Soichi Arai

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Best Publications

• Green tea polyphenols inhibit the sodium-dependent glucose transporter of intestinal epithelial cells by a competitive mechanism.

  Yoko Kobayashi;Miho Suzuki;Hideo Satsu;Soichi Arai

  521
  Citations

• Molecular cloning of a cysteine proteinase inhibitor of rice (oryzacystatin). Homology with animal cystatins and transient expression in the ripening process of rice seeds.

  K Abe;Y Emori;H Kondo;K Suzuki

  383
  Citations

• Transepithelial Transport of the Bioactive Tripeptide, Val-Pro-Pro, in Human Intestinal Caco-2 Cell Monolayers

  Makoto Satake;Masashi Enjoh;Yasunori Nakamura;Toshiaki Takano

  324
  Citations

• Molecular cloning and gibberellin-induced expression of multiple cysteine proteinases of rice seeds (oryzains).

  Hirohito Watanabe;K. Abe;Y. Emori;H. Hosoyama

  299
  Citations

• Two distinct cystatin species in rice seeds with different specificities against cysteine proteinases. Molecular cloning, expression, and biochemical studies on oryzacystatin-II.

  H. Kondo;K. Abe;I. Nishimura;H. Watanabe

  274
  Citations

• Studies on Functional Foods in Japan : State of the Art

  Soichi Arai

  257
  Citations

• Corn kernel cysteine proteinase inhibitor as a novel cystatin superfamily member of plant origin. Molecular cloning and expression studies.

  Makoto Abe;Keiko Abe;Masaharu Kuroda;Soichi Arai

  233
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• Plant seed cystatins and their target enzymes of endogenous and exogenous origin.

  Soichi Arai;Ichiro Matsumoto;Yasufumi Emori;Keiko Abe

  201
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• Global view on functional foods: Asian perspectives.

  S. Arai

  195
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• A major wheat allergen has a Gln-Gln-Gln-Pro-Pro motif identified as an IgE-binding epitope

  Soichi Tanabe;Soichi Arai;Yukiyoshi Yanagihara;Haruhisa Mita

  167
  Citations

• Three-dimensional solution structure of oryzacystatin-I, a cysteine proteinase inhibitor of the rice, Oryza sativa L. japonica.

  Koji Nagata;Norio Kudo;Keiko Abe;Soichi Arai

  161
  Citations

• Isolation and identification of acidic oligopeptides occurring in a flavor potentiating fraction from a fish protein hydrolysate.

  Masatoshi. Noguchi;Soichi. Arai;Michiko. Yamashita;Hiromichi. Kato

  159
  Citations

• Transgenic rice established to express corn cystatin exhibits strong inhibitory activity against insect gut proteinases

  Kentaro Irie;Hiroshi Hosoyama;Tomoko Takeuchi;Kyoko Iwabuchi

  159
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• Soyacystatin, a Novel Cysteine Proteinase Inhibitor in Soybean, is Distinct in Protein Structure and Gene Organization from Other Cystatins of Animal and Plant Origin

  Takumi Misaka;Masaharu Kuroda;Kyoko Iwabuchi;Keiko Abe

  146
  Citations

• Taste buds have a cyclic nucleotide-activated channel, CNGgust.

  Takumi Misaka;Yuko Kusakabe;Yasufumi Emori;Tohru Gonoi

  130
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• Controlled Enzymatic Treatment of Wheat Proteins for Production of Hypoallergenic Flour

  Michiko Watanabe;Takashi Suzuki;Zenro Ikezawa;Soichi Arai

  126
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• Production of hypoallergenic rice by enzymatic decomposition of constituent proteins.

  Michiko Watanabe;Junko Miyakawa;Zenro Ikezawa;Yasuhiro Suzuki

  125
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• Rice aspartic proteinase, oryzasin, expressed during seed ripening and germination, has a gene organization distinct from those of animal and microbial aspartic proteinases.

  Tomiko Asakura;Hirohito Watanabe;Keiko Abe;Soichi Arai

  121
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• Purification and characterization of a rice cysteine proteinase inhibitor

  Keiko Abe;Hiroto Kondo;Soichi Arai

  115
  Citations

• Recent Trends in Functional Food Science and the Industry in Japan

  Soichi Arai;Yasushi Morinaga;Toshikazu Yoshikawa;Eiichiro Ichiishi

  111
  Citations