Regulatory Implications of Structural Changes in Tyr201 of the Oxygen Sensor Protein FixL.

abstract：:The influence of structural alterations to the estradiol-17 beta (E2) molecule on the induction of pS2 and Cathepsin D (Cath D) mRNAs has been examined by Northern analysis of RNA extracted from MCF-7 cells. Exposure of cultures to estratriene did not affect the level of expression of these estrogen-responsive genes. ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Pilat MJ,Hafner MS,Kral LG,Brooks SC

更新日期：1993-07-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The envelope glycoprotein of HIV-1 consists of the surface subunit gp120 and the transmembrane subunit gp41. Binding of gp120 to target cell receptors induces a conformational change in gp41, which then mediates the fusion of viral and cellular membranes. A buried isoleucine (Ile573) in a central trimeric coiled coil ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Liu J,Shu W,Fagan MB,Nunberg JH,Lu M

更新日期：2001-03-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The toll that Streptococcus pneumoniae exacts on the welfare of humanity is enormous. This organism claims the lives of approximately 3700 people daily, the majority of whom are children below the age of 5, and the situation could worsen due to the increasing incidence of pernicious, multiple-antibiotic-resistant stra...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Andreassi JL 2nd,Dabovic K,Leyh TS

更新日期：2004-12-28 00:00:00

abstract：:A large fraction of a constitutively synthesized polypeptide, comprising 5% of the total Escherichia coli protein, is released when plasmolysed cells are subjected to osmotic shock into ice-cold water. Since the protein is not liberated by the conversion of cells to spheroplasts, it is not a typical periplasmic protei...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Jacobson GR,Takacs BJ,Rosenbusch JP

更新日期：1976-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human DNA is continuously damaged by exogenous and endogenous genotoxic insults. To counteract DNA damage and ensure the completion of DNA replication, cells possess specialized DNA polymerases (Pols) that bypass a variety of DNA lesions. Human DNA polymerase kappa (hPolkappa) is a member of the Y-family of DNA Pols a...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Niimi N,Sassa A,Katafuchi A,Grúz P,Fujimoto H,Bonala RR,Johnson F,Ohta T,Nohmi T

更新日期：2009-05-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Apolipoprotein B (apoB) is the essential nonexchangeable protein in chylomicrons and very low-density lipoprotein-derived lipoprotein particles, including low-density lipoprotein (LDL). ApoB has been a key target for cardiovascular research because of its essential role in the assembly, secretion, delivery, and recept...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Jiang ZG,Carraway M,McKnight CJ

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The immunoglobulin E-binding protein, epsilon BP (also known as CBP35, Mac-2, L-34, and L-29), is a beta-galactoside-binding protein of approximately 30 kDa and a member of the animal lectin family termed S-type or S-Lac. Multiple biological activities have been attributed to this lectin such as mediation of IgE bindi...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Feizi T,Solomon JC,Yuen CT,Jeng KC,Frigeri LG,Hsu DK,Liu FT

更新日期：1994-05-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Thermostable direct hemolysin (TDH) of Vibrio parahemolyticus is a membrane-damaging pore-forming toxin with potent cytolytic/cytotoxic activity. TDH exists as a tetramer consisting of protomers with a core β-sandwich domain, flanked by an 11-amino acid long N-terminal region (NTR). This NTR could not be modeled in th...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Kundu N,Verma P,Kumar A,Dhar V,Dutta S,Chattopadhyay K

更新日期：2020-02-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Two bands of 5.8S rRNA were observed when the total RNA isolated from rat or mouse tissue was separated by electrophoresis on high-resolution polyacrylamide gels under denaturing conditions. The minor form, with a lower mobility, represented 15-35% of the total 5.8S rRNA, depending on the source of the tissue. Sequenc...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Smith SD,Banerjee N,Sitz TO

