A mechanochemical switch to control radical intermediates.

abstract：:Neutral glycosphingolipids and gangliosides in rabbit thymus, spleen, bone marrow, and erythrocyte ghosts were analyzed by conventional chemical and enzymatic procedures and negative ion fast atom bombardment mass spectrometry (FABMS). Thymus gangliosides showed a characteristic composition. Major gangliosides compris...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Iwamori M,Kiguchi K,Kanno J,Kitagawa M,Nagai Y

更新日期：1986-02-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Zinc, the catalytically essential metal of angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE), has been replaced by cobalt(II) to give an active, chromophoric enzyme that is spectroscopically responsive to inhibitor binding. Visible absorption spectroscopy and magnetic circular dichroic spectropolarimetry have been used to character...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Bicknell R,Holmquist B,Lee FS,Martin MT,Riordan JF

更新日期：1987-11-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Copper-zinc superoxide dismutase (CuZnSOD) acquires its catalytic copper ion through interaction with another polypeptide termed the copper chaperone for SOD. Here, we combine X-ray crystallographic and analytical ultracentrifugation methods to characterize rigorously both truncated and full-length forms of apo-LYS7, ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Hall LT,Sanchez RJ,Holloway SP,Zhu H,Stine JE,Lyons TJ,Demeler B,Schirf V,Hansen JC,Nersissian AM,Valentine JS,Hart PJ

更新日期：2000-04-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The nonbulky 5',8-cyclopurine DNA lesions (cP) and the bulky, benzo[ a]pyrene diol epoxide-derived stereoisomeric cis- and trans- N2-guanine adducts (BPDE-dG) are good substrates of the human nucleotide excision repair (NER) mechanism. These DNA lesions were embedded at the In or Out rotational settings near the dyad ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Shafirovich V,Kolbanovskiy M,Kropachev K,Liu Z,Cai Y,Terzidis MA,Masi A,Chatgilialoglu C,Amin S,Dadali A,Broyde S,Geacintov NE

更新日期：2019-02-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Ketosteroid isomerase (KSI) from Pseudomonas putida biotype B is a homodimeric enzyme catalyzing an allylic rearrangement of Delta5-3-ketosteroids at rates comparable with the diffusion-controlled limit. The tyrosine triad (Tyr14.Tyr55.Tyr30) forming a hydrogen-bond network in the apolar active site of KSI has been ch...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Nam GH,Jang DS,Cha SS,Lee TH,Kim DH,Hong BH,Yun YS,Oh BH,Choi KY

更新日期：2001-11-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The actinomycin biosynthetic gene cluster of Streptomyces chrysomallus harbors two paralogous genes, acmI and acmL, encoding methyltransferases. To unveil their suspected role in the formation of 3-hydroxy-4-methyl-anthranilic acid (4-MHA), the building block of the actinomycin chromophore, each gene was expressed in ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Crnovcić I,Süssmuth R,Keller U

更新日期：2010-11-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The tau microtubule-associated proteins are axonal proteins that have been implicated in axonal outgrowth, microtubule spacing, and microtubule bundling. Moreover, tau is the major structural component of the paired helical filaments present in the brains of Alzheimer's disease patients. The Caenorhabditis elegans Gen...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： McDermott JB,Aamodt S,Aamodt E

更新日期：1996-07-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of solution variables on the in vitro reconstitution of calf brain tubulin, purified by the method of Weisenberg et al. (Weisenberg, R. C., Borisy, G. G., and Taylor, E. W. (1968), Biochemistry 7, 4466-4479; Weisenberg, R. C., and Timasheff, S. N. (1970), Biochemistry 9, 4110-4116), as modified by Lee et a...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Lee JC,Timasheff SN

更新日期：1977-04-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The membrane interaction properties of two single-residue variants, R6W and L5S, of the 17-amino acid neuropeptide dynorphin A (DynA) were studied by circular dichroism (CD) and nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy. Corresponding gene mutations have recently been discovered in humans and causatively linked to...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Björnerås J,Gräslund A,Mäler L

更新日期：2013-06-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Porcine parathyroid gland slices were incubated with 3H-labeled amino acids in order to label tissue proteins. After incubation a crude hormonal extract was prepared and analyzed by chromatography on carboxymethylcellulose. Among the three radioactive peaks which were detected in the eluate, two were identified as par...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Chu LK,Huang WY,Littledike ET,Hamilton JW,Cohn DV

