Sensitivity of the essential zinc-thiolate moiety of yeast alcohol dehydrogenase to hypochlorite and peroxynitrite.

abstract：:The constant fragment of the immunoglobulin light chain in which the intramolecular disulfide bond is reduced (reduced CL fragment) assumes a conformation very similar to that of the intact CL fragment and contains two sulfhydryl groups buried in the interior of the molecule [Goto, Y., & Hamaguchi, K. (1979) J. Bioche...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Goto Y,Hamaguchi K

更新日期：1986-05-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The photoautotrophic freshwater cyanobacterium Synechococcus elongatus is widely used as a chassis for biotechnological applications as well as a photosynthetic bacterial model. In this study, a method for expanding the genetic code of this cyanobacterium has been established, thereby allowing the incorporation of unn...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Chemla Y,Friedman M,Heltberg M,Bakhrat A,Nagar E,Schwarz R,Jensen MH,Alfonta L

更新日期：2017-04-25 00:00:00

abstract：:We found that peroxisomal lignoceroyl-CoA ligase, like palmitoyl-CoA ligase, is present in the peroxisomal membrane whereas the peroxisomal beta-oxidation enzyme system is localized in the matrix. To further define the role of peroxisomal acyl-CoA ligases (membrane component) in providing acyl-CoA for peroxisomal beta...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Lazo O,Contreras M,Singh I

更新日期：1990-04-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The microscopic interactions and mechanisms leading to nascent protein folding events are generally unknown. While such short time-scale events are difficult to study experimentally, molecular dynamics simulations of peptides can provide a useful model for studying events related to protein folding initiation. Recentl...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Karpen ME,Tobias DJ,Brooks CL 3rd

更新日期：1993-01-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Combined quantum mechanical/molecular mechanical (QM/MM) simulations are carried out to analyze factors that dictate the proton transfer in carbonic anhydrase II (CAII), an enzyme that has been used as a prototypical example of long-range proton transfers in biomolecules. In contrast to the long-held conjecture in the...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Riccardi D,König P,Guo H,Cui Q

更新日期：2008-02-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Human corticosteroid-binding globulin (CBG) forms a dimer that was isolated by gel filtration, has full binding affinity and capacity, and can be dissociated to the monomer. Monomeric CBG consists of two distinct molecular variants, which were detected by polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis in the presence and absence ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Mickelson KE,Harding GB,Forsthoefel M,Westphal U

更新日期：1982-02-16 00:00:00

abstract：:HcbA1 is a unique flavoenzyme that catalyzes the first step in the bacterial hexachlorobenzene catabolic pathway. Here we report in vitro reconstitution of the HcbA1-catalyzed reaction. Detailed mechanistic studies provide evidence for nucleophilic aromatic substitution and flavin-N5-oxide formation. ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Adak S,Begley TP

更新日期：2019-03-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The three-dimensional high-resolution structure of rhodopsin is unknown, as is the case for almost all integral membrane patients. As part of an alternative approach to determine of membrane protein structure, we are pursuing the structure of cytoplasmic domains of this G-protein receptor. A peptide, rhoIII, with the ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Yeagle PL,Alderfer JL,Albert AD

更新日期：1995-11-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The sucrose permease (CscB) and lactose permease (LacY) of Escherichia coli belong to the oligosaccharide/H(+) symporter subfamily of the major facilitator superfamily, and both catalyze sugar/H(+) symport across the cytoplasmic membrane. Thus far, there is no common substrate for the two permeases; CscB transports su...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Sugihara J,Smirnova I,Kasho V,Kaback HR

更新日期：2011-12-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The PRL (phosphatase of regenerating liver) phosphatases represent a distinct class of protein tyrosine phosphatases, which are implicated in tumorigenesis and metastasis processes. Accumulating evidence indicates that alteration of PRL1 expression affects cell motility and tumor metastasis, although the biochemical p...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Luo Y,Liang F,Zhang ZY

