... arginine residues in proteins [18,19] when tested could not inactivate the enzyme indicting that this amino acid is not critically involved inthe catalytic activity of EAC cell Gra3P DH Therefore, ... group, indicating that both TNBS and DTNB bind to the same thiol group present inthe active site of rabbit muscle Gra3P DH All these studies convincingly demonstrate that the loss of the enzymatic ... properties Therefore, in this paper we investigated the amino-acid residue(s) that are critically involved at the active site of the EAC cell enzyme and whether there is any difference between the malignant...
... complexes are absent inthe lanes containing the probe with the 1G SNP Although increasing concentrations of PD098059 reduce the binding of complexes to the probe containing the 1G SNP, a more pronounced ... expression from the 1G promoter inthe presence of increasing amounts of Fra1 may be due to the effects of Fra-1 on the proximal AP-1 siteThe greater increase inthe induction of the 2G promoter ... identical [15], thereby suggesting that the ERK inhibitor and Fra-1 antisense may be working in a similar manner We next examined the effect of mutating the AP-1 site at )73 bp inthe MMP-1 promoter...
... donors at the protein surface, limited accessibility of the binding site due to shielding from the bulk of the protein, or some conformational interactions The metal-free DAHK sequence in HSA has ... and the neighbouring His242) bind phosphate ions, thereby providing another level of competition for metal ion binding Kinetics of Ni(II) binding and Cu(II)/Ni(II) exchange The data presented in ... between the high spin octahedral and the low spin square planar forms The latter is present inthe 4N complex, while the former in all other substrates/products in either case [13,40] VIHN formed the...
... on the two further subunits of the native oxidase In focussing on the main interaction domain on subunit II, we introduced additional mutations in exposed residues inthe relevant area above the ... position involved in maintaining the low residual activity when the W121 residue is mutated Double mutants in both positions are not further diminished in activity compared to W121 single mutations ... stripping subunits III and IV off the native complex, and by further destroying a large part of the acidic lobe(s) of the docking site of subunit II inthe TM1 mutant Nevertheless, even the latter...
... 1), thereby confirming the crucial role of Asp142 Catalysis in family 18 chitinases (Eur J Biochem 271) 259 In most ChiB structures, Asp142 is clearly defined, being either inthe ÔdownÕ or inthe ... only two of the five GlcNAc moieties are shown (bound to subsites )1 and +1) Carbon atoms inthe bound sugar are green Hatched lines indicate hydrogen bonds The arrow in (B) points from the catalytic ... that the carboxylic groups inthe Asp140-Asp142-Glu144 triad contain two protons at the pH where the enzyme is most active The basic arm of the pH-activity profile must be determined by the loss...
... protect the enzyme against thermal denaturation The increased resistance of the a-FMH-treated protein to thermal denaturation would indicate that the covalent binding of the adduct to the catalytic ... structure inthe enzyme, suggesting several interaction points for the adduct within the catalytic center in addition to those established by the internal aldimine alone From the shape of the a-FMH-treated ... how long the enamine remains inthe active site and its rate of attack on the aldimine bond, and can be modified by slight differences inthe position of the residues [41] As covalent binding was...
... number of amino acid residues contribute to the binding of the substrate by hydrogen bonding and ⁄ or hydrophobic interactions Using the ligplot program [31], we investigated the specific interactions ... transient, oxazolinium ion intermediate Inthe AD2 E526A–substrate structure, the N-acetyl oxygen of the )1 sugar faces towards Asp524, which is opposite to the direction in which it points inthe SmChiB–(NAG)5 ... residue In these interactions, we particularly focused on the Trp664 residue, which is located at the bottom of the active site cleft The indole ring of Trp664 is hydrophobically stacked with the...
... provides an insight into the enzyme’s mechanism of action inthe C albicans cell wall Finally, the unexpected discovery of an isolated binding site remote from the active site poses the intriguing possibility ... polymers The nature of the aromatic residues inthe two triads might then be reflecting the different functional constraints for the two proteins: Exg requiring precise positioning of laminarin substrate ... in lectins and haemagglutinin) where Carbohydrate binding sites in Candida exoglucanase shallow indentations contrast with the deeper clefts found inthe active sites of carbohydrate processing...
... described for the sulfuration of the C-terminal glycine in ThiS and MoaD, involved in thiamine biosynthesis and molybdopterin biosynthesis, respectively, and for the sulfuration of uridine in tRNA ... tryptic peptide containing the thioglycine G*, thioglycine; C, S-methylcysteine Amino acids modified in most MCR are indicated by bold type Sequence of the thioglycine-containing tryptic peptide ... However, inthe MCR from the methano4916 trophic archaea of the ANME-1 cluster, the arginine inthe respective tryptic peptide was not methylated (Table 2) The glutamine (Q400) is not methylated in the...
... detected inthe cytoplasm during the M phase Phosphorylation at site 32 increased gradually inthe nucleus during phases S and G2, and was detected maximally inthe cytoplasm inthe M phase The timing ... recognized the retarded MCM4 prepared from cells inthe M phase, indicating that these sites are indeed phosphorylated inthe M phase in HeLa cells We classified the mode of phosphorylation into two ... between the two G2 conditions Another apparent inconsistency concerns the level of phosphorylation at siteinthe M phase The level of phosphorylation at thesite is relatively high inthe M phase in...