更新日期：1975-08-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The bile acid cholate disrupts platelet plasma membrane vesicles and inactivates 5-hydroxytryptamine transport activity. The transporter appears not to be solubilized by this procedure, but remains associated with a high molecular weight aggregate. Merely removing cholate does not restore the vesicular structure or tr...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Rudnick G,Nelson PJ

更新日期：1978-11-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytochromes c require covalent attachment of heme via two thioether bonds at conserved CXXCH motifs, a process accomplished in prokaryotes by eight integral membrane proteins (CcmABCDEFGH), termed System I. Heme is trafficked from inside the cell to outside (via CcmABCD) and chaperoned (holoCcmE) to the cytochrome c s...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Sutherland MC,Rankin JA,Kranz RG

更新日期：2016-06-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The requirement for Ca2+ in the Mn(2+)-dependent photoactivation of oxygen evolution was re-evaluated using 17 kDa/24 kDa-less photosystem II (PSII) membranes depleted of (Mn)4-clusters by NH2OH extraction. At optimum conditions (1 mM Mn2+/10 microM 2,6-dichlorphenolindophenol (DCIP)/20 mM Ca2+), the light-induced inc...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Chen C,Kazimir J,Cheniae GM

更新日期：1995-10-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The Ndi1 enzyme found in the mitochondrial membrane of Saccharomyces cerevisiae is an NDH-2-type alternative NADH-quinone oxidoreductase. As Ndi1 is expected to be a possible remedy for complex I defects of mammalian mitochondria, a detailed biochemical characterization of the enzyme is needed. To identify the ubiquin...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Murai M,Yamashita T,Senoh M,Mashimo Y,Kataoka M,Kosaka H,Matsuno-Yagi A,Yagi T,Miyoshi H

更新日期：2010-04-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The temperature dependence of the hydrogen-tritium and deuterium-hydrogen exchange reactions in poly(DL-alanine) has been reexamined. The results indicate a significant contribution to the observed exchange rates from the water-catalyzed reaction at pD values near pDmin. The activation enthalpy for water-catalyzed deu...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Gregory RB,Crabo L,Percy AJ,Rosenberg A

更新日期：1983-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The X-ray structures of the ligand free (apo) and the Mg(2+)*o-succinylbenzoate (OSB) product complex of o-succinylbenzoate synthase (OSBS) from Escherichia coli have been solved to 1.65 and 1.77 A resolution, respectively. The structure of apo OSBS was solved by multiple isomorphous replacement in space group P2(1)2(...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Thompson TB,Garrett JB,Taylor EA,Meganathan R,Gerlt JA,Rayment I

更新日期：2000-09-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The coexistence effects of multiple kinds of oxidized deoxyribonucleotides were examined using an SV40 origin-dependent in vitro replication system with a HeLa extract. Oxidized dGTP and dATP, 8-hydroxy-2'-deoxyguanosine 5'-triphosphate (8-OH-dGTP) and 2-hydroxy-2'-deoxyadenosine 5'-triphosphate (2-OH-dATP), were used...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Satou K,Kasai H,Masutani C,Hanaoka F,Harashima H,Kamiya H

更新日期：2007-06-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Transition metal-transporting P1B-type CPx ATPases play crucial roles in mediating metal homeostasis and resistance in all cells. The degree to which N-terminal metal binding domains (MBDs) confer metal specificity to the transporter is unclear. We show that the two MBDs of the Zn/Cd/Pb effluxing pump Anabaena AztA ar...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Liu T,Reyes-Caballero H,Li C,Scott RA,Giedroc DP

更新日期：2007-10-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The inflammatory mediator nitric oxide (NO*) promotes apoptotic cell death based on morphological evidence, accumulation of the tumor suppressor p53, caspase-3 activation, and DNA fragmentation in RAW 264.7 macrophages. Since nitrosothiols may actually be the predominant form of biologically active NO* in vivo, we use...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Callsen D,Brüne B

