Biochemical characterization of galloyl pedunculagin (ellagitannin) as a selective inhibitor of the beta-regulatory subunit of A-kinase in vitro.

abstract：:Sulfate-reducing bacteria, Desulfovibrio vulgaris, strain Miyazaki, were grown on either sulfate, sulfite, or thiosulfate as the terminal electron acceptor. Better growth was observed on sulfite and less growth on thiosulfate than on sulfate. Enzyme levels of adenylylsulfate (APS) reductase [EC 1.8.99.2], reductant-ac...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kobayashi K,Morisawa Y,Ishituka T,Ishimoto M

更新日期：1975-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Comparative substrate specificities of farnesyl pyrophosphate synthetases I and II purified from larvae of silkworm, Bombyx mori, were studied by use of the possible biosynthetic intermediates of juvenile hormones in the insect. In the presence of Mn2+ ions farnesyl pyrophosphate synthetase II showed higher activity t...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Koyama T,Matsubara M,Ogura K

更新日期：1985-08-01 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：: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：:Three alkaline DNases, A, B, and C, with preference for the digestion of double-stranded DNA (dsDNA) were partially purified from microplasmodia of Physarum polycephalum. They were very similar but differed in their isoelectric points. These were pH 5.8 for DNase A, 7.1 for DNase B, and 9.1 for DNase C. All three enzy...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Waterborg JH,Kuyper CM

更新日期：1980-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The activity of cathepsin E (M(r) approximately 80K), a dimeric aspartic proteinase with two active sites per molecule, toward a protein substrate (reduced and carboxymethylated ribonuclease A) was shown to be completely inhibited by alpha 2-macroglobulin (alpha 2M) at pH 5.5. On the other hand, the activity toward a ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Athauda SB,Arakawa H,Nishigai M,Takahashi T,Ikai A,Takahashi K

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thrombopoietin (TPO) is an important haematopoietic factor in megakaryocytic activities as well as in platelet production. Interleukin 6 (IL-6) can co-stimulate TPO-dependent formation of colony forming unit of megakaryocyte (CFU-Meg) growth which could be responsible for residual platelet formation in TPO-deficient o...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Zhiyi H,Wenshan L,Wenze Z,Ning D,Chi Z,Kenan Y,Ping W,Qianqian W,Qing Z

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The STPR domain is a novel DNA-binding domain composed of repeats of 23 amino-acid-long peptide found in the fibroin-modulator-binding protein-1 (FMBP-1) of the silkworm Bombyx mori. Theoretical proteins having the STPR domain are highly conserved, particularly in vertebrates, but the functions are mostly unknown. In ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Takiya S,Saito S,Yokoyama T,Matsumoto D,Aizawa T,Kamiya M,Demura M,Kawano K

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nestin is an intermediate filament protein mainly expressed in muscle and neural progenitors. Recently, we reported that nestin is expressed in rat vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMCs), disappears after serum-deprivation and then is re-expressed again following EGF stimulation. As the function of nestin in VSMCs remai...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Huang YL,Wu CM,Shi GY,Wu GC,Lee H,Jiang MJ,Wu HL,Yang HY

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatic peroxisomes and mitochondria from 20-day-old chick embryo were separated by sucrose density gradient centrifugation and the characteristics of carnitine acyltransferases in these organelles were studied. The carnitine acyltransferase activities in peroxisomes were increased markedly by the treatment of chick e...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Ishii S,Ishii H,Suga T

更新日期：1985-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The interactions of porcine alpha2-macroglobulin (alpha2M) with native proteinases, their zymogens and the chemically-modified enzymes were compared. The alpha2M did not bind to chymotrypsinogen, or to most of the chemically modified derivatives of alpha-chymotrypsin, trypsinogen, DIP- and PMS-trypsins, but it could i...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Tsuru D,Kado K,Fujiwara K,Tmimatsu M,Ogita K

更新日期：1978-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cathepsin E, an intracellular aspartic proteinase of the pepsin family, is composed of two homologous domains, each containing the catalytic Asp residue in a consensus DTG motif. Here we examine the significance of residues in the motifs of rat cathepsin E by substitution of Asp98, Asp283, and Thr284 with other residu...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Liu J,Tsukuba T,Okamoto K,Ohishi M,Yamamoto K

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 5'-N-ethylcarboxamido[3H]adenosine ([3H]NECA) binding site of mouse mastocytoma P815 cell membranes has been purified approximately 100-fold by affinity chromatography. This adenosine binding site, which has a similar specificity to that of the A2 adenosine receptor, was absorbed on NECA-linked Sepharose 6B and elut...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Nakata H

更新日期：1989-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tardigrades, a phylum of meiofaunal organisms, exhibit extraordinary tolerance to various environmental conditions, including extreme temperatures (-272 to 151 °C) and exposure to ionizing radiation. Proteins from anhydrobiotic tardigrades with homology to known proteins from other organisms are new potential targets ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kobayashi K,Kim J,Fukuda Y,Kozawa T,Inoue T

更新日期：2021-01-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The complete amino acid sequence of Fragment B obtained by the limited tryptic digestion of E. coli polypeptide chain elongation factor Tu (EF-Tu) was determined. Seven peptides formed from Fragment B by cleavage with cyanogen bromide (designated as CB1 to CB7 according to their order of alignment from N- to C-termini...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Nakamura S,Nakayama N,Takahashi K,Kaziro Y

