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Akagi Takumi
 
Affiliation
Faculty of Medicine, Department of Physiology, Assistant Professor
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Assistant Professor
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Degree

  • Ph. D. ( 2008.3   Iwate Medical University )

Research Areas

  • Life Science / Function of nervous system

  • Life Science / Physiology

  • Life Science / Anatomy and histopathology of nervous system

Education

  • Iwate Medical University

    2004.4 - 2008.3

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  • Yamaguchi University   Faculty of Science

    1981.4 - 1985.3

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Research History

  • Nippon Medical School   Assistant Professor

    2915.4

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  • 理化学研究所 脳科学総合研究センター   テクニカルスタッフ

    1998.4 - 2015.3

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  • 岡山大学 歯学部   教務員

    1987.1 - 1998.3

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Papers

  • The intracellular C-terminal domain of mGluR6 contains ER retention motifs. Reviewed International journal

    Atsushi Shimohata, Dilip Rai, Takumi Akagi, Sumiko Usui, Ikuo Ogiwara, Makoto Kaneda

    Molecular and cellular neurosciences   126   103875 - 103875   2023.6

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    Metabotropic glutamate receptor 6 (mGluR6) predominantly localizes to the postsynaptic sites of retinal ON-bipolar cells, at which it recognizes glutamate released from photoreceptors. The C-terminal domain (CTD) of mGluR6 contains a cluster of basic amino acids resembling motifs for endoplasmic reticulum (ER) retention. We herein investigated whether these basic residues are involved in regulating the subcellular localization of mGluR6 in 293 T cells expressing mGluR6 CTD mutants using immunocytochemistry, immunoprecipitation, and flow cytometry. We showed that full-length mGluR6 localized to the ER and cell surface, whereas mGluR6 mutants with 15- and 20-amino acid deletions from the C terminus localized to the ER, but were deficient at the cell surface. We also demonstrated that the cell surface deficiency of mGluR6 mutants was rescued by introducing an alanine substitution at basic residues within the CTD. The surface-deficient mGluR6 mutant still did not localize to the cell surface and was retained in the ER when co-expressed with surface-expressible constructs, including full-length mGluR6, even though surface-deficient and surface-expressible constructs formed heteromeric complexes. The co-expression of the surface-deficient mGluR6 mutant reduced the surface levels of surface-expressible constructs. These results indicate that basic residues in the mGluR6 CTD served as ER retention signals. We suggest that exposed ER retention motifs in the aberrant assembly containing truncated or misfolded mGluR6 prevent these protein complexes from being transported to the cell surface.

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  • Slitrk2 deficiency causes hyperactivity with altered vestibular function and serotonergic dysregulation. Reviewed International journal

    Kei-Ichi Katayama, Naoko Morimura, Katsunori Kobayashi, Danielle Corbett, Takehito Okamoto, Veravej G Ornthanalai, Hayato Matsunaga, Wakako Fujita, Yoshifumi Matsumoto, Takumi Akagi, Tsutomu Hashikawa, Kazuyuki Yamada, Niall P Murphy, Soichi Nagao, Jun Aruga

    iScience   25 ( 7 )   104604 - 104604   2022.7

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    SLITRK2 encodes a transmembrane protein that modulates neurite outgrowth and synaptic activities and is implicated in bipolar disorder. Here, we addressed its physiological roles in mice. In the brain, the Slitrk2 protein was strongly detected in the hippocampus, vestibulocerebellum, and precerebellar nuclei-the vestibular-cerebellar-brainstem neural network including pontine gray and tegmental reticular nucleus. Slitrk2 knockout (KO) mice exhibited increased locomotor activity in novel environments, antidepressant-like behaviors, enhanced vestibular function, and increased plasticity at mossy fiber-CA3 synapses with reduced sensitivity to serotonin. A serotonin metabolite was increased in the hippocampus and amygdala, and serotonergic neurons in the raphe nuclei were decreased in Slitrk2 KO mice. When KO mice were treated with methylphenidate, lithium, or fluoxetine, the mood stabilizer lithium showed a genotype-dependent effect. Taken together, Slitrk2 deficiency causes aberrant neural network activity, synaptic integrity, vestibular function, and serotonergic function, providing molecular-neurophysiological insight into the brain dysregulation in bipolar disorders.

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  • Involvement of the C‐terminal domain in cell surface localization and G‐protein coupling of mGluR6 Reviewed

    Dilip Rai, Takumi Akagi, Atsushi Shimohata, Toshiyuki Ishii, Mie Gangi, Takuma Maruyama, Yuko Wada‐Kiyama, Ikuo Ogiwara, Makoto Kaneda

    Journal of Neurochemistry   158 ( 4 )   837 - 848   2021.8

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  • Calcium-dependent activator protein for secretion 2 (CADPS2) deficiency causes abnormal synapse development in hippocampal mossy fiber terminals Reviewed

    Yo Shinoda, Tetsushi Sadakata, Takumi Akagi, Yuriko Sakamaki, Tsutomu Hashikawa, Yoshitake Sano, Teiichi Furuichi

    Neuroscience Letters   677   65 - 71   2018.6

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    Hippocampal mossy fibers (MFs) project from dentate gyrus granule cells onto the CA2–CA3 region. MF-mediated synaptic transmission plays an important role in hippocampal learning and memory. However, the molecular mechanisms underlying MF synaptic development and subsequent functional organization are not fully understood. We previously reported that calcium-dependent activator protein for secretion 2 (CADPS2, also known as CAPS2) regulates the secretion of dense-core vesicles (DCVs). Because CADPS2 is strongly expressed in MF terminals, we hypothesized that CADPS2 regulates the development and functional organization of MF synapses by controlling the secretion of DCVs and their contents. To test this, we compared the synaptic microstructures of hippocampal MF terminals in Cadps2 knockout (KO) mice and wild-type (WT) mice by electron microscopy (EM). On postnatal day 15 (P15), KO mice exhibited morphological abnormalities in MF boutons, including smaller bouton size, a larger number of DCVs and a smaller number of post-synaptic densities (PSDs), compared with WT mice. In adults (P56), MF boutons were larger in KO mice. Synaptic vesicles (SVs) were increased but with a lower density compared with the WT. Furthermore, the number of SVs was decreased near the active zone. Moreover, MF-innervated CA3 postsynapses in KO mice displayed aberrant structures at the postsynaptic density (PSD), with an increased number of PSDs (likely because of a larger number of perforated PSDs), compared with WT mice. Taken together, our findings suggest that CADPS2 plays a critical role in MF synaptic development and functional organization.

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  • Loss of GPRC5B impairs synapse formation of Purkinje cells with cerebellar nuclear neurons and disrupts cerebellar synaptic plasticity and motor learning Reviewed

    Takamitsu Sano, Ayako Kohyama-Koganeya, Masami O. Kinoshita, Tetsuya Tatsukawa, Chika Shimizu, Eriko Oshima, Kazuyuki Yamada, Tung Dinh Le, Takumi Akagi, Koujiro Tohyama, Soichi Nagao, Yoshio Hirabayashi

    Neuroscience Research   136   33 - 47   2018

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    GPRC5B is a membrane glycoprotein robustly expressed in mouse cerebellar Purkinje cells (PCs). Its function is unknown. In Gprc5b−/− mice that lack GPRC5B, PCs develop distal axonal swellings in deep cerebellar nuclei (DCN). Numerous misshapen mitochondria, which generated excessive amounts of reactive oxygen species (ROS), accumulated in these distal axonal swellings. In primary cell cultures of Gprc5b−/− PCs, pharmacological reduction of ROS prevented the appearance of such swellings. To examine the physiological role of GPRC5B in PCs, we analyzed cerebellar synaptic transmission and cerebellum-dependent motor learning in Gprc5b−/− mice. Patch-clamp recordings in cerebellum slices in vitro revealed that the induction of long-term depression (LTD) at parallel fiber-PC synapses was normal in adult Gprc5b−/− mice, whereas the induction of long-term potentiation (LTP) at mossy fiber-DCN neuron synapses was attenuated in juvenile Gprc5b−/− mice. In Gprc5b−/− mice, long-term motor learning was impaired in both the rotarod test and the horizontal optokinetic response eye movement (HOKR) test. These observations suggest that GPRC5B plays not only an important role in the development of distal axons of PCs and formation of synapses with DCN neurons, but also in the synaptic plasticity that underlies long-term motor learning.

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  • Novel channel-mediated choline transport in cholinergic neurons of the mouse retina Reviewed

    Toshiyuki Ishii, Kohei Homma, Asuka Mano, Takumi Akagi, Yasuhide Shigematsu, Yukio Shimoda, Hiroyoshi Inoue, Yoshihiko Kakinuma, Makoto Kaneda

    JOURNAL OF NEUROPHYSIOLOGY   118 ( 4 )   1952 - 1961   2017.10

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    Choline uptake into the presynaptic terminal of cholinergic neurons is mediated by the high-affinity choline transporter and is essential for acetylcholine synthesis. In a previous study, we reported that P2X(2) purinoceptors are selectively expressed in OFF-cholinergic amacrine cells of the mouse retina. Under specific conditions, P2X(2) purinoceptors acquire permeability to large cations, such as N-methyl-D-glucamine, and therefore potentially could act as a noncanonical pathway for choline entry into neurons. We tested this hypothesis in OFF-cholinergic amacrine cells of the mouse retina. ATP-induced choline currents were observed in OFF-cholinergic amacrine cells, but not in ON-cholinergic amacrine cells, in mouse retinal slice preparations. High-affinity choline transporters are expressed at higher levels in ON-cholinergic amacrine cells than in OFF-cholinergic amacrine cells. In dissociated preparations of cholinergic amacrine cells, ATP-activated cation currents arose from permeation of extracellular choline. We also examined the pharmacological properties of choline currents. Pharmacologically, alpha,beta-methylene ATP did not produce a cation current, whereas ATP gamma S and benzoyl-benzoyl-ATP (BzATP) activated choline currents. However, the amplitude of the choline current activated by BzATP was very small. The choline current activated by ATP was strongly inhibited by pyridoxalphosphate-6-azophenyl- 2', 4'-sulfonic acid. Accordingly, P2X(2) purinoceptors expressed in HEK-293T cells were permeable to choline and similarly functioned as a choline uptake pathway. Our physiological and pharmacological findings support the hypothesis that P2 purinoceptors, including P2X(2) purinoceptors, function as a novel choline transport pathway and may provide a new regulatory mechanism for cholinergic signaling transmission at synapses in OFF-cholinergic amacrine cells of the mouse retina.
    NEW & NOTEWORTHY Choline transport across the membrane is exerted by both the high-affinity and low-affinity choline transporters. We found that choline can permeate P2 purinergic receptors, including P2X(2) purinoceptors, in cholinergic neurons of the retina. Our findings show the presence of a novel choline transport pathway in cholinergic neurons. Our findings also indicate that the permeability of P2X(2) purinergic receptors to choline observed in the heterologous expression system may have a physiological relevance in vivo.

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  • Age-dependent changes in synaptic plasticity enhance tau oligomerization in the mouse hippocampus Reviewed

    Tetsuya Kimura, Mamiko Suzuki, Takumi Akagi

    ACTA NEUROPATHOLOGICA COMMUNICATIONS   5 ( 1 )   67   2017.9

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    The aggregation mechanism of phosphorylated tau is an important therapeutic target for tauopathies, including Alzheimer's disease, although the mechanism by which aggregation occurs is still unknown. Because the phosphorylation process of tau is involved in the trafficking of AMPA receptors, which accompanies the long-term depression (LTD) of synapses, we examined the effect of LTD-inducing low-frequency stimulation (LFS) on the formation of pathological tau aggregates in adult and aged wild-type mice. Our biochemical analysis demonstrated that LFS led to the formation of sarkosyl-insoluble (SI) tau oligomers in aged hippocampi but not in adult hippocampi in wild-type mice. In parallel, electrophysiological experiments showed an increased contribution of the autophagy-lysosomal pathway (ALP) to LTD during aging, although the other properties of LFS-induced LTD that we investigated were not altered. Thus, we anticipate that the increased contribution of the ALP to the LTD cascade is involved in the age-dependent formation of tau oligomers that results from LFS. Analysis of the LC3 ratio, an indicator of autophagosome formation, showed that LFS increased cleaved LC3 (type II) in the aged hippocampus relative to type I LC3, suggesting potentiation of the ALP accompanied by LTD. Pharmacological inhibition of autophagosome formation depressed LFS-induced oligomerization of tau. Prevention of lysosomal function in the ALP enhanced the formation of tau oligomers by LFS. These results suggest the importance of the autophagosome for the LFS-induced oligomerization of tau and suggest a reason for its age dependency. Interestingly, the lysosomal disturbance promoted the formation of the fibrillar form of aggregates consisting of hyper-phosphorylated tau. The LTD-ALP cascade potentially acts as one of the suppliers of pathological aggregates of tau in aged neurons.

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  • The brain-specific RasGEF very-KIND is required for normal dendritic growth in cerebellar granule cells and proper motor coordination Reviewed

    Kanehiro Hayashi, Asako Furuya, Yuriko Sakamaki, Takumi Akagi, Yo Shinoda, Tetsushi Sadakata, Tsutomu Hashikawa, Kazuki Shimizu, Haruka Minami, Yoshitake Sano, Manabu Nakayama, Teiichi Furuichi

    PLOS ONE   12 ( 3 )   e0173175   2017.3

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    Very-KIND/Kndc1/KIAA1768 (v-KIND) is a brain-specific Ras guanine nucleotide exchange factor carrying two sets of the kinase non-catalytic C-lobe domain (KIND), and is predominantly expressed in cerebellar granule cells. Here, we report the impact of v-KIND deficiency on dendritic and synaptic growth in cerebellar granule cells in v-KIND knockout (KO) mice. Furthermore, we evaluate motor function in these animals. The gross anatomy of the cerebellum, including the cerebellar lobules, layered cerebellar cortex and densely-packed granule cell layer, in KO mice appeared normal, and was similar to wild-type (WT) mice. However, KO mice displayed an overgrowth of cerebellar granule cell dendrites, compared with WT mice, resulting in an increased number of dendrites, dendritic branches and terminals. Immunoreactivity for vGluT2 (a marker for excitatory presynapses of mossy fiber terminals) was increased in the cerebellar glomeruli of KO mice, compared with WT mice. The postsynaptic density around the terminals of mossy fibers was also increased in KO mice. Although there were no significant differences in locomotor ability between KO and WT animals in their home cages or in the open field, young adult KO mice had an increased grip strength and a tendency to exhibit better motor performance in balance-related tests compared with WT animals. Taken together, our results suggest that v-KIND is required for compact dendritic growth and proper excitatory synaptic connections in cerebellar granule cells, which are necessary for normal motor coordination and balance.

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  • Mammalian-Specific Central Myelin Protein Opalin Is Redundant for Normal Myelination: Structural and Behavioral Assessments Reviewed

    Fumio Yoshikawa, Yumi Sato, Koujiro Tohyama, Takumi Akagi, Tamio Furuse, Tetsushi Sadakata, Mika Tanaka, Yo Shinoda, Tsutomu Hashikawa, Shigeyoshi Itohara, Yoshitake Sano, M. Said Ghandour, Shigeharu Wakana, Teiichi Furuichi

    PLOS ONE   11 ( 11 )   e0166732   2016.11

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    Opalin, a central nervous system-specific myelin protein phylogenetically unique to mammals, has been suggested to play a role in mammalian-specific myelin. To elucidate the role of Opalin in mammalian myelin, we disrupted the Opalin gene in mice and analyzed the impacts on myelination and behavior. Opalin-knockout (Opalin(-/-)) mice were born at a Mendelian ratio and had a normal body shape and weight. Interestingly, Opalin(-/-) mice had no obvious abnormalities in major myelin protein compositions, expression of oligodendrocyte lineage markers, or domain organization of myelinated axons compared with WT mice (Opalin(+/+)) mice. Electron microscopic observation of the optic nerves did not reveal obvious differences between Opalin(+/+) and Opalin(-/-) mice in terms of fine structures of paranodal loops, transverse bands, and multi-lamellae of myelinated axons. Moreover, sensory reflex, circadian rhythm, and locomotor activity in the home cage, as well as depression-like behavior, in the Opalin(-/-) mice were indistinguishable from the Opalin(+/+) mice. Nevertheless, a subtle but significant impact on exploratory activity became apparent in Opalin(-/-) mice exposed to a novel environment. These results suggest that Opalin is not critical for central nervous system myelination or basic sensory and motor activities under conventional breeding conditions, although it might be required for fine-tuning of exploratory behavior.

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  • Sca/eS: an optical clearing palette for biological imaging Reviewed

    Hiroshi Hama, Hiroyuki Hioki, Kana Namiki, Tetsushi Hoshida, Hiroshi Kurokawa, Fumiyoshi Ishidate, Takeshi Kaneko, Takumi Akagi, Takashi Saito, Takaomi Saido, Atsushi Miyawaki

    NATURE NEUROSCIENCE   18 ( 10 )   1518 - +   2015.10

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    Optical clearing methods facilitate deep biological imaging by mitigating light scattering in situ. Multi-scale high-resolution imaging requires preservation of tissue integrity for accurate signal reconstruction. However, existing clearing reagents contain chemical components that could compromise tissue structure, preventing reproducible anatomical and fluorescence signal stability. We developed Sca /eS, a sorbitol-based optical clearing method that provides stable tissue preservation for immunochemical labeling and three-dimensional (3D) signal rendering. Sca /eS permitted optical reconstructions of aged and diseased brain in Alzheimer's disease models, including mapping of 3D networks of amyloid plaques, neurons and microglia, and multi-scale tracking of single plaques by successive fluorescence and electron microscopy. Human clinical samples from Alzheimer's disease patients analyzed via reversible optical re-sectioning illuminated plaque pathogenesis in the z axis. Comparative benchmarking of contemporary clearing agents showed superior signal and structure preservation by Sca /eS. These findings suggest that Sca /eS is a simple and reproducible method for accurate visualization of biological tissue.

