{"title":"The optical rotatory dispersion of myosin a IV. Conformational changes in meromyosins","authors":"Yuji Tonomura , Kazuko Sekiya , Kiichi Imamura","doi":"10.1016/0006-3002(63)91034-5","DOIUrl":"10.1016/0006-3002(63)91034-5","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The effect of 8% dioxane on the optical rotatory dispersion of myosin A purified by treatment with DEAE-cellulose was measured in 0.6 M KCl and at pH 7.0 and 20°. The increase in the —<em>b</em><sub>0</sub> term by 5% was followed by a gradual decrease to 0.88 of the original. The —<em>b</em><sub>0</sub> term of L<sub>1</sub>-meromyosin in 0.6 M KCl and at pH 7.0 and 20% was 575 and was unchanged by the addition of dioxane, ATP of PP<sub>1</sub>. On the other hand, the —<em>b</em><sub>0</sub> term of H<sub>2</sub>-meromyosin in 0.3 M KCl and at pH 7.0 and 20% was 263. It increased by several percent immediately after the addition of 8% dioxane and decreased gradually with time. It increased by several percent on the addition of 4 moles <em>p</em>-chloromercuribenzoate, but decreased by several percent on the addition of 8 moles <em>p</em>-chloromercuribenzoate per 10<sup>5</sup> g protein. It was also decreased by the binding of H<sub>2</sub>-meromyosin with F-actin. ATP increased the —<em>b</em><sub>0</sub> term of H<sub>2</sub>-meromyosin by several percent, though PP<sub>1</sub> decreased the term by several percent. Thus these reagents change the helical content of H<sub>2</sub>-meromyosin in ways similar to the case of myosin A. The extents of the changes in the helical content of H<sub>2</sub>-meromyosin by F-actin and ATP were, however, higher than those observed in myosin A.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":94301,"journal":{"name":"Biochimica et biophysica acta","volume":"78 4","pages":"Pages 690-697"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1963-12-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0006-3002(63)91034-5","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"23673341","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Study of [1-14C]glycine incorporation into extractable and residual glycogen of guinea-pig liver in vivo","authors":"Vishwa Nath Singh , T.A. Venkitasubramanian","doi":"10.1016/0006-3002(63)91045-X","DOIUrl":"10.1016/0006-3002(63)91045-X","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":94301,"journal":{"name":"Biochimica et biophysica acta","volume":"78 4","pages":"Pages 744-746"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1963-12-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0006-3002(63)91045-X","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"23673351","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Action de différents agents réducteurs sur le spectre, à basse température, de fractions subcellulaires de levure","authors":"Thérèse Heyman-Blanchet","doi":"10.1016/0006-3002(63)91052-7","DOIUrl":"10.1016/0006-3002(63)91052-7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":94301,"journal":{"name":"Biochimica et biophysica acta","volume":"78 4","pages":"Pages 762-764"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1963-12-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0006-3002(63)91052-7","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"23673149","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On the internal pH value of bacteria","authors":"Lawrence J. Kadish, Arthur B. Pardee","doi":"10.1016/0006-3002(63)91053-9","DOIUrl":"10.1016/0006-3002(63)91053-9","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":94301,"journal":{"name":"Biochimica et biophysica acta","volume":"78 4","pages":"Pages 764-766"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1963-12-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0006-3002(63)91053-9","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"23673150","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The effect of oxygen on the composition and organisation of the electron transport system of yeast","authors":"D.R. Biggs, Anthony W. Linnane","doi":"10.1016/0006-3002(63)91062-X","DOIUrl":"10.1016/0006-3002(63)91062-X","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":94301,"journal":{"name":"Biochimica et biophysica acta","volume":"78 4","pages":"Pages 785-788"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1963-12-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0006-3002(63)91062-X","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"23673159","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Changes in free and acetylated amino acids during tobacco mosaic virus multiplication","authors":"Marvin Karasek","doi":"10.1016/0006-3002(63)91030-8","DOIUrl":"10.1016/0006-3002(63)91030-8","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Changes in free and acetylated amino acids have been determined in control and infected tobacco plants during logarithmic tobacco mosaic virus multiplication. An increase in free amino acids occurs in infected tissue in the early stages of tobacco mosaic virus synthesis (72 and 144 h) followed by a decrease after 216 h. Acetylamino acids are not present in infected or in normal plant tissue in amounts that exceed 0.2 μmoles per 100 g of plant tissue. The induction of serine acetylase (acetyl-CoA: <span>L</span>-serine <em>N</em>-acetyltransferase) could not be demonstrated during logarithmic tobacco mosaic virus biosynthesis.