C5a controls TLR-induced IL-10 and IL-12 production independent of phosphoinositide 3-kinase.

abstract：:We analyzed the cellular contents of not only major polyamines but also minor polyamines in slime molds Physarum polycephalum and Dictyostelium discoideum. The presence of putrescine and spermidine in either plasmodia or myxamoebae of these molds as major polyamines was confirmed. In addition to these polyamines, appr...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Hamana K,Matsuzaki S

更新日期：1984-04-01 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 studied the effect of Ca2+ on the reactivities of two SH groups of DTNB light chain (Cys 128 and Cys 157) using a fluorogenic thiol reagent. It was found that a Ca2+-induced change in reactivity occurred only with Cys 128 when the light chain was in an isolated state, whereas it occurred with both Cys 128 and Cys 1...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Yamamoto K,Honjo R,Sekine T

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acid ceramidase (ACDase) metabolizes ceramide to sphingosine, leading to sphingosine 1-phosphate production. Reportedly, ACDase has been upregulated in prostate cancer. However, its regulatory mechanism remains unclear. LNCaP (androgen-sensitive prostate cancer cell line) but not PC3 and DU-145, (androgen-unresponsive...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Mizutani N,Inoue M,Omori Y,Ito H,Tamiya-Koizumi K,Takagi A,Kojima T,Nakamura M,Iwaki S,Nakatochi M,Suzuki M,Nozawa Y,Murate T

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vasoactive intestinal peptide (VIP), a neuropeptide coupled with adenylate cyclase, was found to induce neurite extension of PC12h cells. Neurites appeared within 1 h after addition of VIP and extended for at least 24 h. The half-maximal concentration for the effect of VIP was 50 nM. In addition to the morphological c...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Okumura N,Miyatake Y,Takao T,Tamaru T,Nagai K,Okada M,Nakagawa H

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three-dimensional images of the actin-tropomyosin-myosin subfragment-1 (S1) complex were reconstituted from both minimal- and high-dose electron micrographs by using a conventional reconstruction technique. Higher resolution (1/15 A-1) than those of the previous reconstructions was attained. A multi-domain structure s...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Toyoshima C,Wakabayashi T

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Deoxyhypusine synthase catalyzes the NAD+-dependent formation of deoxyhypusine in the eIF-5A precursor protein by transferring the 4-aminobutyl moiety of spermidine. This enzyme has recently been shown to be essential for cell viability and growth of yeast [Sasaki, K., Abid, M.R., and Miyazaki, M. (1996) FEBS Lett. 38...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Abid MR,Sasaki K,Titani K,Miyazaki M

更新日期：1997-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have isolated cDNAs and completed for the first time the primary structure for a novel collagenous chain that was partially characterized earlier and named alpha 1(Y) chain [Yoshioka, H. et al. (1992) Genomics 13, 884-886]. The size of the coding region was unexpectedly small compared with the length of the mRNA (>...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Inoguchi K,Yoshioka H,Khaleduzzaman M,Ninomiya Y

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Structural studies were carried out on the teichoic acids in cell walls of Listeria monocytogenes serotypes 3a, 4b, 4f, 6, and 7. The structure of the dephosphorylated repeating units, obtained by treatment with 46% hydrogen fluoride or alkaline hydrolysis, was examined by methylation analysis, acetolysis, and 1H-NMR ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Uchikawa K,Sekikawa I,Azuma I

更新日期：1986-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The incorporation of serine and ethanolamine into phospholipids in rabbit retinal subcellular fractions and in excised retinas was studied in vitro, and some enzymic properties of the incorporation of phospholipid bases by base exchange were examined in the microsomal fraction. The retina was found to have a higher ra...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Mizuno A

更新日期：1976-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The binding of ADP to subfragment-1 was investigated by the gel filtration method. The amount of bound ADP was determined as a function of free ADP concentration. Linear Scatchard plots were obtained. The maximum binding number, 0.55 mole of ADP per 10(5) g of protein, and the dissociation constant, 1.6 x 10(-6) M, we...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Yoshida M,Morita F

更新日期：1975-05-01 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：:We have unexpectedly found that Streptomyces subtilisin inhibitor (SSI) and some other similar serine protease inhibitors produced by Streptomycetes strongly inhibit Streptomyces griseus metallo-endopeptidase II (SGMP II) [Kajiwara, K. et al. (1991) J. Biochem. 110, 350-354]. In order to elucidate the mode of their un...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kumazaki T,Kajiwara K,Kojima S,Miura K,Ishii S

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of the ODC-factor, which was partially purified from ascites fluid of mice bearing Ehrlich ascites hepatoma, on DNA synthesis in the normal mouse liver and spleen was studied, and target cells for the factor in the liver were examined. DNA synthesis in the liver increased about 4-fold over the basal level 3...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Sasaki K,Imamura K,Tanaka T

更新日期：1983-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dimer formation of HIV-1 genomic RNA through its dimerization initiation site (DIS) is crucial to maintaining infectivity. Two types of dimers, the initially generated kissing-loop dimer and the subsequent product of the extended-duplex dimer, are formed in the stem-bulge-stem region with a loop including a self-compl...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Baba S,Takahashi K,Noguchi S,Takaku H,Koyanagi Y,Yamamoto N,Kawai G

