... cations Thesurface coverage ofthe clay bytheprotein can be deduced from the fraction of Mn 2ϩ released The knowledge of both the quantity ofprotein adsorbed and thesurface coverage ofthe solid ... possible unfolding oftheprotein on thesurface changing theinterfacialarea between individual protein and surface and the quantity ofprotein adsorbed at saturation; (3) thesurface coverage ... interfacialarea occupied by adsorbed proteins Two spectroscopical approaches that permit such investigations are now discussed A StudyoftheInterfacialAreaof Protein- SurfaceContactbyNuclear Magnetic...
... forms the floor ofthe active site The C1 of 6PG is placed near to the cofactor-binding domain with the phosphate directed to the loop between a10–a11 and the tail domain ofthe partner subunit There ... Fig 6B) The mean atomic B-factor ofthe PEX ⁄ PEA combination ˚ ˚ (13.3 A2 ⁄ 15.2 A2) is less than the overall B-factor ˚ 2) oftheproteinThe mode of binding of (19.0 A PEX ⁄ PEA in the active ... Occupancy ofthe ligand and 0.3, respectively Subsequent chemical analysis ofthe PEX sample by MS (data not shown) identified the presence of PEA, a contaminant carried through from the synthesis of...
... 1) Subsite mapping On the basis ofthe assumptions of Hiromi [30] that the intrinsic rate of hydrolysis (kint) in the productive complex is independent ofthe length ofthe substrate, Km and ... during which theprotein was eluted at 0.6 m of NaCl Analysis of PelB by gel ltration resulted in a peak with an estimated mass of 212 kDa, corresponding to results of SDS PAGE analyses ofthe unboiled ... resulted in the overproduction ofthe 50-kDa PelB, which was veried by SDS PAGE analysis The enzyme was puried to homogeneity by heat treatment ofthe cell-free extract, followed by anionexchange...
... forming contacts with other core complex proteins A further step in the assembly ofthe secretion apparatus would be the recruitment of components forming the inner membrane pore ofthe secretion ... ofthe Cag-T4SS, together with potential implications for the current understanding of its mode of action The cagPAI and the Cag type IV secretion apparatus Gene arrangement and variants ofthe ... details of secretion apparatus assembly, as well as in the molecular mechanisms of effector protein secretion This minireview describes the composition ofthe cagPAI and the properties of both...
... oxygen atoms of Ala59 and Glu61 of one subunit and with the main chain nitrogen of Asn114Â ofthe other subunit The contacts ofthe ribityl chain to His89 and Lys138Â are mediated by a net of water ... protein atoms made bythe hydroxyl groups ofthe ribityl chain in the other structures Moreover, several direct contacts with theprotein chain bythe nitrogen atoms and keto groups ofthe purinetrione ... isotherms for the inhibitors (F) The lled circles in the binding isotherms represent the experimental values ofthe heat change at each injection; the continuous lines represent the results of the...
... interpreted as the first evidence for a restricted velocity in the translocation step ofthe loaded transporter bythe sterical conformation ofthe substrate The introduction of polar side groups in the ... transporter to the internal membrane side is the rate-limiting step and not – as proposed for most ofthe other electrogenic symporters – the return ofthe unloaded transporter to the outside ofthe membrane ... addressed the question of whether the substrate affinity depends on extracellular pH, by determining the apparent Km values of glycine and alanine at pH values of pH 5.5–8.5 (Fig 4) and a broad range of...
... indicated by thick black arrows The small arrows indicate the position ofthe primers used for sequencing by gene walking FW48A corresponds to the first primer used, starting at the known region ofthe ... processivity of Cel48C was obtained after a 48-h digestion of ASC and Avicel with Cel48C The products of digestion were analysed by TLC by loading both the supernatants ofthe reaction and the insoluble ... degradation of cellopentaose produced both cellobiose and cellotriose As in the case of ASC, analysis ofthe kinetics of cellotetraose digestion showed the presence of minor amounts of cellotriose...
... cast on the functional significance ofthe size variation ofthe TatA oligomers, because mutant TatA proteins form such oligomers even in the absence of Tat-specific protein translocation [15] The ... productive protein translocation Several ofthe mutated precursor proteins associate strongly with the membrane in the absence of efficient export It is possible that the proteins are associating with the ... terms ofthe size ofthe TatC-containing substrate-binding complex Some ofthe difference may stem from the absence of a TatB component, but the complexes may well contain differing numbers of TatC-containing...
... tetramer The four individual active sites ofthe tetramer are indicated bythe bound CoA molecules The catalytic site ofthe yellow domain is marked by an arrowhead (B) The binding mode of CoA to the ... ofthe compound in the structure, further detailed analysis ofthe exact binding mode has not been performed, but the mode of binding ofthe acetyl moiety is clearly different from the mode of ... crotonyl-oxyCoA: the hydration rate ofthe oxoester by crotonase is 330-fold lower [15] Due to different resonance properties ofthe thioand oxoesters [16], the pKa ofthe a carbon of a thioester...
