Covalent linkage of phospholipid to myelin basic protein: identification of serine-54 as the site of attachment.

abstract：:The histone content of zinc-deficient (-Zn) Euglena gracilis decreases while, concomitantly, DNA content increases and the transcription rate is reduced markedly [Mazus, B., Falchuk, K. H., & Vallee, B. L. (1983) Biochemistry (in press); Falchuk, K. H., Fawcett, D. W., & Vallee, B. L. (1975) J. Cell Sci. 17, 57-78]. T...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Stankiewicz AJ,Falchuk KH,Vallee BL

更新日期：1983-10-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Cysteine dioxygenase (CDO) is a non-heme monoiron enzyme with an unusual posttranslational modification in the proximity of the ferrous iron active site. This modification, a cysteine to tyrosine thioether bond, cross-links two β-strands of the β-barrel. We have investigated its role in catalysis through a combined cr...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Davies CG,Fellner M,Tchesnokov EP,Wilbanks SM,Jameson GN

更新日期：2014-12-23 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA polymerase β (Pol β) is a key enzyme in mammalian base excision repair (BER), contributing stepwise 5'-deoxyribose phosphate (dRP) lyase and "gap-filling" DNA polymerase activities. The lyase reaction is believed to occur via a β-elimination reaction following the formation of a Schiff base between the dRP group a...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Daskalova SM,Bhattacharya C,Dedkova LM,Hecht SM

更新日期：2017-01-24 00:00:00

abstract：:5-Iodonaphthyl 1-azide (INA) has been previously shown to selectively label, on photolysis, only those proteins in contact with the membrane lipids. Low concentrations (less than 10 microM) of INA added to rat ovarian plasma membranes induced, on photoactivation, a selective and complete loss of the response of the ad...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Raviv Y,Bercovici T,Gitler C,Salomon Y

更新日期：1984-01-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Self-splicing of Tetrahymena pre-rRNA proceeds in two consecutive phosphoryl transesterification steps. One major difference between these steps is that in the first an exogenous guanosine (G) binds to the active site, while in the second the 3'-terminal G414 residue of the intron binds. The first step has been extens...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Mei R,Herschlag D

更新日期：1996-05-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Assignments have been made for 11 methyl, one Gln-C gamma, one Thr-C beta, and all six Tyr-C zeta carbon resonances of ribonuclease A. These partially serve to delineate the binding sites for Cu2+, Mn2+, phosphate, cytidine and its 2'-, 3'-, and 5'-phosphates (Cyd and Cyd-2'-P, -3'-P, and -5'-P), and one or a few urea...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Howarth OW,Lian LY

更新日期：1984-07-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The electron density map of the 3D crystal of Photosystem II from Thermosynechococcus vulcanus with a 1.9 Å resolution (PDB: 3ARC ) exhibits, in the two monomers in the asymmetric unit cell, an, until now, unidentified and uninterpreted strong difference in electron density centered at a distance of around 1.5 Å from ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Sugiura M,Koyama K,Umena Y,Kawakami K,Shen JR,Kamiya N,Boussac A

更新日期：2013-12-31 00:00:00

abstract：:The characteristics of tetrahydrobiopterin (H4biopterin) binding to pteridine-free recombinant macrophage inducible nitric oxide synthase expressed in Escherichia coli were investigated with a special focus given to effects caused by 2,4-diamino-5,6,7, 8-tetrahydro-6-(l-erythro-1,2-dihydroxypropyl)pteridine (4-amino-H...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Mayer B,Wu C,Gorren AC,Pfeiffer S,Schmidt K,Clark P,Stuehr DJ,Werner ER

更新日期：1997-07-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Treatment of human lymphoid cells with methyl methanesulfonate (MMS) results in discontinuities in cellular DNA. Discontinuities can be detected by sedimentation through neutral sucrose gradients after digestion with S1 nuclease on top of the gradient and by benzoylated naphthoylated diethylaminoethylcellulose (BND-ce...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Karran P,Higgins NP,Strauss B

