Precise bacterial polyprenol length control fails in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

abstract：:A new procedure (POLYS) for producing three-dimensional structures of polysaccharides and complex carbohydrates is described. This employs a builder concept combining a database of monosaccharide structures with a database containing information on populations of independent neighboring glycosidic linkages in disaccha...

journal_title：Biopolymers

authors： Engelsen SB,Cros S,Mackie W,Pérez S

更新日期：1996-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Small disulfide-rich peptides are translated as larger precursors typically containing an N-terminal prepro sequence. In this study, we investigated the role of a propeptide in the oxidative folding of an extremely hydrophobic delta-conotoxin, PVIA. delta-Conotoxin PVIA (delta-PVIA) is a 29-amino acid neurotoxin stabi...

journal_title：Biopolymers

authors： Buczek P,Buczek O,Bulaj G

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pig citrate synthase (PCS) can be used as a model enzyme to gain some insight into the structural basis of protein thermostability. The thermal unfolding characteristics of the specific secondary structure elements within PCS were monitored in detail by following changes in its amide I band components. The result of o...

journal_title：Biopolymers

authors： Severcan F,Haris PI

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A theoretical method is proposed to identify structural domains in proteins of known structures. It is based on the distribution of the local axes of the polypeptide chain. In particular, a statistical analysis is applied to the contributions of the local axes to the absolute writhing number, a topological property of...

journal_title：Biopolymers

authors： Anselmi C,Bocchinfuso G,Scipioni A,De Santis P

更新日期：2001-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Caspases comprise a family of dimeric cysteine proteases that control apoptotic programmed cell death and are therefore critical in both organismal development and disease. Specific inhibition of individual caspases has been repeatedly attempted, but has not yet been attained. Caspase-9 is an upstream or initiator cas...

journal_title：Biopolymers

authors： Huber KL,Ghosh S,Hardy JA

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The design of modified nucleic acid aptamers is improved by considering thermodynamics and kinetics of their association/dissociation processes. Locked Nucleic Acids (LNA) is a promising class of nucleic acid analogs. In this work the thermodynamic and kinetic properties of a LNA quadruplex formed by the TGGGT sequenc...

journal_title：Biopolymers

authors： Petraccone L,Erra E,Randazzo A,Giancola C

更新日期：2006-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study a novel general approach is presented that allows for a straightforward design of receptor binding assays. This principle of a receptor binding assay is applied to the estrogen receptor, which is important in the management of breast cancer and for the estimation of the estrogenic potency of chemicals in...

journal_title：Biopolymers

authors： Christoph S,Meyer-Almes FJ

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases are an ancient group of enzymes that catalyze the covalent attachment of an amino acid to its cognate transfer RNA. The question of specificity, that is, how each synthetase selects the correct individual or isoacceptor set of tRNAs for each amino acid, has been referred to as the second...

journal_title：Biopolymers

authors： Beuning PJ,Musier-Forsyth K

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hybrids of the double-chain bis-cystinyl fragment 225-232/225'-232' of human immunoglobulin G1 (IgG1) with the human little-gastrin sequence 2-17 were found to induce in animals a strong antigastrin humoral immune response with antibody titers comparable to those raised with conventional gastrin/carrier-protein conjug...

journal_title：Biopolymers

authors： Moroder L,Bali JP,Kobayashi Y

更新日期：1991-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has recently been reported that synthetic peptides corresponding to the C-terminal sequence of G alpha, can be used to study the molecular mechanisms of interaction between this protein and G protein coupled receptors (Hamm et al., Science, 1988, Vol. 241, pp. 832-835). A conformational analysis on a 11 amino acids...

journal_title：Biopolymers

authors： Albrizio S,D'Ursi A,Fattorusso C,Galoppini C,Greco G,Mazzoni MR,Novellino E,Rovero P

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Contact lens (CL) wear is a risk factor for development of microbial keratitis, a vision threatening infection of the eye. Adverse events associated with colonization of lenses, especially by the multi-drug resistant and biofilm forming bacterium Pseudomonas aeruginosa remain a major safety issue. Therefore, novel str...

