Essential residues, W177 and R198, of LukF for phosphatidylcholine-binding and pore-formation by staphylococcal gamma-hemolysin on human erythrocyte membranes.

abstract：:Glycogen phosphorylase (GP) is biologically active as a dimer of identical subunits. Each subunit has two distinct maltooligosaccharide binding sites: a storage site and a catalytic site. Our characterization of the properties of these sites suggested that GP activity consists of two activities: (i) binding to the gly...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Makino Y,Fujii Y,Taniguchi M

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Homoserine O-acetyltransferase [EC 2.3.1.31] partially purified from Brevibacterium flavum was found to be specifically inhibited by the metabolic end products methionine and S-adenosylmethionine only when the enzymatic reaction was performed in the presence of cysteine or dithiothreitol, or after the preincubation of...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Shiio I,Ozaki H

更新日期：1981-05-01 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：:Steroid monooxygenase of Rhodococcus rhodochrous is a Baeyer-Villigerase catalyzing the insertion of an oxygen atom between the C(17)- and C(20)-carbons of progesterone to produce testosterone acetate. The 5.1-kbp-long BamHI DNA fragment containing the steroid monooxygenase gene, smo, was cloned from the chromosomal D...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Morii S,Sawamoto S,Yamauchi Y,Miyamoto M,Iwami M,Itagaki E

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pH-activity curve of heavy meromyosin ATPase [EC 3.6.1.3] was measured at various temperatures. The pH-activity curve at higher temperatures showed a maximum at low pH and a minimum at pH 7 to 8 as has been already reported. At lower temperatures it was sigmoidal in shape, similar to a simple dissociation curve of...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Ishigami F,Morita F

更新日期：1977-02-01 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：:Disulfide bond interchange has been pointed out as a considerable problem in preparing recombinant proteins from Escherichia coli cells. This has been reported in the system of reducing denaturation followed by a refolding process, where incorrectly folded molecules are sometimes produced. As the possibility of disulf...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kimura S,Utsumi J,Yamazaki S,Shimizu H

更新日期：1988-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Controlled chymotryptic digestion of the 165,000 dalton component of the M-line of rabbit skeletal muscle, followed by Biogel P-150 chromatography of the digest, has led to the isolation of a homogeneous 100,000 dalton species. This fragment was found, by both sedimentation equilibrium and gel filtration chromatograph...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Mani RS,Kay CM

更新日期：1979-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a previous report (J. Biochem. 89, 1333-1335, 1981) we showed that 30 degrees C-treatment (pCa less than 6 and 2 mM MgCl2), like EDTA-treatment, caused a reversible removal of regulatory light-chains from Akazara adductor myosin. Utilizing the heat-treatment, we now show (a) that not half but the total removal of r...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Ojima T,Nishita K,Watanabe S

更新日期：1983-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A proton nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) study is reported of the molecular structural basis of antigen-antibody interactions. An immunologically reactive proteolytic fragment corresponding to one of the antigenic regions on hen egg-white lysozyme (HEL) was used in combination with a monoclonal antibody that recogniz...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Ito W,Nishimura M,Sakato N,Fujio H,Arata Y

更新日期：1987-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An endogenous inhibitor of calcium-activated neutral protease (CANP), which was isolated from rabbit skeletal muscle with chemically drastic pretreatments, comprised major (high-molecular-weight form, HMW-inhibitor) and minor (low-molecular-weight form, LMW-inhibitor) components. HMW-inhibitor was purified to homogene...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Nakamura M,Inomata M,Hayashi M,Imahori K,Kawashima S

更新日期：1985-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Enterococcus hirae V-ATPase, in contrast to most V-type ATPases, is resistant to N-ethylmaleimide (NEM). Alignment of the amino acid sequences of NtpA suggests that the NEM-sensitive Cys of V-type ATPases is replaced by Ala in E. hirae V-ATPase. Consistent with this prediction, the V-ATPase became sensitive upon subst...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Murata T,Yoshikawa Y,Hosaka T,Takase K,Kakinuma Y,Yamato I,Kikuchi T

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to obtain information on the nature of the amino acid residues involved in the activity of ribonuclease U1 [EC 3.1.4.8], various chemical modifications of the enzyme were carried out. RNase U1 was inactivated by reaction with iodoacetate at pH 5.5 with concomitant incorporation of 1 carboxymethyl group per mo...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Hashimoto J,Takahashi K

更新日期：1977-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A completely sodium dodecyl sulfate-insoluble protein was obtained from plasmodia of Physarum polycephalum. The amino acid composition of this protein was very similar to that of connectin, an elastic protein of muscle. When the protein suspension was treated with 6 M guanidine-HCl in the presence of 0.1 M 2-mercaptoe...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Ozaki K,Maruyama K

更新日期：1980-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:ADAMTS13 is the metalloprotease responsible for the proteolytic degradation of von Willebrand factor (VWF). A severe deficiency of this VWF-cleaving protease activity causes thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura. This protease, comprising 1,427 amino acid residues, is composed of multiple domains, i.e., a preproregion, ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Soejima K,Nakamura H,Hirashima M,Morikawa W,Nozaki C,Nakagaki T

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human colostral macrophages stimulated by opsonized zymosan or phorbol myristate acetate (PMA) released superoxide anions (O2-) and hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) with activities comparable to those of monocytes and about one-fourth of those of polymorphonuclear leukocytes (PMNL) of blood. The O2- -forming oxidase in the ma...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Tsuda H,Takeshige K,Shibata Y,Minakami S

