Production of human salivary type cysteine proteinase inhibitors (cystatins) by an Escherichia coli system and partial characterization of recombinant cystatin S and its mutant (117 arginine-->tryptophan).

abstract：:Recombinant human granulocyte-colony-stimulating factor (G-CSF) was purified from Chinese hamster ovary cells transfected with human G-CSF cDNA. The recombinant human G-CSF was treated with alkaline borohydride and the oligosaccharide-alditols liberated were fractioned by gel filtration on a Bio-Gel P-4 column, follow...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Oheda M,Hase S,Ono M,Ikenaka T

更新日期：1988-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:N tau-Methylhistidine(3-methylhistidine) in urine of the rat is mainly derived from the degradation of actin and myosin in skeletal muscle, intestine and skin. The fractional degradation rates of the myosin-actin pools of these tissues were calculated from the time course of increase in the specific radioactivities of...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Nagasawa T,Funabiki R

更新日期：1981-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We found that transducing phages carrying the gal or bio regions of the Escherichia coli genome were formed during in vitro packaging of endogenous lambda DNA. Structural analysis of the transducing phage genomes indicated that they were formed by abnormal excision of lambda prophage. Formation of transducing phages w...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Tomono M,Shiozaki M,Ikeda H

更新日期：1989-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mitogen-activated protein (MAP) kinase cascades play essential roles in a variety of cell processes by influencing transcriptional or translational regulation. ERKs play a central role in survival and mitogenic signaling, while JNKs and p38 MAP kinases are preferentially activated by environmental stresses and are...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Matsukawa J,Matsuzawa A,Takeda K,Ichijo H

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, the expression of phospholipid biosynthetic genes, including the INO1 gene (encoding inositol-1-phosphate synthase), is coordinately regulated by a cis-acting transcriptional element, UAS(INO) (inositol-sensitive upstream activating sequence). For this paper we studied the effect...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kagiwada S,Zen R

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The complete amino acid sequences of the Ulex europeus anti-H(O) lectins I and II were determined by using a protein sequencer. After digestion with endoproteinases Lys-C and Asp-N of the lectins reduced with 2-mercaptoethanol and modified with iodoacetamide, the resulting peptides were purified by reversed-phase high...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Konami Y,Yamamoto K,Osawa T

更新日期：1991-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A variant of human tear lipocalin was expressed in Escherichia coli, and the bound fatty acids were analysed by gas chromatography, mass spectroscopy and nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy. Five major fatty acids were identified as hexadecanoic acid (palmitic acid, PA), cis-9-hexadecenoic acid (palmitoleic acid),...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Tsukamoto S,Fujiwara K,Ikeguchi M

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As a first step to catalogue mRNAs present in mouse embryonal carcinoma F9 cells, 879 clones corresponding to low-abundance mRNAs were selected from among 2,896 randomly picked up clones of undifferentiated F9 cDNA libraries, using DNA probes complementary to poly(A)+RNAs prepared from undifferentiated F9 cells and to...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Nishiguchi S,Joh T,Horie K,Zou Z,Yasunaga T,Shimada K

更新日期：1994-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The stress-related protein Stm1 interacts with ribosomes, and is implicated in repressing translation. Stm1 was previously studied both in vivo and in vitro by cell-free translation systems using crude yeast lysates, but its precise functional mechanism remains obscure. Using an in vitro reconstituted translation syst...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Hayashi H,Nagai R,Abe T,Wada M,Ito K,Takeuchi-Tomita N

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serum at 5 to 10% is required for maintenance of functional adult rat hepatocytes in primary culture. One effect of the serum is to induce attachment and spreading of hepatocytes on plates as monolayers. Another role is to maintain cell viability for over 2 days. For the first effect, serum could be replaced completel...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Horiuti Y,Nakamura T,Ichihara A

更新日期：1982-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The absorption and fluorometric changes of the reaction mixture of luciferase-FMNH2 complex with O2 were re-examined. Rapid formation (k2(app) = 2.0 s-1 at [O2] = 120 micrometer) of an intermediate with a single absorption maximum at 380 nm within the range of 350-550 nm, and a weak fluorescence at 520 nm (less than o...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Ashizawa N,Nakamura T,Watanabe T

更新日期：1977-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:β-lactoglobulin forms a non-native α-helix during an early stage of folding. To address the role of the non-native structure in the folding process, we designed several mutants of equine β-lactoglobulin with reduced helical propensity in the non-native helix region. One of them, A123T, showed a similar structure to th...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Okabe T,Miyajima T,Nakagawa K,Tsukamoto S,Fujiwara K,Ikeguchi M

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Covalently closed-circular, superhelical DNAs, including viral DNAs, bacterial plasmid DNAs, and bacteriophage replicative-form DNA, were treated with a small amount of Haemophilus gallinarum DNA-relaxing enzyme to generate incompletely relaxed DNA molecules. Each sample consisted of a set of closed-circular DNA molec...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Shishido K

更新日期：1979-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA synthesis in the Bacillus subtilis cells has become possible using extra-cellular DNA. Generally, purified DNAs in a test tube have been required to introduce into the host cells for molecular cloning technology in the laboratory. We have developed a cell lysis technique for natural transformation using stable ext...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kaneko S,Fukushima H,Nakahama M,Asano S,Miyazaki Y,Aizawa Y,Itaya M

