Enthalpy relaxation behavior of dry wood detected by temperature-modulated differential scanning calorimetry     

Tsunehisa Miki  Hiroyuki Sugimoto  Keisuke Kojiro  Yuzo Furuta  Kozo Kanayama 《Journal of Wood Science》2012,58(5):391-398

Enthalpy relaxation of dry wood has been investigated by temperature-modulated differential scanning calorimetry. The reversing and non-reversing heat flow changes revealed that enthalpy relaxation occurred in dry wood, which did not exhibit any clear glass transitions. This enthalpy relaxation behavior seemed to differ significantly from those of previously reported isolated lignins, which implies that the microstructure of dry wood possesses a rigid amorphous state derived from interactions among wood components. The observed enthalpy relaxation is considered to be related to other components besides lignin, and the time-dependent physical properties due to unstable states or physical aging of wood originate not only from lignin but also from other components, such as cellulose and hemicellulose and the interactions between them.  相似文献   

Diapause termination,developmental threshold and thermal requirements of eggs of the maple aphid,<Emphasis Type="Italic">Periphyllus californiensis</Emphasis> Shinji     

Chuan-Chan Wang  Kimito Furuta 《Journal of Forest Research》2002,7(1):1-6

The lower developmental threshold and thermal requirements for egg hatch of the maple aphid (Periphyllus californiensis) were estimated to be 4.58°C and 94.48 degree-days. Eggs of the maple aphid appear to have obligatory diapause and chilling seems essential for diapause development. No matter whether eggs in diapause were treated with 2°C chilling or placed in the field, at least 35 to 41 days were required for the first egg to terminate diapause. The time of egg hatch lasted for about a month or even longer. This long period of time in egg hatch may be related to the restricted period that food is available in early spring and the long period of budburst of host plants.  相似文献   

Effects of different soybean proteins on lipid digestion and growth of yellowtail <Emphasis Type="Italic">Seriola quinqueradiata</Emphasis>     

Hung Phuc Nguyen  Peerapon Khaoian  Haruhisa Fukada  Toshihiro Nakamori  Hitoshi Furuta  Toshiro Masumoto 《Fisheries Science》2011,77(3):357-365

Two experiments were conducted to determine whether the undigested high molecular fraction (HMF) of soybean protein reduces growth of yellowtail through impairment of lipid digestion and absorption. Soybean meal (SBM), soy protein isolate (SPI), digested SPI (DSPI), and digested and purified SPI (DPSPI) were used as experimental diets. In experiment 1 (exp. 1), yellowtail were fed 4 diets with aforementioned soybean products for 3 weeks. In experiment 2 (exp. 2), the fish were fed soybean protein or fish meal (FM) diets for 8 weeks. Growth performance of DPSPI-fed fish was better than that of fish fed other soybean proteins, and comparable to that of fish fed with FM. Plasma and tissue lipid levels of DPSPI-fed fish tended to be higher than those of fish fed other soybean proteins. Significantly lower intestinal lipid levels and higher bile acid levels were found in DPSPI-fed fish than in fish fed with SBM, SPI, and DSPI. These findings indicate that one of the factors contributing to growth depression in yellowtail fed with SBM-based diets is the negative effect of undigested HMF of soybean protein on bile acid levels and lipid digestion.  相似文献   

Search for low-mass exoplanets by gravitational microlensing at high magnification     

Abe F  Bennett DP  Bond IA  Eguchi S  Furuta Y  Hearnshaw JB  Kamiya K  Kilmartin PM  Kurata Y  Masuda K  Matsubara Y  Muraki Y  Noda S  Okajima K  Rakich A  Rattenbury NJ  Sako T  Sekiguchi T  Sullivan DJ  Sumi T  Tristram PJ  Yanagisawa T  Yock PC  Gal-Yam A  Lipkin Y  Maoz D  Ofek EO  Udalski A  Szewczyk O  Zebrun K  Soszynski I  Szymanski MK  Kubiak M  Pietrzynski G  Wyrzykowski L 《Science (New York, N.Y.)》2004,305(5688):1264-1266

