Purification and characterization of cold-active L-glutamate dehydrogenase independent of NAD(P) and oxygen.

abstract：:The ornithine aminotransferase [EC 2.6.1.13] content of Morris hepatoma 44 is about 15 times higher than that in normal liver. The turnover rates of ornithine amino-transferase in hepatoma 44 and host liver were determined using L-[14C]leucine. Studies on the incorporation of radioactive leucine into ornithine aminotr...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kobayashi K,Morris HP,Katunuma N

更新日期：1976-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Myosin was isolated from leucocytes in horse arterial blood by the same procedures used for the isolation of myosin from skeletal muscle. The Ca2+-, EDTA-, and Mg2+-ATPase [EC 3.6.1.3] activities of the protein was 0.148, 0.147, and 0.001 mumoles/min/mg, respectively, in 0.5 M KCl at pH 7.0 and 25 degrees. The Ca2+-AT...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Takeuchi K,Shibata N,Senda N

更新日期：1975-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Single-site catalysis by F1-ATPase from a thermophilic bacterium PS3 (TF1) was examined by incubating the enzyme with a submolar amount of radioactive ATP. The profile of single-site catalysis by TF1 at 23 degrees C was different from that of beef heart mitochondrial F1-ATPase (MF1). ATP hydrolysis on the enzyme and r...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Yohda M,Yoshida M

更新日期：1987-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. Porcine cardiac native tropomyosin was phosphorylated by bovine cardiac 3':5'-cyclic AMP-dependent protein kinase. Most of the phosphate incorporation was observed in troponin I, the maximum of which was 0.7 mol of Pi per mol of troponin I. 2. In the presence of phosphorylated native tropomyosin, actomyosin ATPase ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Yamamoto K,Ohtsuki I

更新日期：1982-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the preceding paper [Maita, T., Miyanishi, T., Matsuzono, K., Tanioka, Y., & Matsuda, G. (1991) J. Biochem. 110, 68-74], we reported the amino-terminal 837-residue sequence of the heavy chain of adult chicken pectoralis muscle myosin. This paper describes the carboxyl terminal 1,097-residue sequence and the linkage...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Maita T,Yajima E,Nagata S,Miyanishi T,Nakayama S,Matsuda G

更新日期：1991-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The complete amino acid sequence of an active fragment of potato proteinase inhibitor IIa has been established by the Edman degradation procedure and the carboxypeptidase technique. Sequence analyses were carried out on the reduced and carboxymethylated active fragment and its tryptic peptides. To aid in the alignment...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Iwasaki T,Kiyohara T,Yoshikawa M

更新日期：1976-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rho-kinase is a main player in the regulation of cytoskeletal events and a promising drug target in the treatment of both vascular and neurological disorders. Here we report the crystal structure of the Rho-kinase catalytic domain in complex with the specific inhibitor Y-27632. Comparison with the structure of PKA bou...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Yamaguchi H,Miwa Y,Kasa M,Kitano K,Amano M,Kaibuchi K,Hakoshima T

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:HSP47 is a stress protein (heat shock protein) which resides in the endoplasmic reticulum, and is postulated to function as a collagen-specific molecular chaperone. To elucidate the role of HSP47 in procollagen biosynthesis, we have established human embryonic kidney 293 cell lines, which were stably transfected with ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Hosokawa N,Hohenadl C,Satoh M,Kühn K,Nagata K

更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When compared with collagens isolated from animal sources, collagens and collagen-like (CL) proteins from non-animal sources are non-immunogenic and thus promising as biomedical materials. Recently, a CL protein, V-CL, was identified from a bacterial source, Streptococcus pyogenes. In this study, an acid-precipitation...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Ma L,Chai Y,Wu T,Wang M

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The plasma membrane, the outermost surface of eukaryotic cells, contains various substructures, such as protrusions or invaginations, which are associated with diverse functions, including endocytosis and cell migration. These structures of the plasma membrane can be considered as tubules or inverted tubules (protrusi...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Suetsugu S

