• Live cell imaging of meiosis in Arabidopsis thaliana 

  Maria A, Prusicki; Emma M, Keizer; Rik P, van Rosmalen; Komaki, Shinichiro; Seifert, Felix; Katja, Müller; Erik, Wijnker; Christian, Fleck; Arp, Schnittger (Tools and Resources, 2019-05-20)

  To follow the dynamics of meiosis in the model plant Arabidopsis, we have established a live cell imaging setup to observe male meiocytes. Our method is based on the concomitant visualization of microtubules (MTs) and a ...
• Patronus is the elusive plant securin, preventing chromosome separation by antagonizing separase. 

  Laurence, Cromer; Sylvie, Jolivet; Dipesh Kumar, Singh; Floriane, Berthier; Nancy De, Winne; Geert De, Jaeger; Komaki, Shinichiro; Maria Ada, Prusicki; Arp, Schnittger; Raphael, Guérois; Raphael, Mercier (National Academy of Sciences, 2019-07-19)

  Accurate chromosome segregation at mitosis and meiosis is crucial to prevent genome instability, birth defect, and cancer. Accordingly, separase, the protease that triggers chromosome distribution, is tightly regulated by ...
• Hedgehog Signal and Genetic Disorders 

  Sasai, Noriaki; Toriyama, Michinori; Kondo, Toru (Frontiers, 2019-11-08)

  The hedgehog (Hh) family comprises sonic hedgehog (Shh), Indian hedgehog (Ihh), and desert hedgehog (Dhh), which are versatile signaling molecules involved in a wide spectrum of biological events including cell differentiation, ...
• Towards large scale high fidelity collaborative augmented reality 

  Damien Constantine, Rompapas; Christian, Sandor; Alexander, Plopski; Daniel Pieter, Saakes; Joongi, Shin; Taketomi, Takafumi; Kato, Hirokazu (Elsevier, 2019-08-27)

  In recent years, there has been an increasing amount of Collaborative Augmented Reality (CAR) expe- riences, classifiable by the deployed scale and the fidelity of the experience. In this paper, we create HoloRoyale, the ...
• Strong Exciton-photon Coupling in Organic Microcavity Electroluminescence Devices with Thiophene/Phenylene Co-oligomer Derivatives 

  Dokiya, Shohei; Mizuno, Hideyuki; Mizuno, Hitoshi; Katsuki, Hiroyuki; Yamashita, Kenichi; Sasaki, Fumio; Yanagi, Hisao (The Japan Society of Applied Physics, 2019-10-10)

  Organic electroluminescence (EL) devices with surface-emitting microcavity structure were fabricated using vapor-deposited films of thiophene/phenylene co-oligomer derivatives, aiming at polariton formation under electrical ...
• Fabrication of low-dimensional microstructures with distyrylbenzene derivatives 

  Akazawa, Tomoya; Sasaki, Fumio; Bando, Kazuki; Mizuno, Hitoshi; Katsuki, Hiroyuki; Yanagi, Hisao (2019-10-17)

  Microneedle crystals of 1,4-bis-(4-methylstyryl)benzene (DSB-4Me) and amorphous microdots of bis (N,N-di-p-tolylamino-p-styryl)benzene (DADSB) are fabricated by using mask-shadowing and conventional vapor deposition ...
• Heijo: 動的なコード実行可視化によるJava/Androidアプリケーションのリアルタイムプロファイラ 

  Ogami, Katsuya; Nakasai, Keitaro; Hata, Hideaki; Matsumoto, Kenichi (日本ソフトウェア科学会, 2019-04-26)

  アプリケーションのパフォーマンス改善において，実行時間を解析するプロファイラは有用と思われる．しかし，既存のプロファイラは特定の実行シナリオのもとプロファイリング時間を事前に設定する必要があり，実行シナリオなしでシステムのボトルネックを見つけることは難しい．また，各メソッドごとの実行時間を表示するインタフェースはソフトウェアの階層構造上における実行モジュールの位置などを把握することが難しい．これらの課題に対処するため，リアルタイムでパフ ...
• Are Donation Badges Appealing?: A Case Study of Developer Responses to Eclipse Bug Reports 

  Nakasai, Keitaro; Hata, Hideaki; Matsumoto, Kenichi (IEEE, 2018-10-22)

  Eclipse, an open source software project, acknowledges its donors by presenting donation badges. However, the effect of this strategy is unknown. We found that donation badges are appealing for donors and organizers because ...
• Sentiment Classification Using N-Gram Inverse Document Frequency and Automated Machine Learning 

  Rungroj, Maipradit; Hata, Hideaki; Matsumoto, Kenichi (IEEE, 2019-05-29)

  We propose a sentiment classification method with a general machine-learning framework. In comparison to publicly available data sets, our method achieved the highest F1 values in positive and negative sentences on all data sets.
• Construction of a Quadrangular Tetramer and a Cage-Like Hexamer from Three-Helix Bundle-Linked Fusion Proteins 

  Miyamoto, Takaaki; Hayashi, Yugo; Yoshida, Keito; Watanabe, Hiroki; Uchihashi, Takayuki; Yonezawa, Kento; Shimizu, Nobutaka; Kamikubo, Hironari; Hirota, Shun (American Chemical Society, 2019-05-17)

