A theory of phase transitions and phase diagrams for one- and two-component phospholipid bilayers.

abstract：:The acid-induced arginine decarboxylase is part of an enzymatic system in Escherichia coli that contributes to making this organism acid resistant. The arginine decarboxylase is a vitamin B(6)-dependent enzyme that is active at acidic pH. It consumes a proton in the decarboxylation of arginine to agmatine, and by work...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Andréll J,Hicks MG,Palmer T,Carpenter EP,Iwata S,Maher MJ

更新日期：2009-05-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The alpha-conotoxins MI and GI display stronger affinities for the alphagamma agonist site on the Torpedo californica electrocyte nicotinic acetylcholine receptor (ACHR) than for the alphadelta agonist site, while alpha-conotoxin SI binds with the same affinity to both sites. Prior studies reported that the arginine a...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Vélez-Carrasco W,Valdés S,Agresar L,Lettich A,Guerra AY,Hann RM

更新日期：2004-10-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Apolipoprotein AIV is one of the principal apolipoproteins synthesized by the rat small intestine. We have cloned a cDNA encoding a portion of preapolipoprotein AIV mRNA. A kinetically fractionated cDNA probe highly enriched for the abundant intestinal mucosal mRNA sequences was used to screen a library of recombinant...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Gordon JI,Smith DP,Alpers DH,Strauss AW

更新日期：1982-10-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The exchangeability of apolipoprotein (apo) E between lipoprotein particles such as very low-density lipoprotein (VLDL) and high-density lipoprotein (HDL) is critical for lipoprotein metabolism, but despite its importance, the kinetics and mechanism of apoE-lipoprotein interaction are not known. We have used surface p...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Nguyen D,Dhanasekaran P,Phillips MC,Lund-Katz S

更新日期：2009-04-07 00:00:00

abstract：:S-Adenosylmethionine decarboxylase, a pyruvoyl-containing decarboxylase, is inactivated in a time-dependent process under turnover conditions. The inactivation is dependent on the presence of both substrate and Mg2+, which is also required for enzyme activity. The rate of inactivation is dependent on the concentration...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Anton DL,Kutny R

更新日期：1987-10-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Polyclonal antibody to mitochondrial P-450c27/25 reacted with two proteins of apparent molecular masses of 52 kilodaltons (kDa) and 50 kDa from the female rat liver mitochondrial proteins bound to an omega-octylaminoagarose column. The two proteins were purified to greater than 85% homogeneity by DEAE-Sephacel and hyd...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Addya S,Zheng YM,Shayiq RM,Fan JY,Avadhani NG

更新日期：1991-08-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Halogen bonding is a weak chemical force that has so far mostly found applications in crystal engineering. Despite its potential for use in drug discovery, as a new molecular tool in the direction of molecular recognition events, it has rarely been assessed in biopolymers. Motivated by this fact, we have developed a p...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Danelius E,Andersson H,Jarvoll P,Lood K,Gräfenstein J,Erdélyi M

更新日期：2017-06-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Molecular imaging is an important new direction in medical diagnosis; however, its success is dependent upon molecular probes that demonstrate selective tissue targeting. We report the design and chemical synthesis of a derivative of human amyloid-beta (Abeta) peptide that is capable of selectively targeting individua...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Poduslo JF,Curran GL,Peterson JA,McCormick DJ,Fauq AH,Khan MA,Wengenack TM

更新日期：2004-05-25 00:00:00

abstract：:HTC cells have been labeled by short exposures to [3H]thymidine in order to identify newly synthesized DNA. By either isolating nuclei directly or isolating them after an extensive fixation with formaldehyde, we have been able to identify two phases in the maturation process of newly replicated chromatin. The first ph...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Smith PA,Jackson V,Chalkley R

更新日期：1984-03-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytochrome P450BM-3 is a fatty acid monooxygenase that contains the catalytic P450 heme domain covalently attached to a diflavin P450 reductase domain. The function of the linker region connecting the C-terminal end of the heme domain to the N-terminal end of the reductase domain has been studied by deleting parts of ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Govindaraj S,Poulos TL

