Femtosecond time-resolved absorption spectroscopy of main-form and high-salt peridinin-chlorophyll a-proteins at low temperatures.

abstract：:The crystal structure of the 2[4Fe-4S] ferredoxin from Clostridium acidurici has been solved using X-ray diffraction data extending to atomic resolution, 0.94 A, recorded at 100 K. The model was refined with anisotropic representation of atomic displacement parameters for all non-hydrogen atoms and with hydrogens ridi...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Dauter Z,Wilson KS,Sieker LC,Meyer J,Moulis JM

更新日期：1997-12-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Malate dehydrogenase occurs in virtually all eucaryotic cells in mitochondrial and cytoplasmic forms, both of which are composed of two identical subunits. The reactivation of the mitochondrial isoenzyme has been the subject of previous studies [Jaenicke, R., Rudolph, R., & Heider, I. (1979) Biochemistry 18, 1217-1223...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Rudolph R,Fuchs I,Jaenicke R

更新日期：1986-04-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The enzyme hydrogenase, from the photosynthetic bacterium Chromatium, was purified to homogeneity after solubilization of the particulate enzyme with deoxycholate. The purification procedure included ammonium sulfate fractionation, treatment with manganous phosphate gel, heating at 63 degrees, DEAE-cellulose chromatog...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Gitlitz PH,Krasna AI

更新日期：1975-06-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The cooperative binding of the Escherichia coli DNA unwinding protein to single-stranded DNA has been studied by electron microscopy. Analysis of the electron microscopic data by means of a simple statistical mechanical model has yielded a value of 3.8-7.6 X 10(10) l./mol for the cooperative binding constant in 0.15 M...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Ruyechan WT,Wetmur JG

更新日期：1975-12-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Folylpoly-gamma-glutamate synthetase (FPGS) is the enzyme responsible for metabolic trapping of reduced folate cofactors in cells for use in nucleotide and amino acid biosynthesis. There are two isoforms of FPGS expressed in mouse tissues, one is expressed in differentiated tissue, principally liver and kidney, and th...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Andreassi JL 2nd,Moran RG

更新日期：2002-01-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Several experimental approaches have been employed to independently determine rates of dissociation for Escherichia coli RNA polymerase from the T7 bacteriophage A1, A2, A3, and D promoters. Heparin challenge measurements employing abortive initiation turnover rates as an index of promoter occupancy were carried out o...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Cech CL,McClure WR

更新日期：1980-05-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The HAMP domain is a conserved motif widely distributed in prokaryotic and lower eukaryotic organisms, where it is often found in transmembrane receptors that regulate two-component signaling pathways. The motif links receptor input and output modules and is essential to receptor structure and signal transduction. Rec...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Swain KE,Falke JJ

更新日期：2007-12-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Here we explore the use of ethidium to determine relative affinities of different gene delivery vectors for DNA and describe an improved method for studying the interaction. Specifically, we investigate the binding of poly(amidoamine) dendrimers and show that the DNA-dendrimer-ethidium system is far from thermodynamic...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Fant K,Nordén B,Lincoln P

更新日期：2011-02-22 00:00:00

abstract：:A [4Fe-4S] enzyme that decomposes L-cysteine to hydrogen sulfide, ammonia, and pyruvate has been isolated and characterized from Methanocaldococcus jannaschii. The sequence of the isolated enzyme demonstrated that the protein was the product of the M. jannaschii MJ1025 gene. The protein product of this gene was recomb...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Tchong SI,Xu H,White RH

更新日期：2005-02-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Aquaporin-4 (AQP4) is a water channel found at high concentrations around blood vessels in the brain and is organized into elaborate assemblies called square arrays. The natural functions of AQP4 and the square arrays remain unknown, but under pathophysiological conditions, AQP4 has been shown to influence brain edema...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Strand L,Moe SE,Solbu TT,Vaadal M,Holen T

更新日期：2009-06-30 00:00:00

abstract：:A new method of calculation, based on a direct fitting of the protein fluorescence intensity observed upon coenzyme binding (H.-P. Lutz, unpublished results), is used to study the negative cooperative behavior of glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase from sturgeon muscle. The calculation procedure simultaneously el...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Branlant G,Eiler B,Biellmann JF,Lutz HP,Luisi PL

