... to study the binding of ATP alone to the protein were unsuccessful,as the protein precipitated upon addition of ATP in the absence of pantoate. An important feature of the NMR study is the fact ... [8,9]. One of the interesting features ofthe plant PSs is the presence of a conserved 24 residue insertion in the sequence [9].This sequence of amino acids, which is missing in the sequence of bacterial ... pantothe-nate from low amounts of pantoate [9]. Here, wereport the results ofthe structural studies ofthe panto-ate-bound form ofthe N-terminal domain of E. coliPS (nPS). The structure and substrate-binding...
... for the initial decrease ofthe oxalo-acetate concentration in t he equilibrium due to the accumulation of NADH [25]. Lineweaver–Burk diagramswere obtained b y use ofthe worksheet ofthe programEXEL98 ... propionyl-CoA in the DmcsA-strain, the activity of methylisocitrate lyase is twice as high than that of the wild-type. The addition of acetate to these media notonly lowered the propionyl-CoA ... branch ofthe pentose phosphate pathway. Thiswas determined by the use of glucose-6-phosphate as the substrate and NADP as the hydrogen acceptor. Due to the use of cell-free extracts, not only the...
... somedeviation from the geometry optimal for the abstraction of the a-proton. For the reaction of TPL withL-methio-nine the rate of abstraction ofthe a-proton, leading toformation ofthe quinonoid ... (b) the statistical factor taking account of the ratio of protons and deuterons on the considered groupwhen the latter is polyprotic; (c) the degree of restriction of the free rotation ofthe ... positions ofthe a-proton and the sidechain of any bound amino ac id. The lability ofthe a-protonobserved for a large number of amino acids [5] under the action of TPL gives evidence for the orthogonal...
... mechanismof antitumouraction of BS-RNase is based on the ability ofthe proteinto resist the neutralizing action ofthe cytosolic RNaseinhibitor, a resistance due to the dimeric structure of the enzyme. ... indicate that the cell sulfhydryls responsiblefor the exchange with the protein disulfides are located in the plasma membrane. Furthermore, they show that, asproposed in the hypothesis above, the RNase ... hypothesize that the cytotoxicactivity ofthe latter monomers was due to the presence inthese proteins of disulfide bonds, with their potentialchemical instability. It is well known that in the...
... minutes, which then switched to the opposite polarity for another 11.5 minutes. The device was designed to switch the di-rection of current flow halfway through the cycle. The resulting cycle ... (67). Inter-ruption ofthe overproduction of superoxide by the mitochondrial electron transport chain would nor-malize the pathways involved in the development of the oxidative stress ... role in the pathogenesis of both types of diabetes mellitus and cardiovascular diseases including hypertension. The low levels of antioxidants accompanied by raised levels of markers of free...
... analyzed the data about the Dien Bien - Lai Chau fault zone activities, the geological structure ofthe basin, as well as the theory of basin-forming regime to figure out themechanismof formation ... along the long axis ofthe basin. The rock ofthe east side has been broken much more than that ofthe west side. - The cover composed of olivine basalt and loose sediments: + The Late Neogene ... started. On the west side ofthe basement, the subsidence may take place so quick that the basement slope is steeper and the bed rock is more stable. In turn, on the other side the bedrock...
... deuteration of C2¢ ofthe epimerase product. The lack of deuteration of the C2¢ of DHMP is not due to the lack of deute-rons, because it has been shown previously that the 6-hydroxymethyl group ofthe ... set of control data was obtained in the absence ofthe protein. The data set obtained in the absence of the protein was then subtracted from the correspondingdata set obtained in the presence of ... performed in the absence ofthe ligand. The controldata set obtained in the absence ofthe ligand was subtrac-ted from the corresponding data set obtained in the pres-ence ofthe ligand. The Kdvalues...
... iscomposed of residues 25–540. The overall structure of the model of IPU and the mutated residues in this study areshown in Fig. 3. To elucidate themechanismof the substrate recognition of IPU, ... panose (data notshown).Prediction ofthe positions of amino acid residues whosesubstitutions resulted in the reduction ofthe IPU activityWhile the study of site-directed mutagenesis describedabove ... in the negatively numberedsubsites. The anomeric configuration of products of bothDex49A and IPU are identical, as well. Does the substratepreference ofthe negatively numbered s ubsites of...
... oxidize them [19]. On the other hand, this factdoes not represent proof ofthe presence of one or twooxidizing equivalents on the decay product of Cpd I. The EPR spectrum of a spin-trapped radical ... formulated a hypo-thesis that describes an integrated vision ofthe catalytic mechanism of both enzymes. The main points are: (a) are-evaluation ofthe role of superoxide as a reductant in the catalytic ... MPO. They dealwith the the major importance of catalase activity in MPO withrespect to LPO, the different sensitivity ofthe enzymes toCpd III inactivation and the redox potential ofthe chemicalintermediates....
... treeswith the nt sequence ofthe open reading frame (ORF) of their cDNAs and the corresponding aa sequences, inTable 1. Summary ofthe purification of DNases I from the pancreases of three species of ... cloned the cDNA of each. A single amino acid(aa) substitution was confirmed to affect the thermalstabilities of vertebrate DNases I and, furthermore, one of the postulated mechanisms whereby thermal ... not. The same was true for these mutants ofthe rat and mouseDNase I (Fig. 3). These findings demonstrate that the nature ofthe amino acid at position 130 may generally andmarkedly affect the thermal...
... coliagmatinase, ofthe loop indicated by the letter a.Fig. 5. Scheme ofthe binuclear manganese cluster and the localization of the side-chains of Asp153 and Asn153 in the modelled structures of wild-type ... indicating that the environ-ment of tryptophan residues is essentially conserved in the mutant enzyme. On the other hand, the absence of majordifferences in the CD spectra ofthe wild-type and ... further evaluate the consequences ofthe Asp153fiAsn substitution, we used amodelled structure ofthe E. coli enzyme, constructed byusing homology-modelling techniques and the 3D structure of the...