Potentiation of thyrotropin releasing hormone-induced inositol phospholipid metabolism and Ca2+ mobilization by cyclic AMP-increasing agents.

abstract：:The Ca2+-ATPase of sarcoplasmic reticulum from rabbit skeletal muscle was incorporated into vesicles made from dimyristoylphosphatidylcholine or dipalmitoylphosphatidylcholine. The Ca2+-ATPase activity of these reconstituted membranes became appreciable above 20 degrees C and 30 degrees C, respectively, in accord with...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Higashi K,Kirino Y

更新日期：1983-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Six major acidic glycosphingolipids were isolated from human amnion using DEAE Sephadex A-25 and silica beads column chromatography. The structures of these glycosphingolipids were determined by methylation analysis, TLC immunostaining and/or negative ion FAB-MS, and were concluded to be II3 alpha NeuAcLacCer(GM3), IV...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Asano K,Suzuki M,Handa S,Oshima M

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The accumulation of unfolded proteins in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) under ER stress conditions activates a series of homoeostatic responses collectively termed the unfolded protein response (UPR). The UPR is unique in which the molecular mechanisms it uses to transmit signals from the ER lumen to the nucleus are c...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Mori K

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antizyme (AZ) interacts with ornithine decarboxylase, which catalyzes the first step of polyamine biosynthesis and recruits it to the proteasome for degradation. Synthesizing the functional AZ protein requires transition of the reading frame at the termination codon. This programmed +1 ribosomal frameshifting is induc...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Oguro A,Shigeta T,Machida K,Suzuki T,Iwamoto T,Matsufuji S,Imataka H

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Agglutinin in the perivitelline fluid (PVF) of Tachypleus gigas, horseshoe crab, embryo was isolated and purified by a combination of affinity column chromatography on Sepharose 4B coupled with bovine submaxillary gland mucin and gel-filtration of Fractogel TSK (Toyopearl) HW-60 in Tris-NaCl-CaCl2 (0.05 M Tris-HCl, pH...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Shishikura F,Sekiguchi K

更新日期：1984-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have established three kinds of monoclonal antibodies against gangliosides containing N-glycolylneuraminic acid (NeuGc) by immunization of BALB/c mice with the purified gangliosides inserted into liposomes comprising Salmonella minnesota R595 lipopolysaccharides, and fusion of spleen cells with a mouse myeloma cell...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Watarai S,Kushi Y,Shigeto R,Misawa N,Eishi Y,Handa S,Yasuda T

更新日期：1995-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:3-Isopropylmalate dehydrogenase (IPMDH) is a dimeric enzyme with a strongly hydrophobic core that is composed of residues from four alpha-helices. We replaced Glu253, which is found in the hydrophobic core and is part of the subunit interface of the Bacillus subtilis (Bs) IPMDH, with several other amino acids to probe...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Ohkuri T,Yamagishi A

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fluorescence titration curves of 2-[4'-iodoacetamido)anilino)naphthalene-6-sulfonic acid-labeled troponin (IAANS-labeled Tn) and troponin-1-anilinonaphthalene-8-sulfonic acid (Tn-ANS) complex indicated that the fluorescent moiety, IAANS or ANS, detects conformational change of troponin I (TnI) or Tn due to the Ca2+ bi...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Nishio T,Iio T

更新日期：1983-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The flavoenzyme medium-chain acyl-CoA dehydrogenase (MCAD) eliminates the alpha-proton of the substrate analog, 3-thiaoctanoyl-CoA (3S-C8-CoA), to form a charge-transfer complex with deprotonated 3S-C8-CoA. This complex can simulate the metastable reaction intermediate immediately after the alpha-proton elimination of...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Satoh A,Nakajima Y,Miyahara I,Hirotsu K,Tanaka T,Nishina Y,Shiga K,Tamaoki H,Setoyama C,Miura R

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Saccharomyces cerevisiae has three distinct citrate synthases, two located in mitochondria (mature Cit1p and Cit3p) and one in peroxisomes (mature Cit2p). While the precursor of the major mitochondrial enzyme, Cit1p, has a signal for mitochondrial targeting at its N-terminus (MTS), Cit2p has one for peroxisomal target...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Lee JG,Cho SP,Lee HS,Lee CH,Bae KS,Maeng PJ

更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Troponin-tropomyosin complex from skeletal muscles was observed to regulate sliding movement of actin filaments on myosin molecules in a manner independent of their ATPase activity. When actin molecules were crosslinked with DSS (disuccinimidyl suberate), the myosin ATPase activity in the presence of the modified acti...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Honda H,Tagami N,Hatori K,Matsuno K

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 45-60 kDa Gal/GalNAc-specific macrophage lectin was found to participate in the interaction between tumor cells and tumoricidal macrophages activated by an antitumor streptococcal preparation, OK-432, and in the tumoricidal activity of the activated macrophages. The binding between OK-432-elicited activated macropha...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Oda S,Sato M,Toyoshima S,Osawa T

更新日期：1989-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:By analyzing antibody heterogeneity during the primary immune response to bacterial a-amylase (B alpha A) in high-responder F1 hybrid mice between C57BL/6 (B6) and C3H/He (C3) mice with the use of isoelectric focusing (IEF), it was shown that the maturation of the primary IgG antibody response consisted of at least tw...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Nakashima S,Kamikawa H

更新日期：1984-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transient and steady state kinetics were studied in the interactions of ATP with acto-H-meromyosin reconstituted from bovine arterial heavy-meromyosin (HMM) and rabbit skeletal muscle F-actin. The results showed that the rate of dissociation of the hybrid acto-HMM induced by ATP was slower than the rate of the fluores...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Takeuchi K,Tonomura Y

