Purification and properties of a form of UDP-glucuronyltransferase from liver microsomes of 3-methylcholanthrene-treated rats.

abstract：:Reverse transcriptases (RTs) from Moloney murine leukaemia virus (MMLV) and avian myeloblastosis virus (AMV) contain all the fingers, palm, thumb, connection and RNase H domains. The fingers, palm and thumb domains are thought to be involved in the reverse transcription activity, and the RNase H domain is in the RNase...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Yasukawa K,Mizuno M,Inouye K

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have studied the regio- and stereoselectivity of ring-hydroxylation and N-desisopropylation of S(-)- and R(+)-propranolol, using dog liver microsomes and the expressed dog CYP2D15 in insect cells. In dog liver microsomes, 4-hydroxylation was the preferred pathway in S(-)-propranolol oxidation, while N-desisopropyla...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Tasaki T,Iwata H,Kazusaka A,Fujita S

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Histidine and its derivatives increased rabbit muscle fructose 1,6-bisphosphatase activity at neutral pH with positive cooperativity. In the presence of histidine and carnosine the optimum pH shifted from pH 8.0 to 7.4. The cooperative response of the enzyme to AMP and fructose 1,6-bisphosphate was observed in the pre...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Ikeda T,Kimura K,Hama T,Tamaki N

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytolethal distending toxin (CDT) is one of the exotoxins produced by Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans, an agent of localized aggressive periodontitis. We constructed N-terminal deletion mutants of CdtA using an Escherichia coli expression system and found that ADelta19-47, with a deletion from Asn-19 to Pro-47, s...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Saiki K,Gomi T,Konishi K

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The STPR domain is a novel DNA-binding domain composed of repeats of 23 amino-acid-long peptide found in the fibroin-modulator-binding protein-1 (FMBP-1) of the silkworm Bombyx mori. Theoretical proteins having the STPR domain are highly conserved, particularly in vertebrates, but the functions are mostly unknown. In ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Takiya S,Saito S,Yokoyama T,Matsumoto D,Aizawa T,Kamiya M,Demura M,Kawano K

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The technique of saturation transfer electron spin resonance has been applied to study the rotational diffusion of spin-labeled Ca2+, Mg2+-dependent ATPase molecules in the membranes of sarcoplasmic reticulum vesicles. Comparison of the present data with those for spin-labeled hemoglobin undergoing isotropic rotation ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kirino Y,Ohkuma T,Shimizu H

更新日期：1978-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sodium- and potassium-activated adenosinetriphosphatase (Na+, K+-ATPase) purified from dog kidney outer medulla was examined by polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis and by photoaffinity labeling with N-(ouabain)-N'-(2-nitro-4-azidophenyl)-ethylenediamine (NAP-ouabain). The large subunit band (alpha-band) split into two ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Ohta T,Kawamura M,Hasegawa T,Ishikura H,Nagano K

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Catalase from Aspergillus niger was purified to homogeneity as judged from the results of ultracentrifugation and polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. The enzyme had a molecular weight of 385,000 as estimated from sedimentation measurements. Carbohydrate analyses showed that the catalase was a glycoprotein containing a...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kikuchi-Torii K,Hayashi S,Nakamoto H,Nakamura S

更新日期：1982-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have developed a novel method for the preparation of 'recombinant proteoliposomes'. Membrane proteins were expressed on budded virus (BV) envelopes using baculovirus gene expression systems, and proteoliposomes were prepared by fusion of these viruses with liposomes. First, plasmid DNA containing the gene for the t...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Fukushima H,Mizutani M,Imamura K,Morino K,Kobayashi J,Okumura K,Tsumoto K,Yoshimura T

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The second domain (R-020) of human urinary trypsin inhibitor (UTI) exerts similar inhibitory activities on trypsin, alpha-chymotrypsin, leukocyte elastase, and plasmin to those of UTI itself, and additionally inhibits coagulation factor Xa (FXa) and plasma kallikrein, on both of which UTI has no inhibitory effect. In ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Nii A,Morishita H,Yamakawa T,Matsusue T,Hirose J,Miura T,Isaji M,Horisawa Y,Sugihara K,Kanamori T

更新日期：1994-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eph/ephrin signalling plays essential roles in various tissue developments, such as axon guidance, angiogenesis and tissue separation. Interaction between Ephs and ephrins upon cell-cell contact results in forward (towards Eph-expressing cells) and reverse (towards ephrin-expressing cells) signalling. Although the mol...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Takeuchi S,Katoh H,Negishi M

更新日期：2015-09-01 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：:Amino acid sequence analysis was done on a human lambda Bence Jones protein NIG-64 with the major objective of determining the sequence of the variable region. Nineteen tryptic peptides covering 216 residues were isolated from the completely reduced and aminoethylated protein, and 17 of these were completely sequenced...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kametani F,Takayasu T,Suzuki S,Shinoda T,Okuyama T,Shimizu A

更新日期：1983-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A proton nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) study is reported of the molecular structural basis of antigen-antibody interactions. An immunologically reactive proteolytic fragment corresponding to one of the antigenic regions on hen egg-white lysozyme (HEL) was used in combination with a monoclonal antibody that recogniz...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Ito W,Nishimura M,Sakato N,Fujio H,Arata Y

更新日期：1987-09-01 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：:p-Nitrophenyl O-6-deoxy-6-[(2-pyridyl)amino]-alpha-D-glucopyranosyl-(1----4)-O-alpha- D-glucopyranosyl-(1----4)-O-alpha-D-glucopyranosyl-(1----4)-O-alpha-D- glucopyranosyl-(1----4)-alpha-D-glucopyranoside (FG5P) is hydrolyzed by human pancreatic a-amylase (HPA) or salivary alpha-amylase (HSA) to O-6-deoxy-6-[(2-pyridy...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Omichi K,Ikenaka T

