Modulation of electrically induced permeabilization and fusion of Chinese hamster ovary cells by osmotic pressure.

abstract：:In an effort to extend automated Edman degradation to nanomole quantities of protein, the method of sequenator analysis described by Edman and Begg (Edman, P., and Begg, G. (1967), Eur. J. Biochem. 1, 80) was modified to permit long degradations in the absence of carrier proteins. By using an aqueous 0.1 M Quadrol pro...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Brauer AW,Margolies MN,Haber E

更新日期：1975-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The micellar properties of mixed, bovine gangliosides and purified galactosyl-N-acetylacetylgalactosaminyl (N-acetylneuraminyl) galactosylglucosylceramide were studied by gel filtration, equilibrium dialysis, and band and boundary centrifugation in sucrose gradients. The dissociation of micelles is very slow (days) in...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Formisano S,Johnson ML,Lee G,Aloj SM,Edelhoch H

更新日期：1979-03-20 00:00:00

abstract：:A survey of RuvB protein-mediated ATP hydrolysis yields the following observations. (1) The RuvB protein exhibits a DNA-independent ATPase activity with a turnover number (based on a RuvB monomer) approaching 6 min-1 and a Km of 154 microM. Single-stranded DNA and linear duplex DNA have small but significant effects o...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Marrione PE,Cox MM

更新日期：1995-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cytokine hormone interleukin-2 (IL-2) contains a highly adaptive region that binds small, druglike molecules. The binding properties of this adaptive region have been explored using a "tethering" method that relies on the formation of a disulfide bond between the protein and small-molecule ligands. Using tethering...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Hyde J,Braisted AC,Randal M,Arkin MR

更新日期：2003-06-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Monoclonal antibodies were raised against a mono-p-nitrophenyl phosphonate ester to elicit catalytic antibodies capable of hydrolyzing the analogous p-nitrophenyl ester or carbonate. Potential catalytic antibody producing clones were selected, by use of a competitive inhibition assay, on the basis of their affinity fo...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Tawfik DS,Zemel RR,Arad-Yellin R,Green BS,Eshhar Z

更新日期：1990-10-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Extensive molecular modeling with molecular dynamics simulations and van der Waals energy analyses were used to elucidate the striking finding that a mutagenic benzo[a]pyrene-derived DNA lesion, the base-displaced intercalated 10R-(+)-cis-anti-B[a]P-N(2)-dG (G*), manifests large differences in nucleotide excision repa...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Mu H,Kropachev K,Chen Y,Zhang H,Cai Y,Geacintov NE,Broyde S

更新日期：2013-08-20 00:00:00

abstract：:We reported previously that cdc2 kinase decreased the microtubule-stabilizing ability of a major HeLa cell microtubule-associated protein, MAP4, by phosphorylation in vitro [Ookata, K., et al. (1995) J. Cell Biol. 128, 849-862]. An important question raised by this study is whether MAP4 is indeed phosphorylated by cdc...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Ookata K,Hisanaga S,Sugita M,Okuyama A,Murofushi H,Kitazawa H,Chari S,Bulinski JC,Kishimoto T

更新日期：1997-12-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Sir2 protein deacetylases (or sirtuins) catalyze NAD+-dependent conversion of epsilon-amino-acetylated lysine residues to deacetylated lysine, nicotinamide, and 2'-O-acetyl-ADP-ribose. Small-molecule modulation of sirtuin activity might treat age-associated diseases, such as type II diabetes, obesity, and neurodegener...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Smith BC,Denu JM

更新日期：2007-12-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The cytidine repressor (CytR) is a member of the LacR family of bacterial repressors with distinct functional features. The Escherichia coli CytR regulon comprises nine operons whose palindromic operators vary in both sequence and, most significantly, spacing between the recognition half-sites. This suggests a strong ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Moody CL,Tretyachenko-Ladokhina V,Laue TM,Senear DF,Cocco MJ

更新日期：2011-08-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of the polyene antibiotic amphotericin B on the electron paramagnetic resonance spectra of lipid probes intercalated in model membranes was examined. When the antibiotic was added to the aqueous phase, no spectral effects occurred. However, when the antibiotic was incorporated during membrane preparation, c...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Aracava Y,Smith IC,Schreier S

