abstract：:The interactions between lactic acid bacteria and their phages are commercially significant. Current research has focused on the elucidation of the mechanisms and genetics of phage resistance. Phage resistance genes have been linked to plasmid DNA for Streptococcus lactis and Streptococcus cremoris, and preliminary st...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Sanders ME

更新日期：1988-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Four crystal structures of transfer RNA molecules were refined at 3 A resolution with the inclusion of the solvent molecules found in the difference maps: yeast tRNA-phe in the orthorhombic form, yeast tRNA-phe in the monoclinic form and yeast tRNA-asp in the A and B forms. Over 100 solvent molecules were located in e...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Westhof E,Dumas P,Moras D

更新日期：1988-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The two subunits of the nickel-iron hydrogenase from Desulfovibrio gigas have been purified by preparative sodium dodecyl sulfate polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis and their amino acid compositions have been determined. The N-terminal sequences for 15 residues of the large subunit (Mr 62,000) and 25 residues of the s...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Nivière V,Forget N,Bovier-Lapierre G,Bonicel J,Hatchikian C

更新日期：1988-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The bovine oxytocin precursor was expressed in Escherichia coli as a fusion protein by cloning the hormone encoding cDNA in frame behind the replicase gene of the RNA phage MS2. By step-wise extraction with different urea concentrations, the fusion protein was enriched in the 7 M urea fraction and further purified by ...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Nörenberg U,Brunath A,Richter D

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Peptides with hormonal or neuronal activity are derived by enzymatic processing from pro-hormones, which by themselves are biologically inert. Processing and other enzymatic conversions may occur step-wise, leading to the formation of a cascade of biologically active (or inactive) peptides. The neurokin in substance P...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Nyberg F,Le Grevés P,Terenius L

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:gamma-Aminobutyraldehyde dehydrogenase from Escherichia coli K-12 has been purified and characterized from cell mutants able to grow in putrescine as the sole carbon and nitrogen source. The enzyme has an Mr of 195,000 +/- 10,000 in its dimeric form with an Mr of 95,000 +/- 1,000 for each subunit, a pH optimum at 5.4 ...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Prieto MI,Martin J,Balaña-Fouce R,Garrido-Pertierra A

更新日期：1987-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Investigations have been carried out on the influence of the phospholipid composition and the physicochemical properties of rat liver plasma membranes on the endogenous activity of membrane-bound phospholipase A2. The membrane phospholipid composition was modified by the incorporation of different phospholipids in the...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Petkova DH,Momchilova-Pankova AB,Koumanov KS

更新日期：1987-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fluorescence techniques were used to detect changes in the conformation of tRNA(Phe) that may occur during the peptidyl transferase reaction in which the tRNA appears to move between binding sites on ribosomes. Such a conformational change may be a fundamental part of the translocation mechanism by which tRNA and mRNA...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Odom OW,Hardesty B

更新日期：1987-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have studied the kinetics of erythromycin inhibition of translation in growing bacteria. In order to simplify the interpretation of our data, we have used a mutant (envA), known to have an increased permeability to several antibiotics, including erythromycin. The data clearly show that an initial stage of translati...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Andersson S,Kurland CG

更新日期：1987-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Honeybee-plant relationships are based on a conditioning process in which olfactory (plant aroma) and gustatory cues (mainly nectars) are closely linked, leading to a selective foraging behaviour. Among crops dependent upon entomophilous cross-pollination, the sunflower has recently undergone extensive expansion due t...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Pham-Delegue MH,Etievant P,Masson C

更新日期：1987-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A previous study has shown the effect of individual mineral surfaces on the activity of sweet almond beta-D-glucosidase. We now consider more complex situations likely to occur in soil, such as adsorption onto mixtures of different mineral surfaces, and the effect on enzyme activity of mineral surfaces with organic co...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Quiquampoix H

更新日期：1987-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Determination of the physicochemical parameters of unilamellar and multilamellar liposomes from concentration data in light of a recent quantitative biodynamic concept which strictly adheres to the CGS unit system (cm, g, s) and the mass/volume chemical unit, mol.cm-3. ...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Hauton JC,Martigne M,Domingo N,Lafont H

更新日期：1987-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Various phosphonic and sulfonic glutamate analogues as well as phosphonopeptides related to glutathione were studied for their interaction with rat kidney gamma-glutamylcysteine synthetase activity. We found, in all cases, that the presence of a phosphonic group increases the affinity for the enzyme. Among the tripept...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Marche M,Basurko MJ,Cassaigne A

更新日期：1987-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:After 30 years of effort, the mammalian adenylate cyclase catalytic subunit has now been purified. It is a glycoprotein of 155 kDa, representing less than 0.01% of synaptosomal membrane protein. As measured in the presence of forskolin, its specific activity is 10-20 mumol of cAMP X mg-1 X min-1. The enzyme obtained i...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Monneron A,d'Alayer J,Coussen F

