Base protonation facilitates B-Z interconversions of poly(dG-dC) X poly(dG-dC).

abstract：:Among the major obstacles to pharmacological and structural studies of integral membrane proteins (MPs) are their natural scarcity and the difficulty in overproducing them in their native form. MPs can be overexpressed in the non-native state as inclusion bodies, but inducing them to achieve their functional three-dim...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Pocanschi CL,Dahmane T,Gohon Y,Rappaport F,Apell HJ,Kleinschmidt JH,Popot JL

更新日期：2006-11-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Oligonucleotide-directed triple helix formation provides an elegant rational basis for gene-specific DNA targeting and has been widely used to interfere with gene expression ("antigene" strategies) and as a molecular tool for biological studies. Various strategies have been developed to introduce sequence modification...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Biet E,Maurisse R,Dutreix M,Sun Js

更新日期：2001-02-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Beta-amylase (EC 3.2.1.2) is starch-hydrolyzing exo-type enzyme that can catalyze the successive liberation of beta-maltose from the nonreducing ends of alpha-1,4-linked glucopyranosyl polymers. There is a well-known phenomenon called multiple or repetitive attack where the enzyme releases several maltose molecules in...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Ishikawa K,Nakatani H,Katsuya Y,Fukazawa C

更新日期：2007-01-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Synthetic O-glycopeptides containing one or two GalNAc residues attached to Ser or Thr were used as substrates to investigate the effect of peptide structure on the activity of crude preparations of UDP-Gal:GalNAc alpha-R beta 3-Gal-transferase from pig stomach and pig and rat colonic mucosa and of a partially purifie...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Brockhausen I,Möller G,Merz G,Adermann K,Paulsen H

更新日期：1990-11-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Dipeptide substrates for metalloendoproteases have previously been shown to block biological processes requiring membrane fusion. Thus, we employed such compounds as potential inhibitors of the insulin-dependent activation of glucose transport in fat cells. This event is thought to involve vesicle movement from an int...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Aiello LP,Wessling-Resnick M,Pilch PF

更新日期：1986-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phospholipase A(2) (PLA(2)) enzymes become activated by binding to biological membranes and hydrolyze phospholipids to free fatty acids and lyso-phospholipids, the precursors of inflammatory mediators. To understand the functional significance of amino acid residues at key positions, we have studied the effects of the...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Nemec KN,Pande AH,Qin S,Bieber Urbauer RJ,Tan S,Moe D,Tatulian SA

更新日期：2006-10-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Current antimitotic cancer chemotherapy based on vinca alkaloids and taxanes target tubulin, a protein required not only for mitotic spindle formation but also for the overall structural integrity of terminally differentiated cells. Among many innovations targeting specific mitotic events, inhibition of motor enzymes ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Sheth PR,Basso A,Duca JS,Lesburg CA,Ogas P,Gray K,Nale L,Mannarino AF,Prongay AJ,Le HV

更新日期：2009-11-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Misfolded proteins in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) are degraded by N-terminal threonine proteases within the 26S proteasome. Each protease is formed by an activated beta subunit, beta5/X, beta1/Y, or beta2/Z, that exhibits chymotrypsin-like, peptidylglutamyl-peptide hydrolyzing, or trypsin-like activity, respectivel...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Oberdorf J,Carlson EJ,Skach WR

更新日期：2001-11-06 00:00:00

abstract：:A generalized set of fluorescence polarization intensities and electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) spectra from multiple fluorescent and EPR probes of a specific site on an oriented and immobilized protein element in a biological assembly, combined with anisotropic rotational relaxation studies of the purified and l...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Burghardt TP,Ajtai K

更新日期：1994-05-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Pyridoxal 5'-triphospho-5'-adenosine (AP3-PL), the affinity labeling reagent specific for lysine residues in the nucleotide-binding site of several enzymes [Tagaya, M., & Fukui, T. (1986) Biochemistry 25, 2958-2964; Yagami, T., Tagaya, M., & Fukui, T. (1988) FEBS Lett. 229, 261-264], was used to identify the ATP-bindi...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Hountondji C,Schmitter JM,Fukui T,Tagaya M,Blanquet S

