Effects of neutral salts and alcohols on the activity of Streptomyces caespitosus neutral protease.

abstract：:The nucleotide sequence of 5S rRNA from the fission yeast, S. pombe, has been established by post labeling procedures combined with cataloging RNase T1- and A-oligonucleotides derived from unlabeled 5S rRNA. The sequence consists of 119 nucleotides without a modified base and shows more dissimilarities (at 38 position...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Komiya H,Miyazaki M,Takemura S

更新日期：1981-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Long non-coding RNA is an endogenous non-coding RNA that has currently been proved to be an important player in cancer cell biology. In the present study, we investigated the biological role of PHACTR2-AS1 in tongue squamous cell carcinoma (TSCC). PHACTR2-AS1 was preferentially localized in the cytoplasm, and was nota...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Yuan F,Miao Z,Chen W,Wu F,Wei C,Yong J,Xiao C

更新日期：2020-12-26 00:00:00

abstract：:An artificial gene coding for the human cap binding protein (hCBP: human IF-4E) was chemically synthesized and expressed in Escherichia coli under the control of a trp promoter. The DNA duplex of 662 bp was designed and constructed from 44 oligodeoxynucleotide fragments of typically 30 nucleotides in length. Although ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Ueda H,Maruyama H,Doi M,Inoue M,Ishida T,Morioka H,Tanaka T,Nishikawa S,Uesugi S

更新日期：1991-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The complete amino acid sequence of acylphosphatase from rabbit skeletal muscle has been elucidated by automatic Edman degradation of peptides obtained from staphylococcal protease and trypsin digestions. The enzyme consisted of a single polypeptide chain of 98 amino acid residues, lacking only histidine. Its amino (N...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kizaki T,Takasawa T,Mizuno Y,Shiokawa H

更新日期：1985-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transglutaminases (TGases, EC 2.3.2.13) have proved to be valuable enzymes for site-directed protein coupling via N(epsilon)-(gamma-L-glutamyl)lysine bonds. Their use in conjugate synthesis would overcome many problems caused by chemical reagents. In this approach, we show for the first time that two proteins with dif...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Bechtold U,Otterbach JT,Pasternack R,Fuchsbauer HL

更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The 20,000 dalton light chain (L2) was isolated from rabbit and chicken striated muscle myosins, and the Ca2+-induced conformational changes of these proteins were investigated. 1) The reaction of thiol groups of L2 with dithiobisnitrobenzoic acid (DTNB), 2) measurements of the UV difference absorption spectrum, 3) me...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Minowa O,Matsuda S,Yagi K

更新日期：1983-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:TreP [trehalose-permease (phosphotransferase system (PTS) trehalose-specific enzyme IIBC component)] is one of the target proteins of tmRNA-mediated trans-translation in Bacillus subtilis [Fujihara et al. (2002) Detection of tmRNA-mediated trans-translation products in Bacillus subtilis. Genes Cells, 7, 343-350]. The ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Ujiie H,Matsutani T,Tomatsu H,Fujihara A,Ushida C,Miwa Y,Fujita Y,Himeno H,Muto A

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Skeletal muscle is composed of multinuclear cells called myofibers. Muscular dystrophy (a genetic muscle disorder) induces instability in the cell membrane of myofibers and eventually causes myofibre damage. Non-genetic muscle disorders, including sarcopenia, diabetes, bedridden immobility and cancer cachexia, lead to...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Fukada SI

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ten Drosophila thorax proteins (six myosin light chains and four proteins called a, b, c, d) were found to have high affinities with Ca2+. This was proved after subjecting the total Drosophila thorax proteins to two-dimensional (2D) transblot, followed by 45Ca2+ autoradiography. Three proteins (a, c, d) showed Ca2+ de...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Tanaka Y,Maruyama K,Mikawa T,Hotta Y

更新日期：1988-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Equilibrium gel permeation chromatography was employed to determine the ability of heparin to form complexes with thrombin and antithrombin III. In the eluate from a Sephacryl S-200 column, heparin caused a peak and then a trough in the fluorescence of 48 nM antithrombin III or 63 nM thrombin. The peak-heights with kn...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Oshima G,Uchiyama H,Nagasawa K

更新日期：1984-10-01 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：:A spectrofluorometric method for sensitive determination of metalloendopeptidase activity has been developed by using a bimane-peptide containing a tryptophan residue, i.e. 1,7-dioxo-2,5,6-trimethyl-1H,7H-pyrazolo[1,2-alpha]pyrazol-3-yl-methyl- thiomethylcarbonyl-phenylalanyl-tryptophanyl-leucine (Bim-SCH2CO-Phe-Trp-L...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kajiwara K,Kumazaki T,Sato E,Kanaoka Y,Ishii S

更新日期：1991-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined the inhibitory effect of three pseudo-aminosugars (validamine, valienamine, and valiolamine), which were isolated from the broth of Streptomyces hygroscopicus, on the oligosaccharide-processing glucosidases I and II involved in glycoprotein biosynthesis in rat liver. Both glucosidases I and II were inhibit...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Takeuchi M,Kamata K,Yoshida M,Kameda Y,Matsui K

