Photochemical cross-linking of tRNA1Arg to the 30S ribosomal subunit using aryl azide reagents attached to the anticodon loop.

abstract：:Allosteric activators are generally believed to shift the equilibrium distribution of enzyme conformations to favor a catalytically productive structure; the kinetics of conformational exchange is seldom addressed. Several observations suggested that the usual allosteric mechanism might not apply to the activation of ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Riera TV,Zheng L,Josephine HR,Min D,Yang W,Hedstrom L

更新日期：2011-10-04 00:00:00

abstract：:A high-molecular-weight glycoprotein has been purified from the cervical mucus of the bonnet monkey (Macaca radiata). The glycoprotein was shown to be homogeneous by electrophoresis, sedimentation equilibrium, and N-terminal group determination, and to contain 19% protein, 19% D-galactose, 18% N-acetyl-D-galactosamine...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Hatcher VB,Schwarzmann GO,Jeanloz RW,McArthur JW

更新日期：1977-04-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Ribosomal protein E-L30 unfolds reversibly at pH values between 7.0 and 4.5. Unfolding of the protein involves a fast and a slow equilibrium, which depend on the degree of protonation of His19 and His33. Both the fast equilibrium between protonated and deprotonated histidines and the slow equilibrium between folded an...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： van de Ven FJ,Hilbers CW

更新日期：1987-08-25 00:00:00

abstract：:A soluble and fully functional 10.5 kDa fragment of the 18.2 kDa membrane-bound cytochrome c(552) from Paracoccus denitrificans has been heterologously expressed and (13)C/(15)N-labeled to study the structural features of this protein in both redox states. Well-resolved solution structures of both the reduced and oxid...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Reincke B,Pérez C,Pristovsek P,Lücke C,Ludwig C,Löhr F,Rogov VV,Ludwig B,Rüterjans H

更新日期：2001-10-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Efforts to elucidate the nature of the bimolecular interaction of parathyroid hormone (PTH) with its cognate receptor, the PTH receptor type 1 (PTHR1), have relied heavily on benzoylphenylalanine- (Bpa-) based photoaffinity cross-linking. However, given the flexibility, size, and shape of Bpa, the resolution at the PT...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Monaghan P,Thomas BE,Woznica I,Wittelsberger A,Mierke DF,Rosenblatt M

更新日期：2008-06-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Heme (iron protoporphyrin IX) is an essential protein prosthetic group and signaling molecule required for most life on Earth. All heme-dependent processes require the dynamic and rapid mobilization of heme from sites of synthesis or uptake to hemoproteins present in virtually every subcellular compartment. The cytoto...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Hanna DA,Martinez-Guzman O,Reddi AR

更新日期：2017-04-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The X-ray crystallographic structure of the photosynthetic reaction center from Rhodobacter sphaeroides obtained at high resolution has revealed a number of internal water molecules (Ermler, U., Fritzsch, G., Buchanan, S. K., and Michel, H. (1994) Structure 2, 925-936; Stowell, M. H. B., McPhillips, T. M., Rees, D. C....

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Tandori J,Sebban P,Michel H,Baciou L

更新日期：1999-10-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The substrate specificity of the human enzyme glutathione reductase was changed from its natural substrate glutathione to trypanothione [N1,N8-bis(glutathionyl)spermidine] by site-directed mutagenesis of two residues. The glutathione analogue, trypanothione, is the natural substrate for trypanothione reductase, an enz...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Bradley M,Bücheler US,Walsh CT

更新日期：1991-06-25 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate a conformational change accompanying peptide binding to class II MHC proteins, we probed the structure of a soluble version of the human class II MHC protein HLA-DR1 in empty and peptide-loaded forms. Peptide binding induced a large decrease in the effective radius of the protein as determined by gel fi...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Zarutskie JA,Sato AK,Rushe MM,Chan IC,Lomakin A,Benedek GB,Stern LJ

