The role of the ribosomal protein S19 C-terminus in altering the chemotaxis of leucocytes by causing functional differences in the C5a receptor response.

abstract：:The complete amino acid sequences of the Ulex europeus anti-H(O) lectins I and II were determined by using a protein sequencer. After digestion with endoproteinases Lys-C and Asp-N of the lectins reduced with 2-mercaptoethanol and modified with iodoacetamide, the resulting peptides were purified by reversed-phase high...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Konami Y,Yamamoto K,Osawa T

更新日期：1991-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cholesterol esterification and cholesterol ester hydrolysis in dog plasma were investigated. Esterification proceeded linearly for 60 min, and the amounts of cholesterol esterified were in the range of 0.13-0.18 mumol/ml/h. No change of acyl composition had occurred in newly formed cholesterol esters during incubation...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Yamamoto K,Kamo-Yamada F,Cho S,Sugano M

更新日期：1980-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fluorescence titration curves of 2-[4'-iodoacetamido)anilino)naphthalene-6-sulfonic acid-labeled troponin (IAANS-labeled Tn) and troponin-1-anilinonaphthalene-8-sulfonic acid (Tn-ANS) complex indicated that the fluorescent moiety, IAANS or ANS, detects conformational change of troponin I (TnI) or Tn due to the Ca2+ bi...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Nishio T,Iio T

更新日期：1983-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacteriochlorophyll (Bchl) protein complexes containing light harvesting (LH) Bchls were isolated from Chromatium vinosum, and their CD spectra were measured in the near-infrared region. These isolated Bchl protein complexes retained the CD signals of LH Bchls that were observed in situ in chromatophores. The CD spect...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Hayashi H,Nozawa T,Hatano M,Morita S

更新日期：1981-06-01 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：:The DNA fragment containing the phoS gene, a regulatory gene for alkaline phosphatase, has been isolated from Escherichia coli K-12 chromosomal DNA by cutting off the DNA with Hind III restriction enzyme and by cloning the gene with plasmid vector pTP 4 which was constructed in this study. The isolated fragment was of...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Iwakura M,Shimura Y,Tsuda K

更新日期：1982-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A simple and rapid method has been developed for the separation of apolipoproteins in high density lipoprotein (HDL) fractions by high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) with gel permeation columns (G3000SW TSK GEL). The HPLC pattern monitored by A280 for a mixed solution of the HDL fraction (10 microliter) and ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kinoshita M,Okazaki M,Kato H,Teramoto T,Matsushima T,Naito C,Oka H,Hara I

更新日期：1983-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although the conformational change occurring in proteins upon ATP binding is important in many biological reactions, the mechanism by which ATP binding induces the conformational change is unknown. We found that ATP induces acid-unfolded (pH 2) ferricytochrome c or apomyoglobin to adopt a compact structure with a sign...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Goto Y,Okamura N,Aimoto S

更新日期：1991-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:YfkN isolated from the culture supernatant of Bacillus subtilis in the exponential phase of growth is a protein of 143.5 kDa that derives from a putative large precursor of 159.6 kDa processed at both the N- and C-terminal ends. Pulse-chase experiments indicated that the release occurs slowly with a half-time longer t...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Chambert R,Pereira Y,Petit-Glatron MF

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Monoclonal antibodies for human thrombomodulin, a cofactor for thrombin-catalyzed activation of protein C, were prepared and their epitopes characterized. All six antibodies (MFTM-1-MFTM-6) bound to an elastase-digested active fragment of thrombomodulin, which contains six consecutive EGF domains. Binding of thrombomo...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Hayashi T,Suzuki K

更新日期：1990-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Comparative studies have been made on the effects of diazoacetyl-DL-norleucine methyl ester (DAN), 1,2-epoxy-3-(p-nitrophenoxy)propane (EPNP) and pepstatin on acid proteases, including those from Acrocylindrium sp., Aspergillus niger, Aspergillus saitoi, Mucor pusillus, Paecilomyces varioti, Rhizopus chinensis, and Tr...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Takahashi K,Chang WJ

更新日期：1976-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:ATP-dependent enzymes were investigated as to the stringency of their ATP requirement. For all the enzymes examined except firefly luciferase (including hexokinase, polynucleotide kinase, T4 DNA ligase, and T4 RNA ligase) ATP could be replaced with dATP, contradicting previous data. Considering the replaceable nucleot...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kinoshita Y,Nishigaki K

更新日期：1997-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Formate dehydrogenase (EC 1.2.1.2) prepared from peas (Pisum sativum) was a two-subunit enzyme. The enzyme accelerated the formation of an NAD+-cyanide compound having an adsorption band at 330 nm. The enzyme was able to bind one NAD+ molecule per each subunit but only 1 mole of NAD+-cyanide compound was formed per ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Ohyama T,Yamazaki I

更新日期：1975-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several kinds of hydrophilic proteins were examined to determine their interaction with artificial liposomes. Mitochondrial aspartate aminotransferase (m-GOT) [EC 2.6.1.1], as well as cytochrome c, was found to interact strongly with negatively charged liposomes. In each case, an appreciable amount of the protein boun...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Furuya E,Yoshida Y,Tagawa K

