Search Results - "Yohda, M"

Effect of antipsychotic drugs on DISC1 and dysbindin expression in mouse frontal cortex and hippocampus by Chiba, S, Hashimoto, R, Hattori, S, Yohda, M, Lipska, B, Weinberger, D R, Kunugi, H

“…Altered expression of Disrupted-In-Schizophrenia-1 (DISC1) and dysbindin (DTNBP1), susceptibility genes for schizophrenia, in schizophrenic brain has been…”
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StHsp14.0, a small heat shock protein of Sulfolobus tokodaii strain 7, protects denatured proteins from aggregation in the partially dissociated conformation by Abe, Tetsuya, Oka, Toshihiko, Nakagome, Atsushi, Tsukada, Yoshihiro, Yasunaga, Takuo, Yohda, Masafumi

“…The small heat shock protein (sHsp), categorized into a class of molecular chaperones, binds and stabilizes denatured proteins for the purpose of preventing…”
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Post-translational modification is essential for catalytic activity of nitrile hydratase by MURAKAMI, TAKU, NOJIRI, MASAKI, NAKAYAMA, HIROSHI, ODAKA, MASAFUMI, YOHDA, MASAFUMI, DOHMAE, NAOSHI, TAKIO, KOJI, NAGAMUNE, TERUYUKI, ENDO, ISAO

“…Nitrile hydratase from Rhodococcus sp. N-771 is an αβ heterodimer with a nonheme ferric iron in the catalytic center. In the catalytic center, αCys112 and…”
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Adaptation of a hyperthermophilic group II chaperonin to relatively moderate temperatures by Kanzaki, Taro, Ushioku, Shuzo, Nakagawa, Ayumi, Oka, Toshihiko, Takahashi, Kazunobu, Nakamura, Takashi, Kuwajima, Kunihiro, Yamagishi, Akihiko, Yohda, Masafumi

“…Group II chaperonins exist in archaea and the eukaryotic cytosol, and mediate protein folding in an ATP-dependent manner. We have been studying the reaction…”
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Functional Expression of Nitrile Hydratase in Escherichia coli: Requirement of a Nitrile Hydratase Activator and Post-Translational Modification of a Ligand Cysteine by Nojiri, Masaki, Yohda, Masafumi, Odaka, Masafumi, Matsushita, Yusuke, Tsujimura, Masanari, Yoshida, Takao, Dohmae, Naoshi, Takio, Koji, Endo, Isao

“…The nitrile hydratase (NHase) from Rhodococcus sp. N-771 is a photoreactive enzyme that is inactivated on nitrosylation of the non-heme iron center and…”
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Arginine 56 mutation in the β subunit of nitrile hydratase: importance of hydrogen bonding to the non-heme iron center by Piersma, S.R, Nojiri, M, Tsujimura, M, Noguchi, T, Odaka, M, Yohda, M, Inoue, Y, Endo, I

“…Arginine 56 in the β subunit (βArg56) of the iron-containing nitrile hydratase (NHase), one of the strongly conserved residues within the NHase family, is…”
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Novel CYP2C19 629c>a mutant gene detection in Japanese subjects and estimation of its effect on conformation by Kimura, S, Hasegawa, S, Kobayashi, A, Yamaguchi, H, Yohda, M, Kubota, T

“…Gene polymorphism is considered to be one of the causes of poor metabolism (PM), and approximately 20 mutants have been reported for CYP2C19 thus far. In our…”
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Multipurpose robot for automated cycle sequencing by Sawakami-Kobayashi, K, Segawa, O, Obata, K, Hornes, E, Yohda, M, Tajima, H, Machida, M

“…Paramagnetic beads have the superior advantages of easy separation and resuspension by controlling the magnetic filed. Previously, we have developed Magtration…”
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FtsH Recognizes Proteins with Unfolded Structure and Hydrolyzes the Carboxyl Side of Hydrophobic Residues by Asahara, Yuko, Atsuta, Kyoko, Motohashi, Ken, Taguchi, Hideki, Yohda, Masafumi, Yoshida, Masasuke

“…FtsH of Escherichia coli is an essential membrane-integrated ATP-dependent protease. We cloned a gene for an FtsH homolog (T.FtsH) from Thermos thermophilus…”
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Affinity purification of fusion chaperonin Cpn60-(His)6 from thermophilic bacterium Bacillus strain MS and its use in facilitating protein refolding and preventing heat denaturation by TESHIMA, T, KOHDA, J, KONDO, A, YOHDA, M, TAMURA, A, FUKUDA, H

