Interaction of alamethicin with lecithin bilayers: a 31P and 2H NMR study.

abstract：:The sex steroid binding protein (SBP) of human pregnancy serum was purified to homogeneity by the sequential use of ammonium sulfate precipitation, affinity chromatography on 5alpha-dihydrotestosterone-17beta-succinyldiaminoethyl-(1,4-butanediol diglycidyl ether)-agarose, and preparative polyacrylamide gel electrophor...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Mickelson KE,Teller DC,Petra PH

更新日期：1978-04-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Recombinant human brain calbindin D(28K) (rHCaBP), human Cu,Zn-superoxide dismutase (HCuZnSOD), rabbit muscle glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase (GAPDH), and bovine serum albumin (BSA) were found to be S-glutathiolated in decomposed S-nitrosoglutathione (GSNO) solutions. Tryptic or Glu-C digestion and MALDI-TOF ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Tao L,English AM

更新日期：2004-04-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Inactivation of rabbit lung angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE) by 1-fluoro-2,4-dinitrobenzene (Dnp-F) has been shown to be due primarily to the modification of a tyrosine residue [Bünning, P., Kleeman, S.G., & Riordan, J.F. (1990) Biochemistry (preceding paper in this issue)]. Rabbit testicular ACE is also inactivate...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Chen YN,Riordan JF

更新日期：1990-11-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Heparin potentiates the mitogenic activity of FGF-1 by increasing the affinity for its receptor and by extending its biological half-life. During the course of labeling human FGF-1 with Na(125)I and chloramine T, it was observed that the protein lost its ability to bind to heparin. In contrast, bovine FGF-1 retained i...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Patrie KM,Botelho MJ,Franklin K,Chiu IM

更新日期：1999-07-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Postsynaptic polypeptide neurotoxins isolated from the venoms of elapid and hydrophid snakes exhibit the ability to bind selectively to and inhibit different types of receptors that function in nerve signal transmission. On the basis of their amino acid sequences and three-dimensional structures, these neurotoxins are...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Fiordalisi JJ,al-Rabiee R,Chiappinelli VA,Grant GA

更新日期：1994-04-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Cyclic AMP receptor protein is involved in the regulation of more than 20 genes. A step in the mechanism of activation of transcription is to induce a significant bending of the DNA upon complex formation between specific DNA and the protein. The induced DNA bending and a structure of the protein-DNA complex were stud...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Heyduk T,Lee JC

更新日期：1992-06-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Homoserine kinase, an enzyme in the aspartate pathway of amino acid biosynthesis in Escherichia coli, catalyzes the conversion of L-homoserine to L-homoserine phosphate. This enzyme has been found to have broad substrate specificity, including the phosphorylation of L-homoserine analogs where the carboxyl functional g...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Huo X,Viola RE

更新日期：1996-12-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy has been applied to the study of lipid vesicle-supported two-dimensional crystals and noncrystalline preparations of beef heart cytochrome oxidase. At room temperature, no conformational differences are seen between the noncrystalline and crystalline proteins, whose conformation...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Arrondo JL,Castresana J,Valpuesta JM,Goñi FM

更新日期：1994-09-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The interaction between eosin-5-maleimide (EMA), an inhibitor of the anion transport protein, band 3, and I-, a transportable substrate, was investigated by fluorescence quenching. The Stern-Volmer plot for the quenching reaction between EMA-labeled band 3 and I- exhibits downward curvature both in human erythrocyte g...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Pan RJ,Cherry RJ

更新日期：1995-04-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Chicken liver phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase (PEPCK) is activated by Cr2+ as the sole activator under anaerobic conditions. PEPCK was modified with Cr3+, starting with either Cr2+ or Cr3+. Cr3+ has the distinct advantage of being a paramagnetic cation that could serve as a paramagnetic probe. Activators Mn2+, Mg2+,...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Hlavaty JJ,Nowak T