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The alkalophile NADH dehydrogenase (NADH: 2,6-dichlorophenolindophenol oxidoreductase) [EC 1.6.99.3] consists of two identical subunits of 65 kDa, and each subunit contains the catalytic and liposome-binding regions. On treatment with trypsin, the polypeptide exhibiting the liposome-binding property in one of the subu...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Xu XM,Kanaya S,Koyama N,Sekiguchi T,Nosoh Y,Ohashi S,Tsuda K

更新日期：1989-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human platelet membrane glycoprotein IV (GPIV), one of the major glycoprotein components, was purified by successive affinity chromatographies on columns of Lens culinaris agglutinin-Sepharose and wheat germ agglutinin-Sepharose followed by preparative polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis in the presence of sodium dodec...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Tsuji T,Osawa T

更新日期：1986-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The gene encoding a MutM from Desulfovibrio vulgaris (Miyazaki F) was cloned and expressed in Escherichia coli. A 5.9-kb DNA fragment, isolated from D. vulgaris (Miyazaki F) by XhoI and PvuII, contained a MutM gene and other open reading frames. The nucleotide sequence of the MutM gene indicated that the protein was c...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Sanada H,Nakanishi T,Inoue H,Kitamura M

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:2-Amino-4-methylphenol was converted to a brownish yellow material by the lysates of human erythrocytes or purified human hemoglobin. The reaction proceeded oxidatively, coupled with the oxidation of hemoglobin. The major component of the brownish yellow material produced by oxidative condensation of 2-amino-4-methylp...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Tomoda A,Arisawa M,Koshimura S

更新日期：1991-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acetoxy Drug: Protein Transacetylase (TAase) mediating the transfer of acetyl group(s) from polyphenolic acetates (PA) to certain functional proteins in mammalian cells was identified by our earlier investigations. TAase activity was characterized in the cell lysates of Mycobacterium smegmatis and the purified protein...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Gupta G,Baghel AS,Bansal S,Tyagi TK,Kumari R,Saini NK,Ponnan P,Kumar A,Bose M,Saluja D,Patkar SA,Parmar VS,Raj HG

更新日期：2008-12-01 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：:Spontaneous insertion of membrane proteins into liposomes formed from Escherichia coli polar phospholipids is blocked by diacylglycerol (DAG) at a physiological level. We found that cholesterol also blocks this spontaneous insertion, although a much larger amount is necessary for sufficient blockage. Reversely, sphing...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Nakamura S,Suzuki S,Saito H,Nishiyama KI

更新日期：2018-04-01 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：:Two forms of urokinase [EC 3.4.99.26] with molecular weights of 51,600 and 34,500 were purified from human urine. The specific activities of the high molecular weight urokinase (HMW-UK) and low molecular weight urokinase (LMW-UK) were 157,400 and 246,700 International Units (IU/mg), respectively. Purified HMW-UK was 9...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Nobuhara M,Sakamaki M,Ohnishi H,Suzuki Y

更新日期：1981-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Partition of merocyanine dyes, which have a negative charge, onto photosynthetic membranes of chloroplasts and bacteria was analyzed by measuring the fluorescence intensity change, absorbance change, and amount of dye in the supernatant after centrifugation. The partition depended on the surface potential, which is a ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Masamoto K,Matsuura K,Itoh S,Nishimura M

更新日期：1981-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rhodopsin from the bovine rod outer segment contains a covalently linked carbohydrate moiety (Heller, J. & Lawrence, M.A. (1973) Biochemistry 9, 864--868). We studied the location of this carbohydrate moiety on the disk membrane by using ferritin-conjugated concanavalin A and concanavalin A labelled with fluorescein i...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Nakano T,Ikai A,Nishigai M,Noda H

更新日期：1979-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Monoclonal antibodies were raised against a synthetic peptide (43 amino acid residues) that corresponds to the complete profragment of human prorenin. Seven monoclonal antibodies were chosen for further characterization. Two antibodies, 2-X-C1 and 4-X-E1, reacted with the middle region and C-terminus of the profragmen...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Ishizuka Y,Iizumi S,Akiyama F,Hori H,Poorman RA,Lobl TJ,Murakami K

更新日期：1989-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of N,N'-dicyclohexylcarbodiimide (DCCD) on light-induced H+-transport and transmembrane electric potential (delta phi) formation were studied in the membrane vesicles of Halobacterium halobium R1M1. In accordance with our previous finding of the existence of two DCCD-binding components in vesicle membrane ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Murakami N,Konishi T

更新日期：1985-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In vitro activation of human reovirus transcriptase by alpha-chymotrypsin digestion of viral outer shell proteins was completely dependent on the ionic size of the monovalent cation in the medium. Cations with nonhydrated ionic radii larger than 1.3 A showed full potency of activation of chymotrypsin digestion, and pr...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Nagai J,Tanaka M,Nakashima K

更新日期：1984-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genomic clones encoding the Drosophila aldolase gene were isolated and the organization of the gene was determined. The protein-coding region spanning nearly 3.5 kb consists of five coding exons (exon 2, 3, 4 alpha, 4 beta, and 4 gamma). The insect exon 2 corresponds to exons 2 to 7 of vertebrate aldolase genes and th...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kai T,Sugimoto Y,Kusakabe T,Zhang R,Koga K,Hori K

更新日期：1992-11-01 00:00:00