更新日期：1984-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mitochondrial processing peptidase (MPP), a metalloendopeptidase consisting of alpha and beta subunits, specifically recognizes a large variety of mitochondrial precursor proteins and cleaves off the N-terminal basic matrix targeting signals (MTS). Basic residues in MTS and acidic sites in MPP are required for effecti...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kitada S,Ito A

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We obtained two kinds of vesicle preparations which were of different density from the same gastric mucosae of hogs stimulated with food before slaughter. Both kinds contained H+,K+-ATPase. The light vesicle preparation differed from the heavy vesicle preparation as follows: the KCl permeability across the membrane of...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Asano S,Iino T,Tabuchi Y,Takeguchi N

更新日期：1988-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Calmodulin-dependent protein kinase IV (CaM-kinase IV) kinase was recently discovered in the rat brain by its activity to activate the inactive recombinant CaM-kinase IV expressed in Escherichia coli [Okuno, S. and Fujisawa, H. (1993) J. Biochem. 114, 167-170]. In the present study, CaM-kinase IV kinase was purified a...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Okuno S,Kitani T,Fujisawa H

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Subtilisin BPN' was chemically converted to thiolsubtilisin and the interaction of this modified enzyme with Streptomyces subtilisin inhibitor (SSI) was examined. SSI competitively inhibited the esterolytic activity of thiolsubtilisin toward p-nitrophenyl acetate with a K1 value of 1.3 X 10(-5) M at pH 7.5 Spectrophot...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Fujiwara K,Inouye K,Tonomura B,Murao S,Tsuru D

更新日期：1977-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To study the structure/function relationship and enzymatic properties of human aldolase C, we have constructed an Escherichia coli expression plasmid, pHAC11, for the isozyme. E. coli cells carrying this plasmid produced enzymatically active human aldolase C. The kcat and Km values for fructose-1,6-bisphosphate (Fru-1...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kusakabe T,Motoki K,Hori K

更新日期：1994-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Selected biochemical properties, including the charge heterodispersity profile and carbohydrate specificity, of bovine galectin-1 were determined in detail. The lectin was purified through an improved purification protocol that yielded 35-40 mg/kg of wet tissue with a specific activity of 1.7-2 x 10(4) mg-1.ml. The ga...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Ahmed H,Fink NE,Pohl J,Vasta GR

更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rat gene for renin-binding protein (RnBP) was shown to be expressed in the kidney, adrenal gland, brain, lung, spleen, ovary, testis, and heart. On sodium depletion and captopril administration, the rat showed a marked increase in the adrenal RnBP mRNA level and a slight decrease in the kidney RnBP mRNA level. In two-...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Tada M,Takahashi S,Miyano M,Miyake Y

更新日期：1992-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An inhibitor of blood coagulation, a new protein with an apparent molecular weight of 34,000 and an isoelectric point of 4.9, was purified from human placental tissue by EDTA extraction. Five cDNA clones were isolated from the human placental lambda gt11 cDNA library using the mouse monoclonal antibody raised against ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Iwasaki A,Suda M,Nakao H,Nagoya T,Saino Y,Arai K,Mizoguchi T,Sato F,Yoshizaki H,Hirata M

更新日期：1987-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The structure and expression of the pentraxins, serum amyloid P component (SAP), and C-reactive protein (CRP), have been investigated in the guinea pig. Northern blot analysis of hepatic RNA from animals in which acute inflammation had been induced by intraperitoneal injection of thioglycollate established that neithe...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Rubio N,Sharp PM,Rits M,Zahedi K,Whitehead AS

更新日期：1993-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A novel positively charged planar bilayer membrane was formed from a mixture containing 20% cationic lipid, 1,2-dioleoyloxy-3-(trimethylammonio)propane, and neutral phospholipid mixture of 56% phosphatidylethanolamine and 24% egg phosphatidylcholine. The basic properties of the bilayer were essentially the same as tho...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Anzai K,Masumi M,Kawasaki K,Kirino Y

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human matrix metalloproteinase 7 (MMP-7) activity exhibits broad bell-shaped pH profile with the acidic and alkaline pK(a) (pK(e1) and pK(e2)) values of about 4 and 10. The ionizable group for pK(e2) was assigned to Lys or Arg by thermodynamic analysis; however, no such residues are present in the active site. Hence, ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Morishima A,Yasukawa K,Inouye K

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When an aqueous solution of a spin-labeled "two tail" gangliosidoid was incubated with liposomes or sheep erythrocytes, the broad single resonance line in the ESR spectrum disappeared and a signal showing an anisotropic motion appeared, indicating that the spin-labeled "two tail" gangliosidoid in the micellar state wa...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kanda S,Inoue K,Nojima S,Utsumi H,Wiegandt H

更新日期：1982-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Limited tryptic digestion of the heavy chain of chymotryptic myosin subfragment-1 gives three major fragments with approximate molecular weights of 50 K, 27 K, and 20 K daltons. We previously reported (Hozumi, T. & Muhlrad, A. (1981) Biochemistry 20, 2945-2950) that these fragments can be separated by gel filtration i...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Hozumi T

更新日期：1981-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Single-site catalysis by F1-ATPase from a thermophilic bacterium PS3 (TF1) was examined by incubating the enzyme with a submolar amount of radioactive ATP. The profile of single-site catalysis by TF1 at 23 degrees C was different from that of beef heart mitochondrial F1-ATPase (MF1). ATP hydrolysis on the enzyme and r...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Yohda M,Yoshida M

更新日期：1987-10-01 00:00:00