Process of attachment of phi X174 parental DNA to the host cell membrane.

abstract：:A cDNA clone inducible by either a tumor promoter, 12-o-tetradecanoyl phorbol-13-acetate (TPA), or a T-cell mitogen, phytohemagglutinin (PHA), was isolated from a cDNA library constructed from the poly(A) + RNAs of TPA- and PHA-stimulated human tonsillar lymphocytes, and was named pLD78. Stimulation of the tonsillar l...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Obaru K,Fukuda M,Maeda S,Shimada K

更新日期：1986-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. Phospholipase D [EC 3.1.4.4] from Streptomyces hachijoensis was purified about 570-fold by column chromatography on DEAE-cellulose and Sephadex G-50 followed by isoelectric focusing. 2. The purified preparation was found to be homogeneous both by immunodiffusion and polyacrylamide disc gel electrophoresis. 3. The i...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Okawa Y,Yamaguchi T

更新日期：1975-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Guinea pig alveolar macrophages (A-M0) were studied with respect ot the phagocytic metabolism: the respiratory burst and its KCN sensitivity, the ability to generate H2O2, and myeloperoxidase (MPO) activity. Only fifty percent of the O2 uptake by A-M0 samples during phagocytosis was inhibited by the addition of 1 mK K...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kaneda M,Kakinuma K,Yamaguchi T,Shimada K

更新日期：1980-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A simple and rapid method to remove myosin light chain phosphatase from gizzard myosin using hydroxyapatite chromatography was developed. Stable phosphorylated myosin without light chain phosphatase and kinase was also prepared by the same procedure. A convenient method using the urea gel system to detect minor contam...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Nakamura S,Nonomura Y

更新日期：1984-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Temperature and solvent effects on reaction center structures were examined in two thermophilic photosynthetic bacteria, Chloroflexus aurantiacus and Chromatium tepidum, in order to gain insight into the interactions among the reaction center proteins and pigment systems. Thermal stability of the reaction centers was ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Nozawa T,Madigan MT

更新日期：1991-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 5'-N-ethylcarboxamido[3H]adenosine ([3H]NECA) binding site of mouse mastocytoma P815 cell membranes has been purified approximately 100-fold by affinity chromatography. This adenosine binding site, which has a similar specificity to that of the A2 adenosine receptor, was absorbed on NECA-linked Sepharose 6B and elut...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Nakata H

更新日期：1989-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mitochondrial regulatory region (mrr) located between the tRNAPhe and tRNAPro genes of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) is essential for regulation of replication and transcription of the mitochondrial genome. Polyadenylated short RNAs complementary to the L-strand of the mrr in human cells and similar RNAs (polyadenylat...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Nakamichi N,Rhoads DD,Hayashi JI,Kagawa Y,Matsumura T

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Molecular cloning of the gene and the crystal structure of the prolyl aminopeptidase [EC 3.4.11.5] from Serratia marcescens have been studied by us [J. Biochem. 122, 601-605 (1997); ibid. 126, 559-565 (1999)]. Through these studies, Phe139, Tyr149, Glu204, and Arg136 were estimated to be concerned with substrate recog...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Ito K,Inoue T,Kabashima T,Kanada N,Huang HS,Ma X,Azmi N,Azab E,Yoshimoto T

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The beta peptide (113-125), derived from a conserved sequence of the beta subunit of integrins, was synthesized to investigate its adhesive properties to matrix proteins and the effects on cell adhesion to immobilized fibronectin. In this study, we observed that the biotinylated beta peptide was able to bind efficient...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Liu YK,Nemoto A,Feng Y,Uemura T

更新日期：1997-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The conformational changes of ribonucleic acid induced by heat treatment were studied by measurements of fluorescence polarization, circular dichroism, and ultraviolet absorption. The fluorescence polarization of proflavine covalently bound to the 3'-end of 16S ribosomal RNA of Escherichia coli and that of ethenoadeno...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kumagai JI,Ohta T,Imahori K

更新日期：1976-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Autoactivation of the proenzyme form of a subunit of the first component (C1r) was performed in the presence and absence of diisopropyl fluorophosphate (DFP). The time-course of autoactivation of zymogen C1r followed a sigmoidal curve and was accelerated by addition of the enzyme C1r and by increasing the concentratio...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kasahara Y,Odai H,Takahashi K,Nagasawa S,Koyama J

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human, bovine, and mouse C1q, a subcomponent of the first complement component, were purified, and both globular (GF) and collagen-like fragments (CLF) were isolated from human and bovine C1q. Antisera were produced in rabbits with these C1q or fragments, and F(ab')2 of immunoglobulin G (IgG) was purified from the ant...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Yonemasu K,Sasaki T,Shimizu A

更新日期：1983-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mitochondrial DNA of an erythromycin-resistant petite mutant of yeast, E734, showed physical maps of inversion, which occurred between two cross-over sites in the fragments Hae A and Hae B. The pair of cross-over sites was inferred to be accommodated within a repeat unit of E734 mtDNA during petite mutation by joining...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Wakabayashi K,Furutani Y

更新日期：1984-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new p-coumaric acid (4-hydroxycinnamic acid) hydroxylase was detected in mung bean seedlings treated with tentoxin, a fungal toxin, in which polyphenol oxidase that hydroxylates a wide variety of monophenols in vitro was completely eliminated. The enzyme required molecular oxygen and showed a pH optimum of 5.0. The ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kojima M,Takeuchi W

