Effect of methionine oxidation on the structural properties, conformational stability, and aggregation of immunoglobulin light chain LEN.

abstract：:This study presents the first detailed examination by resonance Raman (RR) spectroscopy of the rates of solvent exchange for the C5 and C3 positions of the TPQ cofactor in several wild-type copper-containing amine oxidases and mutants of the amine oxidase from Hansenula polymorpha (HPAO). On the basis of crystal struc...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Green EL,Nakamura N,Dooley DM,Klinman JP,Sanders-Loehr J

更新日期：2002-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Static FTIR light-induced difference spectra have been recorded for reaction centers from Rhodopseudomonas viridis in the following charge-separated states: P+QA(-)-PQA, P+QB(-)-PQB, I(-)-I, I-QA(-)-IQA, and I-QA(2-)-IQA. A comparison of the I(-)-I difference spectra with the I-QA(-)-IQA difference spectra reveals new...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Buchanan S,Michel H,Gerwert K

更新日期：1992-02-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The DNA binding of three platinum(II) intercalation reagents has been studied and found to depend upon base composition, the nature of the intercalator, and the ionic strength of the solvent medium. In 0.2 M NaCl, binding data for calf thymus DNA show the association constants to be approximately 10(4) M-1. The bindin...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Howe-Grant M,Lippard SJ

更新日期：1979-12-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The Iowa point mutation in apolipoprotein A-I (G26R) leads to a systemic amyloidosis condition, and the Milano mutation (R173C) is associated with hypoalphalipoproteinemia, a reduced plasma level of high-density lipoprotein. To probe the structural effects that lead to these outcomes, we used amide hydrogen-deuterium ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Chetty PS,Ohshiro M,Saito H,Dhanasekaran P,Lund-Katz S,Mayne L,Englander W,Phillips MC

更新日期：2012-11-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The structure of the dimeric form of the protein L7/L12 from ribosomes from Escherichia coli was studied by using the heterobifunctional cross-linker 4-(6-formyl-3-azidophenoxy)butyrimidate. The imidate group of the cross-linker reacts very specifically with Lys-51 of L7/L12. Subsequent cross-linking of this modified ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Maassen JA,Schop EN,Möller W

更新日期：1981-02-17 00:00:00

abstract：:We previously showed that beta-amyloid precursor protein (APP) is cleaved not only in the middle of the membrane (gamma-cleavage) but also at novel cleavage sites close to the membrane/cytoplasmic boundary (epsilon-cleavage), releasing APP intracellular domains (AICDs) 49-99 and 50-99. To learn more about the relation...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Funamoto S,Morishima-Kawashima M,Tanimura Y,Hirotani N,Saido TC,Ihara Y

更新日期：2004-10-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Ca2+-induced fusion of phospholipid vesicles (phosphatidylcholine/phosphatidic acid, 9:1 mol/mol) prepared by ethanolic injection was followed by five different procedures: resonance energy transfer, light scattering, electron microscopy, intermixing of aqueous content, and gel filtration through Sepharose 4-B. The fi...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Morero RD,Viñals AL,Bloj B,Farías RN

更新日期：1985-04-09 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：:P450cam from Pseudomonas putida is the best characterized member of the vast family of cytochrome P450s, and it has long been believed to have a more rigid and closed active site relative to other P450s. Here we report X-ray structures of P450cam crystallized in the absence of substrate and at high and low [K(+)]. The...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Lee YT,Wilson RF,Rupniewski I,Goodin DB

更新日期：2010-04-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The vast majority of characterized oxygenases use bound cofactors to activate molecular oxygen to carry out oxidation chemistry. Here, we show that an enzyme of unknown activity, RhCC from Rhodococcus jostii RHA1, functions as an oxygenase, using 4-hydroxyphenylenolpyruvate as a substrate. This unique and complex reac...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Baas BJ,Poddar H,Geertsema EM,Rozeboom HJ,de Vries MP,Permentier HP,Thunnissen AM,Poelarends GJ

