The cooperative role of OsCnfU-1A domain I and domain II in the iron sulphur cluster transfer process as revealed by NMR.

abstract：:Activity-oligomeric assembly relationships using octaethylene glycol dodecyl ether (C12E8) solubilized pig gastric H/K-ATPase (unmodified H/K-ATPase) or H/K-ATPase modified with Fluorescein 5'-isothiocyanate (FITC-H/K-ATPase) were examined. The amount of oligomeric species in FITC-H/K-ATPase, which retained little H/K...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Abe K,Kaya S,Taniguchi K,Hayashi Y,Imagawa T,Kikumoto M,Oiwa K,Sakaguchi K

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to determine the mode of action of cytostatic 9-beta-D-xylofuranosyladenine (xylo-A), the inhibitory effects of 9-beta-D-xylofuranosyladenine 5'-triphosphate (xylo-ATP) on DNA-dependent RNA polymerases I and II purified from cherry salmon (Oncorhynchus masou) liver nuclei were studied. This nucleotide showed ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Nakayama C,Saneyoshi M

更新日期：1985-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A membrane protein insoluble in water was isolated by gel chromatography in the presence of 0.1% sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS) from chromatophores of a photosynthetic bacterium, Rhodospirillum rubrum. This is one of the major membrane proteins of the chromatophore. The protein was found to bind about four grams of SDS ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Miyake J,Ochiai-Yanagi S,Kasumi T,Takagi T

更新日期：1978-06-01 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：: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：:The state of association of bovine Band 3, which is a major intrinsic protein of erythrocyte membranes, was examined in nonaethyleneglycol dodecyl ether (C12E9) solution by ultracentrifugation, gel filtration, gel electrophoresis and cross-linking studies. The molecular weight of bovine Band 3 was 107,000 +/- 5% as de...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Nakashima H,Makino S

更新日期：1980-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:By using two reactive analogues of UDP-Glc, uridine di- and triphosphopyridoxals, we have recently probed the substrate-binding site in potato tuber UDP-Glc pyrophosphorylase [EC 2.7.7.9]. In this work, pyridoxal diphospho-alpha-D-glucose was used for the same purpose. This compound is also a reactive UDP-Glc analogue...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kazuta Y,Tanizawa K,Fukui T

更新日期：1991-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It was shown that a dipeptide, alanylhistidine, can act as a catalyst for the peptidyl transfer reaction in the absence of ribosomes between the amino acid moieties of phenylalanyl, lysyl, prolyl, and glycyl tRNAs depending on their model templates, poly U, poly A, poly C, and poly G, respectively. A template effect w...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Shimizu M

更新日期：1996-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The characteristics of the androgen receptor in the cytoplasmic fraction of Shionogi carcinoma 115 were studied in vitro by means of charcoal adsorption assay, sucrose density gradient centrifugation, and polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. The equilibrium dissociation constant for [3H]dihydrotestosterone (Kd = (2-5) ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Nohno T

更新日期：1981-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The structure of a ferricytochrome c' extracted from Rhodospirillum rubrum has been determined at 6 A resolution by the X-ray crystallographic method. The crystals, obtained by dialyzing the protein solution against polyethylene glycol 4000, belong to the hexagonal space group P6(1). Two heavy atom derivatives were ob...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Yasui M,Harada S,Kai Y,Kasai N

更新日期：1985-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mitochondria are dynamic organelles that frequently divide and fuse together, resulting in the formation of intracellular tubular networks. In yeast and mammals, several factors including Drp1/Dnm1 and Mfn/Fzo1 are known to regulate mitochondrial morphology by controlling membrane fission or fusion. Here, we report th...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Ichishita R,Tanaka K,Sugiura Y,Sayano T,Mihara K,Oka T

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mannan, a ligand for the mannose/N-acetylglucosamine (GlcNAc) receptor, induces suppression of oxygen consumption and increases glucose production in the perfused rat liver, and repeated infusion of mannan causes desensitization of the responses. In this study, we examined whether activation of Kupffer cells by endoto...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kimura K,Hamada M,Moriyama M,Kannan Y,Shiota M,Sakurada K,Musashi M,Sugano T

更新日期：1996-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We previously reported that DNAs directly applicable to restriction analyses and transformation of Escherichia coli can be extracted from fungi and yeasts by use of anhydrous hydrogen fluoride (HF) under a mild condition, 5 min at 0 degrees C [Oshiro, S., Katsura, N., Kitada, K., and Gunge, N. (1987) FEBS Lett. 220, 3...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Oshiro S,Katsura N

更新日期：1995-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inosine triphosphate (ITP) does not serve as a substrate for myosin light-chain kinase from gizzard muscle. That is to say, myosin light-chain is not phosphorylated in ITP media. Nevertheless, at pH 6.8, 1 mM or 5 mM ITP induces superprecipitation of skeletal acto-gizzard myosin. The ITP-induced superprecipitation occ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Onishi H,Watanabe S

更新日期：1979-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using an F-actin affinity column, a 60 kDa fragment of a 71 kDa F-actin-binding protein was partially purified from Tetrahymena pyriformis. After digestion of the 60 kDa fragment with cyanogen bromide, the N-terminal 21-amino acid sequence of one of the resulting peptides was found to show sequence similarity to a reg...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Watanabe A,Kurasawa Y,Watanabe Y,Numata O