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  • L-serine deficiency elicits intracellular accumulation of cytotoxic deoxysphingolipids and lipid body formation Reviewed

    Kayoko Esaki, Tomoko Sayano, Chiaki Sonoda, Takumi Akagi, Takeshi Suzuki, Takuya Ogawa, Masahiro Okamoto, Takeo Yoshikawa, Yoshio Hirabayashi, Shigeki Furuya

    Journal of Biological Chemistry   290 ( 23 )   14595 - 14609   2015.6

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    © 2015 by The American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Inc. L-Serine is required to synthesize membrane lipids such as phosphatidylserine and sphingolipids. Nevertheless, it remains largely unknownhowadiminishedcapacityto synthesize L-serine affects lipid homeostasis in cells and tissues. Here, we show that deprivation of external L-serine leads to the generation of 1-deox-ysphingolipids (doxSLs), including 1-deoxysphinganine, in mouse embryonicfibroblasts(KO-MEFs)lackingD-3-phosphoglyceratede-hydrogenase (Phgdh), which catalyzes the first step in the de novo synthesis of L-serine. A novel mass spectrometry-based lipidomic approach demonstrated that 1-deoxydihydroceramide was the most abundant species of doxSLs accumulated in L-serine-deprived KO-MEFs. Among normal sphingolipid species in KO-MEFs, levels of sphinganine, dihydroceramide, ceramide, and hexosylceramide were significantly reduced after deprivation of external L-serine, whereas those of sphingomyelin, sphingosine, and sphingosine 1-phosphate were retained. The synthesis of doxSLs was suppressed by supplementing the culture medium with L-serine but was potentiated by increasing the ratio of L-al-anine to L-serine in the medium. Unlike with L-serine, depriving cells of external L-leucine did not promote the occurrence of doxSLs. Consistent with results obtained from KO-MEFs, brainspecific deletion of Phgdh in mice also resulted in accumulation of doxSLs in the brain. Furthermore, L-serine-deprived KO-MEFs exhibited increased formation of cytosolic lipid bodies containing doxSLs and other sphingolipids. These in vitro and in vivo studies indicate that doxSLs are generated in the presence of a high ratio of L-alanine to L-serine in cells and tissues lackingPhgdh, andde novosynthesis of L-serineisnecessary to maintain normal sphingolipid homeostasis when the external supply of this amino acid is limited.

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  • FUS/TLS deficiency causes behavioral and pathological abnormalities distinct from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis Reviewed

    Yoshihiro Kino, Chika Washizu, Masaru Kurosawa, Mizuki Yamada, Haruko Miyazaki, Takumi Akagi, Tsutomu Hashikawa, Hiroshi Doi, Toru Takumi, Geoffrey G. Hicks, Nobutaka Hattori, Tomomi Shimogori, Nobuyuki Nukina

    ACTA NEUROPATHOLOGICA COMMUNICATIONS   3   24   2015.4

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    Introduction: FUS/TLS is an RNA-binding protein whose genetic mutations or pathological inclusions are associated with neurological diseases including amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), frontotemporal lobar degeneration, and essential tremor (ET). It is unclear whether their pathogenesis is mediated by gain or loss of function of FUS/TLS.
    Results: Here, we established outbred FUS/TLS knockout mice to clarify the effects of FUS/TLS dysfunction in vivo. We obtained homozygous knockout mice that grew into adulthood. Importantly, they did not manifest ALS-or ET-like phenotypes until nearly two years. Instead, they showed distinct histological and behavioral alterations including vacuolation in hippocampus, hyperactivity, and reduction in anxiety-like behavior. Knockout mice showed transcriptome alterations including upregulation of Taf15 and Hnrnpa1, while they have normal morphology of RNA-related granules such as Gems.
    Conclusions: Collectively, FUS/TLS depletion causes phenotypes possibly related to neuropsychiatric and neurodegenerative conditions, but distinct from ALS and ET, together with specific alterations in RNA metabolisms.

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  • Autophagy-Related Protein 7 Deficiency in Amyloid beta (A beta) Precursor Protein Transgenic Mice Decreases A beta in the Multivesicular Bodies and Induces A beta Accumulation in the Golgi Reviewed

    Per Nilsson, Misaki Sekiguchi, Takumi Akagi, Shinichi Izumi, Toshihisa Komor, Kelvin Hui, Karin Soergjerd, Motomasa Tanaka, Takashi Saito, Nobuhisa Iwata, Takaomi C. Saido

    AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PATHOLOGY   185 ( 2 )   305 - 313   2015.2

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    Alzheimer disease (AD) is biochemically characterized by increased levels of amyloid beta (A beta) peptide, which aggregates into extracellular A beta plagues in AD brains. Before plague formation, A beta accumulates intracellularly in both AD brains and in the brains of AD model mice, which may contribute to disease progression. Autophagy, which is impaired in AD, clears cellular protein aggregates and participates in A beta metabolism. In addition to a degradative role of autophagy in All metabolism we recently showed that A beta secretion is inhibited in mice Lacking autophagy-related gene 7 (Atg7) in excitatory neurons in the mouse forebrain. This inhibition of A beta secretion Leads to intracellular accumulation of A beta. Here, we used fluorescence and immunoelectron microscopy to elucidate the subcellular Localization of the intracellular A beta accumulation which accumulates in All precursor protein mice lacking Atg7. Autophagy deficiency causes accumulation of p62(+) aggregates, but these aggregates do not contain A beta. However, knockdown of Atg7 induced A13 accumulation in the Golgi and a concomitant reduction of A beta in the multivesicular bodies. This indicates that Atg7 influences the transport of All possibly derived from Golgi to multivesicular bodies.

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  • 認知症研究におけるCell Biology I リソソーム・オートファジー アルツハイマー病におけるAβ分泌とオートファジーに依存するプラーク形成(Alzheimer's disease Aβ secretion and plaque formation depend on autophagy)

    パー・ニルソン, Hui Kelvin, 津吹 聡, 赤木 巧, 和泉 伸一, 小守 壽文, 田中 元雅, 齊藤 貴志, 岩田 修永, 西道 隆臣

    Dementia Japan   28 ( 4 )   424 - 424   2014.10

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  • Impaired Cognitive Function and Altered Hippocampal Synapse Morphology in Mice Lacking Lrrtm1, a Gene Associated with Schizophrenia Reviewed

    Noriko Takashima, Yuri S. Odaka, Kazuto Sakoori, Takumi Akagi, Tsutomu Hashikawa, Naoko Morimura, Kazuyuki Yamada, Jun Aruga

    PLOS ONE   6 ( 7 )   e22716   2011.7

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    Recent genetic linkage analysis has shown that LRRTM1 (Leucine rich repeat transmembrane neuronal 1) is associated with schizophrenia. Here, we characterized Lrrtm1 knockout mice behaviorally and morphologically. Systematic behavioral analysis revealed reduced locomotor activity in the early dark phase, altered behavioral responses to novel environments (open-field box, light-dark box, elevated plus maze, and hole board), avoidance of approach to large inanimate objects, social discrimination deficit, and spatial memory deficit. Upon administration of the NMDA receptor antagonist MK-801, Lrrtm1 knockout mice showed both locomotive activities in the open-field box and responses to the inanimate object that were distinct from those of wild-type mice, suggesting that altered glutamatergic transmission underlay the behavioral abnormalities. Furthermore, administration of a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (fluoxetine) rescued the abnormality in the elevated plus maze. Morphologically, the brains of Lrrtm1 knockout mice showed reduction in total hippocampus size and reduced synaptic density. The hippocampal synapses were characterized by elongated spines and diffusely distributed synaptic vesicles, indicating the role of Lrrtm1 in maintaining synaptic integrity. Although the pharmacobehavioral phenotype was not entirely characteristic of those of schizophrenia model animals, the impaired cognitive function may warrant the further study of LRRTM1 in relevance to schizophrenia.

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  • Executive dysfunction in novel environment and altered hippocampal synapse morphology in mice lacking Lrrtm1 Reviewed

    Noriko Takashima, Yuri Odaka, Kazuto Sakoori, Takumi Akagi, Tsutomu Hashikawa, Naoko Morimura, Kazuyuki Yamada, Jun Aruga

    NEUROSCIENCE RESEARCH   71   E284 - E284   2011

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  • Membrane microdomain switching: a regulatory mechanism of amyloid precursor protein processing Reviewed

    Takashi Sakurai, Kumi Kaneko, Misako Okuno, Koji Wada, Taku Kashiyama, Hideaki Shimizu, Takumi Akagi, Tsutomu Hashikawa, Nobuyuki Nukina

    JOURNAL OF CELL BIOLOGY   183 ( 2 )   339 - 352   2008.10

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    Neuronal activity has an impact on beta cleavage of amyloid precursor protein (APP) by BACE1 to generate amyloid-beta peptide (A beta). However, the molecular mechanisms underlying this effect remain to be elucidated. Cholesterol dependency of beta cleavage prompted us to analyze immunoisolated APP-containing detergent-resistant membranes from rodent brains. We found syntaxin 1 as a key molecule for activity-dependent regulation of APP processing in cholesterol-dependent microdomains. In living cells, APP associates with syntaxin 1-containing microdomains through X11-Munc18, which inhibits the APP-BACE1 interaction and beta cleavage via microdomain segregation. Phosphorylation of Munc18 by cdk5 causes a shift of APP to BACE1-containing microdomains. Neuronal hyperactivity, implicated in A beta overproduction, promotes the switching of APP microdomain association as well as beta cleavage in a partially cdk5-dependent manner. We propose that microdomain switching is a mechanism of cholesterol- and activity-dependent regulation of APP processing in neurons.

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  • Preservation of ultrastructure and immunoreactivity in cryosections of brain tissue stored in a sucrose-gelatin solution at freezing temperatures

    T. Akagi, K. Ishida, H. Tohno, T. Hanasaka

    JOURNAL OF MICROSCOPY   231 ( 1 )   21 - 27   2008.7

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    We evaluated the preservation of ultra-structure and immunoreactivity in cryosections of central nervous system tissue mounted with and stored in a sucrose-gelatin solution for one month at -20 degrees C or -80 degrees C. The ultra-structure of synaptic structure in these sections was well preserved and comparable to that of freshly cut cryosections. Quantitative analysis of mitochondrial ultra-structure demonstrated gradually lower degrees of preservation in sections stored at -20 degrees C and -80 degrees C compared with that in freshly cut sections. We observed distinct metabotropic glutamate receptor 1 (mGluR1)-immunogold labelling at peri-synaptic sites in freshly cut sections and also in those stored at -20 degrees C and -80 degrees C. Quantitative analysis of mGluR1 immunoreactivity revealed that the total number of immunogold particles per synapse and the number of non-specifically bound particles were similar under all three conditions. However, the percentage of gold particles bound to a specific synaptic region was greatest in freshly cut sections (79.0%) and progressively lower in sections stored at -20 degrees C (76.1%), in which sections were not frozen, and in sections stored at -80 degrees C (68.0%). These data indicate that ultra-thin cryosections may be conveniently stored in a sucrose-gelatin solution at -20 degrees C for cryoultramicrotomy-immunolabelling.

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  • Opalin, a transmembrane sialylglycoprotein located in the central nervous system myelin paranodal loop membrane Reviewed

    Fumio Yoshikawa, Yumi Sato, Koujiro Tohyama, Takumi Akagi, Tsutomu Hashikawa, Yuko Nagakura-Takagi, Yukiko Sekine, Noriyuki Morita, Hiroko Baba, Yutaka Suzuki, Sumio Sugano, Akira Sato, Teiichi Furuichi

    JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY   283 ( 30 )   20830 - 20840   2008.7

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    In contrast to compact myelin, the series of paranodal loops located in the outermost lateral region of myelin is non-compact; the intracellular space is filled by a continuous channel of cytoplasm, the extracellular surfaces between neighboring loops keep a definite distance, but the loop membranes have junctional specializations. Although the proteins that form compact myelin have been well studied, the protein components of paranodal loop membranes are not fully understood. This report describes the biochemical characterization and expression of Opalin as a novel membrane protein in paranodal loops. Mouse Opalin is composed of a short N-terminal extracellular domain (amino acid residues 1-30), a transmembrane domain (residues 31-53), and a long C-terminal intracellular domain (residues 54-143). Opalin is enriched in myelin of the central nervous system, but not that of the peripheral nervous system of mice. Enzymatic deglycosylation showed that myelin Opalin contained N-and O-glycans, and that the O-glycans, at least, had negatively charged sialic acids. We identified two N-glycan sites at Asn-6 and Asn-12 and an O-glycan site at Thr-14 in the extracellular domain. Site-directed mutations at the glycan sites impaired the cell surface localization of Opalin. In addition to the somata and processes of oligodendrocytes, Opalin immunoreactivity was observed in myelinated axons in a spiral fashion, and was concentrated in the paranodal loop region. Immunogold electron microscopy demonstrated that Opalin was localized at particular sites in the paranodal loop membrane. These results suggest a role for highly sialylglycosylated Opalin in an intermembranous function of the myelin paranodal loops in the central nervous system.

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  • Ultrastructural analysis of the membrane insertion of domain 3 of streptolysin O Reviewed

    Kachiko Sekiya, Takumi Akagi, Kiyoko Tatsuta, Eriko Sakakura, Tsutomu Hashikawa, Akio Abe, Hideaki Nagamune

    MICROBES AND INFECTION   9 ( 11 )   1341 - 1350   2007.9

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    Streptolysin O (SLO) is a membrane-damaging toxic protein produced by group A streptococci. We performed an ultrastructural analysis of pore formation and the mechanism of hemolysis by SLO, using a mutant form of SLO [SLO(C/A)-SS] and native SLO. SLO(C/A)-SS was unable to penetrate the erythrocyte membrane as a consequence of immobilization that was due to a disulfide bond between domains. The SLO(C/ A)-SS molecules that bound to membranes formed numerous single-layered ring-shaped structures that did not result in pores on the membranes. These structures were similar to the structures formed by native SLO at 0 degrees C. After treatment with dithiothreitol, SLO(C/A)-SS that had bound to membranes formed double-layered rings with pores on the membranes, as does native SLO at room temperature. Our morphological evidence demonstrates that an increase in temperature is necessary for the occurrence of conformational changes and for the formation of double-layered rings after the insertion of domain 3 into the host cell membrane. On the basis of a model of the oligomeric structure of SLO, we propose some new details of the mechanism of hemolysis by SLO. (C) 2007 Elsevier Masson SAS. All rights reserved.

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  • Surface structure of amyloid-beta fibrils contributes to cytotoxicity Reviewed

    Yuji Yoshiike, Takumi Akagi, Akihiko Takashima

    BIOCHEMISTRY   46 ( 34 )   9805 - 9812   2007.8

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    Amyloid beta (A beta) toxicity has been hypothesized to initiate the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease (AD). The characteristic fibrillar morphology of A beta-aggregates, that constitute the main components of senile plaque, has long been considered to account for the neurotoxicity. But recent reports argue against a primary role for mature fibrils in AD pathogenesis because of the lack of a robust correlation between the severity of neurological impairment and the extent of amyloid deposition. Toxicity from the soluble prefibrillar intermediate entity of aggregates often called oligomer has recently proposed a plausible explanation for this inconsistency. An alternative explanation is based on the observation that certain amyloid fibril morphologies are more toxic than others, indicating that not all amyloid fibrils are equally toxic. Here, we report that it is not only the beta-sheeted fibrillar structure but also the surface physicochemical composition that affects the toxicity of A beta fibrils. For the first time, colloidal gold was used to visualize by electron microscopy positive-charge clusters on A beta fibrils. Chemical modifications as well as point-mutated A beta synthesis techniques were applied to change the surface structures of A beta and to show how local structure affects surface properties that are responsible for electrostatic and hydrophobic interactions with cells. We also report that covering the surface of A beta fibers with myelin basic protein, which has surface properties contrary to those of A beta, suppresses A beta toxicity. On the basis of these results, we propose that the surface structure of A beta fibrils plays an important role in A beta toxicity.

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  • Inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate receptor type-1 in granule cells, not in Purkinje cells, regulates the dendritic morphology of Purkinje cells through brain-derived neurotrophic factor production Reviewed

    Chihiro Hisatsune, Yukiko Kuroda, Takumi Akagi, Takashi Torashima, Hirokazu Hirai, Tsutomu Hashikawa, Takafumi Inoue, Katsuhiko Mikoshiba

    JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE   26 ( 42 )   10916 - 10924   2006.10

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    Here, we show that cultured Purkinje cells from inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate receptor type 1 knock-out (IP(3)R1KO) mice exhibited abnormal dendritic morphology. Interestingly, despite the huge amount of IP(3)R1 expression in Purkinje cells, IP(3)R1 in granule cells, not in the Purkinje cells, was responsible for the shape of Purkinje cell dendrites. We also found that BDNF application rescued the dendritic abnormality of IP(3)R1KO Purkinje cells, and that the increase in BDNF expression in response to activation of AMPA receptor (AMPAR) and metabotropic glutamate receptor (mGluR) was impaired in IP(3)R1KO cerebellar granule cells. In addition, we observed abnormalities in the dendritic morphology of Purkinje cells and in the ultrastructure of parallel fiber-Purkinje cell (PF-PC) synapses in IP(3)R1KO mice in vivo. We concluded that activation of AMPAR and mGluR increases BDNF expression through IP(3)R1-mediated signaling in cerebellar granule cells, which contributes to the dendritic outgrowth of Purkinje cells intercellularly, possibly by modifying PF-PC synaptic efficacy.

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  • Mitochondrial dysfunction and tau hyperphosphorylation in Ts1Cje, a mouse model for Down syndrome Reviewed

    Ebrahim Abdul Shukkur, Atsushi Shimohata, Takumi Akagi, Wenxin Yu, Mika Yamaguchi, Miyuki Murayama, Dehua Chui, Tamaki Takeuchi, Kenji Amano, Karthik Harve Subramhanya, Tsutomu Hashikawa, Haruhiko Sago, Charles J. Epstein, Akihiko Takashima, Kazuhiro Yamakawa

    HUMAN MOLECULAR GENETICS   15 ( 18 )   2752 - 2762   2006.9

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    Trisomy 21 or Down syndrome (DS) is the most common genetic birth defect associated with mental retardation. The over-expression of genes on chromosome 21, including SOD1 (Cu/Zn superoxide dismutase) and APP (amyloid-beta precursor protein) is believed to underlie the increased oxidative stress and neurodegeneration commonly described in DS. However, a segmental trisomy 16 mouse model for DS, Ts1Cje, has a subset of triplicated human chromosome 21 gene orthologs that exclude APP and SOD1. Here, we report that Ts1Cje brain shows decreases of mitochondrial membrane potential and ATP production, increases of reactive oxygen species, hyperphosphorylation of tau without NFT formation, increase of GSK3 beta and JNK/SAPK activities and unaltered A beta PP metabolism. Our findings suggest that genes on the trisomic Ts1Cje segment other than APP and SOD1 can cause oxidative stress, mitochondrial dysfunction and hyperphosphorylation of tau, all of which may play critical roles in the pathogenesis of mental retardation in DS.

