X-ray spectroscopy of nitrile hydratase at pH 7 and 9.

abstract：:Dendritic cell-specific intracellular adhesion molecule-3-grabbing nonintegrin (DC-SIGN) is a C-type lectin highly expressed on the surface of antigen-presenting dendritic cells. DC-SIGN mediates interactions among dendritic cells, pathogens, and a variety of epithelia, myeloid cells, and endothelia by binding to high...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Pederson K,Mitchell DA,Prestegard JH

更新日期：2014-09-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Treatment of soybean lipoxygenase isozyme 1 with its substrates, linoleic acid and oxygen, or product, 13(S)-hydroperoxy-9,11(Z,E)-octadecadienoic acid (13-HPOD), leads to the appearance of a purple color. Although the structure of the chromophore has not been determined, we present strong evidence that it is an Fe(3+...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Nelson MJ,Chase DB,Seitz SP

更新日期：1995-05-09 00:00:00

abstract：:X-ray studies of the proofreading 3',5'-exonuclease site of the large (Klenow) fragment of DNA polymerase I have detected a binuclear metal complex consisting of a pentacoordinate metal (site A) which shares a ligand, Asp-355, with an octahedral metal (site B) [Freemont, P. S., Friedman, J. M., Beese, L. S., Sanderson...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Han H,Rifkind JM,Mildvan AS

更新日期：1991-11-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Phospholipase D has been purified 680-fold from an acetone powder of savoy cabbage in an overall yield of 30%. The purification involves solubilization of the acetone powder in a Ca2+-containing buffer and subsequent ammonium sulfate fractionation. Gel filtration on Sephadex G-200 and hydrophobic affinity chromatograp...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Allgyer TT,Wells MA

更新日期：1979-11-27 00:00:00

abstract：:A detailed characterization of the main chain and side chain dynamics in R. capsulatus ferrocytochrome c(2) derived from (2)H NMR relaxation of methyl group resonances is presented. (15)N relaxation measurements confirm earlier results indicating that R. capsulatus ferrocytochrome c(2) exhibits minor rotational anisot...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Flynn PF,Bieber Urbauer RJ,Zhang H,Lee AL,Wand AJ

更新日期：2001-06-05 00:00:00

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：:Binding mechanisms of ADPR-transferase to restricted double-stranded DNA fragments of SV40 and pBR322 DNA were determined by nuclease protection techniques. Top and bottom strands of double-stranded DNA were identified by specific labeling with 32P. Protection against specific exonucleases identified binding of ADPR-t...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Sastry SS,Buki KG,Kun E

更新日期：1989-06-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Six active site mutants of Escherichia coli phosphofructokinase have been constructed and characterized using steady-state kinetics. All but one of the mutants (ES222) have significantly lower maximal activity, implicating these residues in the catalytic process. Replacement of Asp127, the key catalytic residue in the...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Berger SA,Evans PR

更新日期：1992-09-29 00:00:00

abstract：:In this report recombinant estrogen binding protein (EBP1), isolated originally from Candida albicans as a result of its high affinity for 17beta-estradiol, has been purified extensively using a modified affinity purification scheme originally developed for a homolog of EBP1, old yellow enzyme (OYE). It is shown that ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Buckman J,Miller SM

更新日期：1998-10-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Human type beta 2 transforming growth factor (hTGF-beta 2) was purified from tamoxifen-supplemented, serum-free medium conditioned by the human prostatic adenocarcinoma cell line PC-3. The purification of hTGF-beta 2 was monitored in a growth inhibition assay and was achieved by batch purification on methylsilyl-contr...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Ikeda T,Lioubin MN,Marquardt H

更新日期：1987-05-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The inactivation of excited rhodopsin in the presence of ATP, rhodopsin kinase, and/or arrestin has been studied from its effect on the two subsequent steps in the light-induced enzymatic cascade: metarhodopsin II catalyzed activation of G-protein and G-protein-dependent activation of cGMP phosphodiesterase. The inact...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Bennett N,Sitaramayya A

更新日期：1988-03-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The proline catabolic enzyme Δ(1)-pyrroline-5-carboxylate dehydrogenase (ALDH4A1) catalyzes the NAD(+)-dependent oxidation of γ-glutamate semialdehyde to l-glutamate. In Saccharomyces cerevisiae, ALDH4A1 is encoded by the PUT2 gene and known as Put2p. Here we report the steady-state kinetic parameters of the purified ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Pemberton TA,Srivastava D,Sanyal N,Henzl MT,Becker DF,Tanner JJ

更新日期：2014-03-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Whereas the salt-dependent conformational transition of acid-denatured horse ferricytochrome c at pH 2 is approximated by a two-state mechanism from the acid-unfolded state to the molten globule state [Kataoka, M., Hagihara, Y., Mihara, K., & Goto, Y. (1993) J. Mol. Biol. 229, 591-596], the corresponding transition in...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Goto Y,Hagihara Y,Hamada D,Hoshino M,Nishii I

更新日期：1993-11-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Succinyl-CoA:3-oxoacid coenzyme A transferase (EC 2.8.3.5), which catalyzes the reversible conversion of succinyl-CoA and acetoacetate into acetoacetyl-CoA and succinate through a covalent enzyme thiol ester intermediate, E-CoA, utilizes binding energy from noncovalent interactions with CoA to bring about an increase ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Whitty A,Fierke CA,Jencks WP

更新日期：1995-09-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The inhibitory effect of phosphorothioate residues, located within one strand of double-stranded DNA, on the hydrolytic activity of the restriction endonuclease EcoRV was investigated. Specific incorporation of a phosphorothioate group at the site of cleavage yielded the sequence 5'-GATsATC-3'. This modified sequence ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Olsen DB,Kotzorek G,Eckstein F

