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Sakaba Tomoka Soejima Akiko Fujii Shinji Ikeda Hajime Iwasaki Takaya Saito Hiroaki Suyama Yoshihisa Matsuo Ayumi Kozhevnikov Andrey E. Kozhevnikova Zoya V. Wang Hongfeng Wang Siqi Pak Jae-Hong Fujii Noriyuki 《Journal of plant research》2023,136(4):437-452
Journal of Plant Research - A group of temperate grassland plant species termed the “Mansen elements” occurs in Japan and is widely distributed in the grasslands of continental East... 相似文献
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Aruto Yoshida Tomoka Hara Hiroshi Ikenaga Makoto Takeuchi 《Glycoconjugate journal》1995,12(6):824-828
By employing a bovine UDP-N-acetylgalactosamine: polypeptideN-acetylgalactosaminyl transferase (O-GalNAc transferase) cDNA as a probe, we isolated four overlapping cDNAs from a porcine lung cDNA library. Both the nucleotide sequence of the porcine cDNA and the predicted primary structure of the protein (559 amino acids) proved to be very similar to those of the bovine enzyme (95% and 99% identity, respectively). Transient expression of the clone in COS-7 cells, followed by enzymatic activity assays, demonstrated that this cDNA sequence encodes a porcine O-GalNAc transferase. The intracellular O-GalNAc transferase activity was increased approximately 100-fold by transfecting cells with the porcine cDNA.Abbreviations O-GalNAc transferase
UDP-N-acetylgalactosamine: polypeptideN-acetylgalactosaminyltransferase
- PCR
polymerase chain reaction
- SDS
sodium dodecyl sulfate
- PAGE
polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis
- GnT-III
UDP-N-acetylglucosamine: -mannoside -1,4N-acetylglucosaminyltransferase III 相似文献
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Effective population control of Japanese wild boar (Sus scrofa leucomystax) requires reliable information about population dynamics. Fertility rate is the fundamental component of reproduction to evaluate population dynamics. However, little is known regarding the fertility rate of Japanese wild boar. The traditional hunting practices make it difficult to obtain pregnant females and calculate the fertility rate by checking fetuses as is performed in other countries. Therefore, we focused on the corpora albicans (CA) as the CA remains in the ovaries of postpartum females after pregnancy. This study aimed to evaluate the utility of CA and estimate the fertility rate of Japanese wild boars using CA. Histological analysis of ovaries enabled us to discriminate type 1 CA, which remains for 1 year after breeding. Type 1 CA is a superior indicator compared with lactation in the non-pregnancy season because it allows verification of postpartum females over a long period. The fertility rate was calculated by the combination of pregnant and postpartum females using fetuses and type 1 CA from April to November. The fertility rate of the females captured after the second pregnancy season was 90.3 % during the pregnancy period and 100 % during the non-pregnancy period. The high fertility rate of adult females suggests that intensive adult female harvesting is needed. Our new method to determine fertility rates contributes to developing a monitoring system to adequately control Japanese wild boar population. 相似文献
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Taurine inhibits apoptosis by preventing formation of the Apaf-1/caspase-9 apoptosome 总被引:5,自引:0,他引:5
Takatani T Takahashi K Uozumi Y Shikata E Yamamoto Y Ito T Matsuda T Schaffer SW Fujio Y Azuma J 《American journal of physiology. Cell physiology》2004,287(4):C949-C953
