Hydrogen bond interactions of the pheophytin electron acceptor and its radical anion in photosystem II as revealed by Fourier transform infrared difference spectroscopy.

abstract：:CD6 is a member of the scavenger receptor cysteine rich protein superfamily (SRCRSF). This family includes many cell surface proteins whose three-dimensional structures and functions are presently not well understood. The extracellular region of CD6 includes 3 SRCR domains. The membrane proximal SRCR domain specifical...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Bodian DL,Skonier JE,Bowen MA,Neubauer M,Siadak AW,Aruffo A,Bajorath J

更新日期：1997-03-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The biosynthesis of the C ring of the antitumor antibiotic agent, tomaymycin, is proposed to proceed through five enzyme-catalyzed steps from l-tyrosine. The genes encoding these enzymes have recently been cloned and their functions tentatively assigned, but there is limited biochemical evidence supporting the assignm...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Burks EA,Yan W,Johnson WH Jr,Li W,Schroeder GK,Min C,Gerratana B,Zhang Y,Whitman CP

更新日期：2011-09-06 00:00:00

abstract：:FtmPT1 is a fungal indole prenyltransferase that catalyzes the reaction of tryptophan derivatives with dimethylallyl pyrophosphate to form various biologically active compounds. Herein, we describe detailed studies of FtmPT1 catalysis involving dimethylallyl pyrophosphate and Brevianamide F following the native pathwa...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Pan LL,Yang Y,Merz KM Jr

更新日期：2014-09-30 00:00:00

abstract：:ATP and the fluorescent substrate analogue TNP-ATP bind competitively to the gastric H,-K-ATPase. Substrate and product completely reverse the fluorescence enhancement caused by TNP-ATP binding to the enzyme. The fluorophore is displaced monophasically from apoenzyme. However, ATP displaces TNP-ATP from the Mg2+-quenc...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Faller LD

更新日期：1989-08-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Trp151 in the lactose permease of Escherichia coli (LacY) is an important component of the sugar-binding site and the only Trp residue out of six that is in close proximity to the galactopyranoside in the structure (1PV7). The short distance between Trp151 and the sugar is favorable for Förster resonance energy transf...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Smirnova IN,Kasho VN,Kaback HR

更新日期：2006-12-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Type II polyketides are a class of natural products that include pharmaceutically important aromatic compounds such as the antibiotic tetracycline and antitumor compound doxorubicin. The type II polyketide synthase (PKS) is a complex consisting of 5-10 standalone domains homologous to fatty acid synthase (FAS). Polyke...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Korman TP,Tan YH,Wong J,Luo R,Tsai SC

更新日期：2008-02-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The kinetics of human polymerase beta (pol beta) binding to the single-stranded DNA, in the (pol beta)(16) and (pol beta)(5) binding modes, that differ in the number of occluded nucleotide residues in the protein-DNA complexes, have been examined, using the fluorescence stopped-flow technique. This is the first determ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Rajendran S,Jezewska MJ,Bujalowski W

更新日期：2001-10-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Extracellular cAMP induces the rapid activation of guanylate cyclase, which adapts within 10 s to constant cAMP concentrations. A new response can be induced either by a higher cAMP concentration or by the same cAMP concentration at some time (t1/2 = 90 s) after removal of the previous stimulus. Stimulation of guanyla...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Van Haastert PJ

更新日期：1987-11-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Reporter gene transactivation by human p53 is inhibited in budding yeast lacking the TRR1 gene encoding thioredoxin reductase. To investigate the role of thioredoxin in controlling p53 activity, the level of reporter gene transactivation by p53 was determined in yeast lacking the TRX1 and TRX2 genes encoding cytosolic...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Stoner CS,Pearson GD,Koç A,Merwin JR,Lopez NI,Merrill GF

更新日期：2009-09-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The early steps of the proposed mechanistic pathway for dehydroquinate synthase have been probed with a series of substrate analogues. These analogues, 3-9, are structurally prohibited from undergoing the beta-elimination of inorganic phosphate that represents the committed step in the conversion of the substrate 3-de...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Bender SL,Widlanski T,Knowles JR

