Nucleoside diphosphate kinase from bovine retina: purification, subcellular localization, molecular cloning, and three-dimensional structure.

abstract：:The beta- and delta-subunits of the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor from Torpedo californica were covalently photolabeled at the synaptic surface with the ATP photoaffinity analogue [alpha-32P]-8-azido-ATP. The specificity of labeling for nucleotide binding sites was demonstrated by the saturation of labeling with in...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Carlson BJ,Raftery MA

更新日期：1993-07-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Glycosylation is a common modification that can endow proteins with altered physical and biological properties. Ribonuclease 1 (RNase 1), which is the human homologue of the archetypal enzyme RNase A, undergoes N-linked glycosylation at asparagine residues 34, 76, and 88. We have produced the three individual glycofor...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Kilgore HR,Latham AP,Ressler VT,Zhang B,Raines RT

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reductive dehalogenation such as that catalyzed by iodotyrosine deiodinase (IYD) is highly unusual in aerobic organisms but necessary for iodide salvage from iodotyrosine generated during thyroxine biosynthesis. Equally unusual is the dependence of this process on flavin. Rapid kinetics have now been used to define th...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Bobyk KD,Ballou DP,Rokita SE

更新日期：2015-07-28 00:00:00

abstract：:A synthetic gene coding for the inhibitor protein of bovine heart mitochondrial F1 adenosine triphosphatase was designed and cloned in Escherichia coli. Recombinant F1-ATPase inhibitor protein was overproduced in E. coli and secreted to the periplasmic space. Biologically active recombinant F1-ATPase inhibitor protein...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Van Heeke G,Deforce L,Schnizer RA,Shaw R,Couton JM,Shaw G,Song PS,Schuster SM

更新日期：1993-09-28 00:00:00

abstract：:NADH:ubiquinone oxidoreductase (NDH-1 or complex I) from Escherichia coli was purified using a combination of anion exchange chromatography and centrifugation in sucrose density gradient. The dependence of enzyme activity on detergent and phospholipids was studied. Artificial hexaammineruthenium reductase activity was...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Sinegina L,Wikström M,Verkhovsky MI,Verkhovskaya ML

更新日期：2005-06-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Serine hydroxymethyltransferase (SHMT) catalyzes the reversible cleavage of serine to form glycine and single carbon groups that are essential for many biosynthetic pathways. SHMT requires both pyridoxal phosphate (PLP) and tetrahydropteroylpolyglutamate (H4PteGlun) as cofactors, the latter as a carrier of the single ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Scarsdale JN,Kazanina G,Radaev S,Schirch V,Wright HT

更新日期：1999-06-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The 1H resonances of the high-potential [4Fe-4S]2+ ferredoxin from Chromatium vinosum have been assigned through conventional sequential methodology applied to 2D NMR spectra. Almost 80% of the residues were identified using standard 2D COSY, HOHAHA, and NOESY pulse sequences. These residues correspond to four segment...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Gaillard J,Albrand JP,Moulis JM,Wemmer DE

更新日期：1992-06-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of DNA supercoiling on a sterically very demanding threading intercalation process is investigated here. We find that the threading rate of a dimeric ruthenium complex into a negatively supercoiled plasmid at low binding density is 2 orders of magnitude higher than into the cleaved linear form. Further satu...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Nordell P,Jansson ET,Lincoln P

更新日期：2009-02-24 00:00:00

abstract：:To identify how many rhodopsin intermediates interact with retinal G-protein transducin, the photobleaching process of chicken rhodopsin has been investigated in the presence or absence of transducin by means of time-resolved low-temperature spectroscopy. Singular value decomposition (SVD) analysis of the spectral dat...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Tachibanaki S,Imai H,Mizukami T,Okada T,Imamoto Y,Matsuda T,Fukada Y,Terakita A,Shichida Y

更新日期：1997-11-18 00:00:00

abstract：:A heparin-induced conformational change is required to convert antithrombin from a slow to a fast inhibitor of factor Xa. It has been proposed [van Boeckel et al. (1994) Nat. Struct. Biol. 1, 423-425] that the reactive center residue P14 is inserted into beta-sheet A in native antithrombin and is displaced from the be...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Huntington JA,Olson ST,Fan B,Gettins PG