Cardiomyocyte apoptosis contributes to cell death during myocardial infarction. One of the factors that regulate the degree of apoptosis during ischemia is the amino acid taurine. To study the mechanism underlying the beneficial effect of taurine, we examined the interaction between taurine and mitochondria-mediated apoptosis using a simulated ischemia model with cultured rat neonatal cardiomyocytes sealed in closed flasks. Exposure to medium containing 20 mM taurine reduced the degree of apoptosis following periods of ischemia varying from 24 to 72 h. In the untreated group, simulated ischemia for 24 h led to mitochondrial depolarization accompanied by cytochrome c release. The apoptotic cascade was also activated, as evidenced by the activation of caspase-9 and -3. Taurine treatment had no effect on mitochondrial membrane potential and cytochrome c release; however, it inhibited ischemia-induced cleavage of caspase-9 and -3. Taurine loading also suppressed the formation of the Apaf-1/caspase-9 apoptosome and the interaction of caspase-9 with Apaf-1. These findings demonstrate that taurine effectively prevents myocardial ischemia-induced apoptosis by inhibiting the assembly of the Apaf-1/caspase-9 apoptosome. ischemia; cultured cardiomyocytes 相似文献
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Hu X Fukutani A Liu X Kimbara K Kawai F 《Applied microbiology and biotechnology》2007,73(6):1407-1413
Two bacterial consortia growing on a random copolymer of ethylene glycol and propylene glycol units were obtained by enrichment
cultures from various microbial samples. Six major strains included in both consortia were purified and identified as Sphingomonads,
Pseudomonas sp. and Stenotrophomonas maltophilia. Three of them (Sphingobium sp. strain EK-1, Sphingopyxis macrogoltabida strain EY-1, and Pseudomonas sp. strain PE-2) utilized both PEG and polypropylene glycol (PPG) as a sole carbon source. Four PEG-utilizing bacteria had
PEG dehydrogenase (PEG-DH) activity, which was induced by PEG. PCR products from DNA of these bacteria generated with primers
designed from a PEG-DH gene (AB196775 for S. macrogoltabida strain 103) indicated the presence of a sequence that is the homologous to the PEG-DH gene (99% identity). On the other hand,
five PPG-utilizing bacteria had PPG dehydrogenase (PPG-DH) activity, but the activity was constitutive. PCR of a PPG-DH gene
was performed using primers designed from a polyvinyl alcohol dehydrogenase (PVA-DH) gene (AB190288 for Sphingomonas sp. strain 113P3) because a PPG-DH gene has not been cloned yet, but both PPG-DH and PVA-DH were active toward PPG and PVA
(Mamoto et al. 2006). PCR products of the five strains did not have similarity to each other or to oxidoreductases including PVA-DH.
The paper was edited by a native speaker through American Journal Experts (http://www.journalexperts.com). 相似文献
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Hiroki Takagi Shintaro Sugawara Tomoka Saito Haruka Tasaki Lu Yuanxue Guan Kaiyun Dong-Sheng Han Toshinari Godo Masaru Nakano 《Plant biotechnology reports》2011,5(2):187-195
The gesneriaceous perennial plant Titanotrichum oldhamii has beautiful foliage and attractive bright yellow flowers. However, breeding of T. oldhamii by conventional sexual hybridization may be difficult because sexual reproduction of this species is very rare. In the present
study, plant regeneration systems via both direct and indirect formation of adventitious shoots from leaf explants were established
as the first step toward breeding T. oldhamii by using biotechnological techniques. Adventitious shoots were formed efficiently on medium containing 0.1 mg l−1 benzyladenine. Histological observation showed that shoot formation on this medium occurred directly from leaf epidermal
cells without callus formation. On the other hand, leaf explants formed calluses on medium containing 0.1 mg l−1 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid. The calluses could be maintained by monthly subculturing to fresh medium of the same composition.