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  • Improved methods for ultracryotomy of CNS tissue for ultrastructural and immunogold analyses Reviewed

    T Akagi, K Ishida, T Hanasaka, S Hayashi, M Watanabe, T Hashikawa, K Tohyama

    JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE METHODS   153 ( 2 )   276 - 282   2006.6

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    We examined each step of the protocol for ultracryotomy for central nervous system tissue in order to define and overcome some of the methodological difficulties. The following three steps emerged as critical for the method's success: (1) pretreatment of grids to render them hydrophilic immediately before use; (2) careful collection of ultrathin cryosections during ultracryotomy; (3) removal of the appropriate amount of excess poly(vinyl alcohol)-uranyl acetate (PVA-UA) prior to drying after staining with PVA-UA. By taking account of the three critical steps described above, we succeeded in obtaining ultrathin cryosections, including serial sections, with excellent preservation of ultrastructure, as well as semithin cryosections which are useful for evaluating the quality of the samples and for selecting areas of interest for ultrastructural analysis.
    Cytoplasmic organelles in neurons and glial cells, and the fine structure of synapses and myelinated fibers were well preserved. The localization of gold particles after immunostaining for astrocytic glutamate transporter (GLAST), metabotropic glutamate receptor 1 (mGluR1) and neurofilament protein was consistent with previous reports and ultrastructure was well-preserved in all cases.
    These findings should be helpful to researchers wishing to carry out ultrastructural and immunogold analyses of cryosections of nervous tissue. (c) 2005 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

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  • Formation of Tau inclusions in knock-in mice with familial Alzheimer disease (FAD) mutation of presenilin 1 (PS1) Reviewed

    K Tanemura, DH Chui, T Fukuda, M Murayama, JM Park, T Akagi, Y Tatebayashi, T Miyasaka, T Kimura, T Hashikawa, Y Nakano, T Kudo, M Takeda, A Takashima

    JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY   281 ( 8 )   5037 - 5041   2006.2

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    Mutations in the presenilin 1 ( PS1) gene are responsible for the early onset of familial Alzheimer disease ( FAD). Accumulating evidence shows that PS1 is involved in gamma-secretase activity and that FAD-associated mutations of PS1 commonly accelerate A beta(1-42) production, which causes Alzheimer disease ( AD). Recent studies suggest, however, that PS1 is involved not only in A beta production but also in other processes that lead to neurodegeneration. To better understand the causes of neurodegeneration linked to the PS1 mutation, we analyzed the development of tau pathology, another key feature of AD, in PS1 knock-in mice. Hippocampal samples taken from FAD mutant ( I213T) PS1 knock-in mice contained hyperphosphorylated tau that reacted with various phosphodependent tau antibodies and with Alz50, which recognizes the conformational change of PHF tau. Some neurons exhibited Congo red birefringence and Thioflavin T reactivity, both of which are histological criteria for neurofibrillary tangles ( NFTs). Biochemical analysis of the samples revealed SDS-insoluble tau, which under electron microscopy examination, resembled tau fibrils. These results indicate that our mutant PS1 knock-in mice exhibited NFT-like tau pathology in the absence of A beta deposition, suggesting that PS1 mutations contribute to the onset of AD not only by enhancing A beta(1-42) production but by also accelerating the formation and accumulation of filamentous tau.

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  • Unsaturated fatty acids induce cytotoxic aggregate formation of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis-linked superoxide dismutase 1 mutants Reviewed

    YJ Kim, R Nakatomi, T Akagi, T Hashikawa, R Takahashi

    JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY   280 ( 22 )   21515 - 21521   2005.6

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    Formation of misfolded protein aggregates is a remarkable hallmark of various neurodegenerative diseases including Alzheimer disease, Parkinson disease, Huntington disease, prion encephalopathies, and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). Superoxide dismutase 1 (SOD1) immunoreactive inclusions have been found in the spinal cord of ALS animal models and patients, implicating the close involvement of SOD1 aggregates in ALS pathogenesis. Here we examined the molecular mechanism of aggregate formation of ALS-related SOD1 mutants in vitro. We found that long-chain unsaturated fatty acids (FAs) promoted aggregate formation of SOD1 mutants in both dose- and time-dependent manners. Metal-deficient SOD1s, wild-type, and mutants were highly oligomerized compared with holo-SOD1s by incubation in the presence of unsaturated FAs. Oligomerization of SOD1 is closely associated with its structural instability. Heat-treated holo-SOD1 mutants were readily oligomerized by the addition of unsaturated FAs, whereas wild-type SOD1 was not. The monounsaturated FA, oleic acid, directly bound to SOD1 and was characterized by a solid-phase FA binding assay using oleate-Sepharose. The FA binding characteristics were closely correlated with the oligomerization propensity of SOD1 proteins, which indicates that FA binding may change SOD1 conformation in a way that favors the formation of aggregates. High molecular mass aggregates of SOD1 induced by FAs have a granular morphology and show significant cytotoxicity. These findings suggest that SOD1 mutants gain FA binding abilities based on their structural instability and form cytotoxic granular aggregates.

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  • Endogenous zinc can be a modulator of glycinergic signaling pathway in the rat retina Reviewed

    M Kaneda, K Ishii, T Akagi, T Tatsukawa, T Hashikawa

    JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR HISTOLOGY   36 ( 3 )   179 - 185   2005.3

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    Zinc is a modulator of glutamatergic inputs in the hippocampus. In the retina, however, we previously reported that endogenous zinc is present in the non-glutamatergic neural processes and earlier electrophysiological studies suggest that zinc is a modulator of inhibitory signaling pathways, which are mediated by glycine and GABA. AII amacrine cells, a subpopulation of glycinergic amacrine cells, are identified by selective immunoreactivity for parvalbumin in the rat retina. In the present study, therefore, we focused on whether zinc is present in AII amacrine cells using silver amplification combined with immunohistochemistry in the rat retina. We also examined whether zinc modulate glycine response in the rat retina by the patch clamp technique. Association of silver precipitates with the parvalbumin-immunoreactive neural processes was observed at the ultrastructural level. We also found that zinc existed in the neural processes which were not parvalbumin-immunoreactive. Glycine-induced responses were augmented when the concentration of Zn2+ was below 10 mu M, but inhibited at Zn2+ concentrations of 50 mu M or more. Our results suggest the notion that zinc in neural processes of retinal neurons modulates the inhibitory signaling pathway, particularly that mediated by glycine receptors in AII amacrine cells.

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  • ダウン症モデルマウスにおけるミトコンドリア機能異常の解析(Mitochondrial dysfunction in brain of the Down syndrome mouse model: Ts1 Cje)

    下畑 充志, Ebrahim A.S., 山田 一之, 天野 賢治, 赤木 巧, 竹内 環, 左合 治彦, Epstein C.J., 端川 勉, 山川 和弘

    神経化学   43 ( 2-3 )   502 - 502   2004.8

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  • Off-cholinergic-pathway-selective localization of P2X2 purinoceptors in the mouse retina Reviewed

    M Kaneda, K Ishii, Y Morishima, T Akagi, Y Yamazaki, S Nakanishi, T Hashikawa

    JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE NEUROLOGY   476 ( 1 )   103 - 111   2004.8

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    It is known that, in the retina, extracellular adenosine triphosphate (ATP) inhibits acetylcholine (ACh) release from cholinergic neurons, but the types of purinoceptors on cholinergic neurons have not been examined. In the present work, we immunohistochemically examined the distribution of the purinoceptors P2X1, P2X2, P2X4, and P2X7 in relation to the cholinergic system of the retina in wild-type mice and transgenic mice expressing green fluorescent protein (GFP). Immunoreactivity for P2X2 was very strong in sublamina a of the inner plexiform layer but very weak in sublamina b of the inner plexiform layer of the retina. Immunoreactivity for P2X2 was colocalized with that for choline acetyltransferase (ChAT). When transgenic mice were treated with the immunotoxin-mediated cell-targeting technology to ablate cholinergic amacrine cells selectively, immunoreactivity for P2X2 and the signals for GFP disappeared in parallel and selectively in the OFF pathway. The distribution of immunoreactivity for P2X1, P2X4, and P2X7 differed from that of ChAT immunoreactivity. The selective distribution of P2X2 purinergic receptors in OFF-type cholinergic amacrine cells indicates that the P2X2 purinergic signaling systems in the ON and OFF pathways of the inner plexiform layer of the mouse retina are functionally different. The distribution of P2X2 purinoceptors may be responsible for the selective regulation of ACh release in the OFF pathway. (C) 2004 Wiley-Liss, Inc.

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  • A new cytochemical method for ultrastructural localization of Co2+ in rat hippocampal CA1 pyramidal neurons in vitro

    E Tanaka, K Ishii, T Akagi, K Hirai, Motelica-Heino, I, Y Katayama, H Higashi, T Hashikawa, S Tsuji

    JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE METHODS   135 ( 1-2 )   1 - 8   2004.5

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    This paper describes new cytochemical method for the ultrastructural localization of Co2+ following blockade of synaptic transmission. In the CA1 region of rat hippocampal slices, electrical stimulation of the Schaffer collaterals elicited field excitatory postsynaptic potentials (fEPSPs). The fEPSPs were completely blocked within 2 min after the addition of Co2+ (2 mM). The slice was then fixed and precipitated Co2- was examined by means of a solution containing 2.5% glutaraldehyde, and 10mM K-3[Fe3+(CN)(6)] in 90mM NaCl. Electron spectroscopic imaging confirmed Co in the precipitate. The precipitates were found as clusters on the membranes of the fine apical dendrites and then spine heads of CA1 pyramidal neurons. No clustered precipitate was found when slices were treated: (1) without Co2+: (2) after recovery from the Co2+-induced blockade of fEPSPs, (3) without electrical stimulation of the Schaffer collaterals; and (4) with DL-2-amino-5-phosphonopentanoate and 6-cyano-7-nitroquinoxaline-2,3-dione. After administrating glutamate (5 mM) in the presence of tetrodotoxin (1 muM) and Co2+, precipitates were found on dendritic membranes and spine heads. These results indicate that the Schaffer collaterals stimulation induces the binding of Co2+ on CA1 pyramidal neuron membrane. (C) 2003 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

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  • Mitochondrial protease Omi/HtrA2 enhances caspase activation through multiple pathways

    Y Suzuki, K Takahashi-Niki, T Akagi, T Hashikawa, R Takahashi

    CELL DEATH AND DIFFERENTIATION   11 ( 2 )   208 - 216   2004.2

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    Omi/HtrA2 is a mitochondrial serine protease that is released into the cytosol during apoptosis and promotes cytochrome c (Cyt c) dependent caspase activation by neutralizing inhibitor of apoptosis proteins (IAPs) via its IAP-binding motif. The protease activity of Omi/HtrA2 also contributes to the progression of both apoptosis and caspase-independent cell death. In this study, we found that wild-type Omi/HtrA2 is more effective at caspase activation than a catalytically inactive mutant of Omi/HtrA2 in response to apoptotic stimuli, such as UV irradiation or tumor necrosis factor. Although similar levels of Omi/HtrA2 expression, XIAP-binding activity, and Omi/HtrA2 mitochondrial release were observed among cells transfected with catalytically inactive and wild-type Omi/HtrA2 protein, XIAP protein expression after UV irradiation was significantly reduced in cells transfected with wild-type Omi/HtrA2. Recombinant Omi/HtrA2 was observed to catalytically cleave IAPs and to inactivate XIAP in vitro, suggesting that the protease activity of Omi/HtrA2 might be responsible for its IAP-inhibiting activity. Extramitochondrial expression of Omi/HtrA2 indirectly induced permeabilization of the outer mitochondrial membrane and subsequent Cyt c-dependent caspase activation in HeLa cells. These results indicate that protease activity of Omi/HtrA2 promotes caspase activation through multiple pathways.

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  • Deregulation of GSK-3 beta and JNK in a mouse model of tauopathy: A kinase combination that induces Alzheimer-type tau hyperphosphorylation Reviewed

    Y Tatebayashi, S Sato, T Akagi, DH Chui, T Miyasaka, E Planel, M Murayama, A Takashima

    Molecular Neurobiology of Alzheimer Disease and Related Disorders   62 - 70   2004

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  • Tau filament formation and associative memory deficit in aged mice expressing mutant (R406W) human tau Reviewed

    T Miyasaka, Y Tatebayashi, DH Chui, T Akagi, K Mishima, K Iwasaki, A Fujiwara, K Tanemura, A Murayama, K Ishiguro, E Planel, S Sato, T Hashikawa, A Takashima

    Molecular Neurobiology of Alzheimer Disease and Related Disorders   215 - 224   2004

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  • P2X2-purinoceptors of chorinergic amacrine cells in the mouse retina

    Kaneda Makoto, Ishii Katsuyoshi, Morishima Yosuke, Akagi Takumi, Nakanishi Shigetada, Hashikawa Tsutomu

    Proceedings of Annual Meeting of the Physiological Society of Japan   2004   S162 - S162   2004

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    In the retina, while it is known that extracellular ATP inhibits ACh release from cholinergic neurons, the types of purinoceptors on the cholinergic neurons have not been examined. We reported that immunoreactivity for P2X2 localized asymmetrically between the ON and OFF pathways in the cholinergic amacrine cells in the mouse retina. In the present study, we recorded the responses to ATP in the cholinergic amacrine cells of the transgenic mouse retina. Both straburst amacrine cells and displaced amacrine cells responded to 100 μM ATP. ATP induced an inward current. However, part of displaced amacrine cells did not respond to 100 μM ATP. Both types of cells did not respond to 100 μM α,β-methylene ATP. Responses to ATP were inhibited by 100 μM PPADS. When cells received GABAergic-IPSP, 100 μM ATP augmented GABAergic IPSP. These results indicate that inhibitory action of ACh released by ATP is mediated by the presynaptic mechanisms. [Jpn J Physiol 54 Suppl:S162 (2004)]

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  • Alpha-synuclein degradation by serine protease neurosin: implication for pathogenesis of synucleinopathies Reviewed

    A Iwata, M Maruyama, T Akagi, T Hashikawa, Kanazawa, I, S Tsuji, N Nukina

    HUMAN MOLECULAR GENETICS   12 ( 20 )   2625 - 2635   2003.10

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    Accumulation of insoluble alpha-synuclein aggregates in the brain is characteristic of Parkinson's disease, dementia with Lewy bodies and multiple system atrophy. Although numerous studies on the aggregation properties of alpha-synuclein have been reported, little is known about its degradation so far. In view of proteolytic degradation, we have found that the serine protease neurosin (kallikrein-6) degrades alpha-synuclein and co-localizes with pathological inclusions such as Lewy bodies and glial cytoplasmic inclusions. In vitro study showed that neurosin prevented alpha-synuclein polymerization by reducing the amount of monomer and also by generating fragmented alpha-synucleins that themselves inhibited the polymerization. Upon cellular stress, neurosin was released from mitochondria to the cytosol, which resulted in the increase of degraded alpha-synuclein species. Down-regulation of neurosin caused accumulation of alpha-synuclein within cultured cells. Thus we concluded that neurosin plays a significant role in physiological alpha-synuclein degradation and also in the pathogenesis of synucleinopathies.

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  • Expansion of polyglutamine induces the formation of quasi-aggregate in the early stage of protein fibrillization Reviewed

    M Tanaka, Y Machida, Y Nishikawa, T Akagi, T Hashikawa, T Fujisawa, N Nukina

    JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY   278 ( 36 )   34717 - 34724   2003.9

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    We examined the effects of the expansion of glutamine repeats on the early stage of protein fibrillization. Small-angle x-ray scattering (SAXS) and electron microscopic studies revealed that the elongation of polyglutamine from 35 to 50 repeats in protein induced a large assembly of the protein upon incubation at 37 degreesC and that its formation was completed in similar to 3 h. A bead modeling procedure based on SAXS spectra indicated that the largely assembled species of the protein, quasi-aggregate, is composed of 80 to similar to90 monomers and a bowl-like structure with long and short axes of 400 and 190 Angstrom, respectively. Contrary to fibril, the quasi-aggregate did not show a peak at S = 0.21 Angstrom(-1) corresponding to the 4.8-Angstrom spacing of beta-pleated sheets in SAXS spectra, and reacted with a monoclonal antibody specific to expanded polyglutamine. These results imply that beta-sheets of expanded polyglutamines in the quasi-aggregate are not orderly aligned and are partially exposed, in contrast to regularly oriented and buried beta-pleated sheets in fibril. The formation of non-fibrillary quasi-aggregate in the early phase of fibril formation would be one of the major characteristics of the protein containing an expanded polyglutamine.

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  • Specific compositions of amyloid-beta peptides as the determinant of toxic beta-aggregation Reviewed

    Y Yoshiike, DH Chui, T Akagi, N Tanaka, A Takashima

    JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY   278 ( 26 )   23648 - 23655   2003.6

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    Alzheimer's disease (AD) may be caused by toxic aggregates formed from amyloid-beta (Abeta) peptides. By using Thioflavin T, a dye that specifically binds to beta-sheet structures, we found that highly toxic forms of Abeta-aggregates were formed at the initial stage of fibrillogenesis, which is consistent with recent reports on Abeta oligomers. Formation of such aggregates depends on factors that affect both nucleation and elongation. As reported previously, addition of Abeta42 systematically accelerated the nucleation of Abeta40, most likely because of the extra hydrophobic residues at the C terminus of Abeta42. At Abeta42-increased specific ratio (Abeta40: Abeta42 = 10: 1), on the other hand, not only accelerated nucleation but also induced elongation were observed, suggesting pathogenesis of early-onset AD. Because a larger proportion of Abeta40 than Abeta42 was still required for this phenomenon, we assumed that elongation does not depend only on hydrophobic interactions. Without any change in the C-terminal hydrophobic nature, elongation was effectively induced by mixing wild type Abeta40 with Italian variant Abeta40 (E22K) or Dutch variant (E22Q). We suggest that Abeta peptides in specific compositions that balance hydrophilic and hydrophobic interactions promote the formation of toxic beta-aggregates. These results may introduce a new therapeutic approach through the disruption of this balance.