更新日期：1998-06-02 00:00:00

abstract：:A highly sensitive and stable scanning microcalorimeter is employed in a reinvestigation of the effect of cholesterol on multilamellar suspensions of dimyristoylphosphatidylcholine (DMPC) and dipalmitoylphosphatidylcholine (DPPC). Below 20 mol % cholesterol the DPPC mixtures give heat-capacity curves each of which can...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Mabrey S,Mateo PL,Sturtevant JM

更新日期：1978-06-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Sonication of lysophosphatidylcholine (lysoPC; 20 mumol/mL) and cholesterol (chol) in aqueous medium produces lamellar structures over a wide range of concentrations. From 25 to 47 mol % cholesterol, electron microscopy (EM) after negative staining showed extended stacklike lamellae about 40 A thick. From 50 to 60 mol...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Kumar VV,Anderson WH,Thompson EW,Malewicz B,Baumann WJ

更新日期：1988-01-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Various omega-halogenated carboxy acids and amides were evaluated as potential active-site-directed reagents for alcohol dehydrogenase. 2-Bromoacetamide and bromoacetic and 3-bromopropionic acids inactivated the enzyme; AMP, NAD+, and NADH markedly decreased the rate of inactivation. Some omega-halogenated carboxyamid...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Fries RW,Bohlken DP,Blakley RT,Plapp BV

更新日期：1975-11-18 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper reports on NMR-molecular mechanics structural studies of the (-)-trans-anti-[MC]dG adduct positioned opposite dC in the sequence context of the d(C1-C2-A3-T4-C5-[MC]G6-C7-T8-A9-C10-C11).d(G12-G13-T14++ +-A15-G16-C17-G18- A19-T20-G21-G22) duplex [designated (-)-trans-anti-[MC]dG.dC 11-mer duplex]. This adduc...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Cosman M,Xu R,Hingerty BE,Amin S,Harvey RG,Geacintov NE,Broyde S,Patel DJ

更新日期：1995-05-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Oxindolealanine-62 lysozyme, formed by reaction with N-bromosuccinimide and purified by using affinity chromatography, was examined in its binding of homologous oligosaccharides of N-acetylglucosamine and in its catalysis of hydrolysis and of transglycosylation of the hexasaccharide of N-acetylglucosamine. Equilibrium...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Shrake A,Rupley JA

更新日期：1980-08-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The modified Tanford-Kirkwood electrostatic theory (Shire et al., 1974a) was applied to ferrimyoglobins from the following animal species: sperm whale (Physeter catodon), horse, California grey whale (Eschrichtius gibbosus), harbor seal (Phoca vitulina), and California sea lion (Zalophus californianus). Computations w...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Shire SJ,Hanania GI,Gurd FR

更新日期：1975-04-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Type IV collagen promotes integrin-mediated cell adhesion, spreading, and motility. Several regions within the triple-helical domain of type IV collagen have been identified as tumor cellular recognition sites. Among these regions, the alpha1(IV)531-543 sequence, designated L-Hep-III, promotes integrin-mediated tumor ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Li C,McCarthy JB,Furcht LT,Fields GB

更新日期：1997-12-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The physiological effects of anesthetics have been ascribed to their interaction with hydrophobic sites within functionally relevant CNS proteins. Studies have shown that volatile anesthetics compete for luciferin binding to the hydrophobic substrate binding site within firefly luciferase and inhibit its activity (Fra...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Ho C,Shanmugasundararaj S,Miller KW,Malinowski SA,Cook AC,Slater SJ

更新日期：2008-09-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Although the importance of interactions involving both the cytosolic and transmembrane regions of SecY and SecE has been documented, no information has been available for the physical contact sites of these translocase subunits in their cytosolic domains. We now carried out site-specific cross-linking experiments to i...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Satoh Y,Mori H,Ito K

