Site-specific epitope tagging of G protein-coupled receptors by bioorthogonal modification of a genetically encoded unnatural amino acid.

abstract：:Blastochloris tepida is a newly described thermophilic purple bacterium containing bacteriochlorophyll b. Using purified light-harvesting 1 reaction center (LH1-RC) core complexes from Blc. tepida, we compared the biochemical, spectroscopic, and thermal denaturation properties of these complexes with those of its meso...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Seto R,Takaichi S,Kurihara T,Kishi R,Honda M,Takenaka S,Tsukatani Y,Madigan MT,Wang-Otomo ZY,Kimura Y

更新日期：2020-06-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Acholeplasma laidlawii B cells, highly enriched in saturated C14 and C15 fatty acids, have been grown at several temperatures. Conformational order in the acyl chains of live cell membranes has been monitored with Fourier-transform infrared (FT-IR) spectroscopy. Coupled CH2 wagging progressions, characteristic of the ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Moore DJ,Mendelsohn R

更新日期：1994-04-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Streptomyces griseus trypsin has been isolated from Pronase by ion-exchange chromatography on CM-Sephadex and SE-Sephadex. The isolated enzyme was homogeneous by the criteria tested except for a low degree of contamination by an enzyme with nontryptic activity. The latter could be partially resolved by chromatography ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Olafson RW,Smillie LB

更新日期：1975-03-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein kinase Calpha (PKCalpha) has been shown to contain two discrete activator sites with differing binding affinities for phorbol esters and diacylglycerols. The interaction of diacylglycerol with a low-affinity phorbol ester binding site leads to enhanced high-affinity phorbol ester binding and to a potentiated l...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Slater SJ,Milano SK,Stagliano BA,Gergich KJ,Ho C,Mazurek A,Taddeo FJ,Kelly MB,Yeager MD,Stubbs CD

更新日期：1999-03-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Sufiredoxins (Srx) repair the inactivated forms of typical two-Cys peroxiredoxins (Prx) implicated in hydrogen peroxide-mediated cell signaling. The reduction of the cysteine sulfinic acid moiety within the active site of the Prx by Srx involves novel sulfur chemistry and the use of ATP and Mg(2+). The 1.65 A crystal ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Jönsson TJ,Murray MS,Johnson LC,Poole LB,Lowther WT

更新日期：2005-06-21 00:00:00

abstract：:We have studied the hydrogen-exchange kinetics of hemoglobin A0 as a function of ligand, CO, saturation. In the noncooperative system, azide binding to methemoglobin, the alterations in exchange kinetics are proportional to the average degree of ligation. However, in the case of CO binding to deoxyhemoglobin the chang...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Hallaway PE,Hallaway BE,Rosenberg A

更新日期：1984-01-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Several naturally occurring dietary polyphenols with chemopreventive or anticancer properties are topoisomerase II poisons. To identify additional phytochemicals that enhance topoisomerase II-mediated DNA cleavage, a library of 341 Mediterranean plant extracts was screened for activity against human topoisomerase IIα....

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Vann KR,Sedgeman CA,Gopas J,Golan-Goldhirsh A,Osheroff N

更新日期：2015-07-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Human type beta 2 transforming growth factor (hTGF-beta 2) was purified from tamoxifen-supplemented, serum-free medium conditioned by the human prostatic adenocarcinoma cell line PC-3. The purification of hTGF-beta 2 was monitored in a growth inhibition assay and was achieved by batch purification on methylsilyl-contr...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Ikeda T,Lioubin MN,Marquardt H

更新日期：1987-05-05 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA polymerases slide on DNA during replication, and the interface must be mobile for various conformational changes. The role of lubricant interfacial water is not understood. In this report, we systematically characterize the water dynamics at the interface and in the active site of a tight binding polymerase (pol β...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Yang Y,Qin Y,Ding Q,Bakhtina M,Wang L,Tsai MD,Zhong D

更新日期：2014-08-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Attempts to modify the guanine specificity of ribonuclease T1 (RNase T1) by rationally designed amino acid substitutions failed so far. Therefore, we applied a semirational approach by randomizing the guanine binding site. A combinatorial library of approximately 1.6 million RNase T1 variants containing permutations o...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Hubner B,Haensler M,Hahn U

