... cutoff distance (rc ẳ 6.0 A) Thedynamicsofthe resulting network are then dened by the Ni ã Nj Kirchhoff connectivity matrix of interresidue contacts (G) where the off diagonal elements of ... measurements of protein structuraldynamics were performed to explain the observed kinetic catalytic behavior Thus, the question of whether the kinetics of a-CT catalysis are inuenced by the enzymes ... electrostatic potentials (EP) for the Ne ofthe lysine residues of a-CT at pH EP, EwaldEi EP is the Ewald energy of placing a charge of +1 at the location ofthe ith ionizable atom [89] Reactivity...
... is the cross-sectional average ofthe bank-specific variable αi of those banks for which there is an observation in month t As the composition of this sample changes in the course of time, the ... responsible We choose the following method of mitigating the problem of changing sample composition: Instead ofthe exposure levels Xi (t), we investigate the change in the exposure ofthe same bank, ... contribution ofthe systematic factor and the regulation to the total timely variation ofthe exposure is 17.24% and, therefore, 82.76% ofthe variation is due to idiosyncratic effects These effects...
... amount of time At the end ofthe heat treatment the mixtures were placed in an ice/water bath, and the enzymatic activity was stopped by lowering the pH ofthe reaction mixture to by addition of ... during the thermal treatment, hydrolysis of BLG was extensive, in spite of significant inactivation ofthe enzymes This indicates that the transient conformers originating in the course of thermal ... in these preparations could stem from the inability ofthe hydrolytic reaction to address all the sequential epitopes even in the denatured protein In fact, despite the apparent simplicity of the...
... 2001 cleavages ofthe sites were in the order: Tyr146/Asn147 ! Phe114 ! other sites The weakness of bands of fragments I and IV and the appearance of fragment II in the degradation ofthe Tyr146 ... in the rate of cleavage ofthe autolysis loop At the same time the amount of fragment III was similar to that observed in the degradation of D-chymotrypsinogen (panel a) showing that the rate of ... cleavage was the same as seen from their inactivation rates in the presence of equimolar amounts of trypsin (Table 2) The cleavage ofthe interdomain and autolysis loops To follow the autolysis of D-chymotrypsin...
... activity ofthe enzyme was determined using the Betamyl b-amylase test reagent (Megazyme, Wicklow, Ireland) To determine the pH stability ofthe b-amylase, aliquots of a solution ofthe purified ... for h at 25 8C Then 0.1 vol of a solution of 0.5 M sodium acetate (pH 5.0) was added and the activity ofthe enzyme was measured by the dinitrosalicylic acid method Inhibition ofthe enzyme activity ... at their 50 and 30 boundaries, respectively, and were inserted between the third letter of one codon and the first letter ofthe following codon Molecular modeling ofthe C sepium b-amylase The...
... 1H,15N-HSQC spectra ofthe M domain of human eRF1 The numbering ofthe residues corresponds to that ofthe full eRF1 protein (A) The Gly region ofthe 15 H, N-HSQC spectrum ofthe M domain of human eRF1 ... hydrolysis at the PTC ofthe large ribosomal subunit [20] The three-domain structure of eRF1, with the shape ofthe protein resembling the letter ‘Y’, partly mimics the ‘L’-shape ofthe tRNA molecule, ... )42 The mean value in the family of 25 structures and the SD is no preferred conformation ofthe side-chain in the family 4228 v1 b There Fig The relaxation parameters ofthe amide 15N spin of...
... value ofthe mutant TNSALP was less than one-tenth ofthe Kcat ⁄ Km value ofthe soluble form ofthe wild-type enzyme, indicating that the replacement of valine with alanine at position 406 in the ... of TNSALP In support of our hypothesis, the cysteine residue at position 433 in one subunit of TNSALP (R433C) becomes crosslinked to the counterpart ofthe other subunit [29], implying that the ... containing the SV40 early promoter [11] Shortage of a precursor of GPI in the endoplasmic reticulum may be one ofthe reasons why a small but significant fraction ofthe wild-type TNSALP forms the aggregate...
... parameters, there is no relationship between S2 and the location ofstructural elements (Fig 4) Furthermore, the Rex terms are distributed throughout the 3D structure ofthe protein, and most of them ... Furthermore, the internal motions of each bond vector are independent of each other, but the rotational diffusion ofthe molecule affects each of those bond vectors identically [42,43] On the other ... responsible, from a thermodynamic point of view, for the binding ofthe monomeric species of CAC? We have previously discussed the variation in the free energy of binding as a function ofthe changes...
... alignment of Cyn d 24 (A) Nucleotide and deduced amino acid sequences of Cyn d 24 The numbers on the right ofthe figure indicate the positions ofthe nucleotide sequence The numbers on the left ofthe ... Formation of this type of oligosaccharide in BG60 has been suggested to be the result of degradative reactions, rather than imperfect biosynthesis [13] Ofthe plant allergens listed in theof cial ... to 230 proteins and about 65 of these are IgE binding proteins [20]; however, some of these are known to be either isoforms or the degraded products of allergens Furthermore, allergic patients...
... the total number of charges measured by electrospray MS Theoretical mass is the mass calculated on the basis ofthe protein amino-acid sequence The relative abundance refers to the ratio ofthe ... acetylation at one ofthe three residues, because the signal ofthe triacetylated species was less intense than that ofthe diacetylated species The MS/MS Ó FEBS 2003 Structural properties of SV-IV (Eur ... the mass increase of 42 mass units The relative level of acetylation of a peptide was estimated on the basis ofthe intensity ratio ofthe native and acetylated species From the data summarized...
