The heterogeneous interaction of substoichiometric TNP-ATP and F1-ATPase from Escherichia coli.

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：:Corynebacterium diphtheriae, a pathogenic Gram-positive bacterium, contains sialic acids on its cell surface, but no genes related to sialic acid decoration or metabolism have been reported in C. diphtheriae. In the present study, we have identified a putative sialidase gene, nanH, from C. diphtheriae KCTC3075 and cha...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kim S,Oh DB,Kwon O,Kang HA

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An enzyme which catalyzes the hydrolysis of acetamido groups of N-acetylglucosamine residues in cell wall peptidoglycan was found in the supernatant and 20,000 X g pellet fractions of Bacillus cereus. Autolysis of the latter fraction resulted in solubilization and activation of the deacetylase. Among various bacteria,...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Araki Y,Oba S,Araki S,Ito E

更新日期：1980-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:alphaB-Crystallin, a member of the small heat shock protein (sHSP) family, is expressed in various tissues including lens, heart, and skeletal muscle. Previously we identified the gene of HSPB2, another member of the sHSP family, located 1-kb upstream of the alphaB-crystallin gene in a head-to-head manner. In the pres...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Ijichi N,Tsujimoto N,Iwaki T,Fukumaki Y,Iwaki A

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bovine dopamine beta-monooxygenase is a tetramer consisting of two disulfide-linked dimers. To examine the role(s) of the intersubunit disulfide bonds in the protein structure and activity, the enzyme was treated with DTT at pH 7.5 and 25 degrees C under nondenaturing conditions. A 15-min incubation with 0.5 mM DTT se...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Ishida T,Narita M,Nozaki M,Horiike K

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A cysteine proteinase inhibitor (designated as cystatin SA) was isolated from human whole saliva by procedures including chromatography on DE 32 and DEAE-Sepharose CL-6B. The amino acid sequence determined by conventional methods showed sequence homology of 90 and 87% as compared with the sequences of cystatin S and c...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Isemura S,Saitoh E,Sanada K

更新日期：1987-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. The endogenous phosphorylation of mouse brain microsomes was studied using the technique of acrylamide gel electrophoresis in the presence of sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS). 2. It was found that specific proteins and lipids in brain microsomes were phosphorylated by the terminal phosphate of ATP under appropriate con...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Satomi D

更新日期：1977-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Four glycolipids (Fr. I, II, III, and IV) were isolated from whale brain and three (Fr. I, II, and III) of them were demonstrated to be galactosyl ceramide combined with fatty acid by ester linkage. Fr. IV was shown to be a monoalkyl monoacyl galactosyl glycerol. For determining the substituted position of the acyl gr...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Yasugi E,Saito E,Kasama T,Kojima H,Yamakawa T

更新日期：1982-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A method is described for the fractionation of reduced and alkylated proteins of fowl feather. Fowl feather extracts were chromatographed on a Sephadex G-75 column in 4 M urea containing 1 M NaCl and separated into four fractions, GF-1, 2, 3, and 4. The elution patterns were used to compare the components of different...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Akahane K,Murozono S,Murayama K

更新日期：1977-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We previously reported that caldesmon (CaD), together with tropomyosin (TM), effectively protects actin filaments from gelsolin, an actin-severing protein. To elucidate the structure/function relationship of CaD, we dissected the functional domain of CaD required for the protection. The basic C-terminal half of rat no...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Takiguchi K,Matsumura F

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A large COOH-terminal domain of Serratia marcescens serine protease (SSP) is essentially required for the excretion of the mature protease region through the outer membrane in Escherichia coli. For investigation of the possibility of transporting foreign periplasmic proteins by utilizing the function of the COOH-termi...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Shimada K,Ohnishi Y,Horinouchi S,Beppu T

更新日期：1994-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein tyrosine phosphatase receptor type Z (PTPRZ, also known as PTPζ or RPTPβ) is preferentially expressed in the central nervous system (CNS). PTPRZ plays important roles during development and adulthood in CNS myelination, learning and memory. Three splicing isoforms for PTPRZ have been identified to date: two re...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Fujikawa A,Chow JPH,Matsumoto M,Suzuki R,Kuboyama K,Yamamoto N,Noda M

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mannan, a ligand for the mannose/N-acetylglucosamine (GlcNAc) receptor, induces suppression of oxygen consumption and increases glucose production in the perfused rat liver, and repeated infusion of mannan causes desensitization of the responses. In this study, we examined whether activation of Kupffer cells by endoto...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kimura K,Hamada M,Moriyama M,Kannan Y,Shiota M,Sakurada K,Musashi M,Sugano T

更新日期：1996-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new multifunctional protein kinase, which normally exists as an inactive form in the soluble fraction in mammalian tissues, attaches to membranes to exhibit full enzymatic activity. A low concentration of Ca2+ is absolutely necessary for this activation. This process is reversible. cAMP shows no effect. The active f...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Takai Y,Kishimoto A,Iwasa Y,Kawahara Y,Mori T,Nishizuka Y,Tamura A,Fujii T

更新日期：1979-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present investigation was undertaken to see to what extent the alpha-amino group of the amino acid, the side chain of the amino acid of aminoacyl-tRNA, and the tRNA structure are involved in determining the affinity of aminoacyl-tRNA for bacterial elongation factor Tu-GTP complex. Various aminoacyl-tRNAs, mis-amin...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Tanada S,Kawakami M,Nishio K,Takemura S

