Enzyme-catalyzed condensation reactions which initiate rapid peptic cleavage of substrates. 1. How the structure of an activating peptide determines its efficiency.

abstract：:DNA cleavage by topoisomerase II in the absence or presence of mAMSA, and VM-26 was investigated in a series of oligonucleotides of 36 and 42 base pairs, which were derived from the DNA sequence of the major topoisomerase II cleavage site in the matrix-associated region of SV40 DNA. Topoisomerase II introduced strand ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Capranico G,Tinelli S,Zunino F,Kohn KW,Pommier Y

更新日期：1993-01-12 00:00:00

abstract：:4-Oxalocrotonate tautomerase (4-OT) and YwhB, a 4-OT homologue found in Bacillus subtilis, exhibit a low level hydratase activity that converts trans-3-haloacrylates to acetaldehyde, presumably through a malonate semialdehyde intermediate. The mechanism for the initial transformation of the 3-haloacrylate to malonate ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Wang SC,Johnson WH Jr,Czerwinski RM,Whitman CP

更新日期：2004-01-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The recognition sequence of the Myb protein has been recently described to be pyAACKGHH (where py = T/C, K = G/T, and H = A/C/T), modifying the earlier identification as pyAACKG [Ording, E., et al. (1994) Eur. J. Biochem. 222, 113-120]. We had earlier determined the solution structure of the minimal cognate sequence T...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Radha PK,Patel PK,Hosur RV

更新日期：1998-07-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Membrane fusion is involved in many fundamental cellular processes and entry of enveloped viruses into host cells. Influenza type A virus HA has long served as a paradigm for mechanistic studies of protein-mediated membrane fusion via large-scale structural rearrangements induced by acidic pH. Here we report the newly...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Ni F,Chen X,Shen J,Wang Q

更新日期：2014-02-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Acyl-CoA:cholesterol O-acyltransferase (EC 2.3.1.26) (ACAT) catalyzes the intracellular synthesis of cholesteryl esters from cholesterol and fatty acyl-CoA at neutral pH. Despite the probable pathophysiologic role of ACAT in vascular cholesteryl ester accumulation during atherogenesis, its mechanism of action and its ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Kinnunen PM,DeMichele A,Lange LG

更新日期：1988-09-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The photoautotrophic freshwater cyanobacterium Synechococcus elongatus is widely used as a chassis for biotechnological applications as well as a photosynthetic bacterial model. In this study, a method for expanding the genetic code of this cyanobacterium has been established, thereby allowing the incorporation of unn...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Chemla Y,Friedman M,Heltberg M,Bakhrat A,Nagar E,Schwarz R,Jensen MH,Alfonta L

更新日期：2017-04-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein amyloid fibrils are originally identified as pathological entities in a variety of neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease. Recent studies have revealed that amyloid fibrils also serve as functional protein assemblies to fulfill a wide range of biological functions. Decip...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Li D,Liu C

更新日期：2020-02-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Homoserine transacetylase catalyzes one of the required steps in the biosynthesis of methionine in fungi and several bacteria. We have determined the crystal structure of homoserine transacetylase from Haemophilus influenzae to a resolution of 1.65 A. The structure identifies this enzyme to be a member of the alpha/be...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Mirza IA,Nazi I,Korczynska M,Wright GD,Berghuis AM

更新日期：2005-12-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The specificity of horse liver alcohol dehydrogenase for cyclohexanol and its 3-methyl derivatives was investigated by stopped-flow and initial velocity kinetic studies. The (1S,3S)-3-methylcyclohexanol was 7 times more reactive (V/Km) than cyclohexanol, whereas the (1R,3R)-3-methylcyclohexanol was at least 1000 times...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Lee KM,Dahlhauser KF,Plapp BV

更新日期：1988-05-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Enzymes of halophilic organisms contain unusual peptide motifs that are absent from their mesophilic counterparts. The functions of these halophile-specific peptides are largely unknown. Here we have identified an unusual peptide that is unique to several halophile archaeal cysteinyl-tRNA synthetases (CysRS), which ca...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Evilia C,Hou YM

更新日期：2006-06-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The bacteriophage T7 DNA helicase/primase (gene 4 protein) is a ring-like hexamer that encircles ssDNA and requires forked DNA to catalyze DNA unwinding. We report that optimal rates of unwinding of forked DNA require ssDNA tails of 55 nucleotides on the 5'-to-3' strand and 15 nucleotides on the 3'-to-5' strand. Surpr...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Hacker KJ,Johnson KA

更新日期：1997-11-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Photoaffinity labeling of the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor from Torpedo marmorata electric tissue was performed in the presence of cholinergic effectors in the millisecond to second time range by a combination of a stopped-flow apparatus and a high-energy pulse laser. The label applied was [3H]triphenylmethylphosp...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Muhn P,Fahr A,Hucho F

更新日期：1984-06-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The hairpin catalytic motif in tobacco ringspot virus satellite RNA consists of two helix-loop-helix elements on two adjacent arms of a four-way helical junction. The bases essential for catalytic activity are located in the loops that are brought into proximity by a conformational change as a prerequisite for catalys...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Klostermeier D,Millar DP

更新日期：2001-09-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The water-oxidizing complex of photosystem II cycles through five oxidation states, denoted S(i)() (i = 0-4), during water oxidation to molecular oxygen, which appears at the (transient) S(4) state. The recent detection of bimodal EPR signals from the S(3) state [Matsukawa, T., Mino, H., Yoneda, D., Kawamori, A. (1999...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Ioannidis N,Petrouleas V

