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Ying Zhang; Hozumi Kawamichi; Kazuhiro Kohama; Hideyuki Tanaka; Shinji Yoshiyama; Akio Nakamura
Calcium-dependent regulation of the motor activity of recombinant full-length Physarum myosin.
Hong Hui Wang; Li-Hong Ye; Shinji Yoshiyama; Na Cai; Ryoki Ishikawa; Akio Nakamura; Hiromi Takano-Ohmuro; Kazuhiro Kohama
Down-regulation of myosin light chain kinase expression in vascular smooth muscle cells accelerates cell proliferation: requirement of its actin-binding domain for reversion to normal rates.
Shinji Yoshiyama; Takahiro Horinouchi; Soichi Miwa; Hong Hui Wang; Kazuhiro Kohama; Akio Nakamura
Effect of cigarette smoke components on vascular smooth muscle cell migration toward platelet-derived growth factor BB.

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2012: Ying Zhang; Hozumi Kawamichi; Kazuhiro Kohama; Hideyuki Tanaka; Shinji Yoshiyama; Akio Nakamura
Calcium-dependent regulation of the motor activity of recombinant full-length Physarum myosin.
Journal of biochemistry 2012;152(2):185-90.
2012: Hong Hui Wang; Li-Hong Ye; Shinji Yoshiyama; Na Cai; Ryoki Ishikawa; Akio Nakamura; Hiromi Takano-Ohmuro; Kazuhiro Kohama
Down-regulation of myosin light chain kinase expression in vascular smooth muscle cells accelerates cell proliferation: requirement of its actin-binding domain for reversion to normal rates.
Journal of pharmacological sciences 2012;119(1):91-6.
2011: Shinji Yoshiyama; Takahiro Horinouchi; Soichi Miwa; Hong Hui Wang; Kazuhiro Kohama; Akio Nakamura
Effect of cigarette smoke components on vascular smooth muscle cell migration toward platelet-derived growth factor BB.
Journal of pharmacological sciences 2011;115(4):532-5.
2010: Ying Zhang; Akio Nakamura; Hozumi Kawamichi; Shinji Yoshiyama; Takeshi Katayama; Kazuhiro Kohama
Calcium regulation of the ATPase activity of Physarum and scallop myosins using hybrid smooth muscle myosin: the role of the essential light chain.
FEBS letters 2010;584(15):3486-91.
2010: Takeshi Katayama; Masaru Watanabe; Hideyuki Tanaka; Mizuki Hino; Takuya Miyakawa; Takashi Ohki; Li-Hong Ye; Ce Xie; Shinji Yoshiyama; Akio Nakamura; Ryoki Ishikawa; Masaru Tanokura; Kazuhiro Oiwa; Kazuhiro Kohama
Stimulatory effects of arachidonic acid on myosin ATPase activity and contraction of smooth muscle via myosin motor domain.
American journal of physiology. Heart and circulatory physiology 2010;298(2):H505-14.
2009: Ce Xie; Yue Zhang; Hong Hui Wang; Atsushi Matsumoto; Akio Nakamura; Ryoki Ishikawa; Shinji Yoshiyama; K Hayakawa; Kazuhiro Kohama; Ying Gao
Calcium regulation of non-kinase and kinase activities of recombinant myosin light-chain kinase and its mutants.
IUBMB life 2009;61(11):1092-8.
2008: Takao Hijikata; Akio Nakamura; Keitaro Isokawa; Michihiro Imamura; Katsutoshi Yuasa; Ryoki Ishikawa; Kazuhiro Kohama; Shinichi Takeda; Hiroshi Yorifuji
Plectin 1 links intermediate filaments to costameric sarcolemma through beta-synemin, alpha-dystrobrevin and actin.
Journal of cell science 2008;121(Pt 12):2062-74.
2008: HONGHUI WANG; Hideyuki Tanaka; Xiaoran Qin; Tiejun Zhao; Li-Hong Ye; Tsuyoshi Okagaki; Takeshi Katayama; Akio Nakamura; Ryoki Ishikawa; Sean E Thatcher; Gary L Wright; Kazuhiro Kohama
Blebbistatin inhibits the chemotaxis of vascular smooth muscle cells by disrupting the myosin II-actin interaction.
American journal of physiology. Heart and circulatory physiology 2008;294(5):H2060-8.
2008: Akio Nakamura; Ce Xie; Yue Zhang; Ying Gao; HONGHUI WANG; Li-Hong Ye; H Kishi; Tsuyoshi Okagaki; Shinji Yoshiyama; K Hayakawa; Ryoki Ishikawa; Kazuhiro Kohama
Role of non-kinase activity of myosin light-chain kinase in regulating smooth muscle contraction, a review dedicated to Dr. Setsuro Ebashi.
