Partial amino acid sequences of two mitochondrial and two microsomal cytochrome P-450's from adrenal cortex.

abstract：:Pollen proteins from several grass species have been identified and characterized as causative allergens in grass pollinosis. In contrast, allergenic potential of pollen proteins from rice, which belongs to the same Poaceae family, has not well been investigated, despite that a few clinical cases have been reported on...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Hirano K,Hino S,Oshima K,Okajima T,Nadano D,Urisu A,Takaiwa F,Matsuda T

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using an F-actin affinity column, a 60 kDa fragment of a 71 kDa F-actin-binding protein was partially purified from Tetrahymena pyriformis. After digestion of the 60 kDa fragment with cyanogen bromide, the N-terminal 21-amino acid sequence of one of the resulting peptides was found to show sequence similarity to a reg...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Watanabe A,Kurasawa Y,Watanabe Y,Numata O

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As a first step to catalogue mRNAs present in mouse embryonal carcinoma F9 cells, 879 clones corresponding to low-abundance mRNAs were selected from among 2,896 randomly picked up clones of undifferentiated F9 cDNA libraries, using DNA probes complementary to poly(A)+RNAs prepared from undifferentiated F9 cells and to...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Nishiguchi S,Joh T,Horie K,Zou Z,Yasunaga T,Shimada K

更新日期：1994-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Roxadustat (FG-4592, Rox) is a stabilizer for hypoxia-inducible transcription factors (HIFs), which induce production of the erythroid growth factor erythropoietin, and has been listed by the World Anti-Doping Agency as a prohibited substance for athletes since 2011. Although the detection technologies for Rox and its...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Saigusa D,Suzuki N,Matsumoto Y,Umeda K,Tomioka Y,Koshiba S,Yamamoto M

更新日期：2018-02-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Acid ceramidase (ACDase) metabolizes ceramide to sphingosine, leading to sphingosine 1-phosphate production. Reportedly, ACDase has been upregulated in prostate cancer. However, its regulatory mechanism remains unclear. LNCaP (androgen-sensitive prostate cancer cell line) but not PC3 and DU-145, (androgen-unresponsive...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Mizutani N,Inoue M,Omori Y,Ito H,Tamiya-Koizumi K,Takagi A,Kojima T,Nakamura M,Iwaki S,Nakatochi M,Suzuki M,Nozawa Y,Murate T

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cholesterol: oxygen oxidoreductase [EC 1.1.3.6] from Brevibacterium sterolicum (ATCC 21387) was found to catalyze the oxidation of steroids such as sterols, steroid hormones, and bile acids having a free C-3beta hydroxyl group. However, the enzyme was inactive towards estradiol and estriol and had a weak activity towa...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Ikawa S,Takita M,Ogura M

更新日期：1979-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hydrostatic pressure-induced morphological and physiochemical changes in monomeric myosin were investigated. The turbidity of a myosin solution increased after release of pressure, indicating aggregation of the molecules. Some molecules were single headed after exposure to 100-200 MPa, in contrast with an intact molec...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Yamamoto K,Yoshida Y,Morita J,Yasui T

更新日期：1994-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The sugar chain of bovine pancreatic ribonuclease B was released from the polypeptide moiety by hydrazinolysis and by endo-beta-N-acetylglucosaminidase H digestion, and reduced with NaB[3H]4 after N-acetylation. The radioactive oligosaccharide mixtures thus obtained were fractionated by Bio-Gel P-4 column chromatograp...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Liang CJ,Yamashita K,Kobata A

更新日期：1980-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prp8 is a splicing factor of 220 kDa originally identified in yeast and is a component of the U5 small nuclear ribonucleoprotein particle. Mouse Prp8 cDNA was cloned and shown to share 62.6 and 68.2% sequence identity with the yeast homologue at the amino acid and nucleotide level, respectively, while it differs by on...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Takahashi A,Muramatsu H,Takagi S,Fujisawa H,Miyake Y,Muramatsu T

更新日期：2001-04-01 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：:Carboxypeptidase Y (CPY) inhibitor, I(C), a cytoplasmic inhibitor of vacuolar proteinases in yeast, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, was purified by means of a high-level expression system using a proteinase-deficient strain, BJ2168, and an expression vector with the promoter GAL1. The purified I(C) exists as a monomeric bet...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Mima J,Suzuki H,Takahashi M,Hayashi R

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Separation of 13-hydroperoxylinoleic acid or 13-hydroperoxylinolenic acid from linoleic acid or linolenic acid, respectively, was carried out easily and quickly by high performance liquid chromatography on porous polymer gel (TSK-Gel LS-140) using n-hexane/ethanol as an eluent. An eluent containing a large amount of n...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Aoshima H

更新日期：1977-08-01 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：:The minimal structural unit of cytochrome c oxidase purified from Thiobacillus novellus was composed of one molecule each of two subunits with molecular masses of 32 and 23 kDa, respectively, and the unit had one molecule of heme a and one atom of copper. In the presence of n-octyl-beta-D-thioglucoside, the oxidase ex...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Shoji K,Yamazaki T,Nagano T,Fukumori Y,Yamanaka T

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two G-protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) that couple with Gαq/11, B2 bradykinin (BK) receptor (B2R) and ATP/UTP receptor P2Y2 (P2Y2R), are ubiquitously expressed and responsible for vascular tone, inflammation, and pain. We analysed the cellular signalling of P2Y2Rs in cells that express B2Rs. B2R desensitization induc...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Yashima S,Shimazaki A,Mitoma J,Nakagawa T,Abe M,Yamada H,Higashi H

