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Kaoru Katoh
Science, Humanities and Social Sciences, multidisciplinary
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Open AccessInternal constraints and arrested relaxation in main-chain nematic elastomers
Nematic liquid crystal elastomers (N-LCE) exhibit intriguing mechanical properties, such as reversible actuation and soft elasticity, which manifests as a wide plateau of low nearly-constant stress upon stretc...
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Open AccessCoefficient of variation as an image-intensity metric for cytoskeleton bundling
The evaluation of cytoskeletal bundling is a fundamental experimental method in the field of cell biology. Although the skewness of the pixel intensity distribution derived from fluorescently-labeled cytoskele...
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Open AccessWipi3 is essential for alternative autophagy and its loss causes neurodegeneration
Alternative autophagy is an Atg5/Atg7-independent type of autophagy that contributes to various physiological events. We here identify Wipi3 as a molecule essential for alternative autophagy, but which plays m...
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Open AccessArabidopsis vegetative actin isoforms, AtACT2 and AtACT7, generate distinct filament arrays in living plant cells
Flowering plants express multiple actin isoforms. Previous studies suggest that individual actin isoforms have specific functions; however, the subcellular localization of actin isoforms in plant cells remains...
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Open AccessRibosome Incorporation into Somatic Cells Promotes Lineage Transdifferentiation towards Multipotency
Recently, we reported that bacterial incorporation induces cellular transdifferentiation of human fibroblasts. However, the bacterium-intrinsic cellular- transdifferentiation factor remained unknown. Here, we ...
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Open AccessUncovering different states of topological defects in schlieren textures of a nematic liquid crystal
Topological defects are ubiquitously found in physical systems and therefore have been an important research subject of not only condensed matter physics but also cosmology. However, their fine structures rema...
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Open AccessFluorescence microscopy reveals molecular localisation at line defects in nematic liquid crystals
Topological defects easily form in liquid crystals (LCs) as a result of frustrations in spatially dependent anisotropic molecular ordering, and have been regarded as promising tools for facilitating manipulati...
