Local conformational transition of Hydrogenobacter thermophilus cytochrome c552 relevant to its redox potential.

abstract：:Oligomers of amyloid-β (Aβ) have emerged as the primary toxic agents responsible for early synaptic dysfunction and neuronal death in Alzheimer's disease (AD). Characterization of oligomers is an important step in the progress toward delineating the complex molecular mechanisms involved in AD pathogenesis. In our prev...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Dean DN,Pate KM,Moss MA,Rangachari V

更新日期：2016-04-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Subunit II of the aa3 type cytochrome c oxidase contains a binuclear copper center (CuA) which functions as the entry point for electrons donated by cytochrome c. We have introduced site-specific mutations in residues liganding the CuA center in the oxidase of the bacterium Paracoccus denitrificans; the purified, full...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Zickermann V,Wittershagen A,Kolbesen BO,Ludwig B

更新日期：1997-03-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The primary subsite specificities of human leukocyte elastase, cathepsin G, porcine pancreatic elastase, rat mast cell proteases I and II, bovine chymotrypsin A alpha, and the protease from strain V-8 of Staphylococcus aureus have been mapped with a series of tripeptide thiobenzyl ester substrates of the general formu...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Harper JW,Cook RR,Roberts CJ,McLaughlin BJ,Powers JC

更新日期：1984-06-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The three-dimensional structure of the bifunctional alpha-amylase/trypsin inhibitor (RBI) from seeds of ragi (Eleusine coracana Gaertneri) has been determined in solution using multidimensional 1H and 15N NMR spectroscopy. The inhibitor consists of 122 amino acids, with 5 disulfide bridges, and belongs to the plant al...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Strobl S,Mühlhahn P,Bernstein R,Wiltscheck R,Maskos K,Wunderlich M,Huber R,Glockshuber R,Holak TA

更新日期：1995-07-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The structural features of a chemically modified DNA template strand may promote error-prone DNA synthesis during replication. The resulting higher incidence of mutations, in turn, can eventually lead to tumor initiation. Structural insights into this process can be monitored by studying chemically modified base adduc...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Cosman M,Hingerty BE,Geacintov NE,Broyde S,Patel DJ

更新日期：1995-11-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The protein tyrosine kinase, pp60(c-)(src), is involved in cellular signaling and is activated during mitosis and in various tumors. We have been employing cyclic decapeptides to identify the determinants for substrate binding and phosphorylation to develop inhibitors competitive with protein substrates of Src. A stru...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Wang W,Ramdas L,Sun G,Ke S,Obeyesekere NU,Budde RJ,McMurray JS

更新日期：2000-05-02 00:00:00

abstract：:To probe the motional and conformational properties of the choline head group of 1,2-dipalmitoyl-sn-glycero-3-thiophosphocholine (DPPsC), the Rp, Sp, and Rp + Sp isomers of [alpha-D2]DPPsC, [beta-D2]DPPsC, and [delta-D9]DPPsC in the subgel, gel, and liquid crystalline phases were investigated with deuterium NMR, and t...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Loffredo WM,Jiang RT,Tsai MD

更新日期：1990-12-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Plasminogen activator inhibitor-1 (PAI-1) is a serine protease inhibitor of the serpin superfamily which rapidly inactivates tissue plasminogen activator (tPA), but reacts with thrombin at a much slower rate. Based on the previous mutagenesis studies and the X-ray crystal structure of the thrombin E192Q-bovine pancrea...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Rezaie AR

更新日期：1998-09-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite significant progress in the past decade, questions still remain about the complete structural, dynamic, and thermodynamic effect of the cis-syn cyclobutane pyrimidine dimer lesion (hereafter called the thymine dimer) on double-stranded genomic DNA. We examined a 19-mer oligodeoxynucleotide duplex containing a ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Rumora AE,Kolodziejczak KM,Malhowski Wagner A,Núñez ME

更新日期：2008-12-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The PufX membrane protein is essential for photosynthetic growth of Rhodobacter sphaeroides because it is required for multiple-turnover electron transfer under anaerobic conditions [see accompanying article; Barz, W. P., Francia, F., Venturoli, G., Melandri, B. A., Verméglio, A., & Oesterhelt, D. (1995) Biochemistry ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Barz WP,Verméglio A,Francia F,Venturoli G,Melandri BA,Oesterhelt D

