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Naoki Sakai

サカイ ナオキ | Naoki Sakai
Affiliation and department:
Job title: Senior scientist
Research field  (1): Structural biochemistry
Research keywords  (2): Structural biochemistry ,  Macromolecule crystallography
Papers (60):
  • Taketoshi Kambara, Lu Rao, Yosuke Yamagishi, Kazuho Ikeda, Daisuke Taniguchi, Tsuyoshi Imasaki, Hideki Shigematsu, Naoki Sakai, Arne Gennerich, Ryo Nitta, et al. Enhanced axonal transport in large vertebrates: KIF5A adaptations in giraffes and pythons. 2025
  • Daniel A. Erlanson, Stephen K. Burley, Daren Fearon, James S. Fraser, Dale Kreitler, Maria Cristina Nonato, Naoki Sakai, Jan Wollenhaupt, Manfred S. Weiss. Where and how to house big data on small fragments. Nature Communications. 2025
  • K.V. Dileep, Naoki Sakai, Kentaro Ihara, Akiko Nakata, Akihiro Ito, Divya M. Sivaraman, Chi Wai Yip, Jay W. Shin, Minoru Yoshida, Mikako Shirouzu, et al. Identification of benzimidazole-6-carboxamide based inhibitors of secretory glutaminyl cyclase for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease. International Journal of Biological Macromolecules. 2025
  • Rina Aoki, Eri Kumagawa, Kazuaki Kamata, Hideo Ago, Naoki Sakai, Tomohisa Hasunuma, Naoaki Taoka, Yukari Ohta, Shingo Kobayashi. Engineering of acyl ligase domain in non-ribosomal peptide synthetases to change fatty acid moieties of lipopeptides. Communications Chemistry. 2025
  • Naoki Sakai. A new BMP type 1 receptor kinase inhibitor for safe and efficient oral treatment to prevent genetically induced heterotopic ossification in mice. Bone. 2025
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Education (2):
  • 1998 - 2003 Hokkaido University Graduate School of Science Biological Sciences
  • 1994 - 1998 Hokkaido University School of Science Biological Sciences
Professional career (1):
  • Master's degree (Hokkaido University, Mar. 2000), Doctor's degree (Hokkaido University, Mar. 2003) (Hokkaido University)
Work history (11):
  • 2025/04 - 現在 Japan Synchrotron Radiation Research Institute Diffraction and Scattering Division Senior scientist
  • 2023/04 - 2025/03 Japan Synchrotron Radiation Research Institute Structural Biology Division Senior scientist
  • 2022/04 - 2023/03 Japan Synchrotron Radiation Research Institute Structural Biology Division Research Scientist
  • 2018/10 - 2022/03 RIKEN RIKEN SPring-8 Center Research Scientist
  • 2018/04 - 2018/09 RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research Research scientist
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Association Membership(s) (3):
The Crystallographic Society of Japan ,  The Japanese Society for Synchrotron Radiation Research ,  Protein Science Society of Japan
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