... demonstrated that Asp129 of NirFcould not be essential for any function similar to thatin Asp141 of Met8P.The idea of NirF being a dehydrogenase is appealingbecause of the presence ofa putative ... understood. Anal-ysis of insertional mutagenesis and complementationwork in Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Pseudomonas fluores-cens, Paracoccus denitrificans and Pseudomonas stutzerihave shown that a set of ... 23 Chang CK (1994) Heme d1and other heme cofactorsfrom bacteria. Ciba Found Symp 180, 228–238.24 Van Spanning RJ, Wancell CW, De Boer T, HazelaarMJ, Anazawa H, Harms N, Oltmann LF &...
... mutationsMousumi Banerjee1, Hemalatha Balaram2and Padmanabhan Balaram11 Molecular Biophysics Unit, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India2 Molecular Biology and Genetics Unit, Jawaharlal ... Ravindra G & Balaram P (2005) Plasmodiumfalciparum triosephosphate isomerase: new insights intoan old enzyme. Pure Appl Chem 77, 281–289.20 Parthasarathy S, Ravindra G, Balaram H, Balaram ... inenzymes: a study of triosephosphate isomerase andcomparison with methyl glyoxalsynthase. Adv ProteinChem 66, 315–372.45 Gunasekaran K, Ramakrishnan C & Balaram P (1996)Disallowed Ramachandran...
... study.Name Sequence (residues 91–100)WT GGGAGGGGGGpolyAla *SA*AAAAA*AGG AAA*******GAG ****AAA***GGA *******AAAGAA ****AAAAAAAGA AAA****AAAAAG AAA*AAA***GGD *******DDDGGE *******EEEGGL *******LLLGGN ... tion apparatus, faces the stromal compartment. J BiolChem 273, 16583–16588.21 Gunasekaran K, Nagarajaram HA, Ramakrishnan C &Balaram P (1998) Stereochemical punctuation marks inprotein ... or glutamic acid also caused missorting of Toc75 to the stroma. Bycontrast, its replacement with repeats of asparagine, aspartic acid, serine,and proline did not largely affect correct targeting....
... antibodieswere as follows: anti-porin from Calbiochem, anti-HA fromCovance BabCo, anti-mouse and anti-rabbit secondaryantibodies from Bio-Rad Laboratories and AmershamPharmacia Biotech, respectively. Antibodies ... fraction is designated as themitochondrial fraction.Immunochemical assays and antibodiesMitochondrial protein samples (between 50 and 100 lg)were separated by SDS/PAGE and BN/PAGE and trans-ferred ... s uspension wasused per assay. Oxygen consumption was measured polaro-graphically with a Clark oxyge n electrode in metabolicchamber with a water jacket maintained at 37 °C(Hansa-tech, Norfolk,...
... 11–813.119. Wada, A. , Ogo, S., Watanabe, Y., Mukai, M., Kitagawa, T.,Jitsukawa, K., Masuda, H. & Einaga, H. (1999) Synthesis andcharacterization of novel alkylperoxo m ononuclear i ron(III)complexes ... J.N., Corina, D. & Akhtar, M. (1996) Themechanism o f the a cyl-carbon bond cleavage re action catalyzedby recombinant sterol 1 4a- demethylase of Candida albicans.(other names are: lanostero ... N-oxygenation of the tertiary arylamine at a rateless than half that of the wild-type-catalyzed reaction [142],so that reasonable interpretation o f the data seems d ifficult.Evidence from comparative...
... Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC3 Department of Biochemistry, University of Minnesota College of Biological Sciences, St Paul, MN, USAStaphylococcal nuclease (SNase) is a ... folding pathway: structure-based analysis of staphylococcal nuclease. Proteins: Structure, Functionand Genetics 27, 171–183.15 Flanagan JM, Kataoka M, Fujisawa T & EngelmanDM (1993) Mutations ... Salmon testesDNA and some analytical grade chemicals such as EDTA,Tris ⁄ HCl, CaCl2, NaCl and mineral oil were obtained fromSigma (St Louis, MO, USA). Salmon testes DNA for theenzyme activity...
... T. Kobayashi and H. Endoh5380 FEBS Journal 272 (2005) 53785387 ê 2005 FEBS rial large subunit rRNA (mtLSUrRNA) gene: mtLSU-3, 5Â-TACAACAGATAGGGACCAA-3Â; and mtLSU-4, 5Â-CCTCCTAAAAAGTAACGG-3Â. ... & Vaux DL(2000) Identification of DIABLO, a mammalian proteinthat promotes apoptosis by binding to and antagonizingIAP proteins. Cell 102, 43–53.7 Suzuki Y, Imai Y, Nakayama H, Takahashi ... (A) Fractionation PCR. A partial fragment of the mitochond-rial large subunit ribosomal RNA (23S rRNA) was amplified by PCR,using fraction samples that contained equal amounts of protein.Lane,...
