Electronic structure studies of the adenosylcobalamin cofactor in glutamate mutase.

abstract：:The heme and cysteine microenvironments of bluefin tuna apomyoglobin have been investigated by examining the fluorescence properties of two extrinsic chromophores, i.e., ANS and 1,5-AEDANS. 1,5-AEDANS was covalently bound to the single cysteine residue found in the primary structure of tuna apomyoglobin. Recombination...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Colonna G,Balestrieri C,Bismuto E,Servillo L,Irace G

更新日期：1982-01-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Isoelectrofocusing gels of acidic ribosomal proteins from most yeast strains reveal the presence of up to 10 bands which are the product of only 4 genes. The proteins have been characterized by NH2-terminal amino acid sequencing, specific antibodies, HPLC, and by taking advantage of acidic protein-defective yeast stra...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Santos C,Ortiz-Reyes B,Naranda T,Remacha M,Ballesta JP

更新日期：1993-04-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Class A beta-lactamases hydrolyze penicillins and other beta-lactams via an acyl-enzyme catalytic mechanism. Ser70 is the active site nucleophile. By constructing the S70A mutant, which is unable to form the acyl-enzyme intermediate, it was possible to make stable ES complexes with various substrates. The stability of...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Hokenson MJ,Cope GA,Lewis ER,Oberg KA,Fink AL

更新日期：2000-05-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The interaction of insulin with its receptor is complex. Kinetic and equilibrium binding studies suggest coexistence of high- and low-affinity binding sites or negative cooperativity. These phenomena and high-affinity interactions are dependent on the dimeric structure of the receptor. Structure-function studies of in...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Whittaker L,Hao C,Fu W,Whittaker J

更新日期：2008-12-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The only identified component of the scrapie prion is PrPSc, a glycosylinositol phospholipid (GPI)-linked protein that is derived from the cellular isoform (PrPC) by an as yet unknown posttranslational event. Analysis of the PrPSc GPI has revealed six different glycoforms, three of which are unprecedented. Two of the ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Stahl N,Baldwin MA,Hecker R,Pan KM,Burlingame AL,Prusiner SB

更新日期：1992-06-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The deacetylation of UDP-3-O-[(R)-3-hydroxymyristoyl]-N-acetylglucosamine (UDP-3-O-acyl-GlcNAc) by LpxC is the committed reaction of lipid A biosynthesis. CHIR-090, a novel N-aroyl-l-threonine hydroxamic acid, is a potent, slow, tight-binding inhibitor of the LpxC deacetylase from the hyperthermophile Aquifex aeolicus...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Barb AW,McClerren AL,Snehelatha K,Reynolds CM,Zhou P,Raetz CR

更新日期：2007-03-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Isolated chloroplasts are capable of synthesizing chloroplast DNA in the presence of Mg2+ and deoxynucleoside triphosphates. The in vitro reaction proceeds for at least 60 min and is inhibited by KC1 and N-ethylmaleimide. Stretches of several hundred nucleotides in length are synthesized within an hour. Little or no i...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Zimmermann W,Weissbach A

更新日期：1982-07-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Src SH3 is a small all-beta-sheet protein composed of a single domain. We studied the folding behavior of src SH3 at various conditions by circular dichroism (CD), fluorescence, and X-ray solution scattering methods. On the src SH3 folding pathway, an alpha-helix-rich intermediate appeared not only at subzero temperat...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Li J,Shinjo M,Matsumura Y,Morita M,Baker D,Ikeguchi M,Kihara H

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Haemadin is a 57-amino acid thrombin inhibitor from the land-living leech Haemadipsa sylvestris, whose structure has recently been determined in complex with human alpha-thrombin. Here we communicate the effect of ionic strength on the kinetics of the inhibition of human alpha-thrombin by haemadin, by using thrombin m...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Richardson JL,Fuentes-Prior P,Sadler JE,Huber R,Bode W

更新日期：2002-02-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Monomolecular layers of undissociated bile acids and membrane lipids at the air/water interface serve as useful models for the interactions between fully ionized bile salts and physiological membranes. Employing an automated Langmuir-Pockels surface balance, surface pressures and dipole moments were measured as functi...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Fahey DA,Carey MC,Donovan JM

