The roles of muscle stem cells in muscle injury, atrophy and hypertrophy.

abstract：:Certain proteins utilize the high reactivity of radicals for catalysing chemically challenging reactions. These proteins contain or form a radical and therefore named 'radical enzymes'. Radicals are introduced by enzymes themselves or by (re)activating proteins called (re)activases. The X-ray structures of radical enz...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Shibata N,Toraya T

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An inorganic pyrophosphatase [EC 3.6.1.1] was isolated from Thiobacillus thiooxidans and purified 975-fold to a state of apparent homogeneity. The enzyme catalyzed the hydrolysis of inorganic pyrophosphate and no activity was found with a variety of other phosphate esters. The cation Mg2+ was required for maximum acti...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Tominaga N,Mori T

更新日期：1977-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the rat liver, two mRNAs for serine:pyruvate (or alanine:glyoxylate) aminotransferase are generated from a single gene by alternative transcription initiation. The longer mRNA encodes a precursor of a mitochondrial enzyme that has a mitochondrial targeting signal at the N-terminus and is translocated into mitochond...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Oda T,Uchida C,Miura S

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nestin is an intermediate filament protein mainly expressed in muscle and neural progenitors. Recently, we reported that nestin is expressed in rat vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMCs), disappears after serum-deprivation and then is re-expressed again following EGF stimulation. As the function of nestin in VSMCs remai...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Huang YL,Wu CM,Shi GY,Wu GC,Lee H,Jiang MJ,Wu HL,Yang HY

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Serratia marcescens serine protease gene encoding a 1,045-amino-acid precursor protein of 112 kDa directs excretion of the mature protease of ca. 58 kDa through the outer membrane of Escherichia coli. A typical signal peptide of 27 amino acids and a large COOH-terminal domain of the precursor are both functionally...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Shikata S,Shimada K,Kataoka H,Horinouchi S,Beppu T

更新日期：1992-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The activity of rat liver asparagine synthetase [EC 6.3.1.1]increased when animals maintained on 25% protein diet were placed on 15% or 6% protein diet. The enzyme activity level rose within one day, reached a maximum in 7 or 10 days after switching the diet and thereafter dropped gradually. During the purification of...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Hongo S,Matsumoto T,Suzuki I,Sato T

更新日期：1979-08-01 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：:Thrombomodulin (TM) is a thrombin receptor on the surface of endothelial cells that converts thrombin from a procoagulant to an anticoagulant. Thrombin promotes invasion by various tumor cells, and positive or negative correlations are found between the expression of TM and tumorigenesis in some patients. In this stud...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Niimi S,Harashima M,Takayama K,Hara M,Hyuga M,Seki T,Ariga T,Kawanishi T,Hayakawa T

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The bacterial opsins can be refolded to regenerate the chromophore by transfer from SDS to DMPC/CHAPS/SDS mixed micelles in the presence of retinal. A sequential refolding model has been proposed for bacterioopsin [Booth et al. (1995) Nature Struct. Biol. 2, 139-143]. However, the roles of DMPC and CHAPS in the refold...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Sugiyama Y,Mukohata Y

更新日期：1996-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A dinuclear La3+ complex hydrolyzes the phosphodiester bond in diribonucleotides efficiently under mild conditions. The rate of hydrolysis is remarkably accelerated on the complex formation between La3+ and TPHP (TPHP = N,N,N',N'-tetrakis [(2-pyridyl)methyl]-2-hydroxy-1,3-diaminopropane), and the highest activity is a...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Yashiro M,Ishikubo A,Komiyama M

更新日期：1996-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Guanosine 3',5'-monophosphate (cyclic GMP)-dependent protein kinase purified from silkworm pupae reacts with rat liver ribosomal proteins when a stimulatory modulator (Kuo, W.N. & Kuo, J.F. 1976) J. Biol. Chem. 251, 4283-4286) is added to the reaction mixture. Judging from autoradiogram of the radioactive proteins sep...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Chihara-Nakashima M,Hashimoto E,Nishizuka Y

更新日期：1977-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A chromosomal gene, mlr6793, in Mesorhizobium loti was identified as the gene encoding 5-formyl-3-hydroxy-2-methylpyridine 4-carboxylic acid (FHMPC) dehydrogenase (dismutase) involved in the degradation pathway for pyridoxine (vitamin B(6)). The homogenously purified recombinant enzyme has a molecular mass of 59.1 kDa...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Yokochi N,Yoshikane Y,Matsumoto S,Fujisawa M,Ohnishi K,Yagi T

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been found in the brush border membrane vesicles from porcine small intestine that valinomycin causes vesicle aggregation and that Ca2+-induced aggregation of the vesicles is saturably stimulated in the presence of valinomycin. The apparent half-maximal concentration of valinomycin required to enhance the Ca2+ ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Ohyashiki T,Kodera M,Mohri T

更新日期：1984-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although the conformational change occurring in proteins upon ATP binding is important in many biological reactions, the mechanism by which ATP binding induces the conformational change is unknown. We found that ATP induces acid-unfolded (pH 2) ferricytochrome c or apomyoglobin to adopt a compact structure with a sign...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Goto Y,Okamura N,Aimoto S

