Chen, Yuling, Asano, Tomoya, Fujiwara, Makoto T., Yoshida, Shigeo, Machida, Yasunori, Yoshioka, Yasushi
Plastids are maintained in cells by proliferating prior to cell division and being partitioned to each daughter cell during cell division. It is unclear, however, whether cells without plastids are...
Pereira-Netto, Adaucto B., Roessner, Ute, Fujioka, Shozo, Bacic, Antony, Asami, Tadao, Yoshida, Shigeo, ...
To help unravel the role of brassinosteroids (BRs) in the control of shooting, we treated the shoots of Marubakaido apple rootstock (Malus prunifolia (Willd.) Borkh cv. Marubakaido) with brassinolide...
Nakamura, Ayako, Fujioka, Shozo, Takatsuto, Suguru, Tsujimoto, Masafumi, Kitano, Hidemi, Yoshida, Shigeo, ...
The rice lamina joint is ideal material for investigating the activity of brassinosteroids (BRs) and auxin because of its high sensitivity to these compounds. Using a series of rice BR biosynthetic...
Kwon, Mi, Fujioka, Shozo, Jeon, Ji Hyun, Kim, Ho Bang, Takatsuto, Suguru, Yoshida, Shigeo, ...
Brassinosteroid (BR)-6-oxidases mediate the bridge reactions that connect the late and early C-6 oxidation pathways by converting 6-deoxoBR to 6-oxoBRs. Two similar genes of Arabidopsis, CYP85A1...
Lee, Hyun-Kyung, Kwon, Mi, Jeon, Ji-Hyun, Fujioka, Shozo, Kim, Ho-Bang, Park, So-Young, ...
Arabidopsis leaf morphology is determined by the coordinated action of cell division and elongation. Of all the hormones that control leaf shape, the brassinosteroids (BRs) are active components in...
Fujiwara, Makoto T., Hashimoto, Haruki, Kazama, Yusuke, Abe, Tomoko, Yoshida, Shigeo, Sato, Naoki, ...
Chloroplast division comprises a sequence of events that facilitate symmetric binary fission and that involve prokaryotic-like stromal division factors such as tubulin-like GTPase FtsZ and the...
Kobayashi, Keiko, Suzuki, Masashi, Tang, Jianwei, Nagata, Noriko, Ohyama, Kiyoshi, Seki, Hikaru, ...
Higher plants have two metabolic pathways for isoprenoid biosynthesis: the cytosolic mevalonate (MVA) pathway and the plastidal non-mevalonate (MEP) pathway. Despite the compartmentalization of these...
Co-Regulation of Brassinosteroid Biosynthesis-Related Genes During Xylem Cell Differentiation (2007)
Yamamoto, Ryo, Fujioka, Shozo, Iwamoto, Kuninori, Demura, Taku, Takatsuto, Suguru, Yoshida, Shigeo, ...
To understand the regulatory mechanisms of brassinosteroid (BR) biosynthesis in specific plant developmental processes, we first investigated the accumulation profiles of BRs and sterols in xylem...
吉田,茂生, ヨシダ,シゲオ, Yoshida,Shigeo
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Mechanisms of aging in senescence-accelerated mice (2005)
Carter, Todd A, Greenhall, Jennifer A, Yoshida, Shigeo, Fuchs, Sebastian, Helton, Robert, Swaroop, Anand, ...
Abstract Background Progressive neurological dysfunction is a key aspect of human aging. Because of underlying differences in the aging of mice and humans, useful mouse models have been difficult to...
Hase, Yoshihiro, Fujioka, Shozo, Yoshida, Shigeo, Sun, Guoqing, Umeda, Masaaki, Tanaka, Atsushi
The Arabidopsis frill1 (frl1) mutant, that has serrated petals and sepals but no other large changes in plant morphology, was studied. The frl1 had a mutation in STEROL METHYLTRANSFERASE 2 and an...
Umehara, Mikihisa, Ogita, Shinjiro, Sasamoto, Hamako, Koshino, Hiroyuki, Asami, Tadao, Fujioka, Shozo, ...
In contrast to angiosperms, some gymnosperms form well-developed suspensors in somatic embryogenesis. This characteristic makes it easy to study suspensor biology. In cultures with high cell...
Brassinosteroid Regulates Fiber Development on Cultured Cotton Ovules (2005)
Sun, Yan, Veerabomma, Suresh, Abdel-Mageed, Haggag A., Fokar, Mohamed, Asami, Tadao, Yoshida, Shigeo, ...
Our current understanding of the role of phytohormones in the development of cotton fibers is derived largely from an amenable culture system in which cotton ovules, collected on the day of anthesis,...
Hase, Yoshihiro, Fujioka, Shozo, Yoshida, Shigeo, Sun, Guoqing, Umeda, Masaaki, Tanaka, Atsushi
The Arabidopsis frill1 (frl1) mutant, that has serrated petals and sepals but no other large changes in plant morphology, was studied. The frl1 had a mutation in STEROL METHYLTRANSFERASE 2 and an...
Umehara, Mikihisa, Ogita, Shinjiro, Sasamoto, Hamako, Koshino, Hiroyuki, Asami, Tadao, Fujioka, Shozo, ...
In contrast to angiosperms, some gymnosperms form well-developed suspensors in somatic embryogenesis. This characteristic makes it easy to study suspensor biology. In cultures with high cell...
Hase, Yoshihiro, Fujioka, Shozo, Yoshida, Shigeo, Sun, Guoqing, Umeda, Masaaki, Tanaka, Atsushi
The Arabidopsis frill1 (frl1) mutant, that has serrated petals and sepals but no other large changes in plant morphology, was studied. The frl1 had a mutation in STEROL METHYLTRANSFERASE 2 and an...
Umehara, Mikihisa, Ogita, Shinjiro, Sasamoto, Hamako, Koshino, Hiroyuki, Asami, Tadao, Fujioka, Shozo, ...
