• Involvement of I-BAR protein IRSp53 in tumor cell growth via extracellular microvesicle secretion 

  Hu, Hooi Ting; Sasakura, Naoto; Matsubara, Daisuke; Furusawa, Naoko; Mukai, Masahiro; Kitamura, Narufumi; Obayashi, Takeshi; Nishimura, Tamako; Oono-Yakura, Kayoko; Funato, Yosuke; Okamura, Yasunobu; Tarao, Kento; Nakano, Yasushi; Murakami, Yoshinori; Kinoshita, Kengo; Takahashi, Chiaki; Miki, Hiroaki; Gonda, Kohsuke; Scita, Giorgio; Hanawa-Suetsugu, Kyoko; Suetsugu, Shiro (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, 2020-04-20)

  Cellular protrusions mediated by the membrane-deforming I-BAR domain protein IRSp53 are involved in cell migration, including metastasis. However, the role of IRSp53 in cell proliferation remains unclear. Here, we examined ...
• Regulation of caveolae through cholesterol-depletion dependent tubulation by PACSIN2/Syndapin II 

  Amir, Aini Gusmira; Takemura, Kazuhiro; Hanawa-Suetsugu, Kyoko; Oono-Yakura, Kayoko; Yasuhara, Kazuma; Kitao, Akio; Suetsugu, Shiro (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, 2020-03-25)

  The membrane shaping ability of PACSIN2 via its FCH-BAR (F-BAR) domain has been shown to be essential for caveolar morphogenesis, presumably through the shaping of the caveolar neck. Caveolar membrane contains abundant ...
• Targeting E3 Ubiquitin Ligases and Deubiquitinases in Ciliopathy and Cancer 

  Shiromizu, Takashi; Yuge, Mizuki; Kasahara, Kousuke; Yamakawa, Daishi; Matsui, Takaaki; Bessho, Yasumasa; Inagaki, Masaki; Nishimura, Yuhei (MDPI, 2020-08-19)

  Cilia are antenna-like structures present in many vertebrate cells. These organelles detect extracellular cues, transduce signals into the cell, and play an essential role in ensuring correct cell proliferation, migration, ...
• Proline Homeostasis in Saccharomyces cerevisiae: How Does the Stress-Responsive Transcription Factor Msn2 Play a Role? 

  Mat Nanyan, Noreen Suliani binti; Takagi, Hiroshi (Frontiers Media, 2020-04-28)

  Overexpression of MSN2, which is the transcription factor gene in response to stress, is well-known to increase the tolerance of the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae cells to a wide variety of environmental stresses. Recent ...
• Forces to Drive Neuronal Migration Steps 

  Minegishi, Takunori; Inagaki, Naoyuki (Frontiers Media, 2020-09-01)

  To establish and maintain proper brain architecture and elaborate neural networks, neurons undergo massive migration. As a unique feature of their migration, neurons move in a saltatory manner by repeating two distinct ...
• How different are different diff algorithms in Git? 

  Nugroho, Yusuf Sulistyo; Hata, Hideaki; Matsumoto, Kenichi (Springer Nature, 2019-09-11)

  Automatic identification of the differences between two versions of a file is a common and basic task in several applications of mining code repositories. Git, a version control system, has a diff utility and users can ...
• 軽量な類似度計算によるプロジェクト間のソースファイル集合の再利 

  伊藤, 薫; 石尾, 隆; 神田, 哲也; 井上, 克郎 (一般社団法人電子情報通信学会, 2020-07-01)

  ソフトウェア開発の現場において，オープンソースソフトウェアのソースコードをコピーして再利用することが一般的に行われている．ソフトウェアの再利用は，独自に開発した場合と比べて品質を向上させるが，プロジェクトの開発期間が長くなるにつれ，どこから，どのバージョンをコピーしたのかという情報が失われてしまうことがある．そこで本研究では，分析対象ソフトウェアのソースファイルと再利用したライブラリの版管理システムのリポジトリの内容を比較し，再利用した ...
• Selfish yet Optimal Routing by Adjusting Perceived Traffic Information of Road Networks 

  Hara, Takanori; Sasabe, Masahiro; Kasahara, Shoji (IEEE, 2020-08-27)

  Traffic congestion in urban areas causes economic and time loss. Such traffic congestion is caused by selfish routing where users aim to minimize their own travel time. Even if a navigation system provides them with ...
• Policy reuse for dialog management using action-relation probability 

  Nguyen, Tung. T.; Yoshino, Koichiro; Sakti, Sakriani; Nakamura, Satoshi (IEEE, 2020-08-19)

  We study the problem of policy adaptation for reinforcement-learning-based dialog management. Policy adaptation is a commonly used technique to alleviate the problem of data sparsity when training a goal-oriented dialog ...
• Surface Remeshing: A Systematic Literature Review of Methods and Research Directions 

  Khan, Dawar; Plopski, Alexander; Fujimoto, Yuichiro; Kanbara, Masayuki; Jabeen, Gul; Zhang, Yongjie; Zhang, Xiaopeng; Kato, Hirokazu (IEEE, 2020-08-14)

  In this article, we present a survey on surface remeshing techniques, classifying all collected articles in different categories and analyzing specific methods with their advantages, disadvantages, and possible future ...
• Illusory light: Perceptual appearance control using a projection-induced illusion 

