Structure of the major carbohydrate fragment of the Leishmania donovani lipophosphoglycan.

abstract：:We have studied the competition between Na+ and K+ for coordination by G quartets using the oligonucleotide d(G3T4G3) as a model system. d(G3T4G3) forms a dimeric foldback structure containing three G quartets in the presence of either NaCl or KCl. Proton chemical shifts, which are particular to the species of coordin...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Hud NV,Smith FW,Anet FA,Feigon J

更新日期：1996-12-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Glutamate mutase is one of a group of adenosylcobalamin-dependent enzymes that catalyze unusual isomerizations that proceed through organic radical intermediates generated by homolytic fission of the coenzyme's unique cobalt-carbon bond. These enzymes are part of a larger family of enzymes that catalyze radical chemis...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Cheng MC,Marsh EN

更新日期：2007-01-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Lysine 2,3-aminomutase from Clostridia catalyzes the interconversion of L-lysine and L-beta-lysine. The enzyme contains iron-sulfur clusters and is activated by pyridoxal 5'-phosphate and S-adenosylmethionine, all of which participate in catalysis. Current spectroscopic evidence implicates two substrate-based organic ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Chang CH,Ballinger MD,Reed GH,Frey PA

更新日期：1996-08-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The melanocortin-4 receptor (MC4R) is involved in regulating energy homeostasis and is a potential therapeutic target for obesity and cachexia. Molecular interactions between peptide ligands and MC4R have been studied in detail. Less is known regarding the role of these interactions in the mechanism of MC4R activation...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Fleck BA,Ling N,Chen C

更新日期：2007-09-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Porcine aortic myosin is a smooth muscle contractile protein similar to its striated muscle counterpart. Electrophoresis in sodium dodecyl sulfate indicates that the molecule consists of three classes of subunits with polypeptide chain molecular weights of 192,000, 19,000, and 15,000. At 277 nm the absorption spectrum...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Frederiksen DW

更新日期：1979-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:3-Oxo-delta 5-steroid isomerase (KSI, EC 5.3.3.1) from Pseudomonas testosteroni catalyzes the isomerization of a variety of 3-oxo-delta 5-steroids to their conjugated Delta4-isomers through the formation of an intermediate dienolate ion. It has previously been found in our laboratory that the aromatic ring of Phe-101 ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Qi L,Pollack RM

更新日期：1998-05-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Over 155 mutations within the V2 vasopressin receptor (AVPR2) gene are responsible for nephrogenic diabetes insipidus (NDI). The expression and subcellular distribution of four of these was investigated in transfected cells. These include a point mutation in the seventh transmembrane domain (S315R), a frameshift mutat...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Morello JP,Salahpour A,Petäjä-Repo UE,Laperrière A,Lonergan M,Arthus MF,Nabi IR,Bichet DG,Bouvier M

更新日期：2001-06-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Acidic fibroblast growth factor (aFGF) is a signal peptide-less protein that is secreted into the extracellular compartment as part of a multiprotein release complex, consisting of aFGF, S100A13 (a calcium binding protein), and a 40 kDa (p40) form of synaptotagmin (Syt1), a protein that participates in the docking of ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Rajalingam D,Graziani I,Prudovsky I,Yu C,Kumar TK

更新日期：2007-08-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Penicillin-binding protein 5 (PBP 5) from Escherichia coli is a well-characterized d-alanine carboxypeptidase that serves as a prototypical enzyme to elucidate the structure, function, and catalytic mechanism of PBPs. A comprehensive understanding of the catalytic mechanism underlying d-alanine carboxypeptidation and ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Nicola G,Peddi S,Stefanova M,Nicholas RA,Gutheil WG,Davies C

更新日期：2005-06-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The hypothesis that the stable ternary complex formed between myosin subfragment-1, MgADP and beryllium fluoride (BeF3-), denoted S-1 not equal to .ADP.BeF3-, is an analog of the intermediate state S-1**.ADP.P(i) has been tested in this work by examining the interactions of S-1 not equal to .ADP.BeF3- with actin. Equi...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Phan BC,Faller LD,Reisler E

