Osmotic stress induces HB-EGF gene expression via Ca(2+)/Pyk2/JNK signal cascades in rat aortic smooth muscle cells.

abstract：:A post-proline cleaving enzyme [prolyl endopeptidase, EC 3.4.21.26] was purified about 3,700-fold from an extract of bovine brain by a series of column chromatographies on DEAE-Sephadex, hydroxyapatite and PCMB-T-Sepharose, and gel filtration on Sephadex G-200 using N-carbobenzoxy-Gly-Pro-beta-naphthylamide (Z-Gly-Pro...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Yoshimoto T,Nishimura T,Kita T,Tsuru D

更新日期：1983-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) is a morphogenetic process of cells that adopt an epithelial organization in their developmental ontogeny or homeostatic maintenance. Abnormalities in EMT regulation result in many malignant tumours in the human body. Tumours associated with the haematopoietic system, however, a...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Hamidi S,Sheng G

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The readthrough of premature termination codon (PTC) by ribosome sometimes produces full-length proteins. We previously reported a readthrough of PTC of glycosyltransferase gene B4GALNT1 with hereditary spastic paraplegia (HSP). Here we featured the readthrough of B4GALNT1 of two mutants, M4 and M2 with PTC by immunob...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Yesmin F,Bhuiyan RH,Ohmi Y,Ohkawa Y,Tajima O,Okajima T,Furukawa K,Furukawa K

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously reported that calpastatin, an endogenous inhibitory protein of calpain, is cleaved by a caspase-3-like protease during apoptosis in human Jurkat T cells [Kato, M. et al. (2000) J. Biochem. 127, 297-305]. In this study, we found that nonmuscle myosin heavy chain-A (NMHC-A) is cleaved during apoptosis...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kato M,Fukuda H,Nonaka T,Imajoh-Ohmi S

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study aims to study the effects of intra-nuclear lncRNA MEG3 on the progression of prostate cancer and the underlying mechanisms. Expressions of relative molecules were detected by Quantitative real time PCR (qRT-PCR) and western blot. Chromatin immunoprecipitation and RNA immunoprecipitation (RIP) assays were us...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Zhou Y,Yang H,Xia W,Cui L,Xu R,Lu H,Xue D,Tian Z,Ding T,Cao Y,Shi Q,He X

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aspartate aminotransferase (AspAT), responsible for a minor part of the total AspAT enzymic activity in alkalophilic Bacillus circulans, was purified, its N-terminal amino acid sequence was determined, and its gene was cloned as two separate fragments. DNA sequencing showed an open reading frame of 432 amino acids (M(...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Battchikova N,Koivulehto M,Denesyuk A,Ptitsyn L,Boretsky Y,Hellman J,Korpela T

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Expression of structural proteins of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 requires the direct interaction of the viral Rev trans-activator with its cis-acting RNA target sequence, the Rev response element (RRE). The originally defined 234-residue RRE, however, failed to show the full HIV-1 regulator of virion expressio...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kimura T,Ohyama A

更新日期：1994-05-01 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：:His397 was replaced with alanine by site-directed mutagenesis of the cloned PRC1 gene in order to confirm the role of this residue in the proton-relay system of carboxypeptidase Y (CPY). The expressed and purified H397A showed a CD spectrum almost identical to that of the wild type enzyme, but its heat stability and c...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Jung G,Ueno H,Hayashi R

更新日期：1998-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The degranulation reactions of human neutrophils induced by 1-oleoyl-2-acetylglycerol (OAG), phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate (PMA), and calcium ionophore A23187 or their combinations, were studied. OAG in the absence of the Ca2+-ionophore A23187 stimulated the releases of both lysozyme and lactoferrin, constituents of...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kang D,Tsuda H,Takeshige K,Shibata Y,Minakami S

更新日期：1985-12-01 00:00:00

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：:The sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR) of rabbit skeletal muscle was irradiated with ultraviolet light (UV) in the presence of vanadate plus 2 mM EGTA, 10 mM MgCl2, 20% DMSO, and 50 mM PIPES (pH 6.5) at room temperature. In the presence of 100 microM vanadate, the Ca(2+)-uptake activity of SR rapidly decreased and was almost...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Hirose T,Yamasaki K,Yamamoto T

更新日期：1995-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aldehyde reductases from several mammalian and avian tissues transferred the pro-4R hydrogen of NADPH to the substrate, whereas the stereospecificity of carbonyl reductases was not uniform being correlated with the ability to catalyze the oxidoreduction of hydroxysteroids. ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Nakayama T,Hara A,Kariya K,Sawada H

更新日期：1985-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hyperthermophilic bacteria Thermotoga maritima and Thermotoga hypogea produce ethanol as a metabolic end product, which is resulted from acetaldehyde reduction catalysed by an alcohol dehydrogenase (ADH). However, the enzyme that is involved in the production of acetaldehyde from pyruvate is not well characterized. An...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Eram MS,Wong A,Oduaran E,Ma K

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate the role of carboxyl groups of glucoamylases [EC 3.2.1.3] from a Rhizopus sp. (Gluc1 and Gluc2), the modification of Gluc1 and Gluc2 with a water-soluble carbodiimide, 1-cyclohexyl-3-(2-morpholinyl-(4)-ethyl)carbodiimide metho-p-toluenesulfonate (CMC), was studied. The inactivation of Gluc1 proceeded wi...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Iwama M,Ohtsuki R,Takahashi T,Irie M

更新日期：1984-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mitogen-activated protein (MAP) kinase cascades play essential roles in a variety of cell processes by influencing transcriptional or translational regulation. ERKs play a central role in survival and mitogenic signaling, while JNKs and p38 MAP kinases are preferentially activated by environmental stresses and are...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Matsukawa J,Matsuzawa A,Takeda K,Ichijo H

