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  • 1
    Publication Date: 1994-05-13
    Description: In Drosophila, the misexpression or altered activity of genes from the bithorax complex results in homeotic transformations. One of these genes, abd-A, normally specifies the identity of the second through fourth abdominal segments (A2 to A4). In the dominant Hyperabdominal mutations (Hab), portions of the third thoracic segment (T3) are transformed toward A2 as the result of ectopic abd-A expression. Sequence analysis and deoxyribonuclease I footprinting demonstrate that the misexpression of abd-A in two independent Hab mutations results from the same single base change in a binding site for the gap gene Kruppel protein. These results establish that the spatial limits of the homeotic genes are directly regulated by gap gene products.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Shimell, M J -- Simon, J -- Bender, W -- O'Connor, M B -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1994 May 13;264(5161):968-71.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, University of California, Irvine 92717.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7909957" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; Base Sequence ; Binding Sites ; DNA-Binding Proteins/genetics/metabolism ; *Drosophila Proteins ; Drosophila melanogaster/embryology/*genetics ; Enhancer Elements, Genetic/*genetics ; Gene Expression Regulation ; *Genes, Homeobox ; Genes, Insect ; Kruppel-Like Transcription Factors ; Molecular Sequence Data ; *Nuclear Proteins ; *Point Mutation ; Proteins/*genetics ; Regulatory Sequences, Nucleic Acid ; *Repressor Proteins ; Transcription Factors/genetics/metabolism
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    Publication Date: 1994-11-25
    Description: The splicing of group II introns occurs in two steps involving substrates with different chemical configurations. The question of whether these two steps are catalyzed by a single or two separate active sites is a matter of debate. Here, certain bases and phosphate oxygen atoms at conserved positions in domain V of a group II self-splicing intron are shown to be required for catalysis of both splicing steps. These results show that the active sites catalyzing the two steps must, at least, share common components, ruling out the existence of two completely distinct active sites in group II introns.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Chanfreau, G -- Jacquier, A -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1994 Nov 25;266(5189):1383-7.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Unite de Genetique Moleculaire des Levures, URA 1149 du CNRS, Departement de Biologie Moleculaire, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7973729" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Base Sequence ; Binding Sites ; Catalysis ; Electron Transport Complex IV/genetics ; Electrophoresis, Polyacrylamide Gel ; Exons ; *Introns ; Molecular Sequence Data ; Nucleic Acid Conformation ; *RNA Splicing ; RNA, Fungal/chemistry/*genetics ; Saccharomyces cerevisiae/enzymology/genetics ; Thionucleotides/genetics
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  • 3
    Publication Date: 1994-10-14
    Description: The rate at which the TATA-binding protein (TBP) interacts with the TATA element and promotes transcription by RNA polymerase II was determined in yeast cells. A TBP derivative with altered TATA-element specificity was rapidly induced, and transcription from promoters with appropriately mutated TATA elements was measured. Without a functional activator protein, basal transcription was observed only after a lag of several hours. In contrast, GCN4-activated transcription occurred rapidly upon induction of the TBP derivative. These results suggest that accessibility of TBP to the chromatin template in vivo is rate limiting and that activation domains increase recruitment of TBP to the promoter.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Klein, C -- Struhl, K -- GM30186/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1994 Oct 14;266(5183):280-2.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7939664" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Base Sequence ; Binding Sites ; Chromatin/metabolism ; Copper/pharmacology ; DNA-Binding Proteins/*metabolism ; Fungal Proteins/metabolism/pharmacology ; Hydro-Lyases/genetics ; Molecular Sequence Data ; Protein Kinases/metabolism/pharmacology ; *Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins ; *TATA Box ; TATA-Box Binding Protein ; Templates, Genetic ; Transcription Factors/*metabolism/pharmacology ; *Transcriptional Activation ; Yeasts/genetics
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    Publication Date: 1994-12-23
    Description: 〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Pelletier, H -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1994 Dec 23;266(5193):2025-6.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7801132" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Binding Sites ; Biological Evolution ; Catalysis ; DNA Polymerase I/*chemistry/metabolism ; Protein Structure, Secondary
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  • 5
    Publication Date: 1994-06-24
    Description: Two ternary complexes of rat DNA polymerase beta (pol beta), a DNA template-primer, and dideoxycytidine triphosphate (ddCTP) have been determined at 2.9 A and 3.6 A resolution, respectively. ddCTP is the triphosphate of dideoxycytidine (ddC), a nucleoside analog that targets the reverse transcriptase of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and is at present used to treat AIDS. Although crystals of the two complexes belong to different space groups, the structures are similar, suggesting that the polymerase-DNA-ddCTP interactions are not affected by crystal packing forces. In the pol beta active site, the attacking 3'-OH of the elongating primer, the ddCTP phosphates, and two Mg2+ ions are all clustered around Asp190, Asp192, and Asp256. Two of these residues, Asp190 and Asp256, are present in the amino acid sequences of all polymerases so far studied and are also spatially similar in the four polymerases--the Klenow fragment of Escherichia coli DNA polymerase I, HIV-1 reverse transcriptase, T7 RNA polymerase, and rat DNA pol beta--whose crystal structures are now known. A two-metal ion mechanism is described for the nucleotidyl transfer reaction and may apply to all polymerases. In the ternary complex structures analyzed, pol beta binds to the DNA template-primer in a different manner from that recently proposed for other polymerase-DNA models.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Pelletier, H -- Sawaya, M R -- Kumar, A -- Wilson, S H -- Kraut, J -- CA17374/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- ES06839/ES/NIEHS NIH HHS/ -- GM10928/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1994 Jun 24;264(5167):1891-903.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Chemistry, University of California, San Diego 92093-0317.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7516580" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; Base Sequence ; Binding Sites ; Crystallization ; Crystallography, X-Ray ; DNA/chemistry/metabolism ; DNA Polymerase I/*chemistry/metabolism ; DNA Primers/*chemistry/metabolism ; DNA-Directed RNA Polymerases/chemistry/metabolism ; Deoxycytosine Nucleotides/*chemistry/metabolism ; Dideoxynucleotides ; HIV Reverse Transcriptase ; Humans ; Hydrogen Bonding ; Models, Molecular ; Molecular Sequence Data ; RNA-Directed DNA Polymerase/chemistry/metabolism ; Rats ; Recombinant Proteins ; Templates, Genetic ; Thymine Nucleotides/chemistry/metabolism ; Viral Proteins ; Zidovudine/analogs & derivatives/chemistry/metabolism
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  • 6
    Publication Date: 1994-02-04
    Description: The three-dimensional structure of a catalytic antibody (1F7) with chorismate mutase activity has been determined to 3.0 A resolution as a complex with a transition state analog. The structural data suggest that the antibody stabilizes the same conformationally restricted pericyclic transition state as occurs in the uncatalyzed reaction. Overall shape and charge complementarity between the combining site and the transition state analog dictate preferential binding of the correct substrate enantiomer in a conformation appropriate for reaction. Comparison with the structure of a chorismate mutase enzyme indicates an overall similarity between the catalytic mechanism employed by the two proteins. Differences in the number of specific interactions available for restricting the rotational degrees of freedom in the transition state, and the lack of multiple electrostatic interactions that might stabilize charge separation in this highly polarized metastable species, are likely to account for the observed 10(4) times lower activity of the antibody relative to that of the natural enzymes that catalyze this reaction. The structure of the 1F7 Fab'-hapten complex provides confirmation that the properties of an antibody catalyst faithfully reflect the design of the transition state analog.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Haynes, M R -- Stura, E A -- Hilvert, D -- Wilson, I A -- AI-23498/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- GM-38273/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1994 Feb 4;263(5147):646-52.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Molecular Biology, Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA 92037.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8303271" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Antibodies, Catalytic/*chemistry/metabolism ; Bacillus subtilis/enzymology ; Binding Sites ; Binding Sites, Antibody ; Catalysis ; Chorismate Mutase/*chemistry/metabolism ; Chorismic Acid/metabolism ; Crystallization ; Haptens ; Hydrogen Bonding ; Immunoglobulin Fab Fragments/metabolism ; Models, Molecular ; Thermodynamics
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  • 7
    Publication Date: 1994-06-24
    Description: A 175-kilodalton erythrocyte binding protein, EBA-175, of the parasite Plasmodium falciparum mediates the invasion of erythrocytes. The erythrocyte receptor for EBA-175 is dependent on sialic acid. The domain of EBA-175 that binds erythrocytes was identified as region II with the use of truncated portions of EBA-175 expressed on COS cells. Region II, which contains a cysteine-rich motif, and native EBA-175 bind specifically to glycophorin A, but not to glycophorin B, on the erythrocyte membrane. Erythrocyte recognition of EBA-175 requires both sialic acid and the peptide backbone of glycophorin A. The identification of both the receptor and ligand domains may suggest rational designs for receptor blockade and vaccines.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Sim, B K -- Chitnis, C E -- Wasniowska, K -- Hadley, T J -- Miller, L H -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1994 Jun 24;264(5167):1941-4.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Laboratory of Malaria Research, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8009226" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; *Antigens, Protozoan ; Base Sequence ; Binding Sites ; Carrier Proteins/genetics/*metabolism ; Cell Line ; Erythrocytes/metabolism/*parasitology ; Glycopeptides/chemistry/metabolism ; Glycophorin/chemistry/*metabolism ; Molecular Sequence Data ; Plasmodium falciparum/*metabolism ; Protozoan Proteins/genetics/*metabolism ; Recombinant Fusion Proteins/metabolism ; Sialic Acids/*metabolism
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  • 8
    Publication Date: 1994-10-21
    Description: The structure of the heterodimeric flavocytochrome c sulfide dehydrogenase from Chromatium vinosum was determined at a resolution of 2.53 angstroms. It contains a glutathione reductase-like flavin-binding subunit and a diheme cytochrome subunit. The diheme cytochrome folds as two domains, each resembling mitochondrial cytochrome c, and has an unusual interpropionic acid linkage joining the two heme groups in the interior of the subunit. The active site of the flavoprotein subunit contains a catalytically important disulfide bridge located above the pyrimidine portion of the flavin ring. A tryptophan, threonine, or tyrosine side chain may provide a partial conduit for electron transfer to one of the heme groups located 10 angstroms from the flavin.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Chen, Z W -- Koh, M -- Van Driessche, G -- Van Beeumen, J J -- Bartsch, R G -- Meyer, T E -- Cusanovich, M A -- Mathews, F S -- GM-20530/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- GM-21277/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1994 Oct 21;266(5184):430-2.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7939681" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Binding Sites ; Chromatium/*enzymology ; Computer Graphics ; Crystallography, X-Ray ; Cytochrome c Group/*chemistry ; Electron Transport ; Flavin-Adenine Dinucleotide/metabolism ; Hydrogen Bonding ; Models, Molecular ; Oxidoreductases/*chemistry ; Protein Conformation ; Protein Structure, Secondary
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    Publication Date: 1994-03-11
    Description: Ion transporters can be thought of as ion channels that open and close only at one end at a time. As in real channels, ions may cross through an electrical field as they diffuse into and bind within the transporter pore, thereby generating electrical current. Extracellular sodium binding by the sodium potassium (Na,K) pump is associated with ultrafast charge movements in giant cardiac membrane patches. The charge movements are complete within 4 microseconds. They occur only when binding sites are open to the extracellular side, and they are abolished by ouabain and by the removal of extracellular sodium. Fast extracellular ion binding may be the exclusive source of Na,K pump electrogenicity.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Hilgemann, D W -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1994 Mar 11;263(5152):1429-32.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Physiology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas 75235.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8128223" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Adenosine Triphosphate/metabolism ; Animals ; Binding Sites ; Guinea Pigs ; Membrane Potentials ; Models, Biological ; Myocardium/cytology/*metabolism ; Sodium/*metabolism ; Sodium Channels/*metabolism ; Sodium-Potassium-Exchanging ATPase/*metabolism
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  • 10
    Publication Date: 1994-06-03
    Description: Multi-wavelength anomalous diffraction (MAD) has been used to determine the structure of the regulatory enzyme of de novo synthesis of purine nucleotides, glutamine 5-phosphoribosyl-1-pyrophosphate (PRPP) amidotransferase, from Bacillus subtilis. This allosteric enzyme, a 200-kilodalton tetramer, is subject to end product regulation by purine nucleotides. The metalloenzyme from B. subtilis is a paradigm for the higher eukaryotic enzymes, which have been refractory to isolation in stable form. The two folding domains of the polypeptide are correlated with functional domains for glutamine binding and for transfer of ammonia to the substrate PRPP. Eight molecules of the feedback inhibitor adenosine monophosphate (AMP) are bound to the tetrameric enzyme in two types of binding sites: the PRPP catalytic site of each subunit and an unusual regulatory site that is immediately adjacent to each active site but is between subunits. An oxygen-sensitive [4Fe-4S] cluster in each subunit is proposed to regulate protein turnover in vivo and is distant from the catalytic site. Oxygen sensitivity of the cluster is diminished by AMP, which blocks a channel through the protein to the cluster. The structure is representative of both glutamine amidotransferases and phosphoribosyltransferases.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Smith, J L -- Zaluzec, E J -- Wery, J P -- Niu, L -- Switzer, R L -- Zalkin, H -- Satow, Y -- DK-42303/DK/NIDDK NIH HHS/ -- GM-24658/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- R37 DK042303/DK/NIDDK NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1994 Jun 3;264(5164):1427-33.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Biological Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8197456" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Adenosine Monophosphate/metabolism ; Allosteric Regulation ; Amidophosphoribosyltransferase/*chemistry/metabolism ; Amino Acid Sequence ; Animals ; Bacillus subtilis/*enzymology ; Binding Sites ; Computer Graphics ; Crystallography, X-Ray ; Humans ; Models, Molecular ; Molecular Sequence Data ; Oxygen/pharmacology ; Protein Folding ; Protein Structure, Secondary ; Saccharomyces cerevisiae
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  • 11
    Publication Date: 1994-10-07
    Description: Macrophage-stimulating protein (MSP) is a member of the hepatocyte growth factor-scatter factor (HGF-SF) family. Labeled MSP bound to Madin-Darby canine kidney (MDCK) cells transfected with complementary DNA encoding Ron, a cell membrane protein tyrosine kinase. Cross-linking of 125I-labeled MSP to transfected cells (MDCK-RE7 cells) and immunoprecipitation by antibodies to Ron revealed a 220-kilodalton complex, a size consistent with that of MSP (80 kilodaltons) cross-linked to the beta chain of Ron (150 kilodaltons). The binding of 125I-labeled MSP to MDCK-RE7 cells was inhibited by unlabeled MSP, but not by HGF-SF. MSP caused phosphorylation of the beta chain of Ron and induced migration of MDCK-RE7 cells. These results establish the ron gene product as a specific cell-surface receptor for MSP.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Wang, M H -- Ronsin, C -- Gesnel, M C -- Coupey, L -- Skeel, A -- Leonard, E J -- Breathnach, R -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1994 Oct 7;266(5182):117-9.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Immunopathology Section, National Cancer Institute, Frederick Cancer Research and Development Center, MD 21702.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7939629" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; Binding Sites ; Binding, Competitive ; Cell Line ; Cell Movement/drug effects ; Cross-Linking Reagents ; Dogs ; Growth Substances/*metabolism/pharmacology ; Hepatocyte Growth Factor/metabolism ; Humans ; Phosphorylation ; Plasminogen/metabolism ; *Proto-Oncogene Proteins ; Receptor Protein-Tyrosine Kinases/genetics/*metabolism ; Receptors, Cell Surface/genetics/*metabolism ; Transfection
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    Publication Date: 1994-03-11
    Description: Protein tyrosine phosphatases (PTPs) constitute a family of receptor-like and cytoplasmic signal transducing enzymes that catalyze the dephosphorylation of phosphotyrosine residues and are characterized by homologous catalytic domains. The crystal structure of a representative member of this family, the 37-kilodalton form (residues 1 to 321) of PTP1B, has been determined at 2.8 A resolution. The enzyme consists of a single domain with the catalytic site located at the base of a shallow cleft. The phosphate recognition site is created from a loop that is located at the amino-terminus of an alpha helix. This site is formed from an 11-residue sequence motif that is diagnostic of PTPs and the dual specificity phosphatases, and that contains the catalytically essential cysteine and arginine residues. The position of the invariant cysteine residue within the phosphate binding site is consistent with its role as a nucleophile in the catalytic reaction. The structure of PTP1B should serve as a model for other members of the PTP family and as a framework for understanding the mechanism of tyrosine dephosphorylation.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Barford, D -- Flint, A J -- Tonks, N K -- CA53840/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1994 Mar 11;263(5152):1397-404.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉W.M. Keck Structural Biology Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, NY 11724.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8128219" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Amino Acid Sequence ; Binding Sites ; Computer Graphics ; Crystallography, X-Ray ; Humans ; Models, Molecular ; Molecular Sequence Data ; Phosphates/metabolism ; Protein Conformation ; Protein Folding ; Protein Structure, Secondary ; Protein Tyrosine Phosphatases/*chemistry/isolation & purification/metabolism ; Substrate Specificity ; Tungsten Compounds/metabolism
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    Publication Date: 1994-05-20
