Inhibitory effect of MgATP on the release of regulatory light chain from scallop myosin and light chain composition of scallop myosin hybridized with abalone light chain 2 at 30 degrees C.

abstract：:We have examined critically whether or not new and old histones mix in the octameric units of nucleosomes during chromatin replication. MH-134SC cells were density-labeled by culturing with amino acid mixtures enriched with dense isotopes 2H, 13C, and 15N. Mononucleosomes obtained from labeled cells were fractionated ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Yamasu K,Senshu T

更新日期：1987-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genomic clones of UDP-glucuronosyltransferase family 1 (UGT1) were isolated from wild-type Wistar rats. The UGT1 locus spans > 120 kb and forms a gene complex. In this locus nine unique first exons encoding NH2-terminal portions of each isoform were located at intervals of approximately 10 kb and followed by only one ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Emi Y,Ikushiro S,Iyanagi T

更新日期：1995-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several trypsin inhibitors with different mobilities on polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis occur in the tubers of taro (Colocasia antiquorum), and they each have a dimeric molecular weight of 40,000. Of all the constituent subunits, molecular weight 20,000, of the taro trypsin inhibitor (TTI), three major subunit comp...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Ogata F,Makisumi S

更新日期：1985-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Complete drying of heparin with various concentrations of NaOH by lyophilization caused specific 2-O-desulfation to various degrees without detectable depolymerization or other chemical changes. In order to assess the importance of 2-O-sulfate groups in uronate residues to promote FGF-1 and FGF-2 activities, various 2...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Ishihara M,Kariya Y,Kikuchi H,Minamisawa T,Yoshida K

更新日期：1997-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The kinetics of the hydrogen-deuterium exchange reaction in sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR) membranes isolated from rabbit skeletal muscle was followed by infrared absorption measurements. The exchange rate in SR was much lower than that in the soluble proteins reported so far. When adenylyl-imidophosphate (AMPPNP, an TP ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Anzai K,Kirino Y,Shimizu H

更新日期：1981-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Kinetic analyses of the hydrolysis reactions of N-acetylated and N-deacetylated derivatives of 4-methylumbelliferyl chitobioside [(GlcNAc)(2)-UMB (1), GlcN-GlcNAc-UMB (2), GlcNAc-GlcN-UMB (3), and (GlcN)(2)-UMB (4)] by ChiA and ChiB from Serratia marcescens were performed. Both enzymes released UMB from all compounds ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Honda Y,Kitaoka M,Tokuyasu K,Sasaki C,Fukamizo T,Hayashi K

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Syk protein-tyrosine kinase (PTK) has been implicated in a variety of hematopoietic cell responses including immunoreceptor signaling. However, so far, there has been no evidence of the expression of Syk or Syk-related PTK in non-hematopoietic tissues. In this study, we have purified from blood cell-depleted rat liver...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Tsuchida S,Yanagi S,Inatome R,Ding J,Hermann P,Tsujimura T,Matsui N,Yamamura H

更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Autotaxin (ATX) is an ecto-enzyme responsible for lysophosphatidic acid (LPA) production in blood. ATX is present in various biological fluids such as cerebrospinal and seminal fluids and accounts for bulk LPA production in these fluids. ATX is a member of the nucleotide pyrophosphatase/phosphodiesterase (NPP) family ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Nakanaga K,Hama K,Aoki J

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Trypsin was used as a probe of F-actin conformation. F-actin is known to be refractory to proteolysis [Jacobson, G.R. and Rosenbusch, J.P. (1976) Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S. 73, 2742-2746]. However, here it was found that F-actin could also be digested by trypsin to a 33-kDa fragment (like G-actin) when free MgADP is ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Hozumi T

更新日期：1988-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Poly(A) polymerase [EC 2.7.7.19] was highly purified from beef liver nuclei by the use of column chromatographies on heparin-Sepharose 4B and Blue Dextran-Sepharose 4B. The purified enzyme showed one major protein band of the molecular weight of 57,000 in SDS polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis, which agreed with the m...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Ohyama Y,Fukami H,Ohta T

更新日期：1980-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When the membrane fraction of Saccharomyces carlsbergensis was incubated with radiolabeled isopentenyl diphosphate in the presence of farnesyl diphosphate and Mg2+, phosphorylated and free long-chain polyprenols were formed. The reaction was inhibited by EDTA and heavy metal cations. A series of non-ionic detergents w...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Bukhtiyarov YE,Shabalin YA,Kulaev IS

更新日期：1993-06-01 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：:Cilia and flagella of eukaryotic cells are evolutionarily conserved organelles with a microtubule-based axoneme as a scaffold. To fulfil their functions in cellular motility, sensory reception and developmental signalling, cilia contain unique proteins, such as receptors and ion channels. The assembly and maintenance ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Nakayama K,Katoh Y

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mammalian ATP/ADP translocator isoform-2 (ANT2) gene is growth-activated. Regulation of the gene appears to involve Sp1, as an essential activator, and a suppressor through an Sp1 core element next to the transcription start. We show here that the proximal promoter also binds AP-2 strongly and specifically to two ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Li R,Hodny Z,Zaid A,Barath P,Nelson BD

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:p40(phox) of the phagocyte NADPH oxidase forms a complex with p67(phox) in cytosol, and coincidentally decreases in patients who lack p67(phox). Here we investigated the mode of translocation of p40(phox) to the membrane, its cytoskeletal localization on activation of the NADPH oxidase, and the dependency of its expre...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Tsunawaki S,Yoshikawa K

