Purification, properties, and partial structure elucidation of a high-molecular-weight glycoprotein from cervical mucus of the bonnet monkey (Macaca radiata).

abstract：:We have used DNase I footprinting to examine the formation of antiparallel DNA triple helices on DNA fragments containing the homopurine target sites (GGA)2GGX(GGA)2GG.(CCT)2CCZ(CCT)2CC (where X.Z is each base pair in turn), with the GA- and GT-rich oligonucleotides, (GGA)2GGN(GGA)2GG and (GGT)2GGN(GGT)2GG (N = each b...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Chandler SP,Fox KR

更新日期：1996-11-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Biotin synthase, a member of the "radical SAM" family, catalyzes the final step of the biotin biosynthetic pathway, namely, the insertion of a sulfur atom into dethiobiotin (DTB). The active form of the enzyme contains two iron-sulfur clusters, a [4Fe-4S](2+) cluster liganded by Cys-53, Cys-57, and Cys-60 and the S-ad...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Lotierzo M,Raux E,Tse Sum Bui B,Goasdoue N,Libot F,Florentin D,Warren MJ,Marquet A

更新日期：2006-10-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Human liver alanine aminopeptidase is inhibited by L-amino acids having hydrophobic side chains such as Phe, Tyr, Trp, Met, and Leu. Blocking of the amino group or the carboxyl group greatly reduces the inhibitory capacity of the amino acid. Kinetic studies demonstrate that inhibition of hydrolysis of the substrate L-...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Garner CW,Behal FJ

更新日期：1975-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:To identify residues and segments in the central region of apolipoprotein A-I (apoA-I) that are important for the protein structure and stability, we studied the effects of four double charge ablations, D102A/D103A, E110A/E111A, R116V/K118A, and R160V/H162A, and two deletion mutations, Delta(61-78) and Delta(121-142),...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Gorshkova IN,Liu T,Kan HY,Chroni A,Zannis VI,Atkinson D

更新日期：2006-01-31 00:00:00

abstract：:In Saccharomyces cerevisiae, the histidine-containing phosphotransfer (HPt) protein YPD1 transfers phosphoryl groups between the three different response regulator domains of SLN1, SSK1, and SKN7 (designated R1, R2, and R3, respectively). Together these proteins form a branched histidine-aspartic acid phosphorelay sys...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Janiak-Spens F,Cook PF,West AH

更新日期：2005-01-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The structure of a short-chain IgG2a antibody, which is a member of the family of mouse anti-dansyl switch variant antibodies with identical variable regions but different heavy-chain constant regions [Dangl, J.L., Parks, D. R., Oi, V. T., & Herzenberg, L. A. (1982) Cytometry 2, 395-401], is reported. Amino acid seque...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Igarashi T,Sato M,Katsube Y,Takio K,Tanaka T,Nakanishi M,Arata Y

更新日期：1990-06-19 00:00:00

abstract：:β-2-Microglobulin (β2m) forms amyloid fibrils in the joints of patients undergoing dialysis treatment as a result of kidney failure. One of the ways in which β2m can be induced to form amyloid fibrils in vitro is via incubation with stoichiometric amounts of Cu(II). To better understand the structural changes caused b...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Borotto NB,Zhang Z,Dong J,Burant B,Vachet RW

更新日期：2017-02-28 00:00:00

abstract：:It is shown that the protochlorophyllide ester pool of etiolated higher plants is a faithful copy of the protochlorophyllide pool. It is made up of both monovinyl- and divinylprotochlorophyllide esters. Although the two tetrapyrroles exhibited similar emission maxima, they were distinguishable by their Soret excitatio...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Belanger FC,Rebeiz CA

更新日期：1980-10-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Compartmentation and NMR visibility of mitochondrial adenine nucleotides were quantitated in isolated rat liver mitochondria respiring on succinate and glutamate in vitro at 8 and 25 degrees C. Intra- and extramitochondrial nucleotides were discriminated by adding the chelator trans-1,2-diaminocyclohexane-N,N,N',N'-te...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Hutson SM,Berkich D,Williams GD,LaNoue KF,Briggs RW

更新日期：1989-05-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of poly(ethylene glycol) (PEG) on sonicated unilamellar vesicles made of phosphatidylcholine have been examined. Stopped-flow and equilibrium data are presented for vesicle aggregation, vesicle leakage, lipid mixing, and aqueous contents mixing. Vesicle aggregation is detected as a monoexponential increase...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Viguera AR,Mencía M,Goñi FM

