Inversion of receptor binding preferences by mutagenesis: free energy thermodynamic integration studies on sugar binding to L-arabinose binding proteins.

abstract：:A five-residue loop structure in basic fibroblast growth factor (FGF-2) which extends from amino acid residue 118 to residue 122 was replaced, by cassette mutagenesis, with the corresponding seven-residue loop structure from the structural homologue acidic fibroblast growth factor (FGF-1) or the corresponding five-res...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Seddon AP,Aviezer D,Li LY,Böhlen P,Yayon A

更新日期：1995-01-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The dark reaction of tris(hydroxymethyl)aminomethane (Tris) with the O2-evolving center of photosystem II (PSII) in the S1 state causes irreversible inhibition of O2 evolution. Similar inhibition is observed for several other amines: NH3, CH3NH2, (CH3)2NH, ethanolamine, and 2-amino-2-ethyl-1,3-propanediol. In PSII mem...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Rickert KW,Sears J,Beck WF,Brudvig GW

更新日期：1991-08-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Increasing efforts are being invested in the construction of nanostructures with desired shapes and physical and chemical properties. Our strategy involves nanostructure design using naturally occurring protein building blocks. Inspection of the protein structural database (PDB) reveals the richness of the conformatio...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Zheng J,Zanuy D,Haspel N,Tsai CJ,Alemán C,Nussinov R

更新日期：2007-02-06 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：:We have investigated effects of chemical modifications of a third strand on the thermodynamic and kinetic properties of the triplex formation between a 23-bp duplex and each of four kinds of 15-mer chemically modified third strands using isothermal titration calorimetry and interaction analysis system. The chemical mo...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Torigoe H,Shimizume R,Sarai A,Shindo H

更新日期：1999-11-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Fourteen oligonucleotides 8-21 nucleotides in length and their complements were synthesized as DNA and RNA. For each sequence, four kinds of duplexes, DNA:DNA, RNA:RNA, DNA:RNA, and RNA:DNA, were prepared. Twelve sequences had A.T/U content varying from 25 to 80% and dPy content in the DNA strands varying from 0 to 10...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Lesnik EA,Freier SM

更新日期：1995-08-29 00:00:00

abstract：:A series of diastereomeric dipeptide amides, containing an N-terminal L-lysyl residue and a C-terminal L- or D-amino acid with a derivatized aromatic ring on the side chain, was synthesized to determine the dependence of (1) the chirality of the N-terminal amino acid alpha-carbon and (2) the length of the N-terminal a...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Sheardy RD,Gabbay EJ

更新日期：1983-04-26 00:00:00

abstract：:HpaI and BphI are two pyruvate class II aldolases found in aromatic meta-cleavage degradation pathways that catalyze similar reactions but are not related in sequence. Steady-state kinetic analysis of the aldol addition reactions and product inhibition assays showed that HpaI exhibits a rapid equilibrium random order ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Wang W,Baker P,Seah SY

更新日期：2010-05-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The synaptotagmin (Syt) family of proteins plays an important role in vesicle docking and fusion during Ca(2+)-induced exocytosis in a wide variety of cell types. Its role as a Ca(2+) sensor derives primarily from its two C2 domains, C2A and C2B, which insert into anionic lipid membranes upon binding Ca(2+). Syt isofo...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Osterberg JR,Chon NL,Boo A,Maynard FA,Lin H,Knight JD

更新日期：2015-09-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Activation enthalpies and entropies are reported for proton-deuteron exchange at 42 amide sites in T4 lysozyme and compared with activation volumes for the same residues obtained earlier [Hitchens, T. K., and Bryant, R. G. (1998) Biochemistry 37, 5878-5887]. There is no correlation found between activation volume and ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Dixon ME,Hitchens TK,Bryant RG

