Purification and characterization of cathepsin E type acid proteinase from gastric mucosa of bullfrog, Rana catesbeiana.

abstract：:Gp91(phox) is a key component of the phagocyte NADPH oxidase. Mutations of its promoter found in patients with chronic granulomatous disease cause deficient binding of PU.1 and HAF-1. Because the two factors bind to the same site (Pu box) of the promoter, we attempted to clarify their relative in vivo contributions to...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Islam MR,Fan C,Fujii Y,Hao LJ,Suzuki S,Kumatori A,Yang D,Rusvai E,Suzuki N,Kikuchi H,Nakamura M

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Methylation and demethylation of the methyl-accepting chemotaxis protein (MCP) was studied in vitro. The in vitro MCP methylating system showed the following characteristics. 1. Multiple bands of methylated MCP were produced. 2. The reaction could be separated into two phases: the initial phase, in which the level of ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Hayashi H,Minoshima S,Ohba M

更新日期：1982-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Actin-activated ATPase activity of myosin from Physarum polycephalum decreases when it binds Ca2+ and increases when it loses Ca2+. This Ca-inhibition is observed with phosphorylated myosin [Kohama, K. (1990) Trend, Pharmacol. Sci. 11, 433-435]. The activity of dephosphorylated myosin remained at a low level both in t...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kohama K,Kohno T,Okagaki T,Shimmen T

更新日期：1991-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The properties of phospholipase A1 (PLA1) obtained from the white muscle of bonito, Euthynnus pelamis (Linnaeus), were examined. The PLA1 activity had a pH optimum from 6.5 to 7.0 for phosphatidylcholine (PC), and calcium ion was not required. The optimum temperature was from 20 to 30 degrees C. When a fatty alcohol w...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Hirano K,Tanaka A,Yoshizumi K,Tanaka T,Satouchi K

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The beta peptide (113-125), derived from a conserved sequence of the beta subunit of integrins, was synthesized to investigate its adhesive properties to matrix proteins and the effects on cell adhesion to immobilized fibronectin. In this study, we observed that the biotinylated beta peptide was able to bind efficient...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Liu YK,Nemoto A,Feng Y,Uemura T

更新日期：1997-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plant cell-wall arabinoxylans have a complex structure that requires the action of a pool of debranching (arabinofuranosidases) and depolymerizing enzymes (endo-xylanase). Two Aspergillus nidulans strains over-secreting endo-xylanase and arabinofuranosidase were inoculated in defined 2% maltose-minimum medium resultin...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Damásio AR,Pessela BC,da Silva TM,Guimarães LH,Jorge JA,Guisán JM,Polizeli Mde L

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Catalase from Aspergillus niger was purified to homogeneity as judged from the results of ultracentrifugation and polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. The enzyme had a molecular weight of 385,000 as estimated from sedimentation measurements. Carbohydrate analyses showed that the catalase was a glycoprotein containing a...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kikuchi-Torii K,Hayashi S,Nakamoto H,Nakamura S

更新日期：1982-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Activation of muscarinic acetylcholine receptors (mAChRs) causes the rapid release of Ca2+ from intracellular stores and a sustained influx of external Ca2+ in PC12D cells, a subline of the widely studied cell line PC12. Release of Ca2+ from intracellular stores and a sustained influx of Ca2+ are also observed followi...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Ebihara T,Guo F,Zhang L,Kim JY,Saffen D

更新日期：2006-03-01 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：:Pollen proteins from several grass species have been identified and characterized as causative allergens in grass pollinosis. In contrast, allergenic potential of pollen proteins from rice, which belongs to the same Poaceae family, has not well been investigated, despite that a few clinical cases have been reported on...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Hirano K,Hino S,Oshima K,Okajima T,Nadano D,Urisu A,Takaiwa F,Matsuda T

更新日期：2013-08-01 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：:Prp8 is a splicing factor of 220 kDa originally identified in yeast and is a component of the U5 small nuclear ribonucleoprotein particle. Mouse Prp8 cDNA was cloned and shown to share 62.6 and 68.2% sequence identity with the yeast homologue at the amino acid and nucleotide level, respectively, while it differs by on...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Takahashi A,Muramatsu H,Takagi S,Fujisawa H,Miyake Y,Muramatsu T

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Caldesmon, calmodulin-, and actin-binding protein of chicken gizzard did not affect the process of polymerization of actin induced by 0.1 M KCl. Caldesmon binds to F-actin, thus inhibiting the gelation action of actin binding protein (ABP; filamin). Low shear viscosity and flow birefringence measurements revealed that...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Maruyama K,Morimoto K,Kijima Y,Sobue K,Kakiuchi S

更新日期：1985-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A gene encoding an Na+/H+ antiporter was cloned from chromosomal DNA of the slightly halophilic marine bacterium Vibrio parahaemolyticus. The host was an Escherichia coli mutant that lacked both of the two major Na+/H+ antiporters, NhaA and NhaB. Untransformed mutant cells were unable to grow in the presence of 0.6 M ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kuroda T,Shimamoto T,Inaba K,Tsuda M,Tsuchiya T

更新日期：1994-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Candida albicans is a commensal organism, but causes life-threatening infections in immunocompromised patients. Certain factors such as yeast-hyphae transition and hydrolytic enzymes are suggested as virulence attributes of C. albicans. Among them, 10 types of secreted aspartic protease (SAP) genes have received parti...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Aoki W,Kitahara N,Miura N,Morisaka H,Yamamoto Y,Kuroda K,Ueda M