更新日期：2002-07-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The surface electrical charge density and the deformability of nucleosomal arrays have been characterized by quantitative agarose gel electrophoresis. Monodisperse linear DNA (2.5-3.3 kbp) was reconstituted with histone octamers into either saturated (approximately 1 nucleosome/200-bp DNA) or subsaturated (< 1 nucleos...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Fletcher TM,Krishnan U,Serwer P,Hansen JC

更新日期：1994-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mg2+ is important for the RNase activity of the hammerhead ribozyme. To investigate the binding properties of Mg2+ to the hammerhead ribozyme, cleavage rates and CD spectra for substrates containing inosine or guanosine at the cleavage site were measured. The 2-amino group of this guanosine interfered with the rate of...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Koizumi M,Ohtsuka E

更新日期：1991-05-28 00:00:00

abstract：:For many decades, protein folding experimentalists have worked with no information about the time scales of relevant protein folding motions and without methods for estimating the height of folding barriers. Protein folding experiments have been interpreted using chemical models in which the folding process is charact...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Naganathan AN,Doshi U,Fung A,Sadqi M,Muñoz V

更新日期：2006-07-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The steroidogenic acute regulatory protein (StAR) facilitates the movement of cholesterol from the outer to inner mitochondrial membrane in adrenal and gonadal cells, fostering steroid biosynthesis. MLN64 is a 445-amino acid protein of unknown function. When 218 amino-terminal residues of MLN-64 are deleted, the resul...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Bose HS,Whittal RM,Huang MC,Baldwin MA,Miller WL

更新日期：2000-09-26 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：:Intact rat liver mitochondria were treated with compounds derived from the reaction of fluorescamine with various types of primary amines, including the mycosamine-containing antibiotics amphotericin B and nystatin. The effect of varying amounts of these compounds on ATPase-linked inorganic phosphate (Pi) formation on...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Ramirez F,Shiuan D,Tu SI,Marecek JF

更新日期：1980-04-29 00:00:00

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 FTIR spectra for alkyl isocyanides (CNRs) change from a single nu(CN) band centered at approximately 2175 cm(-1) to two peaks at approximately 2075 and approximately 2125 cm(-1) upon binding to sperm whale myoglobin (Mb). The low- and high-frequency peaks have been assigned to in and out conformations, respectivel...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Blouin GC,Olson JS

更新日期：2010-06-22 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：:Activator of G protein signaling 3 (AGS3) activates the Gbetagamma mating pathway in yeast in a manner that is independent of heptahelical receptors. It competes with Gbetagamma subunits to bind GDP-bound Gi/o(alpha) subunits via four repeated G protein regulatory (GPR) domains in the carboxyl-terminal half of the mol...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Ma H,Peterson YK,Bernard ML,Lanier SM,Graber SG

更新日期：2003-07-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The fluorescent nucleotide analogue of ADP, 1,N6-ethenoadenosine diphosphate (epsilon ADP), has been used to probe the active site of myosin subfragment 1 (SF1). The Mg complex of ADP was shown to be trapped stoichiometrically at the active site by a variety of thiol cross-linking agents having sulfur to sulfur spanni...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Perkins WJ,Wells JA,Yount RG

更新日期：1984-08-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The cellular site of formation, Galpha-coupling preference, and agonist regulation of mu-delta opioid receptor (OR) heterooligomers were studied. Bioluminescence resonance energy transfer (BRET) showed that mu-deltaOR heterooligomers, composed of preformed mu and delta homooligomers, interacted constitutively in the e...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Hasbi A,Nguyen T,Fan T,Cheng R,Rashid A,Alijaniaram M,Rasenick MM,O'Dowd BF,George SR

更新日期：2007-11-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The non-typeable Haemophilus influenzae strain DH1 was isolated from a 25 year old male patient with Fisher syndrome, a postinfectious autoimmune condition characterized by the presence of anti-GQ1b IgG antibodies that target and initiate damage to peripheral nerves. DH1 was found to display an alphaNeuAc(2-8)alphaNeu...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Houliston RS,Koga M,Li J,Jarrell HC,Richards JC,Vitiazeva V,Schweda EK,Yuki N,Gilbert M

更新日期：2007-07-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Specific intra- and intermolecular quadruplex conformations of model G-DNA oligonucleotides have been identified from their translational and rotational diffusion coefficients in aqueous solution. The transport properties were determined by polarized and depolarized dynamic light scattering. A comparison with hydrodyn...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Bolten M,Niermann M,Eimer W

更新日期：1999-09-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The l-lyxonate dehydratase (LyxD) in vitro enzymatic activity and in vivo metabolic function were assigned to members of an isofunctional family within the mandelate racemase (MR) subgroup of the enolase superfamily. This study combined in vitro and in vivo data to confirm that the dehydration of l-lyxonate is the bio...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Ghasempur S,Eswaramoorthy S,Hillerich BS,Seidel RD,Swaminathan S,Almo SC,Gerlt JA

更新日期：2014-05-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The positions of the several sea urchin histone genes on the eukaryotic fragments of the chimeric plasmids pSp2 and pSp17 have been mapped relative to the Eco RI and Hind III restriction endonuclease sites on the plasmids. Two principal mapping methods using the electron microscope have been used: (a) the R-loop proce...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Holmes DS,Cohn RH,Kedes LH,Davidson N

更新日期：1977-04-05 00:00:00