Small-molecule suppression of misfolding of mutated human carbonic anhydrase II linked to marble brain disease.

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：:The N-terminal region of alpha-spectrin is responsible for its association with beta-spectrin in a heterodimer, forming functional tetramers. Non-erythroid alpha-spectrin (alphaII-spectrin) has a significantly higher association affinity for beta-spectrin than the homologous erythroid alpha-spectrin (alphaI-spectrin)....

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Li Q,Fung LW

更新日期：2009-01-13 00:00:00

abstract：:We reported previously that cdc2 kinase decreased the microtubule-stabilizing ability of a major HeLa cell microtubule-associated protein, MAP4, by phosphorylation in vitro [Ookata, K., et al. (1995) J. Cell Biol. 128, 849-862]. An important question raised by this study is whether MAP4 is indeed phosphorylated by cdc...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Ookata K,Hisanaga S,Sugita M,Okuyama A,Murofushi H,Kitazawa H,Chari S,Bulinski JC,Kishimoto T

更新日期：1997-12-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The plasma membrane of the cell is a complex, tightly regulated, heterogeneous environment shaped by proteins, lipids, and small molecules. Ca2+ ions are important cellular messengers, spatially separated from anionic lipids. After cell injury, disease, or apoptotic events, anionic lipids are externalized to the outer...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Hallock MJ,Greenwood AI,Wang Y,Morrissey JH,Tajkhorshid E,Rienstra CM,Pogorelov TV

更新日期：2018-12-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Two classes of bacteriophages, the single-stranded DNA Microviridae and the single-stranded RNA Alloleviviridae, accomplish lysis by expressing "protein antibiotics", or polypeptides that inhibit cell wall biosynthesis. Previously, we have provided genetic and physiological evidence that E, a 91-amino acid membrane pr...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Zheng Y,Struck DK,Young R

更新日期：2009-06-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The specific rate of superoxide (O2(•-)) production in the purified active crystallizable cytochrome b6f complex, normalized to the rate of electron transport, has been found to be more than an order of magnitude greater than that measured in isolated yeast respiratory bc1 complex. The biochemical and structural basis...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Baniulis D,Hasan SS,Stofleth JT,Cramer WA

更新日期：2013-12-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The organization principles underlying non-membrane-bound organelles have started to unravel in the past 10 years. A new biophysical model known as biomolecular condensates has been proposed to explain many aspects of membraneless organelle assembly and regulation. Neurons are extremely complex, and each neuron can co...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Feng Z,Zeng M,Chen X,Zhang M

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have measured the hydration of CO2 catalyzed by bovine red cell carbonic anhydrase in mixtures of H2O and D2O at pH(D) which is in the plateau region of the pH--activity profile. The steady-state parameters for hydration Vmax and Km both show an exponential dependence on the atom fraction of deuterium in solvent wa...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Venkatasubban KS,Silverman DN

更新日期：1980-10-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Integral membrane proteins, which include many cellular effector proteins and drug targets, can be difficult to produce, purify, and manipulate. Although the isolated ectodomains of many membrane proteins can be expressed as water soluble proteins, biological activity is frequently lost when these proteins are release...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Waters EK,Morrissey JH

更新日期：2006-03-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Pulmonary surfactant forms a monolayer of lipids and proteins at the alveolar air/liquid interface. Although cholesterol is a natural component of surfactant, its function in surface dynamics is unclear. To further elucidate the role of cholesterol in surfactant, we used a captive bubble surfactometer (CBS) to measure...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Diemel RV,Snel MM,Van Golde LM,Putz G,Haagsman HP,Batenburg JJ

更新日期：2002-12-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Engineering proteins to withstand a broad range of conditions continues to be a coveted objective, holding the potential to advance biomedicine, industry, and our understanding of disease. One way of achieving this goal lies in elucidating the underlying interactions that define protein stability. It has been shown th...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Strickler SS,Gribenko AV,Gribenko AV,Keiffer TR,Tomlinson J,Reihle T,Loladze VV,Makhatadze GI

更新日期：2006-03-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Pyrimidine oligonucleotides have been shown to prime the E. coli DNA polymerase I repair reaction, specifically and reproducibly. DNA molecules up to 30 nucleotides long have been obtained from the extension of oligopyrimidine primers, 9 to 11 nucleotides long isolated from the complementary (minus) strand of bacterio...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Kaptein JS,Spencer JH

更新日期：1978-03-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The Salmonella typhimurium leu-500 promoter is active only in topA strains. In an earlier study (Chen, D., Bowater, R., Dorman, C., & Lilley, D. M. J. (1992) Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 89, 8784-8788), we showed that the activity of this promoter on a circular plasmid is a function of the transcription and translati...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Chen D,Bowater RP,Lilley DM

更新日期：1993-12-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Common structural motifs, such as the cupin domains, are found in enzymes performing different biochemical functions while retaining a similar active site configuration and structural scaffold. The soil bacterium Bacillus subtilis has 20 cupin genes (0.5% of the total genome) with up to 14% of its genes in the form of...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Gopal B,Madan LL,Betz SF,Kossiakoff AA

更新日期：2005-01-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Factor XIII is the terminal enzyme of the clotting cascade. A cDNA sequence encoding human placental factor XIII was expressed in Saccharomyces cerevisiae with the yeast ADH2-4c promoter. Expression levels were a strong function of the noncoding flanking DNA content of the construction. When the terminal 3'-flanking n...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Bishop PD,Teller DC,Smith RA,Lasser GW,Gilbert T,Seale RL

更新日期：1990-02-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The C-terminal domain (CT) of apolipoprotein E (apoE), a critical protein involved in cholesterol transport in the plasma and brain, plays an important role in high-affinity lipoprotein binding. Although high-resolution structural information is available for the N-terminal domain of apoE, the structural organization ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Patel AB,Khumsupan P,Narayanaswami V

