The hydrophilic residues are located on the solvent accessible surface of the leucine zipper, enabling these residues to interact with the water in the surrounding. This arrangement reduces the free-energy of protein folding by burying the hydrophobic residues in the interior of the protein, while exposing the hydrophilic residues to the water containing environment and thereby, stabilizing the coiled-coil structure.
Q37. The α helices of the leucine zipper motif can recognize and bind to DNA specifically, providing a scaffold for interaction of proteins with DNA.
Q38. The coiled coil structure contains approximately 3.5 residues per turn, with every seventh residue having an equivalent position as related to the helix axis. In addition, the
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Yes. The DNA-binding residues are located within the zipper motif, at the basic regions of the helices.
Q41. There are several hydrogen bonds between the protein and the base pairs of the DNA such as the cytosine at position 34, cytosine at position 12, and tyrosine at position 29. In addition, there seem to be several hydrogen bonds between the protein and the phosphate backbone of the DNA such as the oxygen in the phosphate group at position 33.
Q42. The arginine-234 forms two hydrogen bonds with the phosphate backbone at position 27.
The arginine-241 forms three hydrogen bonds with the phosphate backbone at position 28.
The arginine-245 forms one hydrogen bonds with the phosphate backbone at position 29. The arginine-243 forms two hydrogen bonds with the phosphate backbone at position 9. The arginine-232 forms one hydrogen bonds with the phosphate backbone at position 33. The arginine-240 forms three hydrogen bonds with the phosphate backbone at position 32.
Q43. Yes. The asparagine that hydrogen bond with two contiguous base pairs at the center of each half-state is located at position 235.
Q44. Yes. The two alanine that make van der Waals contact with the thymine methyl group
First adenosine monophosphate (AMP), a covalent enzyme, must be formed and linked to a lysine enzyme. Next AMP will transfer to the 5' phosphate end of the missing section between the Okazaki fragments. Last –OH will help remove the AMP sealing the phosphate backbone together producing a continuous DNA strand ("DNA Ligase," n.d.). A visual representation of ligase joining two Okazaki fragments can be viewed in Figure 2.
A peptide bond is formed when an amino acid and the carboxyl group of another amino acid and a water molecule is released. 9. The four basic structures of protein molecules are primary, secondary, tertiary and quaternary. 10. An example of (a) a structural protein, (b) a contractile protein and (c) a conjugated protein.
The gene is located on chromosome seventeen (17p13.1). The genomic coordinates are 17:7,571,719-7,590,867 and it is 19,148 base pairs in length. The p53 protein is made up of three hundred and ninety three amino acids and is considered a phosphoprotein. The gene also contains four domains, also called units. Each one of these domains has a different responsibility. One domain, called the core domain, identifies specific DNA sequences. Another domain stimulates transcription factors. The third domain controls the tetramerization of the protein. The last domain is able to distinguish damaged DNA. This may include single-stranded DNA or base pairs that are misaligned (Vijayaraj).
Proteins are polymeric chains that are built from monomers called amino acids. All structural and functional properties of proteins derive from the chemical properties of the polypeptide chain. There are four levels of protein structural organization: primary, secondary, tertiary, and quaternary. Primary structure is defined as the linear sequence of amino acids in a polypeptide chain. The secondary structure refers to certain regular geometric figures of the chain. Tertiary structure results from long-range contacts within the chain. The quaternary structure is the organization of protein subunits, or two or more independent polypeptide chains.
Kinesin heavy chain is my target protein. It has 975 amino acids. Drosophilia Melanogaster is the organism. A kinesin is a protein belonging to a class of motor proteins found in eukaryotic cells. Kinesins move along microtubule filaments, and are powered by the hydrolysis of ATP. The active movement of kinesins supports several cellular functions including mitosis, meiosis and transport of cellular cargo, such as in axonal transport. Most kinesins walk towards the positive end of a microtubule, which, in most cells, entails transporting cargo such as protein and membrane components from the center of the cell towards the periphery. In contrast, dyneins are motor proteins that move toward the microtubules' negative end.
