Mechanistic studies unravel the complexity inherent in tau aggregation leading to Alzheimer's disease and the tauopathies.

abstract：:The tertiary structure of apolipoprotein (apo) A-I and the contributions of structural domains to the properties of the protein molecule are not well defined. We used a series of engineered human and mouse apoA-I molecules in a range of physical-biochemical measurements to address this issue. Circular dichroism measur...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Tanaka M,Koyama M,Dhanasekaran P,Nguyen D,Nickel M,Lund-Katz S,Saito H,Phillips MC

更新日期：2008-02-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The ribosome-dependent stringent factor reaction was found to be nonspecific with regard to the number of phosphate groups linked to the 5' position of guanosine nucleotides. Both GMP and guanosine 5'-tetraphosphate could accept a pyrophosphoryl group from ATP although at a much lower rate than GDP or GTP. Guanosine 5...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Sy J

更新日期：1975-03-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability of the low molecular weight lung surfactant-associated proteins, SP-B and SP-C, to alter the thermotropic properties of synthetic multilamellar vesicles was tested using differential scanning calorimetry (DSC). The presence of either SP-B or SP-C in dipalmitoylphosphatidylcholine (DPPC) or dipalmitoylphosp...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Shiffer K,Hawgood S,Haagsman HP,Benson B,Clements JA,Goerke J

更新日期：1993-01-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The conversion of prion protein (PrP) to the pathogenic PrPSc conformation is central to prion disease. Previous studies revealed that PrP interacts with lipids and the interaction induces PrP conformational changes, yet it remains unclear whether in the absence of any denaturing treatment, PrP-lipid interaction is su...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Wang F,Yang F,Hu Y,Wang X,Wang X,Jin C,Ma J

更新日期：2007-06-12 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied the interactions between the SH2 domain of growth factor receptor binding protein 2 (Grb2) and ErbB receptor-derived phosphotyrosyl peptides using molecular dynamics, free energy calculations, and surface plasmon resonance (SPR) analysis. Binding free energies for nine phosphotyrosyl peptides were calculate...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Suenaga A,Hatakeyama M,Ichikawa M,Yu X,Futatsugi N,Narumi T,Fukui K,Terada T,Taiji M,Shirouzu M,Yokoyama S,Konagaya A

更新日期：2003-05-13 00:00:00

abstract：:LL-23 is a natural peptide corresponding to the 23 N-terminal amino acid residues of human host defense cathelicidin LL-37. LL-23 demonstrated, compared to LL-37, a conserved ability to induce the chemokine MCP-1 in human peripheral blood mononuclear cells, a lack of ability to suppress induction of the pro-inflammato...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Wang G,Elliott M,Cogen AL,Ezell EL,Gallo RL,Hancock RE

更新日期：2012-01-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The EcoRV restriction endonuclease cleaves DNA at its recognition sequence more readily with Mg2+ as the cofactor than with Mn2+ but, at noncognate sequences that differ from the EcoRV site by one base pair, Mn2+ gives higher rates than Mg2+. A mutant of EcoRV, in which an isoleucine near the active site was replaced ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Vipond IB,Moon BJ,Halford SE

更新日期：1996-02-13 00:00:00

abstract：:NMR spectroscopy is particularly adept at site-specifically monitoring dynamic processes in proteins, such as protein folding, domain movements, ligand binding, and side-chain rotations. By coupling the favorable spectroscopic properties of highly dynamic side-chain methyl groups with transverse-relaxation-optimized s...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Boswell ZK,Latham MP

更新日期：2019-01-22 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：:Cell free protein synthesis (CFPS) has emerged as a promising methodology for protein expression. While polypeptide production is very reliable and efficient using CFPS, the correct cotranslational folding of membrane proteins during CFPS is still a challenge. In this contribution, we describe a two-step protocol in w...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Focke PJ,Hein C,Hoffmann B,Matulef K,Bernhard F,Dötsch V,Valiyaveetil FI

