Microtuble organization in Xenopus eggs during the first cleavage and its role in cytokinesis.

abstract：:Epithelial tubules, consisting of the epithelial cell sheet with a central lumen, are the basic structure of many organs. Mechanical forces play an important role in epithelial tubulogenesis; however, little is known about the mechanisms controlling the mechanical forces during epithelial tubule morphogenesis. Solo (a...

journal_title：Cell structure and function

authors： Nishimura R,Kato K,Fujiwara S,Ohashi K,Mizuno K

更新日期：2018-06-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The proto-oncogene c-myc is a multifunctional gene that regulates cell division, cell growth, and apoptosis. Here we report a new function of c-myc: induction of autophagy. Autophagy is a bulk degradation system for intracellular proteins. Autophagy proceeds with characteristic morphologies, which begins with the form...

journal_title：Cell structure and function

authors： Tsuneoka M,Umata T,Kimura H,Koda Y,Nakajima M,Kosai K,Takahashi T,Takahashi Y,Yamamoto A

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mouse FM3A cells propagated well in serum-free medium containing 0.5% serum albumin and 1 microgram of insulin/ml. The vitamin B12 (B12) requirement of the cells depended on the population density. This requirement disappeared when a sufficiently large cell population was present. A combination of 1-100 ng of B12/ml a...

journal_title：Cell structure and function

authors： Matsuya Y,Yamane I

更新日期：1986-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:NBT-II cells on collagen-coated substrates move rapidly and persistently, maintaining a semi-circular shape with a large lamellipodium, in a manner similar to fish keratocytes. The inhibitor of phospholipase D (PLD), n-butanol, completely blocked the migration and disturbed the characteristic localization of actin alo...

journal_title：Cell structure and function

authors： Nagasaki A,Inotsume K,Kanada M,Uyeda TQ

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Acanthamoeba myosin-IA and myosin-IB molecular motors bind to membranes, so they may produce the force to move organelles and membranes along actin filaments. We have determined the rate constants for the actin-activated myosin-I ATPase by pre-steady state kinetic analysis. ATP binds rapidly to myosin-I and dissoc...

journal_title：Cell structure and function

authors： Pollard TD,Ostap EM

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The in vivo structure of the smooth endoplasmic reticulum (ER) was visualized in rat and mouse cerebellar Purkinje cells by using quick-freezing techniques followed by freeze-substitution for ultrathin-sectioning or freeze-fracturing and deep-etching for replicas. High magnification electron microscopy of the ultrathi...

journal_title：Cell structure and function

authors： Kanaseki T,Ikeuchi Y,Tashiro Y

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Stimulation of polymorphonuclear leukocytes (PMN) by tetravalent concanavalin A (alpha-ConA) induces membrane depolarization preceding the onset of superoxide anion (O2-) production. Both divalent and monovalent ConA analogues were studied to evaluate the role of valence. Monovalent ConA (m-ConA) was inactive in stimu...

journal_title：Cell structure and function

authors： Kuroki M,Kamo N,Kobatake Y,Abe Y,Ishii S

更新日期：1986-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Under unfavorable conditions for growth, haploid myxoamoebae of Physarum polycephalum retracted their pseudopodia and changed their cell shape into disk-like form, after which they constructed the cell walls to form microcysts. These morphological changes of haploid cells were associated with changes in intracellular ...

journal_title：Cell structure and function

authors： Shimada Y,Kasakura T,Yokota M,Miyata Y,Murofushi H,Sakai H,Yahara I,Murakami-Murofushi K

更新日期：1992-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Histone chaperones are a group of histone-binding proteins that facilitate the assembly of nucleosomes, the fundamental structural units of chromatin in eukaryotes. In nucleosome assembly, deposition of a histone H3-H4 tetramer onto DNA is the first and critical step, which is mediated by the histone chaperones HIRA a...

journal_title：Cell structure and function

authors： Zhu R,Iwabuchi M,Ohsumi K

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The change in distribution of centrosomal phosphoproteins was examined in sea urchin eggs from fertilization to the first cleavage by immunofluorescence staining with the anti-phosphoprotein antibodies, MPM-1 and MPM-2. The antibodies reacted with female pronuclei in unfertilized eggs as well as centriolar complexes l...

