Immunochemical studies on non-precipitating guinea pig antibody produced by administration of an excessive dose of Bacillus subtilis alpha-amylase.

abstract：:Bacteriochlorophyll (Bchl) protein complexes containing light harvesting (LH) Bchls were isolated from Chromatium vinosum, and their CD spectra were measured in the near-infrared region. These isolated Bchl protein complexes retained the CD signals of LH Bchls that were observed in situ in chromatophores. The CD spect...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Hayashi H,Nozawa T,Hatano M,Morita S

更新日期：1981-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The denaturation of recombinant horse L-chain apoferritin (rLF), which is composed of 24 L-chain subunits, in acidic solution was studied. Using two rLF mutants, lacking four (Fer4) or eight (Fer8) N-terminal amino acid residues, the effect of N-terminal residues on the protein's stability was investigated. Of the two...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Yoshizawa K,Mishima Y,Park SY,Heddle JG,Tame JR,Iwahori K,Kobayashi M,Yamashita I

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cellular Src (c-Src) tyrosine kinase is upregulated and believed to play a pivotal role in various human cancers. However, the molecular mechanism underlying c-Src-mediated tumour progression remains elusive. Recent studies have revealed that several microRNAs (miRNAs) function as tumour suppressors by regulating ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Oneyama C,Okada M

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have recently shown that furin, a mammalian homologue of the yeast precursor-processing endoprotease Kex2, is involved in precursor cleavage at sites marked by the Arg-X-Lys/Arg-Arg motif within the constitutive secretory pathway. In this study, we analyzed molecular and enzymatic properties of furin expressed in C...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Hatsuzawa K,Murakami K,Nakayama K

更新日期：1992-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rat serum carboxylesterase [carboxylic ester hydrolase, EC 3.1.1.1] was purified by ammonium sulfate precipitation, chromatography on DEAE-cellulose, QAE Sephadex A-50 and brushite, and gel filtration on Sephadex G-200. This purified enzyme was shown to be a single protein band on slab gel electrophoresis and its fina...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Hashinotsume M,Higashino K,Hada T,Yamamura Y

更新日期：1978-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Subtilisin BPN' was chemically converted to thiolsubtilisin and the interaction of this modified enzyme with Streptomyces subtilisin inhibitor (SSI) was examined. SSI competitively inhibited the esterolytic activity of thiolsubtilisin toward p-nitrophenyl acetate with a K1 value of 1.3 X 10(-5) M at pH 7.5 Spectrophot...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Fujiwara K,Inouye K,Tonomura B,Murao S,Tsuru D

更新日期：1977-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Depolymerization of microtubules in the ATP-reassembly buffer permitted the preparation of GDPETNGTP. Incubation of this tubulin fraction at 35 degrees with ATP induced the phosphorylation of E-site GDP into GTP, which was then dephosphorylated during microtubule assembly. Incubation of GDPETNGTP with phosphoenolpyruv...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kobayashi T,Simizu T

更新日期：1976-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rat peritoneal macrophages were shown to have two distinct mannose/fucose/N-acetylglucosamine-specific lectins. The major lectin of 180 kDa, which is similar in size to the mannose receptor first isolated from alveolar macrophages (Wileman, T.E., Lennartz, M.R., & Stahl, P.D. (1986) Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S. 83, 250...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Ii M,Wada M,Kawasaki T,Yamashina I

更新日期：1988-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Site-specific recognition and DNA-binding activity of p53 are crucial for its tumour suppressor function. Previous reports have shown that metal ions can affect the specific recognition and DNA-binding activity of p53DBD. Here we firstly report that magnesium ion can bind to the protein and influence its DNA-binding a...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Xue Y,Wang S,Feng X

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using an F-actin affinity column, a 60 kDa fragment of a 71 kDa F-actin-binding protein was partially purified from Tetrahymena pyriformis. After digestion of the 60 kDa fragment with cyanogen bromide, the N-terminal 21-amino acid sequence of one of the resulting peptides was found to show sequence similarity to a reg...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Watanabe A,Kurasawa Y,Watanabe Y,Numata O

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We previously showed that fatty liver was easily induced in suncus by starvation and that the plasma level of apolipoprotein B (apo B) was very low. There are three possible explanations for the low level of apo B in the animals: low synthetic rate, low secretion rate, and rapid catabolism in the circulation of apo B....

