8 results on '"TAKUMI NISHI"'
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2. Palaeoproteomic investigation of an ancient human skeleton with abnormal deposition of dental calculus
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Yoko Uchida-Fukuhara, Shigeru Shimamura, Rikai Sawafuji, Takumi Nishiuchi, Minoru Yoneda, Hajime Ishida, Hirofumi Matsumura, and Takumi Tsutaya
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Medicine ,Science - Abstract
Abstract Detailed investigation of extremely severe pathological conditions in ancient human skeletons is important as it could shed light on the breadth of potential interactions between humans and disease etiologies in the past. Here, we applied palaeoproteomics to investigate an ancient human skeletal individual with severe oral pathology, focusing our research on bacterial pathogenic factors and host defense response. This female skeleton, from the Okhotsk period (i.e., fifth to thirteenth century) of Northern Japan, poses relevant amounts of abnormal dental calculus deposition and exhibits oral dysfunction due to severe periodontal disease. A shotgun mass-spectrometry analysis identified 81 human proteins and 15 bacterial proteins from the calculus of the subject. We identified two pathogenic or bioinvasive proteins originating from two of the three “red complex” bacteria, the core species associated with severe periodontal disease in modern humans, as well as two additional bioinvasive proteins of periodontal-associated bacteria. Moreover, we discovered defense response system-associated human proteins, although their proportion was mostly similar to those reported in ancient and modern human individuals with lower calculus deposition. These results suggest that the bacterial etiology was similar and the host defense response was not necessarily more intense in ancient individuals with significant amounts of abnormal dental calculus deposition.
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- 2024
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3. Kynurenine promotes Calcitonin secretion and reduces cortisol in the Japanese flounder Paralichthys olivaceus
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Takahiro Ikari, Yukihiro Furusawa, Yoshiaki Tabuchi, Yusuke Maruyama, Atsuhiko Hattori, Yoichiro Kitani, Kenji Toyota, Arata Nagami, Jun Hirayama, Kazuki Watanabe, Atsushi Shigematsu, Muhammad Ahya Rafiuddin, Shouzo Ogiso, Keisuke Fukushi, Kohei Kuroda, Kaito Hatano, Toshio Sekiguchi, Ryotaro Kawashima, Ajai K. Srivastav, Takumi Nishiuchi, Akihiro Sakatoku, Masa-aki Yoshida, Hajime Matsubara, and Nobuo Suzuki
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Abstract Deep ocean water (DOW) exerts positive effects on the growth of marine organisms, suggesting the presence of unknown component(s) that facilitate their aquaculture. We observed that DOW suppressed plasma cortisol (i.e., a stress marker) concentration in Japanese flounder (Paralichthys olivaceus) reared under high-density condition. RNA-sequencing analysis of flounder brains showed that when compared to surface seawater (SSW)-reared fish, DOW-reared fish had lower expression of hypothalamic (i.e., corticotropin-releasing hormone) and pituitary (i.e., proopiomelanocortin, including adrenocorticotropic hormone) hormone-encoding genes. Moreover, DOW-mediated regulation of gene expression was linked to decreased blood cortisol concentration in DOW-reared fish. Our results indicate that DOW activated osteoblasts in fish scales and facilitated the production of Calcitonin, a hypocalcemic hormone that acts as an analgesic. We then provide evidence that the Calcitonin produced is involved in the regulatory network of genes controlling cortisol secretion. In addition, the indole component kynurenine was identified as the component responsible for osteoblast activation in DOW. Furthermore, kynurenine increased plasma Calcitonin concentrations in flounders reared under high-density condition, while it decreased plasma cortisol concentration. Taken together, we propose that kynurenine in DOW exerts a cortisol-reducing effect in flounders by facilitating Calcitonin production by osteoblasts in the scales.
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- 2023
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4. Out-of-plane polarization reversal and changes in in-plane ferroelectric and ferromagnetic domains of multiferroic BiFe0.9Co0.1O3 thin films by water printing
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Takuma Itoh, Kei Shigematsu, Takumi Nishikubo, and Masaki Azuma
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Abstract BiFe0.9Co0.1O3 is a promising material for an ultra-low-power-consumption nonvolatile magnetic memory device because local magnetization reversal is possible through application of an electric field. Here, changes in ferroelectric and ferromagnetic domain structures in a multiferroic BiFe0.9Co0.1O3 thin film induced by “water printing”, which is a polarization reversal method involving chemical bonding and charge accumulation at the interface between the liquid and the film, was investigated. Water printing using pure water with pH = 6.2 resulted in an out-of-plane polarization reversal from upward to downward. The in-plane domain structure remained unchanged after the water printing process, indicating that 71° switching was achieved in 88.4% of the observation area. However, magnetization reversal was observed in only 50.1% of the area, indicating a loss of correlation between the ferroelectric and magnetic domains because of the slow polarization reversal due to nucleation growth.
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- 2023
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5. Observation of novel charge ordering and spin reorientation in perovskite oxide PbFeO3
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Xubin Ye, Jianfa Zhao, Hena Das, Denis Sheptyakov, Junye Yang, Yuki Sakai, Hajime Hojo, Zhehong Liu, Long Zhou, Lipeng Cao, Takumi Nishikubo, Shogo Wakazaki, Cheng Dong, Xiao Wang, Zhiwei Hu, Hong-Ji Lin, Chien-Te Chen, Christoph Sahle, Anna Efiminko, Huibo Cao, Stuart Calder, Ko Mibu, Michel Kenzelmann, Liu Hao Tjeng, Runze Yu, Masaki Azuma, Changqing Jin, and Youwen Long
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PbFeO3 is part of a family of lead based perovskites with many intriguing properties; however, difficulties in synthesis have hampered investigation. Here, the authors present a detailed study of the structure of PbFeO3 observing unique charge ordering and spin orientation among the constituent ions.
