Stress-induced phosphorylation of PACT reduces its interaction with TRBP and leads to PKR activation.

abstract：:Eukaryotic translation initiation factor 2B (eIF2B) is the guanine nucleotide exchange factor of the GTPase eIF2, which brings the initiator Met-tRNAi to the ribosome in the form of the eIF2-GTP·Met-tRNAi ternary complex (TC). The activity of eIF2B is inhibited by phosphorylation of its substrate eIF2 by several stres...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Bogorad AM,Lin KY,Marintchev A

更新日期：2018-03-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Soluble guanylate cyclase isolated from bovine and rat lung is a heterodimeric hemoprotein composed of alpha1 and beta1 subunits. The heme binding region has been localized to residues 1-385 of the beta1 subunit [beta1(1-385)], while the catalytic site(s) have been localized to the C-terminal region of sGC. There are ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Zhao Y,Schelvis JP,Babcock GT,Marletta MA

更新日期：1998-03-31 00:00:00

abstract：:To identify residues and segments in the central region of apolipoprotein A-I (apoA-I) that are important for the protein structure and stability, we studied the effects of four double charge ablations, D102A/D103A, E110A/E111A, R116V/K118A, and R160V/H162A, and two deletion mutations, Delta(61-78) and Delta(121-142),...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Gorshkova IN,Liu T,Kan HY,Chroni A,Zannis VI,Atkinson D

更新日期：2006-01-31 00:00:00

abstract：:The expression of rusticyanin in Escherichia coli and a number of mutants for Ser86 is reported. Mutations of Ser86 to Asn, Asp, Gln, and Leu were undertaken as this is an Asn residue in other structurally characterized cupredoxins, and it has been suggested that this may be partly responsible for the high redox poten...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Hall JF,Kanbi LD,Harvey I,Murphy LM,Hasnain SS

更新日期：1998-08-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The properties of the high-affinity single-stranded DNA (ssDNA) binding state of Escherichia coli recA protein have been studied. We find that all of the nucleoside triphosphates that are hydrolyzed by recA protein induce a high-affinity ssDNA binding state. The effect of ATP binding to recA protein was partially sepa...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Menetski JP,Varghese A,Kowalczykowski SC

更新日期：1988-02-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The substrate analogue 2-(1-carboxy-2-phenylethyl)-4-phenylazophenol is a potent competitive inhibitor of carboxypeptidase A. Upon ligation to the active site, the azophenol moiety undergoes a shift of pKa from a value of 8.76 to a value of 4.9; this provides an index of the Lewis acidity of the active site zinc ion. ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Mock WL,Tsay JT

更新日期：1986-05-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanism of the slow refolding reactions of four different pancreatic ribonucleases from ox, sheep, red deer, and roe deer has been investigated. Refolding kinetics of these proteins were very similar. In particular, a native-like intermediate, IN, was shown to be populated on the slow refolding pathway of all ri...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Krebs H,Schmid FX,Jaenicke R

更新日期：1985-07-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Several common links between the structural chemistry of the chitolipooligosaccharides of Rhizobium and the general rhizobial membrane lipid and lipopolysaccharide chemistry of these bacteria have been uncovered. Aspects of common chemistry include sulfation, methylation, and the position and extent of fatty acyl chai...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Cedergren RA,Lee J,Ross KL,Hollingsworth RI

更新日期：1995-04-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Translesion synthesis (TLS) is a mutagenic branch of cellular DNA damage tolerance that enables bypass replication over DNA lesions carried out by specialized low-fidelity DNA polymerases. The replicative bypass of most types of DNA damage is performed in a two-step process of Rev1/Polζ-dependent TLS. In the first ste...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Pustovalova Y,Magalhães MT,D'Souza S,Rizzo AA,Korza G,Walker GC,Korzhnev DM

更新日期：2016-04-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The structural and functional aspects along with equilibrium unfolding of procerain, a cysteine protease from Calotropis procera, were studied in solution. The energetic parameters and conformational stability of procerain in different states were also estimated and interpreted. Procerain belongs to the alpha + beta c...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Dubey VK,Jagannadham MV

