The crystal structure of human procathepsin K.

abstract：:Glycine oxidase gene from a strain of Bacillus subtilis was cloned and expressed in Escherichia coli. The purified enzyme was found, by mass spectrometry, to have a protein M(r) of 40763 (value of 40761.6 predicted from DNA sequence) and a FAD prosthetic group M(r) of 785.1 (theoretical value of 785.5). Glycine oxidas...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Jamil F,Gardner QA,Bashir Q,Rashid N,Akhtar M

更新日期：2010-08-31 00:00:00

abstract：:CD23/Fc epsilonRII, the low-affinity receptor for IgE, is a multifunctional protein of importance in blood cell development and the immune system. We have studied the interaction of CD23 with IgE in solution using hydrodynamic methods applied to recombinant fragments of both ligands: sCD23, corresponding to the solubl...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Shi J,Ghirlando R,Beavil RL,Beavil AJ,Keown MB,Young RJ,Owens RJ,Sutton BJ,Gould HJ

更新日期：1997-02-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Methylenetetrahydrofolate dehydrogenase-cyclohydrolase (FolD) catalyzes interconversion of 5,10-methylene-tetrahydrofolate and 10-formyl-tetrahydrofolate in the one-carbon metabolic pathway. In some organisms, the essential requirement of 10-formyl-tetrahydrofolate may also be fulfilled by formyltetrahydrofolate synth...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Sah S,Varshney U

更新日期：2015-06-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Extended hydrogen bond networks are a common structural motif of enzymes. A recent analysis proposed quantum delocalization of protons as a feature present in the hydrogen bond network spanning a triad of tyrosines (Y(16), Y(32), and Y(57)) in the active site of ketosteroid isomerase (KSI), contributing to its unusual...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Wu Y,Fried SD,Boxer SG

更新日期：2015-12-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of structural modifications of the flavin mononucleotide (FMN) prosthetic group of Clostridium pasteurianum flavodoxin on the kinetics of electron transfer to the oxidized form (from 5-deazariboflavin semiquinone produced by laser flash photolysis) and from the semiquinone form (to horse heart cytochrome c...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Simondsen RP,Tollin G

更新日期：1983-06-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Standard preparations of Escherichia coli RNA polymerase harbor a 70 kDa protein with NTPase (beta-gamma cleavage) activity that is not a recognized polymerase subunit. The NTPase activity of this component, before and after separation from the polymerase, is strongly dependent on the presence of DNA; single-stranded ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Butzow JJ,Garland C,Van Lee L,Eichhorn GL

更新日期：1997-12-02 00:00:00

abstract：:In bacteria, two-component systems act as signaling systems to respond to environmental stimuli. Two-component systems generally consist of a sensor histidine kinase and a response regulator, which work together through histidyl-aspartyl phosphorelay to result in gene regulation. One of the two-component systems in Es...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Affandi T,Issaian AV,McEvoy MM

更新日期：2016-09-20 00:00:00

abstract：:A visual pigment consists of an opsin protein and a chromophore, 11-cis-retinal, which binds to a specific lysine residue of opsin via a Schiff base linkage. The Schiff base chromophore is protonated in pigments that absorb visible light, whereas it is unprotonated in ultraviolet-absorbing visual pigments (UV pigments...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Tsutsui K,Imai H,Shichida Y

更新日期：2007-05-29 00:00:00

abstract：:For expression in Saccharomyces cerevisiae the cDNA of the uncoupling protein (UCP) of brown adipose tissue from hamster has been isolated and used to transform yeast cells. Optimized expression conditions yielded 2% of mitochondrial protein as UCP. UCP was isolated, avoiding copurification of ADP/ATP carrier and pori...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Echtay KS,Bienengraeber M,Klingenberg M

更新日期：1997-07-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The enthalpies of transfer of hen egg white lysozyme from water to aqueous solutions of 1-propanol were determined by isothermal flow calorimetry at 10, 17, 25, and 40 degrees C in 0.04 M, pH 2 glycine buffer. Alcohol concentrations up to 3.4 M were employed. Four regions in the dependence of the enthalpy of transfer ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Sturtevant JM,Velicelebi G

