Research field (1):
Bio-, chemical, and soft-matter physics
Research keywords (1):
ソフトマター物理学
Research theme for competitive and other funds (8):
2023 - 2027 「生きている」細胞膜の流動性測定から解明する非生命と生命の境界
2020 - 2023 モデル系から生体系へのシステムアップデートによる生体膜の流動特性の解明
2020 - 2023 Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamic Conditions for Emergence of Life Revealed by Minimal Cells
2017 - 2020 Construction of Membrane Traffic Pathway by Chemical Stimuli
2016 - 2019 Road from vesicles to protocells: metabolism, information, thermodynamics
2013 - 2018 Physical approach from soft matter to artificial cell
2013 - 2017 Vesicle dynamics induced by chemical stimuli
2013 - 2016 Physics of development from molecular assembly to protocell
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Papers (28):
Minoru Kurisu, Ryosuke Katayama, Yuka Sakuma, Toshihiro Kawakatsu, Peter Walde, Masayuki Imai. Synthesising a minimal cell with artificial metabolic pathways. Communications Chemistry. 2023. 6. 1
Toshikaze Chiba, Yuka Sakuma, Masayuki Imai, Primož Ziherl. Morphology of vesicle triplets: shape transformation at weak and strong adhesion limits. Soft Matter. 2023. 19. 23. 4286-4296
Masayuki Imai, Yuka Sakuma, Minoru Kurisu, Peter Walde. From Vesicles toward Protocells and Minimal Cells. Soft Matter. 2022
Petch Khunpetch, Yuka Sakuma, Masayuki Imai, Toshihiro Kawakatsu. Birthing of a daughter vesicle in a model system for self-reproduction vesicles. Physics of Fluids. 2021. 33. 7. 077103-077103
Naohito Urakami, Yuka Sakuma, Toshikaze Chiba, Masayuki Imai. Vesicle deformation and division induced by flip-flop of lipid molecules. Soft Matter. 2021. 17. 37. 8434-8445
Yuka Sakuma, Masayuki Imai. From vesicles to protocells: The roles of amphiphilic molecules. Life. 2015. 5. 1. 651-675
Jimbo T., Sakuma Y., Urakami N., Ziherl Primoz, Imai M. 30pAC-8 Three-Dimensional Analysis of Self-reproducing Vesicles. Meeting abstracts of the Physical Society of Japan. 2014. 69. 1. 440-440
Sakuma Yuka, Taniguchi Takashi, Kawakatsu Toshihiro, Imai Masayuki. Tubular formation of lipid vesicles induced by coupling of spontaneous curvature and phase separation. Meeting abstracts of the Physical Society of Japan. 2013. 68. 2. 308-308