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  • Zinc as a neurotransmitter in the rat retina Reviewed

    M Kaneda, K Ishh, T Akagi, T Hashikawa

    NEURAL BASIS OF EARLY VISION   11   139 - 142   2003

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  • Aberrant tau phosphorylation by glycogen synthase kinase-3 beta and JNK3 induces oligomeric tau fibrils in COS-7 cells Reviewed

    S Sato, Y Tatebayashi, T Akagi, DH Chui, M Murayama, T Miyasaka, E Planel, K Tanemura, XY Sun, T Hashikawa, K Yoshioka, K Ishiguro, A Takashima

    JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY   277 ( 44 )   42060 - 42065   2002.11

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    Neurofibrillary tangles (NFTs) are found in a wide range of neurodegenerative disorders, including Alzheimer's disease. The major component of NFTs is aberrantly hyperphosphorylated microtubule-associated protein tau. Because appropriate in vivo models have been lacking, the role of tau phosphorylation in NFTs formation has remained elusive. Here, we describe a new model in which adenovirus-mediated gene expression of tau, DeltaMEKK, JNK3, and GSK-3beta in COS-7 cells produces most of the pathological phosphorylation epitopes of tau including AT100. Furthermore, this co-expression resulted in the formation of tau aggregates having short fibrils that were detergent-insoluble and Thioflavin-S-reactive. These results suggest that aberrant tau phosphorylation by the combination of these kinases may be involved in "pretangle," oligomeric tau fibril formation in vivo.

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  • Purification of polyglutamine aggregates and identification of elongation factor-1 alpha and heat shock protein 84 as aggregate-interacting proteins Reviewed

    K Mitsui, H Nakayama, T Akagi, M Nekooki, K Ohtawa, K Takio, T Hashikawa, N Nukina

    JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE   22 ( 21 )   9267 - 9277   2002.11

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    Aggregates of green fluorescent protein (GFP)-fused truncated N-terminal huntingtin containing abnormally long polyglutamine tracts (150 repeats of glutamine residue) were purified from an ecdysone-inducible mutant neuro2A cell line (HD150Q-28) by using a fluorescence-activated cell sorter. To analyze the aggregate-interacting proteins, we subjected the purified aggregates to SDS-PAGE; prominent protein bands in the gel were digested with Achromobactor lysyl endopeptidase, followed by a HPLC-mass spectrometry (MS) analysis. The resulting data of tandem MS analysis revealed that, in addition to ubiquitin and widely reported chaperone proteins such as heat shock cognate 70 (HSC70), human DNA J-1 (HDJ-1), and HDJ-2, the translational elongation factor-1alpha (EF-1alpha) and heat shock protein 84 (HSP84) also were recognized as aggregate-interacting proteins. Sequestration of these proteins to aggregates was confirmed further by several immunochemical methods. We confirmed that, in addition to the other known proteins, EF-1alpha and HSP84 also colocalized with the intracellular aggregates. An assay of the transient expression of EF-1alpha and HSP84 in HD150Q-28 cells revealed that both proteins improved cell viability. Moreover, the rate of aggregate formation decreased in both transfectants. Our study suggests that both EF-1alpha and HSP84 are involved in the neurodegenerative process of polyglutamine diseases.

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  • Tau filament formation and associative memory deficit in aged mice expressing mutant (R406W) human tau Reviewed

    Y Tatebayashi, T Miyasaka, DH Chui, T Akagi, K Mishima, K Iwasaki, M Fujiwara, K Tanemura, M Murayama, K Ishiguro, E Planel, S Sato, T Hashikawa, A Takashima

    PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA   99 ( 21 )   13896 - 13901   2002.10

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    The R406W tau mutation found in frontotemporal dementia and parkinsonism linked to chromosome 17 (FTDP-17) causes a hereditary tauopathy clinically resembling Alzheimer's disease. Expression of modest levels of the longest human tau isoform with this mutation under the control of the alpha-calcium-calmodulin-dependent kinase-11 promoter in transgenic (Tg) mice resulted in the development of congophilic hyperphosphorylated tau inclusions in forebrain neurons. These inclusions appeared as early as 18 months of age. As with human cases, tau inclusions were composed of both mutant and endogenous wild-type tau, and were associated with microtubule disruption and flame-shaped transformations of the affected neurons. Straight tau filaments were recovered from Sarkosyl-insoluble fractions from only the aged Tg brains. Behaviorally, aged Tg mice had associative memory impairment without obvious sensorimotor deficits. Therefore, these mice that exhibit a phenotype mimicking R406W FTDP-17 provide an animal model for investigating the adverse properties associated with this mutation, which might potentially recapitulate some etiological events in Alzheimer's disease.

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  • The effects of aggregation-inducing motifs on amyloid formation of model proteins related to neurodegenerative diseases Reviewed

    M Tanaka, Y Machida, Y Nishikawa, T Akagi, Morishima, I, T Hashikawa, T Fujisawa, N Nukina

    BIOCHEMISTRY   41 ( 32 )   10277 - 10286   2002.8

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    To examine the effects of aggregation-inducing motifs related to neurodegenerative diseases on amyloid formation of host protein, we prepared several chimera myoglobins, in which various aggregation-inducing motifs were inserted. The focused aggregation-inducing motifs included five (R5) or two (R2) oligopeptide repeats in yeast Sup35p, five octapeptide repeats (OPR) in the human prion protein, a nonamyloid beta component (NAC) in alpha-synuclein, and tandem repeats of 50 glutamines (Q50). Circular dichroism and infrared spectroscopies suggested that the OPR, R5, and Q50 motifs formed an antiparallel beta sheet as well as a random coil, whereas the R2 and NAC motifs mainly formed random coils. The OPR, R5, and Q50 mutants, but not the R2 and NAC mutants, readily formed the SIDS-resistant aggregates under physiological condition, and electron microscopy revealed that the aggregates contained amyloid fibrils. The destabilization and increase in gyration radius of the OPR, R5, and Q50 mutants correlated with the tendency to form amyloid fibrils. A control mutant bearing a nonamyloidgenic sequence was also moderately destabilized but did not form amyloid fibrils. Therefore, we concluded that the OPR, R5, and Q50 motifs, even in a quite stable protein such as myoglobin, led the host protein to formation of amyloid fibrils under physiological condition.

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  • CHIP is associated with Parkin, a gene responsible for familial Parkinson's disease, and enhances its ubiquitin ligase activity Reviewed

    Y Imai, M Soda, S Hatakeyama, T Akagi, T Hashikawa, K Nakayama, R Takahashi

    MOLECULAR CELL   10 ( 1 )   55 - 67   2002.7

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    Unfolded Pael receptor (Pael-R) is a substrate of the E3 ubiquitin ligase Parkin. Accumulation of Pael-R in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) of dopaminergic neurons induces ER stress leading to neurodegeneration. Here, we show that CHIP, Hsp70, Parkin, and Pael-R formed a complex in vitro and in vivo. The amount of CHIP in the complex was increased during ER stress. CHIP promoted the dissociation of Hsp70 from Parkin and Pael-R, thus facilitating Parkin-mediated Pael-R ubiquitination. Moreover, CHIP enhanced Parkin-mediated in vitro ubiquitination of Pael-R in the absence of Hsp70. Furthermore, CHIP enhanced the ability of Parkin to inhibit cell death induced by Pael-R. Taken together, these results indicate that CHIP is a mammalian E4-like molecule that positively regulates Parkin E3 activity.

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  • Targeted disruption of the Epm2a gene causes formation of Lafora inclusion bodies, neurodegeneration, ataxia, myoclonus epilepsy and impaired behavioral response in mice Reviewed

    S Ganesh, AV Delgado-Escueta, T Sakamoto, MR Avila, J Machado-Salas, Y Hoshii, T Akagi, H Gomi, T Suzuki, K Amano, KL Agarwala, Y Hasegawa, DS Bai, T Ishihara, T Hashikawa, S Itohara, EM Cornford, H Niki, K Yamakawa

    HUMAN MOLECULAR GENETICS   11 ( 11 )   1251 - 1262   2002.5

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    Mutations in the EPM2A gene encoding a dual-specificity phosphatase (laforin) cause Lafora disease (LD), a progressive and invariably fatal epilepsy with periodic acid-Schiff-positive (PAS+) cytoplasmic inclusions (Lafora bodies) in the central nervous system. To study the pathology of LD and the functions of laforin, we disrupted the Epm2a gene in mice. At two months of age, homozygous null mutants developed widespread degeneration of neurons, most of which occurred in the absence of Lafora bodies. Dying neurons characteristically exhibit swelling in the endoplasmic reticulum, Golgi networks and mitochondria in the absence of apoptotic bodies or fragmentation of DNA. As Lafora bodies become more prominent at 4-12 months, organelles and nuclei are disrupted. The Lafora bodies, present both in neuronal and non-neural tissues, are positive for ubiquitin and advanced glycation end-products only in neurons, suggesting different pathological consequence for Lafora inclusions in neuronal tissues. Neuronal degeneration and Lafora inclusion bodies predate the onset of impaired behavioral responses, ataxia, spontaneous myoclonic seizures and EEG epileptiform activity. Our results suggest that LD is a primary neurodegenerative disorder that may utilize a non-apoptotic mechanism of cell death.

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  • 元素マッピング,これまでとこれから なぜ,電子分光結像法なのか

    二重作豊, 赤木巧, 長岡紀幸, 永井教之

    電子顕微鏡   37 ( 1 )   22 - 27   2002.3

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  • Why the electron spectroscopic imaging?

    FUTAESAKU Yutaka, AKAGI Takumi, NAGAOKA Noriyuki, NAGAI Noriyuki

    kenbikyo   37 ( 1 )   22 - 27   2002.3

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  • Neurodegeneration with tau accumulation in a transgenic mouse expressing V337M human tau Reviewed

    K Tanemura, M Murayama, T Akagi, T Hashikawa, T Tominaga, M Ichikawa, H Yamaguchi, A Takashima

    JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE   22 ( 1 )   133 - 141   2002.1

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    Formation of neurofibrillary tangles (NFTs) is a common neuropathological feature found in several neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer's disease. We have developed a transgenic (Tg) mouse expressing mutant human tau (V337M), derived from frontotemporal dementia parkinsonism-17. V337M Tg mice revealed tau aggregations in the hippocampus, which fulfills the histological criteria for NFTs in human neurodegenerative diseases. Concurrent with the accumulation of RNA and phosphorylated tau, neurons exhibited morphological characteristics of degenerating neurons, which include a loss of microtubules, accumulation of ribosomes, plasma and nuclear membrane ruffling, and swelling of the Golgi network. Thus, mutant tau induces neuronal degeneration associated with the accumulation of RNA and phosphorylated tau. The functional consequences of this neuronal degeneration was evidenced by the reduction of hippocampal neural activity and behavioral abnormality in Tg mice.

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  • CHIP is associated with Parkin, a gene responsible for familial Parkinson's Disease, and enhances its ubiquitin ligase activity

    Yuzuru Imai, Mariko Soda, Shigetsugu Hatakeyama, Takumi Akagi, Tsutomu Hashikawa, Kei-Ichi Nakayama, Ryosuke Takahashi

    Molecular Cell   10 ( 1 )   55 - 67   2002

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    Unfolded Pael receptor (Pael-R) is a substrate of the E3 ubiquitin ligase Parkin. Accumulation of Pael-R in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) of dopaminergic neurons induces ER stress leading to neurodegeneration. Here, we show that CHIP, Hsp70, Parkin, and Pael-R formed a complex in vitro and in vivo. The amount of CHIP in the complex was increased during ER stress. CHIP promoted the dissociation of Hsp70 from Parkin and Pael-R, thus facilitating Parkin-mediated Pael-R ubiquitination. Moreover, CHIP enhanced Parkin-mediated in vitro ubiquitination of Pael-R in the absence of Hsp70. Furthermore, CHIP enhanced the ability of Parkin to inhibit cell death induced by Pael-R. Taken together, these results indicate that CHIP is a mammalian E4-like molecule that positively regulates Parkin E3 activity.

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  • Morphological study of new candidates of neurotransmitters in the mammalian retina

    K. Ishii, T. Hashikawa, T. Akagi, K. S. Rockland, M. Kaneda

    Keio Journal of Medicine   51   66 - 75   2002

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  • Formation of filamentous tau aggregations in transgenic mice expressing V337M human tau

    K Tanemura, T Akagi, M Murayama, N Kikuchi, O Murayama, T Hashikawa, Y Yoshiike, JM Park, K Matsuda, S Nakao, XY Sun, S Sato, H Yamaguchi, A Takashima

    NEUROBIOLOGY OF DISEASE   8 ( 6 )   1036 - 1045   2001.12

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    Formation of neurofibrillary tangles (NFTs) is the most common feature in several neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer's disease (AD). Here we report the formation of filamentous tau aggregations having a beta -sheet structure in transgenic mice expressing mutant human tau. These mice contain a tau gene with a mutation of the frontotemporal dementia parkinsonism (FTDP-17) type, in which valine is substituted with methionine residue 337. The aggregation of tau in these transgenic mice satisfies all histological criteria used to identify NFTs common to human neurodegenerative diseases. These mice, therefore, provide a preclinical model for the testing of therapeutic drugs for the treatment of neurodegenerative disorders that exhibit NFTs. (C) 2001 Elsevier Science.

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  • Intra- and intermolecular beta-pleated sheet formation in glutamine-repeat inserted myoglobin as a model for polyglutamine diseases

    M Tanaka, Morishima, I, T Akagi, T Hashikawa, N Nukina

    JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY   276 ( 48 )   45470 - 45475   2001.11

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    An aberrant structure of the expanded polyglutamine might be involved in the formation of aggregates in CAG repeat diseases. To elucidate structural properties of the expanded polyglutamine, we prepared sperm whale myoglobin (Mb) mutants, in which 12, 28, 35, and 50 repeats of glutamine were inserted at the corner between the C and D helices (Gln(12), Gln(28), Gln(35), and Gln(50), respectively). Circular dichroism and IR spectroscopies showed that the expanded polyglutamine, which was recognized by the monoclonal antibody 1C2 in Gln(28), Gln(35), and Gln(50) Mb forms an antiparallel beta -pleated sheet structure. Gln(50) Mb aggregates were found to comprise an intermolecular antiparallel beta -pleated sheet. Fluorescence together with H-1 NMR spectra revealed partial unfolding of the protein surface in Gln(35) and Gln(50) Mb, although the structural changes in the protein core were rather small. The present results indicate that the fluctuating beta -pleated sheet of the expanded polyglutamine exposed on the protein surface facilitates the formation of aggregates through intermolecular interactions. The present study has first established and characterized structural properties of a molecular model for polyglutamine diseases in which various lengths of polyglutamine including a pathologically expanded glutamine repeat were inserted into a structurally known protein.

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  • Dscam is associated with axonal and dendritic features of neuronal cells

    KL Agarwala, S Ganesh, T Suzuki, T Akagi, K Kaneko, K Amano, Y Tsutsumi, K Yamaguchi, T Hashikawa, K Yamakawa

    JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE RESEARCH   66 ( 3 )   337 - 346   2001.11

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    Dscam, a novel cell-adhesion molecule belonging to the Ig-superfamily mediates homophilic intercellular adhesion and is expressed abundantly in the nervous system during development. To gain better understanding on the role of Dscam in neuronal differentiation, we raised an antibody and characterized its protein product. Anti-Dscam antibody detected an similar to 200-kDa protein band in human and mouse brain lysates. Immunohistochemical studies showed that during embryonic development of mice, mouse Dscam is expressed throughout the neuronal tissues and also in nonneuronal tissues such as lung, liver, and limb buds. In adult brain Dscam expression is predominant in the cerebellum, hippocampus, and olfactory bulb. Immunofluorescence double labeling of hippocampal and cerebellar primary cultures revealed that Dscam is associated with axonal and dendritic processes. In view of its cellular localization and spatiotemporal expression pattern, we suggest that Dscam is involved in cell-cell interactions during axonal-dendritic development, and maintenance of functional neuronal networks. (C) 2001 Wiley-Liss.

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  • New insights on how metals disrupt amyloid beta-aggregation and their effects on amyloid-beta cytotoxicity

    Y Yoshiike, K Tanemura, O Murayama, T Akagi, M Murayama, S Sato, XY Sun, N Tanaka, A Takashima

    JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY   276 ( 34 )   32293 - 32299   2001.8

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    Amyloid-beta protein (A beta) aggregates in the brain to form senile plaques. By using thioflavin T, a dye that specifically binds to fibrillar structures, we found that metals such as Zn(ll) and Cu(II) normally inhibit amyloid beta -aggregation. Another method for detecting A beta, which does not distinguish the types of aggregates, showed that these metals induce a non-beta -sheeted aggregation, as reported previously. Secondary structural analysis and microscopic studies revealed that metals induced A beta to make non-fibrillar aggregates by disrupting beta -sheet formation. These non-fibrillar A beta aggregates displayed much weaker Congo Red birefringence, and in separate cell culture experiments, were less toxic than self beta -aggregates, as demonstrated by 3-[4,5-dimethylthiazol-2-yl]-2,5-diphenyltetrazolium bromide assay. The toxicity of soluble A beta was enhanced in the presence of Cu(Il), which suggests the previously hypothesized role of A beta in generating oxidative stress. Finally, under an acidic condition, similar to that in the inflammation associated with senile plaques, beta -aggregation was robustly facilitated at one specific concentration of Zn(ll) in the presence of heparin. However, because a higher concentration of Zn(II) virtually abolished this abnormal phenomenon, and at normal pH any concentrations strongly inhibit beta -aggregation and its associated cytotoxicity, including its anti-oxidative nature we suggest that Zn(II) has an overall protective effect against beta -amyloid toxicity.

