Edna S. Kaneshiro

Edna S. Kaneshiro is a Distinguished Research Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Cincinnati. She was born in Hilo, Hawaii, and attended the University of Hawaii at Hilo, transferred to Syracuse University where she received the B.S. degree cum laude and M.S. degree in science education. For two years, she worked as a classroom teacher at Baker High School in Baldswinsville, New York, before pursuing the Ph.D. degree in zoology from Syracuse University. After doing postdoctoral research in cell biology at the University of Chicago and in biochemistry at Bryn Mawr College, she joined the faculty at the University of Cincinnati. She was elected to Phi Sigma; Beta Beta Beta Corporation, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA; University of Cincinnati Fellow of the Graduate School; Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science; and Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology. She received the University of Lille Henri Warembourg Faculty of Medicine Medal; Society of Protozoologists Outstanding Accomplishments Award; and the University of Cincinnati Faculty Achievement Award, the Rieveschl Award for Distinguished Scientific Research, and the Distinguished Research Professorship Award. Dr. Kaneshiro served as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology, served on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Lipid Research, and currently serves on the Editorial Boards of Journal of Microbiological Methods and BioScience.

Biography Updated on 26 November 2007

Personal Home Page

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Articles in Scholarly Journals [Incomplete List]

  1. Detection and Identification of Bacteriovorax stolpii UKi2 Sphingophosphonolipid Molecular Species
    Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry, vol. 18, no. 3, pp. 394–403, 2007
  2. Microsporidian Infection Is Prevalent in Healthy People in Cameroon
    Journal of Clinical Microbiology, vol. 45, no. 9, pp. 2841–2846, 2007
  3. Ubiquinone Synthesis and its Regulation in Pneumocystis carinii
    The Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology, vol. 53, no. 6, pp. 435–444, 2006
  4. The International Workshops on Opportunistic Protists
    The Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology, vol. 53, no. s1, pp. S1–S7, 2006
  5. The Sequence of the erg11 Gene in Form 1 and Form 6 of Pneumocystis carinii are Identical
    The Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology, vol. 53, no. s1, pp. S147–S148, 2006
  6. Ubiquinone Synthesis in Mitochondrial and Microsomal Subcellular Fractions of Pneumocystis spp.: Differential Sensitivities to Atovaquone
    Eukaryotic Cell, vol. 4, no. 8, pp. 1483–1492, 2005
  7. Sterol Composition of Pneumocystis jirovecii with Blocked 14alpha-Demethylase Activity
    The Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology, vol. 51, no. 6, pp. 634–643, 2004
  8. Evidence that Biosynthesis of Individual Ubiquinone Homologs in Pneumocystis carinii is Under Homolog-Specific Negative Feedback (Product) Control
    The Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology, vol. 50, no. s1, pp. 622–623, 2003
  9. Definitive Structural Identities of Pneumocystis jirovecii Sterols
    The Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology, vol. 50, no. s1, pp. 680–680, 2003
  10. Is Pneumocystis a Plant?
    The Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology, vol. 49, no. 5, pp. 367–373, 2002
  11. Comprehensive and definitive structural identities of Pneumocystis carinii sterols
    The Journal of Lipid Research, vol. 43, no. 7, pp. 1114–1124, 2002
  12. The Pneumocystis carinii drug target S-adenosyl-L-methionine:sterol C-24 methyl transferase has a unique substrate preference
    Molecular Microbiology, vol. 44, no. 4, pp. 989–999, 2002
  13. Sterol biosynthesis in Pneumocystis: unique steps that define unique targets
    Drug Resistance Updates, vol. 5, no. 6, pp. 259–268, 2002
  14. Are cytochrome b gene mutations the only cause of atovaquone resistance in Pneumocystis ?
    Drug Resistance Updates, vol. 4, no. 5, pp. 322–329, 2001
