Characterization of the reaction of L-serine and indole with Escherichia coli tryptophan synthase via rapid-scanning ultraviolet-visible spectroscopy.

abstract：:West Nile virus (WNV) is a mosquito-borne flavivirus with a rapidly expanding global distribution. Infection can cause severe neurological disease and fatality in humans. Efforts are ongoing to develop antiviral drugs that inhibit the WNV protease, a viral enzyme required for polyprotein processing. Unfortunately, lit...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Garces AP,Watowich SJ

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy has been applied to the study of lipid vesicle-supported two-dimensional crystals and noncrystalline preparations of beef heart cytochrome oxidase. At room temperature, no conformational differences are seen between the noncrystalline and crystalline proteins, whose conformation...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Arrondo JL,Castresana J,Valpuesta JM,Goñi FM

更新日期：1994-09-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Traditionally, assigning the heme protein resonances has relied heavily on the comparison of spectra arising from protein reconstituted with specifically deuterated hemes and the native form. Such an approach can identify tentatively the broad, overlapping signals in the Fe(II) high-spin heme protein spectra. Although...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Busse SC,Jue T

更新日期：1994-09-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The alpha-conotoxins MI and GI display stronger affinities for the alphagamma agonist site on the Torpedo californica electrocyte nicotinic acetylcholine receptor (ACHR) than for the alphadelta agonist site, while alpha-conotoxin SI binds with the same affinity to both sites. Prior studies reported that the arginine a...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Vélez-Carrasco W,Valdés S,Agresar L,Lettich A,Guerra AY,Hann RM

更新日期：2004-10-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Although the binding of bivalent metal-ion activators to phosphoglucomutase produces substantial changes in the near ultraviolet spectrum of the enzyme, the extent to which aromatic residues are exposed to the aqueous environment, as assessed by means of solvent perturbation spectroscopy (using D2O), does not appear t...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Ray WJ Jr

更新日期：1978-04-18 00:00:00

abstract：:PQQ is an exogenous, tricyclic, quino-cofactor for a number of bacterial dehydrogenases. The final step of PQQ formation is catalyzed by PqqC, a cofactorless oxidase. This study focuses on the activation of molecular oxygen in an enzyme active site without metal or cofactor and has identified a specific oxygen binding...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： RoseFigura JM,Puehringer S,Schwarzenbacher R,Toyama H,Klinman JP

更新日期：2011-03-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Haemadin is a 57-amino acid thrombin inhibitor from the land-living leech Haemadipsa sylvestris, whose structure has recently been determined in complex with human alpha-thrombin. Here we communicate the effect of ionic strength on the kinetics of the inhibition of human alpha-thrombin by haemadin, by using thrombin m...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Richardson JL,Fuentes-Prior P,Sadler JE,Huber R,Bode W

更新日期：2002-02-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Minor leucine tRNA species, tRNA(Leu)4 and tRNA(Leu)5, from Escherichia coli B have been reported to recognize leucine codons UUA and UUG [Goldman, E., Holmes, W. M., and Hatfield, G. W. (1979) J. Mol. Biol. 129, 567-585]. In the present study, these two tRNA(Leu) species were purified from E. coli A19, and the nucleo...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Horie N,Yamaizumi Z,Kuchino Y,Takai K,Goldman E,Miyazawa T,Nishimura S,Yokoyama S

更新日期：1999-01-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The involvement of Cl(-) and several other monovalent anions in photosynthetic oxygen evolution was studied using photosystem II membranes depleted of Cl(-) by dialysis. The results of these studies differ significantly from results obtained using other depletion methods. Binding studies with glycerol as a cryoprotect...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Olesen K,Andréasson LE

更新日期：2003-02-25 00:00:00

abstract：:31P NMR spectra of equilibrium mixtures of enzyme-bound reactants and products of the adenylate kinase reaction (formula; see text) were analyzed by using computer simulations based on density matrix theory of chemical exchange. Since adenylate kinase has the unique feature that the reactants in the reverse direction ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Vasavada KV,Kaplan JI,Nageswara Rao BD

