Stereochemistry of the hydrolysis of adenosine 5'-thiophosphate catalyzed by venom 5'-nucleotidase.

abstract：:Plasma kallikrein (Fletcher factor) is a hepatic serine proteinase that participated in the early phase of blood coagulation. From two genomic libraries, we succeeded to isolate four overlapping clones representing the entire rat plasma kallikrein gene. Using selective DNA sequencing, polymerase chain reactions, and r...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Beaubien G,Rosinski-Chupin I,Mattei MG,Mbikay M,Chrétien M,Seidah NG

更新日期：1991-02-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The dependence of calcineurin on Ca2+ for activity is the result of the concerted action of calmodulin, which increases the turnover rate of the enzyme and modulates its response to Ca2+ transients, and of calcineurin B, which decreases the Km of the enzyme for its substrate. The calmodulin-stimulated protein phosphat...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Stemmer PM,Klee CB

更新日期：1994-06-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Surface plasmon resonance (SPR) spectroscopy has been used to follow incorporation and light-induced conformational changes in bovine rhodopsin reconstituted into an egg phosphatidylcholine bilayer deposited on a thin silver film. The magnitude of the SPR spectral changes caused by light varies with pH in a manner par...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Salamon Z,Wang Y,Brown MF,Macleod HA,Tollin G

更新日期：1994-11-22 00:00:00

abstract：:We have obtained the 470 MHz 19F NMR spectra of wild type [4-F]Trp-labeled myoglobins (MbCO, MbO2, deoxyMb, metMb, and MbCN) and hemoglobins (HbCO, HbO2, and deoxyHb), as well as those of several mutants (W7F Mb, betaW15F Hb, betaW37S Hb, and betaY130F Hb, all as the carbonmonoxy adducts), prepared via site-directed m...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Pearson JG,Montez B,Le H,Oldfield E,Chien EY,Sligar SG

更新日期：1997-03-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Inwardly rectifying potassium channels are important in cellular repolarization of many excitable tissues. Amino acid sequence alignment of different mammalian inward rectifier K(+) channels revealed two absolutely conserved cysteine residues in the putative extracellular face, suggesting a possible disulfide bond. Re...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Cho HC,Tsushima RG,Nguyen TT,Guy HR,Backx PH

更新日期：2000-04-25 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA-DNA interstrand cross-links are thought to be important for the cytotoxicity of many chemotherapeutic agents. To study this more definitively, adduct site-specific methods are used to construct a plasmid with a single nitrogen mustard interstrand cross-link (inter-HN2-pTZSV28). Replication efficiency (RE = [coloni...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Berardini M,Mackay W,Loechler EL

更新日期：1997-03-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Seven mutant LH1 polypeptides of Rhodobactor sphaeroides have been isolated, and their behaviors in in vitro reconstitution of LH1 and its subunit complex have been characterized. Two mutants were selected to address the increased stability of the subunit complex of Rb. sphaeroides compared with that of Rhodobacter ca...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Davis CM,Bustamante PL,Todd JB,Parkes-Loach PS,McGlynn P,Olsen JD,McMaster L,Hunter CN,Loach PA

更新日期：1997-03-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Ankyrin repeat (AR) proteins possess a distinctive modular and repetitive architecture, and their global folds are maintained by short-range interactions in terms of the primary sequence. In this work, we extended our previous study on the highly conserved TPLH tetrapeptide and investigated the impact of a solvent-exp...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Yuan C,Guo Y,Zhu L,Guo W,Mahajan A,Weghorst CM,Li J

更新日期：2013-07-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Electrostatic interactions play a key role in enzyme catalytic function. At long range, electrostatics steer the incoming ligand/substrate to the active site, and at short distances, electrostatics provide the specific local interactions for catalysis. In cases in which electrostatics determine enzyme function, orthol...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Livesay DR,Jambeck P,Rojnuckarin A,Subramaniam S

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Copper thiosemicarbazones cause considerable oxidative stress. This effect may be related to their cytotoxicity. In the present work, the chemical and cellular properties of a new ligand, pyridoxal thiosemicarbazone (H2T), and its copper(II) chelate (CuT) are assessed. CuT is toxic to cultured Ehrlich ascites tumor ce...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Byrnes RW,Mohan M,Antholine WE,Xu RX,Petering DH