Biochemical and biophysical research communications 2008;369(1):135-43.
2007: Ryoki Ishikawa; Kaoru Katoh; Ayumi Takahashi; Ce Xie; Koushi Oseki; Michitoshi Watanabe; Michihiro Igarashi; Akio Nakamura; Kazuhiro Kohama
Drebrin attenuates the interaction between actin and myosin-V.
Biochemical and biophysical research communications 2007;359(2):398-401.
2007: Hozumi Kawamichi; Ying Zhang; Mizuki Hino; Akio Nakamura; Hideyuki Tanaka; László Farkas; László Nyitray; Kazuhiro Kohama
Calcium inhibition of Physarum myosin as examined by the recombinant heavy mero-myosin.
Advances in experimental medicine and biology 2007;592():265-72.
2006: Takeshi Katayama; Shinji Yoshiyama; Hideyuki Tanaka; HONGHUI WANG; Akio Nakamura; Kazuhiro Kohama
Blebbistatin inhibits sphingosylphosphorylcholine-induced contraction of collagen-gel fiber populated by vascular smooth-muscle cells.
Journal of pharmacological sciences 2006;102(3):339-42.
2006: Sheng Li; Hideyuki Tanaka; HONGHUI WANG; Shinji Yoshiyama; Hiroyuki Kumagai; Akio Nakamura; Dawn L Brown; Sean E Thatcher; Gary L Wright; Kazuhiro Kohama
Intracellular signal transduction for migration and actin remodeling in vascular smooth muscle cells after sphingosylphosphorylcholine stimulation.
American journal of physiology. Heart and circulatory physiology 2006;291(3):H1262-72.
2005: Takahisa Murata; Masatoshi Hori; Sheng Lee; Akio Nakamura; Kazuhiro Kohama; Hideaki Karaki; Hiroshi Ozaki
Vascular endothelium has a local anti-adenovirus vector system and glucocorticoid optimizes its gene transduction.
Arteriosclerosis, thrombosis, and vascular biology 2005;25(9):1796-803.
2005: Hong Xin; Hideyuki Tanaka; Maki Yamaguchi; Shigeru Takemori; Akio Nakamura; Kazuhiro Kohama
Vanilloid receptor expressed in the sarcoplasmic reticulum of rat skeletal muscle.
Biochemical and biophysical research communications 2005;332(3):756-62.
2005: Akio Nakamura; Yuki Hanyuda; Tsuyoshi Okagaki; Takashi Takagi; Kazuhiro Kohama
A calmodulin-dependent protein kinase from lower eukaryote Physarum polycephalum.
Biochemical and biophysical research communications 2005;328(4):838-44.
2004: Sheng Li; Tiejun Zhao; Hong Xin; Li-Hong Ye; Xiaodong Zhang; Hideyuki Tanaka; Akio Nakamura; Kazuhiro Kohama
Nicotinic acetylcholine receptor alpha7 subunit mediates migration of vascular smooth muscle cells toward nicotine.
Journal of pharmacological sciences 2004;94(3):334-8.
2003: László Farkas; Andras Malnasi-Csizmadia; Akio Nakamura; Kazuhiro Kohama; László Nyitray
Localization and characterization of the inhibitory Ca2+-binding site of Physarum polycephalum myosin II.
The Journal of biological chemistry 2003;278(30):27399-405.
2003: Ying Gao; Kazufumi Kawano; Shinji Yoshiyama; Hozumi Kawamichi; Xiaoming Wang; Akio Nakamura; Kazuhiro Kohama
Myosin light chain kinase stimulates smooth muscle myosin ATPase activity by binding to the myosin heads without phosphorylating the myosin light chain.
Biochemical and biophysical research communications 2003;305(1):16-21.
2003: Wakana Iwasaki; Hiroshi Sasaki; Akio Nakamura; Kazuhiro Kohama; Masaru Tanokura
Metal-free and Ca2+-bound structures of a multidomain EF-hand protein, CBP40, from the lower eukaryote Physarum polycephalum.
Structure (London, England : 1993) 2003;11(1):75-85.
2002: Jianjun Bao; Kazuhiko Oishi; Tomohisa Yamada; Liqun Liu; Akio Nakamura; Masaatsu K Uchida; Kazuhiro Kohama
Role of the short isoform of myosin light chain kinase in the contraction of cultured smooth muscle cells as examined by its down-regulation.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2002;99(14):9556-61.
2002: Shizuko Iyobe; Haruko Kusadokoro; Ayako Takahashi; Sachie Yomoda; Toyoji Okubo; Akio Nakamura; Koji O'Hara
Detection of a variant metallo-beta-lactamase, IMP-10, from two unrelated strains of Pseudomonas aeruginosa and an alcaligenes xylosoxidans strain.
Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy 2002;46(6):2014-6.
2002: Noriko Noguchi; Hiromasa Yamashita; Jun Hamahara; Akio Nakamura; Hartmut Kühn; Etsuo Niki
The specificity of lipoxygenase-catalyzed lipid peroxidation and the effects of radical-scavenging antioxidants.
Biological chemistry 2002;383(3-4):619-26.
2001: Kazuhiro Kohama; Akio Nakamura
[Targeting of myosin light chain kinase in vascular smooth muscle cells, and its implication for drug discovery].
Nihon yakurigaku zasshi. Folia pharmacologica Japonica 2001;118(4):269-76.
2001: K Samizo; Ryoki Ishikawa; Akio Nakamura; Kazuhiro Kohama
A highly sensitive method for measurement of myosin ATPase activity by reversed-phase high-performance liquid chromatography.
Analytical biochemistry 2001;293(2):212-5.
2001: Y Gao; Li-Hong Ye; H Kishi; Tsuyoshi Okagaki; K Samizo; Akio Nakamura; Kazuhiro Kohama
Myosin light chain kinase as a multifunctional regulatory protein of smooth muscle contraction.
IUBMB life 2001;51(6):337-44.
2000: Akio Nakamura; Tsuyoshi Okagaki; Takashi Takagi; K i Nakashima; M Yazawa; Kazuhiro Kohama
Calcium binding properties of recombinant calcium binding protein 40, a major calcium binding protein of lower eukaryote Physarum polycephalum.
Biochemistry 2000;39(13):3827-34.
2000: Tsuyoshi Okagaki; Akio Nakamura; T Suzuki; K Ohmi; Kazuhiro Kohama
Assembly of smooth muscle myosin by the 38k protein, a homologue of a subunit of pre-mRNA splicing factor-2.
The Journal of cell biology 2000;148(4):653-63.
2000: H Kishi; T Mikawa; M Seto; Y Sasaki; T Kanayasu-Toyoda; T Yamaguchi; M Imamura; M Ito; H Karaki; Jianjun Bao; Akio Nakamura; Ryoki Ishikawa; Kazuhiro Kohama
Stable transfectants of smooth muscle cell line lacking the expression of myosin light chain kinase and their characterization with respect to the actomyosin system.
The Journal of biological chemistry 2000;275(2):1414-20.
1999: Wakana Iwasaki; Hiroshi Sasaki; Akio Nakamura; Kazuhiro Kohama; Masaru Tanokura
Crystallization and preliminary X-ray diffraction studies of a 40 kDa calcium binding protein specifically expressed in plasmodia of Physarum polycephalum.
Journal of biochemistry 1999;126(1):7-9.
1999: Li-Hong Ye; H Kishi; Akio Nakamura; Tsuyoshi Okagaki; Toru Tanaka; Kazuhiro Oiwa; Kazuhiro Kohama
Myosin light-chain kinase of smooth muscle stimulates myosin ATPase activity without phosphorylating myosin light chain.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 1999;96(12):6666-71.
1999: Akio Nakamura; Kazuhiro Kohama
Calcium regulation of the actin-myosin interaction of Physarum polycephalum.
International review of cytology 1999;191():53-98.
1998: Akio Nakamura; Kazuhiro Kohama
[Calcium inhibition].
Tanpakushitsu kakusan koso. Protein, nucleic acid, enzyme 1998;43(12 Suppl):1870-6.
1998: Y Lin; H Kishi; Akio Nakamura; Takashi Takagi; Kazuhiro Kohama
N-terminal myosin-binding fragment of talin.
Biochemical and biophysical research communications 1998;249(3):656-9.
1998: H Kishi; Li-Hong Ye; Akio Nakamura; Tsuyoshi Okagaki; A Iwata; Toru Tanaka; Kazuhiro Kohama
Structure and function of smooth muscle myosin light chain kinase.
Advances in experimental medicine and biology 1998;453():229-34.
1997: Li-Hong Ye; K Hayakawa; H Kishi; M Imamura; Akio Nakamura; Tsuyoshi Okagaki; Takashi Takagi; A Iwata; Toru Tanaka; Kazuhiro Kohama
The structure and function of the actin-binding domain of myosin light chain kinase of smooth muscle.
The Journal of biological chemistry 1997;272(51):32182-9.
1995: R Ishikawa; Y Sasaki; Akio Nakamura; T Takagi; Kazuhiro Kohama
Purification of an ATP-dependent actin-binding protein from a lower eukaryote, Physarum polycephalum.
Biochemical and biophysical research communications 1995;212(2):347-52.