Immunological identification of the major disulfide-linked light component of silk fibroin.

abstract：:The subcellular distribution of calmodulin and particulate calmodulin-binding activity was studied in a eukaryotic protozoan, Tetrahymena pyriformis NT-1. The particulate calmodulin-binding activity was found to be localized principally in microsomes and to some extent in cilia and surface membranes called pellicles. ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Nagao S,Banno Y,Nozawa Y,Sobue K,Yamazaki R,Kakiuchi S

更新日期：1981-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The allosteric properties of AMP deaminase [EC 3.5.4.6] from chicken erythrocytes have been qualitatively and quantitatively accounted for by the concerted transition theory of Monod et al., on the assumption that this enzyme has different numbers of binding sites for each ligand. Theoretical curves yield a satisfacto...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Yoshino M,Kawamura Y,Ogasawara N

更新日期：1976-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of 2'-substitutions of ATP on the substrate and inhibitor properties for RNA synthesis were studied in the poly(dAT)-dependent reaction of Escherichia coli RNA polymerase. In the presence of UTP, 2'-deoxy-2'-azidoadenosine 5'-triphosphate (AZTP) was incorporated into an acid-insoluble fraction at one-tenth...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Ishihama A,Enami M,Nishijima Y,Fukui T,Ohtsuka E,Ikehara M

更新日期：1980-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. From the standpoint of monomer-dimer equilibrium of hog kidney D-amino acid oxidase [EC 1.4.3.3] and the interaction between the enzyme and small molecules, the effect of pH on the binding of p-aminobenzoate to the monomer and dimer of the enzyme was studied by kinetic methods and spectrophotometric titration. 2. T...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Horiike K,Shiga K,Isomoto A,Yamano T

更新日期：1976-11-01 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 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：:The amino acid compositions, constituent polypeptides and bacteriochlorophyll (Bchl) contents of two kinds of Bchl-protein complexes isolated from Rhodopseudomonas palustris were examined. Spectrally dissimilar intracytoplasmic membranes obtained from cells cultured under different conditions were used as starting mat...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Hayashi H,Nakano M,Morita S

更新日期：1982-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Resistant strains for trimethoprim, a potent inhibitor of dihydrofolate reductase, were obtained by transforming the ligated products of Escherichia coli K12 DNA and plasmid pBR322 BamH I fragments. The strains carry a 13.6 kbp plasmid, pTP1, which contains the trimethoprim- and ampicillin-resistance determinant genes...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Iwakura M,Shimura Y,Tsuda K

更新日期：1982-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sliding machines composed of F-actin and myosin or microtubules and kinesin or dynein convert the free energy of ATP hydrolysis into sliding movements and mechanical work. Development of optical microscopy with micromanipulation techniques has made possible direct observation of single events of sliding exhibited by s...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Oosawa F

更新日期：1995-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Calphobindins (CPBs, placental annexins) are intracellular Ca(2+)- and phospholipid-dependent proteins like protein kinase C [EC 2.7.1.37]. We investigated the inhibitory effects of calphobindins on the protein kinase C activity in vitro. CPB I inhibited the protein kinase C activity for both histone phosphorylation a...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Shibata S,Sato H,Maki M

更新日期：1992-10-01 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：:Calmodulin (CaM), a physiologically important Ca(2+)-binding protein, participates in numerous cellular regulatory processes. It is dumbbell shaped and contains two globular domains connected by a short alpha-helix. Each of the globular domains has two Ca(2+)-binding sites, the EF hands. CaM undergoes a conformational...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Shishido H,Yamada MD,Kondo K,Maruta S

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sugars such as glycolaldehyde, glyceraldehyde, erythrose, ribose, and glucose were heated with ammonia in a modified sea medium. Amino acids such as glycine, alanine, serine, threonine, aspartic acid, and glutamic acid were obtained from the reaction mixture. This provides the basis for a model of the genesis of amino...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Yanagawa H,Kobayashi Y,Egami F

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Carboxypeptidase Y (CPY) inhibitor, I(C), a cytoplasmic inhibitor of vacuolar proteinases in yeast, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, was purified by means of a high-level expression system using a proteinase-deficient strain, BJ2168, and an expression vector with the promoter GAL1. The purified I(C) exists as a monomeric bet...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Mima J,Suzuki H,Takahashi M,Hayashi R

更新日期：2002-12-01 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：:The enzymatic properties of novel cysteine proteases D3-alpha and beta which were purified from germinating soybean cotyledons were investigated. The enzyme activities were exhibited in the presence of a thiol reagent, such as 2-mercaptoethanol, and apparently inhibited by E-64, a cysteine protease inhibitor. Hydrolyt...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Asano M,Suzuki S,Kawai M,Miwa T,Shibai H

