Elevation of plasma membrane permeability on laser irradiation of extracellular latex particles.

abstract：:Here we report the enzymatic and ligand-binding properties of a major secretory protein in the choroid plexus of cane toad, Bufo marinus, whose protein is homologous with lipocalin-type prostaglandin (PG) D synthase (L-PGDS) and is recombinantly expressed in Xenopus A6 cells and Escherichia coli. The toad protein boun...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Irikura D,Inui T,Beuckmann CT,Aritake K,Schreiber G,Miyano M,Inoue T,Urade Y

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The nucleotide sequence of 5S rRNA from the fission yeast, S. pombe, has been established by post labeling procedures combined with cataloging RNase T1- and A-oligonucleotides derived from unlabeled 5S rRNA. The sequence consists of 119 nucleotides without a modified base and shows more dissimilarities (at 38 position...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Komiya H,Miyazaki M,Takemura S

更新日期：1981-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Midkine (MK) is a product of a retinoic acid-responsive gene and a new heparin-binding growth/differentiation factor. The coding sequence of human MK was located on 1.5 kb DNA segment. The structure of the cloned human MK gene was determined and compared with that of the mouse gene. The coding sequence was divided int...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Uehara K,Matsubara S,Kadomatsu K,Tsutsui J,Muramatsu T

更新日期：1992-05-01 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：:Cilia and flagella of eukaryotic cells are evolutionarily conserved organelles with a microtubule-based axoneme as a scaffold. To fulfil their functions in cellular motility, sensory reception and developmental signalling, cilia contain unique proteins, such as receptors and ion channels. The assembly and maintenance ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Nakayama K,Katoh Y

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Coenzyme A (CoASH) is an obligate cofactor for lipids undergoing beta-oxidation in peroxisomes. Although the peroxisomal membrane appears to be impermeable to CoASH, peroxisomes contain their own pool of CoASH. It is believed that CoASH enters peroxisomes as acyl-CoAs, but it is not known how this pool is regulated. T...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Reilly SJ,Tillander V,Ofman R,Alexson SE,Hunt MC

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although the depletion of reduced glutathione (GSH) has been observed in a variety of apoptotic systems, little is known about the mechanism of GSH depletion. In this study we used polarized MDCK cells to study the GSH flux during ricin-induced apoptosis. Here we report that the specific accumulation of GSH occurred i...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Oda T,Sadakata N,Komatsu N,Muramatsu T

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sialoglycoprotein which exhibits inhibitory activity for hemagglutination by Hemagglutinating Virus of Japan (HVJ, Sendai virus) was isolated from the membrane of bovine erythrocytes. Purification steps for this sialoglycoprotein included extraction with lithium diiodosalicylate, phenol partition, precipitation with e...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Suzuki Y,Suzuki T,Matsumoto M

更新日期：1983-06-01 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：:Puromycin-mediated in vitro release of nascent peptides from rat liver ribosomes was significantly stimulated by the presence of low concentrations of a detergent, and the stimulation was much more marked with bound ribosomes than with free ribosomes. The release of nascent peptides from ribosomes could be carried out...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Oda T,Nabi N,Omura T

更新日期：1981-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:pKY2289, a ColE1::Tn3 derivative, useful for direct selection of cells carrying a hybrid plasmid, was deleted of its mobility functions and parts of the transposon including the left inverted repeat. This deletion mutant, named pKY2700 expresses low levels of colicin E1 synthesis even in recA cells. A nitrosoguanidine...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Ozaki LS,Kimura A,Shimada K,Takagi Y

更新日期：1982-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sodium- and potassium-activated adenosinetriphosphatase (Na+, K+-ATPase) purified from dog kidney outer medulla was examined by polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis and by photoaffinity labeling with N-(ouabain)-N'-(2-nitro-4-azidophenyl)-ethylenediamine (NAP-ouabain). The large subunit band (alpha-band) split into two ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Ohta T,Kawamura M,Hasegawa T,Ishikura H,Nagano K

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Candida albicans is a commensal organism, but causes life-threatening infections in immunocompromised patients. Certain factors such as yeast-hyphae transition and hydrolytic enzymes are suggested as virulence attributes of C. albicans. Among them, 10 types of secreted aspartic protease (SAP) genes have received parti...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Aoki W,Kitahara N,Miura N,Morisaka H,Yamamoto Y,Kuroda K,Ueda M

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied the roles of cofilin, an actin-binding phosphoprotein, in superoxide production of neutrophil-like HL-60 cells triggered by opsonized zymosan (OZ). OZ caused dephosphorylation of cofilin as well as a transient increase of F-actin. Both reactions were complete within 30 s. Okadaic acid (OA) magnified the OZ-...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Nagaishi K,Adachi R,Kawanishi T,Yamaguchi T,Kasahara T,Hayakawa T,Suzuki K

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plasmapheresis with a dextran sulfate column is a treatment for patients with hypercholesteremia. When proteins bound to the column during the treatment were fractionated to prepare some known proteins, we found a 57 kDa glycoprotein designated GP57 which showed a new N-terminal amino acid sequence. Western-blot analy...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Choi-Miura NH,Sano Y,Oda E,Nakano Y,Tobe T,Yanagishita T,Taniyama M,Katagiri T,Tomita M

更新日期：1995-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rat serum carboxylesterase [carboxylic ester hydrolase, EC 3.1.1.1] was purified by ammonium sulfate precipitation, chromatography on DEAE-cellulose, QAE Sephadex A-50 and brushite, and gel filtration on Sephadex G-200. This purified enzyme was shown to be a single protein band on slab gel electrophoresis and its fina...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Hashinotsume M,Higashino K,Hada T,Yamamura Y

