A conserved region in alpha-macroglobulins participates in binding to the mammalian alpha-macroglobulin receptor.

abstract：:The UDP-glucuronosyltransferase (UGT) isozyme system is critical for protecting the body against endogenous and exogenous chemicals by linking glucuronic acid donated by UDP-glucuronic acid to a lipophilic acceptor substrate. UGTs convert metabolites, dietary constituents, and environmental toxicants to highly excreta...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Banerjee R,Pennington MW,Garza A,Owens IS

更新日期：2008-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Binding studies of the interaction of immobilized 1alpha- and 17alpha-aminoalkyl derivatives of 5alpha-dihydrotestosterone (DHT) with purified N-deglycosylated homodimeric human sex hormone-binding globulin (SHBG) were performed using a surface plasmon resonance biosensor. These 1alpha- and 17alpha-derivatives with sp...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Metzger J,Schnitzbauer A,Meyer M,Söder M,Cuilleron CY,Hauptmann H,Huber E,Luppa PB

更新日期：2003-11-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Double-stranded complementary deoxyribonucleic acid (cDNA) transcribed in vitro from a partially pure myosin light-chain messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA) of the chick embryonic heart was cloned in Escherichia coli strain chi 1776 by using the HindIII cleavage site in the plasmid pBR322. The insertion of essentially f...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Arnold HH,Siddiqui MA

更新日期：1979-12-11 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：:Six active site mutants of Escherichia coli phosphofructokinase have been constructed and characterized using steady-state kinetics. All but one of the mutants (ES222) have significantly lower maximal activity, implicating these residues in the catalytic process. Replacement of Asp127, the key catalytic residue in the...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Berger SA,Evans PR

更新日期：1992-09-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Three electrochromic difference spectra induced by the deposition of (1) a negative charge on the primary quinone acceptor, Q(A), (2) a positive charge on (or near) Tyr161 of the D1 subunit (Y(Z)), and (3) a positive charge on the manganese cluster were determined at room temperature in photosystem II (PSII) core part...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Mulkidjanian AY,Cherepanov DA,Haumann M,Junge W

更新日期：1996-03-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The three subunits I, II, and III of bovine procarboxypeptidase A separated by reversible dimethylmaleylation can reassociate to form the reconstituted complexes I + II, I + III, and I + II + III. Since the association II + III is not possible, subunit I appears to play a central role in the formation of the complex. ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Puigserver A,Desnuelle P

更新日期：1977-05-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Splicing factor RBM10 and its close homologues RBM5 and RBM6 govern the splicing of oncogenes such as Fas, NUMB, and Bcl-X. The molecular architecture of these proteins includes zinc fingers (ZnFs) and RNA recognition motifs (RRMs). Three of these domains in RBM10 that constitute the RNA binding part of this splicing ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Serrano P,Hammond JA,Geralt M,Wüthrich K

更新日期：2018-03-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Big ET-1 and big ET-3 are precursor peptides which render endothelin-1 (ET-1) and endothelin-3 (ET-3) relatively unreactive and resistant to proteolytic cleavage. Big ET-1 is cleaved in vivo by ECE-1 (endothelin-converting enzyme), and big ET-3 is also cleaved but apparently to a significantly lesser extent by this en...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Cronin NB,Wallace BA

更新日期：1999-02-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The mitochondrial tyrosyl tRNA synthetase from Neurospora crassa (CYT-18 protein) is a bifunctional group I intron splicing cofactor. CYT-18 is capable of splicing multiple group I introns from a wide variety of sources by stabilizing the catalytically active intron structures. CYT-18 and mt TyrRSs from related fungal...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Geng C,Paukstelis PJ

更新日期：2014-03-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The flavin reductase (FRED) and isobutylamine N-hydroxylase (IBAH) from Streptomyces viridifaciens constitute a two-component, flavin-dependent monooxygenase system that catalyzes the first step in valanimycin biosynthesis. FRED is an oxidoreductase that provides the reduced flavin to IBAH, which then catalyzes the hy...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Li H,Forson B,Eckshtain-Levi M,Valentino H,Martín Del Campo JS,Tanner JJ,Sobrado P

