Constitutive expression of cytochrome p450 genes in newly established rat hepatic cell lines.

abstract：:A novel hemorrhagic metalloprotease, halysase, isolated from the snake venom of Gloydius halys induces apoptosis in endothelial cells. The purified metalloprotease is a monomeric glycoprotein with an isoelectric point of 4.8. Analysis of the cDNA sequence encoding halysase revealed that the enzyme consists of multifun...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： You WK,Seo HJ,Chung KH,Kim DS

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:ATP synthases convert an electrochemical proton gradient into rotational movement to produce the ubiquitous energy currency adenosine triphosphate. Tension generated by the rotational torque is compensated by the stator. For this task, a peripheral stalk flexibly fixes the hydrophilic catalytic part F1 to the membrane...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Poetsch A,Berzborn RJ,Heberle J,Link TA,Dencher NA,Seelert H

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Four Bowman-Birk type double-headed inhibitors (B, C-II, D-II, and E-I) were isolated from soybeans. Inhibitor B was different from Bowman-Birk inhibitor only in chromatographic behavior. One mole of C-II inhibited one mole each of bovine trypsin and bovine alpha-chymotrypsin, probably at the same site, and porcine el...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Odani S,Ikenaka T

更新日期：1977-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A novel fucose-containing neutral glycosphingolipid (GL-5) was purified from the eggs of the sea urchin, Hemicentrotus pulcherrimus. The chemical structure was determined to be Fuc alpha 1-3GalNAc beta 1-4(Fuc alpha 1-3)GlcNAc beta 1-4Glc beta 1-1Cer by methylation analysis, partial acid hydrolysis, fast atom bombardm...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kubo H,Jiang GJ,Irie A,Suzuki M,Inagaki F,Hoshi M

更新日期：1992-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The acceptor specificity of the transglycosylation reaction of cyclodextrin glycosyltransferase[EC 2.4.1.19] was investigated using various sugars and sugar alcohols. L-Sorbose, D-xylose, and D-galactose, which contain configurational or structural changes relative to the D-glucopyranose unit at positions other than p...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kitahata S,Okada S

更新日期：1976-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recombinant mouse Dnmt3a and Dnmt3b were expressed in sf9 cells and purified to near homogeneity. The purified Dnmt3a and Dnmt3b gave specific activities of 1.8 +/- 0.3 and 1.3 +/- 0.1 mol/h/mol enzyme towards poly(dGdC)-poly(dGdC), respectively, which were the highest among those reported. Dnmt3a or Dnmt3b showed sim...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Suetake I,Miyazaki J,Murakami C,Takeshima H,Tajima S

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:alphaB-Crystallin, a member of the small heat shock protein (sHSP) family, is expressed in various tissues including lens, heart, and skeletal muscle. Previously we identified the gene of HSPB2, another member of the sHSP family, located 1-kb upstream of the alphaB-crystallin gene in a head-to-head manner. In the pres...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Ijichi N,Tsujimoto N,Iwaki T,Fukumaki Y,Iwaki A

更新日期：2004-03-01 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：:The DegS-DegU two-component regulatory system regulates many cellular events in Bacillus subtilis. Genes for DegSU constitutes an operon directed by the P1 promoter and downstream degU is autoregulated via the P3 promoter activated by phosphorylated DegU. In the Gram-positive bacteria, Spx plays a major role in the pr...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Shiwa Y,Yoshikawa H,Tanaka T,Ogura M

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A novel immortalized rheumatoid fibroblast-like synoviocyte (FLS) line, MH7A, was established by stably transfecting FLS cells with SV40 T antigen gene. MH7A cells expressed SV40-specific small t and large T antigens as well as an elevated level of p53 protein. They have already reached over 150 population doublings t...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Miyazawa K,Mori A,Okudaira H

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The lipA gene of Pseudomonas cepacia DSM3959 requires a downstream gene, limA, in oder to express lipase activity. The product of the lim gene, LimA, is a molecular chaperone required during the folding of lipase in oder for the lipase to adopt an active conformation. The lipase and LimA proteins have been shown to fo...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Hobson AH,Buckley CM,Jørgensen ST,Diderichsen B,McConnell DJ

更新日期：1995-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When meso-tetrakis(3-N-methylpyridiniumyl)porphyrin (m-TMPyP) formed a complex with poly[d(A-T)(2)], an intense bisignate excitonic CD in the Soret absorption region was observed. The excitonic CD of the m-TMPyP-poly[d(A-T)(2)] complex is unique in that no other combination of the related porphyrin, namely, meso-tetra...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Lee YA,Lee S,Lee HM,Lee CS,Kim SK

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A very rapid hemolysis was found to be caused by active oxygen species produced by a hypoxanthine-xanthine oxidase system with very low concentrations of hypoxanthine. The addition of superoxide dismutase or catalase inhibited the hemolysis, indicating that O2- and H2O2 participate in this system. The extent of erythr...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Taniguchi M,Aikawa M,Sakagami T

更新日期：1981-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lactosylceramide and paragloboside were synthesized from their precursor glycolipids and UDP-galactose by lactose synthase A protein [UDP-Gal : GlcNAc beta-4-galactosyltransferase, EC 2.4.1.22] purified to homogeneity from human plasma. The partially purified human liver enzyme and an extract from human lymphoblastoid...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Yamato K,Yoshida A

更新日期：1982-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Methylation and demethylation of the methyl-accepting chemotaxis protein (MCP) was studied in vitro. The in vitro MCP methylating system showed the following characteristics. 1. Multiple bands of methylated MCP were produced. 2. The reaction could be separated into two phases: the initial phase, in which the level of ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Hayashi H,Minoshima S,Ohba M

