The diheme cytochrome c(4) from Vibrio cholerae is a natural electron donor to the respiratory cbb(3) oxygen reductase.

abstract：:Oxidative DNA damage can lead to cancer, and as enzymatic DNA repair systems become compromised during the aging process, the role of exogenous antioxidants becomes more critical. Here, we examined whether such non-enzymatic DNA repair can be effected by the common cellular antioxidant glutathione, investigating both ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Safaeipour M,Jauregui J,Castillo S,Bekarian M,Esparza D,Sanchez M,Stemp EDA

更新日期：2019-11-19 00:00:00

abstract：:We have studied the role of amphipathic alpha-helices in the ability of apoA-I to promote cholesterol efflux from human skin fibroblasts and activate lecithin:cholesterol acyltransferase (LCAT). Three apoA-I mutants were designed, each by deletion of a pair of predicted adjacent central alpha-helices [Delta(100-143), ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Frank PG,N'Guyen D,Franklin V,Neville T,Desforges M,Rassart E,Sparks DL,Marcel YL

更新日期：1998-09-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The origin of the "S3" EPR signal from calcium-depleted photosystem 2 samples has been investigated. This signal is observed after freezing samples under illumination and has been assigned to an interaction between the manganese cluster and an oxidized histidine radical [Boussac et al. (1990) Nature 347; 303-306]. In ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Hallahan BJ,Nugent JH,Warden JT,Evans MC

更新日期：1992-05-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The modified Tanford-Kirkwood electrostatic theory (Shire et al., 1974a) was applied to ferrimyoglobins from the following animal species: sperm whale (Physeter catodon), horse, California grey whale (Eschrichtius gibbosus), harbor seal (Phoca vitulina), and California sea lion (Zalophus californianus). Computations w...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Shire SJ,Hanania GI,Gurd FR

更新日期：1975-04-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The ZFY protein is a member of one of the most interesting classes of polydactyl zinc finger proteins. It has a domain of 13 tandem zinc fingers that is organized with an internal repeat of odd-even finger pairs. It has been proposed that each finger pair interacts with six base pairs within a turn of the double helix...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Grants J,Flanagan E,Yee A,Romaniuk PJ

更新日期：2010-02-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The actin cytoskeleton carries out cellular functions, including division, migration, adhesion, and intracellular transport, that require a variety of actin binding proteins, including myosins. Our focus here is on class II nonmuscle myosin isoforms, NMIIA, NMIIB, and NMIIC, and their regulation by the actin binding p...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Barua B,Nagy A,Sellers JR,Hitchcock-DeGregori SE

更新日期：2014-06-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The trimeric main light-harvesting complex (LHC-II) is the only antenna complex of higher plants of which a high-resolution 3D structure has been obtained (Kühlbrandt, W., Wang, D., and Fujiyoshi, Y. (1994) Nature 367, 614-621) and which can be refolded in vitro from its components. Four different recombinant forms of...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Rogl H,Schödel R,Lokstein H,Kühlbrandt W,Schubert A

更新日期：2002-02-19 00:00:00

abstract：:In affinity selection, calcineurin selects from a population of randomly modified calmodulins those species with which it prefers to interact. The method shows that acetylation of lysines affects calmodulin so as to interfere with its ability to interact with calcineurin. Monoacetylation of any lysine of calmodulin re...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Manalan AS,Klee CB

更新日期：1987-03-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The acid-base properties of ionophore A23187 in methanol-water solutions (0--95% w/w) and bound to unilamellar vesicles of dimyristoylphosphatidylcholine were examined by ultraviolet and fluorescence spectroscopy, and the spectral properties for the acidic and basic forms were defined under these conditions. Standard ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Kauffman RF,Taylor RW,Pfeiffer DR

更新日期：1982-05-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Low-temperature Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy has been used to study mutants of Glu194 and Glu204, two amino acids that are involved in proton release to the extracellular side of bacteriorhodopsin. Difference spectra of films of E194Q, E204Q, E194Q/E204Q, E9Q/E194Q/E204Q, and E9Q/E74Q/E194Q/E204Q at 243, 27...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Lazarova T,Sanz C,Sepulcre F,Querol E,Padrós E

