Correlation between the catalase level in tumor cells and their sensitivity to N-beta-alanyl-5-S-glutathionyl-3,4-dihydroxyphenylalanine (5-S-GAD).

abstract：:Interaction between protein and phospholipid molecules in sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR) was studied by measurement of the conformational fluctuation of the protein using the kinetics of the hydrogen-deuterium exchange reaction. It was revealed that the state of SR ATPase undergoes a phase transition at about 18 degrees ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kirino Y,Anzai K,Shimizu H,Ohta S,Nakanishi M,Tsuboi M

更新日期：1977-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acid ceramidase (ACDase) metabolizes ceramide to sphingosine, leading to sphingosine 1-phosphate production. Reportedly, ACDase has been upregulated in prostate cancer. However, its regulatory mechanism remains unclear. LNCaP (androgen-sensitive prostate cancer cell line) but not PC3 and DU-145, (androgen-unresponsive...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Mizutani N,Inoue M,Omori Y,Ito H,Tamiya-Koizumi K,Takagi A,Kojima T,Nakamura M,Iwaki S,Nakatochi M,Suzuki M,Nozawa Y,Murate T

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In regenerating rat liver, nuclear protein histone H2A was shown to be phosphorylated on its amino-terminal serine residue [Sung et al. (1971) J. Biol. Chem. 246, 1358-1364], but the protein kinase which phosphorylates this residue has not been identified. To evaluate the possibility that protein kinase C can phosphor...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Takeuchi F,Hashimoto E,Yamamura H

更新日期：1992-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The differential assay conditions for protein phosphatases PP1, PP2A, and PP2C were extensively studied by using crude extracts from mouse lymphoid tissues as enzyme sources. Under these conditions, the protein phosphatase activities were measured in MRL/MpJ-lpr/lpr mice (MRL/lpr mice), autoimmune-prone mice, and MRL/...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Matsuzawa S,Tamura T,Mizuno Y,Kobayashi S,Okuyama H,Tsukitani Y,Uemura D,Kikuchi K

更新日期：1992-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies were carried out on the delta 5-desaturation reaction in ergosterol biosynthesis with a particulate fraction of cell-free extract of yeast. A reduced pyridine nucleotide coenzyme and molecular oxygen were required for the reaction. It was shown that the enzyme activity is located in a fraction corresponding to...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Osumi T,Nishino T,Katsuki H

更新日期：1979-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have reported that high glucose conditions (27 mM for 4 days) induces activation of protein tyrosine phosphatases (PTPases) which are associated with impaired insulin signaling in Rat 1 fibroblasts expressing human insulin receptors [Maegawa, H. et al. (1995) J. Biol. Chem. 270, 7724-7730]. In this study, we found ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Obata T,Maegawa H,Kashiwagi A,Pillay TS,Kikkawa R

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spleen cells from a CBF1 (BALB/c X C57BL/6) mouse immunized with rat tyrosine 3-monooxygenase were fused with NS-1 mouse myeloma cells. From 188 hybrid cells, 2 stable clones secreting anti-tyrosine 3-monooxygenase antibody were obtained. Antibody from one clone was coupled to CNBr-activated Sepharose 4B and the monoc...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Okuno S,Fujisawa H

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The functions of the helix E (W97-F105), an amphiphilic lumenal 310 helix of the major antenna of photosystem II (LHCII), are still unidentified. To elucidate the roles of individual amino acid residue of the helix E, alanine scanning mutagenesis has been performed to mutate every residue of this domain to alanine. Th...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Liu C,Rao Y,Zhang L,Yang C

更新日期：2014-10-01 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：:We have found that arachidonic (20 : 4) acid is indetectable in phosphatidylinositol and diacyglycerol extracted from Drosophila heads. After careful examinations of the lipid extraction processes and fatty acid detection system (gas-liquid chromatography), we excluded the possibility of the oxidation of polyunsaturat...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Yoshioka T,Inoue H,Kasama T,Seyama Y,Nakashima S,Nozawa Y,Hotta Y

更新日期：1985-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human erytholeukemia K562 cells are induced to differentiate along the erythroid lineage by a variety of chemical compounds, including hemin, sodium butyrate and 1-β-d-arabinofuranosylcytosine. We have investigated the induction of erythroid differentiation of K562 cells by glutamine depletion. When K562 cells were cu...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Canh Hiep N,Kinohira S,Furuyama K,Taketani S

更新日期：2012-12-01 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：:Telomerase is an enzyme that catalyzes addition of telomeric repeat sequences to the 3'-termini of eukaryotic chromosome DNA. The catalytic core of telomerase consists of a protein component, telomerase reverse transcriptase (TERT), for the catalysis and an RNA component, telomerase RNA (TR), containing the template f...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Li X,Nishizuka H,Tsutsumi K,Imai Y,Kurihara Y,Uesugi S

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein phosphorylation is a key regulatory mechanism of the organization and dynamics of the actin cytoskeleton during cell motility, differentiation, and cytokinesis. The level of protein phosphorylation is dependent on the relative activities of both protein kinases and protein phosphatases. In this paper, we exami...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Usui T,Marriott G,Inagaki M,Swarup G,Osada H

