Calmodulin-dependent protein phosphatase: a developmental study.

abstract：:The interaction between the calcium binding and inhibitory components of troponin is central to the regulation of muscle contraction. In this work, two-dimensional heteronuclear single-quantum coherence nuclear magnetic resonance (2D-¿1H,15N¿-HSQC NMR) spectroscopy was used to determine the stoichiometry, affinity, an...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Mercier P,Li MX,Sykes BD

更新日期：2000-03-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Esterification of retinol (vitamin A alcohol) with long-chain fatty acids by lecithin-retinol acyltransferase (LRAT) is an important step in both the absorption and storage of vitamin A. Retinol in cells is bound by either cellular retinol binding protein (CRBP), present in most tissues including liver, or cellular re...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Herr FM,Ong DE

更新日期：1992-07-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Neuropeptide Y (NPY) and the pancreatic polypeptide (PP) are members of the neuropeptide Y family of hormones. They bind to the Y receptors with very different affinities: Whereas PP is highly selective for the Y(4) receptor, NPY displays highest affinites for Y(1), Y(2), and Y(5) receptor subtypes. Introducing the NP...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Lerch M,Kamimori H,Folkers G,Aguilar MI,Beck-Sickinger AG,Zerbe O

更新日期：2005-06-28 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously shown functional differences in fibrinogen from hyperhomocysteinemic rabbits compared to that in control rabbits. This acquired dysfibrinogenemia is characterized by fibrin clots that are composed of abnormally thin, tightly packed fibers with increased resistance to fibrinolysis. Homocysteine thiol...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Sauls DL,Lockhart E,Warren ME,Lenkowski A,Wilhelm SE,Hoffman M

更新日期：2006-02-28 00:00:00

abstract：:In invertebrate photoreceptors, illuminated rhodopsin activates multiple G proteins, which are assumed to initiate multiple phototransduction cascades. In this paper, we focused on one of the phototransduction cascades, which utilizes rhodopsin, a Gq-like G protein, and phospholipase C (PLC). A Gq-like G protein from ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Kikkawa S,Tominaga K,Nakagawa M,Iwasa T,Tsuda M

更新日期：1996-12-10 00:00:00

abstract：:NADH:ubiquinone oxidoreductase (complex I) from bovine heart mitochondria is a highly complicated, energy transducing, membrane-bound enzyme. It contains 46 different subunits and nine redox cofactors: a noncovalently bound flavin mononucleotide and eight iron-sulfur clusters. The mechanism of complex I is not known. ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Sharpley MS,Shannon RJ,Draghi F,Hirst J

更新日期：2006-01-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The gamma subunit of the retinal cGMP phosphodiesterase (gammaPDE) acts as an inhibitor of phosphodiesterase (PDE) catalytic activity and mediates enzyme regulation by the alpha subunit of the GTP-binding protein transducin (alphaT). In this work, we describe a full length, doubly point-mutated gamma subunit, C68S, Y8...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Berger AL,Cerione RA,Erickson JW

更新日期：1999-01-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein disulfide-isomerase, a protein localized to the lumen of the endoplasmic reticulum of eukaryotic cells, catalyzes the posttranslational formation and rearrangement of protein disulfide bonds. As isolated from bovine liver, the enzyme contains 0.8 free sulfhydryl group per mole of protein monomer and 3.1 disulf...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Gilbert HF

更新日期：1989-09-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The amino acid sequence of the peptide alpha1(I)-CB6B, the carboxyl-terminal peptide containing 91 residues of alpha1(I) chain of chick skin collagen, is described. The amino acid sequence was determined by automated Edman degradation of intact peptide plus its tryptic and thermolytic peptides. The comparison of this ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Dixit SN,Seyer JM,Kang AH,Gross J

更新日期：1978-12-26 00:00:00

abstract：:VanX, one of the five proteins required for the vancomycin-resistant phenotype in clinically pathogenic Enterococci, is a zinc-containing d-Ala-d-Ala dipeptidase. To identify potential zinc ligands and begin defining the active site residues, we have mutated the 2 cysteine, 5 histidine, and 4 of the 28 aspartate and g...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： McCafferty DG,Lessard IA,Walsh CT

