A cysteine-rich CCG domain contains a novel [4Fe-4S] cluster binding motif as deduced from studies with subunit B of heterodisulfide reductase from Methanothermobacter marburgensis.

abstract：:In the putative secondary structure of the transposon Tn10-encoded metal-tetracycline/H+ antiporter [Yamaguchi, et al. (1992) J. Biol. Chem. 267, 7490-7498], Tyr50-XXX-Gln54 in transmembrane helix 2 and Gly80-XXX-Asp84 in helix 3 are thought to face each other in the N-terminal region. At the corresponding positions i...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Yamaguchi A,Akasaka T,Kimura T,Sakai T,Adachi Y,Sawai T

更新日期：1993-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Deazapurine-containing secondary metabolites comprise a broad range of structurally diverse nucleoside analogues found throughout biology, including various antibiotics produced by species of Streptomyces bacteria and the hypermodified tRNA bases queuosine and archaeosine. Despite early interest in deazapurines as ant...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： McCarty RM,Somogyi A,Lin G,Jacobsen NE,Bandarian V

更新日期：2009-05-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Tissue plasminogen activator-inhibitor complexes were purified from the conditioned medium of human umbilical vein endothelial cells by affinity chromatography followed by gel filtration. It was found that a single complex was isolated which can exist in two distinct interconvertible conformations. These may be separa...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Sanzo MA,Marasa JC,Wittwer AJ,Siegel NR,Harakas NK,Feder J

更新日期：1987-11-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Inactivation of rabbit lung angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE) by 1-fluoro-2,4-dinitrobenzene (Dnp-F) has been shown to be due primarily to the modification of a tyrosine residue [Bünning, P., Kleeman, S.G., & Riordan, J.F. (1990) Biochemistry (preceding paper in this issue)]. Rabbit testicular ACE is also inactivate...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Chen YN,Riordan JF

更新日期：1990-11-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Nitric oxide (NO) synthases (NOS) are thiolate-ligated heme-, tetrahydrobiopterin (BH(4))-, and flavin-containing monooxygenases which catalyze the NADPH-dependent conversion of L-arginine (L-Arg) to NO AND citrulline. NOS consists of two domains: an N-terminal oxygenase (heme- and BH(4)-bound) domain and a C-terminal...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Sono M,Ledbetter AP,McMillan K,Roman LJ,Shea TM,Masters BS,Dawson JH

更新日期：1999-11-30 00:00:00

abstract：:We previously showed that estrogen-related receptor alpha1 (ERRalpha1) can compete with estrogen receptor alpha (ERalpha) for binding to estrogen response elements (EREs), repressing transcription in the mammary carcinoma cell line MCF-7. Given that ERRalpha1 can function in the absence of ligands and exists as a phos...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Vu EH,Kraus RJ,Mertz JE

更新日期：2007-08-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Determining the sequence of bond cleavages, and consequently the nature of intermediates, in enzyme-catalyzed reactions is a major goal of mechanistic enzymology. When significant primary isotope effects on V/K are observed for two different bond cleavages, both bonds may be broken in the same transition state or they...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Bahnson BJ,Anderson VE

更新日期：1991-06-18 00:00:00

abstract：:LL-23 is a natural peptide corresponding to the 23 N-terminal amino acid residues of human host defense cathelicidin LL-37. LL-23 demonstrated, compared to LL-37, a conserved ability to induce the chemokine MCP-1 in human peripheral blood mononuclear cells, a lack of ability to suppress induction of the pro-inflammato...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Wang G,Elliott M,Cogen AL,Ezell EL,Gallo RL,Hancock RE

更新日期：2012-01-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The self-association properties of recombinant DNA derived human relaxin, and porcine relaxin isolated from porcine ovaries, have been studied by sedimentation equilibrium analytical ultracentrifugation and circular dichroism (CD). The human relaxin ultracentrifuge data were adequately defined by a monomer-dimer self-...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Shire SJ,Holladay LA,Rinderknecht E

