Reversible self-association of bovine growth hormone during equilibrium unfolding.

abstract：:As part of a larger effort to engineer the stability and hemin-binding properties of microsomal (Mc) cytochromes b(5) into rat liver outer mitochondrial membrane (OM) cytochrome (cyt) b(5), several mutants of rat OM cyt b(5) were prepared to study the effect of gradual and complete elimination of two extended hydropho...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Cowley AB,Altuve A,Kuchment O,Terzyan S,Zhang X,Rivera M,Benson DR

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The allosteric activation of the T127-->L mutant of 3',5'-cyclic adenosine monophosphate (cAMP) receptor protein (CRP) by cAMP changes from an exothermic, independent two-site binding mechanism at pH 7.0 to an endothermic, interacting two-site binding mechanism at pH 5.2, similar to that observed for CRP at pH 7.0 and...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Shi Y,Wang S,Schwarz FP

更新日期：2000-06-20 00:00:00

abstract：:We have examined the competitive binding of oxygen and carbon monoxide to the multisubunit hemocyanin of the tarantula Eurypelma californicum. Employment of high-precision thin-layer methods has enabled detailed characterization of the pure oxygen and pure carbon monoxide binding curves, as well as binding curves perf...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Decker H,Connelly PR,Robert CH,Gill SJ

更新日期：1988-09-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Extensive molecular modeling with molecular dynamics simulations and van der Waals energy analyses were used to elucidate the striking finding that a mutagenic benzo[a]pyrene-derived DNA lesion, the base-displaced intercalated 10R-(+)-cis-anti-B[a]P-N(2)-dG (G*), manifests large differences in nucleotide excision repa...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Mu H,Kropachev K,Chen Y,Zhang H,Cai Y,Geacintov NE,Broyde S

更新日期：2013-08-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Kinetic study of a series of compounds containing the thrombin-directed peptide D-Phe-ProboroArg-OH had indicated that the structure of the N-terminal blocking group may be correlated with binding [Kettner, C., Mersinger, L., & Knabb, R. (1990) J. Biol. Chem. 265, 18289-18297]. In order to further study this phenomeno...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Nienaber VL,Mersinger LJ,Kettner CA

更新日期：1996-07-30 00:00:00

abstract：:In the nacre or aragonite layer of the mollusk shell, proteomes that regulate both the early stages of nucleation and nano-to-mesoscale assembly of nacre tablets from mineral nanoparticle precursors exist. Several approaches have been developed to understand protein-associated mechanisms of nacre formation, yet we sti...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Chang EP,Roncal-Herrero T,Morgan T,Dunn KE,Rao A,Kunitake JA,Lui S,Bilton M,Estroff LA,Kröger R,Johnson S,Cölfen H,Evans JS

更新日期：2016-04-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The DNA binding domain of the mammalian glucocorticoid hormone receptor (GR) contains nine highly conserved cysteine residues, a conservation shared by the superfamily of steroid and thyroid hormone receptors. A fragment [150 amino acids (AA) in length] consisting of GR residues 407-556, containing within it the entir...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Pan T,Freedman LP,Coleman JE

更新日期：1990-10-02 00:00:00

abstract：:To better understand the factors controlling the binding of apolipoprotein molecules at the surfaces of serum lipoprotein particles, the adsorption of human apolipoprotein A-I to phospholipid monolayers has been studied. The influence of lipid packing was investigated by spreading the monolayers at various initial sur...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Ibdah JA,Phillips MC

更新日期：1988-09-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The structure/function properties of functional groups in the leadzyme have been studied by assaying the activity of analog ribozymes generated by the systematic substitution of modified nucleotides in the internal loop region of the ribozyme. Guanosine analogs introduced at positions 4 and 7 occupied by guanosine in ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Chartrand P,Usman N,Cedergren R

更新日期：1997-03-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Efforts to characterize the receptor recognition domain of alpha-macroglobulins have primarily focused on human alpha 2-macroglobulin (alpha 2M). In the present work, the structure and function of the alpha-macroglobulin receptor recognition site were investigated by amino acid sequence analysis, plasma clearance, and...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Enghild JJ,Thøgersen IB,Roche PA,Pizzo SV

