NMR study of the inhibition of pepsin by glyoxal inhibitors: mechanism of tetrahedral intermediate stabilization by the aspartyl proteases.

abstract：:The tertiary structure of apolipoprotein (apo) A-I and the contributions of structural domains to the properties of the protein molecule are not well defined. We used a series of engineered human and mouse apoA-I molecules in a range of physical-biochemical measurements to address this issue. Circular dichroism measur...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Tanaka M,Koyama M,Dhanasekaran P,Nguyen D,Nickel M,Lund-Katz S,Saito H,Phillips MC

更新日期：2008-02-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Periodate-oxidized ATP (o-ATP) was prepared as an affinity label of nucleotide binding sites on the chloroform-released ox heart mitochondrial ATPase. In the presence of MgSO4, o-ATP is a substrate for the ATPase. It can act as a reversible, competitive inhibitor of ATPase activity and can also induce an irreversible ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Lowe PN,Beechey RB

更新日期：1982-08-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Group VIA phospholipase A(2) (iPLA(2)beta) is expressed in phagocytes, vascular cells, pancreatic islet beta-cells, neurons, and other cells and plays roles in transcriptional regulation, cell proliferation, apoptosis, secretion, and other events. A bromoenol lactone (BEL) suicide substrate used to study iPLA(2)beta f...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Song H,Bao S,Ramanadham S,Turk J

更新日期：2006-05-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Stopped-flow measurements of protein fluorescence quenching when methotrexate (MTX) binds to dihydrofolate reductase (isoenzyme II) of Streptococcus faecium (SFDHFR II) analyze as the sum of two differentials: a rapid binding phase and a second phase for which the observed rate constant is independent of methotrexate ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Blakley RL,Cocco L

更新日期：1985-08-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Aristolochene synthase, a metal-dependent sesquiterpene cyclase from Aspergillus terreus, catalyzes the ionization-dependent cyclization of farnesyl diphosphate (FPP) to form the bicyclic eremophilane (+)-aristolochene with perfect structural and stereochemical precision. Here, we report the X-ray crystal structure of...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Chen M,Al-lami N,Janvier M,D'Antonio EL,Faraldos JA,Cane DE,Allemann RK,Christianson DW

更新日期：2013-08-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Purified subunits of intermediate filaments obtained from a variety of tissues and cell types contain O-phosphoserine and, in some cases, smaller amounts of O-phosphothreonine. The O-phosphoserine content was estimated by reaction of performic acid oxidized subunits with methylamine in NaOH. Decamin of BHK-21 and CHO ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Steinert PM,Wantz ML,Idler WW

更新日期：1982-01-05 00:00:00

abstract：:A modified multiple binding equilibria treatment is presented that allows determination of thermodynamic parameters of the interaction of phospholipids with integral membrane proteins solubilized in excess detergent. Lipid binding is modeled as a series of exchange reactions between lipid molecules and detergent molec...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Volwerk JJ,Mrsny RJ,Patapoff TW,Jost PC,Griffith OH

更新日期：1987-01-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Preprotein translocation in Escherichia coli is mediated by the translocase with SecA as peripheral ATPase and SecY, SecE, and SecG as membrane domain. To facilitate large-scale purification of the SecYEG heterotrimer, SecY was fused at its amino terminus with a hexahistidine tag and co-overexpressed with SecE and Sec...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： van der Does C,Manting EH,Kaufmann A,Lutz M,Driessen AJ

更新日期：1998-01-06 00:00:00

abstract：:A study of the dynamics and mechanism of the various thermotropic phase transitions undergone by the hydrated monoacylglycerides monoolein and monoelaidin, in the temperature range of 20-120 degrees C and from 0 to 5 M NaCl, has been undertaken. Measurements were made by using time-resolved X-ray diffraction at the Co...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Caffrey M

更新日期：1987-10-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The functional role of distinct phospholipid subclasses and molecular species in modulating gramicidin-mediated K+ flux was characterized through quantification of changes in the fluorescence intensity of ion specific fluorescent probes encapsulated inside vesicles comprised of individual molecular species of plasmeny...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Chen X,Gross RW

