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Tokyo Institute of Technology
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About: Tokyo Institute of Technology is a education organization based out in Tokyo, Tôkyô, Japan. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Thin film & Catalysis. The organization has 46775 authors who have published 101656 publications receiving 2357893 citations. The organization is also known as: Tokyo Tech & Tokodai.
Topics: Thin film, Catalysis, Polymerization, Laser, Phase (matter)
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TL;DR: Results reveal that CTL mainly exert perforin-based cytotoxicity and complementary Fas- based cytotoxic activity, and that CMA is a powerful tool to clarify the contributions of the two distinct cytolytic pathways.
Abstract: Perforin- and Fas-based cytolytic pathways are two major mechanisms of cell-mediated cytotoxicity. Recently, we have shown that an inhibitor of vacuolar type H+-ATPase, concanamycin A (CMA), inhibits perforin-based cytotoxic activity, mostly due to accelerated degradation of perforin by an increase in the pH of lytic granules. Here we show that CMA failed to inhibit the cytolytic activity of CD4+ CTL clone and perforin-deficient CD8+ CTL clone, which exclusively mediate Fas-based cytotoxicity, although CMA inhibited acidification and induced drastic vacuolation of cytoplasmic granules in these clones. In a wide range of alloantigen-specific CTL, a significant amount of the lysis of Con A blasts from normal mice and of Fas-positive tumor cells remained unaffected even in excess concentrations of CMA. However, CMA almost completely inhibited the lysis of Con A blasts from lpr mice and of Fas low expressing or negative tumor cells. Cytolysis by alloantigen-specific CD8+ CTL derived from gld mice was completely prevented by CMA. Furthermore, CMA-insensitive cytolysis exerted by CD8+ CTL clone was completely inhibitable by soluble Fas molecules. Thus, these data clearly indicate not only that CMA-insensitive cytolysis mediated by alloantigen-specific CTL is Fas dependent, but also that CMA is a selective inhibitor to block only the perforin-based killing pathway. In contrast, brefeldin A blocked the Fas-based cytotoxicity, but only marginally reduced the perforin-based cytotoxicity. Moreover, CMA and brefeldin A in combination completely abrogated all cytolytic activity of alloantigen-specific CTL. Taken together, these results reveal that CTL mainly exert perforin-based cytotoxicity and complementary Fas-based cytotoxicity, and that CMA is a powerful tool to clarify the contributions of the two distinct cytolytic pathways.
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VU University Amsterdam1, Lund University2, Arizona State University3, Fridtjof Nansen Institute4, University of Toronto5, Colorado State University6, Durham University7, Yale University8, University of Waterloo9, Stockholm Resilience Centre10, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences11, Wageningen University and Research Centre12, UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education13, University of Massachusetts Amherst14, University of East Anglia15, United Nations16, Tokyo Institute of Technology17, Slovak Academy of Sciences18, Chiang Mai University19, University of Oxford20, University of Arizona21, Carleton University22, University of Oregon23, University of Sussex24, Vrije Universiteit Brussel25, Colef26, University of California, Riverside27, University of Oslo28, University of Itaúna29, University of California, Santa Barbara30
TL;DR: The United Nations conference in Rio de Janeiro in June is an important opportunity to improve the institutional framework for sustainable development and requires fundamental reorientation and restructuring of national and international institutions toward more effective Earth system governance and planetary stewardship.
Abstract: Science assessments indicate that human activities are moving several of Earth's sub-systems outside the range of natural variability typical for the previous 500,000 years ( 1 , 2 ). Human societies must now change course and steer away from critical tipping points in the Earth system that might lead to rapid and irreversible change ( 3 ). This requires fundamental reorientation and restructuring of national and international institutions toward more effective Earth system governance and planetary stewardship.
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08 May 2007TL;DR: In this article, a simple heuristics that attempt to merge community structures in a balanced manner can dramatically improve community structure analysis is proposed to improve modularity and scale to a network with 5.5 million users.
Abstract: Community analysis algorithm proposed by Clauset, Newman, and Moore (CNM algorithm) finds community structure in social networks. Unfortunately, CNM algorithm does not scale well and its use is practically limited to networks whose sizes are up to 500,000 nodes. We show that this inefficiency is caused from merging communities in unbalanced manner and that a simple heuristics that attempts to merge community structures in a balanced manner can dramatically improve community structure analysis. The proposed techniques are tested using data sets obtained from existing social networking service that hosts 5.5 million users. We have tested three three variations of the heuristics. The fastest method processes a SNS friendship network with 1 million users in 5 minutes (70 times faster than CNM) and another friendship network with 4 million users in 35 minutes, respectively. Another one processes a network with 500,000 nodes in 50 minutes (7 times faster than CNM), finds community structures that has improved modularity, and scales to a network with 5.5 million.
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TL;DR: Oct-3/4 is a member of the gene family regulated by Oct- 3/4 and Sox2, as reported before for the FGF-4, UTF1, Sox 2, and Fbx15 genes, which comprise a regulatory complex that controls the expression of genes important for the maintenance of the primitive state, including themselves.
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TL;DR: The rat telomerase protein component 1 gene (TLP1), which is related to the gene for Tetrahymena p80, encodes a 2629 amino acid sequence and produces the TLP1 proteins p240 and p230, which were cloned and characterized and showed that p240 is modified to p230 in vivo.
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Name | H-index | Papers | Citations |
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Matthew Meyerson | 194 | 553 | 243726 |
Yury Gogotsi | 171 | 956 | 144520 |
Masayuki Yamamoto | 171 | 1576 | 123028 |
H. Eugene Stanley | 154 | 1190 | 122321 |
Takashi Taniguchi | 152 | 2141 | 110658 |
Shu-Hong Yu | 144 | 799 | 70853 |
Kazunori Kataoka | 138 | 908 | 70412 |
Osamu Jinnouchi | 135 | 885 | 86104 |
Hector F. DeLuca | 133 | 1303 | 69395 |
Shlomo Havlin | 131 | 1013 | 83347 |
Hiroyuki Iwasaki | 131 | 1009 | 82739 |
Kazunari Domen | 130 | 908 | 77964 |
Hideo Hosono | 128 | 1549 | 100279 |
Hideyuki Okano | 128 | 1169 | 67148 |
Andreas Strasser | 128 | 509 | 66903 |