Macrophage activation by PAF incorporated into dipalmitoylphosphatidylcholine-cholesterol liposomes.

abstract：:Genetic engineering strategies were applied to synthesize silk-like materials, [(GVPGV)(2)GG(GAGAGS)(3)AS](n). The primary structure of these materials represents the repetitive crystalline region of Bombyx mori silk fibroins incorporated with an elastic motif selected from animal elastin. The oligonucleotides were de...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Yao J,Asakura T

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of various divalent cations on the Ca2+ uptake by microsomes from bovine aortic smooth muscle were studied. High concentrations (1 mM) of Co2+, Zn2+, Mn2+, Fe2+, and Ni2+ inhibited neither the Ca2+ uptake by the microsomes nor the formation of the phosphorylated intermediate (E approximately P) of the Ca2+...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Sumida M,Hamada M,Takenaka H,Hirata Y,Nishigauchi K,Okuda H

更新日期：1986-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:HSP47 is a stress protein (heat shock protein) which resides in the endoplasmic reticulum, and is postulated to function as a collagen-specific molecular chaperone. To elucidate the role of HSP47 in procollagen biosynthesis, we have established human embryonic kidney 293 cell lines, which were stably transfected with ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Hosokawa N,Hohenadl C,Satoh M,Kühn K,Nagata K

更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:TreP [trehalose-permease (phosphotransferase system (PTS) trehalose-specific enzyme IIBC component)] is one of the target proteins of tmRNA-mediated trans-translation in Bacillus subtilis [Fujihara et al. (2002) Detection of tmRNA-mediated trans-translation products in Bacillus subtilis. Genes Cells, 7, 343-350]. The ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Ujiie H,Matsutani T,Tomatsu H,Fujihara A,Ushida C,Miwa Y,Fujita Y,Himeno H,Muto A

更新日期：2009-01-01 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：:Troponin is the regulatory protein of striated muscle. Without Ca2+, the contraction of striated muscle is inhibited. Binding of Ca2+ to troponin activates contraction. The location of troponin on the thin filaments and its relation to the regulatory mechanism has been unknown, though the Ca2+-induced dislocation of t...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Ishikawa T,Wakabayashi T

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Steady-state kinetic analyses suggest that Pseudomonas ochraceae 4-carboxy-2-hydroxymuconate-6-semialdehyde dehydrogenase (4-carboxy-2-hydroxy-cis,cis-muconate-6-semialdehyde: NADP+ oxidoreductase [EC 1.2.1.45]) functions through an ordered BiBi mechanism. The enzyme binds one NADP+ molecule per subunit with a Kd of 4...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Maruyama K

更新日期：1988-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Type A atrial natriuretic peptide (ANP) receptor was demonstrated to be present as a tetramer in the bovine adrenal cortex. Type A ANP receptor is composed of two functional domains, namely extracellular ANP-binding and cytoplasmic guanylate cyclase domains, and generally considered to be present as a single polypepti...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Iwata T,Uchida-Mizuno K,Katafuchi T,Ito T,Hagiwara H,Hirose S

更新日期：1991-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gram-positive thermophilic Bacillus species contain cytochrome caa3-type cytochrome c oxidase as their main terminal oxidase in the respiratory chain. To identify alternative oxidases, we isolated several mutants from B. stearothermophilus defective in the caa3-type oxidase activity [Sakamoto, J. et al (1996) FEMS Mic...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Sakamoto J,Handa Y,Sone N

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Telomerase is an enzyme that catalyzes addition of telomeric repeat sequences to the 3'-termini of eukaryotic chromosome DNA. The catalytic core of telomerase consists of a protein component, telomerase reverse transcriptase (TERT), for the catalysis and an RNA component, telomerase RNA (TR), containing the template f...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Li X,Nishizuka H,Tsutsumi K,Imai Y,Kurihara Y,Uesugi S