更新日期：1993-04-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The homologous series of optically active short-chain phosphatidylethanolamines (PE) from dibutyryl-PE to dioctanoyl-PE was synthesized. In addition, two monomeric short-chain phospholipid analogues that are not degraded by phospholipase A2 (1,2-bis[(butylcarbamyl)oxy]-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine and the corresponding...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Plückthun A,Rohlfs R,Davidson FF,Dennis EA

更新日期：1985-07-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Dehydroquinate synthase has been purified 9000-fold from Escherichia coli K-12 (strain MM294). The synthase is encoded by the aroB gene, which is carried by plasmid pLC29-47 from the Carbon-Clarke library. Construction of an appropriate host bearing pLC29-47 results in a strain that produces 20 times more enzyme than ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Frost JW,Bender JL,Kadonaga JT,Knowles JR

更新日期：1984-09-11 00:00:00

abstract：:HIV-1 RNA dimerization is a complex process that involves a series of RNA refolding events. The monomeric RNA can adopt two alternative conformations that largely determine the efficiency of dimerization. The dimeric RNA also exists in two different conformations, an initial kissing-loop complex and a stable dimer wit...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Huthoff H,Berkhout B

更新日期：2002-08-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The positions of the several sea urchin histone genes on the eukaryotic fragments of the chimeric plasmids pSp2 and pSp17 have been mapped relative to the Eco RI and Hind III restriction endonuclease sites on the plasmids. Two principal mapping methods using the electron microscope have been used: (a) the R-loop proce...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Holmes DS,Cohn RH,Kedes LH,Davidson N

更新日期：1977-04-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of GDP and of aurodox (N-methylkirromycin) on the affinity of elongation factor Tu (EF-Tu) for aminoacyl-tRNA (aa-tRNA) have been quantified spectroscopically by using Phe-tRNA(Phe)-Fl8, a functionally active analogue of Phe-tRNA(Phe) with a fluorescein dye convalently attached to the s4U-8 base. The assoc...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Dell VA,Miller DL,Johnson AE

更新日期：1990-02-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Novel inhibitors of lupin diadenosine 5',5'''-P(1),P(4)-tetraphosphate (Ap(4)A) hydrolase have been identified by in silico screening of a large virtual chemical library. Compounds were ranked on the basis of a consensus from six scoring functions. From the top 100 ranked compounds six were selected and initially scre...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Branson KM,Mertens HD,Swarbrick JD,Fletcher JI,Kedzierski L,Gayler KR,Gooley PR,Smith BJ

更新日期：2009-08-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Transferred nuclear Overhauser effect measurements (in the two-dimensional mode) have been used to determine the three-dimensional conformation of an ATP analogue, Co(NH3)4ATP, at the active site of sheep kidney Na,K-ATPase. Previous studies have shown that Co(NH3)4ATP is a competitive inhibitor with respect to MnATP ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Stewart JM,Jørgensen PL,Grisham CM

更新日期：1989-05-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations in human copper-zinc superoxide dismutase (SOD1) cause an inherited form of the fatal neurodegenerative disease amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). Here, we present structures of the pathogenic SOD1 variants D124V and H80R, both of which demonstrate compromised zinc-binding sites. The disruption of the zinc...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Seetharaman SV,Winkler DD,Taylor AB,Cao X,Whitson LJ,Doucette PA,Valentine JS,Schirf V,Demeler B,Carroll MC,Culotta VC,Hart PJ

更新日期：2010-07-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The in vitro hydrolysis by porcine kidney prolidase of the imidodipeptide L-alanyl-L-proline was monitored by using 1H high-resolution NMR spectroscopy. The dipeptide exists as an equilibrium mixture of isomers with cis or trans conformation about the peptide bond. The 13C and 1H NMR spectra of the dipeptide displayed...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： King GF,Middlehurst CR,Kuchel PW

更新日期：1986-03-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Human cysteine-rich secretory protein 3 (CRISP-3; also known as SGP28) belongs to a family of closely related proteins found in mammals and reptiles. Some mammalian CRISPs are known to be involved in the process of reproduction, whereas some of the CRISPs from reptiles are neurotoxin-like substances found in lizard sa...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Udby L,Sørensen OE,Pass J,Johnsen AH,Behrendt N,Borregaard N,Kjeldsen L