更新日期：2016-08-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The product of transesterification of phospholipid acyl chains and unesterified cholesterol (UC) by the enzyme lecithin:cholesterol acyltransferase (LCAT) is cholesteryl ester (CE). Activation of LCAT by apolipoprotein (apo) A-I on nascent (discoidal) high-density lipoproteins (HDL) is essential for formation of matur...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Jones MK,Catte A,Li L,Segrest JP

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein folding is a process in which an extended polypeptide chain acquires compact packing through the formation of specific secondary and tertiary structures and hydrophobic interactions. Although much attention has been paid to secondary and tertiary structures, there is no definitive view about the relationship b...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Nishii I,Kataoka M,Tokunaga F,Goto Y

更新日期：1994-04-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of mutation of the conserved serine92 residue to alanine, valine, and leucine in pig myoglobin have been determined. In myoglobin crystal structures, the hydroxyl group of serine92 is within hydrogen-bonding distance of the N delta-H of histidine93, whose N epsilon coordinates the iron atom of the heme pro...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Smerdon SJ,Krzywda S,Wilkinson AJ,Brantley RE Jr,Carver TE,Hargrove MS,Olson JS

更新日期：1993-05-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Activated receptors with a tyrosine kinase activity induce a variety of responses like changes in the differentiation and mitogenic status of cells. These responses are mediated in part by p21ras. Some of these activated receptors induce in certain cell types a pronounced, but transient, increase in Ras-GTP. We have s...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Osterop AP,Medema RH,Ouwens DM,Van der Zon GC,Möller W,Maassen JA

更新日期：1994-06-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Several fusions between the gene for human insulin-like growth factor I (IGF-I) and the genes for different IgG-binding fragments of staphylococcal protein A were assembled and compared regarding expression, secretion, and purification of the peptide hormone. After IgG affinity purification of the fusion proteins from...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Moks T,Abrahmsén L,Holmgren E,Bilich M,Olsson A,Uhlén M,Pohl G,Sterky C,Hultberg H,Josephson S

更新日期：1987-08-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The stereochemical problem involving a pro-pro-prochiral phosphorus center, the hydrolysis of adenosine 5'-monophosphate to adenosine and inorganic phosphate catalyzed by the venom 5'-nucleotidase, has been studied by use of chiral [16O, 17O, 18O]thiophosphates (Psi). (Rp)- and (Sp)-[alpha-18O1]Adenosine 5'-thiophosph...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Tsai MD

更新日期：1980-11-11 00:00:00

abstract：:A procedure for the preparation of coupling factor 1 (F1) from Escherichia coli lacking subunits delta and epsilon is described. Using chloroform and dimethyl sulfoxide, we can isolate F1 containing only subunits alpha, beta, and gamma [F1(alpha beta gamma)] directly from membrane vesicles in 10-mg quantities. Pure an...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Tuttas-Dörschug R,Hanstein WG

更新日期：1989-06-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Lipid-protein interactions in bovine rod outer segment disk membranes have been studied by using a series of eight stearic acid spin-label probes which were labeled at different carbon atom positions in the chain. In randomly oriented membrane dispersions, the electron spin resonance (ESR) spectra of the C-8, C-9, C-1...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Pates RD,Marsh D

更新日期：1987-01-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The time course of changes in the intravesicular Ca2+ concentration ([Ca2+]i) in terminal cisternal sarcoplasmic reticulum vesicles upon the induction of Ca2+ release was investigated by using tetramethylmurexide (TMX) as an intravesicular Ca2+ probe. Upon the addition of polylysine at the concentration that led to th...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Ikemoto N,Antoniu B,Kang JJ,Mészáros LG,Ronjat M

更新日期：1991-05-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Serine palmitoyltransferase (EC 2.3.1.50) catalyzes the condensation of L-serine and palmitoyl-CoA to yield 3-ketosphinganine in the first unique reaction of long-chain (sphingoid) base biosynthesis. The kinetic effects of changing the extracellular concentrations of the precursors for this pathway were studied with L...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Merrill AH Jr,Wang E,Mullins RE

