Relationships of p40(phox) with p67(phox) in the activation and expression of the human respiratory burst NADPH oxidase.

abstract：:Two kinds of myosin phosphatases were purified from fresh chicken gizzard smooth muscle. Alkaline phosphatase (CGP-a), which requires Mg2+, was most active at pH 8.6 with 2 to 4 mM Mg2+, and was essentially the same as the phosphatase we reported previously (J. Biochem. 99, 1027-1036 (1986]. On the other hand, neutral...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Yoshida M,Yagi K

更新日期：1988-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The crystal structure of a ternary complex of meso-2,3-butanediol dehydrogenase with NAD+ and a competitive inhibitor, mercaptoethanol, has been determined at 1.7 A resolution by means of molecular replacement and refined to a final R-factor of 0.194. The overall structure is similar to those of the other short chain ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Otagiri M,Kurisu G,Ui S,Takusagawa Y,Ohkuma M,Kudo T,Kusunoki M

更新日期：2001-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A small nuclear protein, C1D, has roles in various cellular processes, transcription regulation, genome stability surveillance, DNA repair and RNA processing, all of which are required to maintain the host life cycles. In the previous report, C1D directly interacts with XPB, a component of the nucleotide excision repa...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Tomita T,Ieguchi K,Takita M,Tsukahara F,Yamada M,Egly JM,Maru Y

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In sea urchin embryos, primary mesenchyme cells, descendants from micromeres produced at the 16-cell stage, form spicules or CaCO3 deposits in their skeletal vacuoles, at the post-gastrula stage. Micromeres isolated at the 16-cell stage also differentiate into spicule-forming cells during their culture at the same tim...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Mitsunaga K,Fujino Y,Yasumasu I

更新日期：1986-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To clarify the properties and functions of a trypsin inhibitor from Japanese barley in comparison with the inhibitor from Pirkka barley, an inhibitor was isolated from the barley Hordeum distichum L var. emend Lamark by extraction with 1% NaCl, ammonium sulfate fractionation and repeated chromatography on DEAE-cellul...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Ogiso T,Noda T,Sako Y,Kato Y,Aoyama M

更新日期：1975-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hemoglobin-vesicles (HbV) have been developed for use as artificial O(2) carriers in which a purified Hb solution is encapsulated within a phospholipid bilayer membrane. In this study, bovine Hb (BHb) was tested as a source of HbV instead of human Hb (HHb). We compared the preparation process and characteristics of BH...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Sakai H,Masada Y,Takeoka S,Tsuchida E

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Monoclonal antibodies were raised against a synthetic peptide (43 amino acid residues) that corresponds to the complete profragment of human prorenin. Seven monoclonal antibodies were chosen for further characterization. Two antibodies, 2-X-C1 and 4-X-E1, reacted with the middle region and C-terminus of the profragmen...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Ishizuka Y,Iizumi S,Akiyama F,Hori H,Poorman RA,Lobl TJ,Murakami K

更新日期：1989-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The FLI-1 transcription factor is a member of the ETS gene family, most closely related to ERG. In this study, the FLI-1 protein products were characterized using a specific monoclonal antibody previously developed against bacterially expressed protein. In the human T-cell line Jurkat, both isoforms of FLI-1, p51 and ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Zhang XK,Watson DK

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of crosslinking of F-actin with glutaraldehyde on the contractility of muscle ghost fiber containing reconstituted thin filament (i.e. F-actin-tropomyosin-troponin complex) and irrigated with myosin was investigated. The results show that: (i) crosslinking inhibited development of isometric tension and shor...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Próchniewicz-Nakayama E,Yanagida T

更新日期：1982-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The protein structure, kinin-releasing activity, and tissue distribution of four major proteinases of mouse submandibular gland (mK22, mK9, proteinase F, proteinase P) were studied. When compared with the deduced amino acid sequence of each member of the tissue (glandular) kallikrein gene family, the amino acid sequen...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Hosoi K,Tsunasawa S,Kurihara K,Aoyama H,Ueha T,Murai T,Sakiyama F

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Paramyosin is a myosin-binding protein characteristic of invertebrate animals, while troponin is a Ca2+-dependent regulator of muscle contraction. Both proteins are widely distributed in protostomes, while in deuterostomes, their distribution is limited; namely, presence of paramyosin and absence of troponin are commo...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Sonobe H,Obinata T,Minokawa T,Haruta T,Kawamura Y,Wakatsuki S,Sato N

更新日期：2016-12-01 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：:The aim of this work was to investigate the putative modulation of glucose uptake in trophoblast cells by several dietary compounds and by drugs of abuse. For this, the acute (26 min) and chronic (48 h) effect of these substances on the apical uptake of 3H-2-deoxy-D-glucose (3H-DG) by a human choriocarcinoma cell line...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Araújo JR,Gonçalves P,Martel F

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The gene encoding subtilisin Amylosacchariticus from Bacillus subtilis var. amylosacchariticus was isolated and the entire nucleotide sequence of the coding sequence was determined. The deduced amino acid sequence revealed an N-terminal signal peptide and pro-peptide of 106 residues followed by the mature protein comp...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Yoshimoto T,Oyama H,Honda T,Tone H,Takeshita T,Kamiyama T,Tsuru D

更新日期：1988-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A variant of human tear lipocalin was expressed in Escherichia coli, and the bound fatty acids were analysed by gas chromatography, mass spectroscopy and nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy. Five major fatty acids were identified as hexadecanoic acid (palmitic acid, PA), cis-9-hexadecenoic acid (palmitoleic acid),...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Tsukamoto S,Fujiwara K,Ikeguchi M

