Interaction of diacylglycerols with phosphatidylcholine vesicles as studied by differential scanning calorimetry and fluorescence probe depolarization.

abstract：:Eta-crystallin is a retinal dehydrogenase that has acquired a role as a structural protein in the eye lens of elephant shrews, members of an ancient order of mammals. While it retains some activity toward retinal, which is oxidized to retinoic acid, the protein has acquired a number of specific sequence changes that h...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Bateman OA,Purkiss AG,van Montfort R,Slingsby C,Graham C,Wistow G

更新日期：2003-04-22 00:00:00

abstract：:There is a significant need for new therapeutics to treat infections caused by the biodefense agent Bacillus anthracis. In pursuit of drug discovery against this organism, we have developed novel propargyl-linked inhibitors that target the essential enzyme dihydrofolate reductase (DHFR) from B. anthracis. Previously, ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Beierlein JM,Deshmukh L,Frey KM,Vinogradova O,Anderson AC

更新日期：2009-05-19 00:00:00

abstract：:A cross-linked tripeptide has been isolated from alkaline hydrolysates of NaB3H4-reduced calf bone collagen. The peptide contains dihydroxylysinonorleucine, the most abundant cross-link in bone collagen, and it has a single N-terminal proline and a single C-terminal valine. These amino acids are in peptide linkage wit...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Fujii K,Corcoran D,Tanzer ML

更新日期：1975-10-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Polyisoprenyl diphosphates play diverse and vital roles in cell function in health and disease. The counter-regulatory lipid signaling molecule, presqualene diphosphate (PSDP), is rapidly converted to its monophosphate form (PSMP) upon cell activation [Levy, B. D., Petasis, N. A., and Serhan, C. N. (1997) Nature 389, ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Carlo T,Petasis NA,Levy BD

更新日期：2009-04-07 00:00:00

abstract：:To understand the mechanism by which annexin I induces membrane aggregation, a comprehensive mutagenesis of all six Ca2+-binding sites was performed. When the cap residues of type II Ca2+-binding sites were systematically mutated to Ala, a type II site in domain II was shown to be essential for Ca2+-dependent vesicle ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Bitto E,Cho W

更新日期：1998-07-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Hydrogen exchange of the individual amide protons of alanine-90 (F5), glutamine-91 (F6), serine-92 (F7), and histidine-93 (F8) residues in cyanometmyoglobin of sperm whale has been studied by 1H nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy at 360 MHz. The amide proton resonance of F5, F6, and F7 have been assigned by use o...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Kumar NV,Kallenbach NR

更新日期：1985-12-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Syk, a nonreceptor protein-tyrosine kinase, is activated by both oxidative and osmotic stress and plays different roles in the transduction of stress signals. In this study, the regulation of oxidative and osmotic stress induced Syk activation was investigated utilizing Syk-negative DT40 cells, expressing various Syk ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Qin S,Kurosaki T,Yamamura H

更新日期：1998-04-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The interaction of heparan sulfate with different ligand proteins depends on the precise location of O-sulfate groups in the polysaccharide chain. We have previously shown that overexpression in human kidney 293 cells of a mouse mastocytoma 2-O-sulfotransferase (2-OST), previously thought to catalyze the transfer of s...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Rong J,Habuchi H,Kimata K,Lindahl U,Kusche-Gullberg M

更新日期：2001-05-08 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：:Nogo-66 receptor (NgR1) is a leucine-rich repeat (LRR) protein that forms part of a signaling complex modulating axon regeneration. Previous studies have shown that the entire LRR region of NgR1, including the C-terminal cap of the LRR, LRRCT, is needed for ligand binding, and that the adjacent C-terminal region (CT s...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Wen D,Wildes CP,Silvian L,Walus L,Mi S,Lee DH,Meier W,Pepinsky RB

