ATP cross-linked to Escherichia coli single-strand DNA-binding protein can be utilized by the catalytic center of primase as initiating nucleotide for primer RNA synthesis on phage G4oric template.

abstract：:EPR studies have revealed that removal of calcium using citric acid from the site in spinach photosystem II which is coupled to the photosynthetic O2-evolving process produces a structural change in the manganese cluster responsible for water oxidation. If done in the dark, this yields a modified S1' oxidation state w...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Sivaraja M,Tso J,Dismukes GC

更新日期：1989-11-28 00:00:00

abstract：:By following the kinetics of abortive and productive synthesis in single-round transcription assays, we confirm the existence of two general classes of initial transcribing complexes (ITCs), which we term "productive ITC" and "unproductive ITC". The productive ITCs are able to escape from the promoter rapidly to produ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Vo NV,Hsu LM,Kane CM,Chamberlin MJ

更新日期：2003-04-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite a lack of convincing in vitro evidence and a number of sound refutations, it is widely accepted that renalase is an enzyme unique to animals that catalyzes the oxidative degradation of catecholamines in blood in order to lower vascular tone. Very recently, we identified isomers of β-NAD(P)H as substrates for r...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Hoag MR,Roman J,Beaupre BA,Silvaggi NR,Moran GR

更新日期：2015-06-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The anomeric proton (H-1) chemical shifts of D-mannopyranosides in aqueous solution are affected both by the aglycon and by substitution of the ring [Lee, Y. C., & Ballou, C. E. (1965) Biochemistry 4, 257]. We have examined the 1H NMR spectra for a variety of linear and branched mannooligosaccharides and have assigned...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Cohen RE,Ballou CE

更新日期：1980-09-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The preferential interactions of proteins with solvent components were studied in concentrated aqueous solutions of the sulfate, acetate, and chloride salts of Mg2+, Ba2+, Ca2+, Mn2+ and Ni2+ [except for CaSO4, BaSO4, Mn-(OAc)2, and Ni(OAc)2], and results were compared with those of the Na+ salts. It was found that, f...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Arakawa T,Timasheff SN

更新日期：1984-12-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The carboxypeptidase inhibitor from Russet Burbank potatoes (C. A. Ryan et al. (1974b), J. Biol. Chem 249, 5495) is a mixture of approximately equal amounts of two polypeptide chains containing 38 and 39 amino acid residues, respectively. The chains differ in their amino terminal sequence only, one beginning with smal...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Hass GM,Nau H,Biemann K,Grahn DT,Ericsson LH,Neurath H

更新日期：1975-03-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Stopped-flow kinetic measurements of the association of filipin with sterols in intact cells and isolated membranes of Mycoplasma capricolum were used to study the effects of varying the phospholipid in the membrane. The phospholipid composition and content of the membrane were varied by growing cells in an albumin-co...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Clejan S,Bittman R,Rottem S

更新日期：1981-04-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Aromatic residues in c-type cytochromes might have an important function in the folding and/or electron transferring properties of the molecule. In the tetraheme cytochrome c3 (Mr 13 000) from Desulfovibrio vulgaris Hildenborough, Phe20, is located between heme 1 and heme 3 with its aromatic ring close and almost para...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Dolla A,Arnoux P,Protasevich I,Lobachov V,Brugna M,Giudici-Orticoni MT,Haser R,Czjzek M,Makarov A,Bruschi M

更新日期：1999-01-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Nuclease footprinting techniques have been employed to investigate the interaction between the diuretic drug amiloride, a sodium channel blocker with potential therapeutic use in the treatment of cystic fibrosis, and three DNA fragments of defined sequence. Using either DNAse I or micrococcal nuclease as probes, an un...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Bailly C,Cuthbert AW,Gentle D,Knowles MR,Waring MJ

更新日期：1993-03-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The complex kinetic behavior commonly observed in protein folding studies suggests that a heterogeneous population of molecules exists in solution and that a number of discrete steps are involved in the conversion of unfolded molecules to the fully native form. A central issue in protein folding is whether any of thes...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Walkenhorst WF,Green SM,Roder H