更新日期：1999-01-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Napin BnIb is a representative member of the 2S albumin seed proteins, which consists of two polypeptide chains of 3.8 and 8.4 kDa linked by two disulfide bridges. In this work, a complete assignment of the 1H spectra of napin BnIb has been carried out by two-dimensional NMR sequence-specific methods and its secondary...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Rico M,Bruix M,González C,Monsalve RI,Rodríguez R

更新日期：1996-12-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of bacterial DnaJ protein as a cochaperone of DnaK is strongly appreciated. Although DnaJ unaccompanied by DnaK can bind unfolded as well as native substrate proteins, its role as an individual chaperone remains elusive. In this study, we demonstrate that DnaJ binds a model non-native substrate with a low nan...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Tiwari S,Kumar V,Jayaraj GG,Maiti S,Mapa K

更新日期：2013-02-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Hemophores from Serratia marcescens (HasA(sm)) and Pseudomonas aeruginosa (HasA(p)) bind hemin between two loops, which harbor the axial ligands H32 and Y75. Hemin binding to the Y75 loop triggers closing of the H32 loop and enables binding of H32. Because Yersinia pestis HasA (HasA(yp)) presents a Gln at position 32,...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Kumar R,Lovell S,Matsumura H,Battaile KP,Moënne-Loccoz P,Rivera M

更新日期：2013-04-23 00:00:00

abstract：:In synthetic biology, metabolic engineering, and gene therapy, there is a strong demand for orthogonal or externally controlled regulation of gene expression. Here, RNA-based regulatory devices represent a promising emerging alternative to proteins, allowing a fast and direct control of gene expression, as no synthesi...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Etzel M,Mörl M

更新日期：2017-03-07 00:00:00

abstract：:We recently developed a new, rapid, and specific bioassay system that employs a fluorescent probe fabricated from our discovered CXCR4-specific ligand DV1. This new probe sensitively and selectively blocks the binding of native and synthetic ligands to CXCR4 at nanomolar levels, with a capability comparable to that se...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Yang Y,Zhang Q,Gao M,Yang X,Huang Z,An J

更新日期：2014-08-05 00:00:00

abstract：:New classes of small proteins have recently been found that refold rapidly with two-state kinetics from a substantially unfolded conformation ("U") and without the accumulation of a folding intermediate. Barnase, on the other hand, is representative of a class of proteins that display multistate kinetics and refold fr...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Oliveberg M,Fersht AR

更新日期：1996-02-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Desosamine is a 3-(dimethylamino)-3,4,6-trideoxyhexose found, for example, in such macrolide antibiotics as erthyromycin, azithromycin, and clarithromycin. The efficacies of these macrolide antibiotics are markedly reduced in the absence of desosamine. In the bacterium Streptomyces venezuelae, six enzymes are required...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Burgie ES,Holden HM

更新日期：2007-08-07 00:00:00

abstract：:We previously showed that a bulky ring-strained cycloalkyne possessing a rhodamine fluorophore directly reacts (via strain-promoted click chemistry) with the azido group incorporated (via ligand-directed tosyl chemistry) into Asp160 in the 49 kDa subunit of complex I in bovine heart submitochondrial particles [Masuya,...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Masuya T,Murai M,Ito T,Aburaya S,Aoki W,Miyoshi H

更新日期：2017-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The transglutaminase Factor XIII (FXIII) catalyzes the formation of covalent cross-links between adjacent noncovalently associated fibrin chains in blood coagulation. The resulting covalently cross-linked hard clot is much more mechanically stable and resistant to proteolytic degradation. FXIII is activated by the ser...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Turner BT Jr,Sabo TM,Wilding D,Maurer MC

更新日期：2004-08-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The conformational properties of the magainin family of antimicrobial peptides in aqueous solution and in model membranes have been probed by Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy. The magainins were found to be structureless in aqueous solution at neutral pD, confirming other studies by Raman and circular dichroism...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Jackson M,Mantsch HH,Spencer JH

