Partial purification and characterization of a neutral protease which cleaves type IV collagen.

abstract：:Phosphorus NMR spectroscopy is an important technique for the investigation of metabolism in tissues and intact organisms (including man). However, quantitation of the signals from an NMR experiment is difficult because it is not known from which regions of a cell metabolites are detected. It is generally believed tha...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Jeffrey FM,Storey CJ,Nunnally RL,Malloy CR

更新日期：1989-06-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The guanyl nucleotide binding regulatory protein of retinal rod outer segments, called Gt, that couples the photon receptor rhodopsin with the light-activated cGMP phosphodiesterase, can be resolved into two functional components, alpha t and beta gamma t. The effect of monoclonal antibody binding to the alpha t subun...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Mazzoni MR,Hamm HE

更新日期：1989-12-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (nAChRs) were studied in detail in the past regarding their interaction with therapeutic and drug addiction related compounds. Using fast kinetic whole-cell recording, we have now studied effects of tacrine, an agent used clinically to treat Alzheimer's disease, on currents elicited b...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Cheffer A,Ulrich H

更新日期：2011-03-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Interaction of affinity chromatographically purified antihistone H3 and antihistone H4 with isolated HeLa core particles, followed by separation of unreacted and reacted particles by sedimentation, demonstrates that every core particle contains these histones. Taken together with our previous data indicating the prese...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Bustin M,Simpson RT,Sperling R,Goldblatt D

更新日期：1977-11-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Tyrosine hydroxylase (TH) catalyzes the first step in the biosynthesis of catecholamines. Regulation of TH enzyme activity is controlled through the posttranslational modification of its regulatory domain. The regulatory domain of TH can be phosphorylated at four serines (8, 19, 31, and 40) by a variety of protein kin...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Obsilova V,Nedbalkova E,Silhan J,Boura E,Herman P,Vecer J,Sulc M,Teisinger J,Dyda F,Obsil T

更新日期：2008-02-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Magic angle sample spinning (MASS) 13C NMR spectra have been obtained of bovine rhodopsin regenerated with retinal prosthetic groups isotopically enriched with 13C at C-5 and C-14. In order to observe the 13C retinal chromophore resonances, it was necessary to employ low temperatures (-15-----35 degrees C) to restrict...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Smith SO,Palings I,Copié V,Raleigh DP,Courtin J,Pardoen JA,Lugtenburg J,Mathies RA,Griffin RG

更新日期：1987-03-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The kinetic parameters (Km and Vmax) of sugar-modified analogues of inosine and guanosine have been determined with human erythrocytic purine nucleoside phosphorylase (PNP). Steric alterations at the 2' and 3' positions greatly lessened or abolished substrate activity. However, the 5'-deoxy- and 2',5'-dideoxy-beta-D-r...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Stoeckler JD,Cambor C,Parks RE Jr

更新日期：1980-01-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Although enzymes of thermophilic organisms are often very resistant to thermal denaturation, they are usually less active than their mesophilic or psychrophilic homologues at moderate or low temperatures. To explore the structural features that would improve the activity of a thermophilic enzyme at less than optimal t...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Hayashi S,Akanuma S,Onuki W,Tokunaga C,Yamagishi A

更新日期：2011-10-11 00:00:00

abstract：:A major challenge to the study of protein folding is the fact that intermediate states along the reaction pathway are generally unstable and thus difficult to observe. Recently developed NMR relaxation dispersion experiments present an avenue to accessing such states, providing kinetic, thermodynamic, and structural i...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Mittermaier A,Korzhnev DM,Kay LE

更新日期：2005-11-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies of proteins with reversed charged residues have demonstrated that electrostatic interactions on the surface can contribute significantly to protein stability. We have used the approach of reversing negatively charged residues using Arg to evaluate the effect of the electrostatics context on the transiti...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Mancusso R,Cruz E,Cataldi M,Mendoza C,Fuchs J,Wang H,Yang X,Tasayco ML

