Differential modulation of P-glycoprotein transport by protein kinase inhibition.

abstract：:Type I repeat sequences are evolutionarily conserved sequence elements found in the replication origin and transcriptional promoter region of the rRNA genes (rDNA) in Tetrahymena thermophila. An abundant single-stranded DNA binding protein, ssA-TIBF, specifically interacts with the A-rich strand of the Type I repeat s...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Hou Z,Umthun AR,Dobbs DL

更新日期：1995-04-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytochrome bc(1), a key enzyme of biological energy conversion, generates or uses a proton motive force through the Q cycle that operates within the two chains of cofactors that embed two catalytic quinone oxidation/reduction sites, the Q(o) site and the Q(i) site. The Q(o) site relies on the joint action of two cofac...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Borek A,Sarewicz M,Osyczka A

更新日期：2008-11-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein engineering to alter recognition underlying ligand binding and activity has enormous potential. Here, ligand binding for Escherichia coli phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase (PEPCK), which converts oxaloacetate into CO2 and phosphoenolpyruvate as the first committed step in gluconeogenesis, was engineered to acc...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Tang HYH,Shin DS,Hura GL,Yang Y,Hu X,Lightstone FC,McGee MD,Padgett HS,Yannone SM,Tainer JA

更新日期：2018-12-04 00:00:00

abstract：:A wide range of two-dimensional 1H NMR experiments have been used to completely assign the 500-MHz 1H NMR spectrum of recombinant Ca2+-saturated bovine calbindin D9k (76 amino acids, Mr = 8500). In solution, calbindin D9k exists as an equilibrium mixture of isoforms with trans (75%) and cis (25%) isomers of the peptid...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Kördel J,Forsén S,Chazin WJ

更新日期：1989-08-22 00:00:00

abstract：:It is shown that the protochlorophyllide ester pool of etiolated higher plants is a faithful copy of the protochlorophyllide pool. It is made up of both monovinyl- and divinylprotochlorophyllide esters. Although the two tetrapyrroles exhibited similar emission maxima, they were distinguishable by their Soret excitatio...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Belanger FC,Rebeiz CA

更新日期：1980-10-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Microfibrils having a diameter of 10-12 nm, found either in association with elastin or independently, are an important component of the extracellular matrix of many tissues. Because isolation of native proteins composing the microfibrils has proven difficult, information on structure/function relationships is limited...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Bashir MM,Abrams WR,Rosenbloom J,Kucich U,Bacarra M,Han MD,Brown-Augsberger P,Mecham R,Rosenbloom J

更新日期：1994-01-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Prolyl hydroxylase is a glycoprotein containing two nonidentical subunits, alpha and beta. The alpha subunit of prolyl hydroxylase isolated from 13-day-old chick embryos contains a single high mannose oligosaccharide having seven mannosyl residues. Two forms of alpha subunit have been shown to exist in enzyme purified...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Kedersha NL,Tkacz JS,Berg RA

更新日期：1985-10-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacteriophage T7 codes for a single-stranded DNA binding protein. This protein is the product of gene 2.5 and has been found previously to stimulate specifically the activity of the phage-coded DNA polymerase. We report here that the T7 DNA binding protein also stimulates the activity of the phage-coded exonuclease. T...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Roberts L,Sadowski P,Wong JT

更新日期：1982-11-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Membrane-bound guanylate cyclases harbor a region called the dimerization or linker domain, which aids the enzymes in adopting an optimal monomer-monomer arrangement for catalysis. One subgroup of these guanylate cyclases is expressed in rod and cone cells of vertebrate retina, and mutations in the dimerization domain...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Zägel P,Dell'Orco D,Koch KW

更新日期：2013-07-30 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：:The presence and subcellular localization of UDP-Gal:glucosylceramide beta 1----4galactosyltransferase (GalT-2) was investigated in rat liver. For this purpose, purified Golgi apparatus, endoplasmic reticulum, and plasma membrane fractions were prepared from the liver and used as the enzyme source for detecting GalT-2...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Trinchera M,Fiorilli A,Ghidoni R