更新日期：1978-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eukaryotic typical 2-Cys type peroxiredoxin (Prx) is inactivated by hyperoxidation of the peroxidatic cysteine to a sulphinic acid in a catalytic cycle-dependent manner. This inactivation process has been well documented for cytosolic isoforms of Prx. However, such a hyperoxidative inactivation has not fully been inve...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Ikeda Y,Nakano M,Ihara H,Ito R,Taniguchi N,Fujii J

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chorismate mutase of Brevibacterium flavum, a common enzyme in phenylalanine and tyrosine biosynthesis, was separted into two different component, A and B, with molecular weights of 250,000 and 25,000, respectively, by ammonium sulfate fractionation or gel-filtration. Both components were essential for the enzymatic a...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Shiio I,Sugimoto S

更新日期：1979-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The rates of synthesis and degradation of arginosuccinate synthetase in rat liver under various dietary conditions were determined. The relative rate of the enzyme synthesis in the livers of rats fed on 70% casein diet was 4.0 times greater than that for rats fed on 5% casein diet. The rate constants of degradation (K...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Tsuda M,Shikata Y,Katsunuma T

更新日期：1979-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nestin is an intermediate filament protein mainly expressed in muscle and neural progenitors. Recently, we reported that nestin is expressed in rat vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMCs), disappears after serum-deprivation and then is re-expressed again following EGF stimulation. As the function of nestin in VSMCs remai...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Huang YL,Wu CM,Shi GY,Wu GC,Lee H,Jiang MJ,Wu HL,Yang HY

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The transcription and replication of influenza RNA can be studied in vitro by the reconstitution of functional ribonucleoprotein (RNP) complex from viral core proteins including the RNA polymerase (complex of three P protein subunits) and nucleoprotein (NP), and model templates. Here, two different core protein prepar...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Seong BL,Kobayashi M,Nagata K,Brownlee GG,Ishihama A

更新日期：1992-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microvesicles (MVs) serve as vectors of nucleic-acid dissemination and are important mediators of intercellular communication. However, the functionality of packaged nucleic acids on recipient cells following transfer of MV cargo has not been clearly elucidated. This limitation is attributed to a lack of methodology a...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Lu JF,Pokharel D,Padula MP,Bebawy M

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The interaction between riboflavin and riboflavin binding protein (RBP) was studied by 13C-NMR spectroscopy. The 13C-NMR spectra of riboflavin selectively enriched at the 2-, 4-, 4a-, and 10a-positions and of (3-[13C]methyl)riboflavin were measured both in the free and RBP-bound forms. The 13C signals of 13C-enriched ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Miura R,Tojo H,Fujii S,Yamano T,Miyake Y

更新日期：1984-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The allosteric properties of AMP deaminase [EC 3.5.4.6] from chicken erythrocytes have been qualitatively and quantitatively accounted for by the concerted transition theory of Monod et al., on the assumption that this enzyme has different numbers of binding sites for each ligand. Theoretical curves yield a satisfacto...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Yoshino M,Kawamura Y,Ogasawara N

更新日期：1976-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using a new cannulation method, which completely prevented interruption of circulation to brain tissue during surgical operations, we could prepare a functionally intact hemoglobin-free isolated perfused rat head in situ. The frequency distribution (8-25 Hz) and amplitude of a spontaneous electroencephalogram, EEG (50...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Inagaki M,Tamura M

更新日期：1993-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To clarify the relationship among ryanodine receptor isoforms from skeletal muscles of various vertebrates (alpha- and beta-isoforms with smaller and larger mobilities on SDS-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis, respectively), we examined the cross-reactivities of those receptors from 13 animal species by Western blot ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Murayama T,Ogawa Y

更新日期：1994-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Synthesis of the acid-soluble proteins in the early cleavage stage of the sea urichin, Hemicentrotus pulcherrimus, was investigated. As detected by the incorporation of lysine, the acid-soluble proteins were synthesized periodically even before the first cleavage, differing from the pattern of incorporation of tryptop...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kano K,Mano Y

更新日期：1976-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is well established that promyelocytic leukaemia nuclear bodies (PML NBs) play important roles in DNA damage responses (DDR). After irradiation, PML NBs dynamically recruit or release important proteins involved in cell-cycle regulation, DNA repair and apoptosis. As PML protein is the key molecule of PML NBs' dynam...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Liu J,Song Y,Tian B,Qian J,Dong Y,Liu J,Liu B,Sun Z

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cytosol of human erythrocytes was found to contain a Ca2+-dependent thiol protease (calpain) and its specific inhibitor (calpastatin) by DEAE-cellulose chromatography at pH 8.0, although no proteolytic activity toward casein was detected in the unfractionated hemolysate. The protease required only 40 microM Ca2+ f...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Murakami T,Hatanaka M,Murachi T

更新日期：1981-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Murine interleukin-2 (MIL-2) cDNA deleted of 11 repeats of a CAG sequence, and that encoded from 33Met to 149Gln were inserted into an expression vector carrying an Escherichia coli tryptophan promoter and were expressed in E. coli, respectively. Recombinant MIL-2 deleted of 11 glutamine repeats (MIL-2(-Gln] supported...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kashima N,Matsui H,Yamasaki S,Kondo N,Hamuro J

更新日期：1987-10-01 00:00:00