Next-Generation Peptide Nucleic Acid Chimeras Exhibit High Affinity and Potent Gene Silencing.

abstract：:The Raman laser temperature-jump technique has been used to measure the kinetics of the coil to helix reaction of poly(cytidylic acid) [poly(C)] in aqueous cosolvent mixtures. The rate of helix formation has a low activation energy and is proportional to reciprocal solvent viscosity. The observations suggest helix for...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Freier SM,Hill KO,Dewey TG,Marky LA,Breslauer KJ,Turner DH

更新日期：1981-03-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Structure and dynamism in a DNA segment d-GATCTTCCCCCCGGAA have been investigated by nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy. At neutral pH, the molecule exists largely as a dumbbell, formed by the association of two hairpins with sticky ends. A small percentage of hairpin is also detectable. The stem of the dum...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Singh S,Patel PK,Hosur RV

更新日期：1997-10-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Metal homeostasis and resistance in bacteria is maintained by a panel of metal-sensing transcriptional regulators that collectively control transition metal availability and mediate resistance to heavy metal xenobiotics, including As(III), Cd(II), Pb(II), and Hg(II). The ArsR family constitutes a superfamily of metal ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Wang Y,Kendall J,Cavet JS,Giedroc DP

更新日期：2010-08-10 00:00:00

abstract：:CP47 is a pigment-protein complex in the core of photosystem II that tranfers excitation energy to the reaction center. Here we report on a spectroscopic investigation of the isolated CP47 complex. By deconvoluting the 77 K absorption and linear dichroism, red-most states at 683 and 690 nm have been identified with os...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： De Weerd FL,Palacios MA,Andrizhiyevskaya EG,Dekker JP,Van Grondelle R

更新日期：2002-12-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Kinetic study of a series of compounds containing the thrombin-directed peptide D-Phe-ProboroArg-OH had indicated that the structure of the N-terminal blocking group may be correlated with binding [Kettner, C., Mersinger, L., & Knabb, R. (1990) J. Biol. Chem. 265, 18289-18297]. In order to further study this phenomeno...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Nienaber VL,Mersinger LJ,Kettner CA

更新日期：1996-07-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Uroporphyrinogen III synthase (U3S) catalyzes the asymmetrical cyclization of a linear tetrapyrrole to form the physiologically relevant uroporphyrinogen III (uro'gen III) isomer during heme biosynthesis. Here, we report four apoenzyme and one product complex crystal structures of the Thermus thermophilus (HB27) U3S p...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Schubert HL,Phillips JD,Heroux A,Hill CP

更新日期：2008-08-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The molecular dynamics of binary dispersions of plasmenylcholine/cholesterol and phosphatidylcholine/cholesterol were quantified by electron spin resonance (ESR) and deuterium magnetic resonance (2H NMR) spectroscopy. The order parameter of both 5-doxylstearate (5DS) and 16-doxylstearate (16DS) was larger in vesicles ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Pak JH,Bork VP,Norberg RE,Creer MH,Wolf RA,Gross RW

更新日期：1987-07-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Assignments have been made for 11 methyl, one Gln-C gamma, one Thr-C beta, and all six Tyr-C zeta carbon resonances of ribonuclease A. These partially serve to delineate the binding sites for Cu2+, Mn2+, phosphate, cytidine and its 2'-, 3'-, and 5'-phosphates (Cyd and Cyd-2'-P, -3'-P, and -5'-P), and one or a few urea...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Howarth OW,Lian LY

更新日期：1984-07-17 00:00:00

abstract：:It is now accepted that two or more conformations may exist within the same DNA molecule, thereby generating conformational junctions. The presence of B-Z junctions between right- and left-handed DNA conformations has been detected in plasmids by a number of techniques. Preliminary characterization of the first exampl...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Sheardy RD,Winkle SA

更新日期：1989-01-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Pulmonary surfactant protein D (SP-D), a member of the collectin group of innate immune proteins, plays important roles in lipopolysaccharide (LPS) recognition. We have previously shown that surfactant protein A (SP-A), a homologous collectin, interacts with Toll-like receptor (TLR) 2, resulting in alteration of TLR2-...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Ohya M,Nishitani C,Sano H,Yamada C,Mitsuzawa H,Shimizu T,Saito T,Smith K,Crouch E,Kuroki Y

