Two distinct leukotriene B4 receptors, BLT1 and BLT2.

abstract：:In order to determine the mode of action of cytostatic 9-beta-D-xylofuranosyladenine (xylo-A), the inhibitory effects of 9-beta-D-xylofuranosyladenine 5'-triphosphate (xylo-ATP) on DNA-dependent RNA polymerases I and II purified from cherry salmon (Oncorhynchus masou) liver nuclei were studied. This nucleotide showed ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Nakayama C,Saneyoshi M

更新日期：1985-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:By use of purified RNA polymerase II, it was demonstrated that S-II, a stimulatory protein of RNA polymerase II, enhanced the frequency of initiation of transcription from discrete sites on the promoter region of the silk fibroin gene integrated in a supercoiled plasmid DNA in the presence of manganese. In the absence...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Sekimizu K,Horikoshi M,Natori S

更新日期：1984-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of D-glucose anomers on the germination of dormant spores of Bacillus megaterium QM B1551 were studied, alpha-D-Glucose (1 mM) slightly initiated the germination of the dormant spores during 10 min incubation at 37 degrees C, while about 60% of the dormant spores became germinated with beta-D-glucose (1 mM...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Miwa I,Ishihara H,Fujii H,Nagano H,Okuda J

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fibronectin was isolated from human placenta tissues and compared with human plasma fibronectin. Placenta and plasma fibronectins had similar amino acid compositions, immunological properties, and cell attachment-promoting activities, but differed in apparent molecular weight on sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide g...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Isemura M,Yamaguchi Y,Munakata H,Aikawa J,Kan M,Yamane I,Yosizawa Z

更新日期：1984-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies have shown that purified mitochondrial outer membrane is able to catalyze the transfer of sialic acid from CMP-Neu5Ac to an exogenous asialoglycoprotein acceptor, asialofetuin. Considering the heterogeneity of the glycan chains borne by this glycoprotein, an investigation of mitochondrial sialyltransf...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Gasnier F,Baubichon-Cortay H,Louisot P,Gateau-Roesch O

更新日期：1991-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ornithine aminotransferase [EC 2.6.1.13] content of Morris hepatoma 44 is about 15 times higher than that in normal liver. The turnover rates of ornithine amino-transferase in hepatoma 44 and host liver were determined using L-[14C]leucine. Studies on the incorporation of radioactive leucine into ornithine aminotr...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kobayashi K,Morris HP,Katunuma N

更新日期：1976-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Among several intracellular protease tested, cathepsin H transformed leukotriene D4 to E4 with a release of glycine in a stoichiometric quantity. Under the optimal conditions the rate of leukotriene D4 transformation by cathepsin H was about 3% of the hydrolysis rate of alpha-N-benzoyl-DL-arginine-2-naphthylamide whic...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Yokota K,Shono F,Yamamoto S,Kominami E,Katunuma N

更新日期：1983-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mannan, a ligand for the mannose/N-acetylglucosamine (GlcNAc) receptor, induces suppression of oxygen consumption and increases glucose production in the perfused rat liver, and repeated infusion of mannan causes desensitization of the responses. In this study, we examined whether activation of Kupffer cells by endoto...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kimura K,Hamada M,Moriyama M,Kannan Y,Shiota M,Sakurada K,Musashi M,Sugano T

更新日期：1996-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Affinity labeling with nucleoside polyphosphopyridoxals, especially those with 3 or 4 phosphate groups, was effective for identifying the lysyl residue(s) located at or near the binding site for ATP, GTP, UDP-Glc, or ADP-Glc in various proteins. Furthermore, kinetic analysis of the mutant enzymes, in which the labeled...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Fukui T

更新日期：1995-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two novel oligosaccharides with the sialyl-Le(a) structure were isolated from human milk using a monoclonal antibody, MSW 113. These oligosaccharides were purified by affinity chromatography on a column of the immobilized monoclonal antibody and by high-performance liquid chromatography, and structurally characterized...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kitagawa H,Nakada H,Fukui S,Funakoshi I,Kawasaki T,Yamashina I,Tate S,Inagaki F

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Irradiation of isolated chloroplast thylakoids with TNP-ADP results in non-covalent binding and covalent incorporation of a reaction product of TNP-ADP formed by photosynthetic reduction into the so-called "tight" nucleotide binding site of CF1 [Ponse et al. (1992) Z. Naturforsch. 47c, 264-274]. CF1 extracted from thu...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Hisabori T,Kothen G,Strotmann H

更新日期：1993-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Effects of rice bran agglutinin (RBA) on human monoblastic leukemia U937 cells were examined in comparison with those of wheat germ agglutinin (WGA) and Viscum album agglutinin (VAA). These lectins inhibit cell growth, and several lines of evidence indicate that the growth inhibition is caused by the induction of apop...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Miyoshi N,Koyama Y,Katsuno Y,Hayakawa S,Mita T,Ohta T,Kaji K,Isemura M

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Four flavonoids (i.e., baicalein, quercetin, quercetagetin, and myricetin), known to be inhibitors of HIV-reverse transcriptase, have been shown to be more or less inhibitory to the activities of various cellular DNA and RNA polymerases. The degree of the inhibition varied depending on the combination of the flavonoid...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Ono K,Nakane H

更新日期：1990-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. New methods of preparing troponins from slow skeletal and cardiac muscle of the chicken have been developed. The electrophoretic mobilities of slow skeletal muscle troponin subunits were different from those of the corresponding fast skeletal muscle subunits. 2. A new method for determining the amount of divalent c...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kohama K

