Purification and chemical characterization of human platelet membrane glycoprotein IV.

abstract：:Polysialoglycoprotein (PSGP) is a major cortical alveolus glycoprotein of rainbow trout eggs that is characterized by the attachment of a polysialic acid structure to its O-glycan chains. It has been demonstrated that the polysialic acid structure is synthesized by at least three sialyltransferases mostly localized in...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Asahina S,Sato C,Kitajima K

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:pKY2289, a ColE1::Tn3 derivative, useful for direct selection of cells carrying a hybrid plasmid, was deleted of its mobility functions and parts of the transposon including the left inverted repeat. This deletion mutant, named pKY2700 expresses low levels of colicin E1 synthesis even in recA cells. A nitrosoguanidine...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Ozaki LS,Kimura A,Shimada K,Takagi Y

更新日期：1982-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mitochondria play many critical roles in cells, not only by supplying energy, but also by supplying metabolites, buffering Ca2+ levels and regulating apoptosis. During oocyte maturation and subsequent embryo development, mitochondria change their morphology by membrane fusion and fission, and coordinately undergo mult...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Udagawa O,Ishihara N

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microbacterium sp. M874 produced a glyceroglycolipid, di-O-12-methyl-tetradecanoyl-3-O-beta-D-galactopyranosyl-sn-glycerol, at about the 50 microM level. Though the strain was highly resistant to tertiary-butyl hydroperoxide (tBHP) in a glycolipid-productive medium, the resistance was reduced in a nonproductive medium...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Nakata K

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatic delta-aminolevulinate (ALA) synthetase was induced in mice by the administration of allylisopropylacetamide (AIA) and 3,5-dicarbethoxy-1,4-dihydrocollidine (DDC). In both cases, a significant amount of ALA synthetase accumulated in the liver cytosol fraction as well as in the mitochondria. The apparent molecul...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Igarashi J,Hayashi N,Kikuchi G

更新日期：1976-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacterial flagellar motors exploit the electrochemical potential gradient of a coupling ion as energy source and are composed of stator and rotor proteins. Vibrio alginolyticus has a Na(+)-driven motor and its stator is composed of PomA and PomB. Recently, we isolated increased motility strains (sp1-sp4) from the PomA...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Terashima H,Terauchi T,Ihara K,Nishioka N,Kojima S,Homma M

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Physicochemical and biological properties of recombinant human erythropoietin (rhEPO) were compared with human urinary erythropoietin (uEPO). uEPO and rhEPO were purified to apparent homogeneity from the urine of patients with aplastic anemia and from the conditioned medium of Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cells transfe...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Imai N,Kawamura A,Higuchi M,Oh-eda M,Orita T,Kawaguchi T,Ochi N

更新日期：1990-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rho-kinase is a main player in the regulation of cytoskeletal events and a promising drug target in the treatment of both vascular and neurological disorders. Here we report the crystal structure of the Rho-kinase catalytic domain in complex with the specific inhibitor Y-27632. Comparison with the structure of PKA bou...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Yamaguchi H,Miwa Y,Kasa M,Kitano K,Amano M,Kaibuchi K,Hakoshima T

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The major gangliosides were isolated from small intestine of 2-week-old mice of C3H/He strain and identified as GM3, GM1, and GD1a. These gangliosides characteristically contained a phytosphingosine moiety and alpha-hydroxy fatty acids. The gangliosides contained both N-glycolylneuraminic acid and N-acetylneuraminic a...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Sato E,Uezato T,Fujita M,Nishimura K

更新日期：1982-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We analyzed the cellular contents of not only major polyamines but also minor polyamines in slime molds Physarum polycephalum and Dictyostelium discoideum. The presence of putrescine and spermidine in either plasmodia or myxamoebae of these molds as major polyamines was confirmed. In addition to these polyamines, appr...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Hamana K,Matsuzaki S

更新日期：1984-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:F-Actin was digested with alpha-chymotrypsin in 6 M urea, and two peptide fragments from subdomain 4 of actin molecule [Kabsch, W., Mannherz, H.G., Suck, D., Pai, E.F., & Holmes K.C. (1990) Nature 347, 37-44] were purified by reverse-phase HPLC and Sephadex G-50 gel filtration. The peptide fragments were identified as...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Hori K,Morita F

更新日期：1992-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The TATA box-binding factor TFIID mediates transcriptional regulation through interactions with various regulatory factors and putative participation in reconfiguration of nucleosomes, utilizing its components, which include TATA box-binding protein (TBP) and TBP-associated factors (TAFs). Our and other previous studi...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Bando M,Ijuin S,Hasegawa S,Horikoshi M

更新日期：1997-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. New methods of preparing troponins from slow skeletal and cardiac muscle of the chicken have been developed. The electrophoretic mobilities of slow skeletal muscle troponin subunits were different from those of the corresponding fast skeletal muscle subunits. 2. A new method for determining the amount of divalent c...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kohama K

更新日期：1979-09-01 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：:The cDNAs encoding the precursors of cystatin SN, cystatin S, and two mutants of cystatin S (-18R-->W; 117R-->W) were expressed in Escherichia coli JM109 with isopropyl-beta-D-thio-galactoside (IPTG) induction. Premature cystatin S with the original signal [-20MARPLCTLLLLMATLAGALA] was processed and a large amount of ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Saitoh E,Isemura S

更新日期：1994-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In our previous study, the sphingosine-like immunosuppressant ISP-1 was shown to induce apoptosis in the mouse cytotoxic T cell line CTLL-2. In this study, we characterized the ISP-1-induced apoptotic pathway. Although caspase-3-like protease activity increases concomitantly with ISP-1-induced apoptosis in CTLL-2 cell...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Yamaji T,Nakamura S,Takematsu H,Kawasaki T,Kozutsumi Y

