海産珪藻Phaeodactylum tricornutumにおける主要油滴タンパク質の発見と解析

この博士論文は、全文公表に適さないやむを得ない事由があり要約のみを公表していましたが、解消したため、令和２（2020）年6月３日に全文を公表しました。筑波大学 (University of Tsukuba)201

Detection of Salivary miRNAs That Predict Chronic Periodontitis Progression: A Cohort Study

The aim of this two-year cohort study was to investigate salivary microRNAs (miRNAs) that predict periodontitis progression. A total of 120 patients who underwent supportive periodontal therapy were recruited. Unstimulated whole saliva was collected at baseline. Two years later, 44 patients were followed up (median age, 67.1 years) and divided into two groups: progression group (n = 22), with one or more sites with clinical attachment level (CAL) progression (>3 mm compared with baseline) or tooth extraction due to periodontitis progression; and the control group (n = 22), which did not exhibit CAL progression. In the microarray analysis of salivary miRNAs, hsa-miR-5571-5p, hsa-miR-17-3p, hsa-let-7f-5p, hsa-miR-4724-3p, hsa-miR-99a-5p, hsa-miR-200a-3p, hsa-miR-28-5p, hsa-miR-320d, and hsa-miR-31-5p showed fold change values = 2.0 in the progression group compared with the control group (p 0.7, indicating fair discrimination power. The expressions of salivary hsa-miR-5571-5p, hsa-let-7f-5p, hsa-miR-99a-5p, hsa-miR-28-5p, and hsa-miR-320d were associated with periodontitis progression in patients with chronic periodontitis. These salivary miRNAs may be new biomarkers for progression of periodontitis, and monitoring them may contribute to new diagnostics and precision medicine for periodontitis

Identification of a Major Lipid Droplet Protein in a Marine Diatom Phaeodactylum tricornutum

Various kinds of organisms, including microalgae, accumulate neutral lipids in distinct intracellular compartments called lipid droplets. Generally, lipid droplets are generated from the endoplasmic reticulum, and particular proteins localize on their surface. Some of these proteins function as structural proteins to prevent fusion between the lipid droplets, and the others could have an enzymatic role or might be involved in intracellular membrane trafficking. However, information about lipid droplet proteins in microalgae is scarce as compared with that in animals and land plants. We focused on the oil-producing, marine, pennate diatom Phaeodactylum tricornutum that forms lipid droplets during nitrogen deprivation and we investigated the proteins located on the lipid droplets. After 6 d of cultivation in a nitrate-deficient medium, the mature lipid droplets were isolated by sucrose density gradient centrifugation. Proteomic analyses revealed five proteins, with Stramenopile-type lipid droplet protein (StLDP) being the most abundant protein in the lipid droplet fraction. Although the primary sequence of StLDP did not have homology to any known lipid droplet proteins, StLDP had a central hydrophobic domain. This structural feature is also detected in oleosin of land plants and in lipid droplet surface protein (LDSP) of Nannochloropsis species. As a proline knot motif of oleosin, conservative proline residues existed in the hydrophobic domain. StLDP was up-regulated during nitrate deprivation, and fluctuations of StLDP expression levels corresponded to the size of the lipid droplets

PHOSPHATEMIC INDEX EVALUATES PHOSPHORUS LOAD

Objective: Dietary phosphorus (P) restriction is crucial to treat hyperphosphatemia and reduce cardiovascular disease risk and mortality in patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) and the wider population. Various methods for dietary P restriction exist, but the bioavailability of P in food should also be considered when making appropriate food choices to maintain patients’ quality of life. Here, we propose the ‘‘Phosphatemic Index’’ (PI) as a novel tool for evaluating dietary P load based on P bioavailability; we also evaluated the effect of continuous intake of different PI foods in mixed meals on serum intact fibroblast growth factor 23 concentration. Design and Methods: A 2-stage crossover study was conducted: Study 1: 20 healthy participants consumed 10 different foods containing 200 mg of P, and the PI was calculated from the area under the curve of a time versus serum P concentration curve; Study 2: 10 healthy participants consumed 4 different test meals (low, medium, or high PI meals or a control) over a 5-day period. Results: Study 1 showed milk and dairy products had high PI values, pork and ham had medium PI values, and soy and tofu had low PI values. In Study 2, ingestion of high PI test meals showed higher fasting serum intact fibroblast growth factor 23 levels and lower serum 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D levels compared with ingestion of low PI test meals. Conclusion: These findings suggest that the PI can usefully evaluate the dietary P load of various foods and may help to make appropriate food choices for dietary P restriction in CKD patients