更新日期：1989-02-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The complexity of rat liver poly (A)+ messenger RNA (mRNA) has been measured by analysis of the kinetics of hydridization with both complementary DNA (cDNA) and single copy DNA. The complementary DNA-poly(A)+ mRNA hybridization reaction demonstrates the existence of three abundance classes representing 18, 37, and 45%...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Savage MJ,Sala-Trepat JM,Bonner J

更新日期：1978-02-07 00:00:00

abstract：:To understand the role of disulfide bridges in protein stability, the thermodynamic changes in the denaturation of two mutant human lysozymes lacking a disulfide bridge between Cys-77 and Cys-95 (C77A and C77/95A) were analyzed using differential scanning calorimetry (DSC). At pH 3.0 and 57 degrees C, the stabilities ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Kuroki R,Inaka K,Taniyama Y,Kidokoro S,Matsushima M,Kikuchi M,Yutani K

更新日期：1992-09-08 00:00:00

abstract：:A hallmark of penicillin-binding protein 2 (PBP2) from penicillin-resistant strains of Neisseria gonorrhoeae is insertion of an aspartate after position 345. The insertion resides on a loop near the active site and is immediately adjacent to an existing aspartate (Asp346) that forms a functionally important hydrogen b...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Fedarovich A,Cook E,Tomberg J,Nicholas RA,Davies C

更新日期：2014-12-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Fas and its ligand (FasL) are members of the tumor necrosis factor receptor (TNFR) and tumor necrosis factor (TNF) superfamilies, respectively. Fas-FasL interactions trigger controlled cell death (apoptosis) in the immune system and thus play a key role in the regulation of immune responses. Structural details of the ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Starling GC,Kiener PA,Aruffo A,Bajorath J

更新日期：1998-03-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Fibrinogen (approximately 10(-5) M) labilizes heterologous interactions within the thrombin-modified factor XIII zymogen (i.e., XIII' = a2'b2) so that, in the time frame (ca. 10 min) of normal clotting in plasma (37 degrees C, mu = 0.15, pH 7.5), 1.5 mM Ca2+ is sufficient to cause the release of the noncatalytic b sub...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Credo RB,Curtis CG,Lorand L

更新日期：1981-06-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Two synthetic peptides corresponding to sequences in HIV-1LAI gp41, (aa558-595) and T20 (aa 643-678), are strong inhibitors of HIV-1 viral fusion, having EC50 values of 1 microgram/mL and 1 ng/mL, respectively. Previous work suggested that T21 forms a coiled-coil structure in PBS solution, while T20 is primarily nonhe...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Lawless MK,Barney S,Guthrie KI,Bucy TB,Petteway SR Jr,Merutka G

更新日期：1996-10-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Zinc, the catalytically essential metal of angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE), has been replaced by cobalt(II) to give an active, chromophoric enzyme that is spectroscopically responsive to inhibitor binding. Visible absorption spectroscopy and magnetic circular dichroic spectropolarimetry have been used to character...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Bicknell R,Holmquist B,Lee FS,Martin MT,Riordan JF

更新日期：1987-11-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The DNA of Novikoff hepatoma ascites cells was found to contain a 3.6-megadalton EcoRI restriction fragment, referred to as EcoRI fragment A (Parker et al., 1979). C0t analyses demonstrated an enrichment of fragment A sequences in Novikoff hepatoma genome relative to normal rat liver DNA. This fragment was cloned in l...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Parker DL,Busch H,Rothblum LI

更新日期：1981-02-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Mismatches in DNA occur naturally during replication and as a result of endogenous DNA damaging agents, but the mismatch repair (MMR) pathway acts to correct mismatches before subsequent rounds of replication. Rhodium metalloinsertors bind to DNA mismatches with high affinity and specificity and represent a promising ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Ernst RJ,Komor AC,Barton JK