更新日期：2002-06-25 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously shown that both recombinant apo(a) and native Lp(a) inhibit the binding of Glu-plasminogen to fibrin surfaces [Fleury & Anglés-Cano (1991) Biochemistry 30, 7630-7638; Rouy et al. (1992) Biochemistry 31, 6332-6339]. The aim of the present study was to characterize the mechanism of this inhibition and...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Hervio L,Durlach V,Girard-Globa A,Anglés-Cano E

更新日期：1995-10-17 00:00:00

abstract：:In two recent papers, we reported the effects of several point mutations on the thermodynamics of the thermal unfolding of the lysozyme of phage T4 as determined by differential scanning calorimetry. The mutants studied were R96H [Kitamura, S., & Sturtevant, J.M. (1989) Biochemistry 28, 3788-3792] and T157 replaced by...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Hu CQ,Kitamura S,Tanaka A,Sturtevant JM

更新日期：1992-02-18 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：:Membrane vesicles from Mycobacterium phlei contain carrier proteins for proline, glutamine, and glutamic acid. The transport of proline is Na+ dependent and required substrate oxidation. A proline carrier protein was solubilized from the membrane vesicles by treatment with cholate and Triton X-100. Electron microscopi...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Lee SH,Cohen NS,Jacobs AJ,Brodie AF

更新日期：1979-05-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Human apolipoprotein(a) kringle IV type 10 [apo(a) KIV(10)] contains a strong lysine-binding site (LBS) that mediates the interaction of Lp(a) with biological substrates such as fibrin. Mutations in the KIV(10) LBS have been reported in both the rhesus monkey and chimpanzee, and have been proposed to explain the lack ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Belczewski AR,Ho J,Taylor FB Jr,Boffa MB,Jia Z,Koschinsky ML

更新日期：2005-01-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Life span regulation and inhibition of gene silencing in yeast have been linked to nicotinamide effects on Sir2 enzymes. The Sir2 enzymes are NAD(+)-dependent protein deacetylases that influence gene expression by forming deacetylated proteins, nicotinamide and 2'-O-acetyl-ADPR. Nicotinamide is a base-exchange substra...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Sauve AA,Schramm VL

更新日期：2003-08-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The c-Jun N-terminal kinases (JNKs) play a wide variety of roles in cellular signaling processes, dictating important, and even divergent, cellular fates. These essential kinases possess docking surfaces distal to their active sites that interact with diverse binding partners, including upstream activators, downstream...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Lombard CK,Davis AL,Inukai T,Maly DJ

更新日期：2018-10-09 00:00:00

abstract：:To study the function of exon 21 of the insulin receptor, a mutant human insulin receptor lacking this domain was constructed. The mutant HIR delta E21 cDNA was transfected into Rat-1 fibroblasts and stable cell lines were selected. The HIR delta E21 receptors were expressed on the cell surface, and they bound insulin...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Rolband GC,Williams JF,Webster NJ,Hsu D,Olefsky JM

更新日期：1993-12-14 00:00:00

abstract：:We characterized endocytosis of iron-saturated (holo) and iron-depleted (apo) 125I-labeled bovine lactoferrin (Lf) by isolated rat hepatocytes. Hepatocytes ingested both Lf forms--determined by EGTA/dextran sulfate removal of surface-bound Lf--at maximal endocytic rates of 1.85 and 1.52 fmol cell-1 min-1 for 125I-apo-...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： McAbee DD,Nowatzke W,Oehler C,Sitaram M,Sbaschnig E,Opferman JT,Carr J,Esbensen K

更新日期：1993-12-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Transposon Tn7 inserts itself into the attTn7 target DNA sequence at the 3' end of the Escherichia coli glmS gene with high specificity and efficiency. This site in the E. coli genome displays amino acid conservation and nucleotide similarity with orthologous sequences in Archaebacteria and eukaryotes. On the basis of...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Chakrabarti A,Desai P,Wickstrom E