更新日期：1989-09-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The binding of the benzo[a]pyrene metabolite anti-BPDE (r7, t8-dihydroxy-t9,10-epoxy-7,8,9,10-tetrahydrobenzo[a]pyrene) to the N(2) group of 2'-deoxyguanosine residues (dG) is known to adversely affect the Michaelis-Menten primer extension kinetics catalyzed by DNA Pol I and other polymerases. In this work, the impact...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Rechkoblit O,Amin S,Geacintov NE

更新日期：1999-09-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Although host protein synthesis is preferentially inhibited, there is a steady decline in the ability of Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cells infected with vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV) to synthesize both host and viral proteins. We previously reported finding an mRNA-ribonucleoprotein particle (mRNP) that contained a...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Rosen CA,Siekierka J,Ennis HL,Cohen PS

更新日期：1984-05-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of urea on apomyoglobin solubility have been investigated. Apomyoglobin precipitation was found to be a thermodynamically reversible process independent of the pathway of aggregation. A liquid-solid phase diagram was constructed for the precipitation of apomyoglobin as a function of urea and protein concen...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： De Young LR,Dill KA,Fink AL

更新日期：1993-04-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The interaction of novel, tetrafunctional bisplatinum compounds with DNA was investigated. These compounds have bis(vicinal 1,2-diamines) as ligand. The reactions' efficiency, types of cross-links, alterations of the global DNA structure, and sequence selectivity differ significantly from the corresponding features of...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Büning H,Altman J,Beck W,Zorbas H

更新日期：1997-09-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Cyanobacteriochromes (CBCRs) are cyanobacterial photoreceptors that exhibit photochromism between two states: a thermally stable dark-adapted state and a metastable light-adapted state with bound linear tetrapyrrole (bilin) chromophores possessing 15Z and 15E configurations, respectively. The photodynamics of canonica...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Kirpich JS,Chang CW,Franse J,Yu Q,Escobar FV,Jenkins AJ,Martin SS,Narikawa R,Ames JB,Lagarias JC,Larsen DS

更新日期：2021-01-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Resonance Raman spectroscopy has been used to study milk xanthine oxidase, an enzyme containing molybdenum, binuclear iron-sulfur clusters, and FAD as cofactors. The contribution of FAD dominates the resonance Raman spectrum at frequencies above 500 cm-1. As expected, no bands assignable to FAD are observed in deflavo...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Willis LJ,Loehr TM

更新日期：1985-05-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Mycobacterium smegmatis MshC catalyzes the ATP-dependent condensation of GlcN-Ins and l-cysteine to form l-Cys-GlcN-Ins, the penultimate step in mycothiol biosynthesis. Attempts to crystallize the native, full-length MshC have been unsuccessful. However, incubation of the enzyme with the cysteinyl adenylate analogue, ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Tremblay LW,Fan F,Vetting MW,Blanchard JS

更新日期：2008-12-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Human serum albumin (HSA) is the most abundant protein in the blood plasma and is involved in the transport of metal ions. Four metal-binding sites with different specificities have been described in HSA: (i) the N-terminal site provided by Asp1, Ala2, and His3, (ii) the site at the reduced Cys34, (iii) site A, includ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Mothes E,Faller P

更新日期：2007-02-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Phosphorescence from the lone tryptophan residue has been studied to monitor the interaction of myelin basic protein with phosphatidylserine vesicles. Spectral shifts in the phosphorescence of the protein in a glycerol-buffer (70:30 w/w) solvent at low temperature are consistent with fluorescence data obtained under a...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Vadas EB,Melançon P,Braun PE,Galley WC

更新日期：1981-05-26 00:00:00

abstract：:tRNA-guanine transglycosylase (TGT) is a key enzyme involved in the post-transcriptional modification of certain tRNAs in their anticodon wobble positions with queuine. To maintain the correct Watson-Crick base pairing properties of the wobble base (and hence proper translation of the genetic code), TGT must recognize...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Todorov KA,Garcia GA