journal_title：Cell structure and function

authors： Kuriyama R,Rao PN,Borisy GG

更新日期：1990-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:tsJT60 is a nonlethal temperature-sensitive (ts) mutant of a Fischer rat cell line (3Y1) classified as a G0 mutant; i.e., the ts defect is not expressed within the cell growth cycle but is expressed only between the G0 and S phase. tsJT60 clones transformed with oncogenes such as adenovirus E1A, polyoma large T, polyo...

journal_title：Cell structure and function

authors： Tai YY,Ninomiya-Tsuji J,Furuoku K,Ogawa N,Ishibashi S,Shiroki K,Segawa K,Tsuchida N,Shibuya M,Ide T

更新日期：1990-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Newly prepared phosphatidylethanolamine (PE) conjugates of glycosaminoglycans (GAGs) enabled us to immobilize GAGs to solid phase through hydrophobic interaction. Using these compounds, called GAG-PEs, we studied the effects of GAGs immobilized to culture plates coated with various extracellular matrix (ECM) proteins ...

journal_title：Cell structure and function

authors： Kato S,Sugiura N,Kimata K,Kujiraoka T,Toyoda J,Akamatsu N

更新日期：1995-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two monoclonal antibodies against alpha-tubulin (YL1/2 and D2D6) were microinjected into the egg of the sand dollar Clypeaster japonicus, and their effects on cleavage of the egg were investigated. They had already been shown by immunoblotting to react specifically with egg tubulin and by immunofluorescence to stain t...

journal_title：Cell structure and function

authors： Oka MT,Arai T,Hamaguchi Y

更新日期：1990-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A strain of Saccharomyces cerevisiae that contains an integrated copy of a Xenopus cyclin A1 gene under the control of the GAL1 promoter has been constructed. On inducing expression of cyclin A1, the nuclear migration that occurs prior to division becomes aberrant. Instead of migrating to the neck between the mother c...

journal_title：Cell structure and function

authors： Sikder H,Funakoshi M,Nishimoto T,Kobayashi H

更新日期：1997-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The endolymphatic sac (ES) is believed to play an important role in maintaining homeostasis in the inner ear by the absorption and endocytosis of endolymph. Megalin is a 600-kDa multiligand endocytic receptor expressed in certain types of absorptive epithelia including kidney proximal tubules. We analyzed the immunore...

journal_title：Cell structure and function

authors： Ishida T,Hatae T,Nishi N,Araki N

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The precise control of spindle microtubule (MT) dynamics is essential for chromosome capture and alignment. Kif18A/kinesin-8, an essential regulator of kinetochore MT dynamics, accumulates at its plus-ends in metaphase but not prometaphase cells. The underlying mechanism of time-dependent and kinetochore MT-specific p...

journal_title：Cell structure and function

authors： Masuda N,Shimodaira T,Shiu SJ,Tokai-Nishizumi N,Yamamoto T,Ohsugi M

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human keratinocytes have been serially cultivated in low (0.015 mM) and high (1.8 mM) calcium containing medium. The calcium concentration of the growth medium significantly influenced the cell growth period in vitro. Cells grown in low calcium medium underwent 35-40 population doublings over 16-17 passages, while cel...

journal_title：Cell structure and function

authors： Rockwell GA,Johnson G,Sibatani A

更新日期：1987-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:G0-arrested human diploid fibroblasts, TIG-1, was stimulated to induce DNA synthesis by serum, epidermal growth factor (EGF), colchicine, colcemid, or 12-O-tetradecanoylphorbol-13-acetate (TPA). The induction of DNA synthesis was mediated by protein kinase C (PKC) when stimulated with TPA but not when stimulated with ...

journal_title：Cell structure and function

authors： Tsuji K,Ueno A,Ide T

更新日期：1991-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The localization of mRNA in neuronal dendrites plays a role in both locally and temporally regulated protein synthesis, which is required for certain forms of synaptic plasticity. RNA granules constitute a dendritic mRNA transport machinery in neurons, which move along microtubules. RNA granules contain densely packed...

journal_title：Cell structure and function

authors： Miki T,Takano K,Yoneda Y

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Here, we would like to point out important milestones in the study of nuclear radial positioning and gene expression during differentiation processes. In addition, changes in the histone signature that significantly precede various differentiation pathways are reviewed. We address the regulatory functions of chromatin...

