Repression of serotonin secretion by an endogenous Ca2(+)-activated protease in electropermeabilized bovine platelets.

abstract：:A small nuclear protein, C1D, has roles in various cellular processes, transcription regulation, genome stability surveillance, DNA repair and RNA processing, all of which are required to maintain the host life cycles. In the previous report, C1D directly interacts with XPB, a component of the nucleotide excision repa...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Tomita T,Ieguchi K,Takita M,Tsukahara F,Yamada M,Egly JM,Maru Y

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Steady-state kinetic analyses suggest that Pseudomonas ochraceae 4-carboxy-2-hydroxymuconate-6-semialdehyde dehydrogenase (4-carboxy-2-hydroxy-cis,cis-muconate-6-semialdehyde: NADP+ oxidoreductase [EC 1.2.1.45]) functions through an ordered BiBi mechanism. The enzyme binds one NADP+ molecule per subunit with a Kd of 4...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Maruyama K

更新日期：1988-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Midkine (MK) and pleiotrophin (PTN) constitute a new family of heparin-binding growth factors. Extraembryonic membranes and the placenta of the mouse expressed MK mRNA at 11.5 days gestation. While the MK mRNA level in extraembryonic membranes decreased during embryogenesis, that in the placenta remained unchanged. Im...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Obama H,Tsutsui J,Ozawa M,Yoshida H,Yoshida Y,Osame M,Muramatsu T

更新日期：1995-07-01 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：: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：:A novel esterase was found in Pseudomonas fluorescens cells and purified to homogeneity as determined by polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. The esterase was extracted from the cells by freeze-thawing and hypotonic treatment. Purification was achieved by ammonium sulfate precipitation, followed by successive chromatog...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Nakagawa A,Tsujita T,Okuda H

更新日期：1984-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thiol proteases are industrially significant proteins with catalytic efficiency. The effect of low, medium and high molecular-weight poly (ethylene glycol) (PEG- 400, 6000 and 20000) on the stability of thiol proteases (papain, bromelain and chymopapain) has been studied by activity measurements using synthetic substr...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Fatima S,Khan RH

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Peptide:N-glycanase (PNGase) is the enzyme responsible for de-N-glycosylation of misfolded glycoproteins in the cytosol. Here, we report the molecular identification and characterization of PNGase (png-1, F56G4.5) from Caenorhabditis elegans. This enzyme released both high mannose- and complex-type N-glycans from glyc...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kato T,Kawahara A,Ashida H,Yamamoto K

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have recently developed an in vitro yeast reconstituted translation system, which is capable of synthesizing long polypeptides. Utilizing the system, we examined the role of eIF5A and its hypusine modification in translating polyproline sequence within long open reading frames. We found that polyproline motif inser...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Abe T,Nagai R,Shimazaki S,Kondo S,Nishimura S,Sakaguchi Y,Suzuki T,Imataka H,Tomita K,Takeuchi-Tomita N

更新日期：2020-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have cloned a chitinase cDNA (MpChi-1) from plantain (Musa paradisiacal L) using rapid amplification of cDNA ends (RACE) according to a sequence fragment which we had cloned using the suppression subtractive hybridization (SSH) technique. The MpChi-1 encodes a protein of 326 amino acids and belongs to acidic chitin...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Fan J,Wang H,Feng D,Liu B,Liu H,Wang J

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Physicochemical and biological properties of recombinant human erythropoietin (rhEPO) were compared with human urinary erythropoietin (uEPO). uEPO and rhEPO were purified to apparent homogeneity from the urine of patients with aplastic anemia and from the conditioned medium of Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cells transfe...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Imai N,Kawamura A,Higuchi M,Oh-eda M,Orita T,Kawaguchi T,Ochi N

更新日期：1990-03-01 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 protease activity specific to spermatogenous histones was found in the egg extract of sea urchin. The enzyme responsible for this activity, named SPKK protease because of its substrate specificity, was purified as a monomeric 28 kDa protein. SPKK protease activity is inhibited by leupeptin and is specific to the rep...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Suzuki M,Sugiura M,Ebashi S

更新日期：1990-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The amino acid sequence of glutathione S-transferase a from guinea pig liver was determined. Glutathione S-transferase a was composed of two identical subunits, each comprising 218 amino acid residues. The amino acid sequence of glutathione S-transferase a exhibited 73% homology with that of human glutathione S-transf...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kamei-Hayashi K,Oshino R,Hara S

更新日期：1993-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We tested the capsid targeted viral inactivation method as an anti-HBV strategy. HepG2 cells were cotransfected with HBV expression plasmid and the plasmid encoding fusion protein of either Core-A3C or Core-humanized renilla GFP (hrGFP). Core-A3C had substantial effect on HBV DNA levels. In the HepG2 cells expressing ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Li D,Liu J,Kang F,Guan W,Gao X,Wang Y,Sun D

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:ENO1-'lacZ fusions with various lengths of the ENO1 5'-flanking region were constructed on various types of yeast plasmid vectors. The fully expressed level of beta Gal directed by ENO1-'lacZ fusions differed depending on the type of vector, but on any type of vector, beta Gal activity was not greatly influenced by th...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Uemura H,Shiba T,Machida M,Matsui I,Jigami Y,Tanaka H