更新日期：2018-04-01 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：:Spo0A is both a positive and a negative transcriptional regulator which plays a very important role in sporulation initiation in Bacillus subtilis. Its N-terminal amino acid sequence is homologous to that of regulator proteins of the two-component regulatory systems involved in signal transduction in bacteria. Phospho...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Asayama M,Kobayashi Y

更新日期：1993-09-01 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：:The molecular structure of the active site of horse heart met-cyano cytochrome c, as a function of temperature, has been investigated using 1H-NMR. A temperature dependence study of the NMR spectra revealed that one heme methyl proton resonance exhibits anti-Curie behavior, i.e., the hyperfine shift increases with inc...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Yamamoto Y

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The state of association of bovine Band 3, which is a major intrinsic protein of erythrocyte membranes, was examined in nonaethyleneglycol dodecyl ether (C12E9) solution by ultracentrifugation, gel filtration, gel electrophoresis and cross-linking studies. The molecular weight of bovine Band 3 was 107,000 +/- 5% as de...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Nakashima H,Makino S

更新日期：1980-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Four glycolipids (Fr. I, II, III, and IV) were isolated from whale brain and three (Fr. I, II, and III) of them were demonstrated to be galactosyl ceramide combined with fatty acid by ester linkage. Fr. IV was shown to be a monoalkyl monoacyl galactosyl glycerol. For determining the substituted position of the acyl gr...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Yasugi E,Saito E,Kasama T,Kojima H,Yamakawa T

更新日期：1982-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The substrate specificity of microsomal nonspecific carboxyesterase [EC 3.1.1.1] from rabbit and rat livers was studied in vitro by using seven (A)-type and six (B)-type 12,13-epoxytrichothecene mycotoxins. The C-4 acetyl residues of diacetoxyscirpenol, T-2 toxin, monoacetylnivalenol (fusarenon-X), and diacetylnivalen...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Ohta M,Matsumoto H,Ishii K,Ueno Y

更新日期：1978-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:3-Isopropylmalate dehydrogenase (IPMDH) is a dimeric enzyme with a strongly hydrophobic core that is composed of residues from four alpha-helices. We replaced Glu253, which is found in the hydrophobic core and is part of the subunit interface of the Bacillus subtilis (Bs) IPMDH, with several other amino acids to probe...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Ohkuri T,Yamagishi A

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Effects of polydeoxynucleotides on the activity of DNA polymerase-alpha from sea urchin embryos were studied. Poly(dG), poly(dC) and poly(dC)-oligo(dG)12-18 inhibited DNA polymerase-alpha activity in the activated DNA-directed reaction but poly(dA), oligo(dT)12-18, and poly(dA)-oligo(dT)12-18 did not inhibit the activ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Oguro M,Nagano H

更新日期：1982-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Corynebacterium diphtheriae, a pathogenic Gram-positive bacterium, contains sialic acids on its cell surface, but no genes related to sialic acid decoration or metabolism have been reported in C. diphtheriae. In the present study, we have identified a putative sialidase gene, nanH, from C. diphtheriae KCTC3075 and cha...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kim S,Oh DB,Kwon O,Kang HA

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chemical modifications by photooxidation in the presence of rose bengal (RB) and with tetranitromethane (TNM) were carried out to elucidate the amino acid residues involved in the active site of inorganic pyrophosphatase (pyrophosphate phosphohydrolase) [EC 3.6.1.1] from Escherichia coli Q13. The photooxidation caused...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Samejima T,Tamagawa Y,Kondo Y,Hachimori A,Kaji H,Takeda A,Shiroya Y

更新日期：1988-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the significance of the plasma membrane lipid composition in exocytosis in an in vitro interaction system using an intact secretory granular fraction (SG) isolated from the rat parotid gland. When various liposomes (as a model of plasma membranes) were added to this assay system, rapid and transient am...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Mizuno-Kamiya M,Inokuchi H,Kameyama Y,Yashiro K,Shin SO,Fujita A

更新日期：1995-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We recently demonstrated, using synthetic peptides modeled on the extension peptide of malate dehydrogenase, that amino acid residues present at the proximal and distal positions relative to the cleavage site are critical determinants for the recognition of substrates by mitochondrial processing peptidase [Niidome et ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Moriwaki K,Ogishima T,Ito A

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mitochondrial regulatory region (mrr) located between the tRNAPhe and tRNAPro genes of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) is essential for regulation of replication and transcription of the mitochondrial genome. Polyadenylated short RNAs complementary to the L-strand of the mrr in human cells and similar RNAs (polyadenylat...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Nakamichi N,Rhoads DD,Hayashi JI,Kagawa Y,Matsumura T

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The patterns of myosin isozymes in embryonic and adult chicken pectoralis muscle were examined by electrophoresis in a non-denaturing gel system (pyrophosphate acrylamide gel electrophoresis), and both light chains and heavy chains of embryonic and adult myosin isozymes were compared. In pyrophosphate acrylamide gel e...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Takano-Ohmuro H,Obinata T,Masaki T,Mikawa T

更新日期：1982-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Histidine and its derivatives increased rabbit muscle fructose 1,6-bisphosphatase activity at neutral pH with positive cooperativity. In the presence of histidine and carnosine the optimum pH shifted from pH 8.0 to 7.4. The cooperative response of the enzyme to AMP and fructose 1,6-bisphosphate was observed in the pre...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Ikeda T,Kimura K,Hama T,Tamaki N

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00