更新日期：1978-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies were performed in the rat liver to examine whether or not insulin as well as glucagon causes the induction of mitochondrial serine:pyruvate aminotransferase (SPTm) [EC 2.6.1.51] and if so, whether the mechanisms of induction are similar or different for the two hormones. Not only glucagon but also insulin indu...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Miyajima H,Oda T,Ichiyama A

更新日期：1989-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:MutM protein, which removes the oxidatively damaged DNA base product, 8-oxoguanine (GO), has been crystallized by means of a hanging-drop vapor-diffusion procedure using polyethyleneglycol monomethylether 2000 as a precipitant in 2-(cyclohexylamino) ethanesulfonic acid (CHES) buffer, pH 9.8. The diffraction data deriv...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Sugahara M,Mikawa T,Kato R,Fukuyama K,Kumasaka T,Yamamoto M,Inoue Y,Kuramitsu S

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The stress-related protein Stm1 interacts with ribosomes, and is implicated in repressing translation. Stm1 was previously studied both in vivo and in vitro by cell-free translation systems using crude yeast lysates, but its precise functional mechanism remains obscure. Using an in vitro reconstituted translation syst...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Hayashi H,Nagai R,Abe T,Wada M,Ito K,Takeuchi-Tomita N

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. Chymotrypsin cleaved troponin-T of skeletal muscle into two subfragments, i.e., troponin-T1 and -T2, each of which could be isolated by the use of DEAE-Sephadex. Troponin-T1 was a single subfragment with a molecular weight of 26,000 (chicken) or 22,000 (rabbit) daltons. Troponin-T2 consisted of two subfragments wit...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Ohtsuki I

更新日期：1979-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The gene of an extreme thermophile, Thermus thermophilus HB8, which codes for a leucine biosynthetic enzyme, 3-isopropylmalate (3-IPM) dehydrogenase [EC 1.1.1.85], was cloned in Escherichia coli using pBR322 as a vector. E. coli cells carrying this recombinant plasmid, pHB2, produced the thermophilic enzyme 7-fold mor...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Tanaka T,Kawano N,Oshima T

更新日期：1981-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Extracellular vesicles (EVs) are small particles that are naturally released from various types of cells. EVs contain a wide variety of cellular components, such as proteins, nucleic acids, lipids and metabolites, which facilitate intercellular communication in diverse biological processes. In the tumor microenvironme...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Yamauchi T,Moroishi T

更新日期：2020-11-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations of epsilon-sarcoglycan gene (SGCE) have been implicated in myoclonus-dystonia (M-D), a movement disorder. To determine the pathophysiology of M-D, we produced Sgce knockout mice and found that the knockout mice exhibited myoclonus, motor impairments, hyperactivity, anxiety, depression, significantly higher l...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Yokoi F,Dang MT,Li J,Li Y

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several synthetic peptides derived from the C-terminal domain sequence of a hemolytic lectin, CEL-III, were examined as to their action on bacteria and artificial lipid membranes. Peptide P332 (KGVIFAKASVSVKVTASLSK-NH(2)), corresponding to the sequence from residue 332, exhibited strong antibacterial activity toward G...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Hatakeyama T,Suenaga T,Eto S,Niidome T,Aoyagi H

更新日期：2004-01-01 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：: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：:Coenzyme A (CoASH) is an obligate cofactor for lipids undergoing beta-oxidation in peroxisomes. Although the peroxisomal membrane appears to be impermeable to CoASH, peroxisomes contain their own pool of CoASH. It is believed that CoASH enters peroxisomes as acyl-CoAs, but it is not known how this pool is regulated. T...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Reilly SJ,Tillander V,Ofman R,Alexson SE,Hunt MC

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Daunomycin, an anti-neoplastic agent, is known to be sequestered by acidic organelles in normal and multidrug-resistant cells [Willingham, M.C., Cornwell, M.M., Cardarelli, C.O., Gottesman, M.M., & Pastan, I. (1986) Cancer Res. 46, 5941-5946]. We studied the mechanism of accumulation of daunomycin into acidic organell...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Moriyama Y,Manabe T,Yoshimori T,Tashiro Y,Futai M

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:NAD+ reductase of the green photosynthetic bacterium Prosthecochloris aestuarii was isolated and purified by ammonium sulfate fractionation, DEAE-cellulose column chromatography, and Sephadex G-200 gel filtration. This enzyme is an FAD-containing flavoprotein and has absorption maxima at 485 (shoulder0 452, 411, and 3...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Shioi Y,Takamiya K,Nishimura M

更新日期：1976-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When compared with collagens isolated from animal sources, collagens and collagen-like (CL) proteins from non-animal sources are non-immunogenic and thus promising as biomedical materials. Recently, a CL protein, V-CL, was identified from a bacterial source, Streptococcus pyogenes. In this study, an acid-precipitation...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Ma L,Chai Y,Wu T,Wang M

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The contribution of the P1' residue at the first reactive site of peanut protease inhibitor B-III to the inhibition was analyzed by replacement of the P1' Arg(11) with other amino acids (Arg, Ser, Ala, Leu, Phe, Asp) after selective modification of the second reactive site. The Arg derivative had the same trypsin inhi...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kurokawa T,Hara S,Norioka S,Teshima T,Ikenaka T

更新日期：1987-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:LipB, the lipase activator protein of Pseudomonas aeruginosa TE3285, was overproduced in Escherichia coli, and purified 4.9-fold over the crude extract in the presence of SDS. The purified LipB reactivated the lipase from P. aeruginosa TE3285 denatured with guanidine hydrochloride, and its reactivation did not involve...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Shibata H,Kato H,Oda J

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00