更新日期：1996-07-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Our earlier NMR study showed that a two-disulfide variant of hen lysozyme containing intra-alpha-domain disulfide bridges, C6-C127 and C30-C115, is partially folded, with the alpha domain tightly folded to the nativelike conformation and the beta domain flexible or unfolded. With a view that the formation of a third d...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Yokota A,Hirai K,Miyauchi H,Iimura S,Noda Y,Inoue K,Akasaka K,Tachibana H,Segawa S

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Most duplex DNAs that are in the "B" conformation are not immunogenic. One important exception is poly(dG) X poly(dC), which produces a good immune response even though, by many criteria, it adopts a conventional right-handed helix. In order to investigate what features are being recognized, monoclonal antibodies were...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Lee JS,Woodsworth ML,Latimer LJ

更新日期：1984-07-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The iron-sulfur flavoenzyme adenosine-5'-phosphosulfate (APS) reductase catalyzes a key reaction of the global sulfur cycle by reversibly transforming APS to sulfite and AMP. The structures of the dissimilatory enzyme from Archaeoglobus fulgidus in the reduced state (FAD(red)) and in the sulfite adduct state (FAD-sulf...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Schiffer A,Fritz G,Kroneck PM,Ermler U

更新日期：2006-03-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Phosphoinositide 3-kinase gamma (PI3Kgamma) is activated by Gbetagamma release after stimulation of Galpha i -coupled receptors, involving a recruitment of the enzyme to the plasma membrane via interaction of the regulatory subunit p101 or p87 with Gbetagamma. The receptor-mediated release of Gbetagamma was, however, ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Tannert A,Voigt P,Burgold S,Tannert S,Schaefer M

更新日期：2008-10-28 00:00:00

abstract：:In refolding of iso-2 cytochrome c from Saccharomyces cerevisiae, there are two slow folding reactions, tau 1a and tau 1b. The slower of the slow reactions, tau 1a = 100-200 s, is observed only by absorbance changes, while tau 1b (10-20-fold faster) is detected by fluorescence changes. The temperature dependence of th...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Osterhout JJ Jr,Nall BT

更新日期：1985-12-31 00:00:00

abstract：:We have investigated the denaturation by guanidine hydrochloride (Gdn X HCl), temperature, and pH of hemoglobin beta subunits and of the peptides beta (1-146), beta (56-146), and beta (1-55). The last peptide was insensitive to all of the three agents. In the other polypeptides denaturation by Gdn X HCl and temperatur...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Franchi D,Fronticelli C,Bucci E

更新日期：1982-11-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The ionization and phase behavior of 1,2-dipalmitoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphoserine have been investigated under a variety of condtions by several different methods. As measured by turbidity changes, the temperature of the crystal-liquid crystal phase transition of this lipid is influenced by pH and mono- and divalent ca...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： MacDonald RC,Simon SA,Baer E

更新日期：1976-02-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The causes of the salting-in of beta-lactoglobulin by glycine and NaCl, a solubility behavior contrary to expectations, were probed by a detailed study of the interactions between these solvent components and the protein. The preferential interactions of beta-lactoglobulin with solvent components in aqueous glycine an...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Arakawa T,Timasheff SN

更新日期：1987-08-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Here, we biochemically characterize Dictyostelium myosin II mutants that were previously phenotypically selected following random mutagenesis and shown to lie in the actin binding domain [Patterson, B., & Spudich, J. A. (1996) Genetics 143, 801-810]. We show that the conditional loss of myosin-dependent activity in vi...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Giese KC,Spudich JA

更新日期：1997-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The preparation, spectroscopic investigation, structure determination, conformational analysis, and modeling of the Dewar pyrimidinone photoproduct of thymidylyl-(3'----5')-thymidine, previously referred to as TpT3 [Johns, H. E., Pearson, M. L., LeBlanc, J. C., & Heilleiner, C. W. (1964) J. Mol. Biol. 9, 503-524], is ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Taylor JS,Garrett DS,Cohrs MP

