Characterization of the quaternary structure and conformational properties of the human stem cell inhibitor protein LD78 in solution.

abstract：:Evidence of nonequilibrium local heating in transient spectra of LHCII, the main light-harvesting complex of plants, was studied by using various excitation intensities over a wide temperature range, from 10 K to room temperature. No obvious manifestation of local heating was found at room temperature, whereas at 10 K...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Gulbinas V,Karpicz R,Garab G,Valkunas L

更新日期：2006-08-08 00:00:00

abstract：:S100A1, a member of the S100 protein family, is an EF-hand containing Ca(2+)-binding protein (93 residues per subunit) with noncovalent interactions at its dimer interface. Each subunit of S100A1 has four alpha-helices and a small antiparallel beta-sheet consistent with two helix-loop-helix calcium-binding domains [Ba...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Rustandi RR,Baldisseri DM,Inman KG,Nizner P,Hamilton SM,Landar A,Landar A,Zimmer DB,Weber DJ

更新日期：2002-01-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The highly conserved amino acid sequence PCDGPGRGGTC in both photosystem I reaction center core proteins PsaA and PsaB has been predicted to contribute the four cysteine ligands for coordination of the 4Fe-4S iron-sulfur cluster FX, and we have proposed a working model for the binding of PsaC to this domain of the rea...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Rodday SM,Webber AN,Bingham SE,Biggins J

更新日期：1995-05-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Proton NMR studies were conducted on the complementary 15-mer duplex d(5'-TACTCTTCTTGACCT).(5'-AGGTCAAGAAGAGTA) (designated as unmodified 15-mer duplex) spanning a portion of the mouse c-Ha-ras protooncogene centered around codon 61. Identical studies were carried out on the same sequence, after specific modification ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Cho BP,Beland FA,Marques MM

更新日期：1992-10-13 00:00:00

abstract：:CD6 is a member of the scavenger receptor cysteine rich protein superfamily (SRCRSF). This family includes many cell surface proteins whose three-dimensional structures and functions are presently not well understood. The extracellular region of CD6 includes 3 SRCR domains. The membrane proximal SRCR domain specifical...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Bodian DL,Skonier JE,Bowen MA,Neubauer M,Siadak AW,Aruffo A,Bajorath J

更新日期：1997-03-04 00:00:00

abstract：:TcmO is an O-methyltransferase that methylates the C-8 hydroxyl to Tcm B3, a four-ring aromatic intermediate in the tetracenomycin biosynthetic pathway of Streptomyces glaucescens. The gene encoding this enzyme was expressed in Streptomyces coelicolor CH999 together with the actinorhodin polyketide synthase (PKS) gene...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Fu H,Alvarez MA,Khosla C,Bailey JE

更新日期：1996-05-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The characteristics of tetrahydrobiopterin (H4biopterin) binding to pteridine-free recombinant macrophage inducible nitric oxide synthase expressed in Escherichia coli were investigated with a special focus given to effects caused by 2,4-diamino-5,6,7, 8-tetrahydro-6-(l-erythro-1,2-dihydroxypropyl)pteridine (4-amino-H...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Mayer B,Wu C,Gorren AC,Pfeiffer S,Schmidt K,Clark P,Stuehr DJ,Werner ER

更新日期：1997-07-08 00:00:00

abstract：:SecA-lipid interactions are believed to be important for the translocation of precursor proteins across the inner membrane of Escherichia coli [Lill, R., Dowhan, W., & Wickner, W. (1990) Cell 60, 271-280]. SecA insertion into the phospholipid bilayer could a role in this process. We investigated this possibility by st...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Breukink E,Demel RA,de Korte-Kool G,de Kruijff B

更新日期：1992-02-04 00:00:00

abstract：:In cells, RNAs likely adopt numerous intermediate conformations prior to formation of functional RNA-protein complexes. We used single-nucleotide resolution selective 2'-hydroxyl acylation analyzed by primer extension (SHAPE) to probe the structure of Escherichia coli 16S rRNA in healthy growing bacteria. SHAPE-direct...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： McGinnis JL,Weeks KM

