Human mitochondrial tRNAs: biogenesis, function, structural aspects, and diseases

T Suzuki, A Nagao, T Suzuki - Annual review of genetics, 2011 - annualreviews.org
Mitochondria are eukaryotic organelles that generate most of the energy in the cell by oxidative
phosphorylation (OXPHOS). Each mitochondrion contains multiple copies of a closed …

Intestinal absorption of dietary carotenoids

L Yonekura, A Nagao - Molecular nutrition & food research, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
The assessment of carotenoid bioavailability has long been hampered by the limited
knowledge of their absorption mechanisms. However, recent reports have elucidated important …

Enumeration of the hydrogen-enhanced localized plasticity mechanism for hydrogen embrittlement in structural materials

ML Martin, M Dadfarnia, A Nagao, S Wang, P Sofronis - Acta Materialia, 2019 - Elsevier
This paper presents a review of recent experimental evidence and simulation results enumerating
the development of the hydrogen-enhanced localized plasticity (HELP) mechanism as …

[HTML][HTML] Hydrogen embrittlement understood

IM Robertson, P Sofronis, A Nagao, ML Martin… - … Materials Transactions A, 2015 - Springer
The connection between hydrogen-enhanced plasticity and the hydrogen-induced fracture
mechanism and pathway is established through examination of the evolved microstructural …

[HTML][HTML] Carotenoids affect proliferation of human prostate cancer cells

E Kotake-Nara, K Miyashita, A Nagao, M Kushiro… - The Journal of …, 2001 - Elsevier
We investigated whether various carotenoids present in foodstuffs were potentially involved
in cancer-preventing action on human prostate cancer. The effects of 15 kinds of carotenoids …

Inhibition of xanthine oxidase by flavonoids

A Nagao, M Seki, H Kobayashi - Bioscience, biotechnology, and …, 1999 - Taylor & Francis
Various dietary flavonoids were evaluated in vitro for their inhibitory effect on xanthine oxidase,
which has been implicated in oxidative injury to tissue by ischemia-reperfusion. Xanthine …

The role of hydrogen in hydrogen embrittlement fracture of lath martensitic steel

A Nagao, CD Smith, M Dadfarnia, P Sofronis… - Acta Materialia, 2012 - Elsevier
The microstructure associated with the hydrogen-induced features “flat” and “quasi-cleavage”
on the fracture surface of a lath martensitic steel has been visualized in a transmission …

[HTML][HTML] HIF-1-dependent reprogramming of glucose metabolic pathway of cancer cells and its therapeutic significance

A Nagao, M Kobayashi, S Koyasu, CCT Chow… - International journal of …, 2019 - mdpi.com
Normal cells produce adenosine 5′-triphosphate (ATP) mainly through mitochondrial
oxidative phosphorylation (OXPHOS) when oxygen is available. Most cancer cells, on the other …

Antioxidant activity of xanthophylls on peroxyl radical-mediated phospholipid peroxidation

BP Lim, A Nagao, J Terao, K Tanaka, T Suzuki… - … et Biophysica Acta (BBA …, 1992 - Elsevier
… Boey Peng Lim ai, Akihiko Nagao a, Junji Terao a, Kazunobu Tanaka b, Tetsuya Suzuki
b and Kozo Takama b … 32 Nagao, A. and Terao, J. (1990) Biochem. …

Neoxanthin and fucoxanthin induce apoptosis in PC-3 human prostate cancer cells

E Kotake-Nara, A Asai, A Nagao - Cancer letters, 2005 - Elsevier
Neoxanthin and fucoxanthin, which have the characteristic structure of 5,6-monoepoxide
and an allenic bond, were previously found to reduce the viability of human prostate cancer …