Browsing by Subject "Protein Structure, Secondary"
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A kinesin motor in a force-producing conformation.
(BMC Struct Biol, 2010-07-05)BACKGROUND: Kinesin motors hydrolyze ATP to produce force and move along microtubules, converting chemical energy into work by a mechanism that is only poorly understood. Key transitions and intermediate states in the process ... -
Chemical shift assignments and secondary structure prediction of the phosphorelay protein VanU from Vibrio anguillarum.
(Biomolecular NMR assignments, 2014-04)Vibrio anguillarum is a biofilm forming Gram-negative bacterium that survives prolonged periods in seawater and causes vibriosis in marine life. A quorum-sensing signal transduction pathway initiates biofilm formation in ... -
Control of the orientational order and nonlinear optical response of the "push-pull" chromophore RuPZn via specific incorporation into densely packed monolayer ensembles of an amphiphilic four-helix bundle peptide: characterization of the peptide-chromophore complexes.
(J Am Chem Soc, 2010-08-18)"Push-pull" chromophores based on extended pi-electron systems have been designed to exhibit exceptionally large molecular hyperpolarizabilities. We have engineered an amphiphilic four-helix bundle peptide to vectorially ... -
Electrostatic Energetics of Bacillus subtilis Ribonuclease P Protein Determined by Nuclear Magnetic Resonance-Based Histidine pKa Measurements.
(Biochemistry, 2015-09-08)The pKa values of ionizable groups in proteins report the free energy of site-specific proton binding and provide a direct means of studying pH-dependent stability. We measured histidine pKa values (H3, H22, and H105) in ... -
FKBP12 dimerization mutations effect FK506 binding and differentially alter calcineurin inhibition in the human pathogen Aspergillus fumigatus.
(Biochemical and biophysical research communications, 2020-05)The 12-kDa FK506-binding protein (FKBP12) is the target of the commonly used immunosuppressive drug FK506. The FKBP12-FK506 complex binds to calcineurin and inhibits its activity, leading to immunosuppression and preventing ... -
Functionally active targeting domain of the beta-adrenergic receptor kinase: an inhibitor of G beta gamma-mediated stimulation of type II adenylyl cyclase.
(Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 1994-04-26)The beta-adrenergic receptor kinase (beta ARK) phosphorylates its membrane-associated receptor substrates, such as the beta-adrenergic receptor, triggering events leading to receptor desensitization. beta ARK activity is ... -
¹H, ¹³C, and ¹⁵N resonance assignments and secondary structure prediction of the full-length transition state regulator AbrB from Bacillus anthracis.
(Biomolecular NMR assignments, 2012-04)The AbrB protein is a transcription factor that regulates the expression of numerous essential genes during the cells transition phase state. AbrB from Bacillus anthracis is, nototriously, the principal protein responsible ... -
Short-lived alpha-helical intermediates in the folding of beta-sheet proteins.
(Biochemistry, 2010-07-06)Several lines of evidence point strongly toward the importance of highly alpha-helical intermediates in the folding of all globular proteins, regardless of their native structure. However, experimental refolding studies ... -
Structure and DNA-binding traits of the transition state regulator AbrB.
(Structure (London, England : 1993), 2014-11)The AbrB protein from Bacillus subtilis is a DNA-binding global regulator controlling the onset of a vast array of protective functions under stressful conditions. Such functions include biofilm formation, antibiotic production, ... -
Suppression of conformational heterogeneity at a protein-protein interface.
(Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2015-07-21)Staphylococcal protein A (SpA) is an important virulence factor from Staphylococcus aureus responsible for the bacterium's evasion of the host immune system. SpA includes five small three-helix-bundle domains that can each ... -
The structure of irisin reveals a novel intersubunit β-sheet fibronectin type III (FNIII) dimer: implications for receptor activation.
(The Journal of biological chemistry, 2013-11)Irisin was recently identified as a putative myokine that is induced by exercise. Studies suggest that it is produced by cleavage of the FNDC5 (fibronectin domain-containing protein 5) receptor; irisin corresponds to the ...