更新日期：1986-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Of the five HSV1 immediate-early proteins, infected-cell protein 22 (ICP22), the product of the Us1 gene, is a member whose function is less understood. In order to promote better understanding of the role of ICP22 in viral replication, mutation and fluorescence techniques were used to investigate the biochemical rela...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Cun W,Hong M,Liu LD,Dong CH,Luo J,Li QH

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gp91(phox) is a key component of the phagocyte NADPH oxidase. Mutations of its promoter found in patients with chronic granulomatous disease cause deficient binding of PU.1 and HAF-1. Because the two factors bind to the same site (Pu box) of the promoter, we attempted to clarify their relative in vivo contributions to...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Islam MR,Fan C,Fujii Y,Hao LJ,Suzuki S,Kumatori A,Yang D,Rusvai E,Suzuki N,Kikuchi H,Nakamura M

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA synthesis in the Bacillus subtilis cells has become possible using extra-cellular DNA. Generally, purified DNAs in a test tube have been required to introduce into the host cells for molecular cloning technology in the laboratory. We have developed a cell lysis technique for natural transformation using stable ext...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kaneko S,Fukushima H,Nakahama M,Asano S,Miyazaki Y,Aizawa Y,Itaya M

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The interaction between n-octyl-beta-D-glucopyranoside (octyl glucoside) and bovine liver glutamate dehydrogenase (GDH) was studied using techniques including equilibrium dialysis, UV-spectrophotometry, circular dichroism (CD), fluorescence energy transfer and extrinsic spectrofluorometry in 50 mM sodium phosphate buf...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Ghobadi S,Safarian S,Moosavi-Movahedi AA,Ranjbar B

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The DNA fragment containing the phoS gene, a regulatory gene for alkaline phosphatase, has been isolated from Escherichia coli K-12 chromosomal DNA by cutting off the DNA with Hind III restriction enzyme and by cloning the gene with plasmid vector pTP 4 which was constructed in this study. The isolated fragment was of...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Iwakura M,Shimura Y,Tsuda K

更新日期：1982-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two cDNA clones, pHPah1 and pHPah2, encoding polycyclic hydrocarbon-inducible forms of rabbit liver microsomal cytochrome P-450 were isolated and their nucleotide sequences were determined. The inserts of pHPah1 and pHPah2 contained open reading frames specifying the entire primary structures of cytochrome P-450s, con...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kagawa N,Mihara K,Sato R

更新日期：1987-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Partition of merocyanine dyes, which have a negative charge, onto photosynthetic membranes of chloroplasts and bacteria was analyzed by measuring the fluorescence intensity change, absorbance change, and amount of dye in the supernatant after centrifugation. The partition depended on the surface potential, which is a ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Masamoto K,Matsuura K,Itoh S,Nishimura M

更新日期：1981-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The direct ion-dipolar interactions between potassium ion (K(+)) and the two hydroxyl groups of the substrate are the most striking feature of the crystal structure of coenzyme B(12)-dependent diol dehydratase. We carried out density-functional-theory computations to determine whether K(+) can assist the 1,2-shift of ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Toraya T,Yoshizawa K,Eda M,Yamabe T

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this report, we describe a laser-latex combination system that enables membrane-impermeable molecules to penetrate cell membranes. Laser light (Q-switched Nd:YAG laser, 532.5 nm) was used to irradiate a mixture of commercial latex particles (blue dyed, 1 micro m in diameter) and mouse fibrosarcoma (Meth-A) cells. A...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Umebayashi Y,Miyamoto Y,Wakita M,Kobayashi A,Nishisaka T

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The SoxR protein of Escherichia coli responds to redox signals by activating the transcription of soxS, which encodes another transcription activator that directly stimulates oxidative stress genes. In contrast, Pseudomonas aeruginosa has an open reading frame (ORF) encoding a putative protein homologous to E. coli So...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kobayashi K,Tagawa S

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The gene encoding a MutM from Desulfovibrio vulgaris (Miyazaki F) was cloned and expressed in Escherichia coli. A 5.9-kb DNA fragment, isolated from D. vulgaris (Miyazaki F) by XhoI and PvuII, contained a MutM gene and other open reading frames. The nucleotide sequence of the MutM gene indicated that the protein was c...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Sanada H,Nakanishi T,Inoue H,Kitamura M

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:ADAMTS13 is the metalloprotease responsible for the proteolytic degradation of von Willebrand factor (VWF). A severe deficiency of this VWF-cleaving protease activity causes thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura. This protease, comprising 1,427 amino acid residues, is composed of multiple domains, i.e., a preproregion, ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Soejima K,Nakamura H,Hirashima M,Morikawa W,Nozaki C,Nakagaki T

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. When ribonuclease T1 [EC 3.1.4.8] (0.125% solution) was treated with a 760-fold molar excess of iodoacetamide at pH 8.0 and 37 degrees, about 90% of the original activity was lost in 24 hr. The half-life of the activity was about 8 hr. The binding ability for 3'-GMP was lost simultaneously. Changes were detected on...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Takahashi K

更新日期：1976-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Purothionin isolated from commercial wheat flour contained several components and two of them (A-I and A-II) were isolated in pure form by CM-52 column chromatography. Each component contained 45 amino acid residues with a 4 disulfide bonds. Purothionin A-II was digested with trypsin and thermolysin to isolate cystine...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Hase T,Matsubara H,Yoshizumi H

更新日期：1978-06-01 00:00:00