Absolute action spectrum of E-FADH2 and E-FADH2-MTHF forms of Escherichia coli DNA photolyase.

abstract：:This work shows that the voltage across membranes in two very different preparations, lipid vesicles in suspension and individual HeLa cells under a microscope, is linearly related to the ratio of fluorescence excited from the two wings of the absorption spectrum of a voltage-sensitive dye. The dye di-4-ANEPPS [1-(3-s...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Montana V,Farkas DL,Loew LM

更新日期：1989-05-30 00:00:00

abstract：:DADH catalyzes the flavin-dependent oxidative deamination of d-amino acids to the corresponding α-keto acids and ammonia. Here we report the first X-ray crystal structures of DADH at 1.06 Å resolution and its complexes with iminoarginine (DADH(red)/iminoarginine) and iminohistidine (DADH(red)/iminohistidine) at 1.30 Å...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Fu G,Yuan H,Li C,Lu CD,Gadda G,Weber IT

更新日期：2010-10-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The constant fragment of the immunoglobulin light chain in which the intramolecular disulfide bond is reduced (reduced CL fragment) assumes a conformation very similar to that of the intact CL fragment and contains two sulfhydryl groups buried in the interior of the molecule [Goto, Y., & Hamaguchi, K. (1979) J. Bioche...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Goto Y,Hamaguchi K

更新日期：1986-05-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The in vitro hydrolysis by porcine kidney prolidase of the imidodipeptide L-alanyl-L-proline was monitored by using 1H high-resolution NMR spectroscopy. The dipeptide exists as an equilibrium mixture of isomers with cis or trans conformation about the peptide bond. The 13C and 1H NMR spectra of the dipeptide displayed...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： King GF,Middlehurst CR,Kuchel PW

更新日期：1986-03-11 00:00:00

abstract：:"Sequence-dictated" scission of DNA can be achieved by tethering a fusion protein composed of glutathione S-transferase and attenuated micrococcal nuclease (MN) to a targeting oligonucleotide using Cibacron blue (CB) F3G-A. Deoxyoligonucleotides derivatized with this dye bind to the fusion protein in gel mobility shif...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Landgraf R,Chen CH,Sigman DS

更新日期：1994-09-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Oxygen and nitroaromatic compounds are known to enhance the sensitivity of cells to ionizing radiation. Employing calf thymus DNA and oligo(dA)12/poly(dT), we have examined the differences to DNA damage, in particular thymine glycols and the 3'-DNA termini at strand breaks, arising from irradiation under anoxic and ox...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Buchko GW,Weinfeld M

更新日期：1993-03-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The enzyme 3-deoxy-D-manno-octulosonic acid 8-phosphate synthase (EC 4.1. 2.16) (KDO 8-P synthase) that catalyzes the condensation of D-arabinose 5-phosphate (A 5-P) with phosphoenolpyruvate (PEP) to give 3-deoxy-D-manno-octulosonic acid 8-phosphate (KDO 8-P) and inorganic phosphate (Pi) was inactivated by the thiol-m...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Salleh HM,Patel MA,Woodard RW

更新日期：1996-07-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Organophosphate flame retardants are used to inhibit combustion and increase plasticity in plastics and durable foams. While not neurotoxic, these compounds are potential carcinogens, endocrine disrupters, and developmental toxins. The phosphotriesterase from Sphingobium sp. TCM1 (Sb-PTE) is unique among phosphotriest...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Bigley AN,Narindoshvili T,Xiang DF,Raushel FM

更新日期：2020-03-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Single-tryptophan-containing mutants of low adenylation state Escherichia coli glutamine synthetase (wild type has two tryptophans at positions 57 and 158) have been constructed and studied by multifrequency phase/modulation fluorescence spectroscopy. The W57L mutant (retains tryptophan at residue 158) and the W158S m...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Atkins WM,Stayton PS,Villafranca JJ

更新日期：1991-04-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Chemical biosensors, for which chemical detection triggers a fluorescent signal, have the potential to accelerate the screening of noncolorimetric chemicals produced by microbes, enabling the high-throughput engineering of enzymes and metabolic pathways. Here, we engineer a G-protein-coupled receptor (GPCR)-based sens...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Ehrenworth AM,Claiborne T,Peralta-Yahya P