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The association constants of hen egg yolk riboflavin binding protein with 8-substituted riboflavins were measured using a fluorometric titration method in the range of 10-40 degrees C, and thermodynamic parameters were calculated using ordinary methods. The flavins used were riboflavins whose 8-methyl group was substi...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Matsui K,Sugimoto K,Kasai S

更新日期：1982-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An enzyme activity specifically active on nitrous acid-treated DNA was found in an extract of Escherichia coli. The enzyme acts on both double- and single-stranded DNAs, treated with nitrous acid, in the presence of EDTA, although the former DNA is a better substrate. Evidence is presented that nitrous acid- and bisul...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Oeda K,Shimizu K,Sekiguchi M

更新日期：1978-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A large imprinted gene cluster in human chromosome 11p15.5 has been implicated in Beckwith-Wiedemann syndrome and Wilms' tumor. We have identified a paternally expressed imprinted gene, PEG8/IGF2AS, in this locus. It is transcribed in the opposite direction to the IGF2 transcripts and some genomic regions are shared w...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Okutsu T,Kuroiwa Y,Kagitani F,Kai M,Aisaka K,Tsutsumi O,Kaneko Y,Yokomori K,Surani MA,Kohda T,Kaneko-Ishino T,Ishino F

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chain elongation of fusaric acid and related compounds in the presence of rat liver preparations was investigated by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry. The mitochondrial fraction catalyzed the elongation of the CoA esters of fusaric acid and 5-butyl-2-pyrimidinecarboxylic acid utilizing acetyl-CoA as a C2 donor. Th...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Mizugaki M,Sagi M,Yamanaka H,Takayama H,Ishibashi M,Miyazaki H

更新日期：1986-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reverse transcriptases (RTs) from Moloney murine leukaemia virus (MMLV) and avian myeloblastosis virus (AMV) contain all the fingers, palm, thumb, connection and RNase H domains. The fingers, palm and thumb domains are thought to be involved in the reverse transcription activity, and the RNase H domain is in the RNase...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Yasukawa K,Mizuno M,Inouye K

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Electron transport particles (ETP) prepared from beef heart mitochondria formed malondialdehyde by NADPH-dependent lipid peroixidation in the presence of ferric ions and ADP or ATP. The reaction was inhibited by MnCl2, EDTA, or radical scavengers, but was not inhibited by p-hydroxymercuribenzoate (PHMB) or respiratory...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Takeshige K,Minadami S

更新日期：1975-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relationship between structure, activity, and stability of the thermostable Bacillus stearothermophilus alpha-amylase was studied by site-directed mutagenesis of the three most conserved residues. Mutation of His-238 to Asp involved in Ca2+ and substrate binding reduced the specific activity and thermal stability,...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Vihinen M,Ollikka P,Niskanen J,Meyer P,Suominen I,Karp M,Holm L,Knowles J,Mäntsälä P

更新日期：1990-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To understand the molecular basis of the thermostability of a thermophilic serine protease aqualysin I from Thermus aquaticus YT-1, we introduced mutations at Pro5, Pro7, Pro240 and Pro268, which are located on the surface loops of aqualysin I, by changing these amino acid residues into those found at the correspondin...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Sakaguchi M,Matsuzaki M,Niimiya K,Seino J,Sugahara Y,Kawakita M

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The binding of SopA to the promoter region of its own gene, in which four copies of SopA's recognition sequence, 5'-CTTTGC-3', are arrayed asymmetrically, was examined in vitro. Titration using electrophoretic mobility shift assay showed that the stoichiometry of SopA protomers to the promoter-region DNA is 4 and that...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Komai M,Umino M,Hanai R

更新日期：2011-04-01 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：:Roxadustat (FG-4592, Rox) is a stabilizer for hypoxia-inducible transcription factors (HIFs), which induce production of the erythroid growth factor erythropoietin, and has been listed by the World Anti-Doping Agency as a prohibited substance for athletes since 2011. Although the detection technologies for Rox and its...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Saigusa D,Suzuki N,Matsumoto Y,Umeda K,Tomioka Y,Koshiba S,Yamamoto M

更新日期：2018-02-09 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：:Our previous study showed that the amino acid sequence of Tetrahymena histone H2B has a blocked N-terminal residue followed by 119 amino acid residues, X-Pro-Lys.... [J. Biochem. (1982) 91, 897-904]. Now, X has been found to be N-trimethylalanine by 1H nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy of the isolated X-Pro-Lys ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Nomoto M,Kyogoku Y,Iwai K

更新日期：1982-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Ca2+-ATPase of sarcoplasmic reticulum from rabbit skeletal muscle was incorporated into vesicles made from dimyristoylphosphatidylcholine or dipalmitoylphosphatidylcholine. The Ca2+-ATPase activity of these reconstituted membranes became appreciable above 20 degrees C and 30 degrees C, respectively, in accord with...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Higashi K,Kirino Y

更新日期：1983-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antizyme (AZ) interacts with ornithine decarboxylase, which catalyzes the first step of polyamine biosynthesis and recruits it to the proteasome for degradation. Synthesizing the functional AZ protein requires transition of the reading frame at the termination codon. This programmed +1 ribosomal frameshifting is induc...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Oguro A,Shigeta T,Machida K,Suzuki T,Iwamoto T,Matsufuji S,Imataka H

更新日期：2020-08-01 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