Akira Kitamura

Amyloid oligomers: dynamics and toxicity in the cytosol and nucleus.

Atg9 vesicles are an important membrane source during early steps of autophagosome formation.

Direct association of unfolded proteins with mammalian ER stress sensor, IRE1β.

Nonmuscle myosin II folds into a 10S form via two portions of tail for dynamic subcellular localization.

Prefoldin protects neuronal cells from polyglutamine toxicity by preventing aggregation formation.

The interaction of Hsp104 with yeast prion Sup35 as analyzed by fluorescence cross-correlation spectroscopy.

Dysregulation of the proteasome increases the toxicity of ALS-linked mutant SOD1.

Moyamoya disease-associated protein mysterin/RNF213 is a novel AAA+ ATPase, which dynamically changes its oligomeric state.

Conformational analysis of misfolded protein aggregation by FRET and live-cell imaging techniques.

Efficient and dynamic nuclear localization of green fluorescent protein via RNA binding.

Interaction of RNA with a C-terminal fragment of the amyotrophic lateral sclerosis-associated TDP43 reduces cytotoxicity.

Dependence of fluorescent protein brightness on protein concentration in solution and enhancement of it.

Development of new fusion proteins for visualizing amyloid-β oligomers in vivo.

In vivo fluorescence correlation spectroscopy analyses of FMBP-1, a silkworm transcription factor.

Different aggregation states of a nuclear localization signal-tagged 25-kDa C-terminal fragment of TAR RNA/DNA-binding protein 43 kDa.

U6 snRNA expression prevents toxicity in TDP-43-knockdown cells.

Physicochemical Properties of the Mammalian Molecular Chaperone HSP60.

Detection of substrate binding of a collagen-specific molecular chaperone HSP47 in solution using fluorescence correlation spectroscopy.

Determination of diffusion coefficients in live cells using fluorescence recovery after photobleaching with wide-field fluorescence microscopy.

State-of-the-Art Fluorescence Fluctuation-Based Spectroscopic Techniques for the Study of Protein Aggregation.

Determination of cytoplasmic optineurin foci sizes using image correlation spectroscopy.

Analysis of the substrate recognition state of TDP-43 to single-stranded DNA using fluorescence correlation spectroscopy.

The cytoplasmic region of the amyloid β-protein precursor (APP) is necessary and sufficient for the enhanced fast velocity of APP transport by kinesin-1.

Molecular chaperone HSP70 prevents formation of inclusion bodies of the 25-kDa C-terminal fragment of TDP-43 by preventing aggregate accumulation.

Encapsulation of biomacromolecules by soaking and co-crystallization into porous protein crystals of hemocyanin.

Characterization of Intracellular Crowding Environments with Topology-Based DNA Quadruplex Sensors.

The AAA+ ATPase/ubiquitin ligase mysterin stabilizes cytoplasmic lipid droplets.

Session 2SHP report-decoding intracellular architecture using visualizing device development and mathematical modeling.

Membrane Surface Modulates Slow Diffusion in Small Crowded Droplets.

Spatial Image Correlation Spectroscopy (ICS): A Technique for Average Size Determination of Subcellular Accumulated Structures from Fluorescence Microscopic Images.

Molecular basis of functional exchangeability between ezrin and other actin-membrane associated proteins during cytokinesis.