Mitochondrial division, fusion and degradation.

abstract：:The amino acid sequences of human histones have been investigated for studies of histone evolution. The whole histone was prepared from human spleen and was separated into 3 fractions, H4+H3+H2A, H2B, and H1, by our technique of CM-cellulose chromatography. The H2B fraction was further purified by Bio-Gel P-60 chromat...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Ohe Y,Hayashi H,Iwai K

更新日期：1979-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The activity of thermolysin is greatly enhanced in the presence of high concentrations of neutral salts [Holmquist, B. and Vallee, B.L. (1976) Biochemistry 15, 101-107; Inouye, K. (1992) J. Biochem. 112, 335-340]. NaBr and NaCl are the most effective for the activation. An absorption difference spectrum with a peak ar...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Inouye K,Kuzuya K,Tonomura B

更新日期：1994-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to determine whether ATP-sensitive potassium channel (K(ATP) channel) activation generates oxygen free radicals in the rabbit heart. We assayed malondialdehyde (MDA) in rabbit heart slices in vitro as an indicator of oxygen free radical generation. The K(ATP) channel openers, pinacidil an...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Han J,Kim N,Park J,Seog DH,Joo H,Kim E

更新日期：2002-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A simple, sensitive, and accurate method for determination of cholestanol in plasma is described. In this method a fixed amount of cholestane is added to 1 ml of plasma as an internal standard and steroids are saponified and extracted with n-hexane. The amounts of cholestanol and cholesterol are determined by mass fra...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Seyama Y,Ichikawa K,Yamakawa T

更新日期：1976-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neurotrophins such as NGF promote neuronal survival and differentiation via the cell surface TrkA neurotrophin receptor. Compounds with neurotrophic actions that are low in molecular weight and can permeate the blood-brain barrier are promising therapeutic agents against neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kosaka K,Mimura J,Itoh K,Satoh T,Shimojo Y,Kitajima C,Maruyama A,Yamamoto M,Shirasawa T

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The sulfhydryl groups required for the catalytic activity of gramicidin S synthetase of Bacillus brevis and Escherichia coli isoleucyl tRNA synthetase were compared. In gramicidin S synthetase 2(GS 2), about four sulfhydryl groups react rapidly with 5,5'-dithiobis(2-nitrobenzoic acid) (DTNB) or N-ethylmaleimide (NEM),...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kanda M,Hori K,Kurotsu T,Miura S,Saito Y

更新日期：1984-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Partial amino acid sequences of two mitochondrial cytochrome P-450's, P-450 (SCC) and P-450 (11 beta), and two microsomal cytochrome P-450's, P-450 (C-21), and P-450 (17 alpha, Lyase), from adrenal cortex were analyzed and compared. Mitochondrial P-450's and microsomal P-450's were different in the amino acid sequence...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Ogishima T,Okada Y,Kominami S,Takemori S,Omura T

更新日期：1983-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immunoblotting showed that a monoclonal antibody, 3A10, binds to a series of rat brain-specific antigens with molecular masses of 150-, 120-, 118-, 106-, 104-, 79-, and 77-kDa. The expression of 3A10 antigens is dependent on the developmental stage of the brain; only the 106-kDa antigen is detected during embryonic st...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Harada A,Takeuchi K,Dohmae N,Takio K,Uenaka T,Aoki J,Inoue K,Umeda M

更新日期：1999-03-01 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：:Hyperthermophilic bacteria Thermotoga maritima and Thermotoga hypogea produce ethanol as a metabolic end product, which is resulted from acetaldehyde reduction catalysed by an alcohol dehydrogenase (ADH). However, the enzyme that is involved in the production of acetaldehyde from pyruvate is not well characterized. An...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Eram MS,Wong A,Oduaran E,Ma K

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role that interaction with laminin may play in Leishmania donovani infection was investigated. Binding of (125)I-radiolabeled laminin, in a liquid-phase assay, by the parasite was rapid, saturable, specific, reversible, and of high affinity. Using a Western blotting procedure, a 67 kDa laminin-binding protein (LBP...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Bandyopadhyay K,Karmakar S,Ghosh A,Das PK

更新日期：2001-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of a temperature shift-up and various metabolic inhibitors on the protein synthesis of an endosymbiont isolated from the pea aphid were studied. The syntheses of at least three major polypeptides were stimulated transiently immediately after a temperature shift-up, and treatment with ethanol and heavy meta...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Morioka M,Ishikawa H

更新日期：1992-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The epitopes of about 100 monoclonal antibodies against human type II DNA topoisomerase were mapped along the enzyme molecules. Although they were randomly and independently established, epitope sites were unevenly distributed the toward N-terminal or C-terminal region. We suggest that the central catalytic domain is ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Sakaguchi A,Miyaike M,Kuroda K,Nozaki N,Tanaka M,Hibino M,Fujii Y,Kato S,Kikuchi A

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Carboxyl groups of native human fibrinogen were modified with glycine methyl ester and 1-ethyl-3(3-dimethylaminopropyl)carbodiimide. It seemed likely that the modification occurred stepwise. Approximately 26% of the carboxyl groups of fibrinogen was modified finally. The modified fibrinogen had no interaction with cat...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kurioka S,Inoue F,Matsuda M

更新日期：1975-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pure bovine rhodopsin pellets were prepared by removal of cholic acid from rhodopsin-cholic acid complex, and X-ray diffraction patterns from the internal structure of rhodopsin were obtained for the first time using wet and dry pellet samples. The peaks at around 10 and 4.3 A spacings observed for both samples can be...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kawaguchi T,Hamanaka T,Kito Y

