abstract：:Wild mice are divided into two groups with different ganglioside compositions in the liver. Most Japanese and a few Chinese wild mice have GM2(NeuGc) as a major ganglioside, whereas all wild mice caught at other places distributed all over the world other than Japan and China express GM1(NeuGc) and GD1a(NeuGc) in addi...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Hashimoto Y,Suzuki A,Yamakawa T,Wang CH,Bonhomme F,Miyashita N,Moriwaki K

更新日期：1984-01-01 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 Ca2+-ATPase of sarcoplasmic reticulum from rabbit skeletal muscle was incorporated into vesicles made from dimyristoylphosphatidylcholine or dipalmitoylphosphatidylcholine. The Ca2+-ATPase activity of these reconstituted membranes became appreciable above 20 degrees C and 30 degrees C, respectively, in accord with...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Higashi K,Kirino Y

更新日期：1983-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Resonance Raman (RR) spectra were obtained in H2O or D2O solution for the purple intermediates of D-amino acid oxidase (DAO) with isotopically labeled substrates, i.e., [1-13C]-, [2-13C]-, [3-13C]-, [15N]-, and [3,3,3-D3]alanine; [carboxyl-13C]- and [15N]proline. RR spectra were also measured for the intermediates of ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Nishina Y,Shiga K,Miura R,Tojo H,Ohta M,Miyake Y,Yamano T,Watari H

更新日期：1983-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have analyzed the manner of incorporation of bile acid into lipid bilayers and resultant perturbation of the bilayer structure with lower bile acid/lipid ratios relevant to the physiological conditions (approximately 1 mM) by 2H and 31P NMR methods, as an aid to understanding the possible role as an endogenous tumo...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Saitŏ H,Sugimoto Y,Tabeta R,Suzuki S,Izumi G,Kodama M,Toyoshima S,Nagata C

更新日期：1983-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A major lipid class in the Harderian glands of the Mongolian gerbil was investigated. The IR and 1H-NMR spectra suggested that it was a wax-like compound. Fatty acids present were capric, lauric, myristic, palmitic, stearic, arachidic, and behenic acids in ratios of 3.0%, 16.3%, 16.5%, 29.5%, 5.1%, 16.4%, and 9.8%, re...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Otsuru O,Otsuka H,Kasama T,Seyama Y,Sakai T,Yohro T

更新日期：1983-12-01 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：:A simple and rapid purification method for human serum C-reactive protein (CRP) was developed. CRP was strongly adsorbed on a DEAE-cellulose column and was easily separated from other serum proteins. CRP was purified approximately 1,000-fold with a high yield (50%). The final preparation showed a single band as judged...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Tsujimoto M,Inoue K,Nojima S

更新日期：1983-11-01 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：:Partial amino acid sequences of two mitochondrial cytochrome P-450's, P-450 (SCC) and P-450 (11 beta), and two microsomal cytochrome P-450's, P-450 (C-21), and P-450 (17 alpha, Lyase), from adrenal cortex were analyzed and compared. Mitochondrial P-450's and microsomal P-450's were different in the amino acid sequence...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Ogishima T,Okada Y,Kominami S,Takemori S,Omura T

更新日期：1983-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ornithine transcarbamylase [EC 2.1.3.3] has been purified from chick kidney to homogeneity. The molecular weight is 110,000 as determined by gel filtration. Sodium dodecylsulfate polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis of the enzyme showed that the enzyme exists as a trimer of identical subunits of 36,000 daltons like othe...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Tsuji S

更新日期：1983-10-01 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：:Among several intracellular protease tested, cathepsin H transformed leukotriene D4 to E4 with a release of glycine in a stoichiometric quantity. Under the optimal conditions the rate of leukotriene D4 transformation by cathepsin H was about 3% of the hydrolysis rate of alpha-N-benzoyl-DL-arginine-2-naphthylamide whic...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Yokota K,Shono F,Yamamoto S,Kominami E,Katunuma N

更新日期：1983-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A post-proline cleaving enzyme [prolyl endopeptidase, EC 3.4.21.26] was purified about 3,700-fold from an extract of bovine brain by a series of column chromatographies on DEAE-Sephadex, hydroxyapatite and PCMB-T-Sepharose, and gel filtration on Sephadex G-200 using N-carbobenzoxy-Gly-Pro-beta-naphthylamide (Z-Gly-Pro...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Yoshimoto T,Nishimura T,Kita T,Tsuru D

更新日期：1983-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several maleimide derivatives of potential usefulness as conformational probes were tested for reactivity toward SH groups of Ca2+, Mg2+-ATPase of sarcoplasmic reticulum. These include three fluorescent labels, N-(1-anilinonaphthyl-4)maleimide (ANM), N-(p-(2-benzimidazolyl)phenyl)maleimide (BIPM), and N-(7-dimethylami...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Yasuoka-Yabe K,Kawakita M

