Interactions of mycobacterial glycopeptidolipids with membranes: influence of carbohydrate on induced alterations.

abstract：:Melanoma growth stimulatory activity (MGSA) is a mitogenic protein secreted by Hs294T melanoma cells that corresponds to the polypeptide encoded by the human gro gene. The MGSA/gro cDNA has been expressed in mammalian cells and the secreted recombinant factor has been purified. Biochemical and biological characterizat...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Balentien E,Han JH,Thomas HG,Wen DZ,Samantha AK,Zachariae CO,Griffin PR,Brachmann R,Wong WL,Matsushima K

更新日期：1990-11-06 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper contributes to the characterization of partial steps of electron and proton transfer in mitochondrial cytochrome c oxidase with respect to their membrane arrangement and involvement in energy-linked protonmotive activity. It is shown that delta psi controls electron flow from cytochrome c to heme a is consi...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Capitanio N,De Nitto E,Villani G,Capitanio G,Papa S

更新日期：1990-03-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The interaction of profilin and non-muscle beta,gamma-actin prepared from bovine spleen has been investigated under physiologic ionic conditions. Profilin binding to actin decreases the affinity of actin for MgADP and MgATP by about 65- and 13-fold, respectively. Kinetic measurements indicate that profilin binding to ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Kinosian HJ,Selden LA,Gershman LC,Estes JE

更新日期：2000-10-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) are a family of enzymes that are up-regulated in many diseases, including osteoarthritis (OA) and rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Here we report on a novel technique that can be used to simultaneously measure activity levels for a panel of enzymes, such as the MMPs. The technique, termed th...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Rasmussen FH,Yeung N,Kiefer L,Murphy G,Lopez-Otin C,Vitek MP,Moss ML

更新日期：2004-03-23 00:00:00

abstract：:To better understand the factors controlling the binding of apolipoprotein molecules at the surfaces of serum lipoprotein particles, the adsorption of human apolipoprotein A-I to phospholipid monolayers has been studied. The influence of lipid packing was investigated by spreading the monolayers at various initial sur...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Ibdah JA,Phillips MC

更新日期：1988-09-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The immunoglobulin E-binding protein, epsilon BP (also known as CBP35, Mac-2, L-34, and L-29), is a beta-galactoside-binding protein of approximately 30 kDa and a member of the animal lectin family termed S-type or S-Lac. Multiple biological activities have been attributed to this lectin such as mediation of IgE bindi...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Feizi T,Solomon JC,Yuen CT,Jeng KC,Frigeri LG,Hsu DK,Liu FT

更新日期：1994-05-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Purine repressor (PurR) binding to specific DNA is enhanced by complexing with purines, whereas lactose repressor (LacI) binding is diminished by interaction with inducer sugars despite 30% identity in their protein sequences and highly homologous tertiary structures. Nonetheless, in switching from low- to high-affini...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Moraitis MI,Xu H,Matthews KS

更新日期：2001-07-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The retaining beta-1,4-glycanase Cex from Cellulomonas fimi, a family 10 glycosyl hydrolase, hydrolyzes xylan 40-fold more efficiently than cellulose. To gain insight into the nature of its preference for xylan, we determined the crystal structure of the Cex catalytic domain (Cex-cd) trapped as its covalent 2-deoxy-2-...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Notenboom V,Birsan C,Warren RA,Withers SG,Rose DR

更新日期：1998-04-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The light chain of activated factor IX (FIXa) is involved in a number of functional properties, including FIXa enzymatic activity. This suggests the existence of a functional link between the FIXa light chain and the catalytic domain. The FIXa structure includes a few putative interactions between EGF2 and the proteas...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Fribourg C,Meijer AB,Mertens K

更新日期：2006-09-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Femtosecond spectroscopy was performed on CO-liganded (fully reduced and mixed-valence states) and O(2)-liganded quinol oxidase bd from Escherichia coli. Substantial polarization effects, unprecedented for optical studies of heme proteins, were observed in the CO photodissociation spectra, implying interactions betwee...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Borisov VB,Liebl U,Rappaport F,Martin JL,Zhang J,Gennis RB,Konstantinov AA,Vos MH

