Isoenergetic microarrays to study the structure and interactions of DsrA and OxyS RNAs in two- and three-component complexes.

abstract：:The interaction of poly[(G-C)] and poly[d(G-m5C)] with the antitumor antibiotic elsamicin A, which binds to alternating guanine + cytosine tracts in DNA, has been studied under the B and Z conformations. Both the rate and the extent of the B-to-Z transition are diminished by the antibiotic, as inferred by spectroscopi...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Jiménez-García E,Portugal J

更新日期：1992-11-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Photoactivated adenylyl cyclases are powerful tools for optogenetics and for investigating signal transduction mechanisms in biological photoreceptors. Because of its large increase in enzyme activity in the light, the BLUF (blue light sensor using flavin adenine dinucleotide)-activated adenylyl cyclase (bPAC) from Be...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Stierl M,Penzkofer A,Kennis JT,Hegemann P,Mathes T

更新日期：2014-08-12 00:00:00

abstract：:In the globin family, similarities in the folding mechanism have been found among different mammalian apomyoglobins (apoMb). The best-characterized intermediate of sperm whale apoMb, called I(AGH), is mainly stabilized by nativelike contacts among the A, G, and H helices involving a cluster of hydrophobic residues tha...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Musto R,Bigotti MG,Travaglini-Allocatelli C,Brunori M,Cutruzzolà F

更新日期：2004-01-13 00:00:00

abstract：:A recently reported variant of human transthyretin (TTR), Leu-55-Pro, implicated as the causative agent in early-onset familial amyloid polyneuropathy was expressed and characterized, and its denaturation pathway and amyloidogenicity were compared to those of wild-type transthyretin. The overlap-extension polymerase c...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： McCutchen SL,Colon W,Kelly JW

更新日期：1993-11-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The interaction of bee venom melittin with dimyristolphosphatidylcholine (DMPC) selectively deuteriated in the choline head group has been studied by deuterium and phosphorus-31 nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy. The action of residual phospholipase A2 in melittin samples resulted in mixtures of DMPC and i...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Dempsey CE,Watts A

更新日期：1987-09-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The activation of coagulation factor X by tissue factor (TF) and coagulation factor VIIa (VIIa) on a phospholipid surface is thought to be the key step in the initiation of blood coagulation. In this reaction, the product, fXa, is transiently and reversibly bound to the TF-VIIa enzyme complex. This in effect leads to ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Hathcock J,Rusinova E,Vaananen H,Nemerson Y

更新日期：2007-05-22 00:00:00

abstract：:A single G3:U70 base pair in the acceptor helix is the major determinant of alanine acceptance in alanine transfer RNAs. Transfer of this base pair into other transfer RNAs confers alanine acceptance. A G3:C70 substitution eliminates alanine acceptance in vivo and in vitro. In this work, a population of mutagenized G3...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Hou YM,Schimmel P

更新日期：1992-10-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The non-typeable Haemophilus influenzae strain DH1 was isolated from a 25 year old male patient with Fisher syndrome, a postinfectious autoimmune condition characterized by the presence of anti-GQ1b IgG antibodies that target and initiate damage to peripheral nerves. DH1 was found to display an alphaNeuAc(2-8)alphaNeu...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Houliston RS,Koga M,Li J,Jarrell HC,Richards JC,Vitiazeva V,Schweda EK,Yuki N,Gilbert M

更新日期：2007-07-10 00:00:00

abstract：:A combined experimental and theoretical investigation of the deuterium isotope effects on the bacterial luciferase reaction is described. The experimental studies focus on determining if the unusual aldehydic deuterium isotope effect of approximately 1.5 observed in these reactions is an intrinsic isotope effect resul...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Francisco WA,Abu-Soud HM,DelMonte AJ,Singleton DA,Baldwin TO,Raushel FM

更新日期：1998-02-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The heat production for the reaction steps of ATP hydrolysis by heavy meromyosin has been reexamined by using a reaction-type calorimeter. So far, the values reported for the heat production have varied substantially among research groups. The present results obtained in 0.3 M KCl, 10 mM MgCl2, and 20 mM Tris-HCl at p...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Yamada T,Shimizu H,Suga H

