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

abstract：:The rotational motions of immunoglobulin M (IgM) were investigated by the nanosecond fluorescence depolarization technique. The fluorophore epsilon-1-dimethylamino-5-naphthalenesulfonyl-L-lysine (DNS-lysine) was specifically bound in the combining sites of anti-DNS IgM antibodies from the horse, pig, and nurse shark. ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Holowka DA,Cathou RE

更新日期：1976-07-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The noncovalent interaction of 2-aminodipyrido[1,2-a:3',2'-d]imidazole (Glu-P-2) and its derivatives, which are potent mutagens isolated from L-glutamic acid pyrolysate, with calf thymus DNA was studied by steady-state and nanosecond fluorescence spectroscopies. The fluorescence of these compounds exhibits static quen...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Itoh M,Kurokawa H,Usui M,Ohno M,Shimoda E,Hashimoto Y,Shudo K

更新日期：1985-11-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Sulfonylureas and glinides are commonly used oral insulin secretagogues (ISs) that act on the pancreatic ATP-sensitive potassium (KATP) channel to promote insulin secretion in order to lower the blood glucose level. Physiologically, KATP channels are inhibited by intracellular ATP and activated by Mg-ADP. Therefore, t...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Wu JX,Ding D,Wang M,Chen L

更新日期：2020-01-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Guanine nucleotide dissociation stimulator (GDS) promotes the release of tightly bound GDP from various Ras superfamily proteins, including RhoA, Rac1, K-Ras, Rap1A, and Rap1B. It displays no significant sequence homology to other known exchange factors for small G-proteins. Studies are reported here of the mechanism ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Hutchinson JP,Eccleston JF

更新日期：2000-09-19 00:00:00

abstract：:One of the most promising approaches to anti-hepatitis C virus drug discovery is the development of inhibitors of the virally encoded protease NS3. This chymotrypsin-like serine protease is essential for the maturation of the viral polyprotein, and processing requires complex formation between NS3 and its cofactor NS4...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Bianchi E,Orrù S,Dal Piaz F,Ingenito R,Casbarra A,Biasiol G,Koch U,Pucci P,Pessi A

更新日期：1999-10-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Production of single-strand breaks (ssb) and double-strand breaks (dsb) of PM2 phage DNA by several structurally related bleomycin (BLM) analogues was studied by gel electrophoresis. BLM A2 and BLM B2 produced a comparable extent of dsb. In various experiments, BLM A2 and BLM B2, at 22-41 ng/mL, degraded 50% of the fo...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Huang CH,Mirabelli CK,Jan Y,Crooke ST

更新日期：1981-01-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Proteins from thermophiles possess high thermostability. The stabilization mechanisms differ between archaeal and bacterial proteins, whereby archaeal proteins are mainly stabilized via hydrophobic interactions and bacterial proteins by ion pairs. High stability is an important factor in promoting protein evolution, b...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Takano K,Aoi A,Koga Y,Kanaya S

更新日期：2013-07-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The class I human liver alcohol dehydrogenases (ADHs) catalyze the interconversion of the intermediary alcohols and aldehydes of dopamine metabolism in vitro, whereas those of the class II and class III do not. The individual, homogeneous class I isozymes oxidize (3,4-dihydroxyphenyl)ethanol and (4-hydroxy-3-methoxyph...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Mårdh G,Vallee BL

更新日期：1986-11-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Preferential interaction of trans-membrane alpha-helices whose hydrophobic length matches the hydrophobic thickness of the lipid bilayer could be a mechanism of retention in the Golgi apparatus. We have used fluorescence methods to study the interaction of peptides Ac-K2-G-Lm-W-Ln-K2-A-amide (Pm+n) with bilayers of ph...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Webb RJ,East JM,Sharma RP,Lee AG

更新日期：1998-01-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Activator of G protein signaling 3 (AGS3) activates the Gbetagamma mating pathway in yeast in a manner that is independent of heptahelical receptors. It competes with Gbetagamma subunits to bind GDP-bound Gi/o(alpha) subunits via four repeated G protein regulatory (GPR) domains in the carboxyl-terminal half of the mol...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Ma H,Peterson YK,Bernard ML,Lanier SM,Graber SG

