abstract：:In addition to encoding the tertiary fold and stability, the primary sequence of a protein encodes the folding trajectory and kinetic barriers that determine the speed of folding. How these kinetic barriers are encoded is not well understood. Here, we use evolutionary sequence variation in the α-lytic protease (αLP) p...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Nixon CF,Lim SA,Sailer ZR,Zheludev IN,Gee CL,Kelch BA,Harms MJ,Marqusee S

更新日期：2021-01-26 00:00:00

abstract：:CRISPR-Cas9 technology has been at the forefront of the field of biology. The Streptococcus pyogenes (SpyCas9) protein forms a complex with guide RNA and can recognize and cleave double-stranded DNA through hybridization based on 20 base pairings. SpyCas9 has two nuclease domains, HNH and RuvC, each of which cuts each...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Furuhata Y,Kato Y

更新日期：2021-01-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The Escherichia coli ATP-consuming chaperonin machinery, a complex between GroEL and GroES, has evolved to facilitate folding of substrate proteins (SPs) that cannot do so spontaneously. A series of kinetic experiments show that the SPs are encapsulated in the GroEL/ES nanocage for a short duration. If confinement of ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Koculi E,Thirumalai D

更新日期：2021-01-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Pseudokinases play important roles in signal transduction and cellular processes similar to those of catalytically competent kinases. However, pseudokinase pharmacological tractability and conformational space accessibility are poorly understood. Pseudokinases have only recently been suggested to adopt "inactive" conf...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Smith RHB,Khan ZM,Ung PM,Scopton AP,Silber L,Mack SM,Real AM,Schlessinger A,Dar AC

更新日期：2021-01-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Cyanobacteriochromes (CBCRs) are cyanobacterial photoreceptors that exhibit photochromism between two states: a thermally stable dark-adapted state and a metastable light-adapted state with bound linear tetrapyrrole (bilin) chromophores possessing 15Z and 15E configurations, respectively. The photodynamics of canonica...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Kirpich JS,Chang CW,Franse J,Yu Q,Escobar FV,Jenkins AJ,Martin SS,Narikawa R,Ames JB,Lagarias JC,Larsen DS

更新日期：2021-01-13 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：:Self-assembled nanostructures that are sensitive to environmental stimuli are promising nanomaterials for drug delivery. In this class, disulfide-containing redox-sensitive strategies have gained enormous attention because of their wide applicability and simplicity of nanoparticle design. In the context of nucleic aci...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Dutta K,Das R,Medeiros J,Thayumanavan S

更新日期：2021-01-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The P22 tailspike endorhamnosidase confers the high specificity of bacteriophage P22 for some serogroups of Salmonella differing only slightly in their O-antigen polysaccharide. We used several biophysical methods to study the binding and hydrolysis of O-antigen fragments of different lengths by P22 tailspike protein....

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Baxa U,Weintraub A,Seckler R

更新日期：2020-12-29 00:00:00

abstract：:d-2-Hydroxyglutarate dehydrogenase from Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAO1 (PaD2HGDH) catalyzes the oxidation of d-2-hydroxyglutarate to 2-ketoglutarate, which is a necessary step in the serine biosynthetic pathway. The dependence of P. aeruginosa on PaD2HGDH makes the enzyme a potential therapeutic target against P. aerugin...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Quaye JA,Gadda G

更新日期：2020-12-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein splicing is a self-catalyzed post-translational modification in which the intein enzyme excises itself from a precursor protein and ligates the flanking sequences to produce a mature protein. We report the solution structure of a 136-residue DnaX mini-intein enzyme derived from the cyanobacterium Spirulina pla...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Boral S,Maiti S,Basak AJ,Lee W,De S

更新日期：2020-12-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Taq DNA polymerase, one of the first thermostable DNA polymerases to be discovered, has been typecast as a DNA-dependent DNA polymerase commonly employed for PCR. However, Taq polymerase belongs to the same DNA polymerase superfamily as the Molony murine leukemia virus reverse transcriptase and has in the past been sh...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Bhadra S,Maranhao AC,Paik I,Ellington AD

更新日期：2020-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:We have validated that ligand peptides designed from antigen peptides could be used for targeting specific major histocompatibility complex class I (MHC-I) molecules on the cell surface. To design the ligand peptides, we used reported antigen peptides for each MHC-I molecule with high binding affinity. From the crysta...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Sun X,Tokunaga R,Nagai Y,Miyahara R,Kishimura A,Kawakami S,Katayama Y,Mori T

更新日期：2020-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:ZntA from Escherichia coli confers resistance to toxic concentrations of Pb2+, Zn2+, and Cd2+. It is a member of the P1B-ATPase transporter superfamily, which includes the human Cu+-transporting proteins ATP7A and ATP7B. P1B-type ATPases typically have a hydrophilic N-terminal metal-binding domain and eight transmembr...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Roberts CS,Muralidharan S,Ni F,Mitra B

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Traditional antibody generation, using either phage display or animal immunization, relies on purified antigens. Many membrane proteins, such as G protein-coupled receptors, solute carriers, or ion channels, are important drug targets but very challenging for the formation of antibodies due to the difficulty of protei...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Chang YC,Kao CY,Tang HC,Huang MS,Mou KY

