Structure of the potassium form of CGCGAATTCGCG: DNA deformation by electrostatic collapse around inorganic cations.

abstract：:A detailed interpretation of the grossly distorted ultraviolet absorption and circular dichroism spectra of the intact red blood cell is given, including an evaluation of the effects of protein conformation, detector geometry, cell hemoglobin content, and refractive index on the calculated cell spectra. The origins of...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Gitter-Amir A,Schneider AS,Rosenheck K

更新日期：1976-07-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The concentration of hyaluronic acid, chondroitin sulfate, and heparan sulfate was measured in rat brain at 2-day intervals from birth to 1 month of age, and in 40-day-old and adult animals. The levels of all three glycosaminoglycans increased after birth to reach a peak at 7 days after which they declined steadily, a...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Margolis RU,Margolis RK,Chang LB,Preti C

更新日期：1975-01-14 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA sequences with repetitive G-rich structural motifs, which form special structures called G-quadruplexes, widely exist in the human genome. Here we report the general peroxidase activity of G-quadruplex-hemin complexes and discuss the connection between peroxidase activity and G-quadruplex structures. The high pero...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Cheng X,Liu X,Bing T,Cao Z,Shangguan D

更新日期：2009-08-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The importance of two buried salt bridges in barnase in the stability of its folded state, the major transition rate for unfolding, and a folding intermediate has been analyzed by protein engineering, kinetic, and thermodynamic studies. The aspartate residues in the bridges Arg69-Asp93 and Arg83-Asp75 were replaced by...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Tissot AC,Vuilleumier S,Fersht AR

更新日期：1996-05-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding the set of rules which dictate how the primary amino acid sequence determines tertiary structure is an unsolved problem in biophysics. If it were possible to simultaneously measure all of the intramolecular distances in a protein (in real time) during a folding reaction, the "second" genetic code problem...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Lillo MP,Szpikowska BK,Mas MT,Sutin JD,Beechem JM

更新日期：1997-09-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Immunological methods, in parellel with measurement of ATPase activity, have been used to characterize the reactions of antibodies specific for light chains with myosin and its water-soluble proteolytic subfragments, heavy meromyosin (HMM) and subfragment 1 (HMM S-1). Antiserum to the 5,5'-dithiobis(2-nitro-enzoic aci...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Holt JC,Lowey S

更新日期：1975-10-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The solution structure of Cucurbita maxima trypsin inhibitor-V (CMTI-V), which is also a specific inhibitor of the blood coagulation protein, factor XIIa, was determined by 1H NMR spectroscopy in combination with a distance-geometry and simulated annealing algorithm. Sequence-specific resonance assignments were made f...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Cai M,Gong Y,Kao JL,Krishnamoorthi R

更新日期：1995-04-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Fourier transform infrared difference spectroscopy has been used to obtain information about substrate-induced structural changes of the melibiose permease (MelB) from Escherichia coli reconstituted into liposomes. Binding of the cosubstrate Na(+) gives rise to several peaks in the amide I and II regions of the differ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： León X,Lórenz-Fonfría VA,Lemonnier R,Leblanc G,Padrós E

更新日期：2005-03-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of the polyene antibiotic amphotericin B on the electron paramagnetic resonance spectra of lipid probes intercalated in model membranes was examined. When the antibiotic was added to the aqueous phase, no spectral effects occurred. However, when the antibiotic was incorporated during membrane preparation, c...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Aracava Y,Smith IC,Schreier S

更新日期：1981-09-29 00:00:00

abstract：:RNA competent in directing protein synthesis is sequestered in unfertilized sea urchin eggs as translationally quiescent, nonpolyribosomal, messenger ribonucleoprotein complexes (mRNPs). Following fertilization, these mRNPs are derepressed and actively translated, presumably due to changes in the mRNA-associated prote...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Moon RT,Moe KD,Hille MB

更新日期：1980-06-10 00:00:00

abstract：:In an attempt to understand the multifunctional involvement of beta(2)-glycoprotein I (beta(2)GPI) in autoimmune diseases, thrombosis, atherosclerosis, and inflammatory processes, substantial interest is focused on the interaction of beta(2)GPI with negatively charged ligands, in particular, with acidic phospholipids....

