Role of down-regulated neutral ceramidase during all-trans retinoic acid-induced neuronal differentiation in SH-SY5Y neuroblastoma cells.

abstract：:Deleting the gene for small RNA GcvB in Esherichia coli was found to increase the sensitivity to several aminoglycoside antibiotics, such as neomycin, streptomycin, kanamycin, kasugamycin and spectinomycin, at low concentrations. GcvB, conserved in gram-negative enteric bacteria, is known to negatively control the exp...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Muto A,Goto S,Kurita D,Ushida C,Himeno H

更新日期：2020-11-10 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：:The structure of vibrioferrin, a siderophore from Vibrio parahaemolyticus, was elucidated based on a combination of partial hydrolysis and spectroscopic techniques. HPLC of purified vibrioferrin showed two peaks with an area ratio of approximately 2:1. However, upon reinjection of each of those isolated compounds, the...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Yamamoto S,Okujo N,Yoshida T,Matsuura S,Shinoda S

更新日期：1994-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The degranulation reactions of human neutrophils induced by 1-oleoyl-2-acetylglycerol (OAG), phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate (PMA), and calcium ionophore A23187 or their combinations, were studied. OAG in the absence of the Ca2+-ionophore A23187 stimulated the releases of both lysozyme and lactoferrin, constituents of...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kang D,Tsuda H,Takeshige K,Shibata Y,Minakami S

更新日期：1985-12-01 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：:Myosin forms stable ternary complexes with ADP and phosphate analogues of fluorometals that mimic different ATPase reaction intermediates corresponding to each step of the cross-bridge cycle. In the present study, we monitored the formation of ternary complexes of myosin.ADP.fluorometal using the fluorescence probe pr...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Maruta S,Uyehara Y,Aihara T,Katayama E

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Carboxypeptidase Y (CPY) inhibitor, I(C), a cytoplasmic inhibitor of vacuolar proteinases in yeast, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, was purified by means of a high-level expression system using a proteinase-deficient strain, BJ2168, and an expression vector with the promoter GAL1. The purified I(C) exists as a monomeric bet...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Mima J,Suzuki H,Takahashi M,Hayashi R

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When human erythrocytes subjected to a pressure of 2.0 kbar were incubated at 0 degree C and atmospheric pressure, hemoglobin was released from the membrane. Effects of drugs, salts, and phospholipid vesicles on hemoglobin release were examined. The hemoglobin release was suppressed by the addition of amphiphathic dru...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Yamaguchi T,Kuranoshita K,Harano T,Kimoto E

更新日期：1993-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The functional activities of myosin head are located in a 95 kilodalton (kDa) heavy chain which can be divided into three fragments of 23 kDa, 50 kDa, and 20 kDa. ATP hydrolysis sites were suggested to be located in the 23 kDa and 50 kDa fragments, and actin binding sites were in the 50 kDa and 20 kDa fragments. In th...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Miyanishi T,Toyoshima C,Wakabayashi T,Matsuda G

更新日期：1988-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Methioninase of Pseudomonas putida was purified to homogeneity, as judged by polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis, with a specific activity 270-fold higher than that of the crude extract. 1. The purified enzyme had an S20,w of 8.37, a molecular weight of 160,000, and an isoelectric point of 5.6. 2. A break in the Arrhen...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Ito S,Nakamura T,Eguchi Y

更新日期：1976-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The genes coding for the phospholipid degradation enzymes in E. coli, detergent-resistant (DR-) phospholipase A (pldA) and lysophospholipase L2 (pldB), were cloned together on the plasmid pKO1 (Homma, H., Kobayashi, T., Ito, Y., Kudo, I., Inoue, K., Ikeda, H., Sekiguchi, M., & Nojima, S. (1983) J. Biochem. 94, 2079-20...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kobayashi T,Kudo I,Homma H,Karasawa K,Inoue K,Ikeda H,Nojima S

