A neutral subtilopeptidase inhibitor from porcine serum some evidence for alpha2-macroglobulin.

abstract：:Affinity chromatography based on the reaction between SH groups in protein and +HgC6H4CO groups in the p-mercuribenzoylaminoethyl derivative of Sepharose 4B was examined with a crude preparation of calf thymus cysteine-containing histone. Adsorption of the histone onto the column by specific coupling was found to be ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Ishikawa K,Iwai K

更新日期：1975-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microbacterium sp. M874 produced a glyceroglycolipid, di-O-12-methyl-tetradecanoyl-3-O-beta-D-galactopyranosyl-sn-glycerol, at about the 50 microM level. Though the strain was highly resistant to tertiary-butyl hydroperoxide (tBHP) in a glycolipid-productive medium, the resistance was reduced in a nonproductive medium...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Nakata K

更新日期：2000-05-01 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：:Phase transition was detected by a fluorescence polarization technique in the membrane of Thermus thermophilus HB8: it was found to be a function of cell growth temperature when the cell growth temperature was varied between 50-80 degrees C. A systematic relation between the phase transition temperature and the growth...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Wakayama N,Oshima T

更新日期：1978-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A chromosomal gene, mlr6793, in Mesorhizobium loti was identified as the gene encoding 5-formyl-3-hydroxy-2-methylpyridine 4-carboxylic acid (FHMPC) dehydrogenase (dismutase) involved in the degradation pathway for pyridoxine (vitamin B(6)). The homogenously purified recombinant enzyme has a molecular mass of 59.1 kDa...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Yokochi N,Yoshikane Y,Matsumoto S,Fujisawa M,Ohnishi K,Yagi T

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Specific and high titer antisera against 4-O-methylglucuronic acid-containing glycosphingolipid (Lipid IV) from spermatozoa of the fresh-water bivalve, Hyriopsis schlegelii, were raised in rabbits. The antisera were found to agglutinate spermatozoa of three fresh-water bivalves, H. schlegelii, Anodonta woodiana, and C...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Sugita M,Inoue T,Itasaka O,Hori T

更新日期：1984-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Methioninase of Pseudomonas putida was purified to homogeneity, as judged by polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis, with a specific activity 270-fold higher than that of the crude extract. 1. The purified enzyme had an S20,w of 8.37, a molecular weight of 160,000, and an isoelectric point of 5.6. 2. A break in the Arrhen...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Ito S,Nakamura T,Eguchi Y

更新日期：1976-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The fluorescence characteristics of product (I), formed during the lipid peroxidation of rat liver phosphatidylcholine liposomes containing glycine, and fluorescent product (II), derived from the reaction of malonaldehyde with glycine, were examined to elucidate the mechanism of fluorescent chromophore formation. Fluo...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Shimasaki H,Hirai N,Ueta N

更新日期：1988-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Selected biochemical properties, including the charge heterodispersity profile and carbohydrate specificity, of bovine galectin-1 were determined in detail. The lectin was purified through an improved purification protocol that yielded 35-40 mg/kg of wet tissue with a specific activity of 1.7-2 x 10(4) mg-1.ml. The ga...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Ahmed H,Fink NE,Pohl J,Vasta GR

更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Stem cells divide and undergo self-renewal depending on the signals received from the stem cell niche. This phenomenon is indispensable to maintain tissues and organs in individuals. However, not all the molecular factors and mechanisms of self-renewal are known. In our previous study, we reported that glycosylphospha...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Rikitake M,Matsuda A,Murata D,Dejima K,Nomura KH,Abbott KL,Mitani S,Nomura K

更新日期：2020-12-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Here we report the enzymatic and ligand-binding properties of a major secretory protein in the choroid plexus of cane toad, Bufo marinus, whose protein is homologous with lipocalin-type prostaglandin (PG) D synthase (L-PGDS) and is recombinantly expressed in Xenopus A6 cells and Escherichia coli. The toad protein boun...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Irikura D,Inui T,Beuckmann CT,Aritake K,Schreiber G,Miyano M,Inoue T,Urade Y

更新日期：2007-02-01 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：:Staring from low molecular weight RNA obtained from rainbow trout (Salmo gairdnerii) liver, 5S ribosomal RNA (rRNA) was highly purified by successive chromatography on columns of DEAE-Sephadex A50 and Sephadex G100. Products of complete and partial digestions on this RNA with pancreatic ribonuclease (RNase A) [EC 3.1....

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Komiya H,Takemura S

更新日期：1979-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The binding of SopA to the promoter region of its own gene, in which four copies of SopA's recognition sequence, 5'-CTTTGC-3', are arrayed asymmetrically, was examined in vitro. Titration using electrophoretic mobility shift assay showed that the stoichiometry of SopA protomers to the promoter-region DNA is 4 and that...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Komai M,Umino M,Hanai R

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Binding of native connectin (2,100 kDa fragment of alpha-connectin) to myosin filaments was investigated using a sedimentation technique and densitometric estimations of the separated proteins. In the presence of 60 mM KCl and 5 mM phosphate buffer, pH 7.0, as much as 1.5 mol of connectin was bound to 1 mol of myosin,...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Murayama T,Nakauchi Y,Kimura S,Maruyama K

更新日期：1989-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The plant NADPH oxidases, known as respiratory burst oxidase homologues (Rbohs), play an indispensable role in a wide array of cellular and developmental processes. Arabidopsis thaliana RbohF (AtRbohF)-mediated production of reactive oxygen species (ROS) is involved in biotic and abiotic stress responses. Because of t...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kimura S,Kawarazaki T,Nibori H,Michikawa M,Imai A,Kaya H,Kuchitsu K

