Circadian genomics reveal a role for post-transcriptional regulation in mammals.

abstract：:The fluorescence spectrum of C1 inhibitor (C1-Inh) in aqueous buffer has a maximum at 324 nm which shifts to 358 nm in 6.0 M guanidinium chloride (GdmC1), indicating that fluorescent tryptophans are buried in the native protein. When titrated with GdmC1, the fluorescence intensity, polarization, and emission maximum o...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Lennick M,Brew SA,Ingham KC

更新日期：1985-05-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Positively charged cyclic hexapeptide Phe-Arg-Cys-Arg-Cys-Phe-CONH2 (FRCRCFa) represents a group of conformationally constrained peptides that block the cardiac sarcolemma Na(+)-Ca2+ exchanger [Khananshvili et al. (1995b) J. Biol. Chem. 270, 16182-16188]. Here, we study the kinetic mechanisms of FRCRCFa-induced inhibi...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Khananshvili D,Baazov D,Weil-Maslansky E,Shaulov G,Mester B

更新日期：1996-12-10 00:00:00

abstract：:It is known that the proapoptotic protein Bax facilitates the formation of pores in bilayers, resulting in the release of proteins from the intermitochondrial space. We demonstrate that another consequence of the interaction of Bax with membranes is an increase in the rate of lipid transbilayer diffusion. We use two i...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Epand RF,Martinou JC,Montessuit S,Epand RM

更新日期：2003-12-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The activity of the major isoform of porcine pancreatic phospholipase A2 (PLA2), designated B-PLA2, against micellar substrates is inhibited by heparin. Inhibition is a consequence of binding of the enzyme to heparin, documented by a heparin-induced alteration in the intrinsic fluorescence of B-PLA2 and in the 8-anili...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Diccianni MB,Lilly-Stauderman M,McLean LR,Balasubramaniam A,Harmony JA

更新日期：1991-09-17 00:00:00

abstract：:We have studied the photoreaction of 8-methoxypsoralen (8-MOP), 4,5',8-trimethylpsoralen (TMP), and 4'-(hydroxymethyl)-4,5',8-trimethylpsoralen (HMT) with a pair of 18-base-long oligonucleotides in which a 14-base region is complementary. Only one 5'TpA site, favored for both monoadduct and cross-link formation with p...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Yeung AT,Jones BK,Chu CT

更新日期：1988-05-03 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been suggested that the mechanism of alkaline phosphatase (AP) is associative, or triester-like, because phosphorothioate monoesters are hydrolyzed by AP approximately 10(2)-fold slower than phosphate monoesters. This "thio effect" is similar to that observed for the nonenzymatic hydrolysis of phosphate trieste...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Holtz KM,Catrina IE,Hengge AC,Kantrowitz ER

更新日期：2000-08-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Comparative mutagenesis studies of N-(2'-deoxyguanosin-8-yl)-2-acetylaminofluorene (dG-AAF) and N-(2'-deoxyguanosin-8-yl)-2-aminofluorene (dG-AF) adducts positioned in the Nar I restriction enzyme site were performed using Escherichia coli (E. coli) and simian kidney (COS-7) cells. Oligodeoxynucleotides ((5)(')TCCTCG(...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Tan X,Suzuki N,Grollman AP,Shibutani S

更新日期：2002-12-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAO1 encodes two outer membrane receptors, PhuR (Pseudomonas heme uptake) and HasR (heme assimilation system). The HasR receptor acquires heme through interaction with a secreted hemophore, HasAp. The non-hemophore-dependent PhuR is encoded along with proteins required for heme translocation int...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Smith AD,Modi AR,Sun S,Dawson JH,Wilks A

更新日期：2015-04-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The triplet lifetime and absorption anisotropy decay of eosin-labeled band 3 was measured in resealed erythrocyte ghosts. Membrane potentials were generated by the addition of valinomycin in the presence of a K+ gradient. Neither negative nor positive membrane potentials had any detectable effect on the rotational dif...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Wyatt K,Cherry RJ