更新日期：2003-10-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Conformational selection and induced fit are two well-known mechanisms of allosteric protein-ligand interaction. Some proteins, like ubiquitin, have recently been found to exist in multiple conformations at equilibrium, suggesting that the conformational selection may be a general mechanism of interaction, in particul...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Chi CN,Bach A,Engström A,Wang H,Strømgaard K,Gianni S,Jemth P

更新日期：2009-08-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Comparison between the structures and solvent-accessible surfaces of the antigen-binding fragments of two murine anti-p-azophenylarsonate monoclonal antibodies, one bearing a major cross-reactive idiotype of A/J strain mice (36-71) and one lacking the idiotype (R19.9; Lascombe et al., 1989), highlight the structural b...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Strong RK,Petsko GA,Sharon J,Margolies MN

更新日期：1991-04-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The dehaloperoxidase-hemoglobin (DHP) from the terebellid polychaete Amphitrite ornata is a multifunctional hemoprotein that catalyzes the oxidation of a wide variety of substrates, including halo/nitrophenols, haloindoles, and pyrroles, via peroxidase and/or peroxygenase mechanisms. To probe whether substrate substit...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： McGuire AH,Carey LM,de Serrano V,Dali S,Ghiladi RA

更新日期：2018-07-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Central to the pathology of Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the profuse accumulation of amyloid-beta (Abeta) peptides in the brain of affected individuals, and several amyloid precursor protein (APP) transgenic (Tg) mice models have been created to mimic Abeta deposition. Among these, the PDAPP Tg mice carrying the famili...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Esh C,Patton L,Kalback W,Kokjohn TA,Lopez J,Brune D,Newell AJ,Beach T,Schenk D,Games D,Paul S,Bales K,Ghetti B,Castaño EM,Roher AE

更新日期：2005-10-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Three hybridomas secreting monoclonal antibodies, HH1, HH2, and HH3, defining different difucosyl A structures (ALeb or ALey), have been established. Antibody HH1 (IgG2a) reacts specifically with the difucosyl A structure irrespective of a type 1 or type 2 chain, while antibody HH2 (IgG3) reacts exclusively with the d...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Clausen H,McKibbin JM,Hakomori S

更新日期：1985-10-22 00:00:00

abstract：:S-Glutathionylation is a redox-regulated modification that uncouples endothelial nitric oxide synthase (eNOS), switching its function from nitric oxide (NO) synthesis to (•)O2(-) generation, and serves to regulate vascular function. While in vitro or in vivo eNOS S-glutathionylation with modification of Cys689 and Cys...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Chen CA,De Pascali F,Basye A,Hemann C,Zweier JL

更新日期：2013-09-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Measurement of x-ray scattering at very small angles by solutions of myosin subfragment 1 (S1) yields a radius of gyration of 3.24 nm (mean) +/- 0.03 nm (standard error for N = 9). If S1 is assumed to be ellipsoid of revolution, of uniform electron density, with a molecular weight of 1.15 X 10(5) and a partial specifi...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Kretzschmar KM,Mendelson RA,Morales MF

更新日期：1978-06-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Fatty acid-induced upregulation of death receptor 5 (DR5) and its cognate ligand, tumor necrosis factor-related apoptosis-inducing ligand (TRAIL), promotes hepatocyte lipoapoptosis, which is a key mechanism in the progression of fatty liver disease. Accordingly, inhibition of DR5 signaling represents an attractive str...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Vunnam N,Szymonski S,Hirsova P,Gores GJ,Sachs JN,Hackel BJ

更新日期：2020-10-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Complete 1H NMR sequential assignments have been made for copper(I)- and silver (I)-substituted metallothionein (MT) from Saccharomyces cerevisiae using standard 2D 1H NMR methods. The fingerprint region of the COSY spectrum of both metalloproteins shows a doubling of a few backbone proton resonances from residue K41 ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Narula SS,Winge DR,Armitage IM

更新日期：1993-07-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Ribosomal protein E-L30 unfolds reversibly at pH values between 7.0 and 4.5. Unfolding of the protein involves a fast and a slow equilibrium, which depend on the degree of protonation of His19 and His33. Both the fast equilibrium between protonated and deprotonated histidines and the slow equilibrium between folded an...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： van de Ven FJ,Hilbers CW

