Surface potential dependence of the distribution of charged dye molecules onto photosynthetic membranes.

abstract：:Chondroitin sulphate proteoglycan 4 (CSPG4) is a cell surface proteoglycan highly expressed by tumour, perivascular and oligodendrocyte cells and known to be involved cell adhesion and migration. This study showed that CSPG4 was present as a proteoglycan on the cell surface of two melanoma cell lines, MM200 and Me1007...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Tang F,Lord MS,Stallcup WB,Whitelock JM

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relationship between DNA structure of replacement vectors and gene targeting efficiency was studied using positive-negative selection. The vectors contained pBR322 DNA, a bacterial neomycin-resistance gene (neo) for positive selection, a herpes simplex virus (HSV) thymidine kinase gene (tk) for negative selection,...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Horie K,Nishiguchi S,Maeda S,Shimada K

更新日期：1994-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to determine whether ATP-sensitive potassium channel (K(ATP) channel) activation generates oxygen free radicals in the rabbit heart. We assayed malondialdehyde (MDA) in rabbit heart slices in vitro as an indicator of oxygen free radical generation. The K(ATP) channel openers, pinacidil an...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Han J,Kim N,Park J,Seog DH,Joo H,Kim E

更新日期：2002-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The modification of proteins by SUMO (small ubiquitin-like modifier) regulates various cellular processes. Sumoylation often occurs on a specific lysine residue within the consensus motif psiKxE/D. However, little is known about the specificity and selectivity of SUMO target sites. We describe here a SUMO assay with p...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Schwamborn K,Knipscheer P,van Dijk E,van Dijk WJ,Sixma TK,Meloen RH,Langedijk JP

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new protein with a chain weight of approximately 220,000 was isolated from 0.6 M KI extracts of I-Z-I brushes of rabbit and chicken skeletal muscles, using (NH4)2SO4 precipitation and three column chromatographic procedures in succession. It was only possible to separate the high molecular weight protein from actin ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Muguruma M,Kobayashi K,Fukazawa T,Ohashi K,Maruyama K

更新日期：1981-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When crude neurofilaments were dissolved in a solution containing 8 M urea and 1% beta-mercaptoethanol (beta-ME), the component proteins of the neurofilaments and other contaminating filaments were solubilized into monomeric forms. However, when reassembled filaments were solubilized again by the addition of urea to 8...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Tokutake S,Tanaka K

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:I attempted to isolate synaptic vesicles by gel filtration. The rat brain synaptic vesicles in a synaptosomal lysate were collected by ammonium sulfate salting-out and fractionated on a Sephacryl S-500 with a mean exclusion size of 200 nm. Peak I at the void volume contained large vesicular membranes and coated vesicl...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Tsudzuki T

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lipoamide dehydrogenase (LADase) was purified to homogeneity from rat liver mitochondria, and the intracellular distribution and biosynthesis of the LADase were investigated with antibody prepared against the purified enzyme. 1) LADase activity was mostly found in mitochondria; the activity in cytosol was about one-te...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Matuda S,Saheki T

更新日期：1982-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper describes a method for imaging the endogenous release of glutamate from cerebral neurons. This method is based on the reactions of glutamate oxidase and peroxidase, and on the detection of hydrogen peroxide by a fluorescent substrate of peroxidase. Glutamate has been sensitively measured in vitro in the ran...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Akagi Y,Hashigasako A,Degenaar P,Iwabuchi S,Hasan Q,Morita Y,Tamiya E

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell metabolism can be considered as a process of serial construction and destruction of cellular components, both of which must be regulated accurately. In eukaryotic cells, a variety of cellular components are actively delivered into lysosomes/vacuoles, specialized compartments for hydrolysis of macromolecules. Such...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Fujiwara Y,Wada K,Kabuta T

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:PTF/SNAPc is a multisubunit complex which specifically recognizes the PSEs of small nuclear RNA genes and activates transcription by RNA polymerase II or III. Here we describe the isolation and characterization of genomic clones encoding the human PTFgamma/SNAP43 gene. The gene spans approximately 29 kilobases, and is...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Maeng JH,Yoon JB

更新日期：1998-07-01 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：:We have recently developed an in vitro yeast reconstituted translation system, which is capable of synthesizing long polypeptides. Utilizing the system, we examined the role of eIF5A and its hypusine modification in translating polyproline sequence within long open reading frames. We found that polyproline motif inser...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Abe T,Nagai R,Shimazaki S,Kondo S,Nishimura S,Sakaguchi Y,Suzuki T,Imataka H,Tomita K,Takeuchi-Tomita N

更新日期：2020-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three forms of cathepsin H-like cysteine proteinase were purified from rat spleen by a method involving acid treatment and chromatography on pepstatin-Sepharose, Sephadex G-75, DEAE-Sephacel, CM-Toyopearl, and concanavalin A-Sepharose. The final preparations of these forms all migrated as single protein bands on polya...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Yamamoto K,Kamata O,Kato Y

更新日期：1984-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In vitro activation of human reovirus transcriptase by alpha-chymotrypsin digestion of viral outer shell proteins was completely dependent on the ionic size of the monovalent cation in the medium. Cations with nonhydrated ionic radii larger than 1.3 A showed full potency of activation of chymotrypsin digestion, and pr...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Nagai J,Tanaka M,Nakashima K

