Aspartate aminotransferase from an alkalophilic Bacillus contains an additional 20-amino acid extension at its functionally important N-terminus.

abstract：:Interaction between protein and phospholipid molecules in sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR) was studied by measurement of the conformational fluctuation of the protein using the kinetics of the hydrogen-deuterium exchange reaction. It was revealed that the state of SR ATPase undergoes a phase transition at about 18 degrees ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kirino Y,Anzai K,Shimizu H,Ohta S,Nakanishi M,Tsuboi M

更新日期：1977-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hydrostatic pressure-induced morphological and physiochemical changes in monomeric myosin were investigated. The turbidity of a myosin solution increased after release of pressure, indicating aggregation of the molecules. Some molecules were single headed after exposure to 100-200 MPa, in contrast with an intact molec...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Yamamoto K,Yoshida Y,Morita J,Yasui T

更新日期：1994-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined the effect of porcine brain Ca2+-dependent regulator (CDR) protein on microtubule (MT) assembly from microtubular proteins isolated from porcine brain by temperature-dependent cycles of assembly-disassembly. CDR exhibited a potent inhibitory effect on MT assembly in the presence of Ca2+, whereas it had lit...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Nishida E,Kumagai H,Ohtsuki I,Sakai H

更新日期：1979-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of pH on the thermodynamic properties of the proton-translocating cyclic electron transfer system in a purple photosynthetic bacterium Chromatium vinosum were studied. Two thermodynamic parameters, the flux (Je) and force (deltamue) of the electron transfer process, were analyzed. The rate of electron tran...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Arata H,Nishimura M

更新日期：1979-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thioredoxin 1 (Trx1) is known to play an important role in protecting against cell death. However, the mechanism for control of Trx1 in cell death resulting from DNA damage has not been fully investigated. In this study, we used the DNA-damaging agent methyl methanesulfonate (MMS) to investigate the protective effects...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Gu L,Gao W,Yang HM,Wang BB,Wang XN,Xu J,Zhang H

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The stalk protein L12 is the only multiple component in 50S ribosomal subunit. In Escherichia coli, two L12 dimers bind to the C-terminal domain of L10 to form a pentameric complex, L10[(L12)(2)](2), while the recent X-ray crystallographic study and tandem MS analyses revealed the presence of a heptameric complex, L10...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Nomura T,Nakatsuchi M,Sugita D,Nomura M,Kaminishi T,Takemoto C,Shirouzu M,Miyoshi T,Yokoyama S,Hachimori A,Uchiumi T

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An improved procedure for the purification of a lipid-containing acidophilic thermophilic bacteriophage, phiNS11, is described. The procedure involves Cs2SO4 discontinuous density gradient, Cs2SO4 equilibrium density gradient and sucrose gradient centrifugations. The phage has an icosahedral shape, 75 nm in diameter, ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Sakaki Y,Yamada K,Oshima M,Oshima T

更新日期：1977-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to determine whether ATP-sensitive potassium channel (K(ATP) channel) activation generates oxygen free radicals in the rabbit heart. We assayed malondialdehyde (MDA) in rabbit heart slices in vitro as an indicator of oxygen free radical generation. The K(ATP) channel openers, pinacidil an...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Han J,Kim N,Park J,Seog DH,Joo H,Kim E

更新日期：2002-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have found that arachidonic (20 : 4) acid is indetectable in phosphatidylinositol and diacyglycerol extracted from Drosophila heads. After careful examinations of the lipid extraction processes and fatty acid detection system (gas-liquid chromatography), we excluded the possibility of the oxidation of polyunsaturat...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Yoshioka T,Inoue H,Kasama T,Seyama Y,Nakashima S,Nozawa Y,Hotta Y

更新日期：1985-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phospholipase A2 inhibitor (PLI) was purified from the blood plasma of Chinese Mamushi, Agkistrodon blomhoffii siniticus, by sequential chromatography on Sephadex G-200, Mono Q, and Blue-Sepharose CL-6B columns. The purified PLI was a glycoprotein with an apparent molecular mass of 75 kDa and was composed of a single ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Ohkura N,Inoue S,Ikeda K,Hayashi K

更新日期：1993-04-01 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：:Phosphoenolpyruvate (PEP) carboxylase [EC 4.1.1.31] of E. coli was inactivated by 2,4,6-trinitrobenzene sulfonate (TNBS), a reagent known to attack amino groups in polypeptides. When the modified enzyme was hydrolyzed with acid, epsilon-trinitrophenyl lysine (TNP-lysine) was identified as a product. Close similarity o...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Naide A,Izui K,Yoshinaga T,Katsuki H

更新日期：1979-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. The distribution of ribosomal protein S1 in subcellular fractions of E. coli was determined by radioimmunoassay. It was found that about 70%, 20% and 10% of protein S1 were present in the high salt (1.0 M NH4Cl)-washed ribosomes, the ribosomal wash and the S100 fraction, respectively. 2. Protein S1 was purified fro...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Yokota T,Arai K,Kaziro Y

更新日期：1979-12-01 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：:Microbacterium sp. M874 produced a glyceroglycolipid, di-O-12-methyl-tetradecanoyl-3-O-beta-D-galactopyranosyl-sn-glycerol, at about the 50 microM level. Though the strain was highly resistant to tertiary-butyl hydroperoxide (tBHP) in a glycolipid-productive medium, the resistance was reduced in a nonproductive medium...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Nakata K