The core of the structure of the C-domain in whole DT is formed by eight β-strands forming two sheets of three and five strands, respectively. These two sheets are surrounded by six short α-helices6. The active site of the C domain is located in a cleft formed by three beta strands named CB2, CB3, CB7, a helix, CH3, and a loop, CL2. The loop CL2 including amino acids 32-54 which covers active site, becomes disordered from residues 39 to 46 upon binding of NAD7. This suggests a potential role for this loop in the recognition of the ADP-ribose acceptor substrate, EF-2. The ADP-ribosylation reaction has been proposed to proceed by a direct displacement reaction, with the pi-imidazole nitrogen of diphthamide being activated by Glu148 for nucleophilic attack on the N-glycosidic bond of NAD8. The loop of 14 amino acid residues linking the C domain to the T domain must be cleaved in order to activate DT9. More work is still needed to fully understand the mechanism of translocation of DT. The precise molecular and dynamic description of the contacts between the T and the C-domains, the cell membrane and maybe other cell components remain to be
As shown in the Fig.6.3.1-6.3.11 the conventional intermolecular hydrogen bond (N-H…N, O-H…O, N-H…O, O-H…N) are formed between ortho substituted ethanol’s and 2-chloroaniline. In total there
The fourth and last PTM occurs at residue 232 as phosphothreonine, however this PTM occurs via
This is identified as a tetramer with 1023 amino acids residues in each subunit with their own active sites (Juers et al., 2012). As shown in Figure 2, 12% of the molecule is of helical (20 helices; 130 residues) and 41% is comprised of beta sheet (77 strands; 423 residues) (Juers et al., 2012). The first beta strand begins on the 22nd residue and the 39th encloses the first alpha helix strand (Juers et al., 2012). Within each monomer, the amino acids form 5 structural domains as shown in Figure 3. Domain 1 is a jelly-roll type barrel, domain 2 and 4 are fibronectin type III-like barrels and domain 5 is a β-sandwich (Jacobson and Matthews, 1992). The third (central domain) contains the active site which forms a deep pit at the C-terminal end of the barrel made up of 334-627 residues and is a triose phosphate isomerase (Jacobson and Matthews,
Proteins are the primary functionary macromolecules of any cell due to their vast variety in function, which is a result of their amount of varying forms, and they are polymers composed of amino acids. These functions include transportation, structural support, motility, gene regulation, signal carrying and receiving, storage, and catalyzing reactions; these functions are determined by the form of the protein. It follows then that the many functions of proteins come from their multitude of forms and their multiple levels of structure which are as follows: primary, secondary, tertiary, and quaternary. The primary structure is most basic chain or sequence of amino acids that accumulate into the alpha helices and beta sheets which compose the secondary structure of a protein. The tertiary structure is a complete and three-dimensional polypeptide chain containing the secondary structures, folds, coils, loops, and such that form a globular form. Quaternary structure is a single protein formed by multiple polypeptide chains or multiple tertiary structures.
One of these is to a histidine residue which lies eight residues along helix F of hemoglobin, the proximal hitidine (His F8). The sixth bond is to one of the oxygen atoms in a molecule of oxygen. Near to where the oxygen binds to the heme group is another histidine residue, the distal histidine (His E7). This serves two very important functions. First, preventing neightboring hemoglobin molecules coming into contact with one another and oxidizing to the Fe3+ state, cause no longer bind to oxygen. Sencond, lowering the affinity of the heme for CO by preventing carbon monoxide binding with the most favourable configuration to the Fe2+. This is important because the protein can no longer bind oxygen once CO has bound irreversibly to the heme,. Thus, although the oxygen binding site in hemoglobin and myglobin is only a small part of the whole protein, the polypeptide chain modulates the function of the heme prosthetic group.
In a study where stimulations of XN1-P11-P10 peptides which are identical to XN1 but lack poly-P regions show that poly-P region protects XN1 by inhibiting aggregation of poly-Q region. Poly-P regions from PPII helices and overcome the likelihood of poly-Q residues in XN1 to adopt β-sheet dihedral angles (La khani et al, 2010). Therefore without poly-P regions aggregation will follow in poly-Q. Another study showed that a 23 aa-long hHtt peptide, P42, plays a defensive role with respect to polyQ-hHtt aggregation as well as cellular and
They are Conserved domain 1 (C1), C2, C3 C4, and bZIP domain. Conserved domains 1, 2, and 3 have phosphorylation sites, so that these proteins are phosphorylated by kinase. Members of Sucrose Non-Fermenting 1 (SNF1)-Related protein Kinase 2s (SnRK2s) phosphorylate and positively control the AREBs/ABFs TFs (Fujita et al., 2013). bZIP domain has two regions, basic region which is responsible for DNA binding; and leucine zipper region responsible for homo or hetero dimerization (Mark, 2002).
In order to determine and analyse data for the structure and the functional of biological molecules and also specific biological problems, with this tool and computational techniques, it enables researchers to analyse the information that is associated with biomolecules on a wider scale through the computer databases that is based on existing data (1).