In contrast to angiosperms, some gymnosperms form well-developed suspensors in somatic embryogenesis. This characteristic makes it easy to study suspensor biology. In cultures with high cell...
Brassinosteroid Regulates Fiber Development on Cultured Cotton Ovules (2005)
Sun, Yan, Veerabomma, Suresh, Abdel-Mageed, Haggag A., Fokar, Mohamed, Asami, Tadao, Yoshida, Shigeo, ...
Our current understanding of the role of phytohormones in the development of cotton fibers is derived largely from an amenable culture system in which cotton ovules, collected on the day of anthesis,...
Yoshida, Shigeo, Mears, Alan J., Friedman, James S., Carter, Todd, He, Shirley, Oh, Edwin, ...
The rod photoreceptor-specific neural retina leucine zipper protein Nrl is essential for rod differentiation and plays a critical role in regulating gene expression. In the mouse retina, rods account...
Suzuki, Akihiro, Akune, Mitsumi, Kogiso, Mari, Imagama, Yoshihiro, Osuki, Ken-ichi, Uchiumi, Toshiki, ...
The effects of the phytohormone abscisic acid (ABA) on plant growth and root nodule formation were analyzed in Trifolium repense (white clover) and Lotus japonicus, which form indeterminate and...
Arai, Yuko, Shikanai, Toshiharu, Doi, Yoshiharu, Yoshida, Shigeo, Yamaguchi, Isamu, Nakashita, Hideo
Transgenic techniques are used to enhance and improve crop production, and their application to the production of chemical resources in plants has been under investigation. To achieve this latter...
Yoshida, Shigeo, Mears, Alan J., Friedman, James S., Carter, Todd, He, Shirley, Oh, Edwin, ...
The rod photoreceptor-specific neural retina leucine zipper protein Nrl is essential for rod differentiation and plays a critical role in regulating gene expression. In the mouse retina, rods account...
Kagawa, Takatoshi, Kasahara, Masahiro, Abe, Tomoko, Yoshida, Shigeo, Wada, Masamitsu
Gametophytes of the fern Adiantum capillus-veneris L. were mutagenized by heavy ion beam irradiation and screened for mutants lacking chloroplast avoidance movement under high intensity blue light....
Preference of DNA Methyltransferases for CpG Islands in Mouse Embryonic Stem Cells (2004)
Hattori, Naka, Abe, Tetsuya, Hattori, Naoko, Suzuki, Masako, Matsuyama, Tomoki, Yoshida, Shigeo, ...
Many CpG islands have tissue-dependent and differentially methylated regions (T-DMRs) in normal cells and tissues. To elucidate how DNA methyltransferases (Dnmts) participate in methylation of the...
Yoshida, Shigeo, Mears, Alan J., Friedman, James S., Carter, Todd, He, Shirley, Oh, Edwin, ...
The rod photoreceptor-specific neural retina leucine zipper protein Nrl is essential for rod differentiation and plays a critical role in regulating gene expression. In the mouse retina, rods account...
Mitsuhiro Kimura, Katsushi Manabe, Tomoko Abe, Shigeo Yoshida, Minami Matsui, Yoshiharu Y. Yamamoto
Intense and excessive light triggers the evolution of reactive oxygen species in chloroplasts, and these have the potential to cause damage. However, plants are able to respond to light stress and...
Identification of Arabidopsis Genes Regulated by High Light–Stress Using cDNA Microarray¶ (2003)
Mitsuhiro Kimura, Yoshiharu Y. Yamamoto, Motoaki Seki, Tetsuya Sakurai, Masakazu Sato, Tomoko Abe, ...
In plants, excess light has the potential to damage the photosynthetic apparatus. The damage is caused in part by reactive oxygen species (ROS) generated by electrons leaking from the photosynthetic...
Miyazawa, Yutaka, Nakajima, Naoko, Abe, Tomoko, Sakai, Atsushi, Fujioka, Shozo, Kawano, Shigeyuki, ...
Brassinosteroids (BRs) are steroidal phytohormones that are essential for many processes in plant growth and development, such as cell expansion, vascular differentiation, and responses to stress....
Amyloplast Formation in Cultured Tobacco BY-2 Cells Requires a High Cytokinin Content (2002)
Miyazawa, Yutaka, Kato, Hisashi, Muranaka, Toshiya, Yoshida, Shigeo
When cytokinin-autonomous tobacco BY-2 cell cultures are transferred into 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid (2,4-D)-deprived medium, amyloplast development is initiated. Using this in vitro...
Miyazawa, Yutaka, Sakai, Atsushi, Matsunaga, Sachihiro, Asami, Tadao, Kawano, Shigeyuki, Kuroiwa, Tsuneyoshi, ...
In cultured Bright Yellow‐2 tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum) cells, the depletion of 2,4‐dichlorophenoxyacetic acid (2,4‐D) in the culture medium induces amyloplast development. This...
Kuroha, Takeshi, Kato, Hisashi, Asami, Tadao, Yoshida, Shigeo, Kamada, Hiroshi, Satoh, Shinobu
Shoot cultures of cucumber were used to analyse the roles of root‐derived substances in adventitious root formation on hypocotyl tissues. Xylem sap collected from the roots of squash had a...
Nakashita, Hideo, Yasuda, Michiko, Nishioka, Masanori, Hasegawa, Satoru, Arai, Yuko, Uramoto, Masakazu, ...
Systemic acquired resistance (SAR) is a potent innate immunity system in plants that is effective against a broad range of pathogens. SAR in dicotyledonous plants such as tobacco and Arabidopsis has...
Shimada, Yukihisa, Fujioka, Shozo, Miyauchi, Narumasa, Kushiro, Masayo, Takatsuto, Suguru, Nomura, Takahito, ...
