chymotrypsin/dental caries

Hydrophobic residues in the core of a truncated form of chymotrypsin inhibitor 2 (CI2) have been mutated in order to measure their contribution to the stability of the protein. The free energy of unfolding of wild-type and mutants was measured by both guanidinium chloride-induced denaturation and

In this contribution, we report studies on nonspecific protein-DNA interactions of an enzyme protein bovine pancreatic alpha-chymotrypsin (CHT) with genomic DNA (from salmon testes) using two biologically common fluorescent probes: 1-anilinonaphthalene-8-sulfonate (ANS) and

The active site of chymotrypsin molecule (approximated by a sphere with radius of 20 A) was taken as the largest cavity on the enzyme surface. The volume inside the approximating sphere is sufficient for placement of 95% of non-hydrogen atoms of the enzyme. The active site cavity is localized in a

Soils have a large solid surface area and high adsorptive capacities. To determine if structural and solvation changes induced by adsorption on clays are related to changes in enzyme activity, alpha-chymotrypsin adsorbed on a phyllosilicate with an electronegative surface (montmorillonite) has been

Using the "hard-sphere" atom-atom approximation with consideration of the available X-ray data, the possibility of free rotation of the side chain of His57 residue in the active center of chymotrypsin was studied. It was shown that there is a significant rotational freedom of the imidazole ring on

alpha-Chymotrypsin (CT) solubilized in reversed micelles of sodium bis-(2-ethylhexyl)-sulfosuccinate (AOT) undergoes thermal inactivation and the enzyme stability decreases significantly when temperature increases (25-40 degrees C). The half-life of CT in micelles shows a bell-shaped dependence on

An attempt has been made to assay the distribution of the typical representatives of pancreatic enzymes such as trypsin and chymotrypsin between dense and liquid fractions of the duodenal contents on an empty stomach and parietal mucous overlaps. The mass of the dense fraction being formed and

In the association of serine proteinases with their cognate substrates and inhibitors an important interaction is the fitting of the P1 side chain of the substrate or inhibitor into a preformed cavity of the enzyme called the S1 pocket. In turkey ovomucoid third domain, which is a canonical protein

A comparative study of the catalytic activity of alpha-chymotrypsin and the spin label rotation frequency in the alpha-chymotrypsin active center of reverse micellar systems solvated by H2O-organic mixtures was carried out. It was found that the decrease in the label rotation frequency resulting

Biocatalytic nanocapsule systems containing alpha-chymotrypsin in the inner aqueous cavity were synthesized. These systems can function in both organic solvents and aqueous media. To this end, the reversed hydrated micelles of N,N-diallyl-N,N-didodecylammonium bromide (DDAB) in cyclohexane (w0 = 22)

Aspartate transcarbamoylase from Escherichia coli is composed of six catalytic (c) and six regulatory (r) polypeptides. We have studied the structure and function of this enzyme using chymotrypsin as a probe. The protease inactivates the isolated catalytic subunit (c3) but has not effects on the

We examined the relationship between the structures of hetero-/homoleptic ruthenium(II) tris(bipyridine) metal complexes (Ru(II)(bpy)(3)) and their binding properties for α-chymotrypsin (ChT) and cytochrome c (cyt c). Heteroleptic compound 1a binds to both ChT and cyt c in 1:1 ratio, whereas

The primary specificity residue of a substrate or an inhibitor, called the P(1) residue, is responsible for the proper recognition by the cognate enzyme. This residue enters the S(1) pocket of the enzyme and establishes contacts (up to 50%) inside the proteinase substrate cavity, strongly affecting

Three-dimensional electron microscopy reconstructions of the human alpha(2)-macroglobulin (alpha(2)M) dimer and chymotrypsin-transformed alpha(2)M reveal the structural arrangement of the two dimers that comprise native and proteinase-transformed molecules. They consist of two side-by-side extended

The P1 or primary specificity residue of standard mechanism canonical protein inhibitors of serine proteinases, inserts into the S1 primary specificity cavity of the cognate enzyme upon enzyme-inhibitor complex formation. Both natural evolution and protein engineering often change the P1 residue to