journal_title：Cell structure and function

authors： Harnicarová Horáková A,Bártová E,Kozubek S

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Addition of hemin to the nuclear reconstitution system of Xenopus interphase egg extract using sperm head chromatin resulted in abnormal pseudonuclei exhibiting flattened membrane patches randomly distributed both on the surface and inside the nuclei. The structures that resembled nuclear pores were observed on these ...

journal_title：Cell structure and function

authors： Nishiyama R,Ikami M,Yamao F,Tsuchida S,Yagura T

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Short-term and long-term (greater than 7 months) cultured astrocytes from 14-day-old rat brain were analyzed for ganglioside content. Analysis of the extracted gangliosides by HPTLC revealed that ganglioside GM1 was absent in 35 days and 235 days cultured astrocytes, and that the predominant ganglioside was GM3, showi...

journal_title：Cell structure and function

authors： Asou H,Hirano S,Uyemura K

更新日期：1989-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In view of the importance of vitamin A in the human immune system and the central role of interleukin-2 (IL-2) in the proliferation of T-lymphocytes, we examined the effects of all-trans-retinoic acid (ATRA) on the protein and gene expression of IL-2 in the human T-cell line HUT-78 when stimulated with either 12-O-tet...

journal_title：Cell structure and function

authors： Goto S,Okada N,Kaneko A,Isemura M

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. Cofilin is an essential actin-regulating protein widely distributed in all eucaryotes. The structure and function of cofilin are conserved during evolution. 2. Cofilin depolymerizes F-actin in vitro at alkaline pH and severs F-actin in vitro at pH lower than 7.3. Overexpression of cofilin in viable cells induced bu...

journal_title：Cell structure and function

authors： Yahara I,Aizawa H,Moriyama K,Iida K,Yonezawa N,Nishida E,Hatanaka H,Inagaki F

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One of the proposed roles of sarcoglycan is to stabilize dystrophin glycoprotein complexes in muscle sarcolemma. Involvement in signal transduction has also been proposed and abnormalities in some sarcoglycan genes are known to be responsible for muscular dystrophy. While characterization of sarcoglycans in muscle has...

journal_title：Cell structure and function

authors： Hashimoto R,Yamaguchi M

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae cells, some aberrant multimembrane-spanning proteins are not transported to the cell surface but form and are accumulated in endoplasmic reticulum (ER)-derived subcompartments, known as the ER-associated compartments (ERACs), which are observed as puncta under fluorescence microscopy....

journal_title：Cell structure and function

authors： Mai TC,Ishiwata-Kimata Y,Le QG,Kido H,Kimata Y

更新日期：2019-11-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The distribution of Ca2+ in dividing cells of the maize root tip was examined by potassium pyroantimonate precipitation and EGTA treatment methods. Ca2+ was found in most of the cell organelles, such as the matrix of the mitochondria, the thylakoid membrane of the proplastid and the Golgi vesicles, and on the plasma m...

journal_title：Cell structure and function

authors： Sakai-Wada A,Yagi S

更新日期：1993-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many studies on in vitro transformation of human cells indicate that the cells must be immortalized before they can be neoplastically transformed, indicating that immortalization is a critical step in multistep neoplastic transformation of human cells. We immortalized three human cell lines by repeated treatment with ...

journal_title：Cell structure and function

authors： Mihara K,Iijima M,Kondo T,Namba M

更新日期：1996-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA-dependent protein kinase (DNA-PK), consisting of the 470-kDa catalytic component (DNA-PKcs) and the DNA-binding regulatory component Ku protein (p70/p80), catalyzes phosphorylation of a variety of DNA replication/transcription/repair factors in the presence of double-stranded DNA. In the resting states of human pe...

journal_title：Cell structure and function

authors： Nagasawa M,Watanabe F,Suwa A,Yamamoto K,Tsukada K,Teraoka H

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To construct recombinant retroviruses with only a single active promoter, we introduced point mutations into the TATA box region of the 3'-LTR, and successfully obtained high-titer virus with sufficient self-inactivating activity. However, the viral titer could not be determined by the number of G418 resistant colonie...

journal_title：Cell structure and function

authors： Miyao Y,Shimizu K,Tamura M,Yamada M,Tamura K,Nakahira K,Kuriyama S,Hayakawa T,Ikenaka K

更新日期：1995-04-01 00:00:00