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rp-cAMPS, the Rp-diastereomer of adenosine 3',5'-phosphorothioate, is often referred to as a cAMP antagonist, since it binds to the regulatory subunit of cAMP-dependent protein kinase without dissociation of free catalytic subunits. To evaluate the role of cAMP-dependent protein kinase in amylase exocytosis, we examin...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Takuma T,Ichida T

更新日期：1991-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To analyze the processing of extracellular enzymes of Bacillus subtilis, an NH2-terminally extended hybrid alpha-amylase [pTUBE638-alpha-amylase (E24)] was purified from the periplasm of E. coli(pTUBE638) as the substrate for the in vitro processing reaction, in which a 21-amino-acid extra-peptide was added at the NH2...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Itoh Y,Sumi M,Nakamura K,Yamane K

更新日期：1990-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human serum was shown to contain N-acetyllactosamine: N-acetylglucosaminyltransferase activity. The reaction product was hydrolyzed by beta-N-acetylglucosaminidase and released [14C]N-acetylglucosamine, indicating that the N-acetylglucosaminyl residue was beta-linked to N-acetyllactosamine. Methylation and hydrolysis ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Hosomi O,Takeya A,Kogure T

更新日期：1984-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Terf/TRIM17 is a tripartite motif protein that has been originally isolated from testis. Terf has been characterized to exhibit an E3 ubiquitin ligase activity and to undergo self-ubiquitination. The cellular function of terf and its substrates, however, remain elusive. In the present study, we performed a yeast two-h...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Endo H,Ikeda K,Urano T,Horie-Inoue K,Inoue S

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Kidney catalase [EC 1.11.1.6] was doubly labeled by injecting a mixture of [14C]-leucine and delta-amino[3H]levulinic acid (ALA) into normal and allyliso-(2-isopropyl-4-pentenoyl)urea (Sedormid)-treated rats. Shortly after the injection of a tracer dose or the precursors, catalase in microsomes showed the highest spec...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Higashi T,Kawamata F,Dogen M

更新日期：1976-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A p-nitrophenyl-alpha-D-glucopyranoside-hydrolyzing alpha-glucosidase from an obligate thermophile, Bacillus thermoglucosidius KP 1006, gave a triphasic relationship at pH 6.8 in the van't Hoff plot of Km, in the Arrhenius plot of the first order rate constant of inactivation with 0.1% sodium dodecyl sulfate, and in t...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Suzuki Y,Nakamura N,Kishigami T,Abe S

更新日期：1980-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The fluorescence characteristics of product (I), formed during the lipid peroxidation of rat liver phosphatidylcholine liposomes containing glycine, and fluorescent product (II), derived from the reaction of malonaldehyde with glycine, were examined to elucidate the mechanism of fluorescent chromophore formation. Fluo...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Shimasaki H,Hirai N,Ueta N

更新日期：1988-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rat peritoneal macrophages were shown to have two distinct mannose/fucose/N-acetylglucosamine-specific lectins. The major lectin of 180 kDa, which is similar in size to the mannose receptor first isolated from alveolar macrophages (Wileman, T.E., Lennartz, M.R., & Stahl, P.D. (1986) Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S. 83, 250...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Ii M,Wada M,Kawasaki T,Yamashina I

更新日期：1988-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The activity of thermolysin is greatly enhanced in the presence of high concentrations of neutral salts [Holmquist, B. and Vallee, B.L. (1976) Biochemistry 15, 101-107; Inouye, K. (1992) J. Biochem. 112, 335-340]. NaBr and NaCl are the most effective for the activation. An absorption difference spectrum with a peak ar...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Inouye K,Kuzuya K,Tonomura B

更新日期：1994-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The absorption and fluorometric changes of the reaction mixture of luciferase-FMNH2 complex with O2 were re-examined. Rapid formation (k2(app) = 2.0 s-1 at [O2] = 120 micrometer) of an intermediate with a single absorption maximum at 380 nm within the range of 350-550 nm, and a weak fluorescence at 520 nm (less than o...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Ashizawa N,Nakamura T,Watanabe T

