Calcium ion-dependent reactivation of a Pseudomonas lipase by its specific modulating protein, LipB.

abstract：:We investigated the effects of aging and denervation on the gene expression of uncoupling proteins (UCPs) in slow-twitch soleus and fast-twitch gastrocnemius muscles. In a comparison between the control limbs of 6- and 24-month-old rats, the mRNA levels of UCP3, heart-type fatty acid binding protein (HFABP), and gluco...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kontani Y,Wang Z,Furuyama T,Sato Y,Mori N,Yamashita H

更新日期：2002-08-01 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：:We found that the glucitol concentration was extraordinarily high in bovine fetal serum, which is routinely used for cell culture in laboratories: it was as much as two orders of magnitude higher than that reported for human adult serum. We also confirmed that the serum glucitol concentration in new born babies was on...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Mizuno H,Akanuma H

更新日期：1993-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate the fine substrate specificities of four highly purified exo-type cellulases (Exo-A from Aspergillus niger, CBHI and CBHII from Trichoderma reesei, and Ex-1 from Irpex lacteus), water-soluble substrates such as barley glucan, xyloglucan from tamarind (Tamarindus indica L.), and their oligosaccharides we...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Amano Y,Shiroishi M,Nisizawa K,Hoshino E,Kanda T

更新日期：1996-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aberrant DNA methylation is a common form of epigenetic alterations and it has been proved to be closely related to many cancers, while its role in epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR)-mutated non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) is not clear. This study focuses on the role of DNA methyltransferase 1 (DNMT1) in EGFR-...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Wu XY,Chen HC,Li WW,Yan JD,Lv RY

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The flagellar motor is composed of the stator and the rotor, and the interaction between the stator and the rotor at the cytoplasmic region is believed to produce mechanical force for the rotation of flagella. The periplasmic region of the stator has been proposed to play an important role in assembly around and incor...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Hizukuri Y,Kojima S,Homma M

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:c-Abl non-receptor tyrosine kinase has been implicated in many cellular processes including cell differentiation, stress response and regulating gene transcription. The mechanism by which c-Abl is involved in the regulation of gene transcription remains to be elucidated. In this study, we investigated the functions of...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Jing Y,Wang M,Tang W,Qi T,Gu C,Hao S,Zeng X

更新日期：2007-05-01 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：:Two G-protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) that couple with Gαq/11, B2 bradykinin (BK) receptor (B2R) and ATP/UTP receptor P2Y2 (P2Y2R), are ubiquitously expressed and responsible for vascular tone, inflammation, and pain. We analysed the cellular signalling of P2Y2Rs in cells that express B2Rs. B2R desensitization induc...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Yashima S,Shimazaki A,Mitoma J,Nakagawa T,Abe M,Yamada H,Higashi H

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The steric course of the enoyl reduction catalyzed by fatty acid synthetase was investigated with the enzymes from bakers' yeast, rat liver and Brevibacterium ammoniagenes. The non-enzymic hydrogen-deuterium exchange of the methylene group of malonyl-CoA was studied by NMR spectroscopy. The half-life period of the met...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Saito K,Kawaguchi A,Seyama Y,Yamakawa T,Okuda S

更新日期：1981-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Site-directed mutagenesis studies of recombinant Trimeresurus flavoviridis venom gland phospholipase A2 (PLA2) showed that the Asn residue at position 67 takes part in recognition of the substrate 2-arachidonoyl sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine in both monomeric and micellar states. The amount of arachidonate released from...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Ogawa T,Shimohigashi Y,Ohno M

更新日期：1997-11-01 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：:It has been found in the brush border membrane vesicles from porcine small intestine that valinomycin causes vesicle aggregation and that Ca2+-induced aggregation of the vesicles is saturably stimulated in the presence of valinomycin. The apparent half-maximal concentration of valinomycin required to enhance the Ca2+ ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Ohyashiki T,Kodera M,Mohri T

更新日期：1984-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Midkine (MK) is a 13-kDa heparin-binding growth/differentiation factor, and its interaction with heparan sulfate proteoglycan is important in promotion of neurite outgrowth. This study was performed to reveal the species of syndecans that interact with MK during embryogenesis of the central nervous system in the rat. ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Nakanishi T,Kadomatsu K,Okamoto T,Ichihara-Tanaka K,Kojima T,Saito H,Tomoda Y,Muramatsu T

更新日期：1997-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chalcone synthase was purified to homogeneity by polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis from cell suspension cultures of carrot in which anthocyanin synthesis was induced by transferring the cells from a medium containing 2,4-dichlorophenoxy-acetic acid (2,4-D) to one lacking it. A molecular weight of 80,000-85,000 for th...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Ozeki Y,Sakano K,Komamine A,Tanaka Y,Noguchi H,Sankawa U,Suzuki T

更新日期：1985-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. Glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenases [EC 1.2.1.12] from rabbit, pig, lobster, yeast, E. coli, and B. stearothermophilus have been subjected to hybridization in 3M NaCL. 2. Suitable mixtures of electrophoretically distinct glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenases were found to give five-membered by electrophor...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Suzuki K,Harris JI