更新日期：1984-02-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The kinetics of tert-butyl isocyanide binding to the heme protein horseradish peroxidase (HRP) at 22 degrees C was examined on all time scales, from minutes to picoseconds, in aqueous borate buffer at pH 9.08. Unlike myoglobin (Mb) or hemoglobin, HRP shows two bimolecular ligand binding processes. For comparison, bind...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Bandyopadhyay D,Walda KN,Grogan TM,Magde D,Traylor TG,Sharma VS

更新日期：1996-02-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The NO adducts of leghemoglobin (Lb) are implicated in biological processes, but only the adduct with ferrous Lb (Lb(II)NO) has been characterized previously. We report the first characterization of ferric nitrosylleghemoglobin (Lb(III)NO) and XAS experiments performed on frozen aqueous solutions of Lb(II)NO and Lb(II...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Rich AM,Ellis PJ,Tennant L,Wright PE,Armstrong RS,Lay PA

更新日期：1999-12-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Periodate-oxidized tRNA(Phe) (tRNA(oxPhe)) behaves as a specific affinity label of tetrameric Escherichia coli phenylalanyl-tRNA synthetase (PheRS). Reaction of the alpha 2 beta 2 enzyme with tRNA(oxPhe) results in the loss of tRNAPhe aminoacylation activity with covalent attachment of 2 mol of tRNA dialdehyde/mol of ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Hountondji C,Schmitter JM,Beauvallet C,Blanquet S

更新日期：1987-08-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Tyramine β-monooxygenase (TβM), the insect homologue of dopamine β-monooxygenase, is a neuroregulatory enzyme that catalyzes the β-hydroxylation of tyramine to yield octopamine. Mutation of the methionine (Met) ligand to Cu(M) of TβM, Met471Cys, yielded a form of TβM that is catalytically active but susceptible to ina...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Osborne RL,Zhu H,Iavarone AT,Hess CR,Klinman JP

更新日期：2012-09-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The RmFixL-RmFixJ oxygen signal transduction system ensures that a cascade of the Sinorhizobium meliloti nitrogen fixation genes is induced as the concentration of O2 drops below 50 microM in symbiotic nodules. Deoxy-RmFixL is a histidine protein kinase that catalyzes a phosphoryl transfer from ATP to the aspartate 54...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Sousa EH,Gonzalez G,Gilles-Gonzalez MA

更新日期：2005-11-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Volumes of lipid dispersions as a function of temperature have been measured for two different kinds of binary mixtures of lecithins, (1) DMPC and DSPC and (2) DMPC and DC20PC. Emphasis was placed on DMPC-rich compositions so as to resolve ambiguities regarding solid-phase immiscibility in DMPC-DSPC mixtures. Special ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Wilkinson DA,Nagle JF

更新日期：1979-09-18 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：:Saccharomyces cerevisiae tRNA and 5S RNA, Escherichia coli 5S RNA, and wheat germ 5S RNA have each been specifically spin-labeled at the 3'-terminal ribose to give morpholino-spin-labeled (MSL) RNAs. Enzymatic hydrolysis with pancreatic RNase, followed by anion-exchange chromatography, confirms the site of attachment ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Luoma GA,Herring FG,Marshall AG

更新日期：1982-12-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Conformational factors that predicate selectivity for valine or isoleucine binding to IlvN leading to the regulation of aceto hydroxy acid synthase I (AHAS I) of Escherichia coli have been determined for the first time from high-resolution (1.9-2.43 Å) crystal structures of IlvN·Val and IlvN·Ile complexes. The valine ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Bansal A,Karanth NM,Demeler B,Schindelin H,Sarma SP

更新日期：2019-04-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The fungal neurotoxin alpha-cyclopiazonic acid (CPA), a nanomolar inhibitor of Ca(2+)-ATPase with a unique pentacyclic indole tetramic acid scaffold, is assembled by a three enzyme pathway CpaS, CpaD, and CpaO in Aspergillus sp. We recently characterized the first pathway-specific enzyme CpaS, a hybrid two module poly...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Liu X,Walsh CT