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Nagayoshi A,Matsuki N,Saito H,Tsukamoto K,Kaneko K,Wakashima M,Kinoshita M,Yamanaka M,Teramoto T

更新日期：1995-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The characteristics of the androgen receptor in the cytoplasmic fraction of Shionogi carcinoma 115 were studied in vitro by means of charcoal adsorption assay, sucrose density gradient centrifugation, and polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. The equilibrium dissociation constant for [3H]dihydrotestosterone (Kd = (2-5) ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Nohno T

更新日期：1981-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thrombopoietin (TPO) is an important haematopoietic factor in megakaryocytic activities as well as in platelet production. Interleukin 6 (IL-6) can co-stimulate TPO-dependent formation of colony forming unit of megakaryocyte (CFU-Meg) growth which could be responsible for residual platelet formation in TPO-deficient o...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Zhiyi H,Wenshan L,Wenze Z,Ning D,Chi Z,Kenan Y,Ping W,Qianqian W,Qing Z

更新日期：2007-07-01 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：:Pull-down assay and co-immunoprecipitation of cell extracts in which the integrase or reverse transcriptase of Moloney murine leukemia virus was transiently expressed showed that both enzymes interacted with PML proteins. In infected cells, interaction between the integrase and PML was also observed. Transient express...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Okino Y,Inayoshi Y,Kojima Y,Kidani S,Kaneoka H,Honkawa A,Higuchi H,Nishijima K,Miyake K,Iijima S

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:C-Proteins in developing, denervated, and dystrophic chicken skeletal muscles were examined by means of two-dimensional (2D) gel electrophoresis in combination with immunoblotting. In this analysis, the electrophoresis system which was devised by Hirabayashi (Anal. Biochem. 117, 443-451, 1981) provided excellent resol...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kojima T,Sano K,Hirabayashi T,Obinata T

更新日期：1990-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The phospholipid mediator, platelet activating factor (PAF: 1-O-alkyl-2-O-acetyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine), was recently reported to activate macrophage-monocyte cells as well as neutrophils or platelets. PAF was incorporated into dipalmitoylphosphatidylcholine-cholesterol liposomes, and their effect on guinea pig ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Hayashi H,Kudo I,Inoue K,Nomura H,Nojima S

更新日期：1985-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mitochondrial regulatory region (mrr) located between the tRNAPhe and tRNAPro genes of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) is essential for regulation of replication and transcription of the mitochondrial genome. Polyadenylated short RNAs complementary to the L-strand of the mrr in human cells and similar RNAs (polyadenylat...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Nakamichi N,Rhoads DD,Hayashi JI,Kagawa Y,Matsumura T

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chalcone synthase was purified to homogeneity by polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis from cell suspension cultures of carrot in which anthocyanin synthesis was induced by transferring the cells from a medium containing 2,4-dichlorophenoxy-acetic acid (2,4-D) to one lacking it. A molecular weight of 80,000-85,000 for th...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Ozeki Y,Sakano K,Komamine A,Tanaka Y,Noguchi H,Sankawa U,Suzuki T

更新日期：1985-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have cloned a DNA from a human pancreatic cDNA library using a cloned rat pancreatic elastase 1 cDNA as a probe, and determined its nucleotide sequence. This cDNA contains a coding region of 810 nucleotides which encodes a 270-amino-acid protein. The deduced amino acid sequence shows less than 60% homologies with r...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Shirasu Y,Takemura K,Yoshida H,Sato Y,Iijima H,Shimada Y,Mikayama T,Ozawa T,Ikeda N,Ishida A