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate the role of the C-terminal region of barley beta-amylase, plasmid delta 54 was constructed with an expression vector (pBETA92) of barley beta-amylase by site-directed mutagenesis. Escherichia coli JM109 harboring plasmid delta 54 was expected to express delta 54 beta-amylase in which 54 amino acid resid...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Yoshigi N,Sahara H,Koshino S

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:OsGEN-L has a 5'-flap endonuclease activity and plays an essential role in rice microspore development. The Class 4 RAD2/XPG family nucleases, including OsGEN-L, were recently found to have resolving activity for the Holliday junction (HJ), the intermediate of DNA strand recombination. In this study, we performed a de...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Yang Y,Ishino S,Yamagami T,Kumamaru T,Satoh H,Ishino Y

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been reported that neutral salts such as NaCl activate the thermolysin-catalyzed hydrolysis of substrates containing glycine at the P1 position (carboxylic side of the cleavage bond) [Holmquist, B. & Vallee, B.L. (1976) Biochemistry 15, 101-107]. In this paper, we demonstrate that high concentrations (1-4 M) of...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Inouye K

更新日期：1992-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We isolated three genomic clones of rat P-450(11 beta) genes (CYP11B). Two of them corresponded to 11 beta-hydroxylase gene (CYP11B1) and aldosterone synthase gene (CYP11B2), respectively. The third one was a novel gene resembling both CYP11B1 and CYP11B2, and was named CYP11B3 gene (CYP11B3). CYP11B2 and CYP11B3 are ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Nomura M,Morohashi K,Kirita S,Nonaka Y,Okamoto M,Nawata H,Omura T

更新日期：1993-02-01 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：:The amino acid compositions, constituent polypeptides and bacteriochlorophyll (Bchl) contents of two kinds of Bchl-protein complexes isolated from Rhodopseudomonas palustris were examined. Spectrally dissimilar intracytoplasmic membranes obtained from cells cultured under different conditions were used as starting mat...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Hayashi H,Nakano M,Morita S

更新日期：1982-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper we speculate on the origin and early evolution of transition element enzymes. Iron, molybdenum, and zinc, the most abundant transition elements in seawater, presumably complexed with compounds accumulated in the primeval sea in the course of chemical evolution forming compounds with subsequently evolved ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Egami F

更新日期：1975-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two kinds of myosin phosphatases were purified from fresh chicken gizzard smooth muscle. Alkaline phosphatase (CGP-a), which requires Mg2+, was most active at pH 8.6 with 2 to 4 mM Mg2+, and was essentially the same as the phosphatase we reported previously (J. Biochem. 99, 1027-1036 (1986]. On the other hand, neutral...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Yoshida M,Yagi K

更新日期：1988-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied enzymatic activities in sea urchin egg extracts that phosphorylate myosin regulatory light chain (MRLC) from chicken gizzard smooth muscle. The activity in the presence of EGTA showed cell cycle-dependent changes similar to that of histone H1 kinase, namely, it peaked shortly before cleavage, while that in ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Mishima M,Mabuchi I

更新日期：1996-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Molecular cloning of the gene and the crystal structure of the prolyl aminopeptidase [EC 3.4.11.5] from Serratia marcescens have been studied by us [J. Biochem. 122, 601-605 (1997); ibid. 126, 559-565 (1999)]. Through these studies, Phe139, Tyr149, Glu204, and Arg136 were estimated to be concerned with substrate recog...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Ito K,Inoue T,Kabashima T,Kanada N,Huang HS,Ma X,Azmi N,Azab E,Yoshimoto T

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Midkine (MK) is a 13-kDa heparin-binding growth/differentiation factor, and its interaction with heparan sulfate proteoglycan is important in promotion of neurite outgrowth. This study was performed to reveal the species of syndecans that interact with MK during embryogenesis of the central nervous system in the rat. ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Nakanishi T,Kadomatsu K,Okamoto T,Ichihara-Tanaka K,Kojima T,Saito H,Tomoda Y,Muramatsu T

