Intravesicular calcium transient during calcium release from sarcoplasmic reticulum.

abstract：:The solvent accessibility of thrombin in its substrate-free and substrate-bound forms has been compared by amide hydrogen/deuterium (H/(2)H) exchange. The optimized inhibitor peptide dPhe-Pro-Arg chloromethyl ketone (PPACK) was used to simulate the substrate-bound form of thrombin. These studies were motivated by the ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Croy CH,Koeppe JR,Bergqvist S,Komives EA

更新日期：2004-05-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The binding of 125I-labeled ovine follitropin (oFSH) and 125I-labeled deglycosylated ovine follitropin (DG-oFSH) to porcine granulosa cell membranes was studied at equilibrium and nonequilibrium binding conditions and statistically analyzed. Saturation and competition binding experiments revealed homogeneity in the po...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Sebok K,De Lean A,Sairam MR

更新日期：1987-06-16 00:00:00

abstract：:When the identity of the metal ion activator, M, is changed within the series, Zn2+, Co2+, Mg2+, Ni2+, Mn2+, and Cd2+, the equilibrium distribution among the central complexes in the phosphoglucomutase system is markedly altered. (The central complexes are Ep-M-Glc-6-P, ED-M-Glc-1,6-P2, and Ep-M-Glc-1-P, where Ep and ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Ray WJ Jr,Long JW

更新日期：1976-09-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The protein composition, steady state and time-resolved fluorescence emission spectra were studied in solubilized and aggregated LHCII complexes, that were prepared according to two different isolation protocols: (1) by fractionation of cation-depleted thylakoid membranes using the non-ionic detergent Triton X-100 acc...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Vasil'ev S,Irrgang KD,Schrötter T,Bergmann A,Eichler HJ,Renger G

更新日期：1997-06-17 00:00:00

abstract：:In an effort to further probe metal binding to metallo-beta-lactamase L1 (mbetal L1), Cu- (Cu-L1) and Ni-substituted (Ni-L1) L1 were prepared and characterized by kinetic and spectroscopic studies. Cu-L1 bound 1.7 equiv of Cu and small amounts of Zn(II) and Fe. The EPR spectrum of Cu-L1 exhibited two overlapping, axia...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Hu Z,Spadafora LJ,Hajdin CE,Bennett B,Crowder MW

更新日期：2009-04-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Discoidal high-density lipoprotein (HDL) particles are known to be fractionalized into several discrete populations in plasma and to differ in behavior according to size; however, their structural differences and the factors regulating their size are less understood. In this study, we prepared several reconstituted HD...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Miyazaki M,Nakano M,Fukuda M,Handa T

更新日期：2009-08-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Oxidation of the biological antioxidant alpha-tocopherol (vitamin E; TH) by peroxyl radicals yields 8a-(alkyldioxy)tocopherones, which either may hydrolyze to alpha-tocopheryl quinone (TQ) or may be reduced by ascorbic acid to regenerate TH. To define the chemistry of this putative two-electron TH redox cycle, we stud...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Liebler DC,Kaysen KL,Kennedy TA

更新日期：1989-12-12 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to evaluate the contributions that histidine residues might play both in the catalytic activities of endonuclease V and in binding to nontarget DNA, the technique of oligonucleotide site directed mutagenesis was used to create mutations at each of the four histidine residues in the endonuclease V gene. Althou...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Augustine ML,Hamilton RW,Dodson ML,Lloyd RS

更新日期：1991-08-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The human, cytosolic enzyme isocitrate dehydrogenase 1 (IDH1) reversibly converts isocitrate to α-ketoglutarate (αKG). Cancer-associated somatic mutations in IDH1 result in a loss of this normal function but a gain in a new or neomorphic ability to convert αKG to the oncometabolite 2-hydroxyglutarate (2HG). To improve...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Rendina AR,Pietrak B,Smallwood A,Zhao H,Qi H,Quinn C,Adams ND,Concha N,Duraiswami C,Thrall SH,Sweitzer S,Schwartz B

更新日期：2013-07-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The rapid expansion of the amount of genomic and structural data has provided many examples of enzymes with evolutionarily related active sites that catalyze different reactions. Functional comparisons of these active sites can provide insight into the origins of the enormous catalytic proficiency of enzymes and the e...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Zalatan JG,Fenn TD,Brunger AT,Herschlag D

