Budget Amount *help |
¥17,290,000 (Direct Cost: ¥13,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥3,990,000)
Fiscal Year 2017: ¥4,940,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,140,000)
Fiscal Year 2016: ¥4,940,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,140,000)
Fiscal Year 2015: ¥7,410,000 (Direct Cost: ¥5,700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,710,000)
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Outline of Final Research Achievements |
The muscle sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR) is a unique organelle specialized for Ca2+ handling, and we have identified TRIC channels and MG56 as SR component proteins. This research project has been designed to examine the physiological roles of the SR components, and yielded several novel results partly described below. We identified the pathological mechanism underlying TRIC-B-mutated osteogenesis imperfecta; the loss of TRIC-B impairs bone matrix synthesis due to compromised Ca2+ store functions in osteoblasts. On the other hand, MG56-knockout mice develop morphological abnormalities in the muscle SR and die during lactation stages due to suckling failure.
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