更新日期：2015-02-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Pepstatin is a slow and tight-binding inhibitor of pepsin. Preincubating enzyme and inhibitor in H2O and in D2O in the absence of substrate generates an inverse solvent isotope effect of Dk = 0.69 +/- 0.06 on the apparent first-order rate constant for the decay in enzymatic activity. Proton inventory analysis of the i...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Cho YK,Rebholz KL,Northrop DB

更新日期：1994-08-16 00:00:00

abstract：:CaATPase from rabbit sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR) has been isolated, purified, and reconstituted into unilamellar vesicles with 1,2-dipentadecanoylphosphatidylcholine (DPePC) and acyl-chain-perdeuterated 1,2-dipalmitoylphosphatidylcholine (DPPC-d62). For total lipid:protein mole ratios between 25 and 70, a constant "ha...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Senak L,Mendelsohn R

更新日期：1993-06-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Steady-state kinetic parameters were determined for the human leukocyte elastase catalyzed hydrolysis of a series of peptide-based thiobenzyl esters and p-nitroanilides. The peptide units are MeOSuc-Val, MeOSuc-Alan-Pro-Val (n = 0-2), and MeOSuc-Alan-Pro-Ala (n = 1 or 2). The results of this study suggest five importa...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Stein RL,Strimpler AM,Hori H,Powers JC

更新日期：1987-03-10 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper, we report kinetic studies for the chymotryptic activity of the 20S proteasome. Major observations include the following: (1) Reaction progress curves that are recorded at concentrations of Suc-Leu-Leu-Val-Tyr-AMC greater than about 40 microM are biphasic and characterized by initial velocities that deca...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Stein RL,Melandri F,Dick L

更新日期：1996-04-02 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：:We have used thrombin to cleave apolipoprotein C-III-1 into two fragments constituting residues 1-40 (apoLP-C-III-A) and 41-79 (apoLP-C-III-B). The lipid binding properties of these fragments with dimyristoyl- and 1-palmitoyl-2-oleoylphosphatidylcholines have been determined using circular dichroic and intrinsic trypt...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Sparrow JT,Pownall HJ,Hsu FJ,Blumenthal LD,Culwell AR,Gotto AM

更新日期：1977-12-13 00:00:00

abstract：:IFABP is a small beta-barrel protein with a short helix-turn-helix motif near the N-terminus that is thought to participate in the regulation of the uptake and delivery of fatty acids. In a previous work, we detected by near UV circular dichroism a reversible conformational transition of this protein occurring between...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Arighi CN,Rossi JP,Delfino JM

更新日期：2003-06-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Escherichia coli, Clostridium sticklandii, and Methanococcus vannielii synthesize 75Se-labeled amino acid transfer ribonucleic acids [( 75Se]tRNAs) when grown with low levels (approximately equal to 1 microM) of 75SeO32-. When E. coli [75Se]tRNA was digested to nucleosides and analyzed by reversed-phase high-performan...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Wittwer AJ,Tsai L,Ching WM,Stadtman TC

更新日期：1984-09-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Staphylococcal nuclease H124L is a recombinant protein produced in Escherichia coli whose sequence is identical with that of the nuclease produced by the V8 variant of Staphylococcus aureus. The enzyme-metal ion activator-nucleotide inhibitor ternary complex, nuclease H124L-thymidine 3',5'-bisphosphate-Ca2+, was inves...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Wang JF,LeMaster DM,Markley JL

更新日期：1990-01-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Changes in the concentrations of high-energy phosphate metabolites were measured by 31P NMR spectroscopy of surviving rat uteri from 0-48 h following estrogen administration. Concentrations (millimoles per kilogram wet weight) of these metabolites in the untreated immature uterus, measured at 4 degrees C, were found t...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Degani H,Shaer A,Victor TA,Kaye AM

更新日期：1984-06-05 00:00:00

abstract：:To study the effects of methylation damage on DNA replication in vitro, the plasmid pSVori containing the SV40 origin of replication was reacted with N-methyl-N-nitrosourea and used as a substrate for SV40 T antigen dependent replication by HeLa cell extracts. The plasmid was methylated with a range of N-methyl-N-nitr...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Ceccotti S,Dogliotti E,Gannon J,Karran P,Bignami M

