Aluminum fluoride activation of bovine transducin induces two distinct conformational changes in the alpha subunit.

abstract：:Since a major function of RNA polymerase must be to bring together substrates in the optimal configuration for internucleotide bond formation, studies have been undertaken to understand the geometrical relationship of the two substrates. A model has been constructed for the geometry of interaction of two ATP molecules...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Beal RB,Pillai RP,Chuknyisky PP,Levy A,Tarien E,Eichhorn GL

更新日期：1990-06-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutation of polycystin-1 (PC1) is the major cause of autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease. PC1 has a predicted molecular mass of ~460 kDa comprising a long multidomain extracellular N-terminal region, 11 transmembrane regions, and a short C-terminal region. Because of its size, PC1 has proven difficult to hand...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Oatley P,Stewart AP,Sandford R,Edwardson JM

更新日期：2012-04-03 00:00:00

abstract：:In the processes of DNA replication, recombination, and repair, duplex DNA can transiently form branched structures, such as Holliday junctions, as well as base pair mismatches and bulges. These stages have altered ligand and protein binding properties from normal double helical DNA. A variety of ligands have been rep...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Hernández LI,Zhong M,Courtney SH,Marky LA,Kallenbach NR

更新日期：1994-11-08 00:00:00

abstract：:PT-ACRAMTU ([PtCl(en)(ACRAMTU-S)](NO(3))(2), en = ethane-1,2-diamine, ACRAMTU = 1-[2-(acridin-9-ylamino)ethyl]-1,3-dimethylthiourea) is a cytotoxic platinum-acridine conjugate previously shown to form adducts with the N3 endocyclic nitrogen of adenine in the DNA minor groove. This unusual observation and our prior det...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Budiman ME,Bierbach U,Alexander RW

更新日期：2005-08-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Hemopexin is a plasma glycoprotein that has two structural domains (I and II) and binds and transports heme particularly to liver cells. Differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) studies show that hemopexin is largely stabilized by heme, which binds exclusively to domain I. The melting temperature (Tm) of heme-hemopexin...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Wu ML,Morgan WT

更新日期：1993-07-20 00:00:00

abstract：:A survey of RuvB protein-mediated ATP hydrolysis yields the following observations. (1) The RuvB protein exhibits a DNA-independent ATPase activity with a turnover number (based on a RuvB monomer) approaching 6 min-1 and a Km of 154 microM. Single-stranded DNA and linear duplex DNA have small but significant effects o...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Marrione PE,Cox MM

更新日期：1995-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We compared the kinetics and thermodynamics of rhodamine phalloidin binding to actin purified from rabbit skeletal muscle, Acanthamoeba castellanii, and Saccharomyces cerevisiae in 50 mM KCl, 1 mM MgCl2, and pH 7.0 buffer at 22 degrees C. Filaments of S. cerevisiae actin bind rhodamine phalloidin more weakly than Acan...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： De La Cruz EM,Pollard TD

更新日期：1996-11-12 00:00:00

abstract：:A novel cationic lipid was separated from bovine brain white matter by a series of chromatographies on carboxymethyl-Sephadex and silica gel in chloroform and methanol. Its structure was identified unambiguously as de-N-acetyllactotriaosylceramide (deNAcLc(3)Cer) by mass spectrometry and (1)H NMR. The natural occurren...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Hikita T,Tadano-Aritomi K,Iida-Tanaka N,Ishizuka I,Hakomori S

更新日期：2005-07-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Although the membrane-associated surfactant protein B (SP-B) is an essential component of lung surfactant, which is itself essential for life, the molecular basis for its activity is not understood. SP-B's biophysical functions can be partially mimicked by subfragments of the protein, including the C-terminus. We have...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Booth V,Waring AJ,Walther FJ,Keough KM

