Crystallization of arginine-, formylmethionine-tyrosine-, and glycine-transfer RNAs from Escherichia coli.

abstract：:The receptor-binding assay for cAMP was improved by using polyethylenimine-treated glass filters. A polyethylenimine-treated glass filter has high protein binding capacity. This high capacity allows an increase in the amount of protein per assay tube and the use of a crude preparation, such as a beef heart extract, as...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Takeda T,Kuno T,Shuntoh H,Tanaka C

更新日期：1989-02-01 00:00:00

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：:The effect of polyamines on F1-ATPase catalyzed reactions has been studied through the use of submitochondrial particles and F1-ATPase. ATP degradation catalyzed by submitochondrial particles and F1-ATPase was inhibited by spermine and spermidine. Spermine's inhibition was much greater than spermidine's effect. In con...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Igarashi K,Kashiwagi K,Kobayashi H,Ohnishi R,Kakegawa T,Nagasu A,Hirose S

更新日期：1989-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We generated and characterized novel antibodies specific for a cleavage site of human caspase-8/FLICE and its substrate, FLICE-like inhibitory protein (FLIP). The synthetic peptides used as immunogens were CQGDNYQKGIPVETD (#791) and VSEGQLEDSSLLEVD (#1342), which corresponded to cleaved regions of N-terminal fragments...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Niikura Y,Nonaka T,Imajoh-Ohmi S

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The complete amino acid sequence of acylphosphatase from rabbit skeletal muscle has been elucidated by automatic Edman degradation of peptides obtained from staphylococcal protease and trypsin digestions. The enzyme consisted of a single polypeptide chain of 98 amino acid residues, lacking only histidine. Its amino (N...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kizaki T,Takasawa T,Mizuno Y,Shiokawa H

更新日期：1985-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Diacylglycerol acyltransferase (DGAT) was examined as a key enzyme for triacylglycerol (TG) accumulation of an oleaginous fungus, Mortierella ramanniana var. angulispora. Subcellular fractionation of the fungus showed that DGAT activity was highest in the lipid body fraction, which occupied 77% of the recovered DGAT a...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kamisaka Y,Nakahara T

更新日期：1994-12-01 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

abstract：:We obtained two kinds of vesicle preparations which were of different density from the same gastric mucosae of hogs stimulated with food before slaughter. Both kinds contained H+,K+-ATPase. The light vesicle preparation differed from the heavy vesicle preparation as follows: the KCl permeability across the membrane of...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Asano S,Iino T,Tabuchi Y,Takeguchi N

更新日期：1988-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The conformation of the chondroitin-4-sulfate calcium salt was investigated by X-ray analysis. The following results were obtained. 1, The repeat length per disaccharide was 0.913 nm: 2, The molecular chain had three-fold screw symmetry: 3, The shape of the unit cell was a trigonal prism with dimensions a=b=1.28 nm, c...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Tanaka K

更新日期：1978-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The amino acid sequence of glutathione S-transferase a from guinea pig liver was determined. Glutathione S-transferase a was composed of two identical subunits, each comprising 218 amino acid residues. The amino acid sequence of glutathione S-transferase a exhibited 73% homology with that of human glutathione S-transf...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kamei-Hayashi K,Oshino R,Hara S

更新日期：1993-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The protein structure, kinin-releasing activity, and tissue distribution of four major proteinases of mouse submandibular gland (mK22, mK9, proteinase F, proteinase P) were studied. When compared with the deduced amino acid sequence of each member of the tissue (glandular) kallikrein gene family, the amino acid sequen...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Hosoi K,Tsunasawa S,Kurihara K,Aoyama H,Ueha T,Murai T,Sakiyama F

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spectrophotometric studies revealed the irreversible photodissociation of reduced cytochrome oxidase-nitric oxide (NO) at 5 K. The dissociated NO recombined as the sample temperature was raised, and the half-recombination temperature was 65 K. The photodissociation at 5K was also confirmed by a change in the EPR spect...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Yoshida S,Hori H,Orii Y

更新日期：1980-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The bacterial opsins can be refolded to regenerate the chromophore by transfer from SDS to DMPC/CHAPS/SDS mixed micelles in the presence of retinal. A sequential refolding model has been proposed for bacterioopsin [Booth et al. (1995) Nature Struct. Biol. 2, 139-143]. However, the roles of DMPC and CHAPS in the refold...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Sugiyama Y,Mukohata Y

更新日期：1996-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Autotaxin (ATX) is an ecto-enzyme responsible for lysophosphatidic acid (LPA) production in blood. ATX is present in various biological fluids such as cerebrospinal and seminal fluids and accounts for bulk LPA production in these fluids. ATX is a member of the nucleotide pyrophosphatase/phosphodiesterase (NPP) family ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Nakanaga K,Hama K,Aoki J

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Formate dehydrogenase (EC 1.2.1.2) prepared from peas (Pisum sativum) was a two-subunit enzyme. The enzyme accelerated the formation of an NAD+-cyanide compound having an adsorption band at 330 nm. The enzyme was able to bind one NAD+ molecule per each subunit but only 1 mole of NAD+-cyanide compound was formed per ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Ohyama T,Yamazaki I