... cytochrome b and is involved in interactions with the peripheral domain of the iron–sulphur protein The stigmatellin head-group binds in this distal lobe of the Qo site and is positioned in a pocket ... stigmatellin, which binds inthe distal lobe of the Qo site, and myxothiazol, azoxystrobin and pyraclostrobin, which bind at the proximal lobe of the Qo site (Fig and Table 1) The control strains, ... sequence, has therefore been used throughout the other studies reported here The effect of other variations inthe Qo binding domain on bc1 function and inhibitor resistance was then investigated...
... residue inthe initial binding and correct positioning of CA during catalysis A role of N302 in anchoring the side-chain carboxylate of CA is further supported by the enhanced binding of amine substituted ... 2-aminoquinoline (Ks ¼ 17 lM) and indole3-carboxylic acid (the natural auxin, Ks ¼ 18 lM) These compounds are ordered from gain to loss of binding to the mutant proteins in Table As shown in Table ... the indole ring In contrast, the I371A mutation appears to remove the steric constraint existing inthe wild-type CYP73A1 and favours a P2/P1 ratio closer to The observed effects of both of these...
... as holoenzymes (retaining their FAD prosthetic group) The mutants, in their oxidized state, show the typical spectrum of the FADcontaining avoproteins (line in Fig 2), an extinction coefcient at ... in binding were observed for Y238 mutants with the ligands tested (Table 2) These results indicate that the mode of ligand binding is retained inthe two mutants, and that the alteration of the ... METHODS The extinction coefcients for the mutant DAAO enzymes were determined by measuring the change in absorbance after release of the avin The enzymes were heat denatured by boiling for in the...
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... of the adeninebinding pocket inthe active site of the enzyme [21] (Fig 1A) The adenine ring of the bound AdePeCbl is nearly parallel to the corrin ring and faces pyrrole ring C It is trapped in ... (S)-1,2-propanediol in this drawing Pink and green colors indicate the a- and b-subunits, respectively, darkening continuously from the N-terminal to the C-terminal sides (B) Residues interacting with the adenine ... upon the Gln substitution at the b135 residue This might be due to hydrogen bonding and interactions other than the ion pairing being strong enough to maintain the tight binding of cobalamin In...
... of the Asn153fiAla variant resembles closely that of the recombinant wild-type enzyme inthe resting state [7,12,13] exhibiting the typical bands of a heme b-containing ferric peroxidase inthe ... (the maximum absorbance difference between the cyanide complex and the ferric protein) and the corresponding fit are shown in Fig 4B The observed rate of cyanide binding to the ferric enzyme linearly ... constructed using the coordinates deposited inthe Protein Data Bank (accession code 1ITK) The amino-acid numbering is for Haloarcula KatG, but numbers in parentheses denote numbering for Synechocystis...
... between the subunits and are involved in cofactor binding, substrate binding and catalysis (Fig 1) On the other hand, the mutations did not affect either the capability to bind the cofactor or the ... cofactor binding sitein SHMT cluster is not directly involved inthe proper positioning or stabilization of the active site or PLP-binding residues Its location rather suggests a role in bridging ... located inthe cores of the large and small domains, the cluster under study is not directly involved inthe positioning or stability of any active site or PLP-binding residue Considering the studies...
... shows that the detergent itself is located inthe channel into which the quinone isoprenoid chain sits inthe enzyme This explains the slow exchange process of the quinone at its binding site Conversely, ... organized with the chain perpendicular to the protein surface and with the terminal region sticking into the protein This reduces the hydrophobic portion of the detergent in which free ˚ quinone can ... saturating illumination, the photocycle time scale is inthe order of milliseconds A key role inthe photocycle is played by the exchange of the two redox forms of the quinone, between the protein interior...
... other hand, of the 16 individuals with the Cys306Gly mutation, only one had the )1CfiA mutation, strongly indicating that these two sites are in linkage equilibrium, as also reflected inthe pair-wise ... measured using the Bio-Rad Protein Assay Kit (Bio-Rad Laboratories, Hercules, CA, USA) according to the manufacturer’s instructions Bovine serum albumin was used as standard to determine the protein ... mutations, other than the Cys306Gly and Trp316Ser We therefore hypothesized that the 5¢ flanking region of b2GPI harbors functional mutations that determine the interindividual variation in b2GPI...
... IN, and a non-respiratory virus, a recombinant Western Reserve (WR) strain of vaccinia virus (VV) expressing the RSV M21 protein (VV-M2), which was administered either by theIN or ID route IN ... inthe spleen under conditions of local infection inthe lung (i.e influenza, RSV), localized dermal infection (i.e VV-M2 administered ID), or disseminated infection (i.e VV-M2 administered IN) ... with RSV, influenza virus, or VV-M2 in a 100 μl inoculum For ID infections, groups of mice received VV-M2 in a 50 μl inoculum Competing interests Vaccinia virus replication in mice On the indicated...