更新日期：2009-03-03 00:00:00

abstract：:To understand relationships between membrane-binding properties of cytolytic peptides and resulting cytotoxicity, we investigated interactions of dermaseptin analogues with model bilayers by means of surface plasmon resonance. First, we tested the system by comparing two native dermaseptins, S1 and S4, whose binding p...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Gaidukov L,Fish A,Mor A

更新日期：2003-11-11 00:00:00

abstract：:A previously unknown polypeptide myotoxin, designated myotoxin a, was isolated for the first time from prairie rattlesnake (Crotalus viridis viridis) venom. Electrophoretic homogeneity of myotoxin a was shown in beta-alanine disc gel polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis and in isoelectric focusing gel electrophoresis. M...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Cameron DL,Tu AT

更新日期：1977-05-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Vanadium(IV) oxo-bis(maltolato) (BMOV), an organovanadium compound, is a potent insulinomimetic agent and improves glucose homeostasis in various models of diabetes. We have shown previously that BMOV stimulates the phosphorylation of PKB which may contribute as one of the mechanisms for the insulinomimetic effect of ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Mehdi MZ,Vardatsikos G,Pandey SK,Srivastava AK

更新日期：2006-09-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The RelE and RelB proteins constitute the RNA interferase (toxin) and its cognate inhibitor (antitoxin) components of the Escherichia coli relBE toxin-antitoxin system. Despite the well-described functionality and physiological activity of this system in E. coli, no structural study was performed on the folding and st...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Cherny I,Overgaard M,Borch J,Bram Y,Gerdes K,Gazit E

更新日期：2007-10-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The carbon-13 nuclear magnetic resonance (13C NMR) spectra of luteinizing hormone-releasing hormone (LH-RH) and lower homologous peptides have been assigned in aqueous solutions at various pH values. 13C spin-lattice relaxation times (T1) have been measured for all proton-bearing carbons at 25.2 and 67.9 MHz. From the...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Deslauriers R,Levy GC,McGregor WH,Sarantakis K,Smith IC

更新日期：1975-09-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Heme oxygenase (HO) catalyzes the oxidative cleavage of heme to biliverdin by utilizing O(2) and NADPH. HO (apoHO) was crystallized as twinned P3(2) with three molecules per asymmetric unit, and its crystal structure was determined at 2.55 A resolution. Structural comparison of apoHO and its complex with heme (HO-heme...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Sugishima M,Sakamoto H,Kakuta Y,Omata Y,Hayashi S,Noguchi M,Fukuyama K

更新日期：2002-06-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Glycosylation is a common modification that can endow proteins with altered physical and biological properties. Ribonuclease 1 (RNase 1), which is the human homologue of the archetypal enzyme RNase A, undergoes N-linked glycosylation at asparagine residues 34, 76, and 88. We have produced the three individual glycofor...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Kilgore HR,Latham AP,Ressler VT,Zhang B,Raines RT

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the presence of Ca2+ and calmodulin (CM), purified smooth muscle myosin light chain kinase (MLCKase) was found to undergo autophosphorylation at a rate that was about 200-fold slower than its catalytic activity. Up to 1.7 mol of phosphate were incorporated per mole of kinase. Lower levels of incorporation could be ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Sobieszek A

更新日期：1995-09-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The iron K-edge X-ray absorption spectrum of Rhodococcus sp. R312 (formerly Brevibacterium sp. R312) nitrile hydratase in frozen solutions at pH 7 and 9 has been analyzed to determine details of the iron coordination. EXAFS analysis implies two or three sulfur ligands per iron and overall six coordination; together wi...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Scarrow RC,Brennan BA,Cummings JG,Jin H,Duong DJ,Kindt JT,Nelson MJ

更新日期：1996-08-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The inhibitory potency of 3'-azido-3'-deoxythymidine 5'-triphosphate (AZTTP) against HIV-1 reverse transcriptase (HIV-1 RT) has been further evaluated. The results indicate that the previously reported low Ki values for AZTTP against HIV-1 RT (2.35 nM) are due neither to the to the direct tight binding of AZTTP to HIV...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Ma QF,Bathurst IC,Barr PJ,Kenyon GL

