Purification and characterization of YfkN, a trifunctional nucleotide phosphoesterase secreted by Bacillus subtilis.

abstract：:Two cultured cell lines, called Kan-R1 and Kan-R2, were established from rat hepatic cells by in vitro culture with a hepatocarcinogen, 3-methoxy-4-aminoazobenzene, and examined for the gene expression of cytochrome p450 (p450) isoforms, CYP1A1, CYP1A2, CYP2B1, CYP2B2, CYP3A1 and CYP3A2, by the RT-PCR method. It was r...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Degawa M,Namiki M,Yoshimoto N,Makino M,Iwamoto M,Nemoto K,Hashimoto Y

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the significance of the plasma membrane lipid composition in exocytosis in an in vitro interaction system using an intact secretory granular fraction (SG) isolated from the rat parotid gland. When various liposomes (as a model of plasma membranes) were added to this assay system, rapid and transient am...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Mizuno-Kamiya M,Inokuchi H,Kameyama Y,Yashiro K,Shin SO,Fujita A

更新日期：1995-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alginate, which is an anionic polysaccharide, is widely distributed in the cell wall of brown algae. Alginate and the products of its degradation (oligosaccharides) are used in stabilizers, thickeners and gelling agents, especially in the food industry. The degradation of alginate generally involves a combination of s...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Yagi H,Fujise A,Itabashi N,Ohshiro T

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We characterized the taurine transport system in human intestinal Caco-2 cells and showed that it is subject to adaptive regulation. The activity of taurine transport in Caco-2 cells was evaluated by means of an Na+- and Cl(-)-dependent high-affinity transport system, the characteristics of which were similar to those...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Satsu H,Watanabe H,Arai S,Shimizu M

更新日期：1997-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies on the solution structure dynamics of RNA/DNA are becoming crucially important. The phenomena of SSCP (single-strand conformation polymorphism), small RNA dynamics in a cell, and others can be related to the conformational changes of single-stranded (ss) RNAs/DNAs in solution. However, little is known about th...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Biyani M,Nishigaki K

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A simple, sensitive and reliable method for the detection of cystine-containing peptides has been developed. A peptide bridged with a disulfide bond was reduced and cleaved with tributylphosphine, and then coupled with a thiol specific reagent, ammonium 7-fluorobenzo-2-oxa-1,3-diazole-4-sulfonate, under alkaline condi...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Sueyoshi T,Miyata T,Iwanaga S,Toyo'oka T,Imai K

更新日期：1985-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Polynucleotide phosphorylase from Thermus thermophilus catalyzed the addition of short guanylyl blocks from GDP to the 3'-hydroxyl termini of oligonucleotide primers at low temperature in a simple reaction mixture. Polyguanylic acid formation was inhibited at 37 degrees C, but the addition of one or two guanylyl resid...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kikuchi Y,Hirai K,Sakaguchi K

更新日期：1979-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A soluble enzyme preparation (20,000 X g supernatant fraction), prepared from the mycelia of wild-type Neurospora crassa, was capable of transferring [14C]glucose from UDP-[14C]glucose into both trichloroacetic acid (TCA)-soluble and TCA-insoluble macromolecule products in the absence of added primer. These reactions ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Takahara H,Matsuda K

更新日期：1977-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The melanocortin receptor type 4 (MC4-R) is involved in food intake and represents a potential target for the treatment of some forms of obesity. The fluorescent protein EGFP was fused to the wild-type or mutated coding sequence of the human MC4-R. After transfection in HEK 293, clones stably expressing hMC4-R-EGFP we...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Blondet A,Doghman M,Rached M,Durand P,Bégeot M,Naville D

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined the substrate specificity of two mutated geranylgeranyl diphosphate synthases, I-9 and I-11, with respect to several artificial substrates. These mutated enzymes have replacements in the amino acid sequences from positions 170 to 173, which are thought to be a part of the putative substrate binding region....

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Ohnuma S,Hemmi H,Koyama T,Ogura K,Nishino T

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytokine-induced neutrophil chemoattractant (CINC/Gro) is a chemotactic factor for neutrophils in the rat and a member of the CXC chemokine family. The refined three-dimensional structure of CINC/Gro was derived with the aid of heteronuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy and a hybrid method of distance geometry and ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Hanzawa H,Haruyama H,Konishi K,Watanabe K,Tsurufuji S

更新日期：1998-01-01 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：:The effect of the ODC-factor, which was partially purified from ascites fluid of mice bearing Ehrlich ascites hepatoma, on DNA synthesis in the normal mouse liver and spleen was studied, and target cells for the factor in the liver were examined. DNA synthesis in the liver increased about 4-fold over the basal level 3...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Sasaki K,Imamura K,Tanaka T

更新日期：1983-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three-dimensional images of the actin-tropomyosin-myosin subfragment-1 (S1) complex were reconstituted from both minimal- and high-dose electron micrographs by using a conventional reconstruction technique. Higher resolution (1/15 A-1) than those of the previous reconstructions was attained. A multi-domain structure s...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Toyoshima C,Wakabayashi T

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When human erythrocytes subjected to a pressure of 2.0 kbar were incubated at 0 degree C and atmospheric pressure, hemoglobin was released from the membrane. Effects of drugs, salts, and phospholipid vesicles on hemoglobin release were examined. The hemoglobin release was suppressed by the addition of amphiphathic dru...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Yamaguchi T,Kuranoshita K,Harano T,Kimoto E

