New crystal forms and low resolution structure analysis of 20S proteasomes from bovine liver.

abstract：:A number of L-amino acids and derivatives were tested as substrates for the purified Pseudomonas L-phenylalanine oxidase. The reaction products of these amino acids were analyzed by high performance liquid chromatography and the kinetic properties of the reactions were partially characterized. In addition to L-phenyla...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Koyama H

更新日期：1984-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the rat liver, two mRNAs for serine:pyruvate (or alanine:glyoxylate) aminotransferase are generated from a single gene by alternative transcription initiation. The longer mRNA encodes a precursor of a mitochondrial enzyme that has a mitochondrial targeting signal at the N-terminus and is translocated into mitochond...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Oda T,Uchida C,Miura S

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. The endogenous phosphorylation of mouse brain microsomes was studied using the technique of acrylamide gel electrophoresis in the presence of sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS). 2. It was found that specific proteins and lipids in brain microsomes were phosphorylated by the terminal phosphate of ATP under appropriate con...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Satomi D

更新日期：1977-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present investigation was undertaken to see to what extent the alpha-amino group of the amino acid, the side chain of the amino acid of aminoacyl-tRNA, and the tRNA structure are involved in determining the affinity of aminoacyl-tRNA for bacterial elongation factor Tu-GTP complex. Various aminoacyl-tRNAs, mis-amin...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Tanada S,Kawakami M,Nishio K,Takemura S

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rat and mouse cDNAs for Zn-alpha 2-glycoprotein (Zn alpha 2gp) were isolated from liver libraries (lambda gt11) and compared with the human one. The lengths of cDNA inserts analyzed were 1,233 and 1,273 nucleotides for rat and mouse, respectively. The deduced amino acid sequences suggested that rat and mouse Zn alpha ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Ueyama H,Naitoh H,Ohkubo I

更新日期：1994-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The process of mitochondrial dysfunction in ischemic rat liver was studied. A close correlation was found between decrease in the mitochondrial adenine nucleotide content and deterioration of oxidative phosphorylation capacity. The level of total adenine nucleotides, which was 15--20 nmol/mg protein in mitochondria is...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Watanabe F,Kamiike W,Nishimura T,Hashimoto T,Tagawa K

更新日期：1983-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The fructose-1,6-bisphosphate aldolase gene from the thermophilic bacterium, Anoxybacillus gonensis G2, was cloned and sequenced. Nucleotide sequence analysis revealed an open reading frame coding for a 30.9 kDa protein of 286 amino acids. The amino acid sequence shared approximately 80-90% similarity to the Bacillus ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Ertunga NS,Colak A,Belduz AO,Canakci S,Karaoglu H,Sandalli C

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Micromolar levels of free calcium ions added to the extracellular medium elicit secretion of serotonin from electropermeabilized bovine platelets in the presence of millimolar levels of Mg-ATP. Such Ca2(+)-dependent secretion of serotonin was almost completely impaired when the permeabilized platelets were preincubate...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Morimoto T,Oho C,Ueda M,Ogihara S,Takisawa H

更新日期：1990-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Screening of four malic enzymes--NAD-linked enzyme [EC 1.1.1.38], NAD, NADP-linked enzyme [EC 1.1.1.39], NADP-linked enzyme [EC 1.1.1.40], and D-malic enzyme--was carried out with cell-free extracts of the following 16 strains of bacteria by the aid of Sepharose 6B column chromatography: 9 strains of enteric bacteria,...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Iwakura M,Tokushige M,Katsuki H,Muramatsu S

更新日期：1978-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The oleate (delta 9-18:1)/cis-vaccenate (delta 11-18:1) ratios in phospholipids increased in the order of normal liver, host liver and hepatoma in rats. The amount of oleate increased in phospholipids and decreased in triacylglycerol in the same order, whereas the distributions of cis-vaccenate among the major lipid c...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Hori T,Okuyama H

更新日期：1987-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Connectin (titin) links the Z line to the myosin filament in sarcomeres of vertebrate skeletal muscle. An 800 kDa fragment of alpha-connectin runs from the Z line up to the N2 line region in the I band, and the following beta-connectin portion runs up to the edge of the M line on the myosin filament in chicken breast ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kawamura Y,Kume H,Itoh Y,Ohtsuka S,Kimura S,Maruyama K

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Methyl-coenzyme M reductase isoenzyme I from the methanogenic Archaeon, Methanobacterium thermoautotrophicum (strain Marburg), was crystallized by vapor diffusion methods. Crystal form M obtained with 2-methyl-2,4-pentanediol as the precipitant displayed space group P2(1), with unit cell parameters of a=83.2 A, b=117....

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Shima S,Goubeaud M,Vinzenz D,Thauer RK,Ermler U

更新日期：1997-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to characterize the mechanism for bilirubin transport in the liver, the uptake of bilirubin diglucuronide (BDG) into purified sinusoidal plasma membrane vesicles was investigated. BDG uptake was saturable, and was inhibited by sulfobromophthalein and unconjugated bilirubin, but was not affected by sodium taur...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Adachi Y,Roy-Chowdhury J,Roy-Chowdhury N,Kinne R,Tran T,Kobayashi H,Arias IM

更新日期：1990-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A real time biomolecular interaction assay system involving an optical sensor was applied to the quantitative analysis of the binding of herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1) to Vero cells, and the neutralization antibody titer against this virus with a commercially available sulfonated human immunoglobulin preparation....

