Heat-induced aggregation of recombinant erythropoietin in the intact and deglycosylated states as monitored by gel permeation chromatography combined with a low-angle laser light scattering technique.

abstract：:Agglutinin in the perivitelline fluid (PVF) of Tachypleus gigas, horseshoe crab, embryo was isolated and purified by a combination of affinity column chromatography on Sepharose 4B coupled with bovine submaxillary gland mucin and gel-filtration of Fractogel TSK (Toyopearl) HW-60 in Tris-NaCl-CaCl2 (0.05 M Tris-HCl, pH...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Shishikura F,Sekiguchi K

更新日期：1984-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of intra- and extravesicular calcium and magnesium ions on the hydrolysis of the phosphoenzyme (EP) intermediate formed in the reaction of Ca2+,Mg2+-dependent ATPase of the sarcoplasmic reticulum were investigated. The rate constants of EP hydrolysis were measured under conditions that allowed a single tur...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Daiho T,Takisawa H,Yamamoto T

更新日期：1985-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A glutathione S-transferase isozyme which is absent in normal rat liver has been isolated from the hereditary hyperbilirubinuria rat liver cytosol. The enzyme was purified to apparent homogeneity by GSH-affinity chromatography and HPLC on CM-Sepharose CL-6B. It is a heterodimer of two non-identical subunits, i.e., sub...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Igarashi T,Tsuchiya T,Satoh T

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The characteristics of the androgen receptor in the cytoplasmic fraction of Shionogi carcinoma 115 were studied in vitro by means of charcoal adsorption assay, sucrose density gradient centrifugation, and polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. The equilibrium dissociation constant for [3H]dihydrotestosterone (Kd = (2-5) ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Nohno T

更新日期：1981-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The contribution of the P1' residue at the first reactive site of peanut protease inhibitor B-III to the inhibition was analyzed by replacement of the P1' Arg(11) with other amino acids (Arg, Ser, Ala, Leu, Phe, Asp) after selective modification of the second reactive site. The Arg derivative had the same trypsin inhi...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kurokawa T,Hara S,Norioka S,Teshima T,Ikenaka T

更新日期：1987-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genomic DNA libraries were screened for the human histidine-rich glycoprotein (HRG) gene and a sequence of 15,499 nucleotides was determined. The gene is composed of 7 exons and 6 introns, and all the exon-intron boundaries match the consensus GT/AG sequence for donor and acceptor splice sites. Each of cystatin-like d...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Wakabayashi S,Takahashi K,Koide T

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using mutant strain ABYS1 of Saccharomyces cerevisiae lacking four main vacuolar proteinases, proteinase A, proteinase B, carboxypeptidase Y, and carboxypeptidase S, we examined the identities of chromatin-associated proteinases, ruling out possible contamination of the chromatin fraction by them. The chromatin of str...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Motizuki M,Kohno H,Tsurugi K

更新日期：1988-08-01 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：:An in vitro system for accurate transcription initiation by RNA polymerase II was developed using Ehrlich ascites tumor cells. Truncated DNA containing adenovirus 2 major late promoter was faithfully transcribed in this lysate, although the efficiency of transcription was lower than that in a HeLa cell lysate. Creatin...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Ohtsuki M,Sekimizu K,Natori S

更新日期：1984-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Frontal gel chromatography is a convenient and accurate method to obtain the free ligand concentration of a protein-ligand mixture. Because a large amount of sample (more than 6 ml) is required for the method, it has been rarely used for binding experiments. We have developed a system to carry out frontal gel chromato...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Honjo M,Ishida T,Horiike K

更新日期：1997-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nascent peptides on free and bound ribosomes prepared from rat liver were labeled and released with [3H]puromycin, and the amounts of the nascent peptides of two secretory proteins, serum albumin and transferrin, were determined by immunoprecipitation with specific antibodies. An appreciable amount of serum albumin na...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Oda T,Ito A

更新日期：1981-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We developed a high-throughput Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) for measuring α2,6-sialylated transferrin (Tf), based on inhibition of anti-Tf antibody binding to α2,6-sialylated Tf by a lectin, Sambucus sieboldiana Agglutinin (SSA). The inhibition was not observed with other glycoforms, such as periodate-tre...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Hoshi K,Kariya Y,Nara K,Ito H,Matsumoto K,Nagae M,Yamaguchi Y,Nakajima M,Miyajima M,Arai H,Kuno A,Narimatsu H,Shirotani K,Hashimoto Y

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sphingosine-1-phosphate (S1P) and lysophosphatidic acid (LPA) are blood-borne lysophospholipids with a wide spectrum of biological activities, which include stimulation of cell growth, prevention of apoptosis, regulation of actin cytoskeleton, and modulation of cell shape, cell migration, and invasion. Activated plate...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Takuwa Y,Takuwa N,Sugimoto N

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the nucleus of eukaryotic cells, chromatin is tethered to the nuclear envelope (NE), wherein inner nuclear membrane proteins (INMPs) play major roles. However, in Xenopus blastula, chromatin tethering to the NE depends on nuclear filamentous actin that develops in a blastula-specific manner. To investigate whether ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Oda H,Kato S,Ohsumi K,Iwabuchi M

更新日期：2020-11-10 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been reported that two kinds of Cd-binding peptide (Cd-BP1 and Cd-BP2) are induced in fission yeast upon exposure to Cd, and that they consist of the same unit peptide (cadystin), but Cd-BP1 binds 1.5 times more Cd atoms per cadystin than Cd-BP2 (Murasugi, A., Wada, C., & Hayashi, Y. (1981) J. Biochem. 90, 1561...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Murasugi A,Wada Nakagawa C,Hayashi Y