更新日期：1997-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glycerol dehydrogenase [EC 1.1.1.6] (pI 5.9) from Geotrichum candidium is effectively adsorbed in the presence of 20 mM acute buffer (pH 6.0) on either octyl-Sepharose or 10-carboxydecyl-Sepharose, among ten different kinds of n-alkyl-Sepharose derivatives tested, some of which have an amino or a carboxyl group as a t...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Sasaki I,Itoh N,Goto H,Yamamoto R,Tanaka H,Yamashita K,Yamashita J,Horio T

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:By the application of a ganglioside-mapping technique, the lipid composition of bovine thyroid was analyzed systematically. The contents of cholesterol, lipid-bound phosphorus and lipid-bound sialic acid in bovine thyroid were 5.10, 9.76, and 0.28 mumol/g of dry tissue, respectively, and the molar ratio of cholesterol...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Iwamori M,Sawada K,Hara Y,Nishio M,Fujisawa T,Imura H,Nagai Y

更新日期：1982-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mitochondrial DNA of an erythromycin-resistant petite mutant of yeast, E734, showed physical maps of inversion, which occurred between two cross-over sites in the fragments Hae A and Hae B. The pair of cross-over sites was inferred to be accommodated within a repeat unit of E734 mtDNA during petite mutation by joining...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Wakabayashi K,Furutani Y

更新日期：1984-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have detected in rat liver cytosol three enzymes (termed C-1, C-2, and C-3) which cleaved the RNA moiety of RNA-DNA hybrid. These enzymes were separated from each other by DEAE-Sephadex and Sephadex G-200 chromatography. C-1 and C-2 specifically act on the RNA moiety of RNA-DNA hybrid, while C-3 degrades single-str...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Tashiro F,Ueno Y

更新日期：1978-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The melanocortin receptor type 4 (MC4-R) is involved in food intake and represents a potential target for the treatment of some forms of obesity. The fluorescent protein EGFP was fused to the wild-type or mutated coding sequence of the human MC4-R. After transfection in HEK 293, clones stably expressing hMC4-R-EGFP we...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Blondet A,Doghman M,Rached M,Durand P,Bégeot M,Naville D

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The formation of cholesta-7,24-dien-3 beta-ol and its activity as a substrate for the sterol side-chain methyltransferase in yeast have not previously been studied. Experiments with acetone-powder extracts of yeast showed that the sterol is formed from zymosterol by delta8-delta7 isomerization. However, direct convers...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Yabusaki Y,Nishino T,Ariga N,Katsuki H

更新日期：1979-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A novel fucose-containing neutral glycosphingolipid (GL-5) was purified from the eggs of the sea urchin, Hemicentrotus pulcherrimus. The chemical structure was determined to be Fuc alpha 1-3GalNAc beta 1-4(Fuc alpha 1-3)GlcNAc beta 1-4Glc beta 1-1Cer by methylation analysis, partial acid hydrolysis, fast atom bombardm...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kubo H,Jiang GJ,Irie A,Suzuki M,Inagaki F,Hoshi M

更新日期：1992-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Deoxyhypusine synthase catalyzes the NAD+-dependent formation of deoxyhypusine in the eIF-5A precursor protein by transferring the 4-aminobutyl moiety of spermidine. This enzyme has recently been shown to be essential for cell viability and growth of yeast [Sasaki, K., Abid, M.R., and Miyazaki, M. (1996) FEBS Lett. 38...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Abid MR,Sasaki K,Titani K,Miyazaki M

更新日期：1997-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate the role of carboxyl groups of glucoamylases [EC 3.2.1.3] from a Rhizopus sp. (Gluc1 and Gluc2), the modification of Gluc1 and Gluc2 with a water-soluble carbodiimide, 1-cyclohexyl-3-(2-morpholinyl-(4)-ethyl)carbodiimide metho-p-toluenesulfonate (CMC), was studied. The inactivation of Gluc1 proceeded wi...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Iwama M,Ohtsuki R,Takahashi T,Irie M

更新日期：1984-08-01 00:00:00