N-Trimethylalanine, a novel blocked N-terminal residue of Tetrahymena histone H2B.

abstract：:The DNA fragment containing the phoS gene, a regulatory gene for alkaline phosphatase, has been isolated from Escherichia coli K-12 chromosomal DNA by cutting off the DNA with Hind III restriction enzyme and by cloning the gene with plasmid vector pTP 4 which was constructed in this study. The isolated fragment was of...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Iwakura M,Shimura Y,Tsuda K

更新日期：1982-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Disulfide bond interchange has been pointed out as a considerable problem in preparing recombinant proteins from Escherichia coli cells. This has been reported in the system of reducing denaturation followed by a refolding process, where incorrectly folded molecules are sometimes produced. As the possibility of disulf...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kimura S,Utsumi J,Yamazaki S,Shimizu H

更新日期：1988-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Proteoheteroglycan (PHG) was prepared from Neurospora crassa cells by extraction with hot water followed by cetyltrimethylammoniumbromide fractionation. The polymer was purified by DEAE-cellulose chromatography followed by gel filtrations. The PHG was fractionated into five subfractions containing carbohydrate (65-88%...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Nakajima T,Yoshida M,Hiura N,Matsuda K

更新日期：1984-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Ca2+-ATPase of sarcoplasmic reticulum from rabbit skeletal muscle was incorporated into vesicles made from dimyristoylphosphatidylcholine or dipalmitoylphosphatidylcholine. The Ca2+-ATPase activity of these reconstituted membranes became appreciable above 20 degrees C and 30 degrees C, respectively, in accord with...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Higashi K,Kirino Y

更新日期：1983-12-01 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：:Deleting the gene for small RNA GcvB in Esherichia coli was found to increase the sensitivity to several aminoglycoside antibiotics, such as neomycin, streptomycin, kanamycin, kasugamycin and spectinomycin, at low concentrations. GcvB, conserved in gram-negative enteric bacteria, is known to negatively control the exp...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Muto A,Goto S,Kurita D,Ushida C,Himeno H

更新日期：2020-11-10 00:00:00

abstract：:A high molecular weight protease inhibitor was purified from the egg white of Cuban crocodile (Crocodylus rhombifer). It inhibited the casein hydrolyzing activity of trypsin, subtilisin and papain. Its native molecular weight was 730,000 and it consisted of four subunits of equal molecular weight, each pair of which w...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Ikai A,Kitamoto T,Nishigai M

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tetrahymena F-actin-binding protein, which induces bundling of Tetrahymena F-actin, was localized to a division furrow during cytokinesis. We report here the cloning and characterization of the gene and cDNA of a Tetrahymena F-actin-binding protein. The cDNA encodes a protein comprising 579 deduced amino acids with a ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Watanabe A,Yonemura I,Gonda K,Numata O

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mitochondria are dynamic organelles that frequently divide and fuse together, resulting in the formation of intracellular tubular networks. In yeast and mammals, several factors including Drp1/Dnm1 and Mfn/Fzo1 are known to regulate mitochondrial morphology by controlling membrane fission or fusion. Here, we report th...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Ichishita R,Tanaka K,Sugiura Y,Sayano T,Mihara K,Oka T

更新日期：2008-04-01 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：:The binding of ADP to subfragment-1 was investigated by the gel filtration method. The amount of bound ADP was determined as a function of free ADP concentration. Linear Scatchard plots were obtained. The maximum binding number, 0.55 mole of ADP per 10(5) g of protein, and the dissociation constant, 1.6 x 10(-6) M, we...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Yoshida M,Morita F

更新日期：1975-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bispecific antibody targeting of two different antigens is promising, but when fragment-based antibodies are used, homogeneous production is difficult. To overcome this difficulty, we developed a method using the SpyTag/SpyCatcher system in which a covalent bond is formed between the two polypeptides. Using this metho...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Yumura K,Akiba H,Nagatoishi S,Kusano-Arai O,Iwanari H,Hamakubo T,Tsumoto K

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The amino acid sequence of the mature protein of Euglena gracilis cytochrome c1 was determined by sequencing of its cDNA. A cDNA expression library was constructed from Euglena poly(A)+ RNA in phage lambda gt11 and screened with an antiserum raised against cytochrome c1 polypeptide isolated from purified E. gracilis c...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Mukai K,Wakabayashi S,Matsubara H

更新日期：1989-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The essential gene product Prp45 (379 aa) of Saccharomyces cerevisiae is a highly conserved, but N-terminally abridged, ortholog of the human transcriptional coactivator SKIP, which is involved in TGFbeta, Notch, and steroid hormone signaling. We used a diploid strain harboring PRP45 deletion, which is inviable in the...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Martinkova K,Lebduska P,Skruzny M,Folk P,Puta F

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The state of association of bovine Band 3, which is a major intrinsic protein of erythrocyte membranes, was examined in nonaethyleneglycol dodecyl ether (C12E9) solution by ultracentrifugation, gel filtration, gel electrophoresis and cross-linking studies. The molecular weight of bovine Band 3 was 107,000 +/- 5% as de...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Nakashima H,Makino S

更新日期：1980-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The interaction between n-octyl-beta-D-glucopyranoside (octyl glucoside) and bovine liver glutamate dehydrogenase (GDH) was studied using techniques including equilibrium dialysis, UV-spectrophotometry, circular dichroism (CD), fluorescence energy transfer and extrinsic spectrofluorometry in 50 mM sodium phosphate buf...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Ghobadi S,Safarian S,Moosavi-Movahedi AA,Ranjbar B

