Translocator Protein 18 kDa (TSPO): An Old Protein with New Functions?

abstract：:The high-frequency resonance Raman spectra of FeIII yeast native cytochrome c peroxidase (CCP) and five of its mutants [CCP(MI), Phe-51, Leu-48, Lys-48, Asn-235, and Phe-191] were recorded in phosphate buffer, pH 7.0, and in glycerol/phosphate mixtures at 295 and 10 K. Glycerol induces heme coordination changes in som...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Smulevich G,Mantini AR,English AM,Mauro JM

更新日期：1989-06-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Resonance Raman and UV-visible absorption spectra show that nickel(II) microperoxidase-11 (NiMP-11) is four-coordinate in aqueous solution in the pH range from 1.0 to 13.0. In aqueous solutions of NiMP-11 in the absence of cetyltrimethylammonium bromide (CTAB), NiMP-11 is aggregated. In CTAB micellar solutions, where ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Ma JG,Vanderkooi JM,Zhang J,Jia SL,Shelnutt JA

更新日期：1999-03-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The orientation of the myosin neck was monitored using electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) spectroscopy. Gizzard regulatory light chain was labeled with a nitroxide spin probe and exchanged for the native subunit, located in the myosin neck, in rabbit psoas muscle fibers. The EPR spectra of rigor fibers indicated a ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Zhao L,Gollub J,Cooke R

更新日期：1996-08-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Homing endonucleases are distinguished by their ability to catalyze the cleavage of double-stranded DNA with extremely high specificity. I-PpoI endonuclease, a homing endonuclease from the slime mold Physarum polycephalum, is a small enzyme (2 x 20 kDa) of known three-dimensional structure that catalyzes the cleavage ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Mannino SJ,Jenkins CL,Raines RT

更新日期：1999-12-07 00:00:00

abstract：:In addition to encoding the tertiary fold and stability, the primary sequence of a protein encodes the folding trajectory and kinetic barriers that determine the speed of folding. How these kinetic barriers are encoded is not well understood. Here, we use evolutionary sequence variation in the α-lytic protease (αLP) p...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Nixon CF,Lim SA,Sailer ZR,Zheludev IN,Gee CL,Kelch BA,Harms MJ,Marqusee S

更新日期：2021-01-26 00:00:00

abstract：:We have validated that ligand peptides designed from antigen peptides could be used for targeting specific major histocompatibility complex class I (MHC-I) molecules on the cell surface. To design the ligand peptides, we used reported antigen peptides for each MHC-I molecule with high binding affinity. From the crysta...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Sun X,Tokunaga R,Nagai Y,Miyahara R,Kishimura A,Kawakami S,Katayama Y,Mori T

更新日期：2020-12-15 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：:The generation of multiprotein complexes at receptors and adapter proteins is crucial for the activation of intracellular signaling pathways. In this study, we used multiple biochemical and biophysical methods to examine the binding properties of several SH2 and SH3 domain-containing signaling proteins as they interac...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Houtman JC,Higashimoto Y,Dimasi N,Cho S,Yamaguchi H,Bowden B,Regan C,Malchiodi EL,Mariuzza R,Schuck P,Appella E,Samelson LE

更新日期：2004-04-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The human tear fluid film consists of a superficial lipid layer, an aqueous middle layer, and a hydrated mucin layer located next to the corneal epithelium. The superficial lipid layer protects the eye from drying and is composed of polar and neutral lipids provided by the meibomian glands. Excess accumulation of lipi...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Jauhiainen M,Setälä NL,Ehnholm C,Metso J,Tervo TM,Eriksson O,Holopainen JM

更新日期：2005-06-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Transient contacts between denatured polypeptide chains are likely to play an important part in the initial stages of protein aggregation and fibrillation. To analyze the nature of such contacts, we have carried out a protein engineering study of the 102-residue protein U1A, which aggregates transiently in the wild-ty...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Otzen DE,Miron S,Akke M,Oliveberg M