更新日期：1977-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chemical modification of gamma-carboxyglutamic acid (Gla) residues in human prothrombin to gamma-methyleneglutamic acid (gamma-MGlu) residues elicited a conformation similar, if not identical, to that of des-gamma-carboxy prothrombin or PIVKA-II, i.e., prothrombin molecules induced by vitamin K antagonists or vitamin ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Sugo T,Watanabe K,Naraki T,Matsuda M

更新日期：1990-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Both rabbit liver microsomes and reconstituted system with purified cytochrome P-450 and cofactors enzymatically oxidized o-dithiane (1, 2-dithiane), 3-methyl-o-dithiane, thiane and 2-methylthiane to the corresponding mono-oxygenated products; sulfides or disulfides were oxidized to the corresponding sulfoxides or thi...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Fukushima D,Kim YH,Iyanagi T,Oae S

更新日期：1978-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The inhibition of tau fibrillation is a potential therapeutic target for Alzheimer's and other neurodegenerative diseases. As a series of studies on inhibiting the transition of soluble monomeric tau into mature fibril, the effect of Tyr310 residue in the third repeat (R3) of the microtubule-binding domain (MBD) on th...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Nishiura C,Takeuchi K,Minoura K,Sumida M,Taniguchi T,Tomoo K,Ishida T

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lambda dv plasmids having an amber mutation in an initiator gene, O or P, were constructed from mutant lambda phages by recombinant DNA techniques and several properties of such derivatives were investigated. These plasmids are perpetuated in suppressor-plus (amber-permissive) cells, but not in non-suppressor cells. T...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Miwa T,Akaboshi E,Matsubara K

更新日期：1983-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined the signaling mechanisms involved in the differentiation-inducing activity of lupeol toward B16 2F2 melanoma cells. alpha-Melanocyte stimulating hormone (alpha-MSH), forskolin and dibutyryl cAMP, which are believed to be cAMP-elevating agents and analogues, enhanced lupeol-induced B16 2F2 cell differentiat...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Hata K,Hori K,Takahashi S

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The protein level of the GTS1 gene product (Gts1p) fluctuated during the oscillation of energy metabolism in continuous culture of the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Here, we found that the GTS1 mRNA level oscillated with the same periodicity as the metabolic oscillation, suggesting that the expression of GTS1 was re...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Tonozuka H,Wang J,Mitsui K,Saito T,Hamada Y,Tsurugi K

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies were carried out on the delta 5-desaturation reaction in ergosterol biosynthesis with a particulate fraction of cell-free extract of yeast. A reduced pyridine nucleotide coenzyme and molecular oxygen were required for the reaction. It was shown that the enzyme activity is located in a fraction corresponding to...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Osumi T,Nishino T,Katsuki H

更新日期：1979-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A high mobility group (HMG) nonhistone protein fraction HMG(1 + 2), composed of HMG1 and HMG2, was prepared from pig thymus chromatin. In order to examine a possibility that the HMG(1 + 2) participates in the unwinding of the DNA double-helix, DNA hydrolysis assay systems with the endonucleases specific for single-str...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Yoshida M,Shimura K

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anti-cobrotoxin antibodies can be separated into precipitin and non-precipitin antibodies. The precipitin antibody possesses the same binding affinity to cobrotoxin as non-precipitin antibody, but the neutralizing capability of the latter is superior to that of the former in blocking cobrotoxin binding to nicotinic ac...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kuo KW,Chang LS,Lin PM,Leaber RJ,Chang CC

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The denaturation of lysozyme and ribonuclease A by guanidine hydrochloride was followed in the presence and absence of glycerol and sorbitol by means of circular dichroism measurements at 25 degrees C. The protein-solvent interactions in the presence of these polyols were also studied by means of density measurements,...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Gekko K,Ito H

更新日期：1990-04-01 00:00:00