更新日期：1981-07-21 00:00:00

abstract：:An allelic variant of the ouabain-insensitive rat kidney Na+,K(+)-ATPase alpha 1-isoform was identified by chance in a cDNA library. The variant differed from the wild-type rat kidney Na+,K(+)-ATPase by a single G to C base substitution in the cDNA, which on the amino acid level gave rise to a glutamine in place of th...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Vilsen B

更新日期：1993-12-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The reduction kinetics of cytochrome P-450 are known to be biphasic, with a rapid initial phase and a slower subsequent phase, both of which appear linear in semilogarithmic plots. The present report demonstrates that these biphasic reduction kinetics can be described in terms of a preequilibrium between high- and low...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Backes WL,Sligar SG,Schenkman JB

更新日期：1982-03-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The intracellular level of beta-hydroxydecanoyl thio ester dehydrase, the product of the fabA gene of Escherichia coli, was increased by isolation of a putative promotor mutant (termed fabAup) or by molecular cloning of the wild-type fabA gene into plasmid pBR322. The fabAup and plasmid-carrying strains overproduced d...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Clark DP,DeMendoza D,Polacco ML,Cronan JE Jr

更新日期：1983-12-06 00:00:00

abstract：:(S)-Mandelate dehydrogenase from Pseudomonas putida belongs to a FMN-dependent enzyme family that oxidizes (S)-alpha-hydroxyacids. Despite a high degree of sequence and structural similarity, this family can be divided into three subgroups based on the different oxidants utilized in the second oxidative half-reaction....

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Dewanti AR,Xu Y,Mitra B

更新日期：2004-08-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Minor leucine tRNA species, tRNA(Leu)4 and tRNA(Leu)5, from Escherichia coli B have been reported to recognize leucine codons UUA and UUG [Goldman, E., Holmes, W. M., and Hatfield, G. W. (1979) J. Mol. Biol. 129, 567-585]. In the present study, these two tRNA(Leu) species were purified from E. coli A19, and the nucleo...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Horie N,Yamaizumi Z,Kuchino Y,Takai K,Goldman E,Miyazawa T,Nishimura S,Yokoyama S

更新日期：1999-01-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of basic residues of the 70-80-loop, Arg(74), Arg(75), and Lys(78) (chymotrypsin numbering) in the catalytic function of activated protein C (APC) was investigated by expressing mutants of protein C in which these residues were replaced with Ala in three separate constructs. Following purification to homogene...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Yang L,Manithody C,Rezaie AR

更新日期：2002-05-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The equilibrium unfolding reaction of Ltn, a metamorphic C-class chemokine, was monitored by tryptophan fluorescence to determine unfolding free energies. Measurements revealed that addition of 150 mM NaCl stabilized the Ltn chemokine fold by approximately 1 kcal/mol. Specific mutations involving Arg23 and Arg43 also ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Tyler RC,Wieting JC,Peterson FC,Volkman BF

更新日期：2012-11-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Evidence for the NADH-modulated formation of a complex between alpha-glycerol-3-phosphate dehydrogenase and l-lactate dehydrogenase was reported [Yong, H., Thomas, G. A., and Peticolas, W. L. (1993) Biochemistry 32, 11124-11131]. This NADH-modulated association suggested a mechanism of potentially great importance to ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Lehoux EA,Baker SM,Kovina MV,Hays FA,Spivey HO

更新日期：2003-05-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytochrome b5 reductase (cb5r), a member of the ferredoxin:NADP+ reductase family of flavoprotein transhydrogenases, catalyzes the NADH-dependent reduction of cytochrome b5. Within this family, a conserved "GxGxxP" sequence motif has been implicated in binding reduced pyridine nucleotides. However, Glycine 179, a cons...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Roma GW,Crowley LJ,Davis CA,Barber MJ

更新日期：2005-10-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The ubiquitous calcium-binding protein calmodulin (CaM) regulates a wide variety of cellular events by binding to and activating many distinct target enzymes. The CaM-binding domains of most of these enzymes are contained in a contiguous stretch of amino acids with a length of approximately 20 residues. In this work, ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Zhang M,Fabian H,Mantsch HH,Vogel HJ

