Messenger RNA structure participating in the initiation of synthesis of cucumber mosaic virus coat protein.

abstract：:The genomic organization of the gene encoding the human adipocyte-derived leucine aminopeptidase (A-LAP) has been determined. The gene is composed of 20 exons and 19 introns and spans approximately 47 kilobases of chromosome 5q15. The gluzincin aminopeptidase motif, the HEXXH(X)(18)E zinc-binding motif essential for e...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Hattori A,Matsumoto K,Mizutani S,Tsujimoto M

更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The amount of S-II, a protein specifically stimulating RNA polymerase II, was measured in various mouse organs by a micro complement fixation assay. The amount was almost the same in brain, liver, kidney, spleen, and Ehrlich ascites tumor cells on the basis of DNA, being about 3.8 micrograms/mg DNA, which corresponds ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Tamura H,Sekimizu K,Obinata M,Natori S

更新日期：1980-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Among several intracellular protease tested, cathepsin H transformed leukotriene D4 to E4 with a release of glycine in a stoichiometric quantity. Under the optimal conditions the rate of leukotriene D4 transformation by cathepsin H was about 3% of the hydrolysis rate of alpha-N-benzoyl-DL-arginine-2-naphthylamide whic...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Yokota K,Shono F,Yamamoto S,Kominami E,Katunuma N

更新日期：1983-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Proteolytic trimming of isoprenylated proteins, including Ras, at the C-terminal CAAX motifs is a key event in their activation. However, the protease responsible for the proteolysis has not been well characterized yet. In this study, we established a novel assay method for the enzyme using a fluorescent substrate, da...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Nishii W,Muramatsu T,Kuchino Y,Yokoyama S,Takahashi K

更新日期：1997-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. Tropomyosin, one of the regulatory proteins in muscle contraction, was prepared from chickens, rabbits, frogs, shrimps, and shellfish, and conserved characteristics were studied using an enzymological technique. 2. All tropomyosins tested, irrespective of their sources, were found to have the ability to mediate the...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Hayashi J,Hirabayashi T

更新日期：1978-02-01 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：:Heat shock protein 70 (Hsp70) chaperone systems consist of Hsp70, Hsp40 and a nucleotide-exchange factor and function to help unfolded proteins achieve their native conformations. Typical Hsp40s assume a homodimeric structure and have both chaperone and cochaperone activity. The dimeric structure is critical for chape...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Uchida T,Kanemori M

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The presence of a leucine zipper motif was recognized in the deduced amino acid sequences of human and rat renin-binding proteins (RnBPs) on cloning and sequence analysis of the RnBP cDNAs. The in vitro synthesized RnBPs, with the respective cDNAs, formed heterodimers with porcine renin and homodimers. On comparison o...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Inoue H,Takahashi S,Fukui K,Miyake Y

更新日期：1991-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Elafin was shown to be a new type of proteinase inhibitor which has an anchoring sequence. Human elafin, a potent inhibitor specific for elastase and proteinase 3, has a unique repeating sequence in its prosegment that is rich in Gln and Lys residues. The prosegment, termed "cementoin," exhibits high homology with the...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Nara K,Ito S,Ito T,Suzuki Y,Ghoneim MA,Tachibana S,Hirose S

更新日期：1994-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pork insulin was subjected to mercaptosuccinylation and then coupled to beta-D-galactosidase [EC 3.2.1.23] from Escherichia coli using N,N'-o-phenylenedimaleimide. The competitive binding of the conjugate and insulin to anti-insulin antibody was tested. Results showed that formation of an insulin-beta-D-galactosidase ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kato K,Hamaguchi Y,Fukui H,Ishikawa E

更新日期：1975-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. Native human hemoglobin A was digested with proteases after treatment with reduced or oxidized glutathione, cysteine, or cystine. 2. The treatment of hemoglobin with a 40-fold molar excess of reduced glutathione or cysteine at 37 degrees C for 4 enhanced its susceptibility to trypsin 4 or 6 times, respectively. How...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kimura H,Murata H,Uematsu H

更新日期：1980-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A rat liver-specific antigen (RLSA) solubilized with the nonionic detergent non-anonyl-N-methylglucamide was purified through affinity column chromatography with a monoclonal antibody and by high-performance liquid chromatography with a hydroxylapatite column. The purified RLSA showed a single band on sodium dodecyl s...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Sato K,Ikeda T,Kawai F,Osada Y

更新日期：1987-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:EnvZ is a membrane-located protein kinase which modulates expression of the ompF and ompC genes through phosphotransfer signal transduction in Escherichia coli. Previously, we developed an in vitro method for analyzing the intact form of EnvZ in isolated cytoplasmic membranes, and demonstrated that this particular for...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Tokishita S,Kojima A,Mizuno T