更新日期：1991-03-12 00:00:00

abstract：:A major challenge to the study of protein folding is the fact that intermediate states along the reaction pathway are generally unstable and thus difficult to observe. Recently developed NMR relaxation dispersion experiments present an avenue to accessing such states, providing kinetic, thermodynamic, and structural i...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Mittermaier A,Korzhnev DM,Kay LE

更新日期：2005-11-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Haloalkane dehalogenase converts haloalkanes to their corresponding alcohols and halides. The reaction mechanism involves the formation of a covalent alkyl-enzyme complex which is hydrolyzed by water. The active site is a hydrophobic cavity buried between the main domain and the cap domain of the enzyme. The enzyme ha...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Schanstra JP,Janssen DB

更新日期：1996-05-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The three-dimensional conformation of a 24-nucleotide variant of the RNA binding sequence for the coat protein of bacteriophage R17 has been analyzed using NMR, molecular dynamics, and energy minimization. The imino proton spectrum is consistent with base pairing requirements for coat protein binding known from bioche...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Borer PN,Lin Y,Wang S,Roggenbuck MW,Gott JM,Uhlenbeck OC,Pelczer I

更新日期：1995-05-16 00:00:00

abstract：:A simple and rapid procedure is described for purification of P-glycoprotein (Pgp) from a multidrug-resistant Chinese hamster ovary cell line (CR1R12) in which the plasma membranes are highly enriched in Pgp (Al-Shawi, M.K., Senior A.E. (1993) J. Biol. Chem, 268, 4197-4206). The procedure consisted of octylglucoside s...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Urbatsch IL,al-Shawi MK,Senior AE

更新日期：1994-06-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Prokaryotic promoters have been extensively studied to relate sequence features to promoter function. Here we examine the relationship between double-helix stability and promoter activity. The double-helix stability is evaluated from sequence data by free energy computation, based on reported values of dinucleotide fr...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Margalit H,Shapiro BA,Nussinov R,Owens J,Jernigan RL

更新日期：1988-07-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Heparin was carboxyl-reduced with sodium boro[3H]hydride and converted to a mixture of oligosaccharides by treatment with nitrous acid at pH 2. The oligosaccharide mixture was aldehyde-reduced with sodium boro[3H]hydride and the mixture of products, labeled both in the hexoses formed in the carboxyl-reduction step and...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Shively JE,Conrad HE

更新日期：1976-09-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Calmodulin (CaM) is composed of two EF-hand domains tethered by a flexible linker. Upon Ca2+-binding, a fragment of CaM encompassing EF-hands 2 and 3 (CaM2/3; residues 46-113) folds into a structure remarkably similar to the N- and C-domains of CaM. In this study, we demonstrate that Ca2+-ligated CaM2/3 can also bind ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Lakowski TM,Lee GM,Lelj-Garolla B,Okon M,Reid RE,McIntosh LP

更新日期：2007-07-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Sphingosine, sphinganine, and other long-chain (sphingoid) bases inhibit protein kinase C in vitro and block cellular responses to agonists that are thought to act via this enzyme. To gain further insight into the mechanism of this inhibition, a series of long-chain analogues differing in alkyl chain length (11-20 car...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Merrill AH Jr,Nimkar S,Menaldino D,Hannun YA,Loomis C,Bell RM,Tyagi SR,Lambeth JD,Stevens VL,Hunter R

更新日期：1989-04-18 00:00:00

abstract：:An amino-terminal deletion mutant (residues 1-43) of human apolipoprotein A-I (apo hA-I) has been produced from a bacterial expression system to explore the structural and functional role of these amino acids, encoded by exon 3, in apo hA-I. Lipid binding of apo delta (1-43)A-I and lipid binding of apo hA-I are very s...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Rogers DP,Brouillette CG,Engler JA,Tendian SW,Roberts L,Mishra VK,Anantharamaiah GM,Lund-Katz S,Phillips MC,Ray MJ

更新日期：1997-01-14 00:00:00

abstract：:In investigating the agonist binding site of the human brain cholecystokininB receptor (CCKBR), we employed the direct protein chemical approach using a photoreactive tritiated analogue of sulfated cholecystokinin octapeptide, which contains the p-benzoylbenzoyl moiety at the N-terminus, followed by purification of th...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Anders J,Blüggel M,Meyer HE,Kühne R,ter Laak AM,Kojro E,Fahrenholz F

