Glutaminyl cyclases display significant catalytic proficiency for glutamyl substrates.

abstract：:In the native calcium-binding protein calbindin D9k (M(r) 8.700; 75aa; 2 EF-hands), the backbone carbonyl oxygen of Glu60 coordinates the Ca2+ ion in the C-terminal site (site II). The carboxylate group of the same residue forms a hydrogen bond to a water molecule that constitutes a Ca2+ ligand in the N-terminal site ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Linse S,Bylsma NR,Drakenberg T,Sellers P,Forsén S,Thulin E,Svensson LA,Zajtzeva I,Zajtsev V,Marek J

更新日期：1994-10-18 00:00:00

abstract：:In an attempt to understand the mechanism by which transcription factors compete with histone octamers for cognate binding sites in chromatin, the effect of the histone binding protein nucleoplasmin on the binding of TFIIIA to nucleosomal 5S rRNA genes was tested. In this study, it was shown that, despite the previous...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Howe L,Itoh T,Katagiri C,Ausio J

更新日期：1998-02-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Clustering of anionic lipids away from zwitterionic ones by cationic antimicrobial agents has recently been established as a mechanism of action of natural small, flexible peptides as well as non-natural synthetic peptide mimics. One of the largest classes of antimicrobial peptides consists of peptides that form catio...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Epand RF,Maloy WL,Ramamoorthy A,Epand RM

更新日期：2010-05-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Heparin was carboxyl-reduced with sodium boro[3H]hydride and converted to a mixture of oligosaccharides by treatment with nitrous acid at pH 2. The oligosaccharide mixture was aldehyde-reduced with sodium boro[3H]hydride and the mixture of products, labeled both in the hexoses formed in the carboxyl-reduction step and...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Shively JE,Conrad HE

更新日期：1976-09-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Pluronic block copolymers (triblock copolymers of poly(ethylene oxide) and poly(propylene oxide)) exhibit a chemosensitizing effect on multidrug resistant cell lines. Changes in membrane permeability are hypothesized to be responsible because inhibition of drug transport mediated by both the multidrug-resistance-assoc...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Krylova OO,Pohl P

更新日期：2004-03-30 00:00:00

abstract：:PI-SceI is a member of an unusual class of rare cutting homing endonucleases produced by an autocatalytic protein splicing from a precursor. To analyze the structural and functional domain organization of the endonuclease PI-SceI and to examine whether the DNA binding activity can be structurally separated from the ca...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Pingoud V,Grindl W,Wende W,Thole H,Pingoud A

更新日期：1998-06-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Nephrocalcin (NC), a calcium-binding glycoprotein of 14,000 molecular weight as a monomer, is known to inhibit the growth of calcium oxalate monohydrate (COM) crystals in renal tubules. We have isolated NC from bovine kidney tissue and purified into four isoforms, fractions A-D. NC-A and NC-B strongly inhibit the grow...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Mustafi D,Nakagawa Y

更新日期：1996-11-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Complementary DNA clones coding for the human secreted carbonic anhydrase isozyme (CA VI) have been isolated and their nucleotide sequences determined. These clones identify a 1.45-kb mRNA that is present in high levels in parotid submandibular salivary glands but absent in other tissues such as the sublingual gland, ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Aldred P,Fu P,Barrett G,Penschow JD,Wright RD,Coghlan JP,Fernley RT

更新日期：1991-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The isolated N-terminal Src homology 3 (SH3) domain of Drosophila drk exists in equilibrium between folded and unfolded states in aqueous buffer near neutral pH. Nuclear magnetic resonance spectra recorded on both states simultaneously exhibit an approximate 1:1 ratio of protein conformations. The folded form is simil...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Zhang O,Forman-Kay JD

更新日期：1995-05-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Biochemical analysis of a rat fibroblast cell clone, transfected with the murine Ia associated invariant chain gene, demonstrates the expression of a family of proteins. This indicates that all members of the invariant protein family are derived from the same gene. The proteins p41, Ii, p27, p25, and p10, synthesized ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Koch N