更新日期：1999-05-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The dissociation of Semliki Forest virus induced by increasing concentrations of the anionic detergent sodium dodecyl sulfate was studied using density gradient centrifugation. Detectable binding to the virus started well below the critical micellar concentration of the detergent and increased thereafter with increase...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Becker R,Helenius A,Simons K

更新日期：1975-05-06 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper defines the properties of interaction of endothelin-1 (Et-1) with cloned bovine ETA receptors. The Kd value of Et-1/ETA receptor complexes was estimated in membrane preparations to 20 pM using kinetic experiments and saturation experiments performed under quasi equilibrium conditions. Competition experiment...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Desmarets J,Gresser O,Guedin D,Frelin C

更新日期：1996-11-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein splicing is a self-catalyzed post-translational modification in which the intein enzyme excises itself from a precursor protein and ligates the flanking sequences to produce a mature protein. We report the solution structure of a 136-residue DnaX mini-intein enzyme derived from the cyanobacterium Spirulina pla...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Boral S,Maiti S,Basak AJ,Lee W,De S

更新日期：2020-12-22 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：:In aqueous glycerol solutions, the rate constant for the formation of compound I of horseradish peroxidase from hydrogen peroxide is independent of the viscosity. However, whem m-chloroperbenzoic acid is used to form compound I, the rate is viscosity dependent, indicating that this reaction is diffusion controlled. Th...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Dunford HB,Hewson WD

更新日期：1977-06-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Second-harmonic light scattering (SHS) permits characterization of membrane-specific molecular transport in living cells. Herein, we demonstrate the use of time-resolved SHS for quantifying chemically induced enhancements in membrane permeability. As proof of concept, we examine the enhanced permeability of the cytopl...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Wilhelm MJ,Sharifian Gh M,Dai HL

更新日期：2015-07-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Translational initiation factor IF-2 is involved in a multistep pathway leading to the synthesis of the first peptide bond. IF-2 is a guanine nucleotide binding protein (G-protein) and catalyzes GTP hydrolysis in the presence of ribosomes. According to sequence homologies with other G-proteins, particularly EF-Tu, a t...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Vachon G,Laalami S,Grunberg-Manago M,Julien R,Cenatiempo Y

更新日期：1990-10-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Metabolism of [2-13C]-, [3-13C]-, and [1,2,3-13C]propionate in perfused rat livers and [2-13C]-acetate in perfused rat hearts has been examined in tissue extracts by 13C NMR. Label from [2-13C]-propionate was preferentially incorporated into the C2 carbon of lactate, alanine, and aspartate in liver tissue while label ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Sherry AD,Sumegi B,Miller B,Cottam GL,Gavva S,Jones JG,Malloy CR

更新日期：1994-05-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Photoreceptor guanylyl cyclase (ROS-GC), converting GTP into cGMP and pyrophosphate, is a key enzyme in the regulation of the visual transduction cascade. ROS-GC requires GC-activating proteins (GCAPs) and low free [Ca] for full activity. We found that when choline or potassium were the major cations present, light ca...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Wolbring G,Baehr W,Palczewski K,Schnetkamp PP

更新日期：1999-03-02 00:00:00

abstract：:We review signaling by reactive oxygen species, which is emerging as a major physiological process. However, among the reactive oxygen species, H(2)O(2) best fulfills the requirements of being a second messenger. Its enzymatic production and degradation, along with the requirements for the oxidation of thiols by H(2)O...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Forman HJ,Maiorino M,Ursini F

更新日期：2010-02-09 00:00:00

abstract：:RNA repeat expansions cause a host of incurable, genetically defined diseases. The most common class of RNA repeats consists of trinucleotide repeats. These long, repeating transcripts fold into hairpins containing 1 × 1 internal loops that can mediate disease via a variety of mechanism(s) in which RNA is the central ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Chen JL,VanEtten DM,Fountain MA,Yildirim I,Disney MD