更新日期：1987-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Excitation-contraction coupling describes the series of events that beginning with propagated action potential on the muscle fiber surface membrane, leads to the twitch contraction of the fiber. Myotonic disorders are inherited diseases whose clinical manifestations include electrophysiological signs such as increased...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Renaud JF

更新日期：1987-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two methods were used to estimate the intracellular phospholipase activity in rat heart: one using exogenous radioactive substrate dispersed as unilamellar vesicles; the other using endogenous membrane hydrolysis and subsequent phospholipid and lysophospholipid separation by high-performance liquid chromatography and ...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Termine E,Léonardi J,Lafont H,Nalbone G

更新日期：1987-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The kinetic and regulatory properties of purified pigeon heart muscle AMP deaminase were investigated. In the presence of 100 mM potassium chloride, the enzyme exhibited a slightly sigmoidal type of kinetics. Addition of ATP to the incubation medium changed the reaction rate versus substrate concentration plot into a ...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Kaletha K,Bogdanowicz S,Raffin JP

更新日期：1987-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of thermal injury (72 h post-injury), 72 h-partial (20% less food) or full starvation on the regulation of phosphofructokinase in the mucosa of rat small intestine were studied. Thermal injury and 72 h-partial or full starvation decreased the activity ratio v0.5/V, but the ratios obtained for thermally inj...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Khoja SM,Ardawi SM

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to study the relationship between bile cholesterol and free cholesterol carried by high and low density lipoproteins (HDL and LDL), 10 male Wistar rats, 11 weeks old and fed with a standard diet were divided into 3 groups which received an intravenous infusion (jugular vein) of either LDL, HDL or liposomes. L...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Esnault-Dupuy C,Chanussot F,LaFont H,Chabert C,Hauton J

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phosphorus metabolites and intracellular pH have been examined in the slime mold Dictyostelium discoideum by non-destructive 31P-NMR measurements. In a spectrum from a suspension of aerobic amoebae, the major peaks are inorganic phosphate, nucleotide di- and triphosphates. In the corresponding perchloric acid extract,...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Satre M,Klein G,Martin JB

更新日期：1986-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The polysaccharide mixture obtained by hot water extraction of Aloe vahombe leaves is composed of at least four different paritally acetylated glucomannans which differ in molecular weight, glucose to mannose ratios and acetyl contents. Furthermore, one fraction contains a small but significant amount of protein which...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Vilkas E,Radjabi-Nassab F

更新日期：1986-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Because of the ability of photosensitizers to induce specific photochemical reactions in vivo, leading to cell injury and death, many such molecules have been considered as therapeutic agents. Among them two classes of sensitizers, i.e. furocoumarins (psoralens) and porphyrins, are currently used for the photochemothe...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Moreno G

更新日期：1986-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present here, a new method for coupling sulfhydryl groups (SH) to low-density lipoprotein (LDL) surface. This method uses homocysteine thiolactone (HCTL) which reacts with lysine residues in a very mild manner, and permits the selection of the number of SH bound per LDL. Under our experimental conditions (8 SH/LDL)...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Vidal M,Sainte-Marie J,Philippot J,Bienvenue A

更新日期：1986-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Diadenosine 5',5'''-p1,p4-tetraphosphate (Ap4A) alpha, beta-phosphorylase from yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae catalyzes two reactions: Ap4A cleavage and nucleoside diphosphate--phosphate (NDP-Pi) exchange. In both reactions phosphate can be substituted by arsenate, chromate, molybdate, tungstate or vanadate. In the pr...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Guranowski A,Blanquet S

更新日期：1986-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The inhibitory action on rat liver phosphoglycerate kinase of structural analogs of the two substrates of this enzyme (beta,gamma- methyleneadenosine 5'-triphosphate for ATP and 2-phosphoglycerate for 3-phosphoglycerate) was studied. In the direction of ADP utilization, the inhibition patterns obtained with beta,gamma...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Lavoinne A

更新日期：1986-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ciguatoxin-like substances were extracted from the viscera or the flesh of eight Caribbean fish species, including small invertebrate feeders and large carnivores. The had similar properties, i.e. pharmacological action, solubility, chromatographic behaviour on silicic acid or Sephadex LH 20 column, stability in a wea...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Vernoux JP,Abbad el Andaloussi S

更新日期：1986-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The structure of the F0 part of ATP synthases from E. coli and Neurospora crassa was analyzed by hydrophobic surface labeling with [125I]TID. In the E. coli F0 all three subunits were freely accessible to the reagent, suggesting that these subunits are independently integrated in the membrane. Labeled amino acid resid...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Hoppe J,Sebald W

更新日期：1986-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this review, we show how the stability of the asymmetric transverse distribution of phospholipids and the physiological role of the asymmetric distribution can be explained. Experiments with paramagnetic or fluorescent lipids enabled us to show that in fresh red blood cells, i.e. containing ATP, and in resealed gho...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Devaux PF,Zachowski A,Favre E,Fellmann P,Cribier S,Geldwerth D,Hervé P,Seigneuret M

