Chromatin structure with respect to histone signature changes during cell differentiation.

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：: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：:Cultured fibroblasts from patients with Niemann-Pick disease type C (NP-C) are characterized by the lysosomal accumulation of unesterified cholesterol and the inability of low-density lipoprotein (LDL) to stimulate cholesterol esterification, in addition to impaired LDL-mediated down-regulation of LDL receptor activit...

journal_title：Cell structure and function

authors： Ohno K,Nanba E,Nakano T,Inui K,Okada S,Takeshita K

更新日期：1993-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mechanistic target of rapamycin complex 1 (mTORC1) plays a pivotal role in controlling cell growth and metabolism in response to nutrients and growth factors. The activity of mTORC1 is dually regulated by amino acids and growth factor signaling, and amino acid-dependent mTORC1 activity is regulated by mTORC1 interacti...

journal_title：Cell structure and function

authors： Ito S,Nada S,Yamazaki D,Kimura T,Kajiwara K,Miki H,Okada M

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (G-CSF) was highly purified from the serum-free culture medium of RSP -2 X P3 cells. The G-CSF had an apparent molecular weight of 33,000 as determined by high speed gel permeation chromatography, but its molecular weight was decreased to 15,000 by 0.1% sodium dodecyl sulfate. A...

journal_title：Cell structure and function

authors： Tsuneoka K,Shikita M

更新日期：1984-03-01 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：: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：: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：: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：: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：:Previously, we serially transplanted tumors that produced colony-stimulating factor (CSF) into nude mice, who developed marked granulocytosis along with tumor growth; their leukocyte counts reaching approximately one million per cu mm. The numbers of CFU-GM, CFU-E, CFU-Meg, CFU-S and BFU-E were increased in nude mice ...

journal_title：Cell structure and function

authors： Takeda K,Suda T,Sudo T,Miura Y

更新日期：1987-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Skeletal muscle contraction is regulated by a complex of five polypeptides which are stably associated with the actin filament. This complex consists of two proteins: troponin with three subunits (TnC; TnI and TnT) and tropomyosin (a dimer of two chains). Using deletion mutants of TnC, TnI and TnT we determined that e...

journal_title：Cell structure and function

authors： Reinach FC,Farah CS,Monteiro PB,Malnic B

更新日期：1997-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A method has been developed to isolate pure preparations of nuclei in high yield from commercially available viable rice embryos (germ), employing extraction with buffer solution containing glycerol (without detergent) and polyamine, followed by centrifugation on a 30% Percoll cushion. The intactness of the isolated n...

journal_title：Cell structure and function

authors： Yamaguchi J,Lim PY,Aratani K,Akazawa T

更新日期：1992-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, we measured hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) release as one of the functions of mature eosinophils, and utilized it as a quantitative index. We demonstrated that 1) the human eosinophilic leukemia cell line, EoL-1, did not release H2O2 when stimulated with phorbol myristate acetate (PMA), but after culturing wi...

journal_title：Cell structure and function

authors： Ohtsu H,Yamauchi K,Yoshie O,Tanno Y,Saito H,Hayashi N,Takishima T

更新日期：1993-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:tsJT60, a temperature-sensitive (ts) G0-mutant cell line from a Fischer rat, grows normally in the exponential growth phase at 34 degrees C and 39.5 degrees C, but when stimulated with fetal bovine serum (FBS), from the G0 phase they reenter the S phase at 34 degrees C but not at 39.5 degrees C. The ts-block was bypas...

journal_title：Cell structure and function

authors： Ninomiya-Tsuji J,Nakahara Y,Ito C,Akiyama T,Ishibashi S,Ide T

更新日期：1987-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thyroid follicles in vivo are embedded in extracellular matrix (ECM). The composing epithelial cells are in close contact with ECM at the basal side. To examine cell-to-ECM interactions, we studied adhesion, proliferation and differentiation of porcine follicle cells monolayer-cultured on type I and IV collagen, fibro...

journal_title：Cell structure and function

authors： Toda S,Matsumura S,Yonemitsu N,Fujitani N,Terayama K,Funatsumaru S,Sugihara H

更新日期：1995-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A large number of Rab/Ypt-family small GTPases have been identified from higher plants. While some of them can complement yeast ypt mutants, the expression of Arabidopsis Ara4 protein aggravated the growth defect of a subset of ypt mutants, probably because of the titration of common regulator(s) of yeast Ypt proteins...

journal_title：Cell structure and function

authors： Matsuda N,Ueda T,Sasaki Y,Nakano A

更新日期：2000-02-01 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：:Effects of kinase inhibitors on the preprophase band of microtubules in onion (Allium cepa L.) root tip cells were examined. Bundled microtubules in preprophase bands were dispersed on the cell cortex when onion seedlings were incubated with 2.5-5.0 mM 6-dimethylaminopurine. Fifteen min was enough for the bundled micr...

journal_title：Cell structure and function

authors： Nogami A,Mineyuki Y

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The putative ionophoretic action of phosphatidic acid or arachidonic acid metabolites for Ca2+ has offered an attractive explanation for stimulation-coupled mobilization of cytoplasmic Ca2+. We have examined the effects of Ca2+ ionophore and long-chain unsaturated fatty acids on the translocation of Ca2+ across the li...

journal_title：Cell structure and function

authors： Utsumi K,Nobori K,Miyahara M

更新日期：1985-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been shown that in PC12 and its subclone PC12h treatment of the cells with nerve growth factor (NGF) induces a selective decrease in the incorporation of radioactive phosphate into a 100,000-dalton protein, designated in an earlier study as Nsp100, in the subsequent phosphorylation of soluble extracts from cell...

journal_title：Cell structure and function

authors： Hashimoto S,Hagino A

更新日期：1989-02-01 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：:Tritrichomonas foetus strongly agglutinates human erythrocytes, thus suggesting the occurrence of an adhesin associated with its surface. Adherence was observed immediately after mixing of the parasites with erythrocytes and the intensity increased for up to 30 min. Scanning electron microscopy examination of T. foetu...

journal_title：Cell structure and function

authors： da Silva NS,Dias Filho BP,De Souza W

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two types of DNA ligase, I and II, have been purified approximately 4,000-fold from mouse testes and 500-fold from nuclei of mouse spermatocytes. DNA ligase I and II consisted of single polypeptides with molecular weights of 95,000 and 65,000, respectively, according to the estimation by SDS-polyacrylamide gel electro...

journal_title：Cell structure and function

authors： Higashitani A,Tabata S,Endo H,Hotta Y

更新日期：1990-02-01 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：:Hepatic stellate cells (HSCs), a mesenchymal cell type in hepatic parenchyma, have unique features with respect to their cellular origin, morphology, and function. Normal, quiescent HSCs function as major vitamin A-storing cells containing over 80% of total vitamin A in the body to maintain vitamin A homeostasis. HSCs...

journal_title：Cell structure and function

authors： Sato M,Suzuki S,Senoo H

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cells of Euglena gracilis Klebs var. bacillaris Cori mutant W3BUL grown in darkness on Hutner's pH 3.5 medium without agitation accumulate wax ester. These cells have undeveloped proplastid remnants characteristic of this mutant. If these cells are transferred to an inorganic medium and bubbled with 2-3% CO2 in air, t...

journal_title：Cell structure and function

authors： Osafune T,Schiff JA,Hase E

更新日期：1987-10-01 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：: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：: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