Thermodynamic contribution to the regulation of electron transfer in the Na(+)-pumping NADH:quinone oxidoreductase from Vibrio cholerae.

abstract：:Cytochrome P450 (P450) 3A4 is the most abundant human P450 and oxidizes a diversity of substrates, including various drugs, steroids, carcinogens, and macrolide natural products. In some reactions, positive cooperativity has been reported in microsomal studies. Flavonoids, e.g., 7,8-benzoflavone (alpha-naphthoflavone,...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Ueng YF,Kuwabara T,Chun YJ,Guengerich FP

更新日期：1997-01-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The UDP-glucuronosyltransferase (UGT) isozyme system is critical for protecting the body against endogenous and exogenous chemicals by linking glucuronic acid donated by UDP-glucuronic acid to a lipophilic acceptor substrate. UGTs convert metabolites, dietary constituents, and environmental toxicants to highly excreta...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Banerjee R,Pennington MW,Garza A,Owens IS

更新日期：2008-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Calmodulin (CaM) is a small acidic protein essential to calcium-mediated signal transduction. Conformational change driven by calcium binding controls its selective activation of myriad target proteins. In most well characterized cases, both homologous domains of CaM interact with a target protein. However, physiologi...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Sorensen BR,Eppel JT,Shea MA

更新日期：2001-01-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Crowding, which characterizes the interior of all living cells, has been shown to dramatically affect biochemical processes, leading to stabilization of compact morphologies, enhanced macromolecular associations, and altered reaction rates. Due to the crowding-mediated shift in binding equilibria toward association, c...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Goobes R,Kahana N,Cohen O,Minsky A

更新日期：2003-03-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Steroid sulfatases are responsible for the hydrolysis of 3beta-hydroxy steroid sulfates, such as cholesterol and pregnenolone sulfate, and have an important role in regulating the synthesis of estrogenic steroids, from estrone sulfate and dehydroepiandrosterone sulfate, in endocrine-dependent tumors. Although little i...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Purohit A,Williams GJ,Howarth NM,Potter BV,Reed MJ

更新日期：1995-09-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Escherichia coli MutS protein, which is required for mismatch repair, has a slow ATPase activity that obeys Michalelis-Menten kinetics. At 37 degrees C, the steady-state turnover rate for ATP hydrolysis is 1.0 +/- 0.3 min(-1) per monomer equivalent with a K(m) of 33 +/- 6 microM. Hydrolysis is competitively inhibited ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Bjornson KP,Allen DJ,Modrich P

更新日期：2000-03-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Although the mechanism by which the steroidogenic acute regulatory protein (StAR) promotes steroidogenesis has been studied extensively, it remains incompletely characterized. Because structural analysis has revealed a hydrophobic sterol-binding pocket (SBP) within StAR, this study sought to examine the regulatory rol...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Rajapaksha M,Kaur J,Bose M,Whittal RM,Bose HS

更新日期：2013-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:A gentle and rapid isolation procedure is described yielding fractions containing better than 95% pure OmpF porin of Escherichia coli BE with different amounts of bound lipopolysaccharide (LPS). The procedure employs continuous free-flow electrophoresis (FFE) in the presence of detergent above its critical micelle con...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Holzenburg A,Engel A,Kessler R,Manz HJ,Lustig A,Aebi U

更新日期：1989-05-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Factor VIII (fVIII) is synthesized as a single chain having a domainal sequence A1-A2-B-A3-C1-C2. Analysis of the proteolyic cleavage of fVIII by thrombin by sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (SDS-PAGE) identifies three fragments designated fVIIIA1, fVIIIA2, and fVIIIA3-C1-C2 with fragment(s) d...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Lollar P,Parker CG

更新日期：1989-01-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Epigallocatechin-3-gallate (EGCG) is a catechin found in green tea that can inhibit the amyloid formation of a wide variety of proteins. EGCG's ability to prevent or redirect the amyloid formation of so many proteins may reflect a common mechanism of action, and thus, greater molecular-level insight into how it exerts...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Marcinko TM,Drews T,Liu T,Vachet RW

