Overexpression of human myotonic dystrophy protein kinase in Schizosaccharomyces pombe induces an abnormal polarized and swollen cell morphology.

abstract：:The gene encoding NADH dehydrogenase from an alkalophile, Bacillus sp., was cloned and sequenced. The cloned DNA fragment contained an open reading frame of 1,557 nucleotides which encodes a polypeptide composed of 519 amino acid residues (Mr 55,830). The predicted amino acid sequence was consistent with the partial a...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Xu XM,Koyama N,Cui M,Yamagishi A,Nosoh Y,Oshima T

更新日期：1991-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs), or prion diseases, are fatal infectious neurodegenerative disorders. Their causative agents are prions, which are composed of disease-associated forms of prion protein (PrP(Sc)). Naturally occurring cases of TSEs are found in several mammalian species including humans,...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Hagiwara K,Hara H,Hanada K

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this work we have studied the equilibrium and kinetic stability of a hyperthermophilic protein, O(6)-methylguanine-DNA methyltransferase (Tk-MGMT), and its mesophilic counterpart AdaC, in various chemical solutions. In an unfolding experiment using guanidine hydrochloride (GdnHCl), the unfolding free-energy change ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Nishikori S,Shiraki K,Okanojo M,Imanaka T,Takagi M

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:By employing EPR spectrometry with the aid of a spin-trapping agent, 5,5-dimethyl-1-pyrroline-1-oxide (DMPO), the generation of superoxide anion and hydroxyl radical was reevaluated during the respiratory burst of porcine and human neutrophils. Properly prepared resting neutrophils did not generate any spin-trapped ra...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Ueno I,Kohno M,Mitsuta K,Mizuta Y,Kanegasaki S

更新日期：1989-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Long interspersed nuclear element (LINE) is known to be transposed by reverse transcription using its RNA transcript. Recognition of the 3' stem-loop of LINE RNA by its reverse transcriptase (RT) is an important step of the retrotransposition. Our previous study revealed that the second G residue (G8) in the GGAUA loo...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Otsu M,Kajikawa M,Okada N,Kawai G

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two-dimensional gel electrophoresis using 0.5% agarose gel in the 1st dimension and 2-12% gradient polyacrylamide gel in the 2nd dimension succeeded in the isoelectrical focusing of connectin, a giant myofibrillar protein of approximately 3,000 kDa. Immunoblotting with an anti-connectin monoclonal antibody, SM1-36-2, ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Matsumura K,Hori S,Sugiura H,Shimizu T

更新日期：1990-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role that interaction with laminin may play in Leishmania donovani infection was investigated. Binding of (125)I-radiolabeled laminin, in a liquid-phase assay, by the parasite was rapid, saturable, specific, reversible, and of high affinity. Using a Western blotting procedure, a 67 kDa laminin-binding protein (LBP...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Bandyopadhyay K,Karmakar S,Ghosh A,Das PK

更新日期：2001-07-01 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 internal structure of the recombinant yeast-derived human hepatitis B virus surface antigen vaccine particle was investigated by small-angle neutron scattering using the contrast variation method. Data were collected in aqueous buffer solutions containing 0, 40, 60, and 100% D2O in the q range of 0.005 to 0.2 A-1 ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Sato M,Sato-Miyamoto Y,Kameyama K,Ishikawa N,Imai M,Ito Y,Takagi T

更新日期：1995-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three forms (termed I, II, and III) of ribonuclease H (RNase H) [EC 3.1.4.34] activity are present in rat liver cytosol. These enzymes degrade RNA specifically in RNA-DNA hybrid structures. They were eluted at 0 M, 0.25 M, and 0.5 M KCl in phosphocellulose chromatography, and were further purified by using blue Sephar...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Sawai Y,Yanokura M,Tsukada K

更新日期：1979-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although the conformational change occurring in proteins upon ATP binding is important in many biological reactions, the mechanism by which ATP binding induces the conformational change is unknown. We found that ATP induces acid-unfolded (pH 2) ferricytochrome c or apomyoglobin to adopt a compact structure with a sign...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Goto Y,Okamura N,Aimoto S

更新日期：1991-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:NADH oxidase, which catalyzes the oxidation of NADH, with the consumption of a stoichiometric amount of oxygen, to NAD+ and hydrogen peroxide was purified from Bacillus megaterium by 5'-AMP Sepharose affinity chromatography to homogeneity. The enzyme is a dimeric protein containing 1 mol of FAD per mol of subunit, Mr ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Saeki Y,Nozaki M,Matsumoto K

更新日期：1985-12-01 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：:The fatty acid composition of cardiolipin from the Harderian gland of guinea pig was examined by gas chromatography and gas chromatography-mass spectrometry. At least 33 kinds of fatty acids were detected. Oleic acid was the most prominent component, accounting for 18.2 mol% of the total fatty acids. About 70.2 mol% o...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Seyama Y,Ohashi K,Yasugi E,Otsuka H

更新日期：1984-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:L-selectin is a cell adhesion molecule mediating the initial capture and subsequent rolling of leukocytes along the endothelial cells expressing L-selectin ligands. In addition to its action in adhesion, an intracellular signaling role for L-selectin has been recognized. Its cytoplasmic domain is involved in signal tr...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Chen C,Ba X,Xu T,Cui L,Hao S,Zeng X