Brassinosteroids (BRs) are steroidal plant hormones that are essential for growth and development. It has been proposed that BRs are synthesized via two parallel pathways, the early and late C-6...
Nagata, Noriko, Asami, Tadao, Yoshida, Shigeo
Brassinazole (Brz) is a specific brassinosteroid biosynthesis inhibitor. Cress plants (Lepidium sativum) grown in medium containing Brz exhibited a slight predominance of phloem differentiation at...
Regulation of Chloroplast Gene Expression is Affected in ali, a Novel Tobacco Albino Mutant (2001)
Bae, Chang-Hyu, Abe, Tomoko, Matsuyama, Tomoki, Fukunishi, Nobuhisa, Nagata, Noriko, Nakano, Takeshi, ...
An albino mutant designated ali was isolated from an M2population derived from a tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum L. ‘BY-4’) plant which had been irradiated with a14N-ion beam at an early...
Jing-Ming Wang, Tadao Asami, Noboru Murofushi, Shigeo Yoshida
This paper reports that a new photobleaching compound, 2-(2-chloro-5-propoxycarbonylphenyl)aminomethylidene-5,5-dimethyl-cyclohexane-1,3-dione (RWH-21), stimulates accumulation of...
Jang, Jyan-Chyun, Fujioka, Shozo, Tasaka, Masao, Seto, Hideharu, Takatsuto, Suguru, Ishii, Akira, ...
Yeo, Dennis, Abe, Tomoko, Abe, Hiroshi, Sakurai, Akira, Takio, Koji, Dohmae, Naoshi, ...
Asparagus officinalis seedlings treated with either thiocarbamates or carbamates are induced to flower within 2-3 weeks of application. SDS-PAGE and 2-D PAGE resolutions of total soluble proteins of...
Nakajima, Yoshihiro, Yoshida, Shigeo, Ono, Taka-aki
The loss of PSII activity (water → silicomolybdate) and the degradation of the D1 protein during photoinhibitory illumination were studied in the presence of the various PSII inhibitors that bind...
Soh, Chang-Ho, Kamiya, Yuji, Yoshida, Shigeo, Yamane, Hisakazu, Takahashi, Nobutaka
Oryzains, cysteine proteinases of rice seeds, are induced by GA3 in germinating rice seeds [Abe et al. (1987) Agric. Biol. Chem. 51: 1509]. The effects of GA1, GA3, GA4, GA9, and GA20 on the...
Sympathetically induced myocardial ischaemia causes the heart to release plasma kinin (1987)
MATSUKI, TAKAYUKI, SHOJI, TETSURO, YOSHIDA, SHIGEO, KUDOH, YASUO, MOTOE, MASAOMI, INOUE, MEGUMI, ...
A recently developed highly sensitive radioimmunoassay method for detecting plasma kinin was used to re-evaluate the results of previous studies, in which plasma kinin had been measured with a...
AKIZUKI, SATOSHI, YOSHIDA, SHIGEO, CHAMBERS, DAVID E, EDDY, LYNNE J, PARMLEY, LOREN F, YELLON, DEREK M, ...
The present study was designed to evaluate the ability of allopurinol to limit infarct size following permanent coronary occlusion in the greyhound. Coronary occlusion was produced by injecting 2.5...
BAS1: A gene regulating brassinosteroid levels and light responsiveness in Arabidopsis
Neff, Michael M., Nguyen, Serena M., Malancharuvil, Elizabeth J., Fujioka, Shozo, Noguchi, Takahiro, Seto, Hideharu, ...
The Arabidopsis bas1-D mutation suppresses the long hypocotyl phenotype caused by mutations in the photoreceptor phytochrome B (phyB). The adult phenotype of bas1-D phyB-4 double mutants mimics that...
Choe, Sunghwa, Dilkes, Brian P., Gregory, Brian D., Ross, Amanda S., Yuan, Heng, Noguchi, Takahiro, ...
Since the isolation and characterization of dwarf1-1 (dwf1-1) from a T-DNA insertion mutant population, phenotypically similar mutants, including deetiolated2 (det2), constitutive photomorphogenesis...
Watanabe, Naohide, Che, Fang-Sik, Iwano, Megumi, Takayama, Seiji, Nakano, Takeshi, Yoshida, Shigeo, ...
Peroxidizing herbicides inhibit protoporphyrinogen oxidase (Protox), the last enzyme of the common branch of the chlorophyll- and heme-synthesis pathways. There are two isoenzymes of Protox, one of...
Motohashi, Reiko, Nagata, Noriko, Ito, Takuya, Takahashi, Seiji, Hobo, Tokunori, Yoshida, Shigeo, ...
At least three transport systems function in targeting nuclear-encoded chloroplast proteins to the chloroplast thylakoid membrane. One of these systems requires a thylakoid pH gradient and is named...
A Putative Role for the Tomato Genes DUMPY and CURL-3 in Brassinosteroid Biosynthesis and Response1
Koka, Chala V., Cerny, R. Eric, Gardner, Randy G., Noguchi, Takahiro, Fujioka, Shozo, Takatsuto, Suguru, ...
The dumpy (dpy) mutant of tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum Mill.) exhibits short stature, reduced axillary branching, and altered leaf morphology. Application of brassinolide and castasterone rescued...
Characterization of Brassinazole, a Triazole-Type Brassinosteroid Biosynthesis Inhibitor1
Asami, Tadao, Min, Yong Ki, Nagata, Noriko, Yamagishi, Kazutoshi, Takatsuto, Suguru, Fujioka, Shozo, ...
Screening for brassinosteroid (BR) biosynthesis inhibitors was performed to find chemicals that induce dwarfism in Arabidopsis, mutants that resembled BR biosynthesis mutants that can be rescued by...
Che, Fang-Sik, Watanabe, Naohide, Iwano, Megumi, Inokuchi, Hachiro, Takayama, Seiji, Yoshida, Shigeo, ...
