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Hitoshi Nakatogawa is a researcher affiliated with the Tokyo Institute of Technology in Japan. Their work primarily spans the fields of biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with a significant focus also on medicine. Within these broader disciplines, their research involves epidemiology, cell biology, molecular biology, physiology, and public health, environmental, and occupational health.

Their main research topics emphasize autophagy in disease and therapy, cellular transport and secretion, endoplasmic reticulum stress and disease, nuclear structure and function, mosquito-borne diseases and control, Toxoplasma gondii research, and RNA interference and gene delivery.

Notable recent publications by Nakatogawa include:

  • Mechanisms governing autophagosome biogenesis, 2020, Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology
  • Atg9 is a lipid scramblase that mediates autophagosomal membrane expansion, 2020, Nature Structural & Molecular Biology
  • ER -phagy: selective autophagy of the endoplasmic reticulum, 2022, EMBO Reports
  • Membrane perturbation by lipidated Atg8 underlies autophagosome biogenesis, 2021, Nature Structural & Molecular Biology
  • Atg8 family proteins, LIR/AIM motifs and other interaction modes, 2023, Autophagy Reports

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Nakatogawa are Tetsuya Kotani, Nobuo N. Noda, Hiromi Kirisako, Keisuke Mochida, and Chika Kakuta.

Their work is often published in established academic venues, with repeated publications in Nature Structural & Molecular Biology, The Journal of Cell Biology, Nature Communications, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), and Autophagy.

Best Publications

  • Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (4th edition)

    Daniel J. Klionsky;Amal Kamal Abdel-Aziz;Sara Abdelfatah;Mahmoud Abdellatif

  • Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy

    Daniel J. Klionsky;Fabio C. Abdalla;Hagai Abeliovich;Robert T. Abraham

  • Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (3rd edition)

    Daniel J. Klionsky;Kotb Abdelmohsen;Akihisa Abe;Joynal Abedin

  • Dynamics and diversity in autophagy mechanisms: lessons from yeast

    Hitoshi Nakatogawa;Kuninori Suzuki;Yoshiaki Kamada;Yoshinori Ohsumi

  • Atg8, a Ubiquitin-like Protein Required for Autophagosome Formation, Mediates Membrane Tethering and Hemifusion

    Hitoshi Nakatogawa;Yoshinobu Ichimura;Yoshinori Ohsumi

  • Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (3rd edition)

    Daniel J. Klionsky;Kotb Abdelmohsen;Akihisa Abe;Joynal Abedin

  • Receptor-mediated selective autophagy degrades the endoplasmic reticulum and the nucleus

    Keisuke Mochida;Yu Oikawa;Yayoi Kimura;Hiromi Kirisako

  • Mechanisms governing autophagosome biogenesis.

    Hitoshi Nakatogawa

  • The Ribosomal Exit Tunnel Functions as a Discriminating Gate

    Hitoshi Nakatogawa;Koreaki Ito

  • Structural basis of target recognition by Atg8/LC3 during selective autophagy.

    Nobuo N. Noda;Hiroyuki Kumeta;Hitoshi Nakatogawa;Hitoshi Nakatogawa;Kenji Satoo

  • Atg9 is a lipid scramblase that mediates autophagosomal membrane expansion

    Kazuaki Matoba;Tetsuya Kotani;Akihisa Tsutsumi;Takuma Tsuji

  • Atg2 mediates direct lipid transfer between membranes for autophagosome formation.

    Takuo Osawa;Tetsuya Kotani;Tatsuya Kawaoka;Eri Hirata

  • Two ubiquitin-like conjugation systems that mediate membrane formation during autophagy

    Hitoshi Nakatogawa

  • The Atg2-Atg18 complex tethers pre-autophagosomal membranes to the endoplasmic reticulum for autophagosome formation

    Tetsuya Kotani;Hiromi Kirisako;Michiko Koizumi;Yoshinori Ohsumi

  • Recruitment of the autophagic machinery to endosomes during infection is mediated by ubiquitin

    Naonobu Fujita;Eiji Morita;Takashi Itoh;Atsushi Tanaka

  • Erratum to: Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (3rd edition) (Autophagy, 12, 1, 1-222, 10.1080/15548627.2015.1100356

    Daniel J. Klionsky;Kotb Abdelmohsen;Akihisa Abe;Joynal Abedin

  • Atg4 recycles inappropriately lipidated Atg8 to promote autophagosome biogenesis

    Hitoshi Nakatogawa;Junko Ishii;Eri Asai;Yoshinori Ohsumi

  • Secretion Monitor, SecM, Undergoes Self-Translation Arrest in the Cytosol

    Hitoshi Nakatogawa;Koreaki Ito

  • Genetically Encoded but Nonpolypeptide Prolyl-tRNA Functions in the A Site for SecM-Mediated Ribosomal Stall

    Hiroki Muto;Hitoshi Nakatogawa;Koreaki Ito

  • Structural basis of Atg8 activation by a homodimeric E1, Atg7.

    Nobuo N. Noda;Kenji Satoo;Yuko Fujioka;Hiroyuki Kumeta

Frequent Co-Authors

Yoshinori Ohsumi
Yoshinori Ohsumi Tokyo Institute of Technology
Koreaki Ito
Koreaki Ito Kyoto Sangyo University
Fuyuhiko Inagaki
Fuyuhiko Inagaki Hokkaido University
Sergio Lavandero
Sergio Lavandero University of Chile
Boris Zhivotovsky
Boris Zhivotovsky Karolinska Institute
Evelina Gatti
Evelina Gatti Aix-Marseille University
Felix Randow
Felix Randow MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Steven Finkbeiner
Steven Finkbeiner University of California, San Francisco
Philippe Pierre
Philippe Pierre Aix-Marseille University
Beth Levine
Beth Levine The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

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