To elucidate how cells control the functions of cells, tissues, and organs by regulating the composition and distribution of membrane lipids to adapt to environmental stress.
Kohjiro Nagao
Laboratory of Biophysical Chemistry, Kyoto Pharmaceutical University
Selected publications
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Akira Murakami, *Kohjiro Nagao, Reiko Sakaguchi, Keisuke Kida, Yuji Hara, Yasuo Mori, Kohki Okabe, Yoshie Harada, *Masato Umeda. “Cell-autonomous control of intracellular temperature by unsaturation of phospholipid acyl chains” Cell Reports, 38, 110487, 2022.
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Akifumi Shiomi, *Kohjiro Nagao, Nobuhiro Yokota, Masaki Tsuchiya, Utako Kato, Naoto Juni, Yuji Hara, Masayuki X. Mori, Yasuo Mori, Kumiko Ui-Tei, Motohide Murate, Toshihide Kobayashi, Yuri Nishino, Atsuo Miyazawa, Akihisa Yamamoto, Ryo Suzuki, Stefan Kaufmann, Motomu Tanaka, Kazuya Tatsumi, Kazuyoshi Nakabe, Hirofumi Shintaku, Semen Yesylevsky, Mikhail Bogdanov, *Masato Umeda. “Extreme deformability of insect cell membranes is governed by phospholipid scrambling” Cell Reports, 35, 109219, 2021.
Group A03 (Nagao)
Membrane lipid-mediated regulation of cellular resilience in response to environmental stresses