更新日期：2011-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Histidinol-phosphate aminotransferase (HspAT) is a key enzyme on the histidine biosynthetic pathway. HspAT catalyzes the transfer of the amino group of L-histidinol phosphate (Hsp) to 2-oxoglutarate to form imidazole acetol phosphate (IAP) and glutamate. Thus, HspAT recognizes two kinds of substrates, Hsp and glutamat...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Haruyama K,Nakai T,Miyahara I,Hirotsu K,Mizuguchi H,Hayashi H,Kagamiyama H

更新日期：2001-04-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Ks values for binding of selected substrates, competitive inhibitors, and a noncompetitive inhibitor were found to be similar for alpha-chymotrypsin and N-methyl-alpha-chymotrypsin. The rates and steps of binding of a competitive inhibitor and a noncompetitive inhibitor were also found to be similar for alpha-chymotry...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Maehler R,Whitaker JR

更新日期：1982-09-14 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：:In contrast to FK506 binding proteins and cyclophilins, the parvulin family of peptidyl-prolyl cis/trans isomerases (PPIases; E.C. 5.2.1.8) cannot be inhibited by either FK506 or cyclosporin A. We have found that juglone, 5-hydroxy-1,4-naphthoquinone, irreversibly inhibits the enzymatic activity of several parvulins, ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Hennig L,Christner C,Kipping M,Schelbert B,Rücknagel KP,Grabley S,Küllertz G,Fischer G

更新日期：1998-04-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The coordination complex tris(4,7-diphenyl-1,10-phenanthroline)rhodium(III) [Rh(DIP)3(3+)], which promotes RNA cleavage upon photoactivation, has been shown to target specifically guanine-uracil (G-U) mismatches in double-helical regions of folded RNAs. Photoactivated cleavage by Rh(DIP)3(3+) has been examined on a se...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Chow CS,Barton JK

更新日期：1992-06-23 00:00:00

abstract：:HlyC is an internal protein acyltransferase that activates hemolysin, a toxic protein produced by pathogenic Escherichia coli. Acyl-acyl carrier protein (ACP) is the essential acyl donor. Separately subcloned, expressed, and purified prohemolysin A (proHlyA), HlyC, and [1-14C]myristoyl-ACP have been used to study the ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Trent MS,Worsham LM,Ernst-Fonberg ML

更新日期：1999-03-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Intestinal fatty acid binding protein (IFABP) and liver FABP (LFABP), homologous proteins expressed at high levels in intestinal absorptive cells, employ markedly different mechanisms for the transfer of fatty acids (FAs) to acceptor membranes. Transfer from IFABP occurs during protein-membrane collisional interaction...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Córsico B,Liou HL,Storch J

更新日期：2004-03-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Botulinum neurotoxins (BoNTs) elicit flaccid paralysis through cleavage of SNARE proteins within peripheral neurons. There are seven serotypes of the BoNTs, termed A-G, which differ in the SNARE protein and/or site that is cleaved. BoNTs are single-chain toxins that comprise an N-terminal zinc metalloprotease domain t...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Baldwin MR,Barbieri JT

更新日期：2007-03-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The helical regions of RNA are generally very stable, but the single-stranded and loop regions often exist as an ensemble of conformations in solution. The theophylline-binding RNA aptamer forms a very stable structure when bound to the bronchodilator theophylline, but the theophylline binding site is not stably forme...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Jucker FM,Phillips RM,McCallum SA,Pardi A

更新日期：2003-03-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding the process of amyloidogenesis is important for the future treatment of misfolding-based diseases, such as Alzheimer's, spongiform encephalopathies, and other important disorders affecting humans. In this work, we have used one of the best-characterized models for folding and misfolding, the activation d...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Cerdà-Costa N,De la Arada I,Avilés FX,Arrondo JL,Villegas S

更新日期：2009-11-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Transport of protons and solutes across mitochondrial membranes is essential for many physiological processes. However, neither the proton-pumping respiratory chain complexes nor the mitochondrial secondary active solute transport proteins have been characterized electrophysiologically in their native environment. In ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Watzke N,Diekert K,Obrdlik P

更新日期：2010-12-07 00:00:00