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  • Differential subcellular localization of zinc in the rat retina

    T Akagi, M Kaneda, K Ishii, T Hashikawa

    JOURNAL OF HISTOCHEMISTRY & CYTOCHEMISTRY   49 ( 1 )   87 - 96   2001.1

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    In the retina, zinc is believed to be a modulator of synaptic transmission and a constituent: of metalloenzymes. To determine whether the intracellular localization of zinc correlates with function, we examined the localization of endogenous zinc in the rat retina using the silver amplification method. By light microscopy, reaction products were detected in the pigment epithelial cells (PE), the inner segment of photoreceptors (IS), the outer nuclear layer (ONL) and the inner nuclear layer (INL), the outer plexiform layer (OPL) and the inner plexiform layer (IPL), and the ganglion cell layer (CC). The heaviest accumulation of precipitate was observed in PE and IS, whereas only a little precipitate was found in GC. When the intracellular zinc was chelated with diethyldithiocarbamate, a small amount of precipitate was observed only in ONL. By electron microscopy, zinc was associated with three compartments. In OPL and IPL, zinc was associated with neural processes, while in PE, IS, INL and GC it was associated with the Golgi apparatus. In ONL, zinc was associated with the nucleus. Zinc in the neural processes is believed to act as a modulator of synaptic transmission, and zinc associated with the Golgi apparatus is assumed to catalyze metalloenzyme reactions.

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  • Relationship between toxicity and cadmium accumulation in rats given low amounts of cadmium chloride or cadmium-polluted rice for 22 months

    Makoto Shibutani, Kunitoshi Mitsumori, Shin-Ichi Satoh, Hideaki Hiratsuka, Masahiko Satoh, Masami Sumiyoshi, Nishijima Motohiro, Yasutaka Katsuki, Jin Suzuki, Jun-Ichi Nakagawa, Takumi Akagi, Takayoshi Imazawa, Masanori Ando

    Journal of Toxicological Sciences   26 ( 5 )   337 - 358   2001

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    To clarify toxic effects of long-term oral administration of low dose cadmium (Cd) on the liver and kidney, six groups of female Sprague-Dawley rats were fed a diet containing Cd-polluted rice or CDCl2 at concentrations up to 40 ppm, and killed after 12, 18, and 22 months. With toxicological parameters, including histopathology, there was no evidence of Cd-related hepato-renal toxicity, despite a slight decrease of mean corpuscular volume and mean corpuscular hemoglobin of red blood cells with 40 ppm CDCl2. Dose-dependent accumulation of Cd was observed in the liver and kidneys with peak levels of 130±42 μg/g and 120±20 μg/g, respectively, at 18 months in animals treated with 40 ppm CDCl2. A dose-dependent increase in urinary Cd levels became evident with time. Induction of metallothionein (MT) was also observed in the liver and kidney with a high correlation to the corresponding Cd levels. In the proximal renal tubular epithelia of 40 ppm CdCl2-treated rats at 22 months, prominent accumulation of Cd was observed in secondary lysosomes associated with MT deposits in their exocytotic residual bodies. The results demonstrated that, in contrast to the case with high-dose Cd-administration, renal toxicity is not induced by long-term oral administration of low amounts of Cd, although tissue accumulation does occur. Possible protective mechanisms may be operating.

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  • Laforin, defective in the progressive myoclonus epilepsy of Lafora type, is a dual-specificity phosphatase associated with polyribosomes

    S Ganesh, KL Agarwala, K Ueda, T Akagi, K Shoda, T Usui, T Hashikawa, H Osada, AV Delgado-Escueta, K Yamakawa

    HUMAN MOLECULAR GENETICS   9 ( 15 )   2251 - 2261   2000.9

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    The progressive myoclonus epilepsy of Lafora type is an autosomal recessive disorder caused by mutations in the EPM2A gene. EPM2A is predicted to encode a putative tyrosine phosphatase protein, named laforin, whose full sequence has not yet been reported. In order to understand the function of the EPM2A gene, we isolated a full-length cDNA, raised an antibody and characterized its protein product. The full-length clone predicts a 38 kDa laforin that was very close to the size detected in transfected cells, Recombinant laforin was able to hydrolyze phosphotyrosine as well as phosphoserine/threonine substrates, demonstrating that laforin is an active dual-specificity phosphatase. Biochemical, immunofluorescence and electron microscopic studies on the full-length laforin expressed in HeLa cells revealed that laforin is a cytoplasmic protein associated with polyribosomes, possibly through a conformation-dependent protein-protein interaction. We analyzed the intracellular targeting of two laforin mutants with missense mutations. Expression of both mutants resulted in ubiquitin-positive perinuclear aggregates suggesting that they were misfolded proteins targeted for degradation. Our results suggest that laforin is involved in translational regulation and that protein misfolding may be one of the molecular bases of the Lafora disease phenotype caused by missense mutations in the EPM2A gene.

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  • Mineral distribution in both chimney and organisms living in a deep sea on hydrothermal vents at Myojin Knoll Caldera.

    二重作豊, 小塚芳道, 赤木巧, 植松勝之, 藤原義弘, 土田真二, 堀井善弘, 山口寿之, 飯笹幸吉

    JAMSTEC深海研究 1 生物学編   16 ( 16 )   53 - 67   2000.3

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  • Electron spectroscopic imaging (ESI) of cobalt ions responsible for the blockade of synaptic transmission and excitability of muscle cells in frog neuromuscular preparations

    T Akagi, T Hashikawa, K Hirai, Motelica-Heino, I, S Tsuji

    PROCEEDINGS OF THE JAPAN ACADEMY SERIES B-PHYSICAL AND BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   76 ( 1 )   7 - 11   2000.1

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    During electrical stimulation of the frog neuromuscular preparation in Ringer solution, CaCl2 (1.8 mM) was replaced by equimolar CoCl2 (Co-Ringer solution). Muscular contraction due to the motor nerve stimulation was blocked completely within 2 min, while muscular contraction due to direct muscle stimulation was reduced but not completely blocked. The tissue was fixed with 2.5% glutaraldehyde prepared in Go-Ringer solution. After rapid wash in Ringer solution, the tissue was transfered into an aqueous solution containing 10 mM K3Fe(CN)(6), (precipitating agent of Co2+) and 90 mM NaCl. In conventional transmission electron microscopy, large precipitates were observed close to both sides of the presynaptic membrane, outside of the sarcolemma in subsynaptic and extrasynaptic area, on the myofibrils and close to both sides of the membrane of the sarcoplasmic reticulum in the vicinity of the T-tubules. It is presumed that the sites where the precipitates were localized correspond to the voltage dependent calcium channels of the presynaptic membrane, sarcoplasmic membrane and membrane of sarcoplasmic reticulum, The precipitates found on the myofibrils are considered as Co2+ which penetrated the endplate channels and directed towards the sarcoplasmic reticulum. To our knowledge, the present electron microscopic observation of Co2+ precipitated with potassium ferricyanide is the first attempt in the cobalt cytochemistry.

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  • Electron microscopic study of ectopic bone formation induced by BMP :

    Nagai Noriyuki, Kinuta Yoshihiro, Akagi Takumi, Murata Masaru, Qin Chun-Lin

    Journal of hard tissue biology   7 ( 2 )   64 - 65   1998

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    Partially purified bovine bone morphogenetic proteiun (BMP) and type collagen as carrier were combined and lyophilized. The freeze-dried pellets were implanted into the dorsal stubcutaneous tissues of 3 week old Wistar strain rats. The specimens were removed at variotus periods and embedded in Epon812. The none-decalcified specimens were observed by electron microscopy for differentiation of mesenchymal cells into osteogenic cells in the tissues surrounding the implanted pellets.

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  • Natural bovine bone morphogenetic protein (BMP) induces cytological and functional differentiation of preodontoblasts in vitro. :

    Murata Masaru, Tsujigiwa Hidetsugu, Liu Gui-ru, Nakano Keisuke, Akagi Takumi, Ruch Jean Victor, Nagai Noriyuki

    Journal of hard tissue biology   7 ( 2 )   68 - 68   1998

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    First lower molar dental papillae, isolated from day-17 mouse embryos, were embedded in 10 E l of BGJ-b medium including fetal calf serum and 0.5% agar. Two E1 of BMP solution at the different dose of BMP were added to the medium before getting. The papillae embedded in the semi-solidmedium were deposited on Millipore filters, and cultured for 6 days. This BMP fraction promoted functional differentiatioun of odontoblast-like cells and stimtulated the matrix secretion, dependent on the concentration of BMP.

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  • Demonstration of Calcium Ion Distribution in Calcifying Cells : X-ray Microanalysis and Electron Spectroscopic Imaging after Fixation with NHA-Containing Fixative and Microwave Irradiation :

    Mizuhira Vinci, Hasegawa Hiroshi, Akagi Takumi, Nagai Noriyuki

    Acta histochemica et cytochemica   31 ( 3 )   217 - 230   1998

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    We have seen reporting on the calcium ion distribution in cells and tissues with X-ray microanalysis (EDX) since 1978 [9] and with electron energy-loss spectroscopy (ESS) imaging since 1983 [10, 17], under various fixing conditions [12-16, 18-24]. Almost ten years ago, we tried a fixative containing NHA (N,N-naphthaloylhydroxamine) as a chemical precipitant for Ca<2+> ions under microwaved conditions [12, 19]. However, the data did not seem to be as sensitive or useful, under conventional electron microscopy and computerized X-ray microanalysis, compared to the two-step replacement method combined with microwave fixation using potassium (K) oxalate followed by potassium (K) antimonate, for the detection of Ca<2+> ions [12, 19-21]. Recently, however, we used ESS to analyze same tissue sections which were fixed with NHAcontaining fixative with microwave fixation ten years previously. We discovered with ESS analysis that NHA is a sensitive and ideal chemical reagent for calcium ion deteclion in a cell giving the same view as that of frozen dried or freeze-substituted tissue sections. Calcium was clearly seen and widely distributed in developing chondroblast endoplasmic ultrastructures: ribosomes, cell and endoplasmic membranes, mitochondria, Golgi, and nucleus. However, free mesen-chymal cells which were not involved in calcifying functions had only a very small amount of calcium. Calcium was widely distributed in the lacunae of the surrounding space of the chondroblasts and inmature matrix, but the exoplasm of the chondroblasts was almost calcium-free. Other elemental images in the young chondrocytes or osteoblasts, i.e.. P・L, S・L, O・K, and N・K, were seen clearly superimposed on the cell ultrastructures, i.e.. the cell membranes, ribosomes, endoplasmic reticula, mitochondria, Golgi, and nucleus [24].

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  • 14. Ultrastructure of initial calcification in BMP-collagen induced bone. :

    Nagai Noriyuki, Kinuta Yoshihiro, Liu Guiru, Hibi Kazuteru, Ham Song, Akagi Takumi, Takagi Tohru, Fukuyama Hiroshi

    Journal of hard tissue biology   7 ( 2 )   72 - 73   1998

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    Collagen was examined by electron microscopy. The BMP-Colagen induced new bone formation by intramembranous ossification without cartilage. The initial calcification was observed not only on matrix vesicle derived from osteoblasts induced by the BMP but also on the BMP-collagen complex. Thus the BMP-collagen complex may play a role in a storagesite for minerals of initial calcification.

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  • Gene Expression of Chondro-Osseous Cells in Heterotopic Bone formation Induced by rhBMP-2

    Hitoshi NAGATSUKA, Masahisa INOUE, Takumi AKAGI, Yuzo ISHIWARI, Liu GUIRU, Bingzhen HUANG, Tohru TAKAGI, Mohamed Gomaa, UAIR-ATTIA, Noriyuki NAGAI

    Journal of hard tissue biology   6 ( 1 )   10 - 15   1997.6

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  • Characterization of Bovine extracted BMP and development of Bone Collagen I Carrier

    NAGAI Noriyuki, MURATA Masaru, TSUJIGIWA Hidetsugu, INOUE Masahisa, NAGATSUKA Hitoshi, NAKANO Keisuke, AKAGI Takumi, KINUTA Yoshihiro, KANYAMA Manabu, QIN Chun-Lin, ZHANG Shao-Quan, KONOUCHI Hironobu, HAN Song, HUANG Bing-Zhen, TAN Jun, LIU Gui-Ru, GOMAH Atia, HIBI Kazumitsu

    Journal of hard tissue biology   5 ( 2 )   163 - 173   1996.9

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    A modofied method was established to extracted BMP from bovine bone. SDS-PAGE and Westen blotting were apllied to analize the components of this partially purified BMP. In addition the amino acid sequence was studied using protein sequencer to analyze the unknown bands. Type I collagen derived from bone was used as a carrier whose properties and advantages were studied. The following conclusions are made from this study. 1. The limitation of molecluar weight in tbe early step of BMP purification procedure improves purification efficiency and stability, which makes the applicadon of BMP in big animalos possible. 2. In this method the purified BMP product also contains histone H3, histone 2B and other unknown proteins as well as BMP-2. 3. The atelocollagen derived from bone has proved to be an useful carrier for BMP. This carrier shows characteristics of self absorption and recalcification when embedded in tissues. 4. The minimun bone induction dose of BMP at each step (G-Ext:500μg, Hep:30μg, S200:50μg) and the optimal bone induction dose(G-Ext:5.0mg, Hep:2.0mg, S200:0.3mg) are determined, which makes the applicalion of BMP in cellular biology possible.

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  • Histopathological and Immunohistochemical Study of Heterotopic Chondro-Osseous Tissue Formation Induced by S-200 BMP

    Masahisa INOUE, Chun-Lin QIN, Tetundo NOJIMA, Hitoshi NAGATSUKA, Masaru MURATA, Yukio NOSAKA, Takumi AKAGI, Katsuhiro KURODA, Masaru MABUCHI, Keifuku HOH, Noriyuki NAGAI

    Journal of hard tissue biology   5 ( 1 )   1 - 6   1996.3

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  • Immunohistochemical Study of Heterotopic Cartilage-Bone Formation Induced by BMP-FGM

    INOUE Masahisa, QIN Chun-Lin, MURATA Masaru, AKAGI Takumi, NAGAI Noriyuki

    Dentistry in Japan   32   19 - 21   1995.12

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  • アパタイト : 骨結合界面の初期石灰化とBMPによる異所性骨誘導

    永井 教之, 長塚 仁, 井上 正久, 村田 勝, 赤木 巧, 辻極 秀次, 中野 敬介, 馬渕 優, 寒河江 登志朗, 高木 亨, 久保木 芳徳

    Journal of hard tissue biology = 日本硬組織研究技術学会雑誌   4 ( 3 )   79 - 90   1995.11

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  • Gene Expression of Bone Matrix Protein mRNA during BMP Induced Chondrogenesis and Osteogenesis by in situ Hybridization

    Noriyuki NAGAI, Hitoshi NAGATSUKA, Masaru MURATA, Masahisa INOUE, Takumi AKAGI, Chun-Lin QIN, Keisuke NAKANO, Yuzo ISIWARI, Hironobu KONOUCHI, Hidetsugu TSUJIGIWA, Yoshiho CHIGONO, Tohru TAKAGI

    Journal of hard tissue biology   4 ( 1 )   15 - 23   1995.3

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  • Crystallographic Properties of Syntheti Hydroxyapatites and Cell Affinity Test

    Sakae T., Kozawa Y., Akagi T., Nagai N., Matsuda N., Wakaba Y.

    Journal of hard tissue biology   3 ( 1 )   49 - 49   1994

  • Distribution of Bone Matrix Protein mRNA during New Bone Formation Induced by BMP. : In Situ Hybridization

    Nagatuka Hitoshi, Imamura Takayuki, Inoue Masahisa, Murata Masaru, Akagi Takumi, Ishiwari Yuzo, Hayashi Katsuhiko, Konouchi Hironobu, Shin Hong-In, Qin Chunlin, MISSANA L, Takagi Tohru, Nagai Noriyuki

    Journal of hard tissue biology   3 ( 1 )   7 - 12   1994

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    Osteopontin(Osp), osteonectin(Osn),osteocalcin(Osc) gene in new formational bone induced by bone morphogenetic protein(BMP) and tooth germ were examined in this study. BMP-carrier(collagen I) composites were implanted in subcutaneous tissue of the back of rats. At 1,2,3 weeks after implanted, all specimens were immersed in 4% paraformaldehyde and processed for routine light microscopy with or without decalcification. For in situ hybridization, we use single strand RNA probes by DIG RNA Labeling Kit, and stained with Nucleic Acid Detection Kit(Boehringer Mannheim). Osp and Osn signals both appears on the osteoblastic or fibroblastic cells at 1 week after implantation. Osc signal appears on the osteoblasts at 2 weeks after implantation. Osc signal increase on the osteoblasts around mineralized trabecular bone at 3 weeks after implantation. These results suggest that distribution of these bone matrix protein gene was associated with growth and mineralization of bone formation.

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  • Characterization of Ectopic Bone Matrix induced in Porous Particles of Hydroxyapatite

    Murata M., Hayashi K., Akagi T., Shin H.I., Qin C.L., Chang S.Q., Missana Liliana R, Kobayashi D., Takita H., Mizuno M., Kuboki Y., Nagai N.

    Journal of hard tissue biology   3 ( 1 )   51 - 52   1994

  • 生体代替材料の組織界面の成立と異所性骨誘導蛋白BMPの登場 Reviewed

    永井教之, 長塚 仁, 井上正久, 村田 勝, 赤木 巧, 寒河江登志朗, 高木 亨, 水野守道, 滝田裕子, 久保木芳徳

    東京都歯科医師会雑誌   42   533-543   1993.9

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  • Osteoclastic features of multinucleated giant cells responding to synthetic hydroxyapatite implanted in rat jaw bone

    Nobuyoshi Takeshita, Takumi Akagi, Masako Yamasaki, Toyokazu Ozeki, Tetsundo Nojima, Yoshio Hiramatsu, Noriyuki Nagai

    Journal of Electron Microscopy   41 ( 3 )   141 - 146   1992.6

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    Multinucleated giant cells (MGCs) that responded to synthetic hydroxyapatite (HAP) implanted in rat mandibles were studied with electron microscopy. HAP used in this study sintered at 200°C (HAP200) and at 125°C (HAP1250) after the synthesis by a wet method. One to three weeks after the intraosseous implantation of HAP, MGCs responding to HAP200 had not only well-developed ruffled border and the clear zone but well-developed perinuclear Golgi complex, many mitochondria and vesicles in their cytoplasms. MGCs responding to HAP1250 had the clear zone, but not the ruffled border although they showed similar cytoplasmic features to those of MGCs responding to HAP200. They merely extended short slender cytoplasmic processes to HAP1250. These results suggest that although osteoclast-like MGCs respond to HAP implanted in the bone, the development of the ruffled border-clear zone system depends on physicochemical properties of HAP. © 1992 Oxford University Press.