更新日期：1995-09-05 00:00:00

abstract：:A recently reported variant of human transthyretin (TTR), Leu-55-Pro, implicated as the causative agent in early-onset familial amyloid polyneuropathy was expressed and characterized, and its denaturation pathway and amyloidogenicity were compared to those of wild-type transthyretin. The overlap-extension polymerase c...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： McCutchen SL,Colon W,Kelly JW

更新日期：1993-11-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Interaction of a mitochondria-specific anionic phospholipid, cardiolipin (CL), with an intermembrane protein, cytochrome c (cyt c), yields a peroxidase complex. During apoptosis, the complex induces accumulation of CL oxidation products that are essential for detachment of cyt c from the mitochondrial membrane, induct...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Borisenko GG,Kapralov AA,Tyurin VA,Maeda A,Stoyanovsky DA,Kagan VE

更新日期：2008-12-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Phenylcarbene and adamantylidene have been generated photochemically from the corresponding diazirines within lipid bilayers. Reasonable yields of labeled fatty acid side chains have been observed. The products have been characterized by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry and derive both from the insertion of the c...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Bayley H,Knowles JR

更新日期：1978-06-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The clathrin assembly protein complex AP-2 is a multimeric subunit complex consisting of two 100-115-kDa subunits known as alpha and beta and 50- and 16-kDa subunits. The subunits have been dissociated and separated by ion-exchange chromatography in 7.5 M urea. Fractions highly enriched in either the alpha or beta sub...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Prasad K,Keen JH

更新日期：1991-06-04 00:00:00

abstract：:We previously reported that enzymatically modified low-density lipoprotein (E-LDL) particles obtained by LDL treatment with trypsin and then cholesterol esterase are recognized by C1q and activate the C1 complex of complement. The objective of this study was to identify the E-LDL component(s) recognized by C1q. In add...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Biro A,Ling WL,Arlaud GJ

更新日期：2010-03-16 00:00:00

abstract：:We found that peroxisomal lignoceroyl-CoA ligase, like palmitoyl-CoA ligase, is present in the peroxisomal membrane whereas the peroxisomal beta-oxidation enzyme system is localized in the matrix. To further define the role of peroxisomal acyl-CoA ligases (membrane component) in providing acyl-CoA for peroxisomal beta...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Lazo O,Contreras M,Singh I

更新日期：1990-04-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Elongation factor Tu (EF-Tu) is a highly conserved GTPase that is responsible for supplying the aminoacylated tRNA to the ribosome. Upon binding to the ribosome, EF-Tu undergoes GTP hydrolysis, which drives a major conformational change, triggering the release of aminoacylated tRNA to the ribosome. Using a combination...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Lai J,Ghaemi Z,Luthey-Schulten Z

更新日期：2017-11-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The proton-translocating NADH:ubiquinone oxidoreductase of respiratory chains (complex I) contains one flavin mononucleotide and five EPR-detectable iron-sulfur clusters as redox groups. Because of the number of conserved motifs typical for binding iron-sulfur clusters and the high content of iron and acid-labile sulf...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Rasmussen T,Scheide D,Brors B,Kintscher L,Weiss H,Friedrich T

更新日期：2001-05-22 00:00:00

abstract：:In experiments designed to characterize the basis of amyloid fibril stability through mutational analysis of the Abeta (1-40) molecule, fibrils exhibit consistent, significant structural malleability. In these results, and in other properties, amyloid fibrils appear to more resemble plastic materials generated from sy...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Wetzel R,Shivaprasad S,Williams AD

更新日期：2007-01-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The actin depolymerizing factor (ADF)/cofilins are an essential group of proteins that are important regulators of actin filament turnover in vivo. Although protists and yeasts express only a single member of this family, metazoans express two or more members in many cell types. In cells expressing both ADF and cofili...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Chen H,Bernstein BW,Sneider JM,Boyle JA,Minamide LS,Bamburg JR

