Human arylhydrocarbon receptor: functional expression and chromosomal assignment to 7p21.

abstract：:Glutathione-S-epoxide transferase has been purified from guinea pig liver in a homogeneous form having a sedimentation coefficient, s20,w of 3.8S, and a molecular weight of 46,000, and dissociable into subunits with a molecular weight of 25,000. The activities with four substrates, styrene oxide, naphthalene oxide, io...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Hayakawa T,Myokei Y,Yagi H,Jerina DM

更新日期：1977-08-01 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：:We previously identified a human cDNA encoding a novel receptor tyrosine kinase, termed Sky, which is predominantly expressed in the brain and has a unique extracellular domain consisting of two immunoglobulin (Ig)-like and two fibronectin type III (FN III) motifs. In attempts to define the functional role of the Sky ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Ohashi K,Honda S,Ichinomiya N,Nakamura T,Mizuno K

更新日期：1995-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:MF-18, one of the monoclonal antibodies generated to chicken myosin, cross-reacted with rabbit skeletal myosin subfragment-1 (S1). Utilizing an improved procedure of immuno-blotting, a decrease in reactivity of MF-18 to S1 by trinitrophenylation was observed. This indicates that the reactive lysyl residue is very clos...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Katayama E,Wakabayashi T,Reinach F,Masaki T,Fischman DA

更新日期：1984-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The circadian change of gluconeogenesis in the liver in vivo in fed rats was studied. Gluconeogenesis in the liver in vivo was determined by measuring the rate of synthesis of 14C-labeled blood glucose derived from a 14C-labeled substrate, such as lactate, pyruvate or an amino acid injected into nephrectomized rats. G...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kida K,Nishio T,Yokozawa T,Nagai K,Matsuda H,Nakagawa H

更新日期：1980-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Screening of four malic enzymes--NAD-linked enzyme [EC 1.1.1.38], NAD, NADP-linked enzyme [EC 1.1.1.39], NADP-linked enzyme [EC 1.1.1.40], and D-malic enzyme--was carried out with cell-free extracts of the following 16 strains of bacteria by the aid of Sepharose 6B column chromatography: 9 strains of enteric bacteria,...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Iwakura M,Tokushige M,Katsuki H,Muramatsu S

更新日期：1978-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:cAMP and Ca2(+)-independent histone kinase was generated from rat liver plasma membrane in an ionic strength-dependent manner by the action of an endogenous trypsin-like protease (Hashimoto, E. et al. (1986) FEBS Lett. 200, 63-66). In addition to the effect of ionic strength, this proteolytic activation of protein kin...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Hashimoto E,Yamamura H

更新日期：1989-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of HSDJ, a human homolog of bacterial DnaJ and yeast YDJ1p/MAS5, in mitochondrial protein import was examined. Recombinant HSDJ was purified and an antibody was prepared. HSDJ mRNA was heat-induced in cultured cells. In pulse-labeling and chase experiments using COS-7 cells, the endogenous HSDJ homolog was pr...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kanazawa M,Terada K,Kato S,Mori M

更新日期：1997-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We tested the capsid targeted viral inactivation method as an anti-HBV strategy. HepG2 cells were cotransfected with HBV expression plasmid and the plasmid encoding fusion protein of either Core-A3C or Core-humanized renilla GFP (hrGFP). Core-A3C had substantial effect on HBV DNA levels. In the HepG2 cells expressing ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Li D,Liu J,Kang F,Guan W,Gao X,Wang Y,Sun D

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to stabilize human RNase 1 by introduction of an intramolecular cross-link, a mutant protein (4-118CL RNase 1), in which Arg4 and Val118 are replaced with cysteine residues and linked by a disulfide bond, was designed and expressed in Escherichia coli as inclusion bodies. The 4-118CL RNase 1 that refolded und...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Futami J,Tada H,Seno M,Ishikami S,Yamada H

更新日期：2000-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We detected a novel nuclear protein, MMBP-3, that bound to the c-Myc binding motif (CACGTG) in which deoxycytidine in the CpG sequence was methylated. MMBP-3 was partially purified by chromatography on heparin-agarose and hydroxyapatite, followed by affinity adsorption to a matrix coupled to the methylated binding mot...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Suetake I,Tajima S,Asano A

更新日期：1995-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Picolinate binds to a reduced form of D-amino acid oxidase, and the complex formed has a broad absorption band around 600 nm as in the case of the purple intermediate of the enzyme with a substrate. The dissociation constant at 25 degrees C was 35 microns at pH 7.0. The pH dependence (pH 8.3-pH 6.4) of the dissociatio...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Nishina Y,Tojo H,Shiga K

更新日期：1986-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Administration of an excessive dose of Bacillus subtilis alpha-amylase [EC 3.2.1.1, alpha-1,4-glucan 4-glucanohydrolase] (BalphaA) induced the production of non-precipitating (non-ppt) IgG2 antibody in guinea pigs, whereas immunization with a normal dose produced precipitating (ppt) IgG1 and IgG2 antibodies. The non-p...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Mori N,Nakamura T,Koyama J

更新日期：1977-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aminopeptidase P gene in Escherichia coli HB101 was cloned into the plasmid pBR322. Introduction of the hybrid plasmid, pAPP01, into the E. coli DH1 resulted in an 8-fold increase of aminopeptidase P activity as compared with that of the host. The enzyme was purified by series of chromatographies on DEAE-Sephadex,...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Yoshimoto T,Murayama N,Honda T,Tone H,Tsuru D

