Change in the heterogeneous distribution of tubulin isotypes in mitotic microtubules of the sea urchin egg by treatment with microtubule depolymerizing or stabilizing drugs.

abstract：:Significant progress has been made toward our understanding of the basic principle of nucleocytoplasmic transport, and the structure of transport factors, as well as the diversity of nucleocytoplasmic transport pathways. This review outlines the current knowledge of transport, and discusses the problems that remain as...

journal_title：Cell structure and function

authors： Imamoto N

更新日期：2000-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relative fibrin-binding, fibrinolytic and fibrinogenolytic properties of single-chain pro-urokinase, an inactive proenzyme form of human urokinase purified from cultured human kidney cells, and urokinase were compared. The affinity of single-chain pro-urokinase for fibrin was much higher than that of urokinase. In...

journal_title：Cell structure and function

authors： Kasai S,Arimura H,Nishida M,Suyama T

更新日期：1985-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cofilin, a 21kDa actin-binding protein, binds to F-actin in a 1:1 molar ratio of cofilin to actin molecule (Nishida, E., S. Maekawa, and H. Sakai, Biochemistry, 23, 5307-5313, 1984) and is capable of controlling actin polymerization and depolymerization in vitro in a pH-sensitive manner (Yonezawa, N., E. Nishida, and ...

journal_title：Cell structure and function

authors： Yonezawa N,Nishida E,Koyasu S,Maekawa S,Ohta Y,Yahara I,Sakai H

更新日期：1987-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Actin, a major component of microfilaments, is involved in various eukaryotic cellular functions. Over the past two decades, actin fused with fluorescent protein has been used as a probe to detect the organization and dynamics of the actin cytoskeleton in living eukaryotic cells. It is generally assumed that the expre...

journal_title：Cell structure and function

authors： Nagasaki A,T Kijima S,Yumoto T,Imaizumi M,Yamagishi A,Kim H,Nakamura C,Q P Uyeda T

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Multiple type I and II hair keratins are expressed in hair-forming cells but the role of each protein in hair fiber formation remains obscure. In this study, recombinant proteins of human type I hair keratins (K35, K36 and K38) and type II hair keratins (K81 and K85) were prepared using bacterial expression systems. T...

journal_title：Cell structure and function

authors： Honda Y,Koike K,Kubo Y,Masuko S,Arakawa Y,Ando S

更新日期：2014-01-01 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：: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：: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：:Immunoblots of proteins extracted from the skin of a small viviparous fish (Xiphophorus) showed that a monoclonal antibody against human urokinase recognizes multiple molecular weight species of antigens. The immunoaffinity-purified antigens had serine-protease activity for the hydrolysis of a chromogenic substrate an...

journal_title：Cell structure and function

authors： Takahashi K,Wakamatsu Y,Ozato K,Wakayama Y

更新日期：1987-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spindle pole bodies (SPBs) attached to nuclei were isolated from Saccharomyces cerevisiae; they nucleated microtubules to form asters in vitro. This aster-forming activity was stable in 30% dimethylsulfoxide or 10% 2-propanol and could be solubilized with KCl. The KCl extract contained many protein components, which a...

journal_title：Cell structure and function

authors： Yamamoto A,Nagai K,Yamasaki M,Matsuhashi M

更新日期：1990-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A protein phosphatase inhibitor, tautomycin induces blebs on the surface of human myeloid leukemia K562 cells within 10 min. In this paper we examined the cytoskeleton of tautomycin-treated cells. In the presence of tautomycin, cells with blebs turned into segmented forms with smooth surfaces after 15 min and into smo...

journal_title：Cell structure and function

authors： Kurisaki T,Magae J,Nagai K,Hirata A,Kusaka I,Shinji H,Morikawa M,Yoshida T,Isono K,Yamasaki M

更新日期：1993-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Epidermal growth factor (EGF) was derivatized at the amino terminus with N-succinimidyl 3-(2-pyridyldithio)propionate and then cross-linked to the cysteinyl residues of alpha 2-macroglobulin (alpha 2M) via disulfide bonds. The EGF-alpha 2M conjugate delivered EGF into dense lysosomal fractions through binding to alpha...

journal_title：Cell structure and function

authors： Ito F,Ito S,Shimizu N

更新日期：1984-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pericentric regions form epigenetically organized, silent heterochromatin structures that accumulate histone H3 lysine 9 tri-methylation (H3K9me3) and heterochromatin protein 1 (HP1), a methylated H3K9-binding protein. At pericentric regions, Suv39h is the major enzyme that generates H3K9me3. Suv39h also interacts dir...

