Hydrolysis of phospholipids by phospholipase A2 in intact membranes of sheep erythrocytes.

abstract：:The denaturation of lysozyme and ribonuclease A by guanidine hydrochloride was followed in the presence and absence of glycerol and sorbitol by means of circular dichroism measurements at 25 degrees C. The protein-solvent interactions in the presence of these polyols were also studied by means of density measurements,...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Gekko K,Ito H

更新日期：1990-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pseudomonas L-phenylalanine oxidase (deaminating and decarboxylating) mainly catalyzes oxygenation when L-phenylalanine is used as the substrate, but oxidation when L-methionine is used as the substrate. Using [C(alpha)-H]-DL-methionine and [C(alpha)-D]-DL-methionine as substrate, the reductive half reaction of FAD co...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Ohta Y,Mukouyama EB,Suzuki H

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The structure of a ferricytochrome c' extracted from Rhodospirillum rubrum has been determined at 6 A resolution by the X-ray crystallographic method. The crystals, obtained by dialyzing the protein solution against polyethylene glycol 4000, belong to the hexagonal space group P6(1). Two heavy atom derivatives were ob...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Yasui M,Harada S,Kai Y,Kasai N

更新日期：1985-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of polyamines on F1-ATPase catalyzed reactions has been studied through the use of submitochondrial particles and F1-ATPase. ATP degradation catalyzed by submitochondrial particles and F1-ATPase was inhibited by spermine and spermidine. Spermine's inhibition was much greater than spermidine's effect. In con...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Igarashi K,Kashiwagi K,Kobayashi H,Ohnishi R,Kakegawa T,Nagasu A,Hirose S

更新日期：1989-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microtubule-associated protein (MAP) 1 consisting of MAP 1A and 1B was purified from rat brain by the poly-L-aspartic acid (PLAA) method. We found that MAP 1 bound to F-actin in vitro up to a molar ratio of MAP 1 to actin monomers of 1:10. The apparent binding constant was about 2.7 x 10(7) M-1. In contrast to the bin...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Fujii T,Watanabe M,Ogoma Y,Kondo Y,Arai T

更新日期：1993-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We evaluated the role of cytosolic phospholipase A2 (PLA2) in the exocytosis of amylase from parotid acinar cells. The exocytosis stimulated by isoproterenol was dose-dependently inhibited by bromoenol lactone (BEL), a potent suicide inhibitor of Ca2+-independent cytosolic PLA2. The IC50 value of BEL was approximately...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Takuma T,Ichida T

更新日期：1997-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The degradation rates of type I, II, and III collagens by tadpole collagenase were studied by measuring the viscosity of the solution and the contents of alpha chains and alpha A chains of collagen, using SDS-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis followed by densitometric analysis of the separated peptide bands. An empir...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Hayashi T,Nakamura T,Hori H,Nagai Y

更新日期：1980-03-01 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：:Bone marrow lineage-negative (Lin(-)) c-Kit(+) Sca-1(+) hematopoietic cells from human GM-CSF receptor gene transgenic mice were cultured on established bone marrow stromal cell (TBR59) layers and on semisolid medium. In the semisolid assay, an increasing number of larger colonies were observed in the presence of hGM-...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Okubo T,Yanai N,Watanabe S,Arai Ki,Obinata M

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Endonuclease V (Endo V) is a DNA repair enzyme that recognizes deoxyinosine and cleaves the second phosphodiester bond on the 3' side of the deaminated base lesion. A database search revealed the presence of homologous genes for Endo V in most archaeal species, but the absence in some methanogenic species. We cloned a...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kiyonari S,Egashira Y,Ishino S,Ishino Y

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We obtained enhanced thermostability by replacing Ser161 with Cys in subtilisin E from Bacillus subtilis, a cysteine-free alkaline serine protease. The Ser161Cys mutant subtilisin E was purified from the culture supernatant of the recombinant B. subtilis in an oxidizing environment. SDS-polyacrylamide gel electrophore...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Takagi H,Hirai K,Wada M,Nakamori S

