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16455
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1180

Overview

Haruo Saito is affiliated with the University of Tokyo in Japan and has made contributions primarily in the fields of biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and computer science. Their work spans several specialized subfields including molecular biology, signal processing, atomic and molecular physics and optics, mechanics of materials, and spectroscopy.

The scientist's research topics include:

  • Protein Tyrosine Phosphatases
  • Fungal and yeast genetics research
  • Speech and Audio Processing
  • Blind Source Separation Techniques
  • Muon and positron interactions and applications
  • Atomic and Subatomic Physics Research
  • Advanced NMR Techniques and Applications

Saito has been involved in publications across various scientific venues. Frequent publication venues include:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Communications Physics
  • The EMBO Journal
  • Journal of Biological Chemistry
  • Water

Some recent papers authored by or closely associated with Saito are:

  • Oxygen sensing ability of positronium atom for tumor hypoxia imaging, 2020, Communications Physics
  • Osmostress enhances activating phosphorylation of Hog1 MAP kinase by mono-phosphorylated Pbs2 MAP 2K, 2020, The EMBO Journal
  • Two activating phosphorylation sites of Pbs2 MAP2K in the yeast HOG pathway are differentially dephosphorylated by four PP2C phosphatases Ptc1-Ptc4, 2023, Journal of Biological Chemistry
  • Long-Term Changes in Relationship between Water Level and Precipitation in Lake Yamanaka, 2022, Water
  • Absolute measurement of sampling jitter in audio equipment, 2023, The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Frequent collaborators include:

  • Makoto Takeuchi
  • Kazuo Tatebayashi
  • Kengo Shibuya
  • Fumihiko Nishikido
  • M. Takahashi

Best Publications

  • A two-component system that regulates an osmosensing MAP kinase cascade in yeast

    Tatsuya Maeda;Susannah M. Wurgler-Murphy;Haruo Saito

  • Yeast HOG1 MAP Kinase Cascade Is Regulated by a Multistep Phosphorelay Mechanism in the SLN1–YPD1–SSK1 “Two-Component” Osmosensor

    Francesc Posas;Susannah M Wurgler-Murphy;Tatsuya Maeda;Elizabeth A Witten

  • A Family of Stress-Inducible GADD45-like Proteins Mediate Activation of the Stress-Responsive MTK1/MEKK4 MAPKKK

    Mutsuhiro Takekawa;Haruo Saito

  • Activation of yeast PBS2 MAPKK by MAPKKKs or by binding of an SH3-containing osmosensor.

    Tatsuya Maeda;Mutsuhiro Takekawa;Haruo Saito

  • Formation of stress granules inhibits apoptosis by suppressing stress-responsive MAPK pathways

    Kyoko Arimoto;Hiroyuki Fukuda;Shinobu Imajoh-Ohmi;Haruo Saito

  • Osmotic Activation of the HOG MAPK Pathway via Ste11p MAPKKK: Scaffold Role of Pbs2p MAPKK

    Francesc Posas;Haruo Saito

  • Response to hyperosmotic stress.

    Haruo Saito;Francesc Posas

  • Regulated nucleo/cytoplasmic exchange of HOG1 MAPK requires the importin beta homologs NMD5 and XPO1.

    Paul Ferrigno;Francesc Posas;Deanna Koepp;Haruo Saito

  • The Transmembrane Tyrosine Phosphatase DLAR Controls Motor Axon Guidance in Drosophila

    Neil X Krueger;David Van Vactor;Hong I Wan;William M Gelbart

  • A polyadenylate binding protein localized to the granules of cytolytic lymphocytes induces DNA fragmentation in target cells

    Q. Tian;M. Streuli;H. Saito;S.F. Schlossman

  • Two-component signal transducers and MAPK cascades

    Susannah M. Wurgler-Murphy;Haruo Saito

  • Activation of the yeast SSK2 MAP kinase kinase kinase by the SSK1 two-component response regulator.

    Francesc Posas;Haruo Saito

  • Protein phosphatase 2Cα inhibits the human stress‐responsive p38 and JNK MAPK pathways

    Mutsuhiro Takekawa;Tatsuya Maeda;Haruo Saito

  • A human transmembrane protein-tyrosine-phosphatase, PTP zeta, is expressed in brain and has an N-terminal receptor domain homologous to carbonic anhydrases.

    Neil X. Krueger;Haruo Saito

  • Regulation of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae HOG1 mitogen-activated protein kinase by the PTP2 and PTP3 protein tyrosine phosphatases.

    S M Wurgler-Murphy;T Maeda;E A Witten;H Saito

  • Yeast Cdc42 GTPase and Ste20 PAK‐like kinase regulate Sho1‐dependent activation of the Hog1 MAPK pathway

    Desmond C. Raitt;Francesc Posas;Francesc Posas;Haruo Saito

  • Regulation of the Osmoregulatory HOG MAPK Cascade in Yeast

    Haruo Saito;Kazuo Tatebayashi

  • Isolation and structure of a cDNA encoding the B1 (CD20) cell-surface antigen of human B lymphocytes.

    Thomas F. Tedder;Michel Streuli;Stuart F. Schlossman;Haruo Saito

  • Yeast osmosensor Sln1 and plant cytokinin receptor Cre1 respond to changes in turgor pressure.

    Vladimír Reiser;Desmond C. Raitt;Haruo Saito;Haruo Saito

  • Transmembrane mucins Hkr1 and Msb2 are putative osmosensors in the SHO1 branch of yeast HOG pathway

    Kazuo Tatebayashi;Keiichiro Tanaka;Hui-Yu Yang;Katsuyoshi Yamamoto

Frequent Co-Authors

Francesc Posas
Francesc Posas Pompeu Fabra University
Stuart F. Schlossman
Stuart F. Schlossman Harvard University
Michel Streuli
Michel Streuli Harvard University
Thomas F. Tedder
Thomas F. Tedder Duke University
Tatsuhiko Furukawa
Tatsuhiko Furukawa Kagoshima University
David Van Vactor
David Van Vactor Harvard University
Corey S. Goodman
Corey S. Goodman University of California, Berkeley
William M. Gelbart
William M. Gelbart University of California, Los Angeles
Hiroshi Yamamoto
Hiroshi Yamamoto Komatsu University
Pamela A. Silver
Pamela A. Silver Harvard University

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