Reconstruction of quaternary structures of class II tRNA synthetases by rational mutagenensis of a conserved domain.

abstract：:Near-infrared FT-Raman spectroscopy can be used to measure the vibrations of the bacteriorhodopsin (bR) chromophore without the disadvantage of conventional visible resonance Raman spectroscopy, where the visible excitation drives the bR photoreactions. We utilized this technique to investigate the light-dark adaptati...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Rath P,Krebs MP,He Y,Khorana HG,Rothschild KJ

更新日期：1993-03-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The interaction between the calcium binding and inhibitory components of troponin is central to the regulation of muscle contraction. In this work, two-dimensional heteronuclear single-quantum coherence nuclear magnetic resonance (2D-¿1H,15N¿-HSQC NMR) spectroscopy was used to determine the stoichiometry, affinity, an...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Mercier P,Li MX,Sykes BD

更新日期：2000-03-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Transmembrane chemoreceptors, also known as methyl-accepting chemotaxis proteins (MCPs), translate extracellular signals into intracellular responses in the bacterial chemotaxis system. MCP ligand binding domains control the activity of the CheA kinase, situated approximately 200 A away, across the cytoplasmic membran...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Pollard AM,Bilwes AM,Crane BR

更新日期：2009-03-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The X-ray crystal structures of the complexes of the recombinant kringle 1 domain of human plasminogen (Klpg) with the ligands epsilon-aminocaproic acid (EACA) and trans-4-(aminomethyl)cyclohexane-1-carboxylic acid (AMCHA), which are representative of a class of in vivo antifibrinolytic agents, have been determined at...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Mathews II,Vanderhoff-Hanaver P,Castellino FJ,Tulinsky A

更新日期：1996-02-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The reaction of cytochrome c oxidase with dioxygen has been studied by means of time-resolved measurements of electrical membrane potential (DeltaPsi). Microsecond time resolution was achieved by starting with the CO-inhibited enzyme, which was photolyzed after addition of oxygen. The time course of the reaction could...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Jasaitis A,Verkhovsky MI,Morgan JE,Verkhovskaya ML,Wikström M

更新日期：1999-03-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The two dominant glucolipids in Acholeplasma laidlawii, viz., 1,2-diacyl-3-O-(alpha-D-glucopyranosyl)-sn-glycerol (MGlcDG) and 1,2-diacyl-3-O-[alpha-D-glucopyranosyl-(1----2)-O-alpha-D-glucopyranosyl ]- sn-glycerol (DGlcDG), have markedly different phase behavior. MGlcDG has an ability to form nonlamellar phases, wher...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Eriksson PO,Rilfors L,Wieslander A,Lundberg A,Lindblom G

更新日期：1991-05-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Conformational alterations occurring in bovine alpha 2-macroglobulin (alpha 2M) resulting from proteolysis and nucleophilic modification have been monitored by UV difference spectra, circular dichroism, and changes in the fluorescence of 6-(p-toluidino)-2-naphthalenesulfonate (TNS) and bis(8-anilino-1-naphthalenesulfo...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Strickland DK,Steiner JP,Feldman SR,Pizzo SV

更新日期：1984-12-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The thylakoid transmembrane DeltapH is the sole energy source driving translocation of precursor proteins by the DeltapH/Tat machinery. Consequently, proton translocation must be coupled to precursor translocation. For the precursor of the 17 kDa protein of the oxygen-evolving complex (pOE17), the protein translocatio...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Musser SM,Theg SM

更新日期：2000-07-18 00:00:00

abstract：:We have used diethyl pyrocarbonate (DEP), which carbethoxylates adenine bases, and dimethyl sulfate (DMS), which methylates guanine residues and single-stranded cytosines, to probe bases in open complexes between RNA polymerase and the lac UV5 promoter in vitro. We compared the kinetics of reactivity between bases in ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Buckle M,Buc H

更新日期：1989-05-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The reduction of substrates catalyzed by nitrogenase normally requires nucleotide-dependent Fe protein delivery of electrons to the MoFe protein, which contains the active site FeMo cofactor. Here, it is reported that independent substitution of three amino acids (β-98(Tyr→His), α-64(Tyr→His), and β-99(Phe→His)) locat...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Danyal K,Rasmussen AJ,Keable SM,Inglet BS,Shaw S,Zadvornyy OA,Duval S,Dean DR,Raugei S,Peters JW,Seefeldt LC