journal_title：Biopolymers

authors： Casciaro B,Dutta D,Loffredo MR,Marcheggiani S,McDermott AM,Willcox MD,Mangoni ML

更新日期：2017-10-31 00:00:00

abstract：:The beta-subunit of the human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) hormone, which is believed to be related to certain types of cancer, contains three hairpin-like fragments. To investigate the role of beta-hairpin formation in the early stages of the hCGbeta folding, a 28-residue peptide with the sequence RDVRFESIRLPGSPRGVNP...

journal_title：Biopolymers

authors： Silva RA,Sherman SA,Keiderling TA

更新日期：1999-10-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Per-O-methylated β-cyclodextrin (CD) bearing an iodoacetamide group at the 6-position was synthesized to functionalize protein surfaces. Bovine serum albumin (BSA) was quantitatively modified with the CD derivative by the S(N) 2 reaction of iodoacetamide with a cysteine residue (Cys34) on the BSA surface. The resultan...

journal_title：Biopolymers

authors： Kitagishi H,Kashiwa K,Kano K

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Individual-site isotherms for the binding of bacteriophage lambda repressor to the left and right lambda operators have been determined [D. F. Senear, M. Brenowitz, M. A. Shea, and G. K. Ackers (1986) Biochemistry, Vol. 25, pp. 7344-7354.] using the DNAse protection technique [footprinting; D. J. Galas and A. Schmitz ...

journal_title：Biopolymers

authors： Saroff HA

更新日期：1993-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Disintegrins, small molecular weight proteins contained in the venom of vipers and rattlesnakes, are high-affinity and selectivity integrin antagonists. Disintegrins inhibitory epitope mainly consists in a tripeptide sequence localized in a mobile loop protruding from the protein core. RTS and/or KTS tripeptide charac...

journal_title：Biopolymers

authors： Calvanese L,Falcigno L,D'Auria G

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper, we explore the possibility of using experimental observations in the Monte Carlo chain growth method that we have previously developed. In this method, the macromolecule (peptide, protein, nuclei acid, etc.) is grown atom-by-atom (or residue-by-residue, etc.) and partial chains are replicated according ...

journal_title：Biopolymers

authors： Bascle J,Garel T,Orland H,Velikson B

更新日期：1993-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The abnormal aggregation of amyloid proteins is reported to play a critical role in the etiology of neurodegenerative disorders. Studies have shown that excessive ferric irons are associated with the misfolding of amyloid proteins, and that (-)-epigallocatechin gallate (EGCG) is a good metallic ion chelator with inhib...

journal_title：Biopolymers

authors： Xu L,Tu S,Chen C,Zhao J,Zhang Y,Zhou P

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The rheological characteristics of gastric and duodenal mucin solutions, the building blocks of the mucus layer that covers the epithelia of the two organs, were investigated using particle tracking microrheology. We used biochemically well characterized purified porcine mucins (MUC5AC and MUC2) as models for human mu...

journal_title：Biopolymers

authors： Georgiades P,Pudney PD,Thornton DJ,Waigh TA

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the first two papers of this series, the tools necessary to evaluate substrate ring deformations were developed, and then the modeling of short amylose fragments (maltotriose and maltopentaose) inside the catalytic site of barley alpha-amylase was performed. In this third paper, this docking has been extended to th...

journal_title：Biopolymers

authors： André G,Buléon A,Haser R,Tran V

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We prepared the water soluble model peptide, (E)(8) GGLGGQGAG(A)(6) GGAGQGGYGG, to throw light on the local structure of spidroin 1 (MaSpl) protein in spider dragline silk of Nephila clavipes before and after spinning. Solution (13) C NMR showed that the conformation of the peptide in aqueous solution was essentially ...

journal_title：Biopolymers

authors： Yazawa K,Yamaguchi E,Knight D,Asakura T

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The conformational heterogeneity of several quinoxaline antibiotics, a class of naturally occurring quinoxaline peptides with antitumor properties, and their synthetic analogues was investigated in polar and nonpolar solvents by high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) with uv photodiode array detection, uv-absor...

