Studies on nitrate reductase of Clostridium perfringens. Purification, some properties, and effect of tungstate on its formation.

abstract：:A cDNA for mouse prolyl endopeptidase (PEP) was cloned and its nucleotide sequence determined. The overall amino acid sequence identity between mouse and other mammalian PEPs was about 96%. A specific inhibitor of PEP, N-benzyloxycarbonyl-thioprolyl-thioprolinal- dimethylacetal (ZTTA), inhibited DNA synthesis by Swiss...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Ishino T,Ohtsuki S,Homma Ki,Natori S

更新日期：1998-03-01 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：:We examined the effect of porcine brain Ca2+-dependent regulator (CDR) protein on microtubule (MT) assembly from microtubular proteins isolated from porcine brain by temperature-dependent cycles of assembly-disassembly. CDR exhibited a potent inhibitory effect on MT assembly in the presence of Ca2+, whereas it had lit...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Nishida E,Kumagai H,Ohtsuki I,Sakai H

更新日期：1979-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the rat liver, two mRNAs for serine:pyruvate (or alanine:glyoxylate) aminotransferase are generated from a single gene by alternative transcription initiation. The longer mRNA encodes a precursor of a mitochondrial enzyme that has a mitochondrial targeting signal at the N-terminus and is translocated into mitochond...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Oda T,Uchida C,Miura S

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Endonuclease V (Endo V) is a DNA repair enzyme that recognizes deoxyinosine and cleaves the second phosphodiester bond on the 3' side of the deaminated base lesion. A database search revealed the presence of homologous genes for Endo V in most archaeal species, but the absence in some methanogenic species. We cloned a...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kiyonari S,Egashira Y,Ishino S,Ishino Y

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Incubation of quiescent cultures of Swiss 3T3 cells with epidermal growth factor (EGF) caused an increase in c-myc mRNA. Under these conditions, EGF did not induce phosphoinositide turnover, formation of diacylglycerol, formation of inositol tris-, bis-, and monophosphates, protein kinase C activation, or Ca2+ mobiliz...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Tsuda T,Hamamori Y,Fukumoto Y,Kaibuchi K,Takai Y

更新日期：1986-12-01 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：:We previously reported a new laminin variant containing laminin gamma 2 (or B2t) chain, ladsin, which exerted prominent cell-scattering, cell-adhesion, and cell-migration activities. In the present study, this laminin was further characterized, and gene expression of its three subunits in various human tissues and can...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Mizushima H,Miyagi Y,Kikkawa Y,Yamanaka N,Yasumitsu H,Misugi K,Miyazaki K

更新日期：1996-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Calmodulin (CaM), a physiologically important Ca(2+)-binding protein, participates in numerous cellular regulatory processes. It is dumbbell shaped and contains two globular domains connected by a short alpha-helix. Each of the globular domains has two Ca(2+)-binding sites, the EF hands. CaM undergoes a conformational...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Shishido H,Yamada MD,Kondo K,Maruta S

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previously, we demonstrated that the 2.6-kDa peptide extending from Arg177 to Tyr198 in subdomain 4 of rabbit skeletal actin bound to actin itself, inhibited the elongation of actin filament, and severed F-actin. The corresponding segment in actin, therefore, is thought to contain the most critical actin-actin contact...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Hori K,Morita F,Matsuzawa F,Aikawa S

更新日期：1995-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is known that nucleoporins, a family of glycoproteins with N-acetylglucosamine that are found in nuclear pore complexes, are essential for nuclear import and export. A major component of the family, p62, was purified from a salt extract of rat liver nuclear envelopes by wheat germ agglutinin-Sepharose affinity chro...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kita K,Omata S,Horigome T

更新日期：1993-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The isotypes of sarcoplasmic Ca2+ binding protein (SCP) were purified from shrimp tail muscle. SCP exists in a dimeric form. One sample of shrimp contained only alpha A chain, whereas another contained alpha B and beta chains, and a heterodimer of alpha B beta which was not analyzed precisely. The amino acid sequences...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Takagi T,Konishi K

更新日期：1984-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The gene encoding NADH dehydrogenase from an alkalophile, Bacillus sp., was cloned and sequenced. The cloned DNA fragment contained an open reading frame of 1,557 nucleotides which encodes a polypeptide composed of 519 amino acid residues (Mr 55,830). The predicted amino acid sequence was consistent with the partial a...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Xu XM,Koyama N,Cui M,Yamagishi A,Nosoh Y,Oshima T

更新日期：1991-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prp8 is a splicing factor of 220 kDa originally identified in yeast and is a component of the U5 small nuclear ribonucleoprotein particle. Mouse Prp8 cDNA was cloned and shown to share 62.6 and 68.2% sequence identity with the yeast homologue at the amino acid and nucleotide level, respectively, while it differs by on...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Takahashi A,Muramatsu H,Takagi S,Fujisawa H,Miyake Y,Muramatsu T

更新日期：2001-04-01 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 oxygen exchange during ATP hydrolysis by glycerinated muscle fibers, myofibrils, and synthetic actomyosin filaments was studied from the distribution of the [18O]Pi species produced by the hydrolysis of [gamma-18O]ATP. The products were mixtures of two species, one with a low extent of oxygen exchange and the othe...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Yasui M,Ohe M,Kajita A,Arata T,Inoue A

