Direct detection and kinetic analysis of covalent intermediate formation in the 4-amino-4-deoxychorismate synthase catalyzed reaction.

abstract：:Nitrogenase reduces N2 to NH3, but the mechanistic details are unclear. Diazene (N2H2), a proposed 2e-/2H+ intermediate on the reduction pathway, is labile under typical enzyme assay conditions, and no firm evidence is available on whether or not it can be reduced by or inhibit nitrogenase. In this paper, we compare t...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： McKenna CE,Simeonov AM,Eran H,Bravo-Leerabhandh M

更新日期：1996-04-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Our earlier NMR study showed that a two-disulfide variant of hen lysozyme containing intra-alpha-domain disulfide bridges, C6-C127 and C30-C115, is partially folded, with the alpha domain tightly folded to the nativelike conformation and the beta domain flexible or unfolded. With a view that the formation of a third d...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Yokota A,Hirai K,Miyauchi H,Iimura S,Noda Y,Inoue K,Akasaka K,Tachibana H,Segawa S

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The N-acyl- l-homoserine lactone hydrolases (AHL lactonases) have attracted considerable attention because of their ability to quench AHL-mediated quorum-sensing pathways in Gram-negative bacteria and because of their relation to other enzymes in the metallo-beta-lactamase superfamily. To elucidate the detailed cataly...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Momb J,Wang C,Liu D,Thomas PW,Petsko GA,Guo H,Ringe D,Fast W

更新日期：2008-07-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The presence and subcellular localization of UDP-Gal:glucosylceramide beta 1----4galactosyltransferase (GalT-2) was investigated in rat liver. For this purpose, purified Golgi apparatus, endoplasmic reticulum, and plasma membrane fractions were prepared from the liver and used as the enzyme source for detecting GalT-2...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Trinchera M,Fiorilli A,Ghidoni R

更新日期：1991-03-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Phosphatase of regenerating liver 3 (PRL-3) is suggested as a biomarker and therapeutic target in several cancers. It has a well-established causative role in cancer metastasis. However, little is known about its natural substrates, pathways, and biological functions, and only a few protein substrates have been sugges...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： McParland V,Varsano G,Li X,Thornton J,Baby J,Aravind A,Meyer C,Pavic K,Rios P,Köhn M

更新日期：2011-09-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Amphiphiles respond both to polar and to nonpolar solvents. In this paper X-ray diffraction and osmotic stress have been used to examine the phase behavior, the structural dimensions, and the work of deforming the monolayer-lined aqueous cavities formed by mixtures of dioleoylphosphatidylethanolamine (DOPE) and dioleo...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Rand RP,Fuller NL,Gruner SM,Parsegian VA

更新日期：1990-01-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Ultraviolet absorption (UV) and circular dichroism (CD) spectra of wheat germ 5S RNA, when compared to tRNAPhe, indicate a largely base-paired and base-stacked helical structure, containing up to 36 base pairs. Fourier-transform infrared (FT-IR) spectra of tRNAPhe and wheat germ ribosomal 5S RNA have been acquired at ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Li SJ,Burkey KO,Luoma GA,Alben JO,Marshall AG

更新日期：1984-07-31 00:00:00

abstract：:We have determined the mechanism of DNA-dependent protein kinase (DNA-PK) inhibition by cis-diamminedichloroplatinum(II)-(cisplatin-) damaged DNA. We previously have demonstrated that Ku, the DNA binding subunit of DNA-PK, is capable of binding to DNA duplexes globally damaged with cisplatin but was unable to stimulat...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Turchi JJ,Patrick SM,Henkels KM

更新日期：1997-06-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Vanadium(IV) oxo-bis(maltolato) (BMOV), an organovanadium compound, is a potent insulinomimetic agent and improves glucose homeostasis in various models of diabetes. We have shown previously that BMOV stimulates the phosphorylation of PKB which may contribute as one of the mechanisms for the insulinomimetic effect of ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Mehdi MZ,Vardatsikos G,Pandey SK,Srivastava AK