更新日期：1988-09-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) Vpu is an integral membrane protein that belongs to the viroporin family. Viroporins interact with cell membranes, triggering membrane permeabilization and promoting release of viral particles. In vitro electrophysiological methods have revealed changes in membrane ion curre...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Herrero L,Monroy N,González ME

更新日期：2013-01-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Regulation of cellular response is an important mechanism for controlling cellular functions. The transmembrane signaling of the hormone receptors is regulated by GTP-binding proteins (GTPases) and their associated proteins. Our previous studies demonstrated that the bifunctional GTP-binding protein, G alpha h (transg...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Baek KJ,Das T,Gray CD,Desai S,Hwang KC,Gacchui R,Ludwig M,Im MJ

更新日期：1996-02-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The technique of hydrogen-deuterium exchange coupled to mass spectrometry (HDX-MS) has been applied to a mesophilic (E. coli) dihydrofolate reductase under conditions that allow direct comparison to a thermophilic (B. stearothermophilus) ortholog, Ec-DHFR and Bs-DHFR, respectively. The analysis of hydrogen-deuterium e...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Oyeyemi OA,Sours KM,Lee T,Kohen A,Resing KA,Ahn NG,Klinman JP

更新日期：2011-09-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The introduction into peptide chains of alpha-aminoisobutyric acid (Aib) has proven to stabilize the helical structure in short peptides by restricting the available range of polypeptide backbone conformations. In order to evaluate the potential stabilizing effect of Aib at the protein level, we have studied the confo...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： De Filippis V,De Antoni F,Frigo M,Polverino de Laureto P,Fontana A

更新日期：1998-02-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The binding of bleomycin to DNA in the presence and absence of ferric iron was measured by fluorescence spectroscopy. In millimolar concentrations of tris(hydroxymethyl)aminomethane, pH 7.5, approximately 80% of the bleomycin binds to DNA. Ferric iron seems to have no significant effect on the binding of DNA to bleomy...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Caspary WJ,Lanzo DA,Niziak C

更新日期：1982-01-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Polyisoprenyl diphosphates play diverse and vital roles in cell function in health and disease. The counter-regulatory lipid signaling molecule, presqualene diphosphate (PSDP), is rapidly converted to its monophosphate form (PSMP) upon cell activation [Levy, B. D., Petasis, N. A., and Serhan, C. N. (1997) Nature 389, ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Carlo T,Petasis NA,Levy BD

更新日期：2009-04-07 00:00:00

abstract：:A conformational transition is described for the polypeptide, gramicidin A, in which a dimer that forms a left-handed intertwined antiparallel helix is converted to a single-stranded amino terminus to amino terminus right-handed helix. The starting structure is determined here by solution NMR methods while reference i...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Zhang Z,Pascal SM,Cross TA

更新日期：1992-09-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Drosophila Rrp1 includes a carboxy-terminal region homologous to Escherichia coli exonuclease III which is sufficient to repair both oxidative and alkylation damage to DNA. An apurinic/apyrimidinic endonuclease activity intrinsic to Rrp1 was characterized previously. In this work, the 3'-phosphodiesterase and 3'-phosp...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Sander M,Huang SM

更新日期：1995-01-31 00:00:00

abstract：:CYP2C19 is selective for the 4'-hydroxylation of S-mephenytoin while the highly similar CYP2C9 has little activity toward this substrate. To identify critical amino acids determining the specificity of human CYP2C19 for S-mephenytoin 4'-hydroxylation, we constructed chimeras by replacing portions of CYP2C9 containing ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Tsao CC,Wester MR,Ghanayem B,Coulter SJ,Chanas B,Johnson EF,Goldstein JA

更新日期：2001-02-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Five previously unknown hemorrhagic proteins, designated hemorrhagic toxins a,b,c,d, and e, were isolated from the venom of the western diamondback rattlesnake (Crotalus atrox). Molecular weights of hemorrhagic toxins a-e were determined to be 68 000, 24 000, 24 000, 24 000, and 25 700, respectively, by sodium dodecyl...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Bjarnason JB,Tu AT

更新日期：1978-08-08 00:00:00