Minoru Sakurai
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Recent Articles
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Wagatsuma K, Miwa K, Akamatsu G, Yamao T, Kamitaka Y, Sakurai M, et al.
Ann Nucl Med
. 2023 May;
37(9):494-503.
PMID: 37243882
Objective: Tau positron emission tomography (PET) imaging is a recently developed non-invasive tool that can detect the density and extension of tau neurofibrillary tangles. Tau PET tracers have been validated...
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Nakamura A, Kanazawa T, Furuta T, Sakurai M, Saloheimo M, Samejima M, et al.
J Appl Glycosci (1999)
. 2021 Aug;
68(1):19-29.
PMID: 34354542
Cellobiohydrolase I from ( Cel7A) is one of the best-studied cellulases, exhibiting high activity towards crystalline cellulose. Tryptophan residues at subsites -7 and -4 (Trp40 and Trp38 respectively) are located...
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Hirano R, Kagamiya T, Matsumoto Y, Furuta T, Sakurai M
Biochem Biophys Rep
. 2021 Feb;
25:100913.
PMID: 33521337
The present study indicated that the mixed lipid bilayer of dimyristoylphosphatidylcholine (DMPC) and trehalosemonomyristate (TreC14) interacted strongly with the plasma membrane of cancer cells, and not that of normal cells,...
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Satoh Y, Kawamoto M, Kubota K, Murakami K, Hosono M, Senda M, et al.
Ann Nucl Med
. 2021 Jan;
35(3):406-414.
PMID: 33492646
Breast positron emission tomography (PET) has had insurance coverage when performed with conventional whole-body PET in Japan since 2013. Together with whole-body PET, accurate examination of breast cancer and diagnosis...
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Nakamura A, Okazaki K, Furuta T, Sakurai M, Ando J, Iino R
Biophys Physicobiol
. 2020 Nov;
17:51-58.
PMID: 33173714
Motor proteins are essential units of life and are well-designed nanomachines working under thermal fluctuations. These proteins control moving direction by consuming chemical energy or by dissipating electrochemical potentials. Chitinase...
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Shimokawa C, Kato T, Takeuchi T, Ohshima N, Furuki T, Ohtsu Y, et al.
Nat Commun
. 2020 Apr;
11(1):1922.
PMID: 32321922
Type 1 diabetes (T1D) is an autoimmune disease in which insulin-producing pancreatic β-cells are destroyed. Intestinal helminths can cause asymptomatic chronic and immunosuppressive infections and suppress disease in rodent models...
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Furuki T, Takahashi Y, Hatanaka R, Kikawada T, Furuta T, Sakurai M
J Phys Chem B
. 2020 Mar;
124(14):2747-2759.
PMID: 32192343
We investigated experimentally whether a short peptide, PvLEA-22, which consists of two tandem repeats of an 11-mer motif of Group 3 late embryogenesis abundant proteins, has a chaperone-like function for...
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Nishimoto T, Takahashi Y, Miyama S, Furuta T, Sakurai M
Biophys Physicobiol
. 2020 Jan;
16:196-204.
PMID: 31984172
Group 3 late embryogenesis abundant (G3LEA) proteins, which act as a well-characterized desiccation protectant in anhydrobiotic organisms, are structurally disordered in solution, but they acquire a predominantly α-helical structure during...
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Iino T, Sakurai M, Furuta T
Phys Chem Chem Phys
. 2019 Nov;
21(45):24956-24966.
PMID: 31702756
Substrate-assisted catalysis (SAC), a mechanism of chitin hydrolysis by chitinases belonging to the glycoside hydrolase family 18 (GH18), has been studied experimentally and theoretically for several decades. However, the detailed...
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Shimada N, Kinoshita H, Umegae T, Azumai S, Kume N, Ochiai T, et al.
Adv Mater
. 2019 Sep;
31(44):e1904032.
PMID: 31550402
Nanosheets have thicknesses on the order of nanometers and planar dimensions in the micrometer range. Nanomaterials that are capable of converting reversibly between 2D nanosheets and 3D structures in response...