更新日期：2017-10-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The protein tyrosine kinase, pp60(c-)(src), is involved in cellular signaling and is activated during mitosis and in various tumors. We have been employing cyclic decapeptides to identify the determinants for substrate binding and phosphorylation to develop inhibitors competitive with protein substrates of Src. A stru...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Wang W,Ramdas L,Sun G,Ke S,Obeyesekere NU,Budde RJ,McMurray JS

更新日期：2000-05-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Memapsin 2 (beta-secretase) is the membrane-anchored aspartic protease that initiates the cleavage of beta-amyloid precursor protein (APP), leading to the production of amyloid-beta (Abeta), a major factor in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease. The active site of memapsin 2 has been shown, with kinetic data and c...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Turner RT 3rd,Hong L,Koelsch G,Ghosh AK,Tang J

更新日期：2005-01-11 00:00:00

abstract：:We have separately expressed the Dictyosteliumdiscoideum myosin II nonhydrolyzer point mutations E459V and E476K [Ruppel, K. M., and Spudich, J. A. (1996) Mol. Biol. Cell 7, 1123-1136] in the soluble myosin head fragment M761-1R [Anson et al. (1996) EMBO J. 15, 6069-6074] and performed transient kinetic analyses to ch...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Friedman AL,Geeves MA,Manstein DJ,Spudich JA

更新日期：1998-07-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The flash-induced Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) difference spectrum of the oxygen-evolving Mn cluster upon S1-to-S2 transition (S2/S1 spectrum) was measured using photosystem II (PS II) core complexes of Synechocystis 6803 in which tyrosine residues were specifically labeled with 13C at the ring-4 position. The do...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Noguchi T,Inoue Y,Tang XS

更新日期：1997-12-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The respiratory chain in the cytochrome d deficient mutant Escherichia coli GR19N is a relatively simple, linear system consisting of primary dehydrogenases, ubiquinone 8, cytochrome b-556, and cytochrome o oxidase. By use of right-side-out and inside-out membrane vesicles from this strain, various oxidase activities ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Matsushita K,Kaback HR

更新日期：1986-05-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The fluorescence of the base analogue 2-aminopurine (2AP) was used to probe bacteriophage T4 DNA polymerase-induced conformational changes in the template strand produced during the nucleotide incorporation and proofreading reactions. 2AP fluorescence in DNA is quenched by 2AP interactions with neighboring bases, but ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Hariharan C,Reha-Krantz LJ

更新日期：2005-12-06 00:00:00

abstract：:For many decades, protein folding experimentalists have worked with no information about the time scales of relevant protein folding motions and without methods for estimating the height of folding barriers. Protein folding experiments have been interpreted using chemical models in which the folding process is charact...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Naganathan AN,Doshi U,Fung A,Sadqi M,Muñoz V

更新日期：2006-07-18 00:00:00

abstract：:A variety of chronic inflammatory conditions are associated with an increased risk for the development of cancer. Because of the numerous links between DNA oxidative damage and carcinogenesis, a potential role for leukocyte-generated oxidants in these processes has been suggested. In the present study, we demonstrate ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Shen Z,Wu W,Hazen SL

更新日期：2000-05-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Extracellular matrix (ECM) proteins, such as collagen and fibronectin, play vital roles in development and maintenance of hard tissue (bone or tooth) and are, consequently, thoroughly investigated for construction of biomimetic scaffolds in combination with calcium phosphate (CaP) material (the major component of hard...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Chowdhury EH,Nagaoka M,Ogiwara K,Zohra FT,Kutsuzawa K,Tada S,Kitamura C,Akaike T

更新日期：2005-09-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The solution structure of the 63-residue heregulin-alpha (HRG-alpha) epidermal growth factor (EGF)-like domain, corresponding to residues 177-239 of HRG-alpha, has been determined to high resolution using data from two-dimensional and three-dimensional homo- and heteronuclear NMR spectroscopy. The structure is based o...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Jacobsen NE,Abadi N,Sliwkowski MX,Reilly D,Skelton NJ,Fairbrother WJ