更新日期：1995-06-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The late intermediates involved in the activation mechanism of bovine rhodopsin are investigated by time-resolved optical absorption spectroscopy. Measurements from 10 μs to 200 ms after photolysis were carried out on membrane suspensions of bovine rhodopsin at a temperature of 15 °C and at pH of 7.3, 8.0, and 8.7. Th...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Szundi I,Funatogawa C,Kliger DS

更新日期：2016-09-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytochrome c oxidase contains four redox-active metal centers: two heme irons, cytochromes a and a3, and two copper ions, CuA and CuB. Due to the paucity of spectroscopic signatures for both copper sites in cytochrome c oxidase, the ligands and structures for these sites have remained ambiguous. The specific depletion...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Li PM,Gelles J,Chan SI,Sullivan RJ,Scott RA

更新日期：1987-04-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The flash-induced Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) difference spectrum of the oxygen-evolving Mn cluster upon S1-to-S2 transition (S2/S1 spectrum) was measured using photosystem II (PS II) core complexes of Synechocystis 6803 in which tyrosine residues were specifically labeled with 13C at the ring-4 position. The do...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Noguchi T,Inoue Y,Tang XS

更新日期：1997-12-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Nucleotide-induced conformational changes of the catalytic beta subunits play a crucial role in the rotary mechanism of F(1)-ATPase. To gain insights into the energetic bases that govern the recognition of nucleotides by the isolated beta subunit from thermophilic Bacillus PS3 (Tbeta), the binding of this monomer to M...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Pulido NO,Salcedo G,Pérez-Hernández G,José-Núñez C,Velázquez-Campoy A,García-Hernández E

更新日期：2010-06-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Chemoenzymatic glycan remodeling by endoglycosidase-catalyzed deglycosylation and reglycosylation is emerging as an attractive approach for producing homogeneous glycoforms of antibodies, and the success of this approach depends on the discovery of efficient endoglycosidases and their glycosynthase mutants. We report ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Tong X,Li T,Li C,Wang LX

更新日期：2018-09-04 00:00:00

abstract：:myo-Inositol oxygenase (MIOX) uses iron as its cofactor and dioxygen as its cosubstrate to effect the unique, ring-cleaving, four-electron oxidation of its cyclohexan-(1,2,3,4,5,6-hexa)-ol substrate to d-glucuronate. The nature of the iron cofactor and its interaction with the substrate, myo-inositol (MI), have been p...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Xing G,Hoffart LM,Diao Y,Prabhu KS,Arner RJ,Reddy CC,Krebs C,Bollinger JM Jr

更新日期：2006-05-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The kinetics of tert-butyl isocyanide binding to the heme protein horseradish peroxidase (HRP) at 22 degrees C was examined on all time scales, from minutes to picoseconds, in aqueous borate buffer at pH 9.08. Unlike myoglobin (Mb) or hemoglobin, HRP shows two bimolecular ligand binding processes. For comparison, bind...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Bandyopadhyay D,Walda KN,Grogan TM,Magde D,Traylor TG,Sharma VS

更新日期：1996-02-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Interleukin-8 (IL-8), a member of the chemokine superfamily, exists as both monomers and dimers, and mediates its function by binding to neutrophil CXCR1 and CXCR2 receptors that belong to the G protein-coupled receptor class. It is now well established that the monomer functions as a high-affinity ligand, but the bin...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Rajarathnam K,Prado GN,Fernando H,Clark-Lewis I,Navarro J

更新日期：2006-06-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The binding of 8-anilino-1-naphthalenesulfonate (ANS) to ciliary dynein ATPase leads to a marked increase in the dye's fluorescence intensity, accompanied by a blue shift in the observed fluorescence emission maximum. We found that dynein has 37 +/- 3 ANS binding sites and that experimentally applied ANS concentration...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Saucier AC,Mariotti S,Anderson SA,Purich DL

更新日期：1985-12-17 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 kinetics of binding of chicken cystatin to papain were studied by stopped-flow fluorometry under pseudo-first-order conditions, i.e., with an excess of inhibitor. All reactions showed first-order behavior, and the observed pseudo-first-order rate constant increased linearly with the cystatin concentration up to th...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Björk I,Alriksson E,Ylinenjärvi K