更新日期：1992-02-11 00:00:00

abstract：:When stoichiometric amounts of tropomyosin (TM) are bound to F-actin in the presence of 2 mM ATP, the MG2+-activated acto-heavy meromyosin (HMM) ATPase is inhibited by about 60% in 5 mM MgCl2-30 mM KCl. If the concentration of MgCl2 is reduced to 1 mM, the inhibition disappears because TM no longer binds to F-actin. I...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Eaton BL,Kominz DR,Eisenberg E

更新日期：1975-06-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The membrane-bound state of the gene 9 minor coat protein of bacteriophage M13 was studied in various membrane-mimicking systems, including organic solvents, detergent micelles, and phospholipid bilayers. For this purpose we determined the conformational and aggregational properties of the chemically synthesized prote...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Houbiers MC,Spruijt RB,Wolfs CJ,Hemminga MA

更新日期：1999-01-19 00:00:00

abstract：:p-Cresol methylhydroxylase (PCMH) isolated from Pseudomonas putida is an alpha 2 beta 2 tetramer of approximate subunit Mr 49,000 and 9,000. It is a flavocytochrome c containing covalently bound FAD in the larger subunit and covalently bound heme in the smaller. Crystals in space group P2(1)2(1)2(1) with unit-cell par...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Mathews FS,Chen ZW,Bellamy HD,McIntire WS

更新日期：1991-01-08 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：:NG-Methyl-L-arginine (L-NMA) is one of the most commonly used inhibitors of the nitric oxide synthases (NOS). Results reported here demonstrate that L-NMA is an alternate substrate and a mechanism-based inhibitor of the inducible NOS purified from murine macrophages. The irreversible inhibition displays pseudo-first-o...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Olken NM,Marletta MA

更新日期：1993-09-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Cyanide inhibits the CO oxidation activity of carbon monoxide dehydrogenase from Clostridium thermoaceticum by binding tightly to the form of the C-cluster yielding the gav = 1.82 signal (the C1.82 form). CN- dissociates and the enzyme reactivates upon addition of CO, CO2 plus dithionite, or CS2 plus dithionite. Dithi...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Anderson ME,Lindahl PA

更新日期：1994-07-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The red cell membrane is stabilized by a spectrin/actin-based cortical cytoskeleton connected to the phospholipid bilayer via multiple protein bridges. By virtue of its interaction with ankyrin and adducin, the anion transporter, band 3 (AE1), contributes prominently to these bridges. In a previous study, we demonstra...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Grey JL,Kodippili GC,Simon K,Low PS

更新日期：2012-08-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Phototropin, a blue-light photoreceptor in plants, has two FMN-binding domains named LOV1 and LOV2. We previously observed temperature-dependent FTIR spectral changes in the C=O stretching region (amide-I vibrational region of the peptide backbone) for the LOV2 domain of Adiantum phytochrome3 (phy3-LOV2), suggesting p...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Iwata T,Nozaki D,Sato Y,Sato K,Nishina Y,Shiga K,Tokutomi S,Kandori H

更新日期：2006-12-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The crystal structure of the recombinant thiamin diphosphate-dependent E1 component from the Escherichia coli pyruvate dehydrogenase multienzyme complex (PDHc) has been determined at a resolution of 1.85 A. The E. coli PDHc E1 component E1p is a homodimeric enzyme and crystallizes with an intact dimer in an asymmetric...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Arjunan P,Nemeria N,Brunskill A,Chandrasekhar K,Sax M,Yan Y,Jordan F,Guest JR,Furey W

更新日期：2002-04-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Human hemoglobin produced in the Escherichia coli coexpression system of Hernan et al. [(1992) Biochemistry 31, 8619-8628] has been transformed into a functionally homogeneous protein whose properties closely approximate those of normal hemoglobin A. Both of the alpha and beta chains of this hemoglobin contain a valin...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Hui HL,Kavanaugh JS,Doyle ML,Wierzba A,Rogers PH,Arnone A,Holt JM,Ackers GK,Noble RW

更新日期：1999-01-19 00:00:00