Microtubule-associated proteins, MAP 1A and MAP 1B, interact with F-actin in vitro.

abstract：:Three forms (termed I, II, and III) of ribonuclease H (RNase H) [EC 3.1.4.34] activity are present in rat liver cytosol. These enzymes degrade RNA specifically in RNA-DNA hybrid structures. They were eluted at 0 M, 0.25 M, and 0.5 M KCl in phosphocellulose chromatography, and were further purified by using blue Sephar...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Sawai Y,Yanokura M,Tsukada K

更新日期：1979-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR) membranes of rabbit skeletal muscle were allowed to react with N-(3-pyrene)maleimide (PMI) at pH 7 at 30 degrees C. The Ca(2+)-transporting activity of the SR membranes was reduced to 20% when PMI was bound to the extent of 1 mol/mol of Ca(2+)-transporting ATPase. The ATPase and the E-P...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Suzuki T,Kawakita M

更新日期：1993-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A fluorescent photoreactive ATP derivative, 2'(3')-O-(4-benzoylbenzoyl)-1,N(6)-etheno-ATP (Bz(2)-epsilonATP), was synthesized and reacted with the rice kinesin K16 motor domain (K16MD). In the presence of ADP or ATP, UV irradiation of the K16MD solution containing Bz(2)-epsilonATP resulted in a new 100 kDa band, which...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Umeki N,Mitsui T,Koike Y,Maruta S

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Paranitrophenylphosphate (pNPP) induced fluorescence changes in fluorescence isothiocyanate (FITC)-labeled Na+,K(+)-ATPase preparations. The extents of changes were similar to those induced by acetylphosphate (AcP) accompanying accumulation of a K(+)-sensitive phosphoenzyme (E2P) and an ouabain bound phosphoenzyme in ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Yamazaki A,Kaya S,Tsuda T,Araki Y,Hayashi Y,Taniguchi K

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human platelet membrane glycoprotein IV (GPIV), one of the major glycoprotein components, was purified by successive affinity chromatographies on columns of Lens culinaris agglutinin-Sepharose and wheat germ agglutinin-Sepharose followed by preparative polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis in the presence of sodium dodec...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Tsuji T,Osawa T

更新日期：1986-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:NADP+-specific isocitrate dehydrogenase was found in several tissues of the pupa of the silkworm, Bombyx mori. This enzyme was highly purified from the whole bodies of pupae. This is the first isolation of the enzyme from insect materials. The purified enzyme gave a single protein band on polyacrylamide gel electropho...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Miake F,Torikata T,Koga K,Hayashi K

更新日期：1977-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rabbit skeletal muscle alpha-tropomyosin (Tm) and the deletion mutant (D234Tm) in which internal actin-binding pseudo-repeats 2, 3, and 4 are missing [Landis et al. (1997) J. Biol. Chem. 272, 14051-14056] were used to investigate the interaction between actin and tropomyosin or actin and troponin (Tn) by means of fluo...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Hai H,Sano K,Maeda K,Maéda Y,Miki M

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bone marrow lineage-negative (Lin(-)) c-Kit(+) Sca-1(+) hematopoietic cells from human GM-CSF receptor gene transgenic mice were cultured on established bone marrow stromal cell (TBR59) layers and on semisolid medium. In the semisolid assay, an increasing number of larger colonies were observed in the presence of hGM-...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Okubo T,Yanai N,Watanabe S,Arai Ki,Obinata M

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We sought to evaluate the mechanism(s) associated with pro matrix metalloprotease 2 (proMMP-2) activation in bovine pulmonary artery smooth muscle cells. Preincubation of cells with anti-TNFR1 antibody prevented tumour necrosis factor-α (TNF-α)-induced proMMP-2 activation and increase in membrane type 1 matrix metallo...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Roy S,Chakraborti T,Chowdhury A,Chakraborti S

