Purification and characterization of a nuclear pore glycoprotein complex containing p62.

abstract：:To improve our understanding of the physiological roles of parvalbumins, PA-1 (pI 4.78) and PA-2 (pI 4.97) parvalbumins were prepared from bullfrog skeletal muscle and their calcium binding properties were examined in a medium of constant ionic strength (I = 0.106, pH 6.80, at 20 degrees C) containing various concentr...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Ogawa Y,Tanokura M

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The interactions of porcine alpha2-macroglobulin (alpha2M) with native proteinases, their zymogens and the chemically-modified enzymes were compared. The alpha2M did not bind to chymotrypsinogen, or to most of the chemically modified derivatives of alpha-chymotrypsin, trypsinogen, DIP- and PMS-trypsins, but it could i...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Tsuru D,Kado K,Fujiwara K,Tmimatsu M,Ogita K

更新日期：1978-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have purified L-kynurenine 3-monooxygenase from pig liver mitochondria using a procedure involving seven steps composed of (1) preparation of mitochondrial outer membrane, (2) preparation of the zwitterionic detergent, 3-[(3-cholamidopropyl)dimethylammonio]-1-propane sulfonate (Chaps) insoluble outer membrane mater...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Uemura T,Hirai K

更新日期：1998-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A method for preparation of pyridylamino (PA-) derivatives of O-linked sugar chains from glycoproteins was developed. A glycopeptide containing O-linked Gal beta 1-3GalNAc was prepared from fetuin and treated with anhydrous hydrazine followed by N-acetylation of free amino groups. Sugar chains released were pyridylami...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kuraya N,Hase S

更新日期：1992-07-01 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：:The experimental conditions for release of the regulatory light chain (RLC) of scallop myosin at 30 degrees C were studied. Substantially all RLC was released from myosin by incubation for 5 min in medium containing buffer and KCl. This release of RLC was inhibited strongly by Ca2+, while the effect of Mg2+ was about ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Asakawa T,Azuma N

更新日期：1983-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Photoaffinity labeling with [3H]cytochalasin B detects two D-glucose-sensitive proteins in the chicken embryo fibroblast (CEF) plasma membrane, which accumulate under conditions of glucose starvation and are probably involved in the glucose transport system (Pessin, J.E., et al. (1982) Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S. 79, ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Ishii T,Tillotson LG,Isselbacher KJ

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:By the application of a ganglioside-mapping technique, the lipid composition of bovine thyroid was analyzed systematically. The contents of cholesterol, lipid-bound phosphorus and lipid-bound sialic acid in bovine thyroid were 5.10, 9.76, and 0.28 mumol/g of dry tissue, respectively, and the molar ratio of cholesterol...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Iwamori M,Sawada K,Hara Y,Nishio M,Fujisawa T,Imura H,Nagai Y

更新日期：1982-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serum at 5 to 10% is required for maintenance of functional adult rat hepatocytes in primary culture. One effect of the serum is to induce attachment and spreading of hepatocytes on plates as monolayers. Another role is to maintain cell viability for over 2 days. For the first effect, serum could be replaced completel...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Horiuti Y,Nakamura T,Ichihara A

更新日期：1982-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The phosphomannomutase/phosphoglucomutase (PMM/PGM) enzyme catalyzes reversibly the intra-molecular phosphoryl interconverting reaction of mannose-6-phosphate and mannose-1-phosphate or glucose-6-phosphate and glucose-1-phosphate. Glucose-6-phosphate and glucose-1-phosphate are known to be utilized for energy metaboli...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Akutsu J,Zhang Z,Tsujimura M,Sasaki M,Yohda M,Kawarabayasi Y

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is well established that promyelocytic leukaemia nuclear bodies (PML NBs) play important roles in DNA damage responses (DDR). After irradiation, PML NBs dynamically recruit or release important proteins involved in cell-cycle regulation, DNA repair and apoptosis. As PML protein is the key molecule of PML NBs' dynam...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Liu J,Song Y,Tian B,Qian J,Dong Y,Liu J,Liu B,Sun Z

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Palmitoyl CoA inhibited EDTA-ATPase of heavy meromyosin (HMM) prepared from rabbit skeletal muscle. The concentration for half maximum inhibition of EDTA-ATPase was about 18 microM. Myristoyl CoA, the other long chain fatty acyl CoA, also inhibited EDTA-HMM ATPase, but CoA and short chain CoA thioesters, such as butyr...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Fujiwara A,Fujisaki H,Asai H,Yasumasu I

更新日期：1981-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We reported previously competitive panning elution with PBS (pH 7.0) that contains HM-1 killer toxin (HM-1) and Candida albicans membrane fraction (CaMF) to release phages bound with CaMF as an antigen. Here, as an alternative strategy, we isolated high-binding affinity recombinant single-chain fragment variables (scF...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Krishnaswamy S,Kabir ME,Miyamoto M,Furuichi Y,Komiyama T

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:MutM protein, which removes the oxidatively damaged DNA base product, 8-oxoguanine (GO), has been crystallized by means of a hanging-drop vapor-diffusion procedure using polyethyleneglycol monomethylether 2000 as a precipitant in 2-(cyclohexylamino) ethanesulfonic acid (CHES) buffer, pH 9.8. The diffraction data deriv...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Sugahara M,Mikawa T,Kato R,Fukuyama K,Kumasaka T,Yamamoto M,Inoue Y,Kuramitsu S

