The amino-terminal hydrophobic region of the small subunit of calcium-activated neutral protease (CANP) is essential for its activation by phosphatidylinositol.

abstract：:NADP+-specific isocitrate dehydrogenase was found in several tissues of the pupa of the silkworm, Bombyx mori. This enzyme was highly purified from the whole bodies of pupae. This is the first isolation of the enzyme from insect materials. The purified enzyme gave a single protein band on polyacrylamide gel electropho...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Miake F,Torikata T,Koga K,Hayashi K

更新日期：1977-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe cross-linking conditions for myosin subfragment-1 and actin with 1-ethyl-3-[3-(dimethylamino)propyl]carbodiimide, with which the compositions of cross-linked species can be altered. The specific Mg-ATPase activity of cross-linked subfragment-1 in these preparations was almost the same in spite of the diffe...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Yamamoto K

更新日期：1993-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To reveal the molecular orientation of plastocyanin (PC) on spinach thylakoid membranes, the position of Lys residues modified by acetic anhydride was compared between thylakoid-bound PC and the isolated one. Digestion of the isolated PC by a trypsin yielded a peptide map with seven spots prior to the acetylation of t...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Takano M,Takahashi M,Oobatake M,Asada K

更新日期：1985-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hen ovomucoid was chemically deglycosylated by treatment with trifluoromethanesulfonic acid at 0 degrees C for 60 min. About 75 mol% of the carbohydrate moiety was removed from the glycoprotein without changing its amino acid composition, and its trypsin inhibitory activity and immunoreactivity with specific antibodie...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Gu JX,Matsuda T,Nakamura R,Ishiguro H,Ohkubo I,Sasaki M,Takahashi N

更新日期：1989-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A DNA polymerase which was active with unprimed poly(dC) as a template was detected in the DNA polymerase alpha fraction from rat thymoma tissue. The activity was dependent on rGTP and associated with ribonucleotide polymerizing activity. The activity was partially sensitive to aphidicolin and dideoxy GTP and resistan...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Nishizawa M,Tanabe K,Matsukage A,Nakamura H,Yagura T

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The melanocortin receptor type 4 (MC4-R) is involved in food intake and represents a potential target for the treatment of some forms of obesity. The fluorescent protein EGFP was fused to the wild-type or mutated coding sequence of the human MC4-R. After transfection in HEK 293, clones stably expressing hMC4-R-EGFP we...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Blondet A,Doghman M,Rached M,Durand P,Bégeot M,Naville D

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using mutant strain ABYS1 of Saccharomyces cerevisiae lacking four main vacuolar proteinases, proteinase A, proteinase B, carboxypeptidase Y, and carboxypeptidase S, we examined the identities of chromatin-associated proteinases, ruling out possible contamination of the chromatin fraction by them. The chromatin of str...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Motizuki M,Kohno H,Tsurugi K

更新日期：1988-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The position in the acyl phosphate linkage of the phosphorylated intermediate of (Na+, K+)-ATPase that is cleaved by N-methylhydroxylamine was compared with that of the model compound acetylphosphate. The products of the cleavage of the phosphoenzyme by methylhydroxylamine were the active enzyme and a N-P compound, no...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Ushimaru M,Shinohara Y,Fukushima Y

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The crystal structures of the GTP- and GDP-bound alpha subunits of heterotrimeric GTP-binding proteins were recently determined, and a conserved Thr residue in the G2 (linker 2) region of the alpha subunits, which corresponds to Thr182 in Gi2 alpha, was deduced to interact with the gamma-phosphate of GTP and Mg2+. To ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Nishina H,Nimota K,Kukimoto I,Maehama T,Takahashi K,Hoshino S,Kanaho Y,Katada T

更新日期：1995-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To analyze the processing of extracellular enzymes of Bacillus subtilis, an NH2-terminally extended hybrid alpha-amylase [pTUBE638-alpha-amylase (E24)] was purified from the periplasm of E. coli(pTUBE638) as the substrate for the in vitro processing reaction, in which a 21-amino-acid extra-peptide was added at the NH2...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Itoh Y,Sumi M,Nakamura K,Yamane K

