Kinetic studies on the hydrolysis of N-acetylated and N-deacetylated derivatives of 4-methylumbelliferyl chitobioside by the family 18 chitinases ChiA and ChiB from Serratia marcescens.

abstract：:LipB, the lipase activator protein of Pseudomonas aeruginosa TE3285, was overproduced in Escherichia coli, and purified 4.9-fold over the crude extract in the presence of SDS. The purified LipB reactivated the lipase from P. aeruginosa TE3285 denatured with guanidine hydrochloride, and its reactivation did not involve...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Shibata H,Kato H,Oda J

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human colostral macrophages stimulated by opsonized zymosan or phorbol myristate acetate (PMA) released superoxide anions (O2-) and hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) with activities comparable to those of monocytes and about one-fourth of those of polymorphonuclear leukocytes (PMNL) of blood. The O2- -forming oxidase in the ma...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

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

更新日期：1984-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A fifth and new DFP-sensitive alkaline proteinase E, with strong esterase activity toward Ac-(Ala)3-OMe was found in pronase, a protease mixture from St. griseus K-1. Proteinase E was shown to be different from the elastase [EC 3.4.21.11]-like enzyme or subtilisin [EC 3.4.21.14]like enzyme, and alkaline proteinase A, ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Narahashi Y,Yoda K

更新日期：1976-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aorta smooth muscle myosin contains two kinds of 17-kDa essential light chain, LC17nm (nonmuscle-type) and LC17gi (gizzard-type) [Hasegawa, Y., Ueda, Y., Watanabe, M., & Morita, F. (1992) J. Biochem. 111, 798-803]. The LC17 isoforms were released from porcine aorta myosin by incubation at 46 degrees C. The rate of rel...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Hasegawa Y,Morita F

更新日期：1992-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interleukin-1 (IL-1) is produced and released by various cells, including activated macrophages, and plays important roles in inflammation as well as immune responses. Since the precursor of IL-1 has no signal peptide, the mechanism of IL-1 release has been an enigma. To investigate the possibility of direct interacti...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Oku N,Saito N,Okada S,Watanabe N,Kobayashi Y

更新日期：1995-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We previously isolated a Ca2+-binding protein from a ciliate, Tetrahymena, and designated it as TCBP (Tetrahymena Ca2+-binding protein). The present paper reports that TCBP, which has two high affinity Ca2+-binding sites (Kd=4.6 X 10(-6) M), could activate porcine brain cyclic nucleotide phosphodiesterase at a concent...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Suzuki Y,Nagao S,Abe K,Hirabayashi T,Watanabe Y

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The juvenile visceral steatosis (JVS) mouse is a novel mutant animal for studying systemic carnitine deficiency. The importance of the model has been pointed out in carnitine-deficient cardiac hypertrophy, since cardiomyopathy has been often improved after oral carnitine therapy in human systemic carnitine deficiency....

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Uenaka R,Kuwajima M,Ono A,Matsuzawa Y,Hayakawa J,Inohara N,Kagawa Y,Ohta S

更新日期：1996-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Four glycolipids (Fr. I, II, III, and IV) were isolated from whale brain and three (Fr. I, II, and III) of them were demonstrated to be galactosyl ceramide combined with fatty acid by ester linkage. Fr. IV was shown to be a monoalkyl monoacyl galactosyl glycerol. For determining the substituted position of the acyl gr...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Yasugi E,Saito E,Kasama T,Kojima H,Yamakawa T

更新日期：1982-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To understand the mechanism of activation of a receptor by its agonist, the excitation and relaxation processes of the vibrational states of the receptor should be examined. As a first approach to this problem, we calculated the normal vibrational modes of agonists (glutamate and kainate) and an antagonist (6-cyano-7-...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kubo M,Odai K,Sugimoto T,Ito E

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two forms of urokinase [EC 3.4.99.26] with molecular weights of 51,600 and 34,500 were purified from human urine. The specific activities of the high molecular weight urokinase (HMW-UK) and low molecular weight urokinase (LMW-UK) were 157,400 and 246,700 International Units (IU/mg), respectively. Purified HMW-UK was 9...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Nobuhara M,Sakamaki M,Ohnishi H,Suzuki Y

更新日期：1981-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new method was developed for extracting natural actomyosin with full length connectin (titin) and nebulin from rabbit skeletal muscle. To determine the protein components of native thin filaments, thin filaments were isolated from natural actomyosin by sedimentation in a H2O/D2O/sucrose density gradient. Both alpha-...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Meng Y,Yasunaga T,Wakabayashi T

更新日期：1995-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A particulate enzyme preparation from Bacillus stearothermophilus synthesized 1,3-poly(glycerol phosphage) from CDPglycerol at an optimum pH of 8.0 and the reaction was stimulated by divalent cations. Km for CDPglycerol was 0.18 mM. The synthesis was inhibited by CMP, CDP, and CTP and by concentrations of CDP-glycerol...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Cheang OO K

更新日期：1975-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied the mechanism of formation of oxygen radicals during ferrous ion-induced decomposition of linoleic acid hydroperoxide using the spin trapping and chemiluminescence methods. The formation of the superoxide anion (O2*-) was verified in the present study. The hydroxyl radical is also generated through Fenton t...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kambayashi Y,Tero-Kubota S,Yamamoto Y,Kato M,Nakano M,Yagi K,Ogino K

