A reconstituted light-harvesting complex from the green sulfur bacterium Chlorobium tepidum containing CsmA and bacteriochlorophyll a.

abstract：:The mechanism of binding of reduced 1-(2-carboxyphenylamino)-1-deoxyribulose 5-phosphate (rCdRP) to two different binding sites on the bifunctional enzyme is determined by kinetic studies, using temperature-jump and stopped-flow equipment with fluorescence detection. Two rapid binding processes and a comparatively slo...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Cohn W,Kirschner K,Paul C

更新日期：1979-12-25 00:00:00

abstract：:In Escherichia coli, the PurT-encoded glycinamide ribonucleotide transformylase, or PurT transformylase, catalyzes an alternative formylation of glycinamide ribonucleotide (GAR) in the de novo pathway for purine biosynthesis. On the basis of amino acid sequence analyses, it is known that the PurT transformylase belong...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Thoden JB,Firestine S,Nixon A,Benkovic SJ,Holden HM

更新日期：2000-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Porcine pancreatic phospholipase A2 interacts with micelles of the substrate analogue n-octadecylphosphocholine to form a specific complex over considerably wide concentration ranges of both lipid and protein. UV absorption difference spectroscopy measurements indicate that the ratio of lipid to protein molecules in t...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Hille JD,Donné-Op den Kelder GM,Sauve P,de Haas GH,Egmond MR

更新日期：1981-07-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Thiocyanate reacts noncatalytically with myeloperoxidase-derived HOCl to produce hypothiocyanite (OSCN(-)), thereby potentially limiting the propensity of HOCl to inflict host tissue damage that can lead to inflammatory diseases. However, the efficiency with which SCN(-) captures HOCl in vivo depends on the concentrat...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Xulu BA,Ashby MT

更新日期：2010-03-09 00:00:00

abstract：:In Saccharomyces cerevisiae, the histidine-containing phosphotransfer (HPt) protein YPD1 transfers phosphoryl groups between the three different response regulator domains of SLN1, SSK1, and SKN7 (designated R1, R2, and R3, respectively). Together these proteins form a branched histidine-aspartic acid phosphorelay sys...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Janiak-Spens F,Cook PF,West AH

更新日期：2005-01-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Simple two-dimensional thin-layer chromatography was found to be useful for the separation of sugar methylated dinucleotides in RNA. Of the 16 possible sequences of the type Nm-Np, 15 were separated and all the sequences were determined. In a mouse hepatoma, MH 134, the levels of the sugar methylation in the 18S and 2...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Hashimoto S,Sakai M,Muramatsu M

更新日期：1975-05-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Specific enzymatic and chemical degradation of neutral lipid and phospholipid fractions from rat liver revealed the presence of novel types of lipid metabolites bearing a short-chain diol backbone. Diol-derived lecithin and cephalin analogs were readily cleaved by phospholipase C (EC 3.1.4.3) from Bacillus cereus, alt...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Baumann WJ,Schupp E,Lin JT

更新日期：1975-02-25 00:00:00

abstract：:In this report we provide biochemical evidence that a highly purified synaptic plasma membrane fraction derived from rat brain, after intraventricular injection of 35S-labeled sodium sulfate, is enriched in a number of large sulfated glycoproteins compared with a purified myelin fraction studied concurrently. A fracti...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Simpson DL,Thorne DR,Loch HH

更新日期：1976-12-14 00:00:00

abstract：:β-Barrel membrane proteins are found in the outer membranes of mitochondria, chloroplasts, and Gram-negative bacteria; however, exactly how they are folded and inserted remains unknown. Over the past decade, both functional and structural studies have greatly contributed to addressing this elusive mechanism. It is kno...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： O'Neil PK,Rollauer SE,Noinaj N,Buchanan SK

更新日期：2015-10-20 00:00:00

abstract：:ATP, its nonhydrolyzable analogue, AMP-PNP, and albumin were found to promote the dissociation of rhodopsin kinase from rod outer segments (ROS) containing photoactivated-rhodopsin (Rho*). These features were embodied in a protocol for the recovery of rhodopsin kinase from incubations containing ROS which had been sub...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Dean KR,Akhtar M

