Nonadditivity in the alpha-helix to coil transition.

abstract：:A comparison of amino acid sequences of yeast Rer2p and Srt1p Z-prenyltransferases shows that the spatial organization of their substrate tunnels agrees with that determined by X-ray for the E. coli undecaprenyl diphosphate synthase (UPPs). The observed trend in the maxima of product length distribution shifted from C...

journal_title：Biopolymers

authors： Poznański J,Szkopinska A

更新日期：2007-06-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Solid state nmr methods were applied to the study of the motions and structural heterogeneity in polyglycine, sodium poly(L-glutamate), and poly(L-alanine). The response of both the main-chain and side-chain resonances to the addition of water was studied using static and magic-angle sample-spinning line shapes as wel...

journal_title：Biopolymers

authors： Kennedy SD,Bryant RG

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The oxidation of methionine to methionine sulfoxide both in vivo and in vitro can lead to the loss of biological activity in a variety of proteins. This loss of activity can be reversed by an enzyme called methionine sulfoxide reductase. The gene for this enzyme has been cloned and sequenced from a variety of prokaryo...

journal_title：Biopolymers

authors： Brot N,Weissbach H

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The conformation of basic fatty acid binding protein from chicken liver and the binding properties of the apo protein toward 11-dansylamino-undecanoic acid were investigated by CD and fluorescence spectroscopy. In one set of experiments the binding process was followed by the appearance of induced optical activity in ...

journal_title：Biopolymers

authors： Schievano E,Quarzago D,Spadon P,Monaco HL,Zanotti G,Peggion E

更新日期：1994-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Structural data produced by a 2-ns molecular dynamics (MD) simulation on Geobacillus alanine racemase (AlaR; PDB: 1SFT) was used to study hydration around the two AlaR active sites. AlaR is a crucial enzyme for bacterial cell wall biosynthesis. It has been shown previously that the potency of an inhibitor can be incre...

journal_title：Biopolymers

authors： Huang HC,Jupiter D,Qiu M,Briggs JM,Vanburen V

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new procedure (POLYS) for producing three-dimensional structures of polysaccharides and complex carbohydrates is described. This employs a builder concept combining a database of monosaccharide structures with a database containing information on populations of independent neighboring glycosidic linkages in disaccha...

journal_title：Biopolymers

authors： Engelsen SB,Cros S,Mackie W,Pérez S

更新日期：1996-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This work concerns the aggregation properties of (Gly-Val-Gly-Val-Pro)(251) rec, a polypentapeptide reflecting a highly conserved repetitive unit of the bioelastomer, elastin. On raising the temperature of aqueous solutions above 25 degrees C, this polypeptide was already known to undergo concurrent conformational cha...

journal_title：Biopolymers

authors： Manno M,Emanuele A,Martorana V,San Biagio PL,Bulone D,Palma-Vittorelli MB,McPherson DT,Xu J,Parker TM,Urry DW

更新日期：2001-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several new biocompatible and degradable materials were prepared by chemical modification of sodium hyaluronate. The method of activation of hyaluronate by cyanogen bromide was used and subsequent reaction with nucleophile led to the formation of carbamate. This modification of hydroxyl groups of glycosaminoglycans pr...

journal_title：Biopolymers

authors： Mlcochová P,Bystrický S,Steiner B,Machová E,Koós M,Velebný V,Krcmár M

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Peptomers are oligomeric molecules composed of both α-amino acids and N-substituted glycine monomers, thus creating a hybrid of peptide and peptoid units. Peptomers have been used in several applications such as antimicrobials, protease inhibitors, and antibody mimics. Despite the considerable promise of peptomers as ...

journal_title：Biopolymers

authors： Butterfoss GL,Drew K,Renfrew PD,Kirshenbaum K,Bonneau R

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Infrared spectra of poly(D,L-alanine), poly(L-glutamic acid), poly(L-lysine), silk fibroin, and tropomyosin have been registered for various conformations of the polypeptide chain. Assuming additivity of the main- and side-chain absorption, spectral parameters of amide I and II absorption bands corresponding to alpha-...