更新日期：1997-08-26 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the use of anti-nucleoside antibodies to probe for local denaturation of calf thymus DNA upon binding of the antitumor drug cis-diamminedichloroplatinum(II), cis-DDP, and the biologically inactive analogues trans-diamminedichloroplatinum(II), trans-DDP, and chloro(diethylenetriamine)platinum(II) chloride, [P...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Sundquist WI,Lippard SJ,Stollar BD

更新日期：1986-04-08 00:00:00

abstract：:We have developed a simple method for reconstituting pure, integral membrane proteins into phospholipid-protein vesicles. The method does not depend on use of detergents or sonication. It has been used successfully with three different types of integral membrane proteins: UDPglucuronosyltransferase (EC 2.4.1.17) from ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Scotto AW,Zakim D

更新日期：1985-07-16 00:00:00

abstract：:As a light-driven water-plastoquinone oxidoreductase, Photosystem II produces molecular oxygen as an enzymatic product. Additionally, under a variety of stress conditions, reactive oxygen species are produced at or near the active site for oxygen evolution. In this study, Fourier-transform ion cyclotron resonance mass...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Frankel LK,Sallans L,Limbach PA,Bricker TM

更新日期：2012-08-14 00:00:00

abstract：:An alamethicin, secreted by the fungus Trichoderma viride and containing a glutamine at position 18 instead of the usual glutamic acid, has been uniformly labeled with 15N and purified by HPLC. The extent of 15N incorporation at individual backbone and side-chain sites was found to vary from 85% to 92%, as measured by...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Yee AA,O'Neil JD

更新日期：1992-03-31 00:00:00

abstract：:A cyclic nucleotide phosphodiesterase was extensively purified from the 100000g supernatant fraction of human platelets. The purification was 2500-3000-fold with 30% recovery of activity. The enzyme was isolated by DEAE-cellulose chromatography followed by adsorption to blue dextran-Sepharose and elution with cAMP. Th...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Grant PG,Colman RW

更新日期：1984-04-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The catalytically competent active-site structure of a true acylenzyme reaction intermediate of TEM-1 beta-lactamase formed with the kinetically specific spin-labeled substrate 6-N-(2,2,5,5-tetramethyl-1-oxypyrrolinyl-3-carboxyl)-penicillanic acid isolated under cryoenzymologic conditions has been determined by angle-...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Mustafi D,Sosa-Peinado A,Makinen MW

更新日期：2001-02-27 00:00:00

abstract：:We have described earlier a chromatin-bound protease with unique specificity for histone H2A [Eickbush, T. H., Watson, D. K., & Moudrianakis, E. N. (1976) Cell (Cambridge, Mass.) 9, 785--792]. In the present study, we explore the nature of interactions that form and stabilize the enzyme-chromatin system by using the a...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Watson DK,Moudrianakis EN

更新日期：1982-01-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutagenesis and cross-linking measurements have identified specific contact interactions between the cytosolic and the transmembrane sequences of phospholamban (PLB) and the Ca-ATPase, and in conjunction with the high-resolution structures of PLB and the Ca-ATPase, have been used to construct models of the PLB-ATPase ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Li J,Xiong Y,Bigelow DJ,Squier TC

更新日期：2004-01-20 00:00:00

abstract：:1,4-Dihydroxy-2-naphthoyl-coenzyme A (DHNA-CoA) synthase, or MenB, catalyzes an intramolecular Claisen condensation involving two oxyanion intermediates in the biosynthetic pathway of menaquinone, an essential respiration electron transporter in many microorganisms. Here we report the finding that the DHNA-CoA product...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Chen M,Jiang M,Sun Y,Guo ZF,Guo Z

更新日期：2011-07-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty-five different temperature-sensitive point mutations at 20 sites in the lysozyme gene of bacteriophage T4 have been identified. All of the mutations alter amino acid side chains that have lower than average crystallographic thermal factors and reduced solvent accessibility in the folded protein. This suggests t...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Alber T,Sun DP,Nye JA,Muchmore DC,Matthews BW