更新日期：1984-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The protein structure, kinin-releasing activity, and tissue distribution of four major proteinases of mouse submandibular gland (mK22, mK9, proteinase F, proteinase P) were studied. When compared with the deduced amino acid sequence of each member of the tissue (glandular) kallikrein gene family, the amino acid sequen...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Hosoi K,Tsunasawa S,Kurihara K,Aoyama H,Ueha T,Murai T,Sakiyama F

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:ATP-dependent enzymes were investigated as to the stringency of their ATP requirement. For all the enzymes examined except firefly luciferase (including hexokinase, polynucleotide kinase, T4 DNA ligase, and T4 RNA ligase) ATP could be replaced with dATP, contradicting previous data. Considering the replaceable nucleot...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kinoshita Y,Nishigaki K

更新日期：1997-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate a possible function of plasma albumin in partitioning organic anions into bile and urine, phenolsulfonphthalein (PSP) was administered intravenously and its in vivo fate was studied in normal and analbuminemic mutant rats (NAR). No significant change in the rate of PSP disappearance was observed in bila...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Inoue M,Koyama H,Nagase S,Morino Y

更新日期：1986-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phospholipase A2 of rat liver mitochondria was purified approximately 1,400-fold by extraction with KCl, and chromatographies on a Sephadex G-75 column and a diacyl-glycerophosphocholine-Sepharose affinity column. The purified enzyme was very labile when incubated either at 37 degrees C or 0 degrees C, and lost its ac...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Natori Y,Karasawa K,Arai H,Tamori-Natori Y,Nojima S

更新日期：1983-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We reported previously competitive panning elution with PBS (pH 7.0) that contains HM-1 killer toxin (HM-1) and Candida albicans membrane fraction (CaMF) to release phages bound with CaMF as an antigen. Here, as an alternative strategy, we isolated high-binding affinity recombinant single-chain fragment variables (scF...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Krishnaswamy S,Kabir ME,Miyamoto M,Furuichi Y,Komiyama T

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The vitamin A derivative, retinoic acid (RA) has various biological effects in mammalian cells and tissues. It is well known that RA induces differentiation of leukemia cells and inhibits cell growth. There are two pathways for RA action; one via RA nuclear receptors (RARs), and one via acylation of proteins by RA (re...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kubo Y,Ohba T,Takahashi N

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The flavoenzyme medium-chain acyl-CoA dehydrogenase (MCAD) eliminates the alpha-proton of the substrate analog, 3-thiaoctanoyl-CoA (3S-C8-CoA), to form a charge-transfer complex with deprotonated 3S-C8-CoA. This complex can simulate the metastable reaction intermediate immediately after the alpha-proton elimination of...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Satoh A,Nakajima Y,Miyahara I,Hirotsu K,Tanaka T,Nishina Y,Shiga K,Tamaoki H,Setoyama C,Miura R

更新日期：2003-08-01 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 effect of concentration of rabbit reticulocyte rRNAs on the translation of rabbit globin mRNAs was studied by using a rabbit reticulocyte lysate system. Globin synthesis was studied using L-[U-14C]leucine. Both the 18S and 28S rRNA inhibited globin synthesis. The 18S rRNA inhibited the synthesis of alpha-globin ch...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Suzuki H

更新日期：1978-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study presents the structural, kinetic and thermodynamic characterizations of previously unknown submicellar concentrations of SDS-induced molten globule (MGSDS) state of a highly negatively charged base-denatured ferricytochrome c (UB-state) at pH ∼12.8 (±0.2). The far-UV CD, near-UV CD, ANS-fluorescence data of...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Jain R,Sharma D,Kumar R,Kumar R

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe cross-linking conditions for myosin subfragment-1 and actin with 1-ethyl-3-[3-(dimethylamino)propyl]carbodiimide, with which the compositions of cross-linked species can be altered. The specific Mg-ATPase activity of cross-linked subfragment-1 in these preparations was almost the same in spite of the diffe...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Yamamoto K

更新日期：1993-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To reveal the molecular orientation of plastocyanin (PC) on spinach thylakoid membranes, the position of Lys residues modified by acetic anhydride was compared between thylakoid-bound PC and the isolated one. Digestion of the isolated PC by a trypsin yielded a peptide map with seven spots prior to the acetylation of t...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Takano M,Takahashi M,Oobatake M,Asada K

更新日期：1985-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We previously isolated a Ca2+-binding protein from a ciliate, Tetrahymena, and designated it as TCBP (Tetrahymena Ca2+-binding protein). The present paper reports that TCBP, which has two high affinity Ca2+-binding sites (Kd=4.6 X 10(-6) M), could activate porcine brain cyclic nucleotide phosphodiesterase at a concent...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Suzuki Y,Nagao S,Abe K,Hirabayashi T,Watanabe Y

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The interaction between lipopolysaccharide (LPS) and an LPS-sensitive serine protease zymogen, factor C, purified from horseshoe crab (Tachypleus tridentatus) hemocytes, was investigated to elucidate the LPS-mediated activation of factor C. The rate of activation of the zymogen factor C was highly dependent on the con...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Nakamura T,Tokunaga F,Morita T,Iwanaga S

更新日期：1988-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:"DNase binding protein" of 43K daltons as determined by SDS-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis, was purified from the 0.1 M KCl-soluble (non-structural) fraction of chicken skeletal muscle. The protein was distinct from actin in amino acid composition and physicochemical properties. "DNase binding protein" was also is...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kohama K,Holtzer H

更新日期：1981-02-01 00:00:00