更新日期：2003-07-08 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：:IHF and HU are small basic proteins of eubacteria that bind as homodimers to double-stranded DNA and bend the duplex to promote architectures required for gene regulation. These architectural proteins share a common alpha/beta fold but exhibit different nucleic acid binding surfaces and distinct functional roles. With...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Benevides JM,Danahy J,Kawakami J,Thomas GJ Jr

更新日期：2008-03-25 00:00:00

abstract：:In the absence of any external electron donor, the "peroxy" intermediate of cytochrome c oxidase (CcO-607) is converted to the ferryl form (CcO-580) and subsequently to oxidized enzyme. The rate of conversion of CcO-607 to the CcO-580 form is pH dependent between pH 3.0 and pH 7.6. A plot of the logarithm of the rate ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Fabian M,Palmer G

更新日期：2001-02-13 00:00:00

abstract：:We have used limited proteolysis of affinity-labeled estrogen receptors (ER), coupled with antireceptor antibody immunoreactivity, to assess structural features of ER and the relatedness of ER from MCF-7 human breast cancer and rat uterine cells. MCF-7 ER preparations covalently labeled with [3H]tamoxifen aziridine [(...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Katzenellenbogen BS,Elliston JF,Monsma FJ Jr,Springer PA,Ziegler YS,Greene GL

更新日期：1987-04-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Intracellular reduction of carcinogenic Cr(VI) generates Cr-DNA adducts formed through the coordination of Cr(III) to DNA phosphates (phosphotriester-type adduct). Here, we examined the role of Cr(III)-DNA adducts in mutagenesis induced by metabolism of Cr(VI) with cysteine. Reduction of Cr(VI) caused a strong oxidati...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Zhitkovich A,Song Y,Quievryn G,Voitkun V

更新日期：2001-01-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Proteins performing multiple biochemical functions are called "moonlighting proteins" or extreme multifunctional (EMF) proteins. Mitochondrial cytochrome c is an EMF protein that binds multiple partner proteins to act as a signaling molecule, transfers electrons in the respiratory chain, and acts as a peroxidase in ap...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Deacon OM,Karsisiotis AI,Moreno-Chicano T,Hough MA,Macdonald C,Blumenschein TMA,Wilson MT,Moore GR,Worrall JAR

更新日期：2017-11-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The structure of premature core enzyme, an obligatory intermediate in both in vivo and in vitro assembly of Escherichia coli DNA-dependent RNA polymerase, was compared with that of native core enzyme. Though this assembled but inactive form of core enzyme harbors the gross conformation similar to that of native enzyme...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Ishihama A,Aiba H,Saitoh T,Takahashi S

更新日期：1979-03-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The immunoglobulin E-binding protein, epsilon BP (also known as CBP35, Mac-2, L-34, and L-29), is a beta-galactoside-binding protein of approximately 30 kDa and a member of the animal lectin family termed S-type or S-Lac. Multiple biological activities have been attributed to this lectin such as mediation of IgE bindi...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Feizi T,Solomon JC,Yuen CT,Jeng KC,Frigeri LG,Hsu DK,Liu FT

更新日期：1994-05-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Light-driven outward sodium-pumping rhodopsin (NaR) was recently found in marine bacteria. Krokinobacter eikastus rhodopsin 2 (KR2) actively transports sodium and lithium ions in NaCl and LiCl, respectively, while it pumps protons in KCl. NaR has a conserved NDQ (N112, D116, and Q123 in KR2) motif, and previous studie...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Abe-Yoshizumi R,Inoue K,Kato HE,Nureki O,Kandori H

更新日期：2016-10-18 00:00:00

abstract：:We have covalently attached an electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) spin probe to Cys-670 of the motor domain of ncd (nonclaret disjunctional protein) in order to investigate conformational changes associated with the chemomechanical cycle. Spin-labeling is highly specific and does not affect ncd function as monitore...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Naber N,Cooke R,Pate E

