... dimeric RNases.
Abbreviations
BS -RNase, bovine seminal RNase; ds -RNase A, domain-swapped RNase A; FAM-AUAA-TAMRA, 6-carboxyfluorescein-dArU(dA)
2
-6-
carboxytetramethylrhodamine; RATE, RNase A tandem ... monomeric RNase A.
On the other hand, the decreased activity of the RATEs
as compared with RNase A ([16] and Table 1) indicate
a negative influence of the...
... atoms) and r
j
is the standard deviation of B
factors. The normalized B factors have a zero mean and unit
variance. All atoms that satisfy B
z
‡ 4 are treated as outliers
and discarded. After ... residue at P4, with a contact area
of 13.5 A
˚
2
and the Lys residue at P3 with a contact
area of 10.2 A
˚
2
. Residues outside the central binding
area have signi...
... oligonucleotides:
a sense primer 5¢-CAACAAATTTG
CATATGACTATT
AAAG-3¢ containing an NdeI site (underlined) next to the
start codon of the T. brucei gGAPDH gene; an anti-
sense primer 5¢-CAGCCAAGCG
CCTAGGGAGCGAGA
AC-3¢, ... Mikaelian & Sergeant [33] and
using the Vent DNA polymerase. The T. brucei gGAPDH
Thr196 ACA codon was changed into the Ala codon GCA,
and the Thr225...
... microsomal rat liver carboxylesterases
and their activity with retinyl palmitate
Sonal P. Sanghani, Wilhelmina I. Davis, Natividad G. Dumaual, Alan Mahrenholz and William F. Bosron
Department of Biochemistry ... protein with coomassie blue and the duplicate half
was stained for activity as described for nondenaturing
PAGE. The pI for each isoenzyme was calculated from the...
... both the
size and the shape of the pocket (Fig. 5A, B). Leu297
in TaLcc1 (Ala297 in MaL) narrows the cavity as
compared with MaL, whereas Pro195 and Val428
(Phe194 and Phe427 in MaL) make the cavity ... (asco-lac-
cases) have been rather unexplored, and to date only the crystal structure
of Melanocarpus albomyces laccase (MaL) has been published. We have
now solv...
... trigonal bipyramidal coordination with five ligands: four side
chain atoms and a water oxygen. One aspartate and two histidine side
chains ligated to the central metal on the equatorial plane. In the ... bound to the metal, in the company of
a water oxygen, from the apical positions. The manga-
nese was only 0.06 A
˚
out of the equatorial plane
(Table 3). The...
... and
hydrolyze metal-free phytate with pH optima in the
acidic range. They consist of two domains, a large a ⁄ b
domain and a small a domain with the catalytic site at
the interface of the two domains [4,5]. ... substrate-free
AppA the C
a
atoms are 2.41 A
˚
apart, whereas for the
substrate-free PhyK and the substrate-loaded AppA
the averaged distance...
... and the human airway trypsin (HAT) ⁄ HAT-like ⁄ DESC
subfamily. Members of the hepsin and matriptase subfamilies are known
structurally and here we present the crystal structure of DESC1 as a ... regions of these proteinases medi-
ate interaction of the two b-barrels, formation of the
catalytic machinery and structures required for binding
of the main c...
... Ivanova N, Sorokin A, Anderson I, Galleron N,
Candelon B, Kapatral V, Bhattacharyya A, Reznik G,
Mikhailova N, Lapidus A et al. (2003) Genome
sequence of Bacillus cereus and comparative analysis
with ... hydrogen-bon-
ded antiparallel b-strands (b6–b7), an a- helical hairpin
(helices a5 , a6 ) and a C-terminal strand (b8). Helix a5
and strand b7 partially cover one side o...
... extreme thermal motion. As a
response, they have evolved enzymes that are highly
stable against heat and other denaturants. The
increased stability of enzymes from thermo- and hyper-
thermophiles ... positions and
gave a root mean square deviation of 0.84–1.21 A
˚
(Table 2, Fig. 2). The structural resemblance with
regard to root mean square deviation, fraction of c...