更新日期：2014-05-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Two short amino acid motifs, WXGDXNXR and PXWCDRXL, define a large family of inositol polyphosphate 5-phosphatases. We tested the importance of seven of these conserved amino acids to substrate binding and catalysis by mutating each to alanine in the platelet 75 kDa inositol polyphosphate 5-phosphatase II (5-phosphata...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Jefferson AB,Majerus PW

更新日期：1996-06-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Shiga toxin is a bacterial protein composed of one A and five B subunits. Its A chain possesses a protease sensitive loop (Cys-242-Cys-261) that is cleaved to produce an enzymatically active A1 domain and an A2 fragment associated with its B subunit pentamer. The proposed mode of action of the toxin is linked to its r...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Saleh MT,Ferguson J,Boggs JM,Gariépy J

更新日期：1996-07-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The neutron structure of subtilisin BPN' has been refined and analyzed at 2.0-A resolution. The structure studied was a mutant variant of subtilisin, Met222----Gln, and was used because large, uninhibited crystals could be grown, which was not the case for the native molecule. Comparison of the structure with that of ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Kossiakoff AA,Ultsch M,White S,Eigenbrot C

更新日期：1991-02-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The two-finger repeat in the human male-associated protein ZFY provides a model for comparative 2D-NMR studies of classical and variant Zn fingers. This repeat is defined in part by an alternation in spacing between consensus (HX3H) and variant (HX4H) histidine spacings. To investigate the effects of a "switch" betwee...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Kochoyan M,Keutmann HT,Weiss MA

更新日期：1991-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:While the iron-molybdenum cofactor (FeMoco) of nitrogenase, a constituent of the active site for nitrogen reduction, can be extracted into N-methylformamide (NMF) and pyrrollidinone, the inability to solubilize it in any other organic solvents has hampered further understanding of its structure and chemical properties...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Wink DA,McLean PA,Hickman AB,Orme-Johnson WH

更新日期：1989-11-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of the interaction between actin and the secondary actin binding site of myosin (segment 565-579 of rabbit skeletal muscle myosin, referred to as loop 3 in this work) has been studied with proteolytically generated smooth and skeletal muscle myosin subfragment 1 and recombinant Dictyostelium discoideum myosin...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Van Dijk J,Furch M,Lafont C,Manstein DJ,Chaussepied P

更新日期：1999-11-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The structures of oligosaccharides of normal and pathological immunoglobulin G (IgG) are reported. Asparagine-linked neutral oligosaccharides were released by N-oligosaccharide glycopeptidase (almond) digestion. The reducing ends of the oligosaccharide chains thus obtained were aminated with a fluorescent reagent, 2-a...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Takahashi N,Ishii I,Ishihara H,Mori M,Tejima S,Jefferis R,Endo S,Arata Y

更新日期：1987-02-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The N-acyl- l-homoserine lactone hydrolases (AHL lactonases) have attracted considerable attention because of their ability to quench AHL-mediated quorum-sensing pathways in Gram-negative bacteria and because of their relation to other enzymes in the metallo-beta-lactamase superfamily. To elucidate the detailed cataly...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Momb J,Wang C,Liu D,Thomas PW,Petsko GA,Guo H,Ringe D,Fast W

更新日期：2008-07-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The classical complement pathway, which plays a vital role in preventing infection, is initiated by the action of the serine proteases C1r and C1s. We have examined the hydrolysis of substrates representing cleavage sequences in the physiological substrates for C1s, C2 and C4. These studies showed that the P(1)'-P(4)'...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： O'Brien G,Quinsey NS,Whisstock JC,Pike RN

更新日期：2003-12-23 00:00:00

abstract：:2H NMR spectroscopy was used to consider correspondence between existing single-crystal X-ray data for glycosphingolipids and their ceramide backbone conformation in fluid phospholipid membranes. A monoglycosylated sphingolipid, glucosylceramide (GlcCer), which represents the core structure of many important glycosphi...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Hamilton KS,Jarrell HC,Brière KM,Grant CW

更新日期：1993-04-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Inflammation and subsequent cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2) activity has long been linked with the development of cancer, although little is known about any epigenetic effects of COX-2. A product of COX-2 activation, levuglandin (LG) quickly forms covalent bonds with nearby primary amines, such as those in lysine, which lead...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Carrier EJ,Zagol-Ikapitte I,Amarnath V,Boutaud O,Oates JA

