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M Miyake

Publications and source records attributed to M Miyake.

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PubMed1983

A beta-citryl-L-glutamate-hydrolysing enzyme in rat testes.

An enzyme responsible for the deacylation of beta-citryl-L-glutamate to citrate and glutamate has been characterized in rat testis. The enzyme required manganese ion for full activity and was strongly inhibited by nucleotides such as ATP or GTP. The activity was localized in the particulate fractions. The enzyme favored N-formyl-L-glutamate greater than beta-citrly-L-glutamate greater than beta-citryl-L-glutamine in a decreasing order. The amidohydrolyase activity was highest in the testis and lung, a moderate activity was detected in heart, kidney and intestine, and low in brain, thymus, stomach, skeletal muscle, spleen and liver. These findings suggest that the amidohydrolase is different from any of amidohydrolases reported so far, amidohydrolase I (EC 3.5.1.14), II (EC 3.5.1.15), III, N-acetyl-lysine deacylase (EC 3.5.1.17) and N-acetyl-beta-alanine deacetylase (EC 3.5.1.21), and various peptidases.

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PubMed1983

Voltage-dependent Ca2+ channel and Na+ channel in frog taste cells.

Frog taste cells were hyperpolarized by injecting an inward current pulse, and regenerative anode-break potentials were observed at the termination of the current pulse. The results obtained are as follows. 1) The magnitude of the anode-break potentials increased with the extent of hyperpolarization of taste cells and reached a saturation level around -200 mV. 2) The magnitudes of the anode-break potentials observed in 80 different taste cells hyperpolarized to about -200 mV were distributed widely from cell to cell. The average magnitude was 39 mV. 3) The anode-break potentials were recorded after the lingual artery was perfused with artificial solutions containing various channel blockers. The results indicated that the anode-break potentials are composed of Na+ and Ca2+ components. 4) The slope of the current-voltage relation obtained with cells hyperpolarized to 100 mV was appreciably decreased above -50 mV by application of tetrodotoxin to the perfusing solution. Discussion was made on possible roles of the voltage-dependent Na+ and Ca2+ channels in the electrotonic spreading of the depolarization at the receptor membranes to the synaptic area and in releasing a chemical transmitter.

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PubMed1982

Correlation of the level of beta-citryl-L-glutamic acid with spermatogenesis in rat testes.

beta-Citryl-L-glutamic acid, which is known to be highly concentrated in the brains of immature animals, is preferentially localized in the testes of various adult animals, including mammals, amphibians and fish, mainly in the germinal cells. In young rats, the citrylglutamate concentration increases with age and coincides with the development of late spermatocytes into early spermatids. Rats with seminiferous tubule failure induced by ductuli efferentes ligation and experimental cryptorchidism are infertile as a result of germ cell depletion, especially spermatocytes and early spermatids. In these animals, the testicular citrylglutamate content was much lower than in normal testes.

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PubMed1982

The effect of sperm concentrations during preincubation and at insemination on fertilization of rat eggs in vitro.

Rat epididymal spermatozoa, at a concentration of 40-65 X 10(4) cells/ml, were preincubated for 5-5, 5 hr and then added to eggs from superovulated, immature rats. By 10-12 hr after insemination, 86% of the eggs had undergone fertilization, but many of them (41%) were polyspermic. When sperm were preincubated at almost the same concentration and for the time stated above, but then diluted to 1-3 X 10(4) cells/ml before insemination, the number of fertilized eggs and the incidence of polyspermy were both reduced, being 56% and 5%, respectively. When a sperm concentration of 1-3 X 10(4) cells/ml was used both during preincubation and at insemination, the fertilization rate of 60% or more, with polyspermy not in excess of 10%, a sperm concentration of 30-100 X 10(4) cells/ml during preincubation and then diluted to approximately 1-3 X 10(4) cells/ml at insemination appears to be optimal.

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PubMed1982

N-acetyl-L-aspartic acid, N-acetyl-alpha-L-aspartyl-L-glutamic acid and beta-citryl-L-glutamic acid in human urine.

N-Acetyl-L-aspartic acid (NA-Asp), N-acetyl-alpha-L-aspartyl-L-glutamic acid (NA-Asp-Glu) and beta-citryl-L-glutamic acid (beta-CG), which are known to occur in the brain, have been isolated from human urine. Their identities were proved by comparing them with synthetic NA-Asp, NA-Asp-Glu and beta-CG using electrophoretic and chromatographic methods and by acid hydrolysis. A method was developed for the quantitation of NA-Asp, NA-Asp-Glu and beta-CG in human urine. It consists of ion-exchange chromatography followed by gas-chromatographic analysis. The amounts of urinary excretion of NA-Asp, NA-Asp-Glu and beta-CG were 41.2 +/- 10.1 (n = 27), 20.8 +/- 9.6 (n = 27) and 30.2 +/- 13.2 (n = 21) mumol/g creatinine in adult males, and 62.2 +/- 16.3 (n = 27), 24.0 +/- 8.2 (n = 27) and 40.5 +/- 21.1 (n = 24) mumol/g creatinine in adult females, respectively.

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