Amino acid sequence of ragweed allergen Ra3.

abstract：:The requirement for Ca2+ in the Mn(2+)-dependent photoactivation of oxygen evolution was re-evaluated using 17 kDa/24 kDa-less photosystem II (PSII) membranes depleted of (Mn)4-clusters by NH2OH extraction. At optimum conditions (1 mM Mn2+/10 microM 2,6-dichlorphenolindophenol (DCIP)/20 mM Ca2+), the light-induced inc...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Chen C,Kazimir J,Cheniae GM

更新日期：1995-10-17 00:00:00

abstract：:We have determined the formal potential values for each electron transfer to electron transfer flavoprotein-ubiquinone oxidoreductase (ETF-QO), in order to further characterize the thermodynamics of electron transport from various acyl-CoA thioesters to the mitochondrial ubiquinone pool. ETF-QO contains one [4Fe-4S]2+...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Paulsen KE,Orville AM,Frerman FE,Lipscomb JD,Stankovich MT

更新日期：1992-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The temperature dependence of the reduction potential of the CuA site in carbon monoxide inhibited cytochrome c oxidase has been measured with a spectroelectrochemical method adapted to the relatively weak near-infrared absorption of this copper ion. These measurements, together with parallel measurements on the 604-n...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Wang H,Blair DF,Ellis WR Jr,Gray HB,Chan SI

更新日期：1986-01-14 00:00:00

abstract：:CopA, a thermophilic membrane ATPase from Archaeoglobus fulgidus, drives the outward movement of Cu(+) or Ag(+) [Mandal et al. (2002) J. Biol. Chem. 277, 7201-7208]. This, as other P(IB)-ATPases, is characterized by a putative metal binding sequence (C(380)PC(382)) in its sixth transmembrane fragment and cytoplasmic m...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Mandal AK,Argüello JM

更新日期：2003-09-23 00:00:00

abstract：:A total of fifty single site surface phenylalanine substitution mutants have been made in the model protein staphylococcal nuclease. The fifty residues that were replaced with phenylalanine were chosen to give a broad sampling of solvent accessibility, secondary structure, and backbone conformations. The change in the...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Schwehm JM,Kristyanne ES,Biggers CC,Stites WE

更新日期：1998-05-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Over 20 years ago, it was reported that liver cytosol contains at least two distinct proteins that transfer phosphatidylinositol in vitro, phosphatidylinositol transfer protein (PITP) and a pH 5.1 supernatant fraction containing sterol carrier protein-2 (SCP-2). In contrast to PITP, there has been minimal progress on ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Schroeder F,Zhou M,Swaggerty CL,Atshaves BP,Petrescu AD,Storey SM,Martin GG,Huang H,Helmkamp GM,Ball JM

更新日期：2003-03-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The X-ray crystal structure of human soluble epoxide hydrolase (sEH) has been determined at 2.6 A resolution, revealing a domain-swapped quaternary structure identical to that observed for the murine enzyme [Argiriadi, M. A., Morisseau, C., Hammock, B. D., and Christianson, D. W. (1999) Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 9...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Gomez GA,Morisseau C,Hammock BD,Christianson DW

更新日期：2004-04-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Human lysosomal enzymes acid-beta-glucosidase (GCase) and acid-alpha-galactosidase (alpha-Gal A) hydrolyze the sphingolipids glucosyl- and globotriaosylceramide, respectively, and mutations in these enzymes lead to the lipid metabolism disorders Gaucher and Fabry disease, respectively. We have investigated the structu...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Lieberman RL,D'aquino JA,Ringe D,Petsko GA

更新日期：2009-06-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Taq and T7 DNA polymerases have become basic molecular biology "tools" for DNA sequence analysis. However, Taq, unlike T7 DNA polymerase, is strongly biased against the incorporation of 2',3'-dideoxynucleotide triphosphates (ddNTPs) indicating very different substrate selectivities. Equilibrium binding and rate consta...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Brandis JW,Edwards SG,Johnson KA

更新日期：1996-02-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The interactions of myelin basic protein and peptides derived from it with detergent micelles of lysophosphatidylglycerol, lysophosphatidylserine, palmitoyllysophosphatidic acid, and sodium lauryl sulfate, and with mixed micelles of the neutral detergent dodecylphosphocholine and the negatively charged detergent palmi...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Mendz GL,Brown LR,Martenson RE

