Enzymological characterization of EpoA, a laccase-like phenol oxidase produced by Streptomyces griseus.

abstract：:High mobility group box 1 (HMGB1) protein is the most abundant chromatin-associated non-histone protein expressed in all nucleated eukaryotic cells. We examined the phosphorylation of mammalian HMGB1 by testing the ability of the cyclin-dependent kinase 5 (Cdk5) to use as substrates native protein, either unmodified o...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Ugrinova I,Pashev IG,Pasheva EA

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 45-60 kDa Gal/GalNAc-specific macrophage lectin was found to participate in the interaction between tumor cells and tumoricidal macrophages activated by an antitumor streptococcal preparation, OK-432, and in the tumoricidal activity of the activated macrophages. The binding between OK-432-elicited activated macropha...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Oda S,Sato M,Toyoshima S,Osawa T

更新日期：1989-06-01 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：:Certain proteins utilize the high reactivity of radicals for catalysing chemically challenging reactions. These proteins contain or form a radical and therefore named 'radical enzymes'. Radicals are introduced by enzymes themselves or by (re)activating proteins called (re)activases. The X-ray structures of radical enz...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Shibata N,Toraya T

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An inorganic pyrophosphatase [EC 3.6.1.1] was isolated from Thiobacillus thiooxidans and purified 975-fold to a state of apparent homogeneity. The enzyme catalyzed the hydrolysis of inorganic pyrophosphate and no activity was found with a variety of other phosphate esters. The cation Mg2+ was required for maximum acti...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Tominaga N,Mori T

更新日期：1977-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The human malaria parasite (Plasmodium falciparum) possesses a plastid-derived organelle called the apicoplast, which is believed to employ metabolisms crucial for the parasite's survival. We cloned and studied the biochemical properties of plant-type ferredoxin (Fd) and Fd-NADP+ reductase (FNR), a redox system that p...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kimata-Ariga Y,Kurisu G,Kusunoki M,Aoki S,Sato D,Kobayashi T,Kita K,Horii T,Hase T

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The planar cell polarity (PCP) protein, Prickle (Pk), is conserved in invertebrates and vertebrates, and regulates cellular morphogenesis and movement. Vertebrate Pk consists of at least two family members, Pk1 and Pk2, both of which are expressed in the brain; however, their localization and function at synapses rema...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Hida Y,Fukaya M,Hagiwara A,Deguchi-Tawarada M,Yoshioka T,Kitajima I,Inoue E,Watanabe M,Ohtsuka T

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three monoclonal antibodies (MAbs1A2, 3C5, and 4C2) for human aldolase A [EC 4.1.2.13] were established. MAbs1A2, 3C5, and 4C2 were shown to belong to subclasses IgM, IgG1, and IgG2a, respectively. None of the MAbs inhibits aldolase A activity. Their epitopes were mapped in detail on the molecule by examining the reac...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kitajima Y,Matsuhashi S,Nishida H,Takasaki Y,Takahashi I,Hisatsugu T,Hori K

更新日期：1991-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate the effect of plasminogen on cartilage catabolism, we assessed collagen degradation in rabbit articular cartilage explants treated with or without plasminogen and interleukin-1alpha (IL-1alpha). The combination of IL-1 alpha and plasminogen induced rapid collagen degradation, amounting to more than 60% ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Saito S,Katoh M,Masumoto M,Matsumoto S,Masuho Y

更新日期：1997-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A simple and rapid preparation method for apoaspartate aminotransferase from Escherichia coli B was developed. A crude extract of the bacterial cells was treated batchwise with DEAE-cellulose. The enzyme fraction obtained was then applied to a pyridoxamine-Sepharose column. Apoaspartate aminotransferase was eluted wit...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Yagi T,Kirino J,Yamamoto S,Nozaki M

更新日期：1985-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The asparagine-linked sugar chains of human follicle-stimulating hormone (hFSH) were liberated as radioactive oligosaccharides from the polypeptide moiety by hydrazinolysis followed by N-acetylation and NaB3H4 reduction. Ninety-five percent of the oligosaccharides were acidic and all were converted to a mixture of neu...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Renwick AG,Mizuochi T,Kochibe N,Kobata A

更新日期：1987-05-01 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：:ADAMTS13 is the metalloprotease responsible for the proteolytic degradation of von Willebrand factor (VWF). A severe deficiency of this VWF-cleaving protease activity causes thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura. This protease, comprising 1,427 amino acid residues, is composed of multiple domains, i.e., a preproregion, ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Soejima K,Nakamura H,Hirashima M,Morikawa W,Nozaki C,Nakagaki T

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Six major acidic glycosphingolipids were isolated from human amnion using DEAE Sephadex A-25 and silica beads column chromatography. The structures of these glycosphingolipids were determined by methylation analysis, TLC immunostaining and/or negative ion FAB-MS, and were concluded to be II3 alpha NeuAcLacCer(GM3), IV...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Asano K,Suzuki M,Handa S,Oshima M

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A gene encoding an Na+/H+ antiporter was cloned from chromosomal DNA of the slightly halophilic marine bacterium Vibrio parahaemolyticus. The host was an Escherichia coli mutant that lacked both of the two major Na+/H+ antiporters, NhaA and NhaB. Untransformed mutant cells were unable to grow in the presence of 0.6 M ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kuroda T,Shimamoto T,Inaba K,Tsuda M,Tsuchiya T

