Hirokazu Hotani
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Umeda T, Inaba T, Ishijima A, Takiguchi K, Hotani H
Biosystems
. 2008 May;
93(1-2):115-9.
PMID: 18457911
To study the mechanical properties of lipid membranes, we manipulated liposomes by using a system comprising polystyrene beads and laser tweezers, and measured the force required to transform their shapes....
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Takeda S, Saitoh A, Furuta M, Satomi N, Ishino A, Nishida G, et al.
J Mol Biol
. 2006 Aug;
362(3):403-13.
PMID: 16934293
The destabilization of vesicles caused by interactions between lipid bilayers and proteins was studied by direct, real-time observation using high-intensity dark-field microscopy. We previously reported that talin, a cytoskeletal submembranous...
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Umeda T, Nomura F, Inaba T, Takiguchi K, Hotani H
Chemphyschem
. 2005 May;
6(6):1047-50.
PMID: 15883996
No abstract available.
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Itoh T, Hotani H
Biol Sci Space
. 2005 Apr;
18(3):116-7.
PMID: 15858348
Individual microtubules (MTs) repeat alternating phases of polymerization and depolymerization, a process known as "dynamic instability." The dynamic instability is regulated by various protein factors according to the requirement of...
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Permana S, Hisanaga S, Nagatomo Y, Iida J, Hotani H, Itoh T
Cell Struct Funct
. 2005 Apr;
29(5-6):147-57.
PMID: 15840946
MAP4, a ubiquitous heat-stable MAP, is composed of an asymmetric structure common to the heat-stable MAPs, consisting of an N-terminal projection (PJ) domain and a C-terminal microtubule (MT)-binding (MTB) domain....
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Inaba T, Ishijima A, Honda M, Nomura F, Takiguchi K, Hotani H
J Mol Biol
. 2005 Apr;
348(2):325-33.
PMID: 15811371
Living cells develop their own characteristic shapes depending on their physiological functions, and their morphologies are based on the mechanical characteristics of the cytoskeleton and of membranes. To investigate the...
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Umeda T, Suezaki Y, Takiguchi K, Hotani H
Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys
. 2005 Feb;
71(1 Pt 1):011913.
PMID: 15697636
Cuplike lipid vesicles with a single hole and tubelike vesicles with two holes were theoretically analyzed by taking into account the line tension of membrane holes and the bending energy...
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Tanaka-Takiguchi Y, Kakei T, Tanimura A, Takagi A, Honda M, Hotani H, et al.
J Mol Biol
. 2004 Jul;
341(2):467-76.
PMID: 15276837
Many types of myosin have been found and characterized to date, and already nearly 20 classes have been identified. However, these myosin motors can be classified more simply into two...
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Nakao C, Itoh T, Hotani H, Mori N
J Biol Chem
. 2004 Mar;
279(22):23014-21.
PMID: 15039434
RB3 is a neuron-specific homologue of the SCG10/stathmin family proteins, possessing a unique N-terminal membrane-associated domain and the stathmin-like domain at the C terminus, which promotes microtubule (MT) catastrophe and/or...
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Nomura F, Inaba T, Ishikawa S, Nagata M, Takahashi S, Hotani H, et al.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
. 2004 Feb;
101(10):3420-5.
PMID: 14988507
To study the mechanisms involved in membrane fusion, we visualized the fusion process of giant liposomes in real time by optical dark-field microscopy. To induce membrane fusion, we used (i)...