A novel glycosphingolipid hydrolyzing enzyme, glycosphingolipid ceramide deacylase, which cleaves the linkage between the fatty acid and sphingosine base in glycosphingolipids.

abstract：:The DNA chain elongation mechanisms of mouse DNA polymerases alpha and beta have been analyzed by using denatured DNA with a (dT)n block at the 3'-end as a template in combination with RNA ((rA)12-20)primer. The (rA)12-20-primed DNA product synthesized by DNA polymerase alpha was 3-5 s in size even after prolonged rea...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Matsukage A,Nishizawa M,Takahashi T,Hozumi T

更新日期：1980-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We cloned and sequenced the Serratia marcescens prolyl aminopeptidase (SPAP) gene. Nucleotide sequence analysis revealed an open reading frame of 951 bp, encoding a protein of 317 amino acids with a predicted molecular weight of 36,083. The expressed enzyme was purified about 90-fold on columns of Toyopearl HW65C and ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kabashima T,Kitazono A,Kitano A,Ito K,Yoshimoto T

更新日期：1997-09-01 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：:The interaction between lipopolysaccharide (LPS) and an LPS-sensitive serine protease zymogen, factor C, purified from horseshoe crab (Tachypleus tridentatus) hemocytes, was investigated to elucidate the LPS-mediated activation of factor C. The rate of activation of the zymogen factor C was highly dependent on the con...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Nakamura T,Tokunaga F,Morita T,Iwanaga S

更新日期：1988-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. Fractionation of fibroin prepared from the posterior silk glands of Bombyx mori was carried out. After carboxymethylation of the fibroin, it was fractionated by ammonium sulfate precipitation, Sephadex G-200 gel filtration and DEAE-cellulose column chromatography. 2. The fibroin was composed of at least two protein...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Shimura K,Kikuchi A,Ohtomo K,Katagata Y,Hyodo A

更新日期：1976-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glucuronolactone reductase [EC 1.1.1.20] from rat kidney was purified over 300-fold by ammonium sulfate fractionation, chromatography on DEAE-cellulose and hydroxylapatite columns, and preparative isoelectric focusing. The substrate specificity of the enzyme in the reduction reaction was broad, and hexuronic acid was ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Hayashi S,Watanabe M,Kimura A

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human neutrophil elastase was purified to homogeneity as two isozymes named E1 and E2. The isozymes degraded Type IV collagen, laminin, fibronectin, and heparan sulfate proteoglycan similarly to each other. The degradation of such basement membrane components by elastase may assist the extravasation of neutrophils in ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Watanabe H,Hattori S,Katsuda S,Nakanishi I,Nagai Y

更新日期：1990-11-01 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：:We tried to confirm the antioxidative capability of lecithin:cholesterol acyltransferase (LCAT) reported by Vohl et al. [Biochemistry (1999) 38, 5976-5981]. The enzyme solution protected LDL against oxidation. However, this protection was not due to LCAT enzyme, but to some unknown low-molecular-weight substance(s) in...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Murakami Y,Kamiyama S,Howlader ZH,Yamato T,Komai M,Furukawa Y

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Monkey (Macaca fuscata) mononuclear leukocytes were stimulated to produce thromboplastin (tissue factor) upon exposure to lipopolysaccharide, LPS. The stimulation was dose-related in the concentration range of 10(-5) to 10(-1) micrograms/ml of LPS. Lipid A portion of the LPS molecule was essential to induce the leukoc...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Nakamura S,Gotoh S,Takenaka O,Takahashi K

更新日期：1985-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A large COOH-terminal domain of Serratia marcescens serine protease (SSP) is essentially required for the excretion of the mature protease region through the outer membrane in Escherichia coli. For investigation of the possibility of transporting foreign periplasmic proteins by utilizing the function of the COOH-termi...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Shimada K,Ohnishi Y,Horinouchi S,Beppu T

更新日期：1994-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Histidinol dehydrogenase (HDH), a Zn-metalloenzyme, produces His from histidinol through two successive oxidation reactions with NAD+ as a coenzyme. A mutation, His261-->Asn, caused the complete loss of the Zn, thereby inactivating the enzyme, without significant structural perturbation. The ability to oxidize an inte...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Nagai A,Ohta D

更新日期：1994-01-01 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：:2,3-Bisphosphoglycerate mutase (BPGM) [EC 5.4.2.4] is a multifunctional enzyme that catalyzes both the synthesis and the degradation of 2,3-diphosphoglycerate (2,3-DPG) and contains three types of activities in that it functions as a 2,3-DPG synthetase, a phosphoglycerate mutase and a 2,3-DPG phosphatase. In humans, B...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Fujita T,Suzuki K,Tada T,Yoshihara Y,Hamaoka R,Uchida K,Matuo Y,Sasaki T,Hanafusa T,Taniguchi N

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The fructose 2,6-bisphosphate concentrations in unwashed, washed, and leukocyte-free erythrocytes were compared. The concentration in washed red cells was 31 +/- 15 pmol per ml of cells (mean +/- S.D., n = 6). The concentration in unwashed erythrocytes was at least twofold higher, but the value in washed red cells was...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Moriyasu M,Yamamoto M,Hamasaki N

更新日期：1988-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to study the conformation of the side chain of lysine substrates bound to the active center of trypsin, two lysine analogs, cis- and trans-2,6-diamino-4-hexenoic acids (4,5-dehydrolysines) were synthesized and kinetic parameters for the hydrolysis of benzoyl methyl esters and phenylthiazolones of these analog...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Mizusaki K,Sugahara Y,Tsunematsu H,Makisumi S

