Analysis of hydrogen bonding in enzyme-substrate complexes of chloramphenicol acetyltransferase by infrared spectroscopy and site-directed mutagenesis.

abstract：:The reduction of D-amino acid oxidase (DAAO) by hydrated electrons (eaq-) has been studied in the absence and presence of benzoate by pulse radiolysis. The eaq-did not reduce the flavin moiety in DAAO and reacted with the amino acid residues in the protein. In the presence of benzoate, eaq- first reacted with benzoate...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Kobayashi K,Hirota K,Ohara H,Hayashi K,Miura R,Yamano T

更新日期：1983-04-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Regulation of Saccharomyces cerevisiae membrane-associated phosphatidate phosphatase (3-sn-phosphatidate phosphohydrolase, EC 3.1.3.4) activity by phospholipids was examined using purified enzyme and Triton X-100/phospholipid-mixed micelles. Anionic phospholipids activated phosphatidate phosphatase activity whereas zw...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Wu WI,Carman GM

更新日期：1996-03-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The contribution of ligand dynamics to CYP allosterism has not been considered in detail. On the basis of a previous study, we hypothesized that CYP2A6 and CYP2E1 accommodate multiple xylene ligands. As a result, the intramolecular ( k H/ k D) obs values observed for some xylene isomers are expected to be dependent on...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Harrelson JP,Atkins WM,Nelson SD

更新日期：2008-03-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The hydrogen exchange behavior of a four-helix bundle protein in low concentrations of denaturant reveals some partially unfolded forms that are significantly more stable than the fully unfolded state. Kinetic folding of the protein, however, is apparently two-state in the absence of the accumulation of early folding ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Chu R,Pei W,Takei J,Bai Y

更新日期：2002-06-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The interaction of heparan sulfate with different ligand proteins depends on the precise location of O-sulfate groups in the polysaccharide chain. We have previously shown that overexpression in human kidney 293 cells of a mouse mastocytoma 2-O-sulfotransferase (2-OST), previously thought to catalyze the transfer of s...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Rong J,Habuchi H,Kimata K,Lindahl U,Kusche-Gullberg M

更新日期：2001-05-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Equilibrium binding isotherms have been measured as a function of temperature for the interaction of 2- and 8-aminoadenosine with poly(U) by continuous, constant-volume ultrafiltration. An analytical method is described for determining the entire isotherm in a single experiment on a preequilibrated ligand--polymer sol...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Roy KB,Miles HT

更新日期：1982-01-05 00:00:00

abstract：:A crude in vitro system which initiates chloroplast DNA synthesis near the D-loop site mapped by electron microscopy [Wu, M., Lou, J. K., Chang, D. Y., Chang, C. H., & Nie, Z. Q. (1986) Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 83, 6761-6765] consists of soluble proteins and proteins extracted from purified thylakoid membrane. In...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Wang ZF,Yang J,Nie ZQ,Wu M

更新日期：1991-01-29 00:00:00

abstract：:A cell-free system for synthesizing protein from wheat germ was used to translate the messenger RNA extracted from 16-day embryonic chick calvaria. A part of the product had properties similar to collagenous peptides and served as a substrate for prolyl hydroxylase, an enzyme specific for collagen. The level of potass...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Benveniste K,Wilczek J,Ruggieri A,Stern R

更新日期：1976-02-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The pre-steady-state kinetics of the trichodiene synthase reaction were investigated by rapid chemical quench methods. The single-turnover rate was found to be 3.5-3.8 s-1, a rate 40 times faster than the steady-state catalytic rate (kcat = 0.09 s-1) for trichodiene synthase-catalyzed conversion of farnesyl diphosphat...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Cane DE,Chiu HT,Liang PH,Anderson KS

更新日期：1997-07-08 00:00:00

abstract：:LL-23 is a natural peptide corresponding to the 23 N-terminal amino acid residues of human host defense cathelicidin LL-37. LL-23 demonstrated, compared to LL-37, a conserved ability to induce the chemokine MCP-1 in human peripheral blood mononuclear cells, a lack of ability to suppress induction of the pro-inflammato...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Wang G,Elliott M,Cogen AL,Ezell EL,Gallo RL,Hancock RE