  15. Transport of aspartic acid, arginine, and tyrosine by the opportunistic protist Pneumocystis carinii
    Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Biomembranes, vol. 1511, no. 2, pp. 349–359, 2001
  16. Detection of two distinct transporter systems for 2-deoxyglucose uptake by the opportunistic pathogen Pneumocystis carinii
    Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Biomembranes, vol. 1515, no. 2, pp. 177–188, 2001
  17. A novel sphingophosphonolipid head group 1-hydroxy-2-aminoethyl phosphonate in Bdellovibrio stolpii
    Lipids, vol. 36, no. 5, pp. 513–519, 2001
  18. Uptake of the Neutral Amino Acids Glutamine, Leucine, and Serine by Pneumocystis carinii
    Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics, vol. 391, no. 1, pp. 90–98, 2001
  19. Heterogeneity of Pneumocystis Sterol Profiles of Samples from Different Sites in the Same Pair of Lungs Suggests Coinfection by Distinct Organism Populations
    Journal of Clinical Microbiology, vol. 39, no. 3, pp. 1137–1139, 2001
  20. Pneumocystis carinii f. sp. carinii Synthesizes De Novo Four Homologs of Ubiquinone
    The Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology, vol. 48, no. 2, pp. 182–187, 2001
  21. Definitive Structural Identities of 42 Sterol Components in Pneumocystis carinii
    The Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology, vol. 48, no. s1, pp. 142s–143s, 2001
  22. Pneumocystis carinti erg6 Gene: Sequencing and Expression of Recombinant SAM:Sterol Methyltransferase in Heterologous Systems
    The Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology, vol. 48, no. s1, pp. 144s–146s, 2001
  23. Mechanisms of Amino Acid and Glucose Uptake by Pneumocystis carinii
    The Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology, vol. 48, no. s1, pp. 155s–156s, 2001
  24. Pneumocystis carinii Synthesizes Four Ubiquinone Homplogs: Inhibition by Atovaquone and Bupravaquone but not by Stigmatellin
    The Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology, vol. 48, no. s1, pp. 172s–173s, 2001
  25. Neutral Lipids, their Fatty Acids, and the Sterols of the Marine Ciliated Protozoon, Parauronema acutum
    The Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology, vol. 47, no. 4, pp. 373–378, 2000
  26. Effects of Atovaquone and Diospyrin-Based Drugs on the Cellular ATP of Pneumocystis carinii f. sp. carinii
    Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, vol. 44, no. 3, pp. 713–719, 2000
  27. Inhibitors of Sterol Biosynthesis and Amphotericin B Reduce the Viability of Pneumocystis carinii f. sp. carinii
    Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, vol. 44, no. 6, pp. 1630–1638, 2000
  28. C27 to C32 sterols found in Pneumocystis, and opportunistic pathogen of immunocompromised mammals
    Lipids, vol. 35, no. 3, pp. 317–324, 2000
  29. Pneumocysterol [(24Z)-ethylidenelanost-8-en-3beta -ol], a rare sterol detected in the opportunistic pathogen Pneumocystis carinii hominis: Structural identity and chemical synthesis
    Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol. 96, no. 1, pp. 97–102, 1999
  30. Remote Functionalization of the Cholestane Side-chain by Chromyl Acetates
    Journal of Chemical Research, no. 12, pp. 708–709, 1999
  31. The Fatty Acid and Monosaccharide Compositions of Three Neutral and Three Phosphorylated Glycolipids Isolated from Leishmania donovani Promastigotes Grown in a Chemically Defined Medium
    The Journal of Parasitology, vol. 85, no. 5, p. 771, 1999
  32. Quantitation of Absolute Pneumocystis carinii Nuclear DNA Content. Trophic and Cystic Forms Isolated from Infected Rat Lungs are Haploid Organisms
    The Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology, vol. 45, no. 3, pp. 233–239, 1998
  33. Incorporation In Vivo and In Vitro of Radiolabeled Sphingolipid Precursors into Paramecium tetraurelia Lipids
    The Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology, vol. 45, no. 1, pp. 156–163, 1998
  34. Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia: the status of Pneumocystis biochemistry
    International Journal for Parasitology, vol. 28, no. 1, pp. 65–84, 1998
  35. The Occurrence of Biogenic Calcian Struvite, (Mg, Ca)NH4PO4.6H2O, as Intracellular Crystals in Paramecium