更新日期：1995-11-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Sufiredoxins (Srx) repair the inactivated forms of typical two-Cys peroxiredoxins (Prx) implicated in hydrogen peroxide-mediated cell signaling. The reduction of the cysteine sulfinic acid moiety within the active site of the Prx by Srx involves novel sulfur chemistry and the use of ATP and Mg(2+). The 1.65 A crystal ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Jönsson TJ,Murray MS,Johnson LC,Poole LB,Lowther WT

更新日期：2005-06-21 00:00:00

abstract：:New classes of small proteins have recently been found that refold rapidly with two-state kinetics from a substantially unfolded conformation ("U") and without the accumulation of a folding intermediate. Barnase, on the other hand, is representative of a class of proteins that display multistate kinetics and refold fr...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Oliveberg M,Fersht AR

更新日期：1996-02-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Suberyldicholine-induced ion translocation in the millisecond time region in acetylcholine receptor rich membrane vesicles prepared from the electric organ of Electrophorus electricus was investigated in eel Ringer's solution, pH 7.0, 1 degree C. A quench-flow technique with a time resolution of 5 ms was used to measu...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Pasquale EB,Takeyasu K,Udgaonkar JB,Cash DJ,Severski MC,Hess GP

更新日期：1983-12-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The binding of horse ferricytochrome c to yeast cytochrome c peroxidase at pH 6.0 in 8.7 mM phosphate buffer (0.0100 M ionic strength) is characterized by a small, unfavorable enthalpy change (+1.91 +/- 0.16 kcal mol-1) and a large, positive entropy change (+37 +/- 1 eu). The free energy of binding depends strongly up...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Kresheck GC,Vitello LB,Erman JE

更新日期：1995-07-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Phototropin, a blue-light photoreceptor in plants, has two FMN-binding domains named LOV1 and LOV2. We previously observed temperature-dependent FTIR spectral changes in the C=O stretching region (amide-I vibrational region of the peptide backbone) for the LOV2 domain of Adiantum phytochrome3 (phy3-LOV2), suggesting p...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Iwata T,Nozaki D,Sato Y,Sato K,Nishina Y,Shiga K,Tokutomi S,Kandori H

更新日期：2006-12-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The photocycle of 124 kDa phytochrome A from Avena sativa was studied by Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy at low temperatures. Difference spectra between the parent state Pr and the intermediates of the Pr-->Pfr pathway, i.e. lumi-R, meta-Ra, and meta-Rc, and between Pfr and the intermediates of the Pfr-->Pr pa...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Foerstendorf H,Mummert E,Schäfer E,Scheer H,Siebert F

更新日期：1996-08-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Alpha-synuclein plays a key role in the pathogenesis of many neurodegenerative diseases. To date, its cellular role has yet to be determined, although it has been proposed to be connected to calcium and G protein-mediated dopamine signaling. Alpha-synuclein is known to bind strongly to model membrane surfaces where it...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Narayanan V,Guo Y,Scarlata S

更新日期：2005-01-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The transcriptional activity of the hexafluorinated derivative of 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D3 [1,25-(OH)2D3], 26,26,26,27,27,27-hexafluoro-1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D3 [F6-1,25-(OH)2D3], was examined in cultured cells by a transient expression assay (CAT assay) using expression vectors for the rat nuclear vitamin D3 receptor...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Sasaki H,Harada H,Handa Y,Morino H,Suzawa M,Shimpo E,Katsumata T,Masuhiro Y,Matsuda K,Ebihara K

更新日期：1995-01-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The cardiac and skeletal muscle sarcoplasmic reticulum ryanodine receptor Ca(2+) release channels contain thiols that are potential targets of endogenously produced reactive oxygen and nitrogen intermediates. Previously, we showed that the skeletal muscle ryanodine receptor (RyR1) has O(2)-sensitive thiols; only when ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Sun J,Yamaguchi N,Xu L,Eu JP,Stamler JS,Meissner G

更新日期：2008-12-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Desosamine is a 3-(dimethylamino)-3,4,6-trideoxyhexose found, for example, in such macrolide antibiotics as erthyromycin, azithromycin, and clarithromycin. The efficacies of these macrolide antibiotics are markedly reduced in the absence of desosamine. In the bacterium Streptomyces venezuelae, six enzymes are required...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Burgie ES,Holden HM