更新日期：1993-08-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Pyruvate dehydrogenase kinase 2 (PDK2) activity is enhanced by the dihydrolipoyl acetyltransferase core (E2 60mer) that binds PDK2 and a large number of its pyruvate dehydrogenase (E1) substrate. With E2-activated PDK2, K(+) at approximately 90 mM and Cl(-) at approximately 60 mM decreased the K(m) of PDK2 for ATP and...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Bao H,Kasten SA,Yan X,Roche TE

更新日期：2004-10-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The kinetic and thermodynamic features of reactions catalyzed by present-day enzymes appear to be the consequence of the evolution of these proteins toward maximal catalytic effectiveness. These features are identified and analyzed (in detail for one substrate-one product enzymes) by using ideas that link the energeti...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Burbaum JJ,Raines RT,Albery WJ,Knowles JR

更新日期：1989-11-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Troponin T (TnT) is an essential element in the thin filament-based regulatory system of striated muscle. Alternative mRNA splicing generates multiple TnT isoforms with primary structural differences in the NH2-terminal region. The functional significance of this hypervariable NH2-terminal domain and the developmental...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Wang J,Jin JP

更新日期：1998-10-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The activity of the phosphoenolpyruvate-dependent glucose phosphotransferase system (PTS) in Escherichia coli is coupled to the oxidation-reduction potential. It is inhibited when the redox potential is increased above -300 mV either via substrate oxidation or via direct addition of oxidizing agents. Depending on the ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Robillard GT,Konings WN

更新日期：1981-08-18 00:00:00

abstract：:A highly sensitive and stable scanning microcalorimeter is employed in a reinvestigation of the effect of cholesterol on multilamellar suspensions of dimyristoylphosphatidylcholine (DMPC) and dipalmitoylphosphatidylcholine (DPPC). Below 20 mol % cholesterol the DPPC mixtures give heat-capacity curves each of which can...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Mabrey S,Mateo PL,Sturtevant JM

更新日期：1978-06-13 00:00:00

abstract：:In the cyanobacterium Anabaena PCC7120, the precursor to tRNA(Leu) contains a 249-nucleotide group I intron that undergoes efficient self-splicing in vitro. By deleting the 5' and 3' splice sites, this intron has now been converted to an RNA enzyme that uses a guanosine nucleophile to cleave substrate RNAs (S) with mu...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Zaug AJ,Dávila-Aponte JA,Cech TR

更新日期：1994-12-13 00:00:00

abstract：:After borohydride reduction, carboxymethylation, and tryptic digestion of the holoenzyme of pig heart alanine aminotransferase, a single icosapeptide containing the N6-(phosphopyridoxyl)lysine residue was isolated by a combination of gel filtration and ion-exchange chromatogrpahy. Its primary structure was determined ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Tanase S,Kojima H,Morino Y

更新日期：1979-07-10 00:00:00

abstract：:We have used nucleobase substitution and kinetic analysis to test the hypothesis that hammerhead catalysis occurs by a general acid-base mechanism, in which nucleobases are directly involved in deprotonation of the attacking 2'-hydroxyl group and protonation of the 5'-oxygen that serves as the leaving group in the cle...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Han J,Burke JM

更新日期：2005-05-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Human insulin-like growth factors I and II (hIGF-I, hIGF-II) are potent stimulators of cell and growth processes. They display high sequence similarity to both the A and B chains of insulin but contain an additional connecting C-domain, which reflects their secretion without specific packaging or precursor conversion....

