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Kazuhiro Iwai

Kazuhiro Iwai

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Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
77
Citations
25861
World Ranking
4712
National Ranking
310

Overview

Kazuhiro Iwai is affiliated with Kyoto University in Japan and has contributed extensively to the fields of biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, medicine, immunology, and microbiology. Their research focuses significantly on molecular biology, immunology, oncology, genetics, and cancer research, reflecting a broad engagement with life sciences and medical studies.

The scientist's work covers several main topics, including ubiquitin and proteasome pathways, interferon and immune responses, peptidase inhibition and analysis, genetics and neurodevelopmental disorders, autophagy in disease and therapy, NF-κB signaling pathways, and protein degradation and inhibitors. These areas indicate a specialization in cellular and molecular mechanisms relevant to immune function and disease pathology.

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Kazuhiro Iwai include:

  • The HOIL-1L ligase modulates immune signalling and cell death via monoubiquitination of LUBAC, 2020, Nature Cell Biology
  • Iron-induced NCOA4 condensation regulates ferritin fate and iron homeostasis, 2022, EMBO Reports
  • PRDX6 augments selenium utilization to limit iron toxicity and ferroptosis, 2024, Nature Structural & Molecular Biology
  • LUBAC accelerates B-cell lymphomagenesis by conferring resistance to genotoxic stress on B cells, 2020, Blood
  • Loss of peptide: N-glycanase causes proteasome dysfunction mediated by a sugar-recognizing ubiquitin ligase, 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Frequent collaborators in Kazuhiro Iwai's research include:

  • Katsuhiro Sasaki
  • Yasuhiro Fuseya
  • Erik Walinda
  • Takayuki Tanaka
  • Junko Takita

They have published repeatedly in venues such as:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Blood
  • Journal of Biological Chemistry
  • Proceedings of the Japan Academy Series B
  • The Journal of Biochemistry

Best Publications

  • Familial Parkinson disease gene product, parkin, is a ubiquitin-protein ligase

    Hideki Shimura;Nobutaka Hattori;Shin-ichiro Kubo;Yoshikuni Mizuno

  • Ubiquitin ligase activity and tyrosine phosphorylation underlie suppression of growth factor signaling by c-Cbl/Sli-1.

    Gil Levkowitz;Hadassa Waterman;Seth A Ettenberg;Menachem Katz

  • Involvement of linear polyubiquitylation of NEMO in NF-kappaB activation.

    Fuminori Tokunaga;Shin-ichi Sakata;Shin-ichi Sakata;Yasushi Saeki;Yoshinori Satomi

  • Activation of HIF1alpha ubiquitination by a reconstituted von Hippel-Lindau (VHL) tumor suppressor complex.

    Takumi Kamura;Shigeo Sato;Kazuhiro Iwai;Maria Czyzyk-Krzeska

  • A ubiquitin ligase complex assembles linear polyubiquitin chains

    Takayoshi Kirisako;Kiyoko Kamei;Shigeo Murata;Shigeo Murata;Michiko Kato

  • SHARPIN forms a linear ubiquitin ligase complex regulating NF-κB activity and apoptosis.

    Fumiyo Ikeda;Yonathan Lissanu Deribe;Sigrid S. Skånland;Benjamin Stieglitz

  • SHARPIN is a component of the NF-κB-activating linear ubiquitin chain assembly complex

    Fuminori Tokunaga;Tomoko Nakagawa;Masaki Nakahara;Yasushi Saeki

  • Identification of the von Hippel–Lindau tumor-suppressor protein as part of an active E3 ubiquitin ligase complex

    Kazuhiro Iwai;Koji Yamanaka;Takumi Kamura;Nagahiro Minato

  • Targeted deletion of the gene encoding iron regulatory protein-2 causes misregulation of iron metabolism and neurodegenerative disease in mice.

    Timothy LaVaute;Sophia Smith;Sharon Cooperman;Kazuhiro Iwai

  • Genetic ablations of iron regulatory proteins 1 and 2 reveal why iron regulatory protein 2 dominates iron homeostasis

    Esther G Meyron‐Holtz;Manik C Ghosh;Kazuhiro Iwai;Timothy LaVaute

  • E3 ubiquitin ligase that recognizes sugar chains

    Yukiko Yoshida;Tomoki Chiba;Fuminori Tokunaga;Hiroshi Kawasaki

  • 4F2 (CD98) Heavy Chain Is Associated Covalently with an Amino Acid Transporter and Controls Intracellular Trafficking and Membrane Topology of 4F2 Heterodimer

    Eijiro Nakamura;Masaki Sato;Hailin Yang;Fumi Miyagawa

  • Coordination of PGC-1β and iron uptake in mitochondrial biogenesis and osteoclast activation

    Kiyo-aki Ishii;Toshio Fumoto;Kazuhiro Iwai;Kazuhiro Iwai;Sunao Takeshita

  • NEDD8 recruits E2-ubiquitin to SCF E3 ligase

    Takayuki Kawakami;Tomoki Chiba;Toshiaki Suzuki;Kazuhiro Iwai

  • Structural basis for specific cleavage of Lys 63-linked polyubiquitin chains

    Yusuke Sato;Azusa Yoshikawa;Atsushi Yamagata;Hisatoshi Mimura

  • Heme Induces Ubiquitination and Degradation of the Transcription Factor Bach1

    Yukari Zenke-Kawasaki;Yoshihiro Dohi;Yasutake Katoh;Tsuyoshi Ikura

  • Iron-dependent oxidation, ubiquitination, and degradation of iron regulatory protein 2: Implications for degradation of oxidized proteins

    Kazuhiro Iwai;Steven K. Drake;Nancy B. Wehr;Allan M. Weissman

  • Molecular characterization of a second iron-responsive element binding protein, iron regulatory protein 2. Structure, function, and post-translational regulation.

    F Samaniego;J Chin;K Iwai;T A Rouault

  • Linear polyubiquitination: a new regulator of NF-κB activation

    Kazuhiro Iwai;Fuminori Tokunaga

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

    Naonobu Fujita;Eiji Morita;Takashi Itoh;Atsushi Tanaka

Frequent Co-Authors

Fuminori Tokunaga
Fuminori Tokunaga Osaka Metropolitan University
Keiji Tanaka
Keiji Tanaka Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Medical Science
Nagahiro Minato
Nagahiro Minato Kyoto University
Aaron Ciechanover
Aaron Ciechanover Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
Koichiro Ishimori
Koichiro Ishimori Hokkaido University
Yasushi Saeki
Yasushi Saeki Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Medical Science
Koichi Kato
Koichi Kato National Institutes of Natural Sciences
Tomoki Chiba
Tomoki Chiba University of Tsukuba
Masahiro Shirakawa
Masahiro Shirakawa Kyoto University

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