Crystal structure of meso-2,3-butanediol dehydrogenase in a complex with NAD+ and inhibitor mercaptoethanol at 1.7 A resolution for understanding of chiral substrate recognition mechanisms.

abstract：:During a large-scale in vitro translation analysis of a human full-length cDNA bank, we found many clones producing in vitro translation products showing ladder bands on a fluorogram with the equidistance of about 9 kDa at the position larger than the molecular mass expected from the open reading frame. We have analyz...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Iwamuro S,Saeki M,Kato S

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The midpoint pCa value of the fluorescence titration curve of the complex of 2-[4'-iodoacetamido)anilino)-naphthalene-6-sulfonic acid-labeled troponin (IAANS-Tn) and nonpolymerizable tropomyosin (NPTm) was much larger than that for the complex of Tn containing dansylaziridine-labeled troponin C (DANZ-TnC) and NPTm. Th...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Iio T,Nishio T,Kondo H

更新日期：1988-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cyclic AMP receptor protein (CRP) plays a key role in the transcription regulation of many prokaryotic genes. Upon the binding of cyclic AMP, CRP is allosterically activated, binds to target DNA sites, and interacts with RNA polymerase. Although the protein-protein interaction between CRP and RNA polymerase is known t...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Lee TW,Won HS,Park SH,Kyogoku Y,Lee BJ

更新日期：2001-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is well established that promyelocytic leukaemia nuclear bodies (PML NBs) play important roles in DNA damage responses (DDR). After irradiation, PML NBs dynamically recruit or release important proteins involved in cell-cycle regulation, DNA repair and apoptosis. As PML protein is the key molecule of PML NBs' dynam...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Liu J,Song Y,Tian B,Qian J,Dong Y,Liu J,Liu B,Sun Z

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ascorbate oxidase obtained from a microorganism, Acremonium sp. HI-25 (molecular weight, 80 kDa; monomeric protein), was studied with respect to atomic absorption, EPR, absorption spectra, circular dichroism (CD) spectra, and steady-state kinetics. The enzyme was found to be a multicopper protein, containing four ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Hirose J,Sakurai T,Imamura K,Watanabe H,Iwamoto H,Hiromi K,Itoh H,Shin T,Murao S

更新日期：1994-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:MicroRNAs (miRNAs) serve as key regulators in human disorders. Previous research reported that miR-211-5p is down-regulated in osteoarthritis (OA) and that Fibulin-4 inhibits chondrocyte differentiation. However, the role of miR-211-5p in the development of OA has not been clarified, and its downstream target has not ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Liu H,Luo J

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have developed a screening system for artificial small RNAs (sRNAs) that inhibit the growth of Escherichia coli. In this system, we used a plasmid library to express artificial sRNAs (approximately 200 bases long) containing 60 bases of random nucleotide sequence. The induced expression of the known rydB sRNA in th...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Komasa M,Fujishima K,Hiraoka K,Shinhara A,Lee BS,Tomita M,Kanai A

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:After partial chromatographic purification of rat liver cell sap on DEAE-cellulose, including the removal of type M2 pyruvate kinase, different forms of type L pyruvate kinase were separated by chromatofocusing. Three fractions of pyruvate kinase activity were found, eluting at pH 5.0, 5.2, and 5.3, respectively. The ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Ekdahl KN,Ekman P

更新日期：1984-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. New methods of preparing troponins from slow skeletal and cardiac muscle of the chicken have been developed. The electrophoretic mobilities of slow skeletal muscle troponin subunits were different from those of the corresponding fast skeletal muscle subunits. 2. A new method for determining the amount of divalent c...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kohama K

更新日期：1979-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Calmodulin-dependent protein kinase IV (CaM-kinase IV) kinase was recently discovered in the rat brain by its activity to activate the inactive recombinant CaM-kinase IV expressed in Escherichia coli [Okuno, S. and Fujisawa, H. (1993) J. Biochem. 114, 167-170]. In the present study, CaM-kinase IV kinase was purified a...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Okuno S,Kitani T,Fujisawa H

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A beta-galactosidase was extracted from the internal organs of a sea squirt, Styela plicata, and purified 959-fold, with an 18% yield, by successive gel chromatography, anion-exchange chromatography, chromatofocusing, and affinity chromatography on a Con A-Sepharose column. The purified enzyme was fairly homogeneous, ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Shigeta S,Ono K,Oka S

更新日期：1991-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously developed a simple gene transfection procedure mediated by cationic lipid vesicles for animal cells, in which a commercially available cationic surfactant, dimethyldioctadecyl ammonium bromide (DDAB), was used for making lipid vesicles. In the present study, we examined enhancement of transfection e...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： You J,Kamihira M,Iijima S

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We cloned and sequenced the Serratia marcescens prolyl aminopeptidase (SPAP) gene. Nucleotide sequence analysis revealed an open reading frame of 951 bp, encoding a protein of 317 amino acids with a predicted molecular weight of 36,083. The expressed enzyme was purified about 90-fold on columns of Toyopearl HW65C and ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kabashima T,Kitazono A,Kitano A,Ito K,Yoshimoto T

更新日期：1997-09-01 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：:While many reports have shown that Ca2+ alone causes ryanodine binding to the heavy fraction of the sarcoplasmic reticulum (HFSR), our results demonstrate that caffeine or beta,gamma-methylene adenosine triphosphate (AMPOPCP) in addition to Ca2+ is necessary for ryanodine binding, although Ca2+ is indispensable for it...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Ogawa Y,Harafuji H