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The traditional two-step EGTA/collagenase method is widely used in studying nitric oxide (NO) production in hepatocytes. The present study first revealed that hepatocytes isolated by this method spontaneously express an iNOS mRNA. Thereafter, based on this novel finding, we characterized the expression and regulation ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Wang H,Gao X,Fukumoto S,Tademoto S,Sato K,Hirai K

更新日期：1998-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate the effect of plasminogen on cartilage catabolism, we assessed collagen degradation in rabbit articular cartilage explants treated with or without plasminogen and interleukin-1alpha (IL-1alpha). The combination of IL-1 alpha and plasminogen induced rapid collagen degradation, amounting to more than 60% ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Saito S,Katoh M,Masumoto M,Matsumoto S,Masuho Y

更新日期：1997-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The alkalophile NADH dehydrogenase (NADH: 2,6-dichlorophenolindophenol oxidoreductase) [EC 1.6.99.3] consists of two identical subunits of 65 kDa, and each subunit contains the catalytic and liposome-binding regions. On treatment with trypsin, the polypeptide exhibiting the liposome-binding property in one of the subu...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Xu XM,Kanaya S,Koyama N,Sekiguchi T,Nosoh Y,Ohashi S,Tsuda K

更新日期：1989-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A soluble enzyme preparation (20,000 X g supernatant fraction), prepared from the mycelia of wild-type Neurospora crassa, was capable of transferring [14C]glucose from UDP-[14C]glucose into both trichloroacetic acid (TCA)-soluble and TCA-insoluble macromolecule products in the absence of added primer. These reactions ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Takahara H,Matsuda K

更新日期：1977-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:PTF/SNAPc is a multisubunit complex which specifically recognizes the PSEs of small nuclear RNA genes and activates transcription by RNA polymerase II or III. Here we describe the isolation and characterization of genomic clones encoding the human PTFgamma/SNAP43 gene. The gene spans approximately 29 kilobases, and is...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Maeng JH,Yoon JB

更新日期：1998-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Single-chain antibodies (scFv), which can be produced in Escherichia coli cells, have been shown in numerous cases to be active in antigen binding. In the case of the two anti-lysozyme single-chain antibodies, scFvLH and scFvHL, which have the reversed arrangement of the variable domains of the heavy and light chains ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Merk H,Stiege W,Tsumoto K,Kumagai I,Erdmann VA

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Histidinoalanine, a cross-linking component of connective tissue proteins, was detected in the acid hydrolysate of human urine. The concentrations in urines from newborn babies, children, and adults were 1.33 +/- 0.27, 0.77 +/- 0.23, and 0.89 +/- 0.33 nmol/mg creatinine, respectively. Possible origins of urinary histi...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Fujimoto D

更新日期：1986-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of 2'-substitutions of ATP on the substrate and inhibitor properties for RNA synthesis were studied in the poly(dAT)-dependent reaction of Escherichia coli RNA polymerase. In the presence of UTP, 2'-deoxy-2'-azidoadenosine 5'-triphosphate (AZTP) was incorporated into an acid-insoluble fraction at one-tenth...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Ishihama A,Enami M,Nishijima Y,Fukui T,Ohtsuka E,Ikehara M

更新日期：1980-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It was found that the absorption spectrum of beta-naphthyl triphosphate is different from that of beta-naphthyl diphosphate in the range 290-335 nm. Thus, beta-naphthyl triphosphate hydrolysis by heavy meromyosin can be recorded continuously as a function of time by means of a spectrophotometer. By analyzing the time ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kuwajima T,Kagawa H,Asai H