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently, we revealed that microtubule-associated protein (MAP) 4 isoforms, which differ in the number of repeat sequences, alter the microtubule surface properties, and we proposed a hypothesis stating that the change in the surface properties may regulate the movements of microtubule motors [Tokuraku et al. (2003) J...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Tokuraku K,Noguchi TQ,Nishie M,Matsushima K,Kotani S

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thioredoxin 1 (Trx1) is known to play an important role in protecting against cell death. However, the mechanism for control of Trx1 in cell death resulting from DNA damage has not been fully investigated. In this study, we used the DNA-damaging agent methyl methanesulfonate (MMS) to investigate the protective effects...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Gu L,Gao W,Yang HM,Wang BB,Wang XN,Xu J,Zhang H

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Peroxiredoxin from Pyrococcus horikoshii (PhPrx) is a decameric protein formed by ring-type assembly of five dimers. To engineer the quaternary structure of PhPrx, we created a mutant PhPrx (PhPrx6m) by introducing six point mutations designed to dissociate PhPrx into dimers. Although PhPrx6m was a dimer in solution, ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Nakamura T,Oshima M,Yasuda M,Shimamura A,Morita J,Uegaki K

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:By using commercially available anhydrous hydrazine in the gas-phase, mucin-type oligosaccharides were released from porcine gastric mucin (PGM) and bovine fetuin. The data indicated that a certain amount of the oligosaccharides from PGM were further degraded. Despite this, the HPLC elution profile of the anthranilic ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Goso Y,Tsubokawa D,Ishihara K

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The complement system is a classic central player in innate immunity. Most pathogens activate both complement and the toll-like receptor (TLR) pathway. Therefore, to provide a more comprehensive understanding of innate immunity, it is important to understand the crosstalk between these two systems. Mouse macrophages p...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Okazaki N,Hazeki K,Izumi T,Nigorikawa K,Hazeki O

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The position of a single N'-formylkynurenine residue in ozone-inactivated hen egg-white lysozyme [EC 3.2.1.17] was determined by two methods. One involved identification of an amino-terminus of the C-peptide obtained by selective cleavage with hydrazine of the kynurenyl peptide linkage in oxidized lysozyme. The other ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Sakiyama F,Natsuki R

更新日期：1976-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Members of the transforming growth factor-β (TGF-β) family, including TGF-βs, activin and bone morphogenetic proteins (BMPs), are multifunctional proteins that regulate a wide variety of cellular responses, such as proliferation, differentiation, migration and apoptosis. TGF-β family signalling is mainly mediated by m...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Imamura T,Oshima Y,Hikita A

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The interactions of substoichiometric TNP-ATP and F1-ATPase from Escherichia coli (EF1) were examined and compared with those in the case of mitochondrial F1-ATPase (MF1) and F1-ATPase from thermophilic Bacillus PS3 (TF1). EF1 hydrolyzed substoichiometric TNP-ATP faster than TF1 or MF1, although some 20% of the TNP-AT...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Muneyuki E,Hisabori T,Sasayama T,Mochizuki K,Yoshida M

更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dimer formation of HIV-1 genomic RNA through its dimerization initiation site (DIS) is crucial to maintaining infectivity. Two types of dimers, the initially generated kissing-loop dimer and the subsequent product of the extended-duplex dimer, are formed in the stem-bulge-stem region with a loop including a self-compl...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Baba S,Takahashi K,Noguchi S,Takaku H,Koyanagi Y,Yamamoto N,Kawai G

更新日期：2005-11-01 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：:Pyridylamino sugar chains were converted to the corresponding reducing sugar chains by first converting them to 1-amino-1-deoxy derivatives using the method previously reported [S. Hase, J. Biochem. 112, 266-268 (1992)] and then converting the products to the corresponding reducing sugar chains using the Sommlet react...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Takahashi C,Nakakita S,Hase S

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We previously reported that caldesmon (CaD), together with tropomyosin (TM), effectively protects actin filaments from gelsolin, an actin-severing protein. To elucidate the structure/function relationship of CaD, we dissected the functional domain of CaD required for the protection. The basic C-terminal half of rat no...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Takiguchi K,Matsumura F

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gp91(phox) is a key component of the phagocyte NADPH oxidase. Mutations of its promoter found in patients with chronic granulomatous disease cause deficient binding of PU.1 and HAF-1. Because the two factors bind to the same site (Pu box) of the promoter, we attempted to clarify their relative in vivo contributions to...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Islam MR,Fan C,Fujii Y,Hao LJ,Suzuki S,Kumatori A,Yang D,Rusvai E,Suzuki N,Kikuchi H,Nakamura M

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The activity of rat liver asparagine synthetase [EC 6.3.1.1]increased when animals maintained on 25% protein diet were placed on 15% or 6% protein diet. The enzyme activity level rose within one day, reached a maximum in 7 or 10 days after switching the diet and thereafter dropped gradually. During the purification of...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Hongo S,Matsumoto T,Suzuki I,Sato T

更新日期：1979-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using an immunoblotting technique, we have studied the processing of plasma proteins in subcellular fractions of rat liver including rough and smooth microsomes and the Golgi subfractions. Each subcellular fraction was directly subjected to SDS-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis and analyzed by immunoblotting with ant...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Oda K,Miki K,Hirose S,Takami N,Misumi Y,Ikehara Y

更新日期：1986-12-01 00:00:00