Photoinduced reactivity of the HIV-1 envelope glycoprotein with a membrane-embedded probe reveals insertion of portions of the HIV-1 Gp41 cytoplasmic tail into the viral membrane.

abstract：:Several bifunctional alkylating agents of the aziridinylbenzoquinone class have been evaluated as potential antitumor agents. 3,6-Bis[(2-hydroxyethyl)amino]-2,5- diaziridinyl-1,4-benzoquinone (BZQ), 2,5-diaziridinyl-1,4-benzoquinone (DZQ), 3,6-bis(carboxyamino)-2,5-diaziridinyl- 1,4-benzoquinone (AZQ), and six analogu...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Hartley JA,Berardini M,Ponti M,Gibson NW,Thompson AS,Thurston DE,Hoey BM,Butler J

更新日期：1991-12-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The heterotrimeric G protein subunit, alpha(s), can move reversibly from plasma membranes to cytoplasm in response to activation by GPCRs or activating mutations. We examined the importance of the unique N-terminus of alpha(s) in this translocation in cultured cells. alpha(s) contains a single site for palmitoylation ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Thiyagarajan MM,Bigras E,Van Tol HH,Hébert TE,Evanko DS,Wedegaertner PB

更新日期：2002-07-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) insecticidal toxins bind to receptors on midgut epithelial cells of susceptible insects, and binding triggers biochemical events that lead to insect mortality. Recently, a 100-kDa aminopeptidase N (APN) was isolated from brush border membrane vesicles (BBMV) of Anopheles quadrimaculatus and...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Zhang R,Hua G,Andacht TM,Adang MJ

更新日期：2008-10-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Electron transfer in reaction center core (RCC) complexes from the green sulfur bacteria Prosthecochloris aestuarii and Chlorobium tepidum was studied by measuring flash-induced absorbance changes. The first preparation contained approximately three iron-sulfur centers, indicating that the three putative electron acce...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Schmidt KA,Neerken S,Permentier HP,Hager-Braun C,Amesz J

更新日期：2000-06-20 00:00:00

abstract：:A mouse monoclonal anti-7-(O-carboxymethyl)oximinoestradiol antibody was photoaffinity labeled with two cross-reactive 6alpha- and 6beta-(5-azido-2-nitrobenzoyl)amido[17alpha-3H]estradiol photoreagents (6alpha- and 6beta-ANBA-[17alpha-3H]estradiol). Covalently bound radioactivity was found exclusively on the light cha...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Rousselot P,Mappus E,Blachère T,de Ravel MR,Grenot C,Tonnelle C,Cuilleron CY

更新日期：1997-06-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Phospholipase A(2) (PLA(2)) enzymes become activated by binding to biological membranes and hydrolyze phospholipids to free fatty acids and lyso-phospholipids, the precursors of inflammatory mediators. To understand the functional significance of amino acid residues at key positions, we have studied the effects of the...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Nemec KN,Pande AH,Qin S,Bieber Urbauer RJ,Tan S,Moe D,Tatulian SA

更新日期：2006-10-17 00:00:00

abstract：:A detailed interpretation of the grossly distorted ultraviolet absorption and circular dichroism spectra of the intact red blood cell is given, including an evaluation of the effects of protein conformation, detector geometry, cell hemoglobin content, and refractive index on the calculated cell spectra. The origins of...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Gitter-Amir A,Schneider AS,Rosenheck K

更新日期：1976-07-13 00:00:00

abstract：:RNA:pseudouridine synthetase (Pus1) from Saccharomyces cerevisiae is a multisite specific enzyme that catalyzes the formation of pseudouridine at positions 34 and 36 of intron-containing precursor tRNAIle and at positions 27 and/or 28 of several yeast tRNAs. In this paper we demonstrate that the purified recombinant P...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Arluison V,Hountondji C,Robert B,Grosjean H

更新日期：1998-05-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Steric constraints in the retinal binding pocket of sensory rhodopsin I (SR-I) are analyzed by studying effects of sample temperature and retinal analogs. The flash-induced yield of the earliest detected intermediate S610, which corresponds to the K intermediate in the bacteriorhodopsin (BR) photocycle, decreases belo...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Yan B,Xie A,Nienhaus GU,Katsuta Y,Spudich JL