更新日期：1979-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We previously reported that internucleosomal DNA fragmentation, a biochemical feature of apoptosis, was induced spontaneously in high-cell-density culture of adult rat hepatocytes. To understand better the intracellular mechanism of the DNA fragmentation in this system, we have examined the effects of several inhibito...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Maeda S,Suzuki A,Lin KH,Inagaki H,Saito T

更新日期：1995-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pork insulin was subjected to mercaptosuccinylation and then coupled to beta-D-galactosidase [EC 3.2.1.23] from Escherichia coli using N,N'-o-phenylenedimaleimide. The competitive binding of the conjugate and insulin to anti-insulin antibody was tested. Results showed that formation of an insulin-beta-D-galactosidase ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kato K,Hamaguchi Y,Fukui H,Ishikawa E

更新日期：1975-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The dephosphorylation of phospho-amino acids with alkaline phosphatase (AlPase) from calf intestine or Escherichia coli and the phosphorylation of bovine serum albumin (BSA) with epidermal growth factor (EGF) receptor kinase from human A431 epidermoid carcinoma cells were investigated by 31P NMR spectroscopy. The init...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Takahashi K,Shimidzu M,Shindo H,Kawamoto T,Nishi M,Matsumoto U,Taniguchi S

更新日期：1987-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Purified nuclease TT1 from Thermus thermophilus HB8 has multimolecular weight forms, each of which is composed of three different subunits, alpha (10.8 x 10(4)), beta (7.8 x 10(4)), and gamma (4.1 x 10(4)). The molecular weights of this enzyme were estimated by gel filtration, polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis and eq...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Takahashi M,Kobayashi M,Uchida T

更新日期：1981-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The transcription and replication of influenza RNA can be studied in vitro by the reconstitution of functional ribonucleoprotein (RNP) complex from viral core proteins including the RNA polymerase (complex of three P protein subunits) and nucleoprotein (NP), and model templates. Here, two different core protein prepar...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Seong BL,Kobayashi M,Nagata K,Brownlee GG,Ishihama A

更新日期：1992-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A continuous cell-free protein synthesis system [Spirin et al. (1988) Science 242, 1162-1164] was modified so as to be suitable for coupled transcription-translation, a process useful for obtaining products of cloned genes or cDNAs. A reaction chamber equipped with an ultrafiltration membrane was newly designed and an...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kigawa T,Yokoyama S

更新日期：1991-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An in vitro system for accurate transcription initiation by RNA polymerase II was developed using Ehrlich ascites tumor cells. Truncated DNA containing adenovirus 2 major late promoter was faithfully transcribed in this lysate, although the efficiency of transcription was lower than that in a HeLa cell lysate. Creatin...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Ohtsuki M,Sekimizu K,Natori S

更新日期：1984-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Basigin belongs to the immunoglobulin superfamily and may be related to the primordial form of the superfamily. Human basigin cDNA was isolated and sequenced, and the predicted protein structure was compared with that of mouse basigin and two related molecules, embigin and the chicken blood-brain barrier antigen HT7. ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Miyauchi T,Masuzawa Y,Muramatsu 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：: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：:The direct ion-dipolar interactions between potassium ion (K(+)) and the two hydroxyl groups of the substrate are the most striking feature of the crystal structure of coenzyme B(12)-dependent diol dehydratase. We carried out density-functional-theory computations to determine whether K(+) can assist the 1,2-shift of ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Toraya T,Yoshizawa K,Eda M,Yamabe T

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A cysteine protease inhibitor with an apparent Mr = 12,600, designated limulus (L)-cystatin, was isolated from hemocyte lysates of the Japanese horseshoe crab (Tachypleus tridentatus), using two steps of chromatography, including dextran sulfate-agarose, and carboxymethylated papain-agarose. L-cystatin inhibits amidol...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Agarwala KL,Kawabata S,Hirata M,Miyagi M,Tsunasawa S,Iwanaga S

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to determine the epitope of metallothionein (MT) to a murine monoclonal antibody (MT 189-14-7) which had been produced by immunization with rat MT 2 (Kikuchi et al. (1988) Mol. Immunol. 25, 1033-1036), various lengths of synthetic oligopeptides were tested for their inhibitory activities in competitive radioi...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kikuchi Y,Irie M,Ikebuchi H,Sawada J,Terao T,Nakayama S,Iguchi S,Okada Y

更新日期：1990-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Extracellular vesicles (EVs) are small particles that are naturally released from various types of cells. EVs contain a wide variety of cellular components, such as proteins, nucleic acids, lipids and metabolites, which facilitate intercellular communication in diverse biological processes. In the tumor microenvironme...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Yamauchi T,Moroishi T

更新日期：2020-11-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Using a new cannulation method, which completely prevented interruption of circulation to brain tissue during surgical operations, we could prepare a functionally intact hemoglobin-free isolated perfused rat head in situ. The frequency distribution (8-25 Hz) and amplitude of a spontaneous electroencephalogram, EEG (50...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Inagaki M,Tamura M

更新日期：1993-06-01 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