更新日期：1975-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cDNA of a novel protein, which contains the association domain of alpha isoform of calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II (CaM-kinase II alpha), was cloned from rat skeletal muscle. This protein, called alpha KAP, consisted of 200 amino acid residues with a molecular weight of 22,583. alpha KAP has a highly hydrop...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Sugai R,Takeuchi M,Okuno S,Fujisawa H

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have cloned a chitinase cDNA (MpChi-1) from plantain (Musa paradisiacal L) using rapid amplification of cDNA ends (RACE) according to a sequence fragment which we had cloned using the suppression subtractive hybridization (SSH) technique. The MpChi-1 encodes a protein of 326 amino acids and belongs to acidic chitin...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Fan J,Wang H,Feng D,Liu B,Liu H,Wang J

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatic peroxisomes and mitochondria from 20-day-old chick embryo were separated by sucrose density gradient centrifugation and the characteristics of carnitine acyltransferases in these organelles were studied. The carnitine acyltransferase activities in peroxisomes were increased markedly by the treatment of chick e...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Ishii S,Ishii H,Suga T

更新日期：1985-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:3-Ketovalidoxylamine A C-N lyase was purified about 900-fold from the cell-free extract of Flavobacterium saccharophilum by ammonium sulfate fractionation, column chromatography on CM cellulose and gel filtration on Sephacryl S-200. The purified enzyme was homogeneous as judged by sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS) polyacry...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Takeuchi M,Asano N,Kameda Y,Matsui K

更新日期：1985-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We previously identified a human cDNA encoding a novel receptor tyrosine kinase, termed Sky, which is predominantly expressed in the brain and has a unique extracellular domain consisting of two immunoglobulin (Ig)-like and two fibronectin type III (FN III) motifs. In attempts to define the functional role of the Sky ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Ohashi K,Honda S,Ichinomiya N,Nakamura T,Mizuno K

更新日期：1995-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Guanosine 3',5'-monophosphate (cyclic GMP)-dependent protein kinase purified from silkworm pupae reacts with rat liver ribosomal proteins when a stimulatory modulator (Kuo, W.N. & Kuo, J.F. 1976) J. Biol. Chem. 251, 4283-4286) is added to the reaction mixture. Judging from autoradiogram of the radioactive proteins sep...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Chihara-Nakashima M,Hashimoto E,Nishizuka Y

更新日期：1977-06-01 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：: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：:Rabbit antibodies against cytochrome P-450 (SCC), P-450 (11 beta), and P-450 (C-21) from bovine adrenal cortex were prepared, and it was confirmed that these three cytochrome P-450 species are immunologically distinct from one another. Cytoplasmic sites of synthesis of P-450 (SCC), P-450 (11 beta), and P-450 (C-21) in...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Nabi N,Kominami S,Takemori S,Omura T

更新日期：1983-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A p-nitrophenyl-alpha-D-glucopyranoside-hydrolyzing alpha-glucosidase from an obligate thermophile, Bacillus thermoglucosidius KP 1006, gave a triphasic relationship at pH 6.8 in the van't Hoff plot of Km, in the Arrhenius plot of the first order rate constant of inactivation with 0.1% sodium dodecyl sulfate, and in t...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Suzuki Y,Nakamura N,Kishigami T,Abe S

更新日期：1980-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rp-cAMPS, the Rp-diastereomer of adenosine 3',5'-phosphorothioate, is often referred to as a cAMP antagonist, since it binds to the regulatory subunit of cAMP-dependent protein kinase without dissociation of free catalytic subunits. To evaluate the role of cAMP-dependent protein kinase in amylase exocytosis, we examin...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Takuma T,Ichida T

更新日期：1991-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cation specificity and effects of pH and temperature on membrane aggregation of porcine intestinal brush borders were studied in terms of the turbidity change of the membrane suspensions due to the addition of polyvalent cations. Monovalent cations (K+ and Na+) did not induce the membrane aggregation at 5 mM or below....

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Ohyashiki T,Takeuchi M,Mohri T

更新日期：1984-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A novel fucose-containing neutral glycosphingolipid (GL-5) was purified from the eggs of the sea urchin, Hemicentrotus pulcherrimus. The chemical structure was determined to be Fuc alpha 1-3GalNAc beta 1-4(Fuc alpha 1-3)GlcNAc beta 1-4Glc beta 1-1Cer by methylation analysis, partial acid hydrolysis, fast atom bombardm...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kubo H,Jiang GJ,Irie A,Suzuki M,Inagaki F,Hoshi M

更新日期：1992-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Autotaxin (ATX) is an ecto-enzyme responsible for lysophosphatidic acid (LPA) production in blood. ATX is present in various biological fluids such as cerebrospinal and seminal fluids and accounts for bulk LPA production in these fluids. ATX is a member of the nucleotide pyrophosphatase/phosphodiesterase (NPP) family ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Nakanaga K,Hama K,Aoki J

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00