Interaction of mitochondrial aspartate aminotransferase with negatively charged lecithin liposomes.

abstract：:Telomerase is a unique reverse transcriptase involved in the maintenance of telomeric DNA, which is generally undetectable in normal human somatic cells. However, it has been found in organs of normal adult rodents including the liver. In order to elucidate relevant control mechanisms operating in normal somatic cells...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Nozawa K,Kurumiya Y,Yamamoto A,Isobe Y,Suzuki M,Yoshida S

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:alpha-Actinin purified from chicken gizzard smooth muscle was characterized in comparison with alpha-actinins from chicken striated muscles, or fast-skeletal muscle, slow-skeletal muscle, and cardiac muscle. The gizzard alpha-actinin molecule consisted of two apparently identical subunits with a molecular weight of 10...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Endo T,Masaki T

更新日期：1982-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The lipA gene of Pseudomonas cepacia DSM3959 requires a downstream gene, limA, in oder to express lipase activity. The product of the lim gene, LimA, is a molecular chaperone required during the folding of lipase in oder for the lipase to adopt an active conformation. The lipase and LimA proteins have been shown to fo...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Hobson AH,Buckley CM,Jørgensen ST,Diderichsen B,McConnell DJ

更新日期：1995-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A hybridoma cell line producing mouse monoclonal antibody against pig kidney Na,K-ATPase was established. The antibody, named 38 (mAb38, IgG1), was purified from mouse ascites fluid by chromatography on a protein A-Sepharose column. Antigens immobilized on microplate wells with p-benzoquinone were used for titer assay...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Urayama O,Nagamune H,Nakao M,Hara Y,Sugiyama H,Sato K,Nakao T

更新日期：1985-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fibronectin contains at least two distinct oligopeptide sequences serving as signals for the interaction with cell surface adhesion receptors termed integrins. One of these sequences, Arg-Gly-Asp-Ser (RGDS) tetrapeptide, was shown to be transferred to a truncated form of Staphylococcal IgG-binding protein (hereafter r...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Maeda T,Oyama R,Titani K,Sekiguchi K

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glycosynthases are engineered glycoside hydrolases (GHs) that catalyse the synthesis of glycoside from glycosyl-fluoride donors and suitable acceptors. We have determined five crystal structures of the glycosynthase mutants reducing-end xylose-releasing exo-oligoxylanase, an inverting GH, that exhibit various levels o...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Hidaka M,Fushinobu S,Honda Y,Wakagi T,Shoun H,Kitaoka M

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Four Bowman-Birk type double-headed inhibitors (B, C-II, D-II, and E-I) were isolated from soybeans. Inhibitor B was different from Bowman-Birk inhibitor only in chromatographic behavior. One mole of C-II inhibited one mole each of bovine trypsin and bovine alpha-chymotrypsin, probably at the same site, and porcine el...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Odani S,Ikenaka T

更新日期：1977-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1-O-Alk-1'-enyl-2-O-acetyl-glycerophosphocholine (vinyl form of PAF) was found with PAF in perfused rat and guinea pig hearts. The main molecular species of the vinyl form of PAF, after separation by reverse phase HPLC, were identified as 1-O-hexadec-, -octadec-, and -octadecen-1'-enyl-2-O-acetyl-GPCs (16:0, 18:0, and...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Nakayama R,Saito K

更新日期：1989-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:CXCL14 is a member of the CXC chemokine family. CXCL14 possesses chemoattractive activity for activated macrophages, immature dendritic cells and natural killer cells. CXCL14-deficient mice do not exhibit clear immune system abnormalities, suggesting that the function of CXCL14 can be compensated for by other chemokin...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Hara T,Tanegashima K

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Comparative studies have been made on the effects of diazoacetyl-DL-norleucine methyl ester (DAN), 1,2-epoxy-3-(p-nitrophenoxy)propane (EPNP) and pepstatin on acid proteases, including those from Acrocylindrium sp., Aspergillus niger, Aspergillus saitoi, Mucor pusillus, Paecilomyces varioti, Rhizopus chinensis, and Tr...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Takahashi K,Chang WJ

更新日期：1976-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) is a morphogenetic process of cells that adopt an epithelial organization in their developmental ontogeny or homeostatic maintenance. Abnormalities in EMT regulation result in many malignant tumours in the human body. Tumours associated with the haematopoietic system, however, a...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Hamidi S,Sheng G

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rhodopsin from the bovine rod outer segment contains a covalently linked carbohydrate moiety (Heller, J. & Lawrence, M.A. (1973) Biochemistry 9, 864--868). We studied the location of this carbohydrate moiety on the disk membrane by using ferritin-conjugated concanavalin A and concanavalin A labelled with fluorescein i...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Nakano T,Ikai A,Nishigai M,Noda H

更新日期：1979-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An ultraviolet absorption difference spectrum characteristic of the ionization change of a tyrosyl residue was observed on the binding of subtilisin BPN' with Streptomyces subtilisin inhibitor (SSI) at alkaline pH. This difference spectrum was considered to be induced by a pKa shift (from 9.7 to > or = 11.5) of a tyro...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Masuda-Momma K,Shimakawa T,Inouye K,Hiromi K,Kojima S,Kumagai I,Miura K,Tonomura B

