Role of tryptophanyl and tyrosyl residues of flavoproteins in binding with flavin coenzymes. X-ray structural studies using model complexes.

abstract：:The protein tyrosine kinase, pp60(c-)(src), is involved in cellular signaling and is activated during mitosis and in various tumors. We have been employing cyclic decapeptides to identify the determinants for substrate binding and phosphorylation to develop inhibitors competitive with protein substrates of Src. A stru...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Wang W,Ramdas L,Sun G,Ke S,Obeyesekere NU,Budde RJ,McMurray JS

更新日期：2000-05-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Mismatches in DNA occur naturally during replication and as a result of endogenous DNA damaging agents, but the mismatch repair (MMR) pathway acts to correct mismatches before subsequent rounds of replication. Rhodium metalloinsertors bind to DNA mismatches with high affinity and specificity and represent a promising ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Ernst RJ,Komor AC,Barton JK

更新日期：2011-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Minor adducts, derived from the covalent binding of anti-benzo[a]pyrene-7,8-dihydroxy-9,10-epoxide to cellular DNA, may play an important role in generating mutations and initiating cancer. We have applied a combined NMR-computational approach including intensity based refinement to determine the solution structure of...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Mao B,Gu Z,Gorin A,Chen J,Hingerty BE,Amin S,Broyde S,Geacintov NE,Patel DJ

更新日期：1999-08-17 00:00:00

abstract：:A hairpin structure contains two conformationally distinct domains: a double-helical stem with Watson-Crick base pairs and a single-stranded loop that connects the two arms of the stem. By extensive 1D and 2D 500-MHz 1H NMR studies in H2O and D2O, it has been demonstrated that the DNA oligomers d(CGCCGCAGC) and d(CGCC...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Gupta G,Sarma MH,Sarma RH,Bald R,Engelke U,Oei SL,Gessner R,Erdmann VA

更新日期：1987-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The DNA binding domain of the yeast transcription factor Mbp1 is a winged helix-turn-helix structure, with an extended DNA binding site involving C-terminal "tail" residues. The thermodynamics of the interaction of the DNA binding domain with its target DNA sequence have been determined using fluorescence anisotropy a...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Deleeuw L,Tchernatynskaia AV,Lane AN

更新日期：2008-06-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Extracellular matrix (ECM) proteins, such as collagen and fibronectin, play vital roles in development and maintenance of hard tissue (bone or tooth) and are, consequently, thoroughly investigated for construction of biomimetic scaffolds in combination with calcium phosphate (CaP) material (the major component of hard...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Chowdhury EH,Nagaoka M,Ogiwara K,Zohra FT,Kutsuzawa K,Tada S,Kitamura C,Akaike T

更新日期：2005-09-20 00:00:00

abstract：:A new strategy to form stable and sequence-specific triple helical DNA structures at mixed purine/pyrimidine sequences using a combination of four C-glycosides (TRIPsides) has been described [Li et al. (2003) J. Am. Chem. Soc. 125, 2084]. The partial realization of the approach is demonstrated by incorporating two of ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Li JS,Shikiya R,Marky LA,Gold B

更新日期：2004-02-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Replication in archaea is carried out by proteins that are homologues of eukaryotic counterparts. However, the archaeal systems tend to be much simpler with fewer different genes encoding the core functions than in eukaryotic counterparts. In many archaea, there is a single minichromosome maintenance (MCM) homologue, ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Atanassova N,Grainge I

更新日期：2008-12-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The inhibition of phosphorylase kinase catalytic activity by 0.1 M neutral salts was predicted by the Hofmeister series of anions. The site of action of the salts was determined by the following evidence to be on the phosphorylase kinase molecule directly, rather than on its protein substrate. (1) Nonactivated kinase ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Carlson GM,Graves DJ

更新日期：1976-10-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacterial resistance to the aminoglycoside antibiotics is manifested primarily through the production of enzymes which covalently modify these drugs. The Enterococci and Staphylococci produce an ATP-dependent kinase, APH(3')-IIIa, which phosphorylates such antibiotics as kanamycin, amikacin, and neomycin, and this enz...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： McKay GA,Wright GD

