Studies on trypsin inhibitor in barley. I. Purification and some properties.

abstract：:Acetohydroxy acid synthetase [EC 4.1.3.18] of Neurospora crassa has been solubilized from a mitochondrial pellet fraction by sonic treatment in 1.0 M potassium phosphate buffer at pH 7.5 containing 10 mM MgSO4 and centrifugation at 180,000 X g for 20 min. The soluble enzyme thus obtained has a high specific activity a...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kuwana H,Date M

更新日期：1975-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:After a dose of 10 micrograms of 6-aminonicotinamide (6-AN) was administered to day-4- chick embryo in ovo, micromelia was obviously observed in the hind limbs of 7-day chick embryos. We examined the teratogenic mechanism of 6-AN by using the normal or micromelial hind limbs (buds) from day 5 to day 7, with special at...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Honda A,Iwama M,Umeda T,Mori Y

更新日期：1982-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tetrahydrobiopterin (BH(4)) acts as a cofactor of the aromatic amino-acid hydroxylases, and its deficiency may result in hyperphenylalaninemia (HPA) and decreased production of the neurotransmitters. BH(4) is synthesized by sepiapterin reductase (SPR) from 6-pyruvoyl-tetrahydropterin (PPH(4)). A patient with SPR defic...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Hirakawa H,Sawada H,Yamahama Y,Takikawa S,Shintaku H,Hara A,Mase K,Kondo T,Iino T

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previously, we isolated t-cinnamoyl-D-glucose as a possible intermediate in chlorogenic acid biosynthesis from sweet potato root. The enzyme which catalyzes the formation of t-cinnamoyl-D-glucose has been purified 539-fold from sweet potato root (Ipomoea batatas Lam.) and characterized. It required UDP-glucose as a gl...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Shimizu T,Kojima M

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The plasma membrane, the outermost surface of eukaryotic cells, contains various substructures, such as protrusions or invaginations, which are associated with diverse functions, including endocytosis and cell migration. These structures of the plasma membrane can be considered as tubules or inverted tubules (protrusi...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Suetsugu S

更新日期：2010-07-01 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：:Studies on the solution structure dynamics of RNA/DNA are becoming crucially important. The phenomena of SSCP (single-strand conformation polymorphism), small RNA dynamics in a cell, and others can be related to the conformational changes of single-stranded (ss) RNAs/DNAs in solution. However, little is known about th...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Biyani M,Nishigaki K

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The alkalophile NADH dehydrogenase (NADH: 2,6-dichlorophenolindophenol oxidoreductase) [EC 1.6.99.3] consists of two identical subunits of 65 kDa, and each subunit contains the catalytic and liposome-binding regions. On treatment with trypsin, the polypeptide exhibiting the liposome-binding property in one of the subu...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Xu XM,Kanaya S,Koyama N,Sekiguchi T,Nosoh Y,Ohashi S,Tsuda K

更新日期：1989-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Specific antibodies were prepared against cytochromes P450 PB-1, PB-2, PB-4, and PB-5 purified from hepatic microsomes of male rats treated with phenobarbital. With these antibodies, the levels of these four cytochrome P450s in hepatic, renal, and pulmonary microsomes of male rats that were untreated, treated with phe...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Imaoka S,Terano Y,Funae Y

更新日期：1989-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The P2X4 purinergic receptor is a key molecule in neuropathic pain, particularly in the allodynia after peripheral nerve injury. We therefore sought to establish an anti-P2X4 receptor monoclonal antibody that would be useful for detection and characterization of the P2X4 receptor. We first prepared the refolded extrac...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Igawa T,Higashi S,Abe Y,Ohkuri T,Tanaka H,Morimoto S,Yamashita T,Tsuda M,Inoue K,Ueda T

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR) membranes of rabbit skeletal muscle were allowed to react with N-(3-pyrene)maleimide (PMI) at pH 7 at 30 degrees C. The Ca(2+)-transporting activity of the SR membranes was reduced to 20% when PMI was bound to the extent of 1 mol/mol of Ca(2+)-transporting ATPase. The ATPase and the E-P...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Suzuki T,Kawakita M

更新日期：1993-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The isolation and characterization of rabbit and human cDNAs revealed a new low density lipoprotein receptor (LDLR)-related protein (LRP) designated as LRP5. Human LRP5 cDNA encodes a 1, 616-amino acid type I membrane-like protein with three ligand binding repeats in its extracellular region. LDLR-deficient cells tran...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kim DH,Inagaki Y,Suzuki T,Ioka RX,Yoshioka SZ,Magoori K,Kang MJ,Cho Y,Nakano AZ,Liu Q,Fujino T,Suzuki H,Sasano H,Yamamoto TT

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The alpha-subunit of rod photoreceptor G protein transducin (G(t1)alpha) is heterogeneously modified at the N-terminus by a mixture of acyl groups, laurate (C12:0), myristate (C14:0), and two unsaturated fatty acids (C14:1 and C14:2). Although the N-fatty acylation of G(t1)alpha plays important roles in protein-protei...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Hashimoto Y,Matsuda T,Matsuura Y,Haga T,Fukada Y

