Near-infrared resonance Raman spectra of Chloroflexus aurantiacus photosynthetic reaction centers.

abstract：:The recognition sequence of the Myb protein has been recently described to be pyAACKGHH (where py = T/C, K = G/T, and H = A/C/T), modifying the earlier identification as pyAACKG [Ording, E., et al. (1994) Eur. J. Biochem. 222, 113-120]. We had earlier determined the solution structure of the minimal cognate sequence T...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Radha PK,Patel PK,Hosur RV

更新日期：1998-07-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The heme-regulated inhibitor (HRI) of protein synthesis becomes activated in rabbit reticulocyte lysates in response to a variety of conditions including heme-deficiency, addition of oxidants, and heat shock. Activated HRI inhibits translation by catalyzing the phosphorylation of the alpha-subunit of eukaryotic initia...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Matts RL,Hurst R,Xu Z

更新日期：1993-07-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The free solution electrophoretic mobilities and thermal stabilities of hairpins formed by two complementary 26-nucleotide oligomers have been measured by capillary electrophoresis. The oligomers are predicted to form molecular beacon-like hairpins with 5 bp stems and 16 nucleotides in the loop. One hairpin, called ha...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Chang CY,Stellwagen NC

更新日期：2011-10-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Designing subtype-selective agonists for neuronal nicotinic acetylcholine receptors is a challenging and significant goal aided by intricate knowledge of each subtype's binding patterns. We previously reported that in α6β2 receptors, acetylcholine makes a functional cation-π interaction with Trp149, but nicotine and T...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Post MR,Lester HA,Dougherty DA

更新日期：2017-04-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The pH dependence of buffer catalysis of exchange of the C-4 amino protons of cyclic cytosine 2',3'-monophosphate (cCMP) and the N-1 proton of cyclic guanosine 2',3'-monophosphate (cGMP) conforms to an exchange mechanism, in which protonation of the nucleobases at C(N-3) AND G(N-7) establishes the important intermedia...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： McConnell B

更新日期：1978-07-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Intracellular retinoid-binding proteins are small, tightly folded, compact proteins, which appear to be involved in the delivery of retinoids to microsomal metabolic enzymes, among other potential roles. Recently, it has been demonstrated that two of these binding proteins, cellular retinol-binding protein (CRBP) and ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Jamison RS,Newcomer ME,Ong DE

更新日期：1994-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Iron K-edge X-ray spectroscopy (XANES and EXAFS) was used to study iron coordination in frozen solutions of soybean lipoxygenase-1 (SLO). The intensity of the 1s-->3d pre-edge transition of native iron(II) lipoxygenase is greater than what was found for six-coordinate high-spin iron(II) model complexes, but comparable...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Scarrow RC,Trimitsis MG,Buck CP,Grove GN,Cowling RA,Nelson MJ

更新日期：1994-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The sensitivity of the fluorescence energy of 2-p-toluidinylnaphthalene-6-sulfonate (TNS) to apparent solvent polarity is considerably greater in methanol-water mixtures and lower primary alcohols than in higher primary alcohols or solvents containing no hydroxyl groups. It is suggested that the behavior of TNS in low...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Greene FC

更新日期：1975-02-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The murine invariant chain (Ii) was found to incorporate radioactive palmitic acid. This binding of fatty acid inhibits the formation of interchain S-S bonds, probably because the cysteine residue in the transmembrane region of the Ii chain is palmitylated. The inhibition of fatty acylation by cerulenin blocks further...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Koch N,Hämmerling GJ

更新日期：1985-10-22 00:00:00

abstract：:An S3 electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) signal is observed in a variety of photosystem 2 (PS2) samples in which the oxygen-evolving complex (OEC) has been inhibited. These signals have been proposed to be due to an interaction, S2X+, between the manganese cluster in an oxidation state equivalent to S2 and an organ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： MacLachlan DJ,Nugent JH