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Increased fructose concentration in erythrocytes of diabetic patients subject haemoglobin (Hb) to be glycated by fructose. Haemoglobin glycation results in early and advanced glycation end products which are known as HbA(1c) and Hb-AGE, respectively. In diabetics the Hb-AGE content raises and the mean parameter multip...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Bakhti M,Habibi-Rezaei M,Moosavi-Movahedi AA,Khazaei MR

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The sulfhydryl groups required for the catalytic activity of gramicidin S synthetase of Bacillus brevis and Escherichia coli isoleucyl tRNA synthetase were compared. In gramicidin S synthetase 2(GS 2), about four sulfhydryl groups react rapidly with 5,5'-dithiobis(2-nitrobenzoic acid) (DTNB) or N-ethylmaleimide (NEM),...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kanda M,Hori K,Kurotsu T,Miura S,Saito Y

更新日期：1984-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Streptococcus pyogenes nuclease A (SpnA) and streptococcal 5' nucleosidase A (S5nA) are two recently described virulence factors from the human pathogen S. pyogenes. In vitro studies have shown that SpnA is a nuclease that cleaves ssDNA and dsDNA, including the DNA backbone of neutrophil extracellular traps. S5nA was ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Soh KY,Loh JMS,Proft T

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Puromycin-mediated in vitro release of nascent peptides from rat liver ribosomes was significantly stimulated by the presence of low concentrations of a detergent, and the stimulation was much more marked with bound ribosomes than with free ribosomes. The release of nascent peptides from ribosomes could be carried out...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Oda T,Nabi N,Omura T

更新日期：1981-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cholecalciferol 25-hydroxylase was partially purified by polyethylene glycol fractionation and chromatographies on octylamino-Sepharose and hydroxylapatite columns starting from the liver microsomes of female rats, and compared with P-450cc25 purified from the liver microsomes of male rats (Hayashi, et al. (1986) J. B...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Hayashi S,Usui E,Okuda K

更新日期：1988-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:C-Proteins in developing, denervated, and dystrophic chicken skeletal muscles were examined by means of two-dimensional (2D) gel electrophoresis in combination with immunoblotting. In this analysis, the electrophoresis system which was devised by Hirabayashi (Anal. Biochem. 117, 443-451, 1981) provided excellent resol...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kojima T,Sano K,Hirabayashi T,Obinata T

更新日期：1990-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We developed a high-throughput Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) for measuring α2,6-sialylated transferrin (Tf), based on inhibition of anti-Tf antibody binding to α2,6-sialylated Tf by a lectin, Sambucus sieboldiana Agglutinin (SSA). The inhibition was not observed with other glycoforms, such as periodate-tre...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Hoshi K,Kariya Y,Nara K,Ito H,Matsumoto K,Nagae M,Yamaguchi Y,Nakajima M,Miyajima M,Arai H,Kuno A,Narimatsu H,Shirotani K,Hashimoto Y

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanism by which GTP induces Ca2+ release from Ca2(+)-preloaded rat hepatic microsomes was studied. In the same concentration range as that for Ca2+ release, GTP inhibited the initial rate of ATP-driven Ca2+ uptake. It also inhibited the formation by ATP of the phosphorylated intermediate of Ca2(+)-ATPase, which...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kimura S,Higham S,Robison BC,Kraus-Friedmann N

更新日期：1990-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interleukin-1 (IL-1) is produced and released by various cells, including activated macrophages, and plays important roles in inflammation as well as immune responses. Since the precursor of IL-1 has no signal peptide, the mechanism of IL-1 release has been an enigma. To investigate the possibility of direct interacti...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Oku N,Saito N,Okada S,Watanabe N,Kobayashi Y

更新日期：1995-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A DNA polymerase beta (pol. beta) inhibitor has been isolated independently from two organisms; a red perilla, Perilla frutescens, and a mugwort, Artemisia vulgaris. These molecules were determined by spectroscopic analyses to be the cyanogenic glucoside, D-mandelonitrile-beta-D-glucoside, prunasin. The compound inhib...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Mizushina Y,Takahashi N,Ogawa A,Tsurugaya K,Koshino H,Takemura M,Yoshida S,Matsukage A,Sugawara F,Sakaguchi K

