Intermolecular cross-linking of a novel rice Kinesin k16 motor domain with a photoreactive ATP derivative.

abstract：:It was previously found that rabbit serum contains a growth-inhibitory substance for a tumorigenic rat liver cell line RSV-BRL. In the present study, the growth inhibitor was purified from normal rabbit serum to show a homogeneous protein band with a molecular weight (Mr) of 56 k on SDS-polyacrylamide gel electrophore...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kimura T,Miyazaki K,Mashima K,Yamashita J,Horio T,Kakuno T

更新日期：1991-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies on human cell hybrids of a cervical carcinoma cell line, HeLa, and normal fibroblasts have indicated that the tumorigenicity of these cells is under the control of a putative tumor suppressor on chromosome 11, although the nature of this suppressor remains unknown. We examined the expression of caveolin-1, a p...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Suzuki T,Suzuki Y,Hanada K,Hashimoto A,Redpath JL,Stanbridge EJ,Nishijima M,Kitagawa T

更新日期：1998-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A cell-free protein-synthesizing system active in initiation of translation of both endogenous mRNA and exogenous mRNA has been obtained from postmitochondrial supernatant (S-12) of the liver of ethionine-treated rats by adding reticulocyte ribosomal extract as a source of initiation factor. Formation of polysomes in ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Hase M,Endo Y,Natori Y

更新日期：1982-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phase transition was detected by a fluorescence polarization technique in the membrane of Thermus thermophilus HB8: it was found to be a function of cell growth temperature when the cell growth temperature was varied between 50-80 degrees C. A systematic relation between the phase transition temperature and the growth...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Wakayama N,Oshima T

更新日期：1978-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We cloned and sequenced the Serratia marcescens prolyl aminopeptidase (SPAP) gene. Nucleotide sequence analysis revealed an open reading frame of 951 bp, encoding a protein of 317 amino acids with a predicted molecular weight of 36,083. The expressed enzyme was purified about 90-fold on columns of Toyopearl HW65C and ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kabashima T,Kitazono A,Kitano A,Ito K,Yoshimoto T

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bdellin-KL is a trypsin-plasmin inhibitor from Hirudo nipponia, whose N-terminal sequence was identified as a non-classical Kazal-type. A cDNA clone encoding the inhibitor was isolated by reverse transcription-PCR and 5' rapid amplification of cDNA ends. The cDNA showed an open reading frame of 155 amino acids compris...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kim YH,Choi JG,Lee GM,Kang KW

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mitogen-activated protein (MAP) kinase cascades play essential roles in a variety of cell processes by influencing transcriptional or translational regulation. ERKs play a central role in survival and mitogenic signaling, while JNKs and p38 MAP kinases are preferentially activated by environmental stresses and are...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Matsukawa J,Matsuzawa A,Takeda K,Ichijo H

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The denaturation of recombinant horse L-chain apoferritin (rLF), which is composed of 24 L-chain subunits, in acidic solution was studied. Using two rLF mutants, lacking four (Fer4) or eight (Fer8) N-terminal amino acid residues, the effect of N-terminal residues on the protein's stability was investigated. Of the two...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Yoshizawa K,Mishima Y,Park SY,Heddle JG,Tame JR,Iwahori K,Kobayashi M,Yamashita I

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cholecalciferol 25-hydroxylase was partially purified by polyethylene glycol fractionation and chromatographies on octylamino-Sepharose and hydroxylapatite columns starting from the liver microsomes of female rats, and compared with P-450cc25 purified from the liver microsomes of male rats (Hayashi, et al. (1986) J. B...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Hayashi S,Usui E,Okuda K

更新日期：1988-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Site-specific recognition and DNA-binding activity of p53 are crucial for its tumour suppressor function. Previous reports have shown that metal ions can affect the specific recognition and DNA-binding activity of p53DBD. Here we firstly report that magnesium ion can bind to the protein and influence its DNA-binding a...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Xue Y,Wang S,Feng X

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new pathway of NAD+ synthesis from anthranilic acid was found in the livers of rats. Starting from [carboxyl-14C]anthranilic acid, radioactive NAD+ and NADP+ were produced as judged by Dowex-1 X 8-formate column chromatography followed by radiochromatography. Several intermediate compounds, such as quinolinic acid, ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Ueda T,Otsuka H,Goda K,Ishiguro I,Naito J,Kotake Y

更新日期：1978-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The kinetic specificities of BPN' and Carlsberg subtilisins [EC 3.4.21.14] were examined with various nucleus-substituted derivatives of Nalpha-acetylated aromatic amino acid methyl esters for mapping their hydrophobic binding sites in comparison with that of alpha-chymotrypsin. The Carlsberg enzyme was generally much...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Karasaki Y,Ohno M

更新日期：1978-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. 3'-Guanylyl-ethanol, 3'-guanylyl-propanol, and 3'-guanylyl-alpha-glycerol were synthesized by ribonuclease N1 [EC 3.1.4.8] using guanosine 2',3'-cyclic phosphate as a phosphate donor and various alcohols as phosphate acceptors. The yields of these phosphodiesters were 15%, 13.5%, 38.2%, respectively, with respect t...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Tamanoi F,Uchida T,Egami F,Oshima T

更新日期：1976-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have recently shown that furin, a mammalian homologue of the yeast precursor-processing endoprotease Kex2, is involved in precursor cleavage at sites marked by the Arg-X-Lys/Arg-Arg motif within the constitutive secretory pathway. In this study, we analyzed molecular and enzymatic properties of furin expressed in C...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Hatsuzawa K,Murakami K,Nakayama K