    Description: The biological role of RNA is delimited by its possible reactions, which can be explored by selection. A comparison of selected RNAs that bind one ligand with those that bind two related ligands suggests that a single nucleotide substitution can expand binding specificity. An RNA site with dual (joint) specificity has adenine and cytosine bases whose pKa's appear shifted upward, thereby mimicking an efficient general acid-base catalyst. The joint site also contains two conserved, looped arginine-coding triplets implicated in arginine site formation. Two selected joint RNAs are identical in some regions and distinct in others. The distinct regions, like some peptides, seem to function similarly without being similar in primary structure.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Connell, G J -- Yarus, M -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1994 May 20;264(5162):1137-41.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, University of Colorado, Boulder 80309-0347.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7513905" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Arginine/*metabolism ; Base Sequence ; Binding Sites ; Chromatography, Affinity ; Consensus Sequence ; Guanosine/*metabolism ; Hydrogen-Ion Concentration ; Molecular Sequence Data ; Nucleic Acid Conformation ; RNA/chemistry/*metabolism ; RNA, Catalytic/chemistry/metabolism
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    Publication Date: 1994-10-14
    Description: An engineered variant of subtilisin BPN', termed subtiligase, which efficiently ligates esterified peptides in aqueous solution, was used for the complete synthesis of ribonuclease (RNase) A that contains unnatural catalytic residues. Fully active RNase A (124 residues long) was produced in milligram quantities by stepwise ligation of six esterified peptide fragments (each 12 to 30 residues long) at yields averaging 70 percent per ligation. Variants of RNase A were produced in which the catalytic histidines at positions 12 and 119 were substituted with the unnatural amino acid 4-fluorohistidine, which has a pKa of 3.5 compared to 6.8 for histidine. Large changes in the profile of the pH as it affects rate occurred for the single and double mutants with surprisingly little change in the kcat for either the RNA cleavage or hydrolysis steps. The data indicate that these imidazoles function as general acids and bases, but that the proton transfer steps are not rate-limiting when the imidazoles are present in their correct protonation states. These studies indicate the potential of subtiligase for the blockwise synthesis of large proteins.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Jackson, D Y -- Burnier, J -- Quan, C -- Stanley, M -- Tom, J -- Wells, J A -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1994 Oct 14;266(5183):243-7.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Protein Engineering, Genentech, Inc., South San Francisco, CA 94080.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7939659" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Amino Acid Sequence ; Binding Sites ; Esterification ; Histidine/analogs & derivatives/analysis ; Hydrogen-Ion Concentration ; Molecular Sequence Data ; Mutation ; Nucleotides, Cyclic/metabolism ; Protein Engineering/*methods ; Ribonuclease, Pancreatic/*chemical synthesis/chemistry/isolation & purification ; Subtilisins/chemistry/genetics/*metabolism ; Uridine Monophosphate/metabolism
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    Publication Date: 1994-09-23
    Description: The functional consequences of single proton transfers occurring in the pore of a cyclic nucleotide-gated channel were observed with patch recording techniques. These results led to three conclusions about the chemical nature of ion binding sites in the conduction pathway: The channel contains two identical titratable sites, even though there are more than two (probably four) identical subunits; the sites are formed by glutamate residues that have a pKa (where K(a) is the acid constant) of 7.6; and protonation of one site does not perturb the pKa of the other. These properties point to an unusual arrangement of carboxyl side-chain residues in the pore of a cation channel.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Root, M J -- MacKinnon, R -- 5 T32 GM083113/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- GM47400/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1994 Sep 23;265(5180):1852-6.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7522344" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Amino Acid Sequence ; Animals ; Binding Sites ; Calcium Channels/metabolism ; Catfishes ; Electric Conductivity ; Hydrogen-Ion Concentration ; Ion Channel Gating ; Ion Channels/chemistry/genetics/*metabolism ; Kinetics ; Molecular Sequence Data ; Mutation ; *Protons ; Sodium/metabolism ; Xenopus
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    Publication Date: 1994-04-29
    Description: Tumor necrosis factor (TNF) and lymphotoxin-alpha (LT-alpha) are members of a family of secreted and cell surface cytokines that participate in the regulation of immune and inflammatory responses. The cell surface form of LT-alpha is assembled during biosynthesis as a heteromeric complex with lymphotoxin-beta (LT-beta), a type II transmembrane protein that is another member of the TNF ligand family. Secreted LT-alpha is a homotrimer that binds to distinct TNF receptors of 60 and 80 kilodaltons; however, these receptors do not recognize the major cell surface LT-alpha-LT-beta complex. A receptor specific for human LT-beta was identified, which suggests that cell surface LT may have functions that are distinct from those of secreted LT-alpha.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Crowe, P D -- VanArsdale, T L -- Walter, B N -- Ware, C F -- Hession, C -- Ehrenfels, B -- Browning, J L -- Din, W S -- Goodwin, R G -- Smith, C A -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1994 Apr 29;264(5159):707-10.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Division of Biomedical Sciences, University of California, Riverside 92521.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8171323" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Amino Acid Sequence ; Base Sequence ; Binding Sites ; Cysteine/chemistry ; Humans ; Hybridomas ; Ligands ; Lymphotoxin beta Receptor ; Lymphotoxin-alpha/*metabolism ; Molecular Sequence Data ; Receptors, Tumor Necrosis Factor/chemistry/*metabolism ; Recombinant Fusion Proteins/metabolism ; T-Lymphocytes/immunology ; Tetradecanoylphorbol Acetate/pharmacology ; Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha/*metabolism
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    Publication Date: 1994-03-04
    Description: The enzyme acetylcholinesterase generates a strong electrostatic field that can attract the cationic substrate acetylcholine to the active site. However, the long and narrow active site gorge seems inconsistent with the enzyme's high catalytic rate. A molecular dynamics simulation of acetylcholinesterase in water reveals the transient opening of a short channel, large enough to pass a water molecule, through a thin wall of the active site near tryptophan-84. This simulation suggests that substrate, products, or solvent could move through this "back door," in addition to the entrance revealed by the crystallographic structure. Electrostatic calculations show a strong field at the back door, oriented to attract the substrate and the reaction product choline and to repel the other reaction product, acetate. Analysis of the open back door conformation suggests a mutation that could seal the back door and thus test the hypothesis that thermal motion of this enzyme may open multiple routes of access to its active site.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Gilson, M K -- Straatsma, T P -- McCammon, J A -- Ripoll, D R -- Faerman, C H -- Axelsen, P H -- Silman, I -- Sussman, J L -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1994 Mar 4;263(5151):1276-8.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Chemistry, University of Houston, TX 77204-5641.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8122110" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Acetylcholine/metabolism ; Acetylcholinesterase/*chemistry/metabolism ; Binding Sites ; Catalysis ; Choline/metabolism ; Computer Simulation ; Crystallography, X-Ray ; Electrochemistry ; Models, Molecular ; *Protein Conformation
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    Publication Date: 1994-06-10
    Description: Specific protein-ligand interactions are critical for cellular function, and most proteins select their partners with sharp discrimination. However, the oligopeptide-binding protein of Salmonella typhimurium (OppA) binds peptides of two to five amino acid residues without regard to sequence. The crystal structure of OppA reveals a three-domain organization, unlike other periplasmic binding proteins. In OppA-peptide complexes, the ligands are completely enclosed in the protein interior, a mode of binding that normally imposes tight specificity. The protein fulfills the hydrogen bonding and electrostatic potential of the ligand main chain and accommodates the peptide side chains in voluminous hydrated cavities.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Tame, J R -- Murshudov, G N -- Dodson, E J -- Neil, T K -- Dodson, G G -- Higgins, C F -- Wilkinson, A J -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1994 Jun 10;264(5165):1578-81.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Chemistry, University of York, UK.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8202710" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Amino Acid Sequence ; Bacterial Proteins/chemistry/*metabolism ; Binding Sites ; Carrier Proteins/chemistry/*metabolism ; Crystallography, X-Ray ; Hydrogen Bonding ; Ligands ; Lipoproteins/chemistry/*metabolism ; Models, Molecular ; Molecular Sequence Data ; Molecular Weight ; Oligopeptides/chemistry/*metabolism ; Protein Conformation ; Protein Structure, Secondary
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    Publication Date: 1994-06-24
    Description: Structures of the 31-kilodalton catalytic domain of rat DNA polymerase beta (pol beta) and the whole 39-kilodalton enzyme were determined at 2.3 and 3.6 angstrom resolution, respectively. The 31-kilodalton domain is composed of fingers, palm, and thumb subdomains arranged to form a DNA binding channel reminiscent of the polymerase domains of the Klenow fragment of Escherichia coli DNA polymerase I, HIV-1 reverse transcriptase, and bacteriophage T7 RNA polymerase. The amino-terminal 8-kilodalton domain is attached to the fingers subdomain by a flexible hinge. The two invariant aspartates found in all polymerase sequences and implicated in catalytic activity have the same geometric arrangement within structurally similar but topologically distinct palms, indicating that the polymerases have maintained, or possibly re-evolved, a common nucleotidyl transfer mechanism. The location of Mn2+ and deoxyadenosine triphosphate in pol beta confirms the role of the invariant aspartates in metal ion and deoxynucleoside triphosphate binding.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Sawaya, M R -- Pelletier, H -- Kumar, A -- Wilson, S H -- Kraut, J -- CA17374/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- ES06839/ES/NIEHS NIH HHS/ -- GM10928/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1994 Jun 24;264(5167):1930-5.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Chemistry, University of California, San Diego 92093-0317.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7516581" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; Binding Sites ; Cloning, Molecular ; Crystallization ; Crystallography, X-Ray ; DNA/metabolism ; DNA Polymerase I/*chemistry/metabolism ; DNA-Directed RNA Polymerases/chemistry/metabolism ; Deoxyadenine Nucleotides/chemistry/metabolism ; Deoxycytosine Nucleotides/chemistry/metabolism ; Dideoxynucleotides ; HIV Reverse Transcriptase ; Protein Folding ; Protein Structure, Secondary ; RNA-Directed DNA Polymerase/chemistry/metabolism ; Rats ; Recombinant Proteins/chemistry ; Viral Proteins
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    Publication Date: 1994-10-21
    Description: 〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Taubes, G -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1994 Oct 21;266(5184):364-5.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7939675" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Binding Sites ; Carbon Monoxide/chemistry ; Crystallization ; *Crystallography, X-Ray ; Motion Pictures as Topic ; Myoglobin/*chemistry ; Proteins/*chemistry ; Spectrophotometry/instrumentation/methods
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    Publication Date: 1994-02-18
    Description: Molecular chaperones of the Hsp70 type transiently sequester unfolded segments of proteins and promote their correct folding. Target peptides were labeled with an environmentally sensitive fluorophore so that their binding to the molecular chaperone DnaK of Escherichia coli could be followed in real time. The two-step process was characterized by relaxation times of 27 seconds and 200 seconds with 2 microM DnaK and 0.1 microM ligand at 25 degrees C. In the presence of adenosine triphosphate, the formation of the complex was greatly accelerated and appeared to be a single-exponential process with a relaxation time of 0.4 second. The binding-release cycle of DnaK thus occurs in the time range of polypeptide chain elongation and folding and is too fast to be stoichiometrically coupled to the adenosine triphosphatase activity of the chaperone (turnover number, 0.13 per minute at 30 degrees C).〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Schmid, D -- Baici, A -- Gehring, H -- Christen, P -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1994 Feb 18;263(5149):971-3.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Biochemisches Institut, Universitat Zurich, Switzerland.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8310296" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: 2-Naphthylamine/analogs & derivatives ; Adenosine Triphosphatases/metabolism ; Adenosine Triphosphate/analogs & derivatives/pharmacology ; Amino Acid Sequence ; Aspartate Aminotransferases/metabolism ; Bacterial Proteins/*metabolism ; Binding Sites ; Enzyme Precursors/metabolism ; *Escherichia coli Proteins ; Fluorescent Dyes ; *HSP70 Heat-Shock Proteins ; Heat-Shock Proteins/*metabolism ; Kinetics ; Molecular Sequence Data ; Peptide Fragments/*metabolism
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    Publication Date: 1994-11-18
    Description: Muscle enhancer factor-2A (MEF2A), a member of the MADS family, induced myogenic development when ectopically expressed in clones of nonmuscle cells of human clones, a function previously limited to the muscle basic helix-loop-helix (bHLH) proteins. During myogenesis, MEF2A and bHLH proteins cooperatively activate skeletal muscle genes and physically interact through the MADS domain of MEF2A and the three myogenic amino acids of the muscle bHLH proteins. Thus, skeletal myogenesis is mediated by two distinct families of mutually inducible and interactive muscle transcription factors, either of which can initiate the developmental cascade.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Kaushal, S -- Schneider, J W -- Nadal-Ginard, B -- Mahdavi, V -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1994 Nov 18;266(5188):1236-40.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Cardiology, Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7973707" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; Base Sequence ; Binding Sites ; Cell Differentiation ; Cell Line ; DNA/metabolism ; DNA-Binding Proteins/genetics/*metabolism ; *Gene Expression Regulation ; Genes, Reporter ; Haplorhini ; Helix-Loop-Helix Motifs ; Humans ; MADS Domain Proteins ; MEF2 Transcription Factors ; Mice ; Molecular Sequence Data ; Muscle, Skeletal/*cytology/metabolism ; MyoD Protein/biosynthesis/*metabolism ; Myogenic Regulatory Factors ; Myogenin/biosynthesis/genetics/metabolism ; Transcription Factors/genetics/*metabolism ; Transfection
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    Publication Date: 1994-11-04
    Description: The three-dimensional structure of a ternary complex of the purine repressor, PurR, bound to both its corepressor, hypoxanthine, and the 16-base pair purF operator site has been solved at 2.7 A resolution by x-ray crystallography. The bipartite structure of PurR consists of an amino-terminal DNA-binding domain and a larger carboxyl-terminal corepressor binding and dimerization domain that is similar to that of the bacterial periplasmic binding proteins. The DNA-binding domain contains a helix-turn-helix motif that makes base-specific contacts in the major groove of the DNA. Base contacts are also made by residues of symmetry-related alpha helices, the "hinge" helices, which bind deeply in the minor groove. Critical to hinge helix-minor groove binding is the intercalation of the side chains of Leu54 and its symmetry-related mate, Leu54', into the central CpG-base pair step. These residues thereby act as "leucine levers" to pry open the minor groove and kink the purF operator by 45 degrees.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Schumacher, M A -- Choi, K Y -- Zalkin, H -- Brennan, R G -- GM 24658/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- GM 49244/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1994 Nov 4;266(5186):763-70.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Oregon Health Sciences University, Portland 97201-3098.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7973627" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Amino Acid Sequence ; Bacterial Proteins/*chemistry/genetics/metabolism ; Base Sequence ; Binding Sites ; Computer Graphics ; Crystallography, X-Ray ; DNA/chemistry/*metabolism ; DNA-Binding Proteins/*chemistry/genetics/metabolism ; *Escherichia coli Proteins ; Hydrogen Bonding ; Hypoxanthine ; Hypoxanthines/metabolism ; Lac Repressors ; Models, Molecular ; Molecular Sequence Data ; Nucleic Acid Conformation ; *Operator Regions, Genetic ; Protein Conformation ; Protein Structure, Secondary ; Repressor Proteins/*chemistry/genetics/metabolism
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    Publication Date: 1994-07-22
    Description: Cellulose is the major polysaccharide of plants where it plays a predominantly structural role. A variety of highly specialized microorganisms have evolved to produce enzymes that either synergistically or in complexes can carry out the complete hydrolysis of cellulose. The structure of the major cellobiohydrolase, CBHI, of the potent cellulolytic fungus Trichoderma reesei has been determined and refined to 1.8 angstrom resolution. The molecule contains a 40 angstrom long active site tunnel that may account for many of the previously poorly understood macroscopic properties of the enzyme and its interaction with solid cellulose. The active site residues were identified by solving the structure of the enzyme complexed with an oligosaccharide, o-iodobenzyl-1-thio-beta-cellobioside. The three-dimensional structure is very similar to a family of bacterial beta-glucanases with the main-chain topology of the plant legume lectins.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Divne, C -- Stahlberg, J -- Reinikainen, T -- Ruohonen, L -- Pettersson, G -- Knowles, J K -- Teeri, T T -- Jones, T A -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1994 Jul 22;265(5171):524-8.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Molecular Biology, Uppsala University, Sweden.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8036495" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Binding Sites ; Catalysis ; Cellobiose/analogs & derivatives/chemistry/metabolism ; Cellulose/metabolism ; Cellulose 1,4-beta-Cellobiosidase ; Computer Graphics ; Crystallography, X-Ray ; Glycoside Hydrolases/*chemistry/metabolism ; Hydrogen Bonding ; Iodobenzenes/chemistry/metabolism ; Models, Molecular ; Protein Structure, Secondary ; Trichoderma/*enzymology
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    Publication Date: 1994-07-29