更新日期：1982-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. As a part of studies on the mechanism by which catecholamines are released from the nerve terminals, the synaptic vesicle fraction was isolated from bovine caudatolenticular nuclei and thalamus by differential centrifugation essentially according to the method of Kadota and Kadota (17). 2. Further centrifugation on...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Tsudzuki T,Fujii T,Tanaka R

更新日期：1977-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An adenosinetriphosphatase (ATPase) [EC 3.6.1.3] copurified with the DNA-dependent RNA polymerase [EC 2.7.7.6] from Escherichia coli was isolated to apparent homogeneity and some of its functional as well as structural properties were examined. Although the novel ATPase exhibited metal requirements similar to those of...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Ishihama A,Ikeuchi T,Matsumoto A,Yamamoto S

更新日期：1976-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Substrate specificities of phospholipases C[EC 3.1.4.3] from Clostridium novyi, Clostridium perfringens, Bacillus cereus, and Pseudomonas aureofaciens were studied under the same conditions. Phospholipases C from Clostridium novyi and Bacillus cereus show wide substrate specificities while those of Clostridium perfrin...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Taguchi R,Ikezawa H

更新日期：1977-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rho-kinase is a main player in the regulation of cytoskeletal events and a promising drug target in the treatment of both vascular and neurological disorders. Here we report the crystal structure of the Rho-kinase catalytic domain in complex with the specific inhibitor Y-27632. Comparison with the structure of PKA bou...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Yamaguchi H,Miwa Y,Kasa M,Kitano K,Amano M,Kaibuchi K,Hakoshima T

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Induction of cytosolic aspartate aminotransferase (cAspAT) was observed in rat liver on administration of a high-protein diet, or glucagon and during fasting. The enzyme activity in the liver of rats given 80% protein diet or glucagon injection during starvation increased to 2- to 2.4-fold that in the liver of rats ma...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Horio Y,Tanaka T,Taketoshi M,Uno T,Wada H

更新日期：1988-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We previously reported that DNAs directly applicable to restriction analyses and transformation of Escherichia coli can be extracted from fungi and yeasts by use of anhydrous hydrogen fluoride (HF) under a mild condition, 5 min at 0 degrees C [Oshiro, S., Katsura, N., Kitada, K., and Gunge, N. (1987) FEBS Lett. 220, 3...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Oshiro S,Katsura N

更新日期：1995-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alanine-glyoxylate aminotransferase (AGT) 2 is a pyridoxal 5'-phosphate dependent, mitochondrial enzyme which, in the rat, is expressed at a high level in the kidney. The amino acid sequences of nine tryptic and seven CNBr peptides of the rat kidney AGT2 were determined. Three overlapping cDNAs encoding the AGT2 were ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Lee IS,Muragaki Y,Ideguchi T,Hase T,Tsuji M,Ooshima A,Okuno E,Kido R

更新日期：1995-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase (PEPC) [EC 4.1.1.31] has a highly conserved and unique sequence, 578-FHGRGGSIGRGGAP-591 (on Escherichia coli, PEPC), in which a GRGG motif is repeated twice with two intervening residues. Since previous chemical modification studies suggested the functional importance of arginine residu...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Yano M,Terada K,Umiji K,Izui K

更新日期：1995-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The fructose-1,6-bisphosphate aldolase gene from the thermophilic bacterium, Anoxybacillus gonensis G2, was cloned and sequenced. Nucleotide sequence analysis revealed an open reading frame coding for a 30.9 kDa protein of 286 amino acids. The amino acid sequence shared approximately 80-90% similarity to the Bacillus ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Ertunga NS,Colak A,Belduz AO,Canakci S,Karaoglu H,Sandalli C

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Four distinctive DNA polymerases have been isolated from mature oocytes of the starfish, Asterina pectinifera, and characterized. The N-ethylmaleimide-resistant DNA polymerase activity was separated from the other three DNA polymerases by hydroxyapatite column chromatography. The enzyme, whose approximate sedimentatio...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Haraguchi T,Nagano H

更新日期：1983-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe cross-linking conditions for myosin subfragment-1 and actin with 1-ethyl-3-[3-(dimethylamino)propyl]carbodiimide, with which the compositions of cross-linked species can be altered. The specific Mg-ATPase activity of cross-linked subfragment-1 in these preparations was almost the same in spite of the diffe...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Yamamoto K

更新日期：1993-12-01 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

abstract：:The mechanism of binding between thermolysin with its specific inhibitor, talopeptin (MKI), was studied kinetically with the stopped-flow method by monitoring the enhancement of tryptophan fluorescence caused by the complex formation. Only one relaxation obeying first-order kinetics was observed. The dependence of the...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kitagishi K,Hiromi K

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We found phosphoinositide-specific phospholipase C (PtdIns-PLC) activity in nuclei isolated from rat liver. The enzyme hydrolyzed phosphatidylinositol, phosphatidylinositol 4-monophosphate (PIP) and phosphatidylinositol 4,5-bisphosphate in a Ca(2+)-dependent manner, and produced inositol mono-, bis-, and triphosphate,...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kuriki H,Tamiya-Koizumi K,Asano M,Yoshida S,Kojima K,Nimura Y

更新日期：1992-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The vitamin A derivative, retinoic acid (RA) has various biological effects in mammalian cells and tissues. It is well known that RA induces differentiation of leukemia cells and inhibits cell growth. There are two pathways for RA action; one via RA nuclear receptors (RARs), and one via acylation of proteins by RA (re...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kubo Y,Ohba T,Takahashi N

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00