Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: Structural insights into the substrate specificity and activity of ervatamins, the papain-like cysteine proteases from a tropical plant, Ervatamia coronaria ppt
... proteases
from a tropical plant, Ervatamia coronaria
Raka Ghosh, Sibani Chakraborty, Chandana Chakrabarti, Jiban Kanti Dattagupta and
Sampa Biswas
Crystallography and Molecular Biology Division, Saha Institute ... S, Sundd M, Jagan-
nadham MV & Dattagupta JK (1999) Crystallization
and preliminary X-ray analysis of ervatamin B and C,
two thiol proteases from Er...
... c
1
and a disappearance of the intermediate form
of the Rieske protein. At the same time, the levels of
subunits 7, 8 and 9 significantly decreased in this mutant
strain. However, the amounts of ... around the
catalytic core of the enzyme to arrive at the three dimen-
sional organization revealed by the crystal structures
(Fig. 1A) . The supernumerary subuni...
... are characterized by
a conserved array of 20 cysteines and the absence of
His and aromatic amino acids. MT3 contains 68
amino acids with 70% sequence identity to the MT1
and MT2 (MT1 ⁄ 2) isoforms. ... kinetically labile, allowing rapid intra-
molecular and intermolecular metal transfer. This is a
direct consequence of the relatively high structural
dynamics and fle...
... biomaterials based on layered
silica, of titania and of zirconia [32]. This view is based
on the finding of a dual role for silicatein as an ana-
bolic (silica polymerase) and catabolic enzyme (silica
esterase), ... a
Finnigan MAT mass spectrometer 8230 (Midland; Canada).
In a control assay, the reaction was performed in the
absence of silicatein.
Esterase activity
T...
... catalytic
efficiency and substrate specificity of PRTFDC1 was
further characterized using a radiochemical assay with
tritium-labeled bases as substrates, whereas the struc-
tural basis for substrate recognition and ... phosphoribosyl-
transferase activity [10].
The structural characterization of numerous com-
plexes of the human HPRT and several bacterial and
pro...
... The observation that self-asso-
ciating peptides and proteins are at the core of several
neurodegenerative diseases has led to a massive effort
aiming to understand the physiologically relevant
structures ... collected and aver-
aged for each experiment.
ATR-IR spectroscopy
Aliquots of samples were taken from each of the samples
used for CD spectroscopy and dried over...
... has fundamen-
tal structural, thermodynamic and mechanistic features
in common with the dual-flavin family of reductases,
there are unique aspects related to NO synthesis that
constrain and shape ... suggest
that K
eq
A and the associated k
on
and k
off
conforma-
tional rates are primary factors in regulating the cyto-
chrome c reductase activity of NOS enzymes,
particul...
... (wt) and N18 9A mutant of MR with
NADH. The wt trace is fit to a single exponential and the N18 9A
trace to a 4-exponential function – see the main text for more
details. (Inset) The same data on a ... 2009)
doi:10.1111/j.1742-4658.2009.07121.x
At least half of all enzyme-catalysed reactions are thought to involve a
hydrogen transfer. In the last 10 years, it has be...
... coordinated
by cysteines located in both of the large PSI subunits,
PsaA and PsaB, via a loop that also plays a role in the
attachment of PsaC [12]. PsaC, PsaD and PsaE are
located at the cytosolic ... plastids, mitochondria and bacteria.
They are also the basic prototypes for a large family of diflavin electron
transferases with common functional and structural p...