Physical dissection of the structural elements responsible for regulatory properties and intersubunit interactions of protein kinase CK2 beta-subunit.

abstract：:Two new inhibitors in which the terminal α-carboxyl groups of Z-Ala-Ala-Phe-COOH and Z-Ala-Pro-Phe-COOH have been replaced with a proton to give Z-Ala-Ala-Phe-H and Z-Ala-Pro-Phe-H, respectively, have been synthesized. Using these inhibitors, we estimate that for α-chymotrypsin and subtilisin Carlsberg the terminal ca...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Petrillo T,O'Donohoe CA,Howe N,Malthouse JP

更新日期：2012-08-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Fluorescence studies of the binding of IKe gene 5 protein to various polynucleotides were performed to obtain insight into the question as to what extent the binding characteristics of the gene 5 proteins of the IKe and M13 phages resemble and/or differ from each other. The fluorescence of IKe gene 5 protein is quench...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： de Jong EA,Harmsen BJ,Konings RN,Hilbers CW

更新日期：1987-04-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Vitamin E is a dietary lipid that is essential for vertebrate health and fertility. The biological activity of vitamin E is thought to reflect its ability to quench oxygen- and carbon-based free radicals and thus to protect the organism from oxidative damage. However, recent reports suggest that vitamin E may also dis...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Valastyan S,Thakur V,Johnson A,Kumar K,Manor D

更新日期：2008-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The involvement of Cl(-) and several other monovalent anions in photosynthetic oxygen evolution was studied using photosystem II membranes depleted of Cl(-) by dialysis. The results of these studies differ significantly from results obtained using other depletion methods. Binding studies with glycerol as a cryoprotect...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Olesen K,Andréasson LE

更新日期：2003-02-25 00:00:00

abstract：:N-Terminal glutaminyl and glutamyl residues of peptides and proteins tend to form pyroglutamic acid (pGlu) by intramolecular cylization. The rate constants for spontaneous cyclization of glutamine (10(-6) s(-1)) and glutamic acid (10(-9) s(-1)) in aqueous solution differ by approximately 3 orders of magnitude at pH 6....

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Seifert F,Schulz K,Koch B,Manhart S,Demuth HU,Schilling S

更新日期：2009-12-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Phospholipids and sterols play multiple roles in cells. In addition to establishing barriers between compartments, they also provide the matrix for assembly and function of a large variety of catalytic processes. Lipid composition is a highly regulated feature of biological membranes, yet its implications for membrane...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Autzen HE,Koldsø H,Stansfeld PJ,Gourdon P,Sansom MSP,Nissen P

更新日期：2018-07-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Self-splicing of Tetrahymena pre-rRNA proceeds in two consecutive phosphoryl transesterification steps. One major difference between these steps is that in the first an exogenous guanosine (G) binds to the active site, while in the second the 3'-terminal G414 residue of the intron binds. The first step has been extens...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Mei R,Herschlag D

更新日期：1996-05-07 00:00:00

abstract：:tRNase Z, which exists in almost all cells, is believed to be working primarily for tRNA 3' maturation. In Escherichia coli, however, the tRNase Z gene appears to be dispensable under normal growth conditions, and its physiological role is not clear. Here, to investigate a possibility that E. coli tRNase Z cleaves RNA...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Shibata HS,Minagawa A,Takaku H,Takagi M,Nashimoto M

更新日期：2006-05-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Apurinic/apyrimidinic endonuclease 1 (APE1) is a DNA repair protein and plays other important roles. Increased levels of APE1 in cancer have been reported. However, available methods for measuring APE1 levels are indirect and not quantitative. We previously developed an approach using liquid chromatography and tandem ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Coskun E,Jaruga P,Reddy PT,Dizdaroglu M

更新日期：2015-09-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (nAChRs) were studied in detail in the past regarding their interaction with therapeutic and drug addiction related compounds. Using fast kinetic whole-cell recording, we have now studied effects of tacrine, an agent used clinically to treat Alzheimer's disease, on currents elicited b...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Cheffer A,Ulrich H

