abstract：:In our recent study on monoclonal antibodies (mAbs AHA-1-5) against glutaraldehyde (GA)-conjugated histamine (HA), we identified one mAb (AHA-2) which can detect neuronal HA in the rat brain with an immunocytochemistry method (ICC) [Fujiwara et al. (1999) J. Biochem. 126, 503-509]. In the present study the specificity...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Fujiwara K,Murata I,Yagisawa S,Tanabe T,Yabuuchi M,Sakakibara R,Tsuru D

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ras is a signal-transducing, guanine nucleotide-binding protein for various membrane receptors including tyrosine kinase receptors. Ras participates in the regulation of cell proliferation, differentiation, and morphology. Activated ras oncogenes have been identified in various forms of human cancer including epitheli...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Yamamoto T,Taya S,Kaibuchi K

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We recently demonstrated, using synthetic peptides modeled on the extension peptide of malate dehydrogenase, that amino acid residues present at the proximal and distal positions relative to the cleavage site are critical determinants for the recognition of substrates by mitochondrial processing peptidase [Niidome et ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Moriwaki K,Ogishima T,Ito A

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The whole-genome sequencing of an extreme thermophile, Thermus thermophilus, is now in progress. Like other genome projects, major concern is shifting from the sequence itself to post-sequencing research such as functional or structural genomics. Under such circumstances, the demand for convenient genetic-engineering ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Hoseki J,Yano T,Koyama Y,Kuramitsu S,Kagamiyama H

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The direct ion-dipolar interactions between potassium ion (K(+)) and the two hydroxyl groups of the substrate are the most striking feature of the crystal structure of coenzyme B(12)-dependent diol dehydratase. We carried out density-functional-theory computations to determine whether K(+) can assist the 1,2-shift of ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Toraya T,Yoshizawa K,Eda M,Yamabe T

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although the depletion of reduced glutathione (GSH) has been observed in a variety of apoptotic systems, little is known about the mechanism of GSH depletion. In this study we used polarized MDCK cells to study the GSH flux during ricin-induced apoptosis. Here we report that the specific accumulation of GSH occurred i...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Oda T,Sadakata N,Komatsu N,Muramatsu T

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Regulation of the enzymatic activity of heterotrimeric smooth muscle myosin phosphatase (SMMP) by MgATP was examined using phosphorylated myosin (P-myosin), heavy meromyosin (P-HMM), subfragment-1 (P-S1), and 20 kDa myosin light chain (P-MLC(20)) as substrates. The activity toward P-myosin and P-HMM was dose-dependent...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Sato O,Ogawa Y

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The promoter -10 binding region of the Bacillus subtilis sigma(A) factor forms an amphiphilic alpha-helix with three conserved isoleucines located at four-residue intervals. To investigate the structural and functional roles of the three isoleucine residues, we constructed a series of sigA mutants with single and doub...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Liao CT,Wang WH,Yang HS,Chen JP,Chang BY

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:beta-Glycosidase from the extreme thermophilic archaeon Sulfolobus solfataricus is a tetrameric protein with a molecular mass of 240 kDa, stable in the presence of detergents, and with a maximal activity at temperatures above 95 degrees C. Understanding the structure-activity relationships of the enzyme under differen...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： D'Auria S,Nucci R,Rossi M,Bertoli E,Tanfani F,Gryczynski I,Malak H,Lakowicz JR

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Steroid monooxygenase of Rhodococcus rhodochrous is a Baeyer-Villigerase catalyzing the insertion of an oxygen atom between the C(17)- and C(20)-carbons of progesterone to produce testosterone acetate. The 5.1-kbp-long BamHI DNA fragment containing the steroid monooxygenase gene, smo, was cloned from the chromosomal D...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Morii S,Sawamoto S,Yamauchi Y,Miyamoto M,Iwami M,Itagaki E

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The enzymatic properties of novel cysteine proteases D3-alpha and beta which were purified from germinating soybean cotyledons were investigated. The enzyme activities were exhibited in the presence of a thiol reagent, such as 2-mercaptoethanol, and apparently inhibited by E-64, a cysteine protease inhibitor. Hydrolyt...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Asano M,Suzuki S,Kawai M,Miwa T,Shibai H

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Telomerase is a unique reverse transcriptase involved in the maintenance of telomeric DNA, which is generally undetectable in normal human somatic cells. However, it has been found in organs of normal adult rodents including the liver. In order to elucidate relevant control mechanisms operating in normal somatic cells...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Nozawa K,Kurumiya Y,Yamamoto A,Isobe Y,Suzuki M,Yoshida S

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A DNA polymerase beta (pol. beta) inhibitor has been isolated independently from two organisms; a red perilla, Perilla frutescens, and a mugwort, Artemisia vulgaris. These molecules were determined by spectroscopic analyses to be the cyanogenic glucoside, D-mandelonitrile-beta-D-glucoside, prunasin. The compound inhib...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Mizushina Y,Takahashi N,Ogawa A,Tsurugaya K,Koshino H,Takemura M,Yoshida S,Matsukage A,Sugawara F,Sakaguchi K