更新日期：1986-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three different hydrogenases (isolated from Clostridium pasteurianum, Desulfovibrio desulfuricans strain Norway 4 and D. baculatus 9974) added to a suspension of TiO2 (anatase) powder are able to catalyze H2 evolution under band gap illumination of the semiconducting particles, and in the presence of EDTA or methanol ...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Cuendet P,Rao KK,Grätzel M,Hall DO

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A soluble hydrogenase from the halophilic sulfate reducing bacterium Desulfovibrio salexigens, strain British Guiana (NCIB 8403) has been purified to apparent homogeneity with a final specific activity of 760 mumoles H2 evolved/min/mg (an overall 180-fold purification with 20% recovery yield). The enzyme is composed o...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Teixeira M,Moura I,Fauque G,Czechowski M,Berlier Y,Lespinat PA,Le Gall J,Xavier AV,Moura JJ

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Maximum 125I-IGF-I/Sm-C total binding to chick embryo fibroblasts was 3% at +37 degrees C and decreased to less than 1% in presence of 2.8 X 10(-9) M unlabelled IGF-I/Sm-C. Insulin did not compete with IGF-I/Sm-C for the binding to cells. Biological action of IGF-I/Sm-C was evaluated on 2-deoxyglucose and alpha-aminoi...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Cynober L,Aussel C,Chatelain P,Vaubourdolle M,Agneray J,Ekindjian OG

更新日期：1985-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:All hormones and neurotransmitters which provoke their intracellular effects by increasing the cytosolic concentration of Ca2+ in their target cells also stimulate the breakdown of inositol phospholipids. Much evidence suggests that this breakdown is intimately involved in the mechanism which couples cell-surface rece...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Kirk CJ,Guillon G,Balestre MN,Creba JA,Michell RH,Jard S

更新日期：1985-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The insulin receptor appears as a tetrameric glycoprotein consisting of two Mr 130,000 subunits (alpha), and two Mr 95,000 subunits (beta) in a disulfide-linked complex. Insulin bound to its specific cell surface receptors in its target cells leads to a complex array of molecular events resulting in insulin effects. I...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Van Obberghen E,Ballotti R,Gazzano H,Fehlmann M,Rossi B,Gammeltoft S,Debant A,Le Marchand-Brustel Y,Kowalski A

更新日期：1985-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The rat and rabbit lung isoform pattern before (fetal) and after (adult) lung maturation has been analyzed by isoelectric focusing. This pattern has been compared to that of brain tubulin at the same developmental stages. No changes in the pattern of fetal and adult lung tubulin were found. However an increase in brai...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Déiz JC,Avila J

更新日期：1985-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have determined the DNA sequence of a 1-kilobase segment of the Escherichia coli chromosome. The segment contains glyW, a duplicate gene for tRNA3Gly, and its flanking regions. An insertion sequence, previously known to have occurred spontaneously within the sequenced fragment, was identified as IS1. Possible sites...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Tucker SD,Murgola EJ

更新日期：1985-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A lignin model compound, named in short guaiagylglycerol beta-guaiacyl ether (GGE), contains the beta-0-4 ether linkage that is common in the chemical structure of lignin. A Pseudomonas sp. (GU5) had been isolated as an organism able to grow with GGE as the sole source of carbon and energy. When grown on vanillate, th...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Pelmont J,Barrelle M,Hauteville M,Gamba D,Romdhane M,Dardas A,Beguin C

更新日期：1985-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An efficient phosphotriester methodology based on the use of condensing agents in the presence of several O-nucleophilic catalysts has been developed. ...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Efimov VA,Chakhmakhcheva OG

更新日期：1985-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The gene encoding the enzyme tyrosyl tRNA synthetase from Bacillus stearothermophilus has been systematically altered using synthetic oligonucleotides as mutagens. The construction of mutations has been facilitated by using strains of bacteria defective in mismatch repair and also by utilising a genetic marker in the ...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Bedouelle H,Carter P,Waye MM,Winter G,Lowe DM,Wilkinson AJ,Fersht AR

更新日期：1985-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glycogen synthase I was purified from bovine polymorphonuclear leucocytes (PMNs) by a procedure involving concanavalin A-Sepharose affinity chromatography. The purified glycogen-bound glycogen synthase I had a specific activity of 9.83 U/mg protein and the glycogen free enzyme 21 U/mg protein. Molecular ratio of the n...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Rasmussen LH,Pedersen KM,Juhl H

更新日期：1985-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Direct demonstration of the reversible dissociation of native dimeric methionyl-tRNA synthetase from E. coli has been obtained using small angle neutron scattering and deuterated enzyme. Structural parameters of the fully deuterated dimer are very similar to the hydrogenated one. Analysis of the variations of the inte...

journal_title：Biochimie

authors： Dessen P,Zaccai G,Blanquet S

更新日期：1985-06-01 00:00:00