... in the preferential binding ofthe diastereomers to the negatively charged outer surfaceof bacteria The role of secondary structure formation in cell selectivity was further demonstrated by ... K4L3l4W in the SDS micelles (Fig 4D) Importantly, the positions ofthe leucine and lysine side-chains emphasize the amphipathic organization ofthe peptides The relative orientations ofthe side-chain ... containing the peptides, blue shifts in the In this set of experiments the depth of penetration ofthe peptides into lipid membranes was estimated through quenching ofthe tryptophan fluorescence by bromine,...
... the elements ofthe GCS are themselves m e t a p ~ s in that they contain implicit semantic mismatches These metaphoric elements are interpreted as metaphor inputs thereby making the comprehension ... which the GCS-TKS connections are fully interpreted, that is, more fully integrated The paper discusses the conditions necessary for the strategy to be employed CONCLUSIONS The final part ofthe ... group, etc.) The comprehension of metaphor does not require a special set of processes to be developed, although the comprehension strategies may be specific to the comprehension task Rather, a metaphor...
... analysis ofthe peptide-binding sites on IN The structure ofthe PFV intasome in the presence and absence of several drugs served as the basis for the structural analysis [71] The sequences of PFV ... values ofthe enzymatic reaction, as inferred from the shift ofthe plots while the same slope was maintained (Fig 2AC and Table S2) These results further suggest that these peptides enhance the ... observed in several ofthe panels of Fig is the optimum point ofthe reaction, namely the ideal concentrations of DNA, peptide and amount of enzyme (IN) This may slightly vary with the different peptides...
... with the nucleobases pointing towards theproteinsurfaceThe 5¢-to-3¢ polarity ofthe ligand follows that of most other nucleic acid complexes of OB-fold proteins, starting in the vicinity of ... conformation of dT6 oligonucleotides in the binding site, the unstacking of bases with respect to each other upon binding, and the shielding ofthe nucleobase head groups bytheprotein suggest that the ... vice versa The swapped chains can be interrelated by a noncrystallographic twofold rotation axis The functional units align well with the structures ofthe two models ofthe closed protein ˚ (1C9O)...
... addition ofthe peptides to the liposomes, the entrapped calcein (70 mm) was released into the buffer by lysis This relieves self-quenching ofthe dye within the liposomes, increasing the fluorescence ... and then kill the target micro-organism by interacting with and permeabilizing the cytoplasmic membrane To further study this hypothesis, we examined the ability of PFPs and PCPs to depolarize the ... residue molecular mass ofthe peptide, c is the concentration ofthe sample in mgÆmL)1, and l is the optical path length ofthe cell in cm The spectra were plotted as the molar ellipticity [h]...
... exo-activity in the hydrolysis of 1,3-b-oligoglucosides, the subsite theory of Hiromi [46,47] was employed for construction of a subsite map for the estimation of affinities and number of subsites in the ... according to [35] The influence of pH and temperature on activity ofthe enzyme was studied bythe glucose oxidase method The effect of pH on activity was measured at 37 8C for 10 in the range pH 3–9 ... for G3G3G For the corresponding tetraoses the difference was < 4000-fold The mode of action ofthe T viride exo-1,3-b-glucanase ð1Þ where Km and Vmax are the kinetic parameters ofthe exo-1,3b-glucanase-catalyzed...
... variables The effect of workplace population density also differs across the four areas In general, those resident in rural areas behave differently to those resident in the other three areas ofthe ... regarded as the reference category) We also include a See the Appendix for discussion of alternative formulations ofthe travel time variable Further details on the construction ofthe time and ... kilometres of a rail station (for the Dublin city and county and commuter samples, the cut-off is 100 per cent due to the smaller size ofthe EDs) Using ArcGIS software, data from the An Post...
... molecular target of GE23077 is not the r subunit itself, the fivefold lower activity and the different shape ofthe inhibition curve observed in the absence of r indicate that the presence of this factor ... E coli [21] The similarity in the mode of action ofthe two antibiotics, together with the observation that GE23077 is active on rifR RNAP mutants, raises the question of what is the resistance ... RNAP, the possibility was investigated that the compound might inhibit RNA synthesis by preventing RNAP from binding to DNA Binding of RNAP to DNA is indeed one ofthe earliest steps ofthe transcription...
... unambiguously clear, the positions ofthe protons in theprotein binding site were automatically assigned by FLEXX In cases of ambiguities (hydrogens ofthe hydroxyl groups, the N-bound proton ofthe histidine ... the middle ofthe quinone rings and the center ofthe special pair (defined as the middle ofthe line connecting the Mg atoms) Due to different methyl substitution patterns the use ofthe edge-to-edge ... geometry) The values of DG0 translat and DGrot Nrot consider the loss of translational and rotational freedom ofthe entire ligand molecule and the freezing of rotational degrees of freedom of the...
... understand properly either the mode of action ofthe pesticides at the target site or their uptake, distribution, and degradation in the ambient environment The development of resistance of various pests ... malathion The increased rate of oxidation to the active toxicants, the oxons, is suggested as one ofthe mechanisms, and the level of CYP enzymes is elevated Figure 2.8 shows the effect ofthe herbicide ... Mode of action and toxicology Dose and effect The law of mass action tells us that the amount of reaction products and the velocity of a chemical reaction increase with the concentrations of the...