Limited autolysis of Ca2+-activated neutral protease (CANP) changes its sensitivity to Ca2+ ions.

abstract：:Ca(2+)/calmodulin-dependent protein kinases (CaM-kinases) I and IV are activated upon phosphorylation of their Thr(177) and Thr(196), respectively, by the upstream Ca(2+)/calmodulin-dependent protein kinases CaM-kinase kinase alpha and beta, and deactivated upon dephosphorylation by protein phosphatases such as CaM-ki...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Okuno S,Kitani T,Fujisawa H

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Paranitrophenylphosphate (pNPP) induced fluorescence changes in fluorescence isothiocyanate (FITC)-labeled Na+,K(+)-ATPase preparations. The extents of changes were similar to those induced by acetylphosphate (AcP) accompanying accumulation of a K(+)-sensitive phosphoenzyme (E2P) and an ouabain bound phosphoenzyme in ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Yamazaki A,Kaya S,Tsuda T,Araki Y,Hayashi Y,Taniguchi K

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Resonance Raman spectra of the soluble-domain of a membrane-bound hydrogenase from Desulfovibrio vulgaris Miyazaki F were recorded in different oxidation states. In the oxidized state, the Raman band due to the totally symmetric stretching mode of the iron-sulfur cluster was observed at 341 cm-1, which was attributed ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Furuichi H,Ozaki Y,Niki K,Akutsu H

更新日期：1990-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The electron transport system coupled to the oxidation of methylamine in Pseudomonas AM1 was investigated by reconstituting it from the highly purified components. A mixture of methylamine dehydrogenase, cytochrome cH and cytochrome c oxidase (= cytochrome aa3) actively oxidized methylamine (161 mol of O2 consumed/mol...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Fukumori Y,Yamanaka T

更新日期：1987-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phospholipid composition of biological membranes differs between the cytoplasmic and exoplasmic leaflets. The type 4 P-type ATPases are phospholipid flippases that generate such membrane phospholipid asymmetry. Drs2p, a flippase in budding yeast, is involved in the endocytic recycling pathway. Drs2p is implicated in c...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Hanamatsu H,Fujimura-Kamada K,Yamamoto T,Furuta N,Tanaka K

更新日期：2014-01-01 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 complete amino acid sequence of Fragment B obtained by the limited tryptic digestion of E. coli polypeptide chain elongation factor Tu (EF-Tu) was determined. Seven peptides formed from Fragment B by cleavage with cyanogen bromide (designated as CB1 to CB7 according to their order of alignment from N- to C-termini...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Nakamura S,Nakayama N,Takahashi K,Kaziro Y

更新日期：1982-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies by our group suggested that lysozyme has a high affinity for bacterial lipopolysaccharide (LPS) of both the smooth and rough forms, and inhibits various immunomodulatory activities of LPS. GLA60 is a synthetic monosaccharide analogue of bacterial lipid A well known as having most of the activities of li...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Tanida N,Ohno N,Adachi Y,Matsuura M,Nakano M,Kiso M,Hasegawa A,Yadomae T

更新日期：1992-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A sensitive enzyme-immunochemical staining method was developed for detection of N-glycolylneuraminic acid (NeuGc)-containing glycosphingolipids (GSLs) on silica gel thin-layer chromatography. The procedure consists of immune reaction among NeuGc-containing GSLs, affinity-purified chicken anti-NeuGc-LacCer and horsera...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Higashi H,Fukui Y,Ueda S,Kato S,Hirabayashi Y,Matsumoto M,Naiki M

更新日期：1984-05-01 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：:Elafin was shown to be a new type of proteinase inhibitor which has an anchoring sequence. Human elafin, a potent inhibitor specific for elastase and proteinase 3, has a unique repeating sequence in its prosegment that is rich in Gln and Lys residues. The prosegment, termed "cementoin," exhibits high homology with the...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Nara K,Ito S,Ito T,Suzuki Y,Ghoneim MA,Tachibana S,Hirose S

更新日期：1994-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The plant hormone ethylene is generated from a unique precursor, 1-aminocyclopropane-1-carboxylate (ACC). In previous studies, ACC deaminase, which degrades ACC to alpha-ketobutyrate and ammonia, was found in four strains of Pseudomonas, characterized, and sequenced. To verify the wider distribution of ACC deaminase i...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Minami R,Uchiyama K,Murakami T,Kawai J,Mikami K,Yamada T,Yokoi D,Ito H,Matsui H,Honma M

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the rat, DNA carrying a cluster of the genes for tRNAAsp, tRNAGly, and tRNAGlu, aligned in that order, is repeated about 10 times. Seven DNA clones corresponding to the independent repeating units were isolated from a rat gene library. Nucleotide sequence analysis of these clones revealed the presence of a fourth t...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Shibuya K,Noguchi S,Yamaki M,Nishimura S,Sekiya T

更新日期：1985-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report here the molecular cloning and characterization of the Drosophila neutral ceramidase (CDase). Using the BLAST program, a neutral CDase homologue (AE003774) was found in the Drosophila GenBank and cloned from a cDNA library of Drosophila imaginal discs. The open reading frame of 2,112 nucleotides encoded a po...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Yoshimura Y,Okino N,Tani M,Ito M

