Crystal and molecular structure of a new Z-DNA crystal form: d[CGT(2-NH2-A)CG] and its platinated derivative.

abstract：:NAD(P) aldehyde dehydrogenases (EC 1.2.1.3) are a family of enzymes that oxidize a wide variety of aldehydes into acid or activated acid compounds. Using site-directed mutagenesis, the essential nucleophilic Cys 149 in the NAD-dependent phosphorylating glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase from Escherichia coli has...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Corbier C,Della Seta F,Branlant G

更新日期：1992-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Replacement of methionine (Met) residues by selenomethionine (SeMet) was recently shown to facilitate the crystallographic analysis of protein structure through the application of multi-wavelength anomalous diffraction techniques [Yang et al. (1990) Science (Washington, D.C.) 249, 1398-1405]. The availability of SeMet...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Boles JO,Cisneros RJ,Weir MS,Odom JD,Villafranca JE,Dunlap RB

更新日期：1991-11-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The calcium sensitivity of vertebrate skeletal muscle myosin has been investigated. Adenosinetriphosphatase (ATPase) activity was assayed in a reconstituted system composed of either purified rabbit myosin plus actin or myosin plus actin, tropomyosin, and troponin. The calcium sensitivity of actomyosin Mg-ATPase activ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Pulliam DL,Sawyna V,Levine RJ

更新日期：1983-05-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Pepsin, a gastric aspartic proteinase, is a zymogen-derived protein that undergoes irreversible alkaline denaturation at pH 6-7. Detailed knowledge of the structure of the alkaline-denatured state is an important step in understanding the mechanism of the formation of the active enzyme. An extensive analysis of the de...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Konno T,Kamatari YO,Tanaka N,Kamikubo H,Dobson CM,Nagayama K

更新日期：2000-04-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Nitrogenase reduces N2 to NH3, but the mechanistic details are unclear. Diazene (N2H2), a proposed 2e-/2H+ intermediate on the reduction pathway, is labile under typical enzyme assay conditions, and no firm evidence is available on whether or not it can be reduced by or inhibit nitrogenase. In this paper, we compare t...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： McKenna CE,Simeonov AM,Eran H,Bravo-Leerabhandh M

更新日期：1996-04-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Aminoacylation of tRNA by aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases is the essential reaction that matches protein amino acids with the trinucleotide sequences specified in mRNA. Direct electrostatic interactions made by tRNA synthetases with discriminating functional groups on the tRNA bases have long been known to determine aminoa...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Perona JJ,Hou YM

更新日期：2007-09-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Pyridoxal 5'-triphospho-5'-adenosine (AP3-PL), the affinity labeling reagent specific for lysine residues in the nucleotide-binding site of several enzymes [Tagaya, M., & Fukui, T. (1986) Biochemistry 25, 2958-2964; Yagami, T., Tagaya, M., & Fukui, T. (1988) FEBS Lett. 229, 261-264], was used to identify the ATP-bindi...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Hountondji C,Schmitter JM,Fukui T,Tagaya M,Blanquet S

更新日期：1990-12-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Trypanosoma and Leishmania, pathogens responsible for diseases such as African sleeping sickness, Chagas' heart disease, or Oriental sore, are two of the very few genera that do not use the ubiquitous glutathione/glutathione reductase system to keep a stable cellular redox balance. Instead, they rely on trypanothione ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Stoll VS,Simpson SJ,Krauth-Siegel RL,Walsh CT,Pai EF

更新日期：1997-05-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Oxalate is the strongest known inhibitor of yeast cytochrome b2 activity. We have used spectrophotometric titration, temperature-jump relaxation, and calorimetry in an investigation of the interaction between enzyme and inhibitor. The titration data are consistent with noncooperative binding to one site per subunit. T...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Thusius D,Blazy B,Baudras A

更新日期：1976-01-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Reconstitution of highly purified aquaporin CHIP (channel-forming integral protein) into proteoliposomes was previously shown to confer high osmotic water permeability (Pf) to the membranes [Zeidel et al. (1992) Biochemistry 31, 7436-7440]. Here we report detailed ultrastructural, pharmacologic, and transport studies ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Zeidel ML,Nielsen S,Smith BL,Ambudkar SV,Maunsbach AB,Agre P

