{"title":"Key contributions of a glycolipid to membrane protein integration.","authors":"Keiko Shimamoto, Kohki Fujikawa, Tsukiho Osawa, Shoko Mori, Kaoru Nomura, Ken-Ichi Nishiyama","doi":"10.2183/pjab.100.026","DOIUrl":"10.2183/pjab.100.026","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Regulation of membrane protein integration involves molecular devices such as Sec-translocons or the insertase YidC. We have identified an integration-promoting factor in the inner membrane of Escherichia coli called membrane protein integrase (MPIase). Structural analysis revealed that, despite its enzyme-like name, MPIase is a glycolipid with a long glycan comprising N-acetyl amino sugars, a pyrophosphate linker, and a diacylglycerol (DAG) anchor. Additionally, we found that DAG, a minor membrane component, blocks spontaneous integration. In this review, we demonstrate how they contribute to Sec-independent membrane protein integration in bacteria using a comprehensive approach including synthetic chemistry and biophysical analyses. DAG blocks unfavorable spontaneous integrations by suppressing mobility in the membrane core, whereas MPIase compensates for this. Moreover, MPIase plays critical roles in capturing a substrate protein to prevent its aggregation, attracting it to the membrane surface, facilitating its insertion into the membrane, and delivering it to other factors. The combination of DAG and MPIase efficiently regulates the integration of membrane proteins.</p>","PeriodicalId":20707,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Japan Academy. Series B, Physical and Biological Sciences","volume":"100 7","pages":"387-413"},"PeriodicalIF":4.4,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11413397/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141860713","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"综合性期刊","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"At the dawn of novel aromatics: \"On the Synthesis of Hinokitiol\" by Tetsuo Nozoe et al.","authors":"Hiroyuki Isobe","doi":"10.2183/pjab.99.020","DOIUrl":"10.2183/pjab.99.020","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A paper titled \"On the Synthesis of Hinokitiol\" appeared in this journal in 1950 and marked the beginning of a new research field of novel aromatics.</p>","PeriodicalId":20707,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Japan Academy. Series B, Physical and Biological Sciences","volume":" ","pages":"427-437"},"PeriodicalIF":4.4,"publicationDate":"2023-12-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10822719/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10176964","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"综合性期刊","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Synthesis and applications of helical polymers with dynamic and static memories of helicity.","authors":"Eiji Yashima","doi":"10.2183/pjab.99.025","DOIUrl":"10.2183/pjab.99.025","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This review mainly highlights our studies on the synthesis of one-handed helical polymers with a static memory of helicity based on the noncovalent helicity induction with a helical-sense bias and subsequent memory of the helicity approach that we developed during the past decade. Apart from the previous approaches, an excess one-handed helical conformation, once induced by nonracemic molecules, is immediately retained (\"memorized\") after the complete removal of the nonracemic molecules, accompanied by a significant amplification of the asymmetry, providing novel switchable chiral materials for chromatographic enantioseparation and asymmetric catalysis as well as a highly sensitive colorimetric and fluorescence chiral sensor. A conceptually new one-handed helix formation in a racemic helical polymer composed of racemic repeating units through the deracemization of the pendants is described.</p>","PeriodicalId":20707,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Japan Academy. Series B, Physical and Biological Sciences","volume":" ","pages":"438-459"},"PeriodicalIF":4.4,"publicationDate":"2023-12-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10822720/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49681624","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"综合性期刊","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Glancing at the birth of a galaxy of scientists from Rikō Majima.","authors":"Hiroyuki Isobe, Masahiro Hirama","doi":"10.2183/pjab.99.019","DOIUrl":"10.2183/pjab.99.019","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Rikō Majima published seven papers in this journal, and seeing these papers and their surrounding contexts allows us to glance at the birth of a galaxy of scientists.