Protoporphyrinogen oxidase (Protox) is the last common enzyme in the biosynthesis of chlorophylls and heme. In plants, there are two isoenzymes of Protox, one located in plastids and other in the...
Biosynthetic Pathways of Brassinolide in Arabidopsis1
Noguchi, Takahiro, Fujioka, Shozo, Choe, Sunghwa, Takatsuto, Suguru, Tax, Frans E., Yoshida, Shigeo, ...
Our previous studies on the endogenous brassinosteroids (BRs) in Arabidopsis have provided suggestive evidence for the operation of the early C6-oxidation and the late C6-oxidation pathways, leading...
Noguchi, Takahiro, Fujioka, Shozo, Takatsuto, Suguru, Sakurai, Akira, Yoshida, Shigeo, Li, Jianming, ...
Previously, we have shown that the Arabidopsis det2 (deetiolated2) mutant is defective in the biosynthesis of brassinosteroids (BR) and that DET2 (a steroid 5α-reductase) acts early in the proposed...
Brassinosteroid-Insensitive Dwarf Mutants of Arabidopsis Accumulate Brassinosteroids1
Noguchi, Takahiro, Fujioka, Shozo, Choe, Sunghwa, Takatsuto, Suguru, Yoshida, Shigeo, Yuan, Heng, ...
Seven dwarf mutants resembling brassinosteroid (BR)-biosynthetic dwarfs were isolated that did not respond significantly to the application of exogenous BRs. Genetic and molecular analyses revealed...
Brassinosteroid Levels Increase Drastically Prior to Morphogenesis of Tracheary Elements
Yamamoto, Ryo, Fujioka, Shozo, Demura, Taku, Takatsuto, Suguru, Yoshida, Shigeo, Fukuda, Hiroo
As the first step toward understanding the involvement of endogenous brassinosteroids (BRs) in cytodifferentiation, we analyzed biosynthetic activities of BRs in zinnia (Zinnia elegans L. cv Canary...
Baba, Kyoko, Nakano, Takeshi, Yamagishi, Kazutoshi, Yoshida, Shigeo
In the chloroplast psbD light-responsive promoter (LRP), a highly conserved sequence exists upstream from the bacterial −10/−35 elements. Multiple sequence-specific DNA binding proteins are...
Shimada, Yukihisa, Fujioka, Shozo, Miyauchi, Narumasa, Kushiro, Masayo, Takatsuto, Suguru, Nomura, Takahito, ...
Brassinosteroids (BRs) are steroidal plant hormones that are essential for growth and development. It has been proposed that BRs are synthesized via two parallel pathways, the early and late C-6...
Itoh, Ryuuichi, Fujiwara, Makoto, Nagata, Noriko, Yoshida, Shigeo
We report the identification of a nucleus-encoded minE gene, designated AtMinE1, of Arabidopsis. The encoded AtMinE1 protein possesses both N- and C-terminal extensions, relative to the eubacterial...
The Identification of CVP1 Reveals a Role for Sterols in Vascular Patterning
Carland, Francine M., Fujioka, Shozo, Takatsuto, Suguru, Yoshida, Shigeo, Nelson, Timothy
Vascular cell axialization refers to the uniform alignment of vascular strands. In the Arabidopsis cotyledon vascular pattern1 (cvp1) mutant, vascular cells are not arranged in parallel files and are...
Seo, Shigemi, Seto, Hideharu, Koshino, Hiroyuki, Yoshida, Shigeo, Ohashi, Yuko
In pathogen-infected or wounded tobacco plants, the activation of wound-induced protein kinase (WIPK), a tobacco mitogen-activated protein kinase, has been implicated in the defense response....
Control of in vitro organogenesis by cyclin-dependent kinase activities in plants
Yamaguchi, Masatoshi, Kato, Hisashi, Yoshida, Shigeo, Yamamura, Saburo, Uchimiya, Hirofumi, Umeda, Masaaki
Little is known concerning the mechanisms by which auxin and cytokinin exert their effects on proliferation and differentiation. Cyclin-dependent kinases (CDKs) are major regulators of the eukaryotic...
An Early C-22 Oxidation Branch in the Brassinosteroid Biosynthetic Pathway
Fujioka, Shozo, Takatsuto, Suguru, Yoshida, Shigeo
The natural occurrence of 22-hydroxylated steroids in cultured Catharanthus roseus cells and in Arabidopsis seedlings was investigated. Using full-scan gas chromatography-mass spectrometry analysis,...
Microarray Analysis of Brassinosteroid-Regulated Genes in Arabidopsis
Goda, Hideki, Shimada, Yukihisa, Asami, Tadao, Fujioka, Shozo, Yoshida, Shigeo
Brassinosteroids (BRs) are steroidal plant hormones that are essential for growth and development. Although insights into the functions of BRs have been provided by recent studies of biosynthesis and...
Choe, Sunghwa, Schmitz, Robert J., Fujioka, Shozo, Takatsuto, Suguru, Lee, Mi-Ok, Yoshida, Shigeo, ...
Mutants defective in the biosynthesis or signaling of brassinosteroids (BRs), plant steroid hormones, display dwarfism. Loss-of-function mutants for the gene encoding the plasma membrane-located BR...
Shimada, Yukihisa, Goda, Hideki, Nakamura, Ayako, Takatsuto, Suguru, Fujioka, Shozo, Yoshida, Shigeo
Brassinosteroids (BRs) are steroidal plant hormones that are essential for growth and development. There is only limited information on where BRs are synthesized and used. We studied the organ...
Sterols Regulate Development and Gene Expression in Arabidopsis1
He, Jun-Xian, Fujioka, Shozo, Li, Tsai-Chi, Kang, Shin Gene, Seto, Hideharu, Takatsuto, Suguru, ...
Sterols are important not only for structural components of eukaryotic cell membranes but also for biosynthetic precursors of steroid hormones. In plants, the diverse functions of sterol-derived...