更新日期：1994-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The structure of cytochrome f includes an internal chain of five water molecules and six hydrogen-bonding side chains, which are conserved throughout the phylogenetic range of photosynthetic organisms from higher plants, algae, and cyanobacteria. The in vivo electron transfer capability of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii cy...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Sainz G,Carrell CJ,Ponamarev MV,Soriano GM,Cramer WA,Smith JL

更新日期：2000-08-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The translocation (T) domain of diphtheria toxin plays a critical role in moving the catalytic domain across the endosomal membrane. Translocation/insertion is triggered by a decrease in pH in the endosome where conformational changes of T domain occur through several kinetic intermediates to yield a final trans-membr...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Li J,Rodnin MV,Ladokhin AS,Gross ML

更新日期：2014-11-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The transcriptional activity of the beta-globin genes is regulated by a complex genetic element, the locus control region (LCR), at the 5'-end of the beta-globin locus. Tandem binding sites for the erythroid-specific transcription factor NF-E2 are important for the transcriptional activation function of the LCR. We di...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Lam LT,Bresnick EH

更新日期：1995-12-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The structure and dynamic properties of the C-terminal region of the human class alpha glutathione transferase A1-1 have been investigated with high-resolution NMR methods. On the basis of crystallographic and fluorescence measurements, this 13-residue segment of the enzyme is presumed to be disordered in the unligand...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Zhan Y,Rule GS

更新日期：2004-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The cytological architecture of the synaptonemal complex (SC), a meiosis-specific proteinaceous structure, is evolutionarily conserved among eukaryotes. However, little is known about the biochemical properties of SC components or the mechanisms underlying their roles in meiotic chromosome synapsis and recombination. ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Khan K,Madhavan TP,Kshirsagar R,Boosi KN,Sadhale P,Muniyappa K

更新日期：2013-08-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Double homeodomain (DUX) proteins are encoded by a family of 3.3-kilobase repeated elements dispersed in the human genome. One of these elements named D4Z4 is found in a tandem repeat array on chromosome 4 that is partially deleted in facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy. We have evaluated the trafficking and mobili...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Ostlund C,Garcia-Carrasquillo RM,Belayew A,Worman HJ

更新日期：2005-02-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Phosphorescence from the lone tryptophan residue has been studied to monitor the interaction of myelin basic protein with phosphatidylserine vesicles. Spectral shifts in the phosphorescence of the protein in a glycerol-buffer (70:30 w/w) solvent at low temperature are consistent with fluorescence data obtained under a...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Vadas EB,Melançon P,Braun PE,Galley WC

更新日期：1981-05-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The sucrose (CscB) permease belongs to the oligosaccharide:H(+) symporter family of the Major Facilitator Superfamily and is homologous to the lactose permease from Escherichia coli. Sucrose transport in cells expressing sucrose permease is completely inhibited by N-ethylmaleimide (NEM), suggesting that one or more of...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Sahin-Tóth M,Frillingos S,Lawrence MC,Kaback HR

更新日期：2000-05-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The far-ultraviolet circular dichroism spectra of bovine and human prothrombin, prothrombin fragment 1, prethrombin 1, prothrombin fragment 2, and prethrombin 2 (prethrombin 2des(1--13)) were determined and the method of Chen et al. [Chen, Y. H., Yang, J. T., & Martinez, H. M. (1972) Biochemistry 11, 4120--4131; Chen,...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Bloom JW,Mann KG

更新日期：1979-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Misaligned structures can result from strand slippage during DNA replication and, if not repaired, would lead to mutations. Previously, we showed that strand slippage can occur upon misincorporation of a dNTP opposite thymine and cytosine templates, resulting in a misaligned structure with a T- or C-bulge. The formati...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Chi LM,Lam SL

