Purification and some properties of chalcone synthase from a carrot suspension culture induced for anthocyanin synthesis and preparation of its specific antiserum.

abstract：:Certain proteins utilize the high reactivity of radicals for catalysing chemically challenging reactions. These proteins contain or form a radical and therefore named 'radical enzymes'. Radicals are introduced by enzymes themselves or by (re)activating proteins called (re)activases. The X-ray structures of radical enz...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Shibata N,Toraya T

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Amyloid formation is the hallmark of many diseases. The propensity of a protein to aggregate depends on a number of biological factors like the presence of sulphated polysaccharides termed as glycosaminoglycans (GAGs). Here we assessed whether the polymeric nature of GAGs is responsible for their protein aggregation-p...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Motamedi-Shad N,Monsellier E,Chiti F

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We evaluated the role of cytosolic phospholipase A2 (PLA2) in the exocytosis of amylase from parotid acinar cells. The exocytosis stimulated by isoproterenol was dose-dependently inhibited by bromoenol lactone (BEL), a potent suicide inhibitor of Ca2+-independent cytosolic PLA2. The IC50 value of BEL was approximately...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Takuma T,Ichida T

更新日期：1997-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human serum sulfotransferase activities were measured in normal controls and patients with macular corneal dystrophy (MCD), an inherited disorder characterized by the decreased sulfation of keratan sulfate in the corneal stroma and serum, using two kinds of acceptor: partially desulfated keratan sulfate and a trisacch...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Hasegawa N,Torii T,Nagaoka I,Nakayasu K,Miyajima H,Habuchi O

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Matriptase is a type II transmembrane serine protease expressed abundantly in the epithelial cells and keratinocyte. It plays a key role in the establishment and maintenance of epithelial integrity. Matriptase is considered to be at the most upstream in cellular protease cascade. Activation of its zymogen is the most ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kojima K,Inouye K

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To clarify the properties and functions of a trypsin inhibitor from Japanese barley in comparison with the inhibitor from Pirkka barley, an inhibitor was isolated from the barley Hordeum distichum L var. emend Lamark by extraction with 1% NaCl, ammonium sulfate fractionation and repeated chromatography on DEAE-cellul...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Ogiso T,Noda T,Sako Y,Kato Y,Aoyama M

更新日期：1975-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Four motor proteins, MotX, MotY, PomA, and PomB, have been identified as constituents of the Na(+)-driven flagellum of Vibrio species. In this study, the complete motX gene was cloned from Vibrio alginolyticus and shown to complement three mot mutations, motX94, motX115, and motX119, as well as a V. parahaemolyticus m...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Okabe M,Yakushi T,Asai Y,Homma M

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The complete amino acid sequence of acylphosphatase from rabbit skeletal muscle has been elucidated by automatic Edman degradation of peptides obtained from staphylococcal protease and trypsin digestions. The enzyme consisted of a single polypeptide chain of 98 amino acid residues, lacking only histidine. Its amino (N...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kizaki T,Takasawa T,Mizuno Y,Shiokawa H

更新日期：1985-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The patterns of myosin isozymes in embryonic and adult chicken pectoralis muscle were examined by electrophoresis in a non-denaturing gel system (pyrophosphate acrylamide gel electrophoresis), and both light chains and heavy chains of embryonic and adult myosin isozymes were compared. In pyrophosphate acrylamide gel e...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Takano-Ohmuro H,Obinata T,Masaki T,Mikawa T

更新日期：1982-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The interaction between lipopolysaccharide (LPS) and an LPS-sensitive serine protease zymogen, factor C, purified from horseshoe crab (Tachypleus tridentatus) hemocytes, was investigated to elucidate the LPS-mediated activation of factor C. The rate of activation of the zymogen factor C was highly dependent on the con...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Nakamura T,Tokunaga F,Morita T,Iwanaga S

更新日期：1988-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We found that the glucitol concentration was extraordinarily high in bovine fetal serum, which is routinely used for cell culture in laboratories: it was as much as two orders of magnitude higher than that reported for human adult serum. We also confirmed that the serum glucitol concentration in new born babies was on...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Mizuno H,Akanuma H

更新日期：1993-07-01 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：:Interaction between protein and phospholipid molecules in sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR) was studied by measurement of the conformational fluctuation of the protein using the kinetics of the hydrogen-deuterium exchange reaction. It was revealed that the state of SR ATPase undergoes a phase transition at about 18 degrees ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kirino Y,Anzai K,Shimizu H,Ohta S,Nakanishi M,Tsuboi M

更新日期：1977-10-01 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：:To study the effect of cross-linking of membrane proteins on vesiculation of human erythrocytes by dimyristoylphosphatidylcholine (DMPC), red cells were treated with diamide at atmospheric pressure or 100 MPa and then incubated with DMPC in buffers of pH 6.5-8.5. Irrespective of buffer pH, the amount of released vesic...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Yamaguchi T,Yamada S,Kimoto E

更新日期：1994-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To analyze the processing of extracellular enzymes of Bacillus subtilis, an NH2-terminally extended hybrid alpha-amylase [pTUBE638-alpha-amylase (E24)] was purified from the periplasm of E. coli(pTUBE638) as the substrate for the in vitro processing reaction, in which a 21-amino-acid extra-peptide was added at the NH2...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Itoh Y,Sumi M,Nakamura K,Yamane K