更新日期：2014-04-22 00:00:00

abstract：:ncd is a kinesin-related motor protein from Drosophila that moves in the opposite direction along microtubules to kinesin. To learn more about the ncd mechanism, ncd motor domain (R335-K700) was expressed in Escherichia coli and its enzymatic characteristics were studied. The ncd motor domain was purified from the cel...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Shimizu T,Sablin E,Vale RD,Fletterick R,Pechatnikova E,Taylor EW

更新日期：1995-10-10 00:00:00

abstract：:M13 DNA containing 20-30 apurinic/apyrimidinic (AP) sites per intact circular molecule was prepared by growing phage on an ung- dut- Escherichia coli mutant and treating the DNA with uracil N-glycosylase. AP sites obstruct in vitro DNA synthesis catalyzed by E. coli pol I. The position at which termination of synthesi...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Sagher D,Strauss B

更新日期：1983-09-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Artificial genetic systems have been developed by synthetic biologists over the past two decades to include additional nucleotides that form additional nucleobase pairs independent of the standard T:A and C:G pairs. Their use in various tools to detect and analyze DNA and RNA requires polymerases that synthesize duple...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Laos R,Shaw R,Leal NA,Gaucher E,Benner S

更新日期：2013-08-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The major plasma membrane protein of human erythrocytes is the anion transport protein, termed protein 3. We previously reported a variant form of protein 3 that is elongated on the amino-terminal end of the molecule, which is exposed on the cytoplasmic side of the membrane, but otherwise its features are identical wi...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Hsu L,Morrison M

更新日期：1985-06-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Solid-state NMR spectroscopy was employed to study the molecular dynamics of the colicin Ia channel domain in the soluble and membrane-bound states. In the soluble state, the protein executes small-amplitude librations (with root-mean-square angular fluctuations of 0-10 degrees ) in the backbone and larger-amplitude m...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Huster D,Xiao L,Hong M

更新日期：2001-06-26 00:00:00

abstract：:A new actinoleukin-like antitumor antibiotic, BBM-928A, has been shown to interact with isolated DNA molecules. BBM-928A contains two substituted quinolines linked by a cyclic decapeptide. Quenching effects of the covalently closed superhelical PM2 DNA on the BBM-928A fluorescence revealed a strong interaction with an...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Huang CH,Mong S,Crooke ST

更新日期：1980-11-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Photochemical and subsequent thermal reactions of rhodopsin containing 9-cis-retinal [Rh(9)] or one of four analogues with 9-cis geometries formed from ring-modified retinals, alpha-retinal [alpha Rh(9)], acyclic retinal [AcRh(9)], acyclic alpha-retinal [Ac alpha Rh(9)], and 5-isopropyl-alpha-retinal [P alpha Rh(9)] w...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Okada T,Kandori H,Shichida Y,Yoshizawa T,Denny M,Zhang BW,Asato AE,Liu RS

更新日期：1991-05-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The protein phosphatase 2C (PP2C) family represents one of the four major protein Ser/Thr phosphatase activities in mammalian cells and contains at least 13 distinct gene products. Although PP2C family members regulate a variety of cellular functions, mechanisms of regulation of their activities are largely unknown. H...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Awano K,Amano K,Nagaura Y,Kanno S,Echigo S,Tamura S,Kobayashi T

更新日期：2008-07-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Primase DnaG is an essential bacterial enzyme that synthesizes short ribonucleotide primers required for chromosomal DNA replication. Inhibitors of DnaG can serve as leads for development of new antibacterials and biochemical probes. We recently developed a nonradioactive in vitro primase-pyrophosphatase assay to iden...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Biswas T,Green KD,Garneau-Tsodikova S,Tsodikov OV

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The gene product 61 primase protein from bacteriophage T4 was expressed as an intein fusion and purified to homogeneity. The primase binds one zinc ion, which is coordinated by four cysteine residues to form a zinc ribbon motif. Factors that influence the rate of priming were investigated, and a physiologically releva...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Valentine AM,Ishmael FT,Shier VK,Benkovic SJ

更新日期：2001-12-18 00:00:00