Extracellular transport of pseudoazurin of Alcaligenes faecalis in Escherichia coli using the COOH-terminal domain of Serratia marcescens serine protease.

abstract：:A radioimmunoassay for chicken calcitonin in chicken ultimobranchial glands was established utilizing a rabbit antiserum against eel calcitonin. This assay method, which is about 100 times as sensitive as the usual bioassay for hypocalcemic activity, was used for monitoring chicken calcitonin during its purification. ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Homma T,Watanabe M,Hirose S,Kanai A,Kangawa K,Matsuo H

更新日期：1986-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We isolated and characterized an anti-idiotype monoclonal antibody (AR42.1) which is capable of mimicking a distinct and specific epitope of MUC-1 antigen. The cDNA sequences coding for the AR42.1 variable regions were determined. We found significant amino acid homology between complementary determining regions 3 (CD...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Luo D,Qi W,Ma J,Wang YJ,Wishart D

更新日期：2000-09-01 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：: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：:Glutamine synthetase from a Gram-positive acid-fast bacterium, Mycobacterium smegmatis, was purified to homogeneity from cells grown with glycerol-bouillon medium. Electron micrographs of the enzyme revealed a dodecameric arrangement of its subunits in two superimposed hexagonal rings, similar to the structure of glut...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kimura K,Yagi K,Matsuoka K

更新日期：1984-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatitis C virus (HCV) core protein has been suggested to play crucial roles in the pathogeneses of liver steatosis and hepatocellular carcinomas due to HCV infection. Intracellular HCV core protein is localized mainly in lipid droplets, in which the core protein should exert its significant biological/pathological f...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Sato S,Fukasawa M,Yamakawa Y,Natsume T,Suzuki T,Shoji I,Aizaki H,Miyamura T,Nishijima M

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The scaffolding protein Salvador (Sav) plays a key role in the Hippo (Hpo) signalling pathway, which controls tissue growth by inhibiting cell proliferation and promoting apoptosis. Dysregulation of the Hippo pathway contributes to cancer development. Since the identification of the first Sav gene in 2002, very little...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Song J,Hong HR,Yamashita E,Park IY,Lee SJ

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A cysteine proteinase inhibitor (designated as cystatin SA) was isolated from human whole saliva by procedures including chromatography on DE 32 and DEAE-Sepharose CL-6B. The amino acid sequence determined by conventional methods showed sequence homology of 90 and 87% as compared with the sequences of cystatin S and c...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Isemura S,Saitoh E,Sanada K

更新日期：1987-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fibronectin contains at least two distinct oligopeptide sequences serving as signals for the interaction with cell surface adhesion receptors termed integrins. One of these sequences, Arg-Gly-Asp-Ser (RGDS) tetrapeptide, was shown to be transferred to a truncated form of Staphylococcal IgG-binding protein (hereafter r...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Maeda T,Oyama R,Titani K,Sekiguchi K

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oxygen-binding to haemocyanin (Hc) is generally an exothermic process, with overall enthalphy of oxygenation varying from species to species. A number of crustacean Hcs showed a null or reduced enthalphy of oxygenation, among others, the anomuran Pagurus bernhardus and Paralithodes camtscaticae possess a completely te...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Podda G,Manconi B,Olianas A,Pellegrini M,Messana I,Mura M,Castagnola M,Giardina B,Sanna MT

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been found in the brush border membrane vesicles from porcine small intestine that valinomycin causes vesicle aggregation and that Ca2+-induced aggregation of the vesicles is saturably stimulated in the presence of valinomycin. The apparent half-maximal concentration of valinomycin required to enhance the Ca2+ ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Ohyashiki T,Kodera M,Mohri T

更新日期：1984-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined the substrate specificity of two mutated geranylgeranyl diphosphate synthases, I-9 and I-11, with respect to several artificial substrates. These mutated enzymes have replacements in the amino acid sequences from positions 170 to 173, which are thought to be a part of the putative substrate binding region....

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Ohnuma S,Hemmi H,Koyama T,Ogura K,Nishino T

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three alkaline DNases, A, B, and C, with preference for the digestion of double-stranded DNA (dsDNA) were partially purified from microplasmodia of Physarum polycephalum. They were very similar but differed in their isoelectric points. These were pH 5.8 for DNase A, 7.1 for DNase B, and 9.1 for DNase C. All three enzy...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Waterborg JH,Kuyper CM

更新日期：1980-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present data describe the mechanism of the inhibitory effects of human plasma apolipoproteins A-I and A-II on hydrolysis of triglyceride catalyzed by hepatic triglyceride lipase using a substrate of triolein particles stabilized with gum arabic in vitro. The experimental data could well be described by a model in ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kubo M,Matsuzawa Y,Yokoyama S,Tajima S,Ishikawa K,Yamamoto A,Tarui S

更新日期：1982-09-01 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：:A fifth and new DFP-sensitive alkaline proteinase E, with strong esterase activity toward Ac-(Ala)3-OMe was found in pronase, a protease mixture from St. griseus K-1. Proteinase E was shown to be different from the elastase [EC 3.4.21.11]-like enzyme or subtilisin [EC 3.4.21.14]like enzyme, and alkaline proteinase A, ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Narahashi Y,Yoda K

