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Adolfas K. Gaigalas, L. Li, O. Henderson, R F. Vogt, J. Barr, G E. Marti, J. Weaver, A. Schwartz
The use of fluorescence as an analytical technique has been growing over the last 20 years. A major factor in inhibiting more rapid growth has been the inability to make comparable fluorescence intensity measurements across laboratories. NIST recognizes
This research exploits two recent developments to obtain a fundamental understanding of the metalloenzyme active site using the bi-metallic enzyme phosphotriesterase as an example of this class. First, is the theoretical prediction that the structure and
Measurement of 8-hydroxy-2'-deoxyguanosine (8-OH-dGuo) in DNA by high-performance liquid chromatography/mass spectrometry (HPLC/MS) was studied. A methodology was developed for separation by LC of 8-OH-dGuo from intact and modified nucleosides in DNA
2-aminopurine is a highly fluorescent analog of adenine that can be incorporated synthetically into DNA with little perturbation of the native double-helical structure. The sensitive dependence of the quantum yield of this fluorophore on nucleic acid
A proof-of-concept for new methodology to detect and potentially quantify mAb aggregation is presented. Assay development included using an aggregated mAb as bait for screening of a phage display peptide library and identifying those peptides with random
R. Sinibaldi, C D. O'Connell, H Rodriguez, C. Seidel
As the human genome project continues toward its goal of sequencing the entire human genome by the end of 2003, this is providing unique opportunities for studying genetic variation in humans and its relationship with disease risk and aging. Consequently
E. J. Sundberg, M. Urrutia, B C. Braden, J. Isern, D. Tsuchiya, B. A. Fields, E Malchiodi, J. Tormo, Frederick P. Schwarz, R A. Mariuzza
Antigen-antibody complexes provide useful models for analyzing the thermodynamics of protein-protein association reactions. We have employed site-directed mutagenesis, X-ray crystallography, and isothermal titration calorimetry to investigate the role of
N G. Abdulaev, T Ngo, Ruby I. Chen, Z H. Lu, K D. Ridge
Seven-helical integral membrane receptors mediate signal transduction between extracellular stimuli and intracellular signaling cascades. Numerous studies on the seven-transmembrane-helix receptor rhodopsin have implicated the cytoplasmic loops and
Agarase was used investigate the effect of increasing the number of polymer ends on the electrophoretic trapping of circular DNA in agarose gels. The electric field strength required to trap circular DNA was found to be the same in control and treated gels
Charles F. Majkrzak, Norman F. Berk, S. Krueger, Joseph A. Dura, M. Tarek, D Tobias, Vitalii I. Silin, Curtis W. Meuse, John T. Woodward IV, Anne L. Plant
A database was developed to store, organize, and retrieve the data associated with electrophoresis and chromatography separations. It allows laboratories to store extensive data on saparation techniques (analytical and preparative). The data for gel
C. Dherin, M. Dizdaroglu, H. Doerflinger, S. Boiteux, J. P. Radicella
In Drosophila, the S3 ribosomal protein has been shown to act as a DNA glycosylase/AP lyase capable of releasing 8-hydroxyguanine (8-OH-Gua) in damaged DNA. Here we describe a second Drosophila protein (dOggl) with 8-OH-Gua and abasic (AP) site DNA repair
Ellipsometry measures the relative intensity of and the phase difference between the parallel (p) and perpendicular (s) components of an electric field vector interacting with a sample. In this paper, a technique using polarized Fourier transform infrared
S. Wang, Y. Shi, I Gorshkova, Frederick P. Schwarz
The enhancement of the transcription of three synthetic promoters by cNMP-ligated cAMP receptor protein (CRP)/mutant complexes was determined from the transcription yields of a short AAUU transcript in an abortive initiation in vitro transcription assay
R M. Werner, Y. L. Jiang, R. G. Gordley, J. Jagadeesh, Jane E. Ladner, G Xiao, M Tordova, G L. Gilliland, J T. Stivers
The DNA repair enzyme uracil DNA glycosylase (UDG) pinches the phosphodiester backbone of damaged DNA using the hydroxyl side chains of a conserved trio of serine residues, resulting in flipping of the deoxyuridine from the DNA helix into the enzyme active
C N. Rao, Prasad T. Reddy, D J. Reeder, Yonglin Liu, S M. Stack, W Kisiel, D T. Woodley
We report the expression of tissue factor pathway inhibitor-2 (TFPI-2) (also known as PP-5, placental protein-5; MSPI, matrix-associated serine protease inhibitor) in E. coli as a 25 kDa non-glycosylated protein with a glycine substituted for aspartic acid
T. K. Hazra, T. Izumi, R Venkataraman, Y W. Kow, M. Dizdaroglu, Somenath Mitra
8-oxoguanine (G*), induced by reactive oxygen species, is mutagenic because it mispairs with A. The major G*-DNA glycosylase (OGG), namely, OGG1 in eukaryotes, or MutM in Escherichia coli, excises G* when paired in DNA with C, G and T, but not A
A. E. Roitberg, S. E. Worthington, Marcia J. Holden, M P. Mayhew, Morris Krauss
Prephenate is the product of a Claisen rearrangement of chorismate. The enzyme chorismate mutase (CM from B. subtilis) accelerates the reaction by a factor of 10 6. The standard method for quantifying prephenate measures the electronic absorption spectrum
T Petralli-Mallow, Anne L. Plant, M Lewis, J Hicks
The novel nonlinear optical method second harmonic generation-circular dichroism (SHG-CD) has been used to follow the adsorption and redox properties of a peripheral membrane protein horse heart cytochrome c, adsorbed at several model membrane surfaces
We utilize scanning confocal fluorescence microscopy to interrogate single fluorescent lipid molecules in unsupported planar bilayers. At high photon flux, an optical trapping effect appears that is approximately 100,000 times larger than predicted by
M P. Mayhew, Vytautas Reipa, Marcia J. Holden, V L. Vilker
Cytochrome P450 enzymes catalyze a vast array of oxidative and reductive biotransformations that are potentially useful for industrial and pharmaceutical syntheses. Factors such as cofactor utilization and slow reaction rates for non-natural substrates