更新日期：1981-05-26 00:00:00

abstract：:RNA binding proteins play an important role in regulating alternative pre-mRNA splicing and in turn cellular gene expression. Many of these RNA binding proteins occur as gene families with members sharing a high degree of primary structure identity and domain organization yet have tissue-specific expression patterns a...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Pina JM,Reynaga JM,Truong AAM,Keppetipola NM

更新日期：2018-07-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) has been used to monitor the conformation and dynamics of the d(C1-G2-A3-T4-T5-A6-T6-A5-A4-T3-C2-G1) self-complementary dodecanucleotide duplex (henceforth called Pribnow 12-mer), which contains a TATAAT Pribnow box and a central core of eight dA X dT base pairs. The exchangeable imino...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Patel DJ,Kozlowski SA,Weiss M,Bhatt R

更新日期：1985-02-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The proton-translocating NADH-quinone oxidoreductase (NDH-1) of Paracoccus denitrificans is composed of 14 different subunits (Nqo1-Nqo14). Of these, seven subunits (Nqo7, Nqo8, and Nqo10-14) which are equivalent to the mitochondrial DNA-encoded subunits of complex I constitute the membrane segment of the enzyme compl...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Kao MC,Di Bernardo S,Matsuno-Yagi A,Yagi T

更新日期：2003-04-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Class A beta-lactamases hydrolyze penicillins and other beta-lactams via an acyl-enzyme catalytic mechanism. Ser70 is the active site nucleophile. By constructing the S70A mutant, which is unable to form the acyl-enzyme intermediate, it was possible to make stable ES complexes with various substrates. The stability of...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Hokenson MJ,Cope GA,Lewis ER,Oberg KA,Fink AL

更新日期：2000-05-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Tec family nonreceptor tyrosine kinases are key immunological enzymes that control processes that range from T and B cell development to reorganization of the actin cytoskeleton. The full-length Tec kinases have been resistant to crystallization. This lack of structural data and the paucity of in vitro biochemical dat...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Joseph RE,Min L,Andreotti AH

更新日期：2007-05-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The biochemical characteristics of the formation and disappearance of intercalator-induced DNA double-strand breaks (DSB) were studied in nuclei from mouse leukemia L1210 cells by using filter elution methodology [Bradley, M. O., & Kohn, K.W. (1979) Nucleic Acids Res. 7, 793-804]. The three intercalators used were 4'-...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Pommier Y,Schwartz RE,Kohn KW,Zwelling LA

更新日期：1984-07-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Deposition of amyloid beta-peptide (Abeta) into amyloid plaques is one of the invariant neuropathological features of Alzheimer's disease. Proteins that codeposit with Abeta are potentially important for the pathogenesis, and a recently discovered plaque-associated protein is the collagenous Alzheimer amyloid plaque c...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Kakuyama H,Söderberg L,Horigome K,Winblad B,Dahlqvist C,Näslund J,Tjernberg LO

更新日期：2005-11-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The sliding clamp of the Escherichia coli replisome is now understood to interact with many proteins involved in DNA synthesis and repair. A universal interaction motif is proposed to be one mechanism by which those proteins bind the E. coli sliding clamp, a homodimer of the beta subunit, at a single site on the dimer...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Wijffels G,Dalrymple BP,Prosselkov P,Kongsuwan K,Epa VC,Lilley PE,Jergic S,Buchardt J,Brown SE,Alewood PF,Jennings PA,Dixon NE

更新日期：2004-05-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Helix-junction-helix (HJH) motifs are flexible building blocks of RNA architecture that help define the orientation and dynamics of helical domains. They are also frequently involved in adaptive recognition of proteins and small molecules and in the formation of tertiary contacts. Here, we use a battery of nuclear mag...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Merriman DK,Xue Y,Yang S,Kimsey IJ,Shakya A,Clay M,Al-Hashimi HM

更新日期：2016-08-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The bleomycins (BLMs), tallysomycins (TLMs), phleomycin, and zorbamycin (ZBM) are members of the BLM family of glycopeptide-derived antitumor antibiotics. The BLM-producing Streptomyces verticillus ATCC15003 and the TLM-producing Streptoalloteichus hindustanus E465-94 ATCC31158 both possess at least two self-resistanc...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Rudolf JD,Bigelow L,Chang C,Cuff ME,Lohman JR,Chang CY,Ma M,Yang D,Clancy S,Babnigg G,Joachimiak A,Phillips GN Jr,Shen B