更新日期：1990-10-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Nitric oxide is produced in mammals by the nitric oxide synthase (NOS) isoforms at a catalytic site comprising a heme associated with a biopterin cofactor. Through genome sequencing, proteins that are highly homologous to the oxygenase domain of NOSs have been identified, in particular in bacteria. The active site is ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Weisslocker-Schaetzel M,Lembrouk M,Santolini J,Dorlet P

更新日期：2017-02-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The evolutionarily conserved DRY motif at the end of the third helix of rhodopsin-like, class-A G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) is a major regulator of receptor stability, signaling activity, and β-arrestin-mediated internalization. Substitution of the DRY arginine with histidine in the human vasopressin receptor ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Burczyk M,Burkhalter MD,Blätte T,Matysik S,Caron MG,Barak LS,Philipp M

更新日期：2015-01-27 00:00:00

abstract：:X-ray absorption spectroscopy on the minimal copper-regulatory domains of the two copper-regulated transcription factors (Ace1 and Mac1) in Saccharomyces cerevisiae revealed the presence of a remarkably similar polycopper cluster in both proteins. The Cu-regulatory switch motif of Mac1 consisting of the C-terminal fir...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Brown KR,Keller GL,Pickering IJ,Harris HH,George GN,Winge DR

更新日期：2002-05-21 00:00:00

abstract：:MenB, the 1,4-dihydroxy-2-naphthoyl-CoA synthase from the bacterial menaquinone biosynthesis pathway, catalyzes an intramolecular Claisen condensation (Dieckmann reaction) in which the electrophile is an unactivated carboxylic acid. Mechanistic studies on this crotonase family member have been hindered by partial acti...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Li HJ,Li X,Liu N,Zhang H,Truglio JJ,Mishra S,Kisker C,Garcia-Diaz M,Tonge PJ

更新日期：2011-11-08 00:00:00

abstract：:CD4 is expressed on the surface of specific leukocytes where it plays a key role in the activation of immunostimulatory T-cells and acts as a primary receptor for HIV-1 entry. CD4 has four ecto-domains (D1-D4) of which D1, D2, and D4 contain disulfide bonds. Although disulfide bonds commonly serve structural or cataly...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Owen GR,Channell JA,Forsyth VT,Haertlein M,Mitchell EP,Capovilla A,Papathanasopoulos M,Cerutti NM

更新日期：2016-04-19 00:00:00

abstract：:We have investigated the effect of increasing percentages of methylated pyrimidines on the structure of poly(dA-dU).poly(dA-dU). This was done by synthesizing analogous polynucleotides that contained deoxythymidine residues as well as deoxyuridine residues and observing their 31P NMR spectra in increasing amounts of C...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Wu HY,Behe MJ

更新日期：1985-09-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Pig pancreatic alpha-amylase (PPA), an enzyme belonging to the alpha-amylase family, is involved in the degradation of starch. Like some other members of this family, PPA requires chloride to reach maximum activity levels. To further explain the mechanism of chloride activation, a crystal of wild-type PPA soaked with ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Qian M,Ajandouz el H,Payan F,Nahoum V

更新日期：2005-03-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Epitranscriptomic RNA modifications can serve as recognition elements for the recruitment of effector proteins (i.e., "readers") to modified transcripts. While these interactions play an important role in mRNA regulation, there is a major gap in our understanding of the sequence determinants critical for the binding o...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Arguello AE,Leach RW,Kleiner RE

更新日期：2019-08-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Escherichia coli class Ib ribonucleotide reductase (RNR) converts nucleoside 5'-diphosphates to deoxynucleoside 5'-diphosphates in iron-limited and oxidative stress conditions. We have recently demonstrated in vitro that this RNR is active with both diferric-tyrosyl radical (Fe(III)(2)-Y(•)) and dimanganese(III)-Y(•) ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Cotruvo JA,Stubbe J

更新日期：2011-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Mammalian cGMP- and cAMP-dependent protein kinase show considerable similarity in amino acid sequence, although they specifically bind different cyclic nucleotides. Results of cGMP analogue binding experiments, combined with modeling of the cGMP binding sites by analogy to the structure of the homologous catabolite ge...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Weber IT,Shabb JB,Corbin JD

更新日期：1989-07-11 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：:Although Mg(2+) is the cation that functions as the cofactor for the nucleotidyl transfer reaction for almost all DNA polymerases, Mn(2+) can also serve, but when it does, the degree of base discrimination exhibited by most DNA polymerases (pols) is diminished. Metal ions other than Mg(2+) or Mn(2+) can also act as co...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Vashishtha AK,Konigsberg WH

更新日期：2016-05-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The Synechococcus PCC7942 SmtB is a zinc-responsive transcriptional repressor and a member of the ArsR superfamily of prokaryotic metalloregulatory transcription factors. The mechanism of negative regulation by Zn(II) and other metals as well as the coordination chemistry (stoichiometry, affinity, and specificity) of ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： VanZile ML,Cosper NJ,Scott RA,Giedroc DP

更新日期：2000-09-26 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA containing short sequences of the form (dA)n.(dT)n can exhibit pronounced degrees of stable curvature of the helix axis, provided that these homooligomeric stretches are approximately in phase with the helix repeat. However, the precise origin of this effect is unknown. We have observed that pyrimidine 5-methyl gr...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Hagerman PJ

更新日期：1990-02-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The inducible nitric oxide synthase core oxygen domain (iNOS(COD)) is a homodimeric protein complex of ca. 100 kDa. In this work, the subunit disassembly and unfolding of the protein following a pH jump from 7.5 to 2.8 were monitored by on-line rapid mixing in conjunction with electrospray (ESI) time-of-flight mass sp...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Wilson DJ,Rafferty SP,Konermann L

更新日期：2005-02-22 00:00:00