更新日期：1985-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:alphaB-Crystallin, a member of the small heat shock protein (sHSP) family, is expressed in various tissues including lens, heart, and skeletal muscle. Previously we identified the gene of HSPB2, another member of the sHSP family, located 1-kb upstream of the alphaB-crystallin gene in a head-to-head manner. In the pres...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Ijichi N,Tsujimoto N,Iwaki T,Fukumaki Y,Iwaki A

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A gene encoding an Na+/H+ antiporter was cloned from chromosomal DNA of the slightly halophilic marine bacterium Vibrio parahaemolyticus. The host was an Escherichia coli mutant that lacked both of the two major Na+/H+ antiporters, NhaA and NhaB. Untransformed mutant cells were unable to grow in the presence of 0.6 M ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kuroda T,Shimamoto T,Inaba K,Tsuda M,Tsuchiya T

更新日期：1994-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Calf thymus DNA polymerases alpha and beta [EC 2.7.7.7] and terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase [EC 2.7.7.31] were analyzed on two-dimensional gel slabs. DNA polymerase beta appeared as a single spot on two-dimensional gel at the position of 40,000 daltons and pI 8.0 using non-equilibrium pH gradient gel electrophor...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Koiwai O,Masaki S,Kaneda T,Yoshida S

更新日期：1982-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Four motor proteins, MotX, MotY, PomA, and PomB, have been identified as constituents of the Na(+)-driven flagellum of Vibrio species. In this study, the complete motX gene was cloned from Vibrio alginolyticus and shown to complement three mot mutations, motX94, motX115, and motX119, as well as a V. parahaemolyticus m...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Okabe M,Yakushi T,Asai Y,Homma M

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A novel glycosphingolipid (SEGLx) has been isolated from the plerocercoids of a tapeworm, Spirometra erinacei. From the results of compositional analysis, methylation analysis, exoglycosidase hydrolysis, acid hydrolysis, fast atom bombardment mass spectrometry, and proton nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) analysis, its...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kawakami Y,Nakamura K,Kojima H,Suzuki M,Inagaki F,Suzuki A,Sonoki S,Uchida A,Murata Y,Tamai Y

更新日期：1993-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:20S proteasomes from higher eukaryotes have immunological functions rather than those from archibacteria or yeast. To clarify the mechanism of the sorting and production of antigen-presenting peptides, it is important and worthwhile to determine the structure of mammalian proteasomes using a third generation synchrotr...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Tomisugi Y,Unno M,Mizushima T,Morimoto Y,Tanahashi N,Tanaka K,Tsukihara T,Yasuoka N

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied the mechanism of formation of oxygen radicals during ferrous ion-induced decomposition of linoleic acid hydroperoxide using the spin trapping and chemiluminescence methods. The formation of the superoxide anion (O2*-) was verified in the present study. The hydroxyl radical is also generated through Fenton t...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kambayashi Y,Tero-Kubota S,Yamamoto Y,Kato M,Nakano M,Yagi K,Ogino K

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Enterococcus hirae V-ATPase, in contrast to most V-type ATPases, is resistant to N-ethylmaleimide (NEM). Alignment of the amino acid sequences of NtpA suggests that the NEM-sensitive Cys of V-type ATPases is replaced by Ala in E. hirae V-ATPase. Consistent with this prediction, the V-ATPase became sensitive upon subst...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Murata T,Yoshikawa Y,Hosaka T,Takase K,Kakinuma Y,Yamato I,Kikuchi T

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The dopamine (DA)-translocating mechanism of synaptic vesicles isolated from rat brain has been studied in the presence of an artificially imposed delta pH on the vesicle membranes (acidic inside with respect to the external medium) without the aid of ATP-Mg2+. Under the experimental conditions, [3H]DA uptake by the s...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Tsudzuki T