更新日期：1990-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Escherichia coli spr (suppressor of prc) mutants and nlpI mutants show thermosensitive growth. The thermosensitivity of the spr mutants was suppressed by the nlpI mutations. Expression of the fusion genes encoding hexa-histidine-tagged NlpI (NlpI-His) and purification of the tagged NlpI showed that NlpI-His bound with...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Tadokoro A,Hayashi H,Kishimoto T,Makino Y,Fujisaki S,Nishimura Y

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:High mobility group (HMG) protein 1 contains two DNA binding motifs, called HMG1/2-boxes, linked with a linker region. The functional relationships between the two boxes and the mechanism of involvement of the linker region for effective binding of HMG1 were examined. The binding analyses of truncated HMG1 peptides wi...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Saito K,Kikuchi T,Shirakawa H,Yoshida M

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:EnvZ is a membrane-located protein kinase which modulates expression of the ompF and ompC genes through phosphotransfer signal transduction in Escherichia coli. Previously, we developed an in vitro method for analyzing the intact form of EnvZ in isolated cytoplasmic membranes, and demonstrated that this particular for...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Tokishita S,Kojima A,Mizuno T

更新日期：1992-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acetoxy Drug: Protein Transacetylase (TAase) mediating the transfer of acetyl group(s) from polyphenolic acetates (PA) to certain functional proteins in mammalian cells was identified by our earlier investigations. TAase activity was characterized in the cell lysates of Mycobacterium smegmatis and the purified protein...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Gupta G,Baghel AS,Bansal S,Tyagi TK,Kumari R,Saini NK,Ponnan P,Kumar A,Bose M,Saluja D,Patkar SA,Parmar VS,Raj HG

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:X-ray diffraction photographs of a chicken gizzard G-actin.DNase I complex crystal have been recorded using the synchrotron radiation beam emitted by the Synchrotron Radiation Source at Daresbury and the Photon Factory at Tsukuba. The resolution limit was extended to 2.4 A and the exposure time was reduced approximate...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Sakabe N,Kamiya N,Sakabe K,Kondo H

更新日期：1984-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thyrotropin releasing hormone (TRH) caused significant breakdown of phosphatidylinositol 4,5-bisphosphate (PIP2) in GH3 cells, but vasoactive intestinal peptide (VIP) did not. However, VIP enhanced the TRH-induced hydrolysis of PIP2, the conversion of phosphatidylinositol 4-phosphate (PIP) to PIP2 and the accumulation...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Suzuki R,Takenawa T

更新日期：1987-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the effects of aging and denervation on the gene expression of uncoupling proteins (UCPs) in slow-twitch soleus and fast-twitch gastrocnemius muscles. In a comparison between the control limbs of 6- and 24-month-old rats, the mRNA levels of UCP3, heart-type fatty acid binding protein (HFABP), and gluco...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kontani Y,Wang Z,Furuyama T,Sato Y,Mori N,Yamashita H

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to examine the possibility of the use of a surface plasmon resonance (SPR) sensor for real-time monitoring of the process of refolding of immobilized proteins, the refolding of firefly luciferase immobilized on a carboxymethyldextran matrix layer was analyzed. The SPR signal of the immobilized luciferase decr...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Zako T,Harada K,Mannen T,Yamaguchi S,Kitayama A,Ueda H,Nagamune T

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The primary structure of human IGF-I, except for the disulfide bond system, has been reported by Rinderknecht and Humbel. IGF-I afforded the corresponding characteristic peptide fragment on V8 protease digestion, which contained Cys6, Cys47, Cys48, and Cys52. Two possible fragments, Type I with Cys6-Cys47 and Cys48-Cy...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Iwai M,Kobayashi M,Tamura K,Ishii Y,Yamada H,Niwa M