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The amino acid sequences of human histones have been investigated for studies of histone evolution. The whole histone was prepared from human spleen and was separated into 3 fractions, H4+H3+H2A, H2B, and H1, by our technique of CM-cellulose chromatography. The H2B fraction was further purified by Bio-Gel P-60 chromat...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Ohe Y,Hayashi H,Iwai K

更新日期：1979-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new pathway of NAD+ synthesis from anthranilic acid was found in the livers of rats. Starting from [carboxyl-14C]anthranilic acid, radioactive NAD+ and NADP+ were produced as judged by Dowex-1 X 8-formate column chromatography followed by radiochromatography. Several intermediate compounds, such as quinolinic acid, ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Ueda T,Otsuka H,Goda K,Ishiguro I,Naito J,Kotake Y

更新日期：1978-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Association of sulphatide with influenza A virus (IAV) haemagglutinin (HA) delivered to the cell surface promotes progeny virus production. However, it is not known whether there is direct binding of HA to sulphatide. In this study, we found that recombinant HA, which was produced by a baculovirus protein expression s...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Takahashi T,Satoh H,Takaguchi M,Takafuji S,Yokoyama H,Fujii S,Suzuki T

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of thiols on the activation and/or stabilization of rat brain nitric oxide synthase (NOS) has been investigated. It was found that thiols are not necessary for stabilizing or protecting the protein during purification but are required during enzyme turnover for maximum activity. In the complete absence of thi...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Komori Y,Hyun J,Chiang K,Fukuto JM

更新日期：1995-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glucuronolactone reductase [EC 1.1.1.20] from rat kidney was purified over 300-fold by ammonium sulfate fractionation, chromatography on DEAE-cellulose and hydroxylapatite columns, and preparative isoelectric focusing. The substrate specificity of the enzyme in the reduction reaction was broad, and hexuronic acid was ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Hayashi S,Watanabe M,Kimura A

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A number of L-amino acids and derivatives were tested as substrates for the purified Pseudomonas L-phenylalanine oxidase. The reaction products of these amino acids were analyzed by high performance liquid chromatography and the kinetic properties of the reactions were partially characterized. In addition to L-phenyla...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Koyama H

更新日期：1984-08-01 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：:We report a strategy for generating efficient signal transduction with unnatural heterologous receptor combinations. As previously described [Ueda, H., Kawahara, M. et al. (2000) J. Immunol. Methods 241, 159-170], chimeric receptors composed of the V(H)/V(L) domains of anti-hen egg lysozyme antibody HyHEL-10 and N-ter...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kawahara M,Ueda H,Tsumoto K,Kumagai I,Mahoney W,Nagamune T

更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Proteoheteroglycan (PHG) was prepared from Neurospora crassa cells by extraction with hot water followed by cetyltrimethylammoniumbromide fractionation. The polymer was purified by DEAE-cellulose chromatography followed by gel filtrations. The PHG was fractionated into five subfractions containing carbohydrate (65-88%...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Nakajima T,Yoshida M,Hiura N,Matsuda K

更新日期：1984-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The dopamine (DA)-translocating mechanism of synaptic vesicles isolated from rat brain has been studied in the presence of an artificially imposed delta pH on the vesicle membranes (acidic inside with respect to the external medium) without the aid of ATP-Mg2+. Under the experimental conditions, [3H]DA uptake by the s...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Tsudzuki T

更新日期：1984-06-01 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：:Pure bovine rhodopsin pellets were prepared by removal of cholic acid from rhodopsin-cholic acid complex, and X-ray diffraction patterns from the internal structure of rhodopsin were obtained for the first time using wet and dry pellet samples. The peaks at around 10 and 4.3 A spacings observed for both samples can be...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kawaguchi T,Hamanaka T,Kito Y

更新日期：1996-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We generated and characterized novel antibodies specific for a cleavage site of human caspase-8/FLICE and its substrate, FLICE-like inhibitory protein (FLIP). The synthetic peptides used as immunogens were CQGDNYQKGIPVETD (#791) and VSEGQLEDSSLLEVD (#1342), which corresponded to cleaved regions of N-terminal fragments...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Niikura Y,Nonaka T,Imajoh-Ohmi S

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The degranulation reactions of human neutrophils induced by 1-oleoyl-2-acetylglycerol (OAG), phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate (PMA), and calcium ionophore A23187 or their combinations, were studied. OAG in the absence of the Ca2+-ionophore A23187 stimulated the releases of both lysozyme and lactoferrin, constituents of...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kang D,Tsuda H,Takeshige K,Shibata Y,Minakami S

更新日期：1985-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A continuous cell-free protein synthesis system [Spirin et al. (1988) Science 242, 1162-1164] was modified so as to be suitable for coupled transcription-translation, a process useful for obtaining products of cloned genes or cDNAs. A reaction chamber equipped with an ultrafiltration membrane was newly designed and an...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kigawa T,Yokoyama S

更新日期：1991-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The association constants of hen egg yolk riboflavin binding protein with 8-substituted riboflavins were measured using a fluorometric titration method in the range of 10-40 degrees C, and thermodynamic parameters were calculated using ordinary methods. The flavins used were riboflavins whose 8-methyl group was substi...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Matsui K,Sugimoto K,Kasai S

更新日期：1982-04-01 00:00:00