更新日期：1990-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:ADAMTS13 is the metalloprotease responsible for the proteolytic degradation of von Willebrand factor (VWF). A severe deficiency of this VWF-cleaving protease activity causes thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura. This protease, comprising 1,427 amino acid residues, is composed of multiple domains, i.e., a preproregion, ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Soejima K,Nakamura H,Hirashima M,Morikawa W,Nozaki C,Nakagaki T

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Diacylglycerol lipase (DGL) was solubilized from human platelet microsomes with heptyl-beta-D-thioglucoside, and purified to homogeneity on SDS-PAGE using a combination of chromatographic and electrophoretic methods. The molecular mass of the purified DGL was estimated to be 33 kDa. Its apparent pI was pH 6.0, as dete...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Moriyama T,Urade R,Kito M

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To study how collagen synthesis is regulated in developing chick embryonic skin, hydroxyproline synthesis, incorporation of proline, and translational activity and content of collagen mRNA in 12-, 15-, and 18-day skins were determined and compared with each other. Hydroxyproline synthesis in the 18-day skins was marke...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Ohyama K,Tokimitsu I,Tajima S

更新日期：1991-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, we demonstrated that glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase (GAPDH) is a phosphatidylserine (PS)-binding protein and localized the putative PS-binding site involved in the membrane fusion induced by this enzyme. In an attempt to identify the PS-binding proteins, we raised polyclonal antibodies against...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kaneda M,Takeuchi K,Inoue K,Umeda M

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A full-length cDNA, which encodes a human placental fructose-6-phosphate,2-kinase/ fructose-2,6-bisphosphatase, was constructed and expressed in Escherichia coli. The expressed protein, purified to homogeneity, showed a molecular weight of 58,000 by gel electrophoresis under denaturing conditions, compared to the dedu...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Sakakibara R,Kato M,Okamura N,Nakagawa T,Komada Y,Tominaga N,Shimojo M,Fukasawa M

更新日期：1997-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Long non-coding RNA is an endogenous non-coding RNA that has currently been proved to be an important player in cancer cell biology. In the present study, we investigated the biological role of PHACTR2-AS1 in tongue squamous cell carcinoma (TSCC). PHACTR2-AS1 was preferentially localized in the cytoplasm, and was nota...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Yuan F,Miao Z,Chen W,Wu F,Wei C,Yong J,Xiao C

更新日期：2020-12-26 00:00:00

abstract：:We have established three kinds of monoclonal antibodies against gangliosides containing N-glycolylneuraminic acid (NeuGc) by immunization of BALB/c mice with the purified gangliosides inserted into liposomes comprising Salmonella minnesota R595 lipopolysaccharides, and fusion of spleen cells with a mouse myeloma cell...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Watarai S,Kushi Y,Shigeto R,Misawa N,Eishi Y,Handa S,Yasuda T

更新日期：1995-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Amyloid formation is the hallmark of many diseases. The propensity of a protein to aggregate depends on a number of biological factors like the presence of sulphated polysaccharides termed as glycosaminoglycans (GAGs). Here we assessed whether the polymeric nature of GAGs is responsible for their protein aggregation-p...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Motamedi-Shad N,Monsellier E,Chiti F

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transient and steady state kinetics were studied in the interactions of ATP with acto-H-meromyosin reconstituted from bovine arterial heavy-meromyosin (HMM) and rabbit skeletal muscle F-actin. The results showed that the rate of dissociation of the hybrid acto-HMM induced by ATP was slower than the rate of the fluores...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Takeuchi K,Tonomura Y

更新日期：1978-08-01 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：:Two distinct ferredoxins were purified from Rhodobacter capsulatus SB1003. Their complete amino acid sequences were determined by a combination of protease digestion, BrCN cleavage and Edman degradation. Ferredoxins I and II were composed of 64 and 111 amino acids, respectively, with molecular weights of 6,728 and 12,...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Saeki K,Suetsugu Y,Yao Y,Horio T,Marrs BL,Matsubara H

更新日期：1990-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:2,3-Bisphosphoglycerate mutase (BPGM) [EC 5.4.2.4] is a multifunctional enzyme that catalyzes both the synthesis and the degradation of 2,3-diphosphoglycerate (2,3-DPG) and contains three types of activities in that it functions as a 2,3-DPG synthetase, a phosphoglycerate mutase and a 2,3-DPG phosphatase. In humans, B...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Fujita T,Suzuki K,Tada T,Yoshihara Y,Hamaoka R,Uchida K,Matuo Y,Sasaki T,Hanafusa T,Taniguchi N

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rat liver glucocorticoid receptor was partially purified and characterized for its hormone binding using selenite. Selenite at very low concentrations irreversibly inhibited the hormone binding. The concentration for half maximal inhibition was approximately 2.8 microM. The inhibition was restored by dithiothreitol. T...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Tashima Y,Terui M,Itoh H,Mizunuma H,Kobayashi R,Marumo F

更新日期：1989-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A cyclodextrin glucanotransferase (CGTase) from Bacillus clarkii 7364 converts starch into gamma-cyclodextrin (gamma-CD) with high specificity. Comparison of the deduced amino acid sequence of this CGTase with those of other typical CGTases revealed that several amino acids are deleted or substituted with others at se...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Nakagawa Y,Takada M,Ogawa K,Hatada Y,Horikoshi K

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The expression of the human SREBP-2 gene is transcriptionally regulated in a cooperative manner by sterol regulatory element-binding proteins (SREBPs) and the general transcription factor NF-Y [Sato, R., Inoue, J., Kawabe, Y., Kodama, T., Takano, T., and Maeda, M. (1996) J. Biol. Chem. 271, 26461-26464]. To understand...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Inoue J,Sato R,Maeda M

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00