Resonance Raman study of Bacillus subtilis NO synthase-like protein: similarities and differences with mammalian NO synthases.

abstract：:A complex derived from chromatin containing one molecule of each of histones H2A, H2B, H3, and H4, termed core protein, was studied by 13C and 1H nuclear magnetic resonance. 13C line widths, when analyzed and compared with those of native and thermally unfolded representative globular proteins, showed that regions of ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Lilley DM,Pardon JF,Richards BM

更新日期：1977-06-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Galectin-3 is a member of a large family of beta-galactoside-binding animal lectins and is composed of a carboxyl-terminal lectin domain connected to an amino-terminal nonlectin part. Previous experimental results suggest that, when bound to multivalent glycoconjugates, galectin-3 self-associates through intermolecula...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Yang RY,Hill PN,Hsu DK,Liu FT

更新日期：1998-03-24 00:00:00

abstract：:After extensive studies spanning over half a century, there is little consensus on the kinetic mechanism of DNA polymerases. Using stopped-flow fluorescence assays for mammalian DNA polymerase beta (Pol beta), we have previously identified a fast fluorescence transition corresponding to conformational closing, and a s...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Bakhtina M,Roettger MP,Kumar S,Tsai MD

更新日期：2007-05-08 00:00:00

abstract：:By classical competitive antagonism, a substrate and competitive inhibitor must bind mutually exclusively to the active site. The competitive inhibition of O-acetyl serine sulfhydrylase (OASS) by the C-terminus of serine acetyltransferase (SAT) presents a paradox, because the C-terminus of SAT binds to the active site...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Singh AK,Ekka MK,Kaushik A,Pandya V,Singh RP,Banerjee S,Mittal M,Singh V,Kumaran S

更新日期：2017-09-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Although G protein-coupled receptor (GPCR) kinases (GRKs) have been shown to mediate desensitization of numerous GPCRs in studies using cellular expression systems, their function under physiological conditions is less well understood. In the current study, we employed various strategies to assess the effect of inhibi...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Kong KC,Gandhi U,Martin TJ,Anz CB,Yan H,Misior AM,Pascual RM,Deshpande DA,Penn RB

更新日期：2008-09-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The regulation of the rate-controlling enzyme in cholesterol biosynthesis and of the incorporation of [14C]oleate into cholesterol esters were studied in established lymphoid cell lines from normal subjects and compared with that of eight patients with genetic abnormalities of lipid metabolism. The activity of 3-hydro...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Kayden HJ,Hatam L,Beratis NG

更新日期：1976-02-10 00:00:00

abstract：:One of the key pathological features of Alzheimer's disease is the aggregation of tau protein. We are therefore searching for compounds capable of inhibiting this reaction. On the basis of an initial screen of 200000 compounds [Pickhardt, M., Gazova, Z., von Bergen, M., Khlistunova, I., Wang, Y., Hascher, A., Mandelko...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Pickhardt M,Larbig G,Khlistunova I,Coksezen A,Meyer B,Mandelkow EM,Schmidt B,Mandelkow E

更新日期：2007-09-04 00:00:00

abstract：:In bacteria, the transcription of virulence genes is usually controlled by a cell density-dependent process known as "quorum sensing" (QS). QS relies on small diffusible signaling molecules that cross the bacterial cell wall and activate target transcription factors after a threshold concentration has been reached. Be...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Yu S,Jensen V,Seeliger J,Feldmann I,Weber S,Schleicher E,Häussler S,Blankenfeldt W

更新日期：2009-11-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Over 155 mutations within the V2 vasopressin receptor (AVPR2) gene are responsible for nephrogenic diabetes insipidus (NDI). The expression and subcellular distribution of four of these was investigated in transfected cells. These include a point mutation in the seventh transmembrane domain (S315R), a frameshift mutat...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Morello JP,Salahpour A,Petäjä-Repo UE,Laperrière A,Lonergan M,Arthus MF,Nabi IR,Bichet DG,Bouvier M

更新日期：2001-06-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The complete coordination scheme for Mn(II) in transition-state-analogue complexes with creatine kinase has been determined by electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) spectroscopy. Perturbations in the EPR spectra for Mn(II) due to superhyperfine coupling to 17O of selectively labeled ligands have been used to identify ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Reed GH,Leyh TS