更新日期：2002-02-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Fibroblast growth factors (FGFs) are mitogenic and chemotactic agents for a wide variety of cell types and play a primary role in the regulation of angiogenesis. Angiogenesis is involved in a variety of critical physiological events including organogenesis, wound healing, ischemic collateral circulation, and solid tum...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Blaber M,DiSalvo J,Thomas KA

更新日期：1996-02-20 00:00:00

abstract：:We have employed a combination of gel retardation, protein-DNA cross-linking, and protein-protein cross-linking techniques to further examine the 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p- dioxin-(TCDD-) dependent changes in the Ah receptor that result in a DNA-binding conformation. Gel retardation analysis of DNA-Sepharose chroma...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Gasiewicz TA,Elferink CJ,Henry EC

更新日期：1991-03-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Comparative electrophoretic, thermal denaturation, and spectroscopic studies with dodecamers of the form d(ATTA-XGCX-TAAT) and their self-complementary counterparts suggest that actinomycin D (ACTD) binds strongly to a 5'GC3' site with flanking T/T mismatches and moderately to that with C/C mismatches but weakly to th...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Liu C,Chen FM

更新日期：1996-12-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Six active site mutants of Escherichia coli phosphofructokinase have been constructed and characterized using steady-state kinetics. All but one of the mutants (ES222) have significantly lower maximal activity, implicating these residues in the catalytic process. Replacement of Asp127, the key catalytic residue in the...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Berger SA,Evans PR

更新日期：1992-09-29 00:00:00

abstract：:In the absence of ligands, dihydrofolate reductase from Escherichia coli exists in at least two interconvertible conformations, only one of which binds NADPH with high affinity. This equilibrium is pH dependent, involving an ionizable group of the enzyme (pK approximately 5.5), and the proportion of the NADPH-binding ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Dunn SM,Lanigan TM,Howell EE

更新日期：1990-09-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Volumes of lipid dispersions as a function of temperature have been measured for two different kinds of binary mixtures of lecithins, (1) DMPC and DSPC and (2) DMPC and DC20PC. Emphasis was placed on DMPC-rich compositions so as to resolve ambiguities regarding solid-phase immiscibility in DMPC-DSPC mixtures. Special ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Wilkinson DA,Nagle JF

更新日期：1979-09-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Sumoylation, the process by which the ubiquitin-related SUMO protein is covalently attached to lysine side chains in other proteins, is involved in numerous processes in the eukaryotic cell, including transcriptional repression. In this study, we identify Gcn5, the histone-modifying subunit of the transcriptional regu...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Sterner DE,Nathan D,Reindle A,Johnson ES,Berger SL

更新日期：2006-01-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Steroid receptors define a family of ligand-activated transcription factors. Recent work has demonstrated that the receptors regulate distinct but overlapping gene networks, yet the mechanisms by which they do so remain unclear. We previously determined the microscopic binding energetics for progesterone receptor (PR)...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Moody AD,Miura MT,Connaghan KD,Bain DL

更新日期：2012-01-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The O-linked protein glycosylation pathway in Neisseria gonorrhoeae is responsible for the synthesis of a complex oligosaccharide on undecaprenyl diphosphate and subsequent en bloc transfer of the glycan to serine residues of select periplasmic proteins. Protein glycosylation (pgl) genes have been annotated on the bas...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Hartley MD,Morrison MJ,Aas FE,Børud B,Koomey M,Imperiali B

更新日期：2011-06-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Lysine side chains induce conformational changes in plasminogen (Pg) that regulate the process of fibrinolysis or blood clot dissolution. A lysine side-chain mimic, epsilon amino caproic acid (EACA), enhances the activation of Pg by urinary-type and tissue-type Pg activators but inhibits Pg activation induced by strep...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Lin LF,Houng A,Reed GL