更新日期：1996-05-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Synthetic O-glycopeptides containing one or two GalNAc residues attached to Ser or Thr were used as substrates to investigate the effect of peptide structure on the activity of crude preparations of UDP-Gal:GalNAc alpha-R beta 3-Gal-transferase from pig stomach and pig and rat colonic mucosa and of a partially purifie...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Brockhausen I,Möller G,Merz G,Adermann K,Paulsen H

更新日期：1990-11-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The primary electron acceptor pheophytin (Pheo(D1)) plays a crucial role in regulation of forward and backward electron transfer in photosystem II (PSII). It is known that some cyanobacteria control the Pheo(D1) potential in high-light acclimation by exchanging the D1 proteins from different copies of the psbA genes. ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Shibuya Y,Takahashi R,Okubo T,Suzuki H,Sugiura M,Noguchi T

更新日期：2010-01-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The interaction of pig plasma gelsolin (G) and actin (A) was examined by using photoreactive 4-maleimidobenzophenone-actin (BPM-actin) in which BPM was previously conjugated to Cys-374 of actin through the maleimide moiety. In the presence of micromolar [Ca2+], the major cross-linked product observed after irradiation...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Doi YK,Banba M,Vertut-Doï A

更新日期：1991-06-11 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a series of indolequinones as efficient mechanism-based inhibitors of NRH:quinone oxidoreductase 2 (NQO2) for use either in cellular or cell-free systems. Compounds were designed to be reduced in the active site of the enzyme leading to loss of a substituted phenol leaving group and generation of a reactiv...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Yan C,Dufour M,Siegel D,Reigan P,Gomez J,Shieh B,Moody CJ,Ross D

更新日期：2011-08-09 00:00:00

abstract：:In halophilic archaea the photophobic response is mediated by the membrane-embedded 2:2 photoreceptor/-transducer complex SRII/HtrII, the latter being homologous to the bacterial chemoreceptors. Both systems bias the rotation direction of the flagellar motor via a two-component system coupled to an extended cytoplasmi...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Orban-Glaß I,Voskoboynikova N,Busch KB,Klose D,Rickert C,Mosslehy W,Roder F,Wilkens V,Piehler J,Engelhard M,Steinhoff HJ,Klare JP

更新日期：2015-01-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Immunoglobulins fragments are composed of globular domains linked by extended polypeptide segments. The molecular flexibility inherent in this arrangement allows for significant potential differences between structures observed in the crystalline state and those attained in solution. Small-angle neutron scattering mea...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Schiffer M,Stevens FJ,Westholm FA,Kim SS,Carlson RD

更新日期：1982-06-08 00:00:00

abstract：:We have studied a group of fusion peptides of influenza hemagglutinin in which the N-terminal amino acid, Gly (found in the wild-type peptide), has been systematically substituted with Ala, Ser, Val, or Glu. The activity of the intact hemagglutinin protein with these same substitutions has already been reported. As a ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Epand RM,Epand RF,Martin I,Ruysschaert JM

更新日期：2001-07-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Aspartate transcarbamoylase from Escherichia coli is a dodecameric enzyme consisting of two trimeric catalytic subunits and three dimeric regulatory subunits. The X-ray structure of this enzyme indicates that the side chains of His-41, Asp-100, and Asp-90 from one catalytic chain form interactions with the side chains...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Baker DP,Kantrowitz ER

更新日期：1993-09-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The crystal structure of a C-terminal domain of enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli type III effector NleH2 has been determined to 2.6 Å resolution. The structure resembles those of protein kinases featuring the catalytic, activation, and glycine-rich loop motifs and ATP-binding site. The position of helix αC and the l...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Halavaty AS,Anderson SM,Wawrzak Z,Kudritska M,Skarina T,Anderson WF,Savchenko A

更新日期：2014-04-22 00:00:00

abstract：:S-Adenosylmethionine (SAM+) serves as the principal methylating agent in biological systems, but the thermodynamic basis of its reactivity does not seem to have been clearly established. Here, we show that methionine, methanol, and H+ combine to form S-methylmethionine (SMM+) with a temperature-independent equilibrium...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Lewis CA Jr,Wolfenden R