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR) of rabbit skeletal muscle was irradiated with ultraviolet light (UV) in the presence of vanadate plus 2 mM EGTA, 10 mM MgCl2, 20% DMSO, and 50 mM PIPES (pH 6.5) at room temperature. In the presence of 100 microM vanadate, the Ca(2+)-uptake activity of SR rapidly decreased and was almost...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Hirose T,Yamasaki K,Yamamoto T

更新日期：1995-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cholesterol: oxygen oxidoreductase [EC 1.1.3.6] from Brevibacterium sterolicum (ATCC 21387) was found to catalyze the oxidation of steroids such as sterols, steroid hormones, and bile acids having a free C-3beta hydroxyl group. However, the enzyme was inactive towards estradiol and estriol and had a weak activity towa...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Ikawa S,Takita M,Ogura M

更新日期：1979-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A p-nitrophenyl-alpha-D-glucopyranoside-hydrolyzing alpha-glucosidase from an obligate thermophile, Bacillus thermoglucosidius KP 1006, gave a triphasic relationship at pH 6.8 in the van't Hoff plot of Km, in the Arrhenius plot of the first order rate constant of inactivation with 0.1% sodium dodecyl sulfate, and in t...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Suzuki Y,Nakamura N,Kishigami T,Abe S

更新日期：1980-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The nucleotide sequence of gene PBII encoding salivary proline-rich protein P-B was determined. PBII is 7.1 kb long and contains 3 exons. PBII exhibits considerable nucleotide sequence homology not only in exons but also in introns with PBI (accession number D89501), the gene whose nucleotide sequence was determined p...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Isemura S

更新日期：2000-03-01 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：:MscL is a mechanosensitive channel that undergoes a global conformational change upon application of membrane stretching. To elucidate how the structural stability and flexibility occur, we isolated temperature-sensitive (Ts) mutants of Escherichia coli MscL that allowed cell growth at 32°C but not at 42°C. Two Ts mut...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Owada N,Yoshida M,Morita K,Yoshimura K

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The FLI-1 transcription factor is a member of the ETS gene family, most closely related to ERG. In this study, the FLI-1 protein products were characterized using a specific monoclonal antibody previously developed against bacterially expressed protein. In the human T-cell line Jurkat, both isoforms of FLI-1, p51 and ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Zhang XK,Watson DK

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mannan, a ligand for the mannose/N-acetylglucosamine (GlcNAc) receptor, induces suppression of oxygen consumption and increases glucose production in the perfused rat liver, and repeated infusion of mannan causes desensitization of the responses. In this study, we examined whether activation of Kupffer cells by endoto...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kimura K,Hamada M,Moriyama M,Kannan Y,Shiota M,Sakurada K,Musashi M,Sugano T

更新日期：1996-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report here the molecular cloning and characterization of the Drosophila neutral ceramidase (CDase). Using the BLAST program, a neutral CDase homologue (AE003774) was found in the Drosophila GenBank and cloned from a cDNA library of Drosophila imaginal discs. The open reading frame of 2,112 nucleotides encoded a po...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Yoshimura Y,Okino N,Tani M,Ito M

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lactosylceramide and paragloboside were synthesized from their precursor glycolipids and UDP-galactose by lactose synthase A protein [UDP-Gal : GlcNAc beta-4-galactosyltransferase, EC 2.4.1.22] purified to homogeneity from human plasma. The partially purified human liver enzyme and an extract from human lymphoblastoid...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Yamato K,Yoshida A

更新日期：1982-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have recently demonstrated the localization of associated m-calpain and calpastatin in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) of bovine pulmonary artery smooth muscle. Herein, we sought to determine the role of m-calpain on calcium-dependent proteolytic cleavage of Na(+)/Ca(2+) exchanger (NCX) in the ER. Treatment of the E...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Samanta K,Kar P,Chakraborti T,Chakraborti S

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00