Evolutionary well-conserved region in the signal peptide of parathyroid hormone-related protein is critical for its dual localization through the regulation of ER translocation.

abstract：:Previously, we showed that a polypeptide isolated from fetal bovine cartilage stimulates proteoglycan synthesis, RNA synthesis, and DNA synthesis in cultured rabbit costal chondrocytes. In the present study, the effects of the cartilage-derived factor (CDF) were compared with those of multiplication-stimulating activi...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kato Y,Nomura Y,Tsuji M,Ohmae H,Nakazawa T,Suzuki F

更新日期：1981-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oxygen-binding to haemocyanin (Hc) is generally an exothermic process, with overall enthalphy of oxygenation varying from species to species. A number of crustacean Hcs showed a null or reduced enthalphy of oxygenation, among others, the anomuran Pagurus bernhardus and Paralithodes camtscaticae possess a completely te...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Podda G,Manconi B,Olianas A,Pellegrini M,Messana I,Mura M,Castagnola M,Giardina B,Sanna MT

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytokine-induced neutrophil chemoattractant (CINC/Gro) is a chemotactic factor for neutrophils in the rat and a member of the CXC chemokine family. The refined three-dimensional structure of CINC/Gro was derived with the aid of heteronuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy and a hybrid method of distance geometry and ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Hanzawa H,Haruyama H,Konishi K,Watanabe K,Tsurufuji S

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Complete drying of heparin with various concentrations of NaOH by lyophilization caused specific 2-O-desulfation to various degrees without detectable depolymerization or other chemical changes. In order to assess the importance of 2-O-sulfate groups in uronate residues to promote FGF-1 and FGF-2 activities, various 2...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Ishihara M,Kariya Y,Kikuchi H,Minamisawa T,Yoshida K

更新日期：1997-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The binding of SopA to the promoter region of its own gene, in which four copies of SopA's recognition sequence, 5'-CTTTGC-3', are arrayed asymmetrically, was examined in vitro. Titration using electrophoretic mobility shift assay showed that the stoichiometry of SopA protomers to the promoter-region DNA is 4 and that...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Komai M,Umino M,Hanai R

更新日期：2011-04-01 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：:Inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate (InsP3) releases Ca2+ from the non-mitochondrial Ca2+ store site of various types of cells. To study the mechanisms of the Ca2+ release from the store site, the effect of InsP3 on the passive Ca2+ release and influx, and the active Ca2+ uptake in the presence of oxalate, was examined using...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Hirata M,Kukita M,Sasaguri T,Suematsu E,Hashimoto T,Koga T

更新日期：1985-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The position of a single N'-formylkynurenine residue in ozone-inactivated hen egg-white lysozyme [EC 3.2.1.17] was determined by two methods. One involved identification of an amino-terminus of the C-peptide obtained by selective cleavage with hydrazine of the kynurenyl peptide linkage in oxidized lysozyme. The other ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Sakiyama F,Natsuki R

更新日期：1976-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Corynebacterium diphtheriae, a pathogenic Gram-positive bacterium, contains sialic acids on its cell surface, but no genes related to sialic acid decoration or metabolism have been reported in C. diphtheriae. In the present study, we have identified a putative sialidase gene, nanH, from C. diphtheriae KCTC3075 and cha...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kim S,Oh DB,Kwon O,Kang HA

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The chromatin fraction of rat liver exhibited proteolytic activity caused by serine proteases, with maximal activity at pH 8 or 10. They were analyzed by affinity labeling with [3H]diisopropylfluorophosphate followed by SDS-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis, and partially purified by gel filtration through Sepharose ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Tsurugi K,Ogata K

更新日期：1982-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Frontal gel chromatography is a convenient and accurate method to obtain the free ligand concentration of a protein-ligand mixture. Because a large amount of sample (more than 6 ml) is required for the method, it has been rarely used for binding experiments. We have developed a system to carry out frontal gel chromato...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Honjo M,Ishida T,Horiike K

更新日期：1997-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A GTP-binding protein with an Mr of 24,000 was purified from a cholate extract of bovine brain membranes in addition to the previously reported alpha beta gamma-trimeric GTP-binding proteins (G proteins). Partial amino acid sequence analysis of the purified 24-kDa protein revealed that it was not identical to any of t...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Ohoka Y,Imai S,Kozasa T,Maehama T,Takahashi K,Kaziro Y,Ui M,Katada T

更新日期：1991-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We tried to confirm the antioxidative capability of lecithin:cholesterol acyltransferase (LCAT) reported by Vohl et al. [Biochemistry (1999) 38, 5976-5981]. The enzyme solution protected LDL against oxidation. However, this protection was not due to LCAT enzyme, but to some unknown low-molecular-weight substance(s) in...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Murakami Y,Kamiyama S,Howlader ZH,Yamato T,Komai M,Furukawa Y

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The isolation and characterization of rabbit and human cDNAs revealed a new low density lipoprotein receptor (LDLR)-related protein (LRP) designated as LRP5. Human LRP5 cDNA encodes a 1, 616-amino acid type I membrane-like protein with three ligand binding repeats in its extracellular region. LDLR-deficient cells tran...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kim DH,Inagaki Y,Suzuki T,Ioka RX,Yoshioka SZ,Magoori K,Kang MJ,Cho Y,Nakano AZ,Liu Q,Fujino T,Suzuki H,Sasano H,Yamamoto TT

