ZFIN Person: Wakasugi, Keisuke

ZFIN ID: ZDB-PERS-101215-3

Wakasugi, Keisuke

Email:	wakasugi@bio.c.u-tokyo.ac.jp
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Address:	Department of Life Sciences, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences The University of Tokyo 3-8-1 Komaba, Meguro-ku Tokyo, 153-8902 Japan
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Phone:	+81 3 5454 4392
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BIOGRAPHY AND RESEARCH INTERESTS

PUBLICATIONS

Sugitani, K., Koriyama, Y., Sera, M., Arai, K., Ogai, K., Wakasugi, K. (2017) A novel function of neuroglobin for neuroregeneration in mice after optic nerve injury. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. 493:1254-1259

Takahashi, N., Onozuka, W., Watanabe, S., Wakasugi, K. (2017) Chimeric ZHHH neuroglobin acts as a cell membrane-penetrating inducer of neurite outgrowth. FEBS Open Bio. 7:1338-1349

Nakamoto, T., Miyanokoshi, M., Tanaka, T., Wakasugi, K. (2016) Identification of a residue crucial for the angiostatic activity of human mini tryptophanyl-tRNA synthetase by focusing on its molecular evolution. Scientific Reports. 6:24750

Sugitani, K., Koriyama, Y., Ogai, K., Wakasugi, K., Kato, S. (2016) A Possible Role of Neuroglobin in the Retina After Optic Nerve Injury: A Comparative Study of Zebrafish and Mouse Retina. Advances in experimental medicine and biology. 854:671-5

Kamioka, Y., Fujikawa, C., Ogai, K., Sugitani, K., Watanabe, S., Kato, S., and Wakasugi, K. (2013) Functional characterization of fish neuroglobin: Zebrafish neuroglobin is highly expressed in amacrine cells after optic nerve injury and can translocate into ZF4 cells. Biochimica et biophysica acta. Proteins and proteomics. 1834(9):1779-88

Wakasugi, K., Takahashi, N., Uchida, H., and Watanabe, S. (2011) Species-specific functional evolution of neuroglobin. Marine genomics. 4(3):137-142

Watanabe, S., and Wakasugi, K. (2011) Module M1 of zebrafish neuroglobin acts as a structural and functional protein building block for a cell-membrane-penetrating activity. PLoS One. 6(2):e16808

Watanabe, S., and Wakasugi, K. (2010) Identification of residues critical for the cell-membrane-penetrating activity of zebrafish neuroglobin. FEBS letters. 584(11):2467-2472

Watanabe, S., and Wakasugi, K. (2008) Neuroprotective function of human neuroglobin is correlated with its guanine nucleotide dissociation inhibitor activity. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. 369(2):695-700

Wakasugi, K., and Morishima, I. (2005) Identification of residues in human neuroglobin crucial for Guanine nucleotide dissociation inhibitor activity. Biochemistry. 44(8):2943-2948

NON-ZEBRAFISH PUBLICATIONS