更新日期：1982-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bovine renal brush-border membranes were solubilized by 1.6% sodium cholate. Na+/H(+)-antiporter was recovered in the supernatant after centrifugation at 160,000 x g for 1 h and was successfully reconstituted into proteoliposomes by a cholate-dialysis procedure. The reconstituted Na+/H(+)-antiporter showed a pH-gradie...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Yamashita T,Kawakita M

更新日期：1992-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The presence of a leucine zipper motif was recognized in the deduced amino acid sequences of human and rat renin-binding proteins (RnBPs) on cloning and sequence analysis of the RnBP cDNAs. The in vitro synthesized RnBPs, with the respective cDNAs, formed heterodimers with porcine renin and homodimers. On comparison o...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Inoue H,Takahashi S,Fukui K,Miyake Y

更新日期：1991-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phospholipase A2 inhibitor (PLI) was purified from the blood plasma of Chinese Mamushi, Agkistrodon blomhoffii siniticus, by sequential chromatography on Sephadex G-200, Mono Q, and Blue-Sepharose CL-6B columns. The purified PLI was a glycoprotein with an apparent molecular mass of 75 kDa and was composed of a single ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Ohkura N,Inoue S,Ikeda K,Hayashi K

更新日期：1993-04-01 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：:By use of purified RNA polymerase II, it was demonstrated that S-II, a stimulatory protein of RNA polymerase II, enhanced the frequency of initiation of transcription from discrete sites on the promoter region of the silk fibroin gene integrated in a supercoiled plasmid DNA in the presence of manganese. In the absence...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Sekimizu K,Horikoshi M,Natori S

更新日期：1984-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of ryanodine on the permeation of glucose, choline, and Ca2+ through the Ca2+ channel in sarcoplasmic reticulum vesicles was studied by means of the light scattering and/or the tracer method. Ryanodine had the same effect on the permeabilities of choline and Ca2+; low concentrations of ryanodine (10 microM)...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kasai M,Kawasaki T

更新日期：1993-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The oxygen exchange during ATP hydrolysis by glycerinated muscle fibers, myofibrils, and synthetic actomyosin filaments was studied from the distribution of the [18O]Pi species produced by the hydrolysis of [gamma-18O]ATP. The products were mixtures of two species, one with a low extent of oxygen exchange and the othe...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Yasui M,Ohe M,Kajita A,Arata T,Inoue A

更新日期：1989-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tetrahymena F-actin-binding protein, which induces bundling of Tetrahymena F-actin, was localized to a division furrow during cytokinesis. We report here the cloning and characterization of the gene and cDNA of a Tetrahymena F-actin-binding protein. The cDNA encodes a protein comprising 579 deduced amino acids with a ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Watanabe A,Yonemura I,Gonda K,Numata O

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:E. coli bearing hybrid plasmid pKOl (Oeda et al. (1981) Mol. Gen. Genet. 184, 191-199) expressed a large amount of lysophospholipase L2 activity. When a mutant which was defective in lysophospholipase L2 activity was transformed with plasmid pKOl, it overproduced lysophospholipase L2 activity. The gene responsible for...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Homma H,Kobayashi T,Ito Y,Kudo I,Inoue K,Ikeda H,Sekiguchi M,Nojima S

更新日期：1983-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human matrix metalloproteinase 7 (MMP-7) activity exhibits broad bell-shaped pH profile with the acidic and alkaline pK(a) (pK(e1) and pK(e2)) values of about 4 and 10. The ionizable group for pK(e2) was assigned to Lys or Arg by thermodynamic analysis; however, no such residues are present in the active site. Hence, ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Morishima A,Yasukawa K,Inouye K

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The amino acid sequences of ferredoxins I and II from a blue-green alga, Nostoc strain MAC were determined. This alga is able to grow autotrophically in the light or heterotrophically in the dark. Analyses of tryptic peptides of Cm-proteins by conventional methods including solid-phase Edman degradation gave the compl...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Hase T,Matsubara H,Hutber GN,Rogers LJ

更新日期：1982-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The amount of S-II, a protein specifically stimulating RNA polymerase II, was measured in various mouse organs by a micro complement fixation assay. The amount was almost the same in brain, liver, kidney, spleen, and Ehrlich ascites tumor cells on the basis of DNA, being about 3.8 micrograms/mg DNA, which corresponds ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Tamura H,Sekimizu K,Obinata M,Natori S

更新日期：1980-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Identification of single-stranded regions in Torulopsis utilis 5S RNA was attempted by the use of Nuclease S1, a single-strand specific endonuclease. When T. utilis 5S RNA was subjected to prolonged incubation with Nuclease S1, about 50% of the substrate 5S RNA remained as large oligonucleotide "cores." Such Nuclease...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Nishikawa K,Takemura S

更新日期：1977-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A chitinase was purified from the culture filtrate of Streptomyces erythraeus (SE). The enzyme (SE chitinase) has a molecular weight of 30,000 and pI 3.7, and shows optimal activity at pH 5.0 with an optimal ionic strength of less than 0.2 M NaCl. SE chitinase could hydrolyze chitin and its derivatives, but could not ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Hara S,Yamamura Y,Fujii Y,Mega T,Ikenaka T

更新日期：1989-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sodium- and potassium-activated adenosinetriphosphatase (Na+, K+-ATPase) purified from dog kidney outer medulla was examined by polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis and by photoaffinity labeling with N-(ouabain)-N'-(2-nitro-4-azidophenyl)-ethylenediamine (NAP-ouabain). The large subunit band (alpha-band) split into two ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Ohta T,Kawamura M,Hasegawa T,Ishikura H,Nagano K

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00