abstract：:Leukotriene B4 (LTB4) is a potent inflammatory mediator derived from arachidonic acid. Two G protein-coupled receptors for LTB4 have been identified: a high-affinity receptor, BLT1, and a low-affinity receptor, BLT2. Both receptors mainly couple to pertussis toxin-sensitive Gi-like G proteins and induce cell migration...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Yokomizo T

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Upregulation and nuclear retention of the human histone demethylase LSD1 are correlated with aggressiveness and poor outcome of several cancer types, but the molecular mechanism of LSD1 nuclear import remains unclear. Here, we found that the N-terminal flexible region of LSD1 contains a nuclear localization signal (NL...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Jin Y,Kim TY,Kim MS,Kim MA,Park SH,Jang YK

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:β-lactoglobulin forms a non-native α-helix during an early stage of folding. To address the role of the non-native structure in the folding process, we designed several mutants of equine β-lactoglobulin with reduced helical propensity in the non-native helix region. One of them, A123T, showed a similar structure to th...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Okabe T,Miyajima T,Nakagawa K,Tsukamoto S,Fujiwara K,Ikeguchi M

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The functions of the helix E (W97-F105), an amphiphilic lumenal 310 helix of the major antenna of photosystem II (LHCII), are still unidentified. To elucidate the roles of individual amino acid residue of the helix E, alanine scanning mutagenesis has been performed to mutate every residue of this domain to alanine. Th...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Liu C,Rao Y,Zhang L,Yang C

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mammalian/mechanistic target of rapamycin (mTOR) is a highly conserved serine/threonine kinase that responds to environmental determinants such as growth factor concentration, nutrient availability, energy sufficiency and stress. mTOR forms two different complexes, called mTOR complex 1 (mTORC1) and mTORC2, and these ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Hoshii T,Matsuda S,Hirao A

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Endonuclease V (Endo V) is a DNA repair enzyme that recognizes deoxyinosine and cleaves the second phosphodiester bond on the 3' side of the deaminated base lesion. A database search revealed the presence of homologous genes for Endo V in most archaeal species, but the absence in some methanogenic species. We cloned a...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kiyonari S,Egashira Y,Ishino S,Ishino Y

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phospholipid composition of biological membranes differs between the cytoplasmic and exoplasmic leaflets. The type 4 P-type ATPases are phospholipid flippases that generate such membrane phospholipid asymmetry. Drs2p, a flippase in budding yeast, is involved in the endocytic recycling pathway. Drs2p is implicated in c...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Hanamatsu H,Fujimura-Kamada K,Yamamoto T,Furuta N,Tanaka K

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Members of the transforming growth factor-β (TGF-β) family, including TGF-βs, activin and bone morphogenetic proteins (BMPs), are multifunctional proteins that regulate a wide variety of cellular responses, such as proliferation, differentiation, migration and apoptosis. TGF-β family signalling is mainly mediated by m...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Imamura T,Oshima Y,Hikita A

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Guanidine hydrochloride (GdnHCl)-induced unfolding of bovine spleen galectin-1 (Gal-1) exhibits three-state mechanism involving exclusive, structured tertiary monomer in 0.5 M GdnHCl. Gal-1 has one tryptophan residue (Trp 68) per subunit. Phosphorescence spectra of both Gal-1 dimer and intermediate monomer at 77 K sho...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Mandal P,Molla AR,Mandal DK

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plant cell-wall arabinoxylans have a complex structure that requires the action of a pool of debranching (arabinofuranosidases) and depolymerizing enzymes (endo-xylanase). Two Aspergillus nidulans strains over-secreting endo-xylanase and arabinofuranosidase were inoculated in defined 2% maltose-minimum medium resultin...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Damásio AR,Pessela BC,da Silva TM,Guimarães LH,Jorge JA,Guisán JM,Polizeli Mde L

