Nakagawa, M., Tanaka, F., Tsubota, N., Ohta, M., Takao, M., Wada, H., ...
Purpose: To examine the efficacy of UFT, an oral 5-fluorouracil derivative agent, as post-operative adjuvant therapy for pathologic (p-) stage I non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC), because a previous...
A. Thakker, T. S. Dhanasekaran, M. Takao, T. Setoguchi
This article presents work carried out to predict the behavior of a 0.6 m impulse turbine with fixed guide vanes as compared with that of a 0.6 hub-to-tip ratio turbine under real sea conditions. In...
Upgrade of Linac Control System with New Vme Controllers at Spring-8 (2001)
Masuda, T., Ohata, T., Asaka, T., Dewa, H., Fukui, T., Hanaki, H., ...
We integrated an injector linac control system to the SPring-8 standard system on September 2000. As a result of this integration, the SPring-8 accelerator complex was controlled by one unified...
A Comparison of Performances of Turbines for Wave Power Conversion (2000)
T. Setoguchi, M. Takao, K. Kaneko
A number of self-rectifying air turbines for wave power conversion have been proposed so far. This paper shows the comparison of the performances of all these turbines proposed for use in the near...
M. Takao, Y. Kinoue, T. Setoguchi, T. Obayashi, K. Kaneko
An impulse turbine with self-pitch-controlled guide vanes has been developed specially for wave energy conversion by the authors. Based on that work, a large turbine of 1 m diameter has been...
Hysteresis on Wells Turbine Characteristics in Reciprocating Flow (1998)
T. Setoguchi, M. Takao, K. Kaneko
The Wells turbine for a wave power generator has hysteretic characteristics in a reciprocating flow, which results in the inaccurate prediction of performance in a quasisteady analysis. In order to...
Characterization of photolyase/blue-light receptor homologs in mouse and human cells (1998)
Kobayashi, K, Kanno, S, Smit, B, Van Der Horst, GT, Takao, M, Yasui, A
T. Setoguchi, S. Raghunathan, M. Takao, K. Kaneko
In the development of an air-turbine with self-pitch-controlled blades for wave energy conversion, existence of hysteretic characteristics in a reciprocating flow has been examined. In order to...
Yonemasu, R, McCready, SJ, Murray, JM, Osman, F, Takao, M, Yamamoto, K, ...
CONSTRUCTION OF R. T. FI-STMs AND ITS APPLICATIONS (1989)
Hashizume, T., Hasegawa, Y., Kamiya, I., Sano, N., Yokoyama, K., Tanaka, H ., ...
Our successful attempt to design and develop series of room-temperature field ion-scanning tunneling microscopies (RT FI-STMs) is discussed. The great advantages of RT FI-STM are (1) almost...
CONSTRUCTION OF R. T. FI-STMs AND ITS APPLICATIONS (1989)
Hashizume, T., Hasegawa, Y., Kamiya, I., Sano, N., Yokoyama, K., Tanaka, H ., ...
Our successful attempt to design and develop series of room-temperature field ion-scanning tunneling microscopies (RT FI-STMs) is discussed. The great advantages of RT FI-STM are (1) almost...
CONSTRUCTION OF R. T. FI-STMs AND ITS APPLICATIONS (1989)
Hashizume, T., Hasegawa, Y., Kamiya, I., Sano, N., Yokoyama, K., Tanaka, H ., ...
Our successful attempt to design and develop series of room-temperature field ion-scanning tunneling microscopies (RT FI-STMs) is discussed. The great advantages of RT FI-STM are (1) almost...
Molecular characterization of a gene encoding a photolyase from Streptomyces griseus (1989)
Kobayashi, T., Takao, M., Oikawa, A., Yasui, A.
By using a synthetic DNA probe derived from an amino acid sequence in the most conserved region of three known photolyases (Escherichia coli, Anacystis nidulans and Saccharomyces cerevisiae), we...
Cloning and characterization of a photolyase gene from the cyanobacterium Anacystis nidulans (1988)
Yasui, A., Takao, M., Oikawa, A., Kiener, A., Walsh, C.T., Eker, A.P.M.
A 2 kb fragment was isolated from an Anacystis nidulans genomic DNA library by hybridization with synthetic oligonucleotide probes derived from the N-terminal amino acid sequence of Anacystis...
Takao, M, Yonemasu, R, Yamamoto, K, Yasui, A
From the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe, a cDNA fragment was isolated, which confers UV resistance on repair deficient Escherichia coli host cells. The cloned cDNA encodes a protein of...
Yonemasu, R, McCready, S J, Murray, J M, Osman, F, Takao, M, Yamamoto, K, ...