</p>","PeriodicalId":20707,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Japan Academy. Series B, Physical and Biological Sciences","volume":" ","pages":"335-351"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2023-11-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10749390/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10176963","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"综合性期刊","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Biomedical advances and future prospects of high-precision three-dimensional radiotherapy and four-dimensional radiotherapy.","authors":"Hiroki Shirato","doi":"10.2183/pjab.99.024","DOIUrl":"10.2183/pjab.99.024","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Biomedical advances of external-beam radiotherapy (EBRT) with improvements in physical accuracy are reviewed. High-precision (±1 mm) three-dimensional radiotherapy (3DRT) can utilize respective therapeutic open doors in the tumor control probability curve and in the normal tissue complication probability curve instead of the one single therapeutic window in two-dimensional EBRT. High-precision 3DRT achieved higher tumor control and probable survival rates for patients with small peripheral lung and liver cancers. Four-dimensional radiotherapy (4DRT), which can reduce uncertainties in 3DRT due to organ motion by real-time (every 0.1-1 s) tumor-tracking and immediate (0.1-1 s) irradiation, have achieved reduced adverse effects for prostate and pancreatic tumors near the digestive tract and with similar or better tumor control. Particle beam therapy improved tumor control and probable survival for patients with large liver tumors. The clinical outcomes of locally advanced or multiple tumors located near serial-type organs can theoretically be improved further by integrating the 4DRT concept with particle beams.</p>","PeriodicalId":20707,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Japan Academy. Series B, Physical and Biological Sciences","volume":" ","pages":"389-426"},"PeriodicalIF":4.4,"publicationDate":"2023-11-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10749389/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41210685","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"综合性期刊","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Improvement of patient care using cancer genomic profiling: SCRUM-/CIRCULATE-Japan experience.","authors":"Atsushi Ohtsu, Koichi Goto, Takayuki Yoshino","doi":"10.2183/pjab.99.015","DOIUrl":"10.2183/pjab.99.015","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>We launched SCRUM-Japan platform for the cancer genome profiling (CGP) test screening followed by the enrollment to genomically-matched clinical trials in 2015. More than 30,000 tissue-based and 10,000 liquid-based CGP tests have already been performed for enrolling to a total of 127 industry-/investigator-initiated registration trials, which resulted in regulatory approvals of 12 new agents with 14 indications in Japan. Using the clinical-genomic database, a new driver gene was recently discovered with dramatic response by genomically-matched agent. Our comparative study with tissue-based CGPs revealed more usefulness of liquid biopsy in terms of less invasive manner, shorter turn-round time, and higher enrollment rate for matched treatments than tissue-based in gastrointestinal cancers. For detecting minimal/molecular residual disease (MRD) after surgery, post-surgical monitoring with tumor-informed liquid biopsy assay in association with two randomized control trials have also started in 2020 (CIRCULATE-Japan). The observational cohort study showed obvious efficacy of the MRD monitoring for predicting recurrence, leading to change clinical practice in patient selection who should receive adjuvant therapy in the near future.</p>","PeriodicalId":20707,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Japan Academy. Series B, Physical and Biological Sciences","volume":" ","pages":"241-253"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2023-10-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10749397/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10020554","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"综合性期刊","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On the occasion of the 100th volume of the Proceedings of the Japan Academy, Series B (PJA-B).","authors":"Kunihiko Suzuki, Shigekazu Nagata","doi":"10.2183/pjab.99.016","DOIUrl":"10.2183/pjab.99.016","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":20707,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Japan Academy. Series B, Physical and Biological Sciences","volume":" ","pages":"227"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2023-10-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10749392/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10176965","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"综合性期刊","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sooyeon Kim, Latiefa Kamarulzaman, Yuichi Taniguchi