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Inoue K,Arai T,Aoyagi M

更新日期：1997-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A comparative study of vertebrate ventricle tropomyosin has been carried out from the viewpoint of molecular evolution. The ventricles containing one-component tropomyosin were generally known, and in this paper those containing two components were also found in 8 species among mammals, reptiles, amphibia, and fish, b...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Yamane A,Hirabayashi T

更新日期：1985-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mitochondrial processing peptidase (MPP), a metalloendopeptidase consisting of alpha and beta subunits, specifically recognizes a large variety of mitochondrial precursor proteins and cleaves off the N-terminal basic matrix targeting signals (MTS). Basic residues in MTS and acidic sites in MPP are required for effecti...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kitada S,Ito A

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The reactions of diol dehydratase with 3-unsaturated 1,2-diols and thioglycerol were investigated. Holodiol dehydratase underwent rapid and irreversible inactivation by either 3-butene-1,2-diol, 3-butyne-1,2-diol or thioglycerol without catalytic turnovers. In the inactivation, the Co-C bond of adenosylcobalamin under...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Toraya T,Tamura N,Watanabe T,Yamanishi M,Hieda N,Mori K

更新日期：2008-10-01 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：: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：:The effects of Na+ and ATP on the K+ binding to Na+, K+-ATPase were investigated by the centrifugation method with radioactive K+ in the absence of Mg2+. In the presence of 10 microM 43KCl, 0.6 and 10 mM Na+ decreased the amount of bound K+ to one-half and zero, respectively. On the other hand, 10 microM and 10 mM ATP...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Homareda H,Nozaki T,Matsui H

更新日期：1987-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:LukF and Hlg2 of staphylococcal gamma-hemolysin assemble into hetero-oligomeric pores on human red blood cells (HRBC). Here, we demonstrate, using a single-molecule imaging technique, that a W177T/R198T mutant of LukF, which exhibits no binding activity toward phosphatidylcholine, could form intermediate oligomers wit...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Monma N,Nguyen VT,Kaneko J,Higuchi H,Kamio Y

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Covalently closed-circular, superhelical DNAs, including viral DNAs, bacterial plasmid DNAs, and bacteriophage replicative-form DNA, were treated with a small amount of Haemophilus gallinarum DNA-relaxing enzyme to generate incompletely relaxed DNA molecules. Each sample consisted of a set of closed-circular DNA molec...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Shishido K

更新日期：1979-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Had-1, which was isolated from mouse FM3A carcinoma cells, was a non-permissive mutant cell line to Newcastle disease virus infection. Comparative study of the asparagine-linked sugar chains of the surface glycoproteins of the mutant and its parental cells revealed that galactosylation of the complex-type sugar chains...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Hara T,Endo T,Furukawa K,Kawakita M,Kobata A

更新日期：1989-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We recently described the cloning of putative human CMP-sialic acid transporter (hCST) cDNA [Ishida, N. et al. (1996) J. Biochem. 120, 1074-1078]. The hCST cDNA coded for a hydrophobic protein with an amino acid sequence showing a high degree of similarity (92% identity) to that of murine CMP-sialic acid transporter. ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Ishida N,Ito M,Yoshioka S,Sun-Wada GH,Kawakita M

更新日期：1998-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have examined critically whether or not new and old histones mix in the octameric units of nucleosomes during chromatin replication. MH-134SC cells were density-labeled by culturing with amino acid mixtures enriched with dense isotopes 2H, 13C, and 15N. Mononucleosomes obtained from labeled cells were fractionated ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Yamasu K,Senshu T

更新日期：1987-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To model gene transcription kinetics, empirical fitting with the Hill function or S-system is often used. In this study, we derived an analytical expression for gene transcription rates in a manner similar to that developed for enzyme kinetics to describe the kinetics of gene transcription mediated by dimeric transcri...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Yang HT,Hsu CP,Hwang MJ

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Peptide:N-glycanase (PNGase) is the enzyme responsible for de-N-glycosylation of misfolded glycoproteins in the cytosol. Here, we report the molecular identification and characterization of PNGase (png-1, F56G4.5) from Caenorhabditis elegans. This enzyme released both high mannose- and complex-type N-glycans from glyc...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kato T,Kawahara A,Ashida H,Yamamoto K

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sliding machines composed of F-actin and myosin or microtubules and kinesin or dynein convert the free energy of ATP hydrolysis into sliding movements and mechanical work. Development of optical microscopy with micromanipulation techniques has made possible direct observation of single events of sliding exhibited by s...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Oosawa F

更新日期：1995-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The epitopes of about 100 monoclonal antibodies against human type II DNA topoisomerase were mapped along the enzyme molecules. Although they were randomly and independently established, epitope sites were unevenly distributed the toward N-terminal or C-terminal region. We suggest that the central catalytic domain is ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Sakaguchi A,Miyaike M,Kuroda K,Nozaki N,Tanaka M,Hibino M,Fujii Y,Kato S,Kikuchi A

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plasmapheresis with a dextran sulfate column is a treatment for patients with hypercholesteremia. When proteins bound to the column during the treatment were fractionated to prepare some known proteins, we found a 57 kDa glycoprotein designated GP57 which showed a new N-terminal amino acid sequence. Western-blot analy...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Choi-Miura NH,Sano Y,Oda E,Nakano Y,Tobe T,Yanagishita T,Taniyama M,Katagiri T,Tomita M

更新日期：1995-02-01 00:00:00