更新日期：1990-07-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Endogenous protein kinase inhibitors are essential for a wide range of physiological functions. These endogenous inhibitors may mimic peptide substrates as in the case of the heat-stable protein kinase inhibitor (PKI), or they may mimic nucleotide triphosphates. Natural product inhibitors, endogenous to the unique org...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Narayana N,Diller TC,Koide K,Bunnage ME,Nicolaou KC,Brunton LL,Xuong NH,Ten Eyck LF,Taylor SS

更新日期：1999-02-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The solution conformation of the type I collagen alpha-1 chain N-telopeptide has been studied by CD and 1H NMR spectroscopy at 600 MHz in CD3OH/H2O (60/40 v/v) and H2O solutions. The 19 amino acids form the N-terminal end of the alpha-1 polypeptide chain. By the combined application of several two-dimensional, phase-s...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Otter A,Kotovych G,Scott PG

更新日期：1989-10-03 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the dependence of certain properties of bile salt/lecithin mixed micelles on the molar ratio of the two components. UV absorption suggested that the micellar system is fundamentally altered on passing through a bile salt:lecithin molar ratio of 1.8:1. Differential scanning calorimetry confirmed this tr...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Claffey WJ,Holzbach RT

更新日期：1981-01-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The interactions of HIV-1 Env (gp120-gp41) with CD4 and coreceptors trigger a barrage of conformational changes in Env that drive the membrane fusion process. Various regions of gp41 have profound effects on HIV entry and budding. However, the precise interactions between gp41 and the membrane have not been elucidated...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Viard M,Ablan SD,Zhou M,Veenstra TD,Freed EO,Raviv Y,Blumenthal R

更新日期：2008-02-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Catalase HPII from Escherichia coli is a homotetramer of 753 residue subunits. The multimer displays a number of unusual structural features, including interwoven subunits and a covalent bond between Tyr415 and His392, that would contribute to its rigidity and stability. As the temperature of a solution of HPII in 50 ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Switala J,O'Neil JO,Loewen PC

更新日期：1999-03-30 00:00:00

abstract：:A kinetic folding intermediate of hen lysozyme is shown to form in a nucleation/growth type of mechanism. Under native solvent conditions, a nucleated state is formed slowly during refolding (tau = 14 +/- 1 ms at 0 M GdmCl) and is rapidly converted to the folding intermediate (tau = 300 +/- 150 micros at 0 M GdmCl). U...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Kiefhaber T,Bachmann A,Wildegger G,Wagner C

更新日期：1997-04-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytochromes c require covalent attachment of heme via two thioether bonds at conserved CXXCH motifs, a process accomplished in prokaryotes by eight integral membrane proteins (CcmABCDEFGH), termed System I. Heme is trafficked from inside the cell to outside (via CcmABCD) and chaperoned (holoCcmE) to the cytochrome c s...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Sutherland MC,Rankin JA,Kranz RG

更新日期：2016-06-07 00:00:00

abstract：:A modified multiple binding equilibria treatment is presented that allows determination of thermodynamic parameters of the interaction of phospholipids with integral membrane proteins solubilized in excess detergent. Lipid binding is modeled as a series of exchange reactions between lipid molecules and detergent molec...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Volwerk JJ,Mrsny RJ,Patapoff TW,Jost PC,Griffith OH

更新日期：1987-01-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Most nuclear receptors recognize the same consensus hexameric sequence, AGGTCA. An important question has been how the various members of this transcription factor family distinguish identity features in these closely related DNA sites. We determined structures from several crystal forms of the RevErb-DNA complex and ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Sierk ML,Zhao Q,Rastinejad F

更新日期：2001-10-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Polyphosphate glucokinase from Mycobacterium tuberculosis catalyzes the phosphorylation of glucose using inorganic polyphosphates [poly(P)] or ATP. The steady-state kinetic mechanisms of the poly(P)- and ATP-dependent glucokinase reactions were investigated using initial velocity, product inhibition, and dead-end inhi...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Hsieh PC,Kowalczyk TH,Phillips NF

