Nuclear Overhauser effect as a tool for the complete assignment of nonexchangeable proton resonances in short deoxyribonucleic acid helices.

abstract：:Identification of the kinetic intermediates in GTP hydrolysis on microtubules and characterization of their assembly properties is essential in understanding microtubule dynamics. By using an improved glass filter assay that selectively traps microtubules with a dead time of 2 s and monitoring taxol-induced rapid asse...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Melki R,Carlier MF,Pantaloni D

更新日期：1990-09-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The phosphoryl-binding elements in the GDP-binding domain of elongation factor Tu were studied by heteronuclear proton observe methods. Five proton resonances were found below 10.5 ppm. Two of these were assigned to the amide groups of Lys 24 and Gly 83. These are conserved residues in each of the consensus sequences....

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Lowry DF,Cool RH,Redfield AG,Parmeggiani A

更新日期：1991-11-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Manganese peroxidase (MnP) is an extracellular heme enzyme that catalyzes the peroxide-dependent oxidation of Mn(II) to Mn(III). The Mn(III) is released from the enzyme in complex with oxalate. One heme propionate and the side chains of Glu35, Glu39, and Asp179 were identified as Mn(II) ligands in the 2.0 A resolution...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Sundaramoorthy M,Youngs HL,Gold MH,Poulos TL

更新日期：2005-05-03 00:00:00

abstract：:We obtained a novel carbohydrate-binding peptide having a helix-loop-helix scaffold from a random peptide library. The helix-loop-helix peptide library randomized at five amino acid residues was displayed on the major coat protein of a filamentous phage. Affinity selection with a ganglioside, Galbeta1-3GalNAcbeta1-4(N...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Matsubara T,Iida M,Tsumuraya T,Fujii I,Sato T

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The complete coordination scheme for Mn(II) in transition-state-analogue complexes with creatine kinase has been determined by electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) spectroscopy. Perturbations in the EPR spectra for Mn(II) due to superhyperfine coupling to 17O of selectively labeled ligands have been used to identify ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Reed GH,Leyh TS

更新日期：1980-11-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Endonuclease V of bacteriophage T4 binds to UV-irradiated deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) but not to unirradiated DNA. We have developed an assay to detect this binding, based on the retention of enzyme--DNA complexes on nitrocellulose filters. The amount of complex retained, ascertained by using radioactive DNA, is a mea...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Seawell PC,Simon TJ,Ganesan AK

更新日期：1980-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:alpha-1,3-Fucosyltransferase V (FucT V) catalyzes the transfer of 1-fucose from the donor sugar guanosine 5'-diphospho-beta-1-fucose (GDP-Fuc) to an acceptor sugar. A secondary isotope effect on the fucosyltransfer reaction with guanosine 5'-diphospho-[1-2H]-beta-1-fucose (GDP-[1-2H]-Fuc) as the substrate was observed...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Murray BW,Wittmann V,Burkart MD,Hung SC,Wong CH

更新日期：1997-01-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Retinal rod and cone cGMP phosphodiesterases (PDE6 family) function as the effector enzyme in the vertebrate visual transduction cascade. The activity of PDE6 catalytic subunits is controlled by the Pgamma-subunits. In addition to the inhibition of cGMP hydrolysis at the catalytic sites, Pgamma is known to stimulate a...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Muradov KG,Granovsky AE,Schey KL,Artemyev NO

更新日期：2002-03-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Phosphatidylcholine phospholipase C (EC 3.1.4.3) from Bacillus cereus has been assayed with substrates in the form of large unilamellar vesicles. Phosphatidylcholine, phosphatidylethanolamine (also a substrate for the enzyme), sphingomyelin, and cholesterol have been mixed in various proportions, in binary, ternary, a...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Ruiz-Argüello MB,Goñi FM,Alonso A

更新日期：1998-08-18 00:00:00

abstract：:PDZ domains are modular protein-protein interaction domains that bind to specific C-terminal sequences of membrane proteins and/or to other PDZ domains. Certain PDZ domains in PSD-95 and syntrophins interact with C-terminal peptide ligands and heterodimerize with the extended nNOS PDZ domain. The capacity to interact ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Gee SH,Quenneville S,Lombardo CR,Chabot J

更新日期：2000-11-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Database searches indicated that the genome of Bacillus subtilis contains three different genes encoding RNase H homologues. The ypdQ gene encodes an RNase HI homologue with 132 amino acid residues, whereas the rnh and ysgB genes encode RNase HII homologues with 255 and 313 amino acid residues, respectively. RNases HI...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Ohtani N,Haruki M,Morikawa M,Crouch RJ,Itaya M,Kanaya S

更新日期：1999-01-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatic mixed-function oxidase metabolism of the ubiquitous pollutant polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) is implicated in their toxification and detoxification. We used dichlorobiphenyls (DCBs) as models to investigate the effect of the chloro substituent sites on this metabolism experimentally and by molecular orbital ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Kaminsky LS,Kennedy MW,Adams SM,Guengerich FP

更新日期：1981-12-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Light-induced GTP-dependent scattering changes are studied in suspensions of retinal disc membranes to which one or both of the purified proteins involved in the phototransduction mechanism (G-protein and cGMP phosphodiesterase) are reassociated; a scattering change which depends on the presence of both G-protein (G) ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Bennett N,Clerc A

更新日期：1992-02-18 00:00:00

abstract：:We have used enzymic and chemical probes to search for altered DNA conformations in the 5' flanking region of the gene for a high mobility group protein (HMG-T) from trout. This search was conducted in order to identify potential genetic elements that might be involved in the transcriptional control of the HMG-T gene....

