Determination of Fe-CO geometry in the subunits of carbonmonoxy hemoglobin M Boston using femtosecond infrared spectroscopy.

abstract：:To identify the residues essential for interfacial binding and substrate binding of human pancreatic phospholipase A2 (hpPLA2), several ionic residues in the putative interfacial binding surface (R6E, K7E, K10E, and K116E) and substrate binding site (D53K and K56E) were mutated. Interfacial affinity of these mutants w...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Snitko Y,Han SK,Lee BI,Cho W

更新日期：1999-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The photocycle of 124 kDa phytochrome A from Avena sativa was studied by Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy at low temperatures. Difference spectra between the parent state Pr and the intermediates of the Pr-->Pfr pathway, i.e. lumi-R, meta-Ra, and meta-Rc, and between Pfr and the intermediates of the Pfr-->Pr pa...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Foerstendorf H,Mummert E,Schäfer E,Scheer H,Siebert F

更新日期：1996-08-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Pterin-free inducible nitric oxide synthase (iNOS) was reconstituted with tetrahydrobiopterin (H(4)B) or tetrahydrobiopterin analogues (5-methyl-H(4)B and 4-amino-H(4)B), and the ability of bound 5-methyl-H(4)B and 4-amino-H(4)B to support catalysis by either full-length iNOS (FLiNOS) or the isolated heme domain (HDiN...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Hurshman AR,Krebs C,Edmondson DE,Marletta MA

更新日期：2003-11-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The radiation inactivation method was used to study the size of acetylcholine receptors in the intact membrane-bound state. This technique was reinvestigated, and modifications were made which remove substantial difficulties affecting previous applications of it to such proteins. The molecular size was deduced here by...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Lo MM,Barnard EA,Dolly JO

更新日期：1982-04-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Actin depolymerizing activity in serum can be attributed to the two proteins brevin and vitamin D binding protein (DBP). To investigate their mechanisms of action, we used a number of techniques, including procedures involving the fluorescent pyrene-labeled actin probe, to compare the interaction of the two proteins w...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Lees A,Haddad JG,Lin S

更新日期：1984-06-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Extracellular matrix (ECM) proteins, such as collagen and fibronectin, play vital roles in development and maintenance of hard tissue (bone or tooth) and are, consequently, thoroughly investigated for construction of biomimetic scaffolds in combination with calcium phosphate (CaP) material (the major component of hard...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Chowdhury EH,Nagaoka M,Ogiwara K,Zohra FT,Kutsuzawa K,Tada S,Kitamura C,Akaike T

更新日期：2005-09-20 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：:An alanine racemase encoded by a gene from the thermophilic Gram-positive bacterium Bacillus stearothermophilus is overproduced to 0.3% of the soluble protein when carried on plasmid pICR4 in Escherichia coli [Inagaki, K., Tanizawa, K., Badet, B., Walsh, C. T., Tanaka, H., & Soda, K. (1986) Biochemistry (third paper o...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Badet B,Inagaki K,Soda K,Walsh CT

更新日期：1986-06-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Crystallographic studies have demonstrated two flavin conformations for p-hydroxybenzoate hydroxylase (PHBH) [Gatti, D. L., Palfey, B. A. , Lah, M. S., Entsch, B., Massey, V., Ballou, D. P., & Ludwig, M. L. (1994) Science 266, 110-114. Schreuder, H. A., Mattevi, A., Obmolova, G., Kalk, K. H., Hol, W. G. J., van der Bo...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Palfey BA,Ballou DP,Massey V

更新日期：1997-12-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Human serum albumin (HSA) is the most abundant protein in the blood plasma and is involved in the transport of metal ions. Four metal-binding sites with different specificities have been described in HSA: (i) the N-terminal site provided by Asp1, Ala2, and His3, (ii) the site at the reduced Cys34, (iii) site A, includ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Mothes E,Faller P

更新日期：2007-02-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Expansions of (CTG)·(CAG) repeated DNAs are the mutagenic cause of 14 neurological diseases, likely arising through the formation and processing of slipped-strand DNAs. These transient intermediates of repeat length mutations are formed by out-of-register mispairing of repeat units on complementary strands. The three-...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Slean MM,Reddy K,Wu B,Nichol Edamura K,Kekis M,Nelissen FH,Aspers RL,Tessari M,Schärer OD,Wijmenga SS,Pearson CE