更新日期：1991-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We previously reported that novel Mg(2+)-ATPases were induced in rat liver peroxisomes by clofibrate administration and that these activities consisted of at least two types of enzymes, N-ethylmaleimide (NEM)-sensitive and -resistant. Here we present evidence that neither of these major peroxisomal ATPases is associat...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Shimizu S,Imanaka T,Takano T,Ohkuma S

更新日期：1992-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We expressed human myotonic dystrophy protein kinase (DMPK) in the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe, in which the overexpression of human DMPK affects cell growth and cell shape. The human DMPK protein has a leucine-rich domain at the N-terminus, a serine/threonine kinase domain in the middle, and a hydrophobic...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Sasagawa N,Kino Y,Takeshita Y,Oma Y,Ishiura S

更新日期：2003-10-01 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：:Under conditions where nM level of calmodulin was able to show full activation of myosin light chain kinase and cyclic-nucleotide phosphodiesterase, the fragments of calmodulin at concentrations as high as 20 microM failed to activate these enzymes in the presence of Ca2+. The fragments tested were Ala1-Lys75 (F12), A...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Minowa O,Yazawa M,Sobue K,Ito K,Yagi K

更新日期：1988-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We found that transducing phages carrying the gal or bio regions of the Escherichia coli genome were formed during in vitro packaging of endogenous lambda DNA. Structural analysis of the transducing phage genomes indicated that they were formed by abnormal excision of lambda prophage. Formation of transducing phages w...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Tomono M,Shiozaki M,Ikeda H

更新日期：1989-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate the function of the gamma-carboxyglutamic acid (Gla) residues of factor IXa in the activation of factor X, a new species of bovine factor IXa, designated "factor IXa beta'," and its corresponding Gla-domainless form, designated "Gla-domainless factor IXa beta'," were prepared under controlled conditions...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Morita T,Fukudome K,Miyata T,Iwanaga S

更新日期：1991-12-01 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：:The reaction of D-amino acid oxidase [EC 1.4.3.3] (DAO) from porcine kidney with beta-cyano-D-alanine (D-BCNA) was studied. DAO was found to catalyze elimination of the cyano group as well as oxidation of D-BCNA. During the course of the reaction in the presence of excess oxygen, an intermediate was observed which exh...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Miura R,Shiga K,Miyake Y,Watari H,Yamano T

更新日期：1980-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The region containing the RNA polymerase alpha subunit (RNAPalpha) gene (rpoA) and the ribosomal protein genes of a thermophilic eubacterial strain, Thermus thermophilus (Tt) HB8, was cloned from a genomic DNA library by Southern hybridization. The gene order in this region is rpl36-rps13-rps11-rps4-rpoA-rpl17, which ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Wada T,Yamazaki T,Kuramitsu S,Kyogoku Y

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:C3-translational product, which was synthesized with rabbit liver mRNA in a reticulocyte lysate protein-synthesizing system, did not react with [14C]methylamine, indicating the lack of an internal thioester bond. Instead, the C3-translational product reacted with iodo[1-14C]acetamide, as determined by gel electrophore...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Iijima M,Tobe T,Sakamoto T,Tomita M

更新日期：1984-11-01 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：:A protease activity specific to spermatogenous histones was found in the egg extract of sea urchin. The enzyme responsible for this activity, named SPKK protease because of its substrate specificity, was purified as a monomeric 28 kDa protein. SPKK protease activity is inhibited by leupeptin and is specific to the rep...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Suzuki M,Sugiura M,Ebashi S

更新日期：1990-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bovine renal brush-border membranes were solubilized by 1.6% sodium cholate. Na+/H(+)-antiporter was recovered in the supernatant after centrifugation at 160,000 x g for 1 h and was successfully reconstituted into proteoliposomes by a cholate-dialysis procedure. The reconstituted Na+/H(+)-antiporter showed a pH-gradie...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Yamashita T,Kawakita M

更新日期：1992-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serologically active D-arabino-D-mannas ([alpha]D, +82 degrees approximately 89 degrees; ratio of D-arabinose to D-mannose, 1-2:1) were isolated from the soluble fraction of disintegrated cells of M. tuberculosis, M. smegmatis, and several other Mycobacterium species. These arabinomannans had similar structures, consi...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Misaki A,Azuma I,Yamamura Y

更新日期：1977-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of N,N'-dicyclohexylcarbodiimide (DCCD) on light-induced H+-transport and transmembrane electric potential (delta phi) formation were studied in the membrane vesicles of Halobacterium halobium R1M1. In accordance with our previous finding of the existence of two DCCD-binding components in vesicle membrane ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Murakami N,Konishi T

更新日期：1985-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Manganese ion, like Mg2+, has been found to produce high biosynthetic activity of the unadenylylated form of glutamine synthetase obtained from Mycobacterium smegmatis, and the activity with each of these cations was decreased by the adenylylation of the enzyme. Further, the gamma-glutamyltransferase reaction was cata...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Matsuoka K,Kimura K

更新日期：1985-04-01 00:00:00