Bacteriophage phiNS11: a lipid-containing phage of acidophilic thermophilic bacteria. II. Purification and some properties of the phage.

abstract：:Interferon stimulated gene factor 3 (ISGF3) is a trimeric transcription factor activated on treatment of cells with interferon-alpha and beta (type I IFNs). Upon stimulation, the regulatory subunits, p84/91 and p113, present in the cytoplasm are phosphorylated at specific tyrosine residues and assemble with the DNA bi...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Suhara W,Yoneyama M,Yonekawa H,Fujita T

更新日期：1996-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined the substrate specificity of two mutated geranylgeranyl diphosphate synthases, I-9 and I-11, with respect to several artificial substrates. These mutated enzymes have replacements in the amino acid sequences from positions 170 to 173, which are thought to be a part of the putative substrate binding region....

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Ohnuma S,Hemmi H,Koyama T,Ogura K,Nishino T

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A partially purified fraction (Component I) which catalyzed the ATP-PPi exchange reaction dependent only on valine and glycine among the five constituent amino acids of gramicidin A was obtained from crude extracts of Bacillus brevis ATCC 8185, which produces both gramicidin A and tyrocidines. This fraction was found ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Akashi K,Kubota K,Kurahashi K

更新日期：1977-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Long non-coding RNA is an endogenous non-coding RNA that has currently been proved to be an important player in cancer cell biology. In the present study, we investigated the biological role of PHACTR2-AS1 in tongue squamous cell carcinoma (TSCC). PHACTR2-AS1 was preferentially localized in the cytoplasm, and was nota...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Yuan F,Miao Z,Chen W,Wu F,Wei C,Yong J,Xiao C

更新日期：2020-12-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Pseudomonas putida PpGl, which carries the CAM plasmid encoding enzymes involved in the degradation pathway of D-camphor, can utilize D-camphor as a sole carbon source. Cytochrome P-450cam and related enzymes participate in the early oxidation steps of D-camphor degradation metabolism. We cloned from a HindIII DNA lib...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Koga H,Yamaguchi E,Matsunaga K,Aramaki H,Horiuchi T

更新日期：1989-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rat liver rhodanese [EC 2.8.1.1] purified by ammonium sulfate fractionation, CM-cellulose and Sephadex G-200 chromatography yielded two active fractions (I & II). Their molecular weights were estimated to be 1.75 X 10(4) (I) and 1.26 X 10(4) (II) by the gel filtration method. Kinetic studies revealed that Fraction I r...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Oi S

更新日期：1975-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pcd gene from Flavobacterium lutescens IFO3084 encoding Delta'-piperideine-6-carboxylate dehydrogenase (PCD) was cloned, sequenced, and expressed in Escherichia coli. The deduced amino acid sequence of PCD from F. lutescens IFO3084 showed strong similarity to that from Streptomyces clavuligerus. The molecular mass...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Fujii T,Narita T,Agematu H,Agata N,Isshiki K

更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Heat-stable fructose 1,6-bisphosphate-dependent L-lactate dehydrogenase [EC 1.1.1.27] was purified from an extremely thermophilic bacterium, Thermus aquaticus YT-1. The amino acid composition and NH2-terminal 34 amino acid sequence of the enzyme were determined. Its NH2-terminal sequence shows high homology with those...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Machida M,Matsuzawa H,Ohta T

更新日期：1985-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dithiothreitol or glutathione, essential for amino acid incorporation into polypeptides in cell-free systems, inhibited glucosamine incorporation into ovalbumin, a glycoprotein containing about three residues of N-acetylucosamine and about five residues of mannose. However, the thiol was necessary for mannose incorpor...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Nakayama T,Narita K,Ogata K

更新日期：1976-05-01 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：:Pure recA protein was easily obtained from Escherichia coli harboring plasmid pTM-2 which carried the recA gene by two chromatographic steps on phosphocellulose and DEAE-cellulose. RecA protein was stable in the pH range of 6 to 9 at 25 degrees C. RecA protein was found to aggregate highly under these conditions. Lowe...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kuramitsu S,Hamaguchi K,Ogawa T,Ogawa H

更新日期：1981-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An adenosinetriphosphatase (ATPase) [EC 3.6.1.3] copurified with the DNA-dependent RNA polymerase [EC 2.7.7.6] from Escherichia coli was isolated to apparent homogeneity and some of its functional as well as structural properties were examined. Although the novel ATPase exhibited metal requirements similar to those of...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Ishihama A,Ikeuchi T,Matsumoto A,Yamamoto S

更新日期：1976-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The genes coding for the phospholipid degradation enzymes in E. coli, detergent-resistant (DR-) phospholipase A (pldA) and lysophospholipase L2 (pldB), were cloned together on the plasmid pKO1 (Homma, H., Kobayashi, T., Ito, Y., Kudo, I., Inoue, K., Ikeda, H., Sekiguchi, M., & Nojima, S. (1983) J. Biochem. 94, 2079-20...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kobayashi T,Kudo I,Homma H,Karasawa K,Inoue K,Ikeda H,Nojima S

更新日期：1985-10-01 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：:To better understand the regulation of ryudocan (syndecan-4) expression, we have determined the structural organization of the human ryudocan gene. The human ryudocan gene extends approximately 24 kilobases and is divided into five exons, which appear to be conserved in syndecan family members. Exon I encodes the sign...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Takagi A,Kojima T,Tsuzuki S,Katsumi A,Yamazaki T,Sugiura I,Hamaguchi M,Saito H