    The Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology, vol. 44, no. 4, pp. 366–373, 1997
  36. Comments: Overveiw of the 5th International Workshop on Pneumocystic and the 5th General Meeting of the European Concerted Action of Pneumocystis Research
    The Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology, vol. 44, no. s6, pp. 61s–63s, 1997
  37. Changes in lipid composition during in vitro encystation and fatty acid desaturase activity of Giardia lamblia
    Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology, vol. 81, no. 1, pp. 13–25, 1996
  38. Composition of Pneumocystis carinii Neutral Lipids and Identification of Coenzyme Q10 as the Major Ubiquinone Homolog
    The Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology, vol. 43, no. 3, pp. 165–170, 1996
  39. Uptake and Metabolism of L-Serine by Pneumocystis carinii carinii
    The Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology, vol. 42, no. 6, pp. 669–675, 1995
  40. Evidence for the Presence of "Metabolic Sterols" in Pneumocystis: Identification and Initial Characterization of Pneumocystis carinii Sterols
    The Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology, vol. 41, no. 1, pp. 78–85, 1994
  41. Detection of ubiquinone in parasitic and free-living protozoa, including species devoid of mitochondria
    Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology, vol. 65, no. 2, pp. 213–224, 1994
  42. Occurrence of Specific Sterols in Pneumocystis-carinii
    Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications, vol. 198, no. 1, pp. 236–242, 1994
  43. Reliability of calcein acetoxy methyl ester and ethidium homodimer or propidium iodide for viability assessment of microbes
    Journal of Microbiological Methods, vol. 17, no. 1, pp. 1–16, 1993
  44. Characterization of Pneumocystis carinii Preparations Developed for Lipid Analysis
    The Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology, vol. 40, no. 6, pp. 805–815, 1993
  45. Lipophosphoglycan Antigen Shedding By Leishmania Donovani
    The Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology, vol. 40, no. 3, pp. 336–340, 1993
  46. The Kinetics of Fatty Acid Uptake By Paramecium Tetraurelia
    The Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology, vol. 40, no. 3, pp. 370–376, 1993
  47. The use of mineral crystals as bio-markers in the search for life on Mars
    Advances in Space Research, vol. 12, no. 4, pp. 117–119, 1992
  48. Fatty acid uptake by ciliated protozoans analyzed by flow cytometry
    Journal of Microbiological Methods, vol. 10, no. 3, pp. 189–197, 1989
  49. Divalent cation-dependent ATPase activities in ciliary membranes and other surface structures in Paramecium tetraurelia: Comparative in vitro studies
    Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics, vol. 238, no. 1, pp. 118–128, 1985
  50. Fatty acid metabolism in Paramecium Oleic acid metabolism and inhibition of polyunsaturated fatty acid synthesis by triparanol
    Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Lipids and Lipid Metabolism, vol. 795, no. 1, pp. 20–29, 1984
  51. A simple and direct method for recording swim tracks of protozoa: effects of lectins on Paramecium
    Journal of Microbiological Methods, vol. 1, no. 3, pp. 139–148, 1983
  52. Isolation and preliminary characterization of 1-O-Octadec--11-enyl glycerol from phospholipids
    Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications, vol. 98, no. 3, pp. 858–865, 1981
  53. Characterization of the cilia and ciliary membrane proteins of wild- type Paramecium tetraurelia and a pawn mutant
    The Journal of Cell Biology, vol. 89, no. 2, pp. 206–215, 1981
  54. Recovery of Ascaris Eggs from Sludge
    The Journal of Parasitology, vol. 64, no. 2, p. 380, 1978
  55. Divalent cation affinity sites in Paramecium aurelia
    The Journal of Cell Biology, vol. 69, no. 2, pp. 429–442, 1976
  56. Ergosterol replacement of tetrahymanol in membranes
    Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications, vol. 44, no. 4, pp. 995–1000, 1971
  57. Osmoregulation in a Marine Ciliate, Miamiensis avidus. II. Regulation of Intracelluar Free Amino Acids
    Biological Bulletin, vol. 137, no. 1, p. 161, 1969