A splicing factor, Prp8: preferential localization in the testis and ovary in adult mice.

abstract：:Hepatic delta-aminolevulinate (ALA) synthetase was induced in mice by the administration of allylisopropylacetamide (AIA) and 3,5-dicarbethoxy-1,4-dihydrocollidine (DDC). In both cases, a significant amount of ALA synthetase accumulated in the liver cytosol fraction as well as in the mitochondria. The apparent molecul...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Igarashi J,Hayashi N,Kikuchi G

更新日期：1976-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A partially purified fraction (Component I) which catalyzed the ATP-PPi exchange reaction dependent only on valine and glycine among the five constituent amino acids of gramicidin A was obtained from crude extracts of Bacillus brevis ATCC 8185, which produces both gramicidin A and tyrocidines. This fraction was found ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Akashi K,Kubota K,Kurahashi K

更新日期：1977-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Affinity chromatography based on the reaction between SH groups in protein and +HgC6H4CO groups in the p-mercuribenzoylaminoethyl derivative of Sepharose 4B was examined with a crude preparation of calf thymus cysteine-containing histone. Adsorption of the histone onto the column by specific coupling was found to be ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Ishikawa K,Iwai K

更新日期：1975-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Carboxyl groups of native human fibrinogen were modified with glycine methyl ester and 1-ethyl-3(3-dimethylaminopropyl)carbodiimide. It seemed likely that the modification occurred stepwise. Approximately 26% of the carboxyl groups of fibrinogen was modified finally. The modified fibrinogen had no interaction with cat...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kurioka S,Inoue F,Matsuda M

更新日期：1975-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Selected biochemical properties, including the charge heterodispersity profile and carbohydrate specificity, of bovine galectin-1 were determined in detail. The lectin was purified through an improved purification protocol that yielded 35-40 mg/kg of wet tissue with a specific activity of 1.7-2 x 10(4) mg-1.ml. The ga...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Ahmed H,Fink NE,Pohl J,Vasta GR

更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The nucleotide sequences of 5S rRNA from seven denitrifying bacteria have been determined. Based on these sequences and those reported in the literature (including two denitrifiers), a phylogenic tree of 104 eubacterial 5S rRNA sequences has been constructed to establish the position of the denitrifying bacteria. Thes...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Ohkubo S,Iwasaki H,Hori H,Osawa S

更新日期：1986-11-01 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：:After the intraperitoneal administration of radioactive cholic acid to rats, the binding of the cholic acid to protein was immunologically investigated. The serum and liver cytosol were separately incubated with antiligandin or antialbumin immunoglobulin and then subjected to sucrose density gradient centrifugation. T...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Fukuda H,Iritani N

更新日期：1981-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A novel esterase was found in Pseudomonas fluorescens cells and purified to homogeneity as determined by polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. The esterase was extracted from the cells by freeze-thawing and hypotonic treatment. Purification was achieved by ammonium sulfate precipitation, followed by successive chromatog...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Nakagawa A,Tsujita T,Okuda H

更新日期：1984-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Xanthine dehydrogenase has been purified to a homogeneous state from cell-free extracts of a strain of Streptomyces. The enzyme has a molecular weight of 125,000 and consists of two subunits with a molecular weight of 67,000. The isoelectric point is at pH 4.4. The enzyme exhibits absorption maxima at 273, 355, and 45...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Ohe T,Watanabe Y

更新日期：1979-07-01 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：:The mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) signaling pathway, which is conserved from yeast to humans, is activated in response to a variety of extra- and intracellular stimuli, and plays key roles in multiple cellular processes, including proliferation, differentiation, and apoptosis. The MAPK pathway transmits its ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Yoshioka K

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied the regulation of lipid body biogenesis in the oleaginous fungus Mortierella ramanniana var. angulispora by investigating culture conditions to modulate lipid body size, which we found was affected by the carbon-to-nitrogen ratio (C/N ratio) in the culture medium. Increasing the nitrogen source or decreasin...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kamisaka Y,Noda N,Yamaoka M

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glycerol-treated muscle fiber bundles were fixed at their rest length in 50 mM KC1, 2 mM MgC1(2), and 10 micron CaC1(2) at pH 7.8 and 0 degrees C in the presence of sufficient amounts of ATP, creatine kinase, and creatine phosphate. The fiber bundles were stretched linearly with time for 0.3 s at a constant amplitude,...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Arata T,Mukohata Y,Tonomura Y

更新日期：1978-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Newly recognized mammalian secretory proteins such as preprolactin are translocated across the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) in a signal recognition particle (SRP)-dependent manner. Recent studies revealed that there are two recognition steps for signal peptides during this translocation. The first step is recognition by...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Hatsuzawa K,Tagaya M,Mizushima S

