Budget Amount *help |
¥17,810,000 (Direct Cost: ¥13,700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥4,110,000)
Fiscal Year 2012: ¥4,550,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,050,000)
Fiscal Year 2011: ¥4,420,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,020,000)
Fiscal Year 2010: ¥8,840,000 (Direct Cost: ¥6,800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥2,040,000)
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Research Abstract |
We established a method to visualize major components of lipid rafts, sphingomyelin and cholesterol, in sub-micron scale. New screening protocol using lipid imaging was employed to isolate a new inhibitor of sphingomyelin biosynthesis. The role of sphingomyelin to regulate the transbilayer movement of lipid second messengers such as ceramide and diacylglycerol was elucidated. The unusual stereoconfiguration of endosome-specific lipid was determined.
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