更新日期：1993-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sulfation of glycosaminoglycans (GAGs) secreted by baby hamster kidney (BHK) cells and the polyoma virus-transformants (PY-BHK) was investigated. It has been reported that chondroitin sulfate (CS) of cell membranes from PY-BHK cells is undersulfated compared to that from BHK cells (Cancer Res. 43, 2712-2717, 1983). In...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Sugahara K,Fukui S,Yamashina I

更新日期：1985-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cholesterol: oxygen oxidoreductase [EC 1.1.3.6] from Brevibacterium sterolicum (ATCC 21387) was found to catalyze the oxidation of steroids such as sterols, steroid hormones, and bile acids having a free C-3beta hydroxyl group. However, the enzyme was inactive towards estradiol and estriol and had a weak activity towa...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Ikawa S,Takita M,Ogura M

更新日期：1979-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated whether transforming growth factor (TGF)-β1 promoted epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) and migration of human oral squamous cell carcinoma (hOSCC) cells. Among 6 hOSCC cell lines investigated, Smad2 phosphorylation and TGF-β target genes expression were most clearly upregulated following TGF-β1 s...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Saito D,Kyakumoto S,Chosa N,Ibi M,Takahashi N,Okubo N,Sawada S,Ishisaki A,Kamo M

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Amyloid formation is the hallmark of many diseases. The propensity of a protein to aggregate depends on a number of biological factors like the presence of sulphated polysaccharides termed as glycosaminoglycans (GAGs). Here we assessed whether the polymeric nature of GAGs is responsible for their protein aggregation-p...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Motamedi-Shad N,Monsellier E,Chiti F

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ferric uptake regulator A (FurA) plays an essential role in responding to oxidative stress in mycobacteria. The genome of Mycobacterium smegmatis harbours three FurA orthologs; however, the potential cross-talk and contribution to drug resistance of different furA operon remain underdetermined. In this study, we c...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Gao CH,Wei WP,Tao HL,Cai LK,Jia WZ,Hu L,Yang M

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several trypsin inhibitors with different mobilities on polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis occur in the tubers of taro (Colocasia antiquorum), and they each have a dimeric molecular weight of 40,000. Of all the constituent subunits, molecular weight 20,000, of the taro trypsin inhibitor (TTI), three major subunit comp...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Ogata F,Makisumi S

更新日期：1985-02-01 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

abstract：:An anti-oxygen radical reagent of a bacterial metabolite, M874 monogalactoglycerolipid (di-O-12-methyl-tetradecanoyl-3-O-beta-D-galactopyranosyl-sn-glycerol ), was tested for its ability to protect two organisms against cellular lesions induced by 5-aminolevulinic acid (ALA) and light. In Corynebacterium flavescens AT...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Nakata K

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Guanidine hydrochloride (GdnHCl)-induced unfolding of bovine spleen galectin-1 (Gal-1) exhibits three-state mechanism involving exclusive, structured tertiary monomer in 0.5 M GdnHCl. Gal-1 has one tryptophan residue (Trp 68) per subunit. Phosphorescence spectra of both Gal-1 dimer and intermediate monomer at 77 K sho...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Mandal P,Molla AR,Mandal DK

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The readthrough of premature termination codon (PTC) by ribosome sometimes produces full-length proteins. We previously reported a readthrough of PTC of glycosyltransferase gene B4GALNT1 with hereditary spastic paraplegia (HSP). Here we featured the readthrough of B4GALNT1 of two mutants, M4 and M2 with PTC by immunob...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Yesmin F,Bhuiyan RH,Ohmi Y,Ohkawa Y,Tajima O,Okajima T,Furukawa K,Furukawa K

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to identify the b-type cytochrome involved in the nitrate reduction in a photodenitrifier, Rhodopseudomonas sphaeroides forma sp. denitrificans, the b-type cytochromes in the spheroplast membranes were characterized. Difference spectra at 77K of spheroplast membranes indicated the presence of two b-type cytoc...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Yokota S,Urata K,Satoh T

更新日期：1984-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tryptophan hydroxylase from mouse mastocytoma P-815 is activated by ethylenediaminetetraacetate (EDTA). The activation proceeds in a pH-, temperature-, and time-dependent manner and leads to a 30-fold higher activity at maximum. The optimal EDTA concentration is 10 microns. The activation requires solely EDTA with des...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Yanagisawa M,Hasegawa H,Ichiyama A

更新日期：1982-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The enzymes phosphoglucomutase (PGM) and phosphomannomutase (PMM) play an important role in the synthesis of extracellular polysaccharide. By colony hybridization of the fosmid library of Sphingomonas chungbukensis DJ77, an open reading frame (ORF-1) of 1,626 nucleotides, whose predicted product is highly homologous w...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Yoon SS,Park SH,Kim YC,Shin M,Chong CK,Choi JD

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of synthetic polycations, polyallylamine, and polyethylenimine, on liposomes containing phosphatidylserine was investigated along with that of polylysine and divalent cations. The addition of polycations caused aggregation of sonicated vesicles composed of phosphatidylserine and phosphatidylcholine (molar r...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Oku N,Yamaguchi N,Yamaguchi N,Shibamoto S,Ito F,Nango M

更新日期：1986-10-01 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