Inhibition of procollagen cell-free synthesis by amino-terminal extension peptides.

abstract：:Nanosecond to millisecond conformational fluctuations of Zn-substituted cytochrome c (ZnCytc) have been studied by the time-resolved transient hole-burning method. The investigation of low-temperature dynamics has been made on the ZnCytc solution sample in a water-glycerol mixture. The conformational fluctuations in t...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Shibata Y,Takahashi H,Kaneko R,Kurita A,Kushida T

更新日期：1999-02-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Chloroperoxidase is a versatile fungal heme-thiolate protein that catalyzes a variety of one-electron and two-electron oxidations. We report here that the alkylation of an essential histidine residue showed no effect on the one-electron peroxidations but inhibited two-electron oxidations. The pH profiles of different ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Manoj KM,Hager LP

更新日期：2008-03-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The hammerhead ribozyme undergoes a well-defined two-stage conformational folding process, induced by the binding of magnesium ions. In this study, we have used isothermal titration calorimetry to analyze the thermodynamics of magnesium binding and magnesium ion-induced folding of the ribozyme. Binding to the natural ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Hammann C,Cooper A,Lilley DM

更新日期：2001-02-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The orientation of the myosin neck was monitored using electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) spectroscopy. Gizzard regulatory light chain was labeled with a nitroxide spin probe and exchanged for the native subunit, located in the myosin neck, in rabbit psoas muscle fibers. The EPR spectra of rigor fibers indicated a ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Zhao L,Gollub J,Cooke R

更新日期：1996-08-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Total internal reflection fluorescence microscopy (TIRFM) has been used to directly measure the weak dissociation constants of IgG with a mouse IgG receptor (moFc gamma RII) that has been purified and reconstituted into substrate-supported planar membranes. Dissociation constants were measured for three different mous...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Hsieh HV,Poglitsch CL,Thompson NL

更新日期：1992-11-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Four-coordinate metalloporphyrins activate soluble guanylyl cyclase. Ni(II)PPIX and Cu(II)PPIX are high affinity activators, with activation constants of 24 and 17 nM, respectively. Both metalloporphyrins remain stably bound to the enzyme, enabling spectroscopic characterization of the Ni(II)- and Cu(II)-reconstituted...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Carr HS,Tran D,Reynolds MF,Burstyn JN,Spiro TG

更新日期：2002-08-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Plasma membrane and vesicular transporters for the biogenic amines, dopamine, norepinephrine, and serotonin, represent a group of proteins that play a crucial role in the regulation of neurotransmission. Clinically, mono amine transporters are the primary targets for the actions of many therapeutic agents used to trea...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Sager JJ,Torres GE

更新日期：2011-08-30 00:00:00

abstract：:OleD is shown to play a key reductive role in the generation of alkenes (olefins) from acyl thioesters in Stenotrophomonas maltophilia. The gene coding for OleD clusters with three other genes, oleABC, and all appear to be transcribed in the same direction as an operon in various olefin producing bacteria. In this stu...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Bonnett SA,Papireddy K,Higgins S,del Cardayre S,Reynolds KA

更新日期：2011-11-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanisms that control N protein dependent antitermination in phage lambda have counterparts in many eukaryotic systems, including specific regulatory interactions of the antitermination protein with the nascent RNA transcript. Here we describe the specific and nonspecific RNA binding modes of antitermination pro...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Van Gilst MR,Rees WA,Das A,von Hippel PH

更新日期：1997-02-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Human lung tryptase (HLT), a trypsin-like serine proteinase stored as an active enzyme in association with heparin in mast cell granules, is released into the extracellular environment when mast cells are activated. Tryptases are unusual in that they form tetramers and bind heparin. As there are no known endogenous tr...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Addington AK,Johnson DA

更新日期：1996-10-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Heme propionate-7 in cytochrome c is an ionizable group located in a region of the protein that is inaccessible to bulk solvent. Electrostatic stabilization of this functional group appears to be achieved through interaction of heme propionate-7 with several amino acid residues that occur within hydrogen-bonding dista...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Davies AM,Guillemette JG,Smith M,Greenwood C,Thurgood AG,Mauk AG,Moore GR

