Conformational modulation of troponin T by configuration of the NH2-terminal variable region and functional effects.

abstract：:The phosphorylation mechanism of Dictyostelium discoideum nucleoside diphosphate (NDP) kinase was investigated by NMR. 31P chemical shifts were measured on both native and denatured enzyme. In the enzymatically phosphorylated enzyme denatured by 9 M urea or 7 M guanidine hydrochloride, the NDP kinase phosphohistidine ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Lecroisey A,Lascu I,Bominaar A,Véron M,Delepierre M

更新日期：1995-09-26 00:00:00

abstract：:His51 in horse liver alcohol dehydrogenase (ADHE) has been proposed to act as a proton donor/acceptor in the NAD+/NADH-dependent oxidation/reduction of alcohol/aldehyde. The residue corresponding to His51 of ADHE is Val51 (Val45 in the protein sequence) in benzyl alcohol dehydrogenase (BADH) encoded by TOL plasmid pWW...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Inoue J,Tomioka N,Itai A,Harayama S

更新日期：1998-03-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Dynemicin A (1), a member of the enediyne family of natural products, binds to double-stranded DNA (K(B) approximately 10(4) M(-1)) and in the presence of millimolar concentrations of a reducing cofactor such as NADPH or GSH reacts to cleave DNA. In this work, we show that the two flavin-based enzymes ferredoxin-NADP+...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Myers AG,Kort ME,Cohen SB,Tom NJ

更新日期：1997-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The unfolding of human plasma alpha 1-acid glycoprotein (AGP) induced by heat or guanidine hydrochloride was studied under equilibrium conditions. In thermal unfolding, an intermediate state was detected by the appearance of unusual positive difference absorption bands in the 287-295-nm region, which occurred at lower...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Rojo-Domínguez A,Zubillaga-Luna R,Hernández-Arana A

更新日期：1990-09-18 00:00:00

abstract：:RuvC is a well-characterized Holliday junction resolvase from E. coli. The presence of symmetry in its preferred recognition sequence leads to ambiguity in the position of the crossover point in the junction, because a symmetric junction can undergo branch migration. Symmetric immobile junctions are junctions that con...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Sha R,Liu F,Iwasaki H,Seeman NC

更新日期：2002-09-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Deuterium NMR has been used to investigate the structure and dynamic state of cytochrome c complexed with bilayers of cardiolipin. Reductive methylation was employed to prepare [N epsilon, N epsilon-C2H3]lysyl cytochrome c, and deuterium exchange provided labeling of backbone sites to give [amide-2H]cytochrome c or mo...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Spooner PJ,Watts A

更新日期：1991-04-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Chemical modification of Torpedo californica acetylcholinesterase by various sulfhydryl reagents results in its conversion to one of two principal states. One of these states, viz., that produced by disulfides and alkylating agents, is stable. The second state, produced by mercury derivatives, is metastable. At room t...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Kreimer DI,Dolginova EA,Raves M,Sussman JL,Silman I,Weiner L

更新日期：1994-12-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Extracellular senile plaques composed predominantly of fibrillar amyloid-beta (Abeta) are a major neuropathological feature of Alzheimer's disease (AD). Genetic evidence and in vivo studies suggest that apolipoprotein E (apoE) may contribute to amyloid clearance and/or deposition. In vitro studies demonstrate that nat...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Munson GW,Roher AE,Kuo YM,Gilligan SM,Reardon CA,Getz GS,LaDu MJ

更新日期：2000-12-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Cysteine dioxygenase (CDO) is a non-heme monoiron enzyme with an unusual posttranslational modification in the proximity of the ferrous iron active site. This modification, a cysteine to tyrosine thioether bond, cross-links two β-strands of the β-barrel. We have investigated its role in catalysis through a combined cr...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Davies CG,Fellner M,Tchesnokov EP,Wilbanks SM,Jameson GN