更新日期：1989-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A particulate enzyme preparation from Bacillus stearothermophilus synthesized 1,3-poly(glycerol phosphage) from CDPglycerol at an optimum pH of 8.0 and the reaction was stimulated by divalent cations. Km for CDPglycerol was 0.18 mM. The synthesis was inhibited by CMP, CDP, and CTP and by concentrations of CDP-glycerol...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Cheang OO K

更新日期：1975-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The 1H-NMR spectra of eight unsaturated disaccharides obtained by bacterial eliminase digestion of chondroitin sulfate and of heparan sulfate/heparin were recorded in order to construct an NMR data base of sulfated oligosaccharides and to investigate the effects of sulfation on the proton chemical shifts. These shifts...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Yamada S,Yoshida K,Sugiura M,Sugahara K

更新日期：1992-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. As a part of studies on the mechanism by which catecholamines are released from the nerve terminals, the synaptic vesicle fraction was isolated from bovine caudatolenticular nuclei and thalamus by differential centrifugation essentially according to the method of Kadota and Kadota (17). 2. Further centrifugation on...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Tsudzuki T,Fujii T,Tanaka R

更新日期：1977-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several kinds of hydrophilic proteins were examined to determine their interaction with artificial liposomes. Mitochondrial aspartate aminotransferase (m-GOT) [EC 2.6.1.1], as well as cytochrome c, was found to interact strongly with negatively charged liposomes. In each case, an appreciable amount of the protein boun...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Furuya E,Yoshida Y,Tagawa K

更新日期：1979-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The amino acid compositions, constituent polypeptides and bacteriochlorophyll (Bchl) contents of two kinds of Bchl-protein complexes isolated from Rhodopseudomonas palustris were examined. Spectrally dissimilar intracytoplasmic membranes obtained from cells cultured under different conditions were used as starting mat...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Hayashi H,Nakano M,Morita S

更新日期：1982-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The conditions for the preparation of the ferricytochrome a-ferrocytochrome a3-carbon monoxide complex (a3+, a3(2)+CO) of cytochrome oxidase [EC 1.9.3.1] by the ferricyanide-reoxidation method and some properties of the prepared complex were studied. The addition of a small volume of concentrated ferricyanide solution...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Horie S,Watanabe T,Ave K

更新日期：1983-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:By the application of a ganglioside-mapping technique, the lipid composition of bovine thyroid was analyzed systematically. The contents of cholesterol, lipid-bound phosphorus and lipid-bound sialic acid in bovine thyroid were 5.10, 9.76, and 0.28 mumol/g of dry tissue, respectively, and the molar ratio of cholesterol...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Iwamori M,Sawada K,Hara Y,Nishio M,Fujisawa T,Imura H,Nagai Y

更新日期：1982-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Comparative substrate specificities of farnesyl pyrophosphate synthetases I and II purified from larvae of silkworm, Bombyx mori, were studied by use of the possible biosynthetic intermediates of juvenile hormones in the insect. In the presence of Mn2+ ions farnesyl pyrophosphate synthetase II showed higher activity t...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Koyama T,Matsubara M,Ogura K

更新日期：1985-08-01 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 mammalian ATP/ADP translocator isoform-2 (ANT2) gene is growth-activated. Regulation of the gene appears to involve Sp1, as an essential activator, and a suppressor through an Sp1 core element next to the transcription start. We show here that the proximal promoter also binds AP-2 strongly and specifically to two ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Li R,Hodny Z,Zaid A,Barath P,Nelson BD

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have purified L-kynurenine 3-monooxygenase from pig liver mitochondria using a procedure involving seven steps composed of (1) preparation of mitochondrial outer membrane, (2) preparation of the zwitterionic detergent, 3-[(3-cholamidopropyl)dimethylammonio]-1-propane sulfonate (Chaps) insoluble outer membrane mater...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Uemura T,Hirai K

更新日期：1998-02-01 00:00:00