更新日期：2012-01-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Muscarinic cholinergic receptors can appear to be more numerous when labeled by [(3)H]quinuclidinylbenzilate (QNB) than by N-[(3)H]methylscopolamine (NMS). The nature of the implied heterogeneity has been studied with M(2) receptors in detergent-solubilized extracts of porcine atria. The relative capacity for [(3)H]NM...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Park PS,Sum CS,Pawagi AB,Wells JW

更新日期：2002-04-30 00:00:00

abstract：:We show that eight different serine proteinases--bovine chymotrypsins A and B, porcine pancreatic elastase I, proteinase K, Streptomyces griseus proteinases A and B, and subtilisins BPN' and Carlsberg--interact with turkey ovomucoid third domain at the same Leu18-Glu19 peptide bond, the reactive site of the inhibitor....

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Ardelt W,Laskowski M Jr

更新日期：1985-09-24 00:00:00

abstract：:In the putative secondary structure of the transposon Tn10-encoded metal-tetracycline/H+ antiporter [Yamaguchi, et al. (1992) J. Biol. Chem. 267, 7490-7498], Tyr50-XXX-Gln54 in transmembrane helix 2 and Gly80-XXX-Asp84 in helix 3 are thought to face each other in the N-terminal region. At the corresponding positions i...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Yamaguchi A,Akasaka T,Kimura T,Sakai T,Adachi Y,Sawai T

更新日期：1993-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cytochrome aa3-type terminal quinol oxidase of Bacillus subtilis catalyzes the four-electron reduction of dioxygen to water. It resembles the aa3-type cytochrome-c oxidase in using heme A as its active-site chromophores but lacks the CuA center and the cytochrome-c oxidizing activity of the mitochondrial enzyme. W...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Lauraeus M,Wikström M,Varotsis C,Tecklenburg MM,Babcock GT

更新日期：1992-10-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Prothrombin is the precursor of thrombin, a central enzyme in coagulation. Autoantibodies to prothrombin are associated with thromboembolism, but the mechanisms by which the antibodies modulate the coagulation processes are not understood. We screened a panel of 34 monoclonal antibody light chains isolated from patien...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Thiagarajan P,Dannenbring R,Matsuura K,Tramontano A,Gololobov G,Paul S

更新日期：2000-05-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The catalysis of the chemical exchange between acetaldehyde and its hydrate by bovine carbonic anhydrase B was investigated by the NMR line broadening and saturation transfer techniques. While both chemical exchange and binding to the enzyme had an effect on the line broadening of acetaldehyde and its hydrate, the sat...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Cheshnovsky D,Navon G

更新日期：1980-04-29 00:00:00

abstract：:We have used a site-specific approach to investigate the mutagenic potential of (+)- and (-)-trans-anti-benzo[a]pyrene diol epoxide (BPDE) DNA adducts. Oligodeoxyribonucleotides (5'TCCTCCTG1G2-CCTCTC), modified at the exocyclic amino groups of G1 or G2, were incorporated into a single-stranded shuttle vector and intro...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Moriya M,Spiegel S,Fernandes A,Amin S,Liu T,Geacintov N,Grollman AP

更新日期：1996-12-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutation of Gly90, Glu113, Ala292, and Lys296 in the visual pigment rhodopsin constitutively activates the protein for activation of the G protein transducin. Three of these mutations have been shown to cause two different human diseases. Mutation of Gly90 and Ala292 results in complete night blindness, and mutation o...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Rim J,Oprian DD

更新日期：1995-09-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Over 155 mutations within the V2 vasopressin receptor (AVPR2) gene are responsible for nephrogenic diabetes insipidus (NDI). The expression and subcellular distribution of four of these was investigated in transfected cells. These include a point mutation in the seventh transmembrane domain (S315R), a frameshift mutat...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Morello JP,Salahpour A,Petäjä-Repo UE,Laperrière A,Lonergan M,Arthus MF,Nabi IR,Bichet DG,Bouvier M

更新日期：2001-06-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent structural studies of the HMG-CoA synthase members of the thiolase superfamily have shown that the catalytic loop containing the nucleophilic cysteine follows the phi and psi angle pattern of a II' beta turn. However, the i + 1 residue is conserved as an alanine, which is quite unusual in this position as it mu...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Steussy CN,Robison AD,Tetrick AM,Knight JT,Rodwell VW,Stauffacher CV,Sutherlin AL

