NATTOKINASE (BAC S 1), A SUBTILISIN FAMILY SERINE PROTEASE, IS A NOVEL ALLERGEN CONTAINED IN THE TRADITIONAL JAPANESE FERMENTED FOOD NATTO

Background: Immediate allergy caused by natto, a popular Japanese food prepared by fermenting soybeans with Bacillus subtilis var.natto, has been reported.Polygamma glutamic acid (PGA) in the sticky substance around natto beans has been reported to be a causative allergen of natto allergy.However, some of our patients with natto allergy were negati

Dictyostelium centrosomes consist of a nucleus-associated cylindrical, three-layered core structure surrounded by a corona consisting of microtubule-nucleation complexes embedded in a scaffold of large coiled-coil proteins.One of them is the conserved CDK5RAP2 protein.Here we focus on the role of Dictyostelium CDK5RAP2 for maintenance of centrosome

Objectives.Chronic total occlusion (CTO) is prevalent Singlet in patients with prior coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG).However, data available concerning the prevalence of new-onset CTO of native vessels in patients with prior CABG is limited.Therefore, the objective of the study is to determine predictors for new native-vessel occlusion in pa

JUAMI, the joint undertaking for an African materials institute, is a project to build collaborations and materials research capabilities between PhD researchers in Africa, the United States, and the world.Focusing on research-active universities in the East African countries of Kenya, Ethiopia, Tanzania and Uganda, the effort has run a series of s