3'- and 5'-strand cleavage reactions catalyzed by the Fpg protein from Escherichia coli occur via successive beta- and delta-elimination mechanisms, respectively.

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：:Numerous zinc ectoenzymes are folded and activated in the compartments of the early secretory pathway, such as the ER and the Golgi apparatus, before reaching their final destination. During this process, zinc must be incorporated into the active site; therefore, metalation of the nascent protein is indispensable for ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Kambe T

更新日期：2020-01-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Crystallographic studies of ligand-protein complexes reveal most preferable ligand binding modes, but do not show less populated modes that may contribute to measurable biochemical and biophysical characteristics of the complexes. In some cases, a ligand may bind a protein in essentially different modes. An example is...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Blanchet J,Lin SX,Zhorov BS

更新日期：2005-05-17 00:00:00

abstract：:In an earlier study, β³-puromycin was used for the selection of modified ribosomes, which were utilized for the incorporation of five different β-amino acids into Escherichia coli dihydrofolate reductase (DHFR). The selected ribosomes were able to incorporate structurally disparate β-amino acids into DHFR, in spite of...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Maini R,Chowdhury SR,Dedkova LM,Roy B,Daskalova SM,Paul R,Chen S,Hecht SM

更新日期：2015-06-16 00:00:00

abstract：:We present spectroscopic evidence for the presence of low-barrier hydrogen bonds (LBHBs) in molecular complexes composed of carboxylic acids and 1-methylimidazole (1-MeIm) dissolved in aprotic organic solvents. A plot of the values of the low-field proton NMR chemical shifts versus the aqueous pKa of the carboxylic ac...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Tobin JB,Whitt SA,Cassidy CS,Frey PA

更新日期：1995-05-30 00:00:00

abstract：:De novo purine biosynthesis proceeds by two divergent paths. In bacteria, yeasts, and plants, 5-aminoimidazole ribonucleotide (AIR) is converted to 4-carboxy-AIR (CAIR) by two enzymes: N(5)-carboxy-AIR (N(5)-CAIR) synthetase (PurK) and N(5)-CAIR mutase (class I PurE). In animals, the conversion of AIR to CAIR requires...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Tranchimand S,Starks CM,Mathews II,Hockings SC,Kappock TJ

更新日期：2011-05-31 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanism of oxidation of a peptide substrate by the flavoprotein lysine-specific demethylase (LSD1) has been examined using the effects of pH and isotopic substitution on steady-state and rapid-reaction kinetic parameters. The substrate contained the 21 N-terminal residues of histone H3, with a dimethylated lysyl...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Gaweska H,Henderson Pozzi M,Schmidt DM,McCafferty DG,Fitzpatrick PF

更新日期：2009-06-16 00:00:00

abstract：:A computational method has been developed to predict inhibitor binding energy for untested inhibitor molecules. A neural network is trained from the electrostatic potential surfaces of known inhibitors and their binding energies. The algorithm is then able to predict, with high accuracy, the binding energy of unknown ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Braunheim BB,Miles RW,Schramm VL,Schwartz SD

更新日期：1999-12-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Oxygen binding by Octopus dofleini hemocyanin was examined under very nearly physiological conditions. The effects of pH, ionic composition, temperature, and aggregation were controlled so that the role each plays in modulating oxygen binding can be isolated. There is a very large effect of pH on affinity, the Bohr ef...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Miller KI

更新日期：1985-08-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutagenesis of Escherichia coli manganese superoxide dismutase (MnSD) demonstrates involvement of the strictly conserved gateway tyrosine (Y34) in exogenous ligand interactions. Conservative replacement of this residue by phenylalanine (Y34F) affects the pH sensitivity of the active-site metal ion and perturbs ligand ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Whittaker MM,Whittaker JW

更新日期：1997-07-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Fully functional variable fragments (Fv) of D1.3, a mouse antibody directed against the hen egg lysozyme, were readily produced as hybrids (Fv-MalE) with the maltose-binding protein of Escherichia coli and purified independently of their antigen-binding properties. We used site-directed mutations of residues in the co...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： England P,Brégégère F,Bedouelle H

更新日期：1997-01-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The structure of the anti-inflammatory drug diclofenac bound in the active site of rabbit microsomal cytochrome P450 2C5/3LVdH was determined by X-ray crystallography to 2.1 A resolution. P450 2C5/3LVdH and the related enzyme 2C5dH catalyze the 4'-hydroxylation of diclofenac with apparent K(m) values of 80 and 57 micr...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Wester MR,Johnson EF,Marques-Soares C,Dijols S,Dansette PM,Mansuy D,Stout CD

更新日期：2003-08-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Genomic clones encompassing all the translated sequences, the 3' untranslated sequence, and 1 kb flanking the ATG translation initiation codon of bovine tropoelastin have been obtained and characterized by restriction enzyme analysis and extensive DNA sequencing. These analyses demonstrated that functionally distinct ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Yeh H,Anderson N,Ornstein-Goldstein N,Bashir MM,Rosenbloom JC,Abrams W,Indik Z,Yoon K,Parks W,Mecham R

更新日期：1989-03-21 00:00:00

abstract：:While two-component systems (TCSs), composed of a sensor histidine kinase (HK) and a response regulator, are the main signaling pathways in bacteria, global TCS activity remains poorly described. Here, we report the kinetic parameters of the HK autophosphorylation reaction using previously uncharacterized γ-phosphate-...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Chase OM,Espinasse A,Wilke KE,Carlson EE

更新日期：2018-07-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The primary electron acceptor complex of photosystem II, QAFe2+, can bind a number of small molecules at the iron site, including cyanide [Koulougliotis, D., Kostopoulos, T., Petrouleas, V., & Diner, B. A. (1993) Biochim. Biophys. Acta 1141, 275-282)]. In the presence of NaCN (30-300 mM) at pH 6.5, the reduced state, ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Sanakis Y,Petrouleas V,Diner BA