更新日期：1976-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An enzyme activity specifically active on nitrous acid-treated DNA was found in an extract of Escherichia coli. The enzyme acts on both double- and single-stranded DNAs, treated with nitrous acid, in the presence of EDTA, although the former DNA is a better substrate. Evidence is presented that nitrous acid- and bisul...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Oeda K,Shimizu K,Sekiguchi M

更新日期：1978-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have cloned a DNA from a human pancreatic cDNA library using a cloned rat pancreatic elastase 1 cDNA as a probe, and determined its nucleotide sequence. This cDNA contains a coding region of 810 nucleotides which encodes a 270-amino-acid protein. The deduced amino acid sequence shows less than 60% homologies with r...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Shirasu Y,Takemura K,Yoshida H,Sato Y,Iijima H,Shimada Y,Mikayama T,Ozawa T,Ikeda N,Ishida A

更新日期：1988-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:beta-D-Galactosidase has been purified to apparent homogeneity from rabbit spleen. The purification steps involved ammonium sulphate precipitation, DEAE-cellulose, concanavalin A-Sepharose, Sephadex G-200, and Sepharose 4B-(epsilon-aminocaproyl)-2-deoxy-beta-D-glucosylamine affinity chromatographies. In the DEAE-cellu...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Rodríguez-Berrocal FJ,Páez de la Cadena M,Cabezas JA,Pérez-González N

更新日期：1988-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gastric cancer (GC) is one of the most common cancers in gastrointestinal malignant tumours. Long non-coding RNAs were widely reported to play a significant role in the regulation of occurrence or development of tumours. Bioinformatics analysis and a wide range of experiments were conducted to explore the expression s...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Xin H,Yan Z,Cao J

更新日期：2020-11-01 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：:Aleuria aurantia lectin (AAL) is a protein composed of two identical subunits having no carbohydrate chain and shows sugar-binding specificity for L-fucose. Full-length cDNA encoding for the lectin has been isolated from a lambda gt11 library, screened with an antiserum directed against AAL. The cDNA clone contained 1...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Fukumori F,Takeuchi N,Hagiwara T,Ohbayashi H,Endo T,Kochibe N,Nagata Y,Kobata A

更新日期：1990-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An adenosinetriphosphatase (ATPase) [EC 3.6.1.3] copurified with the DNA-dependent RNA polymerase [EC 2.7.7.6] from Escherichia coli was isolated to apparent homogeneity and some of its functional as well as structural properties were examined. Although the novel ATPase exhibited metal requirements similar to those of...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Ishihama A,Ikeuchi T,Matsumoto A,Yamamoto S

更新日期：1976-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:SpoIIGA is a novel type of membrane-associated aspartic protease that responds to a signal from the forespore by cleaving Pro-σ(E) in the mother cell during sporulation of Bacillus subtilis. Very little is known about how SpoIIGA recognizes Pro-σ(E). By co-expressing proteins in Escherichia coli, it was shown that cha...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Imamura D,Kuwana R,Kroos L,Feig M,Takamatsu H,Watabe K

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The kinetics of the hydrogen-deuterium exchange reaction in sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR) membranes isolated from rabbit skeletal muscle was followed by infrared absorption measurements. The exchange rate in SR was much lower than that in the soluble proteins reported so far. When adenylyl-imidophosphate (AMPPNP, an TP ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Anzai K,Kirino Y,Shimizu H

更新日期：1981-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) is a morphogenetic process of cells that adopt an epithelial organization in their developmental ontogeny or homeostatic maintenance. Abnormalities in EMT regulation result in many malignant tumours in the human body. Tumours associated with the haematopoietic system, however, a...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Hamidi S,Sheng G

更新日期：2018-10-01 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：:The position of a single N'-formylkynurenine residue in ozone-inactivated hen egg-white lysozyme [EC 3.2.1.17] was determined by two methods. One involved identification of an amino-terminus of the C-peptide obtained by selective cleavage with hydrazine of the kynurenyl peptide linkage in oxidized lysozyme. The other ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Sakiyama F,Natsuki R

更新日期：1976-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eph/ephrin signalling plays essential roles in various tissue developments, such as axon guidance, angiogenesis and tissue separation. Interaction between Ephs and ephrins upon cell-cell contact results in forward (towards Eph-expressing cells) and reverse (towards ephrin-expressing cells) signalling. Although the mol...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Takeuchi S,Katoh H,Negishi M

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Escherichia coli spr (suppressor of prc) mutants and nlpI mutants show thermosensitive growth. The thermosensitivity of the spr mutants was suppressed by the nlpI mutations. Expression of the fusion genes encoding hexa-histidine-tagged NlpI (NlpI-His) and purification of the tagged NlpI showed that NlpI-His bound with...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Tadokoro A,Hayashi H,Kishimoto T,Makino Y,Fujisaki S,Nishimura Y

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00