更新日期：1992-08-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases preserve the fidelity of decoding genetic information by accurately joining amino acids to their cognate transfer RNAs. Here, tRNA discrimination at the level of binding by Escherichia coli histidyl-tRNA synthetase is addressed by filter binding, analytical ultracentrifugation, and iodine fo...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Bovee ML,Yan W,Sproat BS,Francklyn CS

更新日期：1999-10-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The class I human liver alcohol dehydrogenases (ADHs) catalyze the interconversion of the intermediary alcohols and aldehydes of dopamine metabolism in vitro, whereas those of the class II and class III do not. The individual, homogeneous class I isozymes oxidize (3,4-dihydroxyphenyl)ethanol and (4-hydroxy-3-methoxyph...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Mårdh G,Vallee BL

更新日期：1986-11-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Flavohemoglobins (flavoHbs) are enzymes that operate primarily as nitric oxide dioxygenases and shuttle thereby electrons among NAD(P)H, FAD, heme, and a ligated redox-active substrate such as O(2). They function in the bacterial defense against nitrosative stress and are therefore considered as targets for new antibi...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： El Hammi E,Warkentin E,Demmer U,Limam F,Marzouki NM,Ermler U,Baciou L

更新日期：2011-02-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The crystal structures of the deoxy and carbonmonoxy forms of a distal pocket myoglobin mutant in which valine68(E11) is replaced by threonine have been solved to 2.1- and 2.2-A resolution, respectively. This substitution has been shown previously to cause large decreases in the rate of oxygen binding and to lower the...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Cameron AD,Smerdon SJ,Wilkinson AJ,Habash J,Helliwell JR,Li T,Olson JS

更新日期：1993-12-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 (S6803) expresses a two-on-two globin in which His46 (distal side) and His70 (proximal) function as heme iron axial ligands. His46 can be displaced by O2, CO, and CN-, among others, whereas His70 is not labile under native conditions. The residue preceding the proximal his...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Knappenberger JA,Kuriakose SA,Vu BC,Nothnagel HJ,Vuletich DA,Lecomte JT

更新日期：2006-09-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of two oppositely charged pyrene derivatives, 1-pyrenebutyrylcholine (PBC) and 1-pyrenebutyric acid (PBA), on red blood cell shape have been examined. Both compounds convert normal biconcave erythrocytes into echinocytes. However, with extended incubation time at elevated temperature, the morphology of PBC...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Matayoshi ED

更新日期：1980-07-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Glutathionylation of intracellular proteins is an established physiological regulator of protein function. In multiple models, including ischemia-reperfusion of the heart, increased oxidative stress results in the glutathionylation of sarcomeric actin. We hypothesized that actin glutathionylation may play a role in th...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Pizarro GO,Ogut O

更新日期：2009-08-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The structure of cytochrome f includes an internal chain of five water molecules and six hydrogen-bonding side chains, which are conserved throughout the phylogenetic range of photosynthetic organisms from higher plants, algae, and cyanobacteria. The in vivo electron transfer capability of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii cy...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Sainz G,Carrell CJ,Ponamarev MV,Soriano GM,Cramer WA,Smith JL

更新日期：2000-08-08 00:00:00

abstract：:It is now well established that guanine nucleotides are allosteric effectors of the vinca alkaloid-induced self-association of tubulin. GDP enhances self-association for vinblastine-, vincristine- and vinorelbine-induced spiral assembly relative to GTP by 0.90 +/- 0.17 kcal/mol [Lobert et al. (1996) Biochemistry 35, 6...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Vulevic B,Lobert S,Correia JJ

更新日期：1997-10-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Here we present a biophysical, structural, and computational analysis of the directed evolution of the human DNA repair protein O(6)-alkylguanine-DNA alkyltransferase (hAGT) into SNAP-tag, a self-labeling protein tag. Evolution of hAGT led not only to increased protein activity but also to higher stability, especially...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Mollwitz B,Brunk E,Schmitt S,Pojer F,Bannwarth M,Schiltz M,Rothlisberger U,Johnsson K

更新日期：2012-02-07 00:00:00