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We developed a high-throughput Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) for measuring α2,6-sialylated transferrin (Tf), based on inhibition of anti-Tf antibody binding to α2,6-sialylated Tf by a lectin, Sambucus sieboldiana Agglutinin (SSA). The inhibition was not observed with other glycoforms, such as periodate-tre...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Hoshi K,Kariya Y,Nara K,Ito H,Matsumoto K,Nagae M,Yamaguchi Y,Nakajima M,Miyajima M,Arai H,Kuno A,Narimatsu H,Shirotani K,Hashimoto Y

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pollen proteins from several grass species have been identified and characterized as causative allergens in grass pollinosis. In contrast, allergenic potential of pollen proteins from rice, which belongs to the same Poaceae family, has not well been investigated, despite that a few clinical cases have been reported on...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Hirano K,Hino S,Oshima K,Okajima T,Nadano D,Urisu A,Takaiwa F,Matsuda T

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacterial flagellar motors exploit the electrochemical potential gradient of a coupling ion as energy source and are composed of stator and rotor proteins. Vibrio alginolyticus has a Na(+)-driven motor and its stator is composed of PomA and PomB. Recently, we isolated increased motility strains (sp1-sp4) from the PomA...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Terashima H,Terauchi T,Ihara K,Nishioka N,Kojima S,Homma M

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tn-antigen (GalNAcα-Ser/Thr) is one of the most common aberrations associated with cancer progression and metastasis, and thus is an excellent target for development of cancer diagnostics and therapeutics. MLS128 monoclonal antibody (mAb), derived from a mouse immunized with human colon carcinoma cells, was reported t...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Fujita-Yamaguchi Y

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated whether transforming growth factor (TGF)-β1 promoted epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) and migration of human oral squamous cell carcinoma (hOSCC) cells. Among 6 hOSCC cell lines investigated, Smad2 phosphorylation and TGF-β target genes expression were most clearly upregulated following TGF-β1 s...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Saito D,Kyakumoto S,Chosa N,Ibi M,Takahashi N,Okubo N,Sawada S,Ishisaki A,Kamo M

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We sought to evaluate the mechanism(s) associated with pro matrix metalloprotease 2 (proMMP-2) activation in bovine pulmonary artery smooth muscle cells. Preincubation of cells with anti-TNFR1 antibody prevented tumour necrosis factor-α (TNF-α)-induced proMMP-2 activation and increase in membrane type 1 matrix metallo...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Roy S,Chakraborti T,Chowdhury A,Chakraborti S

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The P2X4 purinergic receptor is a key molecule in neuropathic pain, particularly in the allodynia after peripheral nerve injury. We therefore sought to establish an anti-P2X4 receptor monoclonal antibody that would be useful for detection and characterization of the P2X4 receptor. We first prepared the refolded extrac...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Igawa T,Higashi S,Abe Y,Ohkuri T,Tanaka H,Morimoto S,Yamashita T,Tsuda M,Inoue K,Ueda T

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The plant NADPH oxidases, known as respiratory burst oxidase homologues (Rbohs), play an indispensable role in a wide array of cellular and developmental processes. Arabidopsis thaliana RbohF (AtRbohF)-mediated production of reactive oxygen species (ROS) is involved in biotic and abiotic stress responses. Because of t...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kimura S,Kawarazaki T,Nibori H,Michikawa M,Imai A,Kaya H,Kuchitsu K

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs), or prion diseases, are fatal infectious neurodegenerative disorders. Their causative agents are prions, which are composed of disease-associated forms of prion protein (PrP(Sc)). Naturally occurring cases of TSEs are found in several mammalian species including humans,...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Hagiwara K,Hara H,Hanada K

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Angiogenesis, a formation of neovessels, is regulated by the local balance between angiogenesis stimulators and inhibitors. A number of such endogenous regulators of angiogenesis have been found in the body. Recently, vasohibin-1 (VASH1) was isolated as a negative feedback regulator of angiogenesis produced by endothe...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Sato Y

