... Structural determination of the polar glycoglycerolipids from
thermophilic bacteria
Meiothermus taiwanensis
Feng-Ling Yang
1
, Chun-Ping Lu
1
, ... study is
the first to determine the full structure of glycoglycerolipid
in thermophilic bacteria Meiothermus spp. The structural
information will be very useful for further investigations of
the mechanisms...
... than
the value of 0.79 expected from theoretical consider-
ations at a field strength of 11.7 T [37]. These results
(together with those of the R
2
described above) suggest
a high flexibility of the ... 0
where the coefficients of the cubic equation, a and b,
are obtained from the coefficients of the linear regres-
sion of the experimental J(x
N
) (i.e. the spe...
... identified by the mass
increase of 42 mass units. The relative level of acetylation of
a peptide was estimated on the basis of the intensity ratio of
the native and acetylated species. From the data ... and the equilibrium of
self-association appears to control the biological properties
of the protein [7]. Moreover, the immunomodulatory
activity is related t...
... fold. The HTH fold of one mono-
mer is positioned above the catalytic core of the other.
Interestingly, Arg267 from the beginning of helix 9 in
the HTH fold of one monomer is positioned towards
the ... diminished
Fig. 5. Model of the acceptor end of tRNA
Ser
bound in the active
site of mMbSerRS. The view is focused on the acceptor part of
tRNA in the ac...
... study the
secondary structure of the catalytic domain of PKCf
and the effect of its substrate, MgATP, and also to
study the effect of thermal unfolding in the presence
and the absence of MgATP. ... structure of 282 residues of a total of 344
have been solved [19]. The catalytic domain of PKCh
possesses a high degree of homology ( 80%) with the
catalytic do...
... for the p eptide.
NMR s pectroscopy was further utilized to explore the
structural properties of Nogo-40. The very narrow reson-
ance dispersion of amide protons ( 0.7 p.p.m) and the lack
of ... Zn
2+
.
Furthermore, the d etermination of the Nogo-40 solution
structure offers a starting point for further understanding
the interaction between NgR and Nogo-40, and for
fu...
... the contours of red algal
projection a re of similar size and shape t o those of
cyanobacterial, in particular to the structural features of
the protrusions, a llowing the i dentification of the ... on the presence
of other extrinsic proteins [44], whereas effective binding of
red algal cyt c
550
to the red algal PSII requires the presence
of all of the ot...
... of note that the structure of the LPS O-antigen of
F. columnare differs structurally from the LPS O-antigen
of the fish pathogen Flavobacterium psychrophilium [21],
which is a linear polymer of ... being
composed of a
L
-FucN component originating from the
O-PS residue A and the
D
-FucN from the reduced residue B.
The isolation of optically pure 2-amino-2,6-...
... for formation of short helices, transiently,
and the chain as such is highly dynamic.
Structure of the core of the oligomers
Because of the large size of the core of the oligomer,
the NMR spectra ... signals from the
interior of the core and thus do not give any informa-
tion on its structural details. Nevertheless, we did
derive useful insights into the...
... and bacterial survival.
Previous studies have determined the structure of the
O-chain polysaccharide of A. salmonicida strain SJ-15 [11].
Partial structure of the core oligosaccharide from the ... comparison of its MS
with that of the reference compound.
The absolute configuration of glycoses was established by
capillary GLC o f their ace tylated (-)-2-butyl glycoside...