更新日期：1994-08-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Recombination kinetics of CO to protoheme after laser photolysis have been measured vs. temperature and viscosity. A 25-ns laser pulse was focused on the sample to produce an excitation rate of 10(9)/s per heme. This temporarily populates the heme-CO state of dissociated pairs which either separate or recombine on a p...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Marden MC,Hazard ES 3rd,Gibson QH

更新日期：1986-05-20 00:00:00

abstract：:X-ray solution scattering data from skeletal muscle troponin C and from calmodulin have been measured. Modeling studies based on the crystal structure coordinates for these proteins show discrepancies between the solution data and the crystal structure that indicate that if the size and shape of the globular domains a...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Heidorn DB,Trewhella J

更新日期：1988-02-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacterial bioluminescence is a phenomenon resulting from the reaction of a two-component FMN-dependent aldehyde monooxygenase system, which comprises a bacterial luciferase and a flavin reductase. Bacterial luciferase (LuxAB) is one of the most extensively investigated two-component monooxygenases, while its reductase...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Nijvipakul S,Ballou DP,Chaiyen P

更新日期：2010-11-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The ligand-binding dynamics and the reaction with O(2) of the fully (five-electron) reduced cytochrome caa(3) from the thermohalophilic bacterium Rhodothermus (R.) marinus were investigated. The enzyme is a proton pump which has all the residues of the proton-transfer pathways found in the mitochondrial-like enzymes c...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Sigurdson H,Namslauer A,Pereira MM,Teixeira M,Brzezinski P

更新日期：2001-09-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Blastochloris tepida is a newly described thermophilic purple bacterium containing bacteriochlorophyll b. Using purified light-harvesting 1 reaction center (LH1-RC) core complexes from Blc. tepida, we compared the biochemical, spectroscopic, and thermal denaturation properties of these complexes with those of its meso...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Seto R,Takaichi S,Kurihara T,Kishi R,Honda M,Takenaka S,Tsukatani Y,Madigan MT,Wang-Otomo ZY,Kimura Y

更新日期：2020-06-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Weak or nonexistent smallpox immunity in today's human population raises concerns about the possibility of natural or provoked genetic modifications leading to re-emergence of variola virus and other poxviruses. Thus, the development of new antiviral strategies aimed at poxvirus infections in humans is a high priority...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Duraffour S,Ishchenko AA,Saparbaev M,Crance JM,Garin D

更新日期：2007-10-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Currently, it is thought that inhalational anesthetics cause anesthesia by binding to ligand-gated ion channels. This is being investigated using four-alpha-helix bundles, small water-soluble analogues of the transmembrane domains of the "natural" receptor proteins. The study presented here specifically investigates h...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Manderson GA,Michalsky SJ,Johansson JS

更新日期：2003-09-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Excluded volume and viscosity effects of crowding agents that mimic crowded conditions in vivo on "classical" burst phase folding kinetics of cytochrome c are assessed in vitro. Upon electron transfer-triggered folding of reduced cytochrome c, far-UV time-resolved circular dichroism (TRCD) is used to monitor folding u...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Chen E,Christiansen A,Wang Q,Cheung MS,Kliger DS,Wittung-Stafshede P

更新日期：2012-12-11 00:00:00

abstract：:During DNA replication, the presence of oligonucleotides with partial homology to the template strand was shown to induce a switch of the polymerase from the normal template to the oligonucleotide. The latter acted as a dead-end template and led to abortive replication. The only prerequisite was that the oligonucleoti...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Guieysse AL,Praseuth D,Grigoriev M,Harel-Bellan A,Hélène C

更新日期：1995-07-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Phospholipase A(2) (PLA(2)) (E. C. 3.1.1.4) is a common enzyme in the two-way cascade mechanism leading to the production of proinflammatory compounds known as eicosanoids. The binding of phospholipase A(2) to the membrane surface and hydrolysis of phospholipids are thought to involve the formation of a hydrophobic ch...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Singh RK,Vikram P,Makker J,Jabeen T,Sharma S,Dey S,Kaur P,Srinivasan A,Singh TP

更新日期：2003-10-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability of a class of C-20' modified vinca alkaloid congeners to induce tubulin spiral formation was investigated relative to their ability to inhibit microtubule assembly, their cytotoxicity against a leukemic cell line, L1210, and their measured and calculated partition coefficients. These studies were prompted ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Lobert S,Fahy J,Hill BT,Duflos A,Etievant C,Correia JJ

更新日期：2000-10-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The major excreted protein (MEP) of transformed mouse fibroblasts has been purified, and monospecific antisera against it have been prepared. Synthesis and secretion of this protein have previously been shown to be stimulated by transformation or treatment with tumor-promoting phorbol esters, but its function is still...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Gottesman MM,Cabral F

更新日期：1981-03-17 00:00:00

abstract：:A protocol for complete isotopic labeling of iso-1-cytochrome c from the eukaryote Saccharomyces cerevisiae is reported. Assignments are reported for the vast majority of the 15N amide resonances in both oxidized and reduced states. 15N heteronuclear relaxation experiments were collected to study the picosecond-nanose...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Fetrow JS,Baxter SM

更新日期：1999-04-06 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：:The structure and folding of a novel human insulin mutant, [Thr(B27) --> Pro, Pro(B28) --> Thr]insulin (PT insulin), in aqueous solution and in mixtures of water and 2,2,2-trifluoroethanol (TFE) have been studied by NMR spectroscopy. It was found that PT insulin has a highly flexible structure in pure water and is pre...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Keller D,Clausen R,Josefsen K,Led JJ

更新日期：2001-09-04 00:00:00