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Masaji Ishiguro
Researcher at Niigata University of Pharmacy and Applied Life Sciences
Publications - 146
Citations - 5481
Masaji Ishiguro is an academic researcher from Niigata University of Pharmacy and Applied Life Sciences. The author has contributed to research in topics: Receptor & Amino acid. The author has an hindex of 34, co-authored 146 publications receiving 5077 citations. Previous affiliations of Masaji Ishiguro include Osaka University & Osaka City University.
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A silicon transporter in rice
Jian Feng Ma,Kazunori Tamai,Naoki Yamaji,Namiki Mitani,Saeko Konishi,Maki Katsuhara,Masaji Ishiguro,Yoshiko Murata,Masahiro Yano +8 more
TL;DR: The identification of a silicon transporter provides both an insight into the silicon uptake system in plants, and a new strategy for producing crops with high resistance to multiple stresses by genetic modification of the root's silicon uptake capacity.
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The Pseudomonas aeruginosa autoinducer N-3-oxododecanoyl homoserine lactone accelerates apoptosis in macrophages and neutrophils.
Kazuhiro Tateda,Yoshikazu Ishii,Manabu Horikawa,Tetsuya Matsumoto,Shinichi Miyairi,Jean-Claude Pechère,Theodore J. Standiford,Masaji Ishiguro,Keizo Yamaguchi +8 more
TL;DR: The data suggest that the quorum-sensing molecule 3-oxo-C12-HSL has critical roles in the pathogenesis of P. aeruginosa infection, not only in the induction of bacterial virulence factors but also in the modulation of host responses.
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Functional Differentiation of the Glycosyltransferases That Contribute to the Chemical Diversity of Bioactive Flavonol Glycosides in Grapevines (Vitis vinifera)
Eiichiro Ono,Yu Homma,Manabu Horikawa,Satoshi Kunikane-Doi,Haruna Imai,Seiji Takahashi,Yosuke Kawai,Masaji Ishiguro,Yuko Fukui,Toru Nakayama +9 more
TL;DR: The results presented here suggest that the sugar donor specificities of these Vv GTs could be determined by a limited number of amino acid substitutions in the primary structures of protein duplicates, illustrating the plasticity of plant glycosyltransferases in acquiring new sugar donor Specificities.
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Crystal structure of squid rhodopsin with intracellularly extended cytoplasmic region.
Tatsuro Shimamura,Kenji Hiraki,Naoko Takahashi,Tetsuya Hori,Hideo Ago,Katsuyoshi Masuda,Koji Takio,Masaji Ishiguro,Masashi Miyano +8 more
TL;DR: The structure of squid rhodopsin was determined at 3.7Å resolution, which transduces signals through the Gq protein to the phosphoinositol cascade, and showed seven transmembrane helices and an amphipathic helix H8 has similar geometry to structures from bovine rhodopin, coupling to Gt, and humanβ2-adrenergic receptor, coupled to Gs.
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A TNF receptor loop peptide mimic blocks RANK ligand-induced signaling, bone resorption, and bone loss
Kazuhiro Aoki,Hiroaki Saito,Cecile Itzstein,Masaji Ishiguro,Tatsuya Shibata,Roland Blanque,Anower Hussain Mian,Mariko Takahashi,Yoshifumi Suzuki,Masako Yoshimatsu,Akira Yamaguchi,Pierre Deprez,Patrick Mollat,Ramachandran Murali,Keiichi Ohya,William C. Horne,Roland Baron +16 more
TL;DR: In vivo, WP9QY prevented the increased osteoclastogenesis and bone loss induced in mice by ovariectomy or low dietary calcium, in the latter case in both wild-type and TNFR double-knockout mice.