更新日期：1975-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serum-free culture medium collected from primary monolayer cultures of human articular chondrocytes was found to inhibit human urokinase [EC 3.4.21.31] activity. Although chondrocyte culture medium contained a small amount of endothelial-type plasminogen activator inhibitor which could be demonstrated by reverse fibri...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Yamada H,Stephens RW,Nakagawa T,McNicol D

更新日期：1988-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have studied the protein composition of the pectoralis superficialis muscle of genetically dystrophic (New Hampshire line 413) and normal control (line 412) chickens by one- and two-dimensional gel electrophoresis. A protein, referred to hereafter as the 30 kDa abnormal protein, was specifically detected in the aff...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kobayashi R,Toyoshima I,Masamune O,Tashima Y

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Comparative studies have been made on the effects of diazoacetyl-DL-norleucine methyl ester (DAN), 1,2-epoxy-3-(p-nitrophenoxy)propane (EPNP) and pepstatin on acid proteases, including those from Acrocylindrium sp., Aspergillus niger, Aspergillus saitoi, Mucor pusillus, Paecilomyces varioti, Rhizopus chinensis, and Tr...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Takahashi K,Chang WJ

更新日期：1976-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present investigation was undertaken to see to what extent the alpha-amino group of the amino acid, the side chain of the amino acid of aminoacyl-tRNA, and the tRNA structure are involved in determining the affinity of aminoacyl-tRNA for bacterial elongation factor Tu-GTP complex. Various aminoacyl-tRNAs, mis-amin...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Tanada S,Kawakami M,Nishio K,Takemura S

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The incorporation of serine and ethanolamine into phospholipids in rabbit retinal subcellular fractions and in excised retinas was studied in vitro, and some enzymic properties of the incorporation of phospholipid bases by base exchange were examined in the microsomal fraction. The retina was found to have a higher ra...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Mizuno A

更新日期：1976-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We previously showed that fatty liver was easily induced in suncus by starvation and that the plasma level of apolipoprotein B (apo B) was very low. There are three possible explanations for the low level of apo B in the animals: low synthetic rate, low secretion rate, and rapid catabolism in the circulation of apo B....

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Nagayoshi A,Matsuki N,Saito H,Tsukamoto K,Kaneko K,Wakashima M,Kinoshita M,Yamanaka M,Teramoto T

更新日期：1995-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The nucleotide sequence of IStaqTZ2 are available in the DDBJ/EMBL/GenBank databases under the accession number AB063392. A novel insertion sequence (IStaqTZ2) was transposed from the genome of Thermus thermophilus TZ2 to that of the thermophilic bacteriophage IN93. The complete nucleotide sequence of IStaqTZ2 was det...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Matsushita I,Yanase H

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An endogenous inhibitor of calcium-activated neutral protease (CANP), which was isolated from rabbit skeletal muscle with chemically drastic pretreatments, comprised major (high-molecular-weight form, HMW-inhibitor) and minor (low-molecular-weight form, LMW-inhibitor) components. HMW-inhibitor was purified to homogene...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Nakamura M,Inomata M,Hayashi M,Imahori K,Kawashima S

更新日期：1985-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An enzyme which catalyzes the hydrolysis of acetamido groups of N-acetylglucosamine residues in cell wall peptidoglycan was found in the supernatant and 20,000 X g pellet fractions of Bacillus cereus. Autolysis of the latter fraction resulted in solubilization and activation of the deacetylase. Among various bacteria,...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Araki Y,Oba S,Araki S,Ito E

更新日期：1980-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An escape mutant of human parainfluenza virus type 1 (hPIV1), which was selected by serial passage in the presence of a sialidase inhibitor, 4-O-thiocarbamoylmethyl-2-deoxy-2,3-didehydro-N-acetylneur-aminic acid (TCM-Neu5Ac2en), exhibited remarkable syncytium formation and virus-induced cell death in LLC-MK2 cells but...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Takaguchi M,Takahashi T,Hosokawa C,Ueyama H,Fukushima K,Hayakawa T,Itoh K,Ikeda K,Suzuki T

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00