The DNA sequence of the human beta-globin region is strongly biased in favor of long strings of contiguous purine or pyrimidine residues.

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 recognition sequence of the Myb protein has been recently described to be pyAACKGHH (where py = T/C, K = G/T, and H = A/C/T), modifying the earlier identification as pyAACKG [Ording, E., et al. (1994) Eur. J. Biochem. 222, 113-120]. We had earlier determined the solution structure of the minimal cognate sequence T...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Radha PK,Patel PK,Hosur RV

更新日期：1998-07-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Stopped-flow kinetic measurements of the association of filipin with sterols in intact cells and isolated membranes of Mycoplasma capricolum were used to study the effects of varying the phospholipid in the membrane. The phospholipid composition and content of the membrane were varied by growing cells in an albumin-co...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Clejan S,Bittman R,Rottem S

更新日期：1981-04-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Whereas the salt-dependent conformational transition of acid-denatured horse ferricytochrome c at pH 2 is approximated by a two-state mechanism from the acid-unfolded state to the molten globule state [Kataoka, M., Hagihara, Y., Mihara, K., & Goto, Y. (1993) J. Mol. Biol. 229, 591-596], the corresponding transition in...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Goto Y,Hagihara Y,Hamada D,Hoshino M,Nishii I

更新日期：1993-11-09 00:00:00

abstract：:G-Rich DNA and RNA have a higher propensity to form G-quadruplex structures, but the presence of G-runs alone is not sufficient to prove that such sequences can form stable G-quadruplexes. While G-rich sequences are essential for G-quadruplex formation, not all G-rich sequences have the propensity to form G-quadruplex...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Tóthová P,Krafčíková P,Víglaský V

更新日期：2014-11-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The respiratory chain of Vibrio cholerae contains three bd-type quinol oxygen reductases as well as one cbb(3) oxygen reductase. The cbb(3) oxygen reductase has been previously isolated and characterized; however, the natural mobile electron donor(s) that shuttles electrons between the bc(1) complex and the cbb(3) oxy...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Chang HY,Ahn Y,Pace LA,Lin MT,Lin YH,Gennis RB

更新日期：2010-09-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The heptadecapeptides bombolitin I and bombolitin III are two of a series of peptides postulated to be biologically active within a membrane environment. In the preceding paper [Bairaktari, E., Mierke, D.F., Mammi, S., & Peggion, E. (1990) Biochemistry (preceding paper in this issue)] the conformational preferences of...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Bairaktari E,Mierke DF,Mammi S,Peggion E

更新日期：1990-10-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacterial nucleoid-associated proteins (NAPs) are critical to genome integrity and chromosome maintenance. Post-translational modifications of bacterial NAPs appear to function similarly to their better studied mammalian counterparts. The histone-like NAP HupB from Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) was previously obser...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Green KD,Biswas T,Pang AH,Willby MJ,Reed MS,Stuchlik O,Pohl J,Posey JE,Tsodikov OV,Garneau-Tsodikova S

更新日期：2018-02-06 00:00:00

abstract：:A new fluorescent lipid analogue, bimanephosphatidylcholine, has been synthesized for use in lipid bilayers. This probe is well suited as an energy-transfer donor with N-(7-nitro-2,1,3-benzoxadiazol-4-yl)phosphatidylethanolamine as the acceptor. Dimyristoylphosphatidylethanolamine vesicles are prepared by sonication a...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Pryor C,Bridge M,Loew LM

更新日期：1985-04-23 00:00:00

abstract：:In search of the regulation mechanisms for isoform specific myosin assembly, we have used the COOH-terminal fragments of nonmuscle myosin isoforms MIIA and MIIB (MIIA(F46) and MIIB(alpha)(F47)) as a model system. Phosphorylation by protein kinase C (PK C) or casein kinase II (CK II) within or near the nonhelical tail-...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Murakami N,Kotula L,Hwang YW

