Bidirectional Transformation of a Metamorphic Protein between the Water-Soluble and Transmembrane Native States.

abstract：:Affinity-labeling experiments with 125I-endothelin derivatives using bifunctional cross-linking reagents were carried out in an attempt to identify the polypeptide component(s) of the endothelin/sarafotoxin receptors in rat brain tissues. In rat cerebellum, cortex, and caudate putamen, endothelin 1 specifically labele...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Ambar I,Kloog Y,Sokolovsky M

更新日期：1990-07-10 00:00:00

abstract：:ROS-GC represents a membrane guanylate cyclase subfamily whose distinctive feature is that it transduces diverse intracellularly generated Ca(2+) signals into the production of the second messenger cyclic GMP. An intriguing feature of the first subfamily member, ROS-GC1, is that it is both stimulated and inhibited by ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Kumar VD,Vijay-Kumar S,Krishnan A,Duda T,Sharma RK

更新日期：1999-09-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Cibacron Blue, a widely used ligand for affinity chromatography, is a potent inhibitor of NAD(P)H:(quinone-acceptor) oxidoreductase (EC 1.6.99.2) (quinone reductase). This property has been exploited to purify quinone reductase, to identify its nucleotide-binding site, and to obtain diffraction-grade crystals of this ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Prestera T,Prochaska HJ,Talalay P

更新日期：1992-01-28 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：:Calcium is required for the substrate binding and for the chemical step of the interfacial catalytic turnover cycle of pancreatic phospholipase A2 (PLA2), but not for the binding of the enzyme to the interface. The role of calcium and other divalent cations (C) is analyzed for the effect on the substrate binding and k...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Yu BZ,Rogers J,Nicol GR,Theopold KH,Seshadri K,Vishweshwara S,Jain MK

更新日期：1998-09-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The lipid peroxidation product 4-hydroxynonenal (4-HNE) is a signaling mediator with wide-ranging biological effects. In this paper, we report that disruption of mGsta4, a gene encoding the 4-HNE-conjugating enzyme mGSTA4-4, causes increased 4-HNE tissue levels and is accompanied by age-dependent development of obesit...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Singh SP,Niemczyk M,Saini D,Awasthi YC,Zimniak L,Zimniak P

更新日期：2008-03-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacterial hemoglobins and flavohemoglobins share a common globin fold but differ otherwise in structural and functional aspects. The bases of these differences were investigated through kinetic studies on oxygen, carbon monoxide, and nitric oxide binding. The novel bacterial hemoglobins from Clostridium perfringens an...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Farrés J,Rechsteiner MP,Herold S,Frey AD,Kallio PT

更新日期：2005-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:In an effort to better understand protein-protein photoaffinity cross-linking using aryl azides, we have tested a number of factors influencing the cross-linking of the sigma 70 subunit of Escherichia coli RNA polymerase to core RNA polymerase. These factors include the effect of the incubations necessary for the deri...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： McMahan SA,Burgess RR

更新日期：1994-10-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Resonance Raman spectra of squid rhodopsin have been obtained under a variety of temperature and illumination conditions. The data have been characterized in terms of spectral contributions from squid rhodopsin, isorhodopsin, bathorhodopsin, lumirhodopsin, mesorhodopsin, P-465, and acid metarhodopsin. The results are ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Sulkes M,Lewis A,Marcus MA

更新日期：1978-10-31 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：:The conformational analysis of non-native states of proteins remains one of the most difficult problems in structural biology, because such states are represented by a superimposition of several states that are rapidly interconverting. Hence, model building of the conformational ensemble remains challenging, although ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Sziegat F,Silvers R,Hähnke M,Jensen MR,Blackledge M,Wirmer-Bartoschek J,Schwalbe H

更新日期：2012-04-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Rhodopsin kinase phosphorylates serine- and threonine-containing peptides from bovine rhodopsin's carboxyl-terminal sequence. Km's for the peptides decrease as the length of the peptide is increased over the range 12-31 amino acids, reaching 1.7 mM for peptide 318-348 from the rhodopsin sequence. The Km for phosphoryl...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Palczewski K,Arendt A,McDowell JH,Hargrave PA

更新日期：1989-10-31 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：:Eicosanoids have been implicated in the regulation of arterial smooth muscle cell (SMC) cholesteryl ester (CE) metabolism. These eicosanoids, which include prostacyclin (PGI2), stimulate CE hydrolytic activities. High-density lipoproteins (HDL), which promote cholesterol efflux, also stimulate PGI2 production, suggest...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Pomerantz KB,Hajjar DP

更新日期：1990-02-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Oxidative DNA damage can lead to cancer, and as enzymatic DNA repair systems become compromised during the aging process, the role of exogenous antioxidants becomes more critical. Here, we examined whether such non-enzymatic DNA repair can be effected by the common cellular antioxidant glutathione, investigating both ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Safaeipour M,Jauregui J,Castillo S,Bekarian M,Esparza D,Sanchez M,Stemp EDA

更新日期：2019-11-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Heme oxygenase-1 (HO-1) is an enzyme that catalyzes the oxidative degradation of heme. Since free heme is toxic to cells, rapid degradation of heme is important for maintaining cellular health. There have been useful mechanistic studies of the HO reaction based on crystal structures; however, how HO-1 recognizes heme ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Harada E,Sugishima M,Harada J,Fukuyama K,Sugase K

更新日期：2015-01-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The incorporation of extensively fluorinated, or fluorous, analogues of hydrophobic amino acids into proteins potentially provides the opportunity to modulate the physicochemical properties of proteins in a predictable manner. On the basis of the properties of small fluorocarbon molecules, extensively fluorinated prot...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Buer BC,de la Salud-Bea R,Al Hashimi HM,Marsh EN

