Electrostatic recognition of matrix targeting signal by mitochondrial processing peptidase.

abstract：:Alanine-glyoxylate aminotransferase (AGT) 2 is a pyridoxal 5'-phosphate dependent, mitochondrial enzyme which, in the rat, is expressed at a high level in the kidney. The amino acid sequences of nine tryptic and seven CNBr peptides of the rat kidney AGT2 were determined. Three overlapping cDNAs encoding the AGT2 were ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Lee IS,Muragaki Y,Ideguchi T,Hase T,Tsuji M,Ooshima A,Okuno E,Kido R

更新日期：1995-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. The light-induced pH change of chromatophore suspensions from Rhodospirillum rubrum was stimulated significantly and similarly by KCl, NaCl, LiCl, RbCl, CsCl, MgCl2, MnCl2, and CaCl2. In the dark, the pH of chromatophore suspensions decreased immediately and markedly on adding these salts. 2. The light-induced pH c...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Nishi N,Sakata-Sogawa K,Soe G,Yamashita J

更新日期：1977-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pH dependence of the binding constant of Ca2+ to a phospholipase A2 of Agkistrodon halys blomhoffii, in which the alpha-amino group had been selectively modified to an alpha-keto group, was studied at 25 degrees C and ionic strength 0.1 by the tryptophyl fluorescence method. The dependence was compared with the re...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Haruki H,Teshima K,Samejima Y,Kawauchi S,Ikeda K

更新日期：1986-01-01 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：:A sensitive enzyme-immunochemical staining method was developed for detection of N-glycolylneuraminic acid (NeuGc)-containing glycosphingolipids (GSLs) on silica gel thin-layer chromatography. The procedure consists of immune reaction among NeuGc-containing GSLs, affinity-purified chicken anti-NeuGc-LacCer and horsera...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Higashi H,Fukui Y,Ueda S,Kato S,Hirabayashi Y,Matsumoto M,Naiki M

更新日期：1984-05-01 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：:MutM protein, which removes the oxidatively damaged DNA base product, 8-oxoguanine (GO), has been crystallized by means of a hanging-drop vapor-diffusion procedure using polyethyleneglycol monomethylether 2000 as a precipitant in 2-(cyclohexylamino) ethanesulfonic acid (CHES) buffer, pH 9.8. The diffraction data deriv...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Sugahara M,Mikawa T,Kato R,Fukuyama K,Kumasaka T,Yamamoto M,Inoue Y,Kuramitsu S

更新日期：2000-01-01 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：:Ras is a signal-transducing, guanine nucleotide-binding protein for various membrane receptors including tyrosine kinase receptors. Ras participates in the regulation of cell proliferation, differentiation, and morphology. Activated ras oncogenes have been identified in various forms of human cancer including epitheli...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Yamamoto T,Taya S,Kaibuchi K

更新日期：1999-11-01 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：:Plant cell-wall arabinoxylans have a complex structure that requires the action of a pool of debranching (arabinofuranosidases) and depolymerizing enzymes (endo-xylanase). Two Aspergillus nidulans strains over-secreting endo-xylanase and arabinofuranosidase were inoculated in defined 2% maltose-minimum medium resultin...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Damásio AR,Pessela BC,da Silva TM,Guimarães LH,Jorge JA,Guisán JM,Polizeli Mde L

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cholesterol esterification and cholesterol ester hydrolysis in dog plasma were investigated. Esterification proceeded linearly for 60 min, and the amounts of cholesterol esterified were in the range of 0.13-0.18 mumol/ml/h. No change of acyl composition had occurred in newly formed cholesterol esters during incubation...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Yamamoto K,Kamo-Yamada F,Cho S,Sugano M

更新日期：1980-05-01 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：:Deoxyhypusine synthase catalyzes the NAD+-dependent formation of deoxyhypusine in the eIF-5A precursor protein by transferring the 4-aminobutyl moiety of spermidine. This enzyme has recently been shown to be essential for cell viability and growth of yeast [Sasaki, K., Abid, M.R., and Miyazaki, M. (1996) FEBS Lett. 38...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Abid MR,Sasaki K,Titani K,Miyazaki M

更新日期：1997-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Angiogenesis, a formation of neovessels, is regulated by the local balance between angiogenesis stimulators and inhibitors. A number of such endogenous regulators of angiogenesis have been found in the body. Recently, vasohibin-1 (VASH1) was isolated as a negative feedback regulator of angiogenesis produced by endothe...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Sato Y

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Poly(8-oxyinosinic acid) (poly O8I), was synthesized by polymerizing 8-oxyinosine diphosphate using the enzyme polynucleotide phosphorylase (PNPase). The polymer formed a 1 : 1 hybrid with polycytidylic acid (poly C). The hybrid was found to induce the production of interferon in the brain of white albino mice and pro...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Folayan JO