更新日期：1979-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The intracellular distribution of 10Sa RNA in Escherichia coli was investigated in cell extracts. Northern hybridization revealed that a large fraction of 10Sa RNA cosediments with 70S ribosomes. When 70S ribosomes were dissociated into 50S and 30S subunits in the presence of low levels of Mg2+ ions, almost all of the...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Komine Y,Kitabatake M,Inokuchi H

更新日期：1996-03-01 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：:The traditional two-step EGTA/collagenase method is widely used in studying nitric oxide (NO) production in hepatocytes. The present study first revealed that hepatocytes isolated by this method spontaneously express an iNOS mRNA. Thereafter, based on this novel finding, we characterized the expression and regulation ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Wang H,Gao X,Fukumoto S,Tademoto S,Sato K,Hirai K

更新日期：1998-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanism of binding between thermolysin with its specific inhibitor, talopeptin (MKI), was studied kinetically with the stopped-flow method by monitoring the enhancement of tryptophan fluorescence caused by the complex formation. Only one relaxation obeying first-order kinetics was observed. The dependence of the...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kitagishi K,Hiromi K

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:ISG15 is a ubiquitin-like protein that is upregulated on treatment with interferon. ISG15 is considered to be covalently conjugated to cellular proteins through a sequential reaction similar to that of the ubiquitin conjugation system consisting of E1/E2/E3 enzymes: UBE1L and UbcH8 have been reported to function as E1...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Takeuchi T,Iwahara S,Saeki Y,Sasajima H,Yokosawa H

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The prothrombin-converting activity of Factor Xa was enhanced by thrombin-stimulated Factor V-deficient platelets and supplementary extraneous Factor Va, and also by thrombin-stimulated normal human platelets. Both extraneous Factor Va and intra-platelet Factor Va were equally inactivated by a gamma-carboxyglutamic ac...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Suzuki K,Nishioka J,Matsuda M,Murayama H,Hashimoto S

更新日期：1984-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatitis C virus (HCV) core protein has been suggested to play crucial roles in the pathogeneses of liver steatosis and hepatocellular carcinomas due to HCV infection. Intracellular HCV core protein is localized mainly in lipid droplets, in which the core protein should exert its significant biological/pathological f...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Sato S,Fukasawa M,Yamakawa Y,Natsume T,Suzuki T,Shoji I,Aizaki H,Miyamura T,Nishijima M

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Escherichia coli cytochrome bo is a heme-copper terminal ubiquinol oxidase, and functions as a redox-driven proton pump. We applied pulse radiolysis technique for studying the one-electron reduction processes in the Cu(B)-deficient mutant, His333Ala. We found that the Cu(B) deficiency suppressed the heme b-to-heme...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kobayashi K,Tagawa S,Mogi T

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:E. coli bearing hybrid plasmid pKOl (Oeda et al. (1981) Mol. Gen. Genet. 184, 191-199) expressed a large amount of lysophospholipase L2 activity. When a mutant which was defective in lysophospholipase L2 activity was transformed with plasmid pKOl, it overproduced lysophospholipase L2 activity. The gene responsible for...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Homma H,Kobayashi T,Ito Y,Kudo I,Inoue K,Ikeda H,Sekiguchi M,Nojima S

更新日期：1983-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thioredoxin 1 (Trx1) is known to play an important role in protecting against cell death. However, the mechanism for control of Trx1 in cell death resulting from DNA damage has not been fully investigated. In this study, we used the DNA-damaging agent methyl methanesulfonate (MMS) to investigate the protective effects...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Gu L,Gao W,Yang HM,Wang BB,Wang XN,Xu J,Zhang H

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Limited tryptic digestion of the heavy chain of chymotryptic myosin subfragment-1 gives three major fragments with approximate molecular weights of 50 K, 27 K, and 20 K daltons. We previously reported (Hozumi, T. & Muhlrad, A. (1981) Biochemistry 20, 2945-2950) that these fragments can be separated by gel filtration i...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Hozumi T

更新日期：1981-09-01 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：:Skeletal muscle is composed of multinuclear cells called myofibers. Muscular dystrophy (a genetic muscle disorder) induces instability in the cell membrane of myofibers and eventually causes myofibre damage. Non-genetic muscle disorders, including sarcopenia, diabetes, bedridden immobility and cancer cachexia, lead to...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Fukada SI

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Activation-induced cell death (AICD) plays a critical role in the maintenance of homeostasis and peripheral tolerance in the immune system, and is mediated by Fas ligand (FasL) expression and the interaction between Fas and FasL. In the present study, we examined the role of the ubiquitin-proteasome system in AICD usi...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Tanimoto Y,Kizaki H

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Monoclonal antibody 5E5 recognized an intranuclear antigen of neurons in the rat. We isolated 5E5cDNA and determined its nucleotide and deduced amino acid sequences. The 5E5cDNA had an open reading frame of 825 amino acids and its amino acid sequence showed no significant homology to any protein or to any DNA binding ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Suzuki E,Kojima N,Yoshimura K,Uyemura K,Obata K,Akagawa K

更新日期：1995-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:beta-Hydroxyisovalerylshikonin (beta-HIVS), which was isolated from the plant, Lithospermium radix, inhibited the growth of various lines of cancer cells derived from human solid tumors at low concentrations between 10(-8) and 10(-6) M. When HL-60 cells were treated with 10(-6) M beta-HIVS for 3 h, characteristic feat...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Hashimoto S,Xu M,Masuda Y,Aiuchi T,Nakajo S,Cao J,Miyakoshi M,Ida Y,Nakaya K

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00