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Incubation of rat liver microsomes with GDP-[14C]mannose and phenyl phosphate for 30 min, followed by paper-chromatographic analysis, revealed the presence of a new radioactive compound that was isolated and characterized as phenyl beta-D-mannosyl phosphate. The enzyme catalyzing this reaction was very closely related...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kato S,Tsuji M,Nakanishi Y,Suzuki S

更新日期：1980-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Genome of Bacillus subtilis 168 was used for cloning and engineering of large-sized DNAs. A mouse genomic DNA of approximately 120 kb was cloned into a locus of the B. subtilis genome by ordered assembly of 20- to 50-kb mouse DNA segments. Cloned mouse DNA, maintained stably, was engineered through B. subtilis tra...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Itaya M,Nagata T,Shiroishi T,Fujita K,Tsuge K

更新日期：2000-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To identify functionally essential sequences and residues of CTLA-2alpha, in vitro mutagenesis was carried out. The coefficient of inhibition (K(i)) was determined towards rabbit cathepsin L using Z-Phe-Arg-MCA as the substrate. Recombinant CTLA-2alpha inhibited the enzyme potently (K(i) = 15 nM). A truncated mutant, ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Deshapriya RM,Yuhashi S,Usui M,Kageyama T,Yamamoto Y

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:tRNA(guanosine-2'-)-methyltransferases (Gm-methylases) isolated from extreme thermophiles, Thermus thermophilus strains HB 27 and HB 8, methylate the 2'-OH of the G18 ribose of the GG sequence in the D loop of tRNA, by recognizing the D "loop-stem" structure as a minimal requirement. To examine the role of the consens...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Hori H,Saneyoshi M,Kumagai I,Miura K,Watanabe K

更新日期：1989-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Specific and high titer antisera against 4-O-methylglucuronic acid-containing glycosphingolipid (Lipid IV) from spermatozoa of the fresh-water bivalve, Hyriopsis schlegelii, were raised in rabbits. The antisera were found to agglutinate spermatozoa of three fresh-water bivalves, H. schlegelii, Anodonta woodiana, and C...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Sugita M,Inoue T,Itasaka O,Hori T

更新日期：1984-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chloroquine myopathy is a drug poisoning disease involving rimmed vacuole formation. By Western blot analysis, we investigated posttranslational modification of LC3 in cultured cells with a high concentration of chloroquine, and found that the autophagosome membrane-bound form of LC3 increased dose-dependently. We als...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Suzuki T,Nakagawa M,Yoshikawa A,Sasagawa N,Yoshimori T,Ohsumi Y,Nishino I,Ishiura S,Nonaka I

更新日期：2002-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tryptophan residues in ribonuclease from a Rhizopus sp. (RNase Rh) were modified by NBS, H2O2-dioxane, o-nitrophenylsulfenyl chloride (NPS-Cl) and the relation between the extent of modification and enzymatic activity was studied in each case. By extrapolation of the modified tryptophan residue-enzymatic activity curv...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Sanda A,Irie M

更新日期：1980-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mobility of spin labels covalently bound to the Ca2+-transport ATPase (ATP phosphohydrolase [EC 3.y.1.3]) was studied by electron spin-resonance spectroscopy in purified ATPase and reconstituted vesicles. The purified ATPase of sarcoplasmic reticulum of rabbit skeletal muscle was covalently labeled with maleimide ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Nakamura H,Martonosi AN

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Induction of the enzymes involved in fatty acid beta-oxidation in Pseudomonas fragi B-0771 cells grown in a medium containing straight chain saturated fatty acids was studied. The acyl-CoA dehydrogenase (ACDH) activity was induced during the exponential phase in cells grown in palmitic acid-supplemented medium, reache...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Sato S,Imamura S,Ozeki Y,Kawaguchi A

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vasoactive intestinal peptide (VIP), a neuropeptide coupled with adenylate cyclase, was found to induce neurite extension of PC12h cells. Neurites appeared within 1 h after addition of VIP and extended for at least 24 h. The half-maximal concentration for the effect of VIP was 50 nM. In addition to the morphological c...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Okumura N,Miyatake Y,Takao T,Tamaru T,Nagai K,Okada M,Nakagawa H

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spleen cells from a CBF1 (BALB/c X C57BL/6) mouse immunized with rat tyrosine 3-monooxygenase were fused with NS-1 mouse myeloma cells. From 188 hybrid cells, 2 stable clones secreting anti-tyrosine 3-monooxygenase antibody were obtained. Antibody from one clone was coupled to CNBr-activated Sepharose 4B and the monoc...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Okuno S,Fujisawa H

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ovomucoid-trypsin association complex was prepared by incubating chicken egg white ovomucoid with bovine trypsin. The reactivity of ovomucoid-trypsin complex was investigated by immunodiffusion, quantitative precipitation and enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA). It was demonstrated that the association of trypsi...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Matsuda T,Watanabe K,Nakamura R

更新日期：1983-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The specificity of highly purified rat liver cathepsin D was investigated by analyzing the digests of denatured proteins. At the P1 site, cathepsin D prefers hydrophobic residues except Ile and Val, that are branched at the beta-carbon. Strong and weak hydrophobicities are required at P1' and P2 sites, respectively. A...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Imoto T,Okazaki K,Koga H,Yamada H

更新日期：1987-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to stabilize human RNase 1 by introduction of an intramolecular cross-link, a mutant protein (4-118CL RNase 1), in which Arg4 and Val118 are replaced with cysteine residues and linked by a disulfide bond, was designed and expressed in Escherichia coli as inclusion bodies. The 4-118CL RNase 1 that refolded und...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Futami J,Tada H,Seno M,Ishikami S,Yamada H

更新日期：2000-08-01 00:00:00