Inhibition of sodium-calcium exchange in cardiac sarcolemmal membrane vesicles. 1. Mechanism of inhibition by amiloride analogues.

abstract：:We have sought to determine whether insulin can promote cell survival and protect Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cells from apoptosis induced by serum starvation. Low concentrations of insulin were antiapoptotic for cells overexpressing wild-type insulin receptors but not in cells transfected with kinase-defective insuli...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Lee-Kwon W,Park D,Baskar PV,Kole S,Bernier M

更新日期：1998-11-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Many strains of Campylobacter jejuni display modified heptose residues in their capsular polysaccharides (CPS). The precursor heptose was previously shown to be GDP-d-glycero-α-d-manno-heptose, from which a variety of modifications of the sugar moiety have been observed. These modifications include the generation of 6...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Huddleston JP,Anderson TK,Spencer KD,Thoden JB,Raushel FM,Holden HM

更新日期：2020-04-07 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：:Human cystathionine beta-synthase (CBS) is an essential enzyme for the removal of the toxic metabolite homocysteine. Heme and pyridoxal phosphate (PLP) cofactors are necessary to catalyze the condensation of homocysteine and serine to generate cystathionine. While the role for the PLP cofactor is thought to be similar...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Green EL,Taoka S,Banerjee R,Loehr TM

更新日期：2001-01-16 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been shown that in bovine heart submitochondrial particles, antimycin and 2-heptyl-4-hydroxyquinoline N-oxide (HQNO) inhibit the oxidation of NADH, succinate, and reduced ubiquinone incompletely, the uninhibited rate being about 20-40 nmol of substrate oxidized min-1 (mg of protein)-1. By contrast, rotenone, cy...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Hatefi Y,Yagi T

更新日期：1982-12-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Actin depolymerizing activity in serum can be attributed to the two proteins brevin and vitamin D binding protein (DBP). To investigate their mechanisms of action, we used a number of techniques, including procedures involving the fluorescent pyrene-labeled actin probe, to compare the interaction of the two proteins w...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Lees A,Haddad JG,Lin S

更新日期：1984-06-19 00:00:00

abstract：:We have measured the rates and efficiencies of DNA unwinding (the number of ATP molecules hydrolyzed per DNA base pair unwound) catalyzed by the RecBC,RecBCD-K177Q (a site-directed mutant in the putative ATP-binding site in the RecD subunit), and RecBCD enzymes from Escherichia coli. The DNA unwinding rate was measure...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Korangy F,Julin DA

更新日期：1994-08-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Vaccinia DNA topoisomerase, a 314 amino acid type I enzyme, catalyzes the cleavage and rejoining of DNA strands through a DNA-(3'-phosphotyrosyl)-enzyme intermediate formed at a specific target sequence, 5'-(C/T)CCTT downward arrow. To identify amino acids that participate in the DNA binding and transesterification st...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Wang LK,Wittschieben J,Shuman S

更新日期：1997-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Myeloperoxidase (MPO) structural analysis has suggested that halides and pseudohalides bind to the distal binding site and serve as substrates or inhibitors, while others have concluded that there are two separate sites. Here, evidence for two distinct binding sites for halides comes from the bell-shaped effects obser...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Proteasa G,Tahboub YR,Galijasevic S,Raushel FM,Abu-Soud HM

更新日期：2007-01-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The neutron structure of subtilisin BPN' has been refined and analyzed at 2.0-A resolution. The structure studied was a mutant variant of subtilisin, Met222----Gln, and was used because large, uninhibited crystals could be grown, which was not the case for the native molecule. Comparison of the structure with that of ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Kossiakoff AA,Ultsch M,White S,Eigenbrot C

更新日期：1991-02-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The protein composition, steady state and time-resolved fluorescence emission spectra were studied in solubilized and aggregated LHCII complexes, that were prepared according to two different isolation protocols: (1) by fractionation of cation-depleted thylakoid membranes using the non-ionic detergent Triton X-100 acc...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Vasil'ev S,Irrgang KD,Schrötter T,Bergmann A,Eichler HJ,Renger G

更新日期：1997-06-17 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe the development and characterization of substance P labeled at Lys3 with fluorescein ([fluorescein Lys3]SP) as a fluorescent probe for the neurokinin 1 (NK1) receptor. [fluorescein Lys3]SP is an agonist at the human NK1 receptor, with an affinity for both the high-affinity and low-affinity binding states o...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Tota MR,Daniel S,Sirotina A,Mazina KE,Fong TM,Longmore J,Strader CD

更新日期：1994-11-08 00:00:00

abstract：:We have systematically validated the activity and inhibition of a HIV-1 protease (PR) variant bearing 17 mutations (PR(S17)), selected to represent high resistance by machine learning on genotype-phenotype data. Three of five mutations in PR(S17) correlating with major drug resistance, M46L, G48V, and V82S, and five o...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Park JH,Sayer JM,Aniana A,Yu X,Weber IT,Harrison RW,Louis JM

更新日期：2016-04-26 00:00:00

abstract：:We have developed a system for targeting foreign DNA to hepatocytes in vitro using a soluble DNA carrier that takes advantage of receptor-mediated endocytosis to achieve internalization. The idea is based on the fact that hepatocytes possess a unique receptor that binds and internalizes galactose-terminal (asialo)glyc...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Wu GY,Wu CH

更新日期：1988-02-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein phosphatase 1 (PP1) is an essential and ubiquitous serine/threonine protein phosphatase that is regulated by more than 100 known inhibitor and targeting proteins. It is currently unclear how protein inhibitors distinctly and specifically regulate PP1 to enable rapid responses to cellular alterations. We demons...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Dancheck B,Nairn AC,Peti W