更新日期：1997-08-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The vanadate cofactor in vanadium chloroperoxidase has been studied using UV-VIS absorption spectroscopy. A band is present in the near-UV that is red-shifted as compared to free vanadate and shifts in both position and intensity upon change in pH. Mutation of vanadate binding residues has a clear effect on the spectr...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Renirie R,Hemrika W,Piersma SR,Wever R

更新日期：2000-02-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Monoamine oxidase B (MAO B) is an integral protein of the outer mitochondrial membrane that is involved in the deamination of vasoactive and neuroactive amines. The oxidation of these amine substrates requires the cofactor FAD, which is covalently bound to Cys-397 of human MAO B. Previously, Glu-34 and Tyr-44 of MAO B...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Kirksey TJ,Kwan SW,Abell CW

更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein phosphatase 1 (PP1) is an essential and ubiquitous serine/threonine protein phosphatase that is regulated by more than 100 known inhibitor and targeting proteins. It is currently unclear how protein inhibitors distinctly and specifically regulate PP1 to enable rapid responses to cellular alterations. We demons...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Dancheck B,Nairn AC,Peti W

更新日期：2008-11-25 00:00:00

abstract：:We have measured the pH-dependent (1)H, (13)C, and (15)N NMR spectra of pyridoxal 5'-phosphate ((13)C(2)-PLP) mixed with equal amounts of either doubly (15)N-labeled diaminopropane, (15)N(α)-labeled l-lysine, or (15)N(ε)-labeled l-lysine as model systems for various intermediates of the transimination reaction in PLP-...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Chan-Huot M,Sharif S,Tolstoy PM,Toney MD,Limbach HH

更新日期：2010-12-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Wheat germ ribosomes combine with the AUG codon at positions 30-32 from the 5' terminus of in vitro radioiodinated satellite tobacco necrosis virus (STNV) ribonucleic acid (RNA) to form initiation complexes that protect specific regions of the RNA from attack by ribonucleases. Wheat gern 80S ribosomes convey partial p...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Browning KS,Leung DW,Clark JM Jr

更新日期：1980-05-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The AT-rich interaction domain (ARID) containing BAF250a is a subunit of the BAF-A class of SWI/SNF chromatin remodeling complexes. The ARID belongs to a family of conserved DNA binding domains found in several eukaryotic proteins; however, its exact contribution to BAF250a function and the mechanism of its DNA bindin...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Giri M,Maulik A,Singh M

更新日期：2020-01-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The malarial parasite Plasmodium falciparum can only synthesize pyrimidine nucleotides via the de novo pathway which is therefore a suitable target for development of antimalarial drugs. New assay procedures have been developed using high-pressure liquid chromatography (HPLC) which enable concurrent measurement of pyr...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Seymour KK,Lyons SD,Phillips L,Rieckmann KH,Christopherson RI

更新日期：1994-05-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Picosecond absorption spectroscopy has been used to investigate energy-transfer dynamics within the LH1 and LH2 light-harvesting complexes of three mutants of Rhodobacter sphaeroides. We demonstrate that both complexes are inhomogeneous; each contains a specialized pigment pool which absorbs maximally at a longer wave...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Hunter CN,Bergström H,van Grondelle R,Sundström V

更新日期：1990-04-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Here we present a biophysical, structural, and computational analysis of the directed evolution of the human DNA repair protein O(6)-alkylguanine-DNA alkyltransferase (hAGT) into SNAP-tag, a self-labeling protein tag. Evolution of hAGT led not only to increased protein activity but also to higher stability, especially...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Mollwitz B,Brunk E,Schmitt S,Pojer F,Bannwarth M,Schiltz M,Rothlisberger U,Johnsson K

更新日期：2012-02-07 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a real-time assay for the interaction of the G-protein of retinal rods, transducin (Gt), with its effector, cGMP phosphodiesterase (PDE). The purified proteins were recombined with isolated rod disk membranes. Reactions were triggered by flash photolysis of the receptor rhodopsin, and monitored by changes ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Heck M,Hofmann KP

更新日期：1993-08-17 00:00:00