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:C-Proteins in developing, denervated, and dystrophic chicken skeletal muscles were examined by means of two-dimensional (2D) gel electrophoresis in combination with immunoblotting. In this analysis, the electrophoresis system which was devised by Hirabayashi (Anal. Biochem. 117, 443-451, 1981) provided excellent resol...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kojima T,Sano K,Hirabayashi T,Obinata T

更新日期：1990-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Substrate specificities of phospholipases C[EC 3.1.4.3] from Clostridium novyi, Clostridium perfringens, Bacillus cereus, and Pseudomonas aureofaciens were studied under the same conditions. Phospholipases C from Clostridium novyi and Bacillus cereus show wide substrate specificities while those of Clostridium perfrin...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Taguchi R,Ikezawa H

更新日期：1977-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cholesterol: oxygen oxidoreductase [EC 1.1.3.6] from Brevibacterium sterolicum (ATCC 21387) was found to catalyze the oxidation of steroids such as sterols, steroid hormones, and bile acids having a free C-3beta hydroxyl group. However, the enzyme was inactive towards estradiol and estriol and had a weak activity towa...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Ikawa S,Takita M,Ogura M

更新日期：1979-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The N-terminal amino acid sequences of human urinary prokallikrein and kallikrein have been determined. Their amino acid sequences are as follows. (Formula; see text) The results showed that prokallikrein comprises an additional seven amino acids at the amino terminus of the kallikrein, of which the sequence is (H2N)A...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Takahashi S,Irie A,Katayama Y,Ito K,Miyake Y

更新日期：1986-03-01 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：:We synthesized a series of non-ionic detergents, alkyl thiomaltosides, and investigated their properties and usefulness. We solubilized membrane proteins of Vibrio parahaemolyticus using the detergents. With octyl thiomaltoside, nonyl thiomaltoside, decyl thiomaltoside, or undecyl thiomaltoside, we observed satisfacto...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Izawa S,Sakai-Tomita Y,Kinomura K,Kitazawa S,Tsuda M,Tsuchiya T

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genomic clones of UDP-glucuronosyltransferase family 1 (UGT1) were isolated from wild-type Wistar rats. The UGT1 locus spans > 120 kb and forms a gene complex. In this locus nine unique first exons encoding NH2-terminal portions of each isoform were located at intervals of approximately 10 kb and followed by only one ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Emi Y,Ikushiro S,Iyanagi T

更新日期：1995-02-01 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 amino acid compositions, constituent polypeptides and bacteriochlorophyll (Bchl) contents of two kinds of Bchl-protein complexes isolated from Rhodopseudomonas palustris were examined. Spectrally dissimilar intracytoplasmic membranes obtained from cells cultured under different conditions were used as starting mat...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Hayashi H,Nakano M,Morita S

更新日期：1982-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A DNA polymerase beta (pol. beta) inhibitor has been isolated independently from two organisms; a red perilla, Perilla frutescens, and a mugwort, Artemisia vulgaris. These molecules were determined by spectroscopic analyses to be the cyanogenic glucoside, D-mandelonitrile-beta-D-glucoside, prunasin. The compound inhib...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Mizushina Y,Takahashi N,Ogawa A,Tsurugaya K,Koshino H,Takemura M,Yoshida S,Matsukage A,Sugawara F,Sakaguchi K

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The complement system is a classic central player in innate immunity. Most pathogens activate both complement and the toll-like receptor (TLR) pathway. Therefore, to provide a more comprehensive understanding of innate immunity, it is important to understand the crosstalk between these two systems. Mouse macrophages p...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Okazaki N,Hazeki K,Izumi T,Nigorikawa K,Hazeki O

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytokinin binding protein was isolated and purified from tobacco leaves by bioaffinity chromatography on a Sepharose column on which benzyladenine (BA), synthetic cytokinin, had been introduced as an affinity ligand by the cyanogen bromide method. The purified protein bound specifically to cytokinins; its binding was ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Yoshida K,Takegami T

更新日期：1977-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dupuytren's disease is a palmar fibromatosis associated with changes in fibroblast activity that also affect the metabolism of extracellular matrix components. In contrast to disease connected alterations in collagen and non-collagenous glycoproteins (mainly fibronectin), the metabolism of proteoglycans, being glycosa...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Koźma EM,Olczyk K,Wisowski G,Głowacki A,Bobiński R

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The 565 amino-acid PRIB protein with a Zn(II)2Cys6 zinc-cluster DNA-binding motif is the expression product of the priB gene, which is most actively transcribed in an early stage of fruiting-body formation by the basidiomycete, Lentinus edodes. PRIB produced in Escherichia coli using the bacteriophage T7 expression sy...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Miyazaki Y,Tsunoka O,Shishido K

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies by our group suggested that lysozyme has a high affinity for bacterial lipopolysaccharide (LPS) of both the smooth and rough forms, and inhibits various immunomodulatory activities of LPS. GLA60 is a synthetic monosaccharide analogue of bacterial lipid A well known as having most of the activities of li...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Tanida N,Ohno N,Adachi Y,Matsuura M,Nakano M,Kiso M,Hasegawa A,Yadomae T

更新日期：1992-11-01 00:00:00