journal_title：Cell structure and function

authors： Muramatsu D,Kimura H,Kotoshiba K,Tachibana M,Shinkai Y

更新日期：2016-12-03 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：:Developing cultures of dissociated cerebral hemispheres obtained from 18-day-old embryonic rats synthesized, or activated, a myelin-related enzyme, 2',3'-cyclic nucleotide 3'-phosphohydrolase (CNPase). This increase in activity coincided with the onset of myelination. The presence of CNPase in oligodendrocytes and mye...

journal_title：Cell structure and function

authors： Hirano S,Iwasaki-Mutou N,Asou H,Ogawa Y

更新日期：1985-09-01 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：:We have previously shown that mouse L.P3 cells secrete fibronectin and a novel protein, gelatin-non-binding and heparin-binding cell-adhesive protein (GNCP). Here, we screened and characterized cell-adhesive proteins in the conditioned media (CM's) of a series of cell lines growing in a protein- and lipid-free synthet...

journal_title：Cell structure and function

authors： Morita H,Yasumitsu H,Watanabe Y,Miyazaki K,Umeda M

更新日期：1993-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cholera toxin binding sites in frozen sections of rat thymus were studied by indirect immunofluorescence and were found to be localized selectively in the medulla of thymic lobules. By flow cytometric analysis, two populations of thymocytes differing in size and reactivity towards cholera toxin were detected; the smal...

journal_title：Cell structure and function

authors： Bouchon B,Iwamori M,Masago H,Nagai Y

更新日期：1987-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To elucidate the cytotoxic mechanism of tumor necrosis factor (TNF), we isolated TNF-resistant sublines of L929 cells. As compared with L929 cells, TNF-resistant cells retained similar number and affinity of TNF-binding sites, and showed a similar growth rate. TNF stimulated arachidonate release from L929 cells, while...

journal_title：Cell structure and function

authors： Hayakawa M,Oku N,Takagi T,Hori T,Shibamoto S,Yamanaka Y,Takeuchi K,Tsujimoto M,Ito F

更新日期：1991-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The unique Physarum lysophosphatidic acid, PHYLPA, having a cyclopropane in the fatty acid moiety and a cyclic phosphate at C-2 and C-3 positions of the glycerol, inhibited proliferation of human fibroblast cells, TIG-3 and TIG-7, which were cultured in a chemically defined (serum-free) medium. The cells at S- and M-p...

journal_title：Cell structure and function

authors： Murakami-Murofushi K,Kaji K,Kano K,Fukuda M,Shioda M,Murofushi H

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatic stellate cells (HSCs) were changed in their morphology, proliferative activity, and functions by culturing on type I collagen gel, as compared to the culture on polystyrene surface. HSCs have been found to produce extracellular matrix components and matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs). In this study, we have asse...

journal_title：Cell structure and function

authors： Li YL,Sato M,Kojima N,Miura M,Senoo H

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:CD9 and CD63 belong to a tetramembrane-spanning glycoprotein family called tetraspanin, and are involved in a wide variety of cellular processes, but the structure-function relationship of this family of proteins has yet to be clarified. CD9 associates with diphtheria toxin receptor (DTR), which is identical to the me...

journal_title：Cell structure and function

authors： Ryu F,Takahashi T,Nakamura K,Takahashi Y,Kobayashi T,Shida S,Kameyama T,Mekada E

更新日期：2000-10-01 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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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 effects of heavy ion microbeams on muscle fibers isolated from mouse skeletal muscles were examined by electron microscopy. The plasma membranes of heavy ion beam-irradiated areas of muscle fibers showed irregular protrusions and invaginations. In the cytoplasm, an irregular distribution of microfilaments was foun...

journal_title：Cell structure and function

authors： Hino M,Wada S,Tajika Y,Morimura Y,Hamada N,Funayama T,Sakashita T,Kakizaki T,Kobayashi Y,Yorifuji H

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ran is a nuclear Ras-like GTPase that is required for various nuclear events including the bi-directional transport of proteins and ribonucleoproteins through the nuclear pore complex, spindle formation, and reassembly of the nuclear envelope. One of the key regulators of Ran is RanGAP1, a Ran specific GTPase activati...

journal_title：Cell structure and function

authors： Takeda E,Hieda M,Katahira J,Yoneda Y

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00