更新日期：1996-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The binding of ADP to subfragment-1 was investigated by the gel filtration method. The amount of bound ADP was determined as a function of free ADP concentration. Linear Scatchard plots were obtained. The maximum binding number, 0.55 mole of ADP per 10(5) g of protein, and the dissociation constant, 1.6 x 10(-6) M, we...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Yoshida M,Morita F

更新日期：1975-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We designed a simple procedure for the purification of peptidylarginine deiminase, which catalyzes the deimination of arginyl residues in protein, from rabbit skeletal muscle using substrate affinity chromatography. Of the immobilized substrate ligands tested, i.e. protamine and soybean trypsin inhibitor (Kunitz) (STI...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Takahara H,Okamoto H,Sugawara K

更新日期：1986-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three glucosamine-containing sphingoglycolipids were isolated from human lung tissue of a blood group-A subject. They were hexaglycosyl, pentaglycosyl, and tetraglycosyl ceramides. The hexaglycosyl ceramide exhibited blood group-A antigenicity, and the following chemical structure was proposed on the basis of sequenti...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Yoda Y,Makita A,Gasa S

更新日期：1982-02-01 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：:Hen ovomucoid was chemically deglycosylated by treatment with trifluoromethanesulfonic acid at 0 degrees C for 60 min. About 75 mol% of the carbohydrate moiety was removed from the glycoprotein without changing its amino acid composition, and its trypsin inhibitory activity and immunoreactivity with specific antibodie...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Gu JX,Matsuda T,Nakamura R,Ishiguro H,Ohkubo I,Sasaki M,Takahashi N

更新日期：1989-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aorta smooth muscle myosin contains two kinds of 17-kDa essential light chain, LC17nm (nonmuscle-type) and LC17gi (gizzard-type) [Hasegawa, Y., Ueda, Y., Watanabe, M., & Morita, F. (1992) J. Biochem. 111, 798-803]. The LC17 isoforms were released from porcine aorta myosin by incubation at 46 degrees C. The rate of rel...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Hasegawa Y,Morita F

更新日期：1992-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pyridylamino sugar chains were converted to the corresponding reducing sugar chains by first converting them to 1-amino-1-deoxy derivatives using the method previously reported [S. Hase, J. Biochem. 112, 266-268 (1992)] and then converting the products to the corresponding reducing sugar chains using the Sommlet react...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Takahashi C,Nakakita S,Hase S

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aleuria aurantia lectin (AAL) is a protein composed of two identical subunits having no carbohydrate chain and shows sugar-binding specificity for L-fucose. Full-length cDNA encoding for the lectin has been isolated from a lambda gt11 library, screened with an antiserum directed against AAL. The cDNA clone contained 1...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Fukumori F,Takeuchi N,Hagiwara T,Ohbayashi H,Endo T,Kochibe N,Nagata Y,Kobata A

更新日期：1990-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:High mobility group (HMG) protein 1 contains two DNA binding motifs, called HMG1/2-boxes, linked with a linker region. The functional relationships between the two boxes and the mechanism of involvement of the linker region for effective binding of HMG1 were examined. The binding analyses of truncated HMG1 peptides wi...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Saito K,Kikuchi T,Shirakawa H,Yoshida M

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A spectrofluorometric method for sensitive determination of metalloendopeptidase activity has been developed by using a bimane-peptide containing a tryptophan residue, i.e. 1,7-dioxo-2,5,6-trimethyl-1H,7H-pyrazolo[1,2-alpha]pyrazol-3-yl-methyl- thiomethylcarbonyl-phenylalanyl-tryptophanyl-leucine (Bim-SCH2CO-Phe-Trp-L...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kajiwara K,Kumazaki T,Sato E,Kanaoka Y,Ishii S

更新日期：1991-09-01 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：:A direct spectrophotometric suspension method for the estimation of immobilized ligands on a gel matrix was developed. The method uses 0.05% agarose solution to prepare a practically stable suspension of various agarose beads. The quantity of agarose beads in the suspension was estimated turbidometrically from the att...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Miyagawa A,Okuyama T

更新日期：1977-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, we demonstrated that glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase (GAPDH) is a phosphatidylserine (PS)-binding protein and localized the putative PS-binding site involved in the membrane fusion induced by this enzyme. In an attempt to identify the PS-binding proteins, we raised polyclonal antibodies against...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kaneda M,Takeuchi K,Inoue K,Umeda M

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An inhibitor of blood coagulation, a new protein with an apparent molecular weight of 34,000 and an isoelectric point of 4.9, was purified from human placental tissue by EDTA extraction. Five cDNA clones were isolated from the human placental lambda gt11 cDNA library using the mouse monoclonal antibody raised against ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Iwasaki A,Suda M,Nakao H,Nagoya T,Saino Y,Arai K,Mizoguchi T,Sato F,Yoshizaki H,Hirata M

更新日期：1987-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Calmodulin (CaM), a physiologically important Ca(2+)-binding protein, participates in numerous cellular regulatory processes. It is dumbbell shaped and contains two globular domains connected by a short alpha-helix. Each of the globular domains has two Ca(2+)-binding sites, the EF hands. CaM undergoes a conformational...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Shishido H,Yamada MD,Kondo K,Maruta S

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00