更新日期：2003-06-24 00:00:00

abstract：:A series of human lymphoblastoid cell lines derived from nonleukemic donors are known to be cysteine prototrophs (cys+), while several lymphoblastoid lines derived from leukemic donors are cysteine auxotrophs (cys-). We have tested representative cell lines of each type for their content of cystathionase enzyme activi...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Glode LM,Kriegler MP,Livingston DM

更新日期：1981-03-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Type IIS restriction endonuclease Eco31I harbors a single HNH active site and cleaves both DNA strands close to its recognition sequence, 5'-GGTCTC(1/5). A two-domain organization of Eco31I was determined by limited proteolysis. Analysis of proteolytic fragments revealed that the N-terminal domain of Eco31I is respons...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Jakubauskas A,Sasnauskas G,Giedriene J,Janulaitis A

更新日期：2008-08-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Two short amino acid motifs, WXGDXNXR and PXWCDRXL, define a large family of inositol polyphosphate 5-phosphatases. We tested the importance of seven of these conserved amino acids to substrate binding and catalysis by mutating each to alanine in the platelet 75 kDa inositol polyphosphate 5-phosphatase II (5-phosphata...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Jefferson AB,Majerus PW

更新日期：1996-06-18 00:00:00

abstract：:His51 in horse liver alcohol dehydrogenase (ADHE) has been proposed to act as a proton donor/acceptor in the NAD+/NADH-dependent oxidation/reduction of alcohol/aldehyde. The residue corresponding to His51 of ADHE is Val51 (Val45 in the protein sequence) in benzyl alcohol dehydrogenase (BADH) encoded by TOL plasmid pWW...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Inoue J,Tomioka N,Itai A,Harayama S

更新日期：1998-03-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The binding of ferric ions, chelated with nitrilotriacetate, to human serum transferrin (hTF) has been studied using ultrasensitive titration calorimetry. Studies were done in both the presence and the absence of the synergistic bicarbonate anion. It was found that the C-site of hTF is capable of weakly binding bicarb...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Lin LN,Mason AB,Woodworth RC,Brandts JF

更新日期：1993-09-14 00:00:00

abstract：:A single amino acid substitution from methionine-184 to valine (M184V) of HIV-1 reverse transcriptase (RT) evokes the 1000-fold 3TC (Lamivudine) resistance by the HIV-1 virus observed in the clinic. The M184V mutant HIV-1 RT was studied to assess its catalytic efficiency during single nucleotide incorporation using a ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Feng JY,Anderson KS

更新日期：1999-07-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The newly described adapter molecule p130 Crk-associated substrate (Cas) has been reported to contribute to cytoskeletal organization through assembly of actin filaments and to be pivotal in embryonic development and in oncogene-mediated transformation. We characterized the regulation of Cas tyrosine phosphorylation i...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Ohmori T,Yatomi Y,Inoue K,Satoh K,Ozaki Y

更新日期：2000-05-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Intrastrand cross-links represent the majority of modifications in DNA resulting from interaction with the cancer chemotherapeutic drug cis-diamminedichloroplatinum(II) (cis-DDP). These adducts were recently characterized although several discrepancies remained to be resolved. In these studies, [3H]-cis-dichloro(ethyl...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Eastman A

更新日期：1986-07-01 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：:A high degree of selectivity toward the target site of the pest organism is a desirable attribute for new safer agrochemicals. To assist in the design of novel herbicides, we determined the crystal structures of the herbicidal target enzyme 4-hydroxyphenylpyruvate dioxygenase (HPPD; EC 1.13.11.27) from the plant Arabi...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Yang C,Pflugrath JW,Camper DL,Foster ML,Pernich DJ,Walsh TA

更新日期：2004-08-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The 14-3-3 proteins interact with diverse cellular molecules involved in various signal transduction pathways controlling cell proliferation, transformation, and apoptosis. To aid our investigation of the biological function of 14-3-3 proteins, we have set out to identify high-affinity antagonists. By screening phage ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Wang B,Yang H,Liu YC,Jelinek T,Zhang L,Ruoslahti E,Fu H

更新日期：1999-09-21 00:00:00