更新日期：1993-09-21 00:00:00

abstract：:A strategy to detect P-glycoprotein (P-gp) on cell membrane and quantify the cell number using electrochemical immunoassay was developed by effective surface immunoreactions and immobilization of cells on a highly hydrophilic interface, which was constructed by adsorption of colloidal gold nanoparticles on a methoxysi...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Du D,Ju H,Zhang X,Chen J,Cai J,Chen H

更新日期：2005-08-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein disulfide isomerase (PDI) utilizes the active site sequence Cys-Gly-His-Cys (CGHC; E degrees ' = -180 mV) to effect thiol-disulfide interchange during oxidative protein folding. Here, the Cys-Gly-Cys-NH(2) (CGC) peptide is shown to have a disulfide reduction potential (E degrees ' = -167 mV) that is close to t...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Woycechowsky KJ,Raines RT

更新日期：2003-05-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Factor V(a) (FV(a)) is a cofactor for the serine protease factor X(a) that activates prothrombin to thrombin in the presence of Ca(2+) and a membrane surface. FV(a) is a heterodimer composed of one heavy chain (A1 and A2 domains) and one light chain (A3, C1, and C2 domains). We use fluorescence, circular dichroism, an...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Srivastava A,Quinn-Allen MA,Kim SW,Kane WH,Lentz BR

更新日期：2001-07-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The transglutaminase Factor XIII (FXIII) catalyzes the formation of covalent cross-links between adjacent noncovalently associated fibrin chains in blood coagulation. The resulting covalently cross-linked hard clot is much more mechanically stable and resistant to proteolytic degradation. FXIII is activated by the ser...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Turner BT Jr,Sabo TM,Wilding D,Maurer MC

更新日期：2004-08-03 00:00:00

abstract：:A bifunctional molecule was genetically engineered which contained an amino-terminal effector domain that bound immunoglobulin Fc (fragment B of staphylococcal protein A) and a carboxyl-terminal domain that bound digoxin [a single-chain Fv (sFv)]. Effector and sFv binding properties were virtually identical with those...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Tai MS,Mudgett-Hunter M,Levinson D,Wu GM,Haber E,Oppermann H,Huston JS

更新日期：1990-09-04 00:00:00

abstract：:N-(1-Pyrenyl)iodoacetamide has been used to introduce fluorescent probes into Escherichia coli RNA polymerase. After an incubation time of 15 min, approximately 2 pyrene equiv was introduced per enzyme molecule. There was no further increase in modification after more extended periods of incubation. Neither calf thymu...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Johnson RS,Bowers M,Eaton Q

更新日期：1991-01-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Reactivation of tetrameric porcine skeletal muscle lactic dehydrogenase after dissociation and extensive unfolding of the monomers by 6 M guanidine hydrochloride (Gdn . HCl) is characterized by sigmoidal kinetics, indicating a complex mechanism involving rate-limiting folding and association steps. For analysis of the...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Zettlmeissl G,Rudolph R,Jaenicke R

更新日期：1982-08-17 00:00:00

abstract：:A slow conversion of adenine residues to hypoxanthine occurs in single-stranded DNA when heated in neutral aqueous buffers. The rate of this reaction at pH 7.6 and 110 degrees C is k = 4 x 10(-8) s-1, as determined by base analysis of heat-treated DNA that contains radioactively labeled adenine residues. It is propose...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Karran P,Lindahl T

更新日期：1980-12-23 00:00:00

abstract：:PLK1 (polo-like kinase 1) is a key mitotic kinase and a therapeutic target in the treatment of proliferative diseases. Here we investigate the relative substrate specificity and pharmacological relatedness of PLK1, -2, -3, and -4 that together comprise a conserved family of Ser/Thr kinases (PLK family). We report cons...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Johnson EF,Stewart KD,Woods KW,Giranda VL,Luo Y

更新日期：2007-08-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Phosphatase of regenerating liver 3 (PRL-3) is suggested as a biomarker and therapeutic target in several cancers. It has a well-established causative role in cancer metastasis. However, little is known about its natural substrates, pathways, and biological functions, and only a few protein substrates have been sugges...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： McParland V,Varsano G,Li X,Thornton J,Baby J,Aravind A,Meyer C,Pavic K,Rios P,Köhn M