更新日期：1989-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The lipA gene of Pseudomonas cepacia DSM3959 requires a downstream gene, limA, in oder to express lipase activity. The product of the lim gene, LimA, is a molecular chaperone required during the folding of lipase in oder for the lipase to adopt an active conformation. The lipase and LimA proteins have been shown to fo...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Hobson AH,Buckley CM,Jørgensen ST,Diderichsen B,McConnell DJ

更新日期：1995-09-01 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：:LipB, the lipase activator protein of Pseudomonas aeruginosa TE3285, was overproduced in Escherichia coli, and purified 4.9-fold over the crude extract in the presence of SDS. The purified LipB reactivated the lipase from P. aeruginosa TE3285 denatured with guanidine hydrochloride, and its reactivation did not involve...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Shibata H,Kato H,Oda J

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have reported that Erbin expression was down-regulated in the Jurkat leukaemia T lymphocytes treated with the recombinant soluble tumour necrosis factor-related apoptosis-inducing ligand (rsTRAIL). Herein, we studied the expression and the regulation of Erbin and its binding partner, ErbB2, in the MCF-7 breast canc...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Liu N,Zhang J,Zhang J,Liu S,Liu Y,Zheng D

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A stroma-dependent B lymphoid cell line (B31-1) has been established by coculturing sorted stem cells on a novel bone marrow stromal cell line (TBR31-1). B31-1 cells express B220, but do not express other B lymphoid differentiation markers including CD43, heat stable antigen (HSA), or surface immunoglobulin (Ig) M (sI...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Matsuda K,Koguma M,Okuyama R,Nakazawa T,Matsuzaki Y,Nakauchi H,Yanai N,Terasaki T,Obinata M

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:After the intraperitoneal administration of radioactive cholic acid to rats, the binding of the cholic acid to protein was immunologically investigated. The serum and liver cytosol were separately incubated with antiligandin or antialbumin immunoglobulin and then subjected to sucrose density gradient centrifugation. T...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Fukuda H,Iritani N

更新日期：1981-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Proteins in the brush border membrane (BBM) of the midgut binding to the insecticidal Cry1Ac toxin from Bacillus thuringiensis were investigated to examine the lower sensitivity of Bombyx mori to Cry1Ac, and new aminopeptidase N that bound to Cry1Ac was discovered. DEAE chromatography of Triton X-100-soluble BBM prote...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Shitomi Y,Hayakawa T,Hossain DM,Higuchi M,Miyamoto K,Nakanishi K,Sato R,Hori H

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The most reactive single thiol group of rabbit skeletal muscle phosphofructokinase per protomer was modified with the following thiol reagents: iodoacetamide, iodoacetate, 2-hydroxyethyl disulfide, 3,3'-dithiodipropionate, and glutathione disulfide. As a result of the modification, there was increase in not only the a...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Nakajima Y,Nakamura K

更新日期：1991-02-01 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：:We tried to confirm the antioxidative capability of lecithin:cholesterol acyltransferase (LCAT) reported by Vohl et al. [Biochemistry (1999) 38, 5976-5981]. The enzyme solution protected LDL against oxidation. However, this protection was not due to LCAT enzyme, but to some unknown low-molecular-weight substance(s) in...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Murakami Y,Kamiyama S,Howlader ZH,Yamato T,Komai M,Furukawa Y

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The subcellular distribution of calmodulin and particulate calmodulin-binding activity was studied in a eukaryotic protozoan, Tetrahymena pyriformis NT-1. The particulate calmodulin-binding activity was found to be localized principally in microsomes and to some extent in cilia and surface membranes called pellicles. ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Nagao S,Banno Y,Nozawa Y,Sobue K,Yamazaki R,Kakiuchi S

更新日期：1981-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously reported that calpastatin, an endogenous inhibitory protein of calpain, is cleaved by a caspase-3-like protease during apoptosis in human Jurkat T cells [Kato, M. et al. (2000) J. Biochem. 127, 297-305]. In this study, we found that nonmuscle myosin heavy chain-A (NMHC-A) is cleaved during apoptosis...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kato M,Fukuda H,Nonaka T,Imajoh-Ohmi S

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The lifetime of the purple intermediate formed from D-amino acid oxidase [D-amino acid: O2 oxidoreductase (deaminating), EC 1.4.3.3] and a neutral D-amino acid under anaerobic conditions was measured with a series of neutral D-amino acids. The lifetime increases with increase in the number of carbons in the side chain...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Yagi K,Ohishi N

更新日期：1978-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A sensitive enzyme-immunochemical staining method was developed for detection of N-glycolylneuraminic acid (NeuGc)-containing glycosphingolipids (GSLs) on silica gel thin-layer chromatography. The procedure consists of immune reaction among NeuGc-containing GSLs, affinity-purified chicken anti-NeuGc-LacCer and horsera...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Higashi H,Fukui Y,Ueda S,Kato S,Hirabayashi Y,Matsumoto M,Naiki M

更新日期：1984-05-01 00:00:00