更新日期：1987-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The major gangliosides were isolated from small intestine of 2-week-old mice of C3H/He strain and identified as GM3, GM1, and GD1a. These gangliosides characteristically contained a phytosphingosine moiety and alpha-hydroxy fatty acids. The gangliosides contained both N-glycolylneuraminic acid and N-acetylneuraminic a...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Sato E,Uezato T,Fujita M,Nishimura K

更新日期：1982-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined the effects of growth factors on intracellular free Mg2+ concentrations ([Mg2+]i) in single Swiss 3T3 fibroblasts, using microfluorometry of a Mg(2+)-sensitive dye mag-fura-2. We had already noted an increase in [Mg2+]i after exposure to bombesin for 30-60 min [Ishijima, S., Sonoda, T., & Tatibana, M. (199...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Ishijima S,Tatibana M

更新日期：1994-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is known that ABO blood group substances in human erythrocyte membranes are sphingoglycolipids, but recently several authors have reported that the glycoproteins of the erythrocyte membranes also have ABO blood group activities in addition to MN blood group activities and virus hemagglutination inhibitor activity. ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Yamato K,Handa S,Yamakawa T

更新日期：1975-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We purified an antimicrobial protein of 76 residues, denoted bovine antimicrobial protein-1 (BAMP-1), from fetal calf serum using hydrophobic chromatography, gel filtration, and reverse-phase high-performance liquid chromatography. The amino acid sequence of BAMP-1 was similar to that of human apolipoprotein A-II (apo...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Motizuki M,Itoh T,Yamada M,Shimamura S,Tsurugi K

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Staring from low molecular weight RNA obtained from rainbow trout (Salmo gairdnerii) liver, 5S ribosomal RNA (rRNA) was highly purified by successive chromatography on columns of DEAE-Sephadex A50 and Sephadex G100. Products of complete and partial digestions on this RNA with pancreatic ribonuclease (RNase A) [EC 3.1....

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Komiya H,Takemura S

更新日期：1979-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An O-acetylated ganglioside that generated a trisialyllactosylceramide or GT3 by base treatment was found for the first time in cod fish brain. This ganglioside was isolated by high-performance liquid chromatography, and characterized by fast atom bombardment mass spectrometry, and proton nuclear magnetic resonance sp...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Waki H,Murata A,Kon K,Maruyama K,Kimura S,Ogura H,Ando S

更新日期：1993-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Methylation and demethylation of the methyl-accepting chemotaxis protein (MCP) was studied in vitro. The in vitro MCP methylating system showed the following characteristics. 1. Multiple bands of methylated MCP were produced. 2. The reaction could be separated into two phases: the initial phase, in which the level of ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Hayashi H,Minoshima S,Ohba M

更新日期：1982-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The readthrough of premature termination codon (PTC) by ribosome sometimes produces full-length proteins. We previously reported a readthrough of PTC of glycosyltransferase gene B4GALNT1 with hereditary spastic paraplegia (HSP). Here we featured the readthrough of B4GALNT1 of two mutants, M4 and M2 with PTC by immunob...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Yesmin F,Bhuiyan RH,Ohmi Y,Ohkawa Y,Tajima O,Okajima T,Furukawa K,Furukawa K

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, the expression of phospholipid biosynthetic genes, including the INO1 gene (encoding inositol-1-phosphate synthase), is coordinately regulated by a cis-acting transcriptional element, UAS(INO) (inositol-sensitive upstream activating sequence). For this paper we studied the effect...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kagiwada S,Zen R

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Induction of cytosolic aspartate aminotransferase (cAspAT) was observed in rat liver on administration of a high-protein diet, or glucagon and during fasting. The enzyme activity in the liver of rats given 80% protein diet or glucagon injection during starvation increased to 2- to 2.4-fold that in the liver of rats ma...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Horio Y,Tanaka T,Taketoshi M,Uno T,Wada H

更新日期：1988-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A high mobility group (HMG) nonhistone protein fraction HMG(1 + 2), composed of HMG1 and HMG2, was prepared from pig thymus chromatin. In order to examine a possibility that the HMG(1 + 2) participates in the unwinding of the DNA double-helix, DNA hydrolysis assay systems with the endonucleases specific for single-str...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Yoshida M,Shimura K

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Serratia marcescens serine protease gene encoding a 1,045-amino-acid precursor protein of 112 kDa directs excretion of the mature protease of ca. 58 kDa through the outer membrane of Escherichia coli. A typical signal peptide of 27 amino acids and a large COOH-terminal domain of the precursor are both functionally...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Shikata S,Shimada K,Kataoka H,Horinouchi S,Beppu T

更新日期：1992-05-01 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：:Changes in the fatty acid composition of choline glycerophospholipid (CGP) and ethanolamine glycerophospholipid (EGP) in the liver, heart, kidney, testis, spleen, and brain of rats were examined at various stages of streptozotocin-induced diabetes. Diabetes of prolonged duration (8 weeks) caused profound alterations i...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Hu Q,Ishii E,Nakagawa Y

更新日期：1994-03-01 00:00:00