更新日期：2021-01-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Pili are surface-linked virulence factors that play key roles in infection establishment in a variety of pathogenic species. In Gram-positive pathogens, pilus formation requires the action of sortases, dedicated transpeptidases that covalently associate pilus building blocks. In Streptococcus pneumoniae, a major human...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Manzano C,Izoré T,Job V,Di Guilmi AM,Dessen A

更新日期：2009-11-10 00:00:00

abstract：:One- and two-dimensional NMR experiments were carried out on a decamer, d-(CGCTTTTCGC).d(GCGAAAAGCG), and on the same sequence with the addition of an unpaired thymidine, d(CGCTTTTCGC).d(GCGAATAAGCG), which will be referred to as the T-bulge decamer. Evidence from one-dimensional NOE experiments on the exchangeable pr...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Morden KM,Gunn BM,Maskos K

更新日期：1990-09-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Complete proton assignments are reported for the 1H nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectrum of Escherichia coli thioredoxin in the oxidized (with active-site disulfide bridge) and reduced (with two sulfhydryl groups) states. The assignments were obtained by using an integrated assignment strategy in which spin syste...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Dyson HJ,Holmgren A,Wright PE

更新日期：1989-08-22 00:00:00

abstract：:In this report we provide biochemical evidence that a highly purified synaptic plasma membrane fraction derived from rat brain, after intraventricular injection of 35S-labeled sodium sulfate, is enriched in a number of large sulfated glycoproteins compared with a purified myelin fraction studied concurrently. A fracti...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Simpson DL,Thorne DR,Loch HH

更新日期：1976-12-14 00:00:00

abstract：:A mutant form of the nitrogenase iron protein with a deletion of residue Leu 127, located in the switch II region of the nucleotide binding site, forms a tight, inactive complex with the nitrogenase molybdenum iron (MoFe) protein in the absence of nucleotide. The structure of this complex generated with proteins from ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Chiu H,Peters JW,Lanzilotta WN,Ryle MJ,Seefeldt LC,Howard JB,Rees DC

更新日期：2001-01-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of incubation of erythrocyte ghosts under various conditions (ionic strength or addition of ankyrin, diamines, or ATP) on the lateral motion of band 3 in the membranes were studied by using the fluorescence photobleaching recovery technique. Incubation of ghosts with exogenous ankyrin increased the immobil...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Tsuji A,Ohnishi S

更新日期：1986-10-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Tissue factor pathway inhibitor (TFPI) from different cell lines shows up to 15-fold differences in the ratio of anticoagulant to chromogenic activity. The anticoagulant activity was dependent on the purification procedure used and it was possible to isolate two fractions of recombinant TFPI. Only one of these fractio...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Nordfang O,Bjørn SE,Valentin S,Nielsen LS,Wildgoose P,Beck TC,Hedner U

更新日期：1991-10-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The interactions between rhodopsin molecules in a micellar detergent solution (octyl glucoside) and in reconstituted phospholipid vesicles were studied in the dark and after bleaching. Resonance energy transfer measurements were used to monitor the proximity between rhodopsin monomers conjugated with a fluorescent don...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Borochov-Neori H,Fortes PA,Montal M

更新日期：1983-01-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The cro repressor protein from bacteriophage lambda has been studied in solution by two-dimensional nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy (2D NMR). Following the approach of Wüthrich and co-workers [Wüthrich, K., Wider, G., Wagner, G., & Braun, W. (1982) J. Mol. Biol. 155, 311-319], individual spin systems were iden...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Weber PL,Wemmer DE,Reid BR