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":94301,"journal":{"name":"Biochimica et biophysica acta","volume":"78 4","pages":"Pages 644-648"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1963-12-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0006-3002(63)91030-8","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"23673337","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ascorbic acid-induced fluorescence of a noradrenaline oxidation product","authors":"W.H. Harrison","doi":"10.1016/0006-3002(63)91036-9","DOIUrl":"10.1016/0006-3002(63)91036-9","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Ascorbic acid has been found to induce the fluorescence of an intermediate oxidation product of noradrenaline which is formed in a ferricyanide oxidation. The fluorescence of the product is a function of the ascorbic acid and noradrenaline concentration and at conditions at which the fluorescence of the noradrenaline product is optimal the fluorescence of adrenaline, tested similarly, in negligible. The reaction has a definite pH optimum (pH 6) and the fluorescence of the final product depends on the time of the oxidation. The stability and rate of formation of the noradrenaline product is dependent upon the concentration level of the ascorbic acid and ferricyanide. The reaction shows promise as the basis for a new noradrenaline assay.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":94301,"journal":{"name":"Biochimica et biophysica acta","volume":"78 4","pages":"Pages 705-710"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1963-12-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0006-3002(63)91036-9","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"23673343","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Die abhängigkeit der jodakkumulation in schilddrüsenschnitten von der ionalen zusammensetzung des inkubationsmediums und ihre beeinflussung durch herzglykoside","authors":"H.W. Iff, W. Wilbrandt","doi":"10.1016/0006-3002(63)91037-0","DOIUrl":"10.1016/0006-3002(63)91037-0","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The influence of the external Na<sup>+</sup> and K<sup>+</sup> concentration and of ouabain on I<sup>−</sup> uptake and release was studied in cow-thyroid slices blocked with propylthiouracil. It could be shown that the I<sup>−</sup> transport is dependent on the presence of both Na<sup>+</sup> and K<sup>+</sup> ions. However, the dependence on Na<sup>+</sup> seems to be more direct: the effect of removal of K<sup>+</sup> and of the application of ouabain set in only after a latency period while the effect of Na<sup>+</sup> removal was immediate. The half-time of I<sup>−</sup> release due to removal of Na<sup>+</sup> from the medium was markedly shorter than that due to K<sup>+</sup> removal or that of the release caused by ouabain. However, the half-times in the latter two cases were similar. A thyroid slice kept for a long time under ouabain poisoning in a solution wherein 90% of the Na<sup>+</sup> was replaced by Li<sup>+</sup> was still able to accumulate I<sup>−</sup> for a short time when brought back into a medium of normal Na<sup>+</sup> content in spite of the uninterrupted presence of ouabain. The possible connections between the K<sup>+</sup>-Na<sup>+</sup> transport mechanism and the I<sup>−</sup> transport are discussed.</p><p>In principle two basically different relations can be thought of. Either the I<sup>−</sup> transport is directly coupled with the Na<sup>+</sup>K<sup>+</sup> exchange mechanism or the cation-concentration differences created by the Na<sup>+</sup>K<sup>+</sup> transport system are a prerequisite for the I<sup>−</sup> transport. The present results are taken to favour the latter assumption.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":94301,"journal":{"name":"Biochimica et biophysica acta","volume":"78 4","pages":"Pages 711-725"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1963-12-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0006-3002(63)91037-0","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"23673344","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Changes in D-glucaric acid excretion induced by stimulators of ascorbic acid biosynthesis","authors":"C.A. Marsh, Lorna M. Reid","doi":"10.1016/0006-3002(63)91038-2","DOIUrl":"10.1016/0006-3002(63)91038-2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":94301,"journal":{"name":"Biochimica et biophysica acta","volume":"78 4","pages":"Pages 726-728"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1963-12-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0006-3002(63)91038-2","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"23673345","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Metabolites of p-aminobenzoic acid III. A metabolic pathway of p-aminobenzoic acid resulting in the sequential formation of p-aminobenzyl alcohol and p-hydroxyaniline","authors":"N.H. Sloane, K.G. Untch, A.W. Johnson","doi":"10.1016/0006-3002(63)91024-2","DOIUrl":"10.1016/0006-3002(63)91024-2","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The following sequence of metabolic reactions has been proved by chemical methods to occur in resting cells of acid-fast bacteria: <em>p</em>-aminobenzoic acid → <em>p</em>-aminobenzyl <em>alcohol</em> → <em>p</em>-hydroxyaniline. The first step in this sequence has been demonstrated to be a direct enzymatic reduction by using both ring- and carboxy-<sup>14</sup>C-labeled <em>p</em>-aminobenzoic acid. A synthetic route, which should be of general use, was employed to convert [<sup>14</sup>C]aniline to ring-<sup>14</sup>C-labeled <em>p</em>-aminobenzoic acid. It is suggested that the unique transformation of <em>p</em>-aminobenzyl alcohol to <em>p</em>-hydroxyaniline may be a specific case of a more general mechanism involved in enzymatic hydroxylation of aryl compounds.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":94301,"journal":{"name":"Biochimica et biophysica acta","volume":"78 4","pages":"Pages 588-593"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1963-12-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0006-3002(63)91024-2","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"23673332","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}