更新日期：1989-02-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Cooperative binding of the bacteriophage lambda cI repressor dimer to specific sites of the phage operators OR and OL controls the developmental state of the phage. Cooperativity has long been thought to be mediated by self-assembly of repressor dimers to form tetramers which can bind simultaneously to adjacent operat...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Rusinova E,Ross JB,Laue TM,Sowers LC,Senear DF

更新日期：1997-10-21 00:00:00

abstract：:We reported previously that cdc2 kinase decreased the microtubule-stabilizing ability of a major HeLa cell microtubule-associated protein, MAP4, by phosphorylation in vitro [Ookata, K., et al. (1995) J. Cell Biol. 128, 849-862]. An important question raised by this study is whether MAP4 is indeed phosphorylated by cdc...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Ookata K,Hisanaga S,Sugita M,Okuyama A,Murofushi H,Kitazawa H,Chari S,Bulinski JC,Kishimoto T

更新日期：1997-12-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The Haemophilus influenzae diaminopimelate epimerase was cloned, expressed, purified, and crystallized in the C2221 space group (a = 102.1 A, b = 115.4 A, c = 66.3 A, alpha = beta = gamma = 90 degrees). The three-dimensional structure was solved to 2.7 A using a single Pt derivative and the Se-Met-substituted enzyme t...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Cirilli M,Zheng R,Scapin G,Blanchard JS

更新日期：1998-11-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Tropomyosin (TM) is a coiled-coil that binds head-to-tail along the helical actin filament. The ends of 284-residue tropomyosins are believed to overlap by about nine amino acids. The present study investigates the function of the N- and C-terminal overlap regions. Recombinant tropomyosins were produced in Escherichia...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Moraczewska J,Hitchcock-DeGregori SE

更新日期：2000-06-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Treatment of human lymphoid cells with methyl methanesulfonate (MMS) results in discontinuities in cellular DNA. Discontinuities can be detected by sedimentation through neutral sucrose gradients after digestion with S1 nuclease on top of the gradient and by benzoylated naphthoylated diethylaminoethylcellulose (BND-ce...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Karran P,Higgins NP,Strauss B

更新日期：1977-10-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Phosphoenolthiopyruvate, the analogue of phosphoenolpyruvate in which the bridging oxygen of the phosphate ester is replaced by sulfur, has been synthesized from methyl acrylate and dimethyl (chlorothio)phosphonate. The compound is a substrate for alkaline phosphatase, pyruvate kinase, enolase, and phosphoenolpyruvate...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Sikkema KD,O'Leary MH

更新日期：1988-02-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The conformations of melittin, an amphipathic polypeptide consisting of 26 amino acid residues, and its hydrophobic (residues 1--19) and hydrophilic (residues 20--26) fragments were examined in various solvent systems, including H2O, 2H2O, 2-chloroethanol, and 1,2-dimyristoylphosphatidylcholine (DMPC) multilayers, by ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Lavialle F,Adams RG,Levin IW

更新日期：1982-05-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Adenylosuccinate lyase of Bacillus subtilis is inactivated by 2-[(4-bromo-2,3-dioxobutyl)thio]adenosine 5'-monophosphate (2-BDB-TAMP) at pH 7.0. As the reagent concentration is increased, a maximum rate constant is approached, indicative of reversible enzyme-reagent complex formation (KR = 68 +/- 9 microM) prior to ir...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Lee TT,Worby C,Bao ZQ,Dixon JE,Colman RF

更新日期：1998-06-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Using 125I-labeled phenol-alanine sparsomycin, an analogue of sparsomycin having higher biological activity than the unmodified antibiotic, we studied the requirements and the characteristics of its interaction with the ribosome. The drug does not bind to either isolated ribosomal subunits or reconstituted whole ribos...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Lazaro E,van den Broek LA,San Felix A,Ottenheijm HC,Ballesta JP

更新日期：1991-10-08 00:00:00