Matsuyama, Tomoki, Kimura, Makoto T., Koike, Kuniaki, Abe, Tomoko, Nakano, Takeshi, Asami, Tadao, ...
Understanding the role of ‘epigenetic’ changes such as DNA methylation and chromatin remodeling has now become critical in understanding many biological processes. In order to delineate the...
Hong, Zhi, Ueguchi-Tanaka, Miyako, Umemura, Kazuto, Uozu, Sakurako, Fujioka, Shozo, Takatsuto, Suguru, ...
We characterized a rice dwarf mutant, ebisu dwarf (d2). It showed the pleiotropic abnormal phenotype similar to that of the rice brassinosteroid (BR)-insensitive mutant, d61. The dwarf phenotype of...
Turk, Edward M., Fujioka, Shozo, Seto, Hideharu, Shimada, Yukihisa, Takatsuto, Suguru, Yoshida, Shigeo, ...
Active brassinosteroids, such as brassinolide (BL) and castasterone, are growth promoting plant hormones. An Arabidopsis cytochrome P450 monooxygenase encoded by CYP72B1 has been implicated in...
Nakamura, Ayako, Higuchi, Kanako, Goda, Hideki, Fujiwara, Makoto T., Sawa, Shinichiro, Koshiba, Tomokazu, ...
Despite numerous physiological studies addressing the interactions between brassinosteroids (BRs) and auxins, little is known about the underlying molecular mechanisms. We studied the expression of...
Jang, Jyan-Chyun, Fujioka, Shozo, Tasaka, Masao, Seto, Hideharu, Takatsuto, Suguru, Ishii, Akira, ...
Here we report a novel Arabidopsis dwarf mutant, fackel-J79, whose adult morphology resembles that of brassinosteroid-deficient mutants but also displays distorted embryos, supernumerary cotyledons,...
Comprehensive Comparison of Auxin-Regulated and Brassinosteroid-Regulated Genes in Arabidopsis[w]
Goda, Hideki, Sawa, Shinichiro, Asami, Tadao, Fujioka, Shozo, Shimada, Yukihisa, Yoshida, Shigeo
Although numerous physiological studies have addressed the interactions between brassinosteroids and auxins, little is known about the underlying molecular mechanisms. Using an Affymetrix GeneChip...
Preference of DNA Methyltransferases for CpG Islands in Mouse Embryonic Stem Cells
Hattori, Naka, Abe, Tetsuya, Hattori, Naoko, Suzuki, Masako, Matsuyama, Tomoki, Yoshida, Shigeo, ...
Many CpG islands have tissue-dependent and differentially methylated regions (T-DMRs) in normal cells and tissues. To elucidate how DNA methyltransferases (Dnmts) participate in methylation of the...
Han, Sun-Young, Kitahata, Nobutaka, Sekimata, Katsuhiko, Saito, Tamio, Kobayashi, Masatomo, Nakashima, Kazuo, ...
Abscisic acid (ABA) is a major regulator in the adaptation of plants to environmental stresses, plant growth, and development. In higher plants, the ABA biosynthesis pathway involves the oxidative...
Tanabe, Sumiyo, Ashikari, Motoyuki, Fujioka, Shozo, Takatsuto, Suguru, Yoshida, Shigeo, Yano, Masahiro, ...
We have characterized a rice (Oryza sativa) dwarf mutant, dwarf11 (d11), that bears seeds of reduced length. To understand the mechanism by which seed length is regulated, the D11 gene was isolated...
Sato, Ryo, Oshio, Hiromichi, Koike, Hiroyuki, Inoue, Yorinao, Yoshida, Shigeo, Takahashi, Nobutaka
Porphyrin accumulation in excised cucumber cotyledons (Cucumis sativus L.) treated with a N-phenylimide S-23142 (N-[4-chloro-2-fluoro-5-propargyloxyphenyl]-3,4,5,6- tetrahydrophthalimide) and a...
Mechanisms of aging in senescence-accelerated mice
Carter, Todd A, Greenhall, Jennifer A, Yoshida, Shigeo, Fuchs, Sebastian, Helton, Robert, Swaroop, Anand, ...
Gene-expression analysis and polymorphism screening to study molecular senescence of the retina and hippocampus in two rare inbred mouse models of accelerated neurological senescence as well as a...
Asami, Tadao, Mizutani, Masaharu, Shimada, Yukihisa, Goda, Hideki, Kitahata, Nobutaka, Sekimata, Katsuhiko, ...
Triadimefon (Bayleton), a widely used triazole-type fungicide, affects gibberellin (GA) biosynthesis and 14 alpha-demethylase in sterol biosynthesis. The present study revealed that the phenotype of...
The UGT73C5 of Arabidopsis thaliana glucosylates brassinosteroids
Poppenberger, Brigitte, Fujioka, Shozo, Soeno, Kazuo, George, Gilu L., Vaistij, Fabián E., Hiranuma, Sayoko, ...
Steroid hormones are essential for development, and the precise control of their homeostasis is a prerequisite for normal growth. UDP-glycosyltransferases (UGTs) are considered to play an important...
Wang, Xiaofeng, Goshe, Michael B., Soderblom, Erik J., Phinney, Brett S., Kuchar, Jason A., Li, Jia, ...
Brassinosteroids (BRs) regulate multiple aspects of plant growth and development and require an active BRASSINOSTEROID-INSENSITIVE1 (BRI1) and BRI1-ASSOCIATED RECEPTOR KINASE1 (BAK1) for hormone...
Tanaka, Kiwamu, Asami, Tadao, Yoshida, Shigeo, Nakamura, Yasushi, Matsuo, Tomoaki, Okamoto, Shigehisa
Homeostasis of brassinosteroids (BRs) is essential for normal growth and development in higher plants. We examined responsiveness of 11 BR metabolic gene expressions to the decrease or increase of...