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:G-actin freed from exogenous ATP was added to the pieces of isolated acrosomal actin bundles from horseshoe crab sperm to form filaments as reported earlier (Tilney, L.G., Bonder, E.M., & DeRosier, D.J. (1981) J. Cell Biol. 90, 485-494). The growth of a filament was far more rapid at one end (the preferred end) than t...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Mabuchi I

更新日期：1983-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immunoblotting showed that a monoclonal antibody, 3A10, binds to a series of rat brain-specific antigens with molecular masses of 150-, 120-, 118-, 106-, 104-, 79-, and 77-kDa. The expression of 3A10 antigens is dependent on the developmental stage of the brain; only the 106-kDa antigen is detected during embryonic st...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Harada A,Takeuchi K,Dohmae N,Takio K,Uenaka T,Aoki J,Inoue K,Umeda M

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Triacylglycerol lipase activities in adrenals and testes of rats were measured and the properties of the enzymes were characterized. The enzymes were extracted from acetone-ether dried powder of the tissues and the crude extracts were applied to a heparin-Sepharose affinity column. The enzymes bound to the column were...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Murase T,Yamada N,Akanuma Y,Ohsawa N

更新日期：1982-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chemical modification of gamma-carboxyglutamic acid (Gla) residues in human prothrombin to gamma-methyleneglutamic acid (gamma-MGlu) residues elicited a conformation similar, if not identical, to that of des-gamma-carboxy prothrombin or PIVKA-II, i.e., prothrombin molecules induced by vitamin K antagonists or vitamin ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Sugo T,Watanabe K,Naraki T,Matsuda M

更新日期：1990-09-01 00:00:00

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：:A novel esterase was found in Pseudomonas fluorescens cells and purified to homogeneity as determined by polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. The esterase was extracted from the cells by freeze-thawing and hypotonic treatment. Purification was achieved by ammonium sulfate precipitation, followed by successive chromatog...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Nakagawa A,Tsujita T,Okuda H

更新日期：1984-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies were performed in the rat liver to examine whether or not insulin as well as glucagon causes the induction of mitochondrial serine:pyruvate aminotransferase (SPTm) [EC 2.6.1.51] and if so, whether the mechanisms of induction are similar or different for the two hormones. Not only glucagon but also insulin indu...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Miyajima H,Oda T,Ichiyama A

更新日期：1989-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A beta-galactosidase was extracted from the internal organs of a sea squirt, Styela plicata, and purified 959-fold, with an 18% yield, by successive gel chromatography, anion-exchange chromatography, chromatofocusing, and affinity chromatography on a Con A-Sepharose column. The purified enzyme was fairly homogeneous, ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Shigeta S,Ono K,Oka S

更新日期：1991-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate the role of carboxyl groups of glucoamylases [EC 3.2.1.3] from a Rhizopus sp. (Gluc1 and Gluc2), the modification of Gluc1 and Gluc2 with a water-soluble carbodiimide, 1-cyclohexyl-3-(2-morpholinyl-(4)-ethyl)carbodiimide metho-p-toluenesulfonate (CMC), was studied. The inactivation of Gluc1 proceeded wi...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Iwama M,Ohtsuki R,Takahashi T,Irie M

更新日期：1984-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A GTP-binding protein with an Mr of 24,000 was purified from a cholate extract of bovine brain membranes in addition to the previously reported alpha beta gamma-trimeric GTP-binding proteins (G proteins). Partial amino acid sequence analysis of the purified 24-kDa protein revealed that it was not identical to any of t...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Ohoka Y,Imai S,Kozasa T,Maehama T,Takahashi K,Kaziro Y,Ui M,Katada T

更新日期：1991-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Low molecular weight RNAs were isolated from nuclei of the cellular slime mold Dictyostelium discoideum AX-3. Analysis of the RNAs by polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis showed that the vegetative cell nuclei contained, besides tRNA (Dd1), 5S RNA (Dd4), and 5.8S RNA (Dd7), at least 7 small RNA species (Dd3, Dd5, Dd6, D...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Takeishi K,Kaneda S

更新日期：1981-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two kinds of myosin phosphatases were purified from fresh chicken gizzard smooth muscle. Alkaline phosphatase (CGP-a), which requires Mg2+, was most active at pH 8.6 with 2 to 4 mM Mg2+, and was essentially the same as the phosphatase we reported previously (J. Biochem. 99, 1027-1036 (1986]. On the other hand, neutral...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Yoshida M,Yagi K

更新日期：1988-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spontaneous insertion of membrane proteins into liposomes formed from Escherichia coli polar phospholipids is blocked by diacylglycerol (DAG) at a physiological level. We found that cholesterol also blocks this spontaneous insertion, although a much larger amount is necessary for sufficient blockage. Reversely, sphing...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Nakamura S,Suzuki S,Saito H,Nishiyama KI

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The molecular structure of the active site of horse heart met-cyano cytochrome c, as a function of temperature, has been investigated using 1H-NMR. A temperature dependence study of the NMR spectra revealed that one heme methyl proton resonance exhibits anti-Curie behavior, i.e., the hyperfine shift increases with inc...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Yamamoto Y

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein H, one of the major outer membrane proteins Pseudomonas aeruginosa, shows an interesting interaction with the peptidoglycan layer of the cell. It is retained by peptidoglycan after extraction of the cell envelope with SDS solution at 35 degrees C. A protein of the same molecular weight (21,000) as protein H wa...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Mizuno T

更新日期：1979-10-01 00:00:00