更新日期：1983-09-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Neutral glycosphingolipids and gangliosides in rabbit thymus, spleen, bone marrow, and erythrocyte ghosts were analyzed by conventional chemical and enzymatic procedures and negative ion fast atom bombardment mass spectrometry (FABMS). Thymus gangliosides showed a characteristic composition. Major gangliosides compris...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Iwamori M,Kiguchi K,Kanno J,Kitagawa M,Nagai Y

更新日期：1986-02-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Electron-transfer reactions following the formation of P700(+)A1- have been studied in isolated Photosystem I complexes from Synechococcus elongatus between 300 and 5 K by flash absorption spectroscopy. (1) In the range from 300 to 200 K, A1- is reoxidized by electron transfer to the iron-sulfur cluster FX. The rate s...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Schlodder E,Falkenberg K,Gergeleit M,Brettel K

更新日期：1998-06-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Steroidogenic acute regulatory protein (StAR) rapidly stimulates the movement of cholesterol into adrenal and gonadal mitochondria to mediate the acute steroidogenic response; StAR mutations cause potentially lethal congenital lipoid adrenal hyperplasia (lipoid CAH). Bacterially expressed wild-type StAR and four amino...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Bose HS,Baldwin MA,Miller WL

更新日期：1998-07-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of ions on the interaction of lac repressor protein and operator DNA have been studied by the membrane filter technique. The equilibrium association constant was determined as a function of monovalent and divalent cation concentrations, anions, and pH. The binding of repressor and operator is extremely sen...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Barkley MD,Lewis PA,Sullivan GE

更新日期：1981-06-23 00:00:00

abstract：:β-2-Microglobulin (β2m) forms amyloid fibrils in the joints of patients undergoing dialysis treatment as a result of kidney failure. One of the ways in which β2m can be induced to form amyloid fibrils in vitro is via incubation with stoichiometric amounts of Cu(II). To better understand the structural changes caused b...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Borotto NB,Zhang Z,Dong J,Burant B,Vachet RW

更新日期：2017-02-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The Autographa californica multinucleocapsid nuclear polyhedrosis virus genome contains nine homologous region (hr1, hr1a, hr2, hr2a, hr3, hr4a, hr4b, hr4c, and hr5) sequences that are thought to be involved in viral replication and activation of transcription. Our results show that the 750 bp hr1 sequence is capable ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Venkaiah B,Viswanathan P,Habib S,Hasnain SE

更新日期：2004-06-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The three-dimensional structure of amyloid beta peptide (25-35), which has neurotoxic activity, in lithium dodecyl sulfate micelles was determined by two-dimensional 1H NMR spectroscopy with simulated annealing calculations. A total of 20 converged amyloid beta peptide structures were obtained on the basis of 110 expe...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Kohno T,Kobayashi K,Maeda T,Sato K,Takashima A

更新日期：1996-12-17 00:00:00

abstract：:When the identity of the metal ion activator, M, is changed within the series, Zn2+, Co2+, Mg2+, Ni2+, Mn2+, and Cd2+, the equilibrium distribution among the central complexes in the phosphoglucomutase system is markedly altered. (The central complexes are Ep-M-Glc-6-P, ED-M-Glc-1,6-P2, and Ep-M-Glc-1-P, where Ep and ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Ray WJ Jr,Long JW

更新日期：1976-09-07 00:00:00

abstract：:4-Azido-2-nitrophenyl pyrophosphate (azido-PPi) labeled with 32P in the alpha position was prepared and used to photolabel beef heart mitochondrial F1. Azido-PPi was hydrolyzed by yeast inorganic pyrophosphatase, but not by mitochondrial F1-ATPase. Incubation of F1 with [alpha-32P]azido-PPi in the dark under condition...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Michel L,Garin J,Issartel JP,Vignais PV

