Studies on gramicidin S synthetase. Purification of the heavy enzyme obtained from some mutants of Bacillus brevis.

abstract：:The degradation rates of type I, II, and III collagens by tadpole collagenase were studied by measuring the viscosity of the solution and the contents of alpha chains and alpha A chains of collagen, using SDS-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis followed by densitometric analysis of the separated peptide bands. An empir...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Hayashi T,Nakamura T,Hori H,Nagai Y

更新日期：1980-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The changes in the cellular concentrations of ATP, ADP, and AMP and in oxidative phosphorylation of mitochondria were investigated in the remaining liver of partially hepatectomized rabbits. The energy charge (defined as half of the average number of anhydride-bonded phosphate groups per adenosine moiety) of the liver...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kamiyama Y,Ozawa K,Honjo I

更新日期：1976-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Archaeal geranylgeranyl diphosphate (GGPP) synthase catalyzes the consecutive condensation of isopentenyl diphosphate (IPP) with allylic diphosphates to produce GGPP with significant amounts of intermediates. To obtain information about the amino acids involved in the condensation and the release of intermediates, we ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Ohnuma S,Hemmi H,Ohto C,Nakane H,Nishino T

更新日期：1997-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A form of UDP-glucuronyltransferase has been purified from liver microsomes of 3-methylcholanthrene-treated rats by a simple and rapid method involving chromatography on DEAE-Toyopearl and UDP-hexanolamine Sepharose columns. The purified preparation gave a single protein band (Mr 54,000) on sodium dodecyl sulfate-poly...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Yokota H,Yuasa A,Sato R

更新日期：1988-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The organization of troponin I (TnI) genes from the ascidian Halocynthia roretzi have been determined. Halocynthia possesses roughly two types of TnI isoforms. One type is a single-copied adult TnI (adTnI) gene, which contains eight exons and seven introns. adTnI expresses two isoforms, the shorter body wall muscle Tn...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Yuasa HJ,Kawamura K,Yamamoto H,Takagi T

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The amino acid sequence of glutathione S-transferase a from guinea pig liver was determined. Glutathione S-transferase a was composed of two identical subunits, each comprising 218 amino acid residues. The amino acid sequence of glutathione S-transferase a exhibited 73% homology with that of human glutathione S-transf...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kamei-Hayashi K,Oshino R,Hara S

更新日期：1993-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The protein level of the GTS1 gene product (Gts1p) fluctuated during the oscillation of energy metabolism in continuous culture of the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Here, we found that the GTS1 mRNA level oscillated with the same periodicity as the metabolic oscillation, suggesting that the expression of GTS1 was re...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Tonozuka H,Wang J,Mitsui K,Saito T,Hamada Y,Tsurugi K

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:ENO1-'lacZ fusions with various lengths of the ENO1 5'-flanking region were constructed on various types of yeast plasmid vectors. The fully expressed level of beta Gal directed by ENO1-'lacZ fusions differed depending on the type of vector, but on any type of vector, beta Gal activity was not greatly influenced by th...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Uemura H,Shiba T,Machida M,Matsui I,Jigami Y,Tanaka H

更新日期：1987-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The structures of the N-linked oligosaccharides on recombinant human hepatocyte growth factor (rh-HGF) expressed by Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cells were studied by two-dimensional sugar mapping. The oligosaccharides released from the glycopeptides by peptide: N-glycosidase F (PNGase F) treatment were tagged with 2-a...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Hara H,Nakae Y,Sogabe T,Ihara I,Ueno S,Sakai H,Inoue H,Shimizu S,Nakamura T,Shimizu N

更新日期：1993-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The crystal structures of the GTP- and GDP-bound alpha subunits of heterotrimeric GTP-binding proteins were recently determined, and a conserved Thr residue in the G2 (linker 2) region of the alpha subunits, which corresponds to Thr182 in Gi2 alpha, was deduced to interact with the gamma-phosphate of GTP and Mg2+. To ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Nishina H,Nimota K,Kukimoto I,Maehama T,Takahashi K,Hoshino S,Kanaho Y,Katada T

更新日期：1995-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We found functionally active thrombomodulin in human platelets (60 +/- 18 molecules per platelet). Protein C appeared not to be activated by thrombin with gel-filtered platelets. However, the activation of protein C by thrombin was accelerated by thrombin-stimulated and washed platelets. This cofactor activity of the ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Suzuki K,Nishioka J,Hayashi T,Kosaka Y

更新日期：1988-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Streptomyces caespitosus neutral protease (ScNP) is one of the smallest metalloproteinase with a molecular mass of 14 kDa. Effects of solvent composition on ScNP activity were examined using a peptide substrate. The k(cat)/K(m) values of ScNP exhibited bell-shaped pH-dependence with the optimal pH of 6.4-7.0 and the p...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Inouye K,Shimada T,Yasukawa K

更新日期：2007-09-01 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：:Kinetic studies of the two beta-glucosidase isozymes, GB-1 and GB-2, which were from the culture filtrate of a phytopathogenic fungus Pyricularia oryzae, revaled that the latter isozyme was an allosteric protein with two substrate binding sites. The homotropic effects of o- and m-nitrophenyl-beta-D-glucosides on GB-2 ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Hirayama T,Nagayama H,Matsuda K

更新日期：1980-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The fatty acid composition of cardiolipin from the Harderian gland of guinea pig was examined by gas chromatography and gas chromatography-mass spectrometry. At least 33 kinds of fatty acids were detected. Oleic acid was the most prominent component, accounting for 18.2 mol% of the total fatty acids. About 70.2 mol% o...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Seyama Y,Ohashi K,Yasugi E,Otsuka H