更新日期：1983-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fluorescence titration curves of 2-[4'-iodoacetamido)anilino)naphthalene-6-sulfonic acid-labeled troponin (IAANS-labeled Tn) and troponin-1-anilinonaphthalene-8-sulfonic acid (Tn-ANS) complex indicated that the fluorescent moiety, IAANS or ANS, detects conformational change of troponin I (TnI) or Tn due to the Ca2+ bi...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Nishio T,Iio T

更新日期：1983-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of the ODC-factor, which was partially purified from ascites fluid of mice bearing Ehrlich ascites hepatoma, on DNA synthesis in the normal mouse liver and spleen was studied, and target cells for the factor in the liver were examined. DNA synthesis in the liver increased about 4-fold over the basal level 3...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Sasaki K,Imamura K,Tanaka T

更新日期：1983-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Escherichia coli strain carrying pTP 6-10 which was constructed in our previous work (Iwakura, M., et al. (1983) J. Biochem. 93, 927-930) produces more than 400-fold dihydrofolate reductase as compared with the strain without the plasmid. Dihydrofolate reductase was highly purified from the cell-free extract of th...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Iwakura M,Shimura Y,Sakai T,Tsuda K

更新日期：1983-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein S, a vitamin K-dependent plasma protein having Gla-residues, increases the rate of inactivation of Factor Va by activated protein C by enhancing the binding of activated protein C to phospholipid [Walker, J.F. (1981) J. Biol. Chem. 256, 11128-11131]. The present study aimed at elucidating the effect of thrombi...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Suzuki K,Nishioka J,Hashimoto S

更新日期：1983-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We can detect phospholipase A activity in non-hemolyzed sheep erythrocytes, using dilauroylglycerophosphocholine as an exogenous substrate. Only substrates such as dilauroylglycerophosphocholine, which can be incorporated into membranes, could be hydrolyzed by the enzyme, egg phosphatidylcholine being only slightly se...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Tanaka Y,Eriomin VA,Kawamura Y,Inoue K,Nojima S

更新日期：1983-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inhibitory effects of various amino acid esters on the phagocytic activity of guinea pig peritoneal macrophages were studied with sensitized 51Cr-sheep erythrocytes (51Cr-EAb) as well as 125I-alpha-amylase complexed with homologous IgG2 antibody (Ag-Ab complex). The intracellular uptake of 51Cr-EAb was markedly inhibi...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Nihira S,Koyama J

更新日期：1983-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The process of mitochondrial dysfunction in ischemic rat liver was studied. A close correlation was found between decrease in the mitochondrial adenine nucleotide content and deterioration of oxidative phosphorylation capacity. The level of total adenine nucleotides, which was 15--20 nmol/mg protein in mitochondria is...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Watanabe F,Kamiike W,Nishimura T,Hashimoto T,Tagawa K

更新日期：1983-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A simple and rapid method has been developed for the separation of apolipoproteins in high density lipoprotein (HDL) fractions by high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) with gel permeation columns (G3000SW TSK GEL). The HPLC pattern monitored by A280 for a mixed solution of the HDL fraction (10 microliter) and ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kinoshita M,Okazaki M,Kato H,Teramoto T,Matsushima T,Naito C,Oka H,Hara I

更新日期：1983-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The experimental conditions for release of the regulatory light chain (RLC) of scallop myosin at 30 degrees C were studied. Substantially all RLC was released from myosin by incubation for 5 min in medium containing buffer and KCl. This release of RLC was inhibited strongly by Ca2+, while the effect of Mg2+ was about ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Asakawa T,Azuma N

更新日期：1983-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lambda dv plasmids having an amber mutation in an initiator gene, O or P, were constructed from mutant lambda phages by recombinant DNA techniques and several properties of such derivatives were investigated. These plasmids are perpetuated in suppressor-plus (amber-permissive) cells, but not in non-suppressor cells. T...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Miwa T,Akaboshi E,Matsubara K

更新日期：1983-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The 20,000 dalton light chain (L2) was isolated from rabbit and chicken striated muscle myosins, and the Ca2+-induced conformational changes of these proteins were investigated. 1) The reaction of thiol groups of L2 with dithiobisnitrobenzoic acid (DTNB), 2) measurements of the UV difference absorption spectrum, 3) me...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Minowa O,Matsuda S,Yagi K

更新日期：1983-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bindings of cobra venom phospholipases A2 to micelles of n-hexadecylphosphorylcholine were studied by the tryptophyl fluorescence method at 25 degrees C and ionic strength 0.1. The data were analyzed by assuming that the micellar surface has multiple binding sites for the enzyme and these sites are identical and mutua...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Teshima K,Ikeda K,Hamaguchi K,Hayashi K