更新日期：1996-03-19 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to quantitate the contributions of the polar, uncharged amino acids to the stability of the native state of staphylococcal nuclease, each of the 13 alanines, 9 glycines, 9 threonines, 6 prolines, 6 glutamines, 6 asparagines, and 3 serines was substituted, either with both alanine and glycine or with 1 of thes...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Green SM,Meeker AK,Shortle D

更新日期：1992-06-30 00:00:00

abstract：:A method for the rapid and quantitative analysis of 5'-terminal oligonucleotides of RNAs made in vitro is described. The method involves synthesis of RNA in the presence of [gamma-32P]ATP or GTP, isolation of the RNA, and digestion with T1 or pancreatic ribonucleases to release labeled 5'-triphosphate termanated oligo...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Miller JS,Burgess RR

更新日期：1978-05-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Class II tRNA synthetases have long been known to have quaternary structures of alpha, alpha2, alpha2beta2, and alpha4, depending on the amino acid specificity and the organism from which the synthetase was isolated. Even the quaternary structures of enzymes for the same amino acid show variations in evolution. The ba...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Ribas de Pouplana L,Schimmel P

更新日期：1997-12-09 00:00:00

abstract：:3-Deoxy-d-manno-octulosonate 8-phosphate (KDO8P) synthase catalyzes the condensation of arabinose 5-phosphate (A5P) and phosphoenolpyruvate (PEP) to form KDO8P, a key precursor in the biosynthesis of the endotoxin of Gram-negative bacteria. Earlier studies have established that the condensation occurs with a syn addit...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Tao P,Gatti DL,Schlegel HB

更新日期：2009-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Aminoacylation of a transfer RNA (tRNA) by its cognate aminoacyl-tRNA synthetase relies upon the recognition of specific nucleotides as well as conformational features within the tRNA by the synthetase. In Escherichia coli, the aminoacylation of tRNA(His) by histidyl-tRNA synthetase (HisRS) is highly dependent upon th...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Connolly SA,Rosen AE,Musier-Forsyth K,Francklyn CS

更新日期：2004-02-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Specificity of the binding of sterols and related compounds with purified F-protein (fusion protein) of the HVJ (Sendai virus) was studied by binding competition with [3H]cholesterol. Requirement for cholesterol or the A/B ring trans structure and nonrequirement for the 3-hydroxyl group were found in this binding. Bin...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Asano K,Asano A

更新日期：1988-02-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The oxycomplexes (compound III, oxyperoxidase) of two lignin peroxidase isozymes, H1 (pI = 4.7) and H8 (pI = 3.5), were characterized in the present study. After generation of the ferroperoxidase by photochemical reduction with deazoflavin in the presence of EDTA, the oxycomplex is formed by mixing ferroperoxidase wit...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Cai DY,Tien M

更新日期：1990-02-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The human cytosolic sulfotransferases (SULTs) regulate hundreds, perhaps thousands, of small molecule metabolites and xenobiotics via transfer of a sulfuryl moiety (-SO3) from PAPS (3'-phosphoadenosine 5'-phosphosulfate) to the hydroxyls and primary amines of the recipients. In liver, where it is abundant, SULT1A1 eng...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Cook I,Wang T,Leyh TS

更新日期：2015-10-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Galactolipids are characteristic lipids of the photosynthetic membranes. They are highly enriched in the chloroplast and are present in photosystem structures. There are two major types of galactolipids, i.e., monogalactosyldiacylglycerol and digalactosyldiacylglycerol (DGDG) in chloroplastic membranes, which amount t...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Fu B,Brown C,Mäler L

更新日期：2020-03-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The positions of the several sea urchin histone genes on the eukaryotic fragments of the chimeric plasmids pSp2 and pSp17 have been mapped relative to the Eco RI and Hind III restriction endonuclease sites on the plasmids. Two principal mapping methods using the electron microscope have been used: (a) the R-loop proce...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Holmes DS,Cohn RH,Kedes LH,Davidson N

更新日期：1977-04-05 00:00:00