更新日期：2004-10-19 00:00:00

abstract：:A general, combinatorial library method for the rapid identification of high-affinity peptide ligands of protein modular domains is reported. The validity of this method has been demonstrated by determining the sequence specificity of four Src homology 2 (SH2) domains derived from protein tyrosine phosphatase SHP-1 an...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Sweeney MC,Wavreille AS,Park J,Butchar JP,Tridandapani S,Pei D

更新日期：2005-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The cofactor product of the aromatic amino acid hydroxylases, 4a-hydroxy-6(R)-tetrahydrobiopterin, requires dehydration before tetrahydrobiopterin can be regenerated by dihydropteridine reductase. Carbinolamine dehydration occurs nonenzymatically, but the reaction is also catalyzed by 4a-hydroxytetrahydropterin dehydr...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Rebrin I,Bailey SW,Boerth SR,Ardell MD,Ayling JE

更新日期：1995-05-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The structures of synthetic peptides corresponding to regions of putative secondary structure in the cellular prion protein PrPC were studied as models for the conformational transition that features in the formation of the pathogenic isoform, PrPSc. Transgenetic studies argue that these PrP isoforms interact during t...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Nguyen J,Baldwin MA,Cohen FE,Prusiner SB

更新日期：1995-04-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The peptidyl trifluoromethyl ketones Ac-Phe-CF3 (1) and Ac-Leu-Phe-CF3 (2) are inhibitors of chymotrypsin. They differ in Ki (20 and 2 microM, respectively) as well as in their kinetics of association with chymotrypsin in that 1 is rapidly equilibrating, with an association rate too fast to be observed by steady-state...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Brady K,Wei AZ,Ringe D,Abeles RH

更新日期：1990-08-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The folding of many globular proteins from the unfolded (U) to the native (N) state appears to be describable by a two-state N ↔ U model, which has led to the general belief that protein folding occurs in a highly cooperative manner. One reason for the widespread belief in "two-state folding" is that protein folding r...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Jethva PN,Udgaonkar JB

更新日期：2018-10-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Increasing efforts are being invested in the construction of nanostructures with desired shapes and physical and chemical properties. Our strategy involves nanostructure design using naturally occurring protein building blocks. Inspection of the protein structural database (PDB) reveals the richness of the conformatio...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Zheng J,Zanuy D,Haspel N,Tsai CJ,Alemán C,Nussinov R

更新日期：2007-02-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Integrin conformational changes mediate integrin activation and signaling triggered by intracellular molecules or extracellular ligands. Even though it is known that αβ transmembrane domain separation is required for integrin signaling, it is still not clear how this signal is transmitted from the transmembrane domain...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Wang W,Fu G,Luo BH

更新日期：2010-11-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The presence of a N-(2-deoxy-D-erythro pentofuranosyl)urea (henceforth referred to as deoxyribosylurea) residue, ring fragmentation product of a thymine, in a frameshift situation in the sequence 5'd(AGGACCACG).d(CGTGGurTCCT) has been studied by 1H and 31P nuclear magnetic resonance and molecular dynamics. At equilibr...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Gervais V,Cognet JA,Guy A,Cadet J,Téoule R,Fazakerley GV

更新日期：1998-01-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Creatininase catalyzes the conversion of creatinine (a biosensor for kidney function) to creatine via a two-step mechanism: water addition followed by ring opening. Water addition is common to other known cyclic amidohydrolases, but the precise mechanism for ring opening is still under debate. The proton donor in this...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Jitonnom J,Mujika JI,van der Kamp MW,Mulholland AJ

更新日期：2017-12-05 00:00:00

abstract：:NADH oxidase activity has been detected in luminal membrane derived from the proximal tubules of rat kidney (brush border membranes). The cytochromes associated with these membranes [García, M.L., Benavides, J., Valdivieso, F., Mayor, F., & Giménez-Gallego, G. (1978) Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. 82, 738-744] were re...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Giménez-Gallego G,Benavides J,García ML,Valdivieso F

更新日期：1980-10-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The 77-amino acid pro-domain greatly accelerates the in vitro folding of subtilisin in a bimolecular reaction whose product is a tight complex between folded subtilisin and folded pro-domain. In this complex the pro-domain has a compact structure with a four-stranded antiparallel beta-sheet and two three-turn alpha-he...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Wang L,Ruan B,Ruvinov S,Bryan PN