更新日期：1980-11-25 00:00:00

abstract：:An endo-beta-galactosidase, which hydrolyzes the internal beta-galactosidic linkages of R----GlcNAc (or GalNAc) beta 1----3Gal beta 1----4GlcNAc (or Glc), was isolated from the culture supernatant of Diplococcus pneumoniae. The enzyme, named endo-beta-galactosidase DII, hydrolyzed linear N-acetyllactosamine repeating ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Fukuda MN

更新日期：1985-04-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Quinone oxidoreductase 2 (QR2) purified from human red blood cells was recently shown to be a potential target of the quinoline antimalarial compounds [Graves et al., (2002) Mol. Pharmacol. 62, 1364]. QR2 catalyzes the two-electron reduction of menadione via the oxidation of N-alkylated or N-ribosylated nicotinamides....

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Kwiek JJ,Haystead TA,Rudolph J

更新日期：2004-04-20 00:00:00

abstract：:A peptide corresponding to a portion of the amphipathic alpha-helical region of CTP:phosphocholine cytidylyltransferase was synthesized. This region of the enzyme was proposed to be the membrane-binding domain [Kalmar, G.B., Kay, R.J., Lachance, A., Aebersold, R., & Cornell, R.B. (1990) Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 8...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Johnson JE,Cornell RB

更新日期：1994-04-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The human, cytosolic enzyme isocitrate dehydrogenase 1 (IDH1) reversibly converts isocitrate to α-ketoglutarate (αKG). Cancer-associated somatic mutations in IDH1 result in a loss of this normal function but a gain in a new or neomorphic ability to convert αKG to the oncometabolite 2-hydroxyglutarate (2HG). To improve...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Rendina AR,Pietrak B,Smallwood A,Zhao H,Qi H,Quinn C,Adams ND,Concha N,Duraiswami C,Thrall SH,Sweitzer S,Schwartz B

更新日期：2013-07-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Adenylosuccinate lyase of Bacillus subtilis is inactivated by 2-[(4-bromo-2,3-dioxobutyl)thio]adenosine 5'-monophosphate (2-BDB-TAMP) at pH 7.0. As the reagent concentration is increased, a maximum rate constant is approached, indicative of reversible enzyme-reagent complex formation (KR = 68 +/- 9 microM) prior to ir...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Lee TT,Worby C,Bao ZQ,Dixon JE,Colman RF

更新日期：1998-06-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The isolated N-terminal Src homology 3 (SH3) domain of Drosophila drk exists in equilibrium between folded and unfolded states in aqueous buffer near neutral pH. Nuclear magnetic resonance spectra recorded on both states simultaneously exhibit an approximate 1:1 ratio of protein conformations. The folded form is simil...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Zhang O,Forman-Kay JD

更新日期：1995-05-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The 35000-Mr beta-adrenergic receptor mRNA binding protein (beta ARB) is induced by beta-adrenergic agonists and binds to G-protein-linked receptor mRNAs that exhibit agonist-induced destabilization. Recently, we identified a 20-nucleotide, AU-rich region in the 3'-untranslated region of the hamster beta 2-adrenergic ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Tholanikunnel BG,Raymond JR,Malbon CC

更新日期：1999-11-23 00:00:00

abstract：:X-ray solution scattering data from skeletal muscle troponin C and from calmodulin have been measured. Modeling studies based on the crystal structure coordinates for these proteins show discrepancies between the solution data and the crystal structure that indicate that if the size and shape of the globular domains a...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Heidorn DB,Trewhella J

更新日期：1988-02-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Ammonia is an inhibitor of water oxidation and a structural analogue for substrate water, making it a valuable probe for the structural properties of the possible substrate-binding site on the oxygen-evolving complex (OEC) in photosystem II (PSII). By using the NH(3)-induced upshift of the 1365 cm(-)(1) IR mode in the...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Fang CH,Chiang KA,Hung CH,Chang K,Ke SC,Chu HA

更新日期：2005-07-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The soluble domains of the b and b' subunits of the ATP synthase of the cyanobacterium Synechocystis PCC 6803 were expressed with His tags attached to their N-termini. Following purification, the polypeptides were characterized by chemical cross-linking, analytical ultracentrifugation, and circular dichroism spectrosc...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Dunn SD,Kellner E,Lill H

