生物物理
Online ISSN : 1347-4219
Print ISSN : 0582-4052
ISSN-L : 0582-4052
40 巻, 2 号
通巻228号
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  • 金品 昌志, 松木 均
    2000 年40 巻2 号 p. 94-98
    発行日: 2000年
    公開日: 2001/04/26
    ジャーナル フリー
    High-pressure studies on the bilayer phase transitions of phosphatidylcholines containing linear saturated acyl chains are reviewed. Temperature-pressure phase diagrams of lipid bilayer membranes are shown; the pressure-induced, interdigitated gel phase is found in addition to liquid crystal, ripple gel and lamellar gel phases. The minimum pressure for the interdigitation of lipid bilayers decreases with an increase in acyl chain length in a non-linear manner. Thermodynamic quantities for phase transitions are also discussed.
  • - 核酸の熱力学的性質に基づくリボザイムの配列設計 -
    桑原 知子, 藁科 雅岐, 田中 好幸, 多比良 和誠
    2000 年40 巻2 号 p. 99-104
    発行日: 2000年
    公開日: 2001/04/26
    ジャーナル フリー
    Ribozymes are potential tools for future gene therapy. Recently, we designed an allosterically controllable novel ribozyme (designated maxizyme) that can be transcribed in vivo under the control of a human tRNAVal-promoter. The maxizyme has sensor arms that can recognize target sequences and, in the presence of such a target sequence only, it can form a cavity that can capture catalytically indispensable Mg2+ ions. The maxizyme (but not conventional ribozymes) has extremely high specificity and high-level activity, not only in vitro but also in vivo. To the best of our knowledge, our novel maxizyme is superior to other nucleic acid-based drugs reported to date because of its extremely high substrate-specificity and high cleavage activity.
  • 鵜川 眞也, 島田 昌一
    2000 年40 巻2 号 p. 105-110
    発行日: 2000年
    公開日: 2001/04/26
    ジャーナル フリー
    Taste receptor cells located in taste buds respond to gustatory stimuli using a complex arrangement of receptor molecules, signaling cascades, and ion channels. To depolarize taste receptor cells, ionic stimuli, such as salts and acids (protons), interact directly with apically located ion channels, whereas the second messenger systems via specific taste receptors are important in transducing bitter, sweet, and umami stimuli. In this article, we report the isolation of a cDNA encoding a taste receptor for sourness from a rat circumvallate papilla cDNA library by combined homology and functional expression approaches. Taste receptors for other tastes are also mentioned.
  • 真行寺 千佳子
    2000 年40 巻2 号 p. 111-116
    発行日: 2000年
    公開日: 2001/04/26
    ジャーナル フリー
    One of the prominent features of flagellar movement is oscillation (or cyclical beating). The motive force for the bending is the sliding induced by dynein arms between adjacent doublet microtubules in the flagellar axonemes. To generate oscillatory bending, the activity of dynein should be regulated. The central pair apparatus, which locates at the center of the axoneme, seems to be involved in this regulation. Our recent finding of the oscillation of force in dynein revealed that the dynein molecule itself may be related to the oscillation of the flagellar movement.
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