更新日期：1984-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The amino acid sequences of human histones have been investigated for studies of histone evolution. The whole histone was prepared from human spleen and was separated into 3 fractions, H4+H3+H2A, H2B, and H1, by our technique of CM-cellulose chromatography. The H2B fraction was further purified by Bio-Gel P-60 chromat...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Ohe Y,Hayashi H,Iwai K

更新日期：1979-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A novel immortalized rheumatoid fibroblast-like synoviocyte (FLS) line, MH7A, was established by stably transfecting FLS cells with SV40 T antigen gene. MH7A cells expressed SV40-specific small t and large T antigens as well as an elevated level of p53 protein. They have already reached over 150 population doublings t...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Miyazawa K,Mori A,Okudaira H

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We developed a high-throughput Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) for measuring α2,6-sialylated transferrin (Tf), based on inhibition of anti-Tf antibody binding to α2,6-sialylated Tf by a lectin, Sambucus sieboldiana Agglutinin (SSA). The inhibition was not observed with other glycoforms, such as periodate-tre...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Hoshi K,Kariya Y,Nara K,Ito H,Matsumoto K,Nagae M,Yamaguchi Y,Nakajima M,Miyajima M,Arai H,Kuno A,Narimatsu H,Shirotani K,Hashimoto Y

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The structure and expression of the pentraxins, serum amyloid P component (SAP), and C-reactive protein (CRP), have been investigated in the guinea pig. Northern blot analysis of hepatic RNA from animals in which acute inflammation had been induced by intraperitoneal injection of thioglycollate established that neithe...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Rubio N,Sharp PM,Rits M,Zahedi K,Whitehead AS

更新日期：1993-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The structures of the N-linked oligosaccharides on recombinant human hepatocyte growth factor (rh-HGF) expressed by Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cells were studied by two-dimensional sugar mapping. The oligosaccharides released from the glycopeptides by peptide: N-glycosidase F (PNGase F) treatment were tagged with 2-a...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Hara H,Nakae Y,Sogabe T,Ihara I,Ueno S,Sakai H,Inoue H,Shimizu S,Nakamura T,Shimizu N

更新日期：1993-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The functions of the helix E (W97-F105), an amphiphilic lumenal 310 helix of the major antenna of photosystem II (LHCII), are still unidentified. To elucidate the roles of individual amino acid residue of the helix E, alanine scanning mutagenesis has been performed to mutate every residue of this domain to alanine. Th...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Liu C,Rao Y,Zhang L,Yang C

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A rapid micro-assay method for gelatinolytic activitiy has been developed using 3H-labeled heat-denatured polymeric collagen (gelatin) as a substrate to investigate enzymes involved in the post-collagenase catabolism of collagen. The method is based on the incubation of gelatin with enzyme followed by determination of...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Sunada H,Nagai Y

更新日期：1980-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Disappearance of rabbit EgG and its Fc fragment from the injected sites in skin and also the relationship to reverse passive cutaneous anaphylaxis (RPCA) were studied using guinea pigs. Rabbit IgG and its Fc fragment, trace labelled with -125-I, disappeared from the injected sites with half-lives of 12--14 and 6--7 h...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Sakurama T,Nakamura T,Koyama J

更新日期：1975-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phosphorylation of chicken gizzard myosin light chain in myofibril and its effect on myofibrillar ATPase activity were investigated in the contracted state of myofibrils. When myofibrils were incubated for two hours at 30 degreeds C with ATP, magnesium and calcium, the myosin light chain was phosphorylated by endogeno...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Yamaguchi M,Watanabe K

更新日期：1980-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Here we report the enzymatic and ligand-binding properties of a major secretory protein in the choroid plexus of cane toad, Bufo marinus, whose protein is homologous with lipocalin-type prostaglandin (PG) D synthase (L-PGDS) and is recombinantly expressed in Xenopus A6 cells and Escherichia coli. The toad protein boun...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Irikura D,Inui T,Beuckmann CT,Aritake K,Schreiber G,Miyano M,Inoue T,Urade Y

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00