Peptide bond synthesis catalyzed by subtilisin, papain, and pepsin.

abstract：:Rat liver glucocorticoid receptor was partially purified and characterized for its hormone binding using selenite. Selenite at very low concentrations irreversibly inhibited the hormone binding. The concentration for half maximal inhibition was approximately 2.8 microM. The inhibition was restored by dithiothreitol. T...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Tashima Y,Terui M,Itoh H,Mizunuma H,Kobayashi R,Marumo F

更新日期：1989-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the expression and functions of circular RNA (circRNA) circNINL and miR-921 in breast cancer (BC) in this study. We found that the expression of circNINL increased while the expression of miR-921 decreased in BC tissues and cell lines, and their anomalous expressions were associated with malignant feat...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Xu C,Yu H,Yin X,Zhang J,Liu C,Qi H,Liu P

更新日期：2021-01-21 00:00:00

abstract：:A hybridoma cell line producing mouse monoclonal antibody against pig kidney Na,K-ATPase was established. The antibody, named 38 (mAb38, IgG1), was purified from mouse ascites fluid by chromatography on a protein A-Sepharose column. Antigens immobilized on microplate wells with p-benzoquinone were used for titer assay...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Urayama O,Nagamune H,Nakao M,Hara Y,Sugiyama H,Sato K,Nakao T

更新日期：1985-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The enzymatic properties of novel cysteine proteases D3-alpha and beta which were purified from germinating soybean cotyledons were investigated. The enzyme activities were exhibited in the presence of a thiol reagent, such as 2-mercaptoethanol, and apparently inhibited by E-64, a cysteine protease inhibitor. Hydrolyt...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Asano M,Suzuki S,Kawai M,Miwa T,Shibai H

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chloroquine myopathy is a drug poisoning disease involving rimmed vacuole formation. By Western blot analysis, we investigated posttranslational modification of LC3 in cultured cells with a high concentration of chloroquine, and found that the autophagosome membrane-bound form of LC3 increased dose-dependently. We als...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Suzuki T,Nakagawa M,Yoshikawa A,Sasagawa N,Yoshimori T,Ohsumi Y,Nishino I,Ishiura S,Nonaka I

更新日期：2002-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Resonance Raman (RR) spectra were obtained in H2O or D2O solution for the purple intermediates of D-amino acid oxidase (DAO) with isotopically labeled substrates, i.e., [1-13C]-, [2-13C]-, [3-13C]-, [15N]-, and [3,3,3-D3]alanine; [carboxyl-13C]- and [15N]proline. RR spectra were also measured for the intermediates of ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Nishina Y,Shiga K,Miura R,Tojo H,Ohta M,Miyake Y,Yamano T,Watari H

更新日期：1983-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three isozymic forms, alpha, beta, and gamma, of Drosophila melanogaster aldolase are produced from a single gene by alternative usage of the triple exons 4 (4 alpha, 4 beta, and 4 gamma) [Shaw-Lee et al. (1992) J. Biol. Chem. 267, 3959-3967; Kim et al. (1992) Mol. Cell. Biol. 12, 773-783; Kai et al. (1992) J. Biochem...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Zhang R,Kai T,Sugimoto Y,Kusakabe T,Takasaki Y,Koga K,Hori K

更新日期：1995-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 1H NMR study of a selectively deuterated mouse anti-dansyl monoclonal antibody is reported. Two-dimensional homonuclear Hartmann-Hahn (2D-HOHAHA) spectroscopy was found to be effective for establishing the connectivity between the C2-H and C4-H protons of His residues in the antibody molecule. It has been concluded ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kato K,Nishimura Y,Waelchli M,Arata Y

更新日期：1989-09-01 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：:A fluorescent fragment of Mr = 23,800 was obtained by the papain digestion of N-iodoacetyl-N'-(5-sulfo-1-naphthyl)ethylene diamine (abbreviated as IAEDANS)-modified chicken gizzard myosin. The fragment was isolated by gel filtration on a Sephadex G-100 column in the presence of 5 M guanidine-HCl followed by anion exch...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Onishi H,Maita T,Miyanishi T,Watanabe S,Matsuda G

