Research field (1):
Bio-, chemical, and soft-matter physics
Research keywords (5):
C. elegans
, biophysics
, membrane viscosity
, lipid vesicle
, 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 (30):
Manit Klawtanong, Yuka Sakuma, Masayuki Imai, Toshihiro Kawakatsu, Petch Khunpetch. Translocation of a daughter vesicle in a model system of self-reproducing vesicles. Physics of Fluids. 2024. 36. 2. 027112-1-9
Yuka Sakuma, Nana Kayamori, Julia Tanaka, Kenya Haga, Masayuki Imai, Toshihiro Kawakatsu. Effects of grafted polymers on the lipid membrane fluidity. Biophysical Journal. 2024. 123. 4. 489-501
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
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. 56-1-14
Masayuki Imai, Yuka Sakuma, Minoru Kurisu, Peter Walde. From Vesicles toward Protocells and Minimal Cells. Soft Matter. 2022
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
Advances in Planar Lipid Bilayers and Liposomes
2010 ISBN:9780123812667
Lectures and oral presentations (71):
Viscosity landscape of phase-separated ternary vesicles in composition-temperature space
(2023)
Effect of polymer chains grafted on the phase-separated ternary GUVs on the membrane fluidity
(2023)
Effect of polymer chains grafted to the lipid GUV on the membrane fluidity
(Advanced core-to-core network for the physics of self-organizing active matter kick off meeting, Kyoto, Japan 2023)
Membrane viscosity of ternary vesicles in a wide composition-temperature space
(The 7th International Soft Matter Conference, Osaka, Japan 2023)
Effect of polymer chains grafted to the lipid GUV on the membrane fluidity
(The 7th International Soft Matter Conference, Osaka, Japan 2023)