2015 - 2018 Mechanism and regulation of protein aggregation in complicated cellular systems
2015 - 2017 Experimental verification of hidden amyloidogenicity of proteins
2015 - 2017 Thermodynamic analysis of pressure- and temperature-dependent structural changes of amyloid fibril and its oligomeric intermediates
2012 - 2015 Role of supersaturation in the formation of amyloid fibrils
2011 - 2012 NMRによる折り畳み及びアミロイド形成前駆状態の特性化
2009 - 2011 Understanding the mechanism of amyloid fibrillation on the basis of single fibril and real-time observation
2009 - 2010 Characterization of the transient intermediate of the β2-microglobulin amyloid fibril using solution NMR techniques
2007 - 2008 Structural analysis of growing-end intermediate of amyloid fibril using NMR
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Papers (45):
Ryosuke Tomiyama, Masatomo So, Yohei Miyanoiri, Kazumasa Sakurai. The Residual Structure of Acid-Denatured Β2-Microglobulin is Relevant to an Ordered Fibril Morphology. SSRN Electronic Journal. 2022. 32. 1
Kazumasa Sakurai, Ryosuke Tomiyama. Enhanced accessibility and hydrophobicity of amyloidogenic intermediates of the β2-microglobulin D76N mutant revealed by high-pressure experiments. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 2021. 296. 100333-100333
Koki Furukawa, Cesar Aguirre, Masatomo So, Kenji Sasahara, Yohei Miyanoiri, Kazumasa Sakurai, Keiichi Yamaguchi, Kensuke Ikenaka, Hideki Mochizuki, Jozsef Kardos, et al. Isoelectric point-amyloid formation of α-synuclein extends the generality of the solubility and supersaturation-limited mechanism. Current Research in Structural Biology. 2020. 2. 35-44
Noji M, Sasahara K, Yamaguchi K, So M, Sakurai K, Kardos J, Naiki H, Goto Y. Heating during agitation of β2-microglobulin reveals that supersaturation breakdown is required for amyloid fibril formation at neutral pH. The Journal of biological chemistry. 2019. in press. 43. 15826-15835
清岡和俊, 櫻井一正, 米澤康滋, 白木琢磨. How to expand the scale and diversity of chemical library. 近畿大学先端技術総合研究所紀要. 2023. 28
白木琢磨, 櫻井一正, 米澤康滋. -Research Note-High Pressure Protein Research Center’s Efforts to Explore Allosteric Regulators. 近畿大学先端技術総合研究所紀要. 2022. 27
Hiroki ITO, Kazumasa SAKURAI. Pressure-based manipulation of the protein-fatty acid interaction. Mem. Inst. Adv. Tech. Kindai Univ. 2021. 26. 1-10
SAKURAI Kazumasa. Different aspects of protein molecules revealed by novel analysis of high-pressure NMR data. The Review of High Pressure Science and Technology. 2020. 30. 12-19
Detection method for inter-residue concerted conformational change in a protein molecule by analyzing perturbation-induced multi-dimensional chemical shift changes
(the 30th International Conference on Magnetic Resonance in Biological Systems 2024)
Study on the Inhibitory Effect of Plant Leaf Extracts on Amyloid Fibril Formation of β2-Microglobulin
(The Annual Plant Biology Meeting 2024)
2005/04 - 2013/03 Osaka Univ. Inst. Protein Res. Assist. Prof.
Committee career (3):
2021/12 - 現在 日本高圧学会 「高圧力の科学と技術」編集委員
2023/09 - 2024/09 第24回若手NMR研究会 企画委員
2016/09 - 2017/09 若手NMR研究会 第18回若手NMR研究会世話人
Association Membership(s) (4):
THE JAPAN SOCIETY OF HIGH PRESSURE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
, The Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Society of Japan
, The Protein Science Society of Japan
, The Biophysical Society of Japan