Novel spin-labels for the study of lipid-protein interactions. Application to (Na+, K+)-ATPase membranes.

abstract：:Heme catabolism is an important biochemical process that many bacterial pathogens utilize to acquire iron. However, tetrapyrrole catabolites can be reactive and often require further processing for transport out of the cell or conversion to another useful cofactor. In previous work, we presented in vitro evidence of a...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： LaMattina JW,Delrossi M,Uy KG,Keul ND,Nix DB,Neelam AR,Lanzilotta WN

更新日期：2017-02-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome protein (WASP) and neural WASP (N-WASP) are key players in regulating actin cytoskeleton via the Arp2/3 complex. It has been widely reported that the WASP proteins are activated by Rho family small GTPase Cdc42 and that Rac1 acts through SCAR/WAVE proteins. However, a systematic study of t...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Tomasevic N,Jia Z,Russell A,Fujii T,Hartman JJ,Clancy S,Wang M,Beraud C,Wood KW,Sakowicz R

更新日期：2007-03-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Fatty acid-induced upregulation of death receptor 5 (DR5) and its cognate ligand, tumor necrosis factor-related apoptosis-inducing ligand (TRAIL), promotes hepatocyte lipoapoptosis, which is a key mechanism in the progression of fatty liver disease. Accordingly, inhibition of DR5 signaling represents an attractive str...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Vunnam N,Szymonski S,Hirsova P,Gores GJ,Sachs JN,Hackel BJ

更新日期：2020-10-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The C-terminal domain (CT) of apolipoprotein E (apoE), a critical protein involved in cholesterol transport in the plasma and brain, plays an important role in high-affinity lipoprotein binding. Although high-resolution structural information is available for the N-terminal domain of apoE, the structural organization ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Patel AB,Khumsupan P,Narayanaswami V

更新日期：2010-03-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Rod outer segment membrane guanylate cyclase (ROS-GC) transduction system is a central component of the Ca(2+)-sensitive phototransduction machinery. The system is composed of two parts: Ca(2+) sensor guanylate cyclase activating protein (GCAP) and ROS-GC. GCAP senses Ca(2+) impulses and inhibits the cyclase. This ope...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Venkataraman V,Duda T,Vardi N,Koch KW,Sharma RK

更新日期：2003-05-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The catalytic activity of protein-tyrosine phosphatases (PTPs) is mediated by a cysteine side chain which carries out a nucleophilic attack initiating the phosphate cleavage. Experimentally, it has been observed that the active site cysteine has a remarkably low pKa. In the present study, we have investigated the orig...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Peters GH,Frimurer TM,Olsen OH

更新日期：1998-04-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Human protein Z is a vitamin K-dependent plasma glycoprotein, deficiency of which leads to a mild bleeding tendency. Protein Z appears to assist hemostasis by binding thrombin and promoting its association with phospholipid vesicles. In this study, to characterize the gene for protein Z, its organization and structure...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Fujimaki K,Yamazaki T,Taniwaki M,Ichinose A

更新日期：1998-05-12 00:00:00

abstract：:S100 proteins are small dimeric members of the EF-hand superfamily of Ca(2+) binding proteins thought to participate in mediating intracellular Ca(2+) signals by binding to and thereby regulating target proteins in a Ca(2+)-dependent manner. As dimer formation is crucial to S100 function, we applied a yeast two-hybrid...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Koltzscher M,Gerke V

更新日期：2000-08-08 00:00:00

abstract：:A PS I membrane preparation from a PS II deficient mutant of Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 (psb DI/DII/C) was investigated by picosecond photovoltage and fluorescence measurements. The photovoltage kinetics show two distinct phases. At low excitation energies the fast phase correlates with the fluorescence decay time con...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Hecks B,Wulf K,Breton J,Leibl W,Trissl HW

更新日期：1994-07-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The association-dissociation kinetics of ribosomes from Escherichia coli have been studied under various conditions in a light-scattering stopped-flow apparatus. The dissociation reaction at 2 mg/ml at 25 degrees C, induced by lowering the MgCl2 concentration from 18 to 3 mM, can best be described by three independent...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Görisch H,Goss DJ,Parkhurst LJ

