Anchoring of peptide elongation factor EF-1 alpha by phosphatidylinositol at the endoplasmic reticulum membrane.

abstract：:The mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) signaling pathway, which is conserved from yeast to humans, is activated in response to a variety of extra- and intracellular stimuli, and plays key roles in multiple cellular processes, including proliferation, differentiation, and apoptosis. The MAPK pathway transmits its ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Yoshioka K

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are a class of ∼22 nt non-coding RNAs that control diverse biological functions in animals, plants and unicellular eukaryotes by promoting degradation or inhibition of translation of target mRNAs. miRNA expression is often tissue specific and developmentally regulated. Aberrant expression of miRNAs ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Davis-Dusenbery BN,Hata A

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:N tau-Methylhistidine(3-methylhistidine) in urine of the rat is mainly derived from the degradation of actin and myosin in skeletal muscle, intestine and skin. The fractional degradation rates of the myosin-actin pools of these tissues were calculated from the time course of increase in the specific radioactivities of...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Nagasawa T,Funabiki R

更新日期：1981-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using an F-actin affinity column, a 60 kDa fragment of a 71 kDa F-actin-binding protein was partially purified from Tetrahymena pyriformis. After digestion of the 60 kDa fragment with cyanogen bromide, the N-terminal 21-amino acid sequence of one of the resulting peptides was found to show sequence similarity to a reg...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Watanabe A,Kurasawa Y,Watanabe Y,Numata O

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phospholipase A2 was solubilized from rat platelet membrane by 1 M KCl and purified to near homogeneity on sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis and HPLC. The characteristics of the purified membrane-bound enzyme were compared with those of phospholipase A2 released from thrombin-stimulated rat pla...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Hayakawa M,Kudo I,Tomita M,Inoue K

更新日期：1988-02-01 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：:1. The light-induced pH change of chromatophore suspensions from Rhodospirillum rubrum was stimulated significantly and similarly by KCl, NaCl, LiCl, RbCl, CsCl, MgCl2, MnCl2, and CaCl2. In the dark, the pH of chromatophore suspensions decreased immediately and markedly on adding these salts. 2. The light-induced pH c...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Nishi N,Sakata-Sogawa K,Soe G,Yamashita J

更新日期：1977-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Parathyroid hormone-related protein (PTHrP) has two different targeting signals: an N-terminal signal peptide for the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) targeting and an internal nuclear localization signal. The protein not only functions as a secretory protein, but is also found in the nucleus and/or nucleolus under certain ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Amaya Y,Nakai T,Miura S

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An ATP-dependent DNase has been purified from Thermus thermophilus HB8 by a procedure involving streptomycin precipitation, DEAE-cellulose chromatography, Sephadex G-200 gel filtration and heparin-agarose affinity chromatography. ATP-dependent DNase activity was separated into two distinct peaks, Peak A and Peak B, by...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Watanabe N,Umeno M,Anai M

更新日期：1983-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A cell-free protein-synthesizing system active in initiation of translation of both endogenous mRNA and exogenous mRNA has been obtained from postmitochondrial supernatant (S-12) of the liver of ethionine-treated rats by adding reticulocyte ribosomal extract as a source of initiation factor. Formation of polysomes in ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Hase M,Endo Y,Natori Y

更新日期：1982-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:SpoIIGA is a novel type of membrane-associated aspartic protease that responds to a signal from the forespore by cleaving Pro-σ(E) in the mother cell during sporulation of Bacillus subtilis. Very little is known about how SpoIIGA recognizes Pro-σ(E). By co-expressing proteins in Escherichia coli, it was shown that cha...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Imamura D,Kuwana R,Kroos L,Feig M,Takamatsu H,Watabe K

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We detected a novel nuclear protein, MMBP-3, that bound to the c-Myc binding motif (CACGTG) in which deoxycytidine in the CpG sequence was methylated. MMBP-3 was partially purified by chromatography on heparin-agarose and hydroxyapatite, followed by affinity adsorption to a matrix coupled to the methylated binding mot...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Suetake I,Tajima S,Asano A

更新日期：1995-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The fluorescence characteristics of product (I), formed during the lipid peroxidation of rat liver phosphatidylcholine liposomes containing glycine, and fluorescent product (II), derived from the reaction of malonaldehyde with glycine, were examined to elucidate the mechanism of fluorescent chromophore formation. Fluo...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Shimasaki H,Hirai N,Ueta N

更新日期：1988-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human neutrophil elastase was purified to homogeneity as two isozymes named E1 and E2. The isozymes degraded Type IV collagen, laminin, fibronectin, and heparan sulfate proteoglycan similarly to each other. The degradation of such basement membrane components by elastase may assist the extravasation of neutrophils in ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Watanabe H,Hattori S,Katsuda S,Nakanishi I,Nagai Y

更新日期：1990-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interleukin-1 (IL-1) is produced and released by various cells, including activated macrophages, and plays important roles in inflammation as well as immune responses. Since the precursor of IL-1 has no signal peptide, the mechanism of IL-1 release has been an enigma. To investigate the possibility of direct interacti...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Oku N,Saito N,Okada S,Watanabe N,Kobayashi Y

