Amino acid sequences of the alpha and beta chains of adult hemoglobin of the slender loris, Loris tardigradus.

abstract：:The changes in the cellular concentrations of ATP, ADP, and AMP and in oxidative phosphorylation of mitochondria were investigated in the remaining liver of partially hepatectomized rabbits. The energy charge (defined as half of the average number of anhydride-bonded phosphate groups per adenosine moiety) of the liver...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kamiyama Y,Ozawa K,Honjo I

更新日期：1976-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of ryanodine on the permeation of glucose, choline, and Ca2+ through the Ca2+ channel in sarcoplasmic reticulum vesicles was studied by means of the light scattering and/or the tracer method. Ryanodine had the same effect on the permeabilities of choline and Ca2+; low concentrations of ryanodine (10 microM)...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kasai M,Kawasaki T

更新日期：1993-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Upon rehydration of lyophilized Escherichia coli cells with phosphate buffer containing [14C]isopentenyl pyrophosphate (IPP), 14C was incorporated into the cells. Radioactivity was found in ubiquinone-8, an unidentified precursor of ubiquinone-8, demethylmenaquinone-8 and phosphate esters of all-trans-octaprenol and c...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Fujisaki S,Nishino T,Katsuki H

更新日期：1986-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. Phospholipase D [EC 3.1.4.4] from Streptomyces hachijoensis was purified about 570-fold by column chromatography on DEAE-cellulose and Sephadex G-50 followed by isoelectric focusing. 2. The purified preparation was found to be homogeneous both by immunodiffusion and polyacrylamide disc gel electrophoresis. 3. The i...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Okawa Y,Yamaguchi T

更新日期：1975-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Heparin-binding epidermal growth factor-like growth factor (HB-EGF), a ligand of EGF receptor, is involved in the growth and malignant progression of cancers. Cross-reacting material 197, CRM197, a non-toxic mutant of diphtheria toxin (DT), specifically binds to the EGF-like domain of HB-EGF and inhibits its mitogenic...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Suzuki K,Mizushima H,Abe H,Iwamoto R,Nakamura H,Mekada E

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An inhibitor of blood coagulation, a new protein with an apparent molecular weight of 34,000 and an isoelectric point of 4.9, was purified from human placental tissue by EDTA extraction. Five cDNA clones were isolated from the human placental lambda gt11 cDNA library using the mouse monoclonal antibody raised against ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Iwasaki A,Suda M,Nakao H,Nagoya T,Saino Y,Arai K,Mizoguchi T,Sato F,Yoshizaki H,Hirata M

更新日期：1987-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three forms of cathepsin H-like cysteine proteinase were purified from rat spleen by a method involving acid treatment and chromatography on pepstatin-Sepharose, Sephadex G-75, DEAE-Sephacel, CM-Toyopearl, and concanavalin A-Sepharose. The final preparations of these forms all migrated as single protein bands on polya...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Yamamoto K,Kamata O,Kato Y

更新日期：1984-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The presence of a leucine zipper motif was recognized in the deduced amino acid sequences of human and rat renin-binding proteins (RnBPs) on cloning and sequence analysis of the RnBP cDNAs. The in vitro synthesized RnBPs, with the respective cDNAs, formed heterodimers with porcine renin and homodimers. On comparison o...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Inoue H,Takahashi S,Fukui K,Miyake Y

更新日期：1991-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:High mobility group box 1 (HMGB1) protein is the most abundant chromatin-associated non-histone protein expressed in all nucleated eukaryotic cells. We examined the phosphorylation of mammalian HMGB1 by testing the ability of the cyclin-dependent kinase 5 (Cdk5) to use as substrates native protein, either unmodified o...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Ugrinova I,Pashev IG,Pasheva EA

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The enzymes phosphoglucomutase (PGM) and phosphomannomutase (PMM) play an important role in the synthesis of extracellular polysaccharide. By colony hybridization of the fosmid library of Sphingomonas chungbukensis DJ77, an open reading frame (ORF-1) of 1,626 nucleotides, whose predicted product is highly homologous w...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Yoon SS,Park SH,Kim YC,Shin M,Chong CK,Choi JD