更新日期：2004-06-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Haemadin is a 57-amino acid thrombin inhibitor from the land-living leech Haemadipsa sylvestris, whose structure has recently been determined in complex with human alpha-thrombin. Here we communicate the effect of ionic strength on the kinetics of the inhibition of human alpha-thrombin by haemadin, by using thrombin m...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Richardson JL,Fuentes-Prior P,Sadler JE,Huber R,Bode W

更新日期：2002-02-26 00:00:00

abstract：:CopA, a thermophilic membrane ATPase from Archaeoglobus fulgidus, drives the outward movement of Cu(+) or Ag(+) [Mandal et al. (2002) J. Biol. Chem. 277, 7201-7208]. This, as other P(IB)-ATPases, is characterized by a putative metal binding sequence (C(380)PC(382)) in its sixth transmembrane fragment and cytoplasmic m...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Mandal AK,Argüello JM

更新日期：2003-09-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Adenylosuccinate synthetase catalyzes the first committed step in the de novo biosynthesis of AMP, coupling L-aspartate and IMP to form adenylosuccinate. Km values of IMP and 2'-deoxy-IMP are nearly identical with each substrate supporting comparable maximal velocities. Nonetheless, the Km value for L-aspartate and th...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Iancu CV,Zhou Y,Borza T,Fromm HJ,Honzatko RB

更新日期：2006-09-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Three hybridomas secreting monoclonal antibodies, HH1, HH2, and HH3, defining different difucosyl A structures (ALeb or ALey), have been established. Antibody HH1 (IgG2a) reacts specifically with the difucosyl A structure irrespective of a type 1 or type 2 chain, while antibody HH2 (IgG3) reacts exclusively with the d...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Clausen H,McKibbin JM,Hakomori S

更新日期：1985-10-22 00:00:00

abstract：:We have examined in detail the kinetics of binding of the serpin alpha 2-antiplasmin to the serine proteases alpha-chymotrypsin and plasmin. These represent model systems for serpin binding. We find, in contrast to earlier published results with alpha 2-antiplasmin and plasmin, that binding is reversible, and slow bin...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Longstaff C,Gaffney PJ

更新日期：1991-01-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The ATP-hydrolyzing portion of the proton pump from clathrin-coated vesicles (isolated from calf brain) was solubilized with three nondenaturing detergents (cholate, octyl glucoside, and Triton X-100). The hydrodynamic properties of the solubilized (Mg2+)-ATPase were then determined by sedimentation analysis in H2O an...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Forgac M,Berne M

更新日期：1986-07-29 00:00:00

abstract：:High-resolution nitrite soaked oxidized and reduced crystal structures of two active site mutants, D98N and H255N, of nitrite reductase (NIR) from Alcaligenes faecalis S-6 were determined to better than 2.0 A resolution. In the oxidized D98N nitrite-soaked structures, nitrite is coordinated to the type II copper via i...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Boulanger MJ,Murphy ME

更新日期：2001-08-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The Salmonella typhimurium leu-500 promoter is active only in topA strains. In an earlier study (Chen, D., Bowater, R., Dorman, C., & Lilley, D. M. J. (1992) Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 89, 8784-8788), we showed that the activity of this promoter on a circular plasmid is a function of the transcription and translati...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Chen D,Bowater RP,Lilley DM

更新日期：1993-12-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Thermal perturbation of the dicluster ferredoxin from Acidianus ambivalens was investigated employing a toolbox of spectroscopic methods. FTIR and visible CD were used for assessing changes of the secondary structure and coarse alterations of the [3Fe4S] and [4Fe4S] cluster moieties, respectively. Fine details of the ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Todorovic S,Leal SS,Salgueiro CA,Zebger I,Hildebrandt P,Murgida DH,Gomes CM

更新日期：2007-09-18 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