journal_title：Biopolymers

authors： Venyaminov SYu,Kalnin NN

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Structural formation of segments plays pivotal roles in protein folding and stability, but how the segment influences the structural ensemble remains elusive. We engineered two hybrid proteins by replacing the central helical segment of immunoglobulin G binding domain of streptococcal protein G with an alpha-helix or ...

journal_title：Biopolymers

authors： Du HN,Zhang TY,Chang YG,Lin DH,Hu HY

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A short peptide-based molecule has been found to form a strong hydrogel at phosphate buffer solution of pH 7.46. The hydrogel has been characterized thoroughly using various techniques including field emission scanning electron microscopy (FE-SEM), wide angle powder X-ray diffraction (PXRD), and rheological analysis. ...

journal_title：Biopolymers

authors： Nandi N,Baral A,Basu K,Roy S,Banerjee A

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously described [K. M. Sullivan and D. M. J. Lilley (1986) Cell 47, 817-827] a set of sequences, called C-type inducing sequences, which cause cruciform extrusion by adjacent inverted repeats to occur by an abnormal kinetic pathway involving a large denatured region of DNA. In this paper we apply statisti...

journal_title：Biopolymers

authors： Schaeffer F,Yeramian E,Lilley DM

更新日期：1989-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spin-spin and spin-lattice 1H-nmr relaxation times of the sea anemone polypeptide anthopleurin-A were measured at frequencies of 200, 300, 400, and 500 MHz. Relaxation times were fitted iteratively by least squares regression to the isotropic tumbling model, Woessner's model for anisotropic motion, and Lipari and Szab...

journal_title：Biopolymers

authors： Torda AE,Norton RS

更新日期：1989-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a seminal paper, Pakula and Sauer (Nature, 1990, 344, 363-364) demonstrated that the increase in side-chain hydrophobicity has a reverse relationship with protein stability. We have addressed this problem with several examples of mutants that span at different locations in protein structure based on secondary struc...

journal_title：Biopolymers

authors： Gromiha MM

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the past two decades, keratin biomaterials have shown impressive results as scaffolds for tissue engineering, wound healing, and nerve regeneration. In addition to its intrinsic biocompatibility, keratin interacts with specific cell receptors eliciting beneficial biochemical cues. However, during extraction from na...

journal_title：Biopolymers

authors： Parker RN,Roth KL,Kim C,McCord JP,Van Dyke ME,Grove TZ

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Small-angle x-ray scattering was used for studying intermediate species, isolated after heat-induced aggregation of the A variant of bovine beta-lactoglobulin. The intermediates were separated in two fractions, the heated metastable dimer and heated metastable oligomers larger than the dimer. The pair distance distrib...

journal_title：Biopolymers

authors： Carrotta R,Arleth L,Pedersen JS,Bauer R

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In N-methyl amino acids, the hydrogen of the N-H group is replaced with a bulky methyl group. While this change is expected to destabilize helical structures, the amount of destabilization is not known. Here the N-methyl group is placed into several positions of the helical peptides, acetyl-WGG(EAAAR)4A-amide and acet...

journal_title：Biopolymers

authors： Chang CF,Zehfus MH

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:alpha,beta-Dehydro amino acid residues are known to constrain the peptide backbone to the beta-bend conformation. A pentapeptide containing only one alpha,beta-dehydrophenylalanine (delta Phe) residue has been synthesized and crystallized, and its solid state conformation has been determined. The pentapeptide Boc-Leu-...

journal_title：Biopolymers

authors： Rajashankar KR,Ramakumar S,Mal TK,Jain RM,Chauhan VS

更新日期：1995-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The formation of the KRas4B-PDEδ complex activates different signaling pathways required for the development and maintenance of cancer. Previous experimental and theoretical studies have allowed researchers to design an inhibitor of the KRas4B-PDEδ complex, "Deltarasin." This inhibitor binds to the prenyl-binding pock...