更新日期：1999-05-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Allosteric activators are generally believed to shift the equilibrium distribution of enzyme conformations to favor a catalytically productive structure; the kinetics of conformational exchange is seldom addressed. Several observations suggested that the usual allosteric mechanism might not apply to the activation of ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Riera TV,Zheng L,Josephine HR,Min D,Yang W,Hedstrom L

更新日期：2011-10-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Glutamate151 (E151) has been shown to be catalytically essential for the aminopeptidase from Vibrio proteolyticus (AAP). E151 acts as the general acid/base during the catalytic mechanism of peptide hydrolysis. However, a glutamate residue is not the only residue capable of functioning as a general acid/base during cat...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Bzymek KP,Moulin A,Swierczek SI,Ringe D,Petsko GA,Bennett B,Holz RC

更新日期：2005-09-13 00:00:00

abstract：:In the commonly used nucleation-dependent model of protein aggregation, aggregation proceeds only after a lag phase in which the concentration of energetically unfavorable nuclei reaches a critical value. The formation of oligomeric species prior to aggregation can be difficult to detect by current spectroscopic techn...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Suzuki Y,Brender JR,Soper MT,Krishnamoorthy J,Zhou Y,Ruotolo BT,Kotov NA,Ramamoorthy A,Marsh EN

更新日期：2013-03-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Competitive inhibition of the monophenolase reaction of tyrosinase by a variety of compounds was investigated with respect to temperature and pH. Derivatives of benzoic acid as well as p-nitrophenol were the best inhibitors. Toluene and several N-heterocycles were all weak inhibitors. Thermodynamic parameters of tolue...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Conrad JS,Dawso SR,Hubbard ER,Meyers TE,Strothkamp KG

更新日期：1994-05-17 00:00:00

abstract：:A major regulatory step in the heat-induced transcription of heat shock protein (hsp) genes in eukaryotes is the activation of heat shock factor (HSF). In metazoans and Schizosaccharomyces pombe, HSF is present in unstressed cells but is unable to bind to its target DNA sequence element, the heat shock element (HSE). ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Larson JS,Schuetz TJ,Kingston RE

更新日期：1995-02-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The human endonuclease III (hNTH1) is an important DNA glycosylase with associated abasic lyase activity. We previously demonstrated that the K212Q mutant was totally inactive, while the K212R mutant had reduced DNA glycosylase/lyase activity and could form a covalent complex with the substrate DNA upon reduction. We ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Liu X,Roy R

更新日期：2001-11-13 00:00:00

abstract：:HIV-1 Vif is an accessory protein that induces the proteasomal degradation of the host restriction factor, apolipoprotein B mRNA-editing enzyme catalytic polypeptide-like 3G (APOBEC3G). The N-terminal half of Vif binds to APOBEC3G, and the C-terminal half binds to subunits of a cullin 5-based ubiquitin ligase. This Vi...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Techtmann SM,Ghirlando R,Kao S,Strebel K,Maynard EL

更新日期：2012-03-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of the protein shell in the formation of the hydrous ferric oxide core of ferritin is poorly understood. A VO2+ spin probe study was undertaken to characterize the initial complex of Fe2+ with horse spleen apoferritin (96% L-subunits). A competitive binding study of VO2+ and Fe2+ showed that the two metals co...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Hanna PM,Chasteen ND,Rottman GA,Aisen P

更新日期：1991-09-24 00:00:00

abstract：:We have used DNase I footprinting to examine the formation of antiparallel DNA triple helices on DNA fragments containing the homopurine target sites (GGA)2GGX(GGA)2GG.(CCT)2CCZ(CCT)2CC (where X.Z is each base pair in turn), with the GA- and GT-rich oligonucleotides, (GGA)2GGN(GGA)2GG and (GGT)2GGN(GGT)2GG (N = each b...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Chandler SP,Fox KR

更新日期：1996-11-26 00:00:00