更新日期：1977-10-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Calcium-saturated calmodulin (CaM) binds and influences the activity of a varied collection of target proteins in most cells. This promiscuity underlies the role of CaM as a shared participant in calcium-dependent signal transduction pathways but imposes a handicap on popular CaM-based calcium biosensors, which displa...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Green DF,Dennis AT,Fam PS,Tidor B,Jasanoff A

更新日期：2006-10-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Large primary deuterium kinetic isotope effects (1° DKIEs) on enzyme-catalyzed hydride transfer may be observed when the transferred hydride tunnels through the energy barrier. The following 1° DKIEs on kcat/ Km and relative reaction driving force are reported for wild-type and mutant glycerol-3-phosphate dehydrogenas...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Reyes AC,Amyes TL,Richard JP

更新日期：2018-07-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Isolated chloroplasts are capable of synthesizing chloroplast DNA in the presence of Mg2+ and deoxynucleoside triphosphates. The in vitro reaction proceeds for at least 60 min and is inhibited by KC1 and N-ethylmaleimide. Stretches of several hundred nucleotides in length are synthesized within an hour. Little or no i...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Zimmermann W,Weissbach A

更新日期：1982-07-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Arachidonic acid metabolism by lipoxygenases and cytochrome P450 monooxygenases produces regioisomeric hydroperoxyeicosatetraenoic acids (HPETEs), hydroxyeicosatetraenoic acids (HETEs), epoxyeicosatrienoic acids (EETs), and dihydroxyeicosatrienoic acids (DHETs), which serve as components of cell signaling cascades. In...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Widstrom RL,Norris AW,Spector AA

更新日期：2001-01-30 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：:The ability to undergo large-scale domain rearrangements is essential for the substrate-binding function of periplasmic binding proteins (PBPs), which are indispensable for nutrient uptake in Gram-negative bacteria. Crystal structures indicate that PBPs typically adopt either an "open" unliganded configuration or a "c...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Bermejo GA,Strub MP,Ho C,Tjandra N

更新日期：2010-03-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The unique characteristics of DNA charge transport (CT) have prompted an examination of roles for this chemistry within a biological context. Not only can DNA CT facilitate long-range oxidative damage of DNA, but redox-active proteins can couple to the DNA base stack and participate in long-range redox reactions using...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Grodick MA,Muren NB,Barton JK

更新日期：2015-02-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Halorhodopsin from Natronomonas pharaonis (NpHR) acts an inward-directed, light-driven chloride pump and forms a homotrimer. To evaluate effect of trimeric assembly, that is, intermolecular interaction, on the control or modulation of light-driven chloride pumping activity of individual HRs, it is important to underst...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Sasaki T,Aizawa T,Kamiya M,Kikukawa T,Kawano K,Kamo N,Demura M

更新日期：2009-12-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Specific lysine residues on the ubiquitin surface were selected during the course of evolution to form different polyubiquitin chain structures that signal diverse cellular processes. A vast number of ubiquitin receptors specifically recognize and decode the signals conferred by these polyubiquitin chains. The mechani...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Levin-Kravets O,Shohat N,Prag G

更新日期：2015-08-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The catalytic mechanism of recombinant soybean cytosolic ascorbate peroxidase (rsAPX) and a derivative of rsAPX in which a cysteine residue (Cys32) located close to the substrate (L-ascorbic acid) binding site has been modified to preclude binding of ascorbate [Mandelman, D., Jamal, J., and Poulos, T. L. (1998) Bioche...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Lad L,Mewies M,Raven EL

更新日期：2002-11-19 00:00:00

abstract：:HPr is a protein of the bacterial phosphoenolpyruvate:sugar phosphotransferase transport system (PTS). In Gram-positive bacteria, HPr can be phosphorylated on Ser(46) by HPr(Ser) kinase/phosphorylase (HPrK/P) and on His(15) by enzyme I (EI) of the PTS. In vitro studies have shown that phosphorylation on one residue gr...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Casabon I,Couture M,Vaillancourt K,Vadeboncoeur C

