Calpain inhibition by alpha-ketoamide and cyclic hemiacetal inhibitors revealed by X-ray crystallography.

abstract：:TP40 is a chimeric protein containing transforming growth factor alpha (TGF-alpha) at the N-terminus and a derivative of a 40,000-Da segment (PE40 delta cys) of Pseudomonas exotoxin (PE). PE40 delta cys contains domains Ib, II, and III of PE in which the cysteines are mutated to alanines. The rationale for inclusion o...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Sanyal G,Marquis-Omer D,Gress JO,Middaugh CR

更新日期：1993-04-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Three methods, fluorescence anisotropy of rhodamine-labeled profilin, intrinsic fluorescence and nucleotide exchange, give the same affinity, Kd = 0.1 microM, for Acanthamoeba profilins binding amoeba actin monomers with bound Mg-ATP. Replacement of serine 38 with cysteine created a unique site where labeling with rho...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Vinson VK,De La Cruz EM,Higgs HN,Pollard TD

更新日期：1998-08-04 00:00:00

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：:Crystallographic analysis revealed that the nicotinamide ring of NAD can bind with multiconformations to aldehyde dehydrogenase (ALDH) (Ni, L., Zhou, J., Hurley, T. D., and Weiner, H. (1999) Protein Sci. 8, 2784-2790). Electron densities can be defined for two conformations, neither of which appears to be compatible w...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Hammen PK,Allali-Hassani A,Hallenga K,Hurley TD,Weiner H

更新日期：2002-06-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The RecB and RecC subunits of the RecBCD enzyme from Escherichia coli were purified from cells containing plasmids overproducing these proteins [Boehmer, P.E., & Emmerson, P.T. (1991) Gene 102, 1-6]. RecB hydrolyzes ATP in the presence of either single- or double-stranded DNA. RecC stimulates ATP hydrolysis by RecB, p...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Korangy F,Julin DA

更新日期：1993-05-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The combination of UV/visible/near-IR variable-temperature magnetic circular dichroism (VTMCD) and EPR spectroscopies has been used to investigate the spin states and axial ligation of the heme group in oxidized, reduced, and CO-bound reduced forms of the Rhodospirillum rubrum CO oxidation transcriptional activator pr...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Dhawan IK,Shelver D,Thorsteinsson MV,Roberts GP,Johnson MK

更新日期：1999-09-28 00:00:00

abstract：:An improved procedure for the preparation of cobalt-cytochrome c has been developed. Various factors influencing the cobalt insertion process are discussed. The optical spectra of cobalt-cytochrome c suggest a six-coordinated species. The spectral shifts occurring with oxidation-reduction are compared with those obser...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Dickinson LC,Chien JC

更新日期：1975-08-12 00:00:00

abstract：:A visual pigment consists of an opsin protein and a chromophore, 11-cis-retinal, which binds to a specific lysine residue of opsin via a Schiff base linkage. The Schiff base chromophore is protonated in pigments that absorb visible light, whereas it is unprotonated in ultraviolet-absorbing visual pigments (UV pigments...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Tsutsui K,Imai H,Shichida Y

更新日期：2007-05-29 00:00:00

abstract：:We have studied a group of fusion peptides of influenza hemagglutinin in which the N-terminal amino acid, Gly (found in the wild-type peptide), has been systematically substituted with Ala, Ser, Val, or Glu. The activity of the intact hemagglutinin protein with these same substitutions has already been reported. As a ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Epand RM,Epand RF,Martin I,Ruysschaert JM

更新日期：2001-07-31 00:00:00

abstract：:The in vitro reaction of the vinyl chloride metabolite chloroacetaldehyde (CAA) with cytosine and adenine residues in ribo- and deoxyribopolynucleotides leads to the formation of the relatively stable hydrated etheno derivatives 3,N4-(N4-alpha-hydroxyethene)adenine (epsilon C . H2O) and 1,N6-(N6-alpha-hydroxyethene)cy...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Kuśmierek JT,Singer B

更新日期：1982-10-26 00:00:00

abstract：:An in vitro system reconstituted with mouse liver polysome translation products was used to study the nature of polypeptide species imported into mitochondria from different mouse tissues such as liver, kidney, brain, and heart, as well as from Ehrlich ascites, Novikoff hepatoma, and Morris hepatoma 3924A tumor lines....