更新日期：1993-05-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The divalent cation requirement for partial reactions of the catalytic turnover cycle during interfacial catalysis by pig pancreatic phospholipase A2 (PLA2) is investigated. Results show that the specific role of calcium in all the events of the catalytic cycle at the active site is not shared by other divalent cation...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Yu BZ,Berg OG,Jain MK

更新日期：1993-06-29 00:00:00

abstract：:One of the most intriguing questions confronting the bone morphogenetic protein family is the mechanism of ligand recognition, because there are more ligands than receptors. Crystal structures of two type II receptors, ActR-II and BMPR-II, are essentially identical, and a loop structure (A-loop) has been suggested to ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Yeh LC,Falcon WE,Garces A,Lee JC,Lee JC

更新日期：2012-09-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The deacetylation of UDP-3-O-[(R)-3-hydroxymyristoyl]-N-acetylglucosamine (UDP-3-O-acyl-GlcNAc) by LpxC is the committed reaction of lipid A biosynthesis. CHIR-090, a novel N-aroyl-l-threonine hydroxamic acid, is a potent, slow, tight-binding inhibitor of the LpxC deacetylase from the hyperthermophile Aquifex aeolicus...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Barb AW,McClerren AL,Snehelatha K,Reynolds CM,Zhou P,Raetz CR

更新日期：2007-03-27 00:00:00

abstract：:P450cam from Pseudomonas putida is the best characterized member of the vast family of cytochrome P450s, and it has long been believed to have a more rigid and closed active site relative to other P450s. Here we report X-ray structures of P450cam crystallized in the absence of substrate and at high and low [K(+)]. The...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Lee YT,Wilson RF,Rupniewski I,Goodin DB

更新日期：2010-04-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Rabbit muscle myosin S1 was modified either at SH1 alone or at both SH1 and SH2, using a series of alkylthiolating reagents of increasing size, designed for correlating gradually changing structural disturbances in the thiol region with functional impairments in the myosin head. The reagents were of the type H(CH(2))(...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Tiepold M,Kliche W,Pfannstiel J,Faulstich H

更新日期：2000-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanisms of MRP1-drug binding and transport are not clear. In this study, we have characterized the interaction between MRP1 and rhodamine 123 (Rh123) using the photoreactive-iodinated analogue, [(125)I]iodoaryl azido-rhodamine 123 (or IAARh123). Photoaffinity labeling of plasma membranes from HeLa cells transfe...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Daoud R,Kast C,Gros P,Georges E

更新日期：2000-12-19 00:00:00

abstract：:In the field of muscle regulation, there is still controversy as to whether Ca2+, alone, is able to shift muscle from the relaxed to the fully active state or whether cross-bridge binding also contributes to turning on muscle contraction. Our previous studies on the binding of myosin subfragment 1 (S-1) to the troponi...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Williams DL Jr,Greene LE,Eisenberg E

更新日期：1988-09-06 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA (cytosine-5-)-methyltransferase is essential for viable mammalian development and has a central function in the determination and maintenance of epigenetic methylation patterns. Steady-state and substrate trapping studies were performed to better understand how the enzyme functions. The catalytic efficiency was de...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Flynn J,Reich N

更新日期：1998-10-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The pre-steady-state kinetics of the trichodiene synthase reaction were investigated by rapid chemical quench methods. The single-turnover rate was found to be 3.5-3.8 s-1, a rate 40 times faster than the steady-state catalytic rate (kcat = 0.09 s-1) for trichodiene synthase-catalyzed conversion of farnesyl diphosphat...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Cane DE,Chiu HT,Liang PH,Anderson KS