更新日期：1988-05-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Assembly of polymerase chain reactions at room temperature can sometimes lead to low yields or unintentional products due to mispriming. Mutation of isoleucine 707 to leucine in DNA polymerase I from Thermus aquaticus substantially decreases its activity at room temperature without compromising its ability to amplify ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Wu EY,Walsh AR,Materne EC,Hiltner EP,Zielinski B,Miller BR 3rd,Mawby L,Modeste E,Parish CA,Barnes WM,Kermekchiev MB

更新日期：2015-01-27 00:00:00

abstract：:We have measured the microsecond rotational motions of myosin heads in contracting rabbit psoas muscle fibers by detecting the transient phosphorescence anisotropy of eosin-5-maleimide attached specifically to the myosin head. Experiments were performed on small bundles (10-20 fibers) of glycerinated rabbit psoas musc...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Stein RA,Ludescher RD,Dahlberg PS,Fajer PG,Bennett RL,Thomas DD

更新日期：1990-10-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Clostridium perfringens epsilon toxin belongs to the aerolysin-like family of pore-forming toxins and is one of the most potent bacterial toxins known. The epsilon toxin causes fatal enterotoxemia in sheep, goats, and possibly humans. Evidence indicates that the toxin binds to protein receptors including hepatitis A v...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Ivie SE,McClain MS

更新日期：2012-09-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Mixed phospholipid systems of ether-linked 1,2-dihexadecylphosphatidylcholine (DHPC) and ester-linked 1,2-dipalmitoylphosphatidylcholine (DPPC) have been studied by differential scanning calorimetry and X-ray diffraction. At maximum hydration (60 wt % water), DHPC shows three reversible transitions: a main (chain melt...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Kim JT,Mattai J,Shipley GG

更新日期：1987-10-20 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：:The azinomycins are a family of potent antitumor agents with the ability to form interstrand cross-links with DNA. This study reports on the unusual biosynthetic formation of the 5-methyl naphthoate moiety, which is essential for effective DNA association. While sequence analysis predicts that the polyketide synthase ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Mori S,Simkhada D,Zhang H,Erb MS,Zhang Y,Williams H,Fedoseyenko D,Russell WK,Kim D,Fleer N,Ealick SE,Watanabe CM

更新日期：2016-02-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The potential of the frequently encountered (βα)8-barrel fold to acquire new functions was tested by an approach combining random mutagenesis and selection in vivo. For this purpose, the genes encoding 52 different phosphate-binding (βα)8-barrel proteins were subjected to error-prone PCR and cloned into an expression ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Rohweder B,Lehmann G,Eichner N,Polen T,Rajendran C,Ruperti F,Linde M,Treiber T,Jung O,Dettmer K,Meister G,Bott M,Gronwald W,Sterner R

更新日期：2019-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Ca2+ release from heavy sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR) vesicles was induced by 2 mM caffeine, and the amount (A) and the rate constant (k) of Ca2+ release were investigated as a function of the extent of Ca2+ loading. Under both passive and active loading conditions, the A value increased monotonically in parallel to Ca2...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Ikemoto N,Ronjat M,Mészáros LG,Koshita M

更新日期：1989-08-08 00:00:00

abstract：:VanX, one of the five proteins required for the vancomycin-resistant phenotype in clinically pathogenic Enterococci, is a zinc-containing d-Ala-d-Ala dipeptidase. To identify potential zinc ligands and begin defining the active site residues, we have mutated the 2 cysteine, 5 histidine, and 4 of the 28 aspartate and g...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： McCafferty DG,Lessard IA,Walsh CT

更新日期：1997-08-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous work has indicated that PEP mutase catalyzes the rearrangement of phosphoenolpyruvate to phosphonopyruvate by a dissociative mechanism. The crystal structure of the mutase with Mg(II) and sulfopyruvate (a phosphonopyruvate analogue) bound showed that the substrate is anchored to the active site by the Mg(II),...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Liu S,Lu Z,Han Y,Jia Y,Howard A,Dunaway-Mariano D,Herzberg O

