Presence of an inactive protein immunologically analogous to cytochrome c oxidase in the inner membrane of sweet potato root mitochondria.

abstract：:Microvesicles (MVs) serve as vectors of nucleic-acid dissemination and are important mediators of intercellular communication. However, the functionality of packaged nucleic acids on recipient cells following transfer of MV cargo has not been clearly elucidated. This limitation is attributed to a lack of methodology a...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Lu JF,Pokharel D,Padula MP,Bebawy M

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the embryonic smooth muscle of chicken gizzards we found 4 high-Mr-type and 5 low-Mr-type tropomyosin isoforms in addition to alpha- and beta-isoforms reported already. The criteria by which they were identified as tropomyosin isoforms were as follows: 1) anomalous reduction of electrophoretic mobility in the prese...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Hosoya M,Miyazaki J,Hirabayashi T

更新日期：1989-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Four distinctive DNA polymerases have been isolated from mature oocytes of the starfish, Asterina pectinifera, and characterized. The N-ethylmaleimide-resistant DNA polymerase activity was separated from the other three DNA polymerases by hydroxyapatite column chromatography. The enzyme, whose approximate sedimentatio...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Haraguchi T,Nagano H

更新日期：1983-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Heat-stable L-lactate dehydrogenase [EC 1.1.1.27] was purified from an extremely thermophilic bacterium belonging to the genus Thermus, and it showed an allosteric nature dependent on fructose 1,6-bisphosphate as an effector. The enzyme had a molecular weight of approximately 120,000 with a subunit molecular weight of...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Taguchi H,Yamashita M,Matsuzawa H,Ohta T

更新日期：1982-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study presents the structural, kinetic and thermodynamic characterizations of previously unknown submicellar concentrations of SDS-induced molten globule (MGSDS) state of a highly negatively charged base-denatured ferricytochrome c (UB-state) at pH ∼12.8 (±0.2). The far-UV CD, near-UV CD, ANS-fluorescence data of...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Jain R,Sharma D,Kumar R,Kumar R

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ion-exchange chromatography (IEC) is the most frequently used chromatographic technique for the separation of proteins and peptides. In this article, the effects of urea on IEC separation of kiwifruit actinidin, egg white and urinary proteins were examined. The purity and relative amount of each protein in different c...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Khademi F,Mostafaie A

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The chromatin remodeling complex, SWI/SNF, is known to regulate the transcription of several genes by altering the chromatin structure in an ATP-dependent manner. SWI/SNF exclusively contains BRG1 or BRM as an ATPase subunit. In the present study, we studied the role of SWI/SNF containing BRM or BRG1 in the expression...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Inayoshi Y,Kaneoka H,Machida Y,Terajima M,Dohda T,Miyake K,Iijima S

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Terf/TRIM17 is a tripartite motif protein that has been originally isolated from testis. Terf has been characterized to exhibit an E3 ubiquitin ligase activity and to undergo self-ubiquitination. The cellular function of terf and its substrates, however, remain elusive. In the present study, we performed a yeast two-h...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Endo H,Ikeda K,Urano T,Horie-Inoue K,Inoue S

更新日期：2012-02-01 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：:Low molecular weight RNAs were isolated from nuclei of the cellular slime mold Dictyostelium discoideum AX-3. Analysis of the RNAs by polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis showed that the vegetative cell nuclei contained, besides tRNA (Dd1), 5S RNA (Dd4), and 5.8S RNA (Dd7), at least 7 small RNA species (Dd3, Dd5, Dd6, D...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Takeishi K,Kaneda S

更新日期：1981-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eukaryotic typical 2-Cys type peroxiredoxin (Prx) is inactivated by hyperoxidation of the peroxidatic cysteine to a sulphinic acid in a catalytic cycle-dependent manner. This inactivation process has been well documented for cytosolic isoforms of Prx. However, such a hyperoxidative inactivation has not fully been inve...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Ikeda Y,Nakano M,Ihara H,Ito R,Taniguchi N,Fujii J

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new hetero-bifunctional photo crosslinking reagent, 2-(4-azidoanilyl)-4-(4-azabicyclo-[2,2, 2]hexylammonio)-6-morpholino-1,3,5-triazine chloride, was designed to detect and isolate heparin-binding protein(s) that may act as heparin-receptor(s) on the platelet surface. In a preliminary study using ethanol as a model ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Suda Y,Mori K,Bird K,Marques D,Ormsby J,Tanaka S,Koshida S,Nakamura M,Kusumoto S,Sobel M

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The P2X4 purinergic receptor is a key molecule in neuropathic pain, particularly in the allodynia after peripheral nerve injury. We therefore sought to establish an anti-P2X4 receptor monoclonal antibody that would be useful for detection and characterization of the P2X4 receptor. We first prepared the refolded extrac...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Igawa T,Higashi S,Abe Y,Ohkuri T,Tanaka H,Morimoto S,Yamashita T,Tsuda M,Inoue K,Ueda T

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The readthrough of premature termination codon (PTC) by ribosome sometimes produces full-length proteins. We previously reported a readthrough of PTC of glycosyltransferase gene B4GALNT1 with hereditary spastic paraplegia (HSP). Here we featured the readthrough of B4GALNT1 of two mutants, M4 and M2 with PTC by immunob...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Yesmin F,Bhuiyan RH,Ohmi Y,Ohkawa Y,Tajima O,Okajima T,Furukawa K,Furukawa K

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of thiols on the activation and/or stabilization of rat brain nitric oxide synthase (NOS) has been investigated. It was found that thiols are not necessary for stabilizing or protecting the protein during purification but are required during enzyme turnover for maximum activity. In the complete absence of thi...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Komori Y,Hyun J,Chiang K,Fukuto JM