更新日期：1997-07-08 00:00:00

abstract：:hOgg1 and FPG are the primary DNA repair enzymes responsible for removing the major guanine (G) oxidative product, namely, 7,8-dihydro-8-oxoguanine (OG), in humans and bacteria, respectively. While natural G adopts the anti conformation and forms a Watson-Crick pair with cytosine (C), OG can also adopt the syn conform...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Sowlati-Hashjin S,Wetmore SD

更新日期：2018-02-20 00:00:00

abstract：:To gain insight into the folding of large proteins, we constructed a bovine beta-lactoglobulin (beta-lg) dimeric mutant, A34C/C121A beta-lg. In the mutant, a free thiol group of wild-type beta-lg at Cys121 was removed and two beta-lg molecules were linked by a disulfide bridge through Cys34 created at the dimer's inte...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Yagi M,Kameda A,Sakurai K,Nishimura C,Goto Y

更新日期：2008-06-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The structure of [14-38]Abu, a variant of bovine pancreatic trypsin inhibitor (BPTI) with only the 14-38 disulfide bridge intact, has been analyzed by two-dimensional 1H and 1H-15N NMR. Except for the 18-24, 29-35 antiparallel beta-sheet, residues in all regions of the molecule give two exchange cross peaks for each 1...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Barbar E,Barany G,Woodward C

更新日期：1995-09-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The flavoenzyme tryptophan 2-monooxygenase catalyzes the oxidation of tryptophan to indoleacetamide, carbon dioxide, and water. The enzyme is a homologue of l-amino acid oxidase. In the structure of l-amino acid oxidase complexed with aminobenzoate, Tyr372 hydrogen bonds with the carboxylate of the inhibitor in the ac...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Sobrado P,Fitzpatrick PF

更新日期：2003-12-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The physicochemical and catalytic properties of thioredoxin-T' are described. This complemented protein structure consists of a 1:1 complex between the inactive fragments thioredoxin-T-(1--73) and thioredoxin T-(74--108). These are generated by selective trypsin cleavage at Arg-73 in lysine-modified and denatured Esch...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Slabý I,Holmgren A

更新日期：1979-12-11 00:00:00

abstract：:A total of fifty single site surface phenylalanine substitution mutants have been made in the model protein staphylococcal nuclease. The fifty residues that were replaced with phenylalanine were chosen to give a broad sampling of solvent accessibility, secondary structure, and backbone conformations. The change in the...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Schwehm JM,Kristyanne ES,Biggers CC,Stites WE

更新日期：1998-05-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The aggregation of the microtubule-associated protein, tau, into amyloid fibrils is a hallmark of neurodegenerative diseases such as the tauopathies and Alzheimer's disease. Since monomeric tau is an intrinsically disordered protein and the polymeric fibrils possess an ordered cross-β core, the aggregation process is ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Ramachandran G,Milán-Garcés EA,Udgaonkar JB,Puranik M

更新日期：2014-10-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The synthesis of two potential arginine-directed purine-based analogues, 6-chloro-9-(3,4-dioxopentyl)purine (6) and 9-(3,4-dioxopentyl)hypoxanthine (7), is reported. Compound 7 was extensively tested as a potential affinity label of purine nucleoside phosphorylase (EC 2.4.2.1) from human erythrocytes. Evidence that 7 ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Salamone SJ,Jordan F

更新日期：1982-12-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The synthesis and secretion of several acute-phase proteins increases markedly following physiological stress. alpha 1-Acid glycoprotein (AGP), a major acute-phase reactant made by the liver, is strongly induced by inflammatory agents such as lipopolysaccharide (LPS). Nuclear run-on assay showed a 17-fold increase in ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Alam T,Papaconstantinou J

更新日期：1992-02-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The structural domains of human apolipoprotein(a) [apo(a)] and its interaction with apolipoprotein B-100 (apo B-100) in the lipoprotein(a) [Lp(a)] particle were investigated by limited proteolysis with thermolysin and cathepsin D. We characterized the proteolytic products by sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gradi...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Huby T,Doucet C,Dieplinger H,Chapman J,Thillet J

更新日期：1994-03-22 00:00:00