Demonstration of the importance and usefulness of manipulating non-active-site residues in protein design.

abstract：:The nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NADH)/nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate (NADPH) oxidase and the xanthine oxidase (XOD) systems generate reactive oxygen species (ROS). In the present study, to characterize the difference between the two systems, the kinetics of ROS generated by both the NADH oxidase an...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Sato E,Mokudai T,Niwano Y,Kohno M

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Parathyroid hormone-related protein (PTHrP) has two different targeting signals: an N-terminal signal peptide for the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) targeting and an internal nuclear localization signal. The protein not only functions as a secretory protein, but is also found in the nucleus and/or nucleolus under certain ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Amaya Y,Nakai T,Miura S

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When a rat hepatoma cell (R-Y121B) homogenate was incubated at 37 degrees C, 30-70% of the total alkaline phosphatase was released into the supernatant fluid from the precipitate fractions. The release reached a plateau level after 10 h of incubation at 37 degrees C. The optimum pH value for the release was 7.4. Alkal...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Sorimachi K,Yasumura Y

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Heat-stable fructose 1,6-bisphosphate-dependent L-lactate dehydrogenase [EC 1.1.1.27] was purified from an extremely thermophilic bacterium, Thermus aquaticus YT-1. The amino acid composition and NH2-terminal 34 amino acid sequence of the enzyme were determined. Its NH2-terminal sequence shows high homology with those...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Machida M,Matsuzawa H,Ohta T

更新日期：1985-03-01 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：:The kinetic specificities of BPN' and Carlsberg subtilisins [EC 3.4.21.14] were examined with various nucleus-substituted derivatives of Nalpha-acetylated aromatic amino acid methyl esters for mapping their hydrophobic binding sites in comparison with that of alpha-chymotrypsin. The Carlsberg enzyme was generally much...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Karasaki Y,Ohno M

更新日期：1978-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Purified nuclease TT1 from Thermus thermophilus HB8 has multimolecular weight forms, each of which is composed of three different subunits, alpha (10.8 x 10(4)), beta (7.8 x 10(4)), and gamma (4.1 x 10(4)). The molecular weights of this enzyme were estimated by gel filtration, polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis and eq...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Takahashi M,Kobayashi M,Uchida T

更新日期：1981-11-01 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：:Long interspersed nuclear element (LINE) is known to be transposed by reverse transcription using its RNA transcript. Recognition of the 3' stem-loop of LINE RNA by its reverse transcriptase (RT) is an important step of the retrotransposition. Our previous study revealed that the second G residue (G8) in the GGAUA loo...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Otsu M,Kajikawa M,Okada N,Kawai G

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Treatment of Sendai virus with p-azidophenyl-6-chloro-6-deoxy-beta-D-glucopyranoside (APG) caused chemical modification of the viral envelope under UV irradiation, which did not affect the hemagglutinin activity of the virus but inhibited the hemolytic activity. Also, the transfer of phospholipid from the viral envelo...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Jizomoto H,Arita H,Sugita K,Kawanami J,Sato K,Kuriyama K

更新日期：1980-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein tyrosine phosphatase receptor type Z (PTPRZ, also known as PTPζ or RPTPβ) is preferentially expressed in the central nervous system (CNS). PTPRZ plays important roles during development and adulthood in CNS myelination, learning and memory. Three splicing isoforms for PTPRZ have been identified to date: two re...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Fujikawa A,Chow JPH,Matsumoto M,Suzuki R,Kuboyama K,Yamamoto N,Noda M

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Induction of the expression of the beta-lactamase gene, blaB, is regulated by the blaA gene located just upstream of blaB in the opposite direction in Proteus vulgaris. The expression of the blaA gene is negatively autoregulated by its own product BlaA, the activator of the blaB gene. The P. vulgaris BlaA protein shar...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Ishiguro K,Sugimoto K

更新日期：1996-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:CXCL14 is a member of the CXC chemokine family. CXCL14 possesses chemoattractive activity for activated macrophages, immature dendritic cells and natural killer cells. CXCL14-deficient mice do not exhibit clear immune system abnormalities, suggesting that the function of CXCL14 can be compensated for by other chemokin...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Hara T,Tanegashima K

更新日期：2012-05-01 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：: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：: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：:L-selectin is a cell adhesion molecule mediating the initial capture and subsequent rolling of leukocytes along the endothelial cells expressing L-selectin ligands. In addition to its action in adhesion, an intracellular signaling role for L-selectin has been recognized. Its cytoplasmic domain is involved in signal tr...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Chen C,Ba X,Xu T,Cui L,Hao S,Zeng X