更新日期：2004-04-20 00:00:00

abstract：:We recently introduced a new substrate rescue tool for investigating enzymatic base flipping by uracil DNA glycosylase (UDG) in which a bulky pyrene nucleotide wedge (Y) was placed opposite a uracil in duplex DNA (i.e., a U/Y pair), thereby preorganizing the target base in an extrahelical conformation [Jiang, Y. L., e...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Jiang YL,Stivers JT,Song F

更新日期：2002-09-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The structural and motional properties of membrane lipids in various physical states and macroscopic organizations are elucidated by 1H NMR dipolar echo decay spectroscopy (DECODE). Multilamellar lipid dispersions in the gel (L beta') and liquid-crystalline (L alpha) states and a nonbilayer, hexagonal (HII) phase are ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Janes N,Rubin E,Taraschi TF

更新日期：1990-09-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Myeloperoxidase (MPO) structural analysis has suggested that halides and pseudohalides bind to the distal binding site and serve as substrates or inhibitors, while others have concluded that there are two separate sites. Here, evidence for two distinct binding sites for halides comes from the bell-shaped effects obser...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Proteasa G,Tahboub YR,Galijasevic S,Raushel FM,Abu-Soud HM

更新日期：2007-01-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of basic residues of the 70-80-loop, Arg(74), Arg(75), and Lys(78) (chymotrypsin numbering) in the catalytic function of activated protein C (APC) was investigated by expressing mutants of protein C in which these residues were replaced with Ala in three separate constructs. Following purification to homogene...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Yang L,Manithody C,Rezaie AR

更新日期：2002-05-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The Escherichia coli single-strand binding (SSB) protein is an essential protein involved in DNA replication, recombination, and repair processes. The tetrameric protein binds to ss nucleic acids in a number of different binding modes in vitro. These modes differ in the number of nucleotides occluded per SSB tetramer ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Wei TF,Bujalowski W,Lohman TM

更新日期：1992-07-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Oxidation of low-density lipoprotein (LDL), the major cholesterol carrier in plasma, is thought to promote atherogenesis via several mechanisms. One proposed mechanism involves fusion of oxidized LDL in the arterial wall; another involves oxidation-induced amyloid formation by LDL apolipoprotein B. To test these mecha...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Jayaraman S,Gantz DL,Gursky O

更新日期：2007-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Tyrosinase is a copper monooxygenase containing a coupled dinuclear copper active site (type-3 copper), which catalyzes oxygenation of phenols (phenolase activity) as well as dehydrogenation of catechols (catecholase activity) using O(2) as the oxidant. In this study, catalase activity (conversion of H(2)O(2) to (1/2)...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Yamazaki S,Morioka C,Itoh S

更新日期：2004-09-14 00:00:00

abstract：:In Escherichia coli, the cyclic AMP receptor protein (CRP) serves as a sensor of the intracellular level of cyclic AMP. At increasing concentrations of cyclic AMP, CRP becomes activated upon binding a cyclic AMP molecule. The activated CRP is capable of regulating the expression of more than 20 genes by binding to spe...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Pyles EA,Chin AJ,Lee JC

更新日期：1998-04-14 00:00:00

abstract：:P-450(15)alpha is a form of cytochrome P-450 purified from liver microsomes of female 129/J mice that is specific for oxidation of testosterone to its 15 alpha-hydroxylated product. Testosterone 15 alpha-hydroxylase activity that was inhibited by anti-P-450(15)alpha antibody was approximately 50 times higher in renal ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Squires EJ,Negishi M

更新日期：1986-08-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein disulfide-isomerase, a protein localized to the lumen of the endoplasmic reticulum of eukaryotic cells, catalyzes the posttranslational formation and rearrangement of protein disulfide bonds. As isolated from bovine liver, the enzyme contains 0.8 free sulfhydryl group per mole of protein monomer and 3.1 disulf...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Gilbert HF

更新日期：1989-09-05 00:00:00