更新日期：1988-01-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Assembly of the type I procollagen molecule begins with interactions among the C-pro alpha1(I) and C-pro alpha2(I) domains. The C-propeptide domains themselves have subdomains of distinct structures. The important questions are where chain association begins and the basis of the chain selectivity which leads to the pr...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Malone JP,Alvares K,Veis A

更新日期：2005-11-22 00:00:00

abstract：:SopE and SopE2 are delivered by the Salmonella type III secretion system into eukaryotic cells to promote cell invasion. SopE and SopE2 are potent guanine nucleotide exchange factors (GEFs) for Rho GTPases Cdc42 and Rac1 and constitute a novel class of Rho GEFs. Although the sequence of SopE-like GEFs is not at all ho...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Williams C,Galyov EE,Bagby S

更新日期：2004-09-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Accumulation of the cytotoxic 40- to 42-residue beta-amyloid peptide represents the primary pathological process in Alzheimer's disease (AD). BACE1 (beta-site APP cleaving enzyme 1) is responsible for the initial required step in the neuronal amyloidogenic processing of beta-amyloid precursor protein and is a major dr...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Wang YS,Beyer BM,Senior MM,Wyss DF

更新日期：2005-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The interaction of factor B with C3b deposited on the surface of pathogens is the first step in the activation of the alternative complement pathway. The role of the von Willebrand factor type A (VWFA) module of factor B in this interaction has been investigated by generating three chimeras, Ch1-Ch3, in which surface ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Tuckwell DS,Xu Y,Newham P,Humphries MJ,Volanakis JE

更新日期：1997-06-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The respiratory nitric oxide reductase (NOR) from Paracoccus denitrificans catalyzes the two-electron reduction of NO to N(2)O (2NO + 2H(+) + 2e(-) --> N(2)O + H(2)O), which is an obligatory step in the sequential reduction of nitrate to dinitrogen known as denitrification. NOR has four redox-active cofactors, namely,...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Flock U,Watmough NJ,Adelroth P

更新日期：2005-08-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Arginine-70 of human dihydrofolate reductase (hDHFR) is a highly conserved residue which X-ray crystallographic data have shown to interact with the alpha-carboxylate of the terminal L-glutamate moiety of either folic acid or methotrexate (MTX). The rationale for this study was to introduce a conservative amino acid r...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Thompson PD,Freisheim JH

更新日期：1991-08-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytidine deaminase from Escherichia coli contains 1 mol of tightly bound zinc per enzyme subunit (Yang, C., Carlow, D., Wolfenden, R., & Short, S.A. (1992) Biochemistry 31, 4168-4174). When the metal liganding residues Cys-129 and Cys-132 were replaced by Ala, and His-102 was replaced by Ala, Asn, or Gln, deaminase ac...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Smith AA,Carlow DC,Wolfenden R,Short SA

更新日期：1994-05-31 00:00:00

abstract：:The reactivity of aluminum and several other divalent and trivalent metallic cations toward chromatin from rat brain and liver has been investigated. Two criteria are used to determine the relative reactivity of these cations toward chromatin. The first involves the ability of the ions to compact the chromatin fibers ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Walker PR,LeBlanc J,Sikorska M

更新日期：1989-05-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein splicing is a post-translational reaction facilitated by an intein, or intervening protein, which involves the removal of the intein and the ligation of the flanking polypeptides, or exteins. A DNA polymerase II intein from Pyrococcus abyssi (Pab PolII intein) can promote protein splicing in vitro on incubatio...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Minteer CJ,Siegart NM,Colelli KM,Liu X,Linhardt RJ,Wang C,Gomez AV,Reitter JN,Mills KV

更新日期：2017-02-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Isolation and characterization of a novel radiation-induced product, i.e., the 8-hydroxyguanine residue, produced in deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), 2'-deoxyguanosine, and 2'-deoxyguanosine 5'-monophosphate by gamma-irradiation in aqueous solution, are described. For this purpose, gamma-irradiated DNA was first hydrolyze...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Dizdaroglu M

更新日期：1985-07-30 00:00:00