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During a large-scale in vitro translation analysis of a human full-length cDNA bank, we found many clones producing in vitro translation products showing ladder bands on a fluorogram with the equidistance of about 9 kDa at the position larger than the molecular mass expected from the open reading frame. We have analyz...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Iwamuro S,Saeki M,Kato S

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mammalian ATP/ADP translocator isoform-2 (ANT2) gene is growth-activated. Regulation of the gene appears to involve Sp1, as an essential activator, and a suppressor through an Sp1 core element next to the transcription start. We show here that the proximal promoter also binds AP-2 strongly and specifically to two ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Li R,Hodny Z,Zaid A,Barath P,Nelson BD

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Troponin is the regulatory protein of striated muscle. Without Ca2+, the contraction of striated muscle is inhibited. Binding of Ca2+ to troponin activates contraction. The location of troponin on the thin filaments and its relation to the regulatory mechanism has been unknown, though the Ca2+-induced dislocation of t...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Ishikawa T,Wakabayashi T

更新日期：1999-07-01 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：:Diacylglycerol lipase (DGL) was solubilized from human platelet microsomes with heptyl-beta-D-thioglucoside, and purified to homogeneity on SDS-PAGE using a combination of chromatographic and electrophoretic methods. The molecular mass of the purified DGL was estimated to be 33 kDa. Its apparent pI was pH 6.0, as dete...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Moriyama T,Urade R,Kito M

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously developed a simple gene transfection procedure mediated by cationic lipid vesicles for animal cells, in which a commercially available cationic surfactant, dimethyldioctadecyl ammonium bromide (DDAB), was used for making lipid vesicles. In the present study, we examined enhancement of transfection e...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： You J,Kamihira M,Iijima S

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied the roles of cofilin, an actin-binding phosphoprotein, in superoxide production of neutrophil-like HL-60 cells triggered by opsonized zymosan (OZ). OZ caused dephosphorylation of cofilin as well as a transient increase of F-actin. Both reactions were complete within 30 s. Okadaic acid (OA) magnified the OZ-...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Nagaishi K,Adachi R,Kawanishi T,Yamaguchi T,Kasahara T,Hayakawa T,Suzuki K

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein phosphorylation is a key regulatory mechanism of the organization and dynamics of the actin cytoskeleton during cell motility, differentiation, and cytokinesis. The level of protein phosphorylation is dependent on the relative activities of both protein kinases and protein phosphatases. In this paper, we exami...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Usui T,Marriott G,Inagaki M,Swarup G,Osada H

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The membrane protein syntaxin (originally named HPC-1) is involved in vesicle trafficking and required for neurotransmitter release at nerve terminals. The presence of syntaxin on target membranes is hypothesized to confer specificity to targeting and fusion via interactions with complementary vesicle-associated prote...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Watanabe T,Fujiwara T,Komazaki S,Yamaguchi K,Tajima O,Akagawa K

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:L-Glutamate dehydrogenase (GLDH) independent of NAD(P) and oxygen was first obtained from the psychrotrophic bacterium Aeromonas sp. L101, originally isolated from the organs of salmon (Oncorhynchus keta). GLDH was purified by a series of chromatography steps on DEAE-Sepharose, Superdex 200pg, Q-Sepharose, CM-Sepharos...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Yamamura A,Sakaguchi T,Murakami Y,Yokoyama K,Tamiya E

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Some alpha(1,3)fucosylated oligosaccharides serve as counter receptors to lectin-like adhesion proteins or are expressed with temporal precision during embryogenesis, and alpha(1, 3)fucosyltransferase is a key enzyme in the production of these oligosaccharides. Two alpha(1,3)-fucosyltransferase genes, designated zFT1 ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kageyama N,Natsuka S,Hase S

更新日期：1999-04-01 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：:Genomic DNA libraries were screened for the human histidine-rich glycoprotein (HRG) gene and a sequence of 15,499 nucleotides was determined. The gene is composed of 7 exons and 6 introns, and all the exon-intron boundaries match the consensus GT/AG sequence for donor and acceptor splice sites. Each of cystatin-like d...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Wakabayashi S,Takahashi K,Koide T

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A stroma-dependent B lymphoid cell line (B31-1) has been established by coculturing sorted stem cells on a novel bone marrow stromal cell line (TBR31-1). B31-1 cells express B220, but do not express other B lymphoid differentiation markers including CD43, heat stable antigen (HSA), or surface immunoglobulin (Ig) M (sI...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Matsuda K,Koguma M,Okuyama R,Nakazawa T,Matsuzaki Y,Nakauchi H,Yanai N,Terasaki T,Obinata M

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human serum sulfotransferase activities were measured in normal controls and patients with macular corneal dystrophy (MCD), an inherited disorder characterized by the decreased sulfation of keratan sulfate in the corneal stroma and serum, using two kinds of acceptor: partially desulfated keratan sulfate and a trisacch...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Hasegawa N,Torii T,Nagaoka I,Nakayasu K,Miyajima H,Habuchi O