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several maleimide derivatives of potential usefulness as conformational probes were tested for reactivity toward SH groups of Ca2+, Mg2+-ATPase of sarcoplasmic reticulum. These include three fluorescent labels, N-(1-anilinonaphthyl-4)maleimide (ANM), N-(p-(2-benzimidazolyl)phenyl)maleimide (BIPM), and N-(7-dimethylami...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Yasuoka-Yabe K,Kawakita M

更新日期：1983-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:d-Aspartate is found in the nervous and reproductive system and participates in various physiological roles. While several lines of evidence suggest that this amino acid has an endogenous origin, the enzyme responsible for mammalian d-Asp biosynthesis has not yet been identified. We show that mammalian serine racemase...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Ito T,Hayashida M,Kobayashi S,Muto N,Hayashi A,Yoshimura T,Mori H

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many membrane proteins such as ion channels are oligomers, but the determinants of the degree of oligomerization are not fully understood. Mechanosensitive channel with large conductance (MscL), which is ubiquitous in bacteria, is a homopentamer with two transmembrane helices and a cytoplasmic helix in each subunit. T...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Ando C,Liu N,Yoshimura K

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The absorption and fluorometric changes of the reaction mixture of luciferase-FMNH2 complex with O2 were re-examined. Rapid formation (k2(app) = 2.0 s-1 at [O2] = 120 micrometer) of an intermediate with a single absorption maximum at 380 nm within the range of 350-550 nm, and a weak fluorescence at 520 nm (less than o...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Ashizawa N,Nakamura T,Watanabe T

更新日期：1977-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An enzyme activity specifically active on nitrous acid-treated DNA was found in an extract of Escherichia coli. The enzyme acts on both double- and single-stranded DNAs, treated with nitrous acid, in the presence of EDTA, although the former DNA is a better substrate. Evidence is presented that nitrous acid- and bisul...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Oeda K,Shimizu K,Sekiguchi M

更新日期：1978-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It was shown that a dipeptide, alanylhistidine, can act as a catalyst for the peptidyl transfer reaction in the absence of ribosomes between the amino acid moieties of phenylalanyl, lysyl, prolyl, and glycyl tRNAs depending on their model templates, poly U, poly A, poly C, and poly G, respectively. A template effect w...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Shimizu M

更新日期：1996-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ca(2+)/calmodulin-dependent protein kinases (CaM-kinases) I and IV are activated upon phosphorylation of their Thr(177) and Thr(196), respectively, by the upstream Ca(2+)/calmodulin-dependent protein kinases CaM-kinase kinase alpha and beta, and deactivated upon dephosphorylation by protein phosphatases such as CaM-ki...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Okuno S,Kitani T,Fujisawa H

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Electron transport particles (ETP) prepared from beef heart mitochondria formed malondialdehyde by NADPH-dependent lipid peroixidation in the presence of ferric ions and ADP or ATP. The reaction was inhibited by MnCl2, EDTA, or radical scavengers, but was not inhibited by p-hydroxymercuribenzoate (PHMB) or respiratory...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Takeshige K,Minadami S

更新日期：1975-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microbacterium sp. M874 produced a glyceroglycolipid, di-O-12-methyl-tetradecanoyl-3-O-beta-D-galactopyranosyl-sn-glycerol, at about the 50 microM level. Though the strain was highly resistant to tertiary-butyl hydroperoxide (tBHP) in a glycolipid-productive medium, the resistance was reduced in a nonproductive medium...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Nakata K

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The interaction between lipopolysaccharide (LPS) and an LPS-sensitive serine protease zymogen, factor C, purified from horseshoe crab (Tachypleus tridentatus) hemocytes, was investigated to elucidate the LPS-mediated activation of factor C. The rate of activation of the zymogen factor C was highly dependent on the con...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Nakamura T,Tokunaga F,Morita T,Iwanaga S

更新日期：1988-02-01 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：:The scaffolding protein Salvador (Sav) plays a key role in the Hippo (Hpo) signalling pathway, which controls tissue growth by inhibiting cell proliferation and promoting apoptosis. Dysregulation of the Hippo pathway contributes to cancer development. Since the identification of the first Sav gene in 2002, very little...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Song J,Hong HR,Yamashita E,Park IY,Lee SJ

更新日期：2015-09-01 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：:Loss of bone substance is a common manifestation of hyperparathyroidism. This suggests that parathyroid hormone (PTH) plays an important role as to bone mass. To investigate the mechanism underlying this change in bone mass, I studied the effects of PTH on collagen synthesis and mitogenesis of UMR-106 rat osteoblastic...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Pun KK

更新日期：1989-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aggregatibacter actinomycetemcomitans is an oral pathogen for aggressive periodontitis, and encodes a triheme c-containing membrane-bound enzyme, quinol peroxidase (QPO) that catalyzes peroxidase activity using quinol in the respiratory chain. In the previous work, we have characterized recombinant QPO purified from t...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Abe T,Kawarai T,Takahashi Y,Konishi K

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of increases in perfusion pressure and direction of perfusion flow (anterograde and retrograde) on hepatic carbohydrate metabolism were examined in the isolated perfused rat liver. Changing the direction of flow from anterograde (portal to caval vein) to retrograde (caval to portal vein) increased the rate...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Shiota M,Chinzei F,Moriyama M,Kimura K,Sugano T

更新日期：1995-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein phosphorylation is a key regulatory mechanism of the organization and dynamics of the actin cytoskeleton during cell motility, differentiation, and cytokinesis. The level of protein phosphorylation is dependent on the relative activities of both protein kinases and protein phosphatases. In this paper, we exami...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Usui T,Marriott G,Inagaki M,Swarup G,Osada H

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00