Le(X) structure enhances myocardial differentiation from embryonic stem cells.

abstract：:Autophagy is a starvation response in eukaryotes by which the cell delivers cytoplasmic components to the vacuole for degradation, and is mediated by a double membrane structure called the autophagosome. We have previously proposed that the specific combination of COPII like components, including Sec24p, is required f...

journal_title：Cell structure and function

authors： Hamasaki M,Noda T,Ohsumi Y

更新日期：2003-02-01 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：: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 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：: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：: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：: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：: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：:Here we describe the design and synthesis of a bifunctional two-photon fluorescence probe, N,N'-‍dimethyl-4,4'-(biphenyl-2,1-ethenediyl)dipyridinium hexafluorophosphate (BP6). HeLa, Hek293, and Paramecium caudatum cells were stained with BP6. BP6 accumulated on the mitochondria of all three cell types when the mitocho...

journal_title：Cell structure and function

authors： Moritomo H,Yamada K,Kojima Y,Suzuki Y,Tani S,Kinoshita H,Sasaki A,Mikuni S,Kinjo M,Kawamata J

更新日期：2014-01-01 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：:The Saccharomyces cerevisiae autophagy-initiation complex, Atg1 kinase complex, consists of Atg1, Atg13, Atg17, Atg29, and Atg31, while the corresponding complex in most other eukaryotes, including mammals, is composed of ULK1 (or ULK2), Atg13, FIP200 (also known as RB1CC1), and Atg101. ULKs are homologs of Atg1, and ...

journal_title：Cell structure and function

authors： Noda NN,Mizushima N

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been suggested that the organization of microtubules during mitosis plays an important role in cytokinesis in animal cells. We studied the organization of microtubules during the first cleavage and its role in cytokinesis of Xenopus eggs. First, we examined the immunofluorescent localization of microtubules in ...

journal_title：Cell structure and function

authors： Takayama M,Noguchi T,Yamashiro S,Mabuchi I

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mouse FM3A cells propagated well in serum-free medium containing 0.5% serum albumin and 1 microgram of insulin/ml. The vitamin B12 (B12) requirement of the cells depended on the population density. This requirement disappeared when a sufficiently large cell population was present. A combination of 1-100 ng of B12/ml a...

journal_title：Cell structure and function

authors： Matsuya Y,Yamane I

更新日期：1986-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Epithelial tubules, consisting of the epithelial cell sheet with a central lumen, are the basic structure of many organs. Mechanical forces play an important role in epithelial tubulogenesis; however, little is known about the mechanisms controlling the mechanical forces during epithelial tubule morphogenesis. Solo (a...

journal_title：Cell structure and function

authors： Nishimura R,Kato K,Fujiwara S,Ohashi K,Mizuno K

更新日期：2018-06-02 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：: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：:Here we report a new method of isolating epidermal desmosomes from Xenopus laevis, and a major constituent of desmosomes designated as Xenopus desmogleins (XDsg). Isolation of desmosomes from Xenopus laevis epidermis was carried out by a two step-incubation with different concentrations of NP-40. After discontinuous s...

journal_title：Cell structure and function

authors： Ohga R,Shida M,Shida H

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To study the effects of surface materials of cells on the behavior of other neighboring cells in a crowded culture, confluent sheets of rat 3Y1 fibroblasts were fixed and then 3Y1 cells were seeded on to them. Among confluent sheets unfixed, fixed with formalin and fixed with ethanol and an empty plastic dish surface,...

journal_title：Cell structure and function

authors： Okuda A,Sasaki M,Kimura G

更新日期：1990-10-01 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：:tsJT60 is a nonlethal temperature-sensitive (ts) mutant of a Fischer rat cell line (3Y1) classified as a G0 mutant; i.e., the ts defect is not expressed within the cell growth cycle but is expressed only between the G0 and S phase. tsJT60 clones transformed with oncogenes such as adenovirus E1A, polyoma large T, polyo...

journal_title：Cell structure and function

authors： Tai YY,Ninomiya-Tsuji J,Furuoku K,Ogawa N,Ishibashi S,Shiroki K,Segawa K,Tsuchida N,Shibuya M,Ide T

更新日期：1990-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We constructed a fusion protein of the cell-binding domain of human fibronectin and human basic fibroblast growth factor, and prepared a polypeptide with both cell-adhesive activity and growth factor activity. A human gene fragment coding for basic fibroblast growth factor was amplified by the polymerase chain reactio...

journal_title：Cell structure and function

authors： Hashi H,Hatai M,Kimizuka F,Kato I,Yaoi Y

更新日期：1994-02-01 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：:The transcription factor ATF6 is constitutively synthesized as a type II transmembrane protein embedded in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER). When unfolded proteins accumulate in the ER, ATF6 senses such ER stress via an as yet undetermined mechanism and relocates to the Golgi apparatus where it is cleaved by sequential ...

journal_title：Cell structure and function

authors： Sato Y,Nadanaka S,Okada T,Okawa K,Mori K

更新日期：2011-01-01 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：: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：: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：: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

abstract：:Short-term and long-term (greater than 7 months) cultured astrocytes from 14-day-old rat brain were analyzed for ganglioside content. Analysis of the extracted gangliosides by HPTLC revealed that ganglioside GM1 was absent in 35 days and 235 days cultured astrocytes, and that the predominant ganglioside was GM3, showi...

journal_title：Cell structure and function

authors： Asou H,Hirano S,Uyemura K

更新日期：1989-10-01 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：: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