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Wright JM,Dixon GH

更新日期：1988-01-26 00:00:00

abstract：:By using targeted disulfide cross-linking, we have characterized structural changes that the Escherichia coli aspartate receptor undergoes upon modification of the four specific residues that are reversibly methylated during sensory adaptation. Cysteine residues were introduced at specific positions either in the cyto...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Le Moual H,Quang T,Koshland DE Jr

更新日期：1998-10-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The distribution of one-disulfide bonds in the two-disulfide intermediates in the oxidative refolding of bovine pancreatic ribonuclease A has been characterized. These two-disulfide intermediates were formed from the fully reduced denatured protein by oxidation with dithiothreitol, then blocked with AEMTS, purified by...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Volles MJ,Xu X,Scheraga HA

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A fluorescence quenching method was developed for determining partition coefficients and diffusional rates of small molecules in cell membranes. This method involves quenching the fluorescence of carbazole-labeled membranes by hydrophobic molecules that partition into membranes. Cell membrane phospholipids of mouse LM...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Omann GM,Glaser M

更新日期：1984-10-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Conformational changes in the prion protein cause transmissible spongiform encephalopathies, also referred to as prion diseases. In its native state, the prion protein is innocuous (PrPC), but it can misfold into a neurotoxic and infectious isoform (PrPSc). The full-length cellular form of the prion protein consists o...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： DeMarco ML,Daggett V

更新日期：2007-03-20 00:00:00

abstract：:In Neurospora crassa, the expression of the nit-3 gene (nitrate reductase) is dependent upon nitrogen derepression and nitrate induction and is regulated by two positive-acting transcription factors, NIT2 and NIT4, and a negative regulator, NMR. The presence of a tightly linked cluster of NIT2 and NIT4 binding sites s...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Tao Y,Marzluf GA

更新日期：1998-08-04 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：:p-Hydroxyphenylpyruvate dioxygenase (HPD) plays a key role in the normal catabolism of tyrosine. An Fe2+/oxygen-dependent enzyme, it converts p-hydroxyphenylpyruvate into homogentisate and is part of the superfamily of alpha-ketoglutarate-dependent enzymes that couples oxidative decarboxylation of an alpha-ketoacid co...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Gunsior M,Ravel J,Challis GL,Townsend CA

更新日期：2004-01-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The influenza virus RNA-dependent RNA polymerase protein complex contains an associated RNA endonuclease activity, which cleaves host mRNA precursors in the cell nucleus at defined positions 9-15 nucleotides downstream of the cap structure. This reaction provides capped oligoribonucleotides, which function as primers ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Doan L,Handa B,Roberts NA,Klumpp K

更新日期：1999-04-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The interplay between the early collapse of the unfolded state and the formation of the secondary structure has been the subject of extensive research in protein chemistry. In this study, we used the intestinal fatty acid binding protein (IFABP), a small model protein with predominately β-sheet structure, to study the...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Sarkar S,Chattopadhyay K

更新日期：2014-03-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Dihydroorotate dehydrogenases (DHODs) oxidize dihydroorotate (DHO) to orotate using the FMN prosthetic group to abstract a hydride equivalent from C6 and a protein residue (Ser for Class 2 DHODs) to deprotonate C5. The fundamental question of whether the scission of the two DHO C-H bonds is concerted or stepwise was a...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Fagan RL,Nelson MN,Pagano PM,Palfey BA

更新日期：2006-12-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Effects of paramagnetic shift reagents on the 13C NMR spectra obtained from single-walled vesicle dispersions of egg phosphatidylcholine enriched with 13C in the N-methyl carbons are investigated. Spectra obtained at 25.1 MHz show that, at Yb3+ to phospholipid molar ratios as low as 0.06, complete resolution of the N-...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Sears B,Hutton WC,Thompson TE

更新日期：1976-04-20 00:00:00

abstract：:A considerable body of data supports the model that the infectious agent (called a prion) which causes the transmissible spongiform encephalopathies is a replicating polypeptide devoid of nucleic acid. Prions are believed to propagate by changing the conformation of the normal cellular prion protein (PrPc) into an inf...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Cappai R,Stewart L,Jobling MF,Thyer JM,White AR,Beyreuther K,Collins SJ,Masters CL,Barrow CJ

更新日期：1999-03-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Serine hydroxymethyltransferase and C1-tetrahydrofolate synthase catalyze four reactions which convert formate and glycine to serine. The one-carbon carrier in these reactions if tetrahydropteroylglutamate which is regenerated in the coupled reaction and thus can be used in catalytic concentrations with respect to ser...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Strong WB,Schirch V

更新日期：1989-11-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Illuminating Ca2+-depleted photosystem (PS) II membranes generated two new EPR signals at g = 11 and 15 by perpendicular and parallel polarization modes, respectively. Two turnovers of the oxygen evolving center (OEC) beyond the modified S2' state are required for the appearance of these signals. The formation of the ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Mino H,Kawamori A,Matsukawa T,Ono T

更新日期：1998-03-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Microdomains known as "rafts" have been isolated from many cell types as detergent-resistant membranes (DRMs) and are enriched in sphingolipids and cholesterol. However, there has been considerable controversy over whether such domains are found in native membranes or are artificially generated by the purification pro...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Luria A,Vegelyte-Avery V,Stith B,Tsvetkova NM,Wolkers WF,Crowe JH,Tablin F,Nuccitelli R

更新日期：2002-11-05 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