更新日期：2013-02-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The outer mitochondrial membrane isoform of mammalian cytochrome b(5) (OM b(5)) is distinguished from the microsomal isoform (Mc b(5)) by its considerably greater stability. In contrast, OM and Mc apocytochrome b(5) (apo-b(5)) exhibit similar thermodynamic stability. Contributing substantially to the greater stability...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Cowley AB,Sun N,Rivera M,Benson DR

更新日期：2005-11-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Exposure of mammalian cells (transformed mouse fibroblasts or rat hepatoma cells) to S-adenosyl-1,8-diamino-3-thiooctane produced profound changes in the intracellular polyamine content. Putrescine was increased and spermidine was decreased, consistent with the inhibition of spermidine synthase by this compound, which...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Pegg AE,Tang KC,Coward JK

更新日期：1982-09-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Betaine-homocysteine S-methyltransferase (BHMT) is a zinc-dependent enzyme that catalyzes the transfer of a methyl group from glycine betaine (Bet) to homocysteine (Hcy) to form dimethylglycine (DMG) and methionine (Met). Previous studies in other laboratories have indicated that catalysis proceeds through the formati...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Castro C,Gratson AA,Evans JC,Jiracek J,Collinsová M,Ludwig ML,Garrow TA

更新日期：2004-05-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Azotobacter vinelandii bacterioferritin (AvBF) containing 800-1500 Co or Mn atoms as Co(III) and Mn(III) oxyhydroxide cores (Co-AvBF, Mn-AvBF) was synthesized by the same procedure used previously for horse spleen ferritin (HoSF). The kinetics of reduction of Co-AvBF and Mn-AvBF by ascorbic acid are first-order in eac...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Zhang B,Harb JN,Davis RC,Choi S,Kim JW,Miller T,Chu SH,Watt GD

更新日期：2006-05-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The empoyment of a novel method of affinity chromatography, which makes use of antibodies that specifically bind DNA/RNA hybrids, has made it possible to enrich for rat rDNA molecules which contain R loops formed with the 18S and 28S rRNAs. An approximately 150-fold enrichment of the ratrRNA coding sequences was obtai...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Stumph WE,Wu JR,Bonner J

更新日期：1979-06-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Proteolytic processing of the transmembrane domain of the amyloid precursor protein (APP) is a key component of Alzheimer's disease pathogenesis. Using C-terminally tagged APP derivatives, we have identified by amino-terminal sequencing a novel cleavage site of APP, at Leu-49, distal to the gamma-secretase site. This ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Weidemann A,Eggert S,Reinhard FB,Vogel M,Paliga K,Baier G,Masters CL,Beyreuther K,Evin G

更新日期：2002-02-26 00:00:00

abstract：:A new quantitative technique for measuring the binding of proteins to membranes is described. The method is based on a combination of total internal reflection fluorescence microscopy and the preparation of supported planar bilayers. Specific and reversible binding of a fluorescence-labeled monoclonal antibody to lipi...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Kalb E,Engel J,Tamm LK

更新日期：1990-02-13 00:00:00

abstract：:We have de novo designed a heterodimeric coiled-coil formed by two peptides as a capture/delivery system that can be used in applications such as affinity tag purification, immobilization in biosensors, etc. The two strands are designated as K coil (KVSALKE heptad sequence) and E coil (EVSALEK heptad sequence), where ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： De Crescenzo G,Litowski JR,Hodges RS,O'Connor-McCourt MD

更新日期：2003-02-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Yeast mitochondrial NAD+-specific isocitrate dehydrogenase (IDH) has previously been shown to bind specifically to 5'-untranslated regions of yeast mitochondrial mRNAs, and transcripts containing these regions have been found to allosterically inhibit activity of the enzyme. This inhibition is relieved by AMP, an allo...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Anderson SL,Schirf V,McAlister-Henn L