  Akiyama, Ryo; Yamamoto, Goshiro; Amano, Toshiyuki; Taketomi, Takafumi; Plopski, Alexander; Fujimoto, Yuichiro; Kanbara, Masayuki; Sandor, Christian; Kato, Hirokazu (Elsevier Ltd., 2020-07-28)

  With projection mapping, we can control the appearance of real-world objects by adding illumination. A projector can be used to control light reflected from an object, where the reflected light depends not only on the ...
• Valence optimization and angle improvement for molecular surface remeshing 

  Khan, Dawar; Plopski, Alexander; Fujimoto, Yuichiro; Kanbara, Masayuki; Cheng, Zhanglin; Kato, Hirokazu (Springer Nature, 2020-09-02)

  Molecular surface mesh generation plays a vital role in molecular modeling and visualization. However, meshes extracted directly from Protein Data Bank files have several issues such as small and large triangles, redundant ...
• Impact of Enantiomeric Ligand Composition on the Photophysical Properties of Chiral Ag29 Nanoclusters 

  Yoshida, Hiroto; Kumar, Jatish; Ehara, Masahiro; Okajima, Yasuo; Asanoma, Fumio; Kawai, Tsuyoshi; Nakashima, Takuya (The Chemical Society of Japan, 2020-04-14)

  Chiral surface ligands have often been employed to impart optical activity to metal nanoclusters, metal nanoparticles and semiconductor nanocrystals. They are considered to form a chiral structure to a certain degree whereas ...
• Enantioseparation and chiral induction in Ag29 nanoclusters with intrinsic chirality† 

  Yoshida, Hiroto; Ehara, Masahiro; Priyakumar, U. Deva; Kawai, Tsuyoshi; Nakashima, Takuya (Royal Society of Chemistry, 2020-01-20)

  The optical activity of a metal nanocluster (NC) is induced either by an asymmetric arrangement of constituents or by a dissymmetric field of a chiral ligand layer. Herein, we unveil the origin of chirality in Ag29 NCs, ...
• Crystal structure of a YeeE/YedE family protein engaged in thiosulfate uptake 

  Tanaka, Yoshiki; Yoshikaie, Kunihito; Takeuchi, Azusa; Ichikawa, Muneyoshi; Mori, Tomoyuki; Uchino, Sayaka; Sugano, Yasunori; Hakoshima, Toshio; Takagi, Hiroshi; Nonaka, Gen; Tsukazaki, Tomoya (American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2020-08-26)

  We have demonstrated that a bacterial membrane protein, YeeE, mediates thiosulfate uptake. Thiosulfate is used for cysteine synthesis in bacteria as an inorganic sulfur source in the global biological sulfur cycle. The ...
• Controlling translucency by UV printing on a translucent object 

  Takatani, Tsuyoshi; Fujita, Koki; Tanaka, Kenichiro; Funatomi, Takuya; Mukaigawa, Yasuhiro (Springer Nature, 2018-06-08)

  UV printer, a digital fabrication tool, can print 2D patterns on 3D objects consisting of various materials by using UV inks which immediately dry through being exposed to ultraviolet light. In general use, the translucency ...
• Thin glass micro-dome structure based microlens fabricated by accurate thermal expansion of microcavities 

  Aishan, Yusufu; Yalikun, Yaxiaer; Amaya, Satoshi; Shen, Yigang; Tanaka, Yo (American Institute of Physics, 2019-12-26)

  We present an efficient fabrication technique for a glass microdome structure (GMDS) based on the microthermal expansion principle, by inflating the microcavities confined between two thin glass slides. This technique ...
• Hereditary Pancreatitis Model by Blastocyst Complementation in Mouse 

  Asai, Ayumu; Konno, Masamitsu; Kawamoto, Koichi; Isotani, Ayako; Mori, Masaki; Eguchi, Hidetoshi; Doki, Yuichiro; Arai, Takahiro; Ishii, Hideshi (Impact Journals, 2020-06-02)

  The application of pluripotent stem cells is expected to contribute to the elucidation of unknown mechanism of human diseases. However, in vitro induction of organ-specific cells, such as pancreas and liver, is still ...
• Tesmin, Metallothionein-Like 5, is Required for Spermatogenesis in Mice 

  Oji, Asami; Isotani, Ayako; Fujihara, Yoshitaka; Castaneda, Julio M; Oura, Seiya; Ikawa, Masahito (Oxford University Press, 2020-04-15)

  In mammals, more than 2000 genes are specifically or abundantly expressed in testis, but gene knockout studies revealed several are not individually essential for male fertility. Tesmin (Metallothionein-like 5; Mtl5) was ...
• CRABS CLAW and SUPERMAN Coordinate Hormone-, Stress-, and Metabolic-Related Gene Expression During Arabidopsis Stamen Development 

  Lee, Ze Hong; Tatsumi, Yoshitaka; Ichihashi, Yasunori; Suzuki, Takamasa; Shibata, Arisa; Shirasu, Ken; Yamaguchi, Nobutoshi; Ito, Toshiro (Frontiers Media, 2019-11-14)

  The appropriate timing of the termination of floral meristem activity (FM determinacy) determines the number of floral organs. In Arabidopsis, two transcription factors, CRABS CRAW (CRC) and SUPERMAN (SUP), play key roles ...

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