When the calluses were transferred to plant growth regulator-free medium, they formed adventitious shoots. Directly and indirectly
formed shoots rooted well on medium containing 0.1 mg l−1 indole-3-butyric acid. Plantlets thus obtained were successfully acclimatized and grew vigorously in the greenhouse. Flow
cytometry analysis indicated that no variation in the ploidy level was observed in plants regenerated via direct shoot formation,
whereas chromosome doubling occurred in several plants regenerated via indirect shoot formation. Regenerated plants with the
same ploidy level as the mother plants showed almost the same phenotype as the mother plants, whereas chromosome-doubled plants
showed apparent morphological alterations: they had small and crispate flowers, and round and deep green leaves. 相似文献
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N-cadherin-mediated cell adhesion determines the plasticity for cell alignment in response to mechanical stretch in cultured cardiomyocytes 总被引:2,自引:0,他引:2
Matsuda T Takahashi K Nariai T Ito T Takatani T Fujio Y Azuma J 《Biochemical and biophysical research communications》2005,326(1):228-232
Mechanical stretch has been implicated as the growth stimuli in the heart. Physiologically, mechanical stretch is reported to contribute to the orientation of cardiomyocytes, though the molecular mechanism remains to be elucidated. This study was designed to make clear functional significances of N-cadherin in plasticity of cell alignment in response to mechanical stretch. Neonatal rat cardiomyocytes, cultured on silicone dishes, were subjected to artificial uniaxial cyclic stretch. Mechanical stretch was started at certain times (3-75h) after seeding and continued for 24h. Stretch stimulation in 3h after cultivation promoted cell orientation running parallel to tension direction. In contrast, cardiac myocytes fail to align when exposed to stretch 24-75h after cultivation. To address the importance of N-cadherin in the responsiveness to stretch, the expression and distribution of N-cadherin were analyzed. Immediately after seeding, N-cadherin showed dispersed distributions. During cultivation, N-cadherin localized to cell-cell contacts accompanied by the upregulation of its protein. Next, to investigate influence of cell-cell adhesion, cardiomyocytes cultured for 72h were replated by trypsin treatment and exposed to stretch 3h after replating. The cardiomyocytes replated by trypsinization were oriented in parallel to tension direction by mechanical stretch. Finally, adenoviral transfection of dominant-negative N-cadherin recovered the ability to exhibit cell orientation in response to stretch. Our results suggested that N-cadherin was involved in the oriented responses of cardiomyocytes induced by mechanical stretch. 相似文献
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Taurine prevents the ischemia-induced apoptosis in cultured neonatal rat cardiomyocytes through Akt/caspase-9 pathway 总被引:7,自引:0,他引:7
Takatani T Takahashi K Uozumi Y Matsuda T Ito T Schaffer SW Fujio Y Azuma J 《Biochemical and biophysical research communications》2004,316(2):484-489
Activated Akt kinase has been proposed as a central role in suppressing apoptosis by modulating the activities of Bcl-2 family proteins and/or caspase-9. To study the mechanism underlying the anti-apoptotic effect of taurine, the interaction between taurine and Akt/caspase-9 pathway was examined using a simulated ischemia model with cultured rat neonatal cardiomyocytes sealed in closed flasks. Taurine (20mM) treatment attenuated simulated ischemia-induced decline in the activity of Akt. Although taurine treatment had no effect on the expression of Bcl-2 in mitochondria and the level of cytosolic cytochrome c, it inhibited ischemia-induced cleavage of caspases 9 and 3. Moreover, adenovirus transfer of the dominant negative form of Akt objected taurine-mediated anti-apoptotic effects, cancelling the suppression of caspase-9 and caspase-3 activities by taurine. These findings provide the first evidence that taurine inhibits ischemia-induced apoptosis in cardiac myocytes with the increase in Akt activities, by inactivating caspase-9. 相似文献
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Fukutani Y Nakamura T Yorozu M Ishii J Kondo A Yohda M 《Biotechnology and bioengineering》2012,109(1):205-212
For the development of a biomimetic odor-sensing system, we investigated the effects of replacing the N-terminus of an olfactory receptor (OR) on its functional expression in the budding yeast, Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Using the mouse olfactory receptor OR226 (mOR226), three types of chimeric ORs were constructed by replacing N-terminal regions of mOR226 with the corresponding regions of the rat I7 receptor, which is known to be functionally expressed in yeast. The replacement of the N-terminal region of mOR226 dramatically affected the expression and localization of the receptor and improved the sensing ability of the yeast cells for the odorant. Furthermore, the replacement of the endogenous yeast G-protein α subunit (Gpa1) by the OR-specific G(olf) drastically elevated the odorant-sensing ability of the yeast cells and caused the cells to display a dose-dependent responsiveness to the odorant. Because of the suitability of yeast cells for screening large-scale libraries, the strategy presented here would be useful for the establishment of advanced biomimetic odor-sensing systems. 相似文献
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