Elementary steps in the acto-H-meromyosin ATPase reaction to arterial smooth muscle.

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：:Bispecific antibody targeting of two different antigens is promising, but when fragment-based antibodies are used, homogeneous production is difficult. To overcome this difficulty, we developed a method using the SpyTag/SpyCatcher system in which a covalent bond is formed between the two polypeptides. Using this metho...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Yumura K,Akiba H,Nagatoishi S,Kusano-Arai O,Iwanari H,Hamakubo T,Tsumoto K

更新日期：2017-09-01 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：:Methylobacterium extorquens AM1 is an aerobic facultative methylotroph known to secrete pyrroloquinoline quinone (PQQ), a cofactor of a number of bacterial dehydrogenases, into the culture medium. To elucidate the molecular mechanism of PQQ biosynthesis, we are focusing on PqqE which is believed to be the enzyme catal...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Saichana N,Tanizawa K,Pechoušek J,Novák P,Yakushi T,Toyama H,Frébortová J

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies were performed in the rat liver to examine whether or not insulin as well as glucagon causes the induction of mitochondrial serine:pyruvate aminotransferase (SPTm) [EC 2.6.1.51] and if so, whether the mechanisms of induction are similar or different for the two hormones. Not only glucagon but also insulin indu...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Miyajima H,Oda T,Ichiyama A

更新日期：1989-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dopamine D2 receptor binding subunits of the porcine anterior pituitary were visualized by autoradiography following photoaffinity labeling with [125I]N-azidophenethylspiperone and sodium dodecyl-sulfate polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. The ligand binding subunit comprising the pituitary D2 dopamine receptor migrat...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Jarvie KR,Niznik HB

更新日期：1989-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rat and mouse cDNAs for Zn-alpha 2-glycoprotein (Zn alpha 2gp) were isolated from liver libraries (lambda gt11) and compared with the human one. The lengths of cDNA inserts analyzed were 1,233 and 1,273 nucleotides for rat and mouse, respectively. The deduced amino acid sequences suggested that rat and mouse Zn alpha ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Ueyama H,Naitoh H,Ohkubo I

更新日期：1994-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aldehyde reductases from several mammalian and avian tissues transferred the pro-4R hydrogen of NADPH to the substrate, whereas the stereospecificity of carbonyl reductases was not uniform being correlated with the ability to catalyze the oxidoreduction of hydroxysteroids. ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Nakayama T,Hara A,Kariya K,Sawada H

更新日期：1985-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We designed mutant lysozymes with N-glycosylation signal sequences (Asn48-Gly49-Thr-50 and Asn87-Ile88-Thr89) by substituting Asp to Asn at positions 48 and 87. When these mutant lysozymes were expressed by using yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae) in Burkholder minimum medium, N-glycosylation occurred in both lysozymes....

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Ueda T,Iwashita H,Hashimoto Y,Imoto T

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many eukaryotic genes are interrupted by introns, which are removed from mRNA precursors by the RNA splicing mechanism. Although nucleotide sequences around splice sites have considerable homology among various genes, exact splice-site signals are unknown. Previously, applying the computer searching method to primary ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Iida Y

更新日期：1985-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Association of sulphatide with influenza A virus (IAV) haemagglutinin (HA) delivered to the cell surface promotes progeny virus production. However, it is not known whether there is direct binding of HA to sulphatide. In this study, we found that recombinant HA, which was produced by a baculovirus protein expression s...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Takahashi T,Satoh H,Takaguchi M,Takafuji S,Yokoyama H,Fujii S,Suzuki T

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:By the application of a ganglioside-mapping technique, the lipid composition of bovine thyroid was analyzed systematically. The contents of cholesterol, lipid-bound phosphorus and lipid-bound sialic acid in bovine thyroid were 5.10, 9.76, and 0.28 mumol/g of dry tissue, respectively, and the molar ratio of cholesterol...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Iwamori M,Sawada K,Hara Y,Nishio M,Fujisawa T,Imura H,Nagai Y

更新日期：1982-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three forms of rat brain enolase (Fletcher, L., Rider, C.C., & Taylor, C.B. (1976) Biochim. Biophys. Acta 452, 245-252), which were separable by DEAE-cellulose chromatography (referred as enolase I, enolase II, and enolase III in order of the elution), were purified with a high yield by use of column chromatographies ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Suzuki F,Umeda Y,Kato K

更新日期：1980-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Amyloid beta peptide (Abeta) is a physiological peptide that is constantly catabolized in the brain. We previously demonstrated that an endopeptidase sensitive to phosphoramidon and thiorphan conducts the initial rate-limiting proteolysis of Abeta in vivo, but the exact molecular identity of the peptidase(s) has remai...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Takaki Y,Iwata N,Tsubuki S,Taniguchi S,Toyoshima S,Lu B,Gerard NP,Gerard C,Lee HJ,Shirotani K,Saido TC