更新日期：2004-04-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Studying the evolution of catalytically promiscuous enzymes like those from the N-succinylamino acid racemase/ o-succinylbenzoate synthase (NSAR/OSBS) subfamily can reveal mechanisms by which new functions evolve. Some enzymes in this subfamily have only OSBS activity, while others catalyze OSBS and NSAR reactions. We...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Odokonyero D,McMillan AW,Ramagopal UA,Toro R,Truong DP,Zhu M,Lopez MS,Somiari B,Herman M,Aziz A,Bonanno JB,Hull KG,Burley SK,Romo D,Almo SC,Glasner ME

更新日期：2018-07-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Specific interactions of human melanocortin-4 receptor (hMC4R) with its nonpeptide and peptide agonists were studied using alanine-scanning mutagenesis. The binding affinities and potencies of two synthetic, small-molecule agonists (THIQ, MB243) were strongly affected by substitutions in transmembrane alpha-helices (T...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Pogozheva ID,Chai BX,Lomize AL,Fong TM,Weinberg DH,Nargund RP,Mulholland MW,Gantz I,Mosberg HI

更新日期：2005-08-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The binding of epidermal growth factor (EGF) to epidermal growth factor receptor (EGF receptor) induces dimerization of the receptor and activation of its protein tyrosine kinase. Each of these three steps was followed as a function of the concentrations of EGF and of EGF receptor. Binding of EGF was followed by sedim...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Sherrill JM,Kyte J

更新日期：1996-05-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Hydrophobic interaction of 8-anilino-1-naphthalene sulfonic acid (ANS) with proteins is one of the widely used methods for characterizing/detecting partially folded states of proteins. We have carried out a systematic investigation on the effect of ANS, a charged hydrophobic fluorescent dye, on structural properties o...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Ali V,Prakash K,Kulkarni S,Ahmad A,Madhusudan KP,Bhakuni V

更新日期：1999-10-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The manganese transport regulator (MntR) of Bacillus subtilis is activated by Mn(2+) to repress transcription of genes encoding transporters involved in the uptake of manganese. MntR is also strongly activated by cadmium, both in vivo and in vitro, but it is poorly activated by other metal cations, including calcium a...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Kliegman JI,Griner SL,Helmann JD,Brennan RG,Glasfeld A

更新日期：2006-03-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Phytochromes are widespread red/far-red photosensory proteins well known as critical regulators of photomorphogenesis in plants. It is often assumed that natural selection would have optimized the light sensing efficiency of phytochromes to minimize nonproductive photochemical deexcitation pathways. Surprisingly, the ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Kim PW,Rockwell NC,Martin SS,Lagarias JC,Larsen DS

更新日期：2014-05-06 00:00:00

abstract：:3-Oxo-delta 5-steroid isomerase (KSI, EC 5.3.3.1) from Pseudomonas testosteroni catalyzes the isomerization of a variety of 3-oxo-delta 5-steroids to their conjugated Delta4-isomers through the formation of an intermediate dienolate ion. It has previously been found in our laboratory that the aromatic ring of Phe-101 ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Qi L,Pollack RM

更新日期：1998-05-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The reactions of fully reduced and mixed-valence bovine heart cytochrome c oxidase with dioxygen have been reinvestigated in the absence and presence of metal ions (Zn(2+), Ni(2+), and Cd(2+)) by time-resolved optical absorption spectroscopy using the CO flow-flash technique. The time-resolved data were recorded on a ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Szundi I,Cappuccio J,Einarsdóttir O

更新日期：2004-12-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The carboxypeptidase inhibitor from Russet Burbank potatoes (C. A. Ryan et al. (1974b), J. Biol. Chem 249, 5495) is a mixture of approximately equal amounts of two polypeptide chains containing 38 and 39 amino acid residues, respectively. The chains differ in their amino terminal sequence only, one beginning with smal...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Hass GM,Nau H,Biemann K,Grahn DT,Ericsson LH,Neurath H