更新日期：1988-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of HSDJ, a human homolog of bacterial DnaJ and yeast YDJ1p/MAS5, in mitochondrial protein import was examined. Recombinant HSDJ was purified and an antibody was prepared. HSDJ mRNA was heat-induced in cultured cells. In pulse-labeling and chase experiments using COS-7 cells, the endogenous HSDJ homolog was pr...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kanazawa M,Terada K,Kato S,Mori M

更新日期：1997-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The dephosphorylation of phospho-amino acids with alkaline phosphatase (AlPase) from calf intestine or Escherichia coli and the phosphorylation of bovine serum albumin (BSA) with epidermal growth factor (EGF) receptor kinase from human A431 epidermoid carcinoma cells were investigated by 31P NMR spectroscopy. The init...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Takahashi K,Shimidzu M,Shindo H,Kawamoto T,Nishi M,Matsumoto U,Taniguchi S

更新日期：1987-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Guinea pig alveolar macrophages (A-M0) were studied with respect ot the phagocytic metabolism: the respiratory burst and its KCN sensitivity, the ability to generate H2O2, and myeloperoxidase (MPO) activity. Only fifty percent of the O2 uptake by A-M0 samples during phagocytosis was inhibited by the addition of 1 mK K...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kaneda M,Kakinuma K,Yamaguchi T,Shimada K

更新日期：1980-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A simple and rapid method to remove myosin light chain phosphatase from gizzard myosin using hydroxyapatite chromatography was developed. Stable phosphorylated myosin without light chain phosphatase and kinase was also prepared by the same procedure. A convenient method using the urea gel system to detect minor contam...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Nakamura S,Nonomura Y

更新日期：1984-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The direct ion-dipolar interactions between potassium ion (K(+)) and the two hydroxyl groups of the substrate are the most striking feature of the crystal structure of coenzyme B(12)-dependent diol dehydratase. We carried out density-functional-theory computations to determine whether K(+) can assist the 1,2-shift of ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Toraya T,Yoshizawa K,Eda M,Yamabe T

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Light harvesting (LH) bacteriochlorophyll (Bchl) protein complexes were isolated from chromatophores of Chromatium vinosum, by the combination of detergent solubilization, sodium dodecylsulfate (SDS) polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (PAGE) and hydroxyapatite chromatography. Addition of the absorption spectra of thes...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Hayashi H,Morita S

更新日期：1980-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Arginine methylation in RNA-binding proteins containing arginine- and glycine-rich RGG motifs is catalyzed by specific protein arginine N-methyltransferase in cells. We previously showed that lymphoblastoid cells grown in the presence of an indirect methyltransferase inhibitor, adenosine dialdehyde (AdOx), accumulated...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Lin CH,Hsieh M,Li YC,Li SY,Pearson DL,Pollard KM,Li C

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new p-coumaric acid (4-hydroxycinnamic acid) hydroxylase was detected in mung bean seedlings treated with tentoxin, a fungal toxin, in which polyphenol oxidase that hydroxylates a wide variety of monophenols in vitro was completely eliminated. The enzyme required molecular oxygen and showed a pH optimum of 5.0. The ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kojima M,Takeuchi W

更新日期：1989-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 1H NMR study of a selectively deuterated mouse anti-dansyl monoclonal antibody is reported. Two-dimensional homonuclear Hartmann-Hahn (2D-HOHAHA) spectroscopy was found to be effective for establishing the connectivity between the C2-H and C4-H protons of His residues in the antibody molecule. It has been concluded ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kato K,Nishimura Y,Waelchli M,Arata Y

更新日期：1989-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The expression of the human SREBP-2 gene is transcriptionally regulated in a cooperative manner by sterol regulatory element-binding proteins (SREBPs) and the general transcription factor NF-Y [Sato, R., Inoue, J., Kawabe, Y., Kodama, T., Takano, T., and Maeda, M. (1996) J. Biol. Chem. 271, 26461-26464]. To understand...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Inoue J,Sato R,Maeda M

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00