更新日期：1999-02-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The membrane-bound state of the gene 9 minor coat protein of bacteriophage M13 was studied in various membrane-mimicking systems, including organic solvents, detergent micelles, and phospholipid bilayers. For this purpose we determined the conformational and aggregational properties of the chemically synthesized prote...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Houbiers MC,Spruijt RB,Wolfs CJ,Hemminga MA

更新日期：1999-01-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The unique occurrence of G-quadruplexes in the AT-rich genome of human malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum provides hints about their critical roles in parasite survival, pathogenesis, and host immune evasion. An intriguing question is whether these noncanonical structures can serve as molecular targets for small m...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Anas M,Sharma R,Dhamodharan V,Pradeepkumar PI,Manhas A,Srivastava K,Ahmed S,Kumar N

更新日期：2017-12-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Our recent demonstration that DNA polymerase X (Pol X), the DNA repair polymerase encoded by the African swine fever virus (ASFV), is extremely error prone during single-nucleotide gap filling led us to hypothesize that it might contribute to genetic variability in ASFV. For the infidelity of Pol X to be relevant, how...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Lamarche BJ,Showalter AK,Tsai MD

更新日期：2005-06-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Starting from a standard unfolded state (3.0 M guanidine hydrochloride, pH 7.2), the kinetics of refolding of iso-2-cytochrome c have been investigated as a function of final pH between pH 3 and pH 10. Absorbance in the ultraviolet and visible spectral regions and tryptophan fluorescence are used to monitor folding. O...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Nall BT,Osterhout JJ Jr,Ramdas L

更新日期：1988-09-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Nitrobenzamido ligands linked to the DNA intercalator 9-aminoacridine via poly(methylene) chains induce single-strand nicks in DNA upon irradiation with long-wavelength ultraviolet light (lambda greater than or equal to 300 nm). Optimal photocleavage activity was found for the reagent 9-[[6-(4-nitrobenzamido)hexyl]ami...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Nielsen PE,Jeppesen C,Egholm M,Buchardt O

更新日期：1988-08-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of basic residues of the 70-80-loop, Arg(74), Arg(75), and Lys(78) (chymotrypsin numbering) in the catalytic function of activated protein C (APC) was investigated by expressing mutants of protein C in which these residues were replaced with Ala in three separate constructs. Following purification to homogene...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Yang L,Manithody C,Rezaie AR

更新日期：2002-05-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Steric constraints in the retinal binding pocket of sensory rhodopsin I (SR-I) are analyzed by studying effects of sample temperature and retinal analogs. The flash-induced yield of the earliest detected intermediate S610, which corresponds to the K intermediate in the bacteriorhodopsin (BR) photocycle, decreases belo...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Yan B,Xie A,Nienhaus GU,Katsuta Y,Spudich JL

更新日期：1993-09-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The interactions of mandelate racemase with divalent metal ion, substrate, and competitive inhibitors were investigated. The enzyme was found by electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) to bind 0.9 Mn2+ ion per subunit with a dissociation constant of 8 muM, in agreement with its kinetically determined activator constant....

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Maggio ET,Kenyon GL,Mildvan AS,Hegeman GD

更新日期：1975-03-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The involvement of calmodulin in the proliferation of Chinese hamster embryo fibroblast cells has been studied with a specific monoclonal antibody to calmodulin. We observed that calmodulin levels increase 2-fold in the late G1 period in these cells, and this coincides with the increase in DNA polymerase alpha activit...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Reddy GP,Reed WC,Sheehan E,Sacks DB

更新日期：1992-11-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The spontaneous hydrolyses of lactic acid O-phenyl phosphate (I) and, to a lesser extent, 3-hydroxybutyric acid O-phenyl phosphate (II) have been investigated and compared with similar intramolecular and bimolecular reactions. Compared to bimolecular nucleophilic reactions, the reactivity of II is similar to other sys...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Steffens JJ,Siewers IJ,Benkovic SJ

更新日期：1975-06-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Quinone oxidoreductase 2 (QR2) purified from human red blood cells was recently shown to be a potential target of the quinoline antimalarial compounds [Graves et al., (2002) Mol. Pharmacol. 62, 1364]. QR2 catalyzes the two-electron reduction of menadione via the oxidation of N-alkylated or N-ribosylated nicotinamides....

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Kwiek JJ,Haystead TA,Rudolph J

更新日期：2004-04-20 00:00:00