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Crystallization and preliminary X-ray analysis of aspartate racemase from Pyrococcus horikoshii OT3 by Liu, Lijun, Iwata, Kousuke, Kawarabayasi, Yutaka, Kikuchi, Hisashi, Kita, Akiko, Yohda, Masafumi, Miki, Kunio

“…Aspartate racemase from Pyrococcus horikoshii OT3 (P. AspR) has been crystallized in three crystal forms by the sitting‐drop vapour‐diffusion method. The…”
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Properties of aspartate racemase, a pyridoxal 5'-phosphate-independent amino acid racemase by YAMAUCHI, T, SOO-YOUNG CHOI, OKADA, H, YOHDA, M, KUMAGAI, H, ESAKI, N, SODA, K

“…Aspartate racemase from Streptococcus thermophilus contains no pyridoxal 5'-phosphate or other cofactors such as FAD, NAD+, and metal ions. It was affected by…”
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Gene of Heat Shock Protein of Sulfur-Dependent Archaeal Hyperthermophile Desulfurococcus by Kagawa, Y., Ohta, T., Abe, Y., Endo, H., Yohda, M., Kato, N., Endo, I., Hamamoto, T., Ichida, M., Hoaki, T., Maruyama, T.

“…To elucidate thermoresistance, a gene of a hyperthermophilic heat shock protein (HHSP) was isolated from the hyperthermophile Desulfurococcus strain SY which…”
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Chaperonin-mediated stabilization and ATP-triggered release of semiconductor nanoparticles by Aida, Takuzo, Ishii, Daisuke, Kinbara, Kazushi, Ishida, Yasuhiro, Ishii, Noriyuki, Okochi, Mina, Yohda, Masafumi

“…Various properties of semiconductor nanoparticles, including photoluminescence and catalytic activity, make these materials attractive for a range of…”
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Structure of Thiocyanate Hydrolase: A New Nitrile Hydratase Family Protein with a Novel Five-coordinate Cobalt(III) Center by Arakawa, Takatoshi, Kawano, Yoshiaki, Kataoka, Shingo, Katayama, Yoko, Kamiya, Nobuo, Yohda, Masafumi, Odaka, Masafumi

“…Thiocyanate hydrolase (SCNase) of Thiobacillus thioparus THI115 is a cobalt(III)-containing enzyme catalyzing the degradation of thiocyanate to carbonyl…”
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Solid-phase nested deletion: a new subcloning-less method for generating nested deletions by Yohda, M, Kato, N, Endo, I

“…We have developed a new subcloning-less method for generating nested deletions which we have termed Solid-Phase Nested Deletion. The basic procedure for this…”
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Goniothalamin enhances the ATPase activity of the molecular chaperone Hsp90 but inhibits its chaperone activity by Yokoyama, Yuhei, Ohtaki, Aguru, Jantan, Ibrahim, Yohda, Masafumi, Nakamoto, Hitoshi

“…Hsp90 is an ATP-dependent molecular chaperone that is involved in important cellular pathways such as signal transduction pathways. It is a potential cancer…”
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Performance validation of a functionally distributed energy management architecture by Kunugi, M., Yohda, M., Tamura, S., Watanabe, H., Hasegawa, T.

“…The authors propose a functionally distributed computer (FDS) system for an energy management system (EMS) and a large-scale supervisory control and data…”
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Structure and Molecular Dynamics Simulation of Archaeal Prefoldin: The Molecular Mechanism for Binding and Recognition of Nonnative Substrate Proteins by Ohtaki, Akashi, Kida, Hiroshi, Miyata, Yusuke, Ide, Naoki, Yonezawa, Akihiro, Arakawa, Takatoshi, Iizuka, Ryo, Noguchi, Keiichi, Kita, Akiko, Odaka, Masafumi, Miki, Kunio, Yohda, Masafumi

“…Prefoldin (PFD) is a heterohexameric molecular chaperone complex in the eukaryotic cytosol and archaea with a jellyfish-like structure containing six long…”
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Crystal Structures of the Group II Chaperonin from Thermococcus strain KS-1: Steric Hindrance by the Substituted Amino Acid, and Inter-subunit Rearrangement between Two Crystal Forms by Shomura, Yasuhito, Yoshida, Takao, Iizuka, Ryo, Maruyama, Tadashi, Yohda, Masafumi, Miki, Kunio

“…The crystal structures of the group II chaperonins consisting of the α subunit with amino acid substitutions of G65C and/or I125T from the hyperthermophilic…”
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