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Brzozowski AM,Dodson EJ,Dodson GG,Murshudov GN,Verma C,Turkenburg JP,de Bree FM,Dauter Z

更新日期：2002-07-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Primary kinetic isotope effects on Vmax were observed in both reaction directions upon racemizing samples of [2-2H]glutamate with the cofactor-independent glutamate racemase from Lactobacillus. This supports a deprotonation/protonation mechanism for racemization in which the breaking of the carbon-hydrogen bond at C-2...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Tanner ME,Gallo KA,Knowles JR

更新日期：1993-04-20 00:00:00

abstract：:We have sought to determine the role of histone H2A phosphorylation in chromatin by examining the distribution of the phosphorylated and unphosphorylated forms of this core histone within the nuclei of mouse and human cells. At any time, only about 15% of the H2A of whole chromatin is in the phosphorylated form, and i...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Prentice DA,Loechel SC,Kitos PA

更新日期：1982-05-11 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：:Photochemical and subsequent thermal reactions of rhodopsin containing 9-cis-retinal [Rh(9)] or one of four analogues with 9-cis geometries formed from ring-modified retinals, alpha-retinal [alpha Rh(9)], acyclic retinal [AcRh(9)], acyclic alpha-retinal [Ac alpha Rh(9)], and 5-isopropyl-alpha-retinal [P alpha Rh(9)] w...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Okada T,Kandori H,Shichida Y,Yoshizawa T,Denny M,Zhang BW,Asato AE,Liu RS

更新日期：1991-05-14 00:00:00

abstract：:In the presence of Ca2+ and calmodulin (CM), purified smooth muscle myosin light chain kinase (MLCKase) was found to undergo autophosphorylation at a rate that was about 200-fold slower than its catalytic activity. Up to 1.7 mol of phosphate were incorporated per mole of kinase. Lower levels of incorporation could be ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Sobieszek A

更新日期：1995-09-19 00:00:00

abstract：:A conserved, crystallographically defined bile acid binding site was originally identified in the membrane domain of mammalian and bacterial cytochrome c oxidase (CcO). Current studies show other amphipathic molecules including detergents, fatty acids, steroids, and porphyrins bind to this site and affect the already ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Hiser C,Buhrow L,Liu J,Kuhn L,Ferguson-Miller S

更新日期：2013-02-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Bleeding, the most serious complication of thrombolytic therapy with tissue-type plasminogen activator (t-PA), is thought to result from lysis of fibrin in hemostatic plugs and from the systemic lytic state caused by unopposed plasmin. One mechanism by which systemic plasmin can impair hemostasis is by partially degra...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Schaefer AV,Leslie BA,Rischke JA,Stafford AR,Fredenburgh JC,Weitz JI

更新日期：2006-04-04 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA containing short sequences of the form (dA)n.(dT)n can exhibit pronounced degrees of stable curvature of the helix axis, provided that these homooligomeric stretches are approximately in phase with the helix repeat. However, the precise origin of this effect is unknown. We have observed that pyrimidine 5-methyl gr...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Hagerman PJ

更新日期：1990-02-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study was carried out to determine the energetics of Clostridium symbiosum pyruvate phosphate dikinase (PPDK) catalyzed interconversion of adenosine 5'-triphosphate (ATP), orthophosphate (Pi), and pyruvate (pyr) with adenosine 5'-monophosphate (AMP), inorganic pyrophosphate, and phosphoenolpyruvate (PEP) [...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Mehl A,Xu Y,Dunaway-Mariano D

更新日期：1994-02-08 00:00:00

abstract：:His12 and His119 are critical for catalysis of RNA cleavage by ribonuclease A (RNase A). Substitution of either residue with an alanine decreases the value of k(cat)/K(M) by more than 10(4)-fold. His12 and His119 are proximal to the scissile phosphoryl group of an RNA substrate in enzyme-substrate complexes. Here, the...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Park C,Schultz LW,Raines RT

更新日期：2001-04-24 00:00:00

abstract：:This research was undertaken to distinguish between local and global unfolding in the reversible thermal denaturation of bovine pancreatic ribonclease A (RNase A). Local unfolding was monitored by steady-state and time-resolved fluorescence of nine mutants in each of which a single tryptophan was substituted for a wil...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Navon A,Ittah V,Laity JH,Scheraga HA,Haas E,Gussakovsky EE

更新日期：2001-01-09 00:00:00