更新日期：1994-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human neutrophil elastase was purified to homogeneity as two isozymes named E1 and E2. The isozymes degraded Type IV collagen, laminin, fibronectin, and heparan sulfate proteoglycan similarly to each other. The degradation of such basement membrane components by elastase may assist the extravasation of neutrophils in ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Watanabe H,Hattori S,Katsuda S,Nakanishi I,Nagai Y

更新日期：1990-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The interaction between n-octyl-beta-D-glucopyranoside (octyl glucoside) and bovine liver glutamate dehydrogenase (GDH) was studied using techniques including equilibrium dialysis, UV-spectrophotometry, circular dichroism (CD), fluorescence energy transfer and extrinsic spectrofluorometry in 50 mM sodium phosphate buf...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Ghobadi S,Safarian S,Moosavi-Movahedi AA,Ranjbar B

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:By monitoring the activation of protein C and the regulation of factor Xa-catalyzed thrombin formation by the activated protein C (APC) on the surface of human umbilical vein endothelial cells (HUVEC), we found that functional protein C was synthesized in cultured HUVEC and expressed thereon in the presence of vitamin...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Tanabe S,Sugo T,Matsuda M

更新日期：1991-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the preceding papers, we showed that one of the two complementar factors of polypeptide chain elongation factor 1 (EF-1) from pig liver, EF-1alpha, functionally corresponds to bacterial EF-Tu (Nagata, S., Iwasaki, K., and Kaziro, Y. (1976) Arch. Biochem. Biophys. 172, 168), while the other, EF-1betagamma, as well a...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Nagata S,Motoyoshi K,Iwasaki K

更新日期：1978-02-01 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：:The midpoint pCa value of the fluorescence titration curve of the complex of 2-[4'-iodoacetamido)anilino)-naphthalene-6-sulfonic acid-labeled troponin (IAANS-Tn) and nonpolymerizable tropomyosin (NPTm) was much larger than that for the complex of Tn containing dansylaziridine-labeled troponin C (DANZ-TnC) and NPTm. Th...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Iio T,Nishio T,Kondo H

更新日期：1988-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adult rat hepatocytes in primary culture cannot survive more than 2 days in the absence of calf serum. An extract of bovine pituitary gland had a similar effect to calf serum on the survival of hepatocytes, but its specific activity was 70 times that of calf serum. The survival factor was purified from bovine pituitar...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Asami O,Nakamura T,Mura T,Ichihara A

更新日期：1984-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The complete amino acid sequence of ribonuclease N1 (RNase N1), a guanine-specific ribonuclease from a fungus, Neurospora crassa, was determined by conventional protein sequencing, using peptide fragments obtained by tryptic digestion of cyanogen bromide-treated RNase N1 and by Staphylococcus aureus V8 protease digest...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Takahashi K

更新日期：1988-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glycogen phosphorylase (GP) is biologically active as a dimer of identical subunits. Each subunit has two distinct maltooligosaccharide binding sites: a storage site and a catalytic site. Our characterization of the properties of these sites suggested that GP activity consists of two activities: (i) binding to the gly...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Makino Y,Fujii Y,Taniguchi M

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Photoaffinity labeling with [3H]cytochalasin B detects two D-glucose-sensitive proteins in the chicken embryo fibroblast (CEF) plasma membrane, which accumulate under conditions of glucose starvation and are probably involved in the glucose transport system (Pessin, J.E., et al. (1982) Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S. 79, ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Ishii T,Tillotson LG,Isselbacher KJ

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pig heart phosphoprotein phosphatase [phosphoprotein phosphophydrolase, EC 3.1.3.16] of Mr 224,000 was dissociated by gel-filtration on Sephacryl S-300, into an active subunit (alpha subunit) of Mr 31,000 and inactive subunits of higher molecular weight in the presence of 6 M urea. After the removal of urea, these sub...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Imazu M,Imaoka T,Usui H,Kinohara N,Takeda M

更新日期：1981-09-01 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：:Pseudomonas sp. 101 carboxyl proteinase (PCP) and Xanthomonas sp. T-22 carboxyl proteinase (XCP), the first and second unique carboxyl proteinases from prokaryotes to be isolated and characterized, are not inhibited by the classical carboxyl proteinase inhibitor pepstatin. In this study, we elucidated their subsite pr...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Narutaki S,Dunn BM,Oda K

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inosine triphosphate (ITP) does not serve as a substrate for myosin light-chain kinase from gizzard muscle. That is to say, myosin light-chain is not phosphorylated in ITP media. Nevertheless, at pH 6.8, 1 mM or 5 mM ITP induces superprecipitation of skeletal acto-gizzard myosin. The ITP-induced superprecipitation occ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Onishi H,Watanabe S

更新日期：1979-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The physicochemical nature of an active fragment (T2A) of colicin E3 was examined together with those of its specific inhibitor, B, and the T2A-B complex under various conditions by means of CD and fluorescence spectroscopy. 1. T2A was mainly composed of unordered structure, although the molecule was folded into a rat...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Suzuki K,Ohno S,Imahori K

更新日期：1980-03-01 00:00:00