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Incubation of rat liver microsomes with GDP-[14C]mannose and phenyl phosphate for 30 min, followed by paper-chromatographic analysis, revealed the presence of a new radioactive compound that was isolated and characterized as phenyl beta-D-mannosyl phosphate. The enzyme catalyzing this reaction was very closely related...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kato S,Tsuji M,Nakanishi Y,Suzuki S

更新日期：1980-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The subcellular distribution of calmodulin and particulate calmodulin-binding activity was studied in a eukaryotic protozoan, Tetrahymena pyriformis NT-1. The particulate calmodulin-binding activity was found to be localized principally in microsomes and to some extent in cilia and surface membranes called pellicles. ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Nagao S,Banno Y,Nozawa Y,Sobue K,Yamazaki R,Kakiuchi S

更新日期：1981-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is known that ABO blood group substances in human erythrocyte membranes are sphingoglycolipids, but recently several authors have reported that the glycoproteins of the erythrocyte membranes also have ABO blood group activities in addition to MN blood group activities and virus hemagglutination inhibitor activity. ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Yamato K,Handa S,Yamakawa T

更新日期：1975-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An adenosinetriphosphatase (ATPase) [EC 3.6.1.3] copurified with the DNA-dependent RNA polymerase [EC 2.7.7.6] from Escherichia coli was isolated to apparent homogeneity and some of its functional as well as structural properties were examined. Although the novel ATPase exhibited metal requirements similar to those of...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Ishihama A,Ikeuchi T,Matsumoto A,Yamamoto S

更新日期：1976-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Trypsin was used as a probe of F-actin conformation. F-actin is known to be refractory to proteolysis [Jacobson, G.R. and Rosenbusch, J.P. (1976) Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S. 73, 2742-2746]. However, here it was found that F-actin could also be digested by trypsin to a 33-kDa fragment (like G-actin) when free MgADP is ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Hozumi T

更新日期：1988-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anti-cobrotoxin antibodies can be separated into precipitin and non-precipitin antibodies. The precipitin antibody possesses the same binding affinity to cobrotoxin as non-precipitin antibody, but the neutralizing capability of the latter is superior to that of the former in blocking cobrotoxin binding to nicotinic ac...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kuo KW,Chang LS,Lin PM,Leaber RJ,Chang CC

更新日期：1994-12-01 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：:An NAD(P)H-dependent C-nitrosoreductase was purified 90 fold from porcine heart cytosol fraction by ammonium sulfate fractionation, gel filtration with Sephadex G-100, ion-exchange chromatography on DEAE-Sephadex A-50, and affinity chromatography on 5'-AMP-Sepharose. The enzyme had no aldehyde reductase activity and s...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Horie S,Ogura Y

更新日期：1980-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate the fine substrate specificities of four highly purified exo-type cellulases (Exo-A from Aspergillus niger, CBHI and CBHII from Trichoderma reesei, and Ex-1 from Irpex lacteus), water-soluble substrates such as barley glucan, xyloglucan from tamarind (Tamarindus indica L.), and their oligosaccharides we...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Amano Y,Shiroishi M,Nisizawa K,Hoshino E,Kanda T

更新日期：1996-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Increased fructose concentration in erythrocytes of diabetic patients subject haemoglobin (Hb) to be glycated by fructose. Haemoglobin glycation results in early and advanced glycation end products which are known as HbA(1c) and Hb-AGE, respectively. In diabetics the Hb-AGE content raises and the mean parameter multip...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Bakhti M,Habibi-Rezaei M,Moosavi-Movahedi AA,Khazaei MR

更新日期：2007-06-01 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：:Pig heart phosphoprotein phosphatase [phosphoprotein phosphophydrolase, EC 3.1.3.16] of Mr 224,000 was dissociated by gel-filtration on Sephacryl S-300, into an active subunit (alpha subunit) of Mr 31,000 and inactive subunits of higher molecular weight in the presence of 6 M urea. After the removal of urea, these sub...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Imazu M,Imaoka T,Usui H,Kinohara N,Takeda M

更新日期：1981-09-01 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：:Pure recA protein was easily obtained from Escherichia coli harboring plasmid pTM-2 which carried the recA gene by two chromatographic steps on phosphocellulose and DEAE-cellulose. RecA protein was stable in the pH range of 6 to 9 at 25 degrees C. RecA protein was found to aggregate highly under these conditions. Lowe...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kuramitsu S,Hamaguchi K,Ogawa T,Ogawa H

更新日期：1981-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An acid proteinase different from pepsin was purified from bullfrog (Rana catesbeiana) gastric mucosa by chromatography on hydroxyapatite, Q-Sepharose, Con A-Sepharose 4B, and Mono Q columns. Its molecular weight after purification was estimated by sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis to be 45 kDa...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Inokuchi T,Kobayashi K,Horiuchi S

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The immunological properties of acid proteinases from rat spleen, two types of cathepsin D and a cathepsin E-like enzyme, were examined. The rabbit antiserum was prepared against the major form of cathepsin D (cathepsin D-I) from rat spleen. The antiserum quantitatively precipitated the enzyme activity from the purifi...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Yamamoto K,Kamata O,Katsuda N,Kato K

更新日期：1980-02-01 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