更新日期：2004-03-16 00:00:00

abstract：:We have analyzed the interactions of a histidine residue with a substrate using site-directed mutagenesis. Previous studies on tyrosyl-tRNA synthetase from Bacillus stearothermophilus have shown that a histidine residue (His-48) makes an interaction with ATP, which is improved on mutating Thr-51----Pro-51. We find on ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Lowe DM,Fersht AR,Wilkinson AJ,Carter P,Winter G

更新日期：1985-09-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Scaffold/matrix-attached regions (S/MARs) are cis-acting elements with a function outside transcribed regions and in introns. Although they usually augment transcriptional rates, their action is highly context-dependent. We cloned an 800 bp S/MAR element from the upstream border of the human interferon-beta domain at ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Schübeler D,Mielke C,Maass K,Bode J

更新日期：1996-08-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Fibrinogen (approximately 10(-5) M) labilizes heterologous interactions within the thrombin-modified factor XIII zymogen (i.e., XIII' = a2'b2) so that, in the time frame (ca. 10 min) of normal clotting in plasma (37 degrees C, mu = 0.15, pH 7.5), 1.5 mM Ca2+ is sufficient to cause the release of the noncatalytic b sub...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Credo RB,Curtis CG,Lorand L

更新日期：1981-06-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Lysine side chains induce conformational changes in plasminogen (Pg) that regulate the process of fibrinolysis or blood clot dissolution. A lysine side-chain mimic, epsilon amino caproic acid (EACA), enhances the activation of Pg by urinary-type and tissue-type Pg activators but inhibits Pg activation induced by strep...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Lin LF,Houng A,Reed GL

更新日期：2000-04-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Ribonucleotides are frequently incorporated into DNA during replication. They are recognized and processed by several cellular enzymes, and their continued presence in the yeast nuclear genome results in replicative stress and genome instability. Thus, it is important to understand the effects of isolated ribonucleoti...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： DeRose EF,Perera L,Murray MS,Kunkel TA,London RE

更新日期：2012-03-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Recognition for proteolysis by trypsin depends almost exclusively on tight binding of arginine or lysine side chains by the primary substrate specificity pocket. Although extended subsite interactions are important for catalysis, the majority of binding energy is localized in the P1 pocket. Analysis of the interaction...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Willett WS,Brinen LS,Fletterick RJ,Craik CS

更新日期：1996-05-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The direct interrogation of fleeting intermediates by rapid-mixing kinetic methods has significantly advanced our understanding of enzymes that utilize dioxygen. The gas's modest aqueous solubility (<2 mM at 1 atm) presents a technical challenge to this approach, because it limits the rate of formation and extent of a...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Dassama LM,Yosca TH,Conner DA,Lee MH,Blanc B,Streit BR,Green MT,DuBois JL,Krebs C,Bollinger JM Jr

更新日期：2012-02-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The distance between the calcium site (site I) and the zinc site (site II) in alpha-lactalbumin was estimated from Forster energy-transfer measurements between donor Eu(III) [or Tb(III)] at site I and acceptor Co(II) at site II to be 11.5 +/- 1.5 A. Intersite distances were also measured between the bis-ANS [4,4'-bis[...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Musci G,Berliner LJ

更新日期：1986-08-26 00:00:00

abstract：:To avoid nonspecific and/or undesirable binding and reactivity of metal ions with cellular components, organisms have evolved metal-specific systems for trafficking proteins. Although systems differ, those handling soft metal ions such as Hg(2+), Cu(+), Zn(2+), etc., all utilize heavy metal-associated (HMA) proteins a...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Ledwidge R,Hong B,Dötsch V,Miller SM

更新日期：2010-10-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The catalysis of the chemical exchange between acetaldehyde and its hydrate by bovine carbonic anhydrase B was investigated by the NMR line broadening and saturation transfer techniques. While both chemical exchange and binding to the enzyme had an effect on the line broadening of acetaldehyde and its hydrate, the sat...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Cheshnovsky D,Navon G

更新日期：1980-04-29 00:00:00