更新日期：2011-03-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The 19-transmembrane multisubunit γ-secretase complex generates the amyloid β-peptide (Aβ) of Alzheimer's disease (AD) by intramembrane proteolysis of the β-amyloid precursor protein (APP). Despite substantial advances in elucidating how this protein complex functions, the effect of the local membrane lipid microenvir...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Holmes O,Paturi S,Ye W,Wolfe MS,Selkoe DJ

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The structural behavior of the nucleosome core particles in the range of solvent Na+ concentration from 10.45 to 0.45 mM has been studied by small-angle neutron and synchroton radiation X-ray scattering, sedimentation, atomic absorption spectroscopy, density measurements, and circular dichroism. With decreasing salt c...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Hirai M,Niimura N,Zama M,Mita K,Ichimura S,Tokunaga F,Ishikawa Y

更新日期：1988-10-04 00:00:00

abstract：:An amplified Okayama-Berg plasmid cDNA library was constructed from total poly(A)+ RNA isolated from the Madin-Darby bovine kidney cell line MDBK. This library was screened with a partial murine calpactin I heavy chain (p36) cDNA clone, the identification of which was based on bovine p36 tryptic peptide sequences gene...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Kristensen T,Saris CJ,Hunter T,Hicks LJ,Noonan DJ,Glenney JR Jr,Tack BF

更新日期：1986-08-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Retinitis pigmentosa (RP), a neurodegenerative disorder, can arise from single point mutations in rhodopsin, leading to a cascade of protein instability, misfolding, aggregation, rod cell death, retinal degeneration, and ultimately blindness. Divalent cations, such as zinc and copper, have allosteric effects on misfol...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Gleim S,Stojanovic A,Arehart E,Byington D,Hwa J

更新日期：2009-03-03 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：:We have studied the role of amphipathic alpha-helices in the ability of apoA-I to promote cholesterol efflux from human skin fibroblasts and activate lecithin:cholesterol acyltransferase (LCAT). Three apoA-I mutants were designed, each by deletion of a pair of predicted adjacent central alpha-helices [Delta(100-143), ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Frank PG,N'Guyen D,Franklin V,Neville T,Desforges M,Rassart E,Sparks DL,Marcel YL

更新日期：1998-09-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The high resolution proton nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectra of the synthetic DNA block polymer d(C15A15)-d(T15G15) were studied in order to more completely understand telestability in DNA, and to provide fundamental NMR data on DNA helices and random coils. Spectra were measured in the spectral region from 0 t...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Early TA,Kearns DR,Burd JF,Larson JE,Wells RD

更新日期：1977-02-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The circular dichroism (CD) of Pfl filamentous virus has been examined over the temperature range 0-40 degrees C, in the absence and presence of Hg(II), Ag(I), and Cu(II). Thermal difference CD spectra were obtained by subtraction of spectra recorded above and below a thermally induced structure transition near 12 deg...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Casadevall A,Day LA

更新日期：1988-05-17 00:00:00

abstract：:To test for on target toxicity of a new chemical entity, it is important to have comparable binding affinities of the compound in the target proteins from humans and the test species. To evaluate our myeloid cell leukemia-1 (Mcl-1) inhibitors, we tested them against rodent Mcl-1 and found a significant loss of binding...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Zhao B,Arnold AL,Coronel MA,Lee JH,Lee T,Olejniczak ET,Fesik SW

更新日期：2018-08-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Runx proteins constitute a family of mammalian transcription factors that interact with DNA through their evolutionarily conserved Runt domain. CBFbeta, alternatively denoted PEBP2beta, is the non-DNA-binding heterodimer partner and acts to enhance the DNA binding affinity of Runx proteins. Runx proteins and CBFbeta a...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Wolf-Watz M,Grundström T,Härd T

更新日期：2001-09-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Conceptually one may envisage that substrate binding sites on the ABC transporter P-gp cycle between high- and low-affinity conformations in response to signals arising from nucleotide hydrolysis to effect active transport. A radioligand binding assay was used to characterize the interaction of [3H]vinblastine with P-...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Martin C,Higgins CF,Callaghan R