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Identification of single-stranded regions in Torulopsis utilis 5S RNA was attempted by the use of Nuclease S1, a single-strand specific endonuclease. When T. utilis 5S RNA was subjected to prolonged incubation with Nuclease S1, about 50% of the substrate 5S RNA remained as large oligonucleotide "cores." Such Nuclease...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Nishikawa K,Takemura S

更新日期：1977-04-01 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：:The N-terminal amino acid sequences of human urinary prokallikrein and kallikrein have been determined. Their amino acid sequences are as follows. (Formula; see text) The results showed that prokallikrein comprises an additional seven amino acids at the amino terminus of the kallikrein, of which the sequence is (H2N)A...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Takahashi S,Irie A,Katayama Y,Ito K,Miyake Y

更新日期：1986-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Streptomyces caespitosus neutral protease (ScNP) is one of the smallest metalloproteinase with a molecular mass of 14 kDa. Effects of solvent composition on ScNP activity were examined using a peptide substrate. The k(cat)/K(m) values of ScNP exhibited bell-shaped pH-dependence with the optimal pH of 6.4-7.0 and the p...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Inouye K,Shimada T,Yasukawa K

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cDNAs encoding the precursors of cystatin SN, cystatin S, and two mutants of cystatin S (-18R-->W; 117R-->W) were expressed in Escherichia coli JM109 with isopropyl-beta-D-thio-galactoside (IPTG) induction. Premature cystatin S with the original signal [-20MARPLCTLLLLMATLAGALA] was processed and a large amount of ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Saitoh E,Isemura S

更新日期：1994-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A comparative study of vertebrate ventricle tropomyosin has been carried out from the viewpoint of molecular evolution. The ventricles containing one-component tropomyosin were generally known, and in this paper those containing two components were also found in 8 species among mammals, reptiles, amphibia, and fish, b...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Yamane A,Hirabayashi T

更新日期：1985-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Streptococcus pyogenes nuclease A (SpnA) and streptococcal 5' nucleosidase A (S5nA) are two recently described virulence factors from the human pathogen S. pyogenes. In vitro studies have shown that SpnA is a nuclease that cleaves ssDNA and dsDNA, including the DNA backbone of neutrophil extracellular traps. S5nA was ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Soh KY,Loh JMS,Proft T

更新日期：2018-08-01 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：:Rabbit antibodies against cytochrome P-450 (SCC), P-450 (11 beta), and P-450 (C-21) from bovine adrenal cortex were prepared, and it was confirmed that these three cytochrome P-450 species are immunologically distinct from one another. Cytoplasmic sites of synthesis of P-450 (SCC), P-450 (11 beta), and P-450 (C-21) in...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Nabi N,Kominami S,Takemori S,Omura T

更新日期：1983-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new protein with a chain weight of approximately 220,000 was isolated from 0.6 M KI extracts of I-Z-I brushes of rabbit and chicken skeletal muscles, using (NH4)2SO4 precipitation and three column chromatographic procedures in succession. It was only possible to separate the high molecular weight protein from actin ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Muguruma M,Kobayashi K,Fukazawa T,Ohashi K,Maruyama K

更新日期：1981-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Substrate specificities of phospholipases C[EC 3.1.4.3] from Clostridium novyi, Clostridium perfringens, Bacillus cereus, and Pseudomonas aureofaciens were studied under the same conditions. Phospholipases C from Clostridium novyi and Bacillus cereus show wide substrate specificities while those of Clostridium perfrin...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Taguchi R,Ikezawa H

更新日期：1977-11-01 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：:A new arginine derivative, N-benzyloxycarbonyl-L-phenylalanyl-L-valyl-L-arginine-p-nitroanilide hydrochloride (ZPVAPA.HCl) was synthesized by the condensation of N-benzyloxy-carbonyl-L-phenylalanyl-L-valine and L-arginine-p-nitroanilide dihydrochloride using dicyclohexylcarbodiimide as a coupling reagent and 1-hydroxy...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Somorin O,Tokura S,Nishi N,Noguchi J

更新日期：1979-01-01 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：:Raman spectroscopy was used to investigate the hydrogen bonding at the C(4)=O moiety of the isoalloxazine nucleus in a series of flavins and flavoproteins. Isotope effects of Raman bands confirmed that the band observed around 1,710 cm(-1) is mainly derived from C(4)=O stretching vibrational mode. A linear correlation...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Hazekawa I,Nishina Y,Sato K,Shichiri M,Miura R,Shiga K

更新日期：1997-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Homoserine O-acetyltransferase [EC 2.3.1.31] partially purified from Brevibacterium flavum was found to be specifically inhibited by the metabolic end products methionine and S-adenosylmethionine only when the enzymatic reaction was performed in the presence of cysteine or dithiothreitol, or after the preincubation of...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Shiio I,Ozaki H

更新日期：1981-05-01 00:00:00