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The incorporation of serine and ethanolamine into phospholipids in rabbit retinal subcellular fractions and in excised retinas was studied in vitro, and some enzymic properties of the incorporation of phospholipid bases by base exchange were examined in the microsomal fraction. The retina was found to have a higher ra...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Mizuno A

更新日期：1976-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Soybean Bowman-Birk inhibitor, a double-headed inhibitor of trypsin and alpha-chymotrypsin, was treated with cyanogen bromide and then pepsin to yield two inhibitory active fragments. Structural investigation showed that one of the fragments was derived from the trypsin inhibitory domain and the other from the chymotr...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Odani S,Ikenaka T

更新日期：1978-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thermal denaturation of cytochromes c of horse, cow, and Candida krusei in aqueous guanidine hydrochloride in the neutral pH region was studied by means of absorption and optical rotation measurements. The values of standard free energy change upon denaturation were estimated over the temperature range from 3 to 51 de...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kawaguchi H,Noda H

更新日期：1977-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In porcine aortic smooth muscle cells, neuropeptide Y (NPY) stimulates mobilization of CA(2+) from intracellular store sites via Y1 receptors. However, it has been debated whether or not Ca(2+) mobilization by Y1 receptors depends on the generation of inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate [Ins(1,4,5)P3] following activation of...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Shigeri Y,Nakajima S,Fujimoto M

更新日期：1995-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Terf/TRIM17 is a tripartite motif protein that has been originally isolated from testis. Terf has been characterized to exhibit an E3 ubiquitin ligase activity and to undergo self-ubiquitination. The cellular function of terf and its substrates, however, remain elusive. In the present study, we performed a yeast two-h...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Endo H,Ikeda K,Urano T,Horie-Inoue K,Inoue S

更新日期：2012-02-01 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

abstract：:We isolated three genomic clones of rat P-450(11 beta) genes (CYP11B). Two of them corresponded to 11 beta-hydroxylase gene (CYP11B1) and aldosterone synthase gene (CYP11B2), respectively. The third one was a novel gene resembling both CYP11B1 and CYP11B2, and was named CYP11B3 gene (CYP11B3). CYP11B2 and CYP11B3 are ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Nomura M,Morohashi K,Kirita S,Nonaka Y,Okamoto M,Nawata H,Omura T

更新日期：1993-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:After the intraperitoneal administration of radioactive cholic acid to rats, the binding of the cholic acid to protein was immunologically investigated. The serum and liver cytosol were separately incubated with antiligandin or antialbumin immunoglobulin and then subjected to sucrose density gradient centrifugation. T...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Fukuda H,Iritani N

更新日期：1981-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined the inhibitory effect of three pseudo-aminosugars (validamine, valienamine, and valiolamine), which were isolated from the broth of Streptomyces hygroscopicus, on the oligosaccharide-processing glucosidases I and II involved in glycoprotein biosynthesis in rat liver. Both glucosidases I and II were inhibit...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Takeuchi M,Kamata K,Yoshida M,Kameda Y,Matsui K

更新日期：1990-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently, we revealed that the cloverleaf structure of some eukaryotic tRNAs is not always stable in vitro, and the denatured structures of these tRNAs are sometimes detected in bacterial RNase P reactions. We have designated the unusual internal cleavage reaction of these tRNAs as hyperprocessing. We have developed t...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Tanaka T,Kondo Y,Hori Y,Kikuchi Y

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dithiothreitol or glutathione, essential for amino acid incorporation into polypeptides in cell-free systems, inhibited glucosamine incorporation into ovalbumin, a glycoprotein containing about three residues of N-acetylucosamine and about five residues of mannose. However, the thiol was necessary for mannose incorpor...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Nakayama T,Narita K,Ogata K

更新日期：1976-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Synthesis of the acid-soluble proteins in the early cleavage stage of the sea urichin, Hemicentrotus pulcherrimus, was investigated. As detected by the incorporation of lysine, the acid-soluble proteins were synthesized periodically even before the first cleavage, differing from the pattern of incorporation of tryptop...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kano K,Mano Y

更新日期：1976-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We found phosphoinositide-specific phospholipase C (PtdIns-PLC) activity in nuclei isolated from rat liver. The enzyme hydrolyzed phosphatidylinositol, phosphatidylinositol 4-monophosphate (PIP) and phosphatidylinositol 4,5-bisphosphate in a Ca(2+)-dependent manner, and produced inositol mono-, bis-, and triphosphate,...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kuriki H,Tamiya-Koizumi K,Asano M,Yoshida S,Kojima K,Nimura Y

更新日期：1992-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rat and mouse cDNAs for Zn-alpha 2-glycoprotein (Zn alpha 2gp) were isolated from liver libraries (lambda gt11) and compared with the human one. The lengths of cDNA inserts analyzed were 1,233 and 1,273 nucleotides for rat and mouse, respectively. The deduced amino acid sequences suggested that rat and mouse Zn alpha ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Ueyama H,Naitoh H,Ohkubo I

更新日期：1994-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An ATP-dependent DNase has been purified from Thermus thermophilus HB8 by a procedure involving streptomycin precipitation, DEAE-cellulose chromatography, Sephadex G-200 gel filtration and heparin-agarose affinity chromatography. ATP-dependent DNase activity was separated into two distinct peaks, Peak A and Peak B, by...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Watanabe N,Umeno M,Anai M

更新日期：1983-02-01 00:00:00