A novel sulfotransferase abundantly expressed in the dauer larvae of Caenorhabditis elegans.

abstract：:Under conditions where nM level of calmodulin was able to show full activation of myosin light chain kinase and cyclic-nucleotide phosphodiesterase, the fragments of calmodulin at concentrations as high as 20 microM failed to activate these enzymes in the presence of Ca2+. The fragments tested were Ala1-Lys75 (F12), A...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Minowa O,Yazawa M,Sobue K,Ito K,Yagi K

更新日期：1988-03-01 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：:beta-D-Galactosidase has been purified to apparent homogeneity from rabbit spleen. The purification steps involved ammonium sulphate precipitation, DEAE-cellulose, concanavalin A-Sepharose, Sephadex G-200, and Sepharose 4B-(epsilon-aminocaproyl)-2-deoxy-beta-D-glucosylamine affinity chromatographies. In the DEAE-cellu...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Rodríguez-Berrocal FJ,Páez de la Cadena M,Cabezas JA,Pérez-González N

更新日期：1988-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The interaction between lipopolysaccharide (LPS) and an LPS-sensitive serine protease zymogen, factor C, purified from horseshoe crab (Tachypleus tridentatus) hemocytes, was investigated to elucidate the LPS-mediated activation of factor C. The rate of activation of the zymogen factor C was highly dependent on the con...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Nakamura T,Tokunaga F,Morita T,Iwanaga S

更新日期：1988-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The binding of actin filaments to connectin, a muscle elastic protein, was investigated by means of turbidity and sedimentation measurements and electron microscopy. In the presence of less than 0.12 M KCl at pH 7.0, actin filaments bound to connectin. Long actin filaments formed bundles. Short actin filaments also ag...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Maruyama K,Hu DH,Suzuki T,Kimura S

更新日期：1987-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The DNA fragment containing the phoS gene, a regulatory gene for alkaline phosphatase, has been isolated from Escherichia coli K-12 chromosomal DNA by cutting off the DNA with Hind III restriction enzyme and by cloning the gene with plasmid vector pTP 4 which was constructed in this study. The isolated fragment was of...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Iwakura M,Shimura Y,Tsuda K

更新日期：1982-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The specificity of highly purified rat liver cathepsin D was investigated by analyzing the digests of denatured proteins. At the P1 site, cathepsin D prefers hydrophobic residues except Ile and Val, that are branched at the beta-carbon. Strong and weak hydrophobicities are required at P1' and P2 sites, respectively. A...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Imoto T,Okazaki K,Koga H,Yamada H

更新日期：1987-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Amino acids produced from formaldehyde and hydroxylamine in modified sea mediums with different concentrations of molybdate were analyzed. The modified sea mediums contained lower concentration of sodium chloride and higher concentrations of transition metal ions (Zn2+, Fe3+, Cu2+, Co2+, Mn2+ each 10(-4)m, and Mo O4(2...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Hatanaka H,Egami F

更新日期：1977-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The minimal structural unit of cytochrome c oxidase purified from Thiobacillus novellus was composed of one molecule each of two subunits with molecular masses of 32 and 23 kDa, respectively, and the unit had one molecule of heme a and one atom of copper. In the presence of n-octyl-beta-D-thioglucoside, the oxidase ex...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Shoji K,Yamazaki T,Nagano T,Fukumori Y,Yamanaka T

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Myosin subfragment-1.pyrophosphate (S1.PPi) complex and S1.ADP complex were observed with 31P NMR at various temperatures between 0 and 25 degrees C. The signal of S1.PPi complex showed a small temperature dependence, indicating that a single conformation exists for the complex. It also showed that the electron densit...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Tanokura M,Ebashi S

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Troponin is the regulatory protein of striated muscle. Without Ca2+, the contraction of striated muscle is inhibited. Binding of Ca2+ to troponin activates contraction. The location of troponin on the thin filaments and its relation to the regulatory mechanism has been unknown, though the Ca2+-induced dislocation of t...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Ishikawa T,Wakabayashi T