更新日期：1996-07-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Although the importance of interactions involving both the cytosolic and transmembrane regions of SecY and SecE has been documented, no information has been available for the physical contact sites of these translocase subunits in their cytosolic domains. We now carried out site-specific cross-linking experiments to i...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Satoh Y,Mori H,Ito K

更新日期：2003-06-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Homodinuclear (Pt,Pt) and heterodinuclear (Ru,Pt) metal compounds having the generalized formula M(a)NH2(CH)4NH2M(b) are shown to form specific DNA lesions which can efficiently cross-link proteins to DNA. In this study, the homodinuclear case is represented by M(a) = M(b) = [cis-Pt(Cl2)-(NH3)] and the heterodinuclear...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Van Houten B,Illenye S,Qu Y,Farrell N

更新日期：1993-11-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Kinesin-5 proteins are essential for formation of a bipolar mitotic spindle in most and, perhaps all, eukaryotic cells. Several Kinesin-5 proteins, notably the human version, HsEg5, are targets of a constantly expanding group of small-molecule inhibitors, which hold promise both as tools for probing mechanochemical tr...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Learman SS,Kim CD,Stevens NS,Kim S,Wojcik EJ,Walker RA

更新日期：2009-03-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Calcineurin, a Ca2+, calmodulin-dependent protein phosphatase, was recently found to bind with high affinity to two different immunosuppressant binding proteins (immunophilins) with absolute dependence on the presence of the immunosuppressants FK506 or cyclosporin A (CsA) [Liu et al. (1991) Cell 66, 807-815]. The bind...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Liu J,Albers MW,Wandless TJ,Luan S,Alberg DG,Belshaw PJ,Cohen P,MacKintosh C,Klee CB,Schreiber SL

更新日期：1992-04-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Biogenesis of the Gram-negative outer membrane involves the chaperone seventeen kilodalton protein (Skp). A Skp trimer is currently thought to bind its unfolded outer membrane protein (uOMP) substrates. Using sedimentation equilibrium, we discovered that Skp is not an obligate trimer under physiological conditions and...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Sandlin CW,Zaccai NR,Fleming KG

更新日期：2015-12-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Ribonuclease P2 from the thermophilic archaebacterium Sulfolobus solfataricus is a small protein (7 kDa) with a known three-dimensional structure. Inspection of the structure and molecular dynamics simulation reveal that three aromatic residues (Phe5, Phe31, and Tyr33) from the hydrophobic core have a strong van der W...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Mombelli E,Afshar M,Fusi P,Mariani M,Tortora P,Connelly JP,Lange R

更新日期：1997-07-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The insulin-linked polymorphic region (ILPR) is a regulatory sequence in the promoter region upstream of the human insulin gene and is widely recognized as a locus of type 1 diabetes susceptibility. Polymorphism of the ILPR sequence can affect expression of both insulin and the adjacent insulin-like growth factor 2 (I...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Wang Y,Zhang H,Ligon LA,McGown LB

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The catalytic activity and inhibitor binding energetics of enzymes are often pH-dependent properties. Aspartic proteases comprise an important class of enzyme targets for structure-based drug design. We have performed a complete thermodynamic study of pepstatin binding to plasmepsin II, an aspartic proteinase found in...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Xie D,Gulnik S,Collins L,Gustchina E,Suvorov L,Erickson JW

更新日期：1997-12-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Polyisoprenyl diphosphates play diverse and vital roles in cell function in health and disease. The counter-regulatory lipid signaling molecule, presqualene diphosphate (PSDP), is rapidly converted to its monophosphate form (PSMP) upon cell activation [Levy, B. D., Petasis, N. A., and Serhan, C. N. (1997) Nature 389, ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Carlo T,Petasis NA,Levy BD

更新日期：2009-04-07 00:00:00

abstract：:West Nile virus (WNV) is a mosquito-borne flavivirus with a rapidly expanding global distribution. Infection can cause severe neurological disease and fatality in humans. Efforts are ongoing to develop antiviral drugs that inhibit the WNV protease, a viral enzyme required for polyprotein processing. Unfortunately, lit...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Garces AP,Watowich SJ