更新日期：2000-01-11 00:00:00

abstract：:A highly sensitive and stable scanning microcalorimeter is employed in a reinvestigation of the effect of cholesterol on multilamellar suspensions of dimyristoylphosphatidylcholine (DMPC) and dipalmitoylphosphatidylcholine (DPPC). Below 20 mol % cholesterol the DPPC mixtures give heat-capacity curves each of which can...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Mabrey S,Mateo PL,Sturtevant JM

更新日期：1978-06-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The solution conformation of the ribonuclease barnase has been determined by using 1H nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy. The 20 structures were calculated by using 853 interproton distance restraints obtained from analyses of two-dimensional nuclear Overhauser spectra, 72 phi and 53 chi 1 torsion angle res...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Bycroft M,Ludvigsen S,Fersht AR,Poulsen FM

更新日期：1991-09-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Retinoid X receptors (RXRs) are transcription factors with important functions in embryonic development, metabolic processes, differentiation, and apoptosis. A particular feature of RXRs is their ability to act as obligatory heterodimerization partners of class II nuclear receptors. At the same time, these receptors a...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Belorusova A,Osz J,Petoukhov MV,Peluso-Iltis C,Kieffer B,Svergun DI,Rochel N

更新日期：2016-03-29 00:00:00

abstract：:UreE is a homodimeric metallo-chaperone that assists the insertion of Ni(2+) ions in the active site of urease. The crystal structures of UreE from Bacillus pasteurii and Klebsiella aerogenes have been determined, but the details of the nickel-binding site were not elucidated due to solid-state effects that caused dis...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Stola M,Musiani F,Mangani S,Turano P,Safarov N,Zambelli B,Ciurli S

更新日期：2006-05-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The conserved glycines in the glycine-rich loop (Leu-Gly50-Thr-Gly52-Ser-Phe-Gly55-Arg-Val) of the catalytic (C) subunit of cAMP-dependent protein kinase were each mutated to Ser (G50S, G52S, and G55S). The effects of these mutations were assessed here using both steady-state and pre-steady-state kinetic methods. Whil...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Grant BD,Hemmer W,Tsigelny I,Adams JA,Taylor SS

更新日期：1998-05-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The unfolding equilibrium of recombinant (rNP) and natural variants of nucleoplasmin (NP) from Xenopus laevis has been analyzed using biochemical and spectroscopic techniques. In the presence of denaturing concentrations of guanidinium salts (GuHCl and GuSCN), both domains, core and tail, of the rNP pentamer unfold as...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Franco G,Bañuelos S,Falces J,Muga A,Urbaneja MA

更新日期：2008-07-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The structure of a synthetic peptide corresponding to residues 1-45 of rabbit muscle adenylate kinase has been studied in aqueous solution by two-dimensional NMR, FTIR, and CD spectroscopy. This peptide, which binds MgATP and is believed to represent most of the MgATP-binding site of the enzyme [Fry, D.C., Kuby, S.A.,...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Fry DC,Byler DM,Susi H,Brown EM,Kuby SA,Mildvan AS

更新日期：1988-05-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The intermediates in the oxidation of deoxyhemoglobin by ferricyanide in 0.1 M KCl, at 20 degrees C and three pH values, were studied by cryogenic techniques. Data analysis was carried out according to a simple four rate constant model, ignoring the functional heterogeneity of the subunits, to simulate the time course...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Perrella M,Shrager RI,Ripamonti M,Manfredi G,Berger RL,Rossi-Bernardi L

更新日期：1993-05-18 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：:The preferential in vitro methylation of histone H3 by coactivator-associated arginine methyltransferase 1 (CARM1) has been proposed as a basis for its ability to enhance gene transcription [Chen, D., et al. (1999) Science 284, 2174-2177]. To further evaluate the significance of H3 methylation, we studied the kinetics...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Schurter BT,Koh SS,Chen D,Bunick GJ,Harp JM,Hanson BL,Henschen-Edman A,Mackay DR,Stallcup MR,Aswad DW

