Selective incorporation of nitrile-based infrared probes into proteins via cysteine alkylation.

abstract：:The minimum oligosaccharide structure required for binding to the potent HIV-inactivating protein cyanovirin-N (CV-N) was determined by saturation-transfer difference (STD) NMR spectroscopy. Despite the low molecular mass of the protein (11 kDa), STD-NMR spectroscopy allowed the precise atomic mapping of the interacti...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Sandström C,Berteau O,Gemma E,Oscarson S,Kenne L,Gronenborn AM

更新日期：2004-11-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) at 15 K was used to probe the magnetic interaction between the visible copper CuA2+ and ferric cytochrome a in the carbon monoxide compound of beef heart cytochrome oxidase. At pH 8.6, the midpoint potentials (Em's) for one-electron oxidation of CuA+ and cytochrome a2+ were found ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Goodman G,Leigh JS Jr

更新日期：1985-04-23 00:00:00

abstract：:A hairpin structure contains two conformationally distinct domains: a double-helical stem with Watson-Crick base pairs and a single-stranded loop that connects the two arms of the stem. By extensive 1D and 2D 500-MHz 1H NMR studies in H2O and D2O, it has been demonstrated that the DNA oligomers d(CGCCGCAGC) and d(CGCC...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Gupta G,Sarma MH,Sarma RH,Bald R,Engelke U,Oei SL,Gessner R,Erdmann VA

更新日期：1987-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The molecular mass (M(r)) of the nickel- and iron-sulfur-containing enzyme CO dehydrogenase from Clostridium thermoaceticum was determined by sedimentation equilibrium ultracentrifugation to be 300,000 +/- 30,000 Da. Since the enzyme is known to contain equal numbers of two types of subunits (M(r) = 82,000 Da for alph...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Xia J,Sinclair JF,Baldwin TO,Lindahl PA

更新日期：1996-02-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The interactions of two plant annexins, annexin 24(Ca32) from Capsicum annuum and annexin Gh1 from Gossypium hirsutum, with phospholipid membranes have been characterized using liposome-based assays and adsorption to monolayers. These two plant annexins show a preference for phosphatidylserine-containing membranes and...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Dabitz N,Hu NJ,Yusof AM,Tranter N,Winter A,Daley M,Zschörnig O,Brisson A,Hofmann A

更新日期：2005-12-13 00:00:00

abstract：:A method has been developed for calculating rate constants for dehydration of aldehydes that induce ATPase reactions by kinases and where 18O is transferred from the aldehyde or its hydrate to inorganic phosphate during the reaction. The method involves measurement of the fraction of 18O in phosphate by 31P NMR after ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Rendina AR,Hermes JD,Cleland WW

更新日期：1984-10-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Database searches indicated that the genome of Bacillus subtilis contains three different genes encoding RNase H homologues. The ypdQ gene encodes an RNase HI homologue with 132 amino acid residues, whereas the rnh and ysgB genes encode RNase HII homologues with 255 and 313 amino acid residues, respectively. RNases HI...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Ohtani N,Haruki M,Morikawa M,Crouch RJ,Itaya M,Kanaya S

更新日期：1999-01-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Monomeric sarcosine oxidase (MSOX) is a prototypical member of a recently recognized family of amine-oxidizing enzymes that all contain covalently bound flavin. Mutation of the covalent flavin attachment site in MSOX produces a catalytically inactive apoprotein (apoCys315Ala) that forms an unstable complex with FAD (K...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Hassan-Abdallah A,Zhao G,Jorns MS

更新日期：2006-08-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Expression of the PSR132 protein from Dianthus caryophyllus (carnation, clover pink) is induced in response to ethylene production associated with petal senescence, and thus the protein is named petal death protein (PDP). Recent work has established that despite the annotation of PDP in sequence databases as carboxyph...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Teplyakov A,Liu S,Lu Z,Howard A,Dunaway-Mariano D,Herzberg O