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  • Immunohistochemical Study of Cytokeratin, Amelogenin and Enamelin in Odontogenic Epithelial Tumors.

    NAGAI Noriyuki, TAKESHITA Nobuyoshi, NAGATSUKA Hitoshi, AKAGI Takumi, YAMASAKI Masako, HOH Chyofuku, NOJIMA Tetsundo, TAKAGI Tohru, KUBOKI Yoshinori

    J.Jpn.Stomatol.Soc.   40 ( 4 )   746 - 752   1991.10

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    Immunohistochemical expressions of cytokeratin, amelogenin, and enamelin were studied in odontogenic tumors: ameloblastoma, adenomatoid odontogenic tumor and ameloblastic carcinoma. Four anti-cytokeratin monoclonal antibodies were used in this study: CK-1 to total keratin, SE-K to 56, 56.5, 58 and 68 Kd, NSE-K to 52.5 Kd, and 19 K to 40 Kd. Cytokeratin expression in follicular ameloblastoma was similar to that in tooth germ epithelia, and in plexiform ameloblastoma similar to that in fetal oral mucosa. Both types of ameloblastoma also showed slight immunoreactivity for amelogenin. In adenomatoid odontogenic tumor there was a difference between cytokeratin expression in central cells and in peripheral cells in the tumor nests. Moreover, cytokeratin expression in adenomatoid odontogenic tumor was completely different from those in ameloblastoma and tooth germ. Immunoreactivity for amelogenin and enamelin in adenomatoid odontogenic tumor was found in colloidal drops, calcified masses and lining cell membrane of ductlike structure. Therefore, it is possible that these tumor cells differentiate into enamel protein-producing cells, more than those of ameloblastoma do. Immunohistochemical results in ameloblastic carcinoma showed that this carcinoma is composed of undifferentiated odontogenic tumor cells.

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  • Enzyme histochemical study of multinucleated giant cells responding to synthetic hydroxyapatite in rat jaw bone and subcutaneous tissue.

    Akagi Takumi, Takeshita Nobuyoshi, Nojima Tetsundo, Ozeki Toyokazu, Fujii Osamu, Iwama Yutaka, Narugami Shigeru

    Jpn J Oral Biol   33 ( 3 )   275 - 280   1991.6

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    Activities of acid phosphatase (ACPase) and tartrate-reristant acid phosphatase (TRAP) of multinucleated giant cells (MGCs) responding to hydroxyapatite (HA) implanted in rat jaw bone and subcutaneous tissue were studied by enzyme histochemistry.In the jaw bone, MGCs had ruffled border-like structures on the surface of HA.Both ACPase and TRAP activity were also detected in the cytoplasm of MGCs.Morphological and histochemical features of these MGCs closely resembled those of osteoclasts in the jaw bone.Moreover, both enzyme activities were observed in the mononuclear cells around the MGCs.On the other hand, MGCs in subcutaneous tissue had elongated the flattened cytoplasm along HA surface, and both enzyme activities were basely detected.Also many mononuclear cells that did not show TRAP activity were observed around these MGCs.The present results raise the possibility that the histological environment of the site for HA implantation may play a role in the regulation of the biological characteristics of MGCs responding to HA.

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  • 代謝型グルタミン酸6型受容体の細胞内輸送に関与するC末端特異的配列の探索

    下畑充志, 赤木巧, 荻原郁夫, 金田誠

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    赤木巧, 下畑充志, 荻原郁夫, 金田誠

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  • 神経組織を対象とした凍結超薄切片法の安定的手技の確立と組織細胞化学法への応用

    赤木 巧, 石田 欣二, 花坂 智人, 林 秀一郎, 遠山 稿二郎

    バイオイメージング   15 ( 2 )   175 - 175   2006.10

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  • Tau hyperphosphorylation in Ts1Cje, a partial trisomy 16 mouse model for Down syndrome

    Ebralum Abdul, A. Shimohata, W. Yu, M. Yamaguchi, M. Murayama, D. Chui, T. Akagi, T. Takeuchi, K. Amano, H. S. Karthik, T. Hashikawa, H. Sago, C. J. Epstein, A. Takaswma, K. Yamakawa

    NEUROSCIENCE RESEARCH   55   S256 - S256   2006

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  • 顆粒状凝集物を介したタウ線維形成

    前田 純宏, 金 賢徹, 赤木 巧, 宮坂 知宏, 原 正彦, 端川 勉, 猪飼 篤, 高島 明彦

    Dementia Japan   18 ( 2 )   147 - 147   2004.8

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  • Investigation and research on pathological mechanism of ataxia. Degradation of .ALPHA.synuclein by neurosin. Its significance in synucleinopathy.

    貫名信行, 岩田淳, 丸山美枝子, 赤木巧, 端川勉, 金沢一郎, 辻省次

    運動失調に関する調査及び病態機序に関する研究班 平成15年度研究報告書   65 - 66   2004

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  • Cell death in transgenic mice model of Lafora's disease

    J Machado-Salas, MR Avila, K Yamakawa, T Sakamato, Y Hoshii, T Akagi, H Gomi, T Suzuki, K Amano, KL Agarwala, Y Hasegawa, DS Bai, T Ishihara, T Hashikawa, S Itohara, E Cornford, H Niki, AV Delgado-Escueta

    ANNALS OF NEUROLOGY   54   S54 - S54   2003

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  • 多系統萎縮症モデルマウス作成の試み

    岩田 淳, 丸山 美枝子, 赤木 巧, 端川 勉, 辻 省次, 金澤 一郎, 貫名 信行

    臨床神経学   42 ( 12 )   1385 - 1385   2002.12

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  • Rapid freezing-metal contact method with liquid helium

    TOHYAMA Koujiro, HAYASHI Shuichiro, AKAGI Takumi, HASHIMOTO Tatsuya

    Electron-microscopy   37   128 - 130   2002.11

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  • Electron spectroscopic imaging in the elemental analysis with rapid freezing method

    AKAGI Takumi, HASHIKAWA Tsutomu

    電子顕微鏡   37   132 - 132   2002.11

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  • Zinc as a natural inhibitor of amyloid-beta-aggregation

    Y Yoshiike, K Tanemura, O Murayama, T Akagi, M Murayama, S Sato, XY Sun, A Takashima, N Tanaka

    NEUROBIOLOGY OF AGING   23 ( 1 )   S109 - S110   2002.7

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  • Tau filament formation and associative memory deficit in aged mice expressing mutant (R406W) human tau

    Y Tatebayashi, T Miyasaka, DH Chui, K Tanemura, A Takashima, T Akagi, R Rivid

    NEUROBIOLOGY OF AGING   23 ( 1 )   S236 - S236   2002.7

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  • 変異タウ遺伝子導入マウスの解析

    種村 健太郎, 宮坂 知宏, 溝呂木 達也, 赤木 巧, 冨永 貴志, 端川 勉, 市川 道教, 高島 明彦

    基礎老化研究   26 ( 1 )   44 - 44   2002.4

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  • 形態解析と遺伝子解析との接点 変異タウ遺伝子導入マウスの解析

    種村 健太郎, 赤木 巧, 冨永 貴志, 村山 美由紀, 二本松 尚美, 端川 勉, 市川 道教, 山口 晴保, 高島 明彦

    日本獣医学会学術集会講演要旨集   133回   34 - 34   2002.3

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  • 神経原線維変化を呈する脳老化モデルマウスの解析

    種村 健太郎, 赤木 巧, 冨永 貴志, 村山 美由紀, 二本松 尚美, 端川 勉, 市川 道教, 山口 晴保, 高島 明彦

    日本獣医学会学術集会講演要旨集   132回   103 - 103   2001.9

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  • 亜鉛によるβアミロイド線維化及びその毒性の阻害

    吉池 裕二, 種村 健太郎, 村山 洋, 赤木 巧, 村山 美由紀, 佐藤 慎二, 孫 小燕, 田中 信夫, 高島 明彦

    Dementia Japan   15 ( 2 )   108 - 108   2001.8

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  • 金属のアミロイド線維形成抑制効果とそのAβ神経毒性における影響

    吉池 裕二, 種村 健太郎, 村山 洋, 赤木 巧, 村山 美由紀, 田中 信夫, 高島 明彦

    生化学   73 ( 8 )   1068 - 1068   2001.8

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  • R406W変異タウ発現マウスの解析

    宮坂 知宏, 楯林 義孝, 種村 健太郎, 赤木 巧, 高島 明彦

    Dementia Japan   15 ( 2 )   115 - 115   2001.8

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  • Some suggestions for successful ultracryotomy

    TOHYAMA K., ISHIDA K., HANASAKA T., AKAGI T.

    35   158 - 158   2000.5

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  • Electron spectroscopic imaging of cobalt ions after blockade of synaptic transmission of frog neuromuscular preparation.

    S Tsuji, T Akagi, T Hashikawa, K Hirai, Motelica-Heino, I

    EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE   12   15 - 15   2000

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  • Analysis of multi phase structure of polymer blends by electron spectroscopic imaging

    HORIUCHI Shin, HANADA Takeshi, YASE Kiyoshi, AKAGI Takumi, HASHIKAWA Tsutomu

    34   215 - 215   1999.5

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  • Suggestions to overcome some methodological problems in ultracryotomy-immunogold labeling of CNS tissue.

    ISHIDA K., AKAGI T., TOHYAMA K.

    34   268 - 268   1999.5

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  • A Carbon Image of a Cryosection of Escherichia coli by Electron Spectroscopic Imaging (ESI)

    FUTAESAKU Y., AKAGI T., SEKIYA K.

    34   145 - 145   1999.5

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  • Role of N-linked glycosylation in mGluR6 intracellular trafficking

    Takumi Akagi, Atsushi Shimohata, Ikuo Ogiwara, Makoto Kaneda

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  • Role of N-linked glycosylation on the extracellular domain in mGluR6 cell surface localization

    Takumi Akagi, Atsushi Shimohata, Ikuo Ogiwara, Makoto Kaneda

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  • The C-terminal domain is required for mGluR6 cell-surface localization

    Atsushi Shimohata, Dilip Rai, Takumi Akagi, Toshiyuki Ishii, Mie Gangi, Takuma Maruyama, Yuko Wada-Kiyama, Ikuo Ogiwara, Makoto Kaneda

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  • The roles of the intracellular C-terminal domain in mGluR6 cell surface localization

    Takumi Akagi, Dilip Rai, Atsushi Shimohata, Toshiyuki Ishii, Mie Gangi, Takuma Maruyama, Yuko Wada-Kiyama, Ikuo Ogiwara, Makoto Kaneda

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  • Localization of novel ATP permeable channel, CALHM2, in the mouse nervous system

    Toshiyuki Ishii, Takumi Akagi, Makoto Kaneda

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  • Subcellular distribution and membrane expression of mGluR6 transfected cultured retinal bipolar cells.

    Takumi Akagi, Atsushi Shimohata, Ikuo Ogiwara, Makoto Kaneda

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  • Membrane expression of mGluR6 transfected cultured retinal bipolar cells.

    Takumi Akagi, Atsushi Shimohata, Ikuo Ogiwara, Makoto Kaneda

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  • Roles of the C-terminal domain in cell surface expression of mGluR6

    Takumi Akagi, Dilip Rai, Atsushi Shimohata, Toshiyuki Ishii, Mie Gangi, Takuma Maruyama, Ikuo Ogiwara, Makoto Kaneda

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  • The intracellular C-terminal domain is responsible for cell surface expression of mGluR6 International conference

    Dilip Rai, Takumi Akagi, Atsushi Shimohata, Ikuo Ogiwara, Makoto Kaneda

    The 9th Federation of Asian and Oceanian Physiological Societies Congress  2019.3 

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  • セリン合成不全が導く細胞毒性スフィンゴ脂質doxSLの産生と脂肪体の形成

    江崎加代子, 江崎加代子, 佐矢野智子, 佐矢野智子, 赤木巧, 鈴木健史, 岡本正宏, 岡本正宏, 吉川武男, 平林義雄, 古屋茂樹, 古屋茂樹

    日本生化学会大会(Web)  2015.12 

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  • Analysis of molecular mechanisms controlling the polarized targeting of metabotropic glutamate receptor type 6

    AKAGI Takumi, DILIP Rai, KIYAMA Yuko, OGIWARA Ikuo, KANEDA Makoto

    Journal of Physiological Sciences  2017 

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  • L‐セリン欠乏は異常スフィンゴ脂質を含む脂肪体の形成を誘導する

    江崎加代子, 江崎加代子, 佐矢野智子, 佐矢野智子, 赤木巧, 吉川武男, 平林義雄, 古屋茂樹, 古屋茂樹

    アミノ酸研究  2016.3 

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  • 認知症研究におけるCell Biology I リソソーム・オートファジー アルツハイマー病におけるAβ分泌とオートファジーに依存するプラーク形成(Alzheimer's disease Aβ secretion and plaque formation depend on autophagy)

    パー・ニルソン, Hui Kelvin, 津吹 聡, 赤木 巧, 和泉 伸一, 小守 壽文, 田中 元雅, 齊藤 貴志, 岩田 修永, 西道 隆臣

    Dementia Japan  2014.10 

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  • Effects of environmental enrichment on a sensory-motor cortex in mice

    INOUE Mai, ODAGAWA Maya, HONMA Chihiro, YAMADA Kazuyuki, AKAGI Takumi, SUZUKI Takayuki, MURAYAMA Masanori

    J Physiol Sci  2014 

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  • L-Serine deficiency promotes the formation of lipid body containing unusual sphingolipids

    江﨑 加代子, 佐矢野 智子, 赤木 巧, 吉川 武男, 平林 義雄, 古屋 茂樹

    アミノ酸研究 = Amino acid research  2015 

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  • Alzheimer's disease A.BETA. secretion and plaque formation depend on autophagy

    NIRUSON Pa, HUI Kelvin, TSUBUKI Satoshi, AKAGI Takumi, IZUMI Shin’ichi, KOMORI Hisafumi, TANAKA Motomasa, SAITO Takashi, IWATA Nobuhisa, NISHIMICHI Takaomi

    Dement Jpn  2014.10 

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  • 溶血毒素ストレプトリジンOのドメイン3の膜貫入による溶血機構の超微形態学的解析

    関矢 加智子, 阿部 章夫, 長宗 秀明, 龍田 季代子, 坂倉 永里子, 赤木 巧, 端川 勉

    日本細菌学雑誌  2008.2 

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  • 神経組織を用いた凍結超薄切片法のレクチン細胞化学への応用

    赤木巧, 石田欣二, 花坂智人, 林秀一郎, 遠山稿二郎

    医学生物学電子顕微鏡技術学会誌  2007.5 

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    灌流固定したラットとマウスの脳組織を用いて、Tokuyasu法に準じて凍結超薄切片を作製しレクチン染色による組織化学的検討を行った。大脳皮質内にWGA、ConAの特異的な結合部位の局在を認めた。WGAは一部のシナプス周囲の領域、特にシナプスを形成する神経突起の膜上に局在しており、錐体細胞内の模様構造と毛細血管内皮細胞の内腔側に見られた。ConAは一部の神経突起内に局在した。レクチンはそれぞれいくつかの糖残基と結合することから、レクチン局在部位にはこうした糖残基を含む糖鎖が存在する可能性が高いと考えられる。レクチン組織化学は糖、或いは糖鎖の超微細構造における検索には、有望な手法と思われた。

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  • 遺伝的イノシトール再利用経路抑制によるマウス頭部形成と脳発生の生物学的関連性の発見

    OHNISHI Tetsuo, MURATA Takuya, WATANABE Akiko, HIDA Akiko, OHBA Hisako, IWAYAMA Yoshimi, AKAGI Takumi, MISHIMA Kazuo, GONDO Youichi, YOSHIKAWA Takeo

    日本分子生物学会年会プログラム・要旨集(Web)  2013 

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  • 「鋤鼻器‐副嗅球系における糖脂質の組織化学的アプローチ」

    赤木巧

    日本農芸化学会東北支部シンポジウム講演要旨  2010 

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  • 凍結手法の重要性―現状と将来への展望―

    遠山稿二郎, 赤木巧, 中臣礼子, 林秀一郎, 石田欣二, 花坂智人, 林田津安子, 端川勉

    医学生物学電子顕微鏡技術学会誌  2007.5 

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  • 神経組織を対象とした凍結超薄切片法の安定的手技の確立と組織細胞化学法への応用

    赤木巧, 石田欣二, 花坂智人, 林秀一郎, 遠山稿二郎

    バイオイメージング  2006.10 

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  • βアミロイド線維,オリゴマーの毒性機構解析

    吉池裕二, 赤木巧, KAYED Rakez, MILTON Saskia, GLABE Charles, 高島明彦

    日本痴呆学会誌  2005.8 

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  • 顆粒状凝集物を介したタウ線維形成

    前田 純宏, 金 賢徹, 赤木 巧, 宮坂 知宏, 原 正彦, 端川 勉, 猪飼 篤, 高島 明彦

    Dementia Japan  2004.8 

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  • P2X2-purinoceptors of chorinergic amacrine cells in the mouse retina

    Kaneda Makoto, Ishii Katsuyoshi, Morishima Yosuke, Akagi Takumi, Nakanishi Shigetada, Hashikawa Tsutomu