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- 2021
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6. Coculture with hiPS-derived intestinal cells enhanced human hepatocyte functions in a pneumatic-pressure-driven two-organ microphysiological system
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Marie Shinohara, Hiroshi Arakawa, Yuuichi Oda, Nobuaki Shiraki, Shinji Sugiura, Takumi Nishiuchi, Taku Satoh, Keita Iino, Sylvia Leo, Yusuke Kato, Karin Araya, Takumi Kawanishi, Tomoki Nakatsuji, Manami Mitsuta, Kosuke Inamura, Tomomi Goto, Kenta Shinha, Wataru Nihei, Kikuo Komori, Masaki Nishikawa, Shoen Kume, Yukio Kato, Toshiyuki Kanamori, Yasuyuki Sakai, and Hiroshi Kimura
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Abstract Examining intestine–liver interactions is important for achieving the desired physiological drug absorption and metabolism response in in vitro drug tests. Multi-organ microphysiological systems (MPSs) constitute promising tools for evaluating inter-organ interactions in vitro. For coculture on MPSs, normal cells are challenging to use because they require complex maintenance and careful handling. Herein, we demonstrated the potential of coculturing normal cells on MPSs in the evaluation of intestine–liver interactions. To this end, we cocultured human-induced pluripotent stem cell-derived intestinal cells and fresh human hepatocytes which were isolated from PXB mice with medium circulation in a pneumatic-pressure-driven MPS with pipette-friendly liquid-handling options. The cytochrome activity, albumin production, and liver-specific gene expressions in human hepatocytes freshly isolated from a PXB mouse were significantly upregulated via coculture with hiPS-intestinal cells. Our normal cell coculture shows the effects of the interactions between the intestine and liver that may occur in vivo. This study is the first to demonstrate the coculturing of hiPS-intestinal cells and fresh human hepatocytes on an MPS for examining pure inter-organ interactions. Normal-cell coculture using the multi-organ MPS could be pursued to explore unknown physiological mechanisms of inter-organ interactions in vitro and investigate the physiological response of new drugs.
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- 2021
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7. Tryptophan-derived metabolites and BAK1 separately contribute to Arabidopsis postinvasive immunity against Alternaria brassicicola
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Ayumi Kosaka, Marta Pastorczyk, Mariola Piślewska-Bednarek, Takumi Nishiuchi, Erika Ono, Haruka Suemoto, Atsushi Ishikawa, Henning Frerigmann, Masanori Kaido, Kazuyuki Mise, Paweł Bednarek, and Yoshitaka Takano
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Abstract Nonhost resistance of Arabidopsis thaliana against the hemibiotrophic fungus Colletotrichum tropicale requires PEN2-dependent preinvasive resistance and CYP71A12 and CYP71A13-dependent postinvasive resistance, which both rely on tryptophan (Trp) metabolism. We here revealed that CYP71A12, CYP71A13 and PAD3 are critical for Arabidopsis’ postinvasive basal resistance toward the necrotrophic Alternaria brassicicola. Consistent with this, gene expression and metabolite analyses suggested that the invasion by A. brassicicola triggered the CYP71A12-dependent production of indole-3-carboxylic acid derivatives and the PAD3 and CYP71A13-dependent production of camalexin. We next addressed the activation of the CYP71A12 and PAD3-dependent postinvasive resistance. We found that bak1-5 mutation significantly reduced postinvasive resistance against A. brassicicola, indicating that pattern recognition contributes to activation of this second defense-layer. However, the bak1-5 mutation had no detectable effects on the Trp-metabolism triggered by the fungal penetration. Together with this, further comparative gene expression analyses suggested that pathogen invasion in Arabidopsis activates (1) CYP71A12 and PAD3-related antifungal metabolism that is not hampered by bak1-5, and (2) a bak1-5 sensitive immune pathway that activates the expression of antimicrobial proteins.
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- 2021
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8. Nicotinamide mononucleotide and related metabolites induce disease resistance against fungal phytopathogens in Arabidopsis and barley
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Akihiro Miwa, Yuji Sawada, Daisuke Tamaoki, Masami Yokota Hirai, Makoto Kimura, Kazuhiro Sato, and Takumi Nishiuchi
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Abstract Nicotinamide mononucleotide (NMN), a precursor of nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD), is known to act as a functional molecule in animals, whereas its function in plants is largely unknown. In this study, we found that NMN accumulated in barley cultivars resistant to phytopathogenic fungal Fusarium species. Although NMN does not possess antifungal activity, pretreatment with NMN and related metabolites enhanced disease resistance to Fusarium graminearum in Arabidopsis leaves and flowers and in barley spikes. The NMN-induced Fusarium resistance was accompanied by activation of the salicylic acid-mediated signalling pathway and repression of the jasmonic acid/ethylene-dependent signalling pathways in Arabidopsis. Since NMN-induced disease resistance was also observed in the SA-deficient sid2 mutant, an SA-independent signalling pathway also regulated the enhanced resistance induced by NMN. Compared with NMN, NAD and NADP, nicotinamide pretreatment had minor effects on resistance to F. graminearum. Constitutive expression of the NMNAT gene, which encodes a rate-limiting enzyme for NAD biosynthesis, resulted in enhanced disease resistance in Arabidopsis. Thus, modifying the content of NAD-related metabolites can be used to optimize the defence signalling pathways activated in response to F. graminearum and facilitates the control of disease injury and mycotoxin accumulation in plants.
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- 2017
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