    Description: The Escherichia coli chaperonins GroEL and GroES facilitate protein folding in an adenosine triphosphate (ATP)-dependent manner. After a single cycle of ATP hydrolysis by the adenosine triphosphatase (ATPase) activity of GroEL, the bi-toroidal GroEL formed a stable asymmetric ternary complex with GroES and nucleotide (bulletlike structures). With each subsequent turnover, ATP was hydrolyzed by one ring of GroEL in a quantized manner, completely releasing the adenosine diphosphate and GroES that were tightly bound to the other ring as a result of the previous turnover. The catalytic cycle involved formation of a symmetric complex (football-like structures) as an intermediate that accumulated before the rate-determining hydrolytic step. After one to two cycles, most of the substrate protein dissociated still in a nonnative state, which is consistent with intermolecular transfer of the substrate protein between toroids of high and low affinity. A unifying model for chaperonin-facilitated protein folding based on successive rounds of binding and release, and partitioning between committed and kinetically trapped intermediates, is proposed.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Todd, M J -- Viitanen, P V -- Lorimer, G H -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1994 Jul 29;265(5172):659-66.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉E. I. DuPont de Nemours and Company, Central Research and Development Department, Wilmington, DE 19880.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7913555" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Adenosine Triphosphatases/*metabolism ; Bacterial Proteins/*metabolism ; Binding Sites ; Chaperonin 10 ; Chaperonin 60 ; Heat-Shock Proteins/*metabolism ; Kinetics ; Models, Chemical ; *Protein Folding ; Ribulose-Bisphosphate Carboxylase/metabolism
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    Publication Date: 1994-07-29
    Description: In eukaryotic cells, a multitude of RNA-binding proteins play key roles in the posttranscriptional regulation of gene expression. Characterization of these proteins has led to the identification of several RNA-binding motifs, and recent experiments have begun to illustrate how several of them bind RNA. The significance of these interactions is reflected in the recent discoveries that several human and other vertebrate genetic disorders are caused by aberrant expression of RNA-binding proteins. The major RNA-binding motifs are described and examples of how they may function are given.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Burd, C G -- Dreyfuss, G -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1994 Jul 29;265(5172):615-21.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia 19104-6148.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8036511" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Amino Acid Sequence ; Animals ; Binding Sites ; Humans ; Molecular Sequence Data ; RNA-Binding Proteins/*chemistry/*physiology ; Ribonucleoproteins/chemistry ; Sequence Homology, Amino Acid
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    Publication Date: 1994-12-23
    Description: HIV integrase is the enzyme responsible for inserting the viral DNA into the host chromosome; it is essential for HIV replication. The crystal structure of the catalytically active core domain (residues 50 to 212) of HIV-1 integrase was determined at 2.5 A resolution. The central feature of the structure is a five-stranded beta sheet flanked by helical regions. The overall topology reveals that this domain of integrase belongs to a superfamily of polynucleotidyl transferases that includes ribonuclease H and the Holliday junction resolvase RuvC. The active site region is identified by the position of two of the conserved carboxylate residues essential for catalysis, which are located at similar positions in ribonuclease H. In the crystal, two molecules form a dimer with a extensive solvent-inaccessible interface of 1300 A2 per monomer.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Dyda, F -- Hickman, A B -- Jenkins, T M -- Engelman, A -- Craigie, R -- Davies, D R -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1994 Dec 23;266(5193):1981-6.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Laboratory of Molecular Biology, NIDDK, NIH, Bethesda, MD 20892-0560.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7801124" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Amino Acid Sequence ; Binding Sites ; Crystallization ; Crystallography, X-Ray ; DNA Nucleotidyltransferases/*chemistry ; HIV-1/*enzymology ; Hydrogen Bonding ; Integrases ; Models, Molecular ; Molecular Sequence Data ; Protein Folding ; Protein Structure, Secondary ; Ribonuclease H/chemistry ; Solubility ; Virus Integration
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    Publication Date: 1994-05-20
    Description: In spite of the large amount of sequence conservation among the DNA binding segments of basic region leucine zipper (bZIP) proteins, these proteins can discriminate differently between target sequences that differ in half-site spacing. Here it is shown that the half-site spacing preferences of bZIP proteins are the result of (i) the differential intrinsic curvature in target binding sites that differ by insertion or deletion of a single base pair and (ii) the ability of some bZIP proteins to overcome this intrinsic curvature through a mechanism dependent on basic segment residues.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Paolella, D N -- Palmer, C R -- Schepartz, A -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1994 May 20;264(5162):1130-3.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Chemistry, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06511.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8178171" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Activating Transcription Factor 2 ; Amino Acid Sequence ; Base Sequence ; Basic-Leucine Zipper Transcription Factors ; Binding Sites ; Cyclic AMP Response Element-Binding Protein/chemistry/*metabolism ; DNA/chemistry/*metabolism ; DNA-Binding Proteins/chemistry/*metabolism ; Fungal Proteins/chemistry/*metabolism ; G-Box Binding Factors ; *Leucine Zippers ; Molecular Sequence Data ; Nucleic Acid Conformation ; Oligodeoxyribonucleotides/chemistry/metabolism ; Protein Kinases/chemistry/*metabolism ; Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-jun/chemistry/metabolism ; *Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins ; *Transcription Factors
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    Publication Date: 1994-07-01
    Description: The Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) transactivator protein, termed Epstein-Barr virus nuclear antigen 2 (EBNA2), plays a critical role in the regulation of latent viral transcription and in the immortalization of EBV-infected B cells. Unlike most transcription factors, EBNA2 does not bind directly to its cis-responsive DNA element but requires a cellular factor, termed C-promoter binding factor 1 (CBF1). Here, CBF1 was purified and was found to directly interact with EBNA2. CBF1 is identical to a protein thought to be involved in immunoglobulin gene rearrangement, RBPJ kappa. Contrary to previous reports, CBF1-RBPJ kappa did not bind to the recombination signal sequences but instead bound to sites in the EBV C-promoter and in the CD23 promoter.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Henkel, T -- Ling, P D -- Hayward, S D -- Peterson, M G -- CA42245/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1994 Jul 1;265(5168):92-5.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Tularik Inc, South San Francisco, CA 94080.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8016657" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Amino Acid Sequence ; Antigens, Viral/*genetics ; Base Sequence ; Binding Sites ; DNA-Binding Proteins/chemistry/*genetics/isolation & purification/*metabolism ; Epstein-Barr Virus Nuclear Antigens ; HeLa Cells ; Herpesvirus 4, Human/*genetics/immunology ; Humans ; Immunoglobulin J Recombination Signal Sequence-Binding Protein ; Molecular Sequence Data ; *Nuclear Proteins ; *Promoter Regions, Genetic ; Receptors, IgE/genetics ; Regulatory Sequences, Nucleic Acid ; *Transcriptional Activation
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    Publication Date: 1994-06-03
    Description: The plant hormone abscisic acid (ABA) mediates various responses such as stomatal closure, the maintenance of seed dormancy, and the inhibition of plant growth. All three responses are affected in the ABA-insensitive mutant abi1 of Arabidopsis thaliana, suggesting that an early step in the signaling of ABA is controlled by the ABI1 locus. The ABI1 gene was cloned by chromosome walking, and a missense mutation was identified in the structural gene of the abi1 mutant. The ABI1 gene encodes a protein with high similarity to protein serine or threonine phosphatases of type 2C with the novel feature of a putative Ca2+ binding site. Thus, the control of the phosphorylation state of cell signaling components by the ABI1 product could mediate pleiotropic hormone responses.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Meyer, K -- Leube, M P -- Grill, E -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1994 Jun 3;264(5164):1452-5.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Institute of Plant Sciences, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8197457" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Abscisic Acid/*pharmacology ; Amino Acid Sequence ; Arabidopsis/enzymology/genetics/*metabolism ; *Arabidopsis Proteins ; Binding Sites ; Calcium/metabolism ; Chromosome Walking ; Cloning, Molecular ; Genes, Plant ; Genetic Markers ; Molecular Sequence Data ; Mutation ; Phosphoprotein Phosphatases/chemistry/genetics/*metabolism ; Plants, Genetically Modified ; *Signal Transduction
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    Publication Date: 1994-02-11
    Description: Thermodynamic studies have demonstrated the central importance of a large negative heat capacity change (delta C degree assoc) in site-specific protein-DNA recognition. Dissection of the large negative delta C degree assoc and the entropy change of protein-ligand and protein-DNA complexation provide a thermodynamic signature identifying processes in which local folding is coupled to binding. Estimates of the number of residues that fold on binding obtained from this analysis agree with structural data. Structural comparisons indicate that these local folding transitions create key parts of the protein-DNA interface. The energetic implications of this "induced fit" model for DNA site recognition are considered.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Spolar, R S -- Record, M T Jr -- GM23467/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1994 Feb 11;263(5148):777-84.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison 53706.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8303294" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Base Sequence ; Binding Sites ; Crystallography, X-Ray ; DNA/chemistry/*metabolism ; DNA-Binding Proteins/chemistry/*metabolism ; Models, Molecular ; Nucleic Acid Conformation ; Protein Conformation ; *Protein Folding ; Thermodynamics
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    Publication Date: 1994-05-20
    Description: 〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Wolffe, A P -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1994 May 20;264(5162):1100-1.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Laboratory of Molecular Embryology, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8178167" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; Binding Sites ; DNA/chemistry/*metabolism ; DNA-Binding Proteins/chemistry/*metabolism ; High Mobility Group Proteins/chemistry ; Histones/chemistry/metabolism ; *Nucleic Acid Conformation ; Nucleosomes ; *Pol1 Transcription Initiation Complex Proteins ; Transcription Factors/chemistry/*metabolism ; *Transcription, Genetic
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    Publication Date: 1994-03-11
    Description: The repair of cyclobutane pyrimidine dimers (CPDs), DNA lesions induced by ultraviolet light, was studied at nucleotide resolution. Human fibroblasts were irradiated with ultraviolet light and allowed to repair. The DNA was enzymatically cleaved at the CPDs, and the induced breaks along the promoter and exon 1 of the PGK1 gene were mapped by ligation-mediated polymerase chain reaction. Repair rates within the nontranscribed strand varied as much as 15-fold, depending on nucleotide position. Preferential repair of the transcribed strand began just downstream of the transcription start site but was most pronounced beginning at nucleotide +140 in exon 1. The promoter contained two slowly repaired regions that coincided with two transcription factor binding sites.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Gao, S -- Drouin, R -- Holmquist, G P -- CA54773/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1994 Mar 11;263(5152):1438-40.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Beckman Research Institute of the City of Hope, Department of Biology, Duarte, CA 91010.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8128226" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Binding Sites ; Cells, Cultured ; *DNA Repair ; Exons ; *Genes ; HeLa Cells ; Humans ; Kinetics ; Phosphoglycerate Kinase/*genetics ; Promoter Regions, Genetic ; Pyrimidine Dimers/*metabolism ; Skin/metabolism/*radiation effects ; Transcription Factors/metabolism ; Transcription, Genetic ; Ultraviolet Rays
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    Publication Date: 1994-02-18
    Description: Clonidine, an antihypertensive drug, binds to alpha 2-adrenergic and imidazoline receptors. The endogenous ligand for imidazoline receptors may be a clonidine-displacing substance, a small molecule isolated from bovine brain. This clonidine-displacing substance was purified and determined by mass spectroscopy to be agmatine (decarboxylated arginine), heretofore not detected in brain. Agmatine binds to alpha 2-adrenergic and imidazoline receptors and stimulates release of catecholamines from adrenal chromaffin cells. Its biosynthetic enzyme, arginine decarboxylase, is present in brain. Agmatine, locally synthesized, is an endogenous agonist at imidazoline receptors, a noncatecholamine ligand at alpha 2-adrenergic receptors and may act as a neurotransmitter.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Li, G -- Regunathan, S -- Barrow, C J -- Eshraghi, J -- Cooper, R -- Reis, D J -- HL18974/HL/NHLBI NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1994 Feb 18;263(5149):966-9.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Neurology and Neuroscience, Cornell University Medical College, New York, NY 10021.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7906055" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Adrenal Medulla/drug effects/metabolism ; Agmatine/chemistry/isolation & purification/*metabolism/pharmacology ; Animals ; Binding Sites ; Brain/enzymology/metabolism ; *Brain Chemistry ; Carboxy-Lyases/metabolism ; Cattle ; Cerebral Cortex/metabolism ; Clonidine/analogs & derivatives/metabolism ; Epinephrine/metabolism ; Imidazoline Receptors ; Neurotransmitter Agents/metabolism ; Norepinephrine/metabolism ; Rats ; Receptors, Adrenergic, alpha/metabolism ; Receptors, Drug/metabolism
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    Publication Date: 1994-05-20
    Description: Xenopus UBF (xUBF) interacts with DNA by way of multiple HMG-box domains. When xUBF binds to the ribosomal promoter, the carboxyl-terminal acidic tail and amino-terminal HMG-box interact. Binding also leads to negative DNA supercoiling and the formation of a disk-like structure, the enhancesome. Within the enhancesome, an xUBF dimer makes a low-density protein core around which DNA is looped into a single 180-base pair turn, probably by in-phase bending. The enhancesome structure suggests a mechanism for xUBF-dependent recruitment of the TATA box-binding protein complex without direct interaction between the two factors.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Bazett-Jones, D P -- Leblanc, B -- Herfort, M -- Moss, T -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1994 May 20;264(5162):1134-7.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Medical Biochemistry and Anatomy, Faculty of Medicine, Health Sciences Center, University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8178172" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; Binding Sites ; DNA/chemistry/*metabolism ; DNA, Superhelical/chemistry/metabolism ; Enhancer Elements, Genetic ; High Mobility Group Proteins/chemistry/*metabolism ; Models, Genetic ; Nucleic Acid Conformation ; Promoter Regions, Genetic ; Recombinant Fusion Proteins/chemistry/metabolism ; Transcription Factors/chemistry/*metabolism ; Xenopus Proteins ; Xenopus laevis
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    Publication Date: 1994-11-25
    Description: Although several ion channels have been reported to be directly modulated by calcium-calmodulin, they have not been conclusively shown to bind calmodulin, nor are the modulatory mechanisms understood. Study of the olfactory cyclic nucleotide-activated cation channel, which is modulated by calcium-calmodulin, indicates that calcium-calmodulin directly binds to a specific domain on the amino terminus of the channel. This binding reduces the effective affinity of the channel for cyclic nucleotides, apparently by acting on channel gating, which is tightly coupled to ligand binding. The data reveal a control mechanism that resembles those underlying the regulation of enzymes by calmodulin. The results also point to the amino-terminal part of the olfactory channel as an element for gating, which may have general significance in the operation of ion channels with similar overall structures.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Liu, M -- Chen, T Y -- Ahamed, B -- Li, J -- Yau, K W -- EY 06837/EY/NEI NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1994 Nov 25;266(5189):1348-54.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Baltimore, MD.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7526466" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Amino Acid Sequence ; Animals ; Binding Sites ; Calcium/*metabolism ; Calmodulin/*metabolism ; Cell Line ; Cyclic AMP/*metabolism ; Cyclic GMP/*metabolism ; Humans ; *Ion Channel Gating ; Ion Channels/chemistry/*metabolism ; Molecular Sequence Data ; Olfactory Receptor Neurons/metabolism ; Peptides/metabolism ; Protein Structure, Secondary ; Rats ; Recombinant Fusion Proteins/metabolism
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    Publication Date: 1994-03-11
    Description: Species of RNA that bind with high affinity and specificity to the bronchodilator theophylline were identified by selection from an oligonucleotide library. One RNA molecule binds to theophylline with a dissociation constant Kd of 0.1 microM. This binding affinity is 10,000-fold greater than the RNA molecule's affinity for caffeine, which differs from theophylline only by a methyl group at nitrogen atom N-7. Analysis by nuclear magnetic resonance indicates that this RNA molecule undergoes a significant change in its conformation or dynamics upon theophylline binding. Binding studies of compounds chemically related to theophylline have revealed structural features required for the observed binding specificity. These results demonstrate the ability of RNA molecules to exhibit an extremely high degree of ligand recognition and discrimination.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Jenison, R D -- Gill, S C -- Pardi, A -- Polisky, B -- AI01051/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- AI33098/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- RR03283/RR/NCRR NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1994 Mar 11;263(5152):1425-9.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉NeXagen, Inc., Boulder, CO 80301.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7510417" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Base Sequence ; Binding Sites ; Binding, Competitive ; DNA, Complementary/chemistry ; Hydrogen Bonding ; Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy ; Molecular Sequence Data ; Molecular Structure ; Nucleic Acid Conformation ; RNA/chemistry/*metabolism ; Sequence Analysis, DNA ; Theophylline/chemistry/*metabolism ; Xanthines/chemistry/metabolism
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    Publication Date: 1994-12-09
    Description: 〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Stubbe, J -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1994 Dec 9;266(5191):1663-4.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge 02139.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7992049" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: 5-Methyltetrahydrofolate-Homocysteine S-Methyltransferase/*chemistry/metabolism ; Binding Sites ; Escherichia coli/*enzymology ; Methylation ; Oxidation-Reduction ; S-Adenosylmethionine/metabolism ; Tetrahydrofolates/metabolism ; Vitamin B 12/*analogs & derivatives/metabolism
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    Publication Date: 1994-08-19