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Light harvesting (LH) bacteriochlorophyll (Bchl) protein complexes were isolated from chromatophores of Chromatium vinosum, by the combination of detergent solubilization, sodium dodecylsulfate (SDS) polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (PAGE) and hydroxyapatite chromatography. Addition of the absorption spectra of thes...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Hayashi H,Morita S

更新日期：1980-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Long interspersed nuclear element (LINE) is known to be transposed by reverse transcription using its RNA transcript. Recognition of the 3' stem-loop of LINE RNA by its reverse transcriptase (RT) is an important step of the retrotransposition. Our previous study revealed that the second G residue (G8) in the GGAUA loo...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Otsu M,Kajikawa M,Okada N,Kawai G

更新日期：2017-10-01 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：:Histidine and its derivatives increased rabbit muscle fructose 1,6-bisphosphatase activity at neutral pH with positive cooperativity. In the presence of histidine and carnosine the optimum pH shifted from pH 8.0 to 7.4. The cooperative response of the enzyme to AMP and fructose 1,6-bisphosphate was observed in the pre...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Ikeda T,Kimura K,Hama T,Tamaki N

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The chromatin fraction of rat liver exhibited proteolytic activity caused by serine proteases, with maximal activity at pH 8 or 10. They were analyzed by affinity labeling with [3H]diisopropylfluorophosphate followed by SDS-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis, and partially purified by gel filtration through Sepharose ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Tsurugi K,Ogata K

更新日期：1982-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a previous study, we purified PAF-acetylhydrolase, which converts PAF to an inactive metabolite, lysoPAF, from peritoneal fluid of guinea pigs subjected to experimental endotoxin shock and found that this purified enzyme had similar biochemical properties to the plasma enzyme [Karasawa, K., Yato, M., Setaka, M., an...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Karasawa K,Kuge O,Kawasaki K,Nishijima M,Nakano Y,Tomita M,Yokoyama K,Setaka M,Nojima S

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:beta-D-Galactosidase has been purified to apparent homogeneity from rabbit spleen. The purification steps involved ammonium sulphate precipitation, DEAE-cellulose, concanavalin A-Sepharose, Sephadex G-200, and Sepharose 4B-(epsilon-aminocaproyl)-2-deoxy-beta-D-glucosylamine affinity chromatographies. In the DEAE-cellu...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Rodríguez-Berrocal FJ,Páez de la Cadena M,Cabezas JA,Pérez-González N

更新日期：1988-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of ryanodine on the permeation of glucose, choline, and Ca2+ through the Ca2+ channel in sarcoplasmic reticulum vesicles was studied by means of the light scattering and/or the tracer method. Ryanodine had the same effect on the permeabilities of choline and Ca2+; low concentrations of ryanodine (10 microM)...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kasai M,Kawasaki T

更新日期：1993-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The activities of the digestive enzymes, maltase [EC 3.2.1.20], sucrase [EC 3.2.1.26], trehalase [EC 3.2.1.28], Leucine aminopeptidase [EC 3.4.11.1], and alkaline phosphatase [EC 3.1.3.1] were measured in various regions of the small intestine of rats. The activities of all these enzymes were much higher in the jejunu...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Saito M,Murakami E,Nishida T,Fujisawa Y,Suda M

更新日期：1975-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:X-ray diffraction photographs of a chicken gizzard G-actin.DNase I complex crystal have been recorded using the synchrotron radiation beam emitted by the Synchrotron Radiation Source at Daresbury and the Photon Factory at Tsukuba. The resolution limit was extended to 2.4 A and the exposure time was reduced approximate...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Sakabe N,Kamiya N,Sakabe K,Kondo H

更新日期：1984-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The genomic organization of the gene encoding the human adipocyte-derived leucine aminopeptidase (A-LAP) has been determined. The gene is composed of 20 exons and 19 introns and spans approximately 47 kilobases of chromosome 5q15. The gluzincin aminopeptidase motif, the HEXXH(X)(18)E zinc-binding motif essential for e...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Hattori A,Matsumoto K,Mizutani S,Tsujimoto M

更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the nucleus of eukaryotic cells, chromatin is tethered to the nuclear envelope (NE), wherein inner nuclear membrane proteins (INMPs) play major roles. However, in Xenopus blastula, chromatin tethering to the NE depends on nuclear filamentous actin that develops in a blastula-specific manner. To investigate whether ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Oda H,Kato S,Ohsumi K,Iwabuchi M

更新日期：2020-11-10 00:00:00

abstract：:LipB, the lipase activator protein of Pseudomonas aeruginosa TE3285, was overproduced in Escherichia coli, and purified 4.9-fold over the crude extract in the presence of SDS. The purified LipB reactivated the lipase from P. aeruginosa TE3285 denatured with guanidine hydrochloride, and its reactivation did not involve...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Shibata H,Kato H,Oda J

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A highly sensitive method was developed for quantitative analysis of phospholipid molecular species. Diradylglycerols prepared from phospholipids with phospholipase C were converted to the anthroyl-diradylglycerol derivatives, which could be separated into molecular species and sensitively quantified by reverse-phase ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Takamura H,Kito M

更新日期：1991-03-01 00:00:00