Properties of amino acid composition of the tryptic fragments of the heavy chain of myosin subfragment-1.

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：:We designed a simple procedure for the purification of peptidylarginine deiminase, which catalyzes the deimination of arginyl residues in protein, from rabbit skeletal muscle using substrate affinity chromatography. Of the immobilized substrate ligands tested, i.e. protamine and soybean trypsin inhibitor (Kunitz) (STI...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Takahara H,Okamoto H,Sugawara K

更新日期：1986-05-01 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 epitopes of about 100 monoclonal antibodies against human type II DNA topoisomerase were mapped along the enzyme molecules. Although they were randomly and independently established, epitope sites were unevenly distributed the toward N-terminal or C-terminal region. We suggest that the central catalytic domain is ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Sakaguchi A,Miyaike M,Kuroda K,Nozaki N,Tanaka M,Hibino M,Fujii Y,Kato S,Kikuchi A

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Disappearance of rabbit EgG and its Fc fragment from the injected sites in skin and also the relationship to reverse passive cutaneous anaphylaxis (RPCA) were studied using guinea pigs. Rabbit IgG and its Fc fragment, trace labelled with -125-I, disappeared from the injected sites with half-lives of 12--14 and 6--7 h...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Sakurama T,Nakamura T,Koyama J

更新日期：1975-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:By employing EPR spectrometry with the aid of a spin-trapping agent, 5,5-dimethyl-1-pyrroline-1-oxide (DMPO), the generation of superoxide anion and hydroxyl radical was reevaluated during the respiratory burst of porcine and human neutrophils. Properly prepared resting neutrophils did not generate any spin-trapped ra...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Ueno I,Kohno M,Mitsuta K,Mizuta Y,Kanegasaki S

更新日期：1989-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Poly(8-oxyinosinic acid) (poly O8I), was synthesized by polymerizing 8-oxyinosine diphosphate using the enzyme polynucleotide phosphorylase (PNPase). The polymer formed a 1 : 1 hybrid with polycytidylic acid (poly C). The hybrid was found to induce the production of interferon in the brain of white albino mice and pro...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Folayan JO

更新日期：1982-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We obtained two kinds of vesicle preparations which were of different density from the same gastric mucosae of hogs stimulated with food before slaughter. Both kinds contained H+,K+-ATPase. The light vesicle preparation differed from the heavy vesicle preparation as follows: the KCl permeability across the membrane of...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Asano S,Iino T,Tabuchi Y,Takeguchi N

更新日期：1988-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate the function of the gamma-carboxyglutamic acid (Gla) residues of factor IXa in the activation of factor X, a new species of bovine factor IXa, designated "factor IXa beta'," and its corresponding Gla-domainless form, designated "Gla-domainless factor IXa beta'," were prepared under controlled conditions...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Morita T,Fukudome K,Miyata T,Iwanaga S

更新日期：1991-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The DegS-DegU two-component regulatory system regulates many cellular events in Bacillus subtilis. Genes for DegSU constitutes an operon directed by the P1 promoter and downstream degU is autoregulated via the P3 promoter activated by phosphorylated DegU. In the Gram-positive bacteria, Spx plays a major role in the pr...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Shiwa Y,Yoshikawa H,Tanaka T,Ogura M

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The presence of NADH-cytochrome b5 reductase [EC 1.6.2.2] in microsomes from anaerobically grown yeast was confirmed by its isolation and purification. The purified preparation of the reductase showed an apparent molecular weight of 27,000 daltons. The reductase appeared to contain loosely-bound FAD as a prosthetic gr...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kubota S,Yoshida Y,Kumaoka H

更新日期：1977-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The process of mitochondrial dysfunction in ischemic rat liver was studied. A close correlation was found between decrease in the mitochondrial adenine nucleotide content and deterioration of oxidative phosphorylation capacity. The level of total adenine nucleotides, which was 15--20 nmol/mg protein in mitochondria is...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Watanabe F,Kamiike W,Nishimura T,Hashimoto T,Tagawa K

更新日期：1983-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Myosin subfragment-1.pyrophosphate (S1.PPi) complex and S1.ADP complex were observed with 31P NMR at various temperatures between 0 and 25 degrees C. The signal of S1.PPi complex showed a small temperature dependence, indicating that a single conformation exists for the complex. It also showed that the electron densit...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Tanokura M,Ebashi S

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rous sarcoma virus-transformed rat liver cell line RSV-BRL secreted a neutral proteinase in a latent precursor form with a molecular weight (Mr) of 57,000 (57k) as a major secreted protein. This enzyme was a calcium-dependent metallo-proteinase. The proenzyme was purified from the serum-free conditioned medium of the ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Umenishi F,Yasumitsu H,Ashida Y,Yamauti J,Umeda M,Miyazaki K