    Description: The three-dimensional structure of an unusually active hydrolytic antibody with a phosphonate transition state analog (hapten) bound to the active site has been solved to 2.5 A resolution. The antibody (17E8) catalyzes the hydrolysis of norleucine and methionine phenyl esters and is selective for amino acid esters that have the natural alpha-carbon L configuration. A plot of the pH-dependence of the antibody-catalyzed reaction is bell-shaped with an activity maximum at pH 9.5; experiments on mechanism lend support to the formation of a covalent acyl-antibody intermediate. The structural and kinetic data are complementary and support a hydrolytic mechanism for the antibody that is remarkably similar to that of the serine proteases. The antibody active site contains a Ser-His dyad structure proximal to the phosphorous atom of the bound hapten that resembles two of the three components of the Ser-His-Asp catalytic triad of serine proteases. The antibody active site also contains a Lys residue to stabilize oxyanion formation, and a hydrophobic binding pocket for specific substrate recognition of norleucine and methionine side chains. The structure identifies active site residues that mediate catalysis and suggests specific mutations that may improve the catalytic efficiency of the antibody. This high resolution structure of a catalytic antibody-hapten complex shows that antibodies can converge on active site structures that have arisen through natural enzyme evolution.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Zhou, G W -- Guo, J -- Huang, W -- Fletterick, R J -- Scanlan, T S -- DK39304/DK/NIDDK NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1994 Aug 19;265(5175):1059-64.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California, San Francisco 94143-0448.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8066444" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Amino Acid Sequence ; Antibodies, Catalytic/*chemistry/immunology/metabolism ; Binding Sites ; Computer Graphics ; Crystallization ; Crystallography, X-Ray ; Haptens/metabolism ; Hydrogen Bonding ; Hydrogen-Ion Concentration ; Hydrolysis ; Models, Molecular ; Molecular Sequence Data ; Protein Conformation ; Serine Endopeptidases/*chemistry/metabolism
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    Publication Date: 1994-01-21
    Description: Collagenase is a zinc-dependent endoproteinase and is a member of the matrix metalloproteinase (MMP) family of enzymes. The MMPs participate in connective tissue remodeling events and aberrant regulation has been associated with several pathologies. The 2.4 angstrom resolution structure of the inhibited enzyme revealed that, in addition to the catalytic zinc, there is a second zinc ion and a calcium ion which play a major role in stabilizing the tertiary structure of collagenase. Despite scant sequence homology, collagenase shares structural homology with two other endoproteinases, bacterial thermolysin and crayfish astacin. The detailed description of protein-inhibitor interactions present in the structure will aid in the design of compounds that selectively inhibit individual members of the MMP family. Such inhibitors will be useful in examining the function of MMPs in pathological processes.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Lovejoy, B -- Cleasby, A -- Hassell, A M -- Longley, K -- Luther, M A -- Weigl, D -- McGeehan, G -- McElroy, A B -- Drewry, D -- Lambert, M H -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1994 Jan 21;263(5145):375-7.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Glaxo Research Institute, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8278810" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Amino Acid Sequence ; Binding Sites ; Calcium/metabolism ; Collagenases/*chemistry/metabolism ; Computer Graphics ; Crystallography, X-Ray ; Humans ; Hydrogen Bonding ; Matrix Metalloproteinase 8 ; Matrix Metalloproteinase Inhibitors ; Metalloendopeptidases/chemistry ; Models, Molecular ; Molecular Sequence Data ; Protein Structure, Secondary ; Protein Structure, Tertiary ; Thermolysin/chemistry ; Zinc/metabolism
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    Publication Date: 1994-02-11
    Description: Tumor necrosis factor (TNF), but not lymphotoxin (LT), is directly trypanolytic for salivarian trypanosomes. This activity was not blocked by soluble 55-kilodalton and 75-kilodalton TNF receptors, but was potently inhibited by N,N'-diacetylchitobiose, an oligosaccharide that binds TNF. Comparative sequence analysis of TNF and LT localized the trypanocidal region, and synthetic peptides were trypanolytic. TNF molecules in which the trypanocidal region was mutated or deleted retained tumoricidal activity. Thus, trypanosome-TNF interactions occur via a TNF domain, probably with lectin-like affinity, which is functionally and spatially distinct from the mammalian TNF receptor binding sites.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Lucas, R -- Magez, S -- De Leys, R -- Fransen, L -- Scheerlinck, J P -- Rampelberg, M -- Sablon, E -- De Baetselier, P -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1994 Feb 11;263(5148):814-7.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Laboratory of Cellular Immunology, University of Brussels, Sint-Genesius-Rode, Belgium.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8303299" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Amino Acid Sequence ; Animals ; Base Sequence ; Binding Sites ; *Disaccharides ; Glucans/metabolism/pharmacology ; L Cells (Cell Line) ; Lectins/chemistry/metabolism/*pharmacology ; Lymphotoxin-alpha/pharmacology ; Mice ; Molecular Sequence Data ; Mutation ; Peptide Fragments/chemistry/pharmacology ; Receptors, Tumor Necrosis Factor/metabolism ; Trypanosoma brucei brucei/*drug effects ; Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha/chemistry/genetics/metabolism/*pharmacology
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    Publication Date: 1994-05-06
    Description: Inwardly rectifying potassium (K+) channels (IRKs) maintain the resting membrane potential of cells and permit prolonged depolarization, such as during the cardiac action potential. Inward rectification may result from block of the ion conduction pore by intracellular magnesium (Mgi2+). Two members of this family, IRK1 and ROMK1, which share 40 percent amino acid identity, differ markedly in single-channel K+ conductance and sensitivity to block by Mgi2+. The conserved H5 regions were hypothesized to determine these pore properties because they have this function in voltage-dependent K+ channels and in cyclic nucleotide-gated channels. However, exchange of the H5 region between IRK1 and ROMK1 had no effect on rectification and little or no effect on K+ conductance. By contrast, exchange of the amino- and carboxyl-terminal regions together transferred Mg2+ blockade and K+ conductance of IRK1 to ROMK1. Exchange of the carboxyl but not the amino terminus had a similar effect. Therefore, the carboxyl terminus appears to have a major role in specifying the pore properties of IRKs.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Taglialatela, M -- Wible, B A -- Caporaso, R -- Brown, A M -- HL36930/HL/NHLBI NIH HHS/ -- HL37044/HL/NHLBI NIH HHS/ -- NS23877/NS/NINDS NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1994 May 6;264(5160):844-7.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8171340" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Amino Acid Sequence ; Animals ; Binding Sites ; Cloning, Molecular ; Electric Conductivity ; Ion Channel Gating ; Magnesium/*metabolism/pharmacology ; Membrane Potentials ; Molecular Sequence Data ; Oocytes ; Potassium/*metabolism ; Potassium Channels/chemistry/*metabolism/*physiology ; *Potassium Channels, Inwardly Rectifying ; Recombinant Fusion Proteins/chemistry/metabolism ; Sequence Alignment ; Xenopus
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    Publication Date: 1994-07-22
    Description: Rho and Rac, two members of the Ras superfamily of guanosine triphosphate (GTP)-binding proteins, regulate a variety of signal transduction pathways in eukaryotic cells. Upon stimulation of phagocytic cells, Rac enhances the activity of the enzyme nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate (reduced) (NADPH) oxidase, resulting in the production of superoxide radicals. Activation of the NADPH oxidase requires the assembly of a multimolecular complex at the plasma membrane consisting of two integral membrane proteins, gp91phox and p21phox, and two cytosolic proteins, p67phox and p47phox. Rac1 interacted directly with p67phox in a GTP-dependent manner. Modified forms of Rac with mutations in the effector site did not stimulate oxidase activity or bind to p67phox. Thus, p67phox appears to be the Rac effector protein in the NADPH oxidase complex.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Diekmann, D -- Abo, A -- Johnston, C -- Segal, A W -- Hall, A -- Wellcome Trust/United Kingdom -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1994 Jul 22;265(5171):531-3.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Medical Research Council Laboratory for Molecular Cell Biology, University College London, UK.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8036496" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Binding Sites ; Enzyme Activation ; GTP-Binding Proteins/*metabolism ; Guanosine Triphosphate/metabolism ; Humans ; NADH, NADPH Oxidoreductases/*metabolism ; NADPH Dehydrogenase/metabolism ; NADPH Oxidase ; Phagocytes/*enzymology ; Phosphoproteins/*metabolism ; Recombinant Fusion Proteins/metabolism ; Superoxides/metabolism ; rac GTP-Binding Proteins
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    Publication Date: 1994-12-23
    Description: 〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉O'Brien, C -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1994 Dec 23;266(5193):1946.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7801119" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Antiviral Agents/pharmacology ; Binding Sites ; Crystallization ; Crystallography, X-Ray ; DNA Nucleotidyltransferases/antagonists & inhibitors/*chemistry/metabolism ; DNA-Binding Proteins/metabolism ; Drug Design ; HIV-1/drug effects/*enzymology ; Integrases ; Models, Molecular ; Virus Integration
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    Publication Date: 1994-12-02
    Description: Scanning force microscopy was used to resolve lambda Cro protein when bound as a single dimer or multiple dimers to its three operator (OR) sites. The bend angles induced by binding of Cro to specific and nonspecific sites were determined and are 69 degrees +/- 11 degrees for specific and 62 degrees +/- 23 degrees for nonspecific complexes. Bending of the nonspecific sites is advantageous for a protein such as Cro that bends its specific site, because it increases the binding specificity of the protein and it can be used by the protein to sample contacts required for the recognition of its target sequence. It is proposed here that bending of nonspecific DNA may be a general property among DNA binding proteins that bend their specific sites.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Erie, D A -- Yang, G -- Schultz, H C -- Bustamante, C -- GM-15792/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- GM-29158/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- GM-32543/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- etc. -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1994 Dec 2;266(5190):1562-6.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Institute of Molecular Biology, University of Oregon, Eugene 97403.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7985026" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Base Sequence ; Binding Sites ; DNA/*chemistry/metabolism ; *DNA-Binding Proteins ; Microscopy, Atomic Force ; Molecular Sequence Data ; *Nucleic Acid Conformation ; Operator Regions, Genetic ; Repressor Proteins/*metabolism ; Transcription Factors/*metabolism ; Viral Proteins ; Viral Regulatory and Accessory Proteins
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  • 46
    Publication Date: 1994-10-21
    Description: The molecular structure of the D-alanine:D-alanine ligase of the ddlB gene of Escherichia coli, co-crystallized with an S,R-methylphosphinate and adenosine triphosphate, was determined by x-ray diffraction to a resolution of 2.3 angstroms. A catalytic mechanism for the ligation of two D-alanine substrates is proposed in which a helix dipole and a hydrogen-bonded triad of tyrosine, serine, and glutamic acid assist binding and deprotonation steps. From sequence comparison, it is proposed that a different triad exists in a recently discovered D-alanine:D-lactate ligase (VanA) present in vancomycin-resistant enterococci. A molecular mechanism for the altered specificity of VanA is suggested.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Fan, C -- Moews, P C -- Walsh, C T -- Knox, J R -- 1RO1-AI-34330/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- GM-49338/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1994 Oct 21;266(5184):439-43.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Connecticut, Storrs 06269-3125.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7939684" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Adenosine Diphosphate/chemistry/metabolism ; Amino Acid Sequence ; Bacterial Proteins/chemistry ; Binding Sites ; *Carbon-Oxygen Ligases ; Computer Graphics ; Crystallography, X-Ray ; Dipeptides/biosynthesis ; Drug Resistance, Microbial ; Escherichia coli/drug effects/*enzymology ; Hydrogen Bonding ; Ligases/chemistry ; Models, Molecular ; Molecular Sequence Data ; Molecular Structure ; Peptide Synthases/*chemistry/genetics/metabolism ; Protein Structure, Secondary ; Protein Structure, Tertiary ; Substrate Specificity ; Vancomycin/*pharmacology
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  • 47
    Publication Date: 1994-01-21
    Description: The structure of the 52-amino acid DNA-binding domain of the prokaryotic Hin recombinase, complexed with a DNA recombination half-site, has been solved by x-ray crystallography at 2.3 angstrom resolution. The Hin domain consists of a three-alpha-helix bundle, with the carboxyl-terminal helix inserted into the major groove of DNA, and two flanking extended polypeptide chains that contact bases in the minor groove. The overall structure displays features resembling both a prototypical bacterial helix-turn-helix and the eukaryotic homeodomain, and in many respects is an intermediate between these two DNA-binding motifs. In addition, a new structural motif is seen: the six-amino acid carboxyl-terminal peptide of the Hin domain runs along the minor groove at the edge of the recombination site, with the peptide backbone facing the floor of the groove and side chains extending away toward the exterior. The x-ray structure provides an almost complete explanation for DNA mutant binding studies in the Hin system and for DNA specificity observed in the Hin-related family of DNA invertases.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Feng, J A -- Johnson, R C -- Dickerson, R E -- GM-31299/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- GM-38509/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1994 Jan 21;263(5145):348-55.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Molecular Biology Institute, University of California, Los Angeles 90024.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8278807" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Amino Acid Sequence ; Base Composition ; Base Sequence ; Binding Sites ; Computer Graphics ; Crystallography, X-Ray ; DNA/chemistry/*metabolism ; DNA Nucleotidyltransferases/chemistry/*metabolism ; Helix-Loop-Helix Motifs ; Hydrogen Bonding ; Models, Molecular ; Molecular Sequence Data ; Nucleic Acid Conformation ; Oligodeoxyribonucleotides/chemistry/metabolism ; Protein Conformation ; Protein Folding ; Protein Structure, Secondary ; *Recombination, Genetic
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  • 48
    Publication Date: 1994-12-16
    Description: The three-dimensional structure of a Staphylococcus aureus superantigen, toxic shock syndrome toxin-1 (TSST-1), complexed with a human class II major histocompatibility molecule (DR1), was determined by x-ray crystallography. The TSST-1 binding site on DR1 overlaps that of the superantigen S. aureus enterotoxin B (SEB), but the two binding modes differ. Whereas SEB binds primarily off one edge of the peptide binding site of DR1, TSST-1 extends over almost one-half of the binding site and contacts both the flanking alpha helices of the histocompatibility antigen and the bound peptide. This difference suggests that the T cell receptor (TCR) would bind to TSST-1:DR1 very differently than to DR1:peptide or SEB:DR1. It also suggests that TSST-1 binding may be dependent on the peptide, though less so than TCR binding, providing a possible explanation for the inability of TSST-1 to competitively block SEB binding to all DR1 molecules on cells (even though the binding sites of TSST-1 and SEB on DR1 overlap almost completely) and suggesting the possibility that T cell activation by superantigen could be directed by peptide antigen.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Kim, J -- Urban, R G -- Strominger, J L -- Wiley, D C -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1994 Dec 16;266(5192):1870-4.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Children's Hospital, Boston, MA 02115.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7997880" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: *Bacterial Toxins ; Binding Sites ; Crystallography, X-Ray ; Enterotoxins/*chemistry/metabolism ; HLA-DR1 Antigen/*chemistry/metabolism ; Humans ; Hydrogen Bonding ; Models, Molecular ; Protein Conformation ; Protein Structure, Secondary ; Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell/metabolism ; *Staphylococcus aureus ; Superantigens/*chemistry/metabolism
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  • 49
    Publication Date: 1994-07-15
    Description: Mutations in the p53 tumor suppressor are the most frequently observed genetic alterations in human cancer. The majority of the mutations occur in the core domain which contains the sequence-specific DNA binding activity of the p53 protein (residues 102-292), and they result in loss of DNA binding. The crystal structure of a complex containing the core domain of human p53 and a DNA binding site has been determined at 2.2 angstroms resolution and refined to a crystallographic R factor of 20.5 percent. The core domain structure consists of a beta sandwich that serves as a scaffold for two large loops and a loop-sheet-helix motif. The two loops, which are held together in part by a tetrahedrally coordinated zinc atom, and the loop-sheet-helix motif form the DNA binding surface of p53. Residues from the loop-sheet-helix motif interact in the major groove of the DNA, while an arginine from one of the two large loops interacts in the minor groove. The loops and the loop-sheet-helix motif consist of the conserved regions of the core domain and contain the majority of the p53 mutations identified in tumors. The structure supports the hypothesis that DNA binding is critical for the biological activity of p53, and provides a framework for understanding how mutations inactivate it.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Cho, Y -- Gorina, S -- Jeffrey, P D -- Pavletich, N P -- NCI CA08748-29/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1994 Jul 15;265(5170):346-55.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Cellular Biochemistry and Biophysics Program, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY 10021.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8023157" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Amino Acid Sequence ; Base Sequence ; Binding Sites ; Computer Graphics ; Crystallization ; Crystallography, X-Ray ; DNA/*chemistry/metabolism ; Genes, p53 ; Hydrogen Bonding ; Models, Molecular ; Molecular Sequence Data ; *Mutation ; Nucleic Acid Conformation ; *Protein Conformation ; Protein Structure, Secondary ; Tumor Suppressor Protein p53/*chemistry/genetics/metabolism
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    Publication Date: 1994-06-24
    Description: Formation of a short (less than 2.5 angstroms), very strong, low-barrier hydrogen bond in the transition state, or in an enzyme-intermediate complex, can be an important contribution to enzymic catalysis. Formation of such a bond can supply 10 to 20 kilocalories per mole and thus facilitate difficult reactions such as enolization of carboxylate groups. Because low-barrier hydrogen bonds form only when the pKa's (negative logarithm of the acid constant) of the oxygens or nitrogens sharing the hydrogen are similar, a weak hydrogen bond in the enzyme-substrate complex in which the pKa's do not match can become a strong, low-barrier one if the pKa's become matched in the transition state or enzyme-intermediate complex. Several examples of enzymatic reactions that appear to use this principle are presented.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Cleland, W W -- Kreevoy, M M -- GM 18938/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1994 Jun 24;264(5167):1887-90.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Institute for Enzyme Research, University of Wisconsin, Madison 53705.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8009219" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Aconitate Hydratase/chemistry/metabolism ; Binding Sites ; Carboxypeptidases/chemistry/metabolism ; *Catalysis ; Citrate (si)-Synthase/chemistry/metabolism ; Enzymes/*metabolism ; *Hydrogen Bonding ; Isomerases/chemistry/metabolism ; Kinetics ; Orotidine-5'-Phosphate Decarboxylase/chemistry/metabolism ; Racemases and Epimerases/chemistry/metabolism ; Thermolysin/chemistry/metabolism
