Protein N-arginine methylation in subcellular fractions of lymphoblastoid cells.

abstract：:The in vivo effects of convulsant drugs (hydrazine and penicillamine) on the metabolism of gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) in subcellular fractions of mouse brain were studied. Both substances inhibited the activity of glutamic acid decarboxylase [EC 4.1.1.15] (GAD) in the synaptosomal fraction (nerve ending particles)...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Abe M,Matsuda M

更新日期：1977-07-01 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 alpha-subunit of rod photoreceptor G protein transducin (G(t1)alpha) is heterogeneously modified at the N-terminus by a mixture of acyl groups, laurate (C12:0), myristate (C14:0), and two unsaturated fatty acids (C14:1 and C14:2). Although the N-fatty acylation of G(t1)alpha plays important roles in protein-protei...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Hashimoto Y,Matsuda T,Matsuura Y,Haga T,Fukada Y

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Disulfide bond interchange has been pointed out as a considerable problem in preparing recombinant proteins from Escherichia coli cells. This has been reported in the system of reducing denaturation followed by a refolding process, where incorrectly folded molecules are sometimes produced. As the possibility of disulf...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kimura S,Utsumi J,Yamazaki S,Shimizu H

更新日期：1988-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several kinds of hydrophilic proteins were examined to determine their interaction with artificial liposomes. Mitochondrial aspartate aminotransferase (m-GOT) [EC 2.6.1.1], as well as cytochrome c, was found to interact strongly with negatively charged liposomes. In each case, an appreciable amount of the protein boun...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Furuya E,Yoshida Y,Tagawa K

更新日期：1979-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Single-chain antibodies (scFv), which can be produced in Escherichia coli cells, have been shown in numerous cases to be active in antigen binding. In the case of the two anti-lysozyme single-chain antibodies, scFvLH and scFvHL, which have the reversed arrangement of the variable domains of the heavy and light chains ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Merk H,Stiege W,Tsumoto K,Kumagai I,Erdmann VA

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Midkine (MK) is a product of a retinoic acid-responsive gene and a new heparin-binding growth/differentiation factor. The coding sequence of human MK was located on 1.5 kb DNA segment. The structure of the cloned human MK gene was determined and compared with that of the mouse gene. The coding sequence was divided int...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Uehara K,Matsubara S,Kadomatsu K,Tsutsui J,Muramatsu T

更新日期：1992-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Synthesis and degradation of glycerophospholipids in HL-60 cells and retinoic acid (RA)-treated HL-60 cells were examined. The synthesis of each subclass of ethanolamine-containing glycerophospholipids was extremely suppressed in RA-treated HL-60 cells, while that of other glycerophospholipids was not seriously affect...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Naito M,Kudo I,Nakagawa Y,Waku K,Nojiri H,Saito M,Inoue K

更新日期：1991-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new assay method for hydrogenase [EC 1.12.2.1] based on the enzymic electrode reaction of H2-H+ equilibrium has been established. The method is based on the experimental fact that the short-circuit current of the electric cell composed of an electrode with hydrogenase and methylviologen as the mediator of H2-H+ equi...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Yagi T,Goto M,Nakano K,Kimura K,Inokuchi H

更新日期：1975-09-01 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：: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：:The heparin-induced self-aggregation behaviours of four repeat peptides (R1-R4) in an acidic solution (pH = 4.5) were investigated by fluorescence and circular dichroism (CD) measurements and compared with those in a neutral solution (pH = 7.5). In contrast with the self-aggregation-resistive behaviours of the R1 and ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Mizushima F,Minoura K,Tomoo K,Sumida M,Taniguchi T,Ishida T

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cytosol of human erythrocytes was found to contain a Ca2+-dependent thiol protease (calpain) and its specific inhibitor (calpastatin) by DEAE-cellulose chromatography at pH 8.0, although no proteolytic activity toward casein was detected in the unfractionated hemolysate. The protease required only 40 microM Ca2+ f...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Murakami T,Hatanaka M,Murachi T

更新日期：1981-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We previously reported that novel Mg(2+)-ATPases were induced in rat liver peroxisomes by clofibrate administration and that these activities consisted of at least two types of enzymes, N-ethylmaleimide (NEM)-sensitive and -resistant. Here we present evidence that neither of these major peroxisomal ATPases is associat...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Shimizu S,Imanaka T,Takano T,Ohkuma S

更新日期：1992-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The receptor-binding assay for cAMP was improved by using polyethylenimine-treated glass filters. A polyethylenimine-treated glass filter has high protein binding capacity. This high capacity allows an increase in the amount of protein per assay tube and the use of a crude preparation, such as a beef heart extract, as...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Takeda T,Kuno T,Shuntoh H,Tanaka C