更新日期：2006-08-01 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：:Members of the transforming growth factor-β (TGF-β) family, including TGF-βs, activin and bone morphogenetic proteins (BMPs), are multifunctional proteins that regulate a wide variety of cellular responses, such as proliferation, differentiation, migration and apoptosis. TGF-β family signalling is mainly mediated by m...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Imamura T,Oshima Y,Hikita A

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A cell-free protein-synthesizing system active in initiation of translation of both endogenous mRNA and exogenous mRNA has been obtained from postmitochondrial supernatant (S-12) of the liver of ethionine-treated rats by adding reticulocyte ribosomal extract as a source of initiation factor. Formation of polysomes in ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Hase M,Endo Y,Natori Y

更新日期：1982-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies were carried out on the delta 5-desaturation reaction in ergosterol biosynthesis with a particulate fraction of cell-free extract of yeast. A reduced pyridine nucleotide coenzyme and molecular oxygen were required for the reaction. It was shown that the enzyme activity is located in a fraction corresponding to...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Osumi T,Nishino T,Katsuki H

更新日期：1979-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Capacitative Ca(2+) entry is essential for refilling intracellular Ca(2+) stores and is thought to be regulated primarily by inositol 1, 4,5-trisphosphate (IP(3))-sensitive stores in nonexcitable cells. In nonexcitable A549 cells, the application of caffeine or ryanodine induces Ca(2+) release in the absence of extrac...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Xue HH,Zhao DM,Suda T,Uchida C,Oda T,Chida K,Ichiyama A,Nakamura H

更新日期：2000-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The X-ray diffraction pattern from chromatophore membranes of a photosynthetic bacterium, Rhodospirillum rubrum, indicates that a highly organized protein assembly exists in the membrane. The X-ray scatterer was solubilized from chromatophores by a mixture of cholate and deoxycholate. The basic component was identifie...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kataoka M,Ueki T

更新日期：1981-01-01 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：:Two cDNA clones, pHPah1 and pHPah2, encoding polycyclic hydrocarbon-inducible forms of rabbit liver microsomal cytochrome P-450 were isolated and their nucleotide sequences were determined. The inserts of pHPah1 and pHPah2 contained open reading frames specifying the entire primary structures of cytochrome P-450s, con...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kagawa N,Mihara K,Sato R

更新日期：1987-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Irradiation of isolated chloroplast thylakoids with TNP-ADP results in non-covalent binding and covalent incorporation of a reaction product of TNP-ADP formed by photosynthetic reduction into the so-called "tight" nucleotide binding site of CF1 [Ponse et al. (1992) Z. Naturforsch. 47c, 264-274]. CF1 extracted from thu...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Hisabori T,Kothen G,Strotmann H

更新日期：1993-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The modes of actions of 1-farnesylpyridinium (FPy) on yeast cell growth were investigated on the basis of its effects on cell cycle progression, morphogenesis and the related events for construction of cell wall architecture in Schizosacchromyces pombe. FPy predominantly inhibited the growth of the yeast cells after v...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Hamada M,Ohata I,Fujita K,Usuki Y,Ogita A,Ishiguro J,Tanaka T

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies have shown that purified mitochondrial outer membrane is able to catalyze the transfer of sialic acid from CMP-Neu5Ac to an exogenous asialoglycoprotein acceptor, asialofetuin. Considering the heterogeneity of the glycan chains borne by this glycoprotein, an investigation of mitochondrial sialyltransf...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Gasnier F,Baubichon-Cortay H,Louisot P,Gateau-Roesch O

更新日期：1991-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The gizzard tropomyosin molecule is composed of two subunits at 1:1 molar ratio. Possible composites of the tropomyosin molecule are two kinds of homodimer (one for each subunit), a heterodimer of two subunits, or a mixture of heterodimer and homodimer(s). We tried to evaluate the native subunit composition of gizzard...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Nakamura S,Sakurai T,Nonomura Y

更新日期：1991-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Activation of antiviral innate immunity is triggered by cellular pattern recognition receptors. Retinoic acid inducible gene-I (RIG-I)-like receptors (RLRs) detect viral non-self RNA in cytoplasm of virus-infected cells and play a critical role in the clearance of the invaded viruses through production of antiviral cy...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Yoneyama M,Jogi M,Onomoto K

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00