Characterization of the diacylglycerol acyltransferase activity in the lipid body fraction from an oleaginous fungus.

abstract：:Cathepsin E (CE) is an intracellular aspartic proteinase that is exclusively expressed in cells of the gastrointestinal tracts, lymphoid tissues, urinary organs and red blood cells. However, the molecular mechanism by which CE is predominantly expressed in these cells remains unknown. Here, we report the identificatio...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Okamoto K,Okamoto Y,Kawakubo T,Iwata J,Yasuda Y,Tsukuba T,Yamamoto K

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:By the application of a ganglioside-mapping technique, the lipid composition of bovine thyroid was analyzed systematically. The contents of cholesterol, lipid-bound phosphorus and lipid-bound sialic acid in bovine thyroid were 5.10, 9.76, and 0.28 mumol/g of dry tissue, respectively, and the molar ratio of cholesterol...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Iwamori M,Sawada K,Hara Y,Nishio M,Fujisawa T,Imura H,Nagai Y

更新日期：1982-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Serratia marcescens serine protease gene encoding a 1,045-amino-acid precursor protein of 112 kDa directs excretion of the mature protease of ca. 58 kDa through the outer membrane of Escherichia coli. A typical signal peptide of 27 amino acids and a large COOH-terminal domain of the precursor are both functionally...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Shikata S,Shimada K,Kataoka H,Horinouchi S,Beppu T

更新日期：1992-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Electron transport particles (ETP) prepared from beef heart mitochondria formed malondialdehyde by NADPH-dependent lipid peroixidation in the presence of ferric ions and ADP or ATP. The reaction was inhibited by MnCl2, EDTA, or radical scavengers, but was not inhibited by p-hydroxymercuribenzoate (PHMB) or respiratory...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Takeshige K,Minadami S

更新日期：1975-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:d-Aspartate is found in the nervous and reproductive system and participates in various physiological roles. While several lines of evidence suggest that this amino acid has an endogenous origin, the enzyme responsible for mammalian d-Asp biosynthesis has not yet been identified. We show that mammalian serine racemase...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Ito T,Hayashida M,Kobayashi S,Muto N,Hayashi A,Yoshimura T,Mori H

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new arginine derivative, N-benzyloxycarbonyl-L-phenylalanyl-L-valyl-L-arginine-p-nitroanilide hydrochloride (ZPVAPA.HCl) was synthesized by the condensation of N-benzyloxy-carbonyl-L-phenylalanyl-L-valine and L-arginine-p-nitroanilide dihydrochloride using dicyclohexylcarbodiimide as a coupling reagent and 1-hydroxy...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Somorin O,Tokura S,Nishi N,Noguchi J

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Urate oxidases (UOs) catalyze the cofactor-independent oxidation of uric acid, and an extensive water network in the active site has been suggested to play an essential role in the catalysis. For our present analysis of the structure and function of the water network, the crystal qualities of Bacillus sp. TB-90 urate ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Hibi T,Itoh T

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to examine the possibility of the use of a surface plasmon resonance (SPR) sensor for real-time monitoring of the process of refolding of immobilized proteins, the refolding of firefly luciferase immobilized on a carboxymethyldextran matrix layer was analyzed. The SPR signal of the immobilized luciferase decr...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Zako T,Harada K,Mannen T,Yamaguchi S,Kitayama A,Ueda H,Nagamune T

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is not known whether the activity of the Escherichia coli protein export system changes during the division cycle. To address and answer this question, we took two approaches. First, we pulse-labeled a random culture and size-fractionated the labeled cells in the presence of inhibitors of secretion. Second, we puls...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Taura T,Ito K

更新日期：1991-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The most reactive single thiol group of rabbit skeletal muscle phosphofructokinase per protomer was modified with the following thiol reagents: iodoacetamide, iodoacetate, 2-hydroxyethyl disulfide, 3,3'-dithiodipropionate, and glutathione disulfide. As a result of the modification, there was increase in not only the a...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Nakajima Y,Nakamura K

更新日期：1991-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Deoxyhypusine synthase catalyzes the NAD+-dependent formation of deoxyhypusine in the eIF-5A precursor protein by transferring the 4-aminobutyl moiety of spermidine. This enzyme has recently been shown to be essential for cell viability and growth of yeast [Sasaki, K., Abid, M.R., and Miyazaki, M. (1996) FEBS Lett. 38...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Abid MR,Sasaki K,Titani K,Miyazaki M

更新日期：1997-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 2-hydroxychromene-2-carboxylate isomerase was purified from a cell-free extract of naphthalenesulfonate-assimilating Pseudomonas sp. TA-2 to an electrophoretically homogeneous state by successive column chromatography on DEAE-cellulose, DEAE-Toyopearl 650M, Sephadex G-75, Hydroxyapatite, and Mono Q. The enzyme had a...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Ohmoto T,Kinoshita T,Moriyoshi K,Sakai K,Hamada N,Ohe T

更新日期：1998-09-01 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：:Aplyronine A is a macrolide isolated from Aplysia kurodai. By monitoring fluorescent intensity of pyrenyl-actin, it was found that aplyronine A inhibited both the velocity and the degree of actin polymerization. Aplyronine A also quickly depolymerized F-actin. The kinetics of depolymerization suggest that aplyronine A...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Saito S,Watabe S,Ozaki H,Kigoshi H,Yamada K,Fusetani N,Karaki H