更新日期：1996-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The transcription and replication of influenza RNA can be studied in vitro by the reconstitution of functional ribonucleoprotein (RNP) complex from viral core proteins including the RNA polymerase (complex of three P protein subunits) and nucleoprotein (NP), and model templates. Here, two different core protein prepar...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Seong BL,Kobayashi M,Nagata K,Brownlee GG,Ishihama A

更新日期：1992-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied the roles of cofilin, an actin-binding phosphoprotein, in superoxide production of neutrophil-like HL-60 cells triggered by opsonized zymosan (OZ). OZ caused dephosphorylation of cofilin as well as a transient increase of F-actin. Both reactions were complete within 30 s. Okadaic acid (OA) magnified the OZ-...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Nagaishi K,Adachi R,Kawanishi T,Yamaguchi T,Kasahara T,Hayakawa T,Suzuki K

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Seven ganglioside species were isolated and purified from erythrocyte membranes of Japanese cats by DEAE-Sephadex and Iatrobeads column chromatographies. The structures of these gangliosides were determined as Gmi(NeuGc), Gm3(NeuAc), GM3(NeuGc), GD3(NeuGc), GD3(NeuGc comes from NeuAc), GT3(NeuGc), and another GM3 cont...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Ando N,Yamakawa T

更新日期：1982-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The lanthanide ions Lu3+ (diamagnetic) and Gd3+ (paramagnetic broadening probe) were used to displace Ca2+ from the high-affinity cation binding site on G-actin. The effects of these higher-affinity ions on the proton nuclear magnetic resonance spectrum of actin were recorded. The aliphatic proton envelope in the Gd-a...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Barden JA,dos Remedios CG

更新日期：1984-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:S-RNase is associated with the gametophytic self-incompatibility of flowering plants in Solanaceae and, on the basis of sequence homology, belongs to the RNase T2 family. To identify the active site residues in S-RNase, Nicotiana alata S6-RNase was studied by chemical modification. S6-RNase was inactivated with iodoac...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Ishimizu T,Miyagi M,Norioka S,Liu YH,Clarke AE,Sakiyama F

更新日期：1995-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Steroid monooxygenase of Rhodococcus rhodochrous is a Baeyer-Villigerase catalyzing the insertion of an oxygen atom between the C(17)- and C(20)-carbons of progesterone to produce testosterone acetate. The 5.1-kbp-long BamHI DNA fragment containing the steroid monooxygenase gene, smo, was cloned from the chromosomal D...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Morii S,Sawamoto S,Yamauchi Y,Miyamoto M,Iwami M,Itagaki E

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report here the molecular cloning and characterization of the Drosophila neutral ceramidase (CDase). Using the BLAST program, a neutral CDase homologue (AE003774) was found in the Drosophila GenBank and cloned from a cDNA library of Drosophila imaginal discs. The open reading frame of 2,112 nucleotides encoded a po...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Yoshimura Y,Okino N,Tani M,Ito M

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neutral alpha-glucosidase was partially purified from granular fractions isolated from guinea pig polymorphonuclear leukocytes (PMNL). The native enzyme had a high molecular weight, about 417,000, with a subunit of 43,000. The purified enzyme hydrolysed 4-methylumbelliferyl alpha-glucoside and maltose, but not isomalt...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Imai K,Harada T,Takano Y,Morikawa S,Tanaka A

更新日期：1989-10-01 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：:The presence of two genomic DNA regions encoding malate synthase (MS) was shown by Southern blot analysis of the genomic DNA from an n-alkane-assimilating yeast, Candida tropicalis, using a partial MS cDNA probe, in accordance with the fact that two types of partial MS cDNAs have previously been isolated. This was als...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Hikida M,Atomi H,Fukuda Y,Aoki A,Hishida T,Teranishi Y,Ueda M,Tanaka A

更新日期：1991-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cDNA of a novel protein, which contains the association domain of alpha isoform of calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II (CaM-kinase II alpha), was cloned from rat skeletal muscle. This protein, called alpha KAP, consisted of 200 amino acid residues with a molecular weight of 22,583. alpha KAP has a highly hydrop...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Sugai R,Takeuchi M,Okuno S,Fujisawa H

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study presents the structural, kinetic and thermodynamic characterizations of previously unknown submicellar concentrations of SDS-induced molten globule (MGSDS) state of a highly negatively charged base-denatured ferricytochrome c (UB-state) at pH ∼12.8 (±0.2). The far-UV CD, near-UV CD, ANS-fluorescence data of...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Jain R,Sharma D,Kumar R,Kumar R

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An improved procedure for the purification of a lipid-containing acidophilic thermophilic bacteriophage, phiNS11, is described. The procedure involves Cs2SO4 discontinuous density gradient, Cs2SO4 equilibrium density gradient and sucrose gradient centrifugations. The phage has an icosahedral shape, 75 nm in diameter, ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Sakaki Y,Yamada K,Oshima M,Oshima T

更新日期：1977-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Erucic acid was incorporated into cardiac phosphatidylserine and hepatic and cardiac sphingomyelin of male Sprague-Dawley rat. The fatty acid compositions of mitochondrial and microsomal phospholipids were similar in both liver and heart. The effect of a low fat diet and a diet containing erucic acid on the fatty acid...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Ishinaga M,Sato J,Kitagawa Y,Sugimoto E,Kito M

更新日期：1982-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Had-1, which was isolated from mouse FM3A carcinoma cells, was a non-permissive mutant cell line to Newcastle disease virus infection. Comparative study of the asparagine-linked sugar chains of the surface glycoproteins of the mutant and its parental cells revealed that galactosylation of the complex-type sugar chains...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Hara T,Endo T,Furukawa K,Kawakita M,Kobata A

更新日期：1989-08-01 00:00:00