更新日期：2006-12-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The structures of hemes a and a3 of maize and wheat germ cytochrome c oxidase were investigated by resonance Raman spectroscopy. Comparison between the plant and mammalian cytochrome oxidases revealed that (i) the vinyl groups associated with hemes a and a3 vibrate at higher frequencies in the plant enzyme than in the...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： de Paula JC,Peiffer WE,Ingle RT,Centeno JA,Ferguson-Miller S,Babcock GT

更新日期：1990-09-18 00:00:00

abstract：:A heterologous expression system was used to evaluate activation of BlaR1, a sensor/signal transducer protein of Staphylococcus aureus with a central role in resistance to β-lactam antibiotics. In the absence of other S. aureus proteins that might respond to antibiotics and participate in signal transduction events, w...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Llarrull LI,Mobashery S

更新日期：2012-06-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Coordinate regulation of PARP-1 and -2 and PARG is required for cellular responses to genotoxic stress. While PARP-1 and -2 are regulated by DNA breaks and covalent modifications, mechanisms of PARG regulation are poorly understood. We report here discovery of a PARG regulatory segment far removed linearly from residu...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Botta D,Jacobson MK

更新日期：2010-09-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The peptide portion of the lipopeptide isolated from bovine myelin basic protein contained glycine, lysine, and serine in a 2:1:1 molar ratio as determined by amino acid analysis. The N-terminus of the peptide was determined to be glycine. The tetrapeptide Gly53-Ser-Gly-Lys56 was the only segment of myelin basic prote...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Chang PC,Yang JC,Fujitaki JM,Chiu KC,Smith RA

更新日期：1986-05-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Pyrimidine oligonucleotides have been shown to prime the E. coli DNA polymerase I repair reaction, specifically and reproducibly. DNA molecules up to 30 nucleotides long have been obtained from the extension of oligopyrimidine primers, 9 to 11 nucleotides long isolated from the complementary (minus) strand of bacterio...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Kaptein JS,Spencer JH

更新日期：1978-03-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The infectious isoform of the prion protein (PrPSc) is derived from cellular PrP (PrPC) in a conversion reaction involving a dramatic reorganization of secondary and tertiary structure. While our understanding of the pathogenic role of PrPSc has grown, the normal physiologic function of PrPC still remains unclear. Usi...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Stöckel J,Safar J,Wallace AC,Cohen FE,Prusiner SB

更新日期：1998-05-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The side chains of histidine and aspartate residues form a hydrogen bond in the active sites of many enzymes. In serine proteases, the His...Asp hydrogen bond of the catalytic triad is known to contribute greatly to catalysis, perhaps via the formation of a low-barrier hydrogen bond. In bovine pancreatic ribonuclease ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Schultz LW,Quirk DJ,Raines RT

更新日期：1998-06-23 00:00:00

abstract：:In Salmonella typhimurium, formation of the cobalt-carbon bond in the biosynthetic pathway for adenosylcobalamin is catalyzed by the product of the cobA gene which encodes a protein of 196 amino acid residues. This enzyme is an ATP:co(I)rrinoid adenosyltransferase which transfers an adenosyl moiety from MgATP to a bro...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Bauer CB,Fonseca MV,Holden HM,Thoden JB,Thompson TB,Escalante-Semerena JC,Rayment I

更新日期：2001-01-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Pancreatic and duodenal homeobox 1 (Pdx1) is a homeodomain transcription factor belonging to the ParaHox family. Pdx1 plays an essential role in pancreatic endocrine and exocrine cell development and maintenance of adult islet beta-cell function. Mutations in the human pdx1 gene are linked to an early onset form of no...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Longo A,Guanga GP,Rose RB

更新日期：2007-03-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Misfolded proteins in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) are degraded by N-terminal threonine proteases within the 26S proteasome. Each protease is formed by an activated beta subunit, beta5/X, beta1/Y, or beta2/Z, that exhibits chymotrypsin-like, peptidylglutamyl-peptide hydrolyzing, or trypsin-like activity, respectivel...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Oberdorf J,Carlson EJ,Skach WR

更新日期：2001-11-06 00:00:00