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    Publication Date: 1994-03-04
    Description: 〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Flam, F -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1994 Mar 4;263(5151):1221-2.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8122101" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Binding Sites ; Biochemistry/*methods ; Catalysis ; Molecular Structure ; *Polymers ; Stereoisomerism ; *Templates, Genetic
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  • 52
    Publication Date: 1994-01-21
    Description: Mechanistic information and structure-based design methods have been used to design a series of nonpeptide cyclic ureas that are potent inhibitors of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) protease and HIV replication. A fundamental feature of these inhibitors is the cyclic urea carbonyl oxygen that mimics the hydrogen-bonding features of a key structural water molecule. The success of the design in both displacing and mimicking the structural water molecule was confirmed by x-ray crystallographic studies. Highly selective, preorganized inhibitors with relatively low molecular weight and high oral bioavailability were synthesized.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Lam, P Y -- Jadhav, P K -- Eyermann, C J -- Hodge, C N -- Ru, Y -- Bacheler, L T -- Meek, J L -- Otto, M J -- Rayner, M M -- Wong, Y N -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1994 Jan 21;263(5145):380-4.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Virology Research, DuPont Merck Pharmaceutical Company, Wilmington, DE 19880.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8278812" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Administration, Oral ; Animals ; Azepines/*chemistry/metabolism/pharmacokinetics/pharmacology ; Binding Sites ; Biological Availability ; Cell Line ; Crystallography, X-Ray ; Dogs ; *Drug Design ; Drug Evaluation, Preclinical ; HIV Protease/chemistry/metabolism ; HIV Protease Inhibitors/*chemistry/metabolism/pharmacokinetics/pharmacology ; HIV-1/drug effects/physiology ; Hydrogen Bonding ; Models, Molecular ; Molecular Conformation ; Molecular Weight ; Rats ; Recombinant Proteins/chemistry/metabolism ; Urea ; Virus Replication/drug effects
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  • 53
    Publication Date: 1994-09-16
    Description: Sodium ion (Na+) channels, which initiate the action potential in electrically excitable cells, are the molecular targets of local anesthetic drugs. Site-directed mutations in transmembrane segment S6 of domain IV of the Na+ channel alpha subunit from rat brain selectively modified drug binding to resting or to open and inactivated channels when expressed in Xenopus oocytes. Mutation F1764A, near the middle of this segment, decreased the affinity of open and inactivated channels to 1 percent of the wild-type value, resulting in almost complete abolition of both the use-dependence and voltage-dependence of drug block, whereas mutation N1769A increased the affinity of the resting channel 15-fold. Mutation I1760A created an access pathway for drug molecules to reach the receptor site from the extracellular side. The results define the location of the local anesthetic receptor site in the pore of the Na+ channel and identify molecular determinants of the state-dependent binding of local anesthetics.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Ragsdale, D S -- McPhee, J C -- Scheuer, T -- Catterall, W A -- P01-HL44948/HL/NHLBI NIH HHS/ -- R01-NS15751/NS/NINDS NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1994 Sep 16;265(5179):1724-8.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Pharmacology, University of Washington, Seattle 98195.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8085162" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Action Potentials ; Anesthetics, Local/metabolism/*pharmacology ; Animals ; Binding Sites ; Etidocaine/metabolism/*pharmacology ; Lidocaine/analogs & derivatives/metabolism/pharmacology ; Mutagenesis, Site-Directed ; Oocytes ; Rats ; Sodium Channels/chemistry/*drug effects/genetics/metabolism ; Xenopus
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    Publication Date: 1994-08-26
    Description: 〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Barinaga, M -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1994 Aug 26;265(5176):1175-6.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8066458" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Binding Sites ; *Cell Cycle Proteins ; *DNA Replication ; DNA, Fungal/biosynthesis ; Enzyme Activation ; Fungal Proteins/genetics/*metabolism ; Protein Kinases/genetics/*metabolism ; *Protein-Serine-Threonine Kinases ; Saccharomyces cerevisiae/*enzymology/genetics/metabolism ; *Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins
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  • 55
    Publication Date: 1994-12-23
    Description: 〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Steitz, T A -- Smerdon, S J -- Jager, J -- Joyce, C M -- GM28550/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- GM39546/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1994 Dec 23;266(5193):2022-5.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7528445" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Amino Acid Sequence ; Binding Sites ; Crystallization ; Crystallography, X-Ray ; DNA Polymerase I/*chemistry/metabolism ; DNA-Directed RNA Polymerases/*chemistry/metabolism ; HIV Reverse Transcriptase ; Models, Molecular ; Molecular Sequence Data ; Protein Conformation ; Protein Folding ; RNA-Directed DNA Polymerase/*chemistry/metabolism ; Viral Proteins
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    Publication Date: 1994-10-07
    Description: Members of a family of highly conserved proteins, termed 14-3-3 proteins, were found by several experimental approaches to associate with Raf-1, a central component of a key signal transduction pathway. Optimal complex formation required the amino-terminal regulatory domain of Raf-1. The association of 14-3-3 proteins and Raf-1 was not substantially affected by the activation state of Raf.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Fu, H -- Xia, K -- Pallas, D C -- Cui, C -- Conroy, K -- Narsimhan, R P -- Mamon, H -- Collier, R J -- Roberts, T M -- AI22021/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- CA57327/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- HD24926/HD/NICHD NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1994 Oct 7;266(5182):126-9.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7939632" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: 14-3-3 Proteins ; 3T3 Cells ; Animals ; Binding Sites ; Cell Line ; Enzyme Activation ; Humans ; Mice ; Nerve Tissue Proteins/metabolism ; Phosphorylation ; Poly(ADP-ribose) Polymerases/metabolism ; Protein-Serine-Threonine Kinases/*metabolism ; Proteins/chemistry/*metabolism ; Proto-Oncogene Proteins/*metabolism ; Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-raf ; *Signal Transduction ; Spodoptera ; *Tyrosine 3-Monooxygenase ; Zinc Fingers
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  • 57
    Publication Date: 1994-09-02
    Description: Mechanisms of guanosine triphosphate (GTP) hydrolysis by members of the G protein alpha subunit-p21ras superfamily of guanosine triphosphatases have been studied extensively but have not been well understood. High-resolution x-ray structures of the GTP gamma S and GDP.AlF4- complexes formed by the G protein Gi alpha 1 demonstrate specific roles in transition-state stabilization for two highly conserved residues. Glutamine204 (Gln61 in p21ras) stabilizes and orients the hydrolytic water in the trigonal-bipyramidal transition state. Arginine 178 stabilizes the negative charge at the equatorial oxygen atoms of the pentacoordinate phosphate intermediate. Conserved only in the G alpha family, this residue may account for the higher hydrolytic rate of G alpha proteins relative to those of the p21ras family members. The fold of Gi alpha 1 differs from that of the homologous Gt alpha subunit in the conformation of a helix-loop sequence located in the alpha-helical domain that is characteristic of these proteins; this site may participate in effector binding. The amino-terminal 33 residues are disordered in GTP gamma S-Gi alpha 1, suggesting a mechanism that may promote release of the beta gamma subunit complex when the alpha subunit is activated by GTP.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Coleman, D E -- Berghuis, A M -- Lee, E -- Linder, M E -- Gilman, A G -- Sprang, S R -- DK 46371/DK/NIDDK NIH HHS/ -- GM34497/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1994 Sep 2;265(5177):1405-12.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Dallas, TX.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8073283" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Aluminum Compounds/metabolism ; Arginine/chemistry ; Binding Sites ; Catalysis ; Computer Graphics ; Crystallography, X-Ray ; Fluorides/metabolism ; GTP-Binding Proteins/*chemistry/metabolism ; Glutamine/chemistry ; Guanosine 5'-O-(3-Thiotriphosphate)/metabolism ; Guanosine Diphosphate/metabolism ; Guanosine Triphosphate/*metabolism ; Helix-Loop-Helix Motifs ; Hydrogen Bonding ; Hydrolysis ; Models, Molecular ; *Protein Conformation ; Protein Structure, Secondary
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    Publication Date: 1994-10-07
    Description: Para-hydroxybenzoate hydroxylase inserts oxygen into substrates by means of the labile intermediate, flavin C(4a)-hydroperoxide. This reaction requires transient isolation of the flavin and substrate from the bulk solvent. Previous crystal structures have revealed the position of the substrate para-hydroxybenzoate during oxygenation but not how it enters the active site. In this study, enzyme structures with the flavin ring displaced relative to the protein were determined, and it was established that these or similar flavin conformations also occur in solution. Movement of the flavin appears to be essential for the translocation of substrates and products into the solvent-shielded active site during catalysis.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Gatti, D L -- Palfey, B A -- Lah, M S -- Entsch, B -- Massey, V -- Ballou, D P -- Ludwig, M L -- GM 11106/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- GM 16429/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- GM 20877/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- etc. -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1994 Oct 7;266(5182):110-4.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Biological Chemistry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 48109.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7939628" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Benzoate 4-Monooxygenase ; Binding Sites ; Catalysis ; Computer Graphics ; Flavin-Adenine Dinucleotide/chemistry/metabolism ; Flavins/*chemistry/metabolism ; Hydrogen Bonding ; Mixed Function Oxygenases/*chemistry/metabolism ; Models, Molecular ; Molecular Conformation ; Oxidation-Reduction ; Parabens/metabolism ; Protein Conformation
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    Publication Date: 1994-03-11
    Description: Crystal structures of seryl-tRNA synthetase from Thermus thermophilus complexed with two different analogs of seryl adenylate have been determined at 2.5 A resolution. The first complex is between the enzyme and seryl-hydroxamate-AMP (adenosine monophosphate), produced enzymatically in the crystal from adenosine triphosphate (ATP) and serine hydroxamate, and the second is with a synthetic analog of seryl adenylate (5'-O-[N-(L-seryl)-sulfamoyl]adenosine), which is a strong inhibitor of the enzyme. Both molecules are bound in a similar fashion by a network of hydrogen bond interactions in a deep hydrophilic cleft formed by the antiparallel beta sheet and surrounding loops of the synthetase catalytic domain. Four regions in the primary sequence are involved in the interactions, including the motif 2 and 3 regions of class 2 synthetases. Apart from the specific recognition of the serine side chain, the interactions are likely to be similar in all class 2 synthetases.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Belrhali, H -- Yaremchuk, A -- Tukalo, M -- Larsen, K -- Berthet-Colominas, C -- Leberman, R -- Beijer, B -- Sproat, B -- Als-Nielsen, J -- Grubel, G -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1994 Mar 11;263(5152):1432-6.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉EMBL Grenoble Outstation, France.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8128224" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Adenosine/*analogs & derivatives/chemical synthesis/metabolism ; Adenosine Monophosphate/*analogs & derivatives/chemical synthesis/metabolism ; Amino Acid Sequence ; Binding Sites ; Computer Graphics ; Crystallography, X-Ray ; Hydrogen Bonding ; Models, Molecular ; Molecular Sequence Data ; Protein Conformation ; Protein Structure, Secondary ; Sequence Alignment ; Serine/*analogs & derivatives/chemical synthesis/metabolism ; Serine-tRNA Ligase/*chemistry/metabolism ; Thermus thermophilus/*enzymology
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    Publication Date: 1994-03-11
    Description: The crystal structure of Thermus thermophilus seryl-transfer RNA synthetase, a class 2 aminoacyl-tRNA synthetase, complexed with a single tRNA(Ser) molecule was solved at 2.9 A resolution. The structure revealed how insertion of conserved base G20b from the D loop into the core of the tRNA determines the orientation of the long variable arm, which is a characteristic feature of most serine specific tRNAs. On tRNA binding, the antiparallel coiled-coil domain of one subunit of the synthetase makes contacts with the variable arm and T psi C loop of the tRNA and directs the acceptor stem of the tRNA into the active site of the other subunit. Specificity depends principally on recognition of the shape of tRNA(Ser) through backbone contacts and secondarily on sequence specific interactions.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Biou, V -- Yaremchuk, A -- Tukalo, M -- Cusack, S -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1994 Mar 11;263(5152):1404-10.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Grenoble Outstation, France.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8128220" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Adenosine Triphosphate/metabolism ; Amino Acid Sequence ; Base Composition ; Base Sequence ; Binding Sites ; Crystallography, X-Ray ; Models, Molecular ; Molecular Sequence Data ; Nucleic Acid Conformation ; Protein Conformation ; Protein Structure, Secondary ; RNA, Transfer, Amino Acyl/*chemistry/metabolism ; Serine-tRNA Ligase/*chemistry/metabolism ; Substrate Specificity ; Thermus thermophilus/*enzymology
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    Publication Date: 1994-02-04
    Description: Human platelet-derived growth factor receptors (PDGFRs) expressed in human Hep G2 cells internalized and concentrated in a juxtanuclear region near the Golgi network within 10 minutes after the cells were treated with PDGF. A PDGFR mutant (F5) that lacks high-affinity binding sites for the Src homology 2 domain-containing proteins phosphatidylinositol-3 kinase (PI-3 kinase), Ras guanosine triphosphatase activating protein, phospholipase C-gamma, and a phosphotyrosine phosphatase (Syp) remained at the cell periphery. Restoration of the PI-3 kinase binding sites on F5 completely restored the ability of the receptor to concentrate intracellularly. A PDGFR mutant lacking only PI-3 kinase binding sites failed to concentrate intracellularly. Thus, PI-3 kinase binding sites appear both necessary and sufficient for the normal endocytic trafficking of the activated PDGFR.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Joly, M -- Kazlauskas, A -- Fay, F S -- Corvera, S -- DK40330/DK/NIDDK NIH HHS/ -- GM48339/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1994 Feb 4;263(5147):684-7.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Program in Molecular Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester 01605.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8303278" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Binding Sites ; Cell Membrane/metabolism ; Endocytosis ; GTPase-Activating Proteins ; Golgi Apparatus/metabolism ; Humans ; Intracellular Signaling Peptides and Proteins ; Isoenzymes/metabolism ; Mutation ; Phosphatidylinositol 3-Kinases ; Phospholipase C gamma ; Phosphotransferases (Alcohol Group Acceptor)/*metabolism ; Platelet-Derived Growth Factor/pharmacology ; Protein Tyrosine Phosphatase, Non-Receptor Type 11 ; Protein Tyrosine Phosphatase, Non-Receptor Type 6 ; Protein Tyrosine Phosphatases/metabolism ; Proteins/metabolism ; Receptors, Platelet-Derived Growth Factor/genetics/*metabolism ; Tumor Cells, Cultured ; Type C Phospholipases/metabolism ; ras GTPase-Activating Proteins
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    Publication Date: 1994-10-28
    Description: Maternally expressed Skn-1 protein is required for the correct specification of certain blastomere fates in early Caenorhabditis elegans embryos. Skn-1 contains a basic region similar to those of basic leucine zipper (bZIP) proteins but, paradoxically, it lacks a leucine zipper dimerization segment. Random sequence selection methods were used to show that Skn-1 binds to specific DNA sequences as a monomer. The Skn-1 basic region lies at the carboxyl terminus of an 85-amino acid domain that binds preferentially to a bZIP half-site and also recognizes adjacent 5' AT-rich sequences in the minor groove, apparently with an amino (NH2)-terminal "arm" related to those of homeodomain proteins. The intervening residues appear to stabilize interactions of these two subdomains with DNA. The Skn-1 DNA binding domain thus represents an alternative strategy for promoting binding of a basic region segment recognition helix to its cognate half-site. The results point to an underlying modularity in subdomains within established DNA binding domains.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Blackwell, T K -- Bowerman, B -- Priess, J R -- Weintraub, H -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1994 Oct 28;266(5185):621-8.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Basic Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA 98104.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7939715" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Amino Acid Sequence ; Animals ; Base Sequence ; Basic-Leucine Zipper Transcription Factors ; Binding Sites ; Caenorhabditis elegans ; *Caenorhabditis elegans Proteins ; DNA/chemistry/*metabolism ; DNA-Binding Proteins/chemistry/*metabolism ; G-Box Binding Factors ; Helminth Proteins/chemistry/*metabolism ; Homeodomain Proteins/chemistry/*metabolism ; Molecular Sequence Data ; Nucleic Acid Conformation ; Protein Structure, Secondary ; Recombinant Fusion Proteins/chemistry/metabolism ; *Transcription Factors
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    Publication Date: 1994-09-23
    Description: Two heterologous prokaryotic activators, the bacteriophage lambda cI protein (lambda cI) and the Escherichia coli cyclic AMP receptor protein (CRP), were shown to activate transcription synergistically from an artificial promoter bearing binding sites for both proteins. The synergy depends on a functional activation (positive control) surface on each activator. These results imply that both proteins interact directly with RNA polymerase and thus suggest a precise mechanism for transcriptional synergy: the interaction of two activators with two distinct surfaces of RNA polymerase.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Joung, J K -- Koepp, D M -- Hochschild, A -- DP1 OD006862/OD/NIH HHS/ -- GM44025/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- R01 GM044025/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1994 Sep 23;265(5180):1863-6.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8091212" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Base Sequence ; Binding Sites ; Cyclic AMP Receptor Protein/*metabolism ; *DNA-Binding Proteins ; DNA-Directed RNA Polymerases/metabolism ; Escherichia coli/enzymology/genetics ; Molecular Sequence Data ; Promoter Regions, Genetic ; Repressor Proteins/*metabolism ; Transcription Factors/*metabolism ; *Transcriptional Activation ; Viral Proteins/metabolism ; Viral Regulatory and Accessory Proteins