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations of epsilon-sarcoglycan gene (SGCE) have been implicated in myoclonus-dystonia (M-D), a movement disorder. To determine the pathophysiology of M-D, we produced Sgce knockout mice and found that the knockout mice exhibited myoclonus, motor impairments, hyperactivity, anxiety, depression, significantly higher l...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Yokoi F,Dang MT,Li J,Li Y

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:DL-[14C]Leucine or L-[3H]leucine was injected intraperitoneally into pyridoxine-deficient and control rats, and the subsequent incorporation of the radioactivities into aspartate aminotransferase (AspAT) isozymes and the total soluble protein in the liver was measured. AspAT in the cytosol (AspATc) was separated into ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Shibuya M,Okada M

更新日期：1986-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Connectin (titin) links the Z line to the myosin filament in sarcomeres of vertebrate skeletal muscle. An 800 kDa fragment of alpha-connectin runs from the Z line up to the N2 line region in the I band, and the following beta-connectin portion runs up to the edge of the M line on the myosin filament in chicken breast ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kawamura Y,Kume H,Itoh Y,Ohtsuka S,Kimura S,Maruyama K

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:YfkN isolated from the culture supernatant of Bacillus subtilis in the exponential phase of growth is a protein of 143.5 kDa that derives from a putative large precursor of 159.6 kDa processed at both the N- and C-terminal ends. Pulse-chase experiments indicated that the release occurs slowly with a half-time longer t...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Chambert R,Pereira Y,Petit-Glatron MF

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a strategy for generating efficient signal transduction with unnatural heterologous receptor combinations. As previously described [Ueda, H., Kawahara, M. et al. (2000) J. Immunol. Methods 241, 159-170], chimeric receptors composed of the V(H)/V(L) domains of anti-hen egg lysozyme antibody HyHEL-10 and N-ter...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kawahara M,Ueda H,Tsumoto K,Kumagai I,Mahoney W,Nagamune T

更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have cloned a chitinase cDNA (MpChi-1) from plantain (Musa paradisiacal L) using rapid amplification of cDNA ends (RACE) according to a sequence fragment which we had cloned using the suppression subtractive hybridization (SSH) technique. The MpChi-1 encodes a protein of 326 amino acids and belongs to acidic chitin...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Fan J,Wang H,Feng D,Liu B,Liu H,Wang J

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The isolation and characterization of rabbit and human cDNAs revealed a new low density lipoprotein receptor (LDLR)-related protein (LRP) designated as LRP5. Human LRP5 cDNA encodes a 1, 616-amino acid type I membrane-like protein with three ligand binding repeats in its extracellular region. LDLR-deficient cells tran...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kim DH,Inagaki Y,Suzuki T,Ioka RX,Yoshioka SZ,Magoori K,Kang MJ,Cho Y,Nakano AZ,Liu Q,Fujino T,Suzuki H,Sasano H,Yamamoto TT

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We demonstrate here that ribosomes from not only Escherichia coli and Thermus thermophilus [Nitta et al. (1994) J. Biochem. 115, 803-807; ibid., (1995) 118, 841-849] but also yeast and bovine mitochondria catalyze peptide synthesis promoted by a high concentration of pyridine in the absence of soluble protein factors ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Nojima T,Nitta I,Ueda T,Watanabe K

更新日期：1996-06-01 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：:DNA synthesis in the Bacillus subtilis cells has become possible using extra-cellular DNA. Generally, purified DNAs in a test tube have been required to introduce into the host cells for molecular cloning technology in the laboratory. We have developed a cell lysis technique for natural transformation using stable ext...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kaneko S,Fukushima H,Nakahama M,Asano S,Miyazaki Y,Aizawa Y,Itaya M

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The interactions of benzeneboronic acid (BBA) as a transition state analog with subtilisin (EC 3.4.21.4) and with alpha-chymotrypsin (EC 3.4.21.1) were investigated kinetically by the temperature-jump method using pH indicators. For both enzymes, the concentration dependence of the relaxation time was consistent with...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Nakatani H,Hanai K,Uehara Y,Hiromi K

更新日期：1975-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:At the initiation of chromosomal DNA replication, DNA primases synthesize short RNA primers, which are subsequently elongated by DNA polymerases. To understand the structural basis for the primer synthesis by archaeal/eukaryotic-type primases, the gene of the DNA primase from hyperthermophilic archaeon Pyrococcus hori...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Ito N,Nureki O,Shirouzu M,Yokoyama S,Hanaoka F

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:ATPase of 14S dynein, extracted from spermatozoa of the sea urchin, Hemicentrotus pulcherrimus, and partially purified by sucrose density gradient centrifugation, was inhibited non-competitively by palmitoyl CoA at concentrations higher than 20 microns, and was stimulated at concentrations between 2 microns and 10 mic...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Fujiwara A,Yokokawa M,Hino A,Yasumasu I

更新日期：1982-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The structure and expression of the pentraxins, serum amyloid P component (SAP), and C-reactive protein (CRP), have been investigated in the guinea pig. Northern blot analysis of hepatic RNA from animals in which acute inflammation had been induced by intraperitoneal injection of thioglycollate established that neithe...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Rubio N,Sharp PM,Rits M,Zahedi K,Whitehead AS

更新日期：1993-03-01 00:00:00