更新日期：1995-08-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Through the application of a unique method for isolating plasma membranes, it was possible to specifically iodinate cytoplasm-exposed plasma membrane proteins in vegetative cells of the cellular slime mold Dictyostelium discoideum. The original procedure [Chaney, L. K., & Jacobson, B. S. (1983) J. Biol. Chem. 258, 100...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Shiozawa JA,Jelenska MM,Jacobson BS

更新日期：1987-07-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Multiply branched polylactosaminoglycans are expressed in glycoproteins and glycolipids of many cells. Interest in their biology stems from their abundant expression in early embryonal cells and from their ability to carry multiple lectin-binding determinants, which makes them prominent ligands and antagonists of cell...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Leppanen A,Salminen H,Zhu Y,Maaheimo H,Helin J,Costello CE,Renkonen O

更新日期：1997-06-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The reactivity of aluminum and several other divalent and trivalent metallic cations toward chromatin from rat brain and liver has been investigated. Two criteria are used to determine the relative reactivity of these cations toward chromatin. The first involves the ability of the ions to compact the chromatin fibers ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Walker PR,LeBlanc J,Sikorska M

更新日期：1989-05-02 00:00:00

abstract：:An expression plasmid encoding the extracellular portion of the human tumor necrosis factor (TNF) type 1 receptor (TNF-R1) was constructed and used to generate a stable cell line secreting soluble TNF-R1 (sTNF-R1). The sTNF-R1 was purified, and its biochemical properties and its interactions with human TNF-alpha were ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Pennica D,Kohr WJ,Fendly BM,Shire SJ,Raab HE,Borchardt PE,Lewis M,Goeddel DV

更新日期：1992-02-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Vitamin K dependent carboxylation of an exogenous peptide substrate and endogenous protein substrates, vitamin K epoxidation, and reduction of vitamin K epoxide were measured in subcellular fractions from rat liver. The rough microsomal fraction was highly enriched in all four activities; lower levels were found in sm...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Carlisle TL,Suttie JW

更新日期：1980-03-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Modulation of endogenous gene function, through sequence-specific recognition of double helical DNA via oligonucleotide-directed triplex formation, is a promising approach. Compared to the formation of pyrimidine motif triplexes, which require relatively low pH, purine motif appears to be the most gifted for their sta...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Kaushik S,Kaushik M,Svinarchuk F,Malvy C,Fermandjian S,Kukreti S

更新日期：2011-05-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Comparative studies on the salt titration and the related kinetics for poly(dG-dC) X poly(dG-dC) in pH 7.0 and 3.8 solutions clearly suggest that base protonation facilitates the kinetics of B-Z interconversion although the midpoint for such a transition in acidic solution (2.0-2.1 M NaCl) is only slightly lower than ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Chen FM

更新日期：1984-12-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacteriophage T7 RNA polymerase is a single-subunit enzyme which has a C-terminal amino acid sequence of Phe-Ala-Phe-Ala883 (FAFA883). Closely related hydrophobic sequences are present at the C termini of seven other single-subunit RNA polymerases, including the mitochondrial RNA polymerase. Mutations at any of the fo...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Gardner LP,Mookhtiar KA,Coleman JE

更新日期：1997-03-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Two mutant versions of Escherichia coli aspartate transcarbamylase were created by site-specific mutagenesis. Arg-234 of the 240s loop was replaced by serine in order to help deduce the function of the interactions that normally occur between Arg-234 and both Glu-50 and Gln-231 in the R state of the enzyme. The other ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Middleton SA,Kantrowitz ER

更新日期：1988-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The metabolism of iron-sulfur ([Fe-S]) clusters requires a complex set of machinery that is still being defined. Mutants of Salmonella enterica lacking apbC have nutritional and biochemical properties indicative of defects in [Fe-S] cluster metabolism. ApbC is a 40.8 kDa homodimeric ATPase and as purified contains lit...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Boyd JM,Pierik AJ,Netz DJ,Lill R,Downs DM