更新日期：1992-05-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The properties of the Fe and Mo sites of the iron-molybdenum cofactor of nitrogenase with respect to binding and activation of N(2) have been studied by molecular mechanics calculations on the local protein environment and by density functional theory (DFT) calculations on subsections of the cofactor. The DFT calculat...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Durrant MC

更新日期：2002-11-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Anticoagulation factor II (ACF II) isolated from the venom of Agkistrodon acutus is an activated coagulation factor X-binding protein in a Ca(2+)-dependent fashion with marked anticoagulant activity. The equilibrium unfolding/refolding of apo-ACF II, holo-ACF II, and Tb(3+)-reconstituted ACF II in guanidine hydrochlor...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Xu X,Liu Q,Xie Y

更新日期：2002-03-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Prolyl endopeptidase (Prep) is a member of the prolyl peptidase family and is of interest because of its unique biochemistry and connections to cognitive function. Using an unbiased mass spectrometry (MS)-based peptidomics platform, we identified Prep-regulated peptides in the central nervous system (CNS) of mice by m...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Nolte WM,Tagore DM,Lane WS,Saghatelian A

更新日期：2009-12-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Several diseases, such as cancer, are characterized by acidification of the extracellular environment. Acidosis can be employed as a target to specifically direct therapies to the diseased tissue. We have used first principles to design an acidity-triggered rational membrane (ATRAM) peptide with high solubility in sol...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Nguyen VP,Alves DS,Scott HL,Davis FL,Barrera FN

更新日期：2015-11-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Mercury ions can inhibit Candida albicans phosphomannose isomerase (PMI) by two different processes at sub-micromolar concentrations. Kinetic studies show that mercury ions are in rapid equilibrium with the enzyme and cause a clear partial noncompetitive inhibition when mannose 6-phosphate is used as the substrate. Th...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Wells TN,Payton MA,Proudfoot AE

更新日期：1994-06-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The preparation, spectroscopic investigation, structure determination, conformational analysis, and modeling of the Dewar pyrimidinone photoproduct of thymidylyl-(3'----5')-thymidine, previously referred to as TpT3 [Johns, H. E., Pearson, M. L., LeBlanc, J. C., & Heilleiner, C. W. (1964) J. Mol. Biol. 9, 503-524], is ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Taylor JS,Garrett DS,Cohrs MP

更新日期：1988-09-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Kynureninase is a pyridoxal 5'-phosphate-dependent enzyme that catalyzes the hydrolytic cleavage of l-kynurenine to give l-alanine and anthranilic acid. beta-Benzoyl-l-alanine, the analogue of l-kynurenine lacking the aromatic amino group, was shown to a good substrate for kynureninase from Pseudomonas fluorescens, an...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Kumar S,Gawandi VB,Capito N,Phillips RS

更新日期：2010-09-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The minimum oligosaccharide structure required for binding to the potent HIV-inactivating protein cyanovirin-N (CV-N) was determined by saturation-transfer difference (STD) NMR spectroscopy. Despite the low molecular mass of the protein (11 kDa), STD-NMR spectroscopy allowed the precise atomic mapping of the interacti...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Sandström C,Berteau O,Gemma E,Oscarson S,Kenne L,Gronenborn AM

更新日期：2004-11-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The orientation of eukaryotic cytochromes P450, with respect to the membrane of the endoplasmic reticulum, has been investigated. There is now good evidence that the tertiary structure of these proteins is essentially the same as that of the soluble bacterial isoenzyme cytochrome P450CI, with the exception of an exten...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Edwards RJ,Murray BP,Singleton AM,Boobis AR

更新日期：1991-01-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The flash-induced Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) difference spectrum of the oxygen-evolving Mn cluster upon S1-to-S2 transition (S2/S1 spectrum) was measured using photosystem II (PS II) core complexes of Synechocystis 6803 in which tyrosine residues were specifically labeled with 13C at the ring-4 position. The do...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Noguchi T,Inoue Y,Tang XS

更新日期：1997-12-02 00:00:00

abstract：:We review signaling by reactive oxygen species, which is emerging as a major physiological process. However, among the reactive oxygen species, H(2)O(2) best fulfills the requirements of being a second messenger. Its enzymatic production and degradation, along with the requirements for the oxidation of thiols by H(2)O...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Forman HJ,Maiorino M,Ursini F