更新日期：2020-11-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Decapping is the first committed step in 5'-to-3' RNA decay, and in the cytoplasm of human cells, multiple decapping enzymes regulate the stabilities of distinct subsets of cellular transcripts. However, the complete set of RNAs regulated by any individual decapping enzyme remains incompletely mapped, and no consensus...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Luo Y,Schofield JA,Simon MD,Slavoff SA

更新日期：2020-11-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Proteogenomic identification of translated small open reading frames in humans has revealed thousands of microproteins, or polypeptides of fewer than 100 amino acids, that were previously invisible to geneticists. Hundreds of microproteins have been shown to be essential for cell growth and proliferation, and many reg...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Na Z,Luo Y,Schofield JA,Smelyansky S,Khitun A,Muthukumar S,Valkov E,Simon MD,Slavoff SA

更新日期：2020-10-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Macromolecular protease inhibitors and camelid single-domain antibodies achieve their enzymic inhibition functions often through protruded structures that directly interact with catalytic centers of targeted proteases. Inspired by this phenomenon, we constructed synthetic human antibody libraries encoding long CDR-H3s...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Nam DH,Lee KB,Kruchowy E,Pham H,Ge X

更新日期：2020-10-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The existence of temperature optima in enzyme catalysis that occur before protein melting sets in can be described by different types of kinetic models. Such optima cause distinctly curved Arrhenius plots and have, for example, been observed in several cold-adapted enzymes from psychrophilic species. The two main expl...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Åqvist J,Sočan J,Purg M

更新日期：2020-10-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Fatty acid-induced upregulation of death receptor 5 (DR5) and its cognate ligand, tumor necrosis factor-related apoptosis-inducing ligand (TRAIL), promotes hepatocyte lipoapoptosis, which is a key mechanism in the progression of fatty liver disease. Accordingly, inhibition of DR5 signaling represents an attractive str...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Vunnam N,Szymonski S,Hirsova P,Gores GJ,Sachs JN,Hackel BJ

更新日期：2020-10-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Histone H3 arginine 2 (H3R2) is post-translationally modified in three different states by "writers" of the protein arginine methyltransferase (PRMT) family. H3R2 methylarginine isoforms include PRMT5-catalyzed monomethylation (me1) and symmetric dimethylation (me2s) and PRMT6-catalyzed me1 and asymmetric dimethylatio...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Lorton BM,Harijan RK,Burgos ES,Bonanno JB,Almo SC,Shechter D

更新日期：2020-10-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Avian magnetoreception is assumed to occur in the retina. Although its molecular mechanism is unclear, magnetic field-dependent formation and the stability of radical-containing photointermediate(s) are suggested to play key roles in a hypothesis called the radical pair mechanism. Chicken cryptochrome4 (cCRY4) has bee...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Otsuka H,Mitsui H,Miura K,Okano K,Imamoto Y,Okano T

更新日期：2020-09-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The temperature dependence of biological rates at different scales (from individual enzymes to isolated organisms to ecosystem processes such as soil respiration and photosynthesis) is the subject of much historical and contemporary research. The precise relationship between the temperature dependence of enzyme rates ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Prentice EJ,Hicks J,Ballerstedt H,Blank LM,Liáng LNL,Schipper LA,Arcus VL

更新日期：2020-09-29 00:00:00

abstract：:A pathogenic bacterium has its own mechanisms for not only pathogenic attack but also exogenous invasion defense, in which the bacterial cell wall is the front line of attack and defense. We developed a biochemical lanthanide-encoding approach to quantify the uncanonical d-amino acid (d-X) that was edited in a small p...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Zhao W,Liang Y,Yan X,Yang L,Wang Q

更新日期：2020-09-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The understudied nonribosomal-peptide-synthetase-independent siderophore (NIS) synthetase family has been increasingly associated with virulence in bacterial species due to its key role in the synthesis of hydroxamate and carboxylate "stealth" siderophores. We have identified a model family member, DesD, from Streptom...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Hoffmann KM,Goncuian ES,Karimi KL,Amendola CR,Mojab Y,Wood KM,Prussia GA,Nix J,Yamamoto M,Lathan K,Orion IW

更新日期：2020-09-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The bacterium Caulobacter crescentus is known to attach irreversibly to underwater surfaces by utilizing an adhesive structure called the holdfast, which exhibits the greatest known adhesive strength of any organism. The very small size of the holdfast (∼400 nm wide and ∼40 nm high) has made direct chemical analysis d...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Nyarko A,Singla S,Barton HA,Dhinojwala A

更新日期：2020-09-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Peptides have important biomedical applications, but poor correlation between in vitro and in vivo activities can limit their development for clinical use. The ability to generate peptides and monitor their expression with new mass spectrometric methods and biological activities in vivo would be an advantage for the d...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Muthunayake NS,Islam R,Inutan ED,Colangelo W,Trimpin S,Cunningham PR,Chow CS