更新日期：1981-09-29 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated how the intrinsic sequence-dependent properties probed via the phosphate linkages (BI ↔ BII equilibrium) influence the preferred shape of free DNA, and how this affects the nucleosome formation. First, this exploits NMR solution studies of four B-DNA dodecamers that together cover 39 base pairs of the ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Xu X,Ben Imeddourene A,Zargarian L,Foloppe N,Mauffret O,Hartmann B

更新日期：2014-09-09 00:00:00

abstract：:A T203Y substitution in green fluorescent protein causes a red shift in emission to yield a class of mutants known as yellow fluorescent protein (YFP). Many of these YFP mutants bind halides with affinities in the millimolar range, which often results in the chromophore pK values being shifted into the physiological r...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Seward HE,Basran J,Denton R,Pfuhl M,Muskett FW,Bagshaw CR

更新日期：2013-04-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Factors determining conformations of imidazole axially coordinated to heme in heme proteins were investigated by analyzing 693 hemes in 432 different crystal structures of heme proteins from the Protein Data Bank (PDB), where at least one histidine is ligated to heme. The results from a search of the PDB for protein s...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Zarić SD,Popović DM,Knapp EW

更新日期：2001-07-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of GDP and of aurodox (N-methylkirromycin) on the affinity of elongation factor Tu (EF-Tu) for aminoacyl-tRNA (aa-tRNA) have been quantified spectroscopically by using Phe-tRNA(Phe)-Fl8, a functionally active analogue of Phe-tRNA(Phe) with a fluorescein dye convalently attached to the s4U-8 base. The assoc...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Dell VA,Miller DL,Johnson AE

更新日期：1990-02-20 00:00:00

abstract：:We have studied the binding nature of an aromatic aldehyde to the catalytic site of liver alcohol dehydrogenase from horse (LADH) using preresonance Raman spectroscopy. The compound p-(dimethylamino)benzaldehyde (DABA) is converted to the corresponding alcohol in the presence of nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NADH...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Callender R,Chen D,Lugtenburg J,Martin C,Rhee KW,Sloan D,Vandersteen R,Yue KT

更新日期：1988-05-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Electron donation from the soluble cytochrome (cyt) c2 to the photooxidized primary donor, P+, of reaction centers isolated from Rhodobacter sphaeroides was studied by using chemical zero-length cross-linking. This cross-linking stabilizes a 1:1 covalent complex between subunit M of the reaction center and cyt c2. In ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Drepper F,Dorlet P,Mathis P

更新日期：1997-02-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The third intracellular loop (IL3) of G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) is an important contact domain between GPCRs and their G proteins. Previously, the IL3 of Ste2p, a Saccharomyces cerevisiae GPCR, was suggested to undergo a conformational change upon activation as detected by differential protease susceptibilit...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Umanah GK,Huang LY,Maccarone JM,Naider F,Becker JM

更新日期：2011-08-16 00:00:00

abstract：:To study whether protein kinase C (PKC) isoforms can interact with protein-tyrosine-phosphatases (PTPs) which are connected to the insulin signaling pathway, we co-overexpressed PKC isoforms together with insulin receptor, docking proteins, and the PTPs SHP1 and SHP2 in human embryonic kidney (HEK) 293 cells. After ph...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Strack V,Krützfeldt J,Kellerer M,Ullrich A,Lammers R,Häring HU

更新日期：2002-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Two oxygenated iron-cobalt hybrid hemoglobins (Hbs), (alpha Co-O2 beta Fe-O2)2 and (alpha Fe-O2 beta Co-O2)2, were studied by electron spin echo envelope modulation (ESEEM) spectroscopy in order to measure (i) electron-nuclear hyperfine and nuclear quadrupole coupling to the N epsilon of the proximal histidyl imidazol...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Lee HC,Peisach J,Tsuneshige A,Yonetani T

更新日期：1995-05-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Human alpha1 and alpha2 isoforms of Na,K-ATPase have been expressed with porcine 10*Histidine-tagged beta1 subunit in Pichia pastoris. Methanol-induced expression of alpha2 is optimal at 20 degrees C, whereas at 25 degrees C, which is optimal for expression of alpha1, alpha2 is not expressed. Detergent-soluble alpha2b...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Lifshitz Y,Petrovich E,Haviv H,Goldshleger R,Tal DM,Garty H,Karlish SJ