更新日期：2014-12-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Nuclear DNA of the marine chromophytic alga Olisthodiscus luteus was analyzed in this study. Reassociation kinetics analysis has shown that 440-nucleotide DNA fragments from the genome of this alga contain 4% foldback, 58% repetitive, and 34% single-copy sequences. Precise analysis using isolated single-copy DNA revea...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Ersland DR,Cattolico RA

更新日期：1981-11-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The structural and functional properties of G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) are often studied in a detergent micellar environment, but many GPCRs tend to denature or aggregate in short alkyl chain detergents. In our previous work [Lee, S., et al. (2016) J. Am. Chem. Soc.138, 15425-15433], we showed that GPCRs in a...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Lee S,Ghosh S,Jana S,Robertson N,Tate CG,Vaidehi N

更新日期：2020-06-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Solution scattering studies were performed on a ligand-binding domain (S1S2) of a glutamate receptor ion channel (GluR) in order to study GluR-binding and signal-transduction mechanisms. The core of the ligand-binding domain is homologous to prokaryotic periplasmic binding proteins (PBP), whose binding mechanism invol...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Abele R,Svergun D,Keinänen K,Koch MH,Madden DR

更新日期：1999-08-24 00:00:00

abstract：:It is shown that the protochlorophyllide ester pool of etiolated higher plants is a faithful copy of the protochlorophyllide pool. It is made up of both monovinyl- and divinylprotochlorophyllide esters. Although the two tetrapyrroles exhibited similar emission maxima, they were distinguishable by their Soret excitatio...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Belanger FC,Rebeiz CA

更新日期：1980-10-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Diethyl pyrocarbonate inhibited diaphorase activity of ferredoxin-NADP+ oxidoreductase with a second-order rate constant of 2 mM-1 X min-1 at pH 7.0 and 20 degrees C, showing a concomitant increase in absorbance at 242 nm due to formation of carbethoxyhistidyl derivatives. Activity could be restored by hydroxylamine, ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Carrillo N,Vallejos RH

更新日期：1983-12-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Iron K-edge X-ray spectroscopy (XANES and EXAFS) was used to study iron coordination in frozen solutions of soybean lipoxygenase-1 (SLO). The intensity of the 1s-->3d pre-edge transition of native iron(II) lipoxygenase is greater than what was found for six-coordinate high-spin iron(II) model complexes, but comparable...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Scarrow RC,Trimitsis MG,Buck CP,Grove GN,Cowling RA,Nelson MJ

更新日期：1994-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanism of bovine intestinal 5'-nucleotide phosphodiesterase was investigated by determining kinetic constants of systematically varied substrates, with emphasis on esters of phosphonic acids (which have much higer Vmax values than conventional phosphodiester substrates), and by pre-steady-state kinetics using b...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Kelly SJ,Butler LG

更新日期：1977-03-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The interaction of factor B with C3b deposited on the surface of pathogens is the first step in the activation of the alternative complement pathway. The role of the von Willebrand factor type A (VWFA) module of factor B in this interaction has been investigated by generating three chimeras, Ch1-Ch3, in which surface ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Tuckwell DS,Xu Y,Newham P,Humphries MJ,Volanakis JE

更新日期：1997-06-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Photolyzed rhodopsin is phosphorylated at multiple serine and threonine residues during the quenching of phototransduction. Sites of phosphorylation by rhodopsin kinase have been localized to the C-terminal region of rhodopsin, but no information was available on the kinetics and identity of phosphorylated residues. T...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Ohguro H,Palczewski K,Ericsson LH,Walsh KA,Johnson RS

更新日期：1993-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Six rhodopsin mutants containing disulfide cross-links between different cytoplasmic regions were prepared: disulfide bond 1, between Cys65 (interhelical loop I-II) and Cys316 (end of helix VII); disulfide bond 2, between Cys246 (end of helix VI) and Cys312 (end of helix VII); disulfide bond 3, between Cys139 (end of ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Cai K,Klein-Seetharaman J,Hwa J,Hubbell WL,Khorana HG