更新日期：2006-07-18 00:00:00

abstract：:We have synthesized Deltalac-acetogenins that are new acetogenin mimics possessing two n-alkyl tails without an alpha,beta-unsaturated gamma-lactone ring and suggested that their inhibition mechanism may be different from that of common acetogenins [Hamada et al. (2004) Biochemistry 43, 3651-3658]. To elucidate the in...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Ichimaru N,Murai M,Abe M,Hamada T,Yamada Y,Makino S,Nishioka T,Makabe H,Makino A,Kobayashi T,Miyoshi H

更新日期：2005-01-18 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the use of anti-nucleoside antibodies to probe for local denaturation of calf thymus DNA upon binding of the antitumor drug cis-diamminedichloroplatinum(II), cis-DDP, and the biologically inactive analogues trans-diamminedichloroplatinum(II), trans-DDP, and chloro(diethylenetriamine)platinum(II) chloride, [P...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Sundquist WI,Lippard SJ,Stollar BD

更新日期：1986-04-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The binding of human Glu- and Lys-plasminogens to intact fibrin clots, to lysine-Sepharose, and to fibrin cleaved by plasmin was quantitatively characterized. On intact fibrin clots, there was one strong binding site for Glu-plasminogen with a dissociation constant, Kd, of 25 microM and one strong binding site for Lys...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Bok RA,Mangel WF

更新日期：1985-06-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Eukaryotic proteins with carboxyl-terminal CaaX motifs undergo three post-translational processing reactions-protein prenylation, endoproteolysis, and carboxymethylation. Two genes in yeast encoding CaaX endoproteases, AFC1 and RCE1, have been identified. Rce1p is solely responsible for proteolysis of yeast Ras protei...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Dolence JM,Steward LE,Dolence EK,Wong DH,Poulter CD

更新日期：2000-04-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Formylglycinamide ribonucleotide amidotransferase (FGAR-AT) catalyzes the ATP- and glutamine-dependent formation of formylglycinamidine ribonucleotide, ADP, P(i), and glutamate in the fourth step of de novo purine biosynthesis. Like all amidotransferases (ATs), FGAR-AT is proposed to channel ammonia between a glutamin...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Hoskins AA,Anand R,Ealick SE,Stubbe J

更新日期：2004-08-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The light harvesting 1 antenna (LH1) complex from Rhodobacter sphaeroides funnels excitation energy to the photosynthetic reaction center. Our ultimate goal is to build up the structure of LH1 from structures of its individual subunits, much as the antenna can self-assemble from its components in membrane-mimicking de...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Sorgen PL,Cahill SM,Krueger-Koplin RD,Krueger-Koplin ST,Schenck CC,Girvin ME

更新日期：2002-01-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE) plays a critical role in the circulating or endocrine renin-angiotensin system (RAS) as well as the local regulation that exists in tissues such as the myocardium and skeletal muscle. Here we report the high-resolution crystal structures of testis ACE (tACE) in complex with the firs...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Natesh R,Schwager SL,Evans HR,Sturrock ED,Acharya KR

更新日期：2004-07-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Previously, we have shown that 4-hydroxynonenal (4-HNE) induces Fas-mediated apoptosis in HLE B-3 cells through a pathway which is independent of FasL, FADD, procaspase 8, and DISC (Li, J., et al. (2006) Biochemistry 45, 12253-12264). The involvement of Daxx has also been suggested in this pathway, but its role is not...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Sharma R,Sharma A,Dwivedi S,Zimniak P,Awasthi S,Awasthi YC

更新日期：2008-01-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The far-ultraviolet circular dichroism spectra of bovine and human prothrombin, prothrombin fragment 1, prethrombin 1, prothrombin fragment 2, and prethrombin 2 (prethrombin 2des(1--13)) were determined and the method of Chen et al. [Chen, Y. H., Yang, J. T., & Martinez, H. M. (1972) Biochemistry 11, 4120--4131; Chen,...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Bloom JW,Mann KG

更新日期：1979-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The crystal structure of the complex between the quinoprotein methylamine dehydrogenase (MADH) and the type I blue copper protein amicyanin, both from Paracoccus denitrificans, has been determined at 2.5-A resolution using molecular replacement. The search model was MADH from Thiobacillus versutus. The amicyanin could...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Chen L,Durley R,Poliks BJ,Hamada K,Chen Z,Mathews FS,Davidson VL,Satow Y,Huizinga E,Vellieux FM

