We just published a new paper about kinesin-2 motor -adaptor-cargo structure science.org/doi/10.1126/scia…
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They are all Nobel Laureates and they are all here at the University of Tokyo discussing innovation, collaboration and the future of the life sciences. What a panel to start our #HFSPScienceSummit! 🤩
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博士課程での研究の一つが @NatureComms で出版されました。微生物のアルコール代謝酵素の複合体構造の収斂進化を発見しました。進化が好きな方、タンパク質構造が好きな方、お酒好きな方々... 色々な側面で面白がって頂けたら嬉しいです！
論文: nature.com/articles/s41467-0…
PR: s.u-tokyo.ac.jp/ja/press/109…
Excited to share our new paper in @NatureComms! We discovered a molecular morphological convergence: distinct alcohol-aldehyde dehydrogenases independently evolved similar homomeric complexes. See threads for a brief introduction.
Paper: doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-6…
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From Alzheimer’s to motor proteins: research highlighted in the #HFSPSummitJapan
HFSP-supported Japanese scientists uncovered a key mechanism in kinesin-1 movement with implications for neurodegenerative disease research.
Read the science story👉 bit.ly/4gzxHo1
ALT Kenesin Protein. Copyright: Moez. Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported
nature.com/articles/s41467-0… A new collaboration paper was just published.
Our new paper about kinesin two head coordination was published rupress.org/jcb/article/224/…
Our new paper, in collaboration with Kurumizaka’s lab, was just published: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
Our new paper out GAS2 that connects microtubule and actin was published in EMBO Journal. embopress.org/doi/full/10.10…
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Attention researchers from all over the world🙃
The #HFSPResearchGrants Call for Letters of Intent is closing soon!🚨 Have you already initiated your application? The deadline for this stage is 18 March 2025📢 bit.ly/hfspgrants
#InternationalCollaborations #LifeSciences
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Excited to share a new preprint! We've discovered repeated evolution of protein 3D structure in recurrently emerged bacterial ALDH-ADH fusion enzymes.
Repeatability of protein structural evolution following convergent gene fusions
biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
I am a fan of Veritasium and the new video is about electron microscopes !youtu.be/88bMVbx1dzM?si=hPwM…
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Are you a Japanese student interested in a postdoctoral fellowship in the US? The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative has an exciting new fully-funded Global Science Scholars program to pair students who have received their undergraduate or doctoral degrees in Japan with US bioengineering and biomedical research labs that are part of the CZ Biohub network (including mine!).
See czbiohub.org/program-ssfcz-g… to learn more and email me with any questions
Applications accepted on a rolling basis until March 27, 2025
International community effort resulted in an aggregated list of cilia and centrosome-related conferences and meeting. If you want to contribute to this list, please notify your name and Google account to me.
#cilia-and-centrosome bit.ly/3Cm3s3P
Our new paper by Tani about FAP47 (a component of the central pair apparatus) was just published. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
今回、ワシントンに来る時は、Mobile Passport Controlを使うことで、パスポートコントロールが5分くらいで終わった。日本人の場合、二回目以降のESTAによる入国だと使えるらしい。アメリカに入国の予定がある人はこのソフトを入れておくと良いかも。cbp.gov/travel/us-citizens/m…
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When it binds to calcium, Calaxin transforms sperm waveform. On the other hand, it stabilizes outer arm dynein independent of calcium @mkikkawa @UTokyo_News_en
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Our new paper about Calaxin was just published! Congratulations, Morikawa-an!
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pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3881… A paper on damage caused by electron microscopy by Professor Eiichi Nakamura, who is also a long collaborator with us. The paper states that damage caused by electron beams is not caused by ionization as has been said, but by configurational disordering.