更新日期：2000-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When the competitive inhibitor benzeneboronic acid (BBA) forms a complex with alpha-chymotrypsin [EC 3.4.21.1] protons are released in the acidic pH region. The proton release can be measured by a difference potentiometric technique. The proton release is also observed in chymotrypsinogen A but not in TRCK-, DIP-, and...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Hanai K

更新日期：1976-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1) Two forms of acid beta-galactosidase [EC 3.1.23] with different molecular weights catalyzing the hydrolysis of GM1-ganglioside and p-nitrophenyl-beta-D-galactoside were separated and purified from porcine spleen. 2) The apparent molecular weights were 400,000-600,000 and 70,000-74,000 for the high (termed Am form) ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Yamamoto Y,Fujie M,Nishimura K

更新日期：1982-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cDNA of a novel protein, which contains the association domain of alpha isoform of calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II (CaM-kinase II alpha), was cloned from rat skeletal muscle. This protein, called alpha KAP, consisted of 200 amino acid residues with a molecular weight of 22,583. alpha KAP has a highly hydrop...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Sugai R,Takeuchi M,Okuno S,Fujisawa H

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ribose-modified fluorescent nucleotide analogs, 3'-O-anthraniloyl and 3'-O-(N-methylanthraniloyl) derivatives of AT(D)P, dAT(D)P, CT(D)P, UT(D)P, IT(D)P, and GT(D)P, were synthesized for use as substrates and affinity labels for the myosin ATPase [Hiratsuka, T. (1983) Biochim. Biophys. Acta 742, 496-508]. None of the ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Hiratsuka T

更新日期：1984-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rat peritoneal macrophages were shown to have two distinct mannose/fucose/N-acetylglucosamine-specific lectins. The major lectin of 180 kDa, which is similar in size to the mannose receptor first isolated from alveolar macrophages (Wileman, T.E., Lennartz, M.R., & Stahl, P.D. (1986) Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S. 83, 250...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Ii M,Wada M,Kawasaki T,Yamashina I

更新日期：1988-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate the role of the C-terminal region of barley beta-amylase, plasmid delta 54 was constructed with an expression vector (pBETA92) of barley beta-amylase by site-directed mutagenesis. Escherichia coli JM109 harboring plasmid delta 54 was expected to express delta 54 beta-amylase in which 54 amino acid resid...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Yoshigi N,Sahara H,Koshino S

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Specific and high titer antisera against 4-O-methylglucuronic acid-containing glycosphingolipid (Lipid IV) from spermatozoa of the fresh-water bivalve, Hyriopsis schlegelii, were raised in rabbits. The antisera were found to agglutinate spermatozoa of three fresh-water bivalves, H. schlegelii, Anodonta woodiana, and C...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Sugita M,Inoue T,Itasaka O,Hori T

更新日期：1984-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tryptophan residues in ribonuclease from a Rhizopus sp. (RNase Rh) were modified by NBS, H2O2-dioxane, o-nitrophenylsulfenyl chloride (NPS-Cl) and the relation between the extent of modification and enzymatic activity was studied in each case. By extrapolation of the modified tryptophan residue-enzymatic activity curv...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Sanda A,Irie M

更新日期：1980-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a previous report (J. Biochem. 89, 1333-1335, 1981) we showed that 30 degrees C-treatment (pCa less than 6 and 2 mM MgCl2), like EDTA-treatment, caused a reversible removal of regulatory light-chains from Akazara adductor myosin. Utilizing the heat-treatment, we now show (a) that not half but the total removal of r...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Ojima T,Nishita K,Watanabe S

更新日期：1983-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A simple, sensitive, and accurate method for determination of cholestanol in plasma is described. In this method a fixed amount of cholestane is added to 1 ml of plasma as an internal standard and steroids are saponified and extracted with n-hexane. The amounts of cholestanol and cholesterol are determined by mass fra...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Seyama Y,Ichikawa K,Yamakawa T

更新日期：1976-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ca2+-binding of S-100 protein was studied using a Ca2+ electrode at pH 6.80. In the presence of 0.1 M KCl and 10 mM MgCl2 (ionic strength 0.13), Ca2+-binding to S-100 protein occurred in three steps with positive cooperativity. The numbers of bound Ca2+ ions in the three steps were 2, 2, and 4. The Ca2+-binding consta...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Matsuda S

更新日期：1988-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anti-angiotensin I IgG in serum was measured by immune complex transfer enzyme immunoassays using angiotensin I conjugates prepared by two different methods. In the first method, angiotensin I was conjugated to dinitrophenyl bovine serum albumin and beta-D-galactosidase through covalent links. Anti-angiotensin I IgG i...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kohno T,Yamaguchi K,Ishikawa E

更新日期：1990-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ten Drosophila thorax proteins (six myosin light chains and four proteins called a, b, c, d) were found to have high affinities with Ca2+. This was proved after subjecting the total Drosophila thorax proteins to two-dimensional (2D) transblot, followed by 45Ca2+ autoradiography. Three proteins (a, c, d) showed Ca2+ de...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Tanaka Y,Maruyama K,Mikawa T,Hotta Y

更新日期：1988-10-01 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：:The relationship between structure, activity, and stability of the thermostable Bacillus stearothermophilus alpha-amylase was studied by site-directed mutagenesis of the three most conserved residues. Mutation of His-238 to Asp involved in Ca2+ and substrate binding reduced the specific activity and thermal stability,...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Vihinen M,Ollikka P,Niskanen J,Meyer P,Suominen I,Karp M,Holm L,Knowles J,Mäntsälä P

更新日期：1990-02-01 00:00:00