    Proc Annu Meet PSJ  2004 

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    In the retina, while it is known that extracellular ATP inhibits ACh release from cholinergic neurons, the types of purinoceptors on the cholinergic neurons have not been examined. We reported that immunoreactivity for P2X2 localized asymmetrically between the ON and OFF pathways in the cholinergic amacrine cells in the mouse retina. In the present study, we recorded the responses to ATP in the cholinergic amacrine cells of the transgenic mouse retina. Both straburst amacrine cells and displaced amacrine cells responded to 100 &mu;M ATP. ATP induced an inward current. However, part of displaced amacrine cells did not respond to 100 &mu;M ATP. Both types of cells did not respond to 100 &mu;M &alpha;,&beta;-methylene ATP. Responses to ATP were inhibited by 100 &mu;M PPADS. When cells received GABAergic-IPSP, 100 &mu;M ATP augmented GABAergic IPSP. These results indicate that inhibitory action of ACh released by ATP is mediated by the presynaptic mechanisms. [Jpn J Physiol 54 Suppl:S162 (2004)]

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  • 凍結超薄切法における新たな電子染色液(吸着染色)の検討

    石田 欣二, 花坂 智人, 林 秀一郎, 遠山 稿二郎, 赤木 巧

    医学生物学電子顕微鏡技術学会誌  2005.3 

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  • ダウン症モデルマウスにおけるミトコンドリア機能異常の解析(Mitochondrial dysfunction in brain of the Down syndrome mouse model: Ts1 Cje)

    下畑 充志, Ebrahim A.S, 山田 一之, 天野 賢治, 赤木 巧, 竹内 環, 左合 治彦, Epstein C.J, 端川 勉, 山川 和弘

    神経化学  2004.8 

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  • 多系統萎縮症モデルマウス作成の試み

    岩田淳, 丸山美枝子, 赤木巧, 端川勉, 辻省次, 金沢一郎, 貫名信行

    臨床神経学  2002.12 

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  • Rapid freezing-metal contact method with liquid helium

    TOHYAMA Koujiro, HAYASHI Shuichiro, AKAGI Takumi, HASHIMOTO Tatsuya

    Electron-microscopy  2002.11 

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  • ミトコンドリアプロテアーゼOmi/HtrA2によるカスパーゼ活性化メカニズム

    鈴木泰行, 仁木加寿子, 赤木巧, 端川勉, 高橋良輔

    日本分子生物学会年会プログラム・講演要旨集  2003.11 

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  • 液体ヘリウム急速凍結装置の使用経験

    林秀一郎, 赤木巧, 橋本達也, 端川勉, 遠山稿二郎

    医学生物学電子顕微鏡技術学会誌  2003.3 

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  • アルツハイマー病発症機構における様々なβアミロイド線維化・毒性の意義

    吉池裕二, さい得華, 赤木巧, 高島明彦

    生化学  2002.8 

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  • 胸腺細胞分化におけるスフィンゴ脂質生合成の生理学的役割の解明

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    生化学  2002.8 

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  • 変異タウ遺伝子導入マウスの解析

    種村 健太郎, 宮坂 知宏, 溝呂木 達也, 赤木 巧, 冨永 貴志, 端川 勉, 市川 道教, 高島 明彦

    基礎老化研究  2002.4 

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  • マウス網膜プリン受容体の免疫組織化学的検討

    金田誠, 石井勝好, 赤木巧, 金子章道, 端川勉

    日本神経科学大会プログラム・抄録集  2001.9 

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  • 神経原線維変化を呈する脳老化モデルマウスの解析

    種村 健太郎, 赤木 巧, 冨永 貴志, 村山 美由紀, 二本松 尚美, 端川 勉, 市川 道教, 山口 晴保, 高島 明彦

    日本獣医学会学術集会講演要旨集  2001.9 

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  • 形態解析と遺伝子解析との接点 変異タウ遺伝子導入マウスの解析

    種村 健太郎, 赤木 巧, 冨永 貴志, 村山 美由紀, 二本松 尚美, 端川 勉, 市川 道教, 山口 晴保, 高島 明彦

    日本獣医学会学術集会講演要旨集  2002.3 

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  • 変異タウ遺伝子導入マウスの解析

    種村健太郎, 赤木巧, 冨永貴志, 村山美由紀, 二本松尚美, 端川勉, 市川道教, 山口晴保, 高島明彦

    日本獣医学会学術集会講演要旨集  2002.3 

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  • 金属のアミロイド線維形成抑制効果とそのAβ神経毒性における影響

    吉池裕二, 種村健太郎, 村山洋, 赤木巧, 村山美由紀, 田中信夫, 高島明彦

    生化学  2001.8 

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  • 亜鉛によるβアミロイド線維化およびその毒性の阻害

    吉池裕二, 種村健太郎, 村山洋, 赤木巧, 村山美由紀, 佐藤慎二, 孫小燕, 田中信夫, 高島明彦

    日本痴呆学会誌  2001.8 

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  • マウス網膜プリン受容体の免疫組織化学的検討

    金田誠, 石井勝好, 赤木巧, 金子章道, 端川勉

    神経化学  2001.9 

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  • ラフォラ型進行性ミオクローヌスてんかん原因遺伝子EPM2Aがコードするラフォーリン蛋白の解析

    Subramaniam Ganesh, Kishan Agarwala, 赤木 巧, 天野 賢治, 鈴木 俊光, 端川 勉, Delgado-Escueta Antonio, 山川 和弘

    神経化学  2001.9 

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  • 亜鉛によるβアミロイド線維化及びその毒性の阻害

    吉池 裕二, 種村 健太郎, 村山 洋, 赤木 巧, 村山 美由紀, 佐藤 慎二, 孫 小燕, 田中 信夫, 高島 明彦

    Dementia Japan  2001.8 

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  • ラフォーラ型進行性ミオクローヌスてんかん原因遺伝子EPM2AがコードするLaforin蛋白の機能解析

    GANESH S, AGARWALA K, 上田和則, 赤木巧, 臼井健郎, 端川勉, 長田裕之, DELGADO‐ESQUETA A, 山川和弘

    日本分子生物学会年会プログラム・講演要旨集  2000.11 

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  • R406W変異タウ発現マウスの解析

    宮坂知宏, 楯林義孝, 種村健太郎, 赤木巧, 高島明彦

    日本痴呆学会誌  2001.8 

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  • 明神海丘チムニーに棲息する生物群の含有元素

    二重作豊, 小塚芳道, 上野正樹, 半田素子, 赤木巧, 端川勉

    しんかいシンポジウム予稿集  1999.11 

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  • 発生期ラット中枢神経系におけるプレセニリン1の免疫組織学的研究

    石井勝好, 赤木巧, 関由起子, 端川勉, 本田利幸, 高島明彦

    日本神経科学大会プログラム・抄録集  1999.7 

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  • ラット網膜における亜鉛含有神経細胞の免疫組織化学的同定

    金田誠, 赤木巧, 石井勝好, 端川勉

    日本神経科学大会プログラム・抄録集  2000.9 

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  • Some suggestions for successful ultracryotomy

    TOHYAMA K, ISHIDA K, HANASAKA T, AKAGI T

    電子顕微鏡  2000.5 

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  • A Carbon Image of a Cryosection of Escherichia coli by Electron Spectroscopic Imaging (ESI)

    FUTAESAKU Y, AKAGI T, SEKIYA K

    電子顕微鏡  1999.5 

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  • Suggestions to overcome some methodological problems in ultracryotomy-immunogold labeling of CNS tissue.

    ISHIDA K, AKAGI T, TOHYAMA K

    電子顕微鏡  1999.5 

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  • Analysis of multi phase structure of polymer blends by electron spectroscopic imaging

    HORIUCHI Shin, HANADA Takeshi, YASE Kiyoshi, AKAGI Takumi, HASHIKAWA Tsutomu

    電子顕微鏡  1999.5 

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  • Basic research on the dog gnathic bone defect regeneration by BMP-chitin chitosan complex.

    野阪嵩, 赤木巧, 高橋淳, 尾上雄平, 安田幸司, 河原僚次

    日本口腔インプラント学会総会プログラム抄録集  1996 

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  • リコンビナントBMP‐2による異所性骨・骨芽細胞の機能分化 ISH法による骨蛋白遺伝子mRNAの検出

    永井教之, 長塚仁, 井上正久, 此内浩信, 赤木巧, 辻極秀次

    日本口腔インプラント学会総会プログラム抄録集  1995 

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  • 発生期ラット中枢神経系における癌抑制遺伝子APCの産生蛋白局在の免疫組織化学的研究

    石井 勝好, 赤木 巧, 端川 勉

    解剖学雑誌  1999.2 

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  • Expression of bone matrix protein gene in the heterotopia membranous ossification by BMP.

    劉桂じゅ, 方肇福, 野島鉄人, 飯田信之, 辻極秀次, 赤木巧, 龍野高逸, 永井教之

    日本口腔インプラント学会総会プログラム抄録集  1997 

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  • BMPによるラット異所性骨誘導における細胞分化の電顕的研究

    赤木 巧

    歯科基礎医学会雑誌  1994.9 

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  • Characterization of Ectopic Bone Matrix induced in Porous Particles of Hydroxyapatite

    Murata M, Hayashi K, Akagi T, Shin H.I, Qin C.L, Chang S.Q, Missana Liliana R, Kobayashi D, Takita H, Mizuno M, Kuboki Y, Nagai N

    Journal of hard tissue biology  1994 

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  • イヌ顎骨欠損部位を用いた牛骨抽出BMPの骨誘導の電顕的研究

    山根進, 赤木巧, 堤一純, 三嶋顕, 関根博, 大内英二

    日本口腔インプラント学会総会プログラム抄録集  1995 

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  • 特集 歯科における生体(硬組織)代替材料の基礎 生体代替材料の組織界面の成立と異所性骨誘導蛋白BMPの登場

    永井教之, 長塚仁, 井上正久, 村田勝, 赤木巧, 寒河江登志朗, 高木亨, 水野守道, 久保木芳徳

    東京都歯科医師会雑誌  1994.9 

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  • Crystallographic Properties of Syntheti Hydroxyapatites and Cell Affinity Test

    Sakae T, Kozawa Y, Akagi I, Nagai N, Matsuda N, Wakaba Y

    Journal of hard tissue biology  1994 

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  • 合成水酸化アパタイト表面に生じる初期石灰化の電顕的研究

    赤木 巧

    歯科基礎医学会雑誌  1990.9 

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  • Determination of regions required for plasma membrane expression in metabotropic glutamate receptor type 6

    AKAGI Takumi, RAI Dilip, OGIWARA Ikuo, KANEDA Makoto

    Journal of Physiological Sciences  2018.3 

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  • Determination of regions required for plasma membrane expression in C-terminal intracellular domain of metabotropic glutamate receptor type 6

    Takumi Akagi, Dilip Rai, Ikuo Ogiwara, Makoto Kaneda

    第41回 日本神経科学大会  2018.7 

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  • Roles of N-linked glycosylation at the N-terminal extracellular domain in cell surface delivery of mGluR6

    Takumi Akagi, Atsushi Shimohata, Ikuo Ogiwara, Makoto Kaneda

    第48回日本神経科学大会  2023.8 

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  • The intracellular C-terminal domain of mGluR6 contains ER retention motifs

    Atsushi Shimohata, Takumi Akagi, Ikuo Ogiwara, Makoto Kaneda

    第48回日本神経科学大会  2023.8 

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  • The impact of N-glycosylation in N-terminal extracellular domain of mGluR6 on the interaction with Elfin1

    Takumi Akagi, Ikuo Ogiwara, Makoto Kaneda

    2024.7 

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  • Exploration of C-terminal specific sequences involved in the intracellular trafficking of mGluR6

    Atsushi Shimohata, Takumi Akagi, Ikuo Ogiwara, Makoto Kaneda

    NEURO2022  2022.6 

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  • 代謝型グルタミン酸受容体タイプ6の細胞膜表面発現を制御するC末端領域アミノ酸配列モチーフの同定

    荻原郁夫, 赤木巧, 金田誠

    第90回日本医科大学医学会総会・学術集会  2022.9 

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  • Analysis of ER retention motifs in the intracellular C-terminal domain of mGluR6

    I. OGIWARA, A. SHIMOHATA, T. AKAGI, S. USUI, M. KANEDA

    Neuroscience 2022 (SfN)  2022.11 

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  • Role of N-linked glycosylation in mGluR6 cell surface delivery

    Takumi Akagi, Atsushi Shimohata, Ikuo Ogiwara, Makoto Kaneda

    第100回日本生理学会大会  2023.3 

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  • The intracellular C-terminal domain of mGluR6 contains ER retention motifs

    Atsushi Shimohata, Takumi Akagi, Ikuo Ogiwara, Makoto Kaneda

    第100回日本生理学会大会  2023.3 

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  • 代謝型グルタミン酸受容体6型の細胞膜表 面局在におけるN型糖鎖修飾の解析

    赤木 巧, 荻原 郁夫, 金田 誠

    第 91 回日本医科大学医学会学術集会  2023.9 

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  • The intracellular C-terminal domain of mGluR6 works as a signal for ER retention

    Makoto Kaneda, Atsushi Shimohata, Takumi Akagi, Ikuo Ogiwara

    2023.11 

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  • 代謝型グルタミン酸受容体mGluR6の細胞膜表面発現におけるN-結合型グリコシル化の役割

    荻原 郁夫, 赤木 巧, 加藤 大輔, 金田 誠

    第92回日本医科大学医学会学術集会  2024.9 

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  • 代謝型グルタミン酸受容体6型のシナプス接着因子Elfn1との結合におけるN型糖鎖修飾の役割

    赤木 巧、荻原 郁夫、加藤 大輔、金田 誠

    第92回日本医科大学医学会学術集会  2024.9 

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  • Roles of N-linked glycosylation in mGluR6 cell surface delivery and interaction with ELFN1

    Takumi Akagi, Atsushi Shimohata, Ryota Takeda, Tomomi Sakamoto, Ikuo Ogiwara, Makoto Kaneda

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  • 網膜コリン作動性ニューロンで発見された新奇なアセチルコリン合成経路の検討

    Grant number:20K09836  2020.4 - 2023.3

    日本学術振興会  科学研究費助成事業  基盤研究(C)

    金田 誠, 石井 俊行, 赤木 巧, 丸山 拓真

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    P2X型プリン受容体2型(P2X2-R)とGFPを強制発現させたHEK細胞を、コリン溶液中でインキュベートし、ATPを添加するとコリン取り込みが増加することはHPLCを用いた実験で確認済みである。また網膜コリン作動性アマクリン細胞において、P2X2-Rを介したコリン取り込み機構が存在することは確認済みである(Ishii et al. 2017, J. Neurophysiol.)。
    本研究ではP2X2-Rを介して取り込まれるコリンからAChが産生されるのかどうかについて、HPLCを用いて検討を加えた。高濃度コリン溶液中でP2X2-Rを強制発現させたHEK細胞にATPを作用させると、流入したコリンからAChが合成されることをHPLC法で確認することが出来た。しかしながら通常のHEK細胞では、コリン流入で生じるACh合成量を測定するには合成量が少なかった。そこで、ACh合成能を高めたHEK細胞を用いて同様の実験を行い、P2X2-Rを介したコリン流入に伴うACh合成量を定量することに成功した。またACh合成能を高めたHEk細胞でも通常のHEk細胞と同様のACh代謝系が機能していることもウエスタンブロット法で確認した。以上の実験は高濃度コリン液中で実施したため、生理的なコリン濃度に近い濃度でコリンの合成が起こるのかどうかについても検討を加えた。生体内のコリン濃度については、シナプス間隙での濃度は報告されていないため、体液中のコリン濃度を参考にしてコリン濃度を決定し、実験を行った。ACh合成能を高めたHEK細胞では、細胞外のコリン濃度を下げた時でもACh合成が増加している可能性は示されたが、合成増加を有意差をもって検出することはできなかった。以上の一連のデータをまとめ論文化した。

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  • Analysis of interacting-partners of Nav1.1 in premature mouse brain

    Grant number:16K15564  2016.4 - 2018.3

    Japan Society for the Promotion of Science  Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research  Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research

    OGIWARA Ikuo, KANEDA Makoto, ISHII Toshiyuki, AKAGI Takumi, USUI Sumiko, Suzuki Chiaki

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    Dravet syndrome is an epileptic encephalopathy, mainly caused by mutations in the SCN1A gene encoding a voltage-gated sodium channel Nav1.1. This study was aimed to identify interacting-partners of Nav1.1. Using co-precipitation and tandem-mass spectrometry, this study reported three novel interacting-partners of Nav1.1 in premature mouse brain, which seemed to be expressed in inhibitory neurons as Nav1.1 did.

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  • The Analysis of Gene Expression of Morphogenetic Factors Implicated Development of Tooth Germ and Odontogenic Tumors

    Grant number:09470391  1997 - 1999

    Japan Society for the Promotion of Science  Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research  Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)

    NAGAI Noriyuki, ISHIWARI Yuzo, INOUE Masahisa, NAGATSUKA Hitoshi

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    Tooth morphogenesis and cytodifferentiations are regulated by epithelium-mesenchymal interactions, and the basement membrane plays a role in mediating these interactions Type IV collagen, the major component of the dental basement membrane, is composed of three αchains. Using indirect immunofluorescence on cryosections, we characterized the changes in protein localization of α1 to α6 chains of type IV collagen during mouse molar development. We propose that the inner enamel epithlium in the cap stage is composed of type IV collagen consist of α1, α2 and α4 chains, probably in molecular forms of α1(IV) α2(IV) α4(IV), [α4(IV)]ィイD23ィエD2 and [α1(IV)]ィイD22ィエD2 α2(IV). These forms containing α4 chain have not been detected in other organs yet. Therefore, it is thought that these forms is related to morphogenesis and cytodifferentiation characteristic of tooth development that regulated y epithelial-mesenchymal interactions.
    Recently, it has gradually been ascertained that some growth factors secreted by epithelial or mesenchymal tissue bind to type IV collagen with greater affinity, condens there and contribute to organ morphogenesis in cooperation with basement membrane. We observed the expression patterns of several growth factors (TGF-β, BMPs and FGFs) in the basement menbrane of mouse first molar during tooth germ development and explored the relation between these growth factors and the tooth germ-specific molecular forms of type IV collage. No examined growth factor was detected in the basement membrane in and after cap stage. On the other hand, in the dental lamina and bud stages FGF-2 and TGF-β1 were detected in the dental basement membrane. FGF-2 and TGF-β1 may play an important role in early tooth morphogenesis and cytodifferentiation in cooperation with the molecular form, α3(IV)α4(IV)α5(IV), which exsists in the early stage of tooth development.