更新日期：2001-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:X-ray crystallographic data to 1.9-A resolution were collected on sperm whale metmyoglobin equilibrated with 7 atm of xenon gas. The results indicate four xenon sites of occupancy from 0.45 to 1.0. These sites are located in interior spaces or packing defects of the myoglobin molecule. The effects of the bound xenon o...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Tilton RF Jr,Kuntz ID Jr,Petsko GA

更新日期：1984-06-19 00:00:00

abstract：:RosB catalyzes the formation of 8-aminoriboflavin 5'-phosphate (AFP), the key intermediate in roseoflavin biosynthesis, from the metabolic precursors riboflavin 5'-phosphate (RP, also known as FMN) and glutamate. The conversion of the aromatic methyl group at position 8 in RP into the aromatic amine in AFP occurs via ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Kapoor I,Nair SK

更新日期：2018-09-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The dependence of calcineurin on Ca2+ for activity is the result of the concerted action of calmodulin, which increases the turnover rate of the enzyme and modulates its response to Ca2+ transients, and of calcineurin B, which decreases the Km of the enzyme for its substrate. The calmodulin-stimulated protein phosphat...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Stemmer PM,Klee CB

更新日期：1994-06-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The pH-dependent behavior of the ferric forms of two soluble truncations of Rhizobium meliloti FixL, FixL (heme and kinase domains, functional), and FixLN (heme domain) are examined by UV-visible, resonance Raman, and electron paramagnetic resonance spectroscopy. Global analysis of UV-visible data indicates that the p...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Lukat-Rodgers GS,Rexine JL,Rodgers KR

更新日期：1998-09-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Several experimental approaches have been employed to independently determine rates of dissociation for Escherichia coli RNA polymerase from the T7 bacteriophage A1, A2, A3, and D promoters. Heparin challenge measurements employing abortive initiation turnover rates as an index of promoter occupancy were carried out o...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Cech CL,McClure WR

更新日期：1980-05-27 00:00:00

abstract：:MerR, the metalloregulator of the mercury resistance (mer) operon, binds the operator (merO)between -10 and -35 of the merTPCAD promoter (PT) and sequesters RNA polymerase (RNAP) in a closed complex. MerR represses PT until Hg(II) induces it to underwind merO DNA and thus facilitate open complex formation. We used cro...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Kulkarni RD,Summers AO

更新日期：1999-03-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The following polynucleotides containing the antibiotic tubercidin (Tu; 4-amino-7-beta-D-ribofuranosylpyrrolo-[2,3-d]pyrimidine) were enzymatically synthesized by polymerization of adenosine 5'-diphosphate-tubercidin 5'-diphosphate mixtures with polynucleotide phosphorylase: poly(A2,Tu), poly(A,Tu2), and poly(Tu). The...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Seela F,Tran TQ,Mentzel H,Erdmann VA

更新日期：1981-04-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The behavior of Ca2+-ATPase from sarcoplasmic reticulum in detergent solution was compared with that of Ca2+-ATPase which had been cleaved in half by limited trypsin digestion. Attempts to dissociate the fragments (I and II) with an excess of detergent micelles demonstrated that fragments I and II are structurally dep...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Rizzolo LJ,Tanford C

更新日期：1978-09-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Quinone oxidoreductase 2 (QR2) purified from human red blood cells was recently shown to be a potential target of the quinoline antimalarial compounds [Graves et al., (2002) Mol. Pharmacol. 62, 1364]. QR2 catalyzes the two-electron reduction of menadione via the oxidation of N-alkylated or N-ribosylated nicotinamides....

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Kwiek JJ,Haystead TA,Rudolph J

更新日期：2004-04-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Alpha-sarcin is an exquisitely specific ribonuclease that binds and cleaves a single phosphodiester bond in the large rRNA of the eukaryotic ribosome, inactivating it. To better understand this remarkable activity, the contributions of the active site residues (His 50, Glu 96, and His 137) to the conformational stabil...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： García-Mayoral MF,del Pozo AM,Campos-Olivas R,Gavilanes JG,Santoro J,Rico M,Laurents DV,Bruix M

更新日期：2006-11-21 00:00:00