更新日期：2006-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Cyclopropane fatty acid (CFA) synthase of Escherichia coli catalyzes a modification of the acyl chains of phospholipid bilayers. We report (i) identification of the CFA synthase protein, (ii) overproduction (> 600-fold) and purification to essential homogeneity of the enzyme, and (iii) the amino acid sequence of CFA s...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Wang AY,Grogan DW,Cronan JE Jr

更新日期：1992-11-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding the mechanisms of free energy transfer in metabolism is fundamental to understanding how the chemical forces that sustain the molecular organization of the cell are distributed. Recent studies of molecular motors (1-3) and ATP-driven proton transport (4-6) describe how chemical potential is transferred a...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Wei J,Tang QX,Varlamova O,Roche C,Lee R,Leyh TS

更新日期：2002-07-02 00:00:00

abstract：:We have developed a panel of antibodies specific for the alpha 1, alpha 2, alpha 3, and beta subunits of the rat Na,K-ATPase. TrpE-alpha subunit isoform fusion proteins were used to generate three antisera, each of which reacted specifically with a distinct alpha subunit isotype. Western blot analysis of rat tissue mi...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Shyjan AW,Levenson R

更新日期：1989-05-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Ppr from the purple phototrophic bacterium, Rhodospirillum centenum (also known as Rhodocista centenaria), is a hybrid of photoactive yellow protein (PYP), bacteriophytochrome (Bph), and histidine kinase (HK) domains. The holo-Ppr (containing both chromophores) exhibits characteristic absorption maxima at 435 nm due t...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Kyndt JA,Fitch JC,Meyer TE,Cusanovich MA

更新日期：2007-07-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The interaction of insulin with its receptor is complex. Kinetic and equilibrium binding studies suggest coexistence of high- and low-affinity binding sites or negative cooperativity. These phenomena and high-affinity interactions are dependent on the dimeric structure of the receptor. Structure-function studies of in...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Whittaker L,Hao C,Fu W,Whittaker J

更新日期：2008-12-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Corticosteroid binding globulin (CBG), a serum glycoprotein which binds glucocorticoids and progestins with high affinity, is widely distributed throughout the animal world. Although its charge and size characteristics have largely been conserved across species, we found the behavior of CBG in squirrel monkey (Saimiri...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Kuhn RW,VestWeber C,Siiteri PK

更新日期：1988-04-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The aggregation of the microtubule-associated protein, tau, into amyloid fibrils is a hallmark of neurodegenerative diseases such as the tauopathies and Alzheimer's disease. Since monomeric tau is an intrinsically disordered protein and the polymeric fibrils possess an ordered cross-β core, the aggregation process is ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Ramachandran G,Milán-Garcés EA,Udgaonkar JB,Puranik M

更新日期：2014-10-21 00:00:00

abstract：:GTPases are key players during cellular signaling. Phosphorylation of Rab proteins, which belong to the Ras superfamily of small GTPases regulating intracellular transport, has been implicated in the pathogenesis of Parkinson's disease. For Rab8a, it was shown that serine 111 phosphorylation (pS111) is dependent on th...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Pourjafar-Dehkordi D,Vieweg S,Itzen A,Zacharias M

更新日期：2019-08-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The solution structure of the complex formed between an oligodeoxynucleotide containing a two-base bulge (5'-CCATCGTCTACCTTTGGTAGGATGG) and SCA-alpha2, a designed spirocyclic helical molecule, has been elucidated. SCA-alpha2, a close mimic of the metabolite, NCSi-gb, of the DNA bulge-specific enediyne antibiotic neoca...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Zhang N,Lin Y,Xiao Z,Jones GB,Goldberg IH

更新日期：2007-04-24 00:00:00

abstract：:An amplified Okayama-Berg plasmid cDNA library was constructed from total poly(A)+ RNA isolated from the Madin-Darby bovine kidney cell line MDBK. This library was screened with a partial murine calpactin I heavy chain (p36) cDNA clone, the identification of which was based on bovine p36 tryptic peptide sequences gene...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Kristensen T,Saris CJ,Hunter T,Hicks LJ,Noonan DJ,Glenney JR Jr,Tack BF