更新日期：1997-05-13 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：:The ATP hydrolysis and protein-binding and release cycle of the molecular chaperone DnaK is regulated by the accessory proteins GrpE and DnaJ. Here we describe a study of the formation of complexes between the molecular chaperone DnaK, its nucleotide exchange factor GrpE, and the fluorescent ADP analog N8-[4-[(N'-meth...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Packschies L,Theyssen H,Buchberger A,Bukau B,Goody RS,Reinstein J

更新日期：1997-03-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Upon cleavage of the reactive thioester bonds (Cys-949-Glx-952) of tetrameric human alpha 2-macroglobulin (alpha 2M) by methylamine, one sulfhydryl group per alpha 2M subunit is exposed. These identical sulfhydryl group sites were labeled with the thiol-specific nitroxide spin-labels (1-oxy-2,2,5,5-tetramethyl-3-pyrro...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Zhao BL,Musci G,Sugawara Y,Berliner LJ

更新日期：1988-07-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Streptococcus pneumoniae 5'-methylthioadenosine/S-adenosylhomocysteine hydrolase (MTAN) catalyzes the hydrolytic deadenylation of its substrates to form adenine and 5-methylthioribose or S-ribosylhomocysteine (SRH). MTAN is not found in mammals but is involved in bacterial quorum sensing. MTAN gene disruption affects ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Singh V,Shi W,Almo SC,Evans GB,Furneaux RH,Tyler PC,Painter GF,Lenz DH,Mee S,Zheng R,Schramm VL

更新日期：2006-10-31 00:00:00

abstract：:The hepatic metabolism of deuteriated D-methionine has been studied in the intact, anesthetized rat using 2H NMR spectroscopy. The rate of formation of the principal labeled metabolite, [methyl-2H3]sarcosine, from the D-[methyl-2H3]methionine precursor was found to be as rapid as the rate observed previously in NMR st...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： London RE,Gabel SA

更新日期：1988-10-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Covalent labeling of the canine renal parathyroid hormone receptor with [125I]bPTH(1-34) reveals several major binding components that display characteristics consistent with a physiologically relevant adenylate cyclase linked receptor. Through the use of the specific glycosidases neuraminidase and endoglycosidase F a...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Karpf DB,Arnaud CD,King K,Bambino T,Winer J,Nyiredy K,Nissenson RA

更新日期：1987-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phospholipase A(2) (PLA(2)) enzymes become activated by binding to biological membranes and hydrolyze phospholipids to free fatty acids and lyso-phospholipids, the precursors of inflammatory mediators. To understand the functional significance of amino acid residues at key positions, we have studied the effects of the...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Nemec KN,Pande AH,Qin S,Bieber Urbauer RJ,Tan S,Moe D,Tatulian SA

更新日期：2006-10-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Ryanodine receptor (RyR) mutations linked with some congenital skeletal and cardiac diseases are localized to three easily definable regions: region 1 (N-terminal domain), region 2 (central domain), and a rather broad region 3 containing the channel pore. As shown in our recent studies, the interdomain interaction bet...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Hamada T,Bannister ML,Ikemoto N

更新日期：2007-04-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Human immunoglobulin E (IgE) consists of 14 domains, each with the characteristic immunoglobulin fold structure. Compared with the 12-domain structure of immunoglobulin G (IgG), IgE has an additional pair of domains (C epsilon 2) in the Fc region in place of the hinge of IgG. The crystal structure of the 4-domain Fc f...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Beavil AJ,Young RJ,Sutton BJ,Perkins SJ

更新日期：1995-11-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Distinct structural features of DNA, such as the curvature of dA tracts, are important in the recognition, packaging, and regulation of DNA. Physiologically relevant concentrations of magnesium have been found to enhance the curvature of dA tract DNAs, as monitored by solution-state NMR, indicating that the structure ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Jerkovic B,Bolton PH