更新日期：1990-12-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Sulfolobus solfataricus P2 DNA polymerase IV (Dpo4) is a thermostable archaeal enzyme and a member of the error-prone and lesion-bypass Y-family. In this paper, for the first time, the fidelity of a Y-family polymerase, Dpo4, was determined using pre-steady-state kinetic analysis of the incorporation of a single nucle...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Fiala KA,Suo Z

更新日期：2004-02-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The inactivation of cytochrome P450 2B4 by aldehydes in a reconstituted enzyme system requires molecular oxygen and NADPH and is not prevented by the addition of catalase, superoxide dismutase, epoxide hydrolase, glutathione, or ascorbic acid. A strong correlation between loss of enzymatic activity and bleaching of th...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Raner GM,Chiang EW,Vaz AD,Coon MJ

更新日期：1997-04-22 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper describes the effect of N-capping substitutions on the structure and stability of histidine-containing protein (HPr). We have used NMR spectroscopy and conformational stability studies to quantify changes in local and global free energy due to mutagenesis at Ser46, the N-cap for helix B in HPr. Previous NMR...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Thapar R,Nicholson EM,Rajagopal P,Waygood EB,Scholtz JM,Klevit RE

更新日期：1996-09-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The malarial parasite Plasmodium falciparum can only synthesize pyrimidine nucleotides via the de novo pathway which is therefore a suitable target for development of antimalarial drugs. New assay procedures have been developed using high-pressure liquid chromatography (HPLC) which enable concurrent measurement of pyr...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Seymour KK,Lyons SD,Phillips L,Rieckmann KH,Christopherson RI

更新日期：1994-05-03 00:00:00

abstract：:A T203Y substitution in green fluorescent protein causes a red shift in emission to yield a class of mutants known as yellow fluorescent protein (YFP). Many of these YFP mutants bind halides with affinities in the millimolar range, which often results in the chromophore pK values being shifted into the physiological r...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Seward HE,Basran J,Denton R,Pfuhl M,Muskett FW,Bagshaw CR

更新日期：2013-04-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Peroxynitrite-mediated oxidative chemistry is currently the subject of intense investigation owing to the toxic side effects associated with nitric oxide overproduction. Using direct electron spin resonance spectroscopy (ESR) at 37 degrees C, we observed that in human erythrocytes peroxynitrite induced a long-lived si...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Minetti M,Scorza G,Pietraforte D

更新日期：1999-02-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The equilibrium between the rat brain tubulin alpha beta dimer and the dissociated alpha and beta monomers has been studied by analytical ultracentrifugation with use of a new method employing short solution columns, allowing rapid equilibration and hence short runs, minimizing tubulin decay. Simultaneous analysis of ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Sackett DL,Lippoldt RE

更新日期：1991-04-09 00:00:00

abstract：:PsbU is a lumenal peripheral protein in the photosystem II (PS II) complex of cyanobacteria and red algae. It is thought that PsbU is replaced functionally by PsbP or PsbQ in plant chloroplasts. After the discovery of PsbP and PsbQ homologues in cyanobacterial PS II [Thornton et al. (2004) Plant Cell 16, 2164-2175], w...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Inoue-Kashino N,Kashino Y,Satoh K,Terashima I,Pakrasi HB

更新日期：2005-09-13 00:00:00

abstract：:A 600 MHz 1H NMR study of toxin OSK1, blocker of small-conductance Ca2+-activated K+ channels, is presented. The unambiguous sequential assignment of all the protons of the toxin was obtained using TOCSY, DQF-COSY, and NOESY experiments at pH 3.0 (10, 30, and 45 degrees C) in aqueous solution. 3J(N alpha), 3J(alphabet...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Jaravine VA,Nolde DE,Reibarkh MJ,Korolkova YV,Kozlov SA,Pluzhnikov KA,Grishin EV,Arseniev AS

更新日期：1997-02-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Subunit a of the Escherichia coli ATP synthase is thought to control access of protons to the ring of c subunits during proton-driven ATP synthesis. In this study, the surface exposure of subunit a in the periplasm has been examined using 3-N-maleimidyl-propionyl biocytin labeling in cells permeabilized by polymyxin B...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Zhang D,Vik SB

