Search Results - "TAKIO, KOJI"
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Plant cells recognize chitin fragments for defense signaling through a plasma membrane receptor
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (18-07-2006)“…Chitin is a major component of fungal cell walls and serves as a molecular pattern for the recognition of potential pathogens in the innate immune systems of…”
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A Lectin from the Mussel Mytilus galloprovincialis Has a Highly Novel Primary Structure and Induces Glycan-mediated Cytotoxicity of Globotriaosylceramide-expressing Lymphoma Cells
Published in The Journal of biological chemistry (28-12-2012)“…A novel lectin structure was found for a 17-kDa α-d-galactose-binding lectin (termed “MytiLec”) isolated from the Mediterranean mussel, Mytilus…”
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Crystal Structure of Squid Rhodopsin with Intracellularly Extended Cytoplasmic Region
Published in The Journal of biological chemistry (27-06-2008)“…G-protein-coupled receptors play a key step in cellular signal transduction cascades by transducing various extracellular signals via G-proteins. Rhodopsin is…”
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Autotaxin Has Lysophospholipase D Activity Leading to Tumor Cell Growth and Motility by Lysophosphatidic Acid Production
Published in The Journal of cell biology (22-07-2002)“…Autotaxin (ATX) is a tumor cell motility-stimulating factor, originally isolated from melanoma cell supernatants. ATX had been proposed to mediate its effects…”
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An α₂-Macroglobulin-Like Protein Is the Cue to Gregarious Settlement of the Barnacle Balanus amphitrite
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (26-09-2006)“…Many benthic marine invertebrates, like barnacles, have a planktonic larval stage whose primary purpose is dispersal. How these species colonize suitable…”
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Escherichia coli Cytosolic Glycerophosphodiester Phosphodiesterase (UgpQ) Requires Mg2+, Co2+, or Mn2+ for Its Enzyme Activity
Published in Journal of Bacteriology (01-02-2008)“…Article Usage Stats Services JB Citing Articles Google Scholar PubMed Related Content Social Bookmarking CiteULike Delicious Digg Facebook Google+ Mendeley…”
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Implication of ZW10 in membrane trafficking between the endoplasmic reticulum and Golgi
Published in The EMBO journal (24-03-2004)“…ZW10, a dynamitin‐interacting protein associated with kinetochores, is known to participate directly in turning off of the spindle checkpoint. In the present…”
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Site-Specific Functionalization of Proteins by Organopalladium Reactions
Published in Chembiochem : a European journal of chemical biology (22-01-2007)“…A new carbon–carbon bond has been regioselectively introduced into a target position (position 32 or 174) of the Ras protein by two types of organopalladium…”
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Nucleosomal histone kinase-1 phosphorylates H2A Thr 119 during mitosis in the early Drosophila embryo
Published in Genes & development (15-04-2004)“…Posttranslational histone modifications are important for the regulation of many biological phenomena. Here, we show the purification and characterization of…”
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An Engineered Escherichia coli Tyrosyl-tRNA Synthetase for Site-Specific Incorporation of an Unnatural Amino Acid into Proteins in Eukaryotic Translation and Its Application in a Wheat Germ Cell-Free System
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (23-07-2002)“…Tyrosyl-tRNA synthetase (TyrRS) from Escherichia coli was engineered to preferentially recognize 3-iodo-L-tyrosine rather than L-tyrosine for the site-specific…”
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Human RME-8 Is Involved in Membrane Trafficking through Early Endosomes
Published in Cell Structure and Function (01-01-2008)“…RME-8 is a DnaJ-domain-containing protein that was first identified in Caenorhabditis elegans as being required for uptake of yolk proteins. RME-8 has also…”
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The COP9 complex is conserved between plants and mammals and is related to the 26S proteasome regulatory complex
Published in Current biology (30-07-1998)“…The COP9 complex, genetically identified in Arabidopsis as a repressor of photomorphogenesis, is composed of multiple subunits including COP9, FUS6 (also known…”
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Proline-directed and Non-proline-directed Phosphorylation of PHF-tau (∗)
Published in The Journal of biological chemistry (13-01-1995)“…To gain insight into the abnormal phosphorylation of PHF-tau, we have determined the phosphorylation sites by identifying phosphopeptides by means of ion spray…”
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Identification of a PDZ-Domain-Containing Protein That Interacts with the Scavenger Receptor Class B Type I
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (06-06-2000)“…The scavenger receptor class B type I (SR-BI) mediates the selective uptake of cholesteryl esters from high-density lipoprotein (HDL) and cholesterol secretion…”
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Molecular aging of tau: disulfide‐independent aggregation and non‐enzymatic degradation in vitro and in vivo
Published in Journal of neurochemistry (01-09-2004)“…Smearing from high‐molecular‐mass regions to low‐molecular‐mass regions on western blot is the most striking observation of the tau making up paired helical…”
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Mitochondrial Nucleoid and Transcription Factor A
Published in Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences (01-04-2004)“…: Nuclear DNA is tightly packed into nucleosomal structure. In contrast, human mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) had long been believed to be rather naked because…”
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Post-translational modification is essential for catalytic activity of nitrile hydratase
Published in Protein science (01-05-2000)“…Nitrile hydratase from Rhodococcus sp. N-771 is an αβ heterodimer with a nonheme ferric iron in the catalytic center. In the catalytic center, αCys112 and…”
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Supernatant Protein Factor, Which Stimulates the Conversion of Squalene to Lanosterol, is a Cytosolic Squalene Transfer Protein and Enhances Cholesterol Biosynthesis
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (27-02-2001)“…Squalene epoxidase, a membrane-associated enzyme that converts squalene to squalene 2,3-oxide, plays an important role in the maintenance of cholesterol…”
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Combination of Biomolecular Interaction Analysis and Mass Spectrometric Amino Acid Sequencing
Published in Analytical chemistry (Washington) (01-09-2000)“…We describe an approach for the combination of biomolecular interaction analysis (BIA) and electrospray tandem mass spectrometry (ESI/MS/MS) to obtain sequence…”
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Expression, purification and characterization of leukotriene B4 receptor, BLT1 in Pichia pastoris
Published in Protein expression and purification (01-07-2010)“…The high yield expression of BLT1, a G-protein coupled receptor for leukotriene B4, was established in Pichia pastoris for structural studies. Guinea pig BLT1…”
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