更新日期：1998-03-03 00:00:00

abstract：:A 150-kDa DNA-dependent ATPase composed of 83/68-kDa subunits was previously reported to cofractionate with a 21S complex of enzymes for DNA synthesis from HeLa cells (Vishwanatha, J. K., & Baril, E. F. (1990) Biochemistry 29, 8753-8759). The DNA-dependent ATPase was purified to electrophoretic homogeneity from a HeLa...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Cao QP,Pitt S,Leszyk J,Baril EF

更新日期：1994-07-19 00:00:00

abstract：:L6 is a monoclonal antitumor antibody which recognizes an epitope located in a 42-residue extracellular domain of a tumor-associated approximately 22 kDa glycoprotein antigen. The L6 mAb localizes to solid tumors in vivo and triggers complement activation and antibody-dependent cellular cytotoxicity. It has been the s...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Stenzel-Johnson PR,Yelton D,Bajorath J

更新日期：1994-12-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Expansions of (CTG)·(CAG) repeated DNAs are the mutagenic cause of 14 neurological diseases, likely arising through the formation and processing of slipped-strand DNAs. These transient intermediates of repeat length mutations are formed by out-of-register mispairing of repeat units on complementary strands. The three-...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Slean MM,Reddy K,Wu B,Nichol Edamura K,Kekis M,Nelissen FH,Aspers RL,Tessari M,Schärer OD,Wijmenga SS,Pearson CE

更新日期：2013-02-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Supported phospholipid bilayers prepared by Langmuir-Blodgett techniques were introduced recently as a new model membrane system [Tamm, L.K., & McConnell, H.M. (1985) Biophys. J. 47, 105-113]. Here, supported bilayers are applied to study the lateral diffusion and lateral distribution of membrane-bound monoclonal anti...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Tamm LK

更新日期：1988-03-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The aminoglycoside 6'-N-acetyltransferase AAC(6')-Ii from Enterococcus faecium is an important microbial resistance determinant and a member of the GCN5-related N-acetyltransferase (GNAT) superfamily. We report here the further characterization of this enzyme in terms of the kinetic mechanism of acetyl transfer and id...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Draker KA,Northrop DB,Wright GD

更新日期：2003-06-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The beta-glucosidase from Agrobacterium sp. catalyzes the hydrolysis of beta-glucosides via a covalent alpha-D-glucopyranosyl-enzyme intermediate involving Glu358. Hydrolysis of 2,4-dinitrophenyl beta-D-glucopyranoside by the low activity Glu358Asp mutant of Agrobacterium beta-glucosidase is accompanied by time-depend...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Gebler JC,Trimbur DE,Warren AJ,Aebersold R,Namchuk M,Withers SG

更新日期：1995-11-07 00:00:00

abstract：:To test for on target toxicity of a new chemical entity, it is important to have comparable binding affinities of the compound in the target proteins from humans and the test species. To evaluate our myeloid cell leukemia-1 (Mcl-1) inhibitors, we tested them against rodent Mcl-1 and found a significant loss of binding...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Zhao B,Arnold AL,Coronel MA,Lee JH,Lee T,Olejniczak ET,Fesik SW

更新日期：2018-08-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The catalytic utilization of dimethylallyl, geranyl, farnesyl, and geranylgeranyl diphosphates in the reaction catalyzed by recombinant human farnesyl:protein transferase (hFPTase) has been examined in the presence of three different protein substrates, Ras-CVLS, Ras-CVIM, and Ras-CAIL. hFPTase catalyzed both farnesyl...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Pompliano DL,Schaber MD,Mosser SD,Omer CA,Shafer JA,Gibbs JB

更新日期：1993-08-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Proton NMR studies were conducted on the complementary 15-mer duplex d(5'-TACTCTTCTTGACCT).(5'-AGGTCAAGAAGAGTA) (designated as unmodified 15-mer duplex) spanning a portion of the mouse c-Ha-ras protooncogene centered around codon 61. Identical studies were carried out on the same sequence, after specific modification ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Cho BP,Beland FA,Marques MM

更新日期：1992-10-13 00:00:00