更新日期：2020-03-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Factor VII (proconvertin) has been purified approximately 5 x 10(5)-fold from bovine plasma with an overall yield of 30%. The isolation procedure involves barium sulfate adsorption and elution, DEAE-Sephadex batchwise adsorption and elution, benzamidine-agarose column chromatography, heparin-agarose column chromatogra...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Kisiel W,Davie EW

更新日期：1975-11-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The synthesis of sphingomyelin was studied in baby hamster kidney cells and in subcellular fractions derived from rat liver. During pulse-chase experiments with [3H]choline in tissue culture cells, the specific radioactivity of sphingomyelin continued to increase after the specific activities of phosphocholine and cyt...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Voelker DR,Kennedy EP

更新日期：1982-05-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Seven mutant LH1 polypeptides of Rhodobactor sphaeroides have been isolated, and their behaviors in in vitro reconstitution of LH1 and its subunit complex have been characterized. Two mutants were selected to address the increased stability of the subunit complex of Rb. sphaeroides compared with that of Rhodobacter ca...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Davis CM,Bustamante PL,Todd JB,Parkes-Loach PS,McGlynn P,Olsen JD,McMaster L,Hunter CN,Loach PA

更新日期：1997-03-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The inhibitory potency of 3'-azido-3'-deoxythymidine 5'-triphosphate (AZTTP) against HIV-1 reverse transcriptase (HIV-1 RT) has been further evaluated. The results indicate that the previously reported low Ki values for AZTTP against HIV-1 RT (2.35 nM) are due neither to the to the direct tight binding of AZTTP to HIV...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Ma QF,Bathurst IC,Barr PJ,Kenyon GL

更新日期：1992-02-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The association-dissociation kinetics of ribosomes from Escherichia coli have been studied under various conditions in a light-scattering stopped-flow apparatus. The dissociation reaction at 2 mg/ml at 25 degrees C, induced by lowering the MgCl2 concentration from 18 to 3 mM, can best be described by three independent...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Görisch H,Goss DJ,Parkhurst LJ

更新日期：1976-12-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Urease from Klebsiella aerogenes [Jabri et al. (1995) Science 268, 998-1004] is an (alpha beta gamma)3 trimer with each alpha-subunit having an (alpha beta)8-barrel domain containing a binickel active center. Here we examine structure-function relations for urease in more detail through structural analysis of the urea...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Jabri E,Karplus PA

更新日期：1996-08-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The essential prokaryotic cell division protein FtsZ is a tubulin homologue that forms a ring at the division site. FtsZ forms polymers in a GTP-dependent manner. Recent biochemical evidence has shown that FtsZ forms multimeric structures in vitro and in vivo and functions as a self-activating GTPase. Structural analy...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Scheffers DJ,de Wit JG,den Blaauwen T,Driessen AJ

更新日期：2002-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Pili are surface-linked virulence factors that play key roles in infection establishment in a variety of pathogenic species. In Gram-positive pathogens, pilus formation requires the action of sortases, dedicated transpeptidases that covalently associate pilus building blocks. In Streptococcus pneumoniae, a major human...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Manzano C,Izoré T,Job V,Di Guilmi AM,Dessen A

更新日期：2009-11-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Our recently reported pressure-jump relaxation kinetics experiments on staphylococcal nuclease folding and unfolding [Vidugiris et al. (1995) Biochemistry 34, 4909] demonstrated that both transitions exhibit positive activation volumes, with that of folding being much larger than that of unfolding. Thus high pressure ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Vidugiris GJ,Truckses DM,Markley JL,Royer CA

更新日期：1996-03-26 00:00:00

abstract：:This work describes the biochemical characterization of the catalytic domain of Ira2p, a Saccharomyces cerevisiae GTPase-activating protein (GAP) regulating the RAS gene products. A fragment of 383 residues (amino acids 1644-2026) was produced in Escherichia coli as glutathione S-transferase fusion protein (GST-Ira2p-...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Parrini MC,Jacquet E,Bernardi A,Jacquet M,Parmeggiani A