更新日期：1986-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Methylobacterium extorquens AM1 is an aerobic facultative methylotroph known to secrete pyrroloquinoline quinone (PQQ), a cofactor of a number of bacterial dehydrogenases, into the culture medium. To elucidate the molecular mechanism of PQQ biosynthesis, we are focusing on PqqE which is believed to be the enzyme catal...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Saichana N,Tanizawa K,Pechoušek J,Novák P,Yakushi T,Toyama H,Frébortová J

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies were conducted to induce urinary excretion of retinol-binding protein (RBP) in the rabbit by long-term administration of cadmium, and to isolate and characterize rabbit RBP. Two rabbits were exposed to Cd at a dose of 0.8 and/or 1.5mg/kg of body weight by means of subcutaneous injections five times per week. O...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Muto Y,Nakanishi M,Shidoji Y

更新日期：1976-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 45-60 kDa Gal/GalNAc-specific macrophage lectin was found to participate in the interaction between tumor cells and tumoricidal macrophages activated by an antitumor streptococcal preparation, OK-432, and in the tumoricidal activity of the activated macrophages. The binding between OK-432-elicited activated macropha...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Oda S,Sato M,Toyoshima S,Osawa T

更新日期：1989-06-01 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：:Equilibrium gel permeation chromatography was employed to determine the ability of heparin to form complexes with thrombin and antithrombin III. In the eluate from a Sephacryl S-200 column, heparin caused a peak and then a trough in the fluorescence of 48 nM antithrombin III or 63 nM thrombin. The peak-heights with kn...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Oshima G,Uchiyama H,Nagasawa K

更新日期：1984-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Daunomycin, an anti-neoplastic agent, is known to be sequestered by acidic organelles in normal and multidrug-resistant cells [Willingham, M.C., Cornwell, M.M., Cardarelli, C.O., Gottesman, M.M., & Pastan, I. (1986) Cancer Res. 46, 5941-5946]. We studied the mechanism of accumulation of daunomycin into acidic organell...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Moriyama Y,Manabe T,Yoshimori T,Tashiro Y,Futai M

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The molecular masses of two of the four DNA polymerase alpha-primase complex subunit peptides from various mammalian cells have been compared through the use of specific monoclonal antibodies. One monoclonal antibody (E4) binds to 77-kDa peptide from HeLa cells and cognate peptides from other mammalian cells (monkey, ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kozu T,Nikaido K,Yagura T

更新日期：1990-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have unexpectedly found that Streptomyces subtilisin inhibitor (SSI) and some other similar serine protease inhibitors produced by Streptomycetes strongly inhibit Streptomyces griseus metallo-endopeptidase II (SGMP II) [Kajiwara, K. et al. (1991) J. Biochem. 110, 350-354]. In order to elucidate the mode of their un...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kumazaki T,Kajiwara K,Kojima S,Miura K,Ishii S

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A cytochrome o-type oxidase from the thermophilic bacterium PS3 grown under air-limited conditions was purified by ion-exchange chromatography in the presence of a non-ionic detergent. The enzyme was composed of three subunits (60, 30, and 16 kDa) and seemed to contain two molecules of heme b as prosthetic groups. It ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Sone N,Kutoh E,Sato K

更新日期：1990-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The enzymes phosphoglucomutase (PGM) and phosphomannomutase (PMM) play an important role in the synthesis of extracellular polysaccharide. By colony hybridization of the fosmid library of Sphingomonas chungbukensis DJ77, an open reading frame (ORF-1) of 1,626 nucleotides, whose predicted product is highly homologous w...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Yoon SS,Park SH,Kim YC,Shin M,Chong CK,Choi JD