更新日期：1990-03-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The two dominant glucolipids in Acholeplasma laidlawii, viz., 1,2-diacyl-3-O-(alpha-D-glucopyranosyl)-sn-glycerol (MGlcDG) and 1,2-diacyl-3-O-[alpha-D-glucopyranosyl-(1----2)-O-alpha-D-glucopyranosyl ]- sn-glycerol (DGlcDG), have markedly different phase behavior. MGlcDG has an ability to form nonlamellar phases, wher...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Eriksson PO,Rilfors L,Wieslander A,Lundberg A,Lindblom G

更新日期：1991-05-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The phosphoramidate of CCdAp and puromycin (CCdApPuro) is a potent inhibitor of ribosomal peptidyl transferase, as assayed by the fragment reaction. Inhibition is competitive at the ribosomal A-site. CCdApPuro protects P-site-associated bases in the peptidyl transferase loop region of 23S rRNA from carbodiimide modifi...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Welch M,Chastang J,Yarus M

更新日期：1995-01-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies implicate hydrogen sulfide (H2S) oxidation as an important aspect of bacterial antibiotic resistance and sulfide homeostasis. The cst operon of the major human pathogen Staphylococcus aureus is induced by exogenous H2S stress and encodes enzymes involved in sulfide oxidation, including a group I flavopr...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Shen J,Peng H,Zhang Y,Trinidad JC,Giedroc DP

更新日期：2016-11-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Dodecameric glutamine synthetase (GS) from bacteria is formed from two face-to-face hexameric rings of identical subunits. These highly symmetrical aggregates from some bacteria, including Escherichia coli, "stack" in the presence of Zn2+ and other divalent ions to generate protein tubes (phase I) and subsequently ass...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Yanchunas J Jr,Dabrowski MJ,Schurke P,Atkins WM

更新日期：1994-12-20 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：:In this work we report the synthesis of a radioactive, photolabile oligodeoxyribonucleotide probe and its exploitation in identifying 50S ribosomal subunit components neighboring its target site in 23S rRNA. The probe is complementary to 23S rRNA nucleotides 2497-2505, a single-stranded sequence that has been shown to...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Muralikrishna P,Cooperman BS

更新日期：1991-06-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The growth and shortening of microtubules in guanosine triphosphate-(GTP-) mediated dynamic instability has previously been observed to occur at rates which are remarkably variable (Gildersleeve et al., 1992, Chrétien et al., 1995). Neighboring microtubules observed simultaneously can grow or shorten at different rate...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Dye RB,Williams RC Jr

更新日期：1996-11-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Low-temperature electronic absorption and room temperature circular dichroism (CD) and magnetic circular dichroism (MCD) spectra are reported for ascorbate oxidase. Bands attributable to d-d electronic transitions in the type 1 (blue) coppers (2B2 ground state) have been observed at 5800, 10000, and 12000 cm-1 (1725, ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Dooley DM,Dawson JH,Stephens PJ,Gray HB

更新日期：1981-03-31 00:00:00

abstract：:A stable green heme was extracted from ferric cyanosulfmyoglobin after it had undergone an internal conversion reaction. After iron removal and conversion to the methyl ester, the resulting green porphyrin was purified by high-pressure liquid chromatography. Visible, 1H NMR, and mass spectrometric studies provided evi...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Bondoc LL,Chau MH,Price MA,Timkovich R

更新日期：1986-12-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The crystal structure of ferredoxin-NADP+ reductase (FNR) suggests that Ser96 is directly involved in hydride transfer between the isoalloxazine moiety of FAD and the nicotinamide ring of NADP(H). To probe its role, Ser96 has been mutated to valine (S96V) and glycine (S96G). These mutations primarily affected the inte...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Aliverti A,Bruns CM,Pandini VE,Karplus PA,Vanoni MA,Curti B,Zanetti G

