Increase in the susceptibility of hemoglobin to trypsin on treatment with glutathione or cysteine.

abstract：:Isolation and characterization of a fibrous protein component which might be associated with contractile ring of a dividing Tetrahymena cell were attempted by making use of coprecipitation of the protein with rabbit skeletal muscle myosin. The protein was purified to homogeneity by ammonium sulfate fractionation betwe...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Numata O,Yasuda T,Hirabayashi T,Watanabe Y

更新日期：1980-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human serum was shown to contain N-acetyllactosamine: N-acetylglucosaminyltransferase activity. The reaction product was hydrolyzed by beta-N-acetylglucosaminidase and released [14C]N-acetylglucosamine, indicating that the N-acetylglucosaminyl residue was beta-linked to N-acetyllactosamine. Methylation and hydrolysis ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Hosomi O,Takeya A,Kogure T

更新日期：1984-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Undecaprenyl diphosphate synthase catalyzes the sequential condensation of eight molecules of isopentenyl diphosphate (IPP) in the cis-configuration into farnesyl diphosphate (FPP) to produce undecaprenyl diphosphate (UPP), which is indispensable for the biosynthesis of the bacterial cell wall. This cis-type prenyltra...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kharel Y,Zhang YW,Fujihashi M,Miki K,Koyama T

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plasmapheresis with a dextran sulfate column is a treatment for patients with hypercholesteremia. When proteins bound to the column during the treatment were fractionated to prepare some known proteins, we found a 57 kDa glycoprotein designated GP57 which showed a new N-terminal amino acid sequence. Western-blot analy...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Choi-Miura NH,Sano Y,Oda E,Nakano Y,Tobe T,Yanagishita T,Taniyama M,Katagiri T,Tomita M

更新日期：1995-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The amount of S-II, a protein specifically stimulating RNA polymerase II, was measured in various mouse organs by a micro complement fixation assay. The amount was almost the same in brain, liver, kidney, spleen, and Ehrlich ascites tumor cells on the basis of DNA, being about 3.8 micrograms/mg DNA, which corresponds ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Tamura H,Sekimizu K,Obinata M,Natori S

更新日期：1980-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein S, a vitamin K-dependent plasma protein having Gla-residues, increases the rate of inactivation of Factor Va by activated protein C by enhancing the binding of activated protein C to phospholipid [Walker, J.F. (1981) J. Biol. Chem. 256, 11128-11131]. The present study aimed at elucidating the effect of thrombi...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Suzuki K,Nishioka J,Hashimoto S

更新日期：1983-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We previously reported that internucleosomal DNA fragmentation, a biochemical feature of apoptosis, was induced spontaneously in high-cell-density culture of adult rat hepatocytes. To understand better the intracellular mechanism of the DNA fragmentation in this system, we have examined the effects of several inhibito...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Maeda S,Suzuki A,Lin KH,Inagaki H,Saito T

更新日期：1995-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phospholipase A2 was solubilized from rat platelet membrane by 1 M KCl and purified to near homogeneity on sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis and HPLC. The characteristics of the purified membrane-bound enzyme were compared with those of phospholipase A2 released from thrombin-stimulated rat pla...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Hayakawa M,Kudo I,Tomita M,Inoue K

更新日期：1988-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inosine triphosphate (ITP) does not serve as a substrate for myosin light-chain kinase from gizzard muscle. That is to say, myosin light-chain is not phosphorylated in ITP media. Nevertheless, at pH 6.8, 1 mM or 5 mM ITP induces superprecipitation of skeletal acto-gizzard myosin. The ITP-induced superprecipitation occ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Onishi H,Watanabe S

更新日期：1979-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Association of sulphatide with influenza A virus (IAV) haemagglutinin (HA) delivered to the cell surface promotes progeny virus production. However, it is not known whether there is direct binding of HA to sulphatide. In this study, we found that recombinant HA, which was produced by a baculovirus protein expression s...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Takahashi T,Satoh H,Takaguchi M,Takafuji S,Yokoyama H,Fujii S,Suzuki T

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A group B streptococcus, Streptococcus agalactiae type Ib, produces a high-molecular-weight polysaccharide consisting of the following pentasaccharide repeating unit: -->4)-[alpha-D-NeupNAc-(2-->3)-beta-D-Galp-(1-->3)-beta-D-GlcpNAc-(1-->3)]-beta-D-Galp-(1-->4)-beta-D-Glcp-(1-->. The type-specific capsular polysacchar...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Watanabe M,Miyake K,Yanae K,Kataoka Y,Koizumi S,Endo T,Ozaki A,Iijima S

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Affinity chromatography based on the reaction between SH groups in protein and +HgC6H4CO groups in the p-mercuribenzoylaminoethyl derivative of Sepharose 4B was examined with a crude preparation of calf thymus cysteine-containing histone. Adsorption of the histone onto the column by specific coupling was found to be ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Ishikawa K,Iwai K

更新日期：1975-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The reactions of diol dehydratase with 3-unsaturated 1,2-diols and thioglycerol were investigated. Holodiol dehydratase underwent rapid and irreversible inactivation by either 3-butene-1,2-diol, 3-butyne-1,2-diol or thioglycerol without catalytic turnovers. In the inactivation, the Co-C bond of adenosylcobalamin under...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Toraya T,Tamura N,Watanabe T,Yamanishi M,Hieda N,Mori K