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A highly sensitive method was developed for quantitative analysis of phospholipid molecular species. Diradylglycerols prepared from phospholipids with phospholipase C were converted to the anthroyl-diradylglycerol derivatives, which could be separated into molecular species and sensitively quantified by reverse-phase ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Takamura H,Kito M

更新日期：1991-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The catalytic properties of a new type of dihydropteridine reductase, NADPH-specific dihydropteridine reductase [EC 1.6.99.10], from bovine liver, were studied and compared with those of the previously characterized enzyme, NADH-specific dihydropteridine reductase [EC 1.6.99.7]. With quinonoid-dihydro-6-methylpterin, ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Nakanishi N,Hasegawa H,Akino M,Yamada S

更新日期：1986-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inosine triphosphate (ITP) does not serve as a substrate for myosin light-chain kinase from gizzard muscle. That is to say, myosin light-chain is not phosphorylated in ITP media. Nevertheless, at pH 6.8, 1 mM or 5 mM ITP induces superprecipitation of skeletal acto-gizzard myosin. The ITP-induced superprecipitation occ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Onishi H,Watanabe S

更新日期：1979-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytokine-induced neutrophil chemoattractant (CINC/Gro) is a chemotactic factor for neutrophils in the rat and a member of the CXC chemokine family. The refined three-dimensional structure of CINC/Gro was derived with the aid of heteronuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy and a hybrid method of distance geometry and ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Hanzawa H,Haruyama H,Konishi K,Watanabe K,Tsurufuji S

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The nucleotide sequence of the aspartate aminotransferase [EC 2.6.1.1] structural gene, aspC, of Escherichia coli K-12 was determined. The coding region of the aspC gene contained 1,188 nucleotide residues and encoded 396 amino acid residues. The amino acid sequence deduced from the nucleotide sequence agreed perfectl...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kuramitsu S,Okuno S,Ogawa T,Ogawa H,Kagamiyama H

更新日期：1985-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three kinds of phospholipase C [EC 3.1.4.3] were used to selectively hydrolyze phospholipids in rat liver microsomes, and their effects on the acyl-CoA: glycerophosphate and acyl-CoA: lysophospholipids acyltransferase systems were examined. The glycerophosphate acyltransferase [EC 2.3.1.15] system was inactivated rapi...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Sonoki S,Ikezawa H

更新日期：1976-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An acidic protein of human saliva, which we named SAP-1 previously, is now shown to be an inhibitor of several cysteine proteinases. The protein inhibited papain and ficin strongly, and stem bromelain and bovine cathepsin C partially. However, it did not inhibit either porcine cathepsin B or clostripain. The mode of t...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Isemura S,Saitoh E,Ito S,Isemura M,Sanada K

更新日期：1984-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of pH on the thermodynamic properties of the proton-translocating cyclic electron transfer system in a purple photosynthetic bacterium Chromatium vinosum were studied. Two thermodynamic parameters, the flux (Je) and force (deltamue) of the electron transfer process, were analyzed. The rate of electron tran...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Arata H,Nishimura M

更新日期：1979-02-01 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：:A new arginine derivative, N-benzyloxycarbonyl-L-phenylalanyl-L-valyl-L-arginine-p-nitroanilide hydrochloride (ZPVAPA.HCl) was synthesized by the condensation of N-benzyloxy-carbonyl-L-phenylalanyl-L-valine and L-arginine-p-nitroanilide dihydrochloride using dicyclohexylcarbodiimide as a coupling reagent and 1-hydroxy...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Somorin O,Tokura S,Nishi N,Noguchi J

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recombinant horse L-apoferritin and its mutants were used to compare the reactivities of two different cysteinyl residues with 7-fluoro-4-sulfamoyl-2,1,3-benzoxadiazole (ABD-F), p-chloromercuribenzoic acid (PCMB), N-(9-acridinyl)maleimide (NAM), and 4-maleimido-2,2,6,6-tetramethylpiperidine-N-oxyl (NEM-TEMPO). ABD-F s...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Takeda S,Yamaki M,Ebina S,Nagayama K

更新日期：1995-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined the substrate specificity of two mutated geranylgeranyl diphosphate synthases, I-9 and I-11, with respect to several artificial substrates. These mutated enzymes have replacements in the amino acid sequences from positions 170 to 173, which are thought to be a part of the putative substrate binding region....

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Ohnuma S,Hemmi H,Koyama T,Ogura K,Nishino T

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Amyloid beta peptide (Abeta) is a physiological peptide that is constantly catabolized in the brain. We previously demonstrated that an endopeptidase sensitive to phosphoramidon and thiorphan conducts the initial rate-limiting proteolysis of Abeta in vivo, but the exact molecular identity of the peptidase(s) has remai...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Takaki Y,Iwata N,Tsubuki S,Taniguchi S,Toyoshima S,Lu B,Gerard NP,Gerard C,Lee HJ,Shirotani K,Saido TC

更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mitochondrion is an essential organelle for a wide range of cellular processes, including energy production, metabolism, signal transduction and cell death. To execute these functions, mitochondria regulate their size, number, morphology and distribution in cells via mitochondrial division and fusion. In addition,...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Murata D,Arai K,Iijima M,Sesaki H

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Escherichia coli cytochrome bo is a heme-copper terminal ubiquinol oxidase, and functions as a redox-driven proton pump. We applied pulse radiolysis technique for studying the one-electron reduction processes in the Cu(B)-deficient mutant, His333Ala. We found that the Cu(B) deficiency suppressed the heme b-to-heme...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kobayashi K,Tagawa S,Mogi T

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00