Pyridine-promoted factor- and energy-free peptide synthesis systems prepared from various organisms including prokaryote, eukaryote, and mitochondria.

abstract：:The human malaria parasite (Plasmodium falciparum) possesses a plastid-derived organelle called the apicoplast, which is believed to employ metabolisms crucial for the parasite's survival. We cloned and studied the biochemical properties of plant-type ferredoxin (Fd) and Fd-NADP+ reductase (FNR), a redox system that p...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kimata-Ariga Y,Kurisu G,Kusunoki M,Aoki S,Sato D,Kobayashi T,Kita K,Horii T,Hase T

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have isolated a gene (clone Y113G7A.11) from Caenorhabditis elegans (C. elegans), that we have designated as ceST1, and which is the only member of the cytosolic sulfotransferase (SULT) gene family present in the genome of this organism. We identified the SULT motifs of ceST1 based upon their deduced amino acid seq...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Hattori K,Inoue M,Inoue T,Arai H,Tamura HO

更新日期：2006-03-01 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：:Transient and steady state kinetics were studied in the interactions of ATP with acto-H-meromyosin reconstituted from bovine arterial heavy-meromyosin (HMM) and rabbit skeletal muscle F-actin. The results showed that the rate of dissociation of the hybrid acto-HMM induced by ATP was slower than the rate of the fluores...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Takeuchi K,Tonomura Y

更新日期：1978-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The interaction between riboflavin and riboflavin binding protein (RBP) was studied by 13C-NMR spectroscopy. The 13C-NMR spectra of riboflavin selectively enriched at the 2-, 4-, 4a-, and 10a-positions and of (3-[13C]methyl)riboflavin were measured both in the free and RBP-bound forms. The 13C signals of 13C-enriched ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Miura R,Tojo H,Fujii S,Yamano T,Miyake Y

更新日期：1984-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dynamic functionality of mitochondria is maintained by continual fusion and fission events. A mitochondrial outer membrane protein Fzo1 plays a pivotal role upon mitochondrial fusion by homo-oligomerization to tether fusing mitochondria. Fzo1 is tightly regulated by ubiquitylations and the ubiquitin-responsible AAA pr...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Nahar S,Chowdhury A,Ogura T,Esaki M

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Colicin E5 cleaves tRNAs for Tyr, His, Asn and Asp in their anticodons to abolish protein synthesis in Escherichia coli. We previously showed how its C-terminal RNase domain, E5-CRD, recognizes the anticodon bases but the catalytic mechanism remained to be elucidated. Although the reaction products with 5'-OH and 2',3...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Inoue-Ito S,Yajima S,Fushinobu S,Nakamura S,Ogawa T,Hidaka M,Masaki H

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To enhance the heat stability of the CutA1 protein from Escherichia coli (EcCutA1) so that it has comparable stability to CutA1 from Pyrococcus horikoshii with a denaturation temperature (T(d)) of 150°C, we used the Stability Profile of Mutant Protein (SPMP) to examine the structure-sequence (3D-1D) compatibility betw...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Matsuura Y,Ota M,Tanaka T,Takehira M,Ogasahara K,Bagautdinov B,Kunishima N,Yutani K

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report here the molecular cloning and characterization of the Drosophila neutral ceramidase (CDase). Using the BLAST program, a neutral CDase homologue (AE003774) was found in the Drosophila GenBank and cloned from a cDNA library of Drosophila imaginal discs. The open reading frame of 2,112 nucleotides encoded a po...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Yoshimura Y,Okino N,Tani M,Ito M

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using mutant strain ABYS1 of Saccharomyces cerevisiae lacking four main vacuolar proteinases, proteinase A, proteinase B, carboxypeptidase Y, and carboxypeptidase S, we examined the identities of chromatin-associated proteinases, ruling out possible contamination of the chromatin fraction by them. The chromatin of str...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Motizuki M,Kohno H,Tsurugi K

