Phospholipid reverse micelles as a milieu of an enzyme reaction in an apolar system.

abstract：:An ATP-dependent DNase has been purified from Thermus thermophilus HB8 by a procedure involving streptomycin precipitation, DEAE-cellulose chromatography, Sephadex G-200 gel filtration and heparin-agarose affinity chromatography. ATP-dependent DNase activity was separated into two distinct peaks, Peak A and Peak B, by...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Watanabe N,Umeno M,Anai M

更新日期：1983-02-01 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：:Amyloid beta peptide (Abeta) is a physiological peptide that is constantly catabolized in the brain. We previously demonstrated that an endopeptidase sensitive to phosphoramidon and thiorphan conducts the initial rate-limiting proteolysis of Abeta in vivo, but the exact molecular identity of the peptidase(s) has remai...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Takaki Y,Iwata N,Tsubuki S,Taniguchi S,Toyoshima S,Lu B,Gerard NP,Gerard C,Lee HJ,Shirotani K,Saido TC

更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cucumisin was isolated from prince melon sarcocarp by means of a simple purification procedure. Serine protease inhibitors such as soybean trypsin inhibitor, ovomucoid, and aprotinin had no effect on the enzyme activity. alpha 2-Macroglobulin showed 38% inhibition of the original caseinolytic activity of cucumisin. Th...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Uchikoba T,Yonezawa H,Kaneda M

更新日期：1995-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The contribution of the P1' residue at the first reactive site of peanut protease inhibitor B-III to the inhibition was analyzed by replacement of the P1' Arg(11) with other amino acids (Arg, Ser, Ala, Leu, Phe, Asp) after selective modification of the second reactive site. The Arg derivative had the same trypsin inhi...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kurokawa T,Hara S,Norioka S,Teshima T,Ikenaka T

更新日期：1987-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:beta-Glycosidase from the extreme thermophilic archaeon Sulfolobus solfataricus is a tetrameric protein with a molecular mass of 240 kDa, stable in the presence of detergents, and with a maximal activity at temperatures above 95 degrees C. Understanding the structure-activity relationships of the enzyme under differen...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： D'Auria S,Nucci R,Rossi M,Bertoli E,Tanfani F,Gryczynski I,Malak H,Lakowicz JR

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:MutM protein, which removes the oxidatively damaged DNA base product, 8-oxoguanine (GO), has been crystallized by means of a hanging-drop vapor-diffusion procedure using polyethyleneglycol monomethylether 2000 as a precipitant in 2-(cyclohexylamino) ethanesulfonic acid (CHES) buffer, pH 9.8. The diffraction data deriv...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Sugahara M,Mikawa T,Kato R,Fukuyama K,Kumasaka T,Yamamoto M,Inoue Y,Kuramitsu S

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Induction of cytosolic aspartate aminotransferase (cAspAT) was observed in rat liver on administration of a high-protein diet, or glucagon and during fasting. The enzyme activity in the liver of rats given 80% protein diet or glucagon injection during starvation increased to 2- to 2.4-fold that in the liver of rats ma...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Horio Y,Tanaka T,Taketoshi M,Uno T,Wada H

更新日期：1988-05-01 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：: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：:The immunological properties of acid proteinases from rat spleen, two types of cathepsin D and a cathepsin E-like enzyme, were examined. The rabbit antiserum was prepared against the major form of cathepsin D (cathepsin D-I) from rat spleen. The antiserum quantitatively precipitated the enzyme activity from the purifi...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Yamamoto K,Kamata O,Katsuda N,Kato K

更新日期：1980-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Treatment of Sendai virus with p-azidophenyl-6-chloro-6-deoxy-beta-D-glucopyranoside (APG) caused chemical modification of the viral envelope under UV irradiation, which did not affect the hemagglutinin activity of the virus but inhibited the hemolytic activity. Also, the transfer of phospholipid from the viral envelo...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Jizomoto H,Arita H,Sugita K,Kawanami J,Sato K,Kuriyama K

更新日期：1980-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The complete amino acid sequence of coagulogen purified from the hemocytes of the horseshoe crab Carcinoscorpius rotundicauda was determined by characterization of the NH2-terminal sequence and the peptides generated after digestion of the protein with lysyl endopeptidase, Staphylococcal aureus protease V8 and trypsin...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Srimal S,Miyata T,Kawabata S,Miyata T,Iwanaga S

更新日期：1985-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One mg protein/ml of sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR) membranes isolated from rabbit skeletal muscle were solubilized with 50 mg/ml of octaethyleneglycol mono n-dodecyl ether (C12E8) in a solution containing 5 mM CaCl2, 0.1 M KCl, and 20% glycerol at pH 7.5. When 30 mg/ml of soybean lecithin was added to this mixture and t...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Andoh R,Yamamoto T

更新日期：1985-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The changes in the cellular concentrations of ATP, ADP, and AMP and in oxidative phosphorylation of mitochondria were investigated in the remaining liver of partially hepatectomized rabbits. The energy charge (defined as half of the average number of anhydride-bonded phosphate groups per adenosine moiety) of the liver...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kamiyama Y,Ozawa K,Honjo I

