miR-211-5p contributes to chondrocyte differentiation by suppressing Fibulin-4 expression to play a role in osteoarthritis.

abstract：:A new multifunctional protein kinase, which normally exists as an inactive form in the soluble fraction in mammalian tissues, attaches to membranes to exhibit full enzymatic activity. A low concentration of Ca2+ is absolutely necessary for this activation. This process is reversible. cAMP shows no effect. The active f...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Takai Y,Kishimoto A,Iwasa Y,Kawahara Y,Mori T,Nishizuka Y,Tamura A,Fujii T

更新日期：1979-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We recently found that budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae sigma1278b, but not genome project strain S288C, has a gene conferring resistance to L-azetidine-2-carboxylic acid (AZC), a toxic four-membered ring analogue of L-proline. Also, the gene, designated as MPR1, encodes a novel acetyltransferase that detoxifies...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Nomura M,Nakamori S,Takagi H

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We designed mutant lysozymes with N-glycosylation signal sequences (Asn48-Gly49-Thr-50 and Asn87-Ile88-Thr89) by substituting Asp to Asn at positions 48 and 87. When these mutant lysozymes were expressed by using yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae) in Burkholder minimum medium, N-glycosylation occurred in both lysozymes....

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Ueda T,Iwashita H,Hashimoto Y,Imoto T

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:MF-18, one of the monoclonal antibodies generated to chicken myosin, cross-reacted with rabbit skeletal myosin subfragment-1 (S1). Utilizing an improved procedure of immuno-blotting, a decrease in reactivity of MF-18 to S1 by trinitrophenylation was observed. This indicates that the reactive lysyl residue is very clos...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Katayama E,Wakabayashi T,Reinach F,Masaki T,Fischman DA

更新日期：1984-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The substrate specificity of microsomal nonspecific carboxyesterase [EC 3.1.1.1] from rabbit and rat livers was studied in vitro by using seven (A)-type and six (B)-type 12,13-epoxytrichothecene mycotoxins. The C-4 acetyl residues of diacetoxyscirpenol, T-2 toxin, monoacetylnivalenol (fusarenon-X), and diacetylnivalen...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Ohta M,Matsumoto H,Ishii K,Ueno Y

更新日期：1978-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Soluble guanylate cyclase (sGC) consisting of two different subunits (alpha: Mr = 74,000, beta: Mr = 69,000) was purified more than 12,000-fold in terms of specific activity from the supernatant of bovine lung homogenates and characterized. The heme content determined with the pyridine hemochromogen method and Bradfor...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Tomita T,Tsuyama S,Imai Y,Kitagawa T

更新日期：1997-09-01 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：:Previously, we reported that proteasomes (large multi-protease complexes) are present in a latent state in a variety of eukaryotic cells, and can be activated by treatment with various compounds such as sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS) or poly-lysine (Tanaka et al. (1988) J. Biol. Chem. 263, 16209-16217). In the present s...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Tanaka K,Yoshimura T,Ichihara A

更新日期：1989-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chemical modifications by photooxidation in the presence of rose bengal (RB) and with tetranitromethane (TNM) were carried out to elucidate the amino acid residues involved in the active site of inorganic pyrophosphatase (pyrophosphate phosphohydrolase) [EC 3.6.1.1] from Escherichia coli Q13. The photooxidation caused...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Samejima T,Tamagawa Y,Kondo Y,Hachimori A,Kaji H,Takeda A,Shiroya Y

更新日期：1988-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The functions of the helix E (W97-F105), an amphiphilic lumenal 310 helix of the major antenna of photosystem II (LHCII), are still unidentified. To elucidate the roles of individual amino acid residue of the helix E, alanine scanning mutagenesis has been performed to mutate every residue of this domain to alanine. Th...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Liu C,Rao Y,Zhang L,Yang C

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A sensitive enzyme-immunochemical staining method was developed for detection of N-glycolylneuraminic acid (NeuGc)-containing glycosphingolipids (GSLs) on silica gel thin-layer chromatography. The procedure consists of immune reaction among NeuGc-containing GSLs, affinity-purified chicken anti-NeuGc-LacCer and horsera...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Higashi H,Fukui Y,Ueda S,Kato S,Hirabayashi Y,Matsumoto M,Naiki M

更新日期：1984-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The P1' Ser(50) at the second reactive site of soybean protease inhibitor C-II was replaced with arginine to confirm the contribution of this residue to the inhibition. The Arg derivative had less trypsin inhibitory activity (Ki = 1 X 10(-7) M) than the Ser derivative (Ki = 2 X 10(-8) M), in contrast to the results ob...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

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

更新日期：1987-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nitric oxide (NO) has diverse effects on immune responses and hepatic functions. In BNL CL.2 cells, the murine embryonic liver cells, inducible nitric oxide synthase (iNOS) mRNA expression appeared after 3 h of treatment with IFN-gamma and LPS. Interestingly, mRNA and protein expression of iNOS was down-regulated by s...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Lee BS,Kim YM,Kang HS,Kim HM,Pyun KH,Choi I

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The absorption and fluorometric changes of the reaction mixture of luciferase-FMNH2 complex with O2 were re-examined. Rapid formation (k2(app) = 2.0 s-1 at [O2] = 120 micrometer) of an intermediate with a single absorption maximum at 380 nm within the range of 350-550 nm, and a weak fluorescence at 520 nm (less than o...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Ashizawa N,Nakamura T,Watanabe T

