Orientation of the rhodopsin sugar moiety in bovine disk membrane.

abstract：:We recently found that budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae sigma1278b, but not genome project strain S288C, has a gene conferring resistance to L-azetidine-2-carboxylic acid (AZC), a toxic four-membered ring analogue of L-proline. Also, the gene, designated as MPR1, encodes a novel acetyltransferase that detoxifies...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Nomura M,Nakamori S,Takagi H

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study aims to study the effects of intra-nuclear lncRNA MEG3 on the progression of prostate cancer and the underlying mechanisms. Expressions of relative molecules were detected by Quantitative real time PCR (qRT-PCR) and western blot. Chromatin immunoprecipitation and RNA immunoprecipitation (RIP) assays were us...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Zhou Y,Yang H,Xia W,Cui L,Xu R,Lu H,Xue D,Tian Z,Ding T,Cao Y,Shi Q,He X

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inhibitory effects of various amino acid esters on the phagocytic activity of guinea pig peritoneal macrophages were studied with sensitized 51Cr-sheep erythrocytes (51Cr-EAb) as well as 125I-alpha-amylase complexed with homologous IgG2 antibody (Ag-Ab complex). The intracellular uptake of 51Cr-EAb was markedly inhibi...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Nihira S,Koyama J

更新日期：1983-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Caldesmon, calmodulin-, and actin-binding protein of chicken gizzard did not affect the process of polymerization of actin induced by 0.1 M KCl. Caldesmon binds to F-actin, thus inhibiting the gelation action of actin binding protein (ABP; filamin). Low shear viscosity and flow birefringence measurements revealed that...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Maruyama K,Morimoto K,Kijima Y,Sobue K,Kakiuchi S

更新日期：1985-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tissue remodelling and regeneration in various pathophysiological conditions (e.g. the processes of development, pregnancy, inflammation, wound healing, tissue regeneration, tumor growth, etc.) require angiogenesis, a dynamically coordinated response to stimuli from the extracellular microenvironment. During angiogeni...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Sakaue T,Maekawa M,Nakayama H,Higashiyama S

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The amino acid sequence of the mature protein of Euglena gracilis cytochrome c1 was determined by sequencing of its cDNA. A cDNA expression library was constructed from Euglena poly(A)+ RNA in phage lambda gt11 and screened with an antiserum raised against cytochrome c1 polypeptide isolated from purified E. gracilis c...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Mukai K,Wakabayashi S,Matsubara H

更新日期：1989-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Comparative substrate specificities of farnesyl pyrophosphate synthetases I and II purified from larvae of silkworm, Bombyx mori, were studied by use of the possible biosynthetic intermediates of juvenile hormones in the insect. In the presence of Mn2+ ions farnesyl pyrophosphate synthetase II showed higher activity t...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Koyama T,Matsubara M,Ogura K

更新日期：1985-08-01 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：:Reaction center of chromatophores of Rhodospirillum rubrum consists of three kinds of protein, H-, M-, and L-subunit, and is bound with many other kinds of protein to form a larger protein complex (PRU; photoreaction unit), which contains all the bacteriochlorophyll. In the present study, purified PRU was dissociated ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Tanaka K,Kakuno T,Yamashita J,Horio T

更新日期：1983-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The stimulatory effects of glucose and lactate on protein synthesis by round spermatids (steps 1-8) were further studied. When the cells were incubated with lactate, the response of protein synthesis in round spermatids was closely related to the intracellular level of ATP. The ATP level in spermatids increased to 3.1...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Nakamura M,Hino A,Kato J

更新日期：1981-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nitrate reductase (NaR) linked to reduced methyl viologen from Clostridium perfringens was purified by ammonium sulfate precipitation. DEAE-cellulose chromatography, disc electrophoresis on polyacrylamide gel, and triple DEAE-Sephadex chromatography. The specific activity was increased 1,200-fold with a yield of 9%. T...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Seki-Chiba S,Ishimoto M

更新日期：1977-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The properties of phospholipase A1 (PLA1) obtained from the white muscle of bonito, Euthynnus pelamis (Linnaeus), were examined. The PLA1 activity had a pH optimum from 6.5 to 7.0 for phosphatidylcholine (PC), and calcium ion was not required. The optimum temperature was from 20 to 30 degrees C. When a fatty alcohol w...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Hirano K,Tanaka A,Yoshizumi K,Tanaka T,Satouchi K

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lambda dv plasmids having an amber mutation in an initiator gene, O or P, were constructed from mutant lambda phages by recombinant DNA techniques and several properties of such derivatives were investigated. These plasmids are perpetuated in suppressor-plus (amber-permissive) cells, but not in non-suppressor cells. T...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Miwa T,Akaboshi E,Matsubara K

更新日期：1983-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We prepared a streptavidin-based neoglycoprotein which carries more than 140 GT1b oligosaccharides. GT1b oligosaccharides were covalently coupled to streptavidin by reductive amination, yielding a monomer form of streptavidin carrying 13 oligosaccharides. The monomer form of glycosylated streptavidin was polymerized w...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Hashimoto Y,Suzuki M,Crocker PR,Suzuki A

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:c-Abl non-receptor tyrosine kinase has been implicated in many cellular processes including cell differentiation, stress response and regulating gene transcription. The mechanism by which c-Abl is involved in the regulation of gene transcription remains to be elucidated. In this study, we investigated the functions of...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Jing Y,Wang M,Tang W,Qi T,Gu C,Hao S,Zeng X