更新日期：1991-08-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The highly conserved amino acid sequence PCDGPGRGGTC in both photosystem I reaction center core proteins PsaA and PsaB has been predicted to contribute the four cysteine ligands for coordination of the 4Fe-4S iron-sulfur cluster FX, and we have proposed a working model for the binding of PsaC to this domain of the rea...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Rodday SM,Webber AN,Bingham SE,Biggins J

更新日期：1995-05-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Two short amino acid motifs, WXGDXNXR and PXWCDRXL, define a large family of inositol polyphosphate 5-phosphatases. We tested the importance of seven of these conserved amino acids to substrate binding and catalysis by mutating each to alanine in the platelet 75 kDa inositol polyphosphate 5-phosphatase II (5-phosphata...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Jefferson AB,Majerus PW

更新日期：1996-06-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutagenesis and cross-linking measurements have identified specific contact interactions between the cytosolic and the transmembrane sequences of phospholamban (PLB) and the Ca-ATPase, and in conjunction with the high-resolution structures of PLB and the Ca-ATPase, have been used to construct models of the PLB-ATPase ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Li J,Xiong Y,Bigelow DJ,Squier TC

更新日期：2004-01-20 00:00:00

abstract：:For expression in Saccharomyces cerevisiae the cDNA of the uncoupling protein (UCP) of brown adipose tissue from hamster has been isolated and used to transform yeast cells. Optimized expression conditions yielded 2% of mitochondrial protein as UCP. UCP was isolated, avoiding copurification of ADP/ATP carrier and pori...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Echtay KS,Bienengraeber M,Klingenberg M

更新日期：1997-07-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Alzheimer's disease is a debilitating neurodegenerative disorder whose pathology has been linked to the aggregation and deposition of the amyloid β-peptide (Aβ) in neural tissue. A truly effective therapeutic agent remains elusive, and attention has recently turned to the use of natural products as effective antiaggre...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Lemkul JA,Bevan DR

更新日期：2012-07-31 00:00:00

abstract：:The physiological roles of immunophilins are unclear, but many possess peptidyl-prolyl isomerase (PPIase) activity, and they have been found in all organisms examined to date, implying that they are involved in fundamental, protein-folding processes. The chloroplast thylakoid lumen of the higher plant Arabidopsis thal...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Edvardsson A,Shapiguzov A,Petersson UA,Schröder WP,Vener AV

更新日期：2007-08-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The proteasome inhibitors, lactacystin and N-acetyl-leucyl-leucyl-norlucinal, caused a rapid and near-complete loss of approximately 22-23-kDa ubiquitinated nucleoproteins, which we have identified as monoubiquitinated nucleosomal histones H2A and H2B by immunological and two-dimensional electrophoretic techniques. In...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Mimnaugh EG,Chen HY,Davie JR,Celis JE,Neckers L

更新日期：1997-11-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Thermococcus litoralis 4-alpha-glucanotransferase (TLGT) belongs to family 57 of glycoside hydrolases and catalyzes the disproportionation and cycloamylose synthesis reactions. Family 57 glycoside hydrolases have not been well investigated, and even the catalytic mechanism involving the active site residues has not be...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Imamura H,Fushinobu S,Jeon BS,Wakagi T,Matsuzawa H

更新日期：2001-10-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Calcium is required for the substrate binding and for the chemical step of the interfacial catalytic turnover cycle of pancreatic phospholipase A2 (PLA2), but not for the binding of the enzyme to the interface. The role of calcium and other divalent cations (C) is analyzed for the effect on the substrate binding and k...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Yu BZ,Rogers J,Nicol GR,Theopold KH,Seshadri K,Vishweshwara S,Jain MK

更新日期：1998-09-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Comparative sequence analysis has successfully predicted secondary structure and tertiary interactions in ribosomal and other RNAs. Experiments presented here ask whether the scope of comparative sequence-based predictions can be extended to specific interactions between proteins and RNA, using as a system the well-ch...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： GuhaThakurta D,Draper DE

更新日期：1999-03-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The existence of bacterial K(+)/H(+) antiporters that prevent the overaccumulation of potassium in the cytoplasm was predicted by Peter Mitchell almost 50 years ago. The importance of K(+)/H(+) antiport for bacterial physiology is widely recognized, but its molecular mechanisms remain underinvestigated. Here, we demon...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Resch CT,Winogrodzki JL,Patterson CT,Lind EJ,Quinn MJ,Dibrov P,Häse CC