更新日期：2015-04-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The binding of the benzo[a]pyrene metabolite anti-BPDE (r7, t8-dihydroxy-t9,10-epoxy-7,8,9,10-tetrahydrobenzo[a]pyrene) to the N(2) group of 2'-deoxyguanosine residues (dG) is known to adversely affect the Michaelis-Menten primer extension kinetics catalyzed by DNA Pol I and other polymerases. In this work, the impact...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Rechkoblit O,Amin S,Geacintov NE

更新日期：1999-09-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Infrared spectroscopy has been used to monitor residual ordered structure in the denatured state of wild-type and two mutants of iso-1-cytochrome c. The technique used involves a careful digital subtraction procedure that removes spectral contributions from buffer, water vapor, and the denaturant guanidine hydrochlori...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Bowler BE,Dong A,Caughey WS

更新日期：1994-03-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The molecular chaperones Hsp90 and Hsp70 are highly regulated by various cochaperones that participate in the activation of steroid receptors. Here we study Tpr2 (also called DjC7), a TPR domain-containing type III J protein implicated in steroid receptor chaperoning. We propose that Tpr2 plays a role in the Hsp90-dep...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Moffatt NS,Bruinsma E,Uhl C,Obermann WM,Toft D

更新日期：2008-08-05 00:00:00

abstract：:G-Quadruplexes occupy important regulatory regions in the genome. DNA G-quadruplexes in the promoter regions and RNA quadruplexes in the UTRs (untranslated regions) have been individually studied and variously implicated at different regulatory levels of gene expression. However, the formation of G-quadruplexes in the...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Agarwal T,Roy S,Kumar S,Chakraborty TK,Maiti S

更新日期：2014-06-17 00:00:00

abstract：:To shed more light on the molecular requirements for recognition of thyroid response elements (TREs) by thyroid receptors (TRs), we compared the specific aspects of DNA TRE recognition by different TR constructs. Using fluorescence anisotropy, we performed a detailed and hierarchical study of TR-TRE binding. This was ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Figueira AC,Lima LM,Lima LH,Ranzani AT,Mule Gdos S,Polikarpov I

更新日期：2010-02-09 00:00:00

abstract：:We have studied a group of fusion peptides of influenza hemagglutinin in which the N-terminal amino acid, Gly (found in the wild-type peptide), has been systematically substituted with Ala, Ser, Val, or Glu. The activity of the intact hemagglutinin protein with these same substitutions has already been reported. As a ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Epand RM,Epand RF,Martin I,Ruysschaert JM

更新日期：2001-07-31 00:00:00

abstract：:The inducible isoform of nitric oxide synthase (iNOS) and three zinc tetrathiolate mutants (C104A, C109A, and C104A/C109A) were expressed in Escherichia coli and purified. The mutants were found by ICP-AES and the zinc-specific PAR colorimetric assay to be zinc free, whereas the wild-type iNOS zinc content was 0.38 +/...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Mitchell DA,Erwin PA,Michel T,Marletta MA

更新日期：2005-03-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Gadolinium (III) binds competitively with calcium(II) to porcine pancreatic phospholipase A2 (EC 3.1.1.4) and its zymogen. The enzyme-Gd3+ complex exhibits 4% of the hydrolytic activity of the corresponding Ca2+ complex toward a dispersion of dioctanoyllecithin. Dissociation constants for the Gd3+ complex of enzyme an...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Hershberg RD,Reed GH,Slotboom AJ,deHaas GH

更新日期：1976-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is known that, while melittin at micromolar concentrations is unfolded under conditions of low ionic strength at neutral pH, it adopts a tetrameric alpha-helical structure under conditions of high ionic strength, at alkaline pH, or at high peptide concentrations. To understand the mechanism of the conformational tr...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Goto Y,Hagihara Y

更新日期：1992-01-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The bacterial phosphoenolpyruvate:sugar phosphotransferase system involves a series of reactions in which phosphoprotein intermediates are formed. Histidine-containing protein (HPr) is phosphorylated on the N delta 1 position of the imidazole ring of His15 by enzyme I and acts as a phosphoryl donor to the sugar-specif...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Rajagopal P,Waygood EB,Klevit RE