更新日期：1992-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:3-Isopropylmalate dehydrogenase (IPMDH) is a dimeric enzyme with a strongly hydrophobic core that is composed of residues from four alpha-helices. We replaced Glu253, which is found in the hydrophobic core and is part of the subunit interface of the Bacillus subtilis (Bs) IPMDH, with several other amino acids to probe...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Ohkuri T,Yamagishi A

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A method is described for the fractionation of reduced and alkylated proteins of fowl feather. Fowl feather extracts were chromatographed on a Sephadex G-75 column in 4 M urea containing 1 M NaCl and separated into four fractions, GF-1, 2, 3, and 4. The elution patterns were used to compare the components of different...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Akahane K,Murozono S,Murayama K

更新日期：1977-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is not known whether the activity of the Escherichia coli protein export system changes during the division cycle. To address and answer this question, we took two approaches. First, we pulse-labeled a random culture and size-fractionated the labeled cells in the presence of inhibitors of secretion. Second, we puls...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Taura T,Ito K

更新日期：1991-06-01 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：:The Escherichia coli cytochrome bo is a heme-copper terminal ubiquinol oxidase, and functions as a redox-driven proton pump. We applied pulse radiolysis technique for studying the one-electron reduction processes in the Cu(B)-deficient mutant, His333Ala. We found that the Cu(B) deficiency suppressed the heme b-to-heme...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kobayashi K,Tagawa S,Mogi T

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Kinetic studies of the reduction of plastocyanin from spinach chloroplasts by ascorbate were carried out using a stopped flow apparatus. The reduction of spinach plastocyanin by ascorbate followed first-order kinetics in the reductant with a rate constant k = 415 M-1.S-1 [20 degrees C, 0.1 M NaCl, pH 8.0 (10 mM Tris-H...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Takabe T,Niwa S,Ishikawa H,Miyakawa M

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein kinases are essential mediators of cellular signal transduction and are often dysregulated in disease. Among these, protein tyrosine kinases (PTKs) have received specific interest due to their common roles in various diseases including cancer, and emerging observations indicating that PTK signalling pathways a...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Dustin CM,Heppner DE,Lin MJ,van der Vliet A

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The interactions of porcine alpha2-macroglobulin (alpha2M) with native proteinases, their zymogens and the chemically-modified enzymes were compared. The alpha2M did not bind to chymotrypsinogen, or to most of the chemically modified derivatives of alpha-chymotrypsin, trypsinogen, DIP- and PMS-trypsins, but it could i...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Tsuru D,Kado K,Fujiwara K,Tmimatsu M,Ogita K

更新日期：1978-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neutral alpha-glucosidase was partially purified from granular fractions isolated from guinea pig polymorphonuclear leukocytes (PMNL). The native enzyme had a high molecular weight, about 417,000, with a subunit of 43,000. The purified enzyme hydrolysed 4-methylumbelliferyl alpha-glucoside and maltose, but not isomalt...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Imai K,Harada T,Takano Y,Morikawa S,Tanaka A

更新日期：1989-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Physicochemical and biological properties of recombinant human erythropoietin (rhEPO) were compared with human urinary erythropoietin (uEPO). uEPO and rhEPO were purified to apparent homogeneity from the urine of patients with aplastic anemia and from the conditioned medium of Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cells transfe...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Imai N,Kawamura A,Higuchi M,Oh-eda M,Orita T,Kawaguchi T,Ochi N

更新日期：1990-03-01 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：:It was found that the absorption spectrum of beta-naphthyl triphosphate is different from that of beta-naphthyl diphosphate in the range 290-335 nm. Thus, beta-naphthyl triphosphate hydrolysis by heavy meromyosin can be recorded continuously as a function of time by means of a spectrophotometer. By analyzing the time ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kuwajima T,Kagawa H,Asai H

更新日期：1975-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The reaction of D-amino acid oxidase [EC 1.4.3.3] (DAO) from porcine kidney with beta-cyano-D-alanine (D-BCNA) was studied. DAO was found to catalyze elimination of the cyano group as well as oxidation of D-BCNA. During the course of the reaction in the presence of excess oxygen, an intermediate was observed which exh...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Miura R,Shiga K,Miyake Y,Watari H,Yamano T

更新日期：1980-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:NADPH oxidase was induced in HL-60 human promyelocytic leukemia cells when these cells were treated with 10(-7) M 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D3 (VD3) for 4 days. The treated cells were disrupted by sonication, and the postnuclear fraction was separated into 48,000 X g supernatant (cytosol) and precipitate (membrane) fracti...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Nozawa R,Kato H,Yokota T

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mitochondrial DNA of an erythromycin-resistant petite mutant of yeast, E734, showed physical maps of inversion, which occurred between two cross-over sites in the fragments Hae A and Hae B. The pair of cross-over sites was inferred to be accommodated within a repeat unit of E734 mtDNA during petite mutation by joining...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Wakabayashi K,Furutani Y

更新日期：1984-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The region containing the RNA polymerase alpha subunit (RNAPalpha) gene (rpoA) and the ribosomal protein genes of a thermophilic eubacterial strain, Thermus thermophilus (Tt) HB8, was cloned from a genomic DNA library by Southern hybridization. The gene order in this region is rpl36-rps13-rps11-rps4-rpoA-rpl17, which ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Wada T,Yamazaki T,Kuramitsu S,Kyogoku Y

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00