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new p-coumaric acid (4-hydroxycinnamic acid) hydroxylase was detected in mung bean seedlings treated with tentoxin, a fungal toxin, in which polyphenol oxidase that hydroxylates a wide variety of monophenols in vitro was completely eliminated. The enzyme required molecular oxygen and showed a pH optimum of 5.0. The ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kojima M,Takeuchi W

更新日期：1989-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previously, we purified the cathepsin B mRNA 3'-untranslated-region-binding protein (CBBP) from Sarcophaga and suggested its participation in the translational regulation of cathepsin B mRNA in this insect. In this study, we isolated a full length cDNA for CBBP. CBBP was an RNA-binding protein that contained four RGG ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Nishikawa T,Kobayashi A,Natori S

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spo0A is both a positive and a negative transcriptional regulator which plays a very important role in sporulation initiation in Bacillus subtilis. Its N-terminal amino acid sequence is homologous to that of regulator proteins of the two-component regulatory systems involved in signal transduction in bacteria. Phospho...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Asayama M,Kobayashi Y

更新日期：1993-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:NADP+-specific isocitrate dehydrogenase was found in several tissues of the pupa of the silkworm, Bombyx mori. This enzyme was highly purified from the whole bodies of pupae. This is the first isolation of the enzyme from insect materials. The purified enzyme gave a single protein band on polyacrylamide gel electropho...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Miake F,Torikata T,Koga K,Hayashi K

更新日期：1977-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have been interested in partially folded proteins with marginal stability and activity, because they have a potential to be mature proteins by artificial evolution. A module is defined as a contiguous peptide chain forming a compact region in a globular protein. Modules may be used as building blocks to create part...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Tsuji T,Nagata T,Yanagawa H

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Histidinoalanine, a cross-linking component of connective tissue proteins, was detected in the acid hydrolysate of human urine. The concentrations in urines from newborn babies, children, and adults were 1.33 +/- 0.27, 0.77 +/- 0.23, and 0.89 +/- 0.33 nmol/mg creatinine, respectively. Possible origins of urinary histi...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Fujimoto D

更新日期：1986-09-01 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：:Two kinds of myosin phosphatases were purified from fresh chicken gizzard smooth muscle. Alkaline phosphatase (CGP-a), which requires Mg2+, was most active at pH 8.6 with 2 to 4 mM Mg2+, and was essentially the same as the phosphatase we reported previously (J. Biochem. 99, 1027-1036 (1986]. On the other hand, neutral...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Yoshida M,Yagi K

更新日期：1988-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A dinuclear La3+ complex hydrolyzes the phosphodiester bond in diribonucleotides efficiently under mild conditions. The rate of hydrolysis is remarkably accelerated on the complex formation between La3+ and TPHP (TPHP = N,N,N',N'-tetrakis [(2-pyridyl)methyl]-2-hydroxy-1,3-diaminopropane), and the highest activity is a...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Yashiro M,Ishikubo A,Komiyama M

更新日期：1996-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antiserum against Z-protein, which is one of the components of myofibrillar Z-lines, strongly stained the epithelial cells of chicken small intestine at the apical tips of the microvilli and the junctional complexes. Immunoblot tests with anti-Z-protein antiserum showed that there is a peptide of the same antigenicity...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Ohashi K,Maruyama K

更新日期：1989-07-01 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：:Monoclonal antibodies were raised against a synthetic peptide (43 amino acid residues) that corresponds to the complete profragment of human prorenin. Seven monoclonal antibodies were chosen for further characterization. Two antibodies, 2-X-C1 and 4-X-E1, reacted with the middle region and C-terminus of the profragmen...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Ishizuka Y,Iizumi S,Akiyama F,Hori H,Poorman RA,Lobl TJ,Murakami K

更新日期：1989-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nearly full-length cDNA clones for muscle-type and non-muscle-type aldolase mRNAs were cloned from lambda gt10 cDNA libraries constructed from skeletal muscle and liver mRNAs of lamprey (Entosphenus japonicus). The cDNA-M8 has 2,240 bp carrying an open reading frame of 1,089 bp which encodes 362 amino acids without th...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Zhang R,Yatsuki H,Kusakabe T,Iwabe N,Miyata T,Imai T,Yoshida M,Hori K

更新日期：1995-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To identify the residues modified by radioactive N6-p-bromoacetaminobenzyladenosine-5'-phosphate in phosphorylase b, the peptic peptides of the modified enzyme were purified. Two radioactive peptides were isolated, each of which had a cysteine residue modified. The cysteine residue involved in the AMP site was determi...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kawashima S,Eguchi C,Imahori K

更新日期：1978-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of thiols on the activation and/or stabilization of rat brain nitric oxide synthase (NOS) has been investigated. It was found that thiols are not necessary for stabilizing or protecting the protein during purification but are required during enzyme turnover for maximum activity. In the complete absence of thi...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Komori Y,Hyun J,Chiang K,Fukuto JM

更新日期：1995-04-01 00:00:00