更新日期：1984-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The fluorometric method of Nash for determination of methanol was applied in assay of kallikrein-like arginine esterases using N-a-tosyl-L-arginine methyl ester (TAME) as substrate. The results obtained using this method corresponded well with those obtained in the usual colorimetric methods using hydroxamate, chromot...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Matsuda Y,Moriya H,Moriwaki C,Fujimoto Y,Matsuda M

更新日期：1976-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Highly purified recombinant human tumor necrosis factor (TNF) (molecular mass determined as 17 kilodaltons (kDa) by sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis and as 36 kDa by Sephadex G-100 gel chromatography) was labeled with 125I to a specific activity of 5 microCi/micrograms without appreciable loss...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Yoshie O,Tada K,Ishida N

更新日期：1986-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new protein with a chain weight of approximately 220,000 was isolated from 0.6 M KI extracts of I-Z-I brushes of rabbit and chicken skeletal muscles, using (NH4)2SO4 precipitation and three column chromatographic procedures in succession. It was only possible to separate the high molecular weight protein from actin ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Muguruma M,Kobayashi K,Fukazawa T,Ohashi K,Maruyama K

更新日期：1981-06-01 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：:An acidic protein of human saliva, which we named SAP-1 previously, is now shown to be an inhibitor of several cysteine proteinases. The protein inhibited papain and ficin strongly, and stem bromelain and bovine cathepsin C partially. However, it did not inhibit either porcine cathepsin B or clostripain. The mode of t...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Isemura S,Saitoh E,Ito S,Isemura M,Sanada K

更新日期：1984-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study presents the structural, kinetic and thermodynamic characterizations of previously unknown submicellar concentrations of SDS-induced molten globule (MGSDS) state of a highly negatively charged base-denatured ferricytochrome c (UB-state) at pH ∼12.8 (±0.2). The far-UV CD, near-UV CD, ANS-fluorescence data of...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Jain R,Sharma D,Kumar R,Kumar R

更新日期：2019-02-01 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：:Bovine dopamine beta-monooxygenase is a tetramer consisting of two disulfide-linked dimers. To examine the role(s) of the intersubunit disulfide bonds in the protein structure and activity, the enzyme was treated with DTT at pH 7.5 and 25 degrees C under nondenaturing conditions. A 15-min incubation with 0.5 mM DTT se...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Ishida T,Narita M,Nozaki M,Horiike K

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:L-Glutamate dehydrogenase (GLDH) independent of NAD(P) and oxygen was first obtained from the psychrotrophic bacterium Aeromonas sp. L101, originally isolated from the organs of salmon (Oncorhynchus keta). GLDH was purified by a series of chromatography steps on DEAE-Sepharose, Superdex 200pg, Q-Sepharose, CM-Sepharos...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Yamamura A,Sakaguchi T,Murakami Y,Yokoyama K,Tamiya E

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thyrotropin releasing hormone (TRH) caused significant breakdown of phosphatidylinositol 4,5-bisphosphate (PIP2) in GH3 cells, but vasoactive intestinal peptide (VIP) did not. However, VIP enhanced the TRH-induced hydrolysis of PIP2, the conversion of phosphatidylinositol 4-phosphate (PIP) to PIP2 and the accumulation...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Suzuki R,Takenawa T

更新日期：1987-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Affinity labeling with nucleoside polyphosphopyridoxals, especially those with 3 or 4 phosphate groups, was effective for identifying the lysyl residue(s) located at or near the binding site for ATP, GTP, UDP-Glc, or ADP-Glc in various proteins. Furthermore, kinetic analysis of the mutant enzymes, in which the labeled...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Fukui T

更新日期：1995-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to determine the epitope of metallothionein (MT) to a murine monoclonal antibody (MT 189-14-7) which had been produced by immunization with rat MT 2 (Kikuchi et al. (1988) Mol. Immunol. 25, 1033-1036), various lengths of synthetic oligopeptides were tested for their inhibitory activities in competitive radioi...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kikuchi Y,Irie M,Ikebuchi H,Sawada J,Terao T,Nakayama S,Iguchi S,Okada Y

更新日期：1990-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To identify functionally essential sequences and residues of CTLA-2alpha, in vitro mutagenesis was carried out. The coefficient of inhibition (K(i)) was determined towards rabbit cathepsin L using Z-Phe-Arg-MCA as the substrate. Recombinant CTLA-2alpha inhibited the enzyme potently (K(i) = 15 nM). A truncated mutant, ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Deshapriya RM,Yuhashi S,Usui M,Kageyama T,Yamamoto Y

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:N omega-Phosphoarginine hydrolase from rat liver cytosol was purified to apparent homogeneity on SDS-PAGE, by employing column chromatographies on Sephadex G-75, DEAE-cellulose, QAE-Toyopearl, and glutathione-2-pyridyl-disulfide-Superose. One milligram protein of the final preparation released 4 mumol/min of inorganic...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Yokoyama K,Ohmori H,Kumon A

更新日期：1993-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When meso-tetrakis(3-N-methylpyridiniumyl)porphyrin (m-TMPyP) formed a complex with poly[d(A-T)(2)], an intense bisignate excitonic CD in the Soret absorption region was observed. The excitonic CD of the m-TMPyP-poly[d(A-T)(2)] complex is unique in that no other combination of the related porphyrin, namely, meso-tetra...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Lee YA,Lee S,Lee HM,Lee CS,Kim SK

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00