更新日期：1990-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Picolinate binds to a reduced form of D-amino acid oxidase, and the complex formed has a broad absorption band around 600 nm as in the case of the purple intermediate of the enzyme with a substrate. The dissociation constant at 25 degrees C was 35 microns at pH 7.0. The pH dependence (pH 8.3-pH 6.4) of the dissociatio...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Nishina Y,Tojo H,Shiga K

更新日期：1986-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of unsaturated fatty acids on the activities of peroxisomal enzymes of Tetrahymena pyriformis were investigated. When saturated fatty acids and the corresponding unsaturated fatty acids (C18) were added to the culture medium at 0.05%, the activities of peroxisomal enzymes [fatty acyl-CoA oxidase (FAO), car...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Gotoh K,Takei M,Watanabe T,Suga T

更新日期：1986-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two proteinaceous factors, 15K and 9K proteins, which acted together to stabilize the inactivated yeast F1F0-ATPase-inhibitor complex [Hashimoto, T., et al. (1984) J. Biochem. 95, 131-136] were hardly distinguishable from the sigma and epsilon subunits, respectively, of yeast F1-ATPase by sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS) ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Okada Y,Hashimoto T,Yoshida Y,Tagawa K

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glutamine synthetase from a Gram-positive acid-fast bacterium, Mycobacterium smegmatis, was purified to homogeneity from cells grown with glycerol-bouillon medium. Electron micrographs of the enzyme revealed a dodecameric arrangement of its subunits in two superimposed hexagonal rings, similar to the structure of glut...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kimura K,Yagi K,Matsuoka K

更新日期：1984-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Streptolysin S (SLS) is a serum-extractable and oxygen-stable hemolysin produced by Group A Streptococcus. A SLS-deficient mutant in which transposon Tn 916 was inserted in a locus distinct from the sag gene cluster [Nizet et al. (2000) Infect. Immun. 68, 4245-4254] was obtained by filter mating of the transposon-harb...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Karaya K,Shimizu T,Taketo A

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetic engineering strategies were applied to synthesize silk-like materials, [(GVPGV)(2)GG(GAGAGS)(3)AS](n). The primary structure of these materials represents the repetitive crystalline region of Bombyx mori silk fibroins incorporated with an elastic motif selected from animal elastin. The oligonucleotides were de...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Yao J,Asakura T

更新日期：2003-01-01 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：:Glycerol-treated muscle fiber bundles were fixed at their rest length in 50 mM KC1, 2 mM MgC1(2), and 10 micron CaC1(2) at pH 7.8 and 0 degrees C in the presence of sufficient amounts of ATP, creatine kinase, and creatine phosphate. The fiber bundles were stretched linearly with time for 0.3 s at a constant amplitude,...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Arata T,Mukohata Y,Tonomura Y

更新日期：1978-10-01 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 relationship between structure, activity, and stability of the thermostable Bacillus stearothermophilus alpha-amylase was studied by site-directed mutagenesis of the three most conserved residues. Mutation of His-238 to Asp involved in Ca2+ and substrate binding reduced the specific activity and thermal stability,...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Vihinen M,Ollikka P,Niskanen J,Meyer P,Suominen I,Karp M,Holm L,Knowles J,Mäntsälä P

更新日期：1990-02-01 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：:The experimental conditions for release of the regulatory light chain (RLC) of scallop myosin at 30 degrees C were studied. Substantially all RLC was released from myosin by incubation for 5 min in medium containing buffer and KCl. This release of RLC was inhibited strongly by Ca2+, while the effect of Mg2+ was about ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Asakawa T,Azuma N

更新日期：1983-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:F1-ATPase inhibitor was purified from yeast, Saccharomyces cerevisiae. The purified inhibitor blocked ATPase activity in the presence of ATP and Mg2+ by forming a latent equimolar enzyme-inhibitor complex with ATP and ADP newly bound to loose sites on the enzyme. A small portion of externally added ATP was hydrolyzed ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Hashimoto T,Negawa Y,Tagawa K

更新日期：1981-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The biosynthesis of elongation factor Tu (EF-Tu) has been studied in a cell-free system with DNA of the transducing phage lambdarifd18 as a template. It was found that the synthesis of EF-Tu in this system was inhibited by about 60% in the presence of 0.3 to 0.6 mM guanosine-5'-diphosphate-3'-diphosphate (ppGpp). The ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Shibuya M,Kaziro Y

更新日期：1979-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We previously showed that fatty liver was easily induced in suncus by starvation and that the plasma level of apolipoprotein B (apo B) was very low. There are three possible explanations for the low level of apo B in the animals: low synthetic rate, low secretion rate, and rapid catabolism in the circulation of apo B....

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Nagayoshi A,Matsuki N,Saito H,Tsukamoto K,Kaneko K,Wakashima M,Kinoshita M,Yamanaka M,Teramoto T

更新日期：1995-04-01 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 conditions and pretreatments required in the conventional pyridine hemochrome method were re-examined for application of the method to the measurement of protoheme and heme c contents in photosynthetically grown cells of Rhodopseudomonas sphaeroides. The amounts of hemes were calculated from two kinds of differenc...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Takaichi S,Morita S

更新日期：1981-05-01 00:00:00