2016 - 2019 Screening and application of drugs that facilitate membrane trafficking in order to overcome ER stress-related diseases
2016 - 2019 Identification and application of novel chaperone mechanism using C-terminal deficient serotonin transporter as a sensor
2016 - 2018 Investigation of Parkinsonism by PKC pathway disruption and application for the new treatment for Parkinon's disease
2013 - 2016 Determination of PKC substrate involved in neurodegenerative diseases and its application for drug design
2013 - 2016 Screening and development of drugs that can contribute to the treatment of intractable neuropsychiatric disease by regulating membrane trafficking and lysosomal degradation.
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Papers (29):
Takeshi Kaizuka, Taisei Hirouchi, Takeo Saneyoshi, Toshihiko Shirafuji, Mark O Collins, Seth G N Grant, Yasunori Hayashi, Toru Takumi. FAM81A is a postsynaptic protein that regulates the condensation of postsynaptic proteins via liquid-liquid phase separation. PLoS biology. 2024. 22. 3. e3002006
Kiyomichi Imamura, Ayaka Bota, Toshihiko Shirafuji, Toru Takumi. The blues and rhythm. Neuroscience research. 2023
Toshihiko Shirafuji, Takehiko Ueyama, Naoko Adachi, Ken-Ichi Yoshino, Yusuke Sotomaru, Junsuke Uwada, Azumi Kaneoka, Taro Ueda, Shigeru Tanaka, Izumi Hide, et al. The role of cysteine string protein α phosphorylation at serine 10 and 34 by protein kinase Cγ for presynaptic maintenance. Journal of Neuroscience. 2018. 38. 2. 278-290