Kunio Imai
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Recent Articles
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Sugiura Y, Usui M, Katsuzaki H, Imai K, Tanaka R, Matsushita T, et al.
J Food Biochem
. 2021 Feb;
45(4):e13659.
PMID: 33595108
We previously found a lipophilic fraction of the methanol/chloroform extract of a brown alga, Eisenia nipponica, that had an antiallergic effect in a murine ear swelling test. In this study,...
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Sugiura Y, Usui M, Katsuzaki H, Imai K, Kakinuma M, Amano H, et al.
Mar Drugs
. 2018 Aug;
16(8).
PMID: 30072652
Phlorotannin is the collective term for polyphenols derived from brown algae belonging to the genera , , , and etc. Since the incidence of allergies is currently increasing in the...
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Hagino A, Kitagawa N, Imai K, Yamashita O, Shiomi K
Cell Tissue Res
. 2010 Nov;
342(3):459-69.
PMID: 21103995
In the silkworm Bombyx mori, the diapause hormone-pheromone biosynthesis activating neuropeptide gene, DH-PBAN, is a neuropeptide gene that encodes a polypeptide precursor consisting in five Phe-X-Pro-Arg-Leu-NH(2) (FXPRL) amide (FXPRLa) neuropeptides;...
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Tsurumaru S, Kawamori A, Mitsumasu K, Niimi T, Imai K, Yamashita O, et al.
J Insect Physiol
. 2010 Jul;
56(12):1721-7.
PMID: 20637776
Bombyx mori eggs enter diapause immediately after completion of mesoderm segregation. HCl treatment of approximately 24-hour-old eggs (germband formation stage) is well known to be the most effective procedure to...
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Kamiya M, Oyauchi K, Sato Y, Yokoyama T, Wang M, Aizawa T, et al.
J Pept Sci
. 2010 Apr;
16(5):242-8.
PMID: 20401925
We previously reported that yamamarin, a pentapeptide with an amidated C-terminus (DILRG-NH(2)) isolated from larvae of the silkmoth, and its palmitoylated analog (C16-DILRG-NH(2)) suppressed proliferation of rat hepatoma (liver cancer)...
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Sato Y, Yang P, An Y, Matsukawa K, Ito K, Imanishi S, et al.
Peptides
. 2010 Mar;
31(5):827-33.
PMID: 20206219
A palmitoyl conjugate of an insect pentapeptide that occurs in diapausing insects causes a reversible cell-cycle arrest and suppresses mitochondrial respiration. This peptide compound also causes growth arrest in murine...
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Watanabe K, Hull J, Niimi T, Imai K, Matsumoto S, Yaginuma T, et al.
Mol Cell Endocrinol
. 2007 Jun;
273(1-2):51-8.
PMID: 17590269
The FXPRL-amide peptide family (pyrokinin/PBAN family) consists of insect peptides that function broadly in insect life processes and are characterized by a conserved C-terminal motif. In the silkworm, Bombyx mori,...
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Sugimoto H, Nakaura M, Kosuge Y, Imai K, Miyake H, Karita S, et al.
Biosci Biotechnol Biochem
. 2007 Jun;
71(6):1535-41.
PMID: 17587686
The thermodynamic effects of the disulfide bond of the fragment protein of the starch-binding domain of Aspergillus niger glucoamylase was investigated by measuring the thermal unfolding of the wild-type protein...
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Sugiura Y, Matsuda K, Yamada Y, Nishikawa M, Shioya K, Katsuzaki H, et al.
Biosci Biotechnol Biochem
. 2006 Nov;
70(11):2807-11.
PMID: 17090915
Eisenia arborea is an edible brown alga occasionally used as a folk medicine in gynecopathy in Japan. A new phlorotannin was isolated from the alga during our search for naturally...
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Homma T, Watanabe K, Tsurumaru S, Kataoka H, Imai K, Kamba M, et al.
Biochem Biophys Res Commun
. 2006 Apr;
344(1):386-93.
PMID: 16600181
Bombyx diapause hormone was the first chemical substance identified as a maternal control factor that arrests offspring development. However, the molecular mechanisms by which the hormone transduces the signal to...