更新日期：2004-12-07 00:00:00

abstract：:In the cyanobacterium Anabaena PCC7120, the precursor to tRNA(Leu) contains a 249-nucleotide group I intron that undergoes efficient self-splicing in vitro. By deleting the 5' and 3' splice sites, this intron has now been converted to an RNA enzyme that uses a guanosine nucleophile to cleave substrate RNAs (S) with mu...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Zaug AJ,Dávila-Aponte JA,Cech TR

更新日期：1994-12-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytochrome b559 (cyt b559) is an intrinsic and essential component of the photosystem II (PSII) protein complex, but its function, stoichiometry, and electron-transfer kinetics in the physiological system are not well-defined. In this study, we have used flash-detection optical spectroscopy to measure the kinetics and...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Buser CA,Diner BA,Brudvig GW

更新日期：1992-11-24 00:00:00

abstract：:While within a human host the opportunistic pathogen Toxoplasma gondii relies heavily on glycolysis for its energy needs. Lactate dehydrogenase (LDH), the terminal enzyme in anaerobic glycolysis necessary for NAD(+) regeneration, therefore represents an attractive therapeutic target. The tachyzoite stage lactate dehyd...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Kavanagh KL,Elling RA,Wilson DK

更新日期：2004-02-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Cyclopropane fatty acid (CFA) synthase of Escherichia coli catalyzes a modification of the acyl chains of phospholipid bilayers. We report (i) identification of the CFA synthase protein, (ii) overproduction (> 600-fold) and purification to essential homogeneity of the enzyme, and (iii) the amino acid sequence of CFA s...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Wang AY,Grogan DW,Cronan JE Jr

更新日期：1992-11-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Electron transfer within cytochrome cd1 from Thiosphaera pantotropha was investigated by the technique of pulse radiolysis. The reduction of the heme centers in this nitrite reductase occurred in two phases as judged from kinetic difference spectra. In the faster phase, radiolytically generated N-methylnicotinamide (N...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Kobayashi K,Koppenhöfer A,Ferguson SJ,Tagawa S

更新日期：1997-11-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The field of chemical site-selective modification of proteins has progressed extensively in recent decades to enable protein functionalization for imaging, drug delivery, and functional studies. In this Perspective, we provide detailed insight into an alternative use of site-selective protein chemistry to probe the ro...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Bertoldo JB,Terenzi H,Hüttelmaier S,Bernardes GJL

更新日期：2018-10-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Ca2+ release from heavy sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR) vesicles was induced by 2 mM caffeine, and the amount (A) and the rate constant (k) of Ca2+ release were investigated as a function of the extent of Ca2+ loading. Under both passive and active loading conditions, the A value increased monotonically in parallel to Ca2...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Ikemoto N,Ronjat M,Mészáros LG,Koshita M

更新日期：1989-08-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Thermal unfolding of discoidal complexes of apolipoprotein (apo) C-1 with dimyristoyl phosphatidylcholine (DMPC) reveals a novel mechanism of lipoprotein stabilization that is based on kinetics rather than thermodynamics. Far-UV CD melting curves recorded at several heating/cooling rates from 0.047 to 1.34 K/min show ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Gursky O,Ranjana,Gantz DL

更新日期：2002-06-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Two transcription factors, CRP and CytR, mediate positive and negative control of nine cistrons involved in nucleoside catabolism and recycling in Escherichia coli. The ability of multiple transcription factors to combine in different ways to confer differential gene regulation is of significant interest in both proka...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Holt AK,Senear DF

更新日期：2010-01-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Two sites of ligand interaction in acetylcholinesterase (AChE) were first demonstrated in ligand binding studies and later confirmed by crystallography, site-specific mutagenesis, and molecular modeling: an acylation site at the base of the active site gorge and a peripheral site at its mouth. We recently introduced a...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Szegletes T,Mallender WD,Thomas PJ,Rosenberry TL