更新日期：1996-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We tried to confirm the antioxidative capability of lecithin:cholesterol acyltransferase (LCAT) reported by Vohl et al. [Biochemistry (1999) 38, 5976-5981]. The enzyme solution protected LDL against oxidation. However, this protection was not due to LCAT enzyme, but to some unknown low-molecular-weight substance(s) in...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Murakami Y,Kamiyama S,Howlader ZH,Yamato T,Komai M,Furukawa Y

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A novel type of sulfotransferase was purified from Klebsiella K-36, an intestinal bacterium of rat. The enzyme (M(r) 160,000) is composed of two subunits (M(r) 73,000) with pI and optimal pH values of 5.3 and 10-10.5, respectively. The apparent Km for PNS (p-nitrophenyl sulfate) using phenol as an acceptor and that fo...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kim DH,Kim HS,Kobashi K

更新日期：1992-10-01 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：: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：:Micromolar levels of free calcium ions added to the extracellular medium elicit secretion of serotonin from electropermeabilized bovine platelets in the presence of millimolar levels of Mg-ATP. Such Ca2(+)-dependent secretion of serotonin was almost completely impaired when the permeabilized platelets were preincubate...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Morimoto T,Oho C,Ueda M,Ogihara S,Takisawa H

更新日期：1990-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ion-exchange chromatography (IEC) is the most frequently used chromatographic technique for the separation of proteins and peptides. In this article, the effects of urea on IEC separation of kiwifruit actinidin, egg white and urinary proteins were examined. The purity and relative amount of each protein in different c...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Khademi F,Mostafaie A

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anti-cobrotoxin antibodies can be separated into precipitin and non-precipitin antibodies. The precipitin antibody possesses the same binding affinity to cobrotoxin as non-precipitin antibody, but the neutralizing capability of the latter is superior to that of the former in blocking cobrotoxin binding to nicotinic ac...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kuo KW,Chang LS,Lin PM,Leaber RJ,Chang CC

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:alphaB-Crystallin, a member of the small heat shock protein (sHSP) family, is expressed in various tissues including lens, heart, and skeletal muscle. Previously we identified the gene of HSPB2, another member of the sHSP family, located 1-kb upstream of the alphaB-crystallin gene in a head-to-head manner. In the pres...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Ijichi N,Tsujimoto N,Iwaki T,Fukumaki Y,Iwaki A

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Proteins in the brush border membrane (BBM) of the midgut binding to the insecticidal Cry1Ac toxin from Bacillus thuringiensis were investigated to examine the lower sensitivity of Bombyx mori to Cry1Ac, and new aminopeptidase N that bound to Cry1Ac was discovered. DEAE chromatography of Triton X-100-soluble BBM prote...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Shitomi Y,Hayakawa T,Hossain DM,Higuchi M,Miyamoto K,Nakanishi K,Sato R,Hori H

更新日期：2006-02-01 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：:Dimer formation of HIV-1 genomic RNA through its dimerization initiation site (DIS) is crucial to maintaining infectivity. Two types of dimers, the initially generated kissing-loop dimer and the subsequent product of the extended-duplex dimer, are formed in the stem-bulge-stem region with a loop including a self-compl...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Baba S,Takahashi K,Noguchi S,Takaku H,Koyanagi Y,Yamamoto N,Kawai G

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:At the initiation of chromosomal DNA replication, DNA primases synthesize short RNA primers, which are subsequently elongated by DNA polymerases. To understand the structural basis for the primer synthesis by archaeal/eukaryotic-type primases, the gene of the DNA primase from hyperthermophilic archaeon Pyrococcus hori...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Ito N,Nureki O,Shirouzu M,Yokoyama S,Hanaoka F

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Amino acid compositions of 356 proteins are expressed as points in an 18 dimensional space of 18 axes representing the contents of amino acids. The proteins are classified into four groups of intra- and extracellular enzymes and nonenzymes according to analysis of the distribution of the points. The groups have a sign...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Nishikawa K,Ooi T

更新日期：1982-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of polyamines on the breakdown of synthetic polynucleotides [poly(A), poly(C), and poly(U)] by E. coli ribonuclease I [ribonucleate 3'-oligonucleotidohydrolase, EC 3.1.4.23] and ribonuclease II [EC 3.1.4.1] have been studied. The degradation of poly(C) by RNase II was stimulated by spermine and spermidine,...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kumagai H,Igarashi K,Yoshikawa M,Hirose S

更新日期：1977-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neutral ceramidase (NCDase) is considered to be a critical enzyme for controlling the turnover of ceramide, an important bioactive lipid, which determines cell's fate. All-trans retinoic acid (ATRA) has been reported to induce neuronal differentiation and cell-cycle arrest [Lopez-Carballo, Moreno, Masia, Perez, and Ba...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Tanaka K,Tamiya-Koizumi K,Hagiwara K,Ito H,Takagi A,Kojima T,Suzuki M,Iwaki S,Fujii S,Nakamura M,Banno Y,Kannagi R,Tsurumi T,Kyogashima M,Murate T

更新日期：2012-06-01 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