更新日期：2000-09-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The members of the glutamine amidotransferase (GATase) family catalyze the incorporation of ammonia within numerous metabolic pathways and can be categorized in two classes. Here, we concentrated on class I GATases, which are heteromeric enzyme complexes consisting of synthase subunits and glutaminase subunits with a ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Semmelmann F,Hupfeld E,Heizinger L,Merkl R,Sterner R

更新日期：2019-06-04 00:00:00

abstract：:A topoisomer gel retardation assay has been used to examine the topological requirements for the formation of open promoter complexes on DNA minicircles carrying sigma 54-dependent promoters. In the absence of intercalators, individual topoisomers carrying both the nifL and nifF promoters could be resolved as discrete...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Qureshi M,Eydmann T,Austin S,Dixon R

更新日期：1997-10-07 00:00:00

abstract：:A fluorescence method is presented for quantitatively analyzing exocytosis phenomena and monitoring their kinetics. The method is based on the particular properties of a hydrophobic fluorescent probe, 1-[4-(trimethylammonio)phenyl]-6-phenylhexa-1,3,5-triene (TMA-DPH) [Prendergast, F.G., Haugland, R.P., & Callahan, P.J...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Bronner C,Landry Y,Fonteneau P,Kuhry JG

更新日期：1986-04-22 00:00:00

abstract：:4-Chlorobenzoyl-coenzyme A (4-CBA-CoA) dehalogenase catalyzes the hydrolysis of 4-CBA-CoA to 4-hydroxybenzoyl-coenzyme A (4-HBA-CoA) via a nucleophilic aromatic substitution pathway involving the participation of an active site carboxylate side chain in covalent catalysis. In this paper we report on the identification...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Yang G,Liu RQ,Taylor KL,Xiang H,Price J,Dunaway-Mariano D

更新日期：1996-08-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The bacterial reaction center (RC) converts light into chemical energy through the reduction of an internal quinone molecule Q(B) to Q(B)H(2). In the native RC, proton transfer is coupled to electron transfer and is not rate-controlling. Consequently, proton transfer is not directly observable, and its rate was unknow...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Paddock ML,Adelroth P,Feher G,Okamura MY,Beatty JT

更新日期：2002-12-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Dihydrofolate reductase (DHFR) is often used as a model system to study the relation between protein dynamics and catalysis. We have studied a number of variants of the cold-adapted DHFR from Moritella profunda (MpDHFR), in which the catalytically important M20 and FG loops have been altered, and present a comparison ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Behiry EM,Evans RM,Guo J,Loveridge EJ,Allemann RK

更新日期：2014-07-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Recognition of and binding to cholesterol on the host cell membrane is an initial step in the mechanism of numerous pathogens, including viruses, bacteria, and bacterial toxins; however, a viable method of inhibiting this interaction has not yet been uncovered. Here, we describe the mechanism by which a cholesterol re...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Koufos E,Chang EH,Rasti ES,Krueger E,Brown AC

更新日期：2016-08-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The direct electrochemistry of the cytochrome c/cytochrome b5 and cytochrome c/plastocyanin complexes has been investigated at edge-plane graphite and modified gold electrode surfaces, which are selective for one of the two components of the complex. Electrochemical response of one protein at an otherwise electrostati...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Bagby S,Barker PD,Guo LH,Hill HA

更新日期：1990-04-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies of DNA hairpin loops have shown considerable dependence of the stability on the sequence of the loop [Senior, M., Jones, R. A., & Breslauer, K. J. (1988a) Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 85, 6242-6246; Xodo, L. E., Manzini, G., Quadrifoglio, F., van der Marel, G., & van Boom, J. H. (1989) Biochimie 71, 79...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Wang S,Booher MA,Kool ET

更新日期：1994-04-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Pantothenate kinase (PanK) catalyzes the first step of the universal five-step coenzyme A (CoA) biosynthetic pathway. The recently characterized type III PanK (PanK-III, encoded by the coaX gene) is distinct in sequence, structure and enzymatic properties from both the long-known bacterial type I PanK (PanK-I, exempli...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Yang K,Strauss E,Huerta C,Zhang H

