Microtubule-stabilizing activity of microtubule-associated proteins (MAPs) is due to increase in frequency of rescue in dynamic instability: shortening length decreases with binding of MAPs onto microtubules.

abstract：:Cytokeratin 8 (CK8) and cytokeratin 19 (CK19) is a specific cytoskeletal component of simple epithelia, including bronchial epithelial cells. We hypothesized that CK8 or CK19 released from epithelial cells may bind to and cause damage to extracellular matrixes through binding of anti-CK8 or anti-CK19 autoantibodies. I...

journal_title：Cell structure and function

authors： Dobashi N,Fujita J,Murota M,Ohtsuki Y,Bandoh S,Ueda Y,Dohmoto K,Hojo S,Nishioka M,Ishida T,Takahara J

更新日期：2000-06-01 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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：:It was recently reported that intravenous administration of phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate (PMA) showed a therapeutic effect in myelocytic leukemia patients. However, we previously observed that, in serum-free conditions, polymorphonuclear leucocytes (PMNs) were killed rapidly by exposure to PMA, suggesting the possi...

journal_title：Cell structure and function

authors： Suzuki K,Kato H,Sakuma Y,Namiki H

更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cultured hepatic stellate cells (HSCs) are known to change their morphology and function with respect to the production of extracellular matrices (ECMs) and matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) in response to ECM components. We examined the regulatory role of the native form of type I collagen fibrils in pro-MMP-2 product...

journal_title：Cell structure and function

authors： Wang DR,Sato M,Li LN,Miura M,Kojima N,Senoo H

更新日期：2003-12-01 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：: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：: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：:Interleukin 2 (IL-2) initiated proliferation of the cells of T-enriched population stimulated with non-mitogenic dose of concanavalin A (Con A), whereas it could not induce proliferation of the cells treated with non-mitogenic lectin wheat germ agglutinin (WGA). Use of monoclonal antibody (MAb) directed against interl...

journal_title：Cell structure and function

authors： Komada H,Nakabayashi H,Hara M,Hara M,Takahashi T,Morita J,Yoshida T,Takanari H,Izutsu K

更新日期：1989-04-01 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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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 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：: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：:To investigate the mechanism of myogenic differentiation, we are using quail myoblast cells (QM cells) transformed with a temperature-sensitive mutant of Rous sarcoma virus (ts-RSV), termed QM-RSV cells. At 35.5 degrees C, a permissive temperature for RSV, QM-RSV cells repeatedly proliferate without differentiation, b...

journal_title：Cell structure and function

authors： Hase H,Hirayama E,Kim J

更新日期：1996-02-01 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：: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：:Marvelous background rejection in total internal reflection fluorescence microscopy (TIR-FM) has made it possible to visualize single-fluorophores in living cells. Cell signaling proteins including peptide hormones, membrane receptors, small G proteins, cytoplasmic kinases as well as small signaling compounds have bee...

journal_title：Cell structure and function

authors： Sako Y,Uyemura T

更新日期：2002-10-01 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：: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