Species-barrier phenomenon in prion transmissibility from a viewpoint of protein science.

abstract：:We have recently shown that furin, a mammalian homologue of the yeast precursor-processing endoprotease Kex2, is involved in precursor cleavage at sites marked by the Arg-X-Lys/Arg-Arg motif within the constitutive secretory pathway. In this study, we analyzed molecular and enzymatic properties of furin expressed in C...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Hatsuzawa K,Murakami K,Nakayama K

更新日期：1992-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The existence of specific binding proteins for alpha-casein, a well-known potent chemoattractant, on guinea pig peritoneal macrophages was demonstrated. Binding of 3H-alpha-casein to macrophages was found to be specific and reversible. Its association constant and the number of binding sites were 5.0 X 10(-6) M and 7....

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Katagiri T,Adachi I,Terao T,Osawa T

更新日期：1980-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new method for the acid hydrolysis of protein is presented. Peptide bonds are cleaved by the action of an HCl/trifluoroacetic acid (TFA) vapor mixture. Contamination for the hydrolysis mixture is reduced to low levels (1-3 pmol). Recovery of hydrophobic amino acid is improved. Short reaction times are achieved and r...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Tsugita A,Uchida T,Mewes HW,Ataka T

更新日期：1987-12-01 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：:The human malaria parasite (Plasmodium falciparum) possesses a plastid-derived organelle called the apicoplast, which is believed to employ metabolisms crucial for the parasite's survival. We cloned and studied the biochemical properties of plant-type ferredoxin (Fd) and Fd-NADP+ reductase (FNR), a redox system that p...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kimata-Ariga Y,Kurisu G,Kusunoki M,Aoki S,Sato D,Kobayashi T,Kita K,Horii T,Hase T

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:DL-[14C]Leucine or L-[3H]leucine was injected intraperitoneally into pyridoxine-deficient and control rats, and the subsequent incorporation of the radioactivities into aspartate aminotransferase (AspAT) isozymes and the total soluble protein in the liver was measured. AspAT in the cytosol (AspATc) was separated into ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Shibuya M,Okada M

更新日期：1986-03-01 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：:The assembly of newly synthesized histones into chromatin during replication of MH-134SC cells was studied. Cells pulse-labeled with iododeoxyuridine and [3H]lysine were mixed with an equivalent number of normal cells labeled with [14C]lysine. Nuclease chromatin obtained from pooled cells was fractionated by buoyant-d...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Senshu T,Fukuda M,Ohashi M

更新日期：1978-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lambda dv plasmids having an amber mutation in an initiator gene, O or P, were constructed from mutant lambda phages by recombinant DNA techniques and several properties of such derivatives were investigated. These plasmids are perpetuated in suppressor-plus (amber-permissive) cells, but not in non-suppressor cells. T...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Miwa T,Akaboshi E,Matsubara K

更新日期：1983-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We analyzed lipids extracted from human hepatoma HepG2 cells using a high performance liquid chromatograph equipped with a reversed phase column and found a compound with a mass spectrum showing certain diagnostic ion fragments of 1-methoxy-5-polyprenyl-phenol, a known intermediate of ubiquinone biosynthesis. Universa...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kang DC,Takeshige K,Minakami S

更新日期：1990-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We previously showed that fatty liver was easily induced in suncus by starvation and that the plasma level of apolipoprotein B (apo B) was very low. There are three possible explanations for the low level of apo B in the animals: low synthetic rate, low secretion rate, and rapid catabolism in the circulation of apo B....

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Nagayoshi A,Matsuki N,Saito H,Tsukamoto K,Kaneko K,Wakashima M,Kinoshita M,Yamanaka M,Teramoto T

更新日期：1995-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two G-protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) that couple with Gαq/11, B2 bradykinin (BK) receptor (B2R) and ATP/UTP receptor P2Y2 (P2Y2R), are ubiquitously expressed and responsible for vascular tone, inflammation, and pain. We analysed the cellular signalling of P2Y2Rs in cells that express B2Rs. B2R desensitization induc...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Yashima S,Shimazaki A,Mitoma J,Nakagawa T,Abe M,Yamada H,Higashi H

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A method for preparation of pyridylamino (PA-) derivatives of O-linked sugar chains from glycoproteins was developed. A glycopeptide containing O-linked Gal beta 1-3GalNAc was prepared from fetuin and treated with anhydrous hydrazine followed by N-acetylation of free amino groups. Sugar chains released were pyridylami...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kuraya N,Hase S

更新日期：1992-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Murine interleukin-2 (MIL-2) cDNA deleted of 11 repeats of a CAG sequence, and that encoded from 33Met to 149Gln were inserted into an expression vector carrying an Escherichia coli tryptophan promoter and were expressed in E. coli, respectively. Recombinant MIL-2 deleted of 11 glutamine repeats (MIL-2(-Gln] supported...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kashima N,Matsui H,Yamasaki S,Kondo N,Hamuro J