更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:alpha and beta chains from adult hemoglobin of the slender loris (Loris tardigradus) were isolated by Amberlite CG-50 column chromatography. After S-aminoethylation, both chains were digested with trypsin and the amino acid sequences of the tryptic peptides obtained were analyzed. Further, the order of these tryptic p...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Maita T,Goodman M,Matsuda G

更新日期：1978-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The flavoenzyme medium-chain acyl-CoA dehydrogenase (MCAD) eliminates the alpha-proton of the substrate analog, 3-thiaoctanoyl-CoA (3S-C8-CoA), to form a charge-transfer complex with deprotonated 3S-C8-CoA. This complex can simulate the metastable reaction intermediate immediately after the alpha-proton elimination of...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Satoh A,Nakajima Y,Miyahara I,Hirotsu K,Tanaka T,Nishina Y,Shiga K,Tamaoki H,Setoyama C,Miura R

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A large COOH-terminal domain of Serratia marcescens serine protease (SSP) is essentially required for the excretion of the mature protease region through the outer membrane in Escherichia coli. For investigation of the possibility of transporting foreign periplasmic proteins by utilizing the function of the COOH-termi...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Shimada K,Ohnishi Y,Horinouchi S,Beppu T

更新日期：1994-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Amino acid sequence analysis was done on a human lambda Bence Jones protein NIG-64 with the major objective of determining the sequence of the variable region. Nineteen tryptic peptides covering 216 residues were isolated from the completely reduced and aminoethylated protein, and 17 of these were completely sequenced...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kametani F,Takayasu T,Suzuki S,Shinoda T,Okuyama T,Shimizu A

更新日期：1983-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cDNA of a novel protein, which contains the association domain of alpha isoform of calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II (CaM-kinase II alpha), was cloned from rat skeletal muscle. This protein, called alpha KAP, consisted of 200 amino acid residues with a molecular weight of 22,583. alpha KAP has a highly hydrop...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Sugai R,Takeuchi M,Okuno S,Fujisawa H

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:8-Azido GTP (8-N3 GTP) was demonstrated to be polymerized into RNA by influenza virus-associated RNA polymerase at about one tenth the rate of GTP incorporation. The Km value for the azido analogue of GTP in primer-dependent RNA synthesis was 94 microM whereas Km for the natural substrate, GTP, was 6.7 microM. Upon ex...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Asano Y,Mizumoto K,Maruyama T,Ishihama A

更新日期：1995-03-01 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：: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：:A high mobility group (HMG) nonhistone protein fraction HMG(1 + 2), composed of HMG1 and HMG2, was prepared from pig thymus chromatin. In order to examine a possibility that the HMG(1 + 2) participates in the unwinding of the DNA double-helix, DNA hydrolysis assay systems with the endonucleases specific for single-str...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Yoshida M,Shimura K

更新日期：1984-01-01 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：:Mild trypsinization of human erythrocyte stroma solubilized CR1 (complement receptor type 1, C3b/C4b receptor) without significant loss of decay-accelerating activity to C5 convertases on hemolytic intermediate cells (EAC 1-3b, P). The solubilized CR1 was purified using DEAE-Sephacel, C3-Sepharose, and anti-CR1-Sephar...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Sugita Y,Nakano Y,Tomita M

更新日期：1986-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eph/ephrin signalling plays essential roles in various tissue developments, such as axon guidance, angiogenesis and tissue separation. Interaction between Ephs and ephrins upon cell-cell contact results in forward (towards Eph-expressing cells) and reverse (towards ephrin-expressing cells) signalling. Although the mol...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Takeuchi S,Katoh H,Negishi M

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A p-nitrophenyl-alpha-D-glucopyranoside-hydrolyzing alpha-glucosidase from an obligate thermophile, Bacillus thermoglucosidius KP 1006, gave a triphasic relationship at pH 6.8 in the van't Hoff plot of Km, in the Arrhenius plot of the first order rate constant of inactivation with 0.1% sodium dodecyl sulfate, and in t...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Suzuki Y,Nakamura N,Kishigami T,Abe S

更新日期：1980-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In sea urchin embryos, primary mesenchyme cells, descendants from micromeres produced at the 16-cell stage, form spicules or CaCO3 deposits in their skeletal vacuoles, at the post-gastrula stage. Micromeres isolated at the 16-cell stage also differentiate into spicule-forming cells during their culture at the same tim...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Mitsunaga K,Fujino Y,Yasumasu I

更新日期：1986-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To study how collagen synthesis is regulated in developing chick embryonic skin, hydroxyproline synthesis, incorporation of proline, and translational activity and content of collagen mRNA in 12-, 15-, and 18-day skins were determined and compared with each other. Hydroxyproline synthesis in the 18-day skins was marke...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Ohyama K,Tokimitsu I,Tajima S

更新日期：1991-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Paramyosin is a myosin-binding protein characteristic of invertebrate animals, while troponin is a Ca2+-dependent regulator of muscle contraction. Both proteins are widely distributed in protostomes, while in deuterostomes, their distribution is limited; namely, presence of paramyosin and absence of troponin are commo...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Sonobe H,Obinata T,Minokawa T,Haruta T,Kawamura Y,Wakatsuki S,Sato N

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00