更新日期：1993-12-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Glucarate dehydratase (GlucD) from Pseudomonas putida catalyzes the dehydration of both (D)-glucarate and (L)-idarate to 3-deoxy-(L)-threo-2-hexulosarate as well as their epimerization. (D)-[6-13C]Glucarate and (L)-[6-13C]idarate have been synthesized for use in continuous assay of the reactions catalyzed by GlucD by ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Palmer DR,Hubbard BK,Gerlt JA

更新日期：1998-10-13 00:00:00

abstract：:NADP(H) binding is essential for fast electron transfer through the flavoprotein domain of the fusion protein P450BM3. Here we characterize the interaction of NADP(H) with the oxidized and partially reduced enzyme and the effect of this interaction on the redox properties of flavin cofactors and electron transfer. Mea...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Murataliev MB,Feyereisen R

更新日期：2000-10-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The exchangeability of apolipoprotein (apo) E between lipoprotein particles such as very low-density lipoprotein (VLDL) and high-density lipoprotein (HDL) is critical for lipoprotein metabolism, but despite its importance, the kinetics and mechanism of apoE-lipoprotein interaction are not known. We have used surface p...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Nguyen D,Dhanasekaran P,Phillips MC,Lund-Katz S

更新日期：2009-04-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Retinoids function through conformational alterations of ligand-dependent nuclear transcription factors, the retinoic acid receptors, and retinoid X receptors. 9-cis-Retinoic acid is a known biological ligand for retinoid X receptors, but its synthesis pathway in vivo is largely unknown. Recently, we identified a cis-...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Paik J,Vogel S,Piantedosi R,Sykes A,Blaner WS,Swisshelm K

更新日期：2000-07-11 00:00:00

abstract：:A pterin analogue, 5-[(3-azido-6-nitrobenzylidene)amino]-2,6-diamino-4-pyrimidinone (ANBADP), was synthesized as a probe of the pterin binding site of phenylalanine hydroxylase. The photoaffinity label has been found to be a competitive inhibitor of the enzyme with respect to 6,7-dimethyltetrahydropterin, having a Ki ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Gibbs BS,Benkovic SJ

更新日期：1991-07-09 00:00:00

abstract：:A combination of mutagenesis, calorimetry, kinetics, and small-angle X-ray scattering (SAXS) has been used to study the mechanism of ligand binding energy propagation through human cytochrome P450 reductase (CPR). Remarkably, the energetics of 2',5'-ADP binding to R597 at the FAD-binding domain are affected by mutatio...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Grunau A,Geraki K,Grossmann JG,Gutierrez A

更新日期：2007-07-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The C-terminus of interferon-gamma (IFNgamma) contains a nuclear localization sequence (NLS) required for the activation and nuclear translocation of the transcription factor STAT1alpha and induction of IFNgamma-activated genes. On the basis of this and other studies, we developed a peptide mimetic of IFNgamma that po...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Subramaniam PS,Flowers LO,Haider SM,Johnson HM

更新日期：2004-05-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Wideline 2H NMR spectroscopy was used to assess the conformational and orientational effects of N-acetylneuraminic acid (NeuAc) (sialic acid) as a component of a particular oligosaccharide chain at a bilayer membrane surface. For this purpose, three glycosphingolipids, sharing a neutral core tetrasaccharide and differ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Jones DH,Barber KR,Grant CW

更新日期：1996-04-16 00:00:00

abstract：:We have used flash-detection optical and electron paramagnetic resonance spectroscopy to measure the kinetics and yield per flash of the photooxidation of cytochrome b559 and the yield per flash of the photooxidation of the tyrosine residue YD in Mn-depleted photosystem II (PSII) membranes at room temperature. The ini...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Buser CA,Thompson LK,Diner BA,Brudvig GW

更新日期：1990-09-25 00:00:00