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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...