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Hammel M,Schwarzenbacher R,Gries A,Kostner GM,Laggner P,Prassl R

更新日期：2001-11-27 00:00:00

abstract：:A new specific voltage-sensitive calcium channel (VSCC) blocker has been isolated from the venom of the fish-hunting cone snail Conus consors. This peptide, named omega-Ctx CNVIIA, consists of 27 amino acid residues folded by 3 disulfide bridges. Interestingly, loop 4, which is supposed to be crucial for selectivity, ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Favreau P,Gilles N,Lamthanh H,Bournaud R,Shimahara T,Bouet F,Laboute P,Letourneux Y,Ménez A,Molgó J,Le Gall F

更新日期：2001-12-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Introduction of specific structural probes into substrate binding sites of Escherichia coli glutamine synthetase is now possible. Various analogues of ATP substituted with an amino or sulfhydryl moiety at the 6- or 8-position of the purine ring have been found to substitute for ATP in the autoinactivation reaction of ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Maurizi MR,Ginsburg A

更新日期：1986-01-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The functional interaction of the recombinant alpha 2 adrenergic receptor subtypes, alpha 2-C10 (the human platelet alpha 2 receptor, equivalent to the alpha 2 A subtype) and alpha 2-C4 (an alpha 2 receptor subtype cloned from a human kidney cDNA library), with G proteins was characterized in an in vitro reconstitutio...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Kurose H,Regan JW,Caron MG,Lefkowitz RJ

更新日期：1991-04-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The reactivity of the mitochondrial (pI = 5) isoenzyme of horse liver aldehyde dehydrogenase was determined by studying the effects of pH on steady-state velocity, burst magnitude, and molecular weight of the enzyme in the absence and presence of Mg2+ ions. The Mg2+ ion activation of the steady-state velocity at pH 7....

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Takahashi K,Weiner H,Filmer DL

更新日期：1981-10-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Human phenylalanine hydroxylase is a liver-specific enzyme that catalyzes the conversion of phenylalanine to tyrosine. Absence of enzymatic activity results in phenylketonuria, a genetic disorder that causes development of severe mental retardation in untreated children. In this paper we report the cloning and structu...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： DiLella AG,Kwok SC,Ledley FD,Marvit J,Woo SL

更新日期：1986-02-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The flavin reductase (FRED) and isobutylamine N-hydroxylase (IBAH) from Streptomyces viridifaciens constitute a two-component, flavin-dependent monooxygenase system that catalyzes the first step in valanimycin biosynthesis. FRED is an oxidoreductase that provides the reduced flavin to IBAH, which then catalyzes the hy...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Li H,Forson B,Eckshtain-Levi M,Valentino H,Martín Del Campo JS,Tanner JJ,Sobrado P

更新日期：2021-01-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Intracellular retinoid-binding proteins are small, tightly folded, compact proteins, which appear to be involved in the delivery of retinoids to microsomal metabolic enzymes, among other potential roles. Recently, it has been demonstrated that two of these binding proteins, cellular retinol-binding protein (CRBP) and ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Jamison RS,Newcomer ME,Ong DE

更新日期：1994-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The highly conserved amino acid sequence PCDGPGRGGTC in both photosystem I reaction center core proteins PsaA and PsaB has been predicted to contribute the four cysteine ligands for coordination of the 4Fe-4S iron-sulfur cluster FX, and we have proposed a working model for the binding of PsaC to this domain of the rea...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Rodday SM,Webber AN,Bingham SE,Biggins J

更新日期：1995-05-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Neuroligins 1-4 are postsynaptic transmembrane proteins capable of initiating presynaptic maturation via interactions with beta-neurexin. Both neuroligins and beta-neurexins have alternatively spliced inserts in their extracellular domains. Using analytical ultracentrifugation, we determined that the extracellular dom...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Comoletti D,Flynn RE,Boucard AA,Demeler B,Schirf V,Shi J,Jennings LL,Newlin HR,Südhof TC,Taylor P