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Bhat NK,Avadhani NG

更新日期：1985-12-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Two photoreactive apamin derivatives were prepared with an aryl azide [[(azidonitrophenyl)amino]acetate (ANPAA)] group coupled at different positions on the neurotoxin molecule. These ligands were used to identify membrane components in the environment of the neuronal binding site that is associated with a Ca2+-activa...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Seagar MJ,Labbé-Jullié C,Granier C,Goll A,Glossmann H,Van Rietschoten J,Couraud F

更新日期：1986-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Biotin synthase, a member of the "radical SAM" family, catalyzes the final step of the biotin biosynthetic pathway, namely, the insertion of a sulfur atom into dethiobiotin (DTB). The active form of the enzyme contains two iron-sulfur clusters, a [4Fe-4S](2+) cluster liganded by Cys-53, Cys-57, and Cys-60 and the S-ad...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Lotierzo M,Raux E,Tse Sum Bui B,Goasdoue N,Libot F,Florentin D,Warren MJ,Marquet A

更新日期：2006-10-10 00:00:00

abstract：:RNA pur*pur-pyr and pyr*pur-pyr (pur = purine, pyr = pyrimidine) triple helices consisting of a Watson-Crick base-paired 28mer hairpin duplex and a Hoogsteen base-paired purine or pyrimidine 12mer are targeted with photoactivated cleavage by the metal complex Rh(phen)2phi3+ (phen = phenanthroline, phi = 9, 10-phenanth...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Lim AC,Barton JK

更新日期：1998-06-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The Pf1 gene 5 protein forms a large helical nucleoprotein complex (Mr = 3.1 x 10(7)) with single-stranded viral DNA, from which a 32 amino acid sequence rich in alanine, proline, and glutamine residues can be removed from the C-terminus by limited proteolysis. Sharp resonances in the 1H NMR spectrum of the Pf1 nucleo...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Davis KG,Plyte SE,Robertson SR,Cooper A,Kneale GG

更新日期：1995-01-10 00:00:00

abstract：:High signal-to-noise Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectra of the 5-hydroxytryptamine (serotonin) receptor (5-HT(3)R) and the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor (nAChR) were obtained by microscope FTIR spectroscopy using micrometer-sized, fully hydrated protein films. Because this novel procedure requires only nanog...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Rigler P,Ulrich WP,Hovius R,Ilegems E,Pick H,Vogel H

更新日期：2003-12-02 00:00:00

abstract：:A 31 amino acid fragment of the extracellular N-terminus of the human G-protein coupled receptor for parathyroid hormone (PTH1R) has been structurally characterized by NMR and molecular dynamics simulations. The fragment PTH1R[168-198] includes residues 173-189, shown by photoaffinity cross-linking to be a contact dom...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Pellegrini M,Bisello A,Rosenblatt M,Chorev M,Mierke DF

更新日期：1998-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein S is an anticoagulant protein containing a Gla (enclosing gamma-carboxyglutamic acids) module, a TSR (thrombin sensitive region) module, four EGF (epidermal growth factor)-like modules, and a SHBG (sex hormone binding globulin)-like region. Protein S is a cofactor to activated protein C (APC) in the degradatio...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Persson KE,Stenflo J,Linse S,Stenberg Y,Preston RJ,Lane DA,Rezende SM

更新日期：2006-09-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Halogen bonding is a weak chemical force that has so far mostly found applications in crystal engineering. Despite its potential for use in drug discovery, as a new molecular tool in the direction of molecular recognition events, it has rarely been assessed in biopolymers. Motivated by this fact, we have developed a p...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Danelius E,Andersson H,Jarvoll P,Lood K,Gräfenstein J,Erdélyi M

更新日期：2017-06-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The assignment of the 1H, 15N, 13CO, and 13C resonances of recombinant human interleukin-4 (IL-4), a protein of 133 residues and molecular mass of 15.4 kDa, is presented based on a series of 11 three-dimensional (3D) double- and triple-resonance heteronuclear NMR experiments. These studies employ uniformly labeled 15N...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Powers R,Garrett DS,March CJ,Frieden EA,Gronenborn AM,Clore GM