journal_title：Biopolymers

authors： Bello M,Correa-Basurto J,Vargas-Mejía MÁ

更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Polymeric macromolecules, when viewed abstractly as strings of symbols, can be treated in terms of formal language theory, providing a mathematical foundation for characterizing such strings both as collections and in terms of their individual structures. In addition this approach offers a framework for analysis of ma...

journal_title：Biopolymers

authors： Searls DB

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nucleolar targeting peptides (NrTPs) are a family of cell penetrating peptides (CPPs) derived from crotamine, a rattlesnake venom toxin. They were named NrTPs for their remarkable nucleolus-homing properties and have been studied for their potential as drug delivery vehicles. Live cell microscopy experiments were cond...

journal_title：Biopolymers

authors： Rodrigues M,Andreu D,Santos NC

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To date, several antigens based on the amino-terminal leucine/isoleucine heptad repeat (NHR) region of an HIV-1 envelope protein gp41 and fusion inhibitors based on the carboxy-terminal leucine/isoleucine heptad repeat (CHR) region of gp41 have been reported. We have developed a synthetic antigen targeting the membran...

journal_title：Biopolymers

authors： Nomura W,Mizuguchi T,Tamamura H

更新日期：2016-11-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The 83-residue conopeptide (p21a) and its corresponding nonhydroxylated analog were isolated from the injected venom of Conus purpurascens. The complete conopeptide sequences were derived from Edman degradation sequencing of fragments from tryptic, chymotryptic and cyanogen bromide digestions, p21a has a unique, 10-cy...

journal_title：Biopolymers

authors： Möller C,Marí F

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is shown by using the vibronic approach that the iron displacement out of the porphyrin plane in deoxyheme proteins intermixes the porphyrin pi and axial iron-histidine sigma electronic subsystems. This intermixing explains the substantial coupling of the iron-histidine vibration to the heme Soret excitation, the a...

journal_title：Biopolymers

authors： Stavrov SS

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Terminally blocked (L-Pro-Aib)n and Aib-(L-Pro-Aib)n sequential oligopeptides are known to form right-handed beta-bend ribbon spirals under a variety of experimental conditions. Here we describe the results of a complete CD and ir characterization of this subtype of 3(10)-helical structure. The electronic CD spectra w...

journal_title：Biopolymers

authors： Yoder G,Keiderling TA,Formaggio F,Crisma M,Toniolo C

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The formation mechanism of an alanine-based peptide has been studied by all-atom molecular dynamics simulations with a recently developed all-atom point-charge force field and the Generalize Born continuum solvent model at an effective salt concentration of 0.2M. Thirty-two simulations were conducted. Each simulation ...

journal_title：Biopolymers

authors： Chowdhury S,Zhang W,Wu C,Xiong G,Duan Y

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Molecular dynamics simulation, with backbone constraints for 20 ps of equilibration and simulation, of a repeating polypeptide segment, Gln-Pro-His-Gln-Pro-Leu-Gln-Pro-His-Gln-Pro-Leu-Gln-Pro-Met-(Gln-Pro-Leu )4, constituting residues 112-138 of bovine amelolgenin, a 19.35 kD hydrophobic protein, are discussed. It is ...

journal_title：Biopolymers

authors： Renugopalakrishnan V,Pattabiraman N,Prabhakaran M,Strawich E,Glimcher MJ

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Proteins and nucleic acids are able to adopt their native conformation and perform their biological role only in the presence of water with which they actively interact in a mutually modifying way. Traditionally, hydrophobic effect has been considered to be the major factor stabilizing biopolymeric structures. However...

journal_title：Biopolymers

authors： Chalikian TV

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The results are presented for the deconvolution of IR spectra of disaccharides and polysaccharides with alpha and beta configurations of the 1 --> 4 glycosidic linkage (maltose, cellobiose, amylose, and cellulose), as well as of their corresponding monosaccharides (alpha- and beta-D-glucose) in the 1200-920 cm(-1) fre...

journal_title：Biopolymers

authors： Nikonenko NA,Buslov DK,Sushko NI,Zhbankov RG

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00