更新日期：2004-10-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Acholeplasma laidlawii B cells, highly enriched in saturated C14 and C15 fatty acids, have been grown at several temperatures. Conformational order in the acyl chains of live cell membranes has been monitored with Fourier-transform infrared (FT-IR) spectroscopy. Coupled CH2 wagging progressions, characteristic of the ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Moore DJ,Mendelsohn R

更新日期：1994-04-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The kinetics of charge recombination following photoexcitation by a laser pulse have been analyzed in the reaction center-light harvesting complex 1 (RC-LH1) purified from the photosynthetic bacterium Rhodobacter sphaeroides. In RC-LH1 core complexes isolated from photosynthetically grown cells P(+)Q(B)(-) recombines ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Francia F,Dezi M,Rebecchi A,Mallardi A,Palazzo G,Melandri BA,Venturoli G

更新日期：2004-11-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Alditol oxidase (AldO) from Streptomyces coelicolor A3(2) is a soluble monomeric flavin-dependent oxidase that performs selective oxidation of the terminal primary hydroxyl group of several alditols. Here, we report the crystal structure of the recombinant enzyme in its native state and in complex with both six-carbon...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Forneris F,Heuts DP,Delvecchio M,Rovida S,Fraaije MW,Mattevi A

更新日期：2008-01-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Diphtheria toxin (DT) has been studied as a model for understanding active-site structure and function in the ADP-ribosyltransferases. Earlier evidence suggested that histidine-21 of DT is important for the ADP-ribosylation of eukaryotic elongation factor 2 (EF-2). We have generated substitutions of this residue by ca...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Blanke SR,Huang K,Wilson BA,Papini E,Covacci A,Collier RJ

更新日期：1994-05-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The complex of ribonuclease A (RNase A) with uridine vanadate (U-V), a transition-state analogue, has been studied with 51V and proton NMR spectroscopy in solution and by neutron diffraction in the crystalline state. Upon the addition of aliquots of U-V at pH 6.6, the C epsilon-H resonances of the two active-site hist...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Borah B,Chen CW,Egan W,Miller M,Wlodawer A,Cohen JS

更新日期：1985-04-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Phosphinothricyl-alanyl-alanine (Pt tripeptide (Ptt), bialaphos) is a metabolite produced by Streptomyces viridochromogenes and Streptomyces hygroscopicus. It contains the unique phosphinoamino acid phosphinothricin (Pt), which after cleavage from Ptt is active as an inhibitor of glutamine synthetase. We have isolated...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Grammel N,Schwartz D,Wohlleben W,Keller U

更新日期：1998-02-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Neutral glycosphingolipids and gangliosides in rabbit thymus, spleen, bone marrow, and erythrocyte ghosts were analyzed by conventional chemical and enzymatic procedures and negative ion fast atom bombardment mass spectrometry (FABMS). Thymus gangliosides showed a characteristic composition. Major gangliosides compris...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Iwamori M,Kiguchi K,Kanno J,Kitagawa M,Nagai Y

更新日期：1986-02-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Oligomers of amyloid-β (Aβ) have emerged as the primary toxic agents responsible for early synaptic dysfunction and neuronal death in Alzheimer's disease (AD). Characterization of oligomers is an important step in the progress toward delineating the complex molecular mechanisms involved in AD pathogenesis. In our prev...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Dean DN,Pate KM,Moss MA,Rangachari V

更新日期：2016-04-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The antimycotic drug clotrimazole inhibits the function of the gastric H,K-ATPase in a manner similar to that observed for the Na,K-ATPase. Because of the high hydrophobicity of the compound, the interaction between clotrimazole and the ion pump occurs at the membrane domain in the apolar core of the membrane. The enz...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Witzke A,Lindner K,Munson K,Apell HJ

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:HcbA1 is a unique flavoenzyme that catalyzes the first step in the bacterial hexachlorobenzene catabolic pathway. Here we report in vitro reconstitution of the HcbA1-catalyzed reaction. Detailed mechanistic studies provide evidence for nucleophilic aromatic substitution and flavin-N5-oxide formation. ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Adak S,Begley TP

更新日期：2019-03-05 00:00:00