更新日期：1997-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human promyelocytic leukemia cells (HL-60) were treated with several differentiation inducers, then the changes in the activity of cytosolic protein kinase C (PKC) isoforms were examined by hydroxylapatite chromatography and the species of the isoforms were determined immunologically. In three undifferentiated HL-60 c...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Tanaka Y,Yoshihara K,Tsuyuki M,Itaya-Hironaka A,Inada Y,Kamiya T

更新日期：1992-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The calnexin homologue (Cne1p) of Saccharomyces cerevisiae was expressed in Escherichia coli to evaluate its chaperone function. The chaperone function was examined as to the effects on the suppression of thermal denaturation and the enhancement of refolding, using citrate synthase (CS) as a nonspecific chaperone subs...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Xu X,Kanbara K,Azakami H,Kato A

更新日期：2004-05-01 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：:The G72 gene is one of the most susceptible genes to schizophrenia and is contained exclusively in the genomes of primates. The product of the G72 gene modulates the activity of D-amino acid oxidase (DAO) and is a small protein prone to aggregate, which hampers its structural studies. In addition, lack of a known stru...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kato Y,Fukui K

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A stroma-dependent B lymphoid cell line (B31-1) has been established by coculturing sorted stem cells on a novel bone marrow stromal cell line (TBR31-1). B31-1 cells express B220, but do not express other B lymphoid differentiation markers including CD43, heat stable antigen (HSA), or surface immunoglobulin (Ig) M (sI...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Matsuda K,Koguma M,Okuyama R,Nakazawa T,Matsuzaki Y,Nakauchi H,Yanai N,Terasaki T,Obinata M

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aggrecan, a large aggregating proteoglycan, is one of the major structural components of cartilage. Its core protein contains three glubular domains and two glycosaminoglycan-attachment domains. These domains play various roles to maintain cartilage structure and function. An N-terminal globular domain binds hyalurona...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Watanabe H,Yamada Y,Kimata K

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When nuclei isolated from rat liver in a low salt buffer were washed with 0.1 M NaCl solution, the supernatant showed a deoxyribonuclease (DNase) activity. The activity required Mg2+ and in addition spermine or spermidine, and its optimal pH was 7.2-7.4. The activity was higher on denatured (single stranded) DNA than ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Nakano T,Tsuboi M

更新日期：1976-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:PKNalpha is a fatty acid- and Rho-activated serine/threonine protein kinase having a catalytic domain homologous to members of the protein kinase C family. Recently it was reported that PKNalpha is involved in the p38 mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) signaling pathway. To date, however, how PKNalpha regulates t...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Takahashi M,Gotoh Y,Isagawa T,Nishimura T,Goyama E,Kim HS,Mukai H,Ono Y

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The functional activities of myosin head are located in a 95 kilodalton (kDa) heavy chain which can be divided into three fragments of 23 kDa, 50 kDa, and 20 kDa. ATP hydrolysis sites were suggested to be located in the 23 kDa and 50 kDa fragments, and actin binding sites were in the 50 kDa and 20 kDa fragments. In th...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Miyanishi T,Toyoshima C,Wakabayashi T,Matsuda G

更新日期：1988-03-01 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：: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：:We have detected in rat liver cytosol three enzymes (termed C-1, C-2, and C-3) which cleaved the RNA moiety of RNA-DNA hybrid. These enzymes were separated from each other by DEAE-Sephadex and Sephadex G-200 chromatography. C-1 and C-2 specifically act on the RNA moiety of RNA-DNA hybrid, while C-3 degrades single-str...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Tashiro F,Ueno Y

更新日期：1978-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:S-RNase is associated with the gametophytic self-incompatibility of flowering plants in Solanaceae and, on the basis of sequence homology, belongs to the RNase T2 family. To identify the active site residues in S-RNase, Nicotiana alata S6-RNase was studied by chemical modification. S6-RNase was inactivated with iodoac...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Ishimizu T,Miyagi M,Norioka S,Liu YH,Clarke AE,Sakiyama F

更新日期：1995-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A spectrofluorometric method for sensitive determination of metalloendopeptidase activity has been developed by using a bimane-peptide containing a tryptophan residue, i.e. 1,7-dioxo-2,5,6-trimethyl-1H,7H-pyrazolo[1,2-alpha]pyrazol-3-yl-methyl- thiomethylcarbonyl-phenylalanyl-tryptophanyl-leucine (Bim-SCH2CO-Phe-Trp-L...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kajiwara K,Kumazaki T,Sato E,Kanaoka Y,Ishii S

更新日期：1991-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. Fractionation of fibroin prepared from the posterior silk glands of Bombyx mori was carried out. After carboxymethylation of the fibroin, it was fractionated by ammonium sulfate precipitation, Sephadex G-200 gel filtration and DEAE-cellulose column chromatography. 2. The fibroin was composed of at least two protein...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Shimura K,Kikuchi A,Ohtomo K,Katagata Y,Hyodo A

更新日期：1976-10-01 00:00:00