更新日期：1982-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The lipA gene of Pseudomonas cepacia DSM3959 requires a downstream gene, limA, in oder to express lipase activity. The product of the lim gene, LimA, is a molecular chaperone required during the folding of lipase in oder for the lipase to adopt an active conformation. The lipase and LimA proteins have been shown to fo...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Hobson AH,Buckley CM,Jørgensen ST,Diderichsen B,McConnell DJ

更新日期：1995-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Comparative studies of the unfolding equilibria of two homologous proteins, bovine alpha-lactalbumin and hen lysozyme, induced by treatment with guanidine hydrochloride have been made by analysis of the peptide and the aromatic circular dichroism spectra. The effect of the specific binding of Ca2+ ion by the former pr...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Ikeguchi M,Kuwajima K,Sugai S

更新日期：1986-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We previously reported the utilization of antisense RNA in the development of a novel immune system against RNA coliphage SP proliferation (Hirashima et al. [1986] Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S. 83, 7726-7730). We attempted to determine the most effective (i.e., those eliciting antiviral activity) sequences for targeting...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Hirashima A,Sawaki S,Mizuno T,Houba-Herin N,Inouye M

更新日期：1989-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The three-dimensional structure of the purple intermediate of porcine kidney D-amino acid oxidase (DAO) was solved by cryo-X-ray crystallography; the purple intermediate is known to comprise a complex between the dehydrogenated product, an imino acid, and the reduced form of DAO. The crystalline purple intermediate wa...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Mizutani H,Miyahara I,Hirotsu K,Nishina Y,Shiga K,Setoyama C,Miura R

更新日期：2000-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein S, a vitamin K-dependent plasma protein having Gla-residues, increases the rate of inactivation of Factor Va by activated protein C by enhancing the binding of activated protein C to phospholipid [Walker, J.F. (1981) J. Biol. Chem. 256, 11128-11131]. The present study aimed at elucidating the effect of thrombi...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Suzuki K,Nishioka J,Hashimoto S

更新日期：1983-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Affinity labeling with nucleoside polyphosphopyridoxals, especially those with 3 or 4 phosphate groups, was effective for identifying the lysyl residue(s) located at or near the binding site for ATP, GTP, UDP-Glc, or ADP-Glc in various proteins. Furthermore, kinetic analysis of the mutant enzymes, in which the labeled...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Fukui T

更新日期：1995-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated whether transforming growth factor (TGF)-β1 promoted epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) and migration of human oral squamous cell carcinoma (hOSCC) cells. Among 6 hOSCC cell lines investigated, Smad2 phosphorylation and TGF-β target genes expression were most clearly upregulated following TGF-β1 s...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Saito D,Kyakumoto S,Chosa N,Ibi M,Takahashi N,Okubo N,Sawada S,Ishisaki A,Kamo M

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The primary structure of human IGF-I, except for the disulfide bond system, has been reported by Rinderknecht and Humbel. IGF-I afforded the corresponding characteristic peptide fragment on V8 protease digestion, which contained Cys6, Cys47, Cys48, and Cys52. Two possible fragments, Type I with Cys6-Cys47 and Cys48-Cy...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Iwai M,Kobayashi M,Tamura K,Ishii Y,Yamada H,Niwa M

更新日期：1989-12-01 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：:Spo0A is both a positive and a negative transcriptional regulator which plays a very important role in sporulation initiation in Bacillus subtilis. Its N-terminal amino acid sequence is homologous to that of regulator proteins of the two-component regulatory systems involved in signal transduction in bacteria. Phospho...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Asayama M,Kobayashi Y

更新日期：1993-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The presence of two genomic DNA regions encoding malate synthase (MS) was shown by Southern blot analysis of the genomic DNA from an n-alkane-assimilating yeast, Candida tropicalis, using a partial MS cDNA probe, in accordance with the fact that two types of partial MS cDNAs have previously been isolated. This was als...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Hikida M,Atomi H,Fukuda Y,Aoki A,Hishida T,Teranishi Y,Ueda M,Tanaka A

更新日期：1991-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The dopamine (DA)-translocating mechanism of synaptic vesicles isolated from rat brain has been studied in the presence of an artificially imposed delta pH on the vesicle membranes (acidic inside with respect to the external medium) without the aid of ATP-Mg2+. Under the experimental conditions, [3H]DA uptake by the s...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Tsudzuki T

更新日期：1984-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The amino acid sequence of the mature protein of Euglena gracilis cytochrome c1 was determined by sequencing of its cDNA. A cDNA expression library was constructed from Euglena poly(A)+ RNA in phage lambda gt11 and screened with an antiserum raised against cytochrome c1 polypeptide isolated from purified E. gracilis c...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Mukai K,Wakabayashi S,Matsubara H

更新日期：1989-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rabbit antibodies against cytochrome P-450 (SCC), P-450 (11 beta), and P-450 (C-21) from bovine adrenal cortex were prepared, and it was confirmed that these three cytochrome P-450 species are immunologically distinct from one another. Cytoplasmic sites of synthesis of P-450 (SCC), P-450 (11 beta), and P-450 (C-21) in...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Nabi N,Kominami S,Takemori S,Omura T

更新日期：1983-11-01 00:00:00