更新日期：2008-02-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Nucleosome assembly proteins (Naps) influence chromatin dynamics by directly binding to histones. Here we provide a comprehensive structural and biochemical analysis of a Nap protein from Caenorhabditis elegans (CeNap1). CeNap1 naturally lacks the acidic N-terminal tail and has a short C-terminal tail compared to many...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Sarkar P,Zhang N,Bhattacharyya S,Salvador K,D'Arcy S

更新日期：2019-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Electrogenic events associated with the activity of the melibiose permease (MelB), a transporter from Escherichia coli, were investigated. Proteoliposomes containing purified MelB were adsorbed to a solid supported lipid membrane, activated by a substrate concentration jump, and transient currents were measured. When ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Meyer-Lipp K,Ganea C,Pourcher T,Leblanc G,Fendler K

更新日期：2004-10-05 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA sequences containing homopurine d(G1-3A)n tracts are known to be capable of adopting non-B-DNA conformations. The structural polymorphism of these sequences is a direct consequence of the structural properties of the homopurine d(G1-3A)n tracts. Depending on the conditions, d(GA)n DNA sequences can form antiparall...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Huertas D,Azorín F

更新日期：1996-10-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The transfer of ganglioside GM1 from micelles to membranes and between different membrane populations has been examined by using a pyrene fatty acid derivative of the ganglioside. The transfer of gangliosides from micelles to membranes depends on the physical state as well as the molecular composition of the acceptor ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Masserini M,Freire E

更新日期：1987-01-13 00:00:00

abstract：:4-Oxalocrotonate tautomerase (EC 5.3.2-; 4-OT), a hexamer consisting of 62 residues per subunit, catalyzes the isomerization of unsaturated alpha-keto acids, converting unconjugated ketones to the conjugated isomers via a dienolic intermediate. The recently solved crystal structure of an isozyme of 4-OT suggests that ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Stivers JT,Abeygunawardana C,Mildvan AS,Hajipour G,Whitman CP,Chen LH

更新日期：1996-01-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The filamentous coliphage M13 possesses multiple copies of a 50-residue coat protein which is inserted into the inner membrane of Escherichia coli during infection. 13C nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy has been used to probe the structure and dynamics of M13 coat protein solubilized in detergent micelles....

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Henry GD,Weiner JH,Sykes BD

更新日期：1986-02-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Pyridoxal-reconstituted phosphorylase was used as a model system to study the possible functions of the 5'-phosphoryl group of pyridoxal 5'-phosphate (PLP) in rabbit muscle glycogen phosphorylase. Kinetic study was conducted by using competitive inhibitors of phosphite, an activator, and alpha-D-glucopyranose 1-phosph...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Chang YC,McCalmont T,Graves DJ

更新日期：1983-10-11 00:00:00

abstract：:A peptide corresponding to a portion of the amphipathic alpha-helical region of CTP:phosphocholine cytidylyltransferase was synthesized. This region of the enzyme was proposed to be the membrane-binding domain [Kalmar, G.B., Kay, R.J., Lachance, A., Aebersold, R., & Cornell, R.B. (1990) Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 8...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Johnson JE,Cornell RB

更新日期：1994-04-12 00:00:00

abstract：:A combined experimental and theoretical investigation of the deuterium isotope effects on the bacterial luciferase reaction is described. The experimental studies focus on determining if the unusual aldehydic deuterium isotope effect of approximately 1.5 observed in these reactions is an intrinsic isotope effect resul...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Francisco WA,Abu-Soud HM,DelMonte AJ,Singleton DA,Baldwin TO,Raushel FM

更新日期：1998-02-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The in vitro reaction of the vinyl chloride metabolite chloroacetaldehyde (CAA) with cytosine and adenine residues in ribo- and deoxyribopolynucleotides leads to the formation of the relatively stable hydrated etheno derivatives 3,N4-(N4-alpha-hydroxyethene)adenine (epsilon C . H2O) and 1,N6-(N6-alpha-hydroxyethene)cy...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Kuśmierek JT,Singer B

更新日期：1982-10-26 00:00:00