更新日期：1987-06-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The three-dimensional structure of amyloid beta peptide (25-35), which has neurotoxic activity, in lithium dodecyl sulfate micelles was determined by two-dimensional 1H NMR spectroscopy with simulated annealing calculations. A total of 20 converged amyloid beta peptide structures were obtained on the basis of 110 expe...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Kohno T,Kobayashi K,Maeda T,Sato K,Takashima A

更新日期：1996-12-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The beta(2) subunit of a class Ia or Ib ribonucleotide reductase (RNR) is activated when its carboxylate-bridged Fe(2)(II/II) cluster reacts with O(2) to oxidize a nearby tyrosine (Y) residue to a stable radical (Y(*)). During turnover, the Y(*) in beta(2) is thought to reversibly oxidize a cysteine (C) in the alpha(2...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Jiang W,Yun D,Saleh L,Bollinger JM Jr,Krebs C

更新日期：2008-12-30 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：:Asymmetrically modified hemoglobins, [alpha(des-Arg)beta]A[alpha beta]cXL, [alpha(des-Arg-Tyr)beta]A[alpha beta]cXL, [alpha(des-Arg)beta(NES)]A[alpha beta]cXL, and [alpha(des-Arg)beta]A[alpha beta(NES)]cXL, have been prepared from chemically modified human normal adult hemoglobin (Hb A) and mutant hemoglobin C (beta 6...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Miura S,Ho C

更新日期：1984-05-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The side chains of histidine and aspartate residues form a hydrogen bond in the active sites of many enzymes. In serine proteases, the His...Asp hydrogen bond of the catalytic triad is known to contribute greatly to catalysis, perhaps via the formation of a low-barrier hydrogen bond. In bovine pancreatic ribonuclease ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Schultz LW,Quirk DJ,Raines RT

更新日期：1998-06-23 00:00:00

abstract：:F(1)-ATPase mutations in Escherichia coli that changed the strength of hydrogen bonds between the alpha and beta subunits in a location that links the catalytic site to the interface between the beta catch loop and the gamma subunit were examined. Loss of the ability to form the hydrogen bonds involving alphaS337, bet...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Boltz KW,Frasch WD

更新日期：2006-09-19 00:00:00

abstract：:A panel of six naïve 14-residue random peptide libraries displayed polyvalently on M13 phage was pooled and sorted against human leukemia inhibitory factor (LIF). After four rounds of selection, a single large family of peptides with the consensus sequence XCXXXXG(A/S)(D/E)(W/F)WXCF was found to bind specifically to L...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Fairlie WD,Uboldi AD,Hemmings GJ,Smith BJ,Martin HM,Morgan PO,Baca M

更新日期：2003-11-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Fluorometric titrations of papain, succinyl-papain, and the corresponding methylthio derivatives of Cys-25 (papain-S-SCH3 and succinyl-papain-S-SCH3) were determined. Removal of the methylthio group from Cys-25 resulted in an increase of approximately 4 pK units in the fluorometrically determined pK value. The corresp...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Johnson FA,Lewis SD,Shafer JA

更新日期：1981-01-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Two hybridomas producing monoclonal antibodies to poly(adenosine diphosphate ribose) [poly(ADP-Rib)] were established. One antibody, 10H (IgG3, kappa), bound to most of the poly(ADP-Rib) preparation, which consisted of molecules of various sizes of more than 20 ADP-Rib residues. The binding of this antibody was inhibi...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Kawamitsu H,Hoshino H,Okada H,Miwa M,Momoi H,Sugimura T

更新日期：1984-07-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Polylysine promoted extensive membrane mixing of liposomes only if the buffer pH was below the pKa of the lysyl residues. This observation suggested that fusion could be regulated in a physiological pH range if the homopolymer of L-histidine was substituted as fusogen. Microgram quantities of polyhistidine were added ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Uster PS,Deamer DW

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00