更新日期：1990-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Loss of bone substance is a common manifestation of hyperparathyroidism. This suggests that parathyroid hormone (PTH) plays an important role as to bone mass. To investigate the mechanism underlying this change in bone mass, I studied the effects of PTH on collagen synthesis and mitogenesis of UMR-106 rat osteoblastic...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Pun KK

更新日期：1989-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies by our group suggested that lysozyme has a high affinity for bacterial lipopolysaccharide (LPS) of both the smooth and rough forms, and inhibits various immunomodulatory activities of LPS. GLA60 is a synthetic monosaccharide analogue of bacterial lipid A well known as having most of the activities of li...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Tanida N,Ohno N,Adachi Y,Matsuura M,Nakano M,Kiso M,Hasegawa A,Yadomae T

更新日期：1992-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:F1-ATPase inhibitor was purified from yeast, Saccharomyces cerevisiae. The purified inhibitor blocked ATPase activity in the presence of ATP and Mg2+ by forming a latent equimolar enzyme-inhibitor complex with ATP and ADP newly bound to loose sites on the enzyme. A small portion of externally added ATP was hydrolyzed ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Hashimoto T,Negawa Y,Tagawa K

更新日期：1981-10-01 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

abstract：:The mechanism by which GTP induces Ca2+ release from Ca2(+)-preloaded rat hepatic microsomes was studied. In the same concentration range as that for Ca2+ release, GTP inhibited the initial rate of ATP-driven Ca2+ uptake. It also inhibited the formation by ATP of the phosphorylated intermediate of Ca2(+)-ATPase, which...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kimura S,Higham S,Robison BC,Kraus-Friedmann N

更新日期：1990-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The genes coding for the phospholipid degradation enzymes in E. coli, detergent-resistant (DR-) phospholipase A (pldA) and lysophospholipase L2 (pldB), were cloned together on the plasmid pKO1 (Homma, H., Kobayashi, T., Ito, Y., Kudo, I., Inoue, K., Ikeda, H., Sekiguchi, M., & Nojima, S. (1983) J. Biochem. 94, 2079-20...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kobayashi T,Kudo I,Homma H,Karasawa K,Inoue K,Ikeda H,Nojima S

更新日期：1985-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microtubule-associated protein (MAP) 1 consisting of MAP 1A and 1B was purified from rat brain by the poly-L-aspartic acid (PLAA) method. We found that MAP 1 bound to F-actin in vitro up to a molar ratio of MAP 1 to actin monomers of 1:10. The apparent binding constant was about 2.7 x 10(7) M-1. In contrast to the bin...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Fujii T,Watanabe M,Ogoma Y,Kondo Y,Arai T

更新日期：1993-12-01 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：:The amino acid sequences of ferredoxins I and II from a blue-green alga, Nostoc strain MAC were determined. This alga is able to grow autotrophically in the light or heterotrophically in the dark. Analyses of tryptic peptides of Cm-proteins by conventional methods including solid-phase Edman degradation gave the compl...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Hase T,Matsubara H,Hutber GN,Rogers LJ

更新日期：1982-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein-tyrosine kinase p72syk exists abundantly in various hematopoietic cells and is activated by physiological or non-physiological agents. In this study we used vanadate, which is well known as a protein-tyrosine phosphatase inhibitor, to investigate the activity of p72syk and a downstream substrate for p72syk. Tr...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Nagai K,Inazu T,Yamamura H

更新日期：1994-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The activity and stability of mushroom tyrosinase were studied in ionic liquid (IL)-containing aqueous systems. The effect of three ILs ([BMIm][PF(6)], [BMIm][BF(4)]), and [BMIm][MeSO(4)], where [BMIm] = 1-butyl-3-methylimidazolium) and their inorganic salts (KMeSO(4), KPF(6), and NaBF(4)) on the enzyme performance wa...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Yang Z,Yue YJ,Huang WC,Zhuang XM,Chen ZT,Xing M

更新日期：2009-03-01 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：:A comparative study of vertebrate ventricle tropomyosin has been carried out from the viewpoint of molecular evolution. The ventricles containing one-component tropomyosin were generally known, and in this paper those containing two components were also found in 8 species among mammals, reptiles, amphibia, and fish, b...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Yamane A,Hirabayashi T

更新日期：1985-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pig heart phosphoprotein phosphatase [phosphoprotein phosphophydrolase, EC 3.1.3.16] of Mr 224,000 was dissociated by gel-filtration on Sephacryl S-300, into an active subunit (alpha subunit) of Mr 31,000 and inactive subunits of higher molecular weight in the presence of 6 M urea. After the removal of urea, these sub...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Imazu M,Imaoka T,Usui H,Kinohara N,Takeda M

更新日期：1981-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thiol proteases are industrially significant proteins with catalytic efficiency. The effect of low, medium and high molecular-weight poly (ethylene glycol) (PEG- 400, 6000 and 20000) on the stability of thiol proteases (papain, bromelain and chymopapain) has been studied by activity measurements using synthetic substr...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Fatima S,Khan RH

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

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