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Single-chain antibodies (scFv), which can be produced in Escherichia coli cells, have been shown in numerous cases to be active in antigen binding. In the case of the two anti-lysozyme single-chain antibodies, scFvLH and scFvHL, which have the reversed arrangement of the variable domains of the heavy and light chains ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Merk H,Stiege W,Tsumoto K,Kumagai I,Erdmann VA

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:High mobility group (HMG) protein 1 contains two DNA binding motifs, called HMG1/2-boxes, linked with a linker region. The functional relationships between the two boxes and the mechanism of involvement of the linker region for effective binding of HMG1 were examined. The binding analyses of truncated HMG1 peptides wi...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Saito K,Kikuchi T,Shirakawa H,Yoshida M

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:beta-Hydroxyisovalerylshikonin (beta-HIVS), which was isolated from the plant, Lithospermium radix, inhibited the growth of various lines of cancer cells derived from human solid tumors at low concentrations between 10(-8) and 10(-6) M. When HL-60 cells were treated with 10(-6) M beta-HIVS for 3 h, characteristic feat...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Hashimoto S,Xu M,Masuda Y,Aiuchi T,Nakajo S,Cao J,Miyakoshi M,Ida Y,Nakaya K

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pseudomonas sp. 101 carboxyl proteinase (PCP) and Xanthomonas sp. T-22 carboxyl proteinase (XCP), the first and second unique carboxyl proteinases from prokaryotes to be isolated and characterized, are not inhibited by the classical carboxyl proteinase inhibitor pepstatin. In this study, we elucidated their subsite pr...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Narutaki S,Dunn BM,Oda K

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The region containing the RNA polymerase alpha subunit (RNAPalpha) gene (rpoA) and the ribosomal protein genes of a thermophilic eubacterial strain, Thermus thermophilus (Tt) HB8, was cloned from a genomic DNA library by Southern hybridization. The gene order in this region is rpl36-rps13-rps11-rps4-rpoA-rpl17, which ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Wada T,Yamazaki T,Kuramitsu S,Kyogoku Y

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The isolation and characterization of rabbit and human cDNAs revealed a new low density lipoprotein receptor (LDLR)-related protein (LRP) designated as LRP5. Human LRP5 cDNA encodes a 1, 616-amino acid type I membrane-like protein with three ligand binding repeats in its extracellular region. LDLR-deficient cells tran...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kim DH,Inagaki Y,Suzuki T,Ioka RX,Yoshioka SZ,Magoori K,Kang MJ,Cho Y,Nakano AZ,Liu Q,Fujino T,Suzuki H,Sasano H,Yamamoto TT

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A novel immortalized rheumatoid fibroblast-like synoviocyte (FLS) line, MH7A, was established by stably transfecting FLS cells with SV40 T antigen gene. MH7A cells expressed SV40-specific small t and large T antigens as well as an elevated level of p53 protein. They have already reached over 150 population doublings t...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Miyazawa K,Mori A,Okudaira H

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:2,3-Bisphosphoglycerate mutase (BPGM) [EC 5.4.2.4] is a multifunctional enzyme that catalyzes both the synthesis and the degradation of 2,3-diphosphoglycerate (2,3-DPG) and contains three types of activities in that it functions as a 2,3-DPG synthetase, a phosphoglycerate mutase and a 2,3-DPG phosphatase. In humans, B...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Fujita T,Suzuki K,Tada T,Yoshihara Y,Hamaoka R,Uchida K,Matuo Y,Sasaki T,Hanafusa T,Taniguchi N

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The traditional two-step EGTA/collagenase method is widely used in studying nitric oxide (NO) production in hepatocytes. The present study first revealed that hepatocytes isolated by this method spontaneously express an iNOS mRNA. Thereafter, based on this novel finding, we characterized the expression and regulation ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Wang H,Gao X,Fukumoto S,Tademoto S,Sato K,Hirai K

更新日期：1998-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ornithine transcarbamylase (OTC) is one of the urea cycle enzymes. While the chicken is a uricotelic animal, it has measurable OTC activity in its kidney. OTC activity is highly variable within and between chicken breeds. Chicken OTC may have some physiological significance because of its significant activity in the k...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Shimogiri T,Kono M,Mannen H,Mizutani M,Tsuji S

更新日期：1998-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The betagamma subunits of G proteins were coimmunoprecipitated with antibodies against various alpha subunits, and analyzed by silver stain and immunoblotting with conventional transfer procedure and membrane-blocking buffer containing 2% BSA. Multiple isoforms of gamma were coimmunoprecipitated with no significant di...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Ueda H,Morishita R,Katoh-Semba R,Kato K,Asano T

更新日期：1998-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aggrecan, a large aggregating proteoglycan, is one of the major structural components of cartilage. Its core protein contains three glubular domains and two glycosaminoglycan-attachment domains. These domains play various roles to maintain cartilage structure and function. An N-terminal globular domain binds hyalurona...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Watanabe H,Yamada Y,Kimata K

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00