Specific inhibition of in vitro transcription elongation by triplex-forming oligonucleotide-intercalator conjugates targeted to HIV proviral DNA.

abstract：:The temperature dependence of the packing (order) and fluidity (microviscosity) of rabbit small, intestinal brush border vesicle membranes and of liposomes made from their extracted lipids has been investigated by using a variety of lipid spin probes. The lipids in the brush border membrane are present essentially as ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Hauser H,Gains N,Semenza G,Spiess M

更新日期：1982-10-26 00:00:00

abstract：:A cationic, copper(II)-containing ligand, derived from bulky 5,10,15,20-tetrakis(N-methylpyridinium-4-yl)porphyrin, Cu(T4), and two sterically friendlier forms, [trans-5,15-di(N-methylpyridinium-4-yl)porphyrinato]copper(II), Cu(tD4), and [cis-5,10-di(N-methylpyridinium-4-yl)porphyrinato]copper(II), Cu(cD4), bind to DN...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Briggs BN,Gaier AJ,Fanwick PE,Dogutan DK,McMillin DR

更新日期：2012-09-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The zinc-dependent metallo-beta-lactamases are a group of bacterial enzymes that pose a threat to the future efficacy of present-day antibiotics. Their mechanism is poorly understood, and there are no clinically useful inhibitors. While most members of the group contain two tightly bound zinc ions in their active site...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Davies AM,Rasia RM,Vila AJ,Sutton BJ,Fabiane SM

更新日期：2005-03-29 00:00:00

abstract：:A new rapid procedure for purifying 10-formyltetrahydrofolate dehydrogenase results in 90 mg of pure enzyme from two rabbit livers. This abundant liver enzyme is known to bind its product tetrahydropteroylpentaglutamate (H4PteGlu5) so tightly that it does not dissociate during size exclusion chromatography. 10-Formylt...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Kim DW,Huang T,Schirch D,Schirch V

更新日期：1996-12-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The potential of the frequently encountered (βα)8-barrel fold to acquire new functions was tested by an approach combining random mutagenesis and selection in vivo. For this purpose, the genes encoding 52 different phosphate-binding (βα)8-barrel proteins were subjected to error-prone PCR and cloned into an expression ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Rohweder B,Lehmann G,Eichner N,Polen T,Rajendran C,Ruperti F,Linde M,Treiber T,Jung O,Dettmer K,Meister G,Bott M,Gronwald W,Sterner R

更新日期：2019-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Rabbit aortic smooth muscle cells were evaluated for their ability to synthesize and accumulate glycosaminoglycans (GAGs). Because of the sensitivity of the microtechniques utilized, it is possible to determine the specific radioactivity of the GAGs obtained after radioactive incorporation of [35S]SO4(2-) and [14C]glu...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Namiki O,Faris B,Tschopp F,Füglistaller P,Hollander W,Franzblau C,Schmid K

更新日期：1980-04-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The molecular organization of sterols in liposomes of 1-palmitoyl-2-oleoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine (POPC) at 37 degrees C is examined by utilizing the fluorescent analogue of cholesterol cholesta-5,7,9-trien-3 beta-ol (cholestatrienol). (1) Cholestatrienol is shown to be indistinguishable from native cholesterol i...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Hyslop PA,Morel B,Sauerheber RD

更新日期：1990-01-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Ner repressors of the transposable phages Mu and D108 play a central role in regulating the expression of the early (transposase) operon and in ensuring that phage growth proceeds along a lytic pathway. The latter function is analogous to that performed by the Cro protein of phage lambda. Unlike lambda Cro, however, t...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Benevides JM,Kukolj G,Autexier C,Aubrey KL,DuBow MS,Thomas GJ Jr

更新日期：1994-09-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Glycosylation is a common modification that can endow proteins with altered physical and biological properties. Ribonuclease 1 (RNase 1), which is the human homologue of the archetypal enzyme RNase A, undergoes N-linked glycosylation at asparagine residues 34, 76, and 88. We have produced the three individual glycofor...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Kilgore HR,Latham AP,Ressler VT,Zhang B,Raines RT