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The activity of biological molecules is often affected by their phosphorylation state. Regulatory phosphorylation operates as a binary switch and is usually controlled by counteracting kinases and phosphatases. However, phosphatidylinositol (PtdIns) has three phosphorylation sites on its inositol ring. The phosphoryla...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Miyazawa K

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human erytholeukemia K562 cells are induced to differentiate along the erythroid lineage by a variety of chemical compounds, including hemin, sodium butyrate and 1-β-d-arabinofuranosylcytosine. We have investigated the induction of erythroid differentiation of K562 cells by glutamine depletion. When K562 cells were cu...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Canh Hiep N,Kinohira S,Furuyama K,Taketani S

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Colicin E5 cleaves tRNAs for Tyr, His, Asn and Asp in their anticodons to abolish protein synthesis in Escherichia coli. We previously showed how its C-terminal RNase domain, E5-CRD, recognizes the anticodon bases but the catalytic mechanism remained to be elucidated. Although the reaction products with 5'-OH and 2',3...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Inoue-Ito S,Yajima S,Fushinobu S,Nakamura S,Ogawa T,Hidaka M,Masaki H

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pull-down assay and co-immunoprecipitation of cell extracts in which the integrase or reverse transcriptase of Moloney murine leukemia virus was transiently expressed showed that both enzymes interacted with PML proteins. In infected cells, interaction between the integrase and PML was also observed. Transient express...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Okino Y,Inayoshi Y,Kojima Y,Kidani S,Kaneoka H,Honkawa A,Higuchi H,Nishijima K,Miyake K,Iijima S

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neutral ceramidase (NCDase) is considered to be a critical enzyme for controlling the turnover of ceramide, an important bioactive lipid, which determines cell's fate. All-trans retinoic acid (ATRA) has been reported to induce neuronal differentiation and cell-cycle arrest [Lopez-Carballo, Moreno, Masia, Perez, and Ba...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Tanaka K,Tamiya-Koizumi K,Hagiwara K,Ito H,Takagi A,Kojima T,Suzuki M,Iwaki S,Fujii S,Nakamura M,Banno Y,Kannagi R,Tsurumi T,Kyogashima M,Murate T

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human matrix metalloproteinase 7 (MMP-7) activity exhibits broad bell-shaped pH profile with the acidic and alkaline pK(a) (pK(e1) and pK(e2)) values of about 4 and 10. The ionizable group for pK(e2) was assigned to Lys or Arg by thermodynamic analysis; however, no such residues are present in the active site. Hence, ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Morishima A,Yasukawa K,Inouye K

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:CXCL14 is a member of the CXC chemokine family. CXCL14 possesses chemoattractive activity for activated macrophages, immature dendritic cells and natural killer cells. CXCL14-deficient mice do not exhibit clear immune system abnormalities, suggesting that the function of CXCL14 can be compensated for by other chemokin...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Hara T,Tanegashima K

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cathepsin E (CE) is an intracellular aspartic proteinase that is exclusively expressed in cells of the gastrointestinal tracts, lymphoid tissues, urinary organs and red blood cells. However, the molecular mechanism by which CE is predominantly expressed in these cells remains unknown. Here, we report the identificatio...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Okamoto K,Okamoto Y,Kawakubo T,Iwata J,Yasuda Y,Tsukuba T,Yamamoto K

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:OsGEN-L has a 5'-flap endonuclease activity and plays an essential role in rice microspore development. The Class 4 RAD2/XPG family nucleases, including OsGEN-L, were recently found to have resolving activity for the Holliday junction (HJ), the intermediate of DNA strand recombination. In this study, we performed a de...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Yang Y,Ishino S,Yamagami T,Kumamaru T,Satoh H,Ishino Y