更新日期：2009-12-08 00:00:00

abstract：:High-resolution phosphorus-31 nuclear magnetic resonance (31P NMR) spectra of wild-type and mutant strains of Saccharomyces cerevisiae were observed at a frequency of 145.7 MHz. Levels of various phosphorus metabolites were investigated upon addition of glucose under both aerobic and anaerobic conditions. Three mutant...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Navon G,Shulman RG,Yamane T,Eccleshall TR,Lam KB,Baronofsky JJ,Marmur J

更新日期：1979-10-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein kinase C (PKC) interacted with phospholipid vesicles in a calcium-dependent manner and produced two forms of membrane-associated PKC: a reversibly bound form and a membrane-inserted form. The two forms of PKC were isolated and compared with respect to enzyme stability, cofactor requirements, and phorbol ester ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Bazzi MD,Nelsestuen GL

更新日期：1988-10-04 00:00:00

abstract：:RNA repeat expansions cause a host of incurable, genetically defined diseases. The most common class of RNA repeats consists of trinucleotide repeats. These long, repeating transcripts fold into hairpins containing 1 × 1 internal loops that can mediate disease via a variety of mechanism(s) in which RNA is the central ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Chen JL,VanEtten DM,Fountain MA,Yildirim I,Disney MD

更新日期：2017-07-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The roles of four of the active center groups with potential acid-base properties in the region of pH optimum of pyruvate decarboxylase from Saccharomyces cerevisiae have been studied with the substitutions Asp28Ala, His114Phe, His115Phe, and Glu477Gln, introduced by site-directed mutagenesis methods. The steady-state...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Liu M,Sergienko EA,Guo F,Wang J,Tittmann K,Hübner G,Furey W,Jordan F

更新日期：2001-06-26 00:00:00

abstract：:We have investigated the binding of a pure H1 histone, the mouse variant H1e, to a 214 bp fragment of DNA from pBR322. Binding was monitored by observing the effects of the protein on melting of the DNA and by a gel-mobility-shift assay. We found, using this highly purified system, that H1e protein binds preferentiall...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Wellman SE,Sittman DB,Chaires JB

更新日期：1994-01-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Circular dichroism and difference spectroscopy have been used to study dilute aqueous solutions of oxygenated, deoxygenated, and carbamoylated deoxygenated hemoglobins A and S (HbA and HbS, respectively). The spectra of HbA and HbS, in comparable state of oxygenation or carbamoylation, are identical, strongly implying...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Simons ER,Hartzband P,Whitin J,Chapman C

更新日期：1976-09-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Yeast actin mutants with acidic residues at the N terminus either neutralized (DNEQ) or deleted (delta-DSE) were used to assess the role of N-terminal acidic residues in the interactions of actin with myosin in the contractile cycle. Cosedimentation experiments revealed an approximately 3-fold decrease in the binding ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Miller CJ,Wong WW,Bobkova E,Rubenstein PA,Reisler E

更新日期：1996-12-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The substrate analogue 2-(1-carboxy-2-phenylethyl)-4-phenylazophenol is a potent competitive inhibitor of carboxypeptidase A. Upon ligation to the active site, the azophenol moiety undergoes a shift of pKa from a value of 8.76 to a value of 4.9; this provides an index of the Lewis acidity of the active site zinc ion. ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Mock WL,Tsay JT

更新日期：1986-05-20 00:00:00

abstract：:c-Jun and c-Fos belong to the bZIP class of transcriptional activator proteins, many of which have been implicated in the neoplastic transformation of cells. We are interested in engineering dominant-negative leucine zipper (LZ) peptides as a means of sequestering these proteins in vivo in order to suppress their tran...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Heuer KH,Mackay JP,Podzebenko P,Bains NP,Weiss AS,King GF,Easterbrook-Smith SB

更新日期：1996-07-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The origin of the nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR)-measurable ATP in equilibrium Pi exchange and whether it can be used to determine net oxidative ATP synthesis rates in the intact myocardium were examined by detailed measurements of ATP in equilibrium Pi exchange rates in both directions as a function of the myocardi...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Kingsley-Hickman PB,Sako EY,Mohanakrishnan P,Robitaille PM,From AH,Foker JE,Uğurbil K

更新日期：1987-11-17 00:00:00