--4131; Chen,...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Bloom JW,Mann KG

更新日期：1979-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:A total of fifty single site surface phenylalanine substitution mutants have been made in the model protein staphylococcal nuclease. The fifty residues that were replaced with phenylalanine were chosen to give a broad sampling of solvent accessibility, secondary structure, and backbone conformations. The change in the...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Schwehm JM,Kristyanne ES,Biggers CC,Stites WE

更新日期：1998-05-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The hammerhead ribozyme undergoes a well-defined two-stage conformational folding process, induced by the binding of magnesium ions. In this study, we have used isothermal titration calorimetry to analyze the thermodynamics of magnesium binding and magnesium ion-induced folding of the ribozyme. Binding to the natural ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Hammann C,Cooper A,Lilley DM

更新日期：2001-02-06 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA cleavage by topoisomerase II in the absence or presence of mAMSA, and VM-26 was investigated in a series of oligonucleotides of 36 and 42 base pairs, which were derived from the DNA sequence of the major topoisomerase II cleavage site in the matrix-associated region of SV40 DNA. Topoisomerase II introduced strand ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Capranico G,Tinelli S,Zunino F,Kohn KW,Pommier Y

更新日期：1993-01-12 00:00:00

abstract：:14C-Labeled fluorodinitrobenzene and N-ethylmaleimide have been used as chemical probes of the conformational states of myosin induced by the binding of MgADP and MgATP. The results indicate that in the high-energy conformation, MMgADP-Pi, the essential thiols are protected from modification but their diminished react...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Reisler E,Burke M,Harrington WF

更新日期：1977-11-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The microtubule-associated protein tau, in a hyperphosphorylated form, aggregates into insoluble paired-helical filaments (PHFs) in Alzheimer's disease (AD) and other tauopathies. In AD, there is approximately 8 mol of phosphate per mole of tau distributed among approximately 30 PHF phosphorylation sites as compared t...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Sun Q,Gamblin TC

更新日期：2009-06-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The interaction of glutamyl-tRNA synthetase with tRNAGlu2 has been studied. The enzyme was purified to apparent homogeneity, and consists of a single chain with a molecular weight of 59 000. The sedimentation coefficient (sdegrees20,w) was found to be 3.7 S and suggests this enzyme is quite asymmetric. The enzyme bind...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Willick GE,Kay CM

更新日期：1976-09-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The dissociation of Semliki Forest virus induced by increasing concentrations of the anionic detergent sodium dodecyl sulfate was studied using density gradient centrifugation. Detectable binding to the virus started well below the critical micellar concentration of the detergent and increased thereafter with increase...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Becker R,Helenius A,Simons K

更新日期：1975-05-06 00:00:00

abstract：:To shed more light on the molecular requirements for recognition of thyroid response elements (TREs) by thyroid receptors (TRs), we compared the specific aspects of DNA TRE recognition by different TR constructs. Using fluorescence anisotropy, we performed a detailed and hierarchical study of TR-TRE binding. This was ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Figueira AC,Lima LM,Lima LH,Ranzani AT,Mule Gdos S,Polikarpov I

更新日期：2010-02-09 00:00:00

abstract：:beta-amyloid peptide (Abeta) is the primary constituent of senile plaques, a defining feature of Alzheimer's disease. Aggregated Abeta is toxic to neurons, but the mechanism of toxicity remains unproven. One proposal is that Abeta toxicity results from relatively nonspecific Abeta-membrane interactions. We hypothesize...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Kremer JJ,Pallitto MM,Sklansky DJ,Murphy RM

更新日期：2000-08-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The interaction of nile red (NR) with apomyoglobin (ApoMb) in the native (pH 7) and molten globule (pH 4) states was investigated using experimental and computational methods. NR binds to hydrophobic locations in ApoMb with higher affinity (K(d) = 25 +/- 5 microM) in the native state than in the molten globule state (...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Polverini E,Cugini G,Annoni F,Abbruzzetti S,Viappiani C,Gensch T

更新日期：2006-04-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Tau fibrillization is a potential therapeutic target for Alzheimer's and other neurodegenerative diseases. Small molecules capable of both inhibiting aggregation and promoting filament disaggregation have been discovered, but knowledge of their mechanism of action and potential for testing in biological models is frag...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Necula M,Chirita CN,Kuret J

更新日期：2005-08-02 00:00:00