更新日期：2007-12-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The human, cytosolic enzyme isocitrate dehydrogenase 1 (IDH1) reversibly converts isocitrate to α-ketoglutarate (αKG). Cancer-associated somatic mutations in IDH1 result in a loss of this normal function but a gain in a new or neomorphic ability to convert αKG to the oncometabolite 2-hydroxyglutarate (2HG). To improve...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Rendina AR,Pietrak B,Smallwood A,Zhao H,Qi H,Quinn C,Adams ND,Concha N,Duraiswami C,Thrall SH,Sweitzer S,Schwartz B

更新日期：2013-07-02 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper defines the properties of interaction of endothelin-1 (Et-1) with cloned bovine ETA receptors. The Kd value of Et-1/ETA receptor complexes was estimated in membrane preparations to 20 pM using kinetic experiments and saturation experiments performed under quasi equilibrium conditions. Competition experiment...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Desmarets J,Gresser O,Guedin D,Frelin C

更新日期：1996-11-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The C2A domain of synaptotagmin 7 (Syt7) is a Ca(2+) and membrane binding module that docks and inserts into cellular membranes in response to elevated intracellular Ca(2+) concentrations. Like other C2 domains, Syt7 C2A binds Ca(2+) and membranes primarily through three loop regions; however, it docks at Ca(2+) conce...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Chon NL,Osterberg JR,Henderson J,Khan HM,Reuter N,Knight JD,Lin H

更新日期：2015-09-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Induced fit has been postulated to be an important component of ligand interactions with proteins, including protein-DNA interactions. We imagined that the entropic cost of induced fit might be highly dependent on the local protein sequence context around critical contact residues. To investigate this question, we ana...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Ribas de Pouplana L,Auld DS,Kim S,Schimmel P

更新日期：1996-06-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Mg2+ is important for the RNase activity of the hammerhead ribozyme. To investigate the binding properties of Mg2+ to the hammerhead ribozyme, cleavage rates and CD spectra for substrates containing inosine or guanosine at the cleavage site were measured. The 2-amino group of this guanosine interfered with the rate of...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Koizumi M,Ohtsuka E

更新日期：1991-05-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Crystal structures of complexes of a D30N mutant of feline immunodeficiency virus protease (FIV PR) complexed with a statine-based inhibitor (LP-149), as well as with a substrate based on a modification of this inhibitor (LP-149S), have been solved and refined at resolutions of 2.0 and 1.85 A, respectively. Both the i...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Laco GS,Schalk-Hihi C,Lubkowski J,Morris G,Zdanov A,Olson A,Elder JH,Wlodawer A,Gustchina A

更新日期：1997-09-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The flavoprotein component (SiR-FP) of the sulfite reductase from Escherichia coli is an octamer containing one FAD and one FMN per polypeptide chain. SiR-FP60, a SiR-FP fragment starting with alanine-52, was overexpressed in E. coli and purified as a monomer. The N-terminal part of the native protein contains thus al...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Zeghouf M,Fontecave M,Macherel D,Covès J

更新日期：1998-04-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Pharaonis halorhodopsin (phR), the light-driven chloride ion pump from Natronobacterium pharaonis with C-terminal histidine tag, was expressed in Escherichia coli cells. The protein was solubilized with 0.1% n-dodecyl beta-D-maltopyranoside and purified with a nickel column. Removal of Cl- from the medium yields blue ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Sato M,Kanamori T,Kamo N,Demura M,Nitta K

更新日期：2002-02-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The organometallic anticancer agent titanocene dichloride, Cp(2)TiCl(2), is now in phase II clinical trials as an anticancer drug, but its mechanism of action is poorly understood. We show here that the interactions of Cp(2)TiCl(2) with human serum transferrin (hTF) and that of Ti(2)-hTF with adenosine triphosphate (A...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Guo M,Sun H,McArdle HJ,Gambling L,Sadler PJ

更新日期：2000-08-22 00:00:00

abstract：:A mass transport theory of the gel chromatographic procedure of Hummel and Dreyer for measuring the binding of small ligand molecules to macromolecules has been formulated for ligand-mediated macromolecular association. It is concluded that the Hummel-Dreyer procedure is the method of choice for quantitating ligand bi...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Cann JR,Hinman ND

更新日期：1976-10-19 00:00:00