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Terf/TRIM17 is a tripartite motif protein that has been originally isolated from testis. Terf has been characterized to exhibit an E3 ubiquitin ligase activity and to undergo self-ubiquitination. The cellular function of terf and its substrates, however, remain elusive. In the present study, we performed a yeast two-h...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Endo H,Ikeda K,Urano T,Horie-Inoue K,Inoue S

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We tested the capsid targeted viral inactivation method as an anti-HBV strategy. HepG2 cells were cotransfected with HBV expression plasmid and the plasmid encoding fusion protein of either Core-A3C or Core-humanized renilla GFP (hrGFP). Core-A3C had substantial effect on HBV DNA levels. In the HepG2 cells expressing ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Li D,Liu J,Kang F,Guan W,Gao X,Wang Y,Sun D

更新日期：2011-10-01 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：:We have developed a screening system for artificial small RNAs (sRNAs) that inhibit the growth of Escherichia coli. In this system, we used a plasmid library to express artificial sRNAs (approximately 200 bases long) containing 60 bases of random nucleotide sequence. The induced expression of the known rydB sRNA in th...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Komasa M,Fujishima K,Hiraoka K,Shinhara A,Lee BS,Tomita M,Kanai A

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ribosomal protein S19 (RP S19) oligomers have been discovered as the first chemoattractant of migrating monocytes/macrophages to apoptotic cells via the C5a receptor (C5aR). In contrast to C5a, a fusion of the C-terminus (I(134)-H(145)) of RP S19 to C5a, the C5a/RP S19 chimera, substitutes for the RP S19 oligomers and...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Nishiura H,Zhao R,Yamamoto T

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Matriptase is a type II transmembrane serine protease expressed abundantly in the epithelial cells and keratinocyte. It plays a key role in the establishment and maintenance of epithelial integrity. Matriptase is considered to be at the most upstream in cellular protease cascade. Activation of its zymogen is the most ...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Kojima K,Inouye K

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NADH)/nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate (NADPH) oxidase and the xanthine oxidase (XOD) systems generate reactive oxygen species (ROS). In the present study, to characterize the difference between the two systems, the kinetics of ROS generated by both the NADH oxidase an...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Sato E,Mokudai T,Niwano Y,Kohno M

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The planar cell polarity (PCP) protein, Prickle (Pk), is conserved in invertebrates and vertebrates, and regulates cellular morphogenesis and movement. Vertebrate Pk consists of at least two family members, Pk1 and Pk2, both of which are expressed in the brain; however, their localization and function at synapses rema...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Hida Y,Fukaya M,Hagiwara A,Deguchi-Tawarada M,Yoshioka T,Kitajima I,Inoue E,Watanabe M,Ohtsuka T

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:SpoIIGA is a novel type of membrane-associated aspartic protease that responds to a signal from the forespore by cleaving Pro-σ(E) in the mother cell during sporulation of Bacillus subtilis. Very little is known about how SpoIIGA recognizes Pro-σ(E). By co-expressing proteins in Escherichia coli, it was shown that cha...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Imamura D,Kuwana R,Kroos L,Feig M,Takamatsu H,Watabe K

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serine dehydrogenase from Escherichia coli is a homotetrameric enzyme belonging to the short-chain dehydrogenase/reductase (SDR) family. This enzyme catalyses the NADP(+)-dependent oxidation of serine to 2-aminomalonate semialdehyde. The enzyme shows a stereospecificity for β-(3S)-hydroxy acid as a substrate; however,...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Yamazawa R,Nakajima Y,Mushiake K,Yoshimoto T,Ito K

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:High mobility group box 1 (HMGB1) protein is the most abundant chromatin-associated non-histone protein expressed in all nucleated eukaryotic cells. We examined the phosphorylation of mammalian HMGB1 by testing the ability of the cyclin-dependent kinase 5 (Cdk5) to use as substrates native protein, either unmodified o...

journal_title：Journal of biochemistry

authors： Ugrinova I,Pashev IG,Pasheva EA

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00