更新日期：1984-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cellular Src (c-Src) tyrosine kinase is upregulated and believed to play a pivotal role in various human cancers. However, the molecular mechanism underlying c-Src-mediated tumour progression remains elusive. Recent studies have revealed that several microRNAs (miRNAs) function as tumour suppressors by regulating ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Oneyama C,Okada M

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ester cerebrosides isolated from whale brain were demonstrated to be a mixture of 6-O-acyl, 2-O-acyl, 4-O-acyl, and 3-O-acyl galactosyl ceramides in that order of content (Yasugi, E., et al. (1982) J. Biochem. 91, 1121-1127). However, the existence of 2-O-acyl and 4-O-acyl galactosyl ceramides has not been reported fo...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Yasugi E,Kasama T,Kojima H,Yamakawa T

更新日期：1983-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using the methods of methylation/GLC, MS, and 1H-NMR analyses, a disaccharide structure of GalNAc alpha 1----2Fuc1---- was identified as one of the major structural units at non-reducing terminals of a highly branched and N-glycosidically linked carbohydrate on an allergenically active glycopeptide, Gp-2 (Mr ca. 8,000...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Shigeta S,Ono K,Ohta M,Kobayashi Y,Oka S

更新日期：1989-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Expression of inter-alpha-trypsin inhibitor light chain (ITI-LC, also known as bikunin or urinary trypsin inhibitor) was examined in various human tissues. By reverse-transcription polymerase chain reaction, the mRNA was detected not only in the liver, a known site of ITI-LC production, but also in the kidney, heart, ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Itoh H,Tomita M,Kobayashi T,Uchino H,Maruyama H,Nawa Y

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The internal ribosome entry site (IRES) is important for translation of hepatitis C virus (HCV) mRNA and has a unique RNA structure containing conserved domains I to IV. To investigate the function of domain II, we selected RNA aptamers that bind to domain II of HCV IRES by applying a simple and convenient selection m...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kikuchi K,Umehara T,Fukuda K,Hwang J,Kuno A,Hasegawa T,Nishikawa S

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to determine the epitope of metallothionein (MT) to a murine monoclonal antibody (MT 189-14-7) which had been produced by immunization with rat MT 2 (Kikuchi et al. (1988) Mol. Immunol. 25, 1033-1036), various lengths of synthetic oligopeptides were tested for their inhibitory activities in competitive radioi...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kikuchi Y,Irie M,Ikebuchi H,Sawada J,Terao T,Nakayama S,Iguchi S,Okada Y

更新日期：1990-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glycerol-treated muscle fiber bundles were fixed at their rest length in 50 mM KC1, 2 mM MgC1(2), and 10 micron CaC1(2) at pH 7.8 and 0 degrees C in the presence of sufficient amounts of ATP, creatine kinase, and creatine phosphate. The fiber bundles were stretched linearly with time for 0.3 s at a constant amplitude,...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Arata T,Mukohata Y,Tonomura Y

更新日期：1978-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phospholipid composition of biological membranes differs between the cytoplasmic and exoplasmic leaflets. The type 4 P-type ATPases are phospholipid flippases that generate such membrane phospholipid asymmetry. Drs2p, a flippase in budding yeast, is involved in the endocytic recycling pathway. Drs2p is implicated in c...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Hanamatsu H,Fujimura-Kamada K,Yamamoto T,Furuta N,Tanaka K

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An improved procedure for the purification of a lipid-containing acidophilic thermophilic bacteriophage, phiNS11, is described. The procedure involves Cs2SO4 discontinuous density gradient, Cs2SO4 equilibrium density gradient and sucrose gradient centrifugations. The phage has an icosahedral shape, 75 nm in diameter, ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Sakaki Y,Yamada K,Oshima M,Oshima T

更新日期：1977-11-01 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 isolation and characterization of rabbit and human cDNAs revealed a new low density lipoprotein receptor (LDLR)-related protein (LRP) designated as LRP5. Human LRP5 cDNA encodes a 1, 616-amino acid type I membrane-like protein with three ligand binding repeats in its extracellular region. LDLR-deficient cells tran...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kim DH,Inagaki Y,Suzuki T,Ioka RX,Yoshioka SZ,Magoori K,Kang MJ,Cho Y,Nakano AZ,Liu Q,Fujino T,Suzuki H,Sasano H,Yamamoto TT

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A synchronous enzyme-reaction system using water-soluble formazan and a non-enzymatic electron mediator was developed and applied to an enzyme immunoassay (EIA). The reaction system consists of four steps: (I) dephosphorylation of NADP(+) to produce NAD(+) by alkaline phosphatase (ALP), (II) reduction of NAD(+) to pro...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Inouye K,Ueno I,Yokoyama S,Sakaki T

更新日期：2002-01-01 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：:The structure of polygalactosamine purified from the culture fluid of Aspergillus parasiticus AHU 7165 was studied. Partial acid hydrolysis of this polysaccharide, in which 55 to 65% of the monosaccharide residues were N-unsubstituted, gave a series of galactosamine oligosaccharides (dimer to hexamer) in a good yield....

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Takada H,Araki Y,Ito E

更新日期：1981-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined the effect of porcine brain Ca2+-dependent regulator (CDR) protein on microtubule (MT) assembly from microtubular proteins isolated from porcine brain by temperature-dependent cycles of assembly-disassembly. CDR exhibited a potent inhibitory effect on MT assembly in the presence of Ca2+, whereas it had lit...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Nishida E,Kumagai H,Ohtsuki I,Sakai H

更新日期：1979-05-01 00:00:00