更新日期：2010-03-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Derivatives of imidazole-2-thiones block reactions catalyzed by thyroid peroxidase (TPX) and the closely related lactoperoxidase (LPX), and this property is used therapeutically to treat hyperthyroidism. The reactions of a series of benzimidazoline-2-thiones with chemical and enzymatic oxidants were investigated to pr...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Doerge DR,Decker CJ,Takazawa RS

更新日期：1993-01-12 00:00:00

abstract：:We report here that polyamide nucleic acid (PNA) as well as a polyamide nucleic acid-DNA chimera complementary to the primer binding site of the HIV-1 genome can completely block priming by tRNA3Lys and consequently the in vitro initiation of reverse transcription by HIV-1 RT. Conventional heating and cooling is not r...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Lee R,Kaushik N,Modak MJ,Vinayak R,Pandey VN

更新日期：1998-01-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The coordinated activity of protein tyrosine phosphatases (PTPs) is crucial for the initiation, modulation, and termination of diverse cellular processes. The catalytic activity of this protein depends on a nucleophilic cysteine at the active site that mediates the hydrolysis of the incoming phosphotyrosine substrate....

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Madan LL,Gopal B

更新日期：2011-11-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Cholesterol (Chol) in phosphatidylcholine large unilamellar vesicles (PC LUV) modulated interaction of the bilayers with a class A amphipathic peptide, Ac-18A-NH2: Chol increased the peptide binding capacity and reduced the affinity together with the peptide-induced leakage of calcein from LUV. Similar effects of Chol...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Egashira M,Gorbenko G,Tanaka M,Saito H,Molotkovsky J,Nakano M,Handa T

更新日期：2002-03-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) are a family of enzymes that are up-regulated in many diseases, including osteoarthritis (OA) and rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Here we report on a novel technique that can be used to simultaneously measure activity levels for a panel of enzymes, such as the MMPs. The technique, termed th...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Rasmussen FH,Yeung N,Kiefer L,Murphy G,Lopez-Otin C,Vitek MP,Moss ML

更新日期：2004-03-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The neutral glycosphingolipids of hairy cells from a patient with hairy cell leukemia were chemically analyzed by thin-layer and gas-liquid chromatography, mass spectrometry, combined gas chromatography-mass spectrometry, and glycosidase treatment. These cells were found to have compounds containing one to four sugars...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Lee WM,Klock JC,Macher BA

更新日期：1981-10-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE) plays a critical role in the circulating or endocrine renin-angiotensin system (RAS) as well as the local regulation that exists in tissues such as the myocardium and skeletal muscle. Here we report the high-resolution crystal structures of testis ACE (tACE) in complex with the firs...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Natesh R,Schwager SL,Evans HR,Sturrock ED,Acharya KR

更新日期：2004-07-13 00:00:00

abstract：:A full-length cDNA for dopamine beta-monooxygenase (D beta M) from bovine adrenal glands has been cloned and sequenced. The soluble and membrane-derived forms of D beta M have also been sequenced from their N-termini. While the observed sequences for the soluble protein correspond to those previously reported [Joh, T....

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Taljanidisz J,Stewart L,Smith AJ,Klinman JP

更新日期：1989-12-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Inducible dimers are powerful tools for controlling biological processes through colocalizing signaling molecules. To be effective, an inducible system should have a dissociation constant in the "off" state that is greater (i.e., weaker affinity) than the concentrations of the molecules that are being controlled, and ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Zimmerman SP,Hallett RA,Bourke AM,Bear JE,Kennedy MJ,Kuhlman B

更新日期：2016-09-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The crystal structure of a cytochrome P450 from the thermoacidophile Picrophilus torridus, CYP231A2 (PTO1399), has been solved. This structure reveals a wide open substrate access channel. To better understand ligand-induced structural transitions in CYP231A2, protein-ligand interactions were investigated using 4-phen...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Ho WW,Li H,Nishida CR,de Montellano PR,Poulos TL

更新日期：2008-02-19 00:00:00