更新日期：1992-06-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Steady-state kinetic parameters were determined for the human leukocyte elastase catalyzed hydrolysis of a series of peptide-based thiobenzyl esters and p-nitroanilides. The peptide units are MeOSuc-Val, MeOSuc-Alan-Pro-Val (n = 0-2), and MeOSuc-Alan-Pro-Ala (n = 1 or 2). The results of this study suggest five importa...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Stein RL,Strimpler AM,Hori H,Powers JC

更新日期：1987-03-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of histidine in catalysis by prostaglandin H synthase has been investigated using chemical modification with diethyl pyrocarbonate (DEPC), an agent that has been found to rather selectively derivatize histidine residues in proteins under mild conditions. Incubation of the synthase apoprotein with DEPC at pH 7...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Zhang X,Tsai AL,Kulmacz RJ

更新日期：1992-03-10 00:00:00

abstract：:We show that eight different serine proteinases--bovine chymotrypsins A and B, porcine pancreatic elastase I, proteinase K, Streptomyces griseus proteinases A and B, and subtilisins BPN' and Carlsberg--interact with turkey ovomucoid third domain at the same Leu18-Glu19 peptide bond, the reactive site of the inhibitor....

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Ardelt W,Laskowski M Jr

更新日期：1985-09-24 00:00:00

abstract：:We examine the relationship between binding affinity and interface size for reversible protein-protein interactions (PPIs), using cytokines from the tumor necrosis factor (TNF) superfamily and their receptors as a test case. Using surface plasmon resonance, we measured single-site binding affinities for binding of the...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Day ES,Cote SM,Whitty A

更新日期：2012-11-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Photolyzed rhodopsin is phosphorylated at multiple serine and threonine residues during the quenching of phototransduction. Sites of phosphorylation by rhodopsin kinase have been localized to the C-terminal region of rhodopsin, but no information was available on the kinetics and identity of phosphorylated residues. T...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Ohguro H,Palczewski K,Ericsson LH,Walsh KA,Johnson RS

更新日期：1993-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ketosteroid isomerase (KSI) is one of the most proficient enzymes catalyzing an allylic isomerization reaction at a diffusion-controlled rate. In this study of KSI, we have detailed the structures of its active site, the role of various catalytic residues, and have explained the origin of the its fast reactivity by ca...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Oh KS,Cha SS,Kim DH,Cho HS,Ha NC,Choi G,Lee JY,Tarakeshwar P,Son HS,Choi KY,Oh BH,Kim KS

更新日期：2000-11-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies are presented of the equilibrium binding of [3H]-d-tubocurarine (dTC) and [3H]acetylcholine (AcCh) to Torpedo postsynaptic membranes. The saturable binding of [3H]dTC is characterized by two affinities: Kd1 = 33 +/- 6 nM and Kd2 = 7.7 +/- 4.6 microM, with equal numbers of binding sites. Both components are com...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Neubig RR,Cohen JB

更新日期：1979-11-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Neuronal specification is regulated by the activity of transcription factors containing the basic helix-loop-helix motif (bHLH); these regulating proteins include, among others, the neurogenin (Ngn) family, related to the atonal family of genes. Neurogenin 1 (NGN1) is a 237-residue protein that contains a bHLH domain ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Aguado-Llera D,Goormaghtigh E,de Geest N,Quan XJ,Prieto A,Hassan BA,Gómez J,Neira JL

更新日期：2010-03-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The conversion of prion protein (PrP) to the pathogenic PrPSc conformation is central to prion disease. Previous studies revealed that PrP interacts with lipids and the interaction induces PrP conformational changes, yet it remains unclear whether in the absence of any denaturing treatment, PrP-lipid interaction is su...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Wang F,Yang F,Hu Y,Wang X,Wang X,Jin C,Ma J

更新日期：2007-06-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Human lung tryptase (HLT), a trypsin-like serine proteinase stored as an active enzyme in association with heparin in mast cell granules, is released into the extracellular environment when mast cells are activated. Tryptases are unusual in that they form tetramers and bind heparin. As there are no known endogenous tr...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Addington AK,Johnson DA

更新日期：1996-10-22 00:00:00