更新日期：2006-01-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The toll that Streptococcus pneumoniae exacts on the welfare of humanity is enormous. This organism claims the lives of approximately 3700 people daily, the majority of whom are children below the age of 5, and the situation could worsen due to the increasing incidence of pernicious, multiple-antibiotic-resistant stra...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Andreassi JL 2nd,Dabovic K,Leyh TS

更新日期：2004-12-28 00:00:00

abstract：:We have investigated the interactions of the p21 protein of c-Ha ras with its phospholipid environment. Gel filtration of detergent-"solubilized" p21 revealed that this preparation consisted of a mixture of multimolecular aggregates of protein and phospholipid and also a population of individual p21 molecules. Additio...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Montgomery GW,Jagger BA,Bailey PD

更新日期：1988-06-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The dependence of calcineurin on Ca2+ for activity is the result of the concerted action of calmodulin, which increases the turnover rate of the enzyme and modulates its response to Ca2+ transients, and of calcineurin B, which decreases the Km of the enzyme for its substrate. The calmodulin-stimulated protein phosphat...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Stemmer PM,Klee CB

更新日期：1994-06-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Isoforms of transforming growth factor beta (TGFbeta) are 25 kDa homodimeric polypeptides that signal by binding and bringing together two related, functionally distinct cell surface receptors designated as TbetaR1 and TbetaR2. Here, we report the solution structure of the 13.8 kDa extracellular domain of human TbetaR...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Deep S,Walker KP 3rd,Shu Z,Hinck AP

更新日期：2003-09-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The S-adenosylmethionine (SAM) riboswitch is one of the most recurrent riboswitches found in bacteria and has three known different natural aptamers. The Bacillus subtilis yitJ SAM riboswitch aptamer is organized around a four-way junction which is characterized by the presence of a pseudoknot and a K-turn motif. By r...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Heppell B,Lafontaine DA

更新日期：2008-02-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Galactosyltransferase (UDPgalactose:glycoprotein galactosyltransferase EC 2.4.1.22) was isolated from swine mesentary lymhromatography on Sepharose 4B colums containing covalently bound p-aminophenyl-beta-D-N-acetylglucosamine. The homogenous enzyme showed a single band on disc gel electrophoresis and had a specific a...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Rao AK,Garver F,Mendicino J

更新日期：1976-11-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Apurinic/apyrimidinic endonuclease 1 (APE1) is an Mg²⁺-dependent enzyme responsible for incising the DNA backbone 5' to an apurinic/apyrimidinic (AP) site. Here, we use rapid quench flow (RQF) techniques to provide a comprehensive kinetic analysis of the strand-incision activity (k(chemistry)) of APE1 acting on an aut...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Schermerhorn KM,Delaney S

更新日期：2013-10-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Here, we biochemically characterize Dictyostelium myosin II mutants that were previously phenotypically selected following random mutagenesis and shown to lie in the actin binding domain [Patterson, B., & Spudich, J. A. (1996) Genetics 143, 801-810]. We show that the conditional loss of myosin-dependent activity in vi...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Giese KC,Spudich JA

更新日期：1997-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The first indication of the size of a conformational change implicated in ion transport by sodium pump has been obtained by measuring the change in efficiency of fluorescence energy transfer between two specific locations on the alpha-subunit. The donor (5'-(iodoacetamido)fluorescein) attaches covalently to cysteine-4...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Lin SH,Faller LD

更新日期：1996-06-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The synthesis is described of four new cleavable, photosensitive, heterobifunctional cross-linking reagents for use in examining membrane organization: 4'-azidoazobenzene-4oxysuccinimide ester (1), N-[4-(p-azidophenylazo)benzoyl]-3-aminopropyl-N'-oxysuccinimide ester (2), N-[4-(p-azidophenylazo)benzoyl]-6-aminohexyl-N...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Jaffe CL,Lis H,Sharon N

更新日期：1980-09-16 00:00:00