更新日期：1994-12-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Retinoid X receptors (RXRs) are transcription factors with important functions in embryonic development, metabolic processes, differentiation, and apoptosis. A particular feature of RXRs is their ability to act as obligatory heterodimerization partners of class II nuclear receptors. At the same time, these receptors a...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Belorusova A,Osz J,Petoukhov MV,Peluso-Iltis C,Kieffer B,Svergun DI,Rochel N

更新日期：2016-03-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Fusion of a prokaryotic promoter to a yeast tRNA gene provides a means for uncoupling analyses of mutations affecting splicing from requirements for transcription and other processing steps. For this purpose, a phage lambda promoter was fused to the Saccharomyces cerevisiae tRNATyr(SUP3a) coding sequence. This fusion ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Shapero MH,Greer CL

更新日期：1991-07-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Apolipoprotein B (apoB) is the essential nonexchangeable protein in chylomicrons and very low-density lipoprotein-derived lipoprotein particles, including low-density lipoprotein (LDL). ApoB has been a key target for cardiovascular research because of its essential role in the assembly, secretion, delivery, and recept...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Jiang ZG,Carraway M,McKnight CJ

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gramicidin crystals, dimyristoylphosphatidylcholine (DMPC)/gramicidin dispersions, and DMPC/gramicidin cocrystals were examined by Raman scattering to determine lipid/gramicidin stoichiometries and lipid organization. Calibrations of the choline (716-cm-1) and tryptophan (756-cm-1) peaks indicate that the cocrystals c...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Short KW,Wallace BA,Myers RA,Fodor SP,Dunker AK

更新日期：1987-01-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Erwinia ligand-gated ion channel (ELIC) is a bacterial homologue of vertebrate pentameric ligand-gated ion channels (pLGICs) and has proven to be a valuable model for understanding the structure and function of this important protein family. There is nevertheless still a question about whether molecular details can be...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Mosesso R,Dougherty DA,Lummis SCR

更新日期：2018-07-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Calmodulin (CaM) is an essential, eukaryotic protein comprised of two highly homologous domains (N and C). CaM binds four calcium ions cooperatively, regulating a wide array of target proteins. A genetic screen of Paramecia by Kung [Kung, C. et al. (1992) Cell Calcium 13, 413-425] demonstrated that the domains of CaM ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： VanScyoc WS,Newman RA,Sorensen BR,Shea MA

更新日期：2006-12-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Eukaryotic assimilatory nitrate reductase (NR) is a dimeric multidomain molybdo-heme-flavo protein that catalyzes the first and rate-limiting step in the nitrate assimilation of plants, algae, and fungi. Nitrate reduction takes place at the N-terminal molybdenum cofactor-containing domain. Reducing equivalents are der...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Lambeck I,Chi JC,Krizowski S,Mueller S,Mehlmer N,Teige M,Fischer K,Schwarz G

更新日期：2010-09-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The three-dimensional structure of amyloid beta peptide (25-35), which has neurotoxic activity, in lithium dodecyl sulfate micelles was determined by two-dimensional 1H NMR spectroscopy with simulated annealing calculations. A total of 20 converged amyloid beta peptide structures were obtained on the basis of 110 expe...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Kohno T,Kobayashi K,Maeda T,Sato K,Takashima A

更新日期：1996-12-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Nitrophorins 1-4 (NP1-4) are ferriheme proteins from the blood-sucking insect Rhodnius prolixus that transport nitric oxide (NO) to the victim, sequester histamine, and inhibit blood coagulation. Here, we report kinetic and thermodynamic analyses for ligand binding by all four proteins and their reduction potentials. ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Andersen JF,Ding XD,Balfour C,Shokhireva TK,Champagne DE,Walker FA,Montfort WR

更新日期：2000-08-22 00:00:00

abstract：:P-glycoprotein (P-gp) is the most well-known ATP-binding cassette (ABC) transporter involved in unidirectional substrate translocation across the membrane lipid bilayer, thereby causing the typical multidrug resistance (MDR) phenotype expressed in many cancers. We observed that in human CEM acute lymphoblastic leukemi...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Gayet L,Dayan G,Barakat S,Labialle S,Michaud M,Cogne S,Mazane A,Coleman AW,Rigal D,Baggetto LG

更新日期：2005-03-22 00:00:00