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J-GLOBAL ID:201701011008793053   Update date: Jul. 16, 2024

Furuta Ken'ya

Furuta Ken'ya
Affiliation and department:
Job title: Senior researcher
Homepage URL  (1): https://www2.nict.go.jp/bio/seitai/index.html
Research field  (1): Biophysics
Research keywords  (10): actin filament ,  Microtubule ,  Cilia and flagella ,  Optical tweezer ,  ATPase ,  DNA nanotechnology ,  Cytoskeleton ,  Kinesin ,  Dynein ,  Molecular motor
Research theme for competitive and other funds  (10):
  • 2018 - 2023 生体発動分子の創成:自然界の生体分子の改造とゼロからの設計
  • 2018 - 2021 細胞内の物流の謎を小胞の光操作によって解明する
  • 2018 - 2021 人工的なレールの上を走る生物分子モーターを創る
  • 2015 - 2018 Clarify the pathogenic mechnism of microlissencephaly
  • 2015 - 2018 Studies on the cooperative force generation by multiple species of flagellar dynein with different motility
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Papers (56):
  • Takayuki Torisawa, Kei Saito, Ken'ya Furuta, Akatsuki Kimura. Active fluctuations of cytoplasmic actomyosin networks facilitate dynein-driven intracellular transport along microtubules. 2024
  • 指宿良太, 古田健也. DNAナノチューブのレール上をプログラム通りに自走するナノマシン. 生物物理. 2023. 63. 2. 79-85
  • Ken'ya Furuta. Making motors work - potential applications in biocomputing and synthetic biology. Journal of Cell Science. 2023. 136. 5. jcs261035
  • Akane Furuta, Ken’ya Furuta. Fast and Easy Transient Mammalian Cell Expression and Purification of Cytoplasmic Dynein. Methods in Molecular Biology. 2023. 157-173
  • Sampreeth Thayyil, Yukinori Nishigami, Md. Jahirul Islam, P. K. Hashim, Ken'ya Furuta, Kazuhiro Oiwa, Jian Yu, Min Yao, Toshiyuki Nakagaki, Nobuyuki Tamaoki. Dynamic Control of Microbial Movement by Photoswitchable ATP Antagonists. Chemistry - A European Journal. 2022. 28. 30
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MISC (12):
  • Sakurako Tanida, Ken'ya Furuta, Kaori Nishikawa, Tetsuya Hiraiwa, Hiroaki Kojima, Kazuhiro Oiwa, Masaki Sano. Gliding filament system giving both orientational order and clusters in collective motion. 2018
  • Evaluating collective motion of kinesins using a nano-patterning. 2017. 34. 6p
  • Ken'ya Furuta, Akane Furuta, Yoko Y. Toyoshima, Misako Amino, Kazuhiro Oiwa, Hiroaki Kojima. Measuring collective transport by defined numbers of processive and nonprocessive kinesin motors (vol 110, pg 501, 2012). PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. 2017. 114. 11. E2264-E2264
  • Akane Furuta, Kazuhiro Oiwa, Hiroaki Kojima, Ken'ya Furuta. Engineering Novel Actin-Based Molecular Motors from the Microtubule-Based Motor Dynein. BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL. 2016. 110. 3. 193A-193A
  • 鳥澤 嵩征, 豊島陽子, 古田健也. 細胞質ダイニンの自己制御の機構および協同的な活性化. ライフサイエンス 新着論文レビュー. 2014
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Lectures and oral presentations  (36):
  • Engineering motor proteins to move on DNA nanotubes for programmable molecular transport
    (The Max Planck Frontier Symposium Information processing by synthetic cells 2022)
  • 生物分子モーターをいじり倒して一方向性の発現機構を考える
    (第22回 日本蛋白質科学会年会 発動分子共催ワークショップ 2022)
  • 小さな自律型ロボットの開発に向けた生物分子モーターの再デザイン
    (2020)
  • タンパク質とDNAで作る微小機械
    (2020)
  • タンパク質モータを創る
    (未来ICTシンポジウム2020 ~バイオ新奇材料が拓く新たなICTの可能性~ 2020)
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Education (2):
  • - 2008 Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, the University of Tokyo Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Doctoral program
  • - 2001 The University of Tokyo College of Arts and Sciences Department of Basic Science
Professional career (1):
  • Ph. D. (The University of Tokyo)
Work history (5):
  • 2023/04 - 現在 National Institute of Information and Communications Technology Research Manager
  • 2022/04 - 現在 Osaka University Graduate School of Science Department of Biological Sciences
  • 2013/04 - 2023/03 National Institute of Information and Communications Technology Senior Researcher
  • 2009 - 2013 National Institute of Information and Communications Technology
  • 2008 - 2009 The University of Tokyo Graduate School of Arts and Sciences JSPS Research Fellowship for Young Scientists (PD)
Awards (1):
  • 2020/04 - Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Japan Awards for Science and Technology from The Commendation for Science and Technology by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology
Association Membership(s) (2):
The Biophysical Society ,  THE BIOPHYSICAL SOCIETY OF JAPAN
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