R. Ueda, A. Ichkawa, M. Kusunoki, M. Ejima, F. Aral, T. Fukuda, A. Honda
{"title":"Influenza virus selects cell phase for infection","authors":"R. Ueda, A. Ichkawa, M. Kusunoki, M. Ejima, F. Aral, T. Fukuda, A. Honda","doi":"10.1109/MHS.2007.4420821","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MHS.2007.4420821","url":null,"abstract":"Influenza virus attaches on the sialic acid on cellular membrane through it's HA protein and enters cytoplasm by receptor-mediated endocytosis, then move from endocytic vesicles to early endosomes and late endosome where the influenza viruses fuse with the endosomal membrane to release viral genome followed to transport the genome to nuclei where virus replicate their genome. Previously we found that host cell protein Ebpl (ErbB3 binding protein 1) interacted with the catalytic subunit PB1 of influenza virus RNA dependent RNA polymerase and interfered with its function. Ebpl expression is regulated by cell cycle, showing high level expression especially in Gl to S phase. Recently we identified another host protein (PA4c9) interacts with subunit PA of influenza virus RNA polymerase. Again PA4c9 is one of the cell cycle dependent proteins. These findings encouraged us to investigate the host cell cycle dependency of influenza infection. To identify the cell phase at which influenza virus attach most efficiently, the cells were treated with the fluorescent-labeled influenza viruses for 5-15 minutes and fixed with paraformaldehyde followed by observation under the confocal microscope. In parallel, attempts were made to manipulate a single particle of fluorescent-labeled virus using laser manipulator for infection onto a single cell at different phase. The results altogether indicated that influenza virus preferred the membrane of stable cell phase (G0/G1) to attach for infection.","PeriodicalId":161669,"journal":{"name":"2007 International Symposium on Micro-NanoMechatronics and Human Science","volume":"91 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128457447","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
M.M. Rahman, N. Nakanishi, T. Takigami, T. Hase, Sam-Yong Park, M. Tsubaki
{"title":"Purification and Biochemical Analyses of Zea mays Cytochrome b561 Heterologously Expressed in Pichia pastoris","authors":"M.M. Rahman, N. Nakanishi, T. Takigami, T. Hase, Sam-Yong Park, M. Tsubaki","doi":"10.1109/MHS.2007.4420835","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MHS.2007.4420835","url":null,"abstract":"Cytochromes b 561 constitute a novel class of transmembrane electron transport proteins present in large variety of eukaryotic cells, with a number of highly relevant common structural features including the six hydrophobic transmembrane alpha-helices and the two heme ligation sites. Of particular interest is the presence of a number of plant homologues that encode proteins having possible ascorbate- and monodehydroascorbate radical-binding sites proposed previously for mammalian cytochromes b 561. In the present study, we conducted a molecular cloning of cytochrome b 561 cDNA from corn plant, Zea mays, its functional heterologous expression in yeast Pichia pastoris, its purification, and its biochemical analyses. The purified recombinant Zea mays cytochrome b 561 protein (WTZMb561-H6) showed characteristic visible absorption peaks very similar to those of bovine cytochrome b561. The results from a stopped-flow analysis indicated that Zea mays cytochrome b561 utilizes ascorbate and, possibly, monodehydroascorbate radical as a physiological electron donor and acceptor, respectively. Pre-treatment of the purified Zea mays cytochrome b561 with diethylpyrocarbonate in the oxidized form caused a drastic inhibition of the electron transfer from ascorbate and such inhibition was protected by the presence of ascorbate during the treatment with diethylpyrocarbonate. These results suggested that plant cytochrome b561 might perform an ascorbate-related transmembrane electron transfer reaction by utilizing a very similar molecular mechanism with that of bovine cytochrome b561. Our new system offers an improvement in yield and other advantages over existing insect and yeast cell systems for producing the recombinant cytochrome b561 for the studies on structure and functions.","PeriodicalId":161669,"journal":{"name":"2007 International Symposium on Micro-NanoMechatronics and Human Science","volume":"79 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121152877","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Jumping Robot based on the Closed Elastica","authors":"A. Yamada, M. Watari, H. Mochiyama, H. Fujimoto","doi":"10.1109/MHS.2007.4420924","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MHS.2007.4420924","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we propose jumping robots catapulted by the closed elastica which the authors developed as a robotic element for generating impulsive motions by utilizing the snap-through buckling. We show that one of our robots, which is about the size of 170 x 90 x 50 [mm], leaps 700[mm] away and 200[mm] high. We also show a legged jumping robot which pushes the ground impulsively by its leg attached to the closed elastica.","PeriodicalId":161669,"journal":{"name":"2007 International Symposium on Micro-NanoMechatronics and Human Science","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127791718","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Model-based Robust Online Fault Detection for Mating Process of Electric Connectors in Robotic Wiring Harness Assembly Systems","authors":"Man Huang, P. Di, T. Fukuda, T. Matsuno","doi":"10.1109/MHS.2007.4420916","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MHS.2007.4420916","url":null,"abstract":"Mating a pair of electric connectors is one of the most important steps in a robotic wiring harness assembly system, which can be modeled by static piecewise affine (PWA) systems. To design a fault detection system for this application, a set-membership approach for static PWA systems is proposed, in which parallelotopic approximation of feasible parameter sets (FPS) is adopted. An online algorithm is obtained to estimate bounds of uncertain transition points of the PWA model. Based on the estimation, a robust online fault detection algorithm is proposed. The effectiveness of these methods is finally confirmed through experiments.","PeriodicalId":161669,"journal":{"name":"2007 International Symposium on Micro-NanoMechatronics and Human Science","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130192559","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Analysis on Kinematics and Statics of Redundant Parallel Link Manipulators with Passive Joints","authors":"Y. Imai, G. Obinata, K. Hase","doi":"10.1109/MHS.2007.4420901","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MHS.2007.4420901","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents analysis on kinematics and statics of redundant serial link manipulator and redundant parallel link manipulator with passive joints. Passive joint is a joint that the joint torque depends on the joint angle. Redundant manipulator is a manipulator that has actuated joints more than dimension of the task space. We study the theme not to be defined well the fundamental theory of the manipulator with passive joints. First, we study the redundant serial link manipulator with passive joints. We propose a solution method of kinematics and statics and a control method in a limited condition. Moreover, we can show a better performance of the serial link manipulator with additional passive joint, so-called semi-active joint, if we can control the equilibrium positions of passive joints by using numerical example. Secondary, we study the redundant parallel link manipulator with passive joints. We proposed a solution method of kinematics and statics. We can show the performance in each parallel link manipulator mode with semi-active joints by using numerical example.","PeriodicalId":161669,"journal":{"name":"2007 International Symposium on Micro-NanoMechatronics and Human Science","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130954772","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Tissue Architecture based on Robotics Manipulation and Functional Artificial Extracellular Matrix","authors":"D. Kawahara, T. Matsuda","doi":"10.1109/MHS.2007.4420882","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MHS.2007.4420882","url":null,"abstract":"Ex vivo fabrication of functional tissue composed of cells and extracellular matrix (ECMs) needs precise region-specific positioning of these biological substances. To this end, we utilized two technologies; one is a cell-dispenser robot which enables to place cells at a given position and at a given depth of ECM gel. The other is artificial ECMs which are soluble in aqueous solutions but are gelled upon photochemical crosslinking or thermal phase transition. Using these techniques, endothelial cell aggregates, which are capillary-like network, are formed on and in photocured gelatinous gels. Three prototype models are presented.","PeriodicalId":161669,"journal":{"name":"2007 International Symposium on Micro-NanoMechatronics and Human Science","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114667157","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Examination of bacterial toxin measurement using Quartz crystal microbalance method","authors":"A. Tsuji, K. Ooe, N. Nishishita, Y. Hirano","doi":"10.1109/MHS.2007.4420860","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MHS.2007.4420860","url":null,"abstract":"When renal failure patients undergo the hemodialysis, the endtoxin (ET) that is the bacterial toxin that causes the symptom such as generation of heat is measured as one of the pollution markers. Presently, because the high performance filtration equipment develops, the amount of ET in dyalysate water and solution was achieved under the ET standard value set by Japanese Society for Dialysis Therapy etc. However, the ET measurement is obligated to the moon a couple of degrees at