... the factthat H21 0A and H210S are as active as native API withVLK-MCA as a substrate (Table 1). This means thatTrp169 does not play arole as an electron-rich entity but as a large planar hydrophobic ... Shiraki, School of Materials Science,Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, 1-1 Asahidai,Tatsunokuchi, Ishikawa, 923-1292, Japan.E-mail: kshiraki@jaist.ac.jpAbbreviations:API,Achromobacter ... Asp113 and His210, rather than a catalytictriad.ACKNOWLEDGEMENTWe are grateful to Dr. T. Yamazaki for NMR measurements, Y. Yagifor the amino acid analysis, and Y. Yoshimura for the sequence analysis.REFERENCES1....
... mutant alkaline phosphatases. (A) Temperature dependence of kcat of TAB5 (d), mutants G26 1A (r), G26 1A/ Y26 9A (j)andE.coli (·) alkaline phosphatases attemperature range 5–25 °C. kcatvalues ... 1230–1238.22. Garen, A. & Levinthal, C. (1960) A fine structure genetic andchemical study of the enzyme alkaline phosphatase of E.coli.1.Purification and characterization of alkaline phosphatase.Biochim. ... higher value almost 2.5-fold higher thanthe native cold adapted enzyme (Table 1). The mutantG26 1A/ Y26 9A exhibits an E a almost the same as in the caseofthenativeenzyme(Table1).Thermal inactivation...
... California Department of Water Resources Gary Estrada California Department of General Services, Office of Risk and Insurance Management Karen Finn California Department of Finance Doug Grandy California ... Program Sam Baldwin US Department of Energy Panama Bartholomy California Department of General Services, Division of the State Architect John Blue California Integrated Waste Management Board Bob ... renewable energy, such as the installation of over an acre of photovoltaic panels on the roof of the Franchise Tax Board Building in Rancho Cordova – which is the largest array on any state office...
... glycosyl-transferase elucidate catalysis in the alpha-amylase family. Nat.Struct. Biol. 6, 432–436.16. Terwisscha van Scheltinga, A. C., Armand, S., Kalk, K.H., Isogai, A. , Henrissat, B. & Dijkstra, ... circulans, whereas it may be mutated toasparagine without loss of activity in other family 18chitinases [28,30]. Preliminary results ofa comparativestudy of available structures of family ... 2003 at four time points for each reaction (product formation waslinear for at least 20 min, at all substrate concentrations, atalmost all pH values and for all mutants). In this way kineticparameters...
... (5Â-ACGCGGATCCAGTCATAAACAGCGGTTGC-3Â, Bam HI site un derlined),87SufI-BamHI-rv (5 Â-ACGCGGATCCAACATCGTCGCCCTTCCA-3Â, BamHI site underlined) and SufIHA-XbaI+ClaI-rv (5Â-ACTGATCGATCTAGATTACGCATAGTCAGGAACATCGTATGGGTAGCCGCCTGGCGGTACCGGATTGACCAAC- ... a s a template and the primersRRTorA-SacI-fw (5Â-GCGCGGAGCTCAAGAAGGAAGAAAAATAATGAAC-3Â, SacI site underlined) andTorA/Lep2-BamHI-rv (5Â-GCATGGATCCCGCGCGCTTGATGTAATC-3Â, BamHI site underlined). ... stopcodons (TAG) that are suppressedwith (Tmd)Phe-tRNAsupare indicated. (B) In vitro tran slation of 57SufITAG8 an d 93SufITAG8. After translation, one hal f of eachsample was irradiated with...
... 5Â-CTAGACTCGAGCCTAATTTATATTTGCTCCTTGTGC-3Â. b-Actin primers weredesigned as follows: forward 5Â-CTACAATGAGCTGCGTGT-3Â and reverse 5Â-AAGGAAGGCTGGAAGAGT-3 ¢.Cell survival and apoptosis analysisFor viability ... theyeast two-hybrid assay and using a mammalian hybridsystem (Invitrogen, Carlsbad, CA) (EDA Wheeler &V Ayyavoo, unpublished data). A blast searchrevealed that the IMAGE clone, localized ... VBARP-mediated cellsurvivalCaspases, a family of cysteine acid proteases, are cen-tral regulators of apoptosis [12,13]. Caspases are rou-tinely used as a measure of apoptosis, in contrast...
... may already offer efficiencies, an aspect that requires more study. Finally, reducing transport offers some additional, if smaller, potential for E and GHG gains (and again data for the Canadian ... survey, namely the Organic Agriculture Centre of Canada, the Organic Value Chain Roundtable and Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada. References and Notes 1. Canning, P.; Charles, C .A. ; Huang, S.; ... al. [27] is somewhat atypical of many current commercial organic crop production systems. An LCA modeling analysis ofa Canada-wide conversion to organic canola, wheat, soybean and corn production...