更新日期：1988-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:E. coli bearing hybrid plasmid pKOl (Oeda et al. (1981) Mol. Gen. Genet. 184, 191-199) expressed a large amount of lysophospholipase L2 activity. When a mutant which was defective in lysophospholipase L2 activity was transformed with plasmid pKOl, it overproduced lysophospholipase L2 activity. The gene responsible for...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Homma H,Kobayashi T,Ito Y,Kudo I,Inoue K,Ikeda H,Sekiguchi M,Nojima S

更新日期：1983-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The dissociation of porcine erythrocyte catalase [EC 1.11.1.6] into subunits on denaturation with alkali, GuHCl and urea was investigated by following the changes in hydrodynamic properties, absorption and CD spectra in the Soret region and inactivation of the enzyme. It was found that dissociation proceeded in an "al...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Takeda A,Hirano K,Shiroya Y,Samejima T

更新日期：1983-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reaction center of chromatophores of Rhodospirillum rubrum consists of three kinds of protein, H-, M-, and L-subunit, and is bound with many other kinds of protein to form a larger protein complex (PRU; photoreaction unit), which contains all the bacteriochlorophyll. In the present study, purified PRU was dissociated ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Tanaka K,Kakuno T,Yamashita J,Horio T

更新日期：1983-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The interaction between n-octyl-beta-D-glucopyranoside (octyl glucoside) and bovine liver glutamate dehydrogenase (GDH) was studied using techniques including equilibrium dialysis, UV-spectrophotometry, circular dichroism (CD), fluorescence energy transfer and extrinsic spectrofluorometry in 50 mM sodium phosphate buf...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Ghobadi S,Safarian S,Moosavi-Movahedi AA,Ranjbar B

更新日期：2001-11-01 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：:Heat-stable L-lactate dehydrogenase [EC 1.1.1.27] was purified from an extremely thermophilic bacterium belonging to the genus Thermus, and it showed an allosteric nature dependent on fructose 1,6-bisphosphate as an effector. The enzyme had a molecular weight of approximately 120,000 with a subunit molecular weight of...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Taguchi H,Yamashita M,Matsuzawa H,Ohta T

更新日期：1982-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Polysialoglycoprotein (PSGP) is a major cortical alveolus glycoprotein of rainbow trout eggs that is characterized by the attachment of a polysialic acid structure to its O-glycan chains. It has been demonstrated that the polysialic acid structure is synthesized by at least three sialyltransferases mostly localized in...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Asahina S,Sato C,Kitajima K

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mitotic kinesin Eg5 plays an important physiological role in cell division. Several small-molecule inhibitors of Eg5 are the focus of cancer therapies. Azobenzene is a photochromic compound exhibiting cis-trans isomerization upon ultraviolet (UV) and visible (VIS) light irradiation. Photochromic compounds of azobenzen...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Sadakane K,Alrazi IMD,Maruta S

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:High-density lipoprotein (HDL) has been speculated to have an anti-atherogenic function. Many in vitro studies have demonstrated that HDL has the ability to remove cholesteryl ester (CE) from lipid-laden macrophages. However, the effect of alteration in chemical composition and particle diameter on the in vivo functio...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Ishigami M,Yamashita S,Sakai N,Arai T,Hirano K,Hiraoka H,Kameda-Takemura K,Matsuzawa Y

更新日期：1994-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mitochondria exhibiting cyanide-resistant respiration were isolated from Hansenula anomala which had been incubated in the presence of antimycin A to induce cyanide-resistant respiration. The cyanide-resistant respiration in isolated mitochondria was not inhibited by antimycin A or myxothiazol, suggesting that the bra...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Sakajo S,Minagawa N,Komiyama T,Yoshimoto A

更新日期：1990-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new hetero-bifunctional photo crosslinking reagent, 2-(4-azidoanilyl)-4-(4-azabicyclo-[2,2, 2]hexylammonio)-6-morpholino-1,3,5-triazine chloride, was designed to detect and isolate heparin-binding protein(s) that may act as heparin-receptor(s) on the platelet surface. In a preliminary study using ethanol as a model ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Suda Y,Mori K,Bird K,Marques D,Ormsby J,Tanaka S,Koshida S,Nakamura M,Kusumoto S,Sobel M