journal_title：Biopolymers

authors： Alfredson TV,Maki AH,Waring MJ

更新日期：1991-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This work concerns the aggregation properties of (Gly-Val-Gly-Val-Pro)(251) rec, a polypentapeptide reflecting a highly conserved repetitive unit of the bioelastomer, elastin. On raising the temperature of aqueous solutions above 25 degrees C, this polypeptide was already known to undergo concurrent conformational cha...

journal_title：Biopolymers

authors： Manno M,Emanuele A,Martorana V,San Biagio PL,Bulone D,Palma-Vittorelli MB,McPherson DT,Xu J,Parker TM,Urry DW

更新日期：2001-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Raman spectra of normal hair shafts and hair shafts from patients exhibiting trichothiodystrophy (TTD) were obtained using line focus laser illumination. Because hair from TTD patients has a significant decrease in the content of the sulfur-containing amino acids in comparison to normal hair, the 550-500 cm(-1) disulf...

journal_title：Biopolymers

authors： Schlücker S,Liang C,Strehle KR,DiGiovanna JJ,Kraemer KH,Levin IW

更新日期：2006-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Structural formation of segments plays pivotal roles in protein folding and stability, but how the segment influences the structural ensemble remains elusive. We engineered two hybrid proteins by replacing the central helical segment of immunoglobulin G binding domain of streptococcal protein G with an alpha-helix or ...

journal_title：Biopolymers

authors： Du HN,Zhang TY,Chang YG,Lin DH,Hu HY

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The (GA)(n) microsatellite has been known from previous studies to adopt unusual, ordered, cooperatively melting secondary structures in neutral aqueous solutions containing physiological concentrations of salts, at acid pH values or in aqueous ethanol solutions. To find more about the primary structure specificity of...

journal_title：Biopolymers

authors： Kypr J,Kejnovská I,Vorlícková M

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Designed ligands that inhibit protein-protein interactions involved in gene expression are valuable as reagents for genomics research and as leads for drug discovery efforts. Selective modulation of protein-protein interactions has proven to be a daunting task for synthetic ligands; however, the last decade has seen s...

journal_title：Biopolymers

authors： Guarracino DA,Bullock BN,Arora PS

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The chemical synthesis and x-ray crystal structure analysis of a model peptide incorporating a conformationally adaptable unsubstituted beta-Ala residue: Boc-beta-Ala-Acc6-OCH3 (C16H28N2O5, molecular weight = 328.41; 1) has been described. The peptide crystallized in the space group P2(1)2(1)2(1) a = 8.537 (3), b = 8....

journal_title：Biopolymers

authors： Thakur AK,Kishore R

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Terminally blocked (L-Pro-Aib)n and Aib-(L-Pro-Aib)n sequential oligopeptides are known to form right-handed beta-bend ribbon spirals under a variety of experimental conditions. Here we describe the results of a complete CD and ir characterization of this subtype of 3(10)-helical structure. The electronic CD spectra w...

journal_title：Biopolymers

authors： Yoder G,Keiderling TA,Formaggio F,Crisma M,Toniolo C

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A series of novel nonpeptide inhibitors of the pp60(c-Src) (Src) SH2 domain is described that exploit multifunctional group replacement of the phenylphosphate moiety of phosphotyrosine (pTyr). Relative to an x-ray structure of citrate complexed to the pTyr binding site of the Src SH2 domain, these nonpeptide ligands i...

journal_title：Biopolymers

authors： Sundaramoorthi R,Kawahata N,Yang MG,Shakespeare WC,Metcalf CA 3rd,Wang Y,Merry T,Eyermann CJ,Bohacek RS,Narula S,Dalgarno DC,Sawyer TK

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dielectric relaxation peak due to bound water was found around 100 MHz in poly(dG-dC).poly(dG-dC) and calf thymus DNA in water-ethanol mixtures with NaCl buffer. Relaxation time and strength show a transition for poly(dG-dC).poly(dG-dC) at an ethanol composition Cw = 0.45 (w/w) where the structural transition from B- ...

journal_title：Biopolymers

authors： Umehara T,Kuwabara S,Mashimo S,Yagihara S

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00