  Self-assembled protein nanostructures have gained interest, owing to their potential applications in biomaterials; however, successful design and construction of protein nanostructures are limited. Herein, we constructed ...
• A chimeric mutant analysis in yeast cells suggests BiP independent regulation of the mammalian endoplasmic reticulum-stress sensor IRE1α 

  Mai, Thanh Chi; Munakata, Takeo; Tran, Duc Minh; Takagi, Hiroshi; Kimata, Yukio (公益社団法人日本農芸化学会, 2018-05-28)

  An endoplasmic reticulum (ER)-located transmembrane protein, Ire1, triggers cytoprotective events upon ER stress. Chimeric yeast Ire1 carrying the luminal domain of the mammalian major Ire1 paralogue IRE1α is upregulated ...
• Monitoring ADP/ATP ratio in yeast cells using the fluorescent-protein reporter PercevalHR 

  Nguyen, Phuong Thi Mai; Ishiwata-Kimata, Y (公益社団法人日本農芸化学会, 2019-01-31)

  PercevalHR (Perceval High Resolution) is an artificially designed fluorescent protein, which changes its excitation spectrum based on the ADP/ATP ratio of the environment. Here we demonstrated that PercevalHR can be used ...
• The unfolded protein response alongside the diauxic shift of yeast cells and its involvement in mitochondria enlargement 

  Duc, Minh Tran; Ishiwata-Kimata, Yuki; Thanh, Chi Mai; Kubo, Minoru; Kimata, Yukio (nature, 2019-09-04)

  Upon dysfunction of the endoplasmic reticulum (ER), eukaryotic cells evoke the unfolded protein response (UPR), which, in yeast Saccharomyces cerevisaie cells, is promoted by the ER-located transmembrane endoribonuclease ...
• Categorization of endoplasmic reticulum stress as accumulation of unfolded proteins or membrane lipid aberrancy using yeast Ire1 mutants 

  Duc, Minh Tran; Takagi, Hiroshi; Kimata, Yukio (公益社団法人日本農芸化学会, 2018-10-13)

  Endoplasmic reticulum (ER)-located protein Ire1 triggers the unfolded protein response against ER-stressing stimuli, which are categorized as ER accumulation of unfolded proteins or membrane lipid-related aberrancy. Here ...
• Stress-sensing and regulatory mechanism of the endoplasmic-stress sensors Ire1 and PERK 

  Ishiwata-Kimata, Yuki; Giang, Quynh Le; Kimata, Yukio (De Gruyter, 2018-10-26)

  Ire1 and its family protein PERK are endoplasmic reticulum (ER)-stress sensors that initiate cellular responses against ER accumulation of unfolded proteins. As reviewed in this article, many publications describe molecular ...
• Development of E-mail Delivery Mediation System Based on Interruptibility and Its Evaluation in Daily Office Work Scenario 

  Kobayashi, Yasumasa; Fujimoto, Yuichiro; Fujita, Kinya (IEEE, 2019-07-15)

  Notifications of e-mail arrivals at inappropriate times disrupt workers engaged in intellectual activities and reduce their productivity. We propose an e-mail delivery mediation system to deal with this issue. The system ...
• Robust Reflectance Estimation for Projection-Based Appearance Control in a Dynamic Light Environment 

  Akiyama, Ryo; Yamamoto, Goshiro; Amano, Toshiyuki; Taketomi, Takafumi; Plopski, Alexander; Sandor, Christian; Kato, Hirokazu (IEEE, 2019-09-10)

  We present a novel method for robustly estimating reflectance even in a dynamically changing light environment. To control the appearance of an object by using a projector-camera system, appropriate reflectance estimation ...
• Pentagamavunon-1 (PGV-1) inhibits ROS metabolic enzymes and suppresses tumor cell growth by inducing M phase (prometaphase) arrest and cell senescence 

  Lestari, Beni; Nakamae, Ikuko; Yoneda-Kato, Noriko; Morimoto, Tsumoru; Kanaya, Shigehiko; Yokoyama, Takashi; Shionyu, Masafumi; Shirai, Tsuyoshi; Meiyanto, Edy; Kato, Jun-ya (Springer Nature, 2019-10-16)

  We previously showed that curcumin, a phytopolyphenol found in turmeric (Curcuma longa), targets a series of enzymes in the ROS metabolic pathway, induces irreversible growth arrest, and causes apoptosis. In this study, ...
• A Low-Cost Interactive Writing Board for Primary Education using Distinct Augmented Reality Markers 

  Khan, Dawar; Rehman, Inam ur; Ullah, Sehat; Ahmad, Waheed; Cheng, Zhanglin; Jabeen, Gul; Kato, Hirokazu (MDPI AG, 2019-10-16)

  Educational institutions demand cost-effective and simple-to-use augmented reality systems. ARToolKit, an open-source computer tracking library for the creation of augmented reality applications that overlay virtual ...
• ABA inhibits root cell elongation through repressing the cytokinin signaling 

  Takatsuka, Hirotomo; Umeda, Masaaki (Taylor & Francis, 2019-02-09)

  Cell elongation, which plays an important role in root penetration into the soil, responds to a variety of environmental factors. A previous study demonstrated that abscisic acid, a phytohormone involved in stress responses, ...

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