更新日期：1993-09-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Members of the uracil-DNA glycosylase (UDG) enzyme family recognize and bind uracil, sequestering it within the binding site pocket and catalyzing the cleavage of the base from the deoxyribose, leaving an abasic site. The recognition and binding are passive and rely on innate dynamic motions of DNA wherein base pairs ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Carr CE,Khutsishvili I,Gold B,Marky LA

更新日期：2018-10-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Structures of several voltage-gated sodium (NaV) channels from bacteria have been determined recently, but the same feat might not be achieved for the mammalian counterparts in the near future. Thus, at present, computational studies of the mammalian NaV channels have to be performed using homology models based on the...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Patel D,Mahdavi S,Kuyucak S

更新日期：2016-03-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Several phosphatidylinositol 4,5-bisphosphate (PtdInsP2)-regulated actin-binding proteins and most phosphoinositide-specific phospholipases C (PI-PLCs) comprise a basic amino acid motif (KxxxKxKK, where x denotes any amino acid), which was previously suggested to represent a PtdInsP2-binding site commonly present in t...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Simões AP,Reed J,Schnabel P,Camps M,Gierschik P

更新日期：1995-04-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The filamentous coliphage M13 possesses multiple copies of a 50-residue coat protein which is inserted into the inner membrane of Escherichia coli during infection. 13C nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy has been used to probe the structure and dynamics of M13 coat protein solubilized in detergent micelles....

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Henry GD,Weiner JH,Sykes BD

更新日期：1986-02-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Creatininase catalyzes the conversion of creatinine (a biosensor for kidney function) to creatine via a two-step mechanism: water addition followed by ring opening. Water addition is common to other known cyclic amidohydrolases, but the precise mechanism for ring opening is still under debate. The proton donor in this...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Jitonnom J,Mujika JI,van der Kamp MW,Mulholland AJ

更新日期：2017-12-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Seven hydrophobic residues ranging in size from glycine to phenylalanine have been substituted for the wild-type methionine residue at position 13 in a 15-residue truncated version (S15) of S-peptide, the small component of ribonuclease S. Complexes of both S-15 and the seven variants with S-protein yielded isomorphou...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Varadarajan R,Richards FM

更新日期：1992-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The reaction of cytochrome c oxidase with hydrogen peroxide has been of great value in generating and characterizing oxygenated species of the enzyme that are identical or similar to those formed during turnover of the enzyme with dioxygen. Most previous studies have utilized relatively low peroxide concentrations (mi...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Zaslavsky D,Smirnova IA,Brzezinski P,Shinzawa-Itoh K,Yoshikawa S,Gennis RB

更新日期：1999-11-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Substrates homoprotocatechuate (HPCA) and O(2) bind to the Fe(II) of homoprotocatechuate 2,3-dioxygenase (FeHPCD) in adjacent coordination sites. Transfer of an electron(s) from HPCA to O(2) via the iron is proposed to activate the substrates for reaction with each other to initiate aromatic ring cleavage. Here, rapid...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Mbughuni MM,Chakrabarti M,Hayden JA,Meier KK,Dalluge JJ,Hendrich MP,Münck E,Lipscomb JD

更新日期：2011-11-29 00:00:00

abstract：:H1 can rearrange in chicken erythrocyte polynucleosomes in 80 mM NaCl buffers. These rearrangements have been studied by sedimentation analysis. H1 redistributes between polynucleosomes as well as between polynucleosomes and monosomes. In these rearrangements H1 molecules move to free DNA sites. In contrast to H1, the...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Lasters I,Muyldermans S,Wyns L,Hamers R

更新日期：1981-03-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Trypsin and N-[3-[4-[4-(amidinophenoxy)carbonyl]phenyl]-2-methyl-2-propenoyl]- N-allylglycine methanesulfonate (1), a newly designed and orally active synthetic trypsin inhibitor, were cocrystallized. The space group of the crystal is P2(1)2(1)2(1) with cell constants a = 63.74 A, b = 63.08 A, and c = 69.38 A, which i...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Odagaki Y,Nakai H,Senokuchi K,Kawamura M,Hamanaka N,Nakamura M,Tomoo K,Ishida T

更新日期：1995-10-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Separation of the gradient-purified gastric microsome into two membrane subfractions of distinct enzymatic and phospholipid composition has been achieved by mild SDS (0.033% w/v) treatment followed by sucrose gradient centrifugation of the pig and rabbit gastric microsomes. While the high-density membranes had all of ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Ray TK,Das PK,Nandi J,Banerjee A,Bandopadhyay S