更新日期：2008-08-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The electron spin resonance probes 5-doxylstearate and 4-(dodecyldimethylammonio)-1-oxy-2,2,6,6-tetramethylpiperidine bromide were used to characterize the fluidity of the acyl chain and head-group regions, respectively, of defined salts of lipopolysaccharide (LPS) from Escherichia coli K12. The removal of the weakly ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Coughlin RT,Haug A,McGroarty EJ

更新日期：1983-04-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The carbon monoxide binding curve to human hemoglobin A0 has been measured to high precision in experimental conditions of 600 microM heme, 0.1 M N-(2-hydroxyethyl)piperazine-N'-2-ethanesulfonic acid, 0.1 M NaCl, 10 mM inositol hexaphosphate, 1 mM disodium ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid, pH 6.94, and 25 degrees C. Co...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Di Cera E,Doyle ML,Connelly PR,Gill SJ

更新日期：1987-10-06 00:00:00

abstract：:RNA competent in directing protein synthesis is sequestered in unfertilized sea urchin eggs as translationally quiescent, nonpolyribosomal, messenger ribonucleoprotein complexes (mRNPs). Following fertilization, these mRNPs are derepressed and actively translated, presumably due to changes in the mRNA-associated prote...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Moon RT,Moe KD,Hille MB

更新日期：1980-06-10 00:00:00

abstract：:A series of 24-homologated 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D3 compounds have been chemically synthesized and studied with regard to their activity in inducing differentiation of human promyelocyte HL-60 cells to monocytes and in calcium mobilizing activity in vitamin D deficient rats. Homologation of 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D3 or...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Perlman K,Kutner A,Prahl J,Smith C,Inaba M,Schnoes HK,DeLuca HF

更新日期：1990-01-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Resonance energy transfer measurements provide a way to estimate distances between chromophores attached to different sites of macromolecules. There are two unknowns involved in resonance energy transfer measurements, the distance between two chromophores and their relative orientation. When static orientational disor...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Wu P,Brand L

更新日期：1992-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To test for on target toxicity of a new chemical entity, it is important to have comparable binding affinities of the compound in the target proteins from humans and the test species. To evaluate our myeloid cell leukemia-1 (Mcl-1) inhibitors, we tested them against rodent Mcl-1 and found a significant loss of binding...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Zhao B,Arnold AL,Coronel MA,Lee JH,Lee T,Olejniczak ET,Fesik SW

更新日期：2018-08-14 00:00:00

abstract：:There is no complete understanding of how serine protease inhibitors of the serpin family inhibit their target enzymes. Structural and biochemical studies have suggested that serpins utilize a mechanism that is distinct from the standard mechanism of inhibition proposed for most small protein protease inhibitors. Prot...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Plotnick MI,Mayne L,Schechter NM,Rubin H

更新日期：1996-06-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The l-lyxonate dehydratase (LyxD) in vitro enzymatic activity and in vivo metabolic function were assigned to members of an isofunctional family within the mandelate racemase (MR) subgroup of the enolase superfamily. This study combined in vitro and in vivo data to confirm that the dehydration of l-lyxonate is the bio...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Ghasempur S,Eswaramoorthy S,Hillerich BS,Seidel RD,Swaminathan S,Almo SC,Gerlt JA

更新日期：2014-05-27 00:00:00

abstract：:A number of isomeric diacylglycerophosphocholines and diacylglycero sulfates containing O-acyl and/or S-acyl ester bonds were investigated as substrates for porcine pancreatic phospholipase A2 and its zymogen. A comparison is made with the kinetic properties of the enzyme toward the corresponding glycol detergents pre...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： van Oort MG,Dijkman R,Hille JD,de Haas GH

更新日期：1985-12-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Under mildly acidic conditions, annexin 12 (ANX) inserts into lipid membranes to form a transbilayer pore [Langen, R., et al. (1998) Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 95, 14060]. In this study, we have addressed the question of the oligomeric state of ANX in this transbilayer conformation by means of Forster-type resonanc...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Ladokhin AS,Haigler HT

更新日期：2005-03-08 00:00:00