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    Publication Date: 1994-04-08
    Description: Editing reactions are essential for the high fidelity of information transfer in processes such as replication, RNA splicing, and protein synthesis. The accuracy of interpretation of the genetic code is enhanced by the editing reactions of aminoacyl transfer RNA (tRNA) synthetases, whereby amino acids are prevented from being attached to the wrong tRNAs. Amino acid discrimination is achieved through sieves that may overlap with or coincide with the amino acid binding site. With the class I Escherichia coli isoleucine tRNA synthetase, which activates isoleucine and occasionally misactivates valine, as an example, a rationally chosen mutant enzyme was constructed that lacks entirely its normal strong ability to distinguish valine from isoleucine by the initial amino acid recognition sieve. The misactivated valine, however, is still eliminated by hydrolytic editing reactions. These data suggest that there is a distinct sieve for editing that is functionally independent of the amino acid binding site.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Schmidt, E -- Schimmel, P -- GM 15539/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1994 Apr 8;264(5156):265-7.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge 02139.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8146659" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Adenosine Triphosphate/metabolism ; Binding Sites ; Escherichia coli/enzymology ; Isoleucine/*metabolism ; Isoleucine-tRNA Ligase/chemistry/genetics/*metabolism ; Kinetics ; Mutation ; Protein Structure, Secondary ; *RNA Editing ; RNA, Transfer, Ile/metabolism ; Valine/*metabolism
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    Publication Date: 1994-07-15
    Description: An influenza virus matrix peptide in which either the charged amino or carboxyl terminus was substituted by methyl groups promoted folding of the class I human histocompatibility antigen (HLA-A2). A peptide modified at both termini did not promote stable folding. The thermal stability of HLA-A2 complexed with peptides that did not have either terminus was approximately 22 degrees C lower than that of the control peptide, whereas matrix peptide in which both anchor positions were substituted by alanines had its stability decreased by only 5.5 degrees C. Thus, the conserved major histocompatibility complex class I residues at both ends of the peptide binding site form energetically important sites for binding the termini of short peptides.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Bouvier, M -- Wiley, D C -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1994 Jul 15;265(5170):398-402.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8023162" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Amino Acid Sequence ; Binding Sites ; HLA-A2 Antigen/*chemistry/genetics/metabolism ; Humans ; Hydrogen Bonding ; Molecular Sequence Data ; Mutation ; Orthomyxoviridae ; Peptides/*chemistry/metabolism ; Protein Denaturation ; Protein Folding ; Temperature ; Thermodynamics ; Thermolysin/chemistry ; Viral Matrix Proteins/*chemistry/metabolism ; beta 2-Microglobulin/chemistry
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    Publication Date: 1994-07-22
    Description: Macrocyclic polyketides have been subjects of great interest in synthetic and biosynthetic chemistry because of their structural complexity and medicinal activities. With expression of the entire 6-deoxyerythronolide B synthase (DEBS) (10,283 amino acids) in a heterologous host, substantial quantities of 6-deoxyerythronolide B (6dEB), the aglycone of the macrolide antibiotic erythromycin, and 8,8a-deoxyoleandolide, a 14-membered lactone ring identical to 6dEB except for a methyl group side chain in place of an ethyl unit, were synthesized in Streptomyces coelicolor. The biosynthetic strategy utilizes a genetic approach that facilitates rapid structural manipulation of DEBS or other modular polyketide synthases (PKSs), including those found in actinomycetes with poorly developed genetic methods. From a technological viewpoint, this approach should allow the rational design of biosynthetic products and may eventually lead to the generation of diverse polyketide libraries by means of combinatorial cloning of naturally occurring and mutant PKS modules.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Kao, C M -- Katz, L -- Khosla, C -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1994 Jul 22;265(5171):509-12.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Chemical Engineering, Stanford University, CA 94305-5025.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8036492" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Acyl Coenzyme A/metabolism ; Base Sequence ; Binding Sites ; Cloning, Molecular ; Drug Design ; Erythromycin/*analogs & derivatives/biosynthesis/isolation & purification ; Escherichia coli/genetics ; Genes, Bacterial ; Genetic Engineering ; Genetic Vectors ; Molecular Sequence Data ; Multienzyme Complexes/chemistry/*genetics/metabolism ; Multigene Family ; Mutation ; Oleandomycin/*analogs & derivatives/biosynthesis/isolation & purification ; Recombinant Proteins/metabolism ; Streptomyces/enzymology/genetics ; Structure-Activity Relationship
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    Publication Date: 1994-04-15
    Description: A complementation strategy was developed to define the signaling pathways activated by the Bcr-Abl tyrosine kinase. Transformation inactive point mutants of Bcr-Abl were tested for complementation with c-Myc. Single point mutations in the Src-homology 2 (SH2) domain, the major tyrosine autophosphorylation site of the kinase domain, and the Grb-2 binding site in the Bcr region impaired the transformation of fibroblasts by Bcr-Abl. Hyperexpression of c-Myc efficiently restored transformation activity only to the Bcr-Abl SH2 mutant. These data support a model in which Bcr-Abl activates at least two independent pathways for transformation. This strategy may be useful for discerning signaling pathways activated by other oncogenes.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Afar, D E -- Goga, A -- McLaughlin, J -- Witte, O N -- Sawyers, C L -- CA 01551/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- CA 53867/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1994 Apr 15;264(5157):424-6.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, University of California-Los Angeles 90024-1489.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8153630" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: *Adaptor Proteins, Signal Transducing ; Amino Acid Sequence ; Animals ; Base Sequence ; Binding Sites ; Cell Line ; *Cell Transformation, Neoplastic ; Fusion Proteins, bcr-abl/*genetics/physiology ; GRB2 Adaptor Protein ; Gene Expression ; *Genes, abl ; *Genes, myc ; Genetic Complementation Test ; Molecular Sequence Data ; Phosphorylation ; Point Mutation ; Proteins/metabolism ; Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-myc/genetics/physiology ; Rats ; Retroviridae/physiology ; Signal Transduction ; Transfection ; Tyrosine/metabolism
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    Publication Date: 1994-12-16
    Description: Superantigens bind to major histocompatibility complex class II molecules on antigen-presenting cells and stimulate T cells. Staphylococcus aureus enterotoxin B (SEB) and toxic shock syndrome toxin-1 (TSST-1) bind to the same region of human lymphocyte antigen (HLA)-DR1 but do not compete with each other, which indicates that they bind to different subsets of DR1 molecules. Here, a mutation in the peptide-binding groove disrupted the SEB and TSST-1 binding sites, which suggests that peptides can influence the interaction with bacterial toxins. In support of this, the expression of the DR1 molecule in various cell types differentially affected the binding of these toxins.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Thibodeau, J -- Cloutier, I -- Lavoie, P M -- Labrecque, N -- Mourad, W -- Jardetzky, T -- Sekaly, R P -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1994 Dec 16;266(5192):1874-8.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Laboratoire d'Immunologie, Institut de Recherches Cliniques de Montreal, Quebec, Canada.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7997881" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; Antigen Presentation ; *Bacterial Toxins ; Binding Sites ; Binding, Competitive ; Cell Line ; Enterotoxins/chemistry/*metabolism ; HLA-DR1 Antigen/chemistry/genetics/*metabolism ; HeLa Cells ; Humans ; Hybridomas ; Mice ; Mutation ; Protein Structure, Secondary ; *Staphylococcus aureus ; Superantigens/chemistry/*metabolism ; T-Lymphocytes/*immunology
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    Publication Date: 1994-08-05
    Description: During transcription elongation, three flexibly connected parts of RNA polymerase of Escherichia coli advance along the template so that the front-end domain is followed by the catalytic site which in turn is followed by the RNA product binding site. The advancing enzyme was found to maintain the same conformation throughout extended segments of the transcribed region. However, when the polymerase traveled across certain DNA sites that seemed to briefly anchor the front-end domain, cyclic shifting of the three parts, accompanied by buildup and relief of internal strain, was observed. Thus, elongation proceeded in alternating laps of monotonous and inchworm-like movement with the flexible RNA polymerase configuration being subject to direct sequence control.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Nudler, E -- Goldfarb, A -- Kashlev, M -- GM49242/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1994 Aug 5;265(5173):793-6.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Public Health Research Institute, New York, NY 10016.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8047884" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Base Sequence ; Binding Sites ; DNA-Directed RNA Polymerases/*metabolism ; *Escherichia coli Proteins ; *Models, Genetic ; Molecular Sequence Data ; Movement ; Peptide Elongation Factors/metabolism ; Protein Conformation ; RNA, Messenger/metabolism ; RNA-Binding Proteins/metabolism ; Templates, Genetic ; Transcription Factors/metabolism ; Transcription, Genetic/*physiology ; Transcriptional Elongation Factors
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    Publication Date: 1994-02-25
    Description: Intracellular vesicles destined to fuse with the plasma membrane and secrete their contents must have a mechanism for specifically interacting with the appropriate target membrane. Such a mechanism is now suggested by the demonstration of specific interaction between vesicular proteins and plasma membrane proteins. The vesicle-associated membrane proteins (VAMPs) 1 and 2 specifically bind the acceptor membrane proteins syntaxin 1A and 4 but not syntaxin 2 or 3. The binding site is within amino acids 194 to 267 of syntaxin 1A, and the approximate equilibrium dissociation constants is 4.7 x 10(-6) molar. These data suggest a physical basis for the specificity of intracellular vesicular transport.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Calakos, N -- Bennett, M K -- Peterson, K E -- Scheller, R H -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1994 Feb 25;263(5150):1146-9.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Stanford University Medical Center, CA 94305.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8108733" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Amino Acid Sequence ; Animals ; Antigens, Surface/*metabolism ; Binding Sites ; Cell Line ; Cell Membrane/metabolism ; Cytoplasm/metabolism ; Haplorhini ; Kinetics ; Membrane Proteins/*metabolism ; Molecular Sequence Data ; Nerve Tissue Proteins/*metabolism ; R-SNARE Proteins ; Recombinant Fusion Proteins/metabolism ; Synaptic Vesicles/*metabolism ; Syntaxin 1
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    Publication Date: 1994-07-15
    Description: Peptide alpha amidation is required to produce some hormones, such as gastrin, from their glycine-extended precursors. This terminal posttranslational processing reaction is thought to be essential for the biological activation of many peptide hormones; only amidated gastrin exerts a physiological effect that results in gastric acid secretion. However, both amidated gastrin and glycine-extended gastrin stimulate proliferation of exocrine pancreatic cell line AR4-2J through selective receptors for the substrate and the product, respectively, of peptide alpha amidation. Thus, the amidation reaction may function as a determinant of the specific biological actions of products derived from prohormones.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Seva, C -- Dickinson, C J -- Yamada, T -- K08-DK-01903/DK/NIDDK NIH HHS/ -- P30-DK-34933/DK/NIDDK NIH HHS/ -- R01-DK-34306/DK/NIDDK NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1994 Jul 15;265(5170):410-2.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan Medical Center, Ann Arbor 48109.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8023165" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Benzodiazepinones/pharmacology ; Binding Sites ; Cell Division/*drug effects ; Gastrins/metabolism/*pharmacology ; Humans ; Indoles/pharmacology ; Meglumine/analogs & derivatives/pharmacology ; Octreotide/pharmacology ; Ornithine Decarboxylase/metabolism ; *Phenylurea Compounds ; Receptors, Cholecystokinin/antagonists & inhibitors ; Tumor Cells, Cultured
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    Publication Date: 1994-03-11
    Description: 〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Marx, J -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1994 Mar 11;263(5152):1373.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8128216" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Binding Sites ; Computer Graphics ; Crystallography, X-Ray ; Humans ; Models, Molecular ; Phosphates/metabolism ; Protein Conformation ; Protein Folding ; Protein Tyrosine Phosphatases/*chemistry/metabolism ; Tungsten Compounds/metabolism
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    Publication Date: 1994-11-18
    Description: Solution structures of two Src homology 3 (SH3) domain-ligand complexes have been determined by nuclear magnetic resonance. Each complex consists of the SH3 domain and a nine-residue proline-rich peptide selected from a large library of ligands prepared by combinatorial synthesis. The bound ligands adopt a left-handed polyproline type II (PPII) helix, although the amino to carboxyl directionalities of their helices are opposite. The peptide orientation is determined by a salt bridge formed by the terminal arginine residues of the ligands and the conserved aspartate-99 of the SH3 domain. Residues at positions 3, 4, 6, and 7 of both peptides also intercalate into the ligand-binding site; however, the respective proline and nonproline residues show exchanged binding positions in the two complexes. These structural results led to a model for the interactions of SH3 domains with proline-rich peptides that can be used to predict critical residues in complexes of unknown structure. The model was used to identify correctly both the binding orientation and the contact and noncontact residues of a peptide derived from the nucleotide exchange factor Sos in association with the amino-terminal SH3 domain of the adaptor protein Grb2.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Feng, S -- Chen, J K -- Yu, H -- Simon, J A -- Schreiber, S L -- GM44993/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1994 Nov 18;266(5188):1241-7.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Chemistry, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7526465" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: *Adaptor Proteins, Signal Transducing ; Alanine/chemistry ; Amino Acid Sequence ; Arginine/chemistry ; Binding Sites ; GRB2 Adaptor Protein ; Glycine/chemistry ; Guanine Nucleotide Exchange Factors ; Ligands ; Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy ; Models, Molecular ; Molecular Sequence Data ; Oligopeptides/chemistry/*metabolism ; Peptides/chemistry/metabolism ; Proline/chemistry ; Proline-Rich Protein Domains ; Protein Conformation ; Protein Structure, Secondary ; Protein-Tyrosine Kinases/chemistry/*metabolism ; Proteins/chemistry/metabolism ; Proto-Oncogene Proteins pp60(c-src)/chemistry/*metabolism ; src-Family Kinases
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    Publication Date: 1989-08-04
    Description: The origin of allostery is an unanswered question in the evolution of complex regulatory proteins. Anabolic ornithine transcarbamoylase, a trimer of identical subunits, is not an allosteric enzyme per se. However, when the active-site residue arginine-106 of the Escherichia coli enzyme is replaced with a glycine through site-directed mutagenesis, the resultant mutant enzyme manifests substrate cooperativity that is absent in the wild-type enzyme. Both homotropic and heterotropic interactions occur in the mutant enzyme. The initial velocity saturation curves of the substrates, carbamoyl phosphate and L-ornithine, conform to the Hill equation. The observed cooperativity depends on substrate but not enzyme concentration. The finding underscores the possibility that a single mutation of the enzyme in the cell could turn transcarbamoylation into a regulatory junction in the biosynthesis of L-arginine and urea.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Kuo, L C -- Zambidis, I -- Caron, C -- DK01721/DK/NIDDK NIH HHS/ -- DK38089/DK/NIDDK NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1989 Aug 4;245(4917):522-4.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Chemistry, Metcalf Center for Science and Engineering, Boston University, MA 02215.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2667139" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Allosteric Regulation ; Binding Sites ; Carbamyl Phosphate/metabolism ; Escherichia coli/*enzymology ; Glycine ; Kinetics ; Macromolecular Substances ; *Mutation ; Ornithine/metabolism ; Ornithine Carbamoyltransferase/*genetics/metabolism ; Structure-Activity Relationship ; Zinc/pharmacology
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  • 75
    Publication Date: 1989-08-18
    Description: CD4 is a cell surface glycoprotein that is thought to interact with nonpolymorphic determinants of class II major histocompatibility (MHC) molecules. CD4 is also the receptor for the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), binding with high affinity to the HIV-1 envelope glycoprotein, gp120. Homolog-scanning mutagenesis was used to identify CD4 regions that are important in class II MHC binding and to determine whether the gp120 and class II MHC binding sites of CD4 are related. Class II MHC binding was abolished by mutations in each of the first three immunoglobulin-like domains of CD4. The gp120 binding could be abolished without affecting class II MHC binding and vice versa, although at least one mutation examined reduced both functions significantly. These findings indicate that, while there may be overlap between the gp120 and class II MHC binding sites of CD4, these sites are distinct and can be separated. Thus it should be possible to design CD4 analogs that can block HIV infectivity but intrinsically lack the ability to affect the normal immune response by binding to class II MHC molecules.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Lamarre, D -- Ashkenazi, A -- Fleury, S -- Smith, D H -- Sekaly, R P -- Capon, D J -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1989 Aug 18;245(4919):743-6.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Laboratoire d'Immunologie, Institut de Recherches Cliniques de Montreal, Quebec, Canada.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2549633" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Amino Acid Sequence ; Animals ; Antigens, Surface ; Binding Sites ; DNA, Recombinant ; HIV/*metabolism ; HIV Envelope Protein gp120 ; HLA-DP Antigens/immunology ; Histocompatibility Antigens Class II/*immunology ; Humans ; Hybridomas ; Mice ; Molecular Sequence Data ; Mutation ; Receptors, HIV ; Receptors, Virus/genetics/immunology/*metabolism ; Retroviridae Proteins/immunology/*metabolism ; Rosette Formation ; Structure-Activity Relationship ; T-Lymphocytes/immunology/metabolism ; Transfection
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    Publication Date: 1989-03-31