更新日期：1984-07-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Epoxides are cancer-causing agents chemically analogous to the nitrogen mustards, a family of powerful antitumor drugs. We found that the DNA interstrand cross-linking sequence preference of diepoxybutane is the same as that of the mustard mechlorethamine: 5'-GNC. Therefore, the genomic site of cross-linking alone can...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Millard JT,White MM

更新日期：1993-03-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Vanadate can often bind to phosphoryl transfer enzymes to form a trigonal-bipyramidal structure at the active site. The enzyme-vanadate dissociation constants in these enzymes are much lower than those for phosphate. Therefore, enzyme-bound vanadate moieties are often considered as transition state analogues. To test ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Deng H,Callender R,Huang Z,Zhang ZY

更新日期：2002-05-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Phospholipase D has been purified 680-fold from an acetone powder of savoy cabbage in an overall yield of 30%. The purification involves solubilization of the acetone powder in a Ca2+-containing buffer and subsequent ammonium sulfate fractionation. Gel filtration on Sephadex G-200 and hydrophobic affinity chromatograp...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Allgyer TT,Wells MA

更新日期：1979-11-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The heme environmental structures of lactoperoxidase (LP) have been studied by the use of hyperfine-shifted proton NMR and optical absorption spectra. The NMR spectra of the enzyme in native and cyanide forms in H2O indicated that the fifth ligand of the heme iron is the histidyl imidazole with an anionic character an...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Shiro Y,Morishima I

更新日期：1986-10-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The iron-containing enzyme tyrosine hydroxylase catalyzes the hydroxylation of tyrosine to dihydroxyphenylalanine. A series of 4-X-substituted (X = H, F, Br, Cl, CH3, or CH3O) phenylalanines have been characterized as substrates to gain insight into the mechanism of hydroxylation. Multiple hydroxylated products were f...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Hillas PJ,Fitzpatrick PF

更新日期：1996-06-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Purified subunits of intermediate filaments obtained from a variety of tissues and cell types contain O-phosphoserine and, in some cases, smaller amounts of O-phosphothreonine. The O-phosphoserine content was estimated by reaction of performic acid oxidized subunits with methylamine in NaOH. Decamin of BHK-21 and CHO ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Steinert PM,Wantz ML,Idler WW

更新日期：1982-01-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Oligonucleotide-directed triple helix formation provides an elegant rational basis for gene-specific DNA targeting and has been widely used to interfere with gene expression ("antigene" strategies) and as a molecular tool for biological studies. Various strategies have been developed to introduce sequence modification...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Biet E,Maurisse R,Dutreix M,Sun Js

更新日期：2001-02-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Organisms rely on regulation at the molecular level, such as the allosteric regulation of hemoglobin (Hb) function by anions, to meet challenges presented by changing environmental and physiological conditions. A comparison of the effects of anions on oxygenation, oxidation, and sulfhydryl reactivity of Hb leads us to...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Bonaventura C,Tesh S,Faulkner KM,Kraiter D,Crumbliss AL

更新日期：1998-01-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Avian magnetoreception is assumed to occur in the retina. Although its molecular mechanism is unclear, magnetic field-dependent formation and the stability of radical-containing photointermediate(s) are suggested to play key roles in a hypothesis called the radical pair mechanism. Chicken cryptochrome4 (cCRY4) has bee...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Otsuka H,Mitsui H,Miura K,Okano K,Imamoto Y,Okano T

更新日期：2020-09-29 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：:Studies of the mechanism of protein secretion in a Gram-positive bacterium, Bacillus subtilis, yielded results very similar to those previously obtained with a Gram-negative organism: nascent chains protruding from protoplasts could be labeled extracellularly; the labeled chains could be recovered on polysomes isolate...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Smith WP,Tai PC,Davis BD

更新日期：1979-01-09 00:00:00

abstract：:In many crustaceans, changing concentrations of several low molecular weight compounds modulates hemocyanin oxygen binding, resulting in lower or higher oxygen affinities of the pigment. The nonphysiological effector caffeine and the physiological modulator urate, the latter accumulating in the hemolymph of the lobste...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Menze MA,Hellmann N,Decker H,Grieshaber MK