更新日期：1999-09-28 00:00:00

abstract：:From an evolutionary point of view, plant and animal ferritins arose from a common ancestor, but plant ferritin exhibits different features as compared with the animal analogue. One major difference is that the 4-fold channels naturally occurring in plant ferritin are hydrophilic, whereas the 4-fold channels in animal...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Lv C,Zhang S,Zang J,Zhao G,Xu C

更新日期：2014-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Hydroxyproline-rich glycoproteins (HRGPs) are the major proteinaceous components of higher plant walls and the predominant components of the cell wall of the green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. The GP1 protein, an HRGP of the C. reinhardtii wall, is shown to adopt a polyproline II helical configuration and to carry ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Ferris PJ,Woessner JP,Waffenschmidt S,Kilz S,Drees J,Goodenough UW

更新日期：2001-03-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The thermodynamic parameters characterizing the interaction between rabbit fast skeletal muscle troponin and tropomyosin have been determined at 25 degrees C for three solution conditions: buffer containing (A) 1 mM CaCl2, simulating a "turned-on" state, (B) 3 mM MgCl2, simulating a "turned-off" state, and (C) 2 mM et...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Ingraham RH,Swenson CA

更新日期：1985-09-10 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA gyrase is the target of a number of antibacterial agents, including the coumarins and the cyclothialidines. To extend our understanding of the mechanism of action of these compounds, we have examined the previously published crystal structures of the complexes between the 24 kDa fragment of GyrB and coumarin and c...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Kampranis SC,Gormley NA,Tranter R,Orphanides G,Maxwell A

更新日期：1999-02-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The fidelity of the poliovirus RNA-dependent RNA polymerase (3D(pol)) plays a direct role in the genomic evolution and pathogenesis of the virus. A single site mutation (Gly64Ser) that is remote from the catalytic center results in a higher fidelity polymerase. NMR studies with [methyl-(13)C]methionine-labeled protein...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Yang X,Welch JL,Arnold JJ,Boehr DD

更新日期：2010-11-02 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：:The phosphatidylcholine-preferring phospholipase C from Bacillus cereus (PLCBc) is a 28.5 kDa enzyme with three zinc ions in its active site. Although much is known about the roles that various PLCBc active site amino acids play in binding and catalysis, there is little information about the rate-determining step of t...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Martin SF,Hergenrother PJ

更新日期：1999-04-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The interaction of myristoyllysophosphatidylcholine with bovine myelin basic protein at pH 7.4 and 4.5, I = 0.48, has been investigated by a recycling partition equilibrium technique with Bio-Gel P-2 as the gel phase. Important points to emerge from this direct binding study are that it is a monomeric (not micellar) a...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Gow A,Winzor DJ,Smith R

更新日期：1987-02-24 00:00:00

abstract：:During initiation of minus-strand synthesis by HIV-1 reverse transcriptase, a 3'-DNA-RNA-5' junction is formed involving the 3'-end of tRNAlys,3. The HIV-RT-associated RNase H cleaves the RNA template strand specifically, opposite the newly synthesized DNA strand. We have determined the crystal structure at 1.9 A reso...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Mueller U,Maier G,Mochi Onori A,Cellai L,Heumann H,Heinemann U

更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pyrrolidone carboxyl peptidases (PCPs) from hyperthermophiles have a structurally conserved and completely buried Glu192 in the hydrophobic core; in contrast, the corresponding residue in the mesophile protein is a hydrophobic residue, Ile. Does the buried ionizable residue contribute to stabilization or destabilizati...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Kaushik JK,Iimura S,Ogasahara K,Yamagata Y,Segawa S,Yutani K

更新日期：2006-06-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The bacterial alpha-lytic protease (alphaLP) is synthesized as a precursor containing a large N-terminal pro region (Pro) transiently required for correct folding of the protease [Silen, J. L., and Agard, D. A. (1989) Nature 341, 462-464]. Upon folding, the precursor is autocatalyticly cleaved to yield a tight-binding...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Anderson DE,Peters RJ,Wilk B,Agard DA

更新日期：1999-04-13 00:00:00