Oxygen metabolism of human colostral macrophages: comparison with monocytes and polymorphonuclear leukocytes.

abstract：:Extracellular vesicles (EVs) are small particles that are naturally released from various types of cells. EVs contain a wide variety of cellular components, such as proteins, nucleic acids, lipids and metabolites, which facilitate intercellular communication in diverse biological processes. In the tumor microenvironme...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Yamauchi T,Moroishi T

更新日期：2020-11-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The essential gene product Prp45 (379 aa) of Saccharomyces cerevisiae is a highly conserved, but N-terminally abridged, ortholog of the human transcriptional coactivator SKIP, which is involved in TGFbeta, Notch, and steroid hormone signaling. We used a diploid strain harboring PRP45 deletion, which is inviable in the...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Martinkova K,Lebduska P,Skruzny M,Folk P,Puta F

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The stress-related protein Stm1 interacts with ribosomes, and is implicated in repressing translation. Stm1 was previously studied both in vivo and in vitro by cell-free translation systems using crude yeast lysates, but its precise functional mechanism remains obscure. Using an in vitro reconstituted translation syst...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Hayashi H,Nagai R,Abe T,Wada M,Ito K,Takeuchi-Tomita N

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Soybean Bowman-Birk inhibitor, a double-headed inhibitor of trypsin and alpha-chymotrypsin, was treated with cyanogen bromide and then pepsin to yield two inhibitory active fragments. Structural investigation showed that one of the fragments was derived from the trypsin inhibitory domain and the other from the chymotr...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Odani S,Ikenaka T

更新日期：1978-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:NADP+-specific isocitrate dehydrogenase was found in several tissues of the pupa of the silkworm, Bombyx mori. This enzyme was highly purified from the whole bodies of pupae. This is the first isolation of the enzyme from insect materials. The purified enzyme gave a single protein band on polyacrylamide gel electropho...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Miake F,Torikata T,Koga K,Hayashi K

更新日期：1977-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recombinant mouse Dnmt3a and Dnmt3b were expressed in sf9 cells and purified to near homogeneity. The purified Dnmt3a and Dnmt3b gave specific activities of 1.8 +/- 0.3 and 1.3 +/- 0.1 mol/h/mol enzyme towards poly(dGdC)-poly(dGdC), respectively, which were the highest among those reported. Dnmt3a or Dnmt3b showed sim...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Suetake I,Miyazaki J,Murakami C,Takeshima H,Tajima S

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An open reading frame of 828 base pairs was found in the CHO1 gene region of Saccharomyces cerevisiae by nucleotide sequencing analysis. Its enhanced expression with the aid of the PHO5 regulatory sequence resulted in an overproduction of a protein with a molecular weight of approximately 30,000, which in turn was con...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kiyono K,Miura K,Kushima Y,Hikiji T,Fukushima M,Shibuya I,Ohta A

更新日期：1987-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Induction of the expression of the beta-lactamase gene, blaB, is regulated by the blaA gene located just upstream of blaB in the opposite direction in Proteus vulgaris. The expression of the blaA gene is negatively autoregulated by its own product BlaA, the activator of the blaB gene. The P. vulgaris BlaA protein shar...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Ishiguro K,Sugimoto K

更新日期：1996-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Association of sulphatide with influenza A virus (IAV) haemagglutinin (HA) delivered to the cell surface promotes progeny virus production. However, it is not known whether there is direct binding of HA to sulphatide. In this study, we found that recombinant HA, which was produced by a baculovirus protein expression s...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Takahashi T,Satoh H,Takaguchi M,Takafuji S,Yokoyama H,Fujii S,Suzuki T

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mitochondrion is an essential organelle for a wide range of cellular processes, including energy production, metabolism, signal transduction and cell death. To execute these functions, mitochondria regulate their size, number, morphology and distribution in cells via mitochondrial division and fusion. In addition,...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Murata D,Arai K,Iijima M,Sesaki H

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using mutant strain ABYS1 of Saccharomyces cerevisiae lacking four main vacuolar proteinases, proteinase A, proteinase B, carboxypeptidase Y, and carboxypeptidase S, we examined the identities of chromatin-associated proteinases, ruling out possible contamination of the chromatin fraction by them. The chromatin of str...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Motizuki M,Kohno H,Tsurugi K

更新日期：1988-08-01 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：:Calf thymus DNA polymerases alpha and beta [EC 2.7.7.7] and terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase [EC 2.7.7.31] were analyzed on two-dimensional gel slabs. DNA polymerase beta appeared as a single spot on two-dimensional gel at the position of 40,000 daltons and pI 8.0 using non-equilibrium pH gradient gel electrophor...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Koiwai O,Masaki S,Kaneda T,Yoshida S

更新日期：1982-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several kinds of hydrophilic proteins were examined to determine their interaction with artificial liposomes. Mitochondrial aspartate aminotransferase (m-GOT) [EC 2.6.1.1], as well as cytochrome c, was found to interact strongly with negatively charged liposomes. In each case, an appreciable amount of the protein boun...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Furuya E,Yoshida Y,Tagawa K