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of extracellular type-II phospholipase A2 (PLA2) on prostaglandin (PG) synthesis has been studied using rat liver-derived BRL-3A cells. The addition of type-II PLA2 to the medium of BRL-3A cells resulted in a marked decrease in the enzymatic activity in the medium. An immunochemical study involving an anti-...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Suga H,Murakami M,Kudo I,Inoue K

更新日期：1995-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The virion-associated RNA-dependent RNA polymerase of influenza virus PR8 was activated by treatment with specific non-ionic detergents, and was remarkably stimulated by exogenously added oligonucleotide primers. Among synthetic oligonucleotides of various chain lengths, the dinucleotide ApG and the trinucleotide ApGp...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kawakami K,Ishihama A,Ohtsuka E,Tanaka T,Takashima H,Ikehara M

更新日期：1981-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The DNA chain elongation mechanisms of mouse DNA polymerases alpha and beta have been analyzed by using denatured DNA with a (dT)n block at the 3'-end as a template in combination with RNA ((rA)12-20)primer. The (rA)12-20-primed DNA product synthesized by DNA polymerase alpha was 3-5 s in size even after prolonged rea...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Matsukage A,Nishizawa M,Takahashi T,Hozumi T

更新日期：1980-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rabbit antibodies against cytochrome P-450 (SCC), P-450 (11 beta), and P-450 (C-21) from bovine adrenal cortex were prepared, and it was confirmed that these three cytochrome P-450 species are immunologically distinct from one another. Cytoplasmic sites of synthesis of P-450 (SCC), P-450 (11 beta), and P-450 (C-21) in...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Nabi N,Kominami S,Takemori S,Omura T

更新日期：1983-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Connectin (titin) links the Z line to the myosin filament in sarcomeres of vertebrate skeletal muscle. An 800 kDa fragment of alpha-connectin runs from the Z line up to the N2 line region in the I band, and the following beta-connectin portion runs up to the edge of the M line on the myosin filament in chicken breast ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kawamura Y,Kume H,Itoh Y,Ohtsuka S,Kimura S,Maruyama K

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bach2 is a member of the BTB-basic region leucine zipper factor family and represses transcription activity directed by the TPA response element, the Maf recognition element (MARE) and the antioxidant-responsive element. Recently, it was reported that upon oxidative stress Bach2 forms nuclear foci surrounding the prom...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Hoshino H,Nishino TG,Tashiro S,Miyazaki M,Ohmiya Y,Igarashi K,Horinouchi S,Yoshida M

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The fructose 2,6-bisphosphate concentrations in unwashed, washed, and leukocyte-free erythrocytes were compared. The concentration in washed red cells was 31 +/- 15 pmol per ml of cells (mean +/- S.D., n = 6). The concentration in unwashed erythrocytes was at least twofold higher, but the value in washed red cells was...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Moriyasu M,Yamamoto M,Hamasaki N

更新日期：1988-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:ISG15 is a ubiquitin-like protein that is upregulated on treatment with interferon. ISG15 is considered to be covalently conjugated to cellular proteins through a sequential reaction similar to that of the ubiquitin conjugation system consisting of E1/E2/E3 enzymes: UBE1L and UbcH8 have been reported to function as E1...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Takeuchi T,Iwahara S,Saeki Y,Sasajima H,Yokosawa H

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although the depletion of reduced glutathione (GSH) has been observed in a variety of apoptotic systems, little is known about the mechanism of GSH depletion. In this study we used polarized MDCK cells to study the GSH flux during ricin-induced apoptosis. Here we report that the specific accumulation of GSH occurred i...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Oda T,Sadakata N,Komatsu N,Muramatsu T