更新日期：2006-09-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The UDP-N-acetylglucosamine (UDP-GlcNAc) acyltransferase, encoded by lpxA, catalyzes the first step of lipid A biosynthesis in Gram-negative bacteria, the (R)-3-hydroxyacyl-ACP-dependent acylation of the 3-OH group of UDP-GlcNAc. Recently, we demonstrated that the Arabidopsis thaliana orthologs of six enzymes of the b...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Joo SH,Chung HS,Raetz CR,Garrett TA

更新日期：2012-05-29 00:00:00

abstract：:High-risk human papillomavirus E6 participates in tumorigenic progression, mainly by its ability to promote p53 degradation. HPV transcripts show a complex splicing pattern, where E6* is the most abundant transcript in high-risk HPV types, comprising the first 50 amino acids of E6. No structural or biochemical informa...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Heer A,Alonso LG,de Prat-Gay G

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously shown that introduction of an engineered Met160 residue in ascorbate peroxidase (S160M variant) leads to the formation of a covalent link between Met160 and the heme vinyl group [Metcalfe, C. L., et al. (2004) J. Am. Chem. Soc. 126, 16242-16248]. In this work, we have used electronic spectroscopy, H...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Pipirou Z,Bottrill AR,Svistunenko DA,Efimov I,Basran J,Mistry SC,Cooper CE,Raven EL

更新日期：2007-11-20 00:00:00

abstract：:A variant of the Tetrahymena ribozyme that efficiently cleaves single-stranded DNA under simulated physiological conditions [Tsang, J., & Joyce, G. F. (1994) Biochemistry 33, 5966-5973] was evaluated as a potential therapeutic agent on the basis of its ability to cleave synthetic oligonucleotide substrates correspondi...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Raillard SA,Joyce GF

更新日期：1996-09-10 00:00:00

abstract：:A Ca(2+)-activated thiol protease was purified from Drosophila melanogaster. The procedure involves Phenyl-Sepharose, Reactive Red-Agarose and Q-Sepharose fast flow (or MonoQ) chromatographic steps. The enzyme eluting from Q-Sepharose fast flow seems to be homogeneous as judged by silver staining on SDS-PAGE: it consi...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Pintér M,Stierandova A,Friedrich P

更新日期：1992-09-08 00:00:00

abstract：:It was previously observed that two steps of the reaction of eukaryotic DNA topoisomerase I (topoisomerization and cleavage) depend upon the conformation of the DNA substrate: in both instances the supercoiled form is a more efficient substrate than the relaxed one. This paper reports the analysis of two other steps o...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Caserta M,Amadei A,Camilloni G,Di Mauro E

更新日期：1990-09-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The activity of the phosphoenolpyruvate-dependent glucose phosphotransferase system (PTS) in Escherichia coli is coupled to the oxidation-reduction potential. It is inhibited when the redox potential is increased above -300 mV either via substrate oxidation or via direct addition of oxidizing agents. Depending on the ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Robillard GT,Konings WN

更新日期：1981-08-18 00:00:00

abstract：:A series of monoclonal antibodies specific for distinguishable epitopes in chromosomal protein histone H5 were obtained from mice immunized with either free H5 or H5 . RNA complexes. The antibodies elicited by H5 could be distinguished from those elicited by H5 . RNA by their binding to native or acid-denatured H5, by...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Mendelson E,Bustin M

更新日期：1984-07-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Isolated alpha and beta chains from Xenopus laevis hemoglobin have been purified. The isolation procedure yields native alpha chains whose functional behavior has been characterized and compared with that of human alpha chains. Isolated beta chains in the presence of oxygen are characterized by low stability, and henc...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Condò SG,Giardina B,Bellelli A,Brunori M

更新日期：1987-10-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Ceruloplasmin is unique among the multicopper oxidases in that in addition to the usual copper stoichiometry of one Type 1 copper site and a Type 2/Type 3 trinuclear copper cluster, it contains two other Type 1 sites. This assignment of copper sites, based on copper quantitation, sequence alignment, and crystallograph...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Machonkin TE,Zhang HH,Hedman B,Hodgson KO,Solomon EI

