The reactivity of heme in biological systems: autocatalytic formation of both tyrosine-heme and tryptophan-heme covalent links in a single protein architecture.

abstract：:Interaction of affinity chromatographically purified antihistone H3 and antihistone H4 with isolated HeLa core particles, followed by separation of unreacted and reacted particles by sedimentation, demonstrates that every core particle contains these histones. Taken together with our previous data indicating the prese...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Bustin M,Simpson RT,Sperling R,Goldblatt D

更新日期：1977-11-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Fluorescence correlation spectroscopy (FCS) allows the study of interactions of fluorescently labeled ligand with receptors in living cells at single-molecule detection sensitivity. From the autocorrelation functions of fluorescence intensity fluctuations, the diffusion time of molecules through the confocal volume is...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Pramanik A,Olsson M,Langel U,Bartfai T,Rigler R

更新日期：2001-09-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The in vitro hydrolysis by porcine kidney prolidase of the imidodipeptide L-alanyl-L-proline was monitored by using 1H high-resolution NMR spectroscopy. The dipeptide exists as an equilibrium mixture of isomers with cis or trans conformation about the peptide bond. The 13C and 1H NMR spectra of the dipeptide displayed...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： King GF,Middlehurst CR,Kuchel PW

更新日期：1986-03-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent structural studies of the HMG-CoA synthase members of the thiolase superfamily have shown that the catalytic loop containing the nucleophilic cysteine follows the phi and psi angle pattern of a II' beta turn. However, the i + 1 residue is conserved as an alanine, which is quite unusual in this position as it mu...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Steussy CN,Robison AD,Tetrick AM,Knight JT,Rodwell VW,Stauffacher CV,Sutherlin AL

更新日期：2006-12-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Using lattice statistical mechanics, we develop theory to account for the folding of a heteropolymer molecule such as a protein to the globular and soluble state. Folding is assumed to be driven by the association of solvophobic monomers to avoid solvent and opposed by the chain configurational entropy. Theory predict...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Dill KA

更新日期：1985-03-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Factor V(a) (FV(a)) is a cofactor for the serine protease factor X(a) that activates prothrombin to thrombin in the presence of Ca(2+) and a membrane surface. FV(a) is a heterodimer composed of one heavy chain (A1 and A2 domains) and one light chain (A3, C1, and C2 domains). We use fluorescence, circular dichroism, an...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Srivastava A,Quinn-Allen MA,Kim SW,Kane WH,Lentz BR

更新日期：2001-07-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The second-order electron transfer reaction between cytochrome b5 and cytochrome c has been studied by cyclic voltammetry utilizing a gold electrode modified with beta-mercaptopropionate. When cyclic voltammetry is performed on a solution containing a mixture of cytochrome b5, cytochrome c and polylysine, cytochrome b...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Seetharaman R,White SP,Rivera M

更新日期：1996-09-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The interaction of single chain urokinase with its receptor accelerates plasminogen activator activity on cell surfaces and induces intracellular signalling in several cell types. To date, no physiologic inhibitor of this binding has been identified. We report that the binding of scuPA to its cellular receptor is inhi...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： al-Roof Higazi A,Aceto JF,Kniss D,Upson R,Cohen R,Dichek DA,Cines DB

更新日期：1996-05-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Multiple intracellular receptors of the FK506 binding protein (FKBP) family of peptidylprolyl cis/trans-isomerases are potential targets for the immunosuppressive drug FK506. Inhibition of the protein phosphatase calcineurin (CaN), which has been implicated in the FK506-mediated blockade of T cell proliferation, was s...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Weiwad M,Edlich F,Kilka S,Erdmann F,Jarczowski F,Dorn M,Moutty MC,Fischer G

更新日期：2006-12-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The bacterial photosynthetic reaction center is the evolutionary ancestor of the Photosystem II reaction center. These proteins share the same fold and perform the same biological function. Nevertheless, the details of their molecular reaction mechanism differ. It is of significant biological and biochemical interest ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Krammer EM,Sebban P,Ullmann GM