更新日期：1995-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Detergent treatments were examined for their efficacy in purifying trimethylamine-N-oxide (TMAO) demethylase activity from fish muscle microsomes. Tritons X-100 and X-45, deoxycholate, Brijs, Tweens 20, 65, and 80, and SDS were generally ineffective in solubilizing demethylase activity from this membrane fraction, at ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Parkin KL,Hultin HO

更新日期：1986-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of ryanodine on the permeation of glucose, choline, and Ca2+ through the Ca2+ channel in sarcoplasmic reticulum vesicles was studied by means of the light scattering and/or the tracer method. Ryanodine had the same effect on the permeabilities of choline and Ca2+; low concentrations of ryanodine (10 microM)...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kasai M,Kawasaki T

更新日期：1993-03-01 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：:A fluorescent photoreactive ATP derivative, 2'(3')-O-(4-benzoylbenzoyl)-1,N(6)-etheno-ATP (Bz(2)-epsilonATP), was synthesized and reacted with the rice kinesin K16 motor domain (K16MD). In the presence of ADP or ATP, UV irradiation of the K16MD solution containing Bz(2)-epsilonATP resulted in a new 100 kDa band, which...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Umeki N,Mitsui T,Koike Y,Maruta S

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The dissociation of porcine erythrocyte catalase [EC 1.11.1.6] into subunits on denaturation with alkali, GuHCl and urea was investigated by following the changes in hydrodynamic properties, absorption and CD spectra in the Soret region and inactivation of the enzyme. It was found that dissociation proceeded in an "al...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Takeda A,Hirano K,Shiroya Y,Samejima T

更新日期：1983-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human promyelocytic leukemia cells (HL-60) were treated with several differentiation inducers, then the changes in the activity of cytosolic protein kinase C (PKC) isoforms were examined by hydroxylapatite chromatography and the species of the isoforms were determined immunologically. In three undifferentiated HL-60 c...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Tanaka Y,Yoshihara K,Tsuyuki M,Itaya-Hironaka A,Inada Y,Kamiya T

更新日期：1992-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Diacylglycerol acyltransferase (DGAT) was examined as a key enzyme for triacylglycerol (TG) accumulation of an oleaginous fungus, Mortierella ramanniana var. angulispora. Subcellular fractionation of the fungus showed that DGAT activity was highest in the lipid body fraction, which occupied 77% of the recovered DGAT a...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kamisaka Y,Nakahara T

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A variant of human tear lipocalin was expressed in Escherichia coli, and the bound fatty acids were analysed by gas chromatography, mass spectroscopy and nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy. Five major fatty acids were identified as hexadecanoic acid (palmitic acid, PA), cis-9-hexadecenoic acid (palmitoleic acid),...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Tsukamoto S,Fujiwara K,Ikeguchi M

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Separation of 13-hydroperoxylinoleic acid or 13-hydroperoxylinolenic acid from linoleic acid or linolenic acid, respectively, was carried out easily and quickly by high performance liquid chromatography on porous polymer gel (TSK-Gel LS-140) using n-hexane/ethanol as an eluent. An eluent containing a large amount of n...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Aoshima H

更新日期：1977-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The amount of S-II, a protein specifically stimulating RNA polymerase II, was measured in various mouse organs by a micro complement fixation assay. The amount was almost the same in brain, liver, kidney, spleen, and Ehrlich ascites tumor cells on the basis of DNA, being about 3.8 micrograms/mg DNA, which corresponds ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Tamura H,Sekimizu K,Obinata M,Natori S

更新日期：1980-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We sought to evaluate the mechanism(s) associated with pro matrix metalloprotease 2 (proMMP-2) activation in bovine pulmonary artery smooth muscle cells. Preincubation of cells with anti-TNFR1 antibody prevented tumour necrosis factor-α (TNF-α)-induced proMMP-2 activation and increase in membrane type 1 matrix metallo...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Roy S,Chakraborti T,Chowdhury A,Chakraborti S

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacteriorhodopsin from Halobacterium halobium was stable and active in high concentrations of guanidine hydrochloride. However the decay of the intermediate with absorption maximum at 407 nm and the uptake of protons from the medium were remarkably delayed. At alkaline pH values, all the molecules of bacteriohodopsin ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Yoshida M,Ohno K,Takeuchi Y

更新日期：1980-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Diacylglycerol lipase (DGL) was solubilized from human platelet microsomes with heptyl-beta-D-thioglucoside, and purified to homogeneity on SDS-PAGE using a combination of chromatographic and electrophoretic methods. The molecular mass of the purified DGL was estimated to be 33 kDa. Its apparent pI was pH 6.0, as dete...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Moriyama T,Urade R,Kito M

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Four kinds of active sites of bacterial fatty acid synthetase were mapped on distinct regions within a subunit. Active sites were specifically labeled with radioactive substrates and active-site-directed inhibitors. Labeled enzymes were cleaved with proteases, and the fragments thus produced were identified with respe...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Morishima N,Ikai A

更新日期：1987-12-01 00:00:00

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