更新日期：2005-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The highly processive motor, myosin V, has an extremely long neck containing six calmodulin-binding IQ motifs that allows it to take multiple 36 nm steps corresponding to the pseudo-repeat of actin. To further investigate how myosin V moves processively on actin filaments, we altered the length of the neck by adding o...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Sakamoto T,Yildez A,Selvin PR,Sellers JR

更新日期：2005-12-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Mammalian phospholipase D (PLD) has been implicated in the cellular signal transduction pathways leading to diverse physiological events and known to be regulated by many cellular factors. To identify the proteins that interact with PLD, we performed a protein overlay assay with fractions obtained from the sequential ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Kim JH,Lee S,Kim JH,Lee TG,Hirata M,Suh PG,Ryu SH

更新日期：2002-03-12 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been suggested that dimeric tubulin can participate in the signal transduction process through its association with the GTP-binding (G) proteins Gs and Gi1. Using the photoaffinity GTP analog, azidoanilido-GTP, it has been shown that the transfer of nucleotide from tubulin to G alpha s and G alpha i1 is the key...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Roychowdhury S,Rasenick MM

更新日期：1994-08-16 00:00:00

abstract：:We have used resonance energy transfer to study the spatial relationship between Cys-98 of rabbit skeletal troponin C and Cys-133 of rabbit skeletal troponin I in the reconstituted ternary troponin complex. The donor was introduced by labeling either troponin C or troponin I with N-(iodoacetyl)-N'-(5-sulfo-1-naphthyl)...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Tao T,Gowell E,Strasburg GM,Gergely J,Leavis PC

更新日期：1989-07-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Horseradish peroxidase C binds a wide variety of small H-donor compounds such as benzohydroxamic acid (BHA) and 2-naphthohydroxamic acid (NHA). In this work, we use the Mg(II)-mesoporphyrin prosthetic group derivative as a spectroscopic probe of the active site and of the interaction with the substrates. We report on ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Laberge M,Osvath S,Fidy J

更新日期：2001-08-07 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：:Bacterial hemoglobins and flavohemoglobins share a common globin fold but differ otherwise in structural and functional aspects. The bases of these differences were investigated through kinetic studies on oxygen, carbon monoxide, and nitric oxide binding. The novel bacterial hemoglobins from Clostridium perfringens an...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Farrés J,Rechsteiner MP,Herold S,Frey AD,Kallio PT

更新日期：2005-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:A model cosolvent, ethanol, has profound and diversified effects on the amyloidogenic self-assembly of insulin, yielding spectroscopically and morphologically distinguishable forms of beta-aggregates. The alcohol reduces hydrodynamic radii of insulin molecules, decreases enthalpic costs associated with aggregation-pro...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Dzwolak W,Grudzielanek S,Smirnovas V,Ravindra R,Nicolini C,Jansen R,Loksztejn A,Porowski S,Winter R

更新日期：2005-06-28 00:00:00

abstract：:A topoisomer gel retardation assay has been used to examine the topological requirements for the formation of open promoter complexes on DNA minicircles carrying sigma 54-dependent promoters. In the absence of intercalators, individual topoisomers carrying both the nifL and nifF promoters could be resolved as discrete...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Qureshi M,Eydmann T,Austin S,Dixon R

更新日期：1997-10-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Evidence is provided for direct protein-protein interactions between protein kinase C (PKC) alpha, betaI, betaII, gamma, delta, epsilon, and zeta and members of the Rho family of small GTPases. Previous investigations, based on the immunoprecipitation approach, have provided evidence consistent with a direct interacti...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Slater SJ,Seiz JL,Stagliano BA,Stubbs CD

更新日期：2001-04-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Expansions of (CTG)·(CAG) repeated DNAs are the mutagenic cause of 14 neurological diseases, likely arising through the formation and processing of slipped-strand DNAs. These transient intermediates of repeat length mutations are formed by out-of-register mispairing of repeat units on complementary strands. The three-...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Slean MM,Reddy K,Wu B,Nichol Edamura K,Kekis M,Nelissen FH,Aspers RL,Tessari M,Schärer OD,Wijmenga SS,Pearson CE