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The process of mitochondrial dysfunction in ischemic rat liver was studied. A close correlation was found between decrease in the mitochondrial adenine nucleotide content and deterioration of oxidative phosphorylation capacity. The level of total adenine nucleotides, which was 15--20 nmol/mg protein in mitochondria is...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Watanabe F,Kamiike W,Nishimura T,Hashimoto T,Tagawa K

更新日期：1983-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The promoter -10 binding region of the Bacillus subtilis sigma(A) factor forms an amphiphilic alpha-helix with three conserved isoleucines located at four-residue intervals. To investigate the structural and functional roles of the three isoleucine residues, we constructed a series of sigA mutants with single and doub...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Liao CT,Wang WH,Yang HS,Chen JP,Chang BY

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The DegS-DegU two-component regulatory system regulates many cellular events in Bacillus subtilis. Genes for DegSU constitutes an operon directed by the P1 promoter and downstream degU is autoregulated via the P3 promoter activated by phosphorylated DegU. In the Gram-positive bacteria, Spx plays a major role in the pr...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Shiwa Y,Yoshikawa H,Tanaka T,Ogura M

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:β-lactoglobulin forms a non-native α-helix during an early stage of folding. To address the role of the non-native structure in the folding process, we designed several mutants of equine β-lactoglobulin with reduced helical propensity in the non-native helix region. One of them, A123T, showed a similar structure to th...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Okabe T,Miyajima T,Nakagawa K,Tsukamoto S,Fujiwara K,Ikeguchi M

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacillus licheniformis alpha-amylase (BLA) is widely used in various procedures of starch degradation in the food industry, and a BLA species with improved activity at higher temperature and under acidic conditions is desirable. Two BLA species, designated as PA and MA, have been isolated from the wild-type B. licheni...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Lee S,Oneda H,Minoda M,Tanaka A,Inouye K

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The three-dimensional structure of rat-liver acyl-CoA oxidase-II (ACO-II) in a complex with a C12-fatty acid was solved by the molecular replacement method based on the uncomplexed ACO-II structure. The crystalline form of the complex was obtained by cocrystallization of ACO-II with dodecanoyl-CoA. The crystalline com...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Tokuoka K,Nakajima Y,Hirotsu K,Miyahara I,Nishina Y,Shiga K,Tamaoki H,Setoyama C,Tojo H,Miura R

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The STPR domain is a novel DNA-binding domain composed of repeats of 23 amino-acid-long peptide found in the fibroin-modulator-binding protein-1 (FMBP-1) of the silkworm Bombyx mori. Theoretical proteins having the STPR domain are highly conserved, particularly in vertebrates, but the functions are mostly unknown. In ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Takiya S,Saito S,Yokoyama T,Matsumoto D,Aizawa T,Kamiya M,Demura M,Kawano K

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Proton translocating ATPase (F0F1) from bovine heart mitochondria was reconstituted into planar phospholipid bilayers, and its electrogenicity was directly demonstrated. The F0F1 ATPase was solubilized using 3-[(3-cholamidopropyl)-dimethylammonio]-1-propanesulfonic acid (CHAPS) as a detergent followed by sucrose densi...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Muneyuki E,Ohno K,Kagawa Y,Hirata H

更新日期：1987-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pollen proteins from several grass species have been identified and characterized as causative allergens in grass pollinosis. In contrast, allergenic potential of pollen proteins from rice, which belongs to the same Poaceae family, has not well been investigated, despite that a few clinical cases have been reported on...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Hirano K,Hino S,Oshima K,Okajima T,Nadano D,Urisu A,Takaiwa F,Matsuda T

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A method for preparation of pyridylamino (PA-) derivatives of O-linked sugar chains from glycoproteins was developed. A glycopeptide containing O-linked Gal beta 1-3GalNAc was prepared from fetuin and treated with anhydrous hydrazine followed by N-acetylation of free amino groups. Sugar chains released were pyridylami...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kuraya N,Hase S

更新日期：1992-07-01 00:00:00