更新日期：1976-12-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Depletion of Ca2+ and/or Cl- ions from PSII membranes blocks the electron-transfer reactions that precede O2 evolution on the oxidizing side of the enzyme. Illumination of these inhibited preparations at 273 K generates a paramagnetic species that is detectable by low-temperature (T < 20 K) EPR as a signal in the g = ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Lydakis-Simantiris N,Dorlet P,Ghanotakis DF,Babcock GT

更新日期：1998-05-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Diethyl pyrocarbonate (DEP) is an electrophilic reagent that is used to modify reversibly the histidine residues of proteins. Unfortunately, the lability of the acylated histidine adduct usually does not permit the isolation and identification of the modified histidine. By use of 500-MHz proton NMR spectroscopy, it ha...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Altman J,Lipka JJ,Kuntz I,Waskell L

更新日期：1989-09-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The vitamin D receptor (VDR) binds 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D(3) and mediates its actions on gene transcription by heterodimerizing with retinoid X receptors (RXRs) on direct repeat (DR+3) vitamin D responsive elements (VDREs) located in target genes. The VDRE binding function of VDR has been primarily ascribed to the zi...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Hsieh JC,Whitfield GK,Oza AK,Dang HT,Price JN,Galligan MA,Jurutka PW,Thompson PD,Haussler CA,Haussler MR

更新日期：1999-12-07 00:00:00

abstract：:We have investigated perturbations of the triplet-state properties of Trp residues in bacteriophage T4 lysozyme caused by point mutations using low-temperature phosphorescence and optical detection of triplet-state magnetic resonance (ODMR) spectroscopy. Five temperature-sensitive mutants have been studied in detail. ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Zang LH,Ghosh S,Maki AH

更新日期：1989-03-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (nAChRs) were studied in detail in the past regarding their interaction with therapeutic and drug addiction related compounds. Using fast kinetic whole-cell recording, we have now studied effects of tacrine, an agent used clinically to treat Alzheimer's disease, on currents elicited b...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Cheffer A,Ulrich H

更新日期：2011-03-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The interaction of alamethicin with artificial lecithin multilamellar dispersions was investigated by nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) and Raman spectroscopies. 31P NMR studies revealed perturbation of the lipid head groups in the presence of the icosapeptide. Simulation of the 31P NMR spectra indicated that the obser...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Banerjee U,Zidovetzki R,Birge RR,Chan SI

更新日期：1985-12-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Doxorubicin (DOX) is a chemotherapeutic that is used in the treatment of a wide variety of cancers. However, it causes cardiotoxicity partly because of the formation of reactive oxygen species. CYP2J2 is a human cytochrome P450 that is strongly expressed in cardiomyocytes. It converts arachidonic acid (AA) into four d...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Arnold WR,Baylon JL,Tajkhorshid E,Das A

更新日期：2017-12-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The side chains of histidine and aspartate residues form a hydrogen bond in the active sites of many enzymes. In serine proteases, the His...Asp hydrogen bond of the catalytic triad is known to contribute greatly to catalysis, perhaps via the formation of a low-barrier hydrogen bond. In bovine pancreatic ribonuclease ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Schultz LW,Quirk DJ,Raines RT

更新日期：1998-06-23 00:00:00

abstract：:We have isolated a new toxin, calitoxin (CLX), from the sea anemone Calliactis parasitica whose amino acid sequence differs greatly from that of other sea anemone toxins. The polypeptide chain contains 46 amino acid residues, with a molecular mass of 4886 Da and an isoelectric point at pH 5.4. The amino acid sequence ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Cariello L,de Santis A,Fiore F,Piccoli R,Spagnuolo A,Zanetti L,Parente A

更新日期：1989-03-21 00:00:00

abstract：:alpha-1,3-Fucosyltransferase V (FucT V) catalyzes the transfer of 1-fucose from the donor sugar guanosine 5'-diphospho-beta-1-fucose (GDP-Fuc) to an acceptor sugar. A secondary isotope effect on the fucosyltransfer reaction with guanosine 5'-diphospho-[1-2H]-beta-1-fucose (GDP-[1-2H]-Fuc) as the substrate was observed...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Murray BW,Wittmann V,Burkart MD,Hung SC,Wong CH