更新日期：1995-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tryptophan hydroxylase from mouse mastocytoma P-815 is activated by ethylenediaminetetraacetate (EDTA). The activation proceeds in a pH-, temperature-, and time-dependent manner and leads to a 30-fold higher activity at maximum. The optimal EDTA concentration is 10 microns. The activation requires solely EDTA with des...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Yanagisawa M,Hasegawa H,Ichiyama A

更新日期：1982-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Polynucleotide phosphorylase from Thermus thermophilus catalyzed the addition of short guanylyl blocks from GDP to the 3'-hydroxyl termini of oligonucleotide primers at low temperature in a simple reaction mixture. Polyguanylic acid formation was inhibited at 37 degrees C, but the addition of one or two guanylyl resid...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kikuchi Y,Hirai K,Sakaguchi K

更新日期：1979-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:"DNase binding protein" of 43K daltons as determined by SDS-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis, was purified from the 0.1 M KCl-soluble (non-structural) fraction of chicken skeletal muscle. The protein was distinct from actin in amino acid composition and physicochemical properties. "DNase binding protein" was also is...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kohama K,Holtzer H

更新日期：1981-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glycoengineering of therapeutic proteins has been applied to improve the clinical efficacy of several therapeutics. Here, we examined the effect of glycosylation on the properties of the Fab of the therapeutic antibody, adalimumab. An N-glycosylation site was introduced at position 178 of the H-chain constant region o...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Nakamura H,Kiyoshi M,Anraku M,Hashii N,Oda-Ueda N,Ueda T,Ohkuri T

更新日期：2020-10-27 00:00:00

abstract：:3-Isopropylmalate dehydrogenase (IPMDH) is a dimeric enzyme with a strongly hydrophobic core that is composed of residues from four alpha-helices. We replaced Glu253, which is found in the hydrophobic core and is part of the subunit interface of the Bacillus subtilis (Bs) IPMDH, with several other amino acids to probe...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Ohkuri T,Yamagishi A

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytochrome c oxidase from Thiobacillus ferrooxidans was purified to homogeneity and some of its properties were studied. The oxidase was solubilized with n-octyl-beta-D-thioglucoside (OTG) under acidic conditions (pH 4.0) and purified by one step of ion-exchange chromatography with a CM-Toyopearl column. The absorptio...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kai M,Yano T,Tamegai H,Fukumori Y,Yamanaka T

更新日期：1992-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Four flavonoids (i.e., baicalein, quercetin, quercetagetin, and myricetin), known to be inhibitors of HIV-reverse transcriptase, have been shown to be more or less inhibitory to the activities of various cellular DNA and RNA polymerases. The degree of the inhibition varied depending on the combination of the flavonoid...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Ono K,Nakane H

更新日期：1990-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A crude preparation of membrane-bound phospholipase A (detergent-resistant) in Escherichia coli K-12 cells was found to be quite stable or even apparently activated on incubation at 100 degrees C, but became strikingly thermolabile when it was highly purified and Triton X-100 was removed from the purified enzyme prepa...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Tamori Y,Nishijima M,Nojima S

更新日期：1979-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Of the five HSV1 immediate-early proteins, infected-cell protein 22 (ICP22), the product of the Us1 gene, is a member whose function is less understood. In order to promote better understanding of the role of ICP22 in viral replication, mutation and fluorescence techniques were used to investigate the biochemical rela...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Cun W,Hong M,Liu LD,Dong CH,Luo J,Li QH

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The organization of troponin I (TnI) genes from the ascidian Halocynthia roretzi have been determined. Halocynthia possesses roughly two types of TnI isoforms. One type is a single-copied adult TnI (adTnI) gene, which contains eight exons and seven introns. adTnI expresses two isoforms, the shorter body wall muscle Tn...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Yuasa HJ,Kawamura K,Yamamoto H,Takagi T

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A continuous cell-free protein synthesis system [Spirin et al. (1988) Science 242, 1162-1164] was modified so as to be suitable for coupled transcription-translation, a process useful for obtaining products of cloned genes or cDNAs. A reaction chamber equipped with an ultrafiltration membrane was newly designed and an...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kigawa T,Yokoyama S

更新日期：1991-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chondroitin sulphate proteoglycan 4 (CSPG4) is a cell surface proteoglycan highly expressed by tumour, perivascular and oligodendrocyte cells and known to be involved cell adhesion and migration. This study showed that CSPG4 was present as a proteoglycan on the cell surface of two melanoma cell lines, MM200 and Me1007...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Tang F,Lord MS,Stallcup WB,Whitelock JM

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The complete amino acid sequence of coagulogen purified from the hemocytes of the horseshoe crab Carcinoscorpius rotundicauda was determined by characterization of the NH2-terminal sequence and the peptides generated after digestion of the protein with lysyl endopeptidase, Staphylococcal aureus protease V8 and trypsin...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Srimal S,Miyata T,Kawabata S,Miyata T,Iwanaga S

更新日期：1985-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently, we revealed that the cloverleaf structure of some eukaryotic tRNAs is not always stable in vitro, and the denatured structures of these tRNAs are sometimes detected in bacterial RNase P reactions. We have designated the unusual internal cleavage reaction of these tRNAs as hyperprocessing. We have developed t...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Tanaka T,Kondo Y,Hori Y,Kikuchi Y

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The modification of proteins by SUMO (small ubiquitin-like modifier) regulates various cellular processes. Sumoylation often occurs on a specific lysine residue within the consensus motif psiKxE/D. However, little is known about the specificity and selectivity of SUMO target sites. We describe here a SUMO assay with p...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Schwamborn K,Knipscheer P,van Dijk E,van Dijk WJ,Sixma TK,Meloen RH,Langedijk JP

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00