更新日期：2009-02-17 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：:Cross-linking of antibodies constitutes a widespread initiation signal for their respective effector functions. Cross-linking IgE-class antibodies provide the triggering signal to mast cells for their degranulation process. To obtain a quantitative insight into these cross-linking processes, the interactions between a...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Schweitzer-Stenner R,Licht A,Lüscher I,Pecht I

更新日期：1987-06-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Microdomains known as "rafts" have been isolated from many cell types as detergent-resistant membranes (DRMs) and are enriched in sphingolipids and cholesterol. However, there has been considerable controversy over whether such domains are found in native membranes or are artificially generated by the purification pro...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Luria A,Vegelyte-Avery V,Stith B,Tsvetkova NM,Wolkers WF,Crowe JH,Tablin F,Nuccitelli R

更新日期：2002-11-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Pantothenate kinase (PanK) catalyzes the first step of the universal five-step coenzyme A (CoA) biosynthetic pathway. The recently characterized type III PanK (PanK-III, encoded by the coaX gene) is distinct in sequence, structure and enzymatic properties from both the long-known bacterial type I PanK (PanK-I, exempli...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Yang K,Strauss E,Huerta C,Zhang H

更新日期：2008-02-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Oxygen binding curves of sol-gel-encapsulated deoxy human adult hemoglobin (HbA) have previously revealed two distinct noncooperative populations with oxygen binding affinities approximately 1000 and 100 times lower than that of the high-affinity R state. The two populations which have been termed the low-affinity (LA...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Samuni U,Dantsker D,Juszczak LJ,Bettati S,Ronda L,Mozzarelli A,Friedman JM

更新日期：2004-11-02 00:00:00

abstract：:We have examined the reduction of cyanide by using the purified component proteins of nitrogenase (Av1 and Av2). The previously reported self-inhibition phenomenon was found to be an artifact. One of the two species present in cyanide solutions, CN-, was shown to be a potent reversible inhibitor (Ki = 27 microM) of to...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Li J,Burgess BK,Corbin JL

更新日期：1982-08-31 00:00:00

abstract：:The heme-regulated inhibitor (HRI) of protein synthesis becomes activated in rabbit reticulocyte lysates in response to a variety of conditions including heme-deficiency, addition of oxidants, and heat shock. Activated HRI inhibits translation by catalyzing the phosphorylation of the alpha-subunit of eukaryotic initia...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Matts RL,Hurst R,Xu Z

更新日期：1993-07-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Binding mechanisms of ADPR-transferase to restricted double-stranded DNA fragments of SV40 and pBR322 DNA were determined by nuclease protection techniques. Top and bottom strands of double-stranded DNA were identified by specific labeling with 32P. Protection against specific exonucleases identified binding of ADPR-t...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Sastry SS,Buki KG,Kun E

更新日期：1989-06-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Neuronal specification is regulated by the activity of transcription factors containing the basic helix-loop-helix motif (bHLH); these regulating proteins include, among others, the neurogenin (Ngn) family, related to the atonal family of genes. Neurogenin 1 (NGN1) is a 237-residue protein that contains a bHLH domain ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Aguado-Llera D,Goormaghtigh E,de Geest N,Quan XJ,Prieto A,Hassan BA,Gómez J,Neira JL

更新日期：2010-03-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Many current models of the Q cycle for the cytochrome (cyt) b6f and the cyt bc1 complexes incorporate 'Rieske' iron-sulfur protein (ISP) domain movements to gate electron transfer and to ensure high yields of proton shuttling. It was previously proposed that copper ions, which bind at a site distant from the quinol ox...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Roberts AG,Bowman MK,Kramer DM

更新日期：2002-03-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Several fusions between the gene for human insulin-like growth factor I (IGF-I) and the genes for different IgG-binding fragments of staphylococcal protein A were assembled and compared regarding expression, secretion, and purification of the peptide hormone. After IgG affinity purification of the fusion proteins from...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Moks T,Abrahmsén L,Holmgren E,Bilich M,Olsson A,Uhlén M,Pohl G,Sterky C,Hultberg H,Josephson S

