Akira Kato

カトウアキラ | Akira Kato

Affiliation and department：
Job title： Associate Professor

Research field (5)： Molecular biology , Morphology, anatomy , Genomics , Functional biochemistry , Animals: biochemistry, physiology, behavioral science

Research keywords (12)： Functional Biochemistry , Cell Biology , Structured Biochemistry , Molecular Biology , 電気生理学 , 腎臓 , 代謝 , ホメオスタシス , 細胞生物学 , トランスポーター , 上皮細胞 , 比較ゲノム

Research theme for competitive and other funds (10)：

2021 - 2025 Molecular characterization of collecting ducts and their mechanisms of water and electrolyte metabolism during acclimation of fishes to fresh water and seawater
2017 - 2021 Hormonal regulation of membrane transport proteins involved in acclimation of fishes to fresh water and seawater
2014 - 2017 Study of ion transporters involved in acclimation of teleost fishes to fresh water and seawater
2010 - 2012 Identification of transporters involved in excretion of toxic sulfate and borate by seawater fish
2010 - 2011 Visualization and characterization of GM2-rich lipid raft microdomain

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Papers (63)：

Genki Imaizumi, Kazutaka Ushio, Hidenori Nishihara, Ingo Braasch, Erika Watanabe, Shiori Kumagai, Tadaomi Furuta, Koji Matsuzaki, Michael F Romero, Akira Kato, et al. Functional divergence in solute permeability between ray-finned fish-specific paralogs of aqp10. Genome Biology and Evolution. 2023
Shiori Kumagai, Erika Watanabe, Naoko Hayashi, Yuuri Kimura, Takehiro Kamiya, Ayumi Nagashima, Kazutaka Ushio, Genki Imaizumi, Juhyun Kim, Keijiro Munakata, et al. Boric acid transport activity of marine teleost aquaporins expressed in Xenopus oocytes. Physiological reports. 2023. 11. 6. e15655
Toya Motoshima, Ayumi Nagashima, Chihiro Ota, Haruka Oka, Kohei Hosono, Ingo Braasch, Hidenori Nishihara, Akira Kato. Na+/Cl- cotransporter 2 is not fish-specific and is widely found in amphibians, non-avian reptiles, and select mammals. Physiological Genomics. 2023. 55. 3. 113-131
Akira Kato, Yuuri Kimura, Yukihiro Kurita, Min-Hwang Chang, Koji Kasai, Toru Fujiwara, Taku Hirata, Hiroyuki Doi, Shigehisa Hirose, Michael F Romero. Seawater fish use an electrogenic boric acid transporter, Slc4a11A, for boric acid excretion by the kidney. The Journal of biological chemistry. 2023. 299. 1. 102740-102740
Beni Lestari, Satomi Naito, Akinori Endo, Hidenori Nishihara, Akira Kato, Erika Watanabe, Kimitoshi Denda, Masayuki Komada, Toshiaki Fukushima. Placental Mammals Acquired Functional Sequences in NRK for Regulating the CK2-PTEN-AKT Pathway and Placental Cell Proliferation. Molecular biology and evolution. 2022. 39. 2

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MISC (2)：

Akira Kato, Takahiro Umezawa, Maho Ogoshi, Kayoko Ookata, Keijiro Munakata, Hiroyuki Doi, Michael F. Romero, Shigehisa Hirose. The mechanism of local blood acidification in the swimbladder by spatially organized monocarboxylate transporters. FASEB JOURNAL. 2012. 26
Nakamura, Nobuhiro, Fukuda, Hidekazu, Kato, Akira, Hirose, Shigehisa. Identification of a novel syntaxin-6-binding protein. Cell Structure and Function. 2005. 30. 20-20

Books (3)：

Renal Sulfate Regulation
Eel Physiology (CRC Press) 2013
Analysis of the genes of thimet oligopeptidase (EP 24.15) and oligopeptidase M (EP 24.16) and intracellular targeting of EP 24.16 by alternative promoter usage.
Proteolysis In Cell Functions, (IOS Press) 1997
Analysis of the genes of thimet oligopeptidase (EP 24.15) and oligopeptidase M (EP 24.16) and intracellular targeting of EP 24.16 by alternative promoter usage
1997

Lectures and oral presentations (1)：

Kdg2, a novel multidomain protein involved in the regulation of recycling endosomal trafficking.
(HUPO 2nd & IUBMB XIX World Congress 2003)

Education (2)：

1993 - 1998 Tokyo Institute of Technology Bioscience and Biotechnology
1989 - 1993 Tokyo Institute of Technology School of Bioscience and Biotechnology

Professional career (1)：

Doctor of Science (Tokyo Institute of Technology)

Work history (5)：

2020 - 現在 Tokyo Institute of Technology School of Life Science and Technology
2015 - 2020 Tokyo Institute of Technology Center for Biological Resources and Informatics
2007 - 2015 Tokyo Institute of Technology Graduate School of Bioscience and Biotechnology
2000 - 2007 Tokyo Institute of Technology Graduate School of Bioscience and Biotechnology
1998 - 2000 理化学研究所基礎科学特別研究員

Awards (1)：

2011/04 - The American Physiological Society New Investigator Award

Association Membership(s) (5)：

日本分子生物学会 , 日本生化学会 , The American Physiological Society , トランスポーター研究会 , THE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF JAPAN

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