更新日期：1998-06-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Restrictocin is a small basic protein produced by the fungus Aspergillus restrictus. It potently inhibits protein synthesis in eukaryotic cells by specifically cleaving a single phosphodiester bond in 28S rRNA. A histidine residue at position 49 in restrictocin has been implicated in its active site. A mutant of restr...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Nayak SK,Batra JK

更新日期：1997-11-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Vitamin E is a dietary lipid that is essential for vertebrate health and fertility. The biological activity of vitamin E is thought to reflect its ability to quench oxygen- and carbon-based free radicals and thus to protect the organism from oxidative damage. However, recent reports suggest that vitamin E may also dis...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Valastyan S,Thakur V,Johnson A,Kumar K,Manor D

更新日期：2008-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:To better understand how amino acid sequences specify unique tertiary folds, we have used random mutagenesis and phage display selection to evolve proteins with a high degree of sequence identity but different tertiary structures (homologous heteromorphs). The starting proteins in this evolutionary process were the Ig...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Alexander PA,Rozak DA,Orban J,Bryan PN

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phosphorus-31 magic angle sample spinning NMR spectra have been employed to investigate the structure and composition of the mineral deposits in chicken bone. Three different pulse sequences, Bloch decay, cross-polarization, and dipolar suppression, were employed to obtain spectra from bone specimens of varying age. T...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Roufosse AH,Aue WP,Roberts JE,Glimcher MJ,Griffin RG

更新日期：1984-12-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Bovine heart ubiquinol-cytochrome c reductase (bc1 complex) was modified with N-(ethoxycarbonyl)-2-ethoxy-1,2-dihydroquinoline (EEDQ), which is a selective reagent for buried carboxyl groups. EEDQ treatment caused a loss of the proton pumping activity of liposome-reconstituted bc1 complex, without effect on the passiv...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Cocco T,Di Paola M,Papa S,Lorusso M

更新日期：1998-02-17 00:00:00

abstract：:We have validated that ligand peptides designed from antigen peptides could be used for targeting specific major histocompatibility complex class I (MHC-I) molecules on the cell surface. To design the ligand peptides, we used reported antigen peptides for each MHC-I molecule with high binding affinity. From the crysta...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Sun X,Tokunaga R,Nagai Y,Miyahara R,Kishimura A,Kawakami S,Katayama Y,Mori T

更新日期：2020-12-15 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：:Microtubules, ordinarily cold-labile structures, are made entirely resistant to cold temperature by the presence of substoichiometric amounts of STOP (stable tubule only polypeptide), a microtubule-associated protein. We have produced a monoclonal antibody which specifically recognizes a 145-kDa protein previously imp...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Pirollet F,Rauch CT,Job D,Margolis RL

更新日期：1989-01-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The packing of lipids into different aggregates, such as spheres, rods, or bilayers, is dependent on the hydrophobic volume, the hydrocarbon-water interfacial area, and the hydrocarbon chain length of the participating molecules, according to the self-assembly theory [Israelachvili, J. N., Marcelja, S., & Horn, R. G. ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Wieslander A,Rilfors L,Lindblom G

更新日期：1986-11-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The kinetics and energetics of the binding between barley alpha-amylase/subtilisin inhibitor (BASI) or BASI mutants and barley alpha-amylase 2 (AMY2) were determined using surface plasmon resonance and isothermal titration calorimetry (ITC). Binding kinetics were in accordance with a 1:1 binding model. At pH 5.5, [Ca(...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Nielsen PK,Bønsager BC,Berland CR,Sigurskjold BW,Svensson B

更新日期：2003-02-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Murine double-minute clone 2 protein (MDM2) is an E3 ubiquitin ligase that regulates the turnover of several cellular factors including the p53 tumor suppressor protein. As part of the mechanism of p53 induction in response to DNA damage, a cluster of serine residues within the central acidic domain of MDM2 become hyp...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Winter M,Milne D,Dias S,Kulikov R,Knippschild U,Blattner C,Meek D

更新日期：2004-12-28 00:00:00