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two kinds of monoclonal antibodies (3B9 and SM1) against connectin, muscle elastic protein, reacted with both alpha- and beta-connectins. Immunofluorescence studies revealed that 3B9 stained both edges of the A band of chicken breast muscle myofibrils and remained as such upon stretching to a sarcomere length of 3.5 m...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Itoh Y,Suzuki T,Kimura S,Ohashi K,Higuchi H,Sawada H,Shimizu T,Shibata M,Maruyama K

更新日期：1988-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Activity-oligomeric assembly relationships using octaethylene glycol dodecyl ether (C12E8) solubilized pig gastric H/K-ATPase (unmodified H/K-ATPase) or H/K-ATPase modified with Fluorescein 5'-isothiocyanate (FITC-H/K-ATPase) were examined. The amount of oligomeric species in FITC-H/K-ATPase, which retained little H/K...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Abe K,Kaya S,Taniguchi K,Hayashi Y,Imagawa T,Kikumoto M,Oiwa K,Sakaguchi K

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ribosomal protein S19 (RP S19) oligomers have been discovered as the first chemoattractant of migrating monocytes/macrophages to apoptotic cells via the C5a receptor (C5aR). In contrast to C5a, a fusion of the C-terminus (I(134)-H(145)) of RP S19 to C5a, the C5a/RP S19 chimera, substitutes for the RP S19 oligomers and...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Nishiura H,Zhao R,Yamamoto T

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rat gene for renin-binding protein (RnBP) was shown to be expressed in the kidney, adrenal gland, brain, lung, spleen, ovary, testis, and heart. On sodium depletion and captopril administration, the rat showed a marked increase in the adrenal RnBP mRNA level and a slight decrease in the kidney RnBP mRNA level. In two-...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Tada M,Takahashi S,Miyano M,Miyake Y

更新日期：1992-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The bacterial opsins can be refolded to regenerate the chromophore by transfer from SDS to DMPC/CHAPS/SDS mixed micelles in the presence of retinal. A sequential refolding model has been proposed for bacterioopsin [Booth et al. (1995) Nature Struct. Biol. 2, 139-143]. However, the roles of DMPC and CHAPS in the refold...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Sugiyama Y,Mukohata Y

更新日期：1996-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:3-O-Methyl hexosamine was found for the first time and characterized as one of the sugar components of oyster glycolipid. The alditol acetate of this sugar was identified as 3-O-methyl-N-acetylgalactosaminitol acetate by comparing its retention time on gas chromatography and mass spectrum with those of the authentic s...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Matsubara T,Hayashi A

更新日期：1978-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacterial flagellar motors exploit the electrochemical potential gradient of a coupling ion as energy source and are composed of stator and rotor proteins. Vibrio alginolyticus has a Na(+)-driven motor and its stator is composed of PomA and PomB. Recently, we isolated increased motility strains (sp1-sp4) from the PomA...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Terashima H,Terauchi T,Ihara K,Nishioka N,Kojima S,Homma M

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:D-Erythrulose reductase of beef liver was crystallized from ammonium sulfate solution at pH 8.17. The crystals are needle-shaped. The enzyme protein contains 851 amino acid residues per mole of the enzyme: Lys28, His11, Arg52, Asp79, Thr58, Ser56, Glu68, Pro20, Gly80, Ala107, Val112, Met24, Ile31, Leu88, Tyr7, Phe22, ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Uehara K,Tanimoto T

更新日期：1975-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Proteolytic trimming of isoprenylated proteins, including Ras, at the C-terminal CAAX motifs is a key event in their activation. However, the protease responsible for the proteolysis has not been well characterized yet. In this study, we established a novel assay method for the enzyme using a fluorescent substrate, da...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Nishii W,Muramatsu T,Kuchino Y,Yokoyama S,Takahashi K

更新日期：1997-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The second domain (R-020) of human urinary trypsin inhibitor (UTI) exerts similar inhibitory activities on trypsin, alpha-chymotrypsin, leukocyte elastase, and plasmin to those of UTI itself, and additionally inhibits coagulation factor Xa (FXa) and plasma kallikrein, on both of which UTI has no inhibitory effect. In ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Nii A,Morishita H,Yamakawa T,Matsusue T,Hirose J,Miura T,Isaji M,Horisawa Y,Sugihara K,Kanamori T