更新日期：1986-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The activity and stability of mushroom tyrosinase were studied in ionic liquid (IL)-containing aqueous systems. The effect of three ILs ([BMIm][PF(6)], [BMIm][BF(4)]), and [BMIm][MeSO(4)], where [BMIm] = 1-butyl-3-methylimidazolium) and their inorganic salts (KMeSO(4), KPF(6), and NaBF(4)) on the enzyme performance wa...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Yang Z,Yue YJ,Huang WC,Zhuang XM,Chen ZT,Xing M

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Kidney catalase [EC 1.11.1.6] was doubly labeled by injecting a mixture of [14C]-leucine and delta-amino[3H]levulinic acid (ALA) into normal and allyliso-(2-isopropyl-4-pentenoyl)urea (Sedormid)-treated rats. Shortly after the injection of a tracer dose or the precursors, catalase in microsomes showed the highest spec...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Higashi T,Kawamata F,Dogen M

更新日期：1976-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Connectin (titin) links the Z line to the myosin filament in sarcomeres of vertebrate skeletal muscle. An 800 kDa fragment of alpha-connectin runs from the Z line up to the N2 line region in the I band, and the following beta-connectin portion runs up to the edge of the M line on the myosin filament in chicken breast ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kawamura Y,Kume H,Itoh Y,Ohtsuka S,Kimura S,Maruyama K

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sphingosine-1-phosphate (S1P) and lysophosphatidic acid (LPA) are blood-borne lysophospholipids with a wide spectrum of biological activities, which include stimulation of cell growth, prevention of apoptosis, regulation of actin cytoskeleton, and modulation of cell shape, cell migration, and invasion. Activated plate...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Takuwa Y,Takuwa N,Sugimoto N

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A gene encoding an Na+/H+ antiporter was cloned from chromosomal DNA of the slightly halophilic marine bacterium Vibrio parahaemolyticus. The host was an Escherichia coli mutant that lacked both of the two major Na+/H+ antiporters, NhaA and NhaB. Untransformed mutant cells were unable to grow in the presence of 0.6 M ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kuroda T,Shimamoto T,Inaba K,Tsuda M,Tsuchiya T

更新日期：1994-11-01 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：:Matriptase is a type II transmembrane serine protease expressed abundantly in the epithelial cells and keratinocyte. It plays a key role in the establishment and maintenance of epithelial integrity. Matriptase is considered to be at the most upstream in cellular protease cascade. Activation of its zymogen is the most ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kojima K,Inouye K

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microtubule-associated protein (MAP) 1 consisting of MAP 1A and 1B was purified from rat brain by the poly-L-aspartic acid (PLAA) method. We found that MAP 1 bound to F-actin in vitro up to a molar ratio of MAP 1 to actin monomers of 1:10. The apparent binding constant was about 2.7 x 10(7) M-1. In contrast to the bin...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Fujii T,Watanabe M,Ogoma Y,Kondo Y,Arai T

更新日期：1993-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two-dimensional gel electrophoresis using 0.5% agarose gel in the 1st dimension and 2-12% gradient polyacrylamide gel in the 2nd dimension succeeded in the isoelectrical focusing of connectin, a giant myofibrillar protein of approximately 3,000 kDa. Immunoblotting with an anti-connectin monoclonal antibody, SM1-36-2, ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Matsumura K,Hori S,Sugiura H,Shimizu T

更新日期：1990-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The regulation of neutral cytosolic cholesterol ester hydrolase was studied in isolated rat liver cells. Addition of glucagon to cell suspensions caused a decrease in the enzyme activity which was significant at 1 nM concentration. The cyclic nucleotide analogue bibutyryl cyclic AMP (10 and 100 microM) also inhibited ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Ruiz MB,Ochoa B,Lacort M

更新日期：1990-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We demonstrate here that ribosomes from not only Escherichia coli and Thermus thermophilus [Nitta et al. (1994) J. Biochem. 115, 803-807; ibid., (1995) 118, 841-849] but also yeast and bovine mitochondria catalyze peptide synthesis promoted by a high concentration of pyridine in the absence of soluble protein factors ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Nojima T,Nitta I,Ueda T,Watanabe K

更新日期：1996-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Translesion DNA synthesis (TLS) involves PCNA mono-ubiquitination and TLS DNA polymerases (pols). Recent evidence has shown that the mono-ubiquitination is induced not only by DNA damage but also by other factors that induce stalling of the DNA replication fork. We studied the effect of spontaneous DNA replication err...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Suzuki M,Niimi A,Limsirichaikul S,Tomida S,Miao Huang Q,Izuta S,Usukura J,Itoh Y,Hishida T,Akashi T,Nakagawa Y,Kikuchi A,Pavlov Y,Murate T,Takahashi T

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glutathione-S-epoxide transferase has been purified from guinea pig liver in a homogeneous form having a sedimentation coefficient, s20,w of 3.8S, and a molecular weight of 46,000, and dissociable into subunits with a molecular weight of 25,000. The activities with four substrates, styrene oxide, naphthalene oxide, io...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Hayakawa T,Myokei Y,Yagi H,Jerina DM

更新日期：1977-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The modification of proteins by SUMO (small ubiquitin-like modifier) regulates various cellular processes. Sumoylation often occurs on a specific lysine residue within the consensus motif psiKxE/D. However, little is known about the specificity and selectivity of SUMO target sites. We describe here a SUMO assay with p...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Schwamborn K,Knipscheer P,van Dijk E,van Dijk WJ,Sixma TK,Meloen RH,Langedijk JP

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00