更新日期：2002-06-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The catalytic mechanism of recombinant soybean cytosolic ascorbate peroxidase (rsAPX) and a derivative of rsAPX in which a cysteine residue (Cys32) located close to the substrate (L-ascorbic acid) binding site has been modified to preclude binding of ascorbate [Mandelman, D., Jamal, J., and Poulos, T. L. (1998) Bioche...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Lad L,Mewies M,Raven EL

更新日期：2002-11-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Excitation energy transfer studies were carried out to determine the distance between the adenosinetriphosphatase (ATPase) site and a unique "fast-reacting" sulfhydryl (referred to as SH1) in myosin subfragment 1. The fluorescent moiety of the probe N-(iodoacetyl)-N'-(5-sulfo-1-naphthyl)ethylene-diamine was used as th...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Tao T,Lamkin M

更新日期：1981-08-18 00:00:00

abstract：:To elucidate a unique mechanism for the quinol oxidation in the Escherichia coli cytochrome bo, we applied pulse radiolysis technique to the wild-type enzyme with or without a single bound ubiquinone-8 at the high-affinity quinone binding site (Q(H)), using N-methylnicotinamide (NMA) as an electron mediator. With the ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Kobayashi K,Tagawa S,Mogi T

更新日期：2000-12-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Fatty acid amide hydrolase (FAAH) is an integral membrane enzyme that degrades the fatty acid amide family of signaling lipids, including the endocannabinoid anandamide. Genetic or pharmacological inactivation of FAAH leads to analgesic, anti-inflammatory, anxiolytic, and antidepressant phenotypes in rodents without s...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Ahn K,Johnson DS,Fitzgerald LR,Liimatta M,Arendse A,Stevenson T,Lund ET,Nugent RA,Nomanbhoy TK,Alexander JP,Cravatt BF

更新日期：2007-11-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Aquifex aeolicus 3-deoxy-d-manno-octulosonate 8-phosphate synthase (KDO8PS) is active with a variety of different divalent metal ions bound in the active site. The Cd(2+), Zn(2+), and Cu(2+) substituted enzymes display similar values of k(cat) and similar dependence of K(m)(PEP) and K(m)(A5P) on both substrate and pro...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Kona F,Tao P,Martin P,Xu X,Gatti DL

更新日期：2009-04-28 00:00:00

abstract：:(S)-Mandelate dehydrogenase from Pseudomonas putida belongs to a FMN-dependent enzyme family that oxidizes (S)-alpha-hydroxyacids. Despite a high degree of sequence and structural similarity, this family can be divided into three subgroups based on the different oxidants utilized in the second oxidative half-reaction....

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Dewanti AR,Xu Y,Mitra B

更新日期：2004-08-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Human DJ-1, a disease-associated protein that protects cells from oxidative stress, contains an oxidation-sensitive cysteine (C106) that is essential for its cytoprotective activity. The origin of C106 reactivity is obscure, due in part to the absence of an experimentally determined p K a value for this residue. We ha...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Witt AC,Lakshminarasimhan M,Remington BC,Hasim S,Pozharski E,Wilson MA

更新日期：2008-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The origin of the "S3" EPR signal from calcium-depleted photosystem 2 samples has been investigated. This signal is observed after freezing samples under illumination and has been assigned to an interaction between the manganese cluster and an oxidized histidine radical [Boussac et al. (1990) Nature 347; 303-306]. In ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Hallahan BJ,Nugent JH,Warden JT,Evans MC

更新日期：1992-05-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Myelin basic protein (MBP) binds to negatively charged lipids on the cytosolic surface of oligodendrocyte membranes and is most likely responsible for adhesion of these surfaces in the multilayered myelin sheath. It can also polymerize actin, bundle F-actin filaments, and bind actin filaments to lipid bilayers through...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Boggs JM,Rangaraj G,Gao W,Heng YM

更新日期：2006-01-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Salts and polyamines have a variety of effects on the physical properties of DNA, including stabilization against thermal melting. We wished to gain greater insight into the mechanism of this stabilization by ascertaining its effect on the dynamics of base opening and closing reactions, as measured by NMR. Since the b...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Braunlin WH,Bloomfield VA

更新日期：1988-02-23 00:00:00