更新日期：1987-08-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The contact between EcoRI endonuclease and the "primary clamp" phosphate of its recognition site pGAATTC is absolutely required for recognition of the canonical and all variant DNA sites. We have probed this contact using oligonucleotides containing single stereospecific (Rp)- or (Sp)- phosphorothioates (Ps). At the G...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Kurpiewski MR,Koziolkiewicz M,Wilk A,Stec WJ,Jen-Jacobson L

更新日期：1996-07-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The Co and Fe K-edge extended X-ray absorption fine structure (EXAFS) spectra of the methionyl aminopeptidase from Escherichia coli (EcMetAP) have been recorded in the presence of 1 and 2 equiv of either Co(II) or Fe(II) (i.e., [Co(II)_(EcMetAP)], [Co(II)Co(II)(EcMetAP)], [Fe(II)_(EcMetAP)], and [Fe(II)Fe(II)(EcMetAP)...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Cosper NJ,D'souza VM,Scott RA,Holz RC

更新日期：2001-11-06 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, we have mapped the intracellular alkylation sites of adozelesin and bizelesin, two potent analogs of CC-1065, in individual genes at the single-nucleotide level. Human colon carcinoma cells were treated with adozelesin and bizelesin, and the position of adducts were mapped within the PGK-1 and p53 genes...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Lee CS,Pfeifer GP,Gibson NW

更新日期：1994-05-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Reactivation of organophosphate (OP)-inhibited acetylcholinesterase (AChE) is a key objective in the treatment of OP poisoning. This study with native, wild-type, and mutant recombinant DNA-expressed AChEs, each inhibited by representative OP compounds, establishes a relationship between edrophonium acceleration of ox...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Luo C,Saxena A,Smith M,Garcia G,Radić Z,Taylor P,Doctor BP

更新日期：1999-08-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Type II dihydrofolate reductases (DHFRs) encoded by the R67 and R388 plasmids are different both in sequence and in structure from known chromosomal DHFRs. These plasmid-derived DHFRs are responsible for conferring trimethoprim resistance to the host strain. A derivative of R388 DHFR, RBG200, has been cloned and overp...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Brito RM,Reddick R,Bennett GN,Rudolph FB,Rosevear PR

更新日期：1990-10-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Furamidine and related diamidines represent a promising series of drugs active against widespread parasites, in particular the Pneumocystic carinii pathogen. In this series, the phenylfuranbenzimidazole diamidine derivative DB293 was recently identified as the first unfused aromatic dication capable of forming stacked...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Bailly C,Tardy C,Wang L,Armitage B,Hopkins K,Kumar A,Schuster GB,Boykin DW,Wilson WD

更新日期：2001-08-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The empoyment of a novel method of affinity chromatography, which makes use of antibodies that specifically bind DNA/RNA hybrids, has made it possible to enrich for rat rDNA molecules which contain R loops formed with the 18S and 28S rRNAs. An approximately 150-fold enrichment of the ratrRNA coding sequences was obtai...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Stumph WE,Wu JR,Bonner J

更新日期：1979-06-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) exemplifies the family of receptor tyrosine kinases that mediate numerous cellular processes, including growth, proliferation, and differentiation. Moreover, gene amplification and EGFR mutations have been identified in a number of human malignancies, making this receptor an imp...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Truong TH,Carroll KS

更新日期：2012-12-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Penicillanic acid sulfone (1) is both a substrate and an inactivator of the RTEM beta-lactamase. About 7000 hydrolytic events occur before enzyme inactivation. The 6,6-dideuterio sulfone shows a 3-fold acceleration of both the hydrolysis reaction and the enzyme inactivation. The kinetic and spectroscopic results are n...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Brenner DG,Knowles JR

更新日期：1981-06-23 00:00:00