更新日期：2010-03-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Chemical modification of mitochondrial F1-ATPase from Schizosaccharomyces pombe by the tryptophan-specific reagent N-bromosuccinimide (NBS) at pH 5.0 in the presence of 20% glycerol produced a characteristic lowering in both enzyme absorbance at 280 nm and intrinsic fluorescence at 332 nm that varied with NBS/F1 molar...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Divita G,Jault JM,Gautheron DC,Di Pietro A

更新日期：1993-02-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Dihydroorotate dehydrogenases (DHODs) oxidize dihydroorotate (DHO) to orotate using the FMN prosthetic group to abstract a hydride equivalent from C6 and a protein residue (Ser for Class 2 DHODs) to deprotonate C5. The fundamental question of whether the scission of the two DHO C-H bonds is concerted or stepwise was a...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Fagan RL,Nelson MN,Pagano PM,Palfey BA

更新日期：2006-12-19 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：:An NMR study has been made of porcine pancreatic phospholipase A2 (PLA) in three environments: free in solution, in a binary complex with dodecylphosphocholine micelles, and in a ternary complex with a micelle and the substrate-like inhibitor (R)-1-octyl-2-(N-dodecanoylamino)-2-deoxyglycero-3-phosph oglycol. 1H and 15...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Peters AR,Dekker N,van den Berg L,Boelens R,Kaptein R,Slotboom AJ,de Haas GH

更新日期：1992-10-20 00:00:00

abstract：:NADH:ubiquinone oxidoreductase (NDH-1 or complex I) from Escherichia coli was purified using a combination of anion exchange chromatography and centrifugation in sucrose density gradient. The dependence of enzyme activity on detergent and phospholipids was studied. Artificial hexaammineruthenium reductase activity was...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Sinegina L,Wikström M,Verkhovsky MI,Verkhovskaya ML

更新日期：2005-06-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Gelatinase B is a matrix metalloproteinase (MMP-9) involved in tissue remodeling, development, cancer, and inflammation. Neutrophils produce three major forms of (pro)gelatinase B: 92 kDa monomers, homodimers, and complexes of gelatinase B covalently bound to neutrophil gelatinase B-associated lipocalin (NGAL). In con...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Rudd PM,Mattu TS,Masure S,Bratt T,Van den Steen PE,Wormald MR,Küster B,Harvey DJ,Borregaard N,Van Damme J,Dwek RA,Opdenakker G

更新日期：1999-10-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacteriocins are bacterial peptides with specific activity against competing species. They hold great potential as natural preservatives and for their probiotic effects. We show here nuclear magnetic resonance-based evidence that glycocin F, a 43-amino acid bacteriocin from Lactobacillus plantarum, contains two β-link...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Venugopal H,Edwards PJ,Schwalbe M,Claridge JK,Libich DS,Stepper J,Loo T,Patchett ML,Norris GE,Pascal SM

更新日期：2011-04-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) has been used to monitor the conformation and dynamics of the d(C1-G2-A3-T4-T5-A6-T6-A5-A4-T3-C2-G1) self-complementary dodecanucleotide duplex (henceforth called Pribnow 12-mer), which contains a TATAAT Pribnow box and a central core of eight dA X dT base pairs. The exchangeable imino...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Patel DJ,Kozlowski SA,Weiss M,Bhatt R

更新日期：1985-02-12 00:00:00

abstract：:In cells, RNAs likely adopt numerous intermediate conformations prior to formation of functional RNA-protein complexes. We used single-nucleotide resolution selective 2'-hydroxyl acylation analyzed by primer extension (SHAPE) to probe the structure of Escherichia coli 16S rRNA in healthy growing bacteria. SHAPE-direct...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： McGinnis JL,Weeks KM

更新日期：2014-05-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Deazaflavins have been found to act as potent catalysts in the photoreduction of flavoproteins in the presence of EDTA and other "photosubstrates". In distinction to the catalysis brought about by normal flavins which involves dark reaction of the photoreduced flavin catalyst, the mechanism of the catalysis by deazafl...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Massey V,Hemmerich P

更新日期：1978-01-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Enzyme divergence within three species of the genus Photobacterium (P. fischeri, P. leiognathi, and P. phosphoreum) was studied by comparing the catalytic characteristics and quaternary interactions of bacterial luciferases isolated from each species. Each luciferase was composed of two subunits of different molecular...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Ruby EG,Hastings JW

更新日期：1980-10-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The intracellular kinetic folding pathway of the human chorionic gonadotropin beta-subunit (hCG-beta) reveals the presence of a disulfide between Cys residues 38-57 that is not detected by X-ray analysis of secreted hCG-beta. This led us to propose that disulfide rearrangement is an essential feature of cystine knot f...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Wilken JA,Bedows E

更新日期：2004-05-04 00:00:00

abstract：:We have investigated the topology of the band 3 protein of the human erythrocyte membrane by a combination of chemical labeling and proteolytic cleavage. The N-terminal third of the membrane-bound domain of band 3 is a 17 000-dalton chymotryptic fragment that is known to traverse the membrane an odd number of times. A...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Jennings ML,Nicknish JS

更新日期：1984-12-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies have shown that murine macrophages immunostimulated with interferon gamma and Escherichia coli lipopolysaccharide synthesize NO2-, NO3-, and citrulline from L-arginine by oxidation of one of the two chemically equivalent guanido nitrogens. The enzymatic activity for this very unusual reaction was foun...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Marletta MA,Yoon PS,Iyengar R,Leaf CD,Wishnok JS

更新日期：1988-11-29 00:00:00