更新日期：1988-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. Glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenases [EC 1.2.1.12] from rabbit, pig, lobster, yeast, E. coli, and B. stearothermophilus have been subjected to hybridization in 3M NaCL. 2. Suitable mixtures of electrophoretically distinct glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenases were found to give five-membered by electrophor...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Suzuki K,Harris JI

更新日期：1975-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new method was developed for extracting natural actomyosin with full length connectin (titin) and nebulin from rabbit skeletal muscle. To determine the protein components of native thin filaments, thin filaments were isolated from natural actomyosin by sedimentation in a H2O/D2O/sucrose density gradient. Both alpha-...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Meng Y,Yasunaga T,Wakabayashi T

更新日期：1995-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the rat liver, two mRNAs for serine:pyruvate (or alanine:glyoxylate) aminotransferase are generated from a single gene by alternative transcription initiation. The longer mRNA encodes a precursor of a mitochondrial enzyme that has a mitochondrial targeting signal at the N-terminus and is translocated into mitochond...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Oda T,Uchida C,Miura S

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of crosslinking of F-actin with glutaraldehyde on the contractility of muscle ghost fiber containing reconstituted thin filament (i.e. F-actin-tropomyosin-troponin complex) and irrigated with myosin was investigated. The results show that: (i) crosslinking inhibited development of isometric tension and shor...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Próchniewicz-Nakayama E,Yanagida T

更新日期：1982-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate the fine substrate specificities of four highly purified exo-type cellulases (Exo-A from Aspergillus niger, CBHI and CBHII from Trichoderma reesei, and Ex-1 from Irpex lacteus), water-soluble substrates such as barley glucan, xyloglucan from tamarind (Tamarindus indica L.), and their oligosaccharides we...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Amano Y,Shiroishi M,Nisizawa K,Hoshino E,Kanda T

更新日期：1996-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytokine-induced neutrophil chemoattractant (CINC/Gro) is a chemotactic factor for neutrophils in the rat and a member of the CXC chemokine family. The refined three-dimensional structure of CINC/Gro was derived with the aid of heteronuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy and a hybrid method of distance geometry and ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Hanzawa H,Haruyama H,Konishi K,Watanabe K,Tsurufuji S

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein carbonyls are reported to increase in aging and in pathologies such as Alzheimer's disease and ischemic injury. Detailed study of this important issue has, however, been hampered by lack of an appropriate method to identify individual carbonylated proteins. We describe here an immunoblot method to identify ind...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Nakamura A,Goto S

更新日期：1996-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Calmodulin-dependent protein kinase IV (CaM-kinase IV) kinase was recently discovered in the rat brain by its activity to activate the inactive recombinant CaM-kinase IV expressed in Escherichia coli [Okuno, S. and Fujisawa, H. (1993) J. Biochem. 114, 167-170]. In the present study, CaM-kinase IV kinase was purified a...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Okuno S,Kitani T,Fujisawa H

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Polysialoglycoprotein (PSGP) is a major cortical alveolus glycoprotein of rainbow trout eggs that is characterized by the attachment of a polysialic acid structure to its O-glycan chains. It has been demonstrated that the polysialic acid structure is synthesized by at least three sialyltransferases mostly localized in...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Asahina S,Sato C,Kitajima K

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aspartate aminotransferase (AspAT), responsible for a minor part of the total AspAT enzymic activity in alkalophilic Bacillus circulans, was purified, its N-terminal amino acid sequence was determined, and its gene was cloned as two separate fragments. DNA sequencing showed an open reading frame of 432 amino acids (M(...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Battchikova N,Koivulehto M,Denesyuk A,Ptitsyn L,Boretsky Y,Hellman J,Korpela T

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serum mannan binding protein (MBP), a mannose/N-acetylglusosamine-specific lectin, is important in innate immunity. In order to elucidate the mechanism underlying the wide intra- and interracial variety in the MBP serum level, we have studied the transcriptional regulation of human MBP. Rapid amplification of cDNA end...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Naito H,Ikeda A,Hasegawa K,Oka S,Uemura K,Kawasaki N,Kawasaki T

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have studied the protein composition of the pectoralis superficialis muscle of genetically dystrophic (New Hampshire line 413) and normal control (line 412) chickens by one- and two-dimensional gel electrophoresis. A protein, referred to hereafter as the 30 kDa abnormal protein, was specifically detected in the aff...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kobayashi R,Toyoshima I,Masamune O,Tashima Y

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The receptor-binding assay for cAMP was improved by using polyethylenimine-treated glass filters. A polyethylenimine-treated glass filter has high protein binding capacity. This high capacity allows an increase in the amount of protein per assay tube and the use of a crude preparation, such as a beef heart extract, as...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Takeda T,Kuno T,Shuntoh H,Tanaka C

更新日期：1989-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of various compounds on ascorbate-2-sulfate sulfohydrolase and arylsulfatase (EC 3.1.6.1) activities in the copurified preparation from the liver of Charonia lampas were investigated. The former activity was competively inhibited by inorganic phosphate and sulfate. The latter was not affected by sulfate....

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Hatanaka H,Ogawa Y,Egami F

更新日期：1975-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although the depletion of reduced glutathione (GSH) has been observed in a variety of apoptotic systems, little is known about the mechanism of GSH depletion. In this study we used polarized MDCK cells to study the GSH flux during ricin-induced apoptosis. Here we report that the specific accumulation of GSH occurred i...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Oda T,Sadakata N,Komatsu N,Muramatsu T

更新日期：1999-10-01 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