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tryptophan residues in ribonuclease from a Rhizopus sp. (RNase Rh) were modified by NBS, H2O2-dioxane, o-nitrophenylsulfenyl chloride (NPS-Cl) and the relation between the extent of modification and enzymatic activity was studied in each case. By extrapolation of the modified tryptophan residue-enzymatic activity curv...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Sanda A,Irie M

更新日期：1980-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Incubation of quiescent cultures of Swiss 3T3 cells with epidermal growth factor (EGF) caused an increase in c-myc mRNA. Under these conditions, EGF did not induce phosphoinositide turnover, formation of diacylglycerol, formation of inositol tris-, bis-, and monophosphates, protein kinase C activation, or Ca2+ mobiliz...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Tsuda T,Hamamori Y,Fukumoto Y,Kaibuchi K,Takai Y

更新日期：1986-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Accumulation of pyrophosphate induced by acetate administration was investigated in rat liver in situ and in perfused rat liver. Intraperitoneal injection of acetate into rats increased the pyrophosphate concentration in the liver to about 2 mumol/g liver, which was 200 times that in control liver. Perfusion of liver ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Yamada T,Inoue T,Nishida T,Furuya E,Tagawa K

更新日期：1988-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Administration of an excessive dose of Bacillus subtilis alpha-amylase [EC 3.2.1.1, alpha-1,4-glucan 4-glucanohydrolase] (BalphaA) induced the production of non-precipitating (non-ppt) IgG2 antibody in guinea pigs, whereas immunization with a normal dose produced precipitating (ppt) IgG1 and IgG2 antibodies. The non-p...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Mori N,Nakamura T,Koyama J

更新日期：1977-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lipoamide dehydrogenase (LADase) was purified to homogeneity from rat liver mitochondria, and the intracellular distribution and biosynthesis of the LADase were investigated with antibody prepared against the purified enzyme. 1) LADase activity was mostly found in mitochondria; the activity in cytosol was about one-te...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Matuda S,Saheki T

更新日期：1982-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The plant hormone ethylene is generated from a unique precursor, 1-aminocyclopropane-1-carboxylate (ACC). In previous studies, ACC deaminase, which degrades ACC to alpha-ketobutyrate and ammonia, was found in four strains of Pseudomonas, characterized, and sequenced. To verify the wider distribution of ACC deaminase i...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Minami R,Uchiyama K,Murakami T,Kawai J,Mikami K,Yamada T,Yokoi D,Ito H,Matsui H,Honma M

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genomic clones encoding the Drosophila aldolase gene were isolated and the organization of the gene was determined. The protein-coding region spanning nearly 3.5 kb consists of five coding exons (exon 2, 3, 4 alpha, 4 beta, and 4 gamma). The insect exon 2 corresponds to exons 2 to 7 of vertebrate aldolase genes and th...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kai T,Sugimoto Y,Kusakabe T,Zhang R,Koga K,Hori K

更新日期：1992-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Micromolar levels of free calcium ions added to the extracellular medium elicit secretion of serotonin from electropermeabilized bovine platelets in the presence of millimolar levels of Mg-ATP. Such Ca2(+)-dependent secretion of serotonin was almost completely impaired when the permeabilized platelets were preincubate...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Morimoto T,Oho C,Ueda M,Ogihara S,Takisawa H

更新日期：1990-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new sulfated polysaccharide was isolated from the culture supernatant of a strain of Arthrobacter sp. The polysaccharide purified with quaternary ammonium salts consists of D-galactose, D-glucose, sulfate, phosphorus, glucosamine, muramic acid, alanine, glutamic acid, glycine, and LL-diaminopimelic acid in a molar r...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Inoue K,Korenaga H,Kadoya S

更新日期：1982-12-01 00:00:00