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A very rapid hemolysis was found to be caused by active oxygen species produced by a hypoxanthine-xanthine oxidase system with very low concentrations of hypoxanthine. The addition of superoxide dismutase or catalase inhibited the hemolysis, indicating that O2- and H2O2 participate in this system. The extent of erythr...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Taniguchi M,Aikawa M,Sakagami T

更新日期：1981-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A major lipid class in the Harderian glands of the Mongolian gerbil was investigated. The IR and 1H-NMR spectra suggested that it was a wax-like compound. Fatty acids present were capric, lauric, myristic, palmitic, stearic, arachidic, and behenic acids in ratios of 3.0%, 16.3%, 16.5%, 29.5%, 5.1%, 16.4%, and 9.8%, re...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Otsuru O,Otsuka H,Kasama T,Seyama Y,Sakai T,Yohro T

更新日期：1983-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The oxygen exchange during ATP hydrolysis by glycerinated muscle fibers, myofibrils, and synthetic actomyosin filaments was studied from the distribution of the [18O]Pi species produced by the hydrolysis of [gamma-18O]ATP. The products were mixtures of two species, one with a low extent of oxygen exchange and the othe...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Yasui M,Ohe M,Kajita A,Arata T,Inoue A

更新日期：1989-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although the conformational change occurring in proteins upon ATP binding is important in many biological reactions, the mechanism by which ATP binding induces the conformational change is unknown. We found that ATP induces acid-unfolded (pH 2) ferricytochrome c or apomyoglobin to adopt a compact structure with a sign...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Goto Y,Okamura N,Aimoto S

更新日期：1991-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ca2+-activated neutral protease (CANP) usually requires mM Ca2+ for activation. The sensitivity of CANP to Ca2+ is greatly enhanced by passing it through a casein-Sepharose column in the presence of Ca2+ ions. This conversion is ascribed to autolysis of CANP. The converted enzyme required 40 microM Ca2+ for 50% activa...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Suzuki K,Tsuji S,Kubota S,Kimura Y,Imahori K

更新日期：1981-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Calphobindins (CPBs, placental annexins) are intracellular Ca(2+)- and phospholipid-dependent proteins like protein kinase C [EC 2.7.1.37]. We investigated the inhibitory effects of calphobindins on the protein kinase C activity in vitro. CPB I inhibited the protein kinase C activity for both histone phosphorylation a...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Shibata S,Sato H,Maki M

更新日期：1992-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have developed a novel method for the preparation of 'recombinant proteoliposomes'. Membrane proteins were expressed on budded virus (BV) envelopes using baculovirus gene expression systems, and proteoliposomes were prepared by fusion of these viruses with liposomes. First, plasmid DNA containing the gene for the t...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Fukushima H,Mizutani M,Imamura K,Morino K,Kobayashi J,Okumura K,Tsumoto K,Yoshimura T

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatitis C virus (HCV) core protein has been suggested to play crucial roles in the pathogeneses of liver steatosis and hepatocellular carcinomas due to HCV infection. Intracellular HCV core protein is localized mainly in lipid droplets, in which the core protein should exert its significant biological/pathological f...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Sato S,Fukasawa M,Yamakawa Y,Natsume T,Suzuki T,Shoji I,Aizaki H,Miyamura T,Nishijima M

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lactosylceramide and paragloboside were synthesized from their precursor glycolipids and UDP-galactose by lactose synthase A protein [UDP-Gal : GlcNAc beta-4-galactosyltransferase, EC 2.4.1.22] purified to homogeneity from human plasma. The partially purified human liver enzyme and an extract from human lymphoblastoid...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Yamato K,Yoshida A

更新日期：1982-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The virion-associated RNA-dependent RNA polymerase of influenza virus PR8 was activated by treatment with specific non-ionic detergents, and was remarkably stimulated by exogenously added oligonucleotide primers. Among synthetic oligonucleotides of various chain lengths, the dinucleotide ApG and the trinucleotide ApGp...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kawakami K,Ishihama A,Ohtsuka E,Tanaka T,Takashima H,Ikehara M

更新日期：1981-06-01 00:00:00