更新日期：1976-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetic engineering strategies were applied to synthesize silk-like materials, [(GVPGV)(2)GG(GAGAGS)(3)AS](n). The primary structure of these materials represents the repetitive crystalline region of Bombyx mori silk fibroins incorporated with an elastic motif selected from animal elastin. The oligonucleotides were de...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Yao J,Asakura T

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thrombomodulin (TM) is a thrombin receptor on the surface of endothelial cells that converts thrombin from a procoagulant to an anticoagulant. Thrombin promotes invasion by various tumor cells, and positive or negative correlations are found between the expression of TM and tumorigenesis in some patients. In this stud...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Niimi S,Harashima M,Takayama K,Hara M,Hyuga M,Seki T,Ariga T,Kawanishi T,Hayakawa T

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. Porcine cardiac native tropomyosin was phosphorylated by bovine cardiac 3':5'-cyclic AMP-dependent protein kinase. Most of the phosphate incorporation was observed in troponin I, the maximum of which was 0.7 mol of Pi per mol of troponin I. 2. In the presence of phosphorylated native tropomyosin, actomyosin ATPase ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Yamamoto K,Ohtsuki I

更新日期：1982-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The dopamine (DA)-translocating mechanism of synaptic vesicles isolated from rat brain has been studied in the presence of an artificially imposed delta pH on the vesicle membranes (acidic inside with respect to the external medium) without the aid of ATP-Mg2+. Under the experimental conditions, [3H]DA uptake by the s...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Tsudzuki T

更新日期：1984-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A sugar autoanalyzer was used on a preparative scale to resolve a gluco-oligosaccharide mixture. In this way the components of the following mixtures were resolved: O-alpha-D-glucopyranosyl-(1-3)-O-[alpha-D-glucopyranosyl-(1-6)]-D-glucose (1), O-alpha-D-glucopyranosyl-(1-6)-O-alpha-D-glucopyranosyl-(1-3)-D-glucose (2)...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Torii M,Alberto BP,Tanaka S,Tsumuraya Y,Misaki A,Sawai T

更新日期：1979-03-01 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：:Adult rat hepatocytes in primary culture cannot survive more than 2 days in the absence of calf serum. An extract of bovine pituitary gland had a similar effect to calf serum on the survival of hepatocytes, but its specific activity was 70 times that of calf serum. The survival factor was purified from bovine pituitar...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Asami O,Nakamura T,Mura T,Ichihara A

更新日期：1984-02-01 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

abstract：:The formation of cholesta-7,24-dien-3 beta-ol and its activity as a substrate for the sterol side-chain methyltransferase in yeast have not previously been studied. Experiments with acetone-powder extracts of yeast showed that the sterol is formed from zymosterol by delta8-delta7 isomerization. However, direct convers...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Yabusaki Y,Nishino T,Ariga N,Katsuki H

更新日期：1979-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although the depletion of reduced glutathione (GSH) has been observed in a variety of apoptotic systems, little is known about the mechanism of GSH depletion. In this study we used polarized MDCK cells to study the GSH flux during ricin-induced apoptosis. Here we report that the specific accumulation of GSH occurred i...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Oda T,Sadakata N,Komatsu N,Muramatsu T

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three forms of rat brain enolase (Fletcher, L., Rider, C.C., & Taylor, C.B. (1976) Biochim. Biophys. Acta 452, 245-252), which were separable by DEAE-cellulose chromatography (referred as enolase I, enolase II, and enolase III in order of the elution), were purified with a high yield by use of column chromatographies ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Suzuki F,Umeda Y,Kato K

更新日期：1980-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously developed a simple gene transfection procedure mediated by cationic lipid vesicles for animal cells, in which a commercially available cationic surfactant, dimethyldioctadecyl ammonium bromide (DDAB), was used for making lipid vesicles. In the present study, we examined enhancement of transfection e...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： You J,Kamihira M,Iijima S

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mitochondria exhibiting cyanide-resistant respiration were isolated from Hansenula anomala which had been incubated in the presence of antimycin A to induce cyanide-resistant respiration. The cyanide-resistant respiration in isolated mitochondria was not inhibited by antimycin A or myxothiazol, suggesting that the bra...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Sakajo S,Minagawa N,Komiyama T,Yoshimoto A

更新日期：1990-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Droplet counter-current chromatography (DCC) a novel liquid-liquid partition technique, is a useful method for the separation of glycolipids. After a series of investigations on suitable experimental conditions for DDC, mouse brain chloroform-methanol-0.5% CaCl2-n-propanol (50:60:40:6) by the ascending method with 500...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Otsuka H,Yamakawa T

更新日期：1981-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The structure of polygalactosamine purified from the culture fluid of Aspergillus parasiticus AHU 7165 was studied. Partial acid hydrolysis of this polysaccharide, in which 55 to 65% of the monosaccharide residues were N-unsubstituted, gave a series of galactosamine oligosaccharides (dimer to hexamer) in a good yield....

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Takada H,Araki Y,Ito E

更新日期：1981-04-01 00:00:00