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Silent information regulator type-1 (SIRT1) is crucial during the development of acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). We aimed to explore whether SIRT1 activation could protect against ARDS. SIRT1 was activated by its agonist SRT1720. ARDS was induced by intraperitoneal injection of 5 mg/kg lipopolysaccharide (...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Zhan Y,Yang C,Zhang Q,Yao L

更新日期：2021-01-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Fluorescence resonance energy transfer spectroscopy has been used to study the spatial relationships between probes attached to actin and troponin in the reconstituted skeletal muscle thin filament in the presence and absence of Ca2+ ions. Gln-41 and the nucleotide-binding site of actin were selectively labeled with t...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Miki M,Kobayashi T,Kimura H,Hagiwara A,Hai H,Maéda Y

更新日期：1998-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of pH on the thermodynamic properties of the proton-translocating cyclic electron transfer system in a purple photosynthetic bacterium Chromatium vinosum were studied. Two thermodynamic parameters, the flux (Je) and force (deltamue) of the electron transfer process, were analyzed. The rate of electron tran...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Arata H,Nishimura M

更新日期：1979-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phosphorylation of chicken gizzard myosin light chain in myofibril and its effect on myofibrillar ATPase activity were investigated in the contracted state of myofibrils. When myofibrils were incubated for two hours at 30 degreeds C with ATP, magnesium and calcium, the myosin light chain was phosphorylated by endogeno...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Yamaguchi M,Watanabe K

更新日期：1980-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Purified nuclease TT1 from Thermus thermophilus HB8 has multimolecular weight forms, each of which is composed of three different subunits, alpha (10.8 x 10(4)), beta (7.8 x 10(4)), and gamma (4.1 x 10(4)). The molecular weights of this enzyme were estimated by gel filtration, polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis and eq...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Takahashi M,Kobayashi M,Uchida T

更新日期：1981-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The organization of troponin I (TnI) genes from the ascidian Halocynthia roretzi have been determined. Halocynthia possesses roughly two types of TnI isoforms. One type is a single-copied adult TnI (adTnI) gene, which contains eight exons and seven introns. adTnI expresses two isoforms, the shorter body wall muscle Tn...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Yuasa HJ,Kawamura K,Yamamoto H,Takagi T

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Our previous study showed that the amino acid sequence of Tetrahymena histone H2B has a blocked N-terminal residue followed by 119 amino acid residues, X-Pro-Lys.... [J. Biochem. (1982) 91, 897-904]. Now, X has been found to be N-trimethylalanine by 1H nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy of the isolated X-Pro-Lys ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Nomoto M,Kyogoku Y,Iwai K

更新日期：1982-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Under conditions where nM level of calmodulin was able to show full activation of myosin light chain kinase and cyclic-nucleotide phosphodiesterase, the fragments of calmodulin at concentrations as high as 20 microM failed to activate these enzymes in the presence of Ca2+. The fragments tested were Ala1-Lys75 (F12), A...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Minowa O,Yazawa M,Sobue K,Ito K,Yagi K

更新日期：1988-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The denaturation of lysozyme and ribonuclease A by guanidine hydrochloride was followed in the presence and absence of glycerol and sorbitol by means of circular dichroism measurements at 25 degrees C. The protein-solvent interactions in the presence of these polyols were also studied by means of density measurements,...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Gekko K,Ito H

更新日期：1990-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A chitinase was purified from the culture filtrate of Streptomyces erythraeus (SE). The enzyme (SE chitinase) has a molecular weight of 30,000 and pI 3.7, and shows optimal activity at pH 5.0 with an optimal ionic strength of less than 0.2 M NaCl. SE chitinase could hydrolyze chitin and its derivatives, but could not ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Hara S,Yamamura Y,Fujii Y,Mega T,Ikenaka T

更新日期：1989-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:beta-D-Galactosidase has been purified to apparent homogeneity from rabbit spleen. The purification steps involved ammonium sulphate precipitation, DEAE-cellulose, concanavalin A-Sepharose, Sephadex G-200, and Sepharose 4B-(epsilon-aminocaproyl)-2-deoxy-beta-D-glucosylamine affinity chromatographies. In the DEAE-cellu...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Rodríguez-Berrocal FJ,Páez de la Cadena M,Cabezas JA,Pérez-González N

更新日期：1988-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A rapid micro-assay method for gelatinolytic activitiy has been developed using 3H-labeled heat-denatured polymeric collagen (gelatin) as a substrate to investigate enzymes involved in the post-collagenase catabolism of collagen. The method is based on the incubation of gelatin with enzyme followed by determination of...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Sunada H,Nagai Y

更新日期：1980-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The small, monomeric Ca2+-binding photoprotein, aequorin, emits blue light by an intramolecular reaction when mixed with Ca2+. The photoprotein is made up of coelenterazine and molecular oxygen, bound noncovalently to apoaequorin (apoprotein). The chemical steps leading to light emission, involving the oxidative degra...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Inouye S,Aoyama S,Miyata T,Tsuji FI,Sakaki Y

更新日期：1989-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of Na+ and ATP on the K+ binding to Na+, K+-ATPase were investigated by the centrifugation method with radioactive K+ in the absence of Mg2+. In the presence of 10 microM 43KCl, 0.6 and 10 mM Na+ decreased the amount of bound K+ to one-half and zero, respectively. On the other hand, 10 microM and 10 mM ATP...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Homareda H,Nozaki T,Matsui H

更新日期：1987-03-01 00:00:00