著者
Yoshikawa Yuko Hizume Kohji Oda Yoshiko Takeyasu Kunio Araki Sumiko Yoshikawa Kenichi
出版者
Biophysical Society
雑誌
Biophysical Journal (ISSN:00063495)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.90, no.3, pp.993-999, 2006-02
被引用文献数
36

Direct attack to genomic DNA by reactive oxygen species causes various types of lesions, including base modi. cations and strand breaks. The most significant lesion is considered to be an unrepaired double-strand break that can lead to fatal cell damage. We directly observed double-strand breaks of DNA in reconstituted chromatin stained by a fluorescent cyanine dye, YOYO (quinolinium, 1, 1 '-[1, 3-propanediylbis[(dimethyliminio)-3, 1- propanediyl]]bis[4-[(3-methyl-2(3H)-benzoxazolylidene) methyl]]-, tetraiodide), in solution, where YOYO is known to have the ability to photo-cleave DNAs by generating reactive oxygen species. Reconstituted chromatin was assembled from large circular DNA (106 kbp) with core histone proteins. We also investigated the effect of vitamin C ( ascorbic acid) on preventing photo-induced double-strand breaks in a quantitative manner. We found that DNA is protected against double-strand breaks by the addition of ascorbic acid, and this protective effect is dose dependent. The effective kinetic constant of the breakage reaction in the presence of 5 mM ascorbic acid is 20 times lower than that in the absence of ascorbic acid. This protective effect of ascorbic acid in reconstituted chromatin is discussed in relation to the highly compacted polynucleosomal structure. The results highlight the fact that single-molecule observation is a useful tool for studying double-strand breaks in giant DNA and chromatin.
著者
安達 博明 Hiroaki Adachi
雑誌
人文論究 (ISSN:02866773)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.54, no.2, pp.87-98, 2004-09-25
著者
Suzuki Motofumi Hamachi Kenji Hara Hideki Nakajima Kaoru Kimura Kenji Hsu Chia-Wei Chou Li-Jen
出版者
American Institute of Physics
雑誌
Applied Physics Letters (ISSN:00036951)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.99, no.22, 2011-12
被引用文献数
13

We have demonstrated that the vapor-liquid-solid (VLS) growth of Ge nanowhiskers is significantly enhanced by high-temperature glancing angle deposition (HT-GLAD). At the substrate temperature of 420 °C, the Ge nanowhiskers grow on the sample deposited at the deposition angle of α = 85°, whereas no long nanowhisker grows on the samples deposited at α ≤ 73°. The kinetic growth model that takes into account the directional incidence of the vapor flux agrees with the experimental results and suggests that the atoms deposited on the side surface of the nanowhiskers play an essential role in the HT-GLAD assisted VLS growth. Supplying the atoms on the side surface of the nanowhiskers is expected to accelerate the growth of the nanowhiskers in any vapor phase growth methods, such as molecular beam epitaxy and chemical vapor deposition.
著者
河田 学
出版者
京都大学
巻号頁・発行日
2005-05-23

新制・課程博士
著者
岡村 定矩
出版者
東京大学理学部
雑誌
東京大学理学部廣報
巻号頁・発行日
vol.24, no.3, pp.1-2, 1993-03

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著者
河原 哲雄
出版者
東京大学大学院教育学研究科
雑誌
東京大学大学院教育学研究科紀要 (ISSN:13421050)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.36, pp.227-238, 1996-12-20

10 years have passed since the 'Bible'of the prallel distributed processing was published (Rumelhart, McClelland & PDF Research Group, 1986). Throughout the decade, architectures and procedures of connectionist (a.k.a neural nets or parallel distributed processing) models have been growing more and more subtle and complex. The aim of this article is to review some recent connectionist models for three typical research domains of higher cognitive processes (language, analogical inference, and category learning) in detail, and to speculate on their impacts on the coming decade of cognitive psychology and connectionism.