更新日期：1992-06-01 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：:The region containing the RNA polymerase alpha subunit (RNAPalpha) gene (rpoA) and the ribosomal protein genes of a thermophilic eubacterial strain, Thermus thermophilus (Tt) HB8, was cloned from a genomic DNA library by Southern hybridization. The gene order in this region is rpl36-rps13-rps11-rps4-rpoA-rpl17, which ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Wada T,Yamazaki T,Kuramitsu S,Kyogoku Y

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thiol proteases are industrially significant proteins with catalytic efficiency. The effect of low, medium and high molecular-weight poly (ethylene glycol) (PEG- 400, 6000 and 20000) on the stability of thiol proteases (papain, bromelain and chymopapain) has been studied by activity measurements using synthetic substr...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Fatima S,Khan RH

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:FOXP2 is a member of the P subfamily of FOX transcription factors, the DNA-binding domain of which is the winged helix forkhead domain (FHD). In this work we show that the FOXP2 FHD is able to bind to various DNA sequences, including a novel sequence identified in this work, with different affinities and rates as dete...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Webb H,Steeb O,Blane A,Rotherham L,Aron S,Machanick P,Dirr H,Fanucchi S

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:I-protein was mixed with myosin before or after myosin filaments were reconstituted. In both cases, I-protein seemed to accelerate the myosin assembly. The binding of I-protein to myosin filaments was tested by sedimentation experiments and SDS-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. In a low ionic strength solution at pH...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Ohashi K,Ishikawa K,Maruyama K

更新日期：1989-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The traditional two-step EGTA/collagenase method is widely used in studying nitric oxide (NO) production in hepatocytes. The present study first revealed that hepatocytes isolated by this method spontaneously express an iNOS mRNA. Thereafter, based on this novel finding, we characterized the expression and regulation ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Wang H,Gao X,Fukumoto S,Tademoto S,Sato K,Hirai K

更新日期：1998-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Amino acid compositions of 356 proteins are expressed as points in an 18 dimensional space of 18 axes representing the contents of amino acids. The proteins are classified into four groups of intra- and extracellular enzymes and nonenzymes according to analysis of the distribution of the points. The groups have a sign...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Nishikawa K,Ooi T

更新日期：1982-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bone marrow lineage-negative (Lin(-)) c-Kit(+) Sca-1(+) hematopoietic cells from human GM-CSF receptor gene transgenic mice were cultured on established bone marrow stromal cell (TBR59) layers and on semisolid medium. In the semisolid assay, an increasing number of larger colonies were observed in the presence of hGM-...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Okubo T,Yanai N,Watanabe S,Arai Ki,Obinata M

更新日期：2000-04-01 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：:Gp91(phox) is a key component of the phagocyte NADPH oxidase. Mutations of its promoter found in patients with chronic granulomatous disease cause deficient binding of PU.1 and HAF-1. Because the two factors bind to the same site (Pu box) of the promoter, we attempted to clarify their relative in vivo contributions to...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Islam MR,Fan C,Fujii Y,Hao LJ,Suzuki S,Kumatori A,Yang D,Rusvai E,Suzuki N,Kikuchi H,Nakamura M

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have isolated a gene (clone Y113G7A.11) from Caenorhabditis elegans (C. elegans), that we have designated as ceST1, and which is the only member of the cytosolic sulfotransferase (SULT) gene family present in the genome of this organism. We identified the SULT motifs of ceST1 based upon their deduced amino acid seq...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Hattori K,Inoue M,Inoue T,Arai H,Tamura HO

更新日期：2006-03-01 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：: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：:Cilia and flagella of eukaryotic cells are evolutionarily conserved organelles with a microtubule-based axoneme as a scaffold. To fulfil their functions in cellular motility, sensory reception and developmental signalling, cilia contain unique proteins, such as receptors and ion channels. The assembly and maintenance ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Nakayama K,Katoh Y

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ion-exchange chromatography (IEC) is the most frequently used chromatographic technique for the separation of proteins and peptides. In this article, the effects of urea on IEC separation of kiwifruit actinidin, egg white and urinary proteins were examined. The purity and relative amount of each protein in different c...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Khademi F,Mostafaie A

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Guanidine hydrochloride (GdnHCl)-induced unfolding of bovine spleen galectin-1 (Gal-1) exhibits three-state mechanism involving exclusive, structured tertiary monomer in 0.5 M GdnHCl. Gal-1 has one tryptophan residue (Trp 68) per subunit. Phosphorescence spectra of both Gal-1 dimer and intermediate monomer at 77 K sho...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Mandal P,Molla AR,Mandal DK

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The state of association of bovine Band 3, which is a major intrinsic protein of erythrocyte membranes, was examined in nonaethyleneglycol dodecyl ether (C12E9) solution by ultracentrifugation, gel filtration, gel electrophoresis and cross-linking studies. The molecular weight of bovine Band 3 was 107,000 +/- 5% as de...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Nakashima H,Makino S

更新日期：1980-10-01 00:00:00