更新日期：2010-02-09 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：:Over 20 years ago, it was reported that liver cytosol contains at least two distinct proteins that transfer phosphatidylinositol in vitro, phosphatidylinositol transfer protein (PITP) and a pH 5.1 supernatant fraction containing sterol carrier protein-2 (SCP-2). In contrast to PITP, there has been minimal progress on ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Schroeder F,Zhou M,Swaggerty CL,Atshaves BP,Petrescu AD,Storey SM,Martin GG,Huang H,Helmkamp GM,Ball JM

更新日期：2003-03-25 00:00:00

abstract：:A positional-scanning combinatorial protocol was employed to optimize the deoxyribose-based cleavage of B-form DNA by Ni(II) x Xaa-Xaa-His metallopeptides. This procedure employed 18 naturally occurring amino acids (excluding Cys and Trp) to generate two libraries in which the first and second positions of the peptide...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Huang X,Pieczko ME,Long EC

更新日期：1999-02-16 00:00:00

abstract：:MAP kinase kinase (MAPKK) is a dual specificity protein kinase that phosphorylates and activates MAP kinase in vivo. In this study, four mouse monoclonal single-chain Fv (scFv) antibodies (Y1-6, Y1-7, Y3-6, and Y3-11) that can specifically bind to Xenopus MAPKK were isolated from combinatorial scFv-displaying phage li...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Kosako H,Akamatsu Y,Tsurushita N,Lee KK,Gotoh Y,Nishida E

更新日期：1996-10-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The discovery of three mutants in the -synuclein (alphaSyn) gene and the identification of alphaSyn as the major component of Lewy body have opened a new field for understanding the pathogenesis of Parkinson's disease (PD). AlphaSyn is a natively unfolded protein with unknown function and unspecified conformational he...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Jiang C,Chang JY

更新日期：2007-01-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein C is a vitamin K dependent protein present in bovine plasma (Stenflo, J. (1976), J. Biol. Chem. 251, 355). It is a glycoprotein (mol wt approximately 62 000) composed of a heavy chain (mol wt 41 000) and a light chain (mol wt 21 000). The heavy chain has an amino-terminal sequence of Asp-Thr-Asn-Gln and contai...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Kisiel W,Ericsson LH,Davie EW

更新日期：1976-11-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Aromatic amino acid aminotransferase (ArAT) from Escherichia coli was overexpressed in E. coli cells, purified, and characterized. The enzyme was similar to aspartate aminotransferase (AspAT) of E. coli in many aspects, such as gross protein structure and spectroscopic properties. The reactions of pyridoxal 5'-phospha...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Hayashi H,Inoue K,Nagata T,Kuramitsu S,Kagamiyama H

更新日期：1993-11-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Pig liver phosphomevalonate kinase (EC 2.7.4.2) has been purified to homogeneity as shown by polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. The molecular weight estimates range from 21,000 to 22,500. Each molecule is composed of one polypeptide chain. The presence of SH-containing reagents is essential for the preservation of en...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Bazaes S,Beytía E,Jabalquinto AM,Solís de Ovando F,Gómez I,Eyzaguirre J

更新日期：1980-05-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Macromolecular protease inhibitors and camelid single-domain antibodies achieve their enzymic inhibition functions often through protruded structures that directly interact with catalytic centers of targeted proteases. Inspired by this phenomenon, we constructed synthetic human antibody libraries encoding long CDR-H3s...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Nam DH,Lee KB,Kruchowy E,Pham H,Ge X

更新日期：2020-10-13 00:00:00

abstract：:We have used nucleoside phosphorothioates (NTP alpha S) and a substitution-interference method to identify phosphate oxygens that appear to be important to guanosine cofactor addition in the self-splicing group I intron from Tetrahymena thermophila. For the majority of these phosphate oxygens, however, the effect of N...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Christian EL,Yarus M

更新日期：1993-05-04 00:00:00