更新日期：1996-07-30 00:00:00

abstract：:At pH 5.5, binding of bleomycin relaxed supercoiled ColE1 DNA without breaking it. Binding of tripeptide S, a fragment of the drug containing the bithiazole rings, also relaxed and then recoiled supercoiled DNA, at pH 5.5 and at pH 8.0, where bleomycin is normally active. The unwinding angle was 12 degrees. Both compo...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Povirk LF,Hogan M,Dattagupta N

更新日期：1979-01-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The requirement for Ca2+ in the Mn(2+)-dependent photoactivation of oxygen evolution was re-evaluated using 17 kDa/24 kDa-less photosystem II (PSII) membranes depleted of (Mn)4-clusters by NH2OH extraction. At optimum conditions (1 mM Mn2+/10 microM 2,6-dichlorphenolindophenol (DCIP)/20 mM Ca2+), the light-induced inc...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Chen C,Kazimir J,Cheniae GM

更新日期：1995-10-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous optical and electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) spectroscopic studies of the newly discovered peroxynitrite scavenging pseudoperoxidase from Leishmania major (LmPP) suggested that ferric LmPP contained a six-coordinate low-spin (6cLS) heme with a thiolate ligand, presumably a cysteine, bound to its heme iro...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Saha R,Bose M,Sen Santara S,Roy J,Adak S

更新日期：2013-12-10 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to define structural regions in thrombin that interact with hirudin, the N alpha-dinitrofluorobenzyl analogue of an undecapeptide was synthesized corresponding to residues 54-64 of hirudin [GDFEEIPEEY(O35SO3)L (DNFB-[35S]Hir54-64)]. DNFB-[35S]Hir54-64 was reacted at a 10-fold molar excess with human alpha-thr...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Bourdon P,Fenton JW 2nd,Maraganore JM

更新日期：1990-07-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Significant concentrations (1-10 mM) of nickel(II) were found in solution after incubation of the potent carcinogen nickel subsulfide in 0.05 M Tris-HCl, pH 7.4, solutions containing DNA, rat liver microsomes, and NADPH. The presence of NADPH decreased the rate of solubilization of nickel subsulfide. The solubilized n...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Lee JE,Ciccarelli RB,Jennette KW

更新日期：1982-02-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Arginine-70 of human dihydrofolate reductase (hDHFR) is a highly conserved residue which X-ray crystallographic data have shown to interact with the alpha-carboxylate of the terminal L-glutamate moiety of either folic acid or methotrexate (MTX). The rationale for this study was to introduce a conservative amino acid r...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Thompson PD,Freisheim JH

更新日期：1991-08-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The turnover of the collagen triple-helical structure (collagenolysis) is a tightly regulated process in normal physiology and has been ascribed to a small number of proteases. Several members of the matrix metalloproteinase (MMPs) family possess collagenolytic activity, and the mechanisms by which these enzymes proce...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Minond D,Lauer-Fields JL,Cudic M,Overall CM,Pei D,Brew K,Moss ML,Fields GB

更新日期：2007-03-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The thermodynamics of L-tryptophan and operator DNA binding to the tryptophan repressor of Escherichia coli were analyzed by titration microcalorimetry and van't Hoff analysis of footprinting titrations, respectively. At 25 degrees C in 10 mM sodium phosphate, pH 7.6, and 0.1 M NaCl, the binding of L-tryptophan to the...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Jin L,Yang J,Carey J

更新日期：1993-07-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Pyridoxal-reconstituted phosphorylase was used as a model system to study the possible functions of the 5'-phosphoryl group of pyridoxal 5'-phosphate (PLP) in rabbit muscle glycogen phosphorylase. Kinetic study was conducted by using competitive inhibitors of phosphite, an activator, and alpha-D-glucopyranose 1-phosph...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Chang YC,McCalmont T,Graves DJ

更新日期：1983-10-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Myeloperoxidase plays a fundamental role in oxidant production by neutrophils. The enzyme uses hydrogen peroxide to oxidize chloride (Cl-), bromide (Br-), iodide (I-), and the pseudohalide thiocyanate (SCN-) to their respective hypohalous acids. This study for the first time presents transient kinetic measurements of ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Furtmüller PG,Burner U,Obinger C

更新日期：1998-12-22 00:00:00