更新日期：2020-09-01 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：:Raman spectra of phycocyanobilin, phycocyanin, and allophycocyanin were obtained at resonance with their visible and near-UV transitions. These spectra were empirically assigned with the help of 14N- and 15N-isotopic substitutions and comparisons with resonance Raman spectra of phycoerythrin. These results confirm the...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Szalontai B,Gombos Z,Csizmadia V,Bagyinka C,Lutz M

更新日期：1994-10-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Nramp (natural resistance-associated macrophage protein) family members have been characterized in mammals, yeast, and bacteria as divalent metal ion/H(+) symporters. In previous work, a bioinformatic approach was used for the identification of residues that are conserved within the Nramp family [Haemig, H. A., and Br...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Haemig HA,Moen PJ,Brooker RJ

更新日期：2010-06-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite a number of studies, the formation of the Michaelis complexes between ferredoxin-NADP (+) reductases and NADP(H) eluded detailed investigations by rapid kinetic techniques because of their high formation rates. Moreover, the reversible nature of the reaction of hydride ion transfer between these enzymes and NA...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Pennati A,Zanetti G,Aliverti A,Gadda G

更新日期：2008-03-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Nickel is a fundamental micronutrient for cellular life, but it is toxic in soluble form at nonphysiological concentrations. Such potentially contradictory features required living organisms to develop efficient systems for nickel utilization and homeostasis. This is the case for incorporation of nickel into the activ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Zambelli B,Musiani F,Savini M,Tucker P,Ciurli S

更新日期：2007-03-20 00:00:00

abstract：:We have studied the effect of melittin, a basic membrane-binding peptide, on Ca-ATPase activity and on protein and lipid dynamics in skeletal sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR), using time-resolved phosphorescence and fluorescence spectroscopy. Melittin completely inhibits Ca-ATPase activity, with half-maximal inhibition at ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Voss J,Birmachu W,Hussey DM,Thomas DD

更新日期：1991-07-30 00:00:00

abstract：:A series of cysteine-bearing hydrophobic polypeptides analogous to a light-harvesting one betapolypeptide (LH1beta) from the LH1 complex from the purple photosynthetic bacterium, Rhodobacter sphaeroides, was synthesized using an Escherichia coli expression system. The cysteine was placed in the C- or N-terminal region...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Dewa T,Yamada T,Ogawa M,Sugimoto M,Mizuno T,Yoshida K,Nakao Y,Kondo M,Iida K,Yamashita K,Tanaka T,Nango M

更新日期：2005-04-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The solution structure of Cucurbita maxima trypsin inhibitor-V (CMTI-V), which is also a specific inhibitor of the blood coagulation protein, factor XIIa, was determined by 1H NMR spectroscopy in combination with a distance-geometry and simulated annealing algorithm. Sequence-specific resonance assignments were made f...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Cai M,Gong Y,Kao JL,Krishnamoorthi R

更新日期：1995-04-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Telomerase is a ribonucleoprotein that participates in the maintenance of telomere length. Its activity is up-regulated in many tumor types, suggesting that it may be a novel target for chemotherapy. The RNA component of telomerase contains an active site that plays at least two roles&sbd;binding telomere ends and tem...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Hamilton SE,Pitts AE,Katipally RR,Jia X,Rutter JP,Davies BA,Shay JW,Wright WE,Corey DR

更新日期：1997-09-30 00:00:00

abstract：:A putative catalytic triad consisting of tyrosine, serine, and lysine residues was identified in the ketoreductase (KR) domains of modular polyketide synthases (PKSs) based on homology modeling to the short chain dehydrogenase/reductase (SDR) superfamily of enzymes. This was tested by constructing point mutations for ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Reid R,Piagentini M,Rodriguez E,Ashley G,Viswanathan N,Carney J,Santi DV,Hutchinson CR,McDaniel R

更新日期：2003-01-14 00:00:00

abstract：:We have investigated the binding of a pure H1 histone, the mouse variant H1e, to a 214 bp fragment of DNA from pBR322. Binding was monitored by observing the effects of the protein on melting of the DNA and by a gel-mobility-shift assay. We found, using this highly purified system, that H1e protein binds preferentiall...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Wellman SE,Sittman DB,Chaires JB