更新日期：2013-02-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Nogo-66 receptor (NgR1) is a leucine-rich repeat (LRR) protein that forms part of a signaling complex modulating axon regeneration. Previous studies have shown that the entire LRR region of NgR1, including the C-terminal cap of the LRR, LRRCT, is needed for ligand binding, and that the adjacent C-terminal region (CT s...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Wen D,Wildes CP,Silvian L,Walus L,Mi S,Lee DH,Meier W,Pepinsky RB

更新日期：2005-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The microtubule-associated protein tau, in a hyperphosphorylated form, aggregates into insoluble paired-helical filaments (PHFs) in Alzheimer's disease (AD) and other tauopathies. In AD, there is approximately 8 mol of phosphate per mole of tau distributed among approximately 30 PHF phosphorylation sites as compared t...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Sun Q,Gamblin TC

更新日期：2009-06-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Conformational distributions of a four-way DNA junction have been examined by time-resolved fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET). A series of dye-labeled junctions were synthesized with donor (fluorescein) and acceptor (tetramethylrhodamine) dyes conjugated to the 5' termini of the duplex arms in all six pair...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Eis PS,Millar DP

更新日期：1993-12-21 00:00:00

abstract：:There is considerable evidence that long-range interactions stabilize residual protein structure under denaturing conditions. However, evaluation of the effect of a specific contact on structure in the denatured state has been difficult. Iso-1-cytochrome c variants with a Lys54 → His mutation form a particularly stabl...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Danielson TA,Stine JM,Dar TA,Briknarova K,Bowler BE

更新日期：2017-12-26 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：:Over 70 transthyretin (TTR) mutations facilitate amyloidosis in tissues other than the central nervous system (CNS). In contrast, the D18G TTR mutation in individuals of Hungarian descent leads to CNS amyloidosis. D18G forms inclusion bodies in Escherichia coli, unlike the other disease-associated TTR variants overexp...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Hammarström P,Sekijima Y,White JT,Wiseman RL,Lim A,Costello CE,Altland K,Garzuly F,Budka H,Kelly JW

更新日期：2003-06-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Static FTIR light-induced difference spectra have been recorded for reaction centers from Rhodopseudomonas viridis in the following charge-separated states: P+QA(-)-PQA, P+QB(-)-PQB, I(-)-I, I-QA(-)-IQA, and I-QA(2-)-IQA. A comparison of the I(-)-I difference spectra with the I-QA(-)-IQA difference spectra reveals new...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Buchanan S,Michel H,Gerwert K

更新日期：1992-02-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Intrastrand cross-links represent the majority of modifications in DNA resulting from interaction with the cancer chemotherapeutic drug cis-diamminedichloroplatinum(II) (cis-DDP). These adducts were recently characterized although several discrepancies remained to be resolved. In these studies, [3H]-cis-dichloro(ethyl...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Eastman A

更新日期：1986-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lysine 2,3-aminomutase from Clostridia catalyzes the interconversion of L-lysine and L-beta-lysine. The enzyme contains iron-sulfur clusters and is activated by pyridoxal 5'-phosphate and S-adenosylmethionine, all of which participate in catalysis. Current spectroscopic evidence implicates two substrate-based organic ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Chang CH,Ballinger MD,Reed GH,Frey PA

更新日期：1996-08-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Characterization of the complete gene sequence encoding the alpha-galactosidase from Phanerochaete chrysosporium confirms that this enzyme is a member of glycosyl hydrolase family 27 [Henrissat, B., and Bairoch, A. (1996) Biochem. J. 316, 695-696]. This family, together with the family 36 alpha-galactosidases, forms g...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Hart DO,He S,Chany CJ 2nd,Withers SG,Sims PF,Sinnott ML,Brumer H 3rd

更新日期：2000-08-15 00:00:00