更新日期：1987-08-25 00:00:00

abstract：:A major regulatory step in the heat-induced transcription of heat shock protein (hsp) genes in eukaryotes is the activation of heat shock factor (HSF). In metazoans and Schizosaccharomyces pombe, HSF is present in unstressed cells but is unable to bind to its target DNA sequence element, the heat shock element (HSE). ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Larson JS,Schuetz TJ,Kingston RE

更新日期：1995-02-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The calcium-dependent binding of two synthetic 18-residue peptides derived from the calmodulin binding region of skeletal myosin light chain kinase to wild-type Drosophila melanogaster calmodulin and four calcium binding site calmodulin mutants has been investigated using optical spectroscopy. The WFF peptide (with W4...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Findlay WA,Martin SR,Beckingham K,Bayley PM

更新日期：1995-02-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Apurinic/apyrimidinic endonuclease 1 (APE1) is a DNA repair protein and plays other important roles. Increased levels of APE1 in cancer have been reported. However, available methods for measuring APE1 levels are indirect and not quantitative. We previously developed an approach using liquid chromatography and tandem ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Coskun E,Jaruga P,Reddy PT,Dizdaroglu M

更新日期：2015-09-29 00:00:00

abstract：:We previously showed that estrogen-related receptor alpha1 (ERRalpha1) can compete with estrogen receptor alpha (ERalpha) for binding to estrogen response elements (EREs), repressing transcription in the mammary carcinoma cell line MCF-7. Given that ERRalpha1 can function in the absence of ligands and exists as a phos...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Vu EH,Kraus RJ,Mertz JE

更新日期：2007-08-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The epidermal growth factor receptor is a transmembrane glycoprotein that mediates the cellular responses to epidermal growth factor (EGF) and transforming growth factor-alpha (TGF-alpha). In this study of the human EGF receptor naturally expressed in A431 cells, the glycosylation sites of the full-length, membrane-bo...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Zhen Y,Caprioli RM,Staros JV

更新日期：2003-05-13 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, we have mapped the intracellular alkylation sites of adozelesin and bizelesin, two potent analogs of CC-1065, in individual genes at the single-nucleotide level. Human colon carcinoma cells were treated with adozelesin and bizelesin, and the position of adducts were mapped within the PGK-1 and p53 genes...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Lee CS,Pfeifer GP,Gibson NW

更新日期：1994-05-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The first structure of nicotine oxidoreductase (NicA2) was determined by X-ray crystallography. Pseudomonas putida has evolved nicotine-degrading activity to provide a source of carbon and nitrogen. The structure establishes NicA2 as a member of the monoamine oxidase family. Residues 1-50 are disordered and may play a...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Tararina MA,Janda KD,Allen KN

更新日期：2016-12-06 00:00:00

abstract：:A total of fifty single site surface phenylalanine substitution mutants have been made in the model protein staphylococcal nuclease. The fifty residues that were replaced with phenylalanine were chosen to give a broad sampling of solvent accessibility, secondary structure, and backbone conformations. The change in the...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Schwehm JM,Kristyanne ES,Biggers CC,Stites WE

更新日期：1998-05-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The peptidolytic reaction of HIV-1 protease has been investigated by using four oligopeptide substrates, Ac-Ser-Gln-Asn-Tyr-Pro-Val-Val-NH2, Ac-Arg-Ala-Ser-Gln-Asn-Tyr-Pro-Val-Val-NH2, Ac-Ser-Gln-Ser-Tyr-Pro-Val-Val-NH2, and Ac-Arg-Lys-Ile-Leu-Phe-Leu-Asp-Gly-NH2, that resemble two cleavage sites found within the natu...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Hyland LJ,Tomaszek TA Jr,Roberts GD,Carr SA,Magaard VW,Bryan HL,Fakhoury SA,Moore ML,Minnich MD,Culp JS

更新日期：1991-08-27 00:00:00

abstract：:N-[[(Iodoacetyl)amino]ethyl]-5-naphthylamine-1-sulfonic acid (IAEDANS) is a fluorescent reagent which reacts covalently with the free thiol groups of proteins. When the reagent is reacted with the Escherichia coli ribosome under mild conditions, gel electrophoresis shows modification of predominantly two proteins, S18...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Hanas JS,Simpson MV

更新日期：1985-12-03 00:00:00