更新日期：2005-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Factor V(a) (FV(a)) is a cofactor for the serine protease factor X(a) that activates prothrombin to thrombin in the presence of Ca(2+) and a membrane surface. FV(a) is a heterodimer composed of one heavy chain (A1 and A2 domains) and one light chain (A3, C1, and C2 domains). We use fluorescence, circular dichroism, an...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Srivastava A,Quinn-Allen MA,Kim SW,Kane WH,Lentz BR

更新日期：2001-07-27 00:00:00

abstract：:More than 100 distinct mutations in the gene CuZnSOD encoding human copper-zinc superoxide dismutase (CuZnSOD) have been associated with familial amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (fALS), a fatal neuronal disease. Many studies of different mutant proteins have found effects on protein stability, catalytic activity, and me...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Hennig J,Andrésen C,Museth AK,Lundström P,Tibell LA,Jonsson BH

更新日期：2015-01-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Isoaspartyl dipeptidase (IAD) is a member of the amidohydrolase superfamily and catalyzes the hydrolytic cleavage of beta-aspartyl dipeptides. Structural studies of the wild-type enzyme have demonstrated that the active site consists of a binuclear metal center positioned at the C-terminal end of a (beta/alpha)(8)-bar...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Martí-Arbona R,Fresquet V,Thoden JB,Davis ML,Holden HM,Raushel FM

更新日期：2005-05-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The pigment composition of the isolated photosystem II reaction center complex in its most stable and pure form currently is a matter of considerable debate. In this contribution, we present a new method based on a combination of gel filtration chromatography and diode array detection to analyze the composition of pho...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Eijckelhoff C,van Roon H,Groot ML,van Grondelle R,Dekker JP

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hemopexin is a plasma glycoprotein that has two structural domains (I and II) and binds and transports heme particularly to liver cells. Differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) studies show that hemopexin is largely stabilized by heme, which binds exclusively to domain I. The melting temperature (Tm) of heme-hemopexin...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Wu ML,Morgan WT

更新日期：1993-07-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Colicin E3 is a 60 kDa, multidomain protein antibiotic that targets its ribonuclease activity to an essential region of the 16S ribosomal RNA of Escherichia coli. To prevent suicide of the producing cell, synthesis of the toxin is accompanied by the production of a 10 kDa immunity protein (Im3) that binds strongly to ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Walker D,Moore GR,James R,Kleanthous C

更新日期：2003-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Secondary structure in RNA targets is a significant barrier to short DNA probes. However, when such targets are the end product of an in vitro amplification scheme, it is possible to carry out transcription in the presence of nucleoside triphosphate analogues that reduce secondary structure of the RNA without impairin...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Gamper HB Jr,Gewirtz A,Edwards J,Hou YM

更新日期：2004-08-10 00:00:00

abstract：:A major biochemical goal is the ability to mimic nature in engineering highly specific protein-protein interactions (PPIs). We previously devised a computational interactome screen to identify eight peptides that form four heterospecific dimers despite 32 potential off-targets. To expand the speed and utility of our a...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Crooks RO,Lathbridge A,Panek AS,Mason JM

更新日期：2017-03-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The interaction of Ca2+ and vanadate with fluorescein isothiocyanate (FITC) labeled sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR) Ca2+-ATPase has been studied by following the kinetics of changes in the reporter group fluorescence and equilibrium fluorescence levels. The vanadate species bound to the enzyme is clearly monomeric orthova...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Markus S,Priel Z,Chipman DM

更新日期：1989-01-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The synthesis of 5-(2-oxalylethyl)-NADH, a reduced nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NADH) derivate with pyruvate covalently attached to the 5 position of the dihydronicotinamide ring over an additional methylene group has been described previously (Trommer, W.E., Blume, H., and Kapmeyer, H. (1976) Justus Liebigs Ann...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Kapmeyer H,Pfleiderer G,Trommer WE