{"title":"Recent methodological advances towards single-cell proteomics.","authors":"Sooyeon Kim, Latiefa Kamarulzaman, Yuichi Taniguchi","doi":"10.2183/pjab.99.021","DOIUrl":"10.2183/pjab.99.021","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Studying the central dogma at the single-cell level has gained increasing attention to reveal hidden cell lineages and functions that cannot be studied using traditional bulk analyses. Nonetheless, most single-cell studies exploiting genomic and transcriptomic levels fail to address information on proteins that are central to many important biological processes. Single-cell proteomics enables understanding of the functional status of individual cells and is particularly crucial when the specimen is composed of heterogeneous entities of cells. With the growing importance of this field, significant methodological advancements have emerged recently. These include miniaturized and automated sample preparation, multi-omics analyses, and combined analyses of multiple techniques such as mass spectrometry and microscopy. Moreover, artificial intelligence and single-molecule detection technologies have advanced throughput and improved sensitivity limitations, respectively, over conventional methods. In this review, we summarize cutting-edge methodologies for single-cell proteomics and relevant emerging technologies that have been reported in the last 5 years, and provide an outlook on this research field.</p>","PeriodicalId":20707,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Japan Academy. Series B, Physical and Biological Sciences","volume":" ","pages":"306-327"},"PeriodicalIF":4.4,"publicationDate":"2023-10-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10749393/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10167486","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"综合性期刊","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Highly enantioselective hydroxymethylation of unmodified α-substituted aryl ketones in water.","authors":"Taku Kitanosono, Tomoya Kawase, Yasuhiro Yamashita, Shū Kobayashi","doi":"10.2183/pjab.99.022","DOIUrl":"10.2183/pjab.99.022","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Catalytic asymmetric direct-type aldol reactions of ketones with aldehydes are a perennial puzzle for organic chemists. Notwithstanding the emergence of a myriad of chiral catalysts to address the inherent reversibility of the aldol products, a general method to access acyclic α-chiral ketones from prochiral aryl ketones has remained an unmet synthetic challenge. The approach outlined herein is fundamentally different to that used in conventional catalysis, which typically commences with an α-proton abstraction by a Brønsted base. The use of a chiral 2,2'-bipyridine scandium complex enabled the hydroxymethylation of propiophenone to be run under base-free conditions, which avails effectual suppression of hydrolytic deactivation of the Lewis acid catalyst. Intriguingly, the use of water as a reaction medium had an overriding effect on the progress of the reaction. The sagacious selection of sodium dodecyl sulfate and lithium dodecyl sulfate as surfactants allowed a variety of propiophenone derivatives to react in a highly enantioselective manner.</p>","PeriodicalId":20707,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Japan Academy. Series B, Physical and Biological Sciences","volume":" ","pages":"328-333"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2023-10-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10749394/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10167477","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"综合性期刊","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Aromatic micelles: toward a third-generation of micelles.","authors":"Michito Yoshizawa, Lorenzo Catti","doi":"10.2183/pjab.99.002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2183/pjab.99.002","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Micelles are useful and widely applied molecular assemblies, formed from amphiphilic molecules, in water. The majority of amphiphiles possess an alkyl chain as the hydrophobic part. Amphiphiles bearing hydrophilic and hydrophobic polymer chains generate so-called polymeric micelles in water. This review focuses on the recent progress of \"aromatic micelles\", formed from bent polyaromatic/aromatic amphiphiles, for the development of third-generation micelles. Thanks to multiple host-guest interactions, e.g., the hydrophobic effect and π-π/CH-π interactions, the present micelles display wide-ranging uptake abilities toward various hydrophobic compounds in water. In addition to such host functions, new stimuli-responsive aromatic micelles with pH, light, and redox switches, aromatic oligomer micelles, saccharide-coated aromatic micelles, and related cycloalkane-based micelles were recently developed by our group.</p>","PeriodicalId":20707,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Japan Academy. Series B, Physical and Biological Sciences","volume":"99 1","pages":"29-38"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pub/pmc/oa_pdf/ab/11/pjab-99-029.PMC9851959.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9164308","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"综合性期刊","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}