更新日期：1992-05-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The diffusion of protons at the immediate vicinity of (less than 10 A from) a phospholipid membrane is studied by the application of the laser-induced proton pulse. A light-sensitive proton emitter (8-hydroxypyrene-1,3,6-trisulfonate) was trapped exclusively in the hydration layers of multilamellar vesicles made of eg...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Gutman M,Nachliel E,Moshiach S

更新日期：1989-04-04 00:00:00

abstract：:VSTx1 is a voltage sensor toxin from the spider Grammostola spatulata that inhibits KvAP, an archeabacterial voltage-activated K(+) channel whose X-ray structure has been reported. Although the receptor for VSTx1 and the mechanism of inhibition are unknown, the sequence of the toxin is related to hanatoxin (HaTx) and ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Jung HJ,Lee JY,Kim SH,Eu YJ,Shin SY,Milescu M,Swartz KJ,Kim JI

更新日期：2005-04-26 00:00:00

abstract：:[125I]Calmodulin binding to isolated rat adipocyte plasma membranes has been characterized, and the calmodulin binding proteins associated with the membrane have been identified by use of the photoaffinity cross-linker N-hydroxysuccinimidyl 4-azidobenzoate. Total binding of [125I]calmodulin to plasma membranes was ass...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Goewert RR,Landt M,McDonald JM

更新日期：1982-10-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Because of its ability to selectively glucosylate misfolded glycoproteins, UDP-glucose:glycoprotein glucosyltransferase (UGGT) functions as a folding sensor in the glycoprotein quality control system in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER). The unique property of UGGT derives from its ability to transfer a glucose residue t...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Ohara K,Takeda Y,Daikoku S,Hachisu M,Seko A,Ito Y

更新日期：2015-08-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Carbon monoxide dehydrogenase (CODH) from Clostridium thermoaceticum plays a central role in the newly discovered acetyl-CoA pathway [Wood, H.G., Ragsdale, S.W., & Pezacka, E. (1986) FEMS Microbiol. Rev. 39, 345-362]. The enzyme catalyzes the formation of acetyl-CoA from methyl, carbonyl, and CoA groups, and it has sp...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Shanmugasundaram T,Kumar GK,Wood HG

更新日期：1988-08-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The interaction between eosin-5-maleimide (EMA), an inhibitor of the anion transport protein, band 3, and I-, a transportable substrate, was investigated by fluorescence quenching. The Stern-Volmer plot for the quenching reaction between EMA-labeled band 3 and I- exhibits downward curvature both in human erythrocyte g...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Pan RJ,Cherry RJ

更新日期：1995-04-11 00:00:00

abstract：:HlyC is an internal protein acyltransferase that activates hemolysin, a toxic protein produced by pathogenic Escherichia coli. Acyl-acyl carrier protein (ACP) is the essential acyl donor. Separately subcloned, expressed, and purified prohemolysin A (proHlyA), HlyC, and [1-14C]myristoyl-ACP have been used to study the ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Trent MS,Worsham LM,Ernst-Fonberg ML

更新日期：1999-03-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytochrome c has been chemically modified by methylene blue mediated photooxidation. It is established that the methionine residues of the protein have been specifically converted to methionine sulfoxide residues. No oxidation of any other amino acid residues or the cysteine thioether bridges of the molecule occurs du...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Ivanetich KM,Bradshaw JJ,Kaminsky LS

更新日期：1976-03-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Polyhistidine affinity tags are routinely employed as a convenient means of purifying recombinantly expressed proteins. A tacit assumption is commonly made that His tags have little influence on protein structure and function. Attachment of a His tag to the N-terminus of the robust globular protein myoglobin leads to ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Thielges MC,Chung JK,Axup JY,Fayer MD

更新日期：2011-06-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Avoidance of over-reduction of the chloroplast ferredoxin pool is of paramount importance for plants in avoiding oxidative stress. The redox state of this pool can be controlled through regulation of the thylakoid electron transport chain. A model is presented for regulation of this chain via a thiol reduction mechani...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Johnson GN

更新日期：2003-03-18 00:00:00