Schizosaccharomyces pombe cells deficient in nucleotide excision repair (NER) are still able to remove photoproducts from cellular DNA, showing that there is a second pathway for repair of UV damage...
Mitochondrial targeting of human DNA glycosylases for repair of oxidative DNA damage.
Takao, M, Aburatani, H, Kobayashi, K, Yasui, A
Oxidative damage to mitochondrial DNA has been implicated in human degenerative diseases and aging. Although removal of oxidative lesions from mitochondrial DNA occurs, the responsible DNA repair...
Characterization of photolyase/blue-light receptor homologs in mouse and human cells.
Kobayashi, K, Kanno, S, Smit, B, Van Der Horst, G T, Takao, M, Yasui, A
We isolated and characterized mouse photolyase-like genes, mCRY1 (mPHLL1) and mCRY2 (mPHLL2), which belong to the photolyase family including plant blue-light receptors. The mCRY1 and mCRY2 genes are...
Kanno, S, Iwai, S, Takao, M, Yasui, A
UV damage endonuclease (UVDE) initiates a novel form of excision repair by introducing a nick imme-diately 5" to UV-induced cyclobutane pyrimidine dimers or 6-4 photoproducts. Here, we report that...
Takao, M, Zhang, Q M, Yonei, S, Yasui, A
The post-replicative adenine:8-oxo-7,8-dihydroguanine (GO) mismatch is crucial for G:C to T:A transversion. This mismatch is corrected by Escherichia coli MutY which excises the adenine from A:GO. A...
Tandem arrangement of photolyase and superoxide dismutase genes in Halobacterium halobium.
Takao, M, Kobayashi, T, Oikawa, A, Yasui, A
A DNA fragment containing the photolyase gene was cloned from Halobacterium halobium. The deduced amino acid sequence is highly similar to those of four known photolyases from eubacteria and a...
Yamagata, H, Adachi, T, Tsuboi, A, Takao, M, Sasaki, T, Tsukagoshi, N, ...
Bacillus brevis 47 secretes vast amounts of proteins derived from both middle wall protein (MWP) and outer wall protein into the medium. The 5' region of the cell wall protein gene operon was cloned...
Takao, M, Abramic, M, Moos, M, Otrin, V R, Wootton, J C, McLenigan, M, ...
A cDNA which encodes a approximately 127 kDa UV-damaged DNA-binding (UV-DDB) protein with high affinity for (6-4)pyrimidine dimers [Abramic', M., Levine, A.S. & Protic', M., J. Biol. Chem. 266:...
Molecular characterization of a gene encoding a photolyase from Streptomyces griseus.
Kobayashi, T, Takao, M, Oikawa, A, Yasui, A
By using a synthetic DNA probe derived from an amino acid sequence in the most conserved region of three known photolyases (Escherichia coli, Anacystis nidulans and Saccharomyces cerevisiae), we...
Cloning and characterization of a photolyase gene from the cyanobacterium Anacystis nidulans.
Yasui, A, Takao, M, Oikawa, A, Kiener, A, Walsh, C T, Eker, A P
A 2 kb fragment was isolated from an Anacystis nidulans genomic DNA library by hybridization with synthetic oligonucleotide probes derived from the N-terminal amino acid sequence of Anacystis...
A new class of DNA photolyases present in various organisms including aplacental mammals.
Yasui, A, Eker, A P, Yasuhira, S, Yajima, H, Kobayashi, T, Takao, M, ...
DNA photolyase specifically repairs UV light-induced cyclobutane-type pyrimidine dimers in DNA through a light-dependent reaction mechanism. We have obtained photolyase genes from Drosophila...
Yajima, H, Takao, M, Yasuhira, S, Zhao, J H, Ishii, C, Inoue, H, ...
Many eukaryotic organisms, including humans, remove ultraviolet (UV) damage from their genomes by the nucleotide excision repair pathway, which requires more than 10 separate protein factors....
Tanphaichitr, V S, Sumboonnanonda, A, Ideguchi, H, Shayakul, C, Brugnara, C, Takao, M, ...
The AE1 gene encodes band 3 Cl-/HCO3- exchangers that are expressed both in the erythrocyte and in the acid-secreting, type A intercalated cells of the kidney. Kidney AE1 contributes to urinary...
Higenbottam, T, Butt, A, Dinh-Xaun, A, Takao, M, Cremona, G, Akamine, S
Objective—To compare prostacyclin with an analogue, iloprost, in treatment of severe pulmonary hypertension. Patients—Eight patients with severe pulmonary hypertension: primary in five,...