更新日期：1994-01-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Specific interactions of human melanocortin-4 receptor (hMC4R) with its nonpeptide and peptide agonists were studied using alanine-scanning mutagenesis. The binding affinities and potencies of two synthetic, small-molecule agonists (THIQ, MB243) were strongly affected by substitutions in transmembrane alpha-helices (T...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Pogozheva ID,Chai BX,Lomize AL,Fong TM,Weinberg DH,Nargund RP,Mulholland MW,Gantz I,Mosberg HI

更新日期：2005-08-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Lipid-protein interactions in bovine rod outer segment disk membranes have been studied by using a series of eight stearic acid spin-label probes which were labeled at different carbon atom positions in the chain. In randomly oriented membrane dispersions, the electron spin resonance (ESR) spectra of the C-8, C-9, C-1...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Pates RD,Marsh D

更新日期：1987-01-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The unique characteristics of DNA charge transport (CT) have prompted an examination of roles for this chemistry within a biological context. Not only can DNA CT facilitate long-range oxidative damage of DNA, but redox-active proteins can couple to the DNA base stack and participate in long-range redox reactions using...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Grodick MA,Muren NB,Barton JK

更新日期：2015-02-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Time-resolved resonance Raman spectroscopy has been employed to monitor geminate heme-CO rebinding in photolyzed HbCO. The excitation frequency was tuned to enhance the scattering from rebound heme sites 20-500 ns subsequent to CO photolysis. The behavior of vFe-C during ligand rebinding has important ramifications co...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Schneebeck MC,Vigil LE,Friedman JM,Chavez MD,Ondrias MR

更新日期：1993-02-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Olivopontocerebellar atrophy with retinal degeneration is a hereditary neurodegenerative disorder that belongs to the subtype II of the autosomal dominant cerebellar ataxias and is characterized by early-onset cerebellar and macular degeneration preceded by diagnostically useful tritan colorblindness. The gene mutated...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Mushegian AR,Vishnivetskiy SA,Gurevich VV

更新日期：2000-06-13 00:00:00

abstract：:GlgE (EC 2.4.99.16) is an α-maltose 1-phosphate:(1→4)-α-d-glucan 4-α-d-maltosyltransferase of the CAZy glycoside hydrolase 13_3 family. It is the defining enzyme of a bacterial α-glucan biosynthetic pathway and is a genetically validated anti-tuberculosis target. It catalyzes the α-retaining transfer of maltosyl units...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Syson K,Stevenson CE,Rashid AM,Saalbach G,Tang M,Tuukkanen A,Svergun DI,Withers SG,Lawson DM,Bornemann S

更新日期：2014-04-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The MexA-MexB-OprM efflux pump exports structurally and functionally diverse xenobiotics and confers multi-drug resistance on Pseudomonas aeruginosa cells. The MexB transporter traverses the inner membrane twelve times, bears two large periplasmic domains and has two homologous tandem repeats. To test whether two homo...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Eda S,Yoneyama H,Nakae T

更新日期：2003-06-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Recognition of and binding to cholesterol on the host cell membrane is an initial step in the mechanism of numerous pathogens, including viruses, bacteria, and bacterial toxins; however, a viable method of inhibiting this interaction has not yet been uncovered. Here, we describe the mechanism by which a cholesterol re...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Koufos E,Chang EH,Rasti ES,Krueger E,Brown AC

更新日期：2016-08-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Nogo-66 receptor (NgR1) is a leucine-rich repeat (LRR) protein that forms part of a signaling complex modulating axon regeneration. Previous studies have shown that the entire LRR region of NgR1, including the C-terminal cap of the LRR, LRRCT, is needed for ligand binding, and that the adjacent C-terminal region (CT s...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Wen D,Wildes CP,Silvian L,Walus L,Mi S,Lee DH,Meier W,Pepinsky RB

更新日期：2005-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetic studies have previously demonstrated that the Saccharomyces cerevisiae CDC9 gene product, which is functionally homologous to mammalian DNA ligase I, is required for DNA replication and is also involved in DNA repair and genetic recombination. In the present study we have purified the yeast enzyme. When measur...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Tomkinson AE,Tappe NJ,Friedberg EC

更新日期：1992-12-01 00:00:00