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The N-terminal amino acid sequences of human urinary prokallikrein and kallikrein have been determined. Their amino acid sequences are as follows. (Formula; see text) The results showed that prokallikrein comprises an additional seven amino acids at the amino terminus of the kallikrein, of which the sequence is (H2N)A...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Takahashi S,Irie A,Katayama Y,Ito K,Miyake Y

更新日期：1986-03-01 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：:Human serum sulfotransferase activities were measured in normal controls and patients with macular corneal dystrophy (MCD), an inherited disorder characterized by the decreased sulfation of keratan sulfate in the corneal stroma and serum, using two kinds of acceptor: partially desulfated keratan sulfate and a trisacch...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Hasegawa N,Torii T,Nagaoka I,Nakayasu K,Miyajima H,Habuchi O

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several trypsin inhibitors with different mobilities on polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis occur in the tubers of taro (Colocasia antiquorum), and they each have a dimeric molecular weight of 40,000. Of all the constituent subunits, molecular weight 20,000, of the taro trypsin inhibitor (TTI), three major subunit comp...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Ogata F,Makisumi S

更新日期：1985-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The internal ribosome entry site (IRES) is important for translation of hepatitis C virus (HCV) mRNA and has a unique RNA structure containing conserved domains I to IV. To investigate the function of domain II, we selected RNA aptamers that bind to domain II of HCV IRES by applying a simple and convenient selection m...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kikuchi K,Umehara T,Fukuda K,Hwang J,Kuno A,Hasegawa T,Nishikawa S

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Treatment of Sendai virus with p-azidophenyl-6-chloro-6-deoxy-beta-D-glucopyranoside (APG) caused chemical modification of the viral envelope under UV irradiation, which did not affect the hemagglutinin activity of the virus but inhibited the hemolytic activity. Also, the transfer of phospholipid from the viral envelo...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Jizomoto H,Arita H,Sugita K,Kawanami J,Sato K,Kuriyama K

更新日期：1980-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chloroquine myopathy is a drug poisoning disease involving rimmed vacuole formation. By Western blot analysis, we investigated posttranslational modification of LC3 in cultured cells with a high concentration of chloroquine, and found that the autophagosome membrane-bound form of LC3 increased dose-dependently. We als...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Suzuki T,Nakagawa M,Yoshikawa A,Sasagawa N,Yoshimori T,Ohsumi Y,Nishino I,Ishiura S,Nonaka I

更新日期：2002-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:7 beta-Hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase (7 beta-HSD) was produced by Ruminococcus sp. PO1-3 obtained from among human intestinal bacteria. The enzyme was purified from a crude extract by ammonium sulfate fractionation, and Butyl-Toyopearl 650M, Sephadex G-150, Matrex Red A and Octyl-Sepharose chromatographies. The purifie...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Akao T,Akao T,Kobashi K

更新日期：1987-09-01 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：:Daunomycin, an anti-neoplastic agent, is known to be sequestered by acidic organelles in normal and multidrug-resistant cells [Willingham, M.C., Cornwell, M.M., Cardarelli, C.O., Gottesman, M.M., & Pastan, I. (1986) Cancer Res. 46, 5941-5946]. We studied the mechanism of accumulation of daunomycin into acidic organell...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Moriyama Y,Manabe T,Yoshimori T,Tashiro Y,Futai M

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Basidiomycete ras gene possesses a pyrimidine-rich stretch (CT-motif) with a short (7 bases) mirror repeat in which its major transcription start point is contained. To analyze the tertiary structure induced by the CT/AG-biased sequence and its effect on gene expression in supercoiled plasmids in Escherichia coli,...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Yamazaki T,Hasebe T,Shouguchi J,Amano H,Kajiwara S,Shishido K

更新日期：1997-10-01 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：:Human liver cytosol contains multiple forms of 3 alpha-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase and dihydrodiol dehydrogenase with hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase activity, and multiple cDNAs for the enzymes have been cloned from human liver cDNA libraries. To understand the relationship of the multiple enzyme froms to the genes, a ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Deyashiki Y,Tamada Y,Miyabe Y,Nakanishi M,Matsuura K,Hara A

更新日期：1995-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Droplet counter-current chromatography (DCC) a novel liquid-liquid partition technique, is a useful method for the separation of glycolipids. After a series of investigations on suitable experimental conditions for DDC, mouse brain chloroform-methanol-0.5% CaCl2-n-propanol (50:60:40:6) by the ascending method with 500...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Otsuka H,Yamakawa T

更新日期：1981-07-01 00:00:00