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A method is described for the preparation of a monomeric Fab'-beta-D-galactosidase conjugate, which is required for the development of a sensitive immunoenzymometric assay. Anti-human IgG F(ab')2 was labeled with 2,4-dinitrophenyl groups, split into Fab' by reduction and reacted with excess maleimide groups which had ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Imagawa M,Hashida S,Ishikawa E,Freytag JW

更新日期：1984-12-01 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：:1. As a part of studies on the mechanism by which catecholamines are released from the nerve terminals, the synaptic vesicle fraction was isolated from bovine caudatolenticular nuclei and thalamus by differential centrifugation essentially according to the method of Kadota and Kadota (17). 2. Further centrifugation on...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Tsudzuki T,Fujii T,Tanaka R

更新日期：1977-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In sea urchin embryos, primary mesenchyme cells, descendants from micromeres produced at the 16-cell stage, form spicules or CaCO3 deposits in their skeletal vacuoles, at the post-gastrula stage. Micromeres isolated at the 16-cell stage also differentiate into spicule-forming cells during their culture at the same tim...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Mitsunaga K,Fujino Y,Yasumasu I

更新日期：1986-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many membrane proteins such as ion channels are oligomers, but the determinants of the degree of oligomerization are not fully understood. Mechanosensitive channel with large conductance (MscL), which is ubiquitous in bacteria, is a homopentamer with two transmembrane helices and a cytoplasmic helix in each subunit. T...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Ando C,Liu N,Yoshimura K

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gram-positive thermophilic Bacillus species contain cytochrome caa3-type cytochrome c oxidase as their main terminal oxidase in the respiratory chain. To identify alternative oxidases, we isolated several mutants from B. stearothermophilus defective in the caa3-type oxidase activity [Sakamoto, J. et al (1996) FEMS Mic...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Sakamoto J,Handa Y,Sone N

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The active site of thermolysin is composed of one zinc ion and five polypeptide regions [N-terminal sheet (Asn112-Trp115), alpha-helix 1 (Val139-Thr149), C-terminal loop 1 (Asp150-Gly162), alpha-helix 2 (Ala163-Val176) and C-terminal loop 2 (Gln225-Ser234)]. To explore their catalytic roles, we introduced single amino...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kusano M,Yasukawa K,Inouye K

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hyperthermophilic bacteria Thermotoga maritima and Thermotoga hypogea produce ethanol as a metabolic end product, which is resulted from acetaldehyde reduction catalysed by an alcohol dehydrogenase (ADH). However, the enzyme that is involved in the production of acetaldehyde from pyruvate is not well characterized. An...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Eram MS,Wong A,Oduaran E,Ma K

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:After screening 900 E. coli strains of the Clarke and Carbon collection for by lysophospholipase L1 activities, we isolated a clone bearing the plasmid pLC6-34, which showed an increased level of lysophospholipase L1 activity. Strains bearing the plasmid pC124, a subclone of pLC6-34 in plasmid vector pUC8, showed appr...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Karasawa K,Kudo I,Kobayashi T,Homma H,Chiba N,Mizushima H,Inoue K,Nojima S

更新日期：1991-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When the membrane fraction of Saccharomyces carlsbergensis was incubated with radiolabeled isopentenyl diphosphate in the presence of farnesyl diphosphate and Mg2+, phosphorylated and free long-chain polyprenols were formed. The reaction was inhibited by EDTA and heavy metal cations. A series of non-ionic detergents w...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Bukhtiyarov YE,Shabalin YA,Kulaev IS

更新日期：1993-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Site-specific recognition and DNA-binding activity of p53 are crucial for its tumour suppressor function. Previous reports have shown that metal ions can affect the specific recognition and DNA-binding activity of p53DBD. Here we firstly report that magnesium ion can bind to the protein and influence its DNA-binding a...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Xue Y,Wang S,Feng X

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The assembly of newly synthesized histones into chromatin during replication of MH-134SC cells was studied. Cells pulse-labeled with iododeoxyuridine and [3H]lysine were mixed with an equivalent number of normal cells labeled with [14C]lysine. Nuclease chromatin obtained from pooled cells was fractionated by buoyant-d...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Senshu T,Fukuda M,Ohashi M

更新日期：1978-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mouse epidermal growth factor (EGF) was covalently conjugated with the water-soluble polymer, poly(acrylic acid) (EGF-PAA), or with the water-insoluble polymer, surface-hydrolyzed poly(methyl methacrylate) (EGF-PMMA). Immobilized EGF (EGF-PMMA) stimulated DNA synthesis in Chinese hamster ovary cells overexpressing EGF...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Ito Y,Li JS,Takahashi T,Imanishi Y,Okabayashi Y,Kido Y,Kasuga M

更新日期：1997-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Monoclonal antibodies were raised against a synthetic peptide (43 amino acid residues) that corresponds to the complete profragment of human prorenin. Seven monoclonal antibodies were chosen for further characterization. Two antibodies, 2-X-C1 and 4-X-E1, reacted with the middle region and C-terminus of the profragmen...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Ishizuka Y,Iizumi S,Akiyama F,Hori H,Poorman RA,Lobl TJ,Murakami K

更新日期：1989-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:ADAMTS13 is the metalloprotease responsible for the proteolytic degradation of von Willebrand factor (VWF). A severe deficiency of this VWF-cleaving protease activity causes thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura. This protease, comprising 1,427 amino acid residues, is composed of multiple domains, i.e., a preproregion, ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Soejima K,Nakamura H,Hirashima M,Morikawa W,Nozaki C,Nakagaki T

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00