更新日期：1979-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We isolated the human arylhydrocarbon receptor (AhR) cDNA from a human lung cDNA library, by using mouse AhR cDNA as a labeled probe. The nucleotide sequence of cloned human AhR cDNA is identical to the previously reported human AhR sequence [Dolwick et al. (1993), Mol. Pharmacol. 44, 911-917] from cell line HepG2. Th...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Ema M,Matsushita N,Sogawa K,Ariyama T,Inazawa J,Nemoto T,Ota M,Oshimura M,Fujii-Kuriyama Y

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously reported that calpastatin, an endogenous inhibitory protein of calpain, is cleaved by a caspase-3-like protease during apoptosis in human Jurkat T cells [Kato, M. et al. (2000) J. Biochem. 127, 297-305]. In this study, we found that nonmuscle myosin heavy chain-A (NMHC-A) is cleaved during apoptosis...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kato M,Fukuda H,Nonaka T,Imajoh-Ohmi S

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Daunomycin, an anti-neoplastic agent, is known to be sequestered by acidic organelles in normal and multidrug-resistant cells [Willingham, M.C., Cornwell, M.M., Cardarelli, C.O., Gottesman, M.M., & Pastan, I. (1986) Cancer Res. 46, 5941-5946]. We studied the mechanism of accumulation of daunomycin into acidic organell...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Moriyama Y,Manabe T,Yoshimori T,Tashiro Y,Futai M

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the nucleus of eukaryotic cells, chromatin is tethered to the nuclear envelope (NE), wherein inner nuclear membrane proteins (INMPs) play major roles. However, in Xenopus blastula, chromatin tethering to the NE depends on nuclear filamentous actin that develops in a blastula-specific manner. To investigate whether ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Oda H,Kato S,Ohsumi K,Iwabuchi M

更新日期：2020-11-10 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

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

abstract：:Peptide:N-glycanase (PNGase) is the enzyme responsible for de-N-glycosylation of misfolded glycoproteins in the cytosol. Here, we report the molecular identification and characterization of PNGase (png-1, F56G4.5) from Caenorhabditis elegans. This enzyme released both high mannose- and complex-type N-glycans from glyc...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kato T,Kawahara A,Ashida H,Yamamoto K

更新日期：2007-08-01 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

abstract：:Serine dehydrogenase from Escherichia coli is a homotetrameric enzyme belonging to the short-chain dehydrogenase/reductase (SDR) family. This enzyme catalyses the NADP(+)-dependent oxidation of serine to 2-aminomalonate semialdehyde. The enzyme shows a stereospecificity for β-(3S)-hydroxy acid as a substrate; however,...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Yamazawa R,Nakajima Y,Mushiake K,Yoshimoto T,Ito K

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Expression of structural proteins of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 requires the direct interaction of the viral Rev trans-activator with its cis-acting RNA target sequence, the Rev response element (RRE). The originally defined 234-residue RRE, however, failed to show the full HIV-1 regulator of virion expressio...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kimura T,Ohyama A

更新日期：1994-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper describes a method for imaging the endogenous release of glutamate from cerebral neurons. This method is based on the reactions of glutamate oxidase and peroxidase, and on the detection of hydrogen peroxide by a fluorescent substrate of peroxidase. Glutamate has been sensitively measured in vitro in the ran...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Akagi Y,Hashigasako A,Degenaar P,Iwabuchi S,Hasan Q,Morita Y,Tamiya E

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ovomucoid-trypsin association complex was prepared by incubating chicken egg white ovomucoid with bovine trypsin. The reactivity of ovomucoid-trypsin complex was investigated by immunodiffusion, quantitative precipitation and enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA). It was demonstrated that the association of trypsi...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Matsuda T,Watanabe K,Nakamura R

更新日期：1983-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The subcellular distribution of calmodulin and particulate calmodulin-binding activity was studied in a eukaryotic protozoan, Tetrahymena pyriformis NT-1. The particulate calmodulin-binding activity was found to be localized principally in microsomes and to some extent in cilia and surface membranes called pellicles. ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Nagao S,Banno Y,Nozawa Y,Sobue K,Yamazaki R,Kakiuchi S

更新日期：1981-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:After screening 900 E. coli strains of the Clarke and Carbon collection for by lysophospholipase L1 activities, we isolated a clone bearing the plasmid pLC6-34, which showed an increased level of lysophospholipase L1 activity. Strains bearing the plasmid pC124, a subclone of pLC6-34 in plasmid vector pUC8, showed appr...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Karasawa K,Kudo I,Kobayashi T,Homma H,Chiba N,Mizushima H,Inoue K,Nojima S

更新日期：1991-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:By using commercially available anhydrous hydrazine in the gas-phase, mucin-type oligosaccharides were released from porcine gastric mucin (PGM) and bovine fetuin. The data indicated that a certain amount of the oligosaccharides from PGM were further degraded. Despite this, the HPLC elution profile of the anthranilic ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Goso Y,Tsubokawa D,Ishihara K

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Peroxiredoxin from Pyrococcus horikoshii (PhPrx) is a decameric protein formed by ring-type assembly of five dimers. To engineer the quaternary structure of PhPrx, we created a mutant PhPrx (PhPrx6m) by introducing six point mutations designed to dissociate PhPrx into dimers. Although PhPrx6m was a dimer in solution, ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Nakamura T,Oshima M,Yasuda M,Shimamura A,Morita J,Uegaki K

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00