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fibronectin was isolated from human placenta tissues and compared with human plasma fibronectin. Placenta and plasma fibronectins had similar amino acid compositions, immunological properties, and cell attachment-promoting activities, but differed in apparent molecular weight on sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide g...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Isemura M,Yamaguchi Y,Munakata H,Aikawa J,Kan M,Yamane I,Yosizawa Z

更新日期：1984-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A novel immortalized rheumatoid fibroblast-like synoviocyte (FLS) line, MH7A, was established by stably transfecting FLS cells with SV40 T antigen gene. MH7A cells expressed SV40-specific small t and large T antigens as well as an elevated level of p53 protein. They have already reached over 150 population doublings t...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Miyazawa K,Mori A,Okudaira H

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The structural glycoprotein E(rns) of classical swine fever virus (CSFV) is one of the major antibody targets upon infection of pigs with the virus. Molecular dissection of the structure of E(rns) would define the minimal immunodominant regions that induce antibody responses after infection and may thus help design an...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Lin M,Trottier E,Pasick J,Sabara M

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of mannan chains in the formation and secretion of active acid phosphatase of yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae), a repressible cell surface mannoprotein, was studied in yeast protoplast systems by using tunicamycin at various temperatures. At 30 degrees C, tunicamycin-treated protoplasts did not produce active...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Mizunaga T,Izawa M,Ikeda K,Maruyama Y

更新日期：1988-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Low molecular weight RNAs were isolated from nuclei of the cellular slime mold Dictyostelium discoideum AX-3. Analysis of the RNAs by polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis showed that the vegetative cell nuclei contained, besides tRNA (Dd1), 5S RNA (Dd4), and 5.8S RNA (Dd7), at least 7 small RNA species (Dd3, Dd5, Dd6, D...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Takeishi K,Kaneda S

更新日期：1981-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The internal structure of the recombinant yeast-derived human hepatitis B virus surface antigen vaccine particle was investigated by small-angle neutron scattering using the contrast variation method. Data were collected in aqueous buffer solutions containing 0, 40, 60, and 100% D2O in the q range of 0.005 to 0.2 A-1 ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Sato M,Sato-Miyamoto Y,Kameyama K,Ishikawa N,Imai M,Ito Y,Takagi T

更新日期：1995-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many membrane proteins such as ion channels are oligomers, but the determinants of the degree of oligomerization are not fully understood. Mechanosensitive channel with large conductance (MscL), which is ubiquitous in bacteria, is a homopentamer with two transmembrane helices and a cytoplasmic helix in each subunit. T...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Ando C,Liu N,Yoshimura K

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Autoactivation of the proenzyme form of a subunit of the first component (C1r) was performed in the presence and absence of diisopropyl fluorophosphate (DFP). The time-course of autoactivation of zymogen C1r followed a sigmoidal curve and was accelerated by addition of the enzyme C1r and by increasing the concentratio...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kasahara Y,Odai H,Takahashi K,Nagasawa S,Koyama J

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We previously showed that the 9 S estrogen receptor (ER) could be reconstituted from purified ER and purified heat shock protein 90 (hsp 90). So, we investigated the role of hsp 90 in the binding of purified ER to an estrogen responsive element (ERE) by using the reconstitution system. ER purified from calf uterus sho...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Inano K,Curtis SW,Korach KS,Omata S,Horigome T

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Frontal gel chromatography is a convenient and accurate method to obtain the free ligand concentration of a protein-ligand mixture. Because a large amount of sample (more than 6 ml) is required for the method, it has been rarely used for binding experiments. We have developed a system to carry out frontal gel chromato...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Honjo M,Ishida T,Horiike K

更新日期：1997-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sphingosine-1-phosphate (S1P) and lysophosphatidic acid (LPA) are blood-borne lysophospholipids with a wide spectrum of biological activities, which include stimulation of cell growth, prevention of apoptosis, regulation of actin cytoskeleton, and modulation of cell shape, cell migration, and invasion. Activated plate...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Takuwa Y,Takuwa N,Sugimoto N

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

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：: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：:The most abundant glycoprotein in the coelomic fluid of sea urchin Anthocidaris crassispina was purified and its subunit structure, molecular form in the native state, amino acid composition, and electron micrographic image were studied. The results showed that the protein in its native state was basically a tetramer ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Giga Y,Ikai A

更新日期：1985-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied enzymatic activities in sea urchin egg extracts that phosphorylate myosin regulatory light chain (MRLC) from chicken gizzard smooth muscle. The activity in the presence of EGTA showed cell cycle-dependent changes similar to that of histone H1 kinase, namely, it peaked shortly before cleavage, while that in ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Mishima M,Mabuchi I

更新日期：1996-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The structures of the N-linked oligosaccharides on recombinant human hepatocyte growth factor (rh-HGF) expressed by Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cells were studied by two-dimensional sugar mapping. The oligosaccharides released from the glycopeptides by peptide: N-glycosidase F (PNGase F) treatment were tagged with 2-a...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Hara H,Nakae Y,Sogabe T,Ihara I,Ueno S,Sakai H,Inoue H,Shimizu S,Nakamura T,Shimizu N

更新日期：1993-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phosphorylation of chicken gizzard myosin light chain in myofibril and its effect on myofibrillar ATPase activity were investigated in the contracted state of myofibrils. When myofibrils were incubated for two hours at 30 degreeds C with ATP, magnesium and calcium, the myosin light chain was phosphorylated by endogeno...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Yamaguchi M,Watanabe K

更新日期：1980-04-01 00:00:00