ジンソクナ バイスタンダー シンパイ ソセイホウ ニヨリ トツゼンシ オ マヌガレ シャカイ フッキ デキタ コウコウセイ ノ 2 ショウレイ

Bystander CPR means that people who find cardiopulmonary arrest perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation on the spot. Quick CPR contributes to increase in the rate of returning to the society as well as one-month survival rate and neurological prognosis. We report our experience with two high school students who underwent quick Bystander CPR, avoided sudden death, and returned to the society. ［Case 1］ Eighteen-year-old man : He collapsed suddenly in his home. Bystander CPR was performed by his family until emergency crews arrived there. Automated external defibrillator （AED） worked twice and his heartbeat started again. In electrocardiogram, coved type ST elevation in lead V1 was observed, and he was diagnosed as Brugada syndrome. We implanted an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator. Since his condition was stable, he was discharged on the 19th day. ［Case 2］ Seventeen-year-old woman : She collapsed suddenly walking with her family. Her father confirmed that she had no response, and started Bystander CPR. Her father got AED quickly and AED worked once, and she started to breathe again. She was admitted to our hospital for a work-up. Torsades de pointes （TdP） was observed in monitor electrocardiogram, and her QTc time was 513 msec in 12‐lead electrocardiogram. She was diagnosed as congenital long QT syndrome because genetic test showed that she had LQT2. Her QTc time was improved （approximately 350 msec） by medication, and she was discharged on the 25th day. Utstein-style statistics in Japan shows that the rate of returning to the society can be doubled by performing Bystander CPR on patients with cardiopulmonary arrest. However, performing rate of Bystander CPR is less than 50％ in Japan. In order to increase survival rate of patients with cardiopulmonary arrest for the future, it is important to inform people about CPR and to promote CPR, and in fact, we have been promoting CPR

An Analysis of Carbonized Rice Grains Excavated from the Iwasaki Site in Fukuoka Pref.

東京大学考古学研究室は、福岡県八女市岩崎から出土した炭化米を所蔵している。この炭化米は、大正12 年に中山平次郎が採集して本研究室に寄贈したものである。本稿ではこの炭化米の植物形態学的研究と放射性炭素年代測定、炭素・窒素同位体比分析をおこなった。その結果、これらはほとんどが短粒の小型米という弥生後期以前の形態である可能性が示唆され、年代測定の結果と整合性を示し、中山の見通しの正しさが検証された。また、水稲である可能性が示唆された。The archaeology laboratory of the University of Tokyo possesses carbonized rice grains excavated from Iwasaki, Yame-shi, Fukuoka pref. This carbonized rice was collected by Heijirou Nakayama in 1923 and subsequently donated to the laboratory. In the following paper, a plant-ecological examination of these materials, together with a carbon-14 dating will be conducted in addition to a comparative analysis of carbon and nitrogen isotopes. The results of this paper indicate the possibility that almost all of the carbonized rice grains belong to a type of small, short-grain rice dating from before the late Yayoi period. The consistency of these findings in relation to the results of the carbon-14 dating is used to examine the validity of Nakayama\u27s predictions. Moreover, the possibility that these carbonized rice grains may have been a variation of wet rice is also suggested

Compound specific radiocarbon and δ13C measurements of fatty acids in a continental aerosol sample

Compound-specific radiocarbon analysis of individual fatty acids was conducted for a semi-urban aerosol sample using a preparative capillary gas chromatography (PCGC) system and an accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS). The aerosol fatty acids (C16 to C34) showed a typical bimodal distribution with two maxima at C16 and C26. Their carbon isotopic compositions ranged from -30.3 ‰ (C26) to -23.3 ‰ (C18), suggesting that they are derived from terrestrial higher plants and marine sources. Radiocarbon measurements of C16-C22 fatty acids showed modern 14C ages, suggesting that the acids are emitted from living higher plants and possibly from marine organisms. On the other hand, C24-C26 fatty acids that are characteristic to terrestrial plant waxes showed 14C ages of 5860 (±200) years. This suggests that some portion of higher molecular weight fatty acids have been stored in geochemical reservoirs such as soils at least for hundreds to thousands of years and then emitted to the atmosphere. These aged fatty acids could be in part transported long distances from the Asian continent through the atmosphere