更新日期：1997-01-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Adipocyte lipid-binding protein (ALBP) is the adipocyte member of an intracellular hydrophobic ligand-binding protein family. ALBP is phosphorylated by the insulin receptor kinase upon insulin stimulation. The crystal structure of recombinant murine ALBP has been determined and refined to 2.5 A. The final R factor for...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Xu Z,Bernlohr DA,Banaszak LJ

更新日期：1992-04-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Piscidin 4, an antimicrobial peptide recently isolated from mast cells of hybrid striped bass (Morone chrysops female × Morone saxatilis male), is unusual in that it is twice as long (44 amino acids) as the typical members of the piscidin family. We previously showed that native piscidin 4 had a modified amino acid at...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Park NG,Silphaduang U,Moon HS,Seo JK,Corrales J,Noga EJ

更新日期：2011-04-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The fatty acid synthase (FAS) of animal tissue is a dimer of two identical subunits, each with a Mr of 260,000. The subunit is a single multifunctional protein having seven catalytic activities and a site for binding of the prosthetic group 4'-phosphopantetheine. The mRNA coding for the subunit has an estimated size o...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Kasturi R,Chirala S,Pazirandeh M,Wakil SJ

更新日期：1988-10-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The binding of 8-anilino-1-naphthalenesulfonate (ANS) to ciliary dynein ATPase leads to a marked increase in the dye's fluorescence intensity, accompanied by a blue shift in the observed fluorescence emission maximum. We found that dynein has 37 +/- 3 ANS binding sites and that experimentally applied ANS concentration...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Saucier AC,Mariotti S,Anderson SA,Purich DL

更新日期：1985-12-17 00:00:00

abstract：:A 600 MHz 1H NMR study of toxin OSK1, blocker of small-conductance Ca2+-activated K+ channels, is presented. The unambiguous sequential assignment of all the protons of the toxin was obtained using TOCSY, DQF-COSY, and NOESY experiments at pH 3.0 (10, 30, and 45 degrees C) in aqueous solution. 3J(N alpha), 3J(alphabet...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Jaravine VA,Nolde DE,Reibarkh MJ,Korolkova YV,Kozlov SA,Pluzhnikov KA,Grishin EV,Arseniev AS

更新日期：1997-02-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Apolipoprotein AIV is one of the principal apolipoproteins synthesized by the rat small intestine. We have cloned a cDNA encoding a portion of preapolipoprotein AIV mRNA. A kinetically fractionated cDNA probe highly enriched for the abundant intestinal mucosal mRNA sequences was used to screen a library of recombinant...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Gordon JI,Smith DP,Alpers DH,Strauss AW

更新日期：1982-10-26 00:00:00

abstract：:At neutral pH, compound I of Arthromyces ramosus peroxidase (ARP) was stable and was reduced to ferric ARP without apparent formation of compound II upon titration with ascorbate or hydroquinone. In the titration experiments, compound II was seen as an intermediate only at alkaline pH. However, measuring a difference ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Farhangrazi ZS,Copeland BR,Nakayama T,Amachi T,Yamazaki I,Powers LS

更新日期：1994-05-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Escherichia coli mannitol specific EII in membrane vesicles can be inhibited by the action of the oxidizable substrate-reduced phenazine methosulfate (PMS) in a manner similar to E. coli enzyme IIGlc [Robillard, G. T., & Konings, W. (1981) Biochemistry 20, 5025-5032]. The fact that reduced PMS and various oxidizing ag...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Roossien FF,Robillard GT

更新日期：1984-01-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Although the synthesis of RNA from a DNA template is (and must be) a generally very stable process to enable transcription of kilobase transcripts, it has long been known that during initial transcription of the first 8-10 bases of RNA complexes are relatively unstable, leading to the release of short abortive RNA tra...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Vahia AV,Martin CT

更新日期：2011-08-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous crystallographic studies in this laboratory demonstrated that immunoglobulin light chains with the same amino acid sequence can have at least two and probably three or more conformations, depending on whether the second member of an interacting pair is a light or heavy chain. If a heavy chain is not available...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Firca JR,Ely KR,Kremser P,Westholm FA,Dorrington KJ,Edmundson AB

更新日期：1978-01-10 00:00:00