更新日期：1995-07-04 00:00:00

abstract：:3-(4-Azido-2,3,5,6-tetrafluorobenzoyl)-6-hydroxy-2-(4- hydroxyphenyl)benzo[b]thiophene 1 (tetrafluoroaryl azide, TFAA) and its protio analogue 3-(4-azidobenzoyl)-6- hydroxy-2-(4-hydroxyphenyl)benzo[b]thiophene 2 (protioaryl azide, PAA), photoaffinity labeling (PAL) reagents for the estrogen receptor (ER), have been pr...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Pinney KG,Carlson KE,Katzenellenbogen BS,Katzenellenbogen JA

更新日期：1991-03-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Helicases are enzymes that use energy from nucleoside triphosphate hydrolysis to unwind double-stranded (ds) DNA, a process vital to virtually every phase of DNA metabolism. Helicases have been classified as either 5'-to-3' or 3'-to-5' on the basis of their ability to unwind duplex DNA adjacent to either a 5' or 3' si...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Morris PD,Byrd AK,Tackett AJ,Cameron CE,Tanega P,Ott R,Fanning E,Raney KD

更新日期：2002-02-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) insecticidal toxins bind to receptors on midgut epithelial cells of susceptible insects, and binding triggers biochemical events that lead to insect mortality. Recently, a 100-kDa aminopeptidase N (APN) was isolated from brush border membrane vesicles (BBMV) of Anopheles quadrimaculatus and...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Zhang R,Hua G,Andacht TM,Adang MJ

更新日期：2008-10-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The X-ray crystal structure of a salicylhydroxamic acid (SHA) inhibitory complex with human myeloperoxidase (MPO) has been determined at 2.3 A resolution. The aromatic ring of the inhibitor binds to a hydrophobic region at the entrance to the distal heme pocket between heme pyrrole ring D and the side chain of Arg 239...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Davey CA,Fenna RE

更新日期：1996-08-20 00:00:00

abstract：:A visual pigment consists of an opsin protein and a chromophore, 11-cis-retinal, which binds to a specific lysine residue of opsin via a Schiff base linkage. The Schiff base chromophore is protonated in pigments that absorb visible light, whereas it is unprotonated in ultraviolet-absorbing visual pigments (UV pigments...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Tsutsui K,Imai H,Shichida Y

更新日期：2007-05-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Shaker potassium (K+) channels normally lack intrasubunit and intersubunit disulfide bonds. However, disulfide bonds are formed between Shaker subunits in intact cells exposed to oxidizing conditions. Upon electrophoresis under nonreducing conditions, intersubunit disulfide bond formation was detected by the presence ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Schulteis CT,Nagaya N,Papazian DM

更新日期：1996-09-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Benzo[c]phenanthrene diol epoxide can covalently bind to the exocyclic amino group of deoxyadenosine to generate [BPh]dA adducts where the polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon is attached to the major groove edge of DNA. This paper reports on NMR-energy minimization structural studies of the (+)-trans-anti-[BPh]dA adduct p...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Cosman M,Fiala R,Hingerty BE,Laryea A,Lee H,Harvey RG,Amin S,Geacintov NE,Broyde S,Patel D

更新日期：1993-11-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The DNA of Novikoff hepatoma ascites cells was found to contain a 3.6-megadalton EcoRI restriction fragment, referred to as EcoRI fragment A (Parker et al., 1979). C0t analyses demonstrated an enrichment of fragment A sequences in Novikoff hepatoma genome relative to normal rat liver DNA. This fragment was cloned in l...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Parker DL,Busch H,Rothblum LI

更新日期：1981-02-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Anatoxin-a and homoanatoxin-a are two potent cyanobacterial neurotoxins. We recently reported the identification of the gene cluster responsible for the biosynthesis of these toxins as well as the in-vitro reconstitution of the first steps of this biosynthesis. We now report experimental evidence supporting the propos...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Mann S,Lombard B,Loew D,Méjean A,Ploux O

更新日期：2011-08-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Two distinct regions of angiogenin are critical for angiogenic activity: a catalytic site capable of cleaving RNA and a noncatalytic site, encompassing residues 60-68, which may bind to an endothelial cell-surface receptor [Hallahan, T. W., Shapiro, R., & Vallee, B. L. (1991) Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 88, 2222-222...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Hallahan TW,Shapiro R,Strydom DJ,Vallee BL

更新日期：1992-09-01 00:00:00