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Verification of Wisteria floribunda agglutinin-positive glycoproteins as a cholangiocarcinoma marker
Atsushi Matsuda,Atsushi Kuno,Hideki Matsuzaki,Toru Kawamoto,Toshihide Shikanai,Yasuni Nakanuma,Masakazu Yamamoto,Nobuhiro Ohkohchi,Yuzuru Ikehara,Junichi Shoda,Jun Hirabayashi,Hisashi Narimatsu 한국당과학회 2012 한국당과학회 학술대회 Vol.2012 No.1
Cholangiocarcinoma (CC) is a lethal malignancy which exhibits asymptomatic growth infiltrating the surrounding structures, and thus,CC is usually detected at an advanced stage. The mainstay of treatment for CC is complete resection with negative surgical margins. Therefore, its diagnosis at a relatively early stage is demanded for performing the surgical resection. Since the definitive CC diagnosis relies on invasive methods such as biliary cytology and biopsy, a noninvasive assay with high diagnostic accuracy is keenly required. In the previous meeting, we reported that Wisteria floribunda agglutinin (WFA) is the best probe lectin which reliably distinguishes between CC and normal bile duct epithelia in tissue sections. Moreover, L1 cell adhesion molecule (L1CAM), CA125, and maspin were assigned as the reliable CC marker candidates by WFA-assisted glycoproteomics and immunohistochemistry. In this meeting, we will introducethe verification and validation process in one of the above candidates, L1CAM. Since the serum concentration of L1CAM was low as described in other reports (< 5 ng/mL), we firstly constructed a highly-sensitive detection system to confirm the existence of L1CAM in both bile and serum of CC patients with immunoprecipitation and western blotting. We then performed highly-sensitive glycan profiling with antibody-assisted lectin microarray (limit of detection: 25 pg) and confirmed WFA-positivity of biliary L1CAM from the CC patients. The subsequent validation study using bile samples from CC patients (n = 29) and patients with benign bile duct diseases (n = 29) showed that WFA-positive L1CAM distinguished CC from the benigndiseases with good specificity (sensitivity = 0.66, specificity = 0.93, overall accuracy = 0.79, area under the receiver operating curve [AUC] = 0.82). The combined use of the L1CAM assay with the highly-sensitive assay detecting WFA-positive sialylated mucin 1 (WFA-sialyl MUC1), a reliable CC marker (Matsuda A., et al., Hepatology, 2010), sufficiently improved the diagnostic accuracy of CC (overall accuracy = 0.84, AUC = 0.93). This combination assay using WFA–L1CAM and WFA–sialyl MUC1 will possibly be a useful serological test with enhanced reliability.
Reduction of acetaldehyde formation from pulverized solid woods by thermal and chemical treatments
Mizukoshi, Atsushi,Kurosaki, Yosuke,Yamamoto, Naomichi,Noguchi, Miyuki,Iizuka, Atsushi,Yamasaki, Akihiro,Yanagisawa, Yukio Springer-Verlag 2018 Wood science and technology Vol.52 No.2
<P>High concentrations of acetaldehyde are often observed in indoor environments. One possible source of this is acetaldehyde formation produced by ethanol from wood building materials. To characterize indoor acetaldehyde formation and propose methods for its reduction, chamber-based experiments were conducted in which alcohols were added to pulverized solid woods. The results indicated that acetaldehyde was generated from the ethanol-added wood materials, and softwoods, namely Japanese cedar, Japanese cypress, and Swedish redwood generated more acetaldehyde than the other three woods. The experiments using different types of alcohols of methanol, ethanol, 1-propanol, and 2-propanol revealed a tendency similar to the reported enzymatic profile of the higher plant-derived alcohol dehydrogenase. It was confirmed that acetaldehyde generation was reduced by treatment methods typically used for inactivating enzymes, namely chemical treatments using pyrazole, borate, and urea and thermal treatments. The findings suggest that the chemical and thermal treatment methods are useful to reduce acetaldehyde generation in indoor environments.</P>
Stability of Proteasomes Extracted from Pressurized, Aged Skeletal Muscles
Yamamoto, Shuhei,Suzuki, Atsushi,Nishiumi, Tadayuki Asian Australasian Association of Animal Productio 2009 Animal Bioscience Vol.22 No.2
The present paper describes the effects of pressure and post-mortem aging treatments on in situ proteasome activity in rabbit and bovine skeletal muscles. Synthetic peptide hydrolyzing activity of rabbit proteasomes remained in the muscle after exposure to pressures up to 100 MPa. However, when a pressure of 400 MPa or more was applied, proteasomes were markedly inactivated. The extraction of proteasomes from excessively pressurized muscle appeared to be difficult. Proteasomes in aged muscle remained relatively stable throughout the aging process, with activity after 168 h (7 days) being 35%, 48%, 53% and 31% of the 0 h post-mortem LLVY, LSTR, AAF and LLE total hydrolyzing activities, respectively. The synthetic peptide hydrolyzing activities of bovine muscle proteasomes were similar to those of rabbit skeletal muscle proteasomes. The results suggest that synthetic peptide hydrolyzing activity remains in muscle exposed to relatively low pressures. Furthermore, it is known that high-pressure treatment induces fragmentation of myofibrils, modification of actin-myosin interaction and activation of intramuscular proteinases, cathepsins and calpains. Thus, proteasomes are probably involved in the tenderization process in combination with other intramuscular proteinases under high-pressure conditions. Our findings confirmed that proteasomes play a role in meat tenderization induced by high-pressure treatment or aging.