更新日期：1975-03-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Native ribonucleotide reductase from Escherichia coli exhibits a resonance-enhanced Raman mode at 1498 cm-1 that is characteristic of a tyrosyl radical. The Raman frequency as well as the absorption maximum at 410 nm identifies the radical as being in a deprotonated state. The B2 subunit of ribonucleotide reductase sh...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Backes G,Sahlin M,Sjöberg BM,Loehr TM,Sanders-Loehr J

更新日期：1989-02-21 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：:Guinea pig liver transglutaminase (TGase) reacts with 0.1 mM N-Cbz-L-Glu(gamma-p-nitrophenyl ester)Gly (5, prepared herein, K(M) = 0.02 mM) to undergo rapid acylation that can be followed spectrophotometrically at 400 nm (pH 7.0, 25 degrees C). Deacylation of the transiently formed thiolester acyl enzyme intermediate ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Leblanc A,Gravel C,Labelle J,Keillor JW

更新日期：2001-07-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The relationship between GTP hydrolysis and microtubule assembly has been investigated by using a rapid filtration method. Microtubules assembled from phosphocellulose-purified tubulin, double-labeled with [gamma-32P]- and [3H]GTP, were trapped and washed free of unbound nucleotide on glass fiber filters. The transien...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Stewart RJ,Farrell KW,Wilson L

更新日期：1990-07-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The Xenopus borealis somatic 5S ribosomal RNA gene was used as a model system to determine the mutual effects of nucleosome folding and formation of ultraviolet (UV) photoproducts (primarily cis-syn cyclobutane pyrimidine dimers, or CPDs) in chromatin. We analyzed the preferred rotational and translational settings of...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Liu X,Mann DB,Suquet C,Springer DL,Smerdon MJ

更新日期：2000-01-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The interaction of solvent of the substrate binding domain of the bacterial heat shock 70 chaperone protein DnaK was studied in its apo form and with bound hydrophobic substrate peptide, using refined nuclear magnetic resonance experiments. Distinct differences between the two states of the protein were observed. Acco...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Cai S,Stevens SY,Budor AP,Zuiderweg ER

更新日期：2003-09-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanism by which some hydrophobic molecules such as steroids and free fatty acids (FFA) act as noncompetitive inhibitors of the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor (AChR) is still not known. In the present work, we employ Förster resonance energy transfer (FRET) between the intrinsic fluorescence of membrane-bound ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Nievas GA,Barrantes FJ,Antollini SS

更新日期：2007-03-20 00:00:00

abstract：:A large set of glycome information was obtained from egg white proteins of 88 samples from Galloanserae (63 Anseriformes and 25 Galliformes). The data were obtained on whole N-glycan structures and types of sialic acids of these egg whites by glycoblotting-based high-throughput and quantitative glycomics. The results ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Hirose K,Amano M,Hashimoto R,Lee YC,Nishimura S

更新日期：2011-05-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Peptidylglycine monooxygenase (PHM) catalyzes the final step in the biosynthesis of amidated peptides that serve as important signaling molecules in numerous endocrine pathways. The catalytic mechanism has attracted much attention because of a number of unique attributes, including the presence of a pair of uncoupled ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Chauhan S,Kline CD,Mayfield M,Blackburn NJ

更新日期：2014-02-18 00:00:00

abstract：:4-Chlorobenzoyl-coenzyme A (4-CBA-CoA) dehalogenase catalyzes the hydrolysis of 4-CBA-CoA to 4-hydroxybenzoyl-coenzyme A (4-HBA-CoA) via a nucleophilic aromatic substitution pathway involving the participation of an active site carboxylate side chain in covalent catalysis. In this paper we report on the identification...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Yang G,Liu RQ,Taylor KL,Xiang H,Price J,Dunaway-Mariano D

更新日期：1996-08-20 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