更新日期：1985-08-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Elongation factor Tu (EF-Tu) is a highly conserved GTPase that is responsible for supplying the aminoacylated tRNA to the ribosome. Upon binding to the ribosome, EF-Tu undergoes GTP hydrolysis, which drives a major conformational change, triggering the release of aminoacylated tRNA to the ribosome. Using a combination...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Lai J,Ghaemi Z,Luthey-Schulten Z

更新日期：2017-11-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Sialyltransferase activities, SAT-3 (CMP-NeuAc:nLcOse4Cer alpha 2-3sialyltransferase) and SAT-4 (CMP-NeuAc:GgOse4Cer alpha 2-3sialyltransferase), in Colo 205 cells catalyze the transfer of sialic acid to the terminal galactose of GlcNc-- and GalNAc-containing glycolipid substrates, respectively. Competition kinetic st...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Basu SS,Basu M,Li Z,Basu S

更新日期：1996-04-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET) has been used to investigate the conformation of the single stranded region for a series of fluorescent DNA template-primers bound to the Klenow fragment (KF) of Escherichia coli DNA polymerase I. Fluorescent derivatives of template-primer DNA, modified with tetramethylrho...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Furey WS,Joyce CM,Osborne MA,Klenerman D,Peliska JA,Balasubramanian S

更新日期：1998-03-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The aspartate receptor is one of the ligand-specific, homodimeric chemoreceptors that detects extracellular attractants and triggers the chemotaxis pathway of Escherichia coli and Salmonella typhimurium. This receptor regulates the activity of the histidine kinase CheA, which forms a kinetically stable complex with th...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Winston SE,Mehan R,Falke JJ

更新日期：2005-09-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Isotope effects have been measured with Mg2+ as the activator and L-malate labeled with deuterium or tritium at carbon 2 as the substrate over the pH range 4-10. Comparison of the nearly pH-independent deuterium-isotope effect on V/Kmalate of 1.5 with the tritium effect of 2.0 by the method of Northrop (Northrop, D.B....

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Schimerlik MI,Grimshaw CE,Cleland WW

更新日期：1977-02-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Ultraviolet absorption techniques were used to study the thermodynamics of duplex formation for a DNA decamer, d(GCGAAAAGCG).d(CGCTTTTCGC), and a series of related duplexes, each of which contains a bulged base centered in the A.T tract. Thermodynamic parameters were obtained from nonlinear least-squares fits of the m...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： LeBlanc DA,Morden KM

更新日期：1991-04-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Heme oxygenase (HO), from the pathogenic bacterium N. meningitidis(NmHO), which secures host iron, shares many properties with mammalian HOs but also exhibits some key differences. The crystal structure appears more compact, and the crystal-undetected C-terminus interacts with substrate in solution. The unique nature ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Peng D,Satterlee JD,Ma LH,Dallas JL,Smith KM,Zhang X,Sato M,La Mar GN

更新日期：2011-10-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Actin-depolymerizing factor (ADF)/cofilin enhances the turnover of actin filaments by two separable activities: filament severing and pointed-end depolymerization. Multicellular organisms express multiple ADF/cofilin isoforms in a tissue-specific manner, and the vertebrate proteins are grouped into ADFs and cofilins o...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Yamashiro S,Mohri K,Ono S

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA gyrase and topoisomerase IV (Topo IV) are cellular targets of quinolone antibacterial drugs. The Ser-80 and the Glu-84 of the ParC subunit have been identified as mutational hotspots for quinolone resistance. Mutant Topo IV proteins containing a quinolone resistance-conferring mutation have been constructed, and t...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Hiasa H

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In aspartate aminotransferase, pyridoxal 5'-phosphate (PLP) forms a Schiff base with the epsilon-amino group of Lys258 (internal aldimine). The internal aldimine has a pKa value of 6.8. Binding of a substrate amino acid to the enzyme yields the Michaelis complex, in which PLP still forms the internal aldimine with Lys...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Hayashi H,Mizuguchi H,Kagamiyama H

更新日期：1998-10-27 00:00:00