更新日期：2015-11-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The conformation and activity of three different lipases have been studied in reverse micelles formed by sodium bis(2-ethylhexyl) sulfosuccinate (AOT) in isooctane. In the case of human pancreatic lipase, the conformation of the polypeptide chain--as judged from far-UV circular dichroism measurements--is only slightly...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Walde P,Han D,Luisi PL

更新日期：1993-04-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Synaptotagmin I is a synaptic vesicle protein that contains two C(2) domains and acts as a Ca(2+) sensor in neurotransmitter release. The Ca(2+)-binding properties of the synaptotagmin I C(2)A domain have been well characterized, but those of the C(2)B domain are unclear. The C(2)B domain was previously found to pull ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Ubach J,Lao Y,Fernandez I,Arac D,Südhof TC,Rizo J

更新日期：2001-05-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Herpesvirus saimiri codes for a tyrosine kinase interacting protein (Tip) that interacts with both the SH3 domain and the kinase domain of the T-cell-specific tyrosine kinase Lck via two separate motifs. The activation of Lck by Tip is considered as a key event in the transformation of human T-lymphocytes during herpe...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Schweimer K,Hoffmann S,Bauer F,Friedrich U,Kardinal C,Feller SM,Biesinger B,Sticht H

更新日期：2002-04-23 00:00:00

abstract：:ATP-dependent Mg2+ accumulation in isolated mitochondria occurs predominantly in the matrix and inner membrane compartments. In mitochondria contaminated with lysosomes, the time course and magnitude of ATP-dependent Mg2+ accumulation are influenced by various cytoplasmic substances, besides substrates of the citric a...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Kun E

更新日期：1976-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interaction of von Willebrand factor (vWF) with its platelet receptor only occurs in vitro in the presence of a modulator such as ristocetin. We have recently confirmed that the human platelet membrane glycoprotein (GP) Ib-IX complex is the receptor involved in the ristocetin-dependent binding of vWF by reconstitution...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Andrews RK,Booth WJ,Gorman JJ,Castaldi PA,Berndt MC

更新日期：1989-10-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The level of albumin mRNA in the normal Buffalo rat liver and Morris hepatoma 7777 was compared by molecular hybridization with albumin complementary DNA (cDNA) and translational assays. Albumin mRNA was found to be 10% of the total rat liver poly(A)-containing RNA population but reduced approximately fourfold in the ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Tse TP,Morris HP,Taylor JM

更新日期：1978-07-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Chicken nucleoside triphosphate diphosphohydrolase 8 (NTPDase8) is a cell surface ectonucleotidase with a large extracellular domain (ECD) containing the active site and is anchored to the membrane by two transmembrane domains (TMDs) at the N- and C-termini. Unlike other cell surface NTPDases that have been characteri...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Li CS,Lee Y,Knowles AF

更新日期：2010-01-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Atrazine chlorohydrolase (AtzA) from Pseudomonas sp. ADP initiates the metabolism of the herbicide atrazine by catalyzing a hydrolytic dechlorination reaction to produce hydroxyatrazine. Sequence analysis revealed AtzA to be homologous to metalloenzymes within the amidohydrolase protein superfamily. AtzA activity was ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Seffernick JL,McTavish H,Osborne JP,de Souza ML,Sadowsky MJ,Wackett LP

更新日期：2002-12-03 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe the crystal structure of human epidermal-type fatty acid binding protein (E-FABP) that was recently found to be highly upregulated in human psoriatic keratinocytes. To characterize E-FABP with respect to ligand-binding properties and tertiary structure, we cloned the respective cDNA, overexpressed the prot...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Hohoff C,Börchers T,Rüstow B,Spener F,van Tilbeurgh H

更新日期：1999-09-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The three-dimensional high-resolution structure of rhodopsin is unknown, as is the case for almost all integral membrane patients. As part of an alternative approach to determine of membrane protein structure, we are pursuing the structure of cytoplasmic domains of this G-protein receptor. A peptide, rhoIII, with the ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Yeagle PL,Alderfer JL,Albert AD

更新日期：1995-11-14 00:00:00