更新日期：1990-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hyaluronan (HA), a high-molecular-weight glycosaminoglycan ubiquitously present in the extracellular matrices (ECMs) of animals, plays important roles in ECM organization and cell behavior through binding to hyaluronan-binding proteins (HABPs). We previously reported that HA has anti-inflammatory effects on guinea pig...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Nochi H,Shinomiya T,Tamoto K

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1) A method is described for the separation and fractionation of nonhistone chromosomal proteins from salt-urea dissociated calf thymus chromatin. After precipitating DNA in the dissociated chromatin solution with LaCl3, the chromosomal proteins in the supernatant were fractionated by SP-Sephadex C-25 column chromatog...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Yoshida M,Kikuchi A,Shimura K

更新日期：1975-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The lifetime of the purple intermediate formed from D-amino acid oxidase [D-amino acid: O2 oxidoreductase (deaminating), EC 1.4.3.3] and a neutral D-amino acid under anaerobic conditions was measured with a series of neutral D-amino acids. The lifetime increases with increase in the number of carbons in the side chain...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Yagi K,Ohishi N

更新日期：1978-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of extracellular type-II phospholipase A2 (PLA2) on prostaglandin (PG) synthesis has been studied using rat liver-derived BRL-3A cells. The addition of type-II PLA2 to the medium of BRL-3A cells resulted in a marked decrease in the enzymatic activity in the medium. An immunochemical study involving an anti-...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Suga H,Murakami M,Kudo I,Inoue K

更新日期：1995-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Methylation and demethylation of the methyl-accepting chemotaxis protein (MCP) was studied in vitro. The in vitro MCP methylating system showed the following characteristics. 1. Multiple bands of methylated MCP were produced. 2. The reaction could be separated into two phases: the initial phase, in which the level of ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Hayashi H,Minoshima S,Ohba M

更新日期：1982-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thermal denaturation of cytochromes c of horse, cow, and Candida krusei in aqueous guanidine hydrochloride in the neutral pH region was studied by means of absorption and optical rotation measurements. The values of standard free energy change upon denaturation were estimated over the temperature range from 3 to 51 de...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kawaguchi H,Noda H

更新日期：1977-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to identify the b-type cytochrome involved in the nitrate reduction in a photodenitrifier, Rhodopseudomonas sphaeroides forma sp. denitrificans, the b-type cytochromes in the spheroplast membranes were characterized. Difference spectra at 77K of spheroplast membranes indicated the presence of two b-type cytoc...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Yokota S,Urata K,Satoh T

更新日期：1984-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. From the standpoint of monomer-dimer equilibrium of hog kidney D-amino acid oxidase [EC 1.4.3.3] and the interaction between the enzyme and small molecules, the effect of pH on the binding of p-aminobenzoate to the monomer and dimer of the enzyme was studied by kinetic methods and spectrophotometric titration. 2. T...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Horiike K,Shiga K,Isomoto A,Yamano T

更新日期：1976-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Syk protein-tyrosine kinase (PTK) has been implicated in a variety of hematopoietic cell responses including immunoreceptor signaling. However, so far, there has been no evidence of the expression of Syk or Syk-related PTK in non-hematopoietic tissues. In this study, we have purified from blood cell-depleted rat liver...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Tsuchida S,Yanagi S,Inatome R,Ding J,Hermann P,Tsujimura T,Matsui N,Yamamura H

更新日期：2000-02-01 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：:Histidinoalanine, a cross-linking component of connective tissue proteins, was detected in the acid hydrolysate of human urine. The concentrations in urines from newborn babies, children, and adults were 1.33 +/- 0.27, 0.77 +/- 0.23, and 0.89 +/- 0.33 nmol/mg creatinine, respectively. Possible origins of urinary histi...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Fujimoto D

更新日期：1986-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hemoglobin-vesicles (HbV) have been developed for use as artificial O(2) carriers in which a purified Hb solution is encapsulated within a phospholipid bilayer membrane. In this study, bovine Hb (BHb) was tested as a source of HbV instead of human Hb (HHb). We compared the preparation process and characteristics of BH...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Sakai H,Masada Y,Takeoka S,Tsuchida E

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Beta-N-Acetylgalactosaminidase [EC 3.2.1.53] was purified to homogeneity from the culture media of Bacillus sp. AT173-1. The enzyme has a molecular weight of 48,000 as estimated by SDS-PAGE under reducing conditions and an isoelectric point of 4.3. The enzyme requires dithiothreitol as an activator and is most active ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Tanaka A,Ozaki S

更新日期：1997-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oxidative activity of 9-anthraldehyde (9-AA) to 9-anthracenecarboxylic acid in monkey liver was mainly located in microsomes. The reaction required NADPH as an essential cofactor and was significantly inhibited by SKF 525-A, metyrapone, disulfiram, and CO, potent inhibitors of microsomal aldehyde oxygenase (MALDO). Tw...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Matsunaga T,Iwawaki Y,Watanabe K,Yamamoto I,Kageyama T,Yoshimura H

更新日期：1996-04-01 00:00:00