更新日期：1988-12-13 00:00:00

abstract：:A Rhodobacter sphaeroides bchD (magnesium chelatase) mutant was studied to determine the properties of its photosystem in the absence of bacteriochlorophyll (BChl). Western blots of reaction center H, M, and L (RC H/M/L) proteins from mutant membranes showed levels of 12% RC H, 32% RC L, and 46% RC M relative to those...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Jaschke PR,Beatty JT

更新日期：2007-10-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The borrelidin polyketide synthase (PKS) begins with a carboxylated substrate and, unlike typical decarboxylative loading PKSs, retains the carboxy group in the final product. The specificity and tolerance of incorporation of carboxyacyl substrate into type I PKSs have not been explored. Here, we show that the first e...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Hagen A,Poust S,de Rond T,Yuzawa S,Katz L,Adams PD,Petzold CJ,Keasling JD

更新日期：2014-09-30 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to elucidate the molecular mechanisms responsible for the apparent nonlinear behavior of the temperature dependence of the redox potential of Hydrogenobacter thermophilus cytochrome c552 [Takahashi, Y., Sasaki, H., Takayama, S. J., Mikami, S., Kawano, S., Mita, H., Sambongi, Y., and Yamamoto, Y. (2006) Bioche...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Takayama SJ,Takahashi YT,Mikami S,Irie K,Kawano S,Yamamoto Y,Hemmi H,Kitahara R,Yokoyama S,Akasaka K

更新日期：2007-08-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The structures of beta class carbonic anhydrases (beta-CAs) determined so far fall into two distinct subclasses based on the observed coordination of the catalytic zinc (Zn2+) ion. The subclass of beta-CAs that coordinate Zn2+ tetrahedrally with four protein-derived ligands is represented by the structures of ortholog...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Cronk JD,Rowlett RS,Zhang KY,Tu C,Endrizzi JA,Lee J,Gareiss PC,Preiss JR

更新日期：2006-04-11 00:00:00

abstract：:N-(1-Pyrenyl)iodoacetamide has been used to introduce fluorescent probes into Escherichia coli RNA polymerase. After an incubation time of 15 min, approximately 2 pyrene equiv was introduced per enzyme molecule. There was no further increase in modification after more extended periods of incubation. Neither calf thymu...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Johnson RS,Bowers M,Eaton Q

更新日期：1991-01-08 00:00:00

abstract：:CHO cells expressing the human insulin receptors (IR) were used to evaluate the effect of the potent farnesyltransferase inhibitor, manumycin, on insulin antiapoptotic function. Cell treatment with manumycin blocked insulin's ability to suppress pro-apoptotic caspase-3 activity which led to time-dependent proteolytic ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Park D,Pandey SK,Maksimova E,Kole S,Bernier M

更新日期：2000-10-17 00:00:00

abstract：:A statistical mechanical partition function for phospholipid bilayers is constructed to obtain a theoretical description of the chain melting phase transition in lipid bilayer membranes and of the phase diagrams for two-component bilayers. In addition to providing an accurate representation of the transition temperatu...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Jacobs RE,Hudson BS,Andersen HC

更新日期：1977-10-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The symmetric, tandem GU mismatch motifs, and , which only differ in the mismatch order, have an average difference in thermodynamic stability of 2 kcal/mol at 37 degrees C. Thermodynamic studies of duplexes containing these motifs indicate the effect is largely localized to the mismatches and adjacent base pairs. The...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： McDowell JA,He L,Chen X,Turner DH

更新日期：1997-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Copper thiosemicarbazones cause considerable oxidative stress. This effect may be related to their cytotoxicity. In the present work, the chemical and cellular properties of a new ligand, pyridoxal thiosemicarbazone (H2T), and its copper(II) chelate (CuT) are assessed. CuT is toxic to cultured Ehrlich ascites tumor ce...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Byrnes RW,Mohan M,Antholine WE,Xu RX,Petering DH

更新日期：1990-07-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Green sulfur bacteria possess two light-harvesting antenna systems, the chlorosome and the Fenna-Matthews-Olson (FMO) protein. In addition to self-aggregated bacteriochlorophyll (BChl) c, chlorosomes of Chlorobium tepidum contain a small amount of BChl a (ratio 100:1). The chlorosomal BChl a is associated with CsmA, a...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Pedersen MØ,Pham L,Steensgaard DB,Miller M

更新日期：2008-02-05 00:00:00