更新日期：2009-11-17 00:00:00

abstract：:CTP synthetase [EC 6.3.4.2, UTP:ammonia ligase (ADP-forming)] from the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae catalyzes the ATP-dependent transfer of the amide nitrogen from glutamine to the C-4 position of UTP to form CTP. In this work, we demonstrated that CTP synthetase utilized dUTP as a substrate to synthesize dCTP. The ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Pappas A,Park TS,Carman GM

更新日期：1999-12-14 00:00:00

abstract：:7-Ketocholesterol is an oxidized derivative of cholesterol with numerous physiological effects. In model membranes, 7-ketocholesterol and cholesterol were compared by physical measures of bilayer order and polarity, formation of detergent resistant domains (DRM), phase separation, and membrane microsolubilization by a...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Massey JB,Pownall HJ

更新日期：2005-08-02 00:00:00

abstract：:We have found that the atomic force microscope (AFM) can be used to image the "beads-on-a-string" chromatin structure in a normal air environment following adsorption onto a cover glass substrate. Individual nucleosome cores and linker DNA could be resolved clearly along chromatin fibers that were reconstituted using ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Allen MJ,Dong XF,O'Neill TE,Yau P,Kowalczykowski SC,Gatewood J,Balhorn R,Bradbury EM

更新日期：1993-08-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanism of binding of reduced 1-(2-carboxyphenylamino)-1-deoxyribulose 5-phosphate (rCdRP) to two different binding sites on the bifunctional enzyme is determined by kinetic studies, using temperature-jump and stopped-flow equipment with fluorescence detection. Two rapid binding processes and a comparatively slo...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Cohn W,Kirschner K,Paul C

更新日期：1979-12-25 00:00:00

abstract：:F-STOP is a microtubule-associated protein that stabilizes microtubules in a calmodulin (CaM)-dependent manner. All members of the stable tubule only polypeptide (STOP) family have a central domain that contains nearly identical multiple repeats, and a CaM binding motif is present in multiple copies within this domain...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Bouvier D,Vanhaverbeke C,Simorre JP,Arlaud GJ,Bally I,Forge V,Margolis RL,Gans P,Kleman JP

更新日期：2003-10-07 00:00:00

abstract：:According to the X-ray crystallographic results from human deoxyhemoglobin, beta 99Asp at the alpha 1 Beta 2 interface forms hydrogen bonds with alpha 42Tyr and alpha 97Asn. To clarify the structural and functional roles of the hydrogen bond between alpha 97Asn and beta 99Asp, we have engineered a recombinant hemoglob...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Kim HW,Shen TJ,Ho NT,Zou M,Tam MF,Ho C

更新日期：1996-05-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The fibrillation of misfolded neurodegenerative disease-related proteins has been extensively studied over the past few decades, but the initial oligomerization has been rarely examined even though some recent evidence indicated that small protein oligomers are more neurotoxic than long protein fibers. It is rather di...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Wang Y,Wu C

更新日期：2017-12-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The carbon-13 (13C) nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) behavior of the hyperactive analogue of luteinizing-hormone-releasing hormone (LH-RH), des-Gly-NH2(10)-[D-Leu6]LH-RH ethylamide, has been studied. The spectra are compared with those of the hypoactive des-Gly-NH2(10)-[L-Leu6]LH-RH ethylamide. Spin-lattice relaxation...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Deslauriers R,Komoroski RA,Levy GC,Seely JH,Smith IC

更新日期：1976-10-19 00:00:00

abstract：:A nucleoside triphosphate binding site on calf thymus RNA polymerase II was identified by using photoaffinity analogues of adenosine 5'-triphosphate and guanosine 5'-triphosphate. Both radiolabeled 8-azidoadenosine 5'-triphosphate (8-N3ATP) and radiolabeled 8-azidoguanosine 5'-triphosphate (8-N3GTP) bound to a single ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Freund E,McGuire PM

更新日期：1986-01-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Phospholipids containing a saturated fatty acid in the primary position and an unsaturated fatty acid in the secondary position are a major structural part of biological membranes. The mixed-chain hydrophobic core of the membranes is the diacylglycerol part. To better understand the core properties of membranes we hav...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Di L,Small DM

更新日期：1995-12-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Actin, an abundant cytosolic protein in eukaryotic cells, is dependent on the interaction with the chaperonin tail-less complex polypeptide 1 ring complex (TRiC) to fold to the native state. The prokaryotic chaperonin GroEL also binds non-native beta-actin, but is unable to guide beta-actin toward the native state. In...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Villebeck L,Moparthi SB,Lindgren M,Hammarström P,Jonsson BH

更新日期：2007-11-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The site-directed mutagenesis of a number of proposed active site residues of 5-enolpyruvyl shikimate-3-phosphate (EPSP) synthase is reported. Several of these mutations resulted in complete loss of enzyme activity indicating that these residues are probably involved with catalysis, notably K22R, K411R, D384A, R27A, R...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Shuttleworth WA,Pohl ME,Helms GL,Jakeman DL,Evans JN

更新日期：1999-01-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Three spin-labeled derivatives of the voltage-gated peptide alamethicin were prepared with nitroxides at the C-terminal phenyalaninol, and at positions 9 and 15 in the amino acid sequence. In addition, three spin-labeled derivatives of an analog of alamethicin where alpha-methylalanine residues are replaced by leucine...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Barranger-Mathys M,Cafiso DS

更新日期：1996-01-16 00:00:00