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BMC Biochemistry is an open access journal publishing original peer-reviewed research articles in all aspects of biochemical processes, including the structure, function and dynamics of metabolic pathways, supramolecular complexes, enzymes, proteins, nucleic acids and small molecular components of organelles, cells and tissues.
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BMC Biochemistry 2009, 10 :35
The variable N-terminal acidic domains of the Toc159 chloroplast preprotein receptor family in Arabidopsis are intrinsically disordered, which may facilitate interactions with transit peptides, and explain how these receptors serve to import a wide variety of proteins into chloroplasts.
BMC Biochemistry 2009, 10 :29
Prion peptides are tested for their ability to modulate prion protein self-interactions and conversion to the scrapie isoform, indicating domain-specific roles and the importance of stabilizing PrPC-PrPC and PrPC-PrPSc interactions as a prelude to conversion.
BMC Biochemistry 2009, 10 :27
The new version of the Cytochrome P450 Engineering Database (CYPED) contains information on the sequences of 8613 proteins and the structures of 47 proteins, and has been extended by integrating biochemical information from the Cytochrome P450 Knowledgebase.
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Cloning and characterization of Escherichia coli DUF299: a bifunctional ADP-dependent kinase - phosphate-dependent pyrophosphorylase from bacteria. Jim N Burnell BMC Biochemistry 2010, 11 :1 (3 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ]
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Identification of four novel phosphorylation sites in estrogen receptor alpha: impact on receptor-dependent gene expression and phosphorylation by protein kinase CK2. Christopher C Williams, Aninda Basu, Abeer El-Gharbawy, Latonya M Carrier, Carolyn L Smith, Brian G Rowan BMC Biochemistry 2009, 10 :36 (31 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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The acidic domains of the Toc159 chloroplast preprotein receptor family are intrinsically disordered protein domains Lynn GL Richardson, Masoud Jelokhani-Niaraki, Matthew D Smith BMC Biochemistry 2009, 10 :35 (30 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Identification and characterization of endonuclein binding proteins: evidence of modulatory effects on signal transduction and chaperone activity Maja Ludvigsen, Morten Ostergaard, Henrik Vorum, Christian Jacobsen, Bent Honore BMC Biochemistry 2009, 10 :34 (22 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Comparison of the receptor FGFRL1 from sea urchins and humans illustrates evolution of a zinc binding motif in the intracellular domain Lei Zhuang, Andrei V Karotki, Philip Bruecker, Beat Trueb BMC Biochemistry 2009, 10 :33 (18 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Analysis of the stoichiometric metal activation of methionine aminopeptidase Sergio C Chai, Qi-Zhuang Ye BMC Biochemistry 2009, 10 :32 (17 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Biochemical evidence for the tyrosine involvement in cationic intermediate stabilization in mouse Eugenia Poliakov, Susan Gentleman, Preethi Chander, Francis X Cunningham Jr, Bella L Grigorenko, Alexander V Nemuhin, T Michael Redmond BMC Biochemistry 2009, 10 :31 (14 [Abstract ] [Full text ] [PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Ghrelin-like peptide with fatty acid modification and O-glycosylation in the red stingray, Dasyatis akajei Hiroyuki Kaiya, Shiho Kodama, Koutaro Ishiguro, Kouhei Matsuda, Minoru Uchiyama, Mikiya Miyazato, Kenji Kangawa BMC Biochemistry 2009, 10 :30 (14 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Prion protein self-peptides modulate prion interactions and conversion Alan Rigter, Jan Priem, Drophatie Timmers-Parohi, Jan PM Langeveld, Fred G van Zijderveld, Alex Bossers BMC Biochemistry 2009, 10 :29 (30 [Abstract ] [Full text ] [PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Purification and characterization of cysteine protease from germinating cotyledons of horse gram Rajeswari Jinka, Vadde Ramakrishna, Sridhar K Rao, Ramakrishna P Rao BMC Biochemistry 2009, 10 :28 (17 [Abstract ] [Full text ] [PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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QTLs and candidate genes for desiccation and abscisic acid content in maize kernels Valerie Capelle, Carine Remoue, Laurence Moreau, Agnes Reyss, Aline Mahe, Agnes Massonneau, Matthieu Falque, Alain Charcosset, Claudine Thevenot, Peter Rogowsky, Sylvie Coursol, Jean-Louis Prioul BMC Plant Biology 2010, 10 :2 (4 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ]
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Amino acid "little Big Bang": Representing amino acid substitution matrices as dot products of Euclidian vectors Karel Zimmermann, Jean-Francois Gibrat BMC Bioinformatics 2010, 11 :4 (4 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ]
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Proteomic analysis of honeybee worker (Apis mellifera) hypopharyngeal gland development Mao Feng, Yu Fang, JianKe Li BMC Genomics 2009, 10 :645 (31 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Transgenic fat-1 mouse as a model to study the pathophysiology of cardiovascular, neurological and psychiatric disorders Undurti N Das, Laszlo G Puskas Lipids in Health and Disease 2009, 8 :61 (30 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Impact of ubiquitous inhibitors on the GUS gene reporter system: evidence from the model plants Arabidopsis, tobacco and rice and correction methods for quantitative assays of transgenic and endogenous GUS Simone Fior, Paolo D Gerola Plant Methods 2009, 5 :19 (30 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Tuning microbial hosts for membrane protein production Maria Freigassner, Harald Pichler, Anton Glieder Microbial Cell Factories 2009, 8 :69 (29 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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aes, the gene encoding the esterase B in Escherichia coli, is a powerful phylogenetic marker of the species Mathilde Lescat, Claire Hoede, Olivier Clermont, Louis Garry, Pierre Darlu, Pierre Tuffery, Erick Denamur, Bertrand Picard BMC Microbiology 2009, 9 :273 (29 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Discriminating the native structure from decoys using scoring functions based on the residue packing in globular proteins Ranjit PRASAD Bahadur, Pinak Chakrabarti BMC Structural Biology 2009, 9 :76 (28 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Quantitative mass spectrometry of TATA binding protein-containing complexes and subunit phosphorylations during the cell cycle Wwm PIM Pijnappel, Annemieke Kolkman, Marijke PA Baltissen, Albert JR Heck, Hth Marc Timmers Proteome Science 2009, 7 :46 (24 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Conservation of DNA-binding specificity and oligomerisation properties within the p53 family Tobias Brandt, Miriana Petrovich, Andreas C Joerger, Dmitry B Veprintsev BMC Genomics 2009, 10 :628 (23 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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