更新日期：1994-09-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Prolyl endopeptidase (Prep) is a member of the prolyl peptidase family and is of interest because of its unique biochemistry and connections to cognitive function. Using an unbiased mass spectrometry (MS)-based peptidomics platform, we identified Prep-regulated peptides in the central nervous system (CNS) of mice by m...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Nolte WM,Tagore DM,Lane WS,Saghatelian A

更新日期：2009-12-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The interaction of bleomycin A2 with DNA has been examined by fluorescence spectroscopy and proton magnetic resonance techniques. Fluorescence bands observed at 353 and 405 nm in the spectrum of bleomycin were assigned to the bithiazole and 4-aminopyrimidine rings, respectively. Quenching of bithiazole fluorescence by...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Chien M,Grollman AP,Horwitz SB

更新日期：1977-08-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The UV endonucleases [endodeoxyribonuclease (pyrimidine dimer), EC 3.1.25.1] from Micrococcus luteus and bacteriophage T4 possess two catalytic activities specific for the site of cyclobutane pyrimidine dimers in UV-irradiated DNA: a DNA glycosylase that cleaves the 5'-glycosyl bond of the dimerized pyrimidines and an...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Liuzzi M,Weinfeld M,Paterson MC

更新日期：1987-06-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Ligand-induced dimerization of receptor tyrosine kinases (RTKs) modulates a system of linked biochemical reactions, sharply switching the RTK from a quiescent state to an active state that becomes phosphorylated and triggers intracellular signaling pathways. To improve our understanding of this molecular switch, we de...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Sheth PR,Hays JL,Elferink LA,Watowich SJ

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phoborhodopsin from Halobacterium salinarum (salinarum phoborhodopsin, spR also called HsSR II) is a photoreceptor for the negative phototaxis of the bacterium. A unique feature of spR is the formation of a shorter wavelength photoproduct, P480, observed at liquid nitrogen temperature beside the K intermediate. Format...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Dai G,Zhang Y,Tamogami J,Demura M,Kamo N,Kandori H,Iwasa T

更新日期：2011-08-23 00:00:00

abstract：:NanGIR1 is a catalytic element inserted in the P6 loop of a group I intron (NanGIR2) in the small subunit rRNA precursor of the protist Naegleria andersoni [Einvik, C., Decatur, W. A., Embley, T. M., Vogt, V. M., and Johansen, S. (1997) RNA 3, 710-720]. It catalyzes site-specific hydrolysis at an internal processing s...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Jabri E,Aigner S,Cech TR

更新日期：1997-12-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The vitamin K epoxide reductase (VKORC1) enzyme is of primary importance in many physiological processes, i.e., blood coagulation, energy metabolism, and arterial calcification prevention, due to its role in the vitamin K cycle. Indeed, VKORC1 catalyzes reduction of vitamin K epoxide to quinone and then to hydroquinon...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Chatron N,Abi Khalil R,Benoit E,Lattard V

更新日期：2020-04-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Mouse fibroblasts contain a macromolecular binding component (receptor) which binds glucocorticoids specifically and with high affinity. This study shows that there are three different cellular forms of bound receptor and that it is experimentally possible to markedly alter the subcellular distribution of these three ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Middlebrook JL,Wong MD,Ishii DN,Aronow L

更新日期：1975-01-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Separation of the gradient-purified gastric microsome into two membrane subfractions of distinct enzymatic and phospholipid composition has been achieved by mild SDS (0.033% w/v) treatment followed by sucrose gradient centrifugation of the pig and rabbit gastric microsomes. While the high-density membranes had all of ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Ray TK,Das PK,Nandi J,Banerjee A,Bandopadhyay S

更新日期：1988-12-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Transient contacts between denatured polypeptide chains are likely to play an important part in the initial stages of protein aggregation and fibrillation. To analyze the nature of such contacts, we have carried out a protein engineering study of the 102-residue protein U1A, which aggregates transiently in the wild-ty...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Otzen DE,Miron S,Akke M,Oliveberg M

更新日期：2004-10-19 00:00:00