更新日期：2006-05-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Synthetic O-glycopeptides containing one or two GalNAc residues attached to Ser or Thr were used as substrates to investigate the effect of peptide structure on the activity of crude preparations of UDP-Gal:GalNAc alpha-R beta 3-Gal-transferase from pig stomach and pig and rat colonic mucosa and of a partially purifie...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Brockhausen I,Möller G,Merz G,Adermann K,Paulsen H

更新日期：1990-11-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Disruption of the cell membrane by the β-amyloid (Aβ) peptides has been considered as a main mechanism of Alzheimer's disease. The peptide-to-lipid molar ratio (P:L) varies over a broad range biologically. We report here that two of the previously observed Aβ evolution pathways, fibrillation and induction of vesicle f...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Akinlolu RD,Nam M,Qiang W

更新日期：2015-06-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Oligothymidylates covalently linked to iron-porphyrins were synthesized to target the nuclease activity of Fe-porphyrin to complementary polynucleotides. In the presence of oxygen and a reducing agent, oligo(dT)7 bearing the reactive group attached to the 3'-phosphate was shown to be active in the cleavage of poly(dA)...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Le Doan T,Perrouault L,Helene C,Chassignol M,Thuong NT

更新日期：1986-11-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Autophagy, an essential eukaryotic homeostasis pathway, allows the sequestration of unwanted, damaged, or harmful cytoplasmic components in vesicles called autophagosomes, permitting subsequent lysosomal degradation and nutrient recycling. Autophagosome nucleation is mediated by class III phosphatidylinositol-3-kinase...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Mei Y,Su M,Sanishvili R,Chakravarthy S,Colbert CL,Sinha SC

更新日期：2016-08-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Trypsin and N-[3-[4-[4-(amidinophenoxy)carbonyl]phenyl]-2-methyl-2-propenoyl]- N-allylglycine methanesulfonate (1), a newly designed and orally active synthetic trypsin inhibitor, were cocrystallized. The space group of the crystal is P2(1)2(1)2(1) with cell constants a = 63.74 A, b = 63.08 A, and c = 69.38 A, which i...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Odagaki Y,Nakai H,Senokuchi K,Kawamura M,Hamanaka N,Nakamura M,Tomoo K,Ishida T

更新日期：1995-10-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The successive high-resolution differential scanning calorimetric (DSC) thermograms for aqueous dispersions of a homologous series of mixed-chain phosphatidylcholines, C(X):C(X + 6)PC, have been recorded and analyzed. In this series of saturated mixed-chain phosphatidylcholines, the total number of carbon atoms in the...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Wang ZQ,Lin HN,Huang CH

更新日期：1990-07-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Tau is a neuronal microtubule-associated protein that plays a central role in many cellular processes, both physiological and pathological, such as axons stabilization and Alzheimer's disease. Despite extensive studies, very little is known about the detailed molecular basis of tau binding to microtubules. We used the...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Devred F,Barbier P,Douillard S,Monasterio O,Andreu JM,Peyrot V

更新日期：2004-08-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Specific intra- and intermolecular quadruplex conformations of model G-DNA oligonucleotides have been identified from their translational and rotational diffusion coefficients in aqueous solution. The transport properties were determined by polarized and depolarized dynamic light scattering. A comparison with hydrodyn...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Bolten M,Niermann M,Eimer W

更新日期：1999-09-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Reactive metabolites of environmental chemicals and drugs can cause site specific damage to the p53 tumor suppressor gene in a major pathway for genotoxicity. We report here a high-throughput, cell-free, 96-well plate magnetic bead-enzyme system interfaced with LC-MS/MS sequencing for bioactivating test chemicals and ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Malla S,Kadimisetty K,Jiang D,Choudhary D,Rusling JF

更新日期：2018-07-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The global transcription factor, p53, is a master regulator of gene expression in cells. Mutations in the TP53 gene promote unregulated cell growth through the inactivation of downstream effectors of the p53 pathway. In fact, mutant p53 is highly prone to misfolding and frequently resides inside the cell as large aggr...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Navalkar A,Ghosh S,Pandey S,Paul A,Datta D,Maji SK

更新日期：2020-01-21 00:00:00