    Description: C/EBP is a rat liver nuclear protein capable of sequence-specific interaction with DNA. The DNA sequences to which C/EBP binds in vitro have been implicated in the control of messenger RNA synthesis. It has therefore been predicted that C/EBP will play a role in regulating gene expression in mammalian cells. The region of the C/EBP polypeptide required for direct interaction with DNA has been identified and shown to bear amino acid sequence relatedness with the product of the myc, fos, and jun proto-oncogenes. The arrangement of these related amino acid sequences led to the prediction of a new structural motif, termed the "leucine zipper," that plays a role in facilitating sequence-specific interaction between protein and DNA. Experimental tests now provide support for the leucine zipper hypothesis.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Landschulz, W H -- Johnson, P F -- McKnight, S L -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1989 Mar 31;243(4899):1681-8.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Department of Embryology, Baltimore, MD 21210.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2494700" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Amino Acid Sequence ; Animals ; Binding Sites ; CCAAT-Enhancer-Binding Proteins ; Cross-Linking Reagents ; DNA/*metabolism ; Glutaral ; Leucine ; Liver/*analysis ; Macromolecular Substances ; Molecular Weight ; Mutation ; Nuclear Proteins/genetics/*metabolism ; Protein Conformation ; Rats ; Repetitive Sequences, Nucleic Acid ; Structure-Activity Relationship
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    Publication Date: 1989-07-21
    Description: Ribozymes are RNA molecules that catalyze biochemical reactions. Fe(II)-EDTA, a solvent-based reagent which cleaves both double- and single-stranded RNA, was used to investigate the structure of the Tetrahymena ribozyme. Regions of cleavage alternate with regions of substantial protection along the entire RNA molecule. In particular, most of the catalytic core shows greatly reduced cleavage. These data constitute experimental evidence that an RNA enzyme, like a protein enzyme, has an interior and an exterior. Determination of positions where the phosphodiester backbone of the RNA is on the inside or on the outside of the molecule provides major constraints for modeling the three-dimensional structure of the Tetrahymena ribozyme. This approach should be generally informative for structured RNA molecules.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Latham, J A -- Cech, T R -- GM 11227-03/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1989 Jul 21;245(4915):276-82.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Colorado, Boulder 80309-0215.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2501870" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; Autoradiography ; Base Sequence ; Binding Sites ; Crystallography ; Edetic Acid ; Electrophoresis, Polyacrylamide Gel ; Ferrous Compounds ; Molecular Sequence Data ; Molecular Structure ; *Nucleic Acid Conformation ; *RNA Splicing ; RNA, Catalytic ; RNA, Fungal/analysis ; *RNA, Ribosomal/analysis/metabolism ; RNA, Transfer, Phe/analysis ; Tetrahymena/*genetics
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  • 78
    Publication Date: 1989-08-11
    Description: The three-dimensional solution structure of a zinc finger nucleic acid binding motif has been determined by nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy. Spectra of a synthetic peptide corresponding to a single zinc finger from the Xenopus protein Xfin yielded distance and dihedral angle constraints that were used to generate structures from distance geometry and restrained molecular dynamics calculations. The zinc finger is an independently folded domain with a compact globular structure in which the zinc atom is bound by two cysteine and two histidine ligands. The polypeptide backbone fold consists of a well-defined helix, starting as alpha and ending as 3(10) helix, packed against two beta strands that are arranged in a hairpin structure. A high density of basic and polar amino acid side chains on the exposed face of the helix are probably involved in DNA binding.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Lee, M S -- Gippert, G P -- Soman, K V -- Case, D A -- Wright, P E -- GM 36643/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- GM38794/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1989 Aug 11;245(4918):635-7.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Molecular Biology, Research Institute of Scripps Clinic, La Jolla, CA 92037.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2503871" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Amino Acid Sequence ; Animals ; Binding Sites ; Cysteine/metabolism ; DNA/*metabolism ; DNA-Binding Proteins/*metabolism ; Histidine/metabolism ; Hydrogen Bonding ; Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy ; Metalloproteins/*metabolism ; Molecular Sequence Data ; Molecular Structure ; Protein Conformation ; Solutions ; Thermodynamics ; Xenopus ; Zinc/metabolism
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  • 79
    Publication Date: 1989-03-03
    Description: Isolation of a clone encoding the mouse lymph node homing receptor reveals a deduced protein with an unusual protein mosaic architecture, containing a separate carbohydrate-binding (lectin) domain, an epidermal growth factor-like (EGF) domain, and an extracellular precisely duplicated repeat unit, which preserves the motif seen in the homologous repeat structure of complement regulatory proteins and other proteins. The receptor molecule is potentially highly glycosylated, and contains an apparent transmembrane region. Analysis of messenger RNA transcripts reveals a predominantly lymphoid distribution in direct relation to the cell surface expression of the MEL-14 determinant, and the cDNA clone is shown to confer the MEL-14 epitope in heterologous cells. The many novel features, including ubiquitination, embodied in this single receptor molecule form the basis for numerous approaches to the study of cell-cell interactions.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Siegelman, M H -- van de Rijn, M -- Weissman, I L -- AI09022/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- OIG43551/PHS HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1989 Mar 3;243(4895):1165-72.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Pathology, Stanford University School of Medicine, CA 94305.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2646713" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Amino Acid Sequence ; Animals ; Antibodies, Monoclonal ; Base Sequence ; Binding Sites ; Carbohydrate Metabolism ; Cell Membrane/metabolism ; DNA/*genetics ; Epidermal Growth Factor ; Glycosylation ; Lymph Nodes/*metabolism ; Membrane Glycoproteins/*genetics ; Mice ; Molecular Sequence Data ; Oligonucleotide Probes ; RNA, Messenger/genetics ; Receptors, Lymphocyte Homing ; Repetitive Sequences, Nucleic Acid ; Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid ; Transcription, Genetic
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  • 80
    Publication Date: 1989-01-06
    Description: The high affinity of the noncovalent interaction between biotin and streptavidin forms the basis for many diagnostic assays that require the formation of an irreversible and specific linkage between biological macromolecules. Comparison of the refined crystal structures of apo and a streptavidin:biotin complex shows that the high affinity results from several factors. These factors include the formation of multiple hydrogen bonds and van der Waals interactions between biotin and the protein, together with the ordering of surface polypeptide loops that bury the biotin in the protein interior. Structural alterations at the biotin binding site produce quaternary changes in the streptavidin tetramer. These changes apparently propagate through cooperative deformations in the twisted beta sheets that link tetramer subunits.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Weber, P C -- Ohlendorf, D H -- Wendoloski, J J -- Salemme, F R -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1989 Jan 6;243(4887):85-8.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Central Research & Development Department, E. I. du Pont de Neumours and Company, Inc., Wilmington, DE 19880-0228.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2911722" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Bacterial Proteins/*metabolism ; Binding Sites ; Biotin/*metabolism ; Macromolecular Substances ; Models, Molecular ; Protein Conformation ; Streptavidin ; X-Ray Diffraction
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    Publication Date: 1989-04-21
    Description: The mouse albumin gene promoter has six closely spaced binding sites for nuclear proteins that are located between the TATA motif and nucleotide position -170. In vitro transcription with liver or spleen nuclear extracts of templates containing either mutated or polymerized albumin promoter elements establishes a hierarchy of the different protein binding sites for tissue-specific albumin gene transcription. The HNF-1 and C/EBP binding sites strongly activate transcription in a tissue-specific manner. The NF-Y binding site has a lower activation potential and is less specific, being equally efficient in liver and spleen nuclear extracts. The remaining elements are relatively weak activator sites.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Maire, P -- Wuarin, J -- Schibler, U -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1989 Apr 21;244(4902):343-6.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Departement de Biologie Moleculaire, Sciences II, Geneva, Switzerland.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2711183" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; Base Sequence ; Binding Sites ; CCAAT-Enhancer-Binding Proteins ; Carrier Proteins/metabolism/pharmacology ; Cell Nucleus/metabolism ; DNA-Binding Proteins/*metabolism ; Dicarboxylic Acid Transporters ; *Gene Expression Regulation/drug effects ; Liver/metabolism/ultrastructure ; Mice ; Nuclear Proteins/metabolism/pharmacology ; *Promoter Regions, Genetic ; Serum Albumin/*genetics ; Spleen/metabolism/ultrastructure ; Templates, Genetic ; Transcription Factors ; Transcription, Genetic/drug effects
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    Publication Date: 1989-08-11
    Description: 〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Marx, J L -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1989 Aug 11;245(4918):598.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2669127" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Binding Sites ; Endopeptidases ; HIV/*enzymology ; HIV Protease ; Molecular Structure ; *Protease Inhibitors ; Protein Conformation ; X-Ray Diffraction
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  • 83
    Publication Date: 1989-12-01
    Description: A single-site mutant of Escherichia coli glutaminyl-synthetase (D235N, GlnRS7) that incorrectly acylates in vivo the amber suppressor supF tyrosine transfer RNA (tRNA(Tyr] with glutamine has been described. Two additional mutant forms of the enzyme showing this misacylation property have now been isolated in vivo (D235G, GlnRS10; I129T, GlnRS15). All three mischarging mutant enzymes still retain a certain degree of tRNA specificity; in vivo they acylate supE glutaminyl tRNA (tRNA(Gln] and supF tRNA(Tyr) but not a number of other suppressor tRNA's. These genetic experiments define two positions in GlnRS where amino acid substitution results in a relaxed specificity of tRNA discrimination. The crystal structure of the GlnRS:tRNA(Gln) complex provides a structural basis for interpreting these data. In the wild-type enzyme Asp235 makes sequence-specific hydrogen bonds through its side chain carboxylate group with base pair G3.C70 in the minor groove of the acceptor stem of the tRNA. This observation implicates base pair 3.70 as one of the identity determinants of tRNA(Gln). Isoleucine 129 is positioned adjacent to the phosphate of nucleotide C74, which forms part of a hairpin structure adopted by the acceptor end of the complexed tRNA molecule. These results identify specific areas in the structure of the complex that are critical to accurate tRNA discrimination by GlnRS.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Perona, J J -- Swanson, R N -- Rould, M A -- Steitz, T A -- Soll, D -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1989 Dec 1;246(4934):1152-4.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06511.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2686030" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Acylation ; Amino Acyl-tRNA Synthetases/genetics/*metabolism ; Aspartic Acid ; Binding Sites ; Crystallization ; Escherichia coli/*enzymology/genetics ; Glutamine/metabolism ; Hydrogen Bonding ; Isoleucine ; Molecular Structure ; *Mutation ; RNA, Transfer, Gln/metabolism ; RNA, Transfer, Tyr ; Structure-Activity Relationship ; Substrate Specificity ; Suppression, Genetic
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  • 84
    Publication Date: 1989-02-03
    Description: The nitrogen regulatory (NtrC) protein of enteric bacteria, which binds to sites that have the properties of transcriptional enhancers, is known to activate transcription by a form of RNA polymerase that contains the NtrA protein (sigma 54) as sigma factor (referred to as sigma 54-holoenzyme). In the presence of adenosine triphosphate, the NtrC protein catalyzes isomerization of closed recognition complexes between sigma 54-holoenzyme and the glnA promoter to open complexes in which DNA in the region of the transcription start site is locally denatured. NtrC is not required subsequently for maintenance of open complexes or initiation of transcription.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Popham, D L -- Szeto, D -- Keener, J -- Kustu, S -- GM38361/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1989 Feb 3;243(4891):629-35.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of California, Berkley 94720.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2563595" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Adenosine Triphosphate/analogs & derivatives/metabolism/pharmacology ; *Bacterial Proteins ; Base Sequence ; Binding Sites ; DNA, Bacterial/metabolism ; DNA-Binding Proteins/*metabolism ; DNA-Directed RNA Polymerases/metabolism ; Deoxyribonuclease I ; *Enhancer Elements, Genetic ; Glutamate-Ammonia Ligase/genetics ; Heparin/pharmacology ; Molecular Sequence Data ; Mutation ; PII Nitrogen Regulatory Proteins ; Phosphorylation ; Promoter Regions, Genetic ; Salmonella typhimurium/*genetics ; Sigma Factor/metabolism ; *Trans-Activators ; Transcription Factors ; *Transcription, Genetic
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  • 85
    Publication Date: 1989-08-11
    Description: Cholesterol balance in mammalian cells is maintained in part by sterol-mediated repression of gene transcription for the low density lipoprotein receptor and enzymes in the cholesterol biosynthetic pathway. A promoter sequence termed the sterol regulatory element (SRE) is essential for this repression. With the use of an oligonucleotide containing the SRE to screen a human hepatoma complementary DNA expression library, a clone for a DNA binding protein was isolated that binds to the conserved SRE octanucleotide in both a sequence-specific and a single-strand--specific manner. This protein contains seven highly conserved zinc finger repeats that exhibit striking sequence similarity to retroviral nucleic acid binding proteins (NBPs). We have designated the protein "cellular NBP" (CNBP). CNBP is expressed in a wide variety of tissues, is up regulated by sterols, and exhibits binding specificity that correlates with in vivo function. These properties are consistent with a role in sterol-mediated control of transcription.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Rajavashisth, T B -- Taylor, A K -- Andalibi, A -- Svenson, K L -- Lusis, A J -- HL30568/HL/NHLBI NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1989 Aug 11;245(4918):640-3.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles 90024.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2562787" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Amino Acid Sequence ; Base Sequence ; Binding Sites ; Carcinoma, Hepatocellular/metabolism ; Cholesterol/biosynthesis ; DNA/*metabolism ; DNA Probes ; DNA-Binding Proteins/genetics/*metabolism ; Gene Expression Regulation/*drug effects ; Humans ; Hydroxymethylglutaryl CoA Reductases/genetics ; Liver Neoplasms/metabolism ; Metalloproteins/genetics/*metabolism ; Molecular Sequence Data ; Promoter Regions, Genetic ; *RNA-Binding Proteins ; Receptors, LDL/genetics ; *Regulatory Sequences, Nucleic Acid ; Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid ; Sterols/*pharmacology ; Tumor Cells, Cultured
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  • 86
    Publication Date: 1989-12-01
    Description: The crystal structure of Escherichia coli glutaminyl-tRNA synthetase (GlnRS) complexed with its cognate glutaminyl transfer RNA (tRNA(Gln] and adenosine triphosphate (ATP) has been derived from a 2.8 angstrom resolution electron density map and the known protein and tRNA sequences. The 63.4-kilodalton monomeric enzyme consists of four domains arranged to give an elongated molecule with an axial ratio greater than 3 to 1. Its interactions with the tRNA extend from the anticodon to the acceptor stem along the entire inside of the L of the tRNA. The complexed tRNA retains the overall conformation of the yeast phenylalanine tRNA (tRNA(Phe] with two major differences: the 3' acceptor strand of tRNA(Gln) makes a hairpin turn toward the inside of the L, with the disruption of the final base pair of the acceptor stem, and the anticodon loop adopts a conformation not seen in any of the previously determined tRNA structures. Specific recognition elements identified so far include (i) enzyme contacts with the 2-amino groups of guanine via the tRNA minor groove in the acceptor stem at G2 and G3; (ii) interactions between the enzyme and the anticodon nucleotides; and (iii) the ability of the nucleotides G73 and U1.A72 of the cognate tRNA to assume a conformation stabilized by the protein at a lower free energy cost than noncognate sequences. The central domain of this synthetase binds ATP, glutamine, and the acceptor end of the tRNA as well as making specific interactions with the acceptor stem.2+t is〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Rould, M A -- Perona, J J -- Soll, D -- Steitz, T A -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1989 Dec 1;246(4934):1135-42.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06511.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2479982" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Adenosine Triphosphate/*metabolism ; Amino Acyl-tRNA Synthetases/genetics/*metabolism ; Anticodon ; Base Composition ; Base Sequence ; Binding Sites ; Biological Evolution ; Chemistry, Physical ; Crystallization ; Escherichia coli/*enzymology/genetics ; Molecular Sequence Data ; Molecular Structure ; Nucleic Acid Conformation ; Physicochemical Phenomena ; RNA, Bacterial/*metabolism ; RNA, Fungal ; RNA, Transfer, Amino Acid-Specific/*metabolism ; RNA, Transfer, Gln/*metabolism ; X-Ray Diffraction
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    Publication Date: 1989-02-10
    Description: A novel approach to the control of enzyme catalysis is presented in which a disulfide bond engineered into the active-site cleft of bacteriophage T4 lysozyme is capable of switching the activity on and off. Two cysteines (Thr21----Cys and Thr142----Cys) were introduced by oligonucleotide-directed mutagenesis into the active-site cleft. These cysteines spontaneously formed a disulfide bond under oxidative conditions in vitro, and the catalytic activity of the oxidized (cross-linked) T4 lysozyme was completely lost. On exposure to reducing agent, however, the disulfide bond was rapidly broken, and the reduced (non-cross-linked) lysozyme was restored to full activity. Thus an enzyme has been engineered such that redox potential can be used to control catalytic activity.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Matsumura, M -- Matthews, B W -- GM21967/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1989 Feb 10;243(4892):792-4.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Institute of Molecular Biology, University of Oregon, Eugene 97403.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2916125" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Binding Sites ; Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid ; DNA Mutational Analysis ; *Disulfides ; Models, Molecular ; Muramidase/*physiology ; *Protein Engineering ; Recombinant Proteins ; Structure-Activity Relationship ; T-Phages/enzymology
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    American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
    Publication Date: 1989-07-28