Hong, Zhi, Ueguchi-Tanaka, Miyako, Fujioka, Shozo, Takatsuto, Suguru, Yoshida, Shigeo, Hasegawa, Yasuko, ...
We have identified a rice (Oryza sativa) brassinosteroid (BR)-deficient mutant, BR-deficient dwarf2 (brd2). The brd2 locus contains a single base deletion in the coding region of Dim/dwf1, a homolog...
TANMEI/EMB2757 Encodes a WD Repeat Protein Required for Embryo Development in Arabidopsis1
Yamagishi, Kazutoshi, Nagata, Noriko, Yee, Kelly Matsudaira, Braybrook, Siobhan A., Pelletier, Julie, Fujioka, Shozo, ...
We identified the Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana) tanmei/emb2757 (tan) mutation that causes defects in both embryo and seedling development. tan mutant embryos share many characteristics with the...
BAS1: A gene regulating brassinosteroid levels and light responsiveness in Arabidopsis
Neff, Michael M., Nguyen, Serena M., Malancharuvil, Elizabeth J., Fujioka, Shozo, Noguchi, Takahiro, Seto, Hideharu, ...
The Arabidopsis bas1-D mutation suppresses the long hypocotyl phenotype caused by mutations in the photoreceptor phytochrome B (phyB). The adult phenotype of bas1-D phyB-4 double mutants mimics that...
Choe, Sunghwa, Dilkes, Brian P., Gregory, Brian D., Ross, Amanda S., Yuan, Heng, Noguchi, Takahiro, ...
Since the isolation and characterization of dwarf1-1 (dwf1-1) from a T-DNA insertion mutant population, phenotypically similar mutants, including deetiolated2 (det2), constitutive photomorphogenesis...
Watanabe, Naohide, Che, Fang-Sik, Iwano, Megumi, Takayama, Seiji, Nakano, Takeshi, Yoshida, Shigeo, ...
Peroxidizing herbicides inhibit protoporphyrinogen oxidase (Protox), the last enzyme of the common branch of the chlorophyll- and heme-synthesis pathways. There are two isoenzymes of Protox, one of...
Motohashi, Reiko, Nagata, Noriko, Ito, Takuya, Takahashi, Seiji, Hobo, Tokunori, Yoshida, Shigeo, ...
At least three transport systems function in targeting nuclear-encoded chloroplast proteins to the chloroplast thylakoid membrane. One of these systems requires a thylakoid pH gradient and is named...
A Putative Role for the Tomato Genes DUMPY and CURL-3 in Brassinosteroid Biosynthesis and Response1
Koka, Chala V., Cerny, R. Eric, Gardner, Randy G., Noguchi, Takahiro, Fujioka, Shozo, Takatsuto, Suguru, ...
The dumpy (dpy) mutant of tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum Mill.) exhibits short stature, reduced axillary branching, and altered leaf morphology. Application of brassinolide and castasterone rescued...
Characterization of Brassinazole, a Triazole-Type Brassinosteroid Biosynthesis Inhibitor1
Asami, Tadao, Min, Yong Ki, Nagata, Noriko, Yamagishi, Kazutoshi, Takatsuto, Suguru, Fujioka, Shozo, ...
Screening for brassinosteroid (BR) biosynthesis inhibitors was performed to find chemicals that induce dwarfism in Arabidopsis, mutants that resembled BR biosynthesis mutants that can be rescued by...
Che, Fang-Sik, Watanabe, Naohide, Iwano, Megumi, Inokuchi, Hachiro, Takayama, Seiji, Yoshida, Shigeo, ...
Protoporphyrinogen oxidase (Protox) is the last common enzyme in the biosynthesis of chlorophylls and heme. In plants, there are two isoenzymes of Protox, one located in plastids and other in the...
Biosynthetic Pathways of Brassinolide in Arabidopsis1
Noguchi, Takahiro, Fujioka, Shozo, Choe, Sunghwa, Takatsuto, Suguru, Tax, Frans E., Yoshida, Shigeo, ...
Our previous studies on the endogenous brassinosteroids (BRs) in Arabidopsis have provided suggestive evidence for the operation of the early C6-oxidation and the late C6-oxidation pathways, leading...
Noguchi, Takahiro, Fujioka, Shozo, Takatsuto, Suguru, Sakurai, Akira, Yoshida, Shigeo, Li, Jianming, ...
Previously, we have shown that the Arabidopsis det2 (deetiolated2) mutant is defective in the biosynthesis of brassinosteroids (BR) and that DET2 (a steroid 5α-reductase) acts early in the proposed...
Brassinosteroid-Insensitive Dwarf Mutants of Arabidopsis Accumulate Brassinosteroids1
Noguchi, Takahiro, Fujioka, Shozo, Choe, Sunghwa, Takatsuto, Suguru, Yoshida, Shigeo, Yuan, Heng, ...
Seven dwarf mutants resembling brassinosteroid (BR)-biosynthetic dwarfs were isolated that did not respond significantly to the application of exogenous BRs. Genetic and molecular analyses revealed...
Brassinosteroid Levels Increase Drastically Prior to Morphogenesis of Tracheary Elements
Yamamoto, Ryo, Fujioka, Shozo, Demura, Taku, Takatsuto, Suguru, Yoshida, Shigeo, Fukuda, Hiroo
As the first step toward understanding the involvement of endogenous brassinosteroids (BRs) in cytodifferentiation, we analyzed biosynthetic activities of BRs in zinnia (Zinnia elegans L. cv Canary...
Baba, Kyoko, Nakano, Takeshi, Yamagishi, Kazutoshi, Yoshida, Shigeo
In the chloroplast psbD light-responsive promoter (LRP), a highly conserved sequence exists upstream from the bacterial −10/−35 elements. Multiple sequence-specific DNA binding proteins are...