更新日期：1986-08-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The constant (CL) fragment of the immunoglobulin light chain contains only one intrachain disulfide bond buried in the interior of the molecule. The kinetics of reduction with dithiothreitol of the disulfide bond were studied at various concentrations of guanidine hydrochloride at pH 8.0 and 25 degrees C. It was found...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Kikuchi H,Goto Y,Hamaguchi K

更新日期：1986-04-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Six rhodopsin mutants containing disulfide cross-links between different cytoplasmic regions were prepared: disulfide bond 1, between Cys65 (interhelical loop I-II) and Cys316 (end of helix VII); disulfide bond 2, between Cys246 (end of helix VI) and Cys312 (end of helix VII); disulfide bond 3, between Cys139 (end of ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Cai K,Klein-Seetharaman J,Hwa J,Hubbell WL,Khorana HG

更新日期：1999-09-28 00:00:00

abstract：:MAP kinase kinase (MAPKK) is a dual specificity protein kinase that phosphorylates and activates MAP kinase in vivo. In this study, four mouse monoclonal single-chain Fv (scFv) antibodies (Y1-6, Y1-7, Y3-6, and Y3-11) that can specifically bind to Xenopus MAPKK were isolated from combinatorial scFv-displaying phage li...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Kosako H,Akamatsu Y,Tsurushita N,Lee KK,Gotoh Y,Nishida E

更新日期：1996-10-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Thermodynamic parameters of helix formation were measured spectroscopically for 16 oligoribonucleotides containing either internal GU mismatches or the corresponding AU pairs. Internal GU mismatches stabilize each helix, but not as much as the corresponding AU pairs. The differences in the enthalpy and entropy changes...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Sugimoto N,Kierzek R,Freier SM,Turner DH

更新日期：1986-09-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Dihydrofolate and dihydropteroylpolyglutamates inhibit pig liver methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase. In all cases the inhibition is linearly competitive with respect to methylenetetrahydrofolate. The Ki values decrease with each additional glutamyl residue from one to six, from a value of 6.5 microM for dihydrofolate...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Matthews RG,Baugh CM

更新日期：1980-05-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) are functionally active despite lacking a well-defined three-dimensional structure. Such proteins often undergo a disorder-to-order transition, or induced folding, when binding to their specific physiological partner. Because of cooperativity, the folding and binding steps typi...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Bonetti D,Troilo F,Toto A,Brunori M,Longhi S,Gianni S

更新日期：2017-07-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The X-ray structures of neuronal nitric oxide synthase (nNOS) with N(omega)-hydroxy-l-arginine (l-NHA) and CO (or NO) bound have been determined at 1.91-2.2 A resolution. Microspectrophotometric techniques confirmed reduced redox state and the status of diatomic ligand complexes during X-ray diffraction data collectio...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Doukov T,Li H,Soltis M,Poulos TL

更新日期：2009-11-03 00:00:00

abstract：:RPE65, a protein expressed in cells of the retinal pigment epithelium of the eye, is essential for the synthesis by isomerohydrolase of 11-cis-retinal, the chromophore of rod and cone opsins. Recent work has established that RPE65 is a retinyl ester binding protein, and as all-trans-retinyl esters are the substrate fo...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Lyubarsky AL,Savchenko AB,Morocco SB,Daniele LL,Redmond TM,Pugh EN Jr

更新日期：2005-07-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The mitochondrial tyrosyl tRNA synthetase from Neurospora crassa (CYT-18 protein) is a bifunctional group I intron splicing cofactor. CYT-18 is capable of splicing multiple group I introns from a wide variety of sources by stabilizing the catalytically active intron structures. CYT-18 and mt TyrRSs from related fungal...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Geng C,Paukstelis PJ

更新日期：2014-03-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Two dioxygenases (ARD and ARD') were cloned from Klebsiella pneumoniae that catalyze different oxidative decomposition reactions of an advanced aci-reductone intermediate, CH(3)SCH(2)CH(2)COCH(OH)=CH(OH) (I), in the methionine salvage pathway. The two enzymes are remarkable in that they have the same polypeptide seque...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Dai Y,Pochapsky TC,Abeles RH

更新日期：2001-05-29 00:00:00