更新日期：2006-10-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Pyridoxal-reconstituted phosphorylase was used as a model system to study the possible functions of the 5'-phosphoryl group of pyridoxal 5'-phosphate (PLP) in rabbit muscle glycogen phosphorylase. Kinetic study was conducted by using competitive inhibitors of phosphite, an activator, and alpha-D-glucopyranose 1-phosph...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Chang YC,McCalmont T,Graves DJ

更新日期：1983-10-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Green sulfur bacteria possess two light-harvesting antenna systems, the chlorosome and the Fenna-Matthews-Olson (FMO) protein. In addition to self-aggregated bacteriochlorophyll (BChl) c, chlorosomes of Chlorobium tepidum contain a small amount of BChl a (ratio 100:1). The chlorosomal BChl a is associated with CsmA, a...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Pedersen MØ,Pham L,Steensgaard DB,Miller M

更新日期：2008-02-05 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a fluorescence assay that can be used to monitor helicase-catalyzed unwinding of duplex DNA continuously in real time. The assay is based on the observation that fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET) occurs between donor (fluorescein) and acceptor (hexachlorofluorescein) fluorophores that are in cl...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Bjornson KP,Amaratunga M,Moore KJ,Lohman TM

更新日期：1994-11-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Telomerase is a ribonucleoprotein that participates in the maintenance of telomere length. Its activity is up-regulated in many tumor types, suggesting that it may be a novel target for chemotherapy. The RNA component of telomerase contains an active site that plays at least two roles&sbd;binding telomere ends and tem...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Hamilton SE,Pitts AE,Katipally RR,Jia X,Rutter JP,Davies BA,Shay JW,Wright WE,Corey DR

更新日期：1997-09-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Glutamate semialdehyde aminomutase is a recognized target for selective herbicides and antibacterial agents because it provides the aminolevulinate from which tetrapyrroles are synthesized in plants and bacteria but not in animals. The reactions of the enzyme with R- and S-enantiomers of a novel compound, diaminopropy...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Contestabile R,Jenn T,Akhtar M,Gani D,John RA

更新日期：2000-03-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Elastin binding proteins from plasma membranes of elastin-producing cells were isolated by affinity chromatography on immobilized elastin peptides. Three proteins of 67, 61, and 55 kDa were released from the elastin resin by guanidine/detergent, soluble elastin peptides, synthetic peptide VGVAPG, or galactoside sugars...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Mecham RP,Hinek A,Entwistle R,Wrenn DS,Griffin GL,Senior RM

更新日期：1989-05-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein L is a multidomain protein expressed at the surface of some strains of the anaerobic bacterial species Peptostreptococcus magnus. It has affinity for immunoglobulin (Ig) through interaction with framework structures in the variable Ig light chain domain. The Ig-binding activity is located to five homologous re...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Wikström M,Drakenberg T,Forsén S,Sjöbring U,Björck L

更新日期：1994-11-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Since one of the electrophysiological effects of pyrithiamin, an antimetabolite of thiamin, suggested an interference with sodium pump mechanisms, the effect of pyrithiamin on Na+,K+-ATPase was investigated. We found that whereas preincubation of the antimetabolite with nonneuronal preparations of Na+,K+-ATPase produc...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Matsuda T,Cooper JR

更新日期：1983-04-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Naturally occurring interruptions in nonfibrillar collagen play key roles in molecular flexibility, collagen degradation, and ligand binding. The structural feature of the interruption sequences and the molecular basis for their functions have not been well studied. Here, we focused on a G5G type natural interruption ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Xu T,Zhou CZ,Xiao J,Liu J

更新日期：2018-02-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The occurrence of 8-oxo-7,8-dihydroguanine (OG) in the genome, as one of the major DNA oxidative damages, has been implicated in an array of biological processes, ranging from mutagenesis to transcriptional regulation. Genome-wide mapping of oxidative damages could shed light on the underlying cellular mechanism. In t...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Fang Y,Zou P

更新日期：2020-01-14 00:00:00