    Description: The cloning of genes encoding mammalian DNA binding transcription factors for RNA polymerase II has provided the opportunity to analyze the structure and function of these proteins. This review summarizes recent studies that define structural domains for DNA binding and transcriptional activation functions in sequence-specific transcription factors. The mechanisms by which these factors may activate transcriptional initiation and by which they may be regulated to achieve differential gene expression are also discussed.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Mitchell, P J -- Tjian, R -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1989 Jul 28;245(4916):371-8.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Biochemistry, University of California, Berkeley 94720.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2667136" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Amino Acid Sequence ; Animals ; Base Sequence ; Binding Sites ; Cloning, Molecular ; DNA-Binding Proteins/*genetics/metabolism ; Gene Expression Regulation ; Molecular Sequence Data ; Protein Processing, Post-Translational ; RNA Polymerase II/*genetics/metabolism ; Repetitive Sequences, Nucleic Acid ; Transcription Factors/*genetics/metabolism ; *Transcription, Genetic
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  • 89
    Publication Date: 1989-06-23
    Description: The multiprotein-DNA complexes that participate in bacteriophage lambda site-specific recombination were used to study the combined effect of protein-induced bending and protein-mediated looping of DNA. The protein integrase (Int) is a monomer with two autonomous DNA binding domains of different sequence specificity. Stimulation of Int binding and cleavage at the low affinity core-type DNA sites required interactions with the high affinity arm-type sites and depended on simultaneous binding of the sequence-specific DNA bending protein IHF (integration host factor). The bivalent DNA binding protein is positioned at high affinity sites and directed, by a DNA bending protein, to interactions with distant lower affinity sites. Assembly of this complex is independent of protein-protein interactions.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1892171/" target="_blank"〉〈img src="https://static.pubmed.gov/portal/portal3rc.fcgi/4089621/img/3977009" border="0"〉〈/a〉   〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1892171/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Moitoso de Vargas, L -- Kim, S -- Landy, A -- AI-13544/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- GM-33928/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- R01 GM033928/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- R01 GM062723/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1989 Jun 23;244(4911):1457-61.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Division of Biology and Medicine, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2544029" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Bacterial Proteins/metabolism/*pharmacology ; Bacteriophage lambda/enzymology/*genetics ; Binding Sites ; DNA Nucleotidyltransferases/*metabolism ; DNA Restriction Enzymes ; DNA Transposable Elements ; DNA, Bacterial/genetics/*metabolism ; DNA, Viral/genetics/*metabolism ; DNA-Binding Proteins/metabolism ; Integrases ; Integration Host Factors ; Mutation ; Nucleic Acid Conformation/*drug effects ; Recombination, Genetic
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  • 90
    Publication Date: 1989-12-01
    Description: The structure of a complex between a peptide inhibitor with the sequence N-acetyl-Thr-Ile-Nle-psi[CH2-NH]-Nle-Gln-Arg.amide (Nle, norleucine) with chemically synthesized HIV-1 (human immunodeficiency virus 1) protease was determined at 2.3 A resolution (R factor of 0.176). Despite the symmetric nature of the unliganded enzyme, the asymmetric inhibitor lies in a single orientation and makes extensive interactions at the interface between the two subunits of the homodimeric protein. Compared with the unliganded enzyme, the protein molecule underwent substantial changes, particularly in an extended region corresponding to the "flaps" (residues 35 to 57 in each chain), where backbone movements as large as 7 A are observed.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Miller, M -- Schneider, J -- Sathyanarayana, B K -- Toth, M V -- Marshall, G R -- Clawson, L -- Selk, L -- Kent, S B -- Wlodawer, A -- A-127302/PHS HHS/ -- N01-C0-74101/PHS HHS/ -- SM-24483/SM/CMHS SAMHSA HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1989 Dec 1;246(4934):1149-52.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉NCI-Frederick Cancer Research Facility, BRI-Basic Research Program, MD 21701.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2686029" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Amino Acid Sequence ; Binding Sites ; Chemistry, Physical ; Crystallization ; Endopeptidases/*metabolism ; Gene Products, gag/metabolism ; HIV Protease ; HIV-1/*enzymology ; Hydrogen Bonding ; Molecular Sequence Data ; Molecular Structure ; Oligopeptides/*metabolism ; Physicochemical Phenomena ; Protease Inhibitors/*metabolism ; Protein Conformation
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  • 91
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    Publication Date: 1989-11-10
    Description: In vivo protein-DNA interactions at the developmentally regulated enhancer of the mouse muscle creatine kinase (MCK) gene were examined by a newly developed polymerase chain reaction (PCR) footprinting procedure. This ligation mediated, single-sided PCR technique permits the exponential amplification of an entire sequence ladder. Several footprints were detected in terminally differentiated muscle cells where the MCK gene is actively transcribed. None were observed in myogenic cells prior to differentiation or in nonmuscle cells. Two footprints appear to correspond to sites that can bind the myogenic regulator MyoD1 in vitro, whereas two others represent muscle specific use of apparently general factors. Because MyoD1 is synthesized by undifferentiated myoblasts, these data imply that additional regulatory mechanisms must restrict the interaction between this protein and its target site prior to differentiation.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Mueller, P R -- Wold, B -- GM35526/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- RR07003/RR/NCRR NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1989 Nov 10;246(4931):780-6.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Division of Biology, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena 91125.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2814500" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; Base Sequence ; Binding Sites ; Cell Line ; Creatine Kinase/*genetics ; DNA/*analysis/metabolism ; DNA-Binding Proteins/genetics/metabolism ; *Enhancer Elements, Genetic ; *Gene Amplification ; Gene Expression ; Genes, Regulator ; Mice ; Molecular Sequence Data ; Muscles/*enzymology ; *Polymerase Chain Reaction ; Protein Binding ; Protein Processing, Post-Translational ; Templates, Genetic ; Transcription Factor AP-2 ; Transcription Factors/genetics/metabolism
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  • 92
    Publication Date: 1989-08-04
    Description: The crystal structure of glycogen phosphorylase a complexed with its substrates, orthophosphate and maltopentaose, has been determined and refined at a resolution of 2.8 angstroms. With oligosaccaride bound at the glycogen storage site, the phosphate ion binds at the catalytic site and causes the regulatory and catalytic domains to separate with the loss of stabilizing interactions between them. Homotropic cooperativity between the active sites of the allosteric dimer results from rearrangements in isologous contacts between symmetry-related helices in the subunit interface. The conformational changes in the core of the interface are correlated with those observed on covalent activation by phosphorylation at Ser14 (phosphorylase b----a).〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Goldsmith, E J -- Sprang, S R -- Hamlin, R -- Xuong, N H -- Fletterick, R J -- DK31507-05/DK/NIDDK NIH HHS/ -- GM00085-05/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1989 Aug 4;245(4917):528-32.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Biochemistry, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas 75235.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2756432" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Allosteric Site ; Amino Acid Sequence ; Binding Sites ; Catalysis ; Crystallization ; Crystallography ; Enzyme Activation ; Glucosephosphates/metabolism ; Glycogen/metabolism ; Macromolecular Substances ; Molecular Sequence Data ; Molecular Structure ; Oligosaccharides ; Phosphates/metabolism ; Phosphorylase a/*metabolism ; Phosphorylases/*metabolism ; Protein Conformation ; X-Ray Diffraction
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  • 93
    Publication Date: 1989-09-22
    Description: The inhibition by charybdotoxin of A-type potassium channels expressed in Xenopus oocytes was studied for several splicing variants of the Drosophila Shaker gene and for several site-directed mutants of this channel. Charybdotoxin blocking affinity is lowered by a factor of 3.5 upon replacing glutamate-422 with glutamine, and by a factor of about 12 upon substituting lysine in this position. Replacement of glutamate-422 by aspartate had no effect on toxin affinity. Thus, the glutamate residue at position 422 of this potassium channel is near or in the externally facing mouth of the potassium conduction pathway, and the positively charged toxin is electrostatically focused toward its blocking site by the negative potential set up by glutamate-422.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉MacKinnon, R -- Miller, C -- AR 19826/AR/NIAMS NIH HHS/ -- GM 31768/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- NS 07292/NS/NINDS NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1989 Sep 22;245(4924):1382-5.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA 02254.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2476850" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; Binding Sites ; Charybdotoxin ; DNA Mutational Analysis ; Drosophila melanogaster ; Ions ; Membrane Proteins/genetics/metabolism/ultrastructure ; Potassium Channels/*metabolism/ultrastructure ; Scorpion Venoms/*metabolism ; Structure-Activity Relationship ; Transfection ; Xenopus laevis
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  • 94
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    Publication Date: 1989-07-07
    Description: Tomato plants homozygous for the diageotropica (dgt) mutation exhibit morphological and physiological abnormalities which suggest that they are unable to respond to the plant growth hormone auxin (indole-3-acetic acid). The photoaffinity auxin analog [3H]5N3-IAA specifically labels a polypeptide doublet of 40 and 42 kilodaltons in membrane preparations from stems of the parental variety, VFN8, but not from stems of plants containing the dgt mutation. In roots of the mutant plants, however, labeling is indistinguishable from that in VFN8. These data suggest that the two polypeptides are part of a physiologically important auxin receptor system, which is altered in a tissue-specific manner in the mutant.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Hicks, G R -- Rayle, D L -- Lomax, T L -- DCB-8718731/DC/NIDCD NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1989 Jul 7;245:52-4.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Oregon State University, Corvallis 97331-2902.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11537490" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Affinity Labels ; Azides/*metabolism ; Binding Sites ; Hypocotyl/cytology/genetics/metabolism/ultrastructure ; Indoleacetic Acids/*analysis/*metabolism ; Intracellular Membranes/chemistry/metabolism/ultrastructure ; Lycopersicon esculentum/cytology/*genetics/metabolism/ultrastructure ; Microsomes/ultrastructure ; *Mutation ; Photolysis ; *Plant Growth Regulators ; Plant Proteins ; Plant Roots/cytology/genetics/metabolism/ultrastructure ; Receptors, Cell Surface/analysis/genetics/metabolism ; Time Factors
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  • 95
    Publication Date: 1989-08-18
    Description: The chemical identity of the amino acid free-radical site that represents one of the two oxidizing equivalents stored in the H2O2-oxidized intermediate (compound ES) of the mitochondrial heme enzyme, cytochrome c peroxidase (CcP) has been sought for almost a quarter of a century. Site-directed mutagenesis alone cannot yield this answer. Low-temperature 35-gigahertz (Q-band) electron nuclear double resonance (ENDOR) spectroscopy was used to examine compound ES prepared from proteins containing specifically deuterated methionine or tryptophan, as well as the amino acid replacement Trp51----Phe. The results definitely identify the site of the radical in compound ES as tryptophan, most likely Trp191.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Sivaraja, M -- Goodin, D B -- Smith, M -- Hoffman, B M -- GM-33804/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- GM-41049/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- HL-13531/HL/NHLBI NIH HHS/ -- R01 GM041049/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1989 Aug 18;245(4919):738-40.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2549632" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Binding Sites ; *Cytochrome-c Peroxidase/genetics ; Electron Spin Resonance Spectroscopy ; Escherichia coli/enzymology ; Free Radicals ; Mutation ; Oxidation-Reduction ; *Peroxidases/genetics ; Recombinant Proteins ; *Tryptophan
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  • 96
    Publication Date: 1989-05-12
    Description: Calicheamicin gamma 1I is a recently discovered diyne-ene-containing antitumor antibiotic that cleaves DNA in a double-stranded fashion, a rarity among drugs, at specific sequences. It is proposed that the cutting specificity is due to a combination of the complementarity of the diyne-ene portion of the aglycone with DNA secondary structures and stabilization by association of the thiobenzoate-carbohydrate tail with the minor groove.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Zein, N -- Poncin, M -- Nilakantan, R -- Ellestad, G A -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1989 May 12;244(4905):697-9.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Cyanamid Company, Medical Research Division, Lederle Laboratories, Pearl River, NY 10965.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2717946" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: *Aminoglycosides ; Animals ; Anti-Bacterial Agents/*metabolism ; Antibiotics, Antineoplastic ; Base Sequence ; Benzoates ; Binding Sites ; Carbohydrates ; Cattle ; Computer Simulation ; DNA/*metabolism ; Enediynes ; Models, Molecular ; Molecular Structure ; Nucleic Acid Conformation ; Structure-Activity Relationship
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  • 97
    Publication Date: 1989-03-31
    Description: The discovery that the AP-1 family of enhancer binding factors includes a complex of the cellular Fos (cFos) and cellular Jun (cJun) proteins established a direct and important link between oncogenesis and transcriptional regulation. Homodimeric cJun protein synthesized in vitro is capable of binding selectively to AP-1 recognition sites, whereas the cFos polypeptide is not. When cotranslated, the cFos and cJun proteins can form a stable, heterodimeric complex with the DNA binding properties of AP-1/cJun. The related proteins Jun B and vJun are also able to form DNA binding complexes with cFos. Directed mutagenesis of the cFos protein reveals that a leucine repeat structure is required for binding to cJun, in a manner consistent with the proposed function of the "leucine zipper." A novel domain adjacent to, but distinct from, the leucine repeat of cFos is required for DNA binding by cFos-cJun heterodimers. Thus experimental evidence is presented that leucine repeats can mediate complex formation between heterologous proteins and that promotes further understanding of the molecular mechanisms underlying the function of two proto-oncogene products.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Turner, R -- Tjian, R -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1989 Mar 31;243(4899):1689-94.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Biochemistry, University of California, Berkeley 94720.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2494701" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Amino Acid Sequence ; Animals ; Binding Sites ; Chromatography, Affinity ; DNA/*metabolism ; DNA-Binding Proteins/genetics/*metabolism ; Gene Expression Regulation ; Humans ; *Leucine ; Macromolecular Substances ; Molecular Sequence Data ; Mutation ; Oncogenes ; Protein Biosynthesis ; Proto-Oncogene Proteins/genetics/*metabolism ; Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-fos ; Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-jun ; Rats ; Repetitive Sequences, Nucleic Acid ; Structure-Activity Relationship ; Transcription Factors/genetics/*metabolism
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  • 98
    Publication Date: 1989-03-31
    Description: The protein products of the fos and jun proto-oncogenes form a heterodimeric complex that participates in a stable high affinity interaction with DNA elements containing AP-1 binding sites. The effects of deletions and point mutations in Fos and Jun on protein complex formation and DNA binding have been examined. The data suggest that Fos and Jun dimerize via a parallel interaction of helical domains containing a heptad repeat of leucine residues (the leucine zipper). Dimerization is required for DNA binding and results in the appropriate juxtaposition of basic amino acid regions from Fos and Jun, both of which are required for association with DNA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Gentz, R -- Rauscher, F J 3rd -- Abate, C -- Curran, T -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1989 Mar 31;243(4899):1695-9.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Molecular Oncology, Roche Institute of Molecular Biology, Nutley, NJ 07110.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2494702" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Amino Acid Sequence ; Animals ; Binding Sites ; Cross-Linking Reagents ; DNA/*metabolism ; DNA-Binding Proteins/genetics/*metabolism ; Glutaral ; Immunosorbent Techniques ; *Leucine ; Macromolecular Substances ; Molecular Sequence Data ; Mutation ; Protein Conformation ; Proto-Oncogene Proteins/genetics/*metabolism ; Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-fos ; Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-jun ; Rats ; Repetitive Sequences, Nucleic Acid ; Structure-Activity Relationship ; Transcription Factors/genetics/*metabolism
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    Publication Date: 1989-03-17
    Description: A true Bronsted analysis of proton transfer in an enzyme mechanism is made possible by the chemical rescue of an inactive mutant of aspartate aminotransferase, where the endogenous general base, Lys258, is replaced with Ala by site-directed mutagenesis. Catalytic activity is restored to this inactive mutant by exogenous amines. The eleven amines studied generate a Bronsted correlation with beta of 0.4 for the transamination of cysteine sulfinate, when steric effects are included in the regression analysis. Localized mutagenesis thus allows the classical Bronsted analysis of transition-state structure to be applied to enzyme-catalyzed reactions.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Toney, M D -- Kirsch, J F -- GM07232/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- GM35393/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1989 Mar 17;243(4897):1485-8.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Biochemistry, University of California, Berkeley 94720.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2538921" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Amines ; Aspartate Aminotransferases/*metabolism ; Binding Sites ; Catalysis ; Escherichia coli/enzymology ; Kinetics ; Lysine ; Mutation ; Protons
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    Publication Date: 1989-12-01
    Description: 〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Waldrop, M M -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1989 Dec 1;246(4934):1122.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2479981" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Amino Acyl-tRNA Synthetases/*metabolism ; Binding Sites ; Escherichia coli/*enzymology/genetics ; Molecular Structure ; RNA, Bacterial/*metabolism ; RNA, Transfer, Amino Acid-Specific/*metabolism ; RNA, Transfer, Gln/*metabolism
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