更新日期：1994-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:HUT-14 cells, tumorigenic human fibroblasts, express a mutant beta-actin which has a single amino acid substitution at position 244 (glycine to aspartic acid), in addition to normal beta- and gamma-actin. In order to characterize the biochemical function of the mutant beta-actin, actins were extracted and purified fro...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Taniguchi S,Sagara J,Kakunaga T

更新日期：1988-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies by our group suggested that lysozyme has a high affinity for bacterial lipopolysaccharide (LPS) of both the smooth and rough forms, and inhibits various immunomodulatory activities of LPS. GLA60 is a synthetic monosaccharide analogue of bacterial lipid A well known as having most of the activities of li...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Tanida N,Ohno N,Adachi Y,Matsuura M,Nakano M,Kiso M,Hasegawa A,Yadomae T

更新日期：1992-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The interaction of Pi with sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR) isolated from rabbit skeletal muscle was studied using bromocresol purple (BCP) as a probe and a dual-wavelength spectrophotometer. Two kinds of absorption-intensity changes controlled by a low concentration of Ca2+ (greater than 10(-6)M) were observed after addit...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Nakamaru Y,Nomura K

更新日期：1977-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The molecular masses of two of the four DNA polymerase alpha-primase complex subunit peptides from various mammalian cells have been compared through the use of specific monoclonal antibodies. One monoclonal antibody (E4) binds to 77-kDa peptide from HeLa cells and cognate peptides from other mammalian cells (monkey, ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kozu T,Nikaido K,Yagura T

更新日期：1990-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A form of UDP-glucuronyltransferase has been purified from liver microsomes of 3-methylcholanthrene-treated rats by a simple and rapid method involving chromatography on DEAE-Toyopearl and UDP-hexanolamine Sepharose columns. The purified preparation gave a single protein band (Mr 54,000) on sodium dodecyl sulfate-poly...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Yokota H,Yuasa A,Sato R

更新日期：1988-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A post-proline cleaving enzyme [prolyl endopeptidase, EC 3.4.21.26] was purified about 3,700-fold from an extract of bovine brain by a series of column chromatographies on DEAE-Sephadex, hydroxyapatite and PCMB-T-Sepharose, and gel filtration on Sephadex G-200 using N-carbobenzoxy-Gly-Pro-beta-naphthylamide (Z-Gly-Pro...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Yoshimoto T,Nishimura T,Kita T,Tsuru D

更新日期：1983-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In dystrophic hamsters, increases in the levels of cathepsin B plus L and thiol proteinase inhibitor were marked in skeletal muscle, but only slight in heart muscle. The lysosomal hydrolases did not increase in parallel in dystrophic muscle: cathepsin B plus L and beta-glucuronidase increased, but cathepsin C and acid...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kominami E,Bando Y,Ii K,Hizawa K,Katunuma N

更新日期：1984-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new hetero-bifunctional photo crosslinking reagent, 2-(4-azidoanilyl)-4-(4-azabicyclo-[2,2, 2]hexylammonio)-6-morpholino-1,3,5-triazine chloride, was designed to detect and isolate heparin-binding protein(s) that may act as heparin-receptor(s) on the platelet surface. In a preliminary study using ethanol as a model ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Suda Y,Mori K,Bird K,Marques D,Ormsby J,Tanaka S,Koshida S,Nakamura M,Kusumoto S,Sobel M

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Proton translocating ATPase (F0F1) from bovine heart mitochondria was reconstituted into planar phospholipid bilayers, and its electrogenicity was directly demonstrated. The F0F1 ATPase was solubilized using 3-[(3-cholamidopropyl)-dimethylammonio]-1-propanesulfonic acid (CHAPS) as a detergent followed by sucrose densi...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Muneyuki E,Ohno K,Kagawa Y,Hirata H

更新日期：1987-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pseudomonas sp. 101 carboxyl proteinase (PCP) and Xanthomonas sp. T-22 carboxyl proteinase (XCP), the first and second unique carboxyl proteinases from prokaryotes to be isolated and characterized, are not inhibited by the classical carboxyl proteinase inhibitor pepstatin. In this study, we elucidated their subsite pr...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Narutaki S,Dunn BM,Oda K

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00