更新日期：1983-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aromatic region of the NMR spectrum of bovine pancreatic ribonuclease A was analyzed in order to clarify the nature of the microenvironments surrounding the individual histidine, tyrosine, and phenylalanine residues and the interactions with inhibitors. The NMR titration curves of ring protons of six tyrosine and ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Tanokura M

更新日期：1983-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cyclohexadextrin and maltose bound to soybean beta-amylase and affected the environments of tryptophan and tyrosine residues, producing characteristic difference spectra in the ultraviolet region. The difference spectrum produced by cyclohexadextrin, a competitive inhibitor, had peaks at 285, 292, and 299 nm, while th...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Mikami B,Nomura K,Morita Y

更新日期：1983-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ovomucoid-trypsin association complex was prepared by incubating chicken egg white ovomucoid with bovine trypsin. The reactivity of ovomucoid-trypsin complex was investigated by immunodiffusion, quantitative precipitation and enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA). It was demonstrated that the association of trypsi...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Matsuda T,Watanabe K,Nakamura R

更新日期：1983-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ester cerebrosides isolated from whale brain were demonstrated to be a mixture of 6-O-acyl, 2-O-acyl, 4-O-acyl, and 3-O-acyl galactosyl ceramides in that order of content (Yasugi, E., et al. (1982) J. Biochem. 91, 1121-1127). However, the existence of 2-O-acyl and 4-O-acyl galactosyl ceramides has not been reported fo...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

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

更新日期：1983-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sialoglycoprotein which exhibits inhibitory activity for hemagglutination by Hemagglutinating Virus of Japan (HVJ, Sendai virus) was isolated from the membrane of bovine erythrocytes. Purification steps for this sialoglycoprotein included extraction with lithium diiodosalicylate, phenol partition, precipitation with e...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Suzuki Y,Suzuki T,Matsumoto M

更新日期：1983-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alkaline phosphatase was entrapped in reverse micelles formed in n-heptane with surfactants (bis(2-ethylhexyl)sodium sulfosuccinate, phosphatidylcholine, phosphatidylethanolamine, or phosphatidic acid) and water. The entrapped enzyme could express its activity in the reverse micelles of the above surfactants only when...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Ohshima A,Narita H,Kito M

更新日期：1983-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To examine whether serine proteases of rat liver chromatin are also involved in the degradation of newly synthesized and unbound ribosomal proteins and histones, like the nuclear thiol protease which we reported previously (Tsurugi, K. & Ogata, K. (1979) Eur. J. Biochem. 101, 205-213), in vivo experiments were carried...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Tsurugi K,Oyanagi M,Ogata K

更新日期：1983-05-01 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：:Human, bovine, and mouse C1q, a subcomponent of the first complement component, were purified, and both globular (GF) and collagen-like fragments (CLF) were isolated from human and bovine C1q. Antisera were produced in rabbits with these C1q or fragments, and F(ab')2 of immunoglobulin G (IgG) was purified from the ant...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Yonemasu K,Sasaki T,Shimizu A

更新日期：1983-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The conditions for the preparation of the ferricytochrome a-ferrocytochrome a3-carbon monoxide complex (a3+, a3(2)+CO) of cytochrome oxidase [EC 1.9.3.1] by the ferricyanide-reoxidation method and some properties of the prepared complex were studied. The addition of a small volume of concentrated ferricyanide solution...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Horie S,Watanabe T,Ave K

更新日期：1983-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A heat-labile, non-dialyzable factor(s) in soluble fractions from Escherichia coli strains and Bacillus subtilis was found to incorporate the radioactivity of [14C]glutamic acid into 95 degrees C CCl3COOH-insoluble fraction. Incorporation catalyzed by a partially purified factor from E. coli B required ATP, Mg2+, tRNA...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Hashizume S,Honjoh T,Shoji M

更新日期：1983-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Four distinctive DNA polymerases have been isolated from mature oocytes of the starfish, Asterina pectinifera, and characterized. The N-ethylmaleimide-resistant DNA polymerase activity was separated from the other three DNA polymerases by hydroxyapatite column chromatography. The enzyme, whose approximate sedimentatio...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Haraguchi T,Nagano H

更新日期：1983-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:GM2 containing NeuGc was found to be a major ganglioside in the liver of most inbred strains of mouse we have examined so far. They were DBA/2, C3H/He, C57BL/6, BALB/c, and CBA mice. However, WHT/Ht mouse does not contain a detectable amount of GM2 (NeuGc) but has GM3 containing NeuGc as the major ganglioside in the l...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Hashimoto Y,Otsuka H,Sudo K,Suzuki K,Suzuki A,Yamakawa T

更新日期：1983-03-01 00:00:00