更新日期：2017-07-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The ligand binding relationship between the acetylcholine transporter (AcChT) and the vesamicol receptor (VR) and the kinetics of active transport were studied in synaptic vesicles purified from the Torpedo electric organ using analogues of AcCh and vesamicol. Methoxyvesamicol, which should exhibit better equilibratio...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Bahr BA,Clarkson ED,Rogers GA,Noremberg K,Parsons SM

更新日期：1992-06-30 00:00:00

abstract：:YtvA is a blue light sensor protein composed of an N-terminal LOV (light-oxygen-voltage) domain, a linker helix, and the C-terminal sulfate transporter and anti-σ factor antagonist domain. YtvA is believed to act as a positive regulator for light and salt stress responses by regulating the σB transcription factor. Alt...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Choi S,Nakasone Y,Hellingwerf KJ,Terazima M

更新日期：2016-06-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The kinetics of tert-butyl isocyanide binding to the heme protein horseradish peroxidase (HRP) at 22 degrees C was examined on all time scales, from minutes to picoseconds, in aqueous borate buffer at pH 9.08. Unlike myoglobin (Mb) or hemoglobin, HRP shows two bimolecular ligand binding processes. For comparison, bind...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Bandyopadhyay D,Walda KN,Grogan TM,Magde D,Traylor TG,Sharma VS

更新日期：1996-02-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Many lipases are potent catalysts of stereoselective reactions and are therefore of interest for use in chemical synthesis. The crystal structures of lipases show a large variation in the shapes of their active site environments that may explain the large variation in substrate specificity of these enzymes. We have de...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Uppenberg J,Ohrner N,Norin M,Hult K,Kleywegt GJ,Patkar S,Waagen V,Anthonsen T,Jones TA

更新日期：1995-12-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Bypass synthesis by DNA polymerase I was studied using synthetic 40-nucleotide-long gapped duplex DNAs each containing a site-specific abasic site analog, as a model system for mutagenesis associated with DNA lesions. Bypass synthesis proceeded in two general stages: a fast polymerization stage that terminated opposit...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Paz-Elizur T,Takeshita M,Livneh Z

更新日期：1997-02-18 00:00:00

abstract：:G.U pairs occur frequently and have many important biological functions. The stability of symmetric tandem G.U motifs depends both on the adjacent Watson-Crick base pairs, e.g., 5'G > 5'C, and the sequence of the G.U pairs, i.e., 5'-UG-3' > 5'-GU-3', where an underline represents a nucleotide in a G.U pair [Wu, M., Mc...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Chen X,McDowell JA,Kierzek R,Krugh TR,Turner DH

更新日期：2000-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ribonucleotides are frequently incorporated into DNA during replication. They are recognized and processed by several cellular enzymes, and their continued presence in the yeast nuclear genome results in replicative stress and genome instability. Thus, it is important to understand the effects of isolated ribonucleoti...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： DeRose EF,Perera L,Murray MS,Kunkel TA,London RE

更新日期：2012-03-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Genomic clones encompassing all the translated sequences, the 3' untranslated sequence, and 1 kb flanking the ATG translation initiation codon of bovine tropoelastin have been obtained and characterized by restriction enzyme analysis and extensive DNA sequencing. These analyses demonstrated that functionally distinct ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Yeh H,Anderson N,Ornstein-Goldstein N,Bashir MM,Rosenbloom JC,Abrams W,Indik Z,Yoon K,Parks W,Mecham R

更新日期：1989-03-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Ligand-dependent site-site (or subunit-subunit) interactions provide the basis for explaining cooperativity in chemical reactions. Even in the simplest possible nonaggregating system, interpretation of the interactions in terms of structural details requires an explicit assumption (or model) for the binding of the lig...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Saroff HA

更新日期：1991-10-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Slow conformational changes have been proposed to be responsible for the kinetic positive cooperativity of glucokinase (GK) with glucose. Induced-fit and preexisting equilibrium kinetic models have been previously suggested. In the present study, equilibrium and pre-steady-state fluorescence spectroscopy has been used...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Antoine M,Boutin JA,Ferry G

更新日期：2009-06-16 00:00:00