更新日期：1999-01-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The factors that govern the substrate reactivity and stereoselectivity of phosphotriesterase (PTE) toward organophosphotriesters containing various combinations of methyl, ethyl, isopropyl, and phenyl substituents at the phosphorus center were determined by systematic alterations in the dimensions of the active site. ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Chen-Goodspeed M,Sogorb MA,Wu F,Raushel FM

更新日期：2001-02-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Ribonucleotide reductase (RDPR) from Escherichia coli is composed of two subunits, R1 and R2, both of which are required to catalyze the conversion of nucleotides to deoxynucleotides. This reduction process is accompanied by oxidation of two cysteines within the active site to a disulfide. One of these putative active...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Mao SS,Holler TP,Bollinger JM Jr,Yu GX,Johnston MI,Stubbe J

更新日期：1992-10-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The UDP-glucuronosyltransferase (UGT) isozyme system is critical for protecting the body against endogenous and exogenous chemicals by linking glucuronic acid donated by UDP-glucuronic acid to a lipophilic acceptor substrate. UGTs convert metabolites, dietary constituents, and environmental toxicants to highly excreta...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Banerjee R,Pennington MW,Garza A,Owens IS

更新日期：2008-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:S-Glutathionylation is a redox-regulated modification that uncouples endothelial nitric oxide synthase (eNOS), switching its function from nitric oxide (NO) synthesis to (•)O2(-) generation, and serves to regulate vascular function. While in vitro or in vivo eNOS S-glutathionylation with modification of Cys689 and Cys...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Chen CA,De Pascali F,Basye A,Hemann C,Zweier JL

更新日期：2013-09-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The subgel phases of a homologous series of saturated straight-chain diacylphosphatidylcholines with hydrocarbon chains consisting of 10-18 carbon atoms were studied by Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy. All of these lipids initially form a subgel phase which is spectroscopically similar to that obtained when fu...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Lewis RN,McElhaney RN

更新日期：1990-08-28 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

abstract：:Molecular dynamics simulations employing a molecular mechanics (MM) force field and hybrid quantum mechanics (QM) and MM (QM/MM) have been carried out to investigate the product specificity and mechanism of the histone H4 lysine 20 (H4-K20) methylation by human histone lysine methyltransferase SET8. At neutral pH, the...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Zhang X,Bruice TC

更新日期：2008-06-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Escherichia coli alkaline phosphatase (AP) is the prototypical two metal ion catalyst with two divalent zinc ions bound approximately 4 A apart in the active site. Studies spanning half a century have elucidated many structural and mechanistic features of this enzyme, rendering it an attractive model for investigating...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： O'Brien PJ,Herschlag D

更新日期：2002-03-05 00:00:00

abstract：:4-Azido-2-nitrophenyl phosphate (ANPP) was synthesized and characterized. ANPP, unlabeled or labeled by 32P, was used as a photoreactive analogue of Pi to study the Pi binding site(s) in isolated F1-ATPase and inside-out particles from beef heart mitochondria. In the dark, the phosphate bond of ANPP was cleaved by alk...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Lauquin G,Pougeois R,Vignais PV

更新日期：1980-09-30 00:00:00

abstract：:A core Y61F mutant of the gene 5 single-stranded DNA-binding protein (g5p) of f1 bacterial virus aggregated when expressed from a plasmid, but, after refolding in vitro, it behaved much like wild-type and may be a stability or folding mutant. Circular dichroism (CD) titrations showed the same cooperative polynucleotid...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Thompson TM,Mark BL,Gray CW,Terwilliger TC,Sreerama N,Woody RW,Gray DM

更新日期：1998-05-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The primary photochemical event of photoactive yellow protein (PYP) was studied by laser flash photolysis experiments on a subpicosecond-nanosecond time scale. PYP was excited by a 390-nm pulse, and the transient difference absorption spectra were recorded by a multichannel spectrometer for a more reliable spectral an...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Imamoto Y,Kataoka M,Tokunaga F,Asahi T,Masuhara H

更新日期：2001-05-22 00:00:00