Shimada, Yukihisa, Fujioka, Shozo, Miyauchi, Narumasa, Kushiro, Masayo, Takatsuto, Suguru, Nomura, Takahito, ...
Brassinosteroids (BRs) are steroidal plant hormones that are essential for growth and development. It has been proposed that BRs are synthesized via two parallel pathways, the early and late C-6...
Itoh, Ryuuichi, Fujiwara, Makoto, Nagata, Noriko, Yoshida, Shigeo
We report the identification of a nucleus-encoded minE gene, designated AtMinE1, of Arabidopsis. The encoded AtMinE1 protein possesses both N- and C-terminal extensions, relative to the eubacterial...
The Identification of CVP1 Reveals a Role for Sterols in Vascular Patterning
Carland, Francine M., Fujioka, Shozo, Takatsuto, Suguru, Yoshida, Shigeo, Nelson, Timothy
Vascular cell axialization refers to the uniform alignment of vascular strands. In the Arabidopsis cotyledon vascular pattern1 (cvp1) mutant, vascular cells are not arranged in parallel files and are...
Seo, Shigemi, Seto, Hideharu, Koshino, Hiroyuki, Yoshida, Shigeo, Ohashi, Yuko
In pathogen-infected or wounded tobacco plants, the activation of wound-induced protein kinase (WIPK), a tobacco mitogen-activated protein kinase, has been implicated in the defense response....
Control of in vitro organogenesis by cyclin-dependent kinase activities in plants
Yamaguchi, Masatoshi, Kato, Hisashi, Yoshida, Shigeo, Yamamura, Saburo, Uchimiya, Hirofumi, Umeda, Masaaki
Little is known concerning the mechanisms by which auxin and cytokinin exert their effects on proliferation and differentiation. Cyclin-dependent kinases (CDKs) are major regulators of the eukaryotic...
An Early C-22 Oxidation Branch in the Brassinosteroid Biosynthetic Pathway
Fujioka, Shozo, Takatsuto, Suguru, Yoshida, Shigeo
The natural occurrence of 22-hydroxylated steroids in cultured Catharanthus roseus cells and in Arabidopsis seedlings was investigated. Using full-scan gas chromatography-mass spectrometry analysis,...
Microarray Analysis of Brassinosteroid-Regulated Genes in Arabidopsis
Goda, Hideki, Shimada, Yukihisa, Asami, Tadao, Fujioka, Shozo, Yoshida, Shigeo
Brassinosteroids (BRs) are steroidal plant hormones that are essential for growth and development. Although insights into the functions of BRs have been provided by recent studies of biosynthesis and...
Choe, Sunghwa, Schmitz, Robert J., Fujioka, Shozo, Takatsuto, Suguru, Lee, Mi-Ok, Yoshida, Shigeo, ...
Mutants defective in the biosynthesis or signaling of brassinosteroids (BRs), plant steroid hormones, display dwarfism. Loss-of-function mutants for the gene encoding the plasma membrane-located BR...
Shimada, Yukihisa, Goda, Hideki, Nakamura, Ayako, Takatsuto, Suguru, Fujioka, Shozo, Yoshida, Shigeo
Brassinosteroids (BRs) are steroidal plant hormones that are essential for growth and development. There is only limited information on where BRs are synthesized and used. We studied the organ...
Sterols Regulate Development and Gene Expression in Arabidopsis1
He, Jun-Xian, Fujioka, Shozo, Li, Tsai-Chi, Kang, Shin Gene, Seto, Hideharu, Takatsuto, Suguru, ...
Sterols are important not only for structural components of eukaryotic cell membranes but also for biosynthetic precursors of steroid hormones. In plants, the diverse functions of sterol-derived...
Matsuyama, Tomoki, Kimura, Makoto T., Koike, Kuniaki, Abe, Tomoko, Nakano, Takeshi, Asami, Tadao, ...
Understanding the role of ‘epigenetic’ changes such as DNA methylation and chromatin remodeling has now become critical in understanding many biological processes. In order to delineate the...
Hong, Zhi, Ueguchi-Tanaka, Miyako, Umemura, Kazuto, Uozu, Sakurako, Fujioka, Shozo, Takatsuto, Suguru, ...
We characterized a rice dwarf mutant, ebisu dwarf (d2). It showed the pleiotropic abnormal phenotype similar to that of the rice brassinosteroid (BR)-insensitive mutant, d61. The dwarf phenotype of...
Turk, Edward M., Fujioka, Shozo, Seto, Hideharu, Shimada, Yukihisa, Takatsuto, Suguru, Yoshida, Shigeo, ...
Active brassinosteroids, such as brassinolide (BL) and castasterone, are growth promoting plant hormones. An Arabidopsis cytochrome P450 monooxygenase encoded by CYP72B1 has been implicated in...
Nakamura, Ayako, Higuchi, Kanako, Goda, Hideki, Fujiwara, Makoto T., Sawa, Shinichiro, Koshiba, Tomokazu, ...
Despite numerous physiological studies addressing the interactions between brassinosteroids (BRs) and auxins, little is known about the underlying molecular mechanisms. We studied the expression of...
Jang, Jyan-Chyun, Fujioka, Shozo, Tasaka, Masao, Seto, Hideharu, Takatsuto, Suguru, Ishii, Akira, ...
Here we report a novel Arabidopsis dwarf mutant, fackel-J79, whose adult morphology resembles that of brassinosteroid-deficient mutants but also displays distorted embryos, supernumerary cotyledons,...
Comprehensive Comparison of Auxin-Regulated and Brassinosteroid-Regulated Genes in Arabidopsis[w]
Goda, Hideki, Sawa, Shinichiro, Asami, Tadao, Fujioka, Shozo, Shimada, Yukihisa, Yoshida, Shigeo
Although numerous physiological studies have addressed the interactions between brassinosteroids and auxins, little is known about the underlying molecular mechanisms. Using an Affymetrix GeneChip...