更新日期：2003-01-21 00:00:00

abstract：:We added phospholipase C-delta 1 (PLC-delta) to the aqueous subphase beneath monolayers formed from mixtures of phosphatidylinositol 4,5-bisphosphate (2% PIP2), phosphatidylserine (33% PS), and phosphatidylcholine (65% PC) and then measured the initial rate of hydrolysis of PIP2 after addition of 10 microM free calciu...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Rebecchi M,Boguslavsky V,Boguslavsky L,McLaughlin S

更新日期：1992-12-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The Co and Fe K-edge extended X-ray absorption fine structure (EXAFS) spectra of the methionyl aminopeptidase from Escherichia coli (EcMetAP) have been recorded in the presence of 1 and 2 equiv of either Co(II) or Fe(II) (i.e., [Co(II)_(EcMetAP)], [Co(II)Co(II)(EcMetAP)], [Fe(II)_(EcMetAP)], and [Fe(II)Fe(II)(EcMetAP)...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Cosper NJ,D'souza VM,Scott RA,Holz RC

更新日期：2001-11-06 00:00:00

abstract：:We present a new design of mixed-backbone antisense oligonucleotides (ASOs) containing both DNA and peptide nucleic acid (PNA). Previous generations of PNA-DNA chimeras showed low binding affinity, reducing their potential as therapeutics. The addition of a 5'-wing of locked nucleic acid as well as the combination of ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Debacker AJ,Sharma VK,Meda Krishnamurthy P,O'Reilly D,Greenhill R,Watts JK

更新日期：2019-02-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Sso7d from the thermoacidophilic archaebacterium Sulfolobus solfataricus is a small globular protein with a known three-dimensional structure. Inspection of the structure reveals that Phe31 is a member of the aromatic cluster forming the protein hydrophobic core, whereas Trp23 is located on the protein surface and its...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Catanzano F,Graziano G,Fusi P,Tortora P,Barone G

更新日期：1998-07-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The combination of UV/visible/near-IR variable-temperature magnetic circular dichroism (VTMCD) and EPR spectroscopies has been used to investigate the spin states and axial ligation of the heme group in oxidized, reduced, and CO-bound reduced forms of the Rhodospirillum rubrum CO oxidation transcriptional activator pr...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Dhawan IK,Shelver D,Thorsteinsson MV,Roberts GP,Johnson MK

更新日期：1999-09-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The temperature dependence of the reduction potential of the CuA site in carbon monoxide inhibited cytochrome c oxidase has been measured with a spectroelectrochemical method adapted to the relatively weak near-infrared absorption of this copper ion. These measurements, together with parallel measurements on the 604-n...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Wang H,Blair DF,Ellis WR Jr,Gray HB,Chan SI

更新日期：1986-01-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The DeltaG degrees (N)(-)(D) value obtained from extrapolation to zero denaturant concentration by the linear extrapolation method (LEM) is commonly interpreted to represent the Gibbs energy difference between native (N) and denatured (D) ensembles at the limit of zero denaturant concentration. For DeltaG degrees (N)(...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Bolen DW,Yang M

更新日期：2000-12-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Parkinson's disease (PD) involves loss of dopaminergic neurons in the substantia nigra and is characterized by intracellular inclusions, Lewy bodies, consisting primarily of aggregated alpha-synuclein. Two substitution mutations (A53T and A30P) in alpha-synuclein gene have been identified in familial early-onset PD. T...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Moussa CE,Wersinger C,Tomita Y,Sidhu A

更新日期：2004-05-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Electron spin polarized electron paramagentic resonance (ESP EPR) spectra were obtained with deuterated iron-removed photosynthetic bacterial reaction centers (RCs) to specifically investigate the effect of the rate of primary charge separation, metal-site occupancy, and H-subunit content on the observed P865+QA- char...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Utschig LM,Greenfield SR,Tang J,Laible PD,Thurnauer MC

更新日期：1997-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Human immunodeficiency viruses type 1 and 2 (HIV-1 and HIV-2, respectively) exhibit extensive genetic variations. It was postulated that much of this genetic variability stems from the low fidelity of the reverse transcription step. Both HIV reverse transcriptases (RTs) were shown to be particularly error-prone during...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Bakhanashvili M,Hizi A

更新日期：1992-10-06 00:00:00