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  • 歯胚発生過程における骨誘導蛋白質(BMP)-2,4,7遺伝子の局在変化と定量解析

    Grant number:08672070  1996

    日本学術振興会  科学研究費助成事業  基盤研究(C)

    村田 勝, 赤木 巧, 井上 正久, 長塚 仁, 永井 教之

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    ラット下顎第1臼歯歯胚(生後0日)を用い,4%paraformaldehyde溶液で固定後,In situ hybridizationによるBMP geneの発現パターンを確認するため,cDNA(北海道大学上野直人教授より供与)から調整したジゴキシゲニン標識BMP-2,4 mPNA probeを含むhybridization液を用いて50℃で16時間ハイブリダイズした。ハイブリダイズ終了後,Dig nucleic acid detection kitを用いて光顕で観察した。
    その結果,間葉組織におけるBMP-2の発現パターンは,成熟した象牙芽細胞に強くシグナルが認められ歯乳頭組織にもシグナル認められた。一方,BMP-4の発現パターンは,前象牙芽細胞に強くシグナル認められ,機能分化した成熟象牙芽細胞においてシグナルの減弱が認められた。上皮におけるBMP-2の発現は,機能分化したエナメル芽細胞のみに認められたものの,BMP-4は内エナメル上皮細胞全体に認められた。以上より,BMP分子は歯胚発生における歯原性上皮と間葉組織の相互作用を媒介するシグナルタンパク質であることが示唆された。
    さらに,マウス下顎第1臼歯歯胚(胎生17日)から歯乳頭組織(前象牙芽細胞までの分化段階)のみを分離して,ウシ骨由来のBMP-2を含む部分精製物とともに6日間培養した結果,前象牙芽細胞の機能細胞への形態分化と象牙前質様基質の産生が認められ,BMP-2は象牙芽細胞の最終分化を修飾する重要な形態形成因子であることが示唆された。

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  • Ditribution of bone matrix proteins and PTH recepter mRNA during ectopic bone formation induced by BMP

    Grant number:07457428  1995 - 1996

    Japan Society for the Promotion of Science  Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research  Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)

    NAGATSUKA Hitoshi, AKAGI Takumi, MURATA Masaru, INOUE Masahisa, NAGAI Noriyuki

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    Purtialy purified bovine BMP-collagen I : 1 W after implantation. Osteopontin mRNA expression was found mainly at the central area of the tissue. At higher magnification, strong osteopontin mRNA expression was seen in large ovary shaped cells Osteonectin mRNA expression was found in the central to the middle area of the tissue. Osteonectin mRNA expression seen in fibroblast-like cells. Osteocalcin mRNA expression could not be detected at 1W after implantatin. Type I collagen mRNA expresison was found in all area. 2 W after implantation. Strong osteopontin and osteonectin mRNA expression was found in almost all areas of the tissue. At higher magnificaiton, strong osteonectin mRNA expression was seen in chondrocytes, osteoblasts, and young osteocytes. Osteocalcin mRNA expression was found in osteoblasts and osteoxytes of the newly formed bone. Type II and X collagen mRNA expression was found in chondrocytes and few osteoblast. 3 W after implantation. Osteopontin mRNA expression was found in osteoblasts surrounding the trabecular-shaped woven bone. Strong osteonectin mRNA expression was found in osteoblasts an osteocytes. Osteocalcin mRNA expression was found in osteoblasts and young osteocytes. Type I collagen mRNA espression was found in osteoblasts and young osteocytes.
    rhBMP-2-IMB : In the heterotopic cartilage like tissue, Osteopontin, osteocalcin mRNA and Type II Collagen were detected in chondrocyte-like cells. Whileosteocalcin mRNA was absent in chondrocytes in the enodchondral ossification of the fetal rat tibia. These results suggest that the chondrocyte-like cells in the BMP induced cartilage like tissue demonstrate the two phase funciton of both chondrocytes and osteoblast. The inductive cartilage-like tissue may be deisgnated as chondro-osseous cells in stead of chondro-cytes. The heterotopic chondro-osseous tissue formation induced by rhBMP-2 is process that differs from that of normal endchondral ossification in respect to cell differentiation and function.

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  • 骨誘導蛋白による異所性骨誘導とその細胞分化の超微形態学的・免疫電顕的研究

    Grant number:07771610  1995

    日本学術振興会  科学研究費助成事業  奨励研究(A)

    赤木 巧

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    骨誘導物質(BMP)による骨誘導過程のメカニズムを明らかにするため,ラット背部皮下組織内にBMP-支持体複合体を埋入,1,2,3週間後に出現する軟骨細胞様細胞について超微形態学的に検索を行った。
    ガラス線維膜を支持体とした場合,複合体表面に形成された軟骨組織内の細胞は,円形あるいは卵円形の核を持つ卵円形から長楕円形の細胞で,細胞表面には多数の細く短い細胞突起が認められた。細胞質内には発達した細胞内小器官と多数の小胞や多胞体が観察された。細胞周囲には太さ20〜30nmで周期構造の不明瞭な細く短小な線維の錯綜と,それらに付着する微細顆粒状の物質が観察された。これらの細胞とその周囲の基質の特徴は,正常な軟骨細胞の特徴と類似していた。
    一方,支持体にコラーゲン膜を用いた場合に出現する軟骨細胞様の細胞は,円形または楕円形の外形を示し,細胞表面には多数の細く短い細胞突起が認められた。核は比較的なめらかな円形あるいは卵円形を示し,細胞質内には発達した小器官と特に多数の小胞が認められ,外形的には軟骨細胞に類似した形態を示していたが,細胞質内に骨芽細胞や象牙芽細胞に観られるような,細線維状の物質を含む分泌顆粒が多数観察された。また,細胞周囲には「型コラーゲンと思われるような線維はほとんど認められず,明瞭な周期構造を示す太いコラーゲン線維と,これら線維間に種々の大きさの石灰化球が観察された。
    これらの結果から,BMPによる異所性骨形成過程に観られる軟骨細胞様細胞の一部には外形的には軟骨細胞様を示すが,細胞質内の小器官の特徴から骨芽細胞様の性格も有していることが示唆され,これらの細胞の出現の頻度に,用いる支持体の影響があると考えられた。また,これらの細胞質内に認められた分泌顆粒は,コルヒチンなどにより分泌を抑制された骨芽細胞や,象牙芽細胞内で特に多く認められることが知られていることから,これら骨芽細胞様細胞のコラーゲン蛋白,あるいは他の有機基質の生合成と分泌機能間での不均衡が示唆された。現在これらの細胞の機能的な特徴について,免疫電顕法により検索中である。

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  • 骨誘導蛋白-コラーゲン被覆チャンバーによる異所性骨誘導の細胞分化の解析

    Grant number:07671970  1995

    日本学術振興会  科学研究費助成事業  一般研究(C)

    村田 勝, 赤木 巧, 井上 正久, 長塚 仁, 永井 教之

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    部分精製BMP300μgと骨由来I型アテロコラーゲン10mgを複合化してウィスター系ラット(4週齢,6か月,1年)の背部皮下内に埋植後以下の結果を得た。
    4週齢ラットにおけるBMP群:埋植後1週では、細胞侵入部と細胞未侵入部の2層構造がみられた。未分化間葉細胞が担体であるコラーゲン線維間を周囲から内部に向かって侵入し散在性に軟骨様細胞への分化を認めた。軟骨様細胞にはオステオポンチン(OPN)mRNAのシグナルが検出された。中央部にはほとんど細胞侵入がみられず担体コラーゲン線維が存在していた。2週では、外側から中央に向かって数層の線維性被膜,骨様組織,軟骨様組織,空洞といった4層構造が認められた。軟骨様細胞,骨芽細胞,骨細胞にOPNmRNAのシグナルの増強が認められた。中央部には断片化されたコラーゲンと液を含む空洞を認めた。3週では外側から線維性被膜,皮質骨様の厚い層板状骨,海綿骨様の梁状骨といった3層構造を呈し骨髄組織も認められた。OPNmRNAのシグナルは減弱した。コラーゲン担体自体は再石灰化を示した後、線維骨の基質としての役割を果たした後吸収された。なお、本実験で形成される骨空洞内に歯胚を埋入し歯胚の成長を観察することに成功した。
    6ヵ月齢ラットBMP群:1週後に骨芽細胞が出現し、OPNmRNAのシグナルが認められ経時的にシグナルの増強が認められた。明らかな軟骨様細胞を認めなかった。1年齢ラットBMP群:硬組織形成細胞への分化はほとんど認められなかった。
    以上より、加齢に伴いBMPによる硬組織誘導量の減少が明らかとなり、その原因としてBMP反応細胞の減少と反応細胞の増殖能,分化能の低下が考えられた。また、加齢に伴い骨誘導過程に本質的な相違がある可能性が示唆された。

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  • Gene Expression and Development of Odontogenic tumors

    Grant number:06454511  1994 - 1995

    Japan Society for the Promotion of Science  Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research  Grant-in-Aid for General Scientific Research (B)

    NAGAI Noriyuki, KAWAHARA Kenji, AKAGI Takumi, MURATA Masaru, INOUE Masahisa, NAGATSUKA Hitoshi

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    The classification of odontogenic tumors is related to the differentiation degree of tumor cells. The localization of amelogenin protein and the expression of amelogenin mRNA are among the indexes of odontogenic tumor cell defferentiation. In our study the probes of amelogenin protein and amelogenin mRNA were made and used to observe their distribution in odontogenic tumors.
    Materials and methods : 1.Normal control : Wistar strain rat embryoes at 20 days after gestation were used for investigation of amelogenin protein and mRNA distribution in tooth germ.The specimens were fixed by 4% paraformaldehyde perfusion. 2.Making of probes : Total RNA was extracted from human plexiform type ameloblastoma. Primers (sense : 5-TCGGTCCTGCCTCAT-CACCATCC-3 ; antisense : 5-CCGCTTGGTCTTGTCTGTTG-3) were used for amplification using PCR method. The amplified cDNA was loaded on Vector (Bluescript) and labeled with Dig RNA Labeling Kit (Boehringer Mannheim) to make Digoxigenin labeled single strand RNA probe by in vitro transcription. 3.Hybridization : The probe was hybridizad with the specimens at 50^0C for 16 hours. Antigen-antibody reaction was performed using Nucleic acid Detection Kit (Boehringer Mannheim) as to evaluate the hybridization under light microscope. In addition, polyclonal anti-amelogenin antibody was used to localize the distribution of amelogenin protein in odontogenic tumors.
    Results and discussion : Both amelogenin protein and mRNA were positive in rat and mouse incisors but negative in undifferentiated enamel epithelia. Amelogenin mRNA was detected frequently in the cells of the central region of the follicles and usually positive in the cytoplasm of columnar cells near to basement membrane while amelogenin protein was occasionally detected only in a few cases of ameloblastomas. These findins suggest that amelogenin mRNA is generally present in ameloblastomas. Amelogenin mRNA was commonly detected in adenoid ondontogenic tumor cells. In addition the localization of amelogenin protein was also observed in adenoid odontogenic tumors. These results proved at molecular level that adenoid odontogenic tumor is a well differentiated tumor. Apart from the above-mentioned investigations immunohistochemistry was also adopted to evaluate cell proliferation, oncogene product and antioncogene product in ameloblastomas. These immunohistochemical studies indicated that immunodetection of PCNA,c-myc protein, ras protein and p53 protein is helpful in evaluating the malignance of ameloblastomas.

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  • 歯原性腫瘍におけるアメロジェニンの局在に関する免疫電顕的研究と遺伝子発現

    Grant number:06771587  1994

    日本学術振興会  科学研究費助成事業  奨励研究(A)

    赤木 巧

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    1.歯原性腫瘍における腫瘍細胞の機能分化を明らかにするため,腺様歯原性腫瘍,エナメル上皮線維歯牙腫,歯牙腫,エナメル上皮腫,エナメル上皮線維腫について,抗アメロジェニン,エナメリン抗体を用いて,免疫組織化学的に検索を行った。腺様歯原性腫瘍は,歯乳頭細胞の欠如にも関わらず硬組織の形成を認めたことから,腺様歯原性腫瘍の上皮細胞は,上皮-間葉相互作用なしにエナメル基質形成能を有するまで機能分化している可能性が示唆された。しかし,間葉系組織が存在しないことから正常のエナメル質構造を示さないことが考えられた。エナメル上皮線維歯牙腫および歯牙腫の構成細胞は,歯胚にかなり類似した程度まで分化を示していると考えられた。しかし,象牙質-エナメル芽細胞様上皮細胞境界部で基底膜蛋白が残存したり,成熟期のエナメル基質蛋白の脱却が不規則になるなどエナメル芽細胞様腫瘍細胞に機能障害があるため,正常の歯牙様形態を示さないと考えられた。また,集合性歯牙腫の構成細胞は,複雑性歯牙腫の構成細胞と比較して,より機能分化していると考えられた。エナメル上皮腫は形態的にはエナメル芽細胞に類似し,エナメル上皮線維腫はさらに歯乳頭様の間葉系組織を伴っているが,機能的にはエナメル基質蛋白合成能を有するまでは分化していない細胞であることが示唆された。
    2.歯原性上皮における細胞分化と機能の発現様式について検索を行うため,アメロジェニン蛋白およびそのmRNA probeを作製,正常ラット切歯歯胚を用い,Digoxigenin標識single strand RNA probeによりin situ hybridization法を用いて検索を行った。また,抗アメロジェニン抗体をもちい,immuno-gold法により免疫電顕的検索を行い,ラット切歯歯胚のエナメル芽細胞にアメロジェニンのmRNAのシグナルの発現を認めるとともに,エナメル芽細胞内の分泌顆粒および細胞外のエナメル質基質にImmuno-goldの局在が認められた。現在,これらの手法を用いて各種の歯原性腫瘍について検索を行っている。

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  • Expression of Cytokeratins in Odontogenic Tumors.

    Grant number:03807120  1991 - 1992

    Japan Society for the Promotion of Science  Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research  Grant-in-Aid for General Scientific Research (C)

    NAGAI Noriyuki, AKAGI Takumi, INOUE Masahisa, NAGATSUKA Hitoshi, TAKESHITA Nobuyoshi

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    Cytokeratins, intermediate filaments characteristic of epithelial cells, are well known to be closely related to epithelial differentiation. That is, the differentiation specificity to expression of different composition of cytokeratins has been described in epithelial cell types. Along these approaches, the expression of cytokeratins has been observed in the odontogenic epithelium and analyzed with special reference to the relationship between tooth germs and odontogenic cysts and tumors. But the distribution of cytokeratins has been unlikely to explain satisfactorily the origin of odontogenic tumors, because of heterogenous expression of cytokeratins in odontogenic tumors.
    1.Ameloblastoma ; Interestingly, they presented difference of cytokeratin distribution between follicular and plexiform types. In follicular ameloblastomas, the central portion showed immunoreactivity with all markers of cytokeratins, SE-K, NSE-K and K19. But the columnar cells arranged in the periphery were reacted positively for K19, faintly reacted for NSE-K, and negatively responded for the marker of squamous cells, SE-K. In plexiform ameloblastoma both central and peripheral cells demonstrated the positive reaction with all markers, SE-K, NSE-K and K19.
    2.Adenomatoid Odontogenic Tumors ; Adenomatoid odontogenic tumors demonstrated different distribution between central areas composed of columnar cells and peripheral areas of small round cells. Most areas of central cells, showing whorled structure or solid nests, demonstrated no expression for the marker of squamous cells, SE-K, however, only a few areas showed faint positivity. The immunoreactivity for NSE-K and K19 was so heterogenous that both immunoreactive and non-reactive areas were present within the central area. Ductal or tubular structures also showed no immunoreactivity for the marker of squamous cells (SE-K) with positive reaction for NSE-K and K19. The cells surrounding central whorled structures were smaller than central columnar cells and were proliferated without organizing pattern. These peripheral cells showed positive reaction for all markers of cytokeratins. Areas of reticular pattern composed of small round cells, which was frequently found in adenomatoid odontogenic tumors, also showed the same cytokeratin distribution with peripheral cells.
    3.Enamel Organ ; Along the maturation to enamel organ from dental lamina, the immunoreaction for the marker of squamous differentiation, SE-K, was negatively reacted. NSE-K and K19 were well demonstrated in the enamel organ proper.

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  • Bone marrow stromal cells concerning with jaw-bone reconstruction and a role of microenviroment

    Grant number:63570848  1988 - 1989

    Japan Society for the Promotion of Science  Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research  Grant-in-Aid for General Scientific Research (C)

    NAGAI Noriyuki, AKAGI Takumi, TUJI Takanori, ONO Toshirou, TAKESHITA Nobuyoshi

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    Grant amount:\2100000 ( Direct Cost: \2100000 )

    One of the most important theme in commencing aged society is a loss of occulsal function due to the missing of teeth. There are several treatments to be restored the loss of occulsal function in order to recover a cultural comfortable life, that is, reconstruction of jaw bone and dental implant. It is important to develop the systems to control and induce the osteoblastic differentiation of jaw bone cells before we select these methods and adaptable cases.
    Year 1: We investigated relations between a surface structure of hydroxy-apatite and cell responses to it. We revealed the following facts; (1) There is a coupling mechanism between a cytodifferentiation of osteoblastic cells and an appearance of macrophages (Shirasuga et al). (2) Macrophages dissolve apatite in their risosomes (Nagai). (3) Osteo-ankylosis (osseocontact, osseointegrate) is necessary to stabilize the dental implants in jaw bone (Akagi).
    Years 2: We examined the facts which influenced on them by in vitro studies in the multiple ways. Systems which we used were; apatite-osteogenic cells(HOS), apatite-periostium in culture bone marrow stromal cells of multi potential differentiation (Takesita,Ono,Tsuji). We revealed that apatite played a role of matrix material and related to mineralization at the interface. Microenviroment controlled the cytodifferntiation of osteoblastic cells.
    From these facts, it was suggested that (1)microenviroment (PH,Ca^<2+> concentration) were related to osteogenic differentiation and mineralization of bone marrow stromal cells. (2)Apatite were also positively concerning with these dynamic aspects.

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