更新日期：1975-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Specific palindromic sequences in synthetic oligonucleotides are required to induce IFN and augment IFN-mediated natural killer activity. To study the mechanism of IFN induction by oligonucleotides containing palindromic sequences, we investigated the possible target molecules of the oligonucleotides. Oligo-1, a 30mer...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kimura Y,Sonehara K,Kuramoto E,Makino T,Yamamoto S,Yamamoto T,Kataoka T,Tokunaga T

更新日期：1994-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A method was developed to obtain heavy meromyosin (HMM) from the tryptic digest of skipjack tuna dorsal myosin. The tuna HMM thus obtained was shown to be homogeneous on gel filtration-gel electrophoresis, and on ultracentrifugation. The sedimentation constant (S20,w) was estimated to be 6.1S for tuna HMM. The ATPase ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kimura I,Arai K,Watanabe S

更新日期：1979-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied the regulation of lipid body biogenesis in the oleaginous fungus Mortierella ramanniana var. angulispora by investigating culture conditions to modulate lipid body size, which we found was affected by the carbon-to-nitrogen ratio (C/N ratio) in the culture medium. Increasing the nitrogen source or decreasin...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kamisaka Y,Noda N,Yamaoka M

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Centromere protein B (CENP-B) is one of the centromere DNA binding proteins constituting centromeric heterochromatin of human chromosomes. This protein was originally identified as the target antigen in autoimmune disease patients (often with scleroderma). In this study, we cloned a human CENP-B cDNA which was longer ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Sugimoto K,Muro Y,Himeno M

更新日期：1992-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The activity of biological molecules is often affected by their phosphorylation state. Regulatory phosphorylation operates as a binary switch and is usually controlled by counteracting kinases and phosphatases. However, phosphatidylinositol (PtdIns) has three phosphorylation sites on its inositol ring. The phosphoryla...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Miyazawa K

更新日期：2013-01-01 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：:We previously demonstrated that the gene for a member of the humoral C-type lectin family is transiently expressed in the regenerating legs of the American cockroach [Arai et al., Insect Biochem. Mol. Biol. 28, 987-994 (1998)]. To identify candidate lectin(s) involved in tail regeneration in the Xenopus laevis tadpole...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Ishino T,Kunieda T,Natori S,Sekimizu K,Kubo T

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Depolymerization of microtubules in the ATP-reassembly buffer permitted the preparation of GDPETNGTP. Incubation of this tubulin fraction at 35 degrees with ATP induced the phosphorylation of E-site GDP into GTP, which was then dephosphorylated during microtubule assembly. Incubation of GDPETNGTP with phosphoenolpyruv...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kobayashi T,Simizu T

更新日期：1976-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Murine interleukin-2 (MIL-2) cDNA deleted of 11 repeats of a CAG sequence, and that encoded from 33Met to 149Gln were inserted into an expression vector carrying an Escherichia coli tryptophan promoter and were expressed in E. coli, respectively. Recombinant MIL-2 deleted of 11 glutamine repeats (MIL-2(-Gln] supported...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kashima N,Matsui H,Yamasaki S,Kondo N,Hamuro J

更新日期：1987-10-01 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：:The G72 gene is one of the most susceptible genes to schizophrenia and is contained exclusively in the genomes of primates. The product of the G72 gene modulates the activity of D-amino acid oxidase (DAO) and is a small protein prone to aggregate, which hampers its structural studies. In addition, lack of a known stru...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kato Y,Fukui K

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have recently demonstrated the localization of associated m-calpain and calpastatin in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) of bovine pulmonary artery smooth muscle. Herein, we sought to determine the role of m-calpain on calcium-dependent proteolytic cleavage of Na(+)/Ca(2+) exchanger (NCX) in the ER. Treatment of the E...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Samanta K,Kar P,Chakraborti T,Chakraborti S

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. The addition of palmitic acid or myristic acid to a medium containing delipidated fetal bovine serum resulted in severe inhibition of V79-R cell growth. The degree of inhibition by palmitic acid was concentration dependent. Simultaneous addition of oleic acid protected the cells from the inhibition by palmitic acid...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Urade R,Kito M

更新日期：1982-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:cAMP and Ca2(+)-independent histone kinase was generated from rat liver plasma membrane in an ionic strength-dependent manner by the action of an endogenous trypsin-like protease (Hashimoto, E. et al. (1986) FEBS Lett. 200, 63-66). In addition to the effect of ionic strength, this proteolytic activation of protein kin...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Hashimoto E,Yamamura H

更新日期：1989-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the nucleus of eukaryotic cells, chromatin is tethered to the nuclear envelope (NE), wherein inner nuclear membrane proteins (INMPs) play major roles. However, in Xenopus blastula, chromatin tethering to the NE depends on nuclear filamentous actin that develops in a blastula-specific manner. To investigate whether ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Oda H,Kato S,Ohsumi K,Iwabuchi M

更新日期：2020-11-10 00:00:00