... for further study The concentration ofthe proteins was determined by the method of Lowry et al [14] and the purity was examined by SDS/PAGE [15] Assay of human PKIb activity The activity of purified ... regulation ofthe PKI and PKI isoforms ofthe inhibitor protein ofthe cAMP-dependent protein kinase J Biol Chem 272, 20011–20020 Byler, D.M & Susi, H (1986) Examination ofthe secondary structure of ... 2) The assay of its activity demonstrated that the purified PKIb inhibited the catalytic subunit of cAPK with the specific activity of 6.0 · 104 unitÆmg)1 (Fig 3A) .The Ki value determined from the...
... further our knowledge with respect to the mechanisms of action of these proteins, it is crucial that we define the precise boundaries ofthe STI1-homologous domain and compare the structures of these ... analysis [22] to examine in more detail the flexible characteristics ofthe 275–284 segment of hHR23B Because ofthe high quality of our 15 N-HSQC spectra, 54 ofthe 58 protonated backbone nitrogen ... solubilized the protein fragment in 10 mm CHAPS buffer The combination of these two A Dynamic structure of XPC-binding domain of hHR23B procedures markedly improved the quality ofthe 15NHSQC...
... sequences of homologs of all the six Rpt and nine Rpn subunit genes, and the partial sequences (about 80%) ofthe homologs of two Rpn genes were determined to deduce the amino-acid sequences ofthe ... homologs of genes encoding yeast 19S regulatory particle subunits A total of 24 EST clones were identified in the rice EST library based on the amino-acid sequences ofthe yeast RP subunits Three ofthe ... level based on the ratio of peak heights between them (Fig 5A) Therefore, we concluded that both translation products of these three duplicated genes were components within the RP ofthe rice 26S...
... Representation ofthe full-length ERp57 structure with the region recognized as the x-linker colored in red (B) The N-terminal part ofthe x-linker folds against the b¢ domain in the structures ofthe ERp57 ... conformations in the structures ofthe isolated b¢ domain and full-length proteins In the crystal structure ofthe b¢x fragment of human PDI, the C-terminal part ofthe x-linker turns back to contact the ... that the C-terminal cap ofthe substrate binding domains contributes to the specificity of ERp44 How the action ofthe C-terminal tail of ERp44 is regulated in cells is an intriguing question Structural...
... fold of one monomer is positioned above the catalytic core ofthe other Interestingly, Arg267 from the beginning of helix in the HTH fold of one monomer is positioned towards the active site ofthe ... nucleophilic attack ofthe a-phosphate of ATP Thus, according to the crystal structure, the specificity of serine recognition depends on: (a) the zinc ion, (b) the size ofthe active site and (c) the hydrophilic ... that the positioning ofthe cognate tRNA in the active site of mMbSerRS would be facilitated upon the conformational change ofthe motif loop, which was the only proximal protein region in the...
... represent the geometric centers ofthe cavities that are located over the protein surface, and the blue spheres indicate the geometric centers ofthe cavities that are located inside the b-barrel The ... indicating the importance ofthe positive charges for the occurrence of nonspecific contacts with DNA [22] The BPV-1 protein shows low flexibility ofthe loop connecting the b2 and b3 strands (Fig 6B) The ... in thedynamicsof these two proteins The rmsd from the starting structures ofthe two proteins (supplementary Fig S1) showed, in fact, good stability over all the simulation times Also, the...
... study the secondary structure ofthe catalytic domain of PKCf and the effect of its substrate, MgATP, and also to study the effect of thermal unfolding in the presence and the absence of MgATP ... dashed line represents the curve-fitted spectrum, i.e the dotted line is the sum ofthe individual components consequence ofthe use of D2O buffer This is the consequence ofthe H–D exchange that ... structure of 282 residues of a total of 344 have been solved [19] The catalytic domain of PKCh possesses a high degree of homology ( 80%) with the 3280 catalytic domain of other isoforms of PKC...
... conformation for the peptide NMR spectroscopy was further utilized to explore thestructural properties of Nogo-40 The very narrow resonance dispersion of amide protons ( 0.7 p.p.m) and the lack of side-chain ... attempts to synthesize the C-terminal part of Nogo-40 failed, the peptide Nogo-24, comprising the N-terminal 24 residues of Nogo-66, was successfully produced The sequential assignment of Nogo24 was ... Interestingly, with the introduction of methanol, the CD spectra of Nogo-40 undergo dramatic changes The CD spectra of Nogo-40 in the presence of methanol at a concentration of 74% or above show one positive...
... the formation of Hg7-bMT Comparison ofthe three sets of CD data indicates that the degree of chirality ofthe Hg-bMT species is generally independent of t However, the chirality ofthe species ... 2004 Fig Role ofthe chloride anion in the degree of folding of Hg-MT species observed by comparing the CD spectra ofthe Hg11-MT species obtained in the titration of Zn7-MT with either HgCl2 (in ... three sets of data indicates that the stoichiometry ofthe species formed along the three titrations at pH depends on neither the stabilization time, t, nor the nature ofthe counter-ion The unique...
... is of note that the structure ofthe LPS O-antigen of F columnare differs structurally from the LPS O-antigen ofthe fish pathogen Flavobacterium psychrophilium [21], which is a linear polymer of ... were identical with those of authentic reference glycoses, and further confirms their characterization The combined MS data and the isolation ofthe two aminoglycoses with the respective D-galacto ... the modified O-PS Simultaneous reduction ofthe carboxy function ofthe uronic residue C and the 4-keto function of residue B was made by treatment ofthe native O-PS (47 mg) in water (10 mL)...