更新日期：2009-11-24 00:00:00

abstract：:PDZ domains are among the most abundant protein modules in the known genomes. Their main function is to provide scaffolds for membrane-associated protein complexes by binding to the cytosolic, C-terminal fragments of receptors, channels, and other integral membrane proteins. Here, using both heteronuclear NMR and sing...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Grembecka J,Cierpicki T,Devedjiev Y,Derewenda U,Kang BS,Bushweller JH,Derewenda ZS

更新日期：2006-03-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The binding site of cyclosporin A to P-glycoprotein was characterized by using a multidrug-resistant Chinese hamster ovary cell line. P-glycoprotein photolabeled with diazirine-cyclosporin A analogue was purified by a two-step process involving continuous elution electrophoresis followed by wheat germ agglutinin-agaro...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Demeule M,Laplante A,Murphy GF,Wenger RM,Béliveau R

更新日期：1998-12-22 00:00:00

abstract：:DB2277, a heterocyclic diamidine, is a successful design for mixed base pair (bp) DNA sequence recognition. The compound has a central aza-benzimidazole group that forms two H-bonds with a GC bp that has flanking AT bps. The nuclear magnetic resonance structure of the DB2277-DNA complex with an AAGATA recognition site...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Harika NK,Wilson WD

更新日期：2018-08-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The crystal structure of ferredoxin-NADP+ reductase (FNR) suggests that Ser96 is directly involved in hydride transfer between the isoalloxazine moiety of FAD and the nicotinamide ring of NADP(H). To probe its role, Ser96 has been mutated to valine (S96V) and glycine (S96G). These mutations primarily affected the inte...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Aliverti A,Bruns CM,Pandini VE,Karplus PA,Vanoni MA,Curti B,Zanetti G

更新日期：1995-07-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutagenesis of Escherichia coli manganese superoxide dismutase (MnSD) demonstrates involvement of the strictly conserved gateway tyrosine (Y34) in exogenous ligand interactions. Conservative replacement of this residue by phenylalanine (Y34F) affects the pH sensitivity of the active-site metal ion and perturbs ligand ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Whittaker MM,Whittaker JW

更新日期：1997-07-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The BCL-2 gene encodes a 25 kDa membrane protein that plays critical roles in the control of apoptosis. The regulation of BCL-2 gene expression is highly complex and occurs both transcriptionally and posttranscriptionally. In particular, the 5' upstream region of BCL-2 contains a number of elements that control its ex...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Shahid R,Bugaut A,Balasubramanian S

更新日期：2010-09-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The interaction of proteoglycan monomers with hyaluronate in cartilage is mediated by a globular binding region at the N-terminus of the proteoglycan monomer; this interaction is stabilized by link protein. Sequences show that both the binding region (27% carbohydrate) and the link protein (6% carbohydrate) contain an...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Perkins SJ,Nealis AS,Dunham DG,Hardingham TE,Muir IH

更新日期：1991-11-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Changes in the concentrations of high-energy phosphate metabolites were measured by 31P NMR spectroscopy of surviving rat uteri from 0-48 h following estrogen administration. Concentrations (millimoles per kilogram wet weight) of these metabolites in the untreated immature uterus, measured at 4 degrees C, were found t...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Degani H,Shaer A,Victor TA,Kaye AM

更新日期：1984-06-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Human alpha1 and alpha2 isoforms of Na,K-ATPase have been expressed with porcine 10*Histidine-tagged beta1 subunit in Pichia pastoris. Methanol-induced expression of alpha2 is optimal at 20 degrees C, whereas at 25 degrees C, which is optimal for expression of alpha1, alpha2 is not expressed. Detergent-soluble alpha2b...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Lifshitz Y,Petrovich E,Haviv H,Goldshleger R,Tal DM,Garty H,Karlish SJ

更新日期：2007-12-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Apo horse spleen ferritin (apo HoSF) was reconstituted to various core sizes (100-3500 Fe3+/HoSF) by depositing Fe(OH)3 within the hollow HoSF interior by air oxidation of Fe2+. Fe2+ and phosphate (Pi) were then added anaerobically at a 1:4 ratio, and both Fe2+ and Pi were incorporated into the HoSF cores. The resulti...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Johnson JL,Cannon M,Watt RK,Frankel RB,Watt GD

更新日期：1999-05-18 00:00:00