the dialysis center etc. the measurement is needed for 30 minutes or more since it use batch method and rely on the chemical reaction. In this study, we paid attention to the polyamino acid named epsiv-polylisine (epsiv-PL) that can select and adsorb ET and the mass measurement using quartz crystal microbalance method (QCM). We aim to the development of the real-time ET measuring system using these. If it is achieved, the amount of ET can be monitored while blood is dialyzed. Moreover, it seems that treatment that discontinues dialyzing can be taken when it exceeds the reference value.","PeriodicalId":161669,"journal":{"name":"2007 International Symposium on Micro-NanoMechatronics and Human Science","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117280949","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"MEMS technology for Artificial Cells","authors":"S. Takeuchi","doi":"10.1109/MHS.2007.4420865","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MHS.2007.4420865","url":null,"abstract":"This paper describes several methods for the study of artificial cells. Since MEMS and microfluidic technologies are very powerful tools to deal with extremely small amount of wet-materials such as DNA, proteins, lipids and so on, these technologies are suitable for reconstruction of the cell systems. Uniform sized liposomes are produced with a \"blowing vesicles\" method. Artificial planar lipid bilayer array is formed by contact method where the two kind of monolayer bring into contact. Dynamic micro array has been developed for handling cells, beads, and vesicles for the high throughput analysis.","PeriodicalId":161669,"journal":{"name":"2007 International Symposium on Micro-NanoMechatronics and Human Science","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130240868","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Darwinism for MEMS","authors":"J. Korvink, Zhenyu Liu","doi":"10.1109/MHS.2007.4420908","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MHS.2007.4420908","url":null,"abstract":"Darwin's theory of natural selection is seen as the primary explanation of the process of evolution in nature. The evolution of the technical systems mainly focuses on the theory of inventive problem solving. Therefore an efficient optimization technology is a key for boosting the evolution of technical systems. In this presentation, we will firstly focus on the general flowchart of how topology optimization works. Secondly we will explain how the sensitivity calculation and the optimizer is implemented. Optimization examples for a single physical field, such as the potential of electrostatics, thermal, mechanical, fluid and optical problem, and multiphysical coupled fields, such as electromechanical and electro-thermal-mechanical problems, are presented in the context of microsystems technology.","PeriodicalId":161669,"journal":{"name":"2007 International Symposium on Micro-NanoMechatronics and Human Science","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121422326","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Basic Characteristics of a Multi-pole Spherical Synchronous Motor","authors":"T. Yano, Y. Kubota, T. Shikayama, T. Suzuki","doi":"10.1109/MHS.2007.4420885","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MHS.2007.4420885","url":null,"abstract":"A multi pole spherical synchronous motor is developed and tested. The developed motor has a rotor supported by a gymbal mechanism and a stator with two pairs of armature poles. 260 Small permanent magnets are attached on the rotor surface so that the North poles and the South poles appear on the concentric circles alternatively. Four armature winding units are positioned on the stator. Each armature winding unit has three windings. The pitch of the windings is 2/3 of the pitch of permanent magnets. Therefore, locally, the relation between the armature windings and the permanent magnets is almost the same as that of the conventional multi pole synchronous motor. The motor size is 265 times 265 times 266 [mm] and the diameter of the rotor is 130 [mm]. The target maximum output torque is 0.49 [Nm], The motor has two degrees of freedom and the working area is plusmn45 [deg] around x and y axis. The rotor can rotates around x and y axis and also moves in the direction combining two rotations simultaneously. The motor is driven by two pairs of three phase sinusoidal currents, each amplitude is calculated at the DSP board. The repeated positioning accuracy, the moving speed, and the output torque of the vertical position were tested. The maximum repeated positioning error was 0.00348 [deg]. The maximum moving speed was more than 90 [deg/sec], and the output torque is more than 0.59 [Nm]. Additional trajectory control results also showed small positioning errors.","PeriodicalId":161669,"journal":{"name":"2007 International Symposium on Micro-NanoMechatronics and Human Science","volume":"84 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126271201","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}