更新日期：2018-07-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Binding of the coupling ion (Na+ or Li+) and sugars to the purified melibiose permease of Escherichia coli, reconstituted in proteoliposomes, produces selective and cooperative changes of the transporter tryptophan fluorescence. To assess the individual contribution of N- or C-terminal domains of the permease to these...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Mus-Veteau I,Leblanc G

更新日期：1996-09-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Nicotinic acid phosphoribosyltransferase (NAPRTase; EC 2.4.2.11) forms nicotinic acid mononucleotide (NAMN) and PPi from 5-phosphoribosyl 1-pyrophosphate (PRPP) and nicotinic acid (NA). The Vmax NAMN synthesis activity of the Salmonella typhimurium enzyme is stimulated about 10-fold by ATP, which, when present, is hyd...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Rajavel M,Lalo D,Gross JW,Grubmeyer C

更新日期：1998-03-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein-lipid interactions regulate many membrane protein functions. Using a multiscale approach that combines coarse-grained and atomistic molecular dynamics simulations, we have predicted the binding site for the anionic phospholipid phosphatidylinositol 4,5-bisphosphate (PIP(2)) on the Kir2.2 inwardly rectifying (K...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Schmidt MR,Stansfeld PJ,Tucker SJ,Sansom MS

更新日期：2013-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Rabbit muscle myosin S1 was modified either at SH1 alone or at both SH1 and SH2, using a series of alkylthiolating reagents of increasing size, designed for correlating gradually changing structural disturbances in the thiol region with functional impairments in the myosin head. The reagents were of the type H(CH(2))(...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Tiepold M,Kliche W,Pfannstiel J,Faulstich H

更新日期：2000-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The self-assembly of beta(2)-microglobulin into fibrils leads to dialysis-related amyloidosis. pH-mediated partial unfolding is required for the formation of the amyloidogenic intermediate that then self-assembles into amyloid fibrils. Two partially folded intermediates of beta(2)-microglobulin have been identified ex...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Armen RS,Daggett V

更新日期：2005-12-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Backbone dynamics in the [5',5"-2H2]2'-deoxythymidine labeled duplex dodecamer [d-(CGCGAAT*T*CGC)]2 have been investigated by solid-state 2H NMR. Quadrupolar echo line shapes, spin-lattice relaxation, and quadrupolar echo decay times were obtained over hydration levels ranging from W = 0.0 to 25.2 (moles of H2O/mole o...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Alam TM,Orban J,Drobny GP

更新日期：1991-09-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The solution structure of the C-terminal fragment 255-316 of thermolysin has been determined by two-dimensional proton NMR methods. For this disulfide-free fragment there was a previous proposal according to which it would fold into a stable helical structure forming a dimer at concentrations above 0.06 mM. A complete...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Rico M,Jiménez MA,González C,De Filippis V,Fontana A

更新日期：1994-12-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Salts and polyamines have a variety of effects on the physical properties of DNA, including stabilization against thermal melting. We wished to gain greater insight into the mechanism of this stabilization by ascertaining its effect on the dynamics of base opening and closing reactions, as measured by NMR. Since the b...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Braunlin WH,Bloomfield VA

更新日期：1988-02-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Mild acid hydrolysis of Hafnia alvei strain 2 lipopolysaccharide released no O-specific polysaccharide but instead gave a monomeric octasaccharide repeating unit with N-acetylneuraminic acid as the reducing terminus. In addition, a dimer of the octasaccharide repeating unit, and also a decasaccharide composed of a fra...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Gamian A,Romanowska E,Dabrowski U,Dabrowski J

更新日期：1991-05-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Amphotericin B (AmB) is a polyene macrolide antibiotic isolated from Streptomyces nodosus. The antifungal activity of AmB can be attributed to the formation of an ion-channel assembly in the presence of ergosterol (Erg), in which there are two different AmB-Erg orientations, parallel and antiparallel, as reported prev...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Nakagawa Y,Umegawa Y,Matsushita N,Yamamoto T,Tsuchikawa H,Hanashima S,Oishi T,Matsumori N,Murata M

更新日期：2016-06-21 00:00:00