Interaction between pullulanase from Klebsiella pneumoniae and cyclodextrins.

abstract：:Apoprotein of electron-transferring flavoprotein (ETF) reacts with FAD as follows: A*<-->A, A+FAD<-->holoETF. Two different forms of apoETF (A* and A) convert into each other and only one of them, A, can associate with FAD [Sato, K. et al. (1991) J. Biochem. 109, 734-740]. In the present study, the reactions between a...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Sato K,Nishina Y,Shiga K

更新日期：1992-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tardigrades, a phylum of meiofaunal organisms, exhibit extraordinary tolerance to various environmental conditions, including extreme temperatures (-272 to 151 °C) and exposure to ionizing radiation. Proteins from anhydrobiotic tardigrades with homology to known proteins from other organisms are new potential targets ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kobayashi K,Kim J,Fukuda Y,Kozawa T,Inoue T

更新日期：2021-01-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Anti-angiotensin I IgG in serum was measured by immune complex transfer enzyme immunoassays using angiotensin I conjugates prepared by two different methods. In the first method, angiotensin I was conjugated to dinitrophenyl bovine serum albumin and beta-D-galactosidase through covalent links. Anti-angiotensin I IgG i...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kohno T,Yamaguchi K,Ishikawa E

更新日期：1990-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. Tropomyosin, one of the regulatory proteins in muscle contraction, was prepared from chickens, rabbits, frogs, shrimps, and shellfish, and conserved characteristics were studied using an enzymological technique. 2. All tropomyosins tested, irrespective of their sources, were found to have the ability to mediate the...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Hayashi J,Hirabayashi T

更新日期：1978-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to obtain information on the nature of the amino acid residues involved in the activity of ribonuclease U1 [EC 3.1.4.8], various chemical modifications of the enzyme were carried out. RNase U1 was inactivated by reaction with iodoacetate at pH 5.5 with concomitant incorporation of 1 carboxymethyl group per mo...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Hashimoto J,Takahashi K

更新日期：1977-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recombinant mouse Dnmt3a and Dnmt3b were expressed in sf9 cells and purified to near homogeneity. The purified Dnmt3a and Dnmt3b gave specific activities of 1.8 +/- 0.3 and 1.3 +/- 0.1 mol/h/mol enzyme towards poly(dGdC)-poly(dGdC), respectively, which were the highest among those reported. Dnmt3a or Dnmt3b showed sim...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Suetake I,Miyazaki J,Murakami C,Takeshima H,Tajima S

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Polynucleotide phosphorylase from Thermus thermophilus catalyzed the addition of short guanylyl blocks from GDP to the 3'-hydroxyl termini of oligonucleotide primers at low temperature in a simple reaction mixture. Polyguanylic acid formation was inhibited at 37 degrees C, but the addition of one or two guanylyl resid...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kikuchi Y,Hirai K,Sakaguchi K

更新日期：1979-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chain elongation of fusaric acid and related compounds in the presence of rat liver preparations was investigated by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry. The mitochondrial fraction catalyzed the elongation of the CoA esters of fusaric acid and 5-butyl-2-pyrimidinecarboxylic acid utilizing acetyl-CoA as a C2 donor. Th...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Mizugaki M,Sagi M,Yamanaka H,Takayama H,Ishibashi M,Miyazaki H

更新日期：1986-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The amino acid sequences of ferredoxins I and II from a blue-green alga, Nostoc strain MAC were determined. This alga is able to grow autotrophically in the light or heterotrophically in the dark. Analyses of tryptic peptides of Cm-proteins by conventional methods including solid-phase Edman degradation gave the compl...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Hase T,Matsubara H,Hutber GN,Rogers LJ

更新日期：1982-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied the effect of Ca2+ on the reactivities of two SH groups of DTNB light chain (Cys 128 and Cys 157) using a fluorogenic thiol reagent. It was found that a Ca2+-induced change in reactivity occurred only with Cys 128 when the light chain was in an isolated state, whereas it occurred with both Cys 128 and Cys 1...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Yamamoto K,Honjo R,Sekine T

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Proton translocating ATPase (F0F1) from bovine heart mitochondria was reconstituted into planar phospholipid bilayers, and its electrogenicity was directly demonstrated. The F0F1 ATPase was solubilized using 3-[(3-cholamidopropyl)-dimethylammonio]-1-propanesulfonic acid (CHAPS) as a detergent followed by sucrose densi...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Muneyuki E,Ohno K,Kagawa Y,Hirata H

更新日期：1987-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The interactions of benzeneboronic acid (BBA) as a transition state analog with subtilisin (EC 3.4.21.4) and with alpha-chymotrypsin (EC 3.4.21.1) were investigated kinetically by the temperature-jump method using pH indicators. For both enzymes, the concentration dependence of the relaxation time was consistent with...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Nakatani H,Hanai K,Uehara Y,Hiromi K

更新日期：1975-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The binding of SopA to the promoter region of its own gene, in which four copies of SopA's recognition sequence, 5'-CTTTGC-3', are arrayed asymmetrically, was examined in vitro. Titration using electrophoretic mobility shift assay showed that the stoichiometry of SopA protomers to the promoter-region DNA is 4 and that...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Komai M,Umino M,Hanai R

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several proteins in the mammalian endoplasmic reticulum are substrates for protein kinases. Many unidentified phosphoproteins from this compartment are described in the literature, and this prompted us to try to identify at least the more dominant ones. When solubilized bovine and murine microsomes were phosphorylated...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Janson IM,Ek B,Ek P

