The WD40 Domain of HIRA Is Essential for RI-nucleosome Assembly in Xenopus Egg Extracts.

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：: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：: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 involvement of actin filaments from the host cell on the process of invasion of trypomastigote forms of Trypanosma cruzi was analyzed in seven different cell lines. Prior incubation of all cell lines with cytochalasin D, under conditions which interfere with actin filaments, markedly inhibited parasite internaliza...

journal_title：Cell structure and function

authors： Rosestolato CT,Dutra Jda M,De Souza W,de Carvalho TM

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the mitotic sea urchin egg, the spindle microtubules were composed of different tubulin isotypes from those of astral microtubules using monoclonal antibodies [Oka et al. (1990) Cell Motil. Cytoskeleton, 16, 239-250]. Three of the antibodies, D2D6, DM1B, and YL1/2, were specific for spindle microtubules, astral mic...

journal_title：Cell structure and function

authors： Oka MT,Arai T,Hamaguchi Y

更新日期：1991-04-01 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：:Microtubules are intrinsically dynamic polymers. Two kinds of dynamic behaviors, dynamic instability and treadmilling, are important for microtubule function in cells. Both dynamic behaviors appear to be tightly regulated, but the cellular molecules and the mechanisms responsible for the regulation remain largely unex...

journal_title：Cell structure and function

authors： Wilson L,Panda D,Jordan MA

更新日期：1999-10-01 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：: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：: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：:Genomics and proteomics studies in Chlamydomonas have revealed that an axoneme is composed of 200-600 types of proteins, including uncharacterized proteins collectively named flagellar-associated proteins (FAPs). Nine FAPs contain the EF-hand motif; however, they have not yet been well characterized. To find component...

journal_title：Cell structure and function

authors： Kirima J,Oiwa K

更新日期：2018-02-16 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：:Contact reaction is the morphological expression of allogeneic recognition by hemocytes in the ascidian, Halocynthia roretzi; namely they undergo an exocytotic burst upon contact with non-self (allogeneic) hemocytes in vitro. We have found that contact reaction is accompanied by a burst of cyanide-insensitive oxygen c...

journal_title：Cell structure and function

authors： Akita N,Hoshi M

更新日期：1995-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have found that 1,9-Dideoxyforskolin (DDF) strongly inhibited the cell death induced by ricin, modeccin, Pseudomonas toxin, and diphtheria toxin in MDCK cells, suggesting that these protein toxins have a DDF-sensitive common pathway leading to cell death. However, no significant effect of forskolin on these toxins ...

journal_title：Cell structure and function

authors： Oda T,Komatsu N,Muramatsu T

更新日期：1997-10-01 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：:Two methods of qualitative analysis of sequence distribution in DNA and protein are presented. The first method is based on the finding that the frequency of occurrence of each nucleotide in a defined sequence with functional significance more or less deviates from uniform distribution. The deviation found in this def...

journal_title：Cell structure and function

authors： Kiho Y

更新日期：1988-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Primary hepatocytes were cultured on collagen gel in serum-free, alpha-modified Eagle's minimum essential medium containing 0.1 microM insulin, 0.1 microM dexamethasone, 10 mM pyruvate and supplements such as glucagon, epinephrine or growth hormone. The activities of alkaline phosphatase, 5'-nucleotidase and gamma-glu...

journal_title：Cell structure and function

authors： Horiuti Y,Yano K,Shibuya Y

更新日期：1993-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies have demonstrated that vesicle transport to cleavage furrow is indispensable for cytokinesis. Some animal and plant cells form distinct structures during cell division known as central spindle and phragmoplast, respectively. Several essential factors involved in the vesicle transport have been isolated ...

journal_title：Cell structure and function

authors： Edamatsu M

更新日期：2001-12-01 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

abstract：:A voltage-dependent and Ca2(+)-activated cation channel recently found in the vacuolar membrane of the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae was incorporated into planar lipid bilayers and further characterized in macroscopic and single channel levels. Single channel conductances for various cations were in the order: NH4+ g...

journal_title：Cell structure and function

authors： Sato M,Tanifuji M,Kasai M

更新日期：1989-12-01 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：: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：:Analysis of the amino acid sequence in protein (deviation analysis) suggests that the binding between trypsin and the enveloped virus is the first step of their interaction, which occurs in a specified configuration. It is possible that the distance between their active sites is important for the viral sensitivity to ...

journal_title：Cell structure and function

authors： Kiho Y,Miyata K,Okada Y

更新日期：1989-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cell cycle of HeLa S3 cells synchronized by hydroxyurea was investigated by flow cytometry. Metachromatic fluorochrome acridine orange was used to strain the DNA and RNA of the cells differentially. Periodic changes in the cellular DNA and RNA contents were observed through five cell cycles. The G1 and S phases of...

journal_title：Cell structure and function

authors： Fujikawa-Yamamoto K

更新日期：1983-09-01 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：: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：:Caffeine has been shown to enhance the lethal effect of DNA-damaging agents in mammalian cells, and the potentiation by caffeine of this effect is generally interpreted as the result of inhibition by caffeine of the repair of damaged DNA. However, the mechanism by which caffeine enhances the lethal effect of DNA-damag...

journal_title：Cell structure and function

authors： Ishida R,Kozaki M,Takahashi T

更新日期：1985-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the assembly of the first sarcomeres in chicken embryos by confocal microscopy of immunofluorescently stained whole mount rudiments of early chicken hearts isolated around the onset of beating. In embryos with merely 9 somites, myomesin was found to be present in a cross striated pattern, indicating th...

journal_title：Cell structure and function

authors： Auerbach D,Rothen-Ruthishauser B,Bantle S,Leu M,Ehler E,Helfman D,Perriard JC

更新日期：1997-02-01 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：:Upon tryptic digestion of synaptosomes, ATPase activities decreased in the order of Cl(-)-ATPase greater than or equal to Na+,K+-ATPase greater than anion-insensitive Mg2+-ATPase. Upon synaptosome treatment with hypotonic solution, Cl(-)-ATPase or anion-insensitive Mg2+-ATPase was slightly inactivated, while Na+,K+-AT...

journal_title：Cell structure and function

authors： Kunugi-Uehara Y,Hashimoto Y,Ogura C,Inagaki C,Nishino T

更新日期：1988-04-01 00:00:00