Hepatic stellate cells: unique characteristics in cell biology and phenotype.

abstract：:We earlier discovered a novel 40-kDa protein (hsp40) induced by heat shock and other stresses in mammalian and avian cells. In this report, we purified the hsp40 in HeLa cells, using modified two-dimensional gel electrophoresis, and determined the amino terminal amino acid sequence of this protein. The hsp40 is homolo...

journal_title：Cell structure and function

authors： Hattori H,Liu YC,Tohnai I,Ueda M,Kaneda T,Kobayashi T,Tanabe K,Ohtsuka K

更新日期：1992-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ETS family of transcription factors is defined by a conserved DNA-binding ETS domain that forms a winged helix-turn-helix structural motif. This family of transcription factors is involved in a diverse array of biological functions including cellular growth and differentiation, as well as organ development. Among ...

journal_title：Cell structure and function

authors： Sato Y

更新日期：2001-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mouse embryonic stem (mES) cells can be maintained in undifferentiated state in the presence of a cytokine, leukemia inhibitory factor (LIF). Many investigators found that STAT3 activation is important for the maintenance of pluripotency by LIF. However, the downstream pathways of STAT3 activation are still unknown. T...

journal_title：Cell structure and function

authors： Ko SY,Kang HY,Lee HS,Han SY,Hong SH

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Retinoids (retinoic acid and its analogs) are widely involved in the control of cell proliferation, cell differentiation and embryonic development. A series of potent and novel synthetic retinoids named retinobenzoic acids has been developed. Retinobenzoic acids have proven to be useful tools in the investigation of t...

journal_title：Cell structure and function

authors： Hashimoto Y

更新日期：1991-04-01 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：:Distribution of peanut agglutinin binding sites was studied histologically with horseradish peroxidase labelled and fluorescein isothiocyanate labelled peanut agglutinin in terms of cell differentiation in rat lymphatic organs, (thymus, spleen, lymph nodes). In this study, alcohol-fixed paraffin-embedded tissue sectio...

journal_title：Cell structure and function

authors： Kabir A,Watanabe M,Takeda Z,Kizaki T,Urano Y

更新日期：1983-03-01 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：:The fine structural localization of albumin in rat liver parenchymal cells was determined by an improved immunocytochemical method and serial sectioning. Albumin in the secretory apparatus of the parenchymal cells was present in segments of the rough endoplasmic reticulum, interrupted with negative segments, in transp...

journal_title：Cell structure and function

authors： Yokota S,Fahimi DH

更新日期：1987-06-01 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：:In the present study, we compared the abilities of ricin and diphtheria toxin to induce apoptosis in Vero cells. The cytolysis and DNA fragmentation by ricin paralleled its protein synthesis inhibitory activity. However, unlike ricin, diphtheria toxin could induce neither cytolysis nor DNA fragmentation in Vero cells ...

journal_title：Cell structure and function

authors： Kusano I,Kageyama A,Tamura T,Oda T,Muramatsu T

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We used a morphological approach to determine the topogenic role of the signal peptide in mediating the ER translocation of yeast prepro-alpha-factor. In prepro-alpha-factor-somatostatin hybrids, changes in the N-terminal amino acid sequence from wild-type NH2-Met-Arg-Phe (MRF) to NH2-Met-Phe-Lys (MFK) caused a subtle...

journal_title：Cell structure and function

authors： Cheong KH,Park SD,Kim J,Hong SH

更新日期：1997-06-01 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：:The purpose of the present study is to analyze the effect of serum or chick embryo extract (CEE) on the neuronal differentiation of the mouse neural crest cells. When the crest cells were cultured in the medium containing serum at low concentration (5% calf serum), neurite outgrowth was observed. The active outgrowth ...

journal_title：Cell structure and function

authors： Ito K,Morita T,Takeuchi T

更新日期：1988-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vascular endothelial cells possess antithrombotic properties, which are determined by the balance between plasminogen activators (PAs) and PA inhibitors (PAls). A cell line, TKM-33, has been established and cloned from human umbilical vein endothelial cells, was previously reported to produce a large amount of urokina...

journal_title：Cell structure and function

authors： Ueshima S,Matsumoto H,Izaki S,Mitsui Y,Fukao H,Okada K,Matsuo O

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Myofibril assembly requires the cell to join diverse components, correctly oriented to the rest of the cell. Titin, a huge elastic protein with a role in myogenesis, assembles during translation in vivo and may require spatially organized mRNA to allow assembly. By immunofluorescence, we examined titin and myosin prot...