更新日期：2020-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Most terpene synthase reactions follow Markovnikov rules for formation of high-energy carbenium ion intermediates. However, there are notable exceptions. For example, pentalenene synthase (PS) undergoes an initial anti-Markovnikov cyclization reaction followed by a 1,2-hydride shift to form an intermediate humulyl cat...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Matos JO,Kumar RP,Ma AC,Patterson M,Krauss IJ,Oprian DD

更新日期：2020-09-08 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：:myo-Inositol (mI) is widely distributed in all domains of life and is important for several cellular functions, including bacterial survival. The enzymes responsible for the bacterial catabolism of mI, encoded in the iol operon, can vary from one organism to another, and these pathways have yet to be fully characteriz...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Ramos-Figueroa JS,Aamudalapalli HB,Jagdhane RC,Smith J,Palmer DRJ

更新日期：2020-08-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The first step of the kynurenine pathway for l-tryptophan (l-Trp) degradation is catalyzed by heme-dependent dioxygenases, tryptophan 2,3-dioxygenase (TDO) and indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase. In this work, we employed stopped-flow optical absorption spectroscopy to study the kinetic behavior of the Michaelis complex of C...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Geng J,Weitz AC,Dornevil K,Hendrich MP,Liu A

更新日期：2020-08-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Imidazole glycerol phosphate synthase (ImGPS) from Thermotoga maritima is a model enzyme for studying allostery. The ImGPS complex consists of the cyclase subunit HisF and the glutaminase subunit HisH whose activity is stimulated by substrate binding to HisF in a V-type manner. To investigate the significance of a put...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Kneuttinger AC,Rajendran C,Simeth NA,Bruckmann A,König B,Sterner R

更新日期：2020-07-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The dynamic cytoskeletal network of microtubules and actin filaments can be disassembled by drugs. Cytoskeletal drugs work by perturbing the monomer-polymer equilibrium, thus changing the size and number of macromolecular crowders inside cells. Changes in both crowding and nonspecific surface interactions ("sticking")...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Davis CM,Gruebele M

更新日期：2020-07-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Thiol dioxygenases are mononuclear non-heme FeII-dependent metalloenzymes that initiate the oxidative catabolism of thiol-containing substrates to their respective sulfinates. Cysteine dioxygenase (CDO), the best characterized mammalian thiol dioxygenase, contains a three-histidine (3-His) coordination environment rat...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Fernandez RL,Dillon SL,Stipanuk MH,Fox BG,Brunold TC

更新日期：2020-07-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Blastochloris tepida is a newly described thermophilic purple bacterium containing bacteriochlorophyll b. Using purified light-harvesting 1 reaction center (LH1-RC) core complexes from Blc. tepida, we compared the biochemical, spectroscopic, and thermal denaturation properties of these complexes with those of its meso...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Seto R,Takaichi S,Kurihara T,Kishi R,Honda M,Takenaka S,Tsukatani Y,Madigan MT,Wang-Otomo ZY,Kimura Y

更新日期：2020-06-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Methanosarcina mazei pyrrolysyl-tRNA synthetase (PylRS) and its cognate tRNA have been evolved to generate genetically encoded noncanonical amino acids (ncAAs). Use of tryptophan (Trp) analogues with pyrrole ring modification for their spatial and polarity tuning in enzyme activity and substrate specificity is still l...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Jiang HK,Wang YH,Weng JH,Kurkute P,Li CL,Lee MN,Chen PJ,Tseng HW,Tsai MD,Wang YS

更新日期：2020-06-23 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：:We report a straightforward enzymatic synthesis of the 4-methylumbelliferyl glycoside of a complex-type oligosaccharide substrate for core fucosylation. We demonstrate the use of this synthetic glycoconjugate in a newly developed enzyme assay to probe the activity and inhibition of fucosyltransferase VIII, which catal...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Soroko M,Kwan DH

更新日期：2020-06-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The iron storage protein bacterioferritin (Bfr) binds up to 12 hemes b at specific sites in its protein shell. The heme b can be substituted with the photosensitizer Zn(II)-protoporphyrin IX (ZnPP), and photosensitized reductive iron release from the ferric oxyhydroxide {[FeO(OH)] n ...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Benavides BS,Valandro S,Cioloboc D,Taylor AB,Schanze KS,Kurtz DM Jr

更新日期：2020-04-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Messenger RNA degradation is an important component of overall gene expression. During the final step of eukaryotic mRNA degradation, exoribonuclease 1 (Xrn1) carries out 5' → 3' processive, hydrolytic degradation of RNA molecules using divalent metal ion catalysis. To initiate studies of the 5' → 3' RNA decay machine...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Langeberg CJ,Welch WRW,McGuire JV,Ashby A,Jackson AD,Chapman EG

更新日期：2020-04-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The vitamin K epoxide reductase (VKORC1) enzyme is of primary importance in many physiological processes, i.e., blood coagulation, energy metabolism, and arterial calcification prevention, due to its role in the vitamin K cycle. Indeed, VKORC1 catalyzes reduction of vitamin K epoxide to quinone and then to hydroquinon...

journal_title：Biochemistry

authors： Chatron N,Abi Khalil R,Benoit E,Lattard V

更新日期：2020-04-07 00:00:00