更新日期：2011-09-06 00:00:00

abstract：:We have examined the C cluster in type II CO dehydrogenase (CODH) from Carboxydothermus hydrogenformans using Ni K-edge X-ray absorption near edge spectroscopy and extended X-ray absorption fine structure (EXAFS) spectroscopy. The enzyme was studied under three conditions: "as-isolated" and after treatment with CO or ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Gu W,Seravalli J,Ragsdale SW,Cramer SP

更新日期：2004-07-20 00:00:00

abstract：:SHAPE-MaP is unique among RNA structure probing strategies in that it both measures flexibility at single-nucleotide resolution and quantifies the uncertainties in these measurements. We report a straightforward analytical framework that incorporates these uncertainties to allow detection of RNA structural differences...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Smola MJ,Calabrese JM,Weeks KM

更新日期：2015-11-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Proteogenomic identification of translated small open reading frames in humans has revealed thousands of microproteins, or polypeptides of fewer than 100 amino acids, that were previously invisible to geneticists. Hundreds of microproteins have been shown to be essential for cell growth and proliferation, and many reg...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Na Z,Luo Y,Schofield JA,Smelyansky S,Khitun A,Muthukumar S,Valkov E,Simon MD,Slavoff SA

更新日期：2020-10-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Kinetic study of a series of compounds containing the thrombin-directed peptide D-Phe-ProboroArg-OH had indicated that the structure of the N-terminal blocking group may be correlated with binding [Kettner, C., Mersinger, L., & Knabb, R. (1990) J. Biol. Chem. 265, 18289-18297]. In order to further study this phenomeno...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Nienaber VL,Mersinger LJ,Kettner CA

更新日期：1996-07-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Ethanol, in vitro, is known to perturb the molecular order of the phospholipids in biological membranes, while chronic ethanol exposure, in vivo, leads to resistance to disordering. Such changes have usually been measured by electron spin resonance, utilizing fatty acid spin probes. The use of such probes is controver...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Taraschi TF,Wu A,Rubin E

更新日期：1985-12-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Monoclonal antibodies directed against epitopes on each of the five subunits (alpha, beta, gamma, delta, and epsilon) of the Escherichia coli F1 ATPase (ECF1) have been prepared and used to localize the subunits in the enzyme complex. Fab' fragments, prepared by pepsin digestion of the antibodies, were bound to ECF1 a...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Gogol EP,Aggeler R,Sagermann M,Capaldi RA

更新日期：1989-05-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The PEGylated hemoglobin (Hb) has been evaluated as a potential blood substitute. In an attempt to understand the autoxidation of the PEGylated Hb, we have studied the autoxidation of the PEGylated Hb site-specifically modified at Cys-93(beta) or at Val-1(beta). PEGylation of Hb at Cys-93(beta) perturbed the heme envi...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Hu T,Li D,Manjula BN,Acharya SA

更新日期：2008-10-14 00:00:00

abstract：:One cause of multidrug resistance is the overexpression of P-glycoprotein, a 170 kDa plasma membrane ABC transporter, which functions as an ATP-driven efflux pump with broad specificity for hydrophobic drugs, peptides, and natural products. The protein appears to interact with its substrates within the membrane enviro...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Lugo MR,Sharom FJ

更新日期：2005-01-18 00:00:00

abstract：:A full characterization of the thermodynamic forces underlying ligand-associated conformational changes in proteins is essential for understanding and manipulating diverse biological processes, including transport, signaling, and enzymatic activity. Recent experiments on the maltose binding protein (MBP) have provided...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Bucher D,Grant BJ,McCammon JA

更新日期：2011-12-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The functional role of distinct phospholipid subclasses and molecular species in modulating gramicidin-mediated K+ flux was characterized through quantification of changes in the fluorescence intensity of ion specific fluorescent probes encapsulated inside vesicles comprised of individual molecular species of plasmeny...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Chen X,Gross RW

更新日期：1995-06-06 00:00:00