更新日期：1976-11-16 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously suggested that folding of the SV40 attenuator RNA 1 into two hairpin elements leads to a block of transcription elongation. Using site-directed mutagenesis, we created three templates that either strengthened or weakened the proposed hairpin structures. The mutated and wild-type templates were clone...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Goldring NB,Kessler M,Aloni Y

更新日期：1992-09-08 00:00:00

abstract：:In iron-deficient conditions, Pseudomonas aeruginosa secretes a major fluorescent siderophore named pyoverdin (Pvd), which after chelating iron(III) is transported back into the cell via its outer membrane receptor FpvA. FpvA is a TonB-dependent transport protein and has the ability to bind Pvd in its apo- or iron-loa...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Clément E,Mesini PJ,Pattus F,Schalk IJ

更新日期：2004-06-22 00:00:00

abstract：:In synthetic biology, metabolic engineering, and gene therapy, there is a strong demand for orthogonal or externally controlled regulation of gene expression. Here, RNA-based regulatory devices represent a promising emerging alternative to proteins, allowing a fast and direct control of gene expression, as no synthesi...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Etzel M,Mörl M

更新日期：2017-03-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Calcium-saturated calmodulin (CaM) binds and influences the activity of a varied collection of target proteins in most cells. This promiscuity underlies the role of CaM as a shared participant in calcium-dependent signal transduction pathways but imposes a handicap on popular CaM-based calcium biosensors, which displa...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Green DF,Dennis AT,Fam PS,Tidor B,Jasanoff A

更新日期：2006-10-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The X-ray crystal structures of the complexes of the recombinant kringle 1 domain of human plasminogen (Klpg) with the ligands epsilon-aminocaproic acid (EACA) and trans-4-(aminomethyl)cyclohexane-1-carboxylic acid (AMCHA), which are representative of a class of in vivo antifibrinolytic agents, have been determined at...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Mathews II,Vanderhoff-Hanaver P,Castellino FJ,Tulinsky A

更新日期：1996-02-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Terreic acid is a metabolite with antibiotic properties produced by the fungus Aspergillus terreus. We found that terreic acid is a covalent inhibitor of the bacterial cell wall biosynthetic enzyme MurA from Enterobacter cloacae and Escherichia coli in vitro. The crystal structure of the MurA dead-end complex with ter...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Han H,Yang Y,Olesen SH,Becker A,Betzi S,Schönbrunn E

更新日期：2010-05-18 00:00:00

abstract：:N-(1-Pyrenyl)iodoacetamide has been used to introduce fluorescent probes into Escherichia coli RNA polymerase. After an incubation time of 15 min, approximately 2 pyrene equiv was introduced per enzyme molecule. There was no further increase in modification after more extended periods of incubation. Neither calf thymu...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Johnson RS,Bowers M,Eaton Q

更新日期：1991-01-08 00:00:00

abstract：:To understand relationships between membrane-binding properties of cytolytic peptides and resulting cytotoxicity, we investigated interactions of dermaseptin analogues with model bilayers by means of surface plasmon resonance. First, we tested the system by comparing two native dermaseptins, S1 and S4, whose binding p...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Gaidukov L,Fish A,Mor A

更新日期：2003-11-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations in the gene encoding human ATP:cobalamin adenosyltransferase (hATR) can result in the metabolic disorder known as methylmalonic aciduria (MMA). This enzyme catalyzes the final step in the conversion of cyanocobalamin (vitamin B12) to the essential human cofactor adenosylcobalamin. Here we present the 2.5 A c...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Schubert HL,Hill CP

更新日期：2006-12-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The complete amino acid sequences of two basic proline-rich proteins, IB-1 and IB-6, from human parotid saliva have been determined. Fragments for sequence analysis were obtained by enzymatic digestions. The proteins have molecular weights of 9571 (IB-1) and 11,530 (IB-6) and contain 34 and 39 mol % proline, respectiv...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Kauffman D,Hofmann T,Bennick A,Keller P

更新日期：1986-05-06 00:00:00