journal_title：Cell structure and function

authors： Fulton AB,Alftine C

更新日期：1997-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To evaluate the role of VAMP8/endobrevin in constitutive exocytosis, we have examined the exocytotic pathways of VAMP8 and human growth hormone, both GFP-tagged, by total internal reflection fluorescence microscopy (TIRF-M). Human GH-GFP and VAMP8-GFP were similarly expressed in small round vesicles and elongated tubu...

journal_title：Cell structure and function

authors： Okayama M,Arakawa T,Tanimura A,Mizoguchi I,Tajima Y,Takuma T

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have demonstrated simultaneous measurement of the membrane potential and cytoplasmic free Ca2+ concentration ([Ca2+]i) by utilizing a dual-laser flow cytometer in embryonic rat hippocampal cell suspensions. Veratrine, a Na+ channel activator, induced both membrane depolarization and elevation of [Ca2+]i. These acti...

journal_title：Cell structure and function

authors： Mitsumoto Y,Mohri T

更新日期：1989-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:High voltage electric pulses, 1000 V/cm, were found to induce cell fusion efficiently when delivered to cells growing in a monolayer culture. The maximum yield of fused cells was about 30% of cells remaining after treatment. Colonies of interspecies hybrid cells between mouse and others also appeared with a frequency ...

journal_title：Cell structure and function

authors： Ishizaki K,Chang HR,Eguchi T,Ikenaga M

更新日期：1989-04-01 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：: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：:Staurosporine has been reported to cause arrest of cells in G1 phase at low concentration and in G2 phase at high concentration. This raises the question of why the effects of staurosporine on the cell cycle depend on the applied concentration. In order to verify these multiple functions of staurosporine in Meth-A cel...

journal_title：Cell structure and function

authors： Zong ZP,Fujikawa-Yamamoto K,Li AL,Yamaguchi N,Chang YG,Murakami M,Odashima S,Ishikawa Y

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tenascin-C is an oligomeric glycoprotein of the extracellular matrix that has been found to have both adhesive and anti-adhesive properties for cells. Recent elucidation of the two major TNC splice variants (320 kDa and 220 kDa) has shed light on the possibility of varying functions of the molecule based on its splici...

journal_title：Cell structure and function

authors： Ghert MA,Qi WN,Erickson HP,Block JA,Scully SP

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The amount of free calcium in the cytoplasm is important in stimulation coupled with a number of cellular functions. The putative ionophoretic action of membrane lipid metabolites on Ca2+ offers convenient explanation of the stimulation-coupled mobilization of cytoplasmic Ca2+. To analyze the ionophoretic action of th...

journal_title：Cell structure and function

authors： Utsumi K,Nobori K,Terada S,Miyahara M,Utsumi T

更新日期：1985-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When spores of Dictyostelium discoideum matured through normal development were stained with rhodamine-phalloidin, rod-shaped fluorescence was found across the nucleus and in the cytoplasm. Electron micrographs of the rod shape showed that it consisted of long and straight fibers 12 nm in diameter. In contrast, a conv...

journal_title：Cell structure and function

authors： Sameshima M,Chijiiwa Y,Kishi Y,Hashimoto Y

更新日期：1994-08-01 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：:When human erythroleukemia cells (K562) were exposed to phorbol-12-myristate 13-acetate (PMA), phosphorylation of transferrin receptors was enhanced 5-fold with 10(-7) M PMA and 7-fold with 10(-6) M PMA, but not with 4 alpha-phorbol (5 X 10(-7) M). Stimulation took place in serine residues in the cytoplasmic domain of...

journal_title：Cell structure and function

authors： Kohno H,Taketani S,Tokunaga R

更新日期：1985-06-01 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

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：:The discovery of fluorescent proteins (FPs) has revolutionized cell biology. The fusion of targeting sequences to FPs enables the investigation of cellular organelles and their dynamics; however, occasionally, such fluorescent fusion proteins (FFPs) exhibit behavior different from that of the native proteins. Here, we...

journal_title：Cell structure and function

authors： Kashiwagi S,Fujioka Y,Satoh AO,Yoshida A,Fujioka M,Nepal P,Tsuzuki A,Aoki O,Paudel S,Sasajima H,Ohba Y

更新日期：2019-12-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The amount of intact 40S rRNA precursor was followed by Northern hybridization in the course of the early embryogenesis of wild-type Xenopus laevis and its anucleolate mutant. The total amount of 40S rRNA precursor did not alter appreciably until the midblastula stage, decreased at the late blastula stage, and then in...

journal_title：Cell structure and function

authors： Furuno N,Shiokawa K,Kobayashi H

更新日期：1988-04-01 00:00:00