更新日期：1993-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An anti-oxygen radical reagent of a bacterial metabolite, M874 monogalactoglycerolipid (di-O-12-methyl-tetradecanoyl-3-O-beta-D-galactopyranosyl-sn-glycerol ), was tested for its ability to protect two organisms against cellular lesions induced by 5-aminolevulinic acid (ALA) and light. In Corynebacterium flavescens AT...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Nakata K

更新日期：2000-05-01 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：:Crystals as large as 0.5 X 0.3 X 0.2 mm of purified arginine-transfer RNA from Escherichia coli have been prepared by a vapour diffusion method. X-ray diffraction photographs showed that the crystals gave reflections up to 3.7 A spacing. They have a trigonal space group P31 2 1 (OR P32 2 1) and cell-dimensions a=97.2,...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Morikawa K,Sakamaki T,Nishimura Y,Mitsui Y,Aoki K,Iitaka Y,Tsuboi M,Nishimura S

更新日期：1978-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Capacitative Ca(2+) entry is essential for refilling intracellular Ca(2+) stores and is thought to be regulated primarily by inositol 1, 4,5-trisphosphate (IP(3))-sensitive stores in nonexcitable cells. In nonexcitable A549 cells, the application of caffeine or ryanodine induces Ca(2+) release in the absence of extrac...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Xue HH,Zhao DM,Suda T,Uchida C,Oda T,Chida K,Ichiyama A,Nakamura H

更新日期：2000-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:N omega-Phosphoarginine hydrolase from rat liver cytosol was purified to apparent homogeneity on SDS-PAGE, by employing column chromatographies on Sephadex G-75, DEAE-cellulose, QAE-Toyopearl, and glutathione-2-pyridyl-disulfide-Superose. One milligram protein of the final preparation released 4 mumol/min of inorganic...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Yokoyama K,Ohmori H,Kumon A

更新日期：1993-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:RPE65 is a membrane-associated retinoid isomerase involved in the visual cycle responsible for sustaining vision. Many mutations in the human RPE65 gene are associated with distinct forms of retinal degenerative diseases. The pathogenic mechanisms for most of these mutations remain poorly understood. Here, we show tha...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Li S,Hu J,Jin RJ,Aiyar A,Jacobson SG,Bok D,Jin M

更新日期：2015-08-01 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：:We designed a simple procedure for the purification of peptidylarginine deiminase, which catalyzes the deimination of arginyl residues in protein, from rabbit skeletal muscle using substrate affinity chromatography. Of the immobilized substrate ligands tested, i.e. protamine and soybean trypsin inhibitor (Kunitz) (STI...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Takahara H,Okamoto H,Sugawara K

更新日期：1986-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phospholipase A2 was solubilized from rat platelet membrane by 1 M KCl and purified to near homogeneity on sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis and HPLC. The characteristics of the purified membrane-bound enzyme were compared with those of phospholipase A2 released from thrombin-stimulated rat pla...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Hayakawa M,Kudo I,Tomita M,Inoue K

更新日期：1988-02-01 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：:Several synthetic peptides derived from the C-terminal domain sequence of a hemolytic lectin, CEL-III, were examined as to their action on bacteria and artificial lipid membranes. Peptide P332 (KGVIFAKASVSVKVTASLSK-NH(2)), corresponding to the sequence from residue 332, exhibited strong antibacterial activity toward G...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Hatakeyama T,Suenaga T,Eto S,Niidome T,Aoyagi H

更新日期：2004-01-01 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：:Daunomycin, an anti-neoplastic agent, is known to be sequestered by acidic organelles in normal and multidrug-resistant cells [Willingham, M.C., Cornwell, M.M., Cardarelli, C.O., Gottesman, M.M., & Pastan, I. (1986) Cancer Res. 46, 5941-5946]. We studied the mechanism of accumulation of daunomycin into acidic organell...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Moriyama Y,Manabe T,Yoshimori T,Tashiro Y,Futai M

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When nuclei isolated from rat liver in a low salt buffer were washed with 0.1 M NaCl solution, the supernatant showed a deoxyribonuclease (DNase) activity. The activity required Mg2+ and in addition spermine or spermidine, and its optimal pH was 7.2-7.4. The activity was higher on denatured (single stranded) DNA than ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Nakano T,Tsuboi M

更新日期：1976-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The process of mitochondrial dysfunction in ischemic rat liver was studied. A close correlation was found between decrease in the mitochondrial adenine nucleotide content and deterioration of oxidative phosphorylation capacity. The level of total adenine nucleotides, which was 15--20 nmol/mg protein in mitochondria is...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Watanabe F,Kamiike W,Nishimura T,Hashimoto T,Tagawa K

更新日期：1983-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A fluorescent photoreactive ATP derivative, 2'(3')-O-(4-benzoylbenzoyl)-1,N(6)-etheno-ATP (Bz(2)-epsilonATP), was synthesized and reacted with the rice kinesin K16 motor domain (K16MD). In the presence of ADP or ATP, UV irradiation of the K16MD solution containing Bz(2)-epsilonATP resulted in a new 100 kDa band, which...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Umeki N,Mitsui T,Koike Y,Maruta S

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The heparin-induced self-aggregation behaviours of four repeat peptides (R1-R4) in an acidic solution (pH = 4.5) were investigated by fluorescence and circular dichroism (CD) measurements and compared with those in a neutral solution (pH = 7.5). In contrast with the self-aggregation-resistive behaviours of the R1 and ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Mizushima F,Minoura K,Tomoo K,Sumida M,Taniguchi T,Ishida T

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00