更新日期：2005-08-02 00:00:00

abstract：:NADPH-cytochrome P450 oxidoreductase (P450 reductase, EC 1.6.2.4) is an essential component of the P450 monooxygenase complex and binds FMN, FAD, and NADPH cofactors. Residues Tyr140 and Tyr178 are known to be involved in FMN binding. A third aromatic side chain, Phe181, is also located in the proximity of the FMN rin...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Paine MJ,Ayivor S,Munro A,Tsan P,Lian LY,Roberts GC,Wolf CR

更新日期：2001-11-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Charybdotoxin (ChTX) and iberiotoxin (IbTX) are highly charged peptidyl toxins which exhibit 68% sequence identity and share a similar three-dimensional structure. Despite these structural similarities, IbTX and ChTX differ in their selectivity for two types of potassium channels; large conductance calcium-activated p...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Giangiacomo KM,Sugg EE,Garcia-Calvo M,Leonard RJ,McManus OB,Kaczorowski GJ,Garcia ML

更新日期：1993-03-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The P-glycoprotein multidrug transporter functions as an ATP-driven efflux pump for a large number of structurally unrelated hydrophobic compounds. Substrates are believed to gain access to the transporter after partitioning into the membrane, rather than from the extracellular aqueous phase. The binding of drug subst...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Romsicki Y,Sharom FJ

更新日期：1999-05-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies have shown that protein 4.1 is a multifunctional protein that binds to spectrin, actin, glycophorins, the anion channel protein, and phosphatidylserine (PS). In this report, we have characterized the binding of protein 4.1 and its major proteolytic fragments to phospholipid vesicles. Pure 125I-labeled...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Cohen AM,Liu SC,Lawler J,Derick L,Palek J

更新日期：1988-01-26 00:00:00

abstract：:We have investigated the denaturation by guanidine hydrochloride (Gdn X HCl), temperature, and pH of hemoglobin beta subunits and of the peptides beta (1-146), beta (56-146), and beta (1-55). The last peptide was insensitive to all of the three agents. In the other polypeptides denaturation by Gdn X HCl and temperatur...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Franchi D,Fronticelli C,Bucci E

更新日期：1982-11-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Peptide inhibitors, specifically labeled at the alpha-amino terminus by dansylation, have been prepared by utilizing solid-phase peptide synthesis. Changes in fluorescence have been observed upon mixing these peptides with porcine pepsin that can be attributed to the formation of at least two complexes. Energy transfe...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Dunn BM,Pham C,Raney L,Abayasekara D,Gillespie W,Hsu A

更新日期：1981-12-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Both activities of the aspartokinase--homoserine I (AK-HSD) of Escherichia coli are inhibited by threonine. Careful threonine binding studies have now been done which have allowed us to distinguish the various effects of threonine on the enzyme. The ultrafiltration technique of H. Paulus ((1969) Anal. Biochem. 32, 101...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Bearer CF,Neet KE

更新日期：1978-08-22 00:00:00

abstract：:NG-Methyl-L-arginine (L-NMA) is one of the most commonly used inhibitors of the nitric oxide synthases (NOS). Results reported here demonstrate that L-NMA is an alternate substrate and a mechanism-based inhibitor of the inducible NOS purified from murine macrophages. The irreversible inhibition displays pseudo-first-o...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Olken NM,Marletta MA

更新日期：1993-09-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The interaction of the zinc finger protein WT1 with RNA aptamers has been investigated using a quantitative binding assay, and the results have been compared to those from a previous study of the DNA binding properties of this protein. A recombinant peptide containing the four zinc fingers of WT1 (WT1-ZFP) binds to re...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Zhai G,Iskandar M,Barilla K,Romaniuk PJ

更新日期：2001-02-20 00:00:00