Observations of the gravitational microlensing event MOA 2003-BLG-32/OGLE 2003-BLG-219 are presented, for which the peak magnification was over 500, the highest yet reported. Continuous observations around the peak enabled a sensitive search for planets orbiting the lens star. No planets were detected. Planets 1.3 times heavier than Earth were excluded from more than 50% of the projected annular region from approximately 2.3 to 3.6 astronomical units surrounding the lens star, Uranus-mass planets were excluded from 0.9 to 8.7 astronomical units, and planets 1.3 times heavier than Saturn were excluded from 0.2 to 60 astronomical units. These are the largest regions of sensitivity yet achieved in searches for extrasolar planets orbiting any star.  相似文献   

Polymeric procyanidins as radical-scavenging components in red-hulled rice   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Oki T  Masuda M  Kobayashi M  Nishiba Y  Furuta S  Suda I  Sato T 《Journal of agricultural and food chemistry》2002,50(26):7524-7529

The extracts from white-, black-, and red-hulled rice were prepared by sequential extraction with six different polar solvents, and their radical-scavenging activities were measured by methods using 1,1-diphenyl-2-picrylhydrazyl radical (DPPH*) and tert-butyl hydroperoxyl radical (t-BuOO*). The extracts prepared with highly polar solvents, methanol and deionized water, exhibited higher DPPH* and t-BuOO* scavenging activities in all three cultivars. In addition, the acetone extract from red-hulled rice exhibited a high DPPH* and t-BuOO* scavenging activity, while no such activity was detected for the acetone extracts from white- and black-hulled rice. The major components responsible for the radical scavenging in the acetone extract from red-hulled rice were identified as procyanidins by acidic hydrolysis, vanillin assay, and Sephadex LH-20 chromatography. GPC analysis of the acetylated procyanidins revealed that the average molecular weight is about 5000, in a range of about 500-18,000.  相似文献   

Mass spectrometric identification and high-performance liquid chromatographic determination of a flavonoid glycoside naringin in human urine     

Ishii K  Furuta T  Kasuya Y 《Journal of agricultural and food chemistry》2000,48(1):56-59

The aim of this study was to evaluate the absorption of a citrus flavonoid, naringin, as its glycosylated form. Six healthy volunteers (three males and three females) were studied. After a single oral administeration of 500 mg of naringin, intact naringin was isolated from 2-4 h urine. Isolated naringin was identified by the LC/electrospray ionization mass spectrometry (ESI-MS), MS/MS, and MS/MS/MS techniques. The cumulative urinary excretion of naringin and its metabolites (naringenin and naringenin glucuronides) was determined by HPLC for 0-24 h. Approximately 0.02% of the administered dose was recovered in urine as unchanged naringin, whereas urinary recoveries of naringenin and naringenin glucuronides were approximately 0.4 and 3.6% of the administered dose, respectively. It was concluded that trace amounts of orally administered naringin can be absorbed as the glycoside. However, it is not clear whether the glycoside is cleaved before or after absorption to generate naringenin.  相似文献   

Rediscovery of a diploid cytotype of Dasypyrum breviaristatum in Morocco     

Shoji Ohta  Misuzu Koto  Tomoko Osada  Akiko Matsuyama  Yoshihiko Furuta 《Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution》2002,49(3):305-312

The chromosome numbers of a total of 273 Dasypyrumbreviaristatum plants sampled from 20 Moroccan and one Greek naturalpopulations were examined. 270 plants from all of the populations weretetraploids. Among them, 223 were eu-tetraploids with 28 chromosomes and 47 wereaneuploids with 25, 27 and 29 chromosomes. Besides, three plants were found tobe diploids among 16 plants from a population in the Moyen Atlas Mountains ofMorocco. This is the second report of a diploid cytotype ofD. breviaristatum since the firstcommunication in 1957. Morphologically, the diploids were similar to but smallerthan the tetraploids in plant height, spike length, spikelet number and leafepidermis cell size. However, it was not possible to distinguish between the twocytotypes based on those morphological characteristics alone. A distinctdifference was found between the two cytotypes only in the number of trichomeson the leaf surfaces. The karyotype of the diploid cytotype consisted of a pairof SAT-chromosomes, five pairs of metacentric and a pair of submetacentricchromosomes. Based on the similarity in karyotype and in plant morphologybetween the two cytotypes of D.breviaristatum, we suggest that the diploid cytotype is themost probable candidate for the ancestral form of the tetraploid cytotype.  相似文献   

Identification and Biochemical Characterization of Halisulfate 3 and Suvanine as Novel Inhibitors of Hepatitis C Virus NS3 Helicase from a Marine Sponge     