更新日期：2001-12-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Factor V(a) (FV(a)) is a cofactor for the serine protease factor X(a) that activates prothrombin to thrombin in the presence of Ca(2+) and a membrane surface. FV(a) is a heterodimer composed of one heavy chain (A1 and A2 domains) and one light chain (A3, C1, and C2 domains). We use fluorescence, circular dichroism, an...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Srivastava A,Quinn-Allen MA,Kim SW,Kane WH,Lentz BR

更新日期：2001-07-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Restrictocin is a small basic protein produced by the fungus Aspergillus restrictus. It potently inhibits protein synthesis in eukaryotic cells by specifically cleaving a single phosphodiester bond in 28S rRNA. A histidine residue at position 49 in restrictocin has been implicated in its active site. A mutant of restr...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Nayak SK,Batra JK

更新日期：1997-11-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Annexin V (AxV) is a member of a family of proteins that exhibit functionally relevant Ca2+-dependent binding to anionic phospholipid membranes. Protein structure and stability as a function of Ca2+ and phospholipids was studied by bulk phase infrared (IR) spectroscopy and by IR reflection-absorption spectroscopy (IRR...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Wu F,Flach CR,Seaton BA,Mealy TR,Mendelsohn R

更新日期：1999-01-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The interaction of profilin and non-muscle beta,gamma-actin prepared from bovine spleen has been investigated under physiologic ionic conditions. Profilin binding to actin decreases the affinity of actin for MgADP and MgATP by about 65- and 13-fold, respectively. Kinetic measurements indicate that profilin binding to ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Kinosian HJ,Selden LA,Gershman LC,Estes JE

更新日期：2000-10-31 00:00:00

abstract：:To identify how many rhodopsin intermediates interact with retinal G-protein transducin, the photobleaching process of chicken rhodopsin has been investigated in the presence or absence of transducin by means of time-resolved low-temperature spectroscopy. Singular value decomposition (SVD) analysis of the spectral dat...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Tachibanaki S,Imai H,Mizukami T,Okada T,Imamoto Y,Matsuda T,Fukada Y,Terakita A,Shichida Y

更新日期：1997-11-18 00:00:00

abstract：:A new orally active oxidosqualene:lanosterol cyclase (OSLC) inhibitor (Ro48-8071; Morand, O. H. et al. (1997) J. Lipid Res. 38, 373-390) showed potent noncompetitive inhibition of bacterial squalene:hopene cyclase (SHC) from Alicyclobacillus acidocaldarius (IC50 = 9.0 nM, KI = 6.6 nM) and OSLC (IC50 = 40 nM, KI = 22 n...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Abe I,Zheng YF,Prestwich GD

更新日期：1998-04-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Structures of the DNA sequences d(CCGGCGCCGG) and d(CCAGTACbr(5)UGG) are presented here as four-way Holliday junctions in their compact stacked-X forms, with antiparallel alignment of the DNA strands. Thus, the ACC-trinucleotide motif, previously identified as important for stabilizing the junction, is now extended to...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Hays FA,Vargason JM,Ho PS

更新日期：2003-08-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Membrane proteins are embedded in a lipid bilayer and maintain strong interactions with lipid molecules. Tightly bound lipids are responsible for vertical positioning and integration of proteins in the membrane and for assembly of multisubunit complexes and occasionally act as substrates. In this work we present the l...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Wöhri AB,Wahlgren WY,Malmerberg E,Johansson LC,Neutze R,Katona G

更新日期：2009-10-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Brd4 belongs to the BET family. It is a multifunctional protein involved in transcription, replication, the signal transduction pathway, and cell cycle progression. All of these functions are linked to its association with acetylated chromatin. With its tandem bromodomains, Brd4 avidly binds to diacetylated H4-AcK5/K1...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Liu Y,Wang X,Zhang J,Huang H,Ding B,Wu J,Shi Y

更新日期：2008-06-17 00:00:00