更新日期：2000-04-25 00:00:00

abstract：:During catalysis by liver alcohol dehydrogenase (ADH), a water bound to the catalytic zinc is replaced by the oxygen of the substrates. The mechanism might involve a pentacoordinated zinc or a double-displacement reaction with participation by a nearby glutamate residue, as suggested by studies of human ADH3, yeast AD...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Plapp BV,Savarimuthu BR,Ferraro DJ,Rubach JK,Brown EN,Ramaswamy S

更新日期：2017-07-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Using lattice statistical mechanics, we develop theory to account for the folding of a heteropolymer molecule such as a protein to the globular and soluble state. Folding is assumed to be driven by the association of solvophobic monomers to avoid solvent and opposed by the chain configurational entropy. Theory predict...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Dill KA

更新日期：1985-03-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Light-driven outward sodium-pumping rhodopsin (NaR) was recently found in marine bacteria. Krokinobacter eikastus rhodopsin 2 (KR2) actively transports sodium and lithium ions in NaCl and LiCl, respectively, while it pumps protons in KCl. NaR has a conserved NDQ (N112, D116, and Q123 in KR2) motif, and previous studie...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Abe-Yoshizumi R,Inoue K,Kato HE,Nureki O,Kandori H

更新日期：2016-10-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell free protein synthesis (CFPS) has emerged as a promising methodology for protein expression. While polypeptide production is very reliable and efficient using CFPS, the correct cotranslational folding of membrane proteins during CFPS is still a challenge. In this contribution, we describe a two-step protocol in w...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Focke PJ,Hein C,Hoffmann B,Matulef K,Bernhard F,Dötsch V,Valiyaveetil FI

更新日期：2016-08-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacteriocins are bacterial peptides with specific activity against competing species. They hold great potential as natural preservatives and for their probiotic effects. We show here nuclear magnetic resonance-based evidence that glycocin F, a 43-amino acid bacteriocin from Lactobacillus plantarum, contains two β-link...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Venugopal H,Edwards PJ,Schwalbe M,Claridge JK,Libich DS,Stepper J,Loo T,Patchett ML,Norris GE,Pascal SM

更新日期：2011-04-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The photoaddition of 4'-(hydroxymethyl)-4,5',8-trimethylpsoralen (HMT) to different conformational states of RNA was studied. Poly(U), poly(A,U) (random copolymer), poly(A-U) (alternating copolymer), poly(A) . poly(U) (double stranded), and poly(U) . poly(A) . poly(U) (triple stranded) were reacted with HMT at differe...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Thompson JF,Bachellerie JP,Hall K,Hearst JE

更新日期：1982-03-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Cofilin is an actin regulatory protein that binds to both monomeric and filamentous actin, and has filament severing activity. Although crystal structures for the monomeric forms of both G-actin and cofilin have been described, the structure of the binary cofilin-G-actin complex is not available. Synchrotron protein f...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Guan JQ,Vorobiev S,Almo SC,Chance MR

更新日期：2002-05-07 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA topoisomerase I (Top1) is an essential nuclear enzyme and a validated target for anticancer agent screening. In a previous study, we found that indolizinoquinoline-5,12-dione derivatives show significant biological activity against several human cancer cell lines. To understand their mechanism of inhibition of can...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Wu N,Wu XW,Agama K,Pommier Y,Du J,Li D,Gu LQ,Huang ZS,An LK

更新日期：2010-11-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Fas and its ligand (FasL) are members of the tumor necrosis factor receptor (TNFR) and tumor necrosis factor (TNF) superfamilies, respectively. Fas-FasL interactions trigger controlled cell death (apoptosis) in the immune system and thus play a key role in the regulation of immune responses. Structural details of the ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Starling GC,Kiener PA,Aruffo A,Bajorath J

更新日期：1998-03-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Little is known about how a membrane can regulate interactions between transmembrane helices. Here, we show that strong self-interaction of the transmembrane helix of human quiescin sulfhydryl oxidase 2 rests on a motif of conserved amino acids comprising one face of the helix. Atomistic molecular dynamics simulations...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Ried CL,Scharnagl C,Langosch D

更新日期：2016-03-08 00:00:00