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anti-angiotensin I IgG in serum was measured by immune complex transfer enzyme immunoassays using angiotensin I conjugates prepared by two different methods. In the first method, angiotensin I was conjugated to dinitrophenyl bovine serum albumin and beta-D-galactosidase through covalent links. Anti-angiotensin I IgG i...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kohno T,Yamaguchi K,Ishikawa E

更新日期：1990-11-01 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：:A soluble enzyme preparation (20,000 X g supernatant fraction), prepared from the mycelia of wild-type Neurospora crassa, was capable of transferring [14C]glucose from UDP-[14C]glucose into both trichloroacetic acid (TCA)-soluble and TCA-insoluble macromolecule products in the absence of added primer. These reactions ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Takahara H,Matsuda K

更新日期：1977-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A cytochrome o-type oxidase from the thermophilic bacterium PS3 grown under air-limited conditions was purified by ion-exchange chromatography in the presence of a non-ionic detergent. The enzyme was composed of three subunits (60, 30, and 16 kDa) and seemed to contain two molecules of heme b as prosthetic groups. It ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Sone N,Kutoh E,Sato K

更新日期：1990-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new p-coumaric acid (4-hydroxycinnamic acid) hydroxylase was detected in mung bean seedlings treated with tentoxin, a fungal toxin, in which polyphenol oxidase that hydroxylates a wide variety of monophenols in vitro was completely eliminated. The enzyme required molecular oxygen and showed a pH optimum of 5.0. The ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kojima M,Takeuchi W

更新日期：1989-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Guinea pig alveolar macrophages (A-M0) were studied with respect ot the phagocytic metabolism: the respiratory burst and its KCN sensitivity, the ability to generate H2O2, and myeloperoxidase (MPO) activity. Only fifty percent of the O2 uptake by A-M0 samples during phagocytosis was inhibited by the addition of 1 mK K...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kaneda M,Kakinuma K,Yamaguchi T,Shimada K

更新日期：1980-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The stalk protein L12 is the only multiple component in 50S ribosomal subunit. In Escherichia coli, two L12 dimers bind to the C-terminal domain of L10 to form a pentameric complex, L10[(L12)(2)](2), while the recent X-ray crystallographic study and tandem MS analyses revealed the presence of a heptameric complex, L10...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Nomura T,Nakatsuchi M,Sugita D,Nomura M,Kaminishi T,Takemoto C,Shirouzu M,Miyoshi T,Yokoyama S,Hachimori A,Uchiumi T

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acid ceramidase (ACDase) metabolizes ceramide to sphingosine, leading to sphingosine 1-phosphate production. Reportedly, ACDase has been upregulated in prostate cancer. However, its regulatory mechanism remains unclear. LNCaP (androgen-sensitive prostate cancer cell line) but not PC3 and DU-145, (androgen-unresponsive...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Mizutani N,Inoue M,Omori Y,Ito H,Tamiya-Koizumi K,Takagi A,Kojima T,Nakamura M,Iwaki S,Nakatochi M,Suzuki M,Nozawa Y,Murate T

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The complete amino acid sequence of acylphosphatase from rabbit skeletal muscle has been elucidated by automatic Edman degradation of peptides obtained from staphylococcal protease and trypsin digestions. The enzyme consisted of a single polypeptide chain of 98 amino acid residues, lacking only histidine. Its amino (N...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kizaki T,Takasawa T,Mizuno Y,Shiokawa H

更新日期：1985-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:L-selectin is a cell adhesion molecule mediating the initial capture and subsequent rolling of leukocytes along the endothelial cells expressing L-selectin ligands. In addition to its action in adhesion, an intracellular signaling role for L-selectin has been recognized. Its cytoplasmic domain is involved in signal tr...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Chen C,Ba X,Xu T,Cui L,Hao S,Zeng X

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The fructose 2,6-bisphosphate concentrations in unwashed, washed, and leukocyte-free erythrocytes were compared. The concentration in washed red cells was 31 +/- 15 pmol per ml of cells (mean +/- S.D., n = 6). The concentration in unwashed erythrocytes was at least twofold higher, but the value in washed red cells was...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Moriyasu M,Yamamoto M,Hamasaki N

更新日期：1988-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To study how collagen synthesis is regulated in developing chick embryonic skin, hydroxyproline synthesis, incorporation of proline, and translational activity and content of collagen mRNA in 12-, 15-, and 18-day skins were determined and compared with each other. Hydroxyproline synthesis in the 18-day skins was marke...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Ohyama K,Tokimitsu I,Tajima S

更新日期：1991-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Homogeneous indanol dehydrogenase from monkey liver catalyzed the reversible conversion of 3 alpha- or 20 alpha-hydroxy groups of several bile acids and 5 beta-pregnanes to the corresponding 3- or 20-ketosteroids. The kcat values for the steroids determined at pH 7.4 were low, but the kcat/Km values for the 3-ketoster...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Hara A,Nakagawa M,Taniguchi H,Sawada H

更新日期：1989-11-01 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：: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：:Bacillus licheniformis alpha-amylase (BLA) is widely used in various procedures of starch degradation in the food industry, and a BLA species with improved activity at higher temperature and under acidic conditions is desirable. Two BLA species, designated as PA and MA, have been isolated from the wild-type B. licheni...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Lee S,Oneda H,Minoda M,Tanaka A,Inouye K

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00