Atsushi Furuta  Kazi Abdus Salam  Idam Hermawan  Nobuyoshi Akimitsu  Junichi Tanaka  Hidenori Tani  Atsuya Yamashita  Kohji Moriishi  Masamichi Nakakoshi  Masayoshi Tsubuki  Poh Wee Peng  Youichi Suzuki  Naoki Yamamoto  Yuji Sekiguchi  Satoshi Tsuneda  Naohiro Noda 《Marine drugs》2014,12(1):462-476

Hepatitis C virus (HCV) is an important etiological agent that is responsible for the development of chronic hepatitis, liver cirrhosis, and hepatocellular carcinoma. HCV nonstructural protein 3 (NS3) helicase is a possible target for novel drug development due to its essential role in viral replication. In this study, we identified halisulfate 3 (hal3) and suvanine as novel NS3 helicase inhibitors, with IC₅₀ values of 4 and 3 µM, respectively, from a marine sponge by screening extracts of marine organisms. Both hal3 and suvanine inhibited the ATPase, RNA binding, and serine protease activities of NS3 helicase with IC₅₀ values of 8, 8, and 14 µM, and 7, 3, and 34 µM, respectively. However, the dengue virus (DENV) NS3 helicase, which shares a catalytic core (consisting mainly of ATPase and RNA binding sites) with HCV NS3 helicase, was not inhibited by hal3 and suvanine, even at concentrations of 100 µM. Therefore, we conclude that hal3 and suvanine specifically inhibit HCV NS3 helicase via an interaction with an allosteric site in NS3 rather than binding to the catalytic core. This led to the inhibition of all NS3 activities, presumably by inducing conformational changes.  相似文献   

Effects of substituted D genome chromosomes on photosynthetic rate of durum wheat (Triticum turgidum L. var. durum)     

Nobuyoshi Watanabe  Akiko Ogawa  Touru Kitaya  Yoshihiko Furuta 《Euphytica》1993,72(1-2):127-131

Summary A durum wheat cultivar Langdon (LDN) and fourteen disomic D genome chromosome substitution lines of Langdon, where A or B genome chromosomes were replaced with homoeologous D genome chromosomes of Chinese Spring (CS), were used to assess the compensatory effect of the D genome chromosomes on photosynthetic rates at tetraploid level. The LDN 1D(1B) and LDN 3D(3B) lines showed significantly higher photosynthetic rates than Langdon, whereas LDN 1D(1A) and LDN 3D(3A) lines were not greatly different from Langdon. It appears that chromosomes 1B and 3B decrease photosynthesis. This suggests the differentiation of the effects on the photosynthesis within the first and third homoeologous groups. Substitution with the 2D chromosomes did not compensate the effects of either 2A or 2B chromosomes as it reduced photosynthetic rate compared to plant with either chromosomes 2A or 2B. Tetra CS had a higher photosynthetic rate than CS and Penta CS. The photosynthetic rate of CS was similar to that of Penta CS, which lacked one set of D genome. The results suggest that it may be possible to increase photosynthesis, if both sets of the D genome were entirely removed from hexaploid wheat. However, it is difficult to conclude that the lower rate of photosynthesis of the hexaploids was mainly attributable to D genome chromosome effects, because we did not find a dose dependent effect of D genome. Homoeologous differentiation of chromosomes may be involved in photosynthesis.  相似文献   

Effect of genome and ploidy on photosynthesis of wheat     

N. Watanabe  S. Kobayashi  Y. Furuta 《Euphytica》1997,94(3):303-309

We assessed (1) the effects of addition and doses of the D genome from different sources and (2) the addition of either the A genome or the D genome on the photosynthesis of synthesized hexaploid wheats. On average, the increased doses of the D genome reduced photosynthesis, but the depression was dependent on the source of the D genome. Two accessions of Aegilops squarrosa had depressed photosynthetic rates, but not another accession of Ae. squarrosa. The D genome of cv. Thatcher did not contribute to depress photosynthetic rate. Triticum monococcum had considerably higher photosynthetic rates than Ae. squarrosa. However, addition of the A genome from T. monococcum did not increase the photosynthetic rates of hexaploids. Chlorophyll a : b ratio, functional photosystem II and the core complex of photosystem II did not account for the variation in photosynthetic rate among the genotypes studied. In our experiment, photosynthesis of polyploids was not dependent on photosynthesis rates of the donor genomes. This revised version was published online in July 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.  相似文献