更新日期：2007-08-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Efforts toward the development of RNA-based drug leads have been challenging because of the complexity and dynamic nature of RNA structures as therapeutic targets. The transactivation response (TAR) RNA and cognate Tat protein of HIV have long been recognized as promising antiviral targets, and recent works have ident...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Lu J,Nguyen L,Zhao L,Xia T,Qi X

更新日期：2015-06-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Ribonuclease P2 from the thermophilic archaebacterium Sulfolobus solfataricus is a small protein (7 kDa) with a known three-dimensional structure. Inspection of the structure and molecular dynamics simulation reveal that three aromatic residues (Phe5, Phe31, and Tyr33) from the hydrophobic core have a strong van der W...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Mombelli E,Afshar M,Fusi P,Mariani M,Tortora P,Connelly JP,Lange R

更新日期：1997-07-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Clip domains are structural modules found in arthropod serine proteinases and some proteolytically inactive homologues, which mediate extracellular signaling pathways of development and immunity. While little is known about their structures or functions, clip domains are proposed to be sites for interactions of protei...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Huang R,Lu Z,Dai H,Velde DV,Prakash O,Jiang H

更新日期：2007-10-16 00:00:00

abstract：:We have obtained the 470 MHz 19F NMR spectra of wild type [4-F]Trp-labeled myoglobins (MbCO, MbO2, deoxyMb, metMb, and MbCN) and hemoglobins (HbCO, HbO2, and deoxyHb), as well as those of several mutants (W7F Mb, betaW15F Hb, betaW37S Hb, and betaY130F Hb, all as the carbonmonoxy adducts), prepared via site-directed m...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Pearson JG,Montez B,Le H,Oldfield E,Chien EY,Sligar SG

更新日期：1997-03-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Transmembrane chemoreceptors, also known as methyl-accepting chemotaxis proteins (MCPs), translate extracellular signals into intracellular responses in the bacterial chemotaxis system. MCP ligand binding domains control the activity of the CheA kinase, situated approximately 200 A away, across the cytoplasmic membran...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Pollard AM,Bilwes AM,Crane BR

更新日期：2009-03-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The successive high-resolution differential scanning calorimetric (DSC) thermograms for aqueous dispersions of a homologous series of mixed-chain phosphatidylcholines, C(X):C(X + 6)PC, have been recorded and analyzed. In this series of saturated mixed-chain phosphatidylcholines, the total number of carbon atoms in the...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Wang ZQ,Lin HN,Huang CH

更新日期：1990-07-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Traditionally, assigning the heme protein resonances has relied heavily on the comparison of spectra arising from protein reconstituted with specifically deuterated hemes and the native form. Such an approach can identify tentatively the broad, overlapping signals in the Fe(II) high-spin heme protein spectra. Although...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Busse SC,Jue T

更新日期：1994-09-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Deuterium NMR has been used to investigate the structure and dynamic state of cytochrome c complexed with bilayers of cardiolipin. Reductive methylation was employed to prepare [N epsilon, N epsilon-C2H3]lysyl cytochrome c, and deuterium exchange provided labeling of backbone sites to give [amide-2H]cytochrome c or mo...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Spooner PJ,Watts A

更新日期：1991-04-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Thromboxane A(2) receptor (TP receptor), a prostanoid receptor, belongs to the G protein-coupled receptor family, composed of three intracellular loops and three extracellular loops connecting seven transmembrane helices. The highly conserved extracellular domains of the prostanoid receptors were found in the second e...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Ruan KH,So SP,Wu J,Li D,Huang A,Kung J

更新日期：2001-01-09 00:00:00

abstract：:A GTP:RNA guanylyltransferase or capping enzyme has been purified approximately 2000-fold from wheat germ. The enzyme catalyzes the transfer of the GMP residue from GTP to the 5' end of RNA or synthetic polyribonucleotides. Diphosphate-ended polymers were capped more efficiently than molecules with triphosphate ends, ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Keith JM,Venkatesan S,Gershowitz A,Moss B

更新日期：1982-01-19 00:00:00