Preference of DNA Methyltransferases for CpG Islands in Mouse Embryonic Stem Cells
Hattori, Naka, Abe, Tetsuya, Hattori, Naoko, Suzuki, Masako, Matsuyama, Tomoki, Yoshida, Shigeo, ...
Many CpG islands have tissue-dependent and differentially methylated regions (T-DMRs) in normal cells and tissues. To elucidate how DNA methyltransferases (Dnmts) participate in methylation of the...
Han, Sun-Young, Kitahata, Nobutaka, Sekimata, Katsuhiko, Saito, Tamio, Kobayashi, Masatomo, Nakashima, Kazuo, ...
Abscisic acid (ABA) is a major regulator in the adaptation of plants to environmental stresses, plant growth, and development. In higher plants, the ABA biosynthesis pathway involves the oxidative...
Tanabe, Sumiyo, Ashikari, Motoyuki, Fujioka, Shozo, Takatsuto, Suguru, Yoshida, Shigeo, Yano, Masahiro, ...
We have characterized a rice (Oryza sativa) dwarf mutant, dwarf11 (d11), that bears seeds of reduced length. To understand the mechanism by which seed length is regulated, the D11 gene was isolated...
Sato, Ryo, Oshio, Hiromichi, Koike, Hiroyuki, Inoue, Yorinao, Yoshida, Shigeo, Takahashi, Nobutaka
Porphyrin accumulation in excised cucumber cotyledons (Cucumis sativus L.) treated with a N-phenylimide S-23142 (N-[4-chloro-2-fluoro-5-propargyloxyphenyl]-3,4,5,6- tetrahydrophthalimide) and a...
Wang, Xiaofeng, Goshe, Michael B., Soderblom, Erik J., Phinney, Brett S., Kuchar, Jason A., Li, Jia, ...
Brassinosteroids (BRs) regulate multiple aspects of plant growth and development and require an active BRASSINOSTEROID-INSENSITIVE1 (BRI1) and BRI1-ASSOCIATED RECEPTOR KINASE1 (BAK1) for hormone...
Tanaka, Kiwamu, Asami, Tadao, Yoshida, Shigeo, Nakamura, Yasushi, Matsuo, Tomoaki, Okamoto, Shigehisa
Homeostasis of brassinosteroids (BRs) is essential for normal growth and development in higher plants. We examined responsiveness of 11 BR metabolic gene expressions to the decrease or increase of...
Mechanisms of aging in senescence-accelerated mice
Carter, Todd A, Greenhall, Jennifer A, Yoshida, Shigeo, Fuchs, Sebastian, Helton, Robert, Swaroop, Anand, ...
Gene-expression analysis and polymorphism screening to study molecular senescence of the retina and hippocampus in two rare inbred mouse models of accelerated neurological senescence as well as a...
Abecasis, Gonçalo R., Yashar, Beverly M., Zhao, Yu, Ghiasvand, Noor M., Zareparsi, Sepideh, Branham, Kari E. H., ...
Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is a complex multifactorial disease that affects the central region of the retina. AMD is clinically heterogeneous, leading to geographic atrophy (GA) and/or...
Hong, Zhi, Ueguchi-Tanaka, Miyako, Fujioka, Shozo, Takatsuto, Suguru, Yoshida, Shigeo, Hasegawa, Yasuko, ...
We have identified a rice (Oryza sativa) brassinosteroid (BR)-deficient mutant, BR-deficient dwarf2 (brd2). The brd2 locus contains a single base deletion in the coding region of Dim/dwf1, a homolog...
TANMEI/EMB2757 Encodes a WD Repeat Protein Required for Embryo Development in Arabidopsis1
Yamagishi, Kazutoshi, Nagata, Noriko, Yee, Kelly Matsudaira, Braybrook, Siobhan A., Pelletier, Julie, Fujioka, Shozo, ...
We identified the Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana) tanmei/emb2757 (tan) mutation that causes defects in both embryo and seedling development. tan mutant embryos share many characteristics with the...
Asami, Tadao, Mizutani, Masaharu, Shimada, Yukihisa, Goda, Hideki, Kitahata, Nobutaka, Sekimata, Katsuhiko, ...
Triadimefon (Bayleton), a widely used triazole-type fungicide, affects gibberellin (GA) biosynthesis and 14 alpha-demethylase in sterol biosynthesis. The present study revealed that the phenotype of...
The UGT73C5 of Arabidopsis thaliana glucosylates brassinosteroids
Poppenberger, Brigitte, Fujioka, Shozo, Soeno, Kazuo, George, Gilu L., Vaistij, Fabián E., Hiranuma, Sayoko, ...
Steroid hormones are essential for development, and the precise control of their homeostasis is a prerequisite for normal growth. UDP-glycosyltransferases (UGTs) are considered to play an important...
Kim, Ho Bang, Kwon, Mi, Ryu, Hojin, Fujioka, Shozo, Takatsuto, Suguru, Yoshida, Shigeo, ...
Mutants that are defective in brassinosteroid (BR) biosynthesis or signaling display severely retarded growth patterns due to absence of growth-promoting effects by BRs. Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis...
The Role of OsBRI1 and Its Homologous Genes, OsBRL1 and OsBRL3, in Rice1
Nakamura, Ayako, Fujioka, Shozo, Sunohara, Hidehiko, Kamiya, Noriko, Hong, Zhi, Inukai, Yoshiaki, ...
Since first identifying two alleles of a rice (Oryza sativa) brassinosteroid (BR)-insensitive mutant, d61, that were also defective in an orthologous gene in Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana)...
Yasuda, Michiko, Ishikawa, Atsushi, Jikumaru, Yusuke, Seki, Motoaki, Umezawa, Taishi, Asami, Tadao, ...
Systemic acquired resistance (SAR) is a potent innate immunity system in plants that is effective against a broad range of pathogens. SAR development in dicotyledonous plants, such as tobacco...