Publications by authors named "Y Hamano"
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- The study used fMRI to explore how our brains control bimanual movements, focusing on the importance of practicing both chord formation and sequence control.
- Thirty-five right-handed volunteers performed tasks to assess their ability to coordinate movements, with results showing that both types of practice led to improved reaction times, indicating learning.
- Key brain areas involved in this process were identified as the left primary motor area (M1), anterior cingulate cortex, and cerebellar vermis, highlighting their roles in learning to coordinate complex bimanual movements.
The bimolecular photochemical quenching of the tris(2,2'-bipyridyl)ruthenium (II) complex by ferricyanide ions in water-ethylene glycol binary media was investigated using a spectrophotometric approach, as previously reported by our research group. Time-resolved spectroscopy revealed that dynamic photochemical quenching occurred via a diffusion-dominated pathway. The static quenching process was found to occur significantly when the concentration of ethylene glycol was greater than 40 wt%.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFDiscovery of a novel methionine biosynthetic route -phospho-l-homoserine.
Appl Environ Microbiol
October 2024
Methionine (Met), a sulfur-containing amino acid, is essential for the underlying biological processes in living organisms. In addition to its importance as a starting building block for peptide chain elongation in protein biosynthesis, Met is a direct precursor of -adenosyl-l-methionine, an indispensable methyl donor molecule in primary and secondary metabolism. bacteria are well known to produce diverse secondary metabolites, but many strains lack canonical Met pathway genes for l-homocysteine, a direct precursor of Met in bacteria, plants, and archaea.
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