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein kinases are essential mediators of cellular signal transduction and are often dysregulated in disease. Among these, protein tyrosine kinases (PTKs) have received specific interest due to their common roles in various diseases including cancer, and emerging observations indicating that PTK signalling pathways a...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Dustin CM,Heppner DE,Lin MJ,van der Vliet A

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ferric uptake regulator A (FurA) plays an essential role in responding to oxidative stress in mycobacteria. The genome of Mycobacterium smegmatis harbours three FurA orthologs; however, the potential cross-talk and contribution to drug resistance of different furA operon remain underdetermined. In this study, we c...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Gao CH,Wei WP,Tao HL,Cai LK,Jia WZ,Hu L,Yang M

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The complete amino acid sequence of an active fragment of potato proteinase inhibitor IIa has been established by the Edman degradation procedure and the carboxypeptidase technique. Sequence analyses were carried out on the reduced and carboxymethylated active fragment and its tryptic peptides. To aid in the alignment...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Iwasaki T,Kiyohara T,Yoshikawa M

更新日期：1976-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:SpoIIGA is a novel type of membrane-associated aspartic protease that responds to a signal from the forespore by cleaving Pro-σ(E) in the mother cell during sporulation of Bacillus subtilis. Very little is known about how SpoIIGA recognizes Pro-σ(E). By co-expressing proteins in Escherichia coli, it was shown that cha...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Imamura D,Kuwana R,Kroos L,Feig M,Takamatsu H,Watabe K

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A novel positively charged planar bilayer membrane was formed from a mixture containing 20% cationic lipid, 1,2-dioleoyloxy-3-(trimethylammonio)propane, and neutral phospholipid mixture of 56% phosphatidylethanolamine and 24% egg phosphatidylcholine. The basic properties of the bilayer were essentially the same as tho...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Anzai K,Masumi M,Kawasaki K,Kirino Y

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The fatty acid composition of cardiolipin from the Harderian gland of guinea pig was examined by gas chromatography and gas chromatography-mass spectrometry. At least 33 kinds of fatty acids were detected. Oleic acid was the most prominent component, accounting for 18.2 mol% of the total fatty acids. About 70.2 mol% o...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Seyama Y,Ohashi K,Yasugi E,Otsuka H

更新日期：1984-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tn-antigen (GalNAcα-Ser/Thr) is one of the most common aberrations associated with cancer progression and metastasis, and thus is an excellent target for development of cancer diagnostics and therapeutics. MLS128 monoclonal antibody (mAb), derived from a mouse immunized with human colon carcinoma cells, was reported t...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Fujita-Yamaguchi Y

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two DFP-sensitive alkaline proteinases with strong esterase activity toward Ac-(Ala)3-OMe, designated as alkaline serine proteinases D and E, were purified pronase, a protease mixture from St. griseus K-1. Each was shown to be homogeneous by acrylamide disc gel electrophoresis. The molecular weights of these enzymes w...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Narahashi Y,Yoda K

更新日期：1977-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The fructose 2,6-bisphosphate concentrations in unwashed, washed, and leukocyte-free erythrocytes were compared. The concentration in washed red cells was 31 +/- 15 pmol per ml of cells (mean +/- S.D., n = 6). The concentration in unwashed erythrocytes was at least twofold higher, but the value in washed red cells was...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Moriyasu M,Yamamoto M,Hamasaki N

更新日期：1988-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using a combined pharmacological and genetic approach, we have identified aa 260-280 in the C2 region as a critical factor in the catalytic function of protein kinase Calpha (PKCalpha). Progressive truncations from the N-terminus as well as selected internal deletion mutants were expressed in Saccharomyces cerevisiae ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Rotenberg SA,Zhu J,Hansen H,Li XD,Sun XG,Michels CA,Riedel H

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Covalently closed-circular, superhelical DNAs, including viral DNAs, bacterial plasmid DNAs, and bacteriophage replicative-form DNA, were treated with a small amount of Haemophilus gallinarum DNA-relaxing enzyme to generate incompletely relaxed DNA molecules. Each sample consisted of a set of closed-circular DNA molec...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Shishido K

更新日期：1979-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite the usefulness of the patch-clamp technique, its application to ion pumps and transporters in biomembranes is limited. We developed a novel method for determining the activity of a proton-pumping pyrophosphatase (H(+)-PPase) made of a single protein. We heterologously highly expressed the enzyme in Saccharomyc...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Nakanishi Y,Yabe I,Maeshima M

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The calnexin homologue (Cne1p) of Saccharomyces cerevisiae was expressed in Escherichia coli to evaluate its chaperone function. The chaperone function was examined as to the effects on the suppression of thermal denaturation and the enhancement of refolding, using citrate synthase (CS) as a nonspecific chaperone subs...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Xu X,Kanbara K,Azakami H,Kato A

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A p-nitrophenyl-alpha-D-glucopyranoside-hydrolyzing alpha-glucosidase from an obligate thermophile, Bacillus thermoglucosidius KP 1006, gave a triphasic relationship at pH 6.8 in the van't Hoff plot of Km, in the Arrhenius plot of the first order rate constant of inactivation with 0.1% sodium dodecyl sulfate, and in t...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Suzuki Y,Nakamura N,Kishigami T,Abe S

更新日期：1980-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Methylobacterium extorquens AM1 is an aerobic facultative methylotroph known to secrete pyrroloquinoline quinone (PQQ), a cofactor of a number of bacterial dehydrogenases, into the culture medium. To elucidate the molecular mechanism of PQQ biosynthesis, we are focusing on PqqE which is believed to be the enzyme catal...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Saichana N,Tanizawa K,Pechoušek J,Novák P,Yakushi T,Toyama H,Frébortová J

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00