更新日期：1995-10-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The oxidation pathway of chlorophyll Z (ChlZ) in photosystem II (PSII) at cryogenic temperatures was studied by means of light-induced Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) difference spectroscopy. To examine the involvement of redox-active beta-carotene (Car) in the pathway, two Car molecules in Mn-depleted PSII membrane...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Kitajima Y,Noguchi T

更新日期：2006-02-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Fibronectin (FN) is an extracellular matrix (ECM) protein found soluble in corporal fluids or as an insoluble fibrillar component incorporated in the ECM. This phenomenon implicates structural changes that expose FN binding sites and activate the protein to promote intermolecular interactions with other FN. We have in...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Patel S,Chaffotte AF,Goubard F,Pauthe E

更新日期：2004-02-17 00:00:00

abstract：:There has been widespread interest in studying early intermediate states and their roles in protein folding. The interest in intermediate states has been further emphasized in the recent literature because of their implications for protein aggregation. Unfortunately, direct kinetic characterization of intermediates ha...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Sarkar-Banerjee S,Chowdhury S,Paul SS,Dutta D,Ghosh A,Chattopadhyay K

更新日期：2016-08-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Identification of the kinetic intermediates in GTP hydrolysis on microtubules and characterization of their assembly properties is essential in understanding microtubule dynamics. By using an improved glass filter assay that selectively traps microtubules with a dead time of 2 s and monitoring taxol-induced rapid asse...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Melki R,Carlier MF,Pantaloni D

更新日期：1990-09-25 00:00:00

abstract：:RNA:pseudouridine synthetase (Pus1) from Saccharomyces cerevisiae is a multisite specific enzyme that catalyzes the formation of pseudouridine at positions 34 and 36 of intron-containing precursor tRNAIle and at positions 27 and/or 28 of several yeast tRNAs. In this paper we demonstrate that the purified recombinant P...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Arluison V,Hountondji C,Robert B,Grosjean H

更新日期：1998-05-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Escherichia coli asparagine synthetase B (AS-B) catalyzes the synthesis of asparagine from aspartate, glutamine, and ATP. A combination of kinetic, isotopic-labeling, and stoichiometry studies have been performed to define the nature of nitrogen transfer mediated by AS-B. The results of initial rate studies were consi...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Boehlein SK,Stewart JD,Walworth ES,Thirumoorthy R,Richards NG,Schuster SM

更新日期：1998-09-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The fibronectin receptor (FnR), the vitronectin receptor (VnR), and the platelet membrane glycoprotein (GP) IIb-IIIa complex are members of a family of cell adhesion receptors, which consist of noncovalently associated alpha- and beta-subunits. The present study was designed to compare the cDNA-derived protein sequenc...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Fitzgerald LA,Poncz M,Steiner B,Rall SC Jr,Bennett JS,Phillips DR

更新日期：1987-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The Sup35 protein of Saccharomyces cerevisiae forms a prion that generates the [PSI(+)] phenotype. Its NM region governs prion status, forming self-seeding amyloid fibers in vivo and in vitro. A tryptophan mutant of Sup35 (NM(F117W)) was used to probe its aggregation. Four indicators of aggregation, Trp 117 maximum em...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Palhano FL,Rocha CB,Bernardino A,Weissmuller G,Masuda CA,Montero-Lomelí M,Gomes AM,Chien P,Fernandes PM,Foguel D

更新日期：2009-07-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Although enzymes of thermophilic organisms are often very resistant to thermal denaturation, they are usually less active than their mesophilic or psychrophilic homologues at moderate or low temperatures. To explore the structural features that would improve the activity of a thermophilic enzyme at less than optimal t...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Hayashi S,Akanuma S,Onuki W,Tokunaga C,Yamagishi A

更新日期：2011-10-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The genomic hypervariation of human immunodeficiency virus 1 (HIV-1) could result from misincorporations by the viral reverse transcriptase. We developed an assay for reverse transcriptase fidelity during RNA-dependent as well as DNA-dependent DNA polymerization in vitro. A lacZ alpha RNA fragment transcribed by T3 RN...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Ji JP,Loeb LA

更新日期：1992-02-04 00:00:00