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although point mutations usually lead to minor localized changes in protein structure, replacement of conserved Pro-76 with Gly in iso-2-cytochrome c induces a major conformational change. The change in structure results from mutation-induced depression of the pK for transition to an alkaline conformation with altered...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Nall BT,Zuniga EH,White TB,Wood LC,Ramdas L

更新日期：1989-12-12 00:00:00

abstract：:X-ray crystallographic data to 1.9-A resolution were collected on sperm whale metmyoglobin equilibrated with 7 atm of xenon gas. The results indicate four xenon sites of occupancy from 0.45 to 1.0. These sites are located in interior spaces or packing defects of the myoglobin molecule. The effects of the bound xenon o...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Tilton RF Jr,Kuntz ID Jr,Petsko GA

更新日期：1984-06-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Proton nuclear magnetic resonance spectra of human hemoglobins in water reveal several exchangeable protons which are indicators of the quaternary structures of both the liganded and unliganded molecules. A comparison of the spectra of normal human adult hemoglobin with those of mutant hemoglobins Chesapeake (FG4alpha...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Fung LW,Ho C

更新日期：1975-06-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Chemical derivatization studies have been directed at the sulfhydryl group of D-beta-hydroxybutyrate dehydrogenase, a lipid-requiring enzyme. Reaction with N-ethylmaleimide leads to progressive and parallel loss of both enzymic activity and coenzyme binding. Both functions are lost when 1 equiv of sulfhydryl is deriva...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Latruffe N,Brenner SC,Fleischer S

更新日期：1980-11-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations in human copper-zinc superoxide dismutase (SOD1) cause an inherited form of the fatal neurodegenerative disease amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). Here, we present structures of the pathogenic SOD1 variants D124V and H80R, both of which demonstrate compromised zinc-binding sites. The disruption of the zinc...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Seetharaman SV,Winkler DD,Taylor AB,Cao X,Whitson LJ,Doucette PA,Valentine JS,Schirf V,Demeler B,Carroll MC,Culotta VC,Hart PJ

更新日期：2010-07-13 00:00:00

abstract：:It had been reported previously that the beta2 subunit of Escherichia coli tryptophan synthetase [L-serinehydrolyase (adding indole) EC 4.2.1.20] can be cleaved by trypsin into a nearly functional dimeric protein, the monomer of which consists of two large, nonoverlapping, polypeptide fragments. In the present paper, ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Högberg-Raibaud A,Goldberg ME

更新日期：1977-09-06 00:00:00

abstract：:A nine-base oligodeoxyribonucleotide complementary to bases 2497-2505 of 23S rRNA was hybridized to both 50S subunits and 70S ribosomes. The binding of the probe to the ribosome or ribosomal subunits was assayed by nitrocellulose filtration and by sucrose gradient centrifugation techniques. The location of the hybridi...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Marconi RT,Hill WE

更新日期：1989-01-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The reaction catalyzed by orotidine 5'-monophosphate decarboxylase (OMPDC) is accompanied by exceptional values for rate enhancement (k(cat)/k(non) = 7.1 × 10(16)) and catalytic proficiency [(k(cat)/K(M))/k(non) = 4.8 × 10(22) M(-1)]. Although a stabilized vinyl carbanion/carbene intermediate is located on the reactio...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Iiams V,Desai BJ,Fedorov AA,Fedorov EV,Almo SC,Gerlt JA

更新日期：2011-10-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The regulation of the rate-controlling enzyme in cholesterol biosynthesis and of the incorporation of [14C]oleate into cholesterol esters were studied in established lymphoid cell lines from normal subjects and compared with that of eight patients with genetic abnormalities of lipid metabolism. The activity of 3-hydro...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Kayden HJ,Hatam L,Beratis NG

更新日期：1976-02-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The specificity of subtilisin BPN' toward substrates with large hydrophobic P4 residues has been improved by single amino acid replacements at positions 104 and 107. Mutations were designed to (i) increase the size of the P4 binding pocket by replacing Ile107, which is at the bottom of the S4 pocket, by Val, Ala, and ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Rheinnecker M,Baker G,Eder J,Fersht AR

更新日期：1993-02-09 00:00:00