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aggrecan, a large aggregating proteoglycan, is one of the major structural components of cartilage. Its core protein contains three glubular domains and two glycosaminoglycan-attachment domains. These domains play various roles to maintain cartilage structure and function. An N-terminal globular domain binds hyalurona...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Watanabe H,Yamada Y,Kimata K

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Basigin belongs to the immunoglobulin superfamily and may be related to the primordial form of the superfamily. Human basigin cDNA was isolated and sequenced, and the predicted protein structure was compared with that of mouse basigin and two related molecules, embigin and the chicken blood-brain barrier antigen HT7. ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Miyauchi T,Masuzawa Y,Muramatsu T

更新日期：1991-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. The effect of guanidine hydrochloride (GuHCl) on pig heart lipoamide dehydrogenase [NADH: lipoamide oxidoreductase, EC 1.6.4.3.] was investigated by means of enzymatic activity and optical measurements (CD, absorption, and fluorescence spectra). The activity of the enzyme decreased on increasing the concentration o...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Ogasahara K,Koike K,Hamada M,Hiraoka T

更新日期：1976-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Class B scavenger receptor type I (SR-BI) is a phosphatidylserine (PS)-recognizing receptor of testicular Sertoli cells responsible for the phagocytosis of spermatogenic cells undergoing apoptosis. Here, we determined signal mediators that compose a signalling pathway for SR-BI-induced phagocytosis. Results of a yeast...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Osada Y,Sunatani T,Kim IS,Nakanishi Y,Shiratsuchi A

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mammalian/mechanistic target of rapamycin (mTOR) is a highly conserved serine/threonine kinase that responds to environmental determinants such as growth factor concentration, nutrient availability, energy sufficiency and stress. mTOR forms two different complexes, called mTOR complex 1 (mTORC1) and mTORC2, and these ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Hoshii T,Matsuda S,Hirao A

更新日期：2014-08-01 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

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：:It was previously found that rabbit serum contains a growth-inhibitory substance for a tumorigenic rat liver cell line RSV-BRL. In the present study, the growth inhibitor was purified from normal rabbit serum to show a homogeneous protein band with a molecular weight (Mr) of 56 k on SDS-polyacrylamide gel electrophore...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kimura T,Miyazaki K,Mashima K,Yamashita J,Horio T,Kakuno T

更新日期：1991-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nestin is an intermediate filament protein mainly expressed in muscle and neural progenitors. Recently, we reported that nestin is expressed in rat vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMCs), disappears after serum-deprivation and then is re-expressed again following EGF stimulation. As the function of nestin in VSMCs remai...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Huang YL,Wu CM,Shi GY,Wu GC,Lee H,Jiang MJ,Wu HL,Yang HY

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Loss of bone substance is a common manifestation of hyperparathyroidism. This suggests that parathyroid hormone (PTH) plays an important role as to bone mass. To investigate the mechanism underlying this change in bone mass, I studied the effects of PTH on collagen synthesis and mitogenesis of UMR-106 rat osteoblastic...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Pun KK

更新日期：1989-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Haematopoiesis and blood vessel formation are closely associated, with several molecules employed by both systems. Recently, vasohibin-1 (VASH1), an endothelium-derived negative feedback regulator of angiogenesis, has been isolated and characterized. VASH1 is induced by VEGF or bFGF in endothelial cells (ECs) and inhi...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Naito H,Kidoya H,Sato Y,Takakura N

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recombinant human granulocyte-colony-stimulating factor (G-CSF) was purified from Chinese hamster ovary cells transfected with human G-CSF cDNA. The recombinant human G-CSF was treated with alkaline borohydride and the oligosaccharide-alditols liberated were fractioned by gel filtration on a Bio-Gel P-4 column, follow...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Oheda M,Hase S,Ono M,Ikenaka T

更新日期：1988-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The immunological properties of acid proteinases from rat spleen, two types of cathepsin D and a cathepsin E-like enzyme, were examined. The rabbit antiserum was prepared against the major form of cathepsin D (cathepsin D-I) from rat spleen. The antiserum quantitatively precipitated the enzyme activity from the purifi...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Yamamoto K,Kamata O,Katsuda N,Kato K

更新日期：1980-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using a new cannulation method, which completely prevented interruption of circulation to brain tissue during surgical operations, we could prepare a functionally intact hemoglobin-free isolated perfused rat head in situ. The frequency distribution (8-25 Hz) and amplitude of a spontaneous electroencephalogram, EEG (50...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Inagaki M,Tamura M

更新日期：1993-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serum-free culture medium collected from primary monolayer cultures of human articular chondrocytes was found to inhibit human urokinase [EC 3.4.21.31] activity. Although chondrocyte culture medium contained a small amount of endothelial-type plasminogen activator inhibitor which could be demonstrated by reverse fibri...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Yamada H,Stephens RW,Nakagawa T,McNicol D

更新日期：1988-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pseudomonas putida PpGl, which carries the CAM plasmid encoding enzymes involved in the degradation pathway of D-camphor, can utilize D-camphor as a sole carbon source. Cytochrome P-450cam and related enzymes participate in the early oxidation steps of D-camphor degradation metabolism. We cloned from a HindIII DNA lib...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Koga H,Yamaguchi E,Matsunaga K,Aramaki H,Horiuchi T

更新日期：1989-11-01 00:00:00