更新日期：1989-12-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The development of inhibitors of insulin-regulated aminopeptidase (IRAP), a membrane-bound zinc metallopeptidase, is a promising approach for the discovery of drugs for the treatment of memory loss such as that associated with Alzheimer's disease. There is, however, no consensus in the literature about the mechanism b...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Ascher DB,Cromer BA,Morton CJ,Volitakis I,Cherny RA,Albiston AL,Chai SY,Parker MW

更新日期：2011-04-05 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe the crystal structure of human epidermal-type fatty acid binding protein (E-FABP) that was recently found to be highly upregulated in human psoriatic keratinocytes. To characterize E-FABP with respect to ligand-binding properties and tertiary structure, we cloned the respective cDNA, overexpressed the prot...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Hohoff C,Börchers T,Rüstow B,Spener F,van Tilbeurgh H

更新日期：1999-09-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Betaine-homocysteine S-methyltransferase (BHMT) is a zinc-dependent enzyme that catalyzes the transfer of a methyl group from glycine betaine (Bet) to homocysteine (Hcy) to form dimethylglycine (DMG) and methionine (Met). Previous studies in other laboratories have indicated that catalysis proceeds through the formati...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Castro C,Gratson AA,Evans JC,Jiracek J,Collinsová M,Ludwig ML,Garrow TA

更新日期：2004-05-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Purified beta subunit of human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) was partially reduced with beta-mercaptoethanol, carboxymethylated, and digested with chymotrypsin. The peptides were isolated by high-voltage electrophoresis and paper chromatography. Five major disulfide-containing peptides were isolated, and their location...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Swaminathan N,Braunstein GD

更新日期：1978-12-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The fluorescence intensity of the two flavin prosthetic groups, FMN and FAD, in neuronal nitric oxide synthase (nNOS) was found to decay highly nonexponentially, being best described by four fluorescence lifetimes. This excited state heterogeneity is the result of multiple flavin quenching sites which are due to sever...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Brunner K,Tortschanoff A,Hemmens B,Andrew PJ,Mayer B,Kungl AJ

更新日期：1998-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatitis C virus (HCV) nonstructural protein 5A (NS5A) is a monotopic membrane protein anchored to the membrane by an N-terminal in-plane amphipathic alpha-helix. This membrane anchor is essential for the assembly of a functional viral replication complex. Although amino acid sequences differ considerably, putative m...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Sapay N,Montserret R,Chipot C,Brass V,Moradpour D,Deléage G,Penin F

更新日期：2006-02-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Pyruvate phosphate dikinase catalyzes the interconversion of adenosine 5'-triphosphate (ATP), orthophosphate (P(i)), and pyruvate with adenosine 5'-monophosphate (AMP), pyrophosphate (PP(i)), and phosphoenolpyruvate (PEP). The Arg 561 residue of Clostridium symbiosum PPDK is contained within a Gly-rich stretch of sequ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Yankie L,Xu Y,Dunaway-Mariano D

更新日期：1995-02-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The EcoRV restriction endonuclease cleaves DNA at its recognition sequence more readily with Mg2+ as the cofactor than with Mn2+ but, at noncognate sequences that differ from the EcoRV site by one base pair, Mn2+ gives higher rates than Mg2+. A mutant of EcoRV, in which an isoleucine near the active site was replaced ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Vipond IB,Moon BJ,Halford SE

更新日期：1996-02-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Fibronectin (FN) is an extracellular matrix (ECM) protein found soluble in corporal fluids or as an insoluble fibrillar component incorporated in the ECM. This phenomenon implicates structural changes that expose FN binding sites and activate the protein to promote intermolecular interactions with other FN. We have in...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Patel S,Chaffotte AF,Goubard F,Pauthe E

更新日期：2004-02-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Regions of the negative strands of the satellite RNAs of chicory yellow mottle virus (sCYMV1) and arabis mosaic virus (sArMV) have similarity in sequence and predicted secondary structure compared to the tobacco ringspot virus satellite RNA (sTRSV) hairpin ribozyme, suggesting that they may also be catalytic RNAs of a...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： DeYoung M,Siwkowski AM,Lian Y,Hampel A

更新日期：1995-12-05 00:00:00