更新日期：1977-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies by our group suggested that lysozyme has a high affinity for bacterial lipopolysaccharide (LPS) of both the smooth and rough forms, and inhibits various immunomodulatory activities of LPS. GLA60 is a synthetic monosaccharide analogue of bacterial lipid A well known as having most of the activities of li...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Tanida N,Ohno N,Adachi Y,Matsuura M,Nakano M,Kiso M,Hasegawa A,Yadomae T

更新日期：1992-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To model gene transcription kinetics, empirical fitting with the Hill function or S-system is often used. In this study, we derived an analytical expression for gene transcription rates in a manner similar to that developed for enzyme kinetics to describe the kinetics of gene transcription mediated by dimeric transcri...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Yang HT,Hsu CP,Hwang MJ

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The subcellular distribution of calmodulin and particulate calmodulin-binding activity was studied in a eukaryotic protozoan, Tetrahymena pyriformis NT-1. The particulate calmodulin-binding activity was found to be localized principally in microsomes and to some extent in cilia and surface membranes called pellicles. ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Nagao S,Banno Y,Nozawa Y,Sobue K,Yamazaki R,Kakiuchi S

更新日期：1981-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A method is described for the fractionation of reduced and alkylated proteins of fowl feather. Fowl feather extracts were chromatographed on a Sephadex G-75 column in 4 M urea containing 1 M NaCl and separated into four fractions, GF-1, 2, 3, and 4. The elution patterns were used to compare the components of different...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Akahane K,Murozono S,Murayama K

更新日期：1977-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The calnexin homologue (Cne1p) of Saccharomyces cerevisiae was expressed in Escherichia coli to evaluate its chaperone function. The chaperone function was examined as to the effects on the suppression of thermal denaturation and the enhancement of refolding, using citrate synthase (CS) as a nonspecific chaperone subs...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Xu X,Kanbara K,Azakami H,Kato A

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:F-Actin was digested with alpha-chymotrypsin in 6 M urea, and two peptide fragments from subdomain 4 of actin molecule [Kabsch, W., Mannherz, H.G., Suck, D., Pai, E.F., & Holmes K.C. (1990) Nature 347, 37-44] were purified by reverse-phase HPLC and Sephadex G-50 gel filtration. The peptide fragments were identified as...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Hori K,Morita F

更新日期：1992-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ornithine transcarbamylase (OTC) is one of the urea cycle enzymes. While the chicken is a uricotelic animal, it has measurable OTC activity in its kidney. OTC activity is highly variable within and between chicken breeds. Chicken OTC may have some physiological significance because of its significant activity in the k...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Shimogiri T,Kono M,Mannen H,Mizutani M,Tsuji S

更新日期：1998-11-01 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：:Beta-N-Acetylgalactosaminidase [EC 3.2.1.53] was purified to homogeneity from the culture media of Bacillus sp. AT173-1. The enzyme has a molecular weight of 48,000 as estimated by SDS-PAGE under reducing conditions and an isoelectric point of 4.3. The enzyme requires dithiothreitol as an activator and is most active ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Tanaka A,Ozaki S

更新日期：1997-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human platelet membrane glycoprotein IV (GPIV), one of the major glycoprotein components, was purified by successive affinity chromatographies on columns of Lens culinaris agglutinin-Sepharose and wheat germ agglutinin-Sepharose followed by preparative polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis in the presence of sodium dodec...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Tsuji T,Osawa T

更新日期：1986-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The existence of specific binding proteins for alpha-casein, a well-known potent chemoattractant, on guinea pig peritoneal macrophages was demonstrated. Binding of 3H-alpha-casein to macrophages was found to be specific and reversible. Its association constant and the number of binding sites were 5.0 X 10(-6) M and 7....

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Katagiri T,Adachi I,Terao T,Osawa T

更新日期：1980-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a search for adjuvants of non-bacterial origin for immunization with ganglioside, we investigated whether chemical coupling to immune stimulatory protein could increase the immunogenicity of sialoglycosphingolipid. A novel method for the linkage of glycosphingolipids, including gangliosides, to protein was establis...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Jennemann R,Gnewuch C,Bosslet S,Bauer BL,Wiegandt H

更新日期：1994-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein H, one of the major outer membrane proteins Pseudomonas aeruginosa, shows an interesting interaction with the peptidoglycan layer of the cell. It is retained by peptidoglycan after extraction of the cell envelope with SDS solution at 35 degrees C. A protein of the same molecular weight (21,000) as protein H wa...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Mizuno T

更新日期：1979-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serine dehydrogenase from Escherichia coli is a homotetrameric enzyme belonging to the short-chain dehydrogenase/reductase (SDR) family. This enzyme catalyses the NADP(+)-dependent oxidation of serine to 2-aminomalonate semialdehyde. The enzyme shows a stereospecificity for β-(3S)-hydroxy acid as a substrate; however,...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Yamazawa R,Nakajima Y,Mushiake K,Yoshimoto T,Ito K

更新日期：2011-06-01 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：:Phospholipase A2 inhibitor (PLI) was purified from the blood plasma of Chinese Mamushi, Agkistrodon blomhoffii siniticus, by sequential chromatography on Sephadex G-200, Mono Q, and Blue-Sepharose CL-6B columns. The purified PLI was a glycoprotein with an apparent molecular mass of 75 kDa and was composed of a single ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Ohkura N,Inoue S,Ikeda K,Hayashi K

更新日期：1993-04-01 00:00:00