更新日期：2008-11-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Competitive inhibitors can activate proteases (papain, trypsin, and cathepsin S) to catalyze the synthesis of peptide bonds and accelerate the hydrolysis of poor substrates (from 1 to 99%). Reaction mixtures contained intermediate molecules that were formed by the coupling of the inhibitor with the poor substrate. Thi...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Schechter I,Ziv E

更新日期：2006-12-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Single-stranded microRNAs (miRNAs) regulate gene expression by triggering mRNA degradation and/or inhibiting mRNA translation. miRNAs play important roles in various critical cellular processes and are associated with numerous human diseases, including cancer and neurodegenerative diseases. miRNA sequences are embedde...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Nguyen HM,Nguyen TD,Nguyen TL,Nguyen TA

更新日期：2019-01-29 00:00:00

abstract：:A detailed kinetic analysis of the catalytic trimer of aspartate transcarbamoylase containing the active site substitution H134A was performed to investigate the role of His 134 in the catalytic mechanism. Replacement of histidine by alanine resulted in decreases in the affinities for the two substrates, carbamoyl pho...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Waldrop GL,Turnbull JL,Parmentier LE,O'Leary MH,Cleland WW,Schachman HK

更新日期：1992-07-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The carboxy-terminal domain of the alpha subunit of Escherichia coli RNA polymerase, which is connected with the core part of RNA polymerase through a long flexible linker, plays decisive roles in transcription activation by directly interacting with a large number of transcription factors and upstream (UP) element DN...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Fujita N,Endo S,Ishihama A

更新日期：2000-05-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The ratio of the second-order rate constants for reduction of dihydroxyacetone phosphate (DHAP) and of the neutral truncated substrate glycolaldehyde (GLY) by glycerol 3-phosphate dehydrogenase (NAD (+), GPDH) saturated with NADH is (1.0 x 10 (6) M (-1) s (-1))/(8.7 x 10 (-3) M (-1) s (-1)) = 1.1 x 10 (8), which was u...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Tsang WY,Amyes TL,Richard JP

更新日期：2008-04-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The hydrophobic, membrane-binding domain of purified human erythrocyte acetylcholinesterase was labeled with the photoactivated reagent 3-(trifluoromethyl)-3-(m-[125I]iodophenyl)diazirine. The radiolabel was incorporated when the enzyme was prepared in detergent-free aggregates, in detergent micelles, or in phospholip...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Roberts WL,Rosenberry TL

更新日期：1986-06-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Human hemoglobin produced in the Escherichia coli coexpression system of Hernan et al. [(1992) Biochemistry 31, 8619-8628] has been transformed into a functionally homogeneous protein whose properties closely approximate those of normal hemoglobin A. Both of the alpha and beta chains of this hemoglobin contain a valin...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Hui HL,Kavanaugh JS,Doyle ML,Wierzba A,Rogers PH,Arnone A,Holt JM,Ackers GK,Noble RW

更新日期：1999-01-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Because of the lack of protein turnover in fiber cells of the ocular lens, Aquaporin 0 (AQP0), the most abundant membrane protein in the lens, undergoes extensive post-translational modification with fiber cell age. To map the distribution of modified forms of AQP0 within the lens, normal human lenses ranging in age f...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Ball LE,Garland DL,Crouch RK,Schey KL

更新日期：2004-08-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The molecular chaperone SecB binds to hydrophobic sections of unfolded secretory proteins and thereby prevents their premature folding prior to secretion by the translocase of Escherichia coli. Here, we have investigated the effect of the single-residue mutation of leucine 42 to arginine (L42R) centrally positioned in...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Bechtluft P,Kedrov A,Slotboom DJ,Nouwen N,Tans SJ,Driessen AJ

更新日期：2010-03-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The multimeric cytochromes described to date in sulfate- and sulfur-reducing bacteria are associated with diverse respiratory modes involving the use of elemental sulfur or oxidized sulfur compounds as terminal acceptors. They exhibit no structural similarity with the other cytochrome c classes and are characterized b...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Bruschi M,Woudstra M,Guigliarelli B,Asso M,Lojou E,Petillot Y,Abergel C

更新日期：1997-09-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Nitrogenase reduces N2 to NH3, but the mechanistic details are unclear. Diazene (N2H2), a proposed 2e-/2H+ intermediate on the reduction pathway, is labile under typical enzyme assay conditions, and no firm evidence is available on whether or not it can be reduced by or inhibit nitrogenase. In this paper, we compare t...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： McKenna CE,Simeonov AM,Eran H,Bravo-Leerabhandh M

更新日期：1996-04-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The Escherichia coli Ada protein repairs methyl phosphotriesters in DNA by direct, irreversible methyl transfer to one of its own cysteine residues. The methyl-transfer process appears to be autocatalyzed by coordination of the acceptor residue, Cys-69, to a tightly bound zinc ion. Upon methyl transfer, Ada acquires t...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Myers LC,Verdine GL,Wagner G

更新日期：1993-12-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Human NFU (also known as HIRIP5) has been implicated in cellular iron-sulfur cluster biosynthesis. Bacterial and yeast forms are smaller than the human protein and are homologous to the C-terminal domain of the latter. This C-terminal domain contains a pair of redox active cysteines and demonstrates thioredoxin-like a...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Liu Y,Qi W,Cowan JA

更新日期：2009-02-10 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 regulatory (R) subunit of cAMP-dependent protein kinase (cAPK) is a multidomain protein with two tandem cAMP-binding domains, A and B. The importance of cAMP binding on the stability of the R subunit was probed by intrinsic fluorescence and circular dichroism (CD) in the presence and absence of urea. Several mutan...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Cànaves JM,Leon DA,Taylor SS

更新日期：2000-12-12 00:00:00