更新日期：1987-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cytoplasmic peptide elongation factor, EF-1 alpha, is anchored at the endoplasmic reticulum membrane by phosphatidylinositol via ethanolamine bridging presumably to Asp306 of the protein. ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Hayashi Y,Urade R,Utsumi S,Kito M

更新日期：1989-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glycoengineering of therapeutic proteins has been applied to improve the clinical efficacy of several therapeutics. Here, we examined the effect of glycosylation on the properties of the Fab of the therapeutic antibody, adalimumab. An N-glycosylation site was introduced at position 178 of the H-chain constant region o...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Nakamura H,Kiyoshi M,Anraku M,Hashii N,Oda-Ueda N,Ueda T,Ohkuri T

更新日期：2020-10-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The circular dichroism (CD) and magnetic circular dichroism (MCD) spectra of horse heart metmyoglobin and the following derivatives were measured in the Soret and near ultraviolet regions: metmyoglobin and its peroxide compound, and hydroxide, cyanide, azide, and fluoride derivatives. The heme-related CD bands in the ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kajiyoshi M,Anan FK

更新日期：1975-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We can detect phospholipase A activity in non-hemolyzed sheep erythrocytes, using dilauroylglycerophosphocholine as an exogenous substrate. Only substrates such as dilauroylglycerophosphocholine, which can be incorporated into membranes, could be hydrolyzed by the enzyme, egg phosphatidylcholine being only slightly se...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Tanaka Y,Eriomin VA,Kawamura Y,Inoue K,Nojima S

更新日期：1983-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dopamine D2 receptor binding subunits of the porcine anterior pituitary were visualized by autoradiography following photoaffinity labeling with [125I]N-azidophenethylspiperone and sodium dodecyl-sulfate polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. The ligand binding subunit comprising the pituitary D2 dopamine receptor migrat...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Jarvie KR,Niznik HB

更新日期：1989-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies with crude preparations obtained from a cysteine auxotroph of Saccharomyces cerevisiae showed that O-acetylserine sulfhydrylase could be separated from O-acetylhomoserine sulfhydrylase by chromatography on a DEAE-cellulose column and centrifugation in a sucrose density gradient. On the basis of sedimentation d...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Yamagata S

更新日期：1980-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Covalently closed-circular, superhelical DNAs, including viral DNAs, bacterial plasmid DNAs, and bacteriophage replicative-form DNA, were treated with a small amount of Haemophilus gallinarum DNA-relaxing enzyme to generate incompletely relaxed DNA molecules. Each sample consisted of a set of closed-circular DNA molec...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Shishido K

更新日期：1979-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A cysteine proteinase inhibitor (designated as cystatin SA) was isolated from human whole saliva by procedures including chromatography on DE 32 and DEAE-Sepharose CL-6B. The amino acid sequence determined by conventional methods showed sequence homology of 90 and 87% as compared with the sequences of cystatin S and c...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Isemura S,Saitoh E,Sanada K

更新日期：1987-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Both rabbit liver microsomes and reconstituted system with purified cytochrome P-450 and cofactors enzymatically oxidized o-dithiane (1, 2-dithiane), 3-methyl-o-dithiane, thiane and 2-methylthiane to the corresponding mono-oxygenated products; sulfides or disulfides were oxidized to the corresponding sulfoxides or thi...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Fukushima D,Kim YH,Iyanagi T,Oae S

更新日期：1978-04-01 00:00:00

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：: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：:The sigmaH of Bacillus subtilis directs transcription of a large number of early sporulation genes, whereas the principal sigma factor, sigmaA, is essential for the transcription of the genes for vegetative growth and early sporulation. We have purified sigmaA and sigmaH proteins, and characterized their properties. T...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Fujita M,Sadaie Y

更新日期：1998-07-01 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：:Anti-cobrotoxin antibodies can be separated into precipitin and non-precipitin antibodies. The precipitin antibody possesses the same binding affinity to cobrotoxin as non-precipitin antibody, but the neutralizing capability of the latter is superior to that of the former in blocking cobrotoxin binding to nicotinic ac...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kuo KW,Chang LS,Lin PM,Leaber RJ,Chang CC

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gp91(phox) is a key component of the phagocyte NADPH oxidase. Mutations of its promoter found in patients with chronic granulomatous disease cause deficient binding of PU.1 and HAF-1. Because the two factors bind to the same site (Pu box) of the promoter, we attempted to clarify their relative in vivo contributions to...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Islam MR,Fan C,Fujii Y,Hao LJ,Suzuki S,Kumatori A,Yang D,Rusvai E,Suzuki N,Kikuchi H,Nakamura M

更新日期：2002-04-01 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