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Research Summary:
Dr. Abe is working on developing new inhibitors of glucosylceramide synthase and applying them to glycosphingolipidosis in vitro and in vivo, and cloning and characterization of lysosomal phospholipase A2 (1-O-acylceramide synthase).
Link to PubMed Citations
Selected Publications:
Vania T. Hinkovska-Galcheva, Andrea Clark, Susan M. Van Way, Ji-Biao Huang, Miki Hiraoka, Akira Abe, Michael borofsky, Robin G. Kunkel, Thomas P. Shanley, James A. Shayman, Frederick lanni, Howard R. Petty, and Laurence A. Boxer. Ceramide kinase promotes Ca2 + signaling near IgG-opsonized targets and enhances phagolysosomal fusion in COS-1 cells. J. Lipid Res.(2007) doi:10.1194/jlr.M700442-JLR200.
Akira Abe, Miki hiraoka and James A. Shayman. The acylation of lipophilic alcohols by lysosomal phospholipase A2. J. Lipid Res.(2007) 48, 2255-2263.
Akira Abe, Miki Hiraoka and James A. Shayman. A role for lysosomal phospholipase A2 in drug induced phospholipidosis. Curr. Drug Lett. 1, 49-53 (2007).
Akira Abe, Miki Hiraoka and James A. Shayman. Positional specificity of lysosomal phospholipase A2. J. Lipid Res. 47, 2268-2279 (2006).
Miki Hiraoka, Akira Abe, Ye Lu, Kui Yang, Xianlin Han, Richard W. Gross and James A. Shayman. Lysosomal phospholipase A2 and phospholipidosis. Mol. Cell. Biol. 26, 6139-6148 (2006).
Miki Hiraoka, Akira Abe and James A. Shayman. Structure and function of lysosomal phospholipase A2: identification of the catalytic triad and the role of cysteine residues. J. Lipid Res. 46, 2441-2447 (2005).
Vania Hinkovska-Galcheva, Laurence A. Boxer, Andrei Kindzelskii, Miki Hiraoka, Akira Abe, Howard R. Petty, and James A Shayman . Ceramide-1-phosphate: A mediator of phagocytosis. J. Biol. Chem. 280, 26612-26621 (2005).
Akira Abe and James A. Shayman. Sphingolipid catabolism, Encyclopedia of Biological Chemistry edited by William J. Lennarz and M. Daniel Lane (Elsevier press, 2004).
James A. Shayman, Akira Abe, and Miki Hiraoka . A turn in the road: How studies on the pharmacology of glucosylceramide synthase inhibitors led to the identification of a lysosomal phospholipase A2 with ceramide transacylase activity. Glycoconjugate J. 20, 25-32 (2004).
Akira Abe, Miki Hiraoka, Susan Wild, Steven E. Wilcoxen, Pobert Paine III, and James A. Shayman. Lysosomal phospholipase A2 is selectively expressed in alveolar macrophages. J. Biol. Chem. 279, 42605-42611 (2004).
Akira Abe, Heather K. Poucher, Miki Hiraoka and James A. Shayman. Induction of lysosomal phospholipase A2 through retinide X receptor (RXR) in THP-1 cells. J. Lipid Res. 45, 667-673 (2004).
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