更新日期：1989-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to characterize low affinity ATP-binding sites of renal (Na+,K+) ATPase and sarcoplasmic reticulum (Ca2+)ATPase, the effects of ATP on the splitting of the K+-sensitive phosphoenzymes were compared. ATP inactivated the dephosphorylation in the case of (Na+,K+)ATPase at relatively high concentrations, while ac...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Fukushima Y,Yamada S,Nakao M

更新日期：1984-02-01 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：:Skeletal muscle is composed of multinuclear cells called myofibers. Muscular dystrophy (a genetic muscle disorder) induces instability in the cell membrane of myofibers and eventually causes myofibre damage. Non-genetic muscle disorders, including sarcopenia, diabetes, bedridden immobility and cancer cachexia, lead to...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Fukada SI

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Calf thymus DNA polymerases alpha and beta [EC 2.7.7.7] and terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase [EC 2.7.7.31] were analyzed on two-dimensional gel slabs. DNA polymerase beta appeared as a single spot on two-dimensional gel at the position of 40,000 daltons and pI 8.0 using non-equilibrium pH gradient gel electrophor...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Koiwai O,Masaki S,Kaneda T,Yoshida S

更新日期：1982-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using an F-actin affinity column, a 60 kDa fragment of a 71 kDa F-actin-binding protein was partially purified from Tetrahymena pyriformis. After digestion of the 60 kDa fragment with cyanogen bromide, the N-terminal 21-amino acid sequence of one of the resulting peptides was found to show sequence similarity to a reg...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Watanabe A,Kurasawa Y,Watanabe Y,Numata O

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The physicochemical nature of an active fragment (T2A) of colicin E3 was examined together with those of its specific inhibitor, B, and the T2A-B complex under various conditions by means of CD and fluorescence spectroscopy. 1. T2A was mainly composed of unordered structure, although the molecule was folded into a rat...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Suzuki K,Ohno S,Imahori K

更新日期：1980-03-01 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 new peroxide compound (ML-X) was isolated from an autoxidation product of methyl linoleate and was determined as methyl 9-hydroperoxy-12, 13-epoxy-10-octadecenoate. This compound inhibited state 3 respiration of rat heart- and liver mitochondria when glutamate and malate were used as substrates, but not when the sub...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Imagawa T,Kasai S,Matsui K,Nakamura T

更新日期：1982-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Photoaffinity labeling with [3H]cytochalasin B detects two D-glucose-sensitive proteins in the chicken embryo fibroblast (CEF) plasma membrane, which accumulate under conditions of glucose starvation and are probably involved in the glucose transport system (Pessin, J.E., et al. (1982) Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S. 79, ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Ishii T,Tillotson LG,Isselbacher KJ

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A heat-labile, non-dialyzable factor(s) in soluble fractions from Escherichia coli strains and Bacillus subtilis was found to incorporate the radioactivity of [14C]glutamic acid into 95 degrees C CCl3COOH-insoluble fraction. Incorporation catalyzed by a partially purified factor from E. coli B required ATP, Mg2+, tRNA...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Hashizume S,Honjoh T,Shoji M

更新日期：1983-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three radioactive glycopeptides were isolated from human peripheral lymphocytes stimulated with Wistaria floribunda mitogen in the presence of D-[14C]glucosamine hydrochloride by mild trypsin digestion followed by gel filtration and preparative high-voltage paper electrophoresis. The carbohydrate compositions of these...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Saito M,Toyoshima S,Osawa T

更新日期：1977-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Large amounts of extra proteins, X (in the envelope fraction) and X' (in the cytoplasmic fraction) were detected by SDS-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis when DNA of Escherichia coli was damaged. These two proteins had the same apparent molecular weight (appproximately 40,000) and were produced under identical condit...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Yoda K,Nagai K,Tamura G

更新日期：1977-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Depolymerization of microtubules in the ATP-reassembly buffer permitted the preparation of GDPETNGTP. Incubation of this tubulin fraction at 35 degrees with ATP induced the phosphorylation of E-site GDP into GTP, which was then dephosphorylated during microtubule assembly. Incubation of GDPETNGTP with phosphoenolpyruv...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kobayashi T,Simizu T

更新日期：1976-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The most abundant glycoprotein in the coelomic fluid of sea urchin Anthocidaris crassispina was purified and its subunit structure, molecular form in the native state, amino acid composition, and electron micrographic image were studied. The results showed that the protein in its native state was basically a tetramer ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Giga Y,Ikai A

更新日期：1985-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mobility of spin labels covalently bound to the Ca2+-transport ATPase (ATP phosphohydrolase [EC 3.y.1.3]) was studied by electron spin-resonance spectroscopy in purified ATPase and reconstituted vesicles. The purified ATPase of sarcoplasmic reticulum of rabbit skeletal muscle was covalently labeled with maleimide ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Nakamura H,Martonosi AN

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00