更新日期：2001-01-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Rad51 protein, a eukaryotic homologue of RecA protein, forms a filamentous complex with DNA and catalyzes homologous recombination. We have analyzed the structure of Xenopus Rad51 protein (XRad51.1) in solution by small-angle neutron scattering (SANS). The measurements showed that XRad51.1 forms a helical filament ind...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Ellouze C,Kim HK,Maeshima K,Tuite E,Morimatsu K,Horii T,Mortensen K,Nordén B,Takahashi M

更新日期：1997-11-04 00:00:00

abstract：:We have modified the cytochrome b subunit of the cytochrome bc1 complex from the purple bacterium Rhodobacter sphaeroides to introduce two distinctive features of cytochrome b6 f complexes. In the first one, we have split cyt b into two polypeptides thus mimicking the organization of cyt b6 and subunit IV in the b6 f ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Kuras R,Guergova-Kuras M,Crofts AR

更新日期：1998-11-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The high-affinity interaction between urokinase-type plasminogen activator (uPA) and its glycolipid anchored receptor (uPAR) is essential for the confinement of plasminogen activation to cell surfaces where it is thought to play an important role in cancer cell invasion and metastasis. The receptor binding site of uPA...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Ploug M,Rahbek-Nielsen H,Ellis V,Roepstorff P,Danø K

更新日期：1995-10-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Human plasma phospholipid transfer protein (PLTP) exchanges phospholipids between lipoproteins and remodels high-density lipoproteins (HDLs). We determined phospholipid transfer activity and HDL binding ability in wild-type PLTP and in 16 PLTP variants created by replacing 12 charged amino acids by site-directed mutag...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Ponsin G,Qu SJ,Fan HZ,Pownall HJ

更新日期：2003-04-22 00:00:00

abstract：:A 37 kDa protein that binds to diadenosine tetraphosphate (Ap4A) was purified from human HeLa cells and identified as uracil DNA glycosylase/glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase (UDG/GAPDH). Utilizing photoaffinity labeling with [alpha-32P]8N3-Ap4A, an Ap4A binding protein of 37 kDa was identified from HeLa cell n...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Baxi MD,Vishwanatha JK

更新日期：1995-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cysteine desulfurases (CDs) are pyridoxal-5'-phosphate (PLP)-dependent enzymes that cleave sulfur from cysteine via an enzyme cysteinyl persulfide intermediate. In vitro studies of these enzymes have generally employed dithiothreitol as a cosubstrate to reductively cleave the persulfide intermediate, and it has been s...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Behshad E,Parkin SE,Bollinger JM Jr

更新日期：2004-09-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Extracts of two human glioma cell lines (lacking O6-methylguanine DNA-methyltransferase) (i.e., A1235 and its alkylation-resistant derivative A1235-MR4) were examined for their ability to execute strand incision at different base mismatches in model (45-bp) DNA. These heteroduplex substrates were of the same sequence ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Lari SU,Al-Khodairy F,Paterson MC

更新日期：2002-07-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The biosynthesis of ansamycin antibiotics, including rifamycin B, involves the synthesis of an aromatic precursor, 3-amino-5-hydroxybenzoic acid (AHBA), which serves as starter for the assembly of the antibiotics' polyketide backbone. The terminal enzyme of AHBA formation, AHBA synthase, is a dimeric, pyridoxal 5'-pho...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Eads JC,Beeby M,Scapin G,Yu TW,Floss HG

更新日期：1999-08-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The individual amide proton exchange rates in Tendamistat at pH 3.0 and 50 degrees C were measured by using two-dimensional 1H nuclear magnetic resonance. Overall, it was found that the distribution of exchange rates along the sequence is dominated by the interstrand hydrogen bonds of the beta-sheet structures. The sl...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Wang QW,Kline AD,Wüthrich K

更新日期：1987-10-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Copper-zinc superoxide dismutase (CuZnSOD) acquires its catalytic copper ion through interaction with another polypeptide termed the copper chaperone for SOD. Here, we combine X-ray crystallographic and analytical ultracentrifugation methods to characterize rigorously both truncated and full-length forms of apo-LYS7, ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Hall LT,Sanchez RJ,Holloway SP,Zhu H,Stine JE,Lyons TJ,Demeler B,Schirf V,Hansen JC,Nersissian AM,Valentine JS,Hart PJ

更新日期：2000-04-04 00:00:00