Solving Facility Rearrangement Problem Using a Genetic Algorithm and a Heuristic Local Search
Atsushi Suzuki,Hisashi Yamamoto 대한산업공학회 2012 Industrial Engineeering & Management Systems Vol.11 No.2
In this paper, a procedure using a genetic algorithm (GA) and a heuristic local search (HLS) is proposed for solving facility rearrangement problem (FRP). FRP is a decision problem for stopping/running of facilities and integration of stopped facilities to running facilities to maximize the production capacity of running facilities under the cost constraint. FRP is formulated as an integer programming model for maximizing the total production capacity under the constraint of the total facility operating cost. In the cases of 90 percent of cost constraint and more than 20 facilities, the previous solving method was not effective. To find effective alternatives, this solving procedure using a GA and a HLS is developed. Stopping/running of facilities are searched by GA. The shifting the production operation of stopped facilities into running facilities is searched by HLS, and this local search is executed for one individual in this GA procedure. The effectiveness of the proposed procedure using a GA and HLS is demonstrated by numerical experiment.
Peptides from Bombyx Fibroin Counter D-Galactose-induced Hair Aging in Mice
Yamamoto, Kei-Ichiro,Tsushima, Masaaki,Yoshida, Atsushi,Karimazawa, Mayumi,Nagasuna, Osamu,Uchidate, Michimasa,Iwabuchi, Akira,Goryo, Masanobu,Yamashita, Tetsuro,Suzuk, Koichi Korean Society of Sericultural Science 2011 International Journal of Industrial Entomology Vol.23 No.2
Using proteases, we produced a peptide mixture from fibroin of the silkworm $Bombyx$ $mori$. Mice received D-galactose by subcutaneous injection for 8 weeks to accelerate aging, and then received the peptide mixture orally for 7 weeks. In the mice aged with D-galactose, the coefficient of friction of hair increased significantly up to 1.6-fold, but in the mice subsequently given the peptide mixture, it was normal. Scanning electron microscopy showed improved hair cuticles in the latter mice too. These results indicate that oral administration with peptides from $Bombyx$ fibroin counters the aging of hair cuticles.
Yamamoto Tomohiko,Kato Atsushi,Hayakawa Masato,Shimoyama Kazuhito,Ara Kuniaki,Hatakeyama Nozomu,Yamauchi Kanau,Eda Yuhei,Yui Masahiro 한국원자력학회 2024 Nuclear Engineering and Technology Vol.56 No.3
In a secondary cooling system of a sodium-cooled fast reactor (SFR), rapid detection of hydrogen due to sodiumwater reaction (SWR) caused by water leakage from a heat exchanger tube of a steam generator (SG) is important in terms of safety and property protection of the SFR. For hydrogen detection, the hydrogen detectors using atomic transmission phenomenon of hydrogen within Ni-membrane were used in Japanese proto-type SFR “Monju”. However, during the plant operation, detection signals of water leakage were observed even in the situation without SWR concerning temperature up and down in the cooling system. For this reason, the study of a new hydrogen detector has been carried out to improve stability, accuracy and reliability. In this research, the authors focus on the difference in composition of hydrogen and the difference between the background hydrogen under normal plant operation and the one generated by SWR and theoretically estimate the hydrogen behavior in liquid sodium by using ultra-accelerated quantum chemical molecular dynamics (UA-QCMD). Based on the estimation, dissolved H or NaH, rather than molecular hydrogen (H2), is the predominant form of the background hydrogen in liquid sodium in terms of energetical stability. On the other hand, it was found that hydrogen molecules produced by the sodium-water reaction can exist stably as a form of a fine bubble concerning some confinement mechanism such as a NaH layer on their surface. At the same time, we observed experimentally that the fine H2 bubbles exist stably in the liquid sodium, longer than previously expected. This paper describes the comparison between the theoretical estimation and experimental results based on hydrogen form in sodium in the development of the new hydrogen detector in Japan.
Yamada, Atsushi,Yamato, Takahisa,Kakitani, Toshiaki,Yamamoto, Shigeyoshi Korean Society of Photoscience 2002 Journal of Photosciences Vol.9 No.2
We propose a novel mechanism (Twist Sharing Mechanism) for the cis-trans photoisomerization of rhodopsin, based on the molecular dynamics (MD) simulation study. New things devised in our simulations are (1) the adoption of Mt. Fuji potentials in the excited state for twisting of the three bonds C9=C10, C11=C12 and C13=14 which are modeled using the detailed ab initio quantum chemical calculations and (2) to use the rhodopsin structure which was resolved recently by the X-ray crystallographic study. As a result, we found the followings: Due to the intramolecular steric hindrance between 20-methyl and 10-H in the retinal chromophore, the C12-C13 and C10-C11 bonds are considerably twisted counterclockwise in rhodopsin, allowing only counterclockwise rotation of the C11 =C12 in the excited state. The movement of 19-methyl in rhodopsin is blocked by the surrounding three amino acids, Thr 118, Met 207 and Tyr 268, prohibiting the rotation of C9=C10. As a result only all-trans form of the chromophore is obtainable as a photoproduct. At the 90$^{\circ}$ twisting of C11=C12 in the course of photoisomerization, twisting energies of the other bonds amount to about 20 kcal/mol. If the transition state for the thermal isomerization is assumed to be similar to this structure, the activation energy for the thermal isomerization around C11=C12'in rhodopsin is elevated by about 20 kcal/mol and the thermal isomerization rate is decelerated by 10$\^$-14/ times than that of the retinal chromophore in solution, protecting photosignal from the thermal noise.