更新日期：2001-08-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The first step in sulfur mobilization for the biosynthesis of Fe-S clusters under oxidative stress and iron starvation in Escherichia coli involves a cysteine desulfurase SufS. Its catalytic reactivity is dependent on the presence of a sulfur acceptor protein, SufE, which acts as the preferred substrate for this enzym...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Selbach BP,Pradhan PK,Dos Santos PC

更新日期：2013-06-11 00:00:00

abstract：:As for many enzymes, the enzymatic pathway of triosephosphate isomerase (TIM) includes the partially rate determining motion of an active site loop (loop 6, residues 166-176), which must remain closed during chemistry but must open just before product release. The motion of this loop was monitored using laser induced ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Desamero R,Rozovsky S,Zhadin N,McDermott A,Callender R

更新日期：2003-03-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Thermal unfolding/refolding studies of the three tropomyosin dimers, alpha alpha, alpha beta, and beta beta, from chicken gizzard muscle were performed to explain the preferential assembly of alpha- and beta-tropomyosin subunits into heterodimers, alpha beta [Lehrer, S. S., & Qian, Y. (1989) J. Biol. Chem. 265, 1134]....

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Lehrer SS,Stafford WF 3rd

更新日期：1991-06-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The relationship between the domain structure of the alpha subunit of Escherichia coli tryptophan synthase and the mechanism of unfolding of the alpha subunit is investigated. Previous studies of the unfolding of the alpha subunit by increasing concentrations of guanidine hydrochloride or urea detected a partially unf...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Miles EW,Yutani K,Ogasahara K

更新日期：1982-05-25 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper the interaction of cytoplasmic CopZ and the N-terminal domain of the CopA ATPase from Bacillus subtilis has been studied by NMR through (15)N-(1)H HSQC experiments in order to understand the role of the two proteins in the whole copper trafficking mechanism of the bacteria. It appears that the two protei...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Banci L,Bertini I,Ciofi-Baffoni S,Del Conte R,Gonnelli L

更新日期：2003-02-25 00:00:00

abstract：:A number of isomeric diacylglycerophosphocholines and diacylglycero sulfates containing O-acyl and/or S-acyl ester bonds were investigated as substrates for porcine pancreatic phospholipase A2 and its zymogen. A comparison is made with the kinetic properties of the enzyme toward the corresponding glycol detergents pre...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： van Oort MG,Dijkman R,Hille JD,de Haas GH

更新日期：1985-12-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Membrane-bound phosphodiesterase 6 (PDE6) plays an important role in visual signal transduction by regulating cGMP levels in rod photoreceptor cells. Our understanding of PDE6 catalysis and structure suffers from inadequate characterization of the α and β subunit catalytic core, interactions of the core with two intri...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Baker BY,Palczewski K

更新日期：2011-11-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Pantothenate synthetase (PS, EC 6.3.2.1) is the last enzyme in the pantothenate biosynthesis pathway, a metabolic pathway identified as a potential target for new antimicrobials. PS catalyzes the ATP-dependent condensation of pantoate and beta-alanine to form pantothenate. Here we report the overexpression, purificati...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Satoh A,Konishi S,Tamura H,Stickland HG,Whitney HM,Smith AG,Matsumura H,Inoue T

更新日期：2010-08-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Isopentenyl phosphate kinase (IPK) catalyzes the phosphorylation of isopentenyl phosphate to form the isoprenoid precursor isopentenyl diphosphate in the archaeal mevalonate pathway. This enzyme is highly homologous to fosfomycin kinase (FomA), an antibiotic resistance enzyme found in a few strains of Streptomyces and...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Mabanglo MF,Serohijos AW,Poulter CD

更新日期：2012-01-31 00:00:00

abstract：:The thermodynamic binding parameters and crystal structure for streptavidin-peptide complexes where the peptide sequences were obtained by random screening methods are reported. The affinities between streptavidin and two heptapeptides were determined by titrating calorimetric methods [Phe-Ser-His-Pro-Gln-Asn-Thr, Ka ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Weber PC,Pantoliano MW,Thompson LD

更新日期：1992-10-06 00:00:00