更新日期：1989-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NADH)/nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate (NADPH) oxidase and the xanthine oxidase (XOD) systems generate reactive oxygen species (ROS). In the present study, to characterize the difference between the two systems, the kinetics of ROS generated by both the NADH oxidase an...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Sato E,Mokudai T,Niwano Y,Kohno M

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The human malaria parasite (Plasmodium falciparum) possesses a plastid-derived organelle called the apicoplast, which is believed to employ metabolisms crucial for the parasite's survival. We cloned and studied the biochemical properties of plant-type ferredoxin (Fd) and Fd-NADP+ reductase (FNR), a redox system that p...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kimata-Ariga Y,Kurisu G,Kusunoki M,Aoki S,Sato D,Kobayashi T,Kita K,Horii T,Hase T

更新日期：2007-03-01 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：:To study the structure/function relationship and enzymatic properties of human aldolase C, we have constructed an Escherichia coli expression plasmid, pHAC11, for the isozyme. E. coli cells carrying this plasmid produced enzymatically active human aldolase C. The kcat and Km values for fructose-1,6-bisphosphate (Fru-1...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kusakabe T,Motoki K,Hori K

更新日期：1994-06-01 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：: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：:We examined the effect of porcine brain Ca2+-dependent regulator (CDR) protein on microtubule (MT) assembly from microtubular proteins isolated from porcine brain by temperature-dependent cycles of assembly-disassembly. CDR exhibited a potent inhibitory effect on MT assembly in the presence of Ca2+, whereas it had lit...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Nishida E,Kumagai H,Ohtsuki I,Sakai H

更新日期：1979-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thymosin β4 (Tβ4) is a major intracellular G-actin-sequestering peptide. There is increasing evidence to support important extracellular functions of Tβ4 related to angiogenesis, wound healing and cardiovascular regeneration. We investigated the expression of 'Tβ4' and 'thymosin β10', a closely related peptide, during...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Tokura Y,Nakayama Y,Fukada S,Nara N,Yamamoto H,Matsuda R,Hara T

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pure bovine rhodopsin pellets were prepared by removal of cholic acid from rhodopsin-cholic acid complex, and X-ray diffraction patterns from the internal structure of rhodopsin were obtained for the first time using wet and dry pellet samples. The peaks at around 10 and 4.3 A spacings observed for both samples can be...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kawaguchi T,Hamanaka T,Kito Y

更新日期：1996-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We designed mutant lysozymes with N-glycosylation signal sequences (Asn48-Gly49-Thr-50 and Asn87-Ile88-Thr89) by substituting Asp to Asn at positions 48 and 87. When these mutant lysozymes were expressed by using yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae) in Burkholder minimum medium, N-glycosylation occurred in both lysozymes....

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Ueda T,Iwashita H,Hashimoto Y,Imoto T

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Irradiation of isolated chloroplast thylakoids with TNP-ADP results in non-covalent binding and covalent incorporation of a reaction product of TNP-ADP formed by photosynthetic reduction into the so-called "tight" nucleotide binding site of CF1 [Ponse et al. (1992) Z. Naturforsch. 47c, 264-274]. CF1 extracted from thu...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Hisabori T,Kothen G,Strotmann H

更新日期：1993-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using glycerol gradient centrifugation, the molecular sizes of porcine (2'-5')oligoadenylate synthetases (2-5A synthetases) were estimated. The 2-5A synthetase purified from pig spleen was about 150 kDa, while the enzyme extracted from nuclei of Newcastle disease virus-infected pig epithelial cells (SK-h) was about 20...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Shimizu N,Sokawa Y,Sokawa J

更新日期：1984-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:C3-translational product, which was synthesized with rabbit liver mRNA in a reticulocyte lysate protein-synthesizing system, did not react with [14C]methylamine, indicating the lack of an internal thioester bond. Instead, the C3-translational product reacted with iodo[1-14C]acetamide, as determined by gel electrophore...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Iijima M,Tobe T,Sakamoto T,Tomita M

更新日期：1984-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Specific antibodies were prepared against cytochromes P450 PB-1, PB-2, PB-4, and PB-5 purified from hepatic microsomes of male rats treated with phenobarbital. With these antibodies, the levels of these four cytochrome P450s in hepatic, renal, and pulmonary microsomes of male rats that were untreated, treated with phe...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Imaoka S,Terano Y,Funae Y

更新日期：1989-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Upon CS2SO4 density-gradient equilibrium centrifugation, 60S subunits of rat liver ribosomes were dissociated to form three bands at the densities of 1.55, 1.40, and 1.30 g/ml. The bands at 1.55 and 1.30 g/ml were shown to contain exclusively RNA or proteins, respectively, whereas the band at 1.40 g/ml contained both ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Isoda N,Tanaka T,Ishikawa K

更新日期：1981-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The